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Board of Directors
Tom Wells, Founder and President
Tom is an attorney and the founding partner of Wells, Jaworski & Liebman, LLP, Attorneys-at-Law. Tom practices in New Jersey and Vermont and is active in civic organizations in both states. He is also the principal of Wells Mountain, LLC, which develops and operates real estate properties in New Jersey and Vermont. Tom has traveled to Africa and Haiti numerous times and has volunteered in the YMCA, in particular its World Service Program, for over 40 years.
Carol Vitz Wells, Co-Founder, Board Secretary, and Director of Operations
Carol is currently devoting her time to WMI, Bristol Suites (Tom & Carol's lodging business) and Wells Mountain, LLC, a property management company. She is the former executive director of the Bristol Downtown Community Partnership and a past member of the Bristol, Vermont, Select board (town council). She has been very active in numerous community organizations, such as Bristol Friends of the Arts, PTO, the Five Town Business Council and Art on Main. The former owner/manager of an independent bookstore, she uses her expertise in literacy to shape WMI's literacy programs, such as Book Angels. She visited our African programs in 2006, 2012, and 2015, and our projects in Haiti in 2008 and 2011.
Gwenael Apollon
Gwenael Apollon was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. After college, he and his wife, Marie Laurence, emigrated back to the country of their ancestors, Haiti. As they raised a family, they began a commitment "by choice" to spend a lifetime working for change in their deeply-challenged nation.
The Haiti YMCA of today was born out of a restart effort begun in 2002. From that point, with Gwenael Apollon at the helm, the YMCA d'Haiti has grown from one little branch in Port-au-Prince to a national entity providing support to young people and families at nine community center YMCAs throughout Haiti. Gwenael is in every way the father of this accomplishment.
David Bolger, Director Emeritus
David is a highly successful businessman, banker and philanthropist. David's civic accomplishments are numerous and his philanthropic causes even more so. He has provided continued support to West Bergen Mental Health Center, Valley Hospital, Mt. Bethel and Westside Presbyterian Churches, Northfield Mount Herman, Kay Espwa (Project Hope) and hundreds of other charities. David has been a long-time client and dear friend of Tom Wells. The Bolger Foundation is WMI's largest donor.
JT Bolger
JT Bolger currently serves as the president of Bolger & Co., a commercial real estate management firm as well as the managing partner for two real estate development companies. JT is a recreational vehicle enthusiast, and has served as the state director of the New Jersey chapter of the Good Sam Club, a nationally-known camping organization. He is also very involved with his children's school activities and coaches many youth teams within his community. While he has not visited the home countries of the scholars to date, he has enjoyed meeting WMI Scholars and looks forward to promoting the WMI mission.
Nicole Schmitz
With a degree in international business, Nicole started her career in the non-profit sector with the goal of creating opportunities for people worldwide to achieve their educational pursuits. Nicole has worked for Wells Mountain Initiative since 2013. First as a programs coordinator and now as our alumni coordinator. Her passion for assisting others reach their goals is contagious. Nicole is very knowledgeable about our international programs and assisted with the building of the Caracol YMCA Community Center in 2014! Nicole's cultural competencies and program development abilities have been developed through living, studying, working, participating in service trips and connecting with cultures as a tourist in 25 nations. Nicole currently lives in Curitiba, Brazil with her husband Luiz.
Rick Claydon
Rick has devoted his professional life to the Ridgewood YMCA and has served as its CEO since 1994. Rick is a long-time member and past president of the Ridgewood PM Rotary Club and heads up the International Youth Exchange as coordinator and counselor. Additional volunteer positions include serving on the board of directors at the Phoenix Center, a not-for-profit school for young people with disabilities and board member and past president of the New Jersey Association of Y Professionals, advancing the professional development of YMCA staff members. He has traveled to both Kenya and Haiti to observe our projects and programs in action.
Bob Dill
Bob and his wife Marianne owned and operated The Rink, classic roller rink and entertainment establishments in Bergenfield and Montvale, New Jersey, for more than 20 years. Bob now manages various commercial real estate properties owned by his company R2D2, LLC. Bob got involved in the recreational industry after leaving a position as vice president for human relations of the American Stock Exchange. Bob has been active in Ridgewood, New Jersey, YMCA for many years and serves on the World Service Committee. He has volunteered for four trips to Haiti to help build container YMCA.
Brent Edmonds
Brent is the president and founder of E.C.I. (Edmonds Contracting, Inc.), which was established in 1984. He is a 16-year member and past president of the Bergen Highlands/Ramsey Rotary Club. He has also served as the vice president of the Upper Saddle River Education Foundation for the past-four years. Brent has supported the Center for Food Action for over ten-years and has just completed his largest mission to date by fundraising and building a new 5200-square-foot Food Center in Mahwah, New Jersey.
Kenneth Forester
Kenneth Forester is the CEO of Meridian, a full-service private aviation company based at Teterboro Airport in Bergen County, New Jersey. Meridian companies include the fixed-base operation at Teterboro, which features a luxurious executive terminal at the nation's most active corporate airport, as well as aircraft maintenance and air charter businesses. Last year, Meridian began an expansion and opened a separate facility at the airport in Hayward, California, near San Francisco. Meridian's predecessor company was founded by Ken's father, and Ken joined the company in 1974 after graduating from the United States Air Force Academy and serving in the Air Force. Ken and his wife Suzie live in New Jersey and California.
Bob Jones, Ph.D.
Dr. Bob Jones maintains a consulting and teaching practice that focuses on issues related to governance, fund development, management and planning. Among his other professional involvements, he is CEO emeritus at Children's Aid and Family Services in Paramus, where he served as its president and CEO for the last three decades. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Notre Dame Mendoza Business College, where he teaches fundamentals of philanthropy in their master's program. He is also a faculty member for the Executive Leadership Institute of the University of Michigan.
Christopher Lutz
Chris is a senior vice president of investments at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, where he leads a financial advisory team servicing high-net-worth individuals, and middle market institutional clients. Chris is deeply involved in his community and participates in a variety of charitable pursuits that focus primarily on children and education. He is a founding board member of the Hoop-A-Paluza Foundation, a grassroots non-profit organization that has granted over $2.5 million to local children's charities since its inception in 2002. He also sits on the board of Team Walker, an organization that provides after-school programs and tutoring for underprivileged children in Jersey City, New Jersey, A graduate of Muhlenberg College, where he was a member of the varsity football team, Chris lives in Madison, New Jersey, with his wife Alison and their three children, Paige, Matthew, and Alexandra.
Seta Nazarian
Seta Nazarian has worked and volunteered in the non-profit world since graduating from Wesleyan University in 1979. Her work has concentrated on strategic planning, board training and development, and fundraising in the arts and education. She has held numerous positions in development and alumni relations at Wesleyan University. She is currently the vice chair of Major Gifts and Special Projects on the board of directors of Bergen Community College in Paramus New Jersey, where she has spearheaded the establishment of The Center for Peace, Justice and Reconciliation. Seta is inspired by her parents and her two sons, William and Nicholas, to ensure that all those seeking an education are given the access they deserve, to learn not only for themselves, but for the greater good.
Gail Nystrom
Growing up in New Jersey, Gail has strong roots in the traditions of family, faith and humanitarian work. After college in Virginia, Gail earned a master's degree in special education. In 1977, Gail joined the Peace Corps and was stationed in Costa Rica. Her master's degree stood her in good stead as she helped set up special education classrooms throughout the country. Gail stayed in Costa Rica after the Peace Corps and eventually created her own organization, the Costa Rican Humanitarian Foundation. The CRHF works to improve the quality of life for thousands of people, while at the same time providing quality volunteer experiences with a program of contextualization for thousands of volunteers each year. Gail has worked directly with at-risk populations for more than 35 years and is planning to use her accrued experience to further her mission of working to eradicate poverty and give hope to as many people as possible.
Denis Salamone
Denis has spent his entire 35-plus-year career in accounting and finance. He is the recently retired CEO and chairman of the board of Hudson City Bancorp in Paramus, New Jersey. Due to educational opportunity provided to him during his formative years, Denis is passionate about advancing similar opportunities for underprivileged children. He is an active supporter of Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School, a multi-cultural New York inner-city school, and currently serves on the board of trustees of St. Francis College, an institution which has historically nurtured immigrants and the children of immigrants. He is a board member of the Ridgewood New Jersey YMCA and is a former board member of The Fred Waring Foundation, which provides assistance to an orphanage in Cambodia.
Gerald Shanker
Gerald Shanker lives in North Caldwell, New Jersey with his wife, Nancy. His son Michael lives in Los Angeles and his daughter Jen is a graduate of Indiana University. Gerald is a Certified Public Accountant and a partner in the firm Kreinces, Rollins & Shanker, LLC in Rochelle Park, New Jersey. His hobbies include golf, photography, and fishing. He is also involved in coaching local youth ice hockey.
Leanne Tingay
For the past two decades, Leanne Tingay has coordinated non-profit, local and state downtown and neighborhood revitalization programs. Most recently, she coordinated the National Main Street Network-affiliated Designated Downtown program for the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development. Leanne's experience also includes serving as director and chief executive officer of Erie Downtown Improvement District in Erie, Pennsylvania, where she worked with the Erie Redevelopment Authority on several mixed-use projects, including artist live-work space, creative neighborhood initiatives, and the redevelopment of Erie's Waterfront District. She earned her bachelor's degree from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. She is currently working for the Orton Family Foundation in Vermont.
Jordyn Wells
After graduating from Bard College with a double major in anthropology and studio art, Jordyn joined Do Something, a New York-based national non-profit that inspires and supports young people changing the world. As Do Something's chief program officer, she provided young people with the funds and skills to start and grow their own community action projects and non-profit organizations. She managed the distribution of over 400 grants annually, ranging from $250 to $100,000, including the Do Something Awards, a televised awards show on Vh1. In addition, she was instrumental in the creation of the Do Something's Boot Camp Program that, to date, has trained over 2000 young social leaders and activists. In 2013, she received her master's in social work from Columbia University. Currently she is the chief program officer for Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) and divides her time between New York City and Nairobi, Kenya.
Philip Wells
Phil is an architectural intern at his family's firm, Peter Raymond Wells Architects, pursuing his license to become a third generation architect. He became involved with WMI in 2012 to help design, coordinate, and construct a new prototype for a YMCA Community Center constructed of retired shipping containers. Because this aligns with two of Phil's passions; philanthropy and construction, he has been committed ever since. Phil is also involved in many organizations in his local community in New Jersey. He is currently president of the Park Ridge Rotary Club, and is an active member of Church at Bergen, Meals on Wheels and various other groups. He has visited Haiti with WMI and the YMCA d'Haiti numerous times and looks forward to continued involvement in the future.


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Happy Giveaway-BABE's Second Blog Anniversary
"Time moves in one direction, memory in another"
Rightly said by William Gibson, this phrase holds true for whatever you do in your life. Two years ago when I started this blog, I was unsure if I would be able to run it for 6 months and now when it has completed two years all those apprehensions feel like they never existed. The one thing of many precious moments to hold on to is the milestone of "2 years achievement", and to celebrate this accomplishment I would like to thank all of the lovely readers and supporters of BABE. Nothing is as great as your support and I want to pay my gratitude for the same through this small token of love.
Via this giveaway, you earn some of my favorite pieces of jewelry that will undoubtedly enhance your beauty and uplift your spirits. I adore these pieces and I am sure you too would love them.
This giveaway is open only for Indian residents. There will be two winners and each one of them will get the beauties captured in the images below. All you need to do is follow the steps in the "Rafflecopter" below. All the steps are not mandatory, but still the more the merrier.
Winner 1
Golden hollow leaves crystal pendant set(Image below)
Fashion metallic earrings(Image below)
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Winners will be chosen randomly, and you can maximize your chances by sharing and re-tweeting this post everyday.They will be given 48 hours to send their mailing addresses, if that will not be done then new winner/winners will be announced on the very next day of deadline.
Giveaway will end on the midnight of 15th of July. "Best Of luck"
Participate, spread the word and please "no cheating".
Again, many thanks to all of you for making this journey possible. It would not have been doable without your encouragement and support. I look forward to your backing for the many years to come.

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The 2004 American League Championship Series was the first time a team rallied from being down 0-3 to win a best-of-seven series.
In fact, the Boston Red Sox were not only down 0-3 but they were three outs away from being eliminated by their arch rivals the New York Yankees.
The Red Sox tied the game in the bottom of the ninth and then won it in the bottom of the 12th thanks to David Ortiz's home run. It was the first of four straight victories for the BoSox.
Thanks to their amazing comeback, Boston advanced to the World Series and won it. It was their first title in 87 years.
Before 1969, the American League had no playoffs. The team with the best record won the American League Pennant and went straight to the World Series.
In 1948, there was a tie between the Cleveland Indians and the Boston Red Sox. The Indians defeated the Red Sox in a one-game playoff to take the AL pennant and advance to the World Series.
That was about it for the AL playoffs until 1969. That year, the American League was realigned into two divisions.
The winner of the two divisions squared off in the American League Championship Series.
The first team to win the ALCS was the Baltimore Orioles. They swept the Minnesota Twins.
The O's would go on to win the ALCS in 1970 and 1971. Then the Oakland Athletics won the next three. Therefore, the first six ALCSs were won by just two teams.
From 1969 to 1984, the ALCS was the best-of-five. The series was expanded to the best-of-seven in 1985.
The first team to win the ALCS after it became a best-of-seven series was the Kansas City Royals. They rallied to defeat the Toronto Blue Jays after being down 3-1.
In 1994, the league was reorganized into three divisions. To make the postseason qualifiers even, a wild card team was added.
The inclusion of a wild card team doesn't fundamentally change the ALCS but it does mean that a team who didn't win their division can play for the AL Pennant and eventually the World Series.
The ALCS uses a 2-3-2 format. The team with the best record has home field advantage. A wild card team, regardless of their win-loss record, can never have home field advantage.
The club that wins the American League Championship Series is presented with the William Harridge Trophy. The player who performs the best in the ALCS receives the Lee MacPhail Most Valuable Player Award.


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|I'm reusing this spring picture - it's too lovely not to enjoy again.
Spring Greens
Bulbs in pots,
Twigs in jars,
Dads in the street, washing cars.
Greens in season,
Trees in bud,
Sky in puddles,
Ripples in mud.
Birds in bushes, singing loud,
Sun tucked up in a bed of cloud.
Shirley Hughes - Out and About (1998)
This one of my favourite seasonal poems but this spring I'm not sure I've seen any Dads washing their cars in the street. But on so many occasions the sun has been tucked up cosily behind the clouds - for days on end.
Tomorrow sees the arrival of June and the start of the summer months.
However when we look back on Spring 2013 will always feel a bit short changed and remember only the coldness and rain?
It was the coldest spring in my lifetime. It was a snowy April Easter and some parts of the UK saw snow in May.
I think I have been out once so far without a coat and I've definitely always been with a cardy.
I'm hoping Summer 2013 will be memorable - for the right reasons!


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Ordinance No. 927: The purpose of this Ordinance is to establish regulations for the use of privately owned residential dwellings as short-term rentals to minimize the negative effects on surrounding properties. As a result, the County of Riverside has passed Ordinance No. 927, which requires homeowners providing short-term rental services to register their home with the County of Riverside. If you are a homeowner who provides short-term lodging at your residence or if you are a management company providing the same service on behalf of the owner, please complete the below application and send it to the following:
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Home > Blogs > Trauma Research Blog > Blunt Cardiac Rupture: A 5-Year NTDB Analysis.
PubMed ID: 19680160
J Trauma. 2009 Aug 12.
Authors: Teixeira PG, Inaba K, Oncel D, Dubose J, Chan L, Rhee P, Salim A, Browder T, Brown C, Demetriades D.
Abstract:OBJECTIVE:: Because of its rarity and high rate of mortality, traumatic blunt cardiac rupture (BCR) has been poorly studied. The objective of this study was to use the National Trauma Data Bank to review the epidemiology and outcomes associated with traumatic BCR. METHODS:: After approved by the institutional review board, the National Trauma Data Bank (version 5.0) was queried for all BCR occurring between 2000 and 2005. Demographics, clinical injury data, interventions, and outcomes were abstracted for each patient. Statistical analysis was performed using an unpaired Student's t test or Mann-Whitney U test to compare means and chi analysis to compare proportions. Stepwise logistic regression analysis was performed to identify independent predictors of inhospital mortality. RESULTS:: Of 811,531 blunt trauma patients, 366 (0.045%) had a BCR of which 334 were available for analysis, with the mean age of 45 years, 65% were men, and their mean Injury Severity Score was 58 +/- 19. The most common mechanism of injury was motor vehicle collision (73%), followed by pedestrian struck by auto (16%), and falls from height (8%). Twenty-one patients (6%) died on arrival and 140 (42%) died in the emergency room. The overall mortality for patients arriving alive to hospital was 89%. Of the patients surviving to operation, 42% survived >24 hours of which 87% were discharged. Survivors were significantly younger (39 vs. 46 years, p = 0.04), had a lower Injury Severity Score (47 vs. 56, p = 0.02), higher Glasgow Coma Scale (10 vs. 6, p < 0.001), and were more likely to present with an systolic blood pressure >/=90 mm Hg (p = 0.01). Nevertheless, none of these factors was found to be an independent risk factor for mortality. CONCLUSION:: BCR is an exceedingly rare injury, occurring in 1 of 2400 blunt trauma patients. In patients arriving alive to hospital, traumatic BCR is associated with a high mortality rate, however, is not uniformly fatal.
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Coming shortly after our description of the patient with cardiac herniation following blunt trauma is this review of the National Trauma DataBank from the LA County group. Of course this is the tip of the iceberg as most patients will die at scene, but there's a surprisingly low (42%) mortality in the emergency department, suggesting that a significant proportion of these patients should be salvageable if identified early and managed appropriately.


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The Liturgists
The Liturgists are a collective of artists and creators who create sacred art and experiences for the spiritually homeless and frustrated. Their work includes live events, conferences, downloadable worship experiences, and a popular podcast. The Liturgists have an unwavering commitment to creating safe spaces and conversations that explore reality from the perspectives of art, faith, and science. The Liturgists include a diverse set of contributors including Rob Bell, Shauna Niequist, Rachel Held Evans, Amena Brown, Pete Holmes, All Sons & Daughters, and Sleeping At Last.
With over 250,000 subscribers, The Liturgists Podcast is the most known work of the group. By blending a topical format with interviews, poetry, music and compelling sound design, The Liturgists Podcast attracts a remarkably heterogeneous audience including not inly a broad swath of Christianity, but also the religiously unaffiliated–including agnostics and atheists. The show has been lauded for its commitment to scientific accuracy, its production values, and most of all its gracious tone when discussing controversial subjects.
The Liturgists have traveled the country facilitating two interactive liturgical experiences (Vapor and Lost + Found). Featuring a mix of music, interactive exercises, meditation, and storytelling, these events are centered around a science-based methodology for helping people experience God. The collective also hosts a two-day gathering called Belong designed to advance an egalitarian, skeptic-friendly approach to the Christian faith.
The Liturgists was founded by Michael Gungor (of the music collective Gungor) and Mike McHargue (better known as Science Mike). Both desired sacred art that was committed to beauty and scientific integrity. The Liturgists are therefore committed to producing thoughtful, evocative work.


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The name
mdiff stands for multi-
diff, and has the
purpose of encompassing the functionnality of a few other
programs. The prefix multi- also stands for the fact the program
is often able to study more than two input files at once.
The theory of operation is simple. The program splits all input files
into a sequence of items, which may be lines or words.
mdiff is
then said to operate either in line mode or in word mode.
It then tries to find sequences of items which are repeated in the
input files. Such common sequences are called clusters of items,
and each occurrence of a repetition is called a cluster member.
What remains, once all cluster members are conceptually removed from all
input files, is a set of differences. The role of
is to conveniently list either cluster members and differences.
When input files are very similar, it is likely that clusters will encompass many items (lines or words) and differences will be small. So, most listing options inhibit the printing of cluster members. However, one may ask for the few beginning or ending items of cluster members to be printed nevertheless, as a way to provide a kind of feedback or context of the difference, those context items are sometimes said to be at the horizon of the difference. In merged listings, cluster members may just not be printed, except maybe for a few context items at the beginning of the member (just after a difference), and a few context items at the end of the member (just before a difference).
When cluster members are short, or if you prefer, when the differences
are not far away from each other, it is quite possible that the required
context items often cover the full extent of the cluster members, which
then are not inhibited anymore when this happens. A run of differences
intermixed with such non-suppressed members is called a hunk.
Some reports produced by
mdiff are showned as a list of hunks,
and it is to be understood that common items are elided between hunks.
However, each hunk in itself has no item missing, and each item of the
hunk is analysed as pertaining either to only one of the input file or
to many of them. Each hunk is preceded by a header, which explains the
line position of all input files prior to the hunk itself. By comparing
a hunk header with the previous hunk header, the user can have a hint
about how much printing was spared.
When two input files are quite similar, clusters are usually presented in
the same order in all files. If a cluster member A in the first
file corresponds to a cluster member A in the second file, it is
likely that another cluster member B which appears after
A in the first file will correspond to a cluster member B
in the second file which appears after A as well. So, in
many cases, while producing merged listing of files, cluster members may
be made to naturally correspond to one another. However, this is not
always true, in particular when the second file has been produced from
the first by moving a big chunk of code away from its original position.
In such cases, we say that members have crossed. When members are
crossed and
mdiff has to make a merged listing, it selects one
cluster member as being naturally associated with its correspondant
(either the pair of A's or the pair of B's) and then consider
the other cluster as being part of a difference. The crossed nature of
the member may still be analysed and reported, or it may be ignored.
The standard
diff program is meant for when there are exactly two
input files, for which crossed members should be ignored.
output format has been designed in such a way that it should resemble
diff output for this precise case. However,
diff formats are
not sufficient for representing all cases which
mdiff may address,
and this is not mature yet. That is why
mdiff, in its current
state, still experiments with output formats, which are subject to change.
When the input files are not very similar, or rather different, merged
listings are not very significant nor useful, and may even be rather
confusing. The best to do in such cases is using
mdiff for making
an annotated relisting of all input files, in which cluster members are
properly identified and referred to one another.
Read summary: 137 files, 41975 lines Work summary: 439 clusters, 1608 members, 8837 duplicate lines
The summary lines, triggered by the -s option, say that about 8837
non-ignorable lines could be removed over the 41975 which has been read,
by using functions,
#define, or similar devices.
If one manages to execute
mdiff within GNU Emacs so the output
described above is collected into the
*compilation* buffer, the
command C-` ('M-x next-error') will proceed to the next
cluster member in the other window, and similarily for other compilation
mode commands. This is a useful way for handling
mdiff output.
Each line in the hunk, after the header, comes from the compared files, but is shifted right so the first column (or the first few columns) of each line gives information about where the line is coming from. A space indicates a line which is common to all files. In case there are only two input files, a minus sign indicates a line from the first file and a plus sign a line from the second file. Else, a letter from 'a' to 'z', or more than one letter if there are more than 26 files, indicates to which file the line pertains. If a line or a block of line pertains to many files but not to all of them, the first column holds a vertical bar, and the line or block of lines is bracketed between '@/' and '@\' lines, which are kind of comments within the hunk. The initial bracket lists all file letters that are related to the incoming line.
I initially wrote
mdiff specifically to help cleaning a C++
project which was a bit large, and in which many big monolithic classes
were derived from each other most probably by rough copying followed by
local modifications. I intended to fragment most common clusters and
segregate the parts into virtual methods in outer classes, and override
these methods, as appropriate, with less common variants within inner
mdiff was good at pointing me to exactly where I should
look at. Of course, it never did the cleanup for me, but it helped doing
the research about what should be done. Reusing
mdiff over the
half-cleaned project gave me more fine grained analysis of what was left
to consider.
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African Market Women, Market Queens, and Merchant Queens
Gracia Clark
In the open marketplaces found in cities and villages throughout Africa, women traders usually predominate. This gives women considerable weight as economic actors, because these marketplace systems are the primary distributive networks in most parts of Africa. A large proportion of Africa's consumer goods and foodstuffs move through their intricate chains of intermediaries, which can include market retailers, neighborhood shops, street vendors, wholesalers, and travelers who collect goods from farms, factories, and ports. Although the vast majority of women traders live at or below the poverty line, some have risen to powerful positions that earn them the sobriquet of queen.
Different regions of Africa show distinctive patterns of trading practices and of men and women's participation in specific trading roles, reflecting specific gendered histories of precolonial trade, colonial interventions, and waves of national policy. These variations arise not from some primordial isolation, but from traders' varied positioning within longstanding trade relations that have linked Africans since ancient times between regions, across the Sahara Desert and over adjoining oceans. Women's trading roles are more highly developed in western Africa than in eastern, northern, and southern Africa, where precolonial trading patterns were more radically disrupted by conquest, land appropriation, and apartheid.
Ideologies and arenas of practice such as Islam, Christianity, modernization, socialism, structural adjustment, and globalization likewise shape the constraints and opportunities facing women traders in any given situation. Because these influences operate around the globe, though not uniformly, they to some extent create parallel or convergent trends in widely separated nations. Deepening economic pressures today push even more women and men into trading to support their families and sustain the hope of prosperity. Market women struggle individually and collectively to keep their communities going under difficult circumstances that make formal economic channels function poorly. Their determined efforts give African economies more resilience as they respond to the challenges of war, political instability, and climate change.
Business Records as Sources for African History
Dmitri van den Bersselaar
Business records are documents routinely produced by employees and management of commercial businesses. They may be part of internal processes or produced to communicate with stakeholders or to meet legal requirements. They usually include a mix of qualitative (reports and correspondence) and quantitative (detailed accounting data) material. Depending on how complete the material is, documents may relate to: strategic management; accounting and financial data; operational matters; legal issues; trademarks; marketing; personnel files; and labor and welfare issues. Business records add a different dimension compared to information from government and colonial office sources by providing a private sector perspective on key episodes of colonial and postcolonial history, including strikes and protests, the relationship between the (colonial) state and business, and decolonization. Historians have used business records as sources for histories of business and trade in Africa, for studies on industrialization and development, and also to inform studies on colonialism and political history, as well as economic, social, and labor history. Business records may be kept in company archives, where they are not always easy to identify or access, kept in public repositories, or privately held. Many business archives have been weeded, whereby documentation relating to special activities, challenges, and crises has been retained, while routine documentation of interest to economic and social historians has been destroyed. Other collections appear to have disappeared altogether when companies went out of business or were taken over by others.
Cannabis and Tobacco in Precolonial and Colonial Africa
Chris S. Duvall
Cannabis and tobacco have longstanding roles in African societies. Despite botanical and pharmacological dissimilarities, it is worthwhile to consider tobacco and cannabis together because they have been for centuries the most commonly and widely smoked drug plants. Cannabis, the source of marijuana and hashish, was introduced to eastern Africa from southern Asia, and dispersed widely within Africa mostly after 1500. In sub-Saharan Africa, cannabis was taken into ethnobotanies that included pipe smoking, a practice invented in Africa; in Asia, it had been consumed orally. Smoking significantly changes the drug pharmacologically, and the African innovation of smoking cannabis initiated the now-global practice. Africans developed diverse cultures of cannabis use, including Central African practices that circulated widely in the Atlantic world via slave trading. Tobacco was introduced to Africa from the Americas in the late 1500s. It gained rapid, widespread popularity, and Africans developed distinctive modes of tobacco production and use. Primary sources on these plants are predominantly from European observers, which limits historical knowledge because Europeans strongly favored tobacco and were mostly ignorant or disdainful of African cannabis uses. Both plants have for centuries been important subsistence crops. Tobacco was traded across the continent beginning in the 1600s; cannabis was less valuable but widely exchanged by the same century, and probably earlier. Both plants became cash crops under colonial regimes. Tobacco helped sustain mercantilist and slave-trade economies, became a focus of colonial and postcolonial economic development efforts, and remains economically important. Cannabis was outlawed across most of the continent by 1920. Africans resisted its prohibition, and cannabis production remains economically significant despite its continued illegality.
Development of Plant Food Production in the West African Savannas: Archaeobotanical Perspectives
Katharina Neumann
The West African savannas are a major area of independent plant domestication, with pearl millet, African rice, fonio, several legumes, and vegetable crops originating there. For understanding the origins of West African plant-food-producing traditions, it is useful to have a look at their precursors in the Sahara during the "African humid period" between 10,500 and 4,500 years ago. The Early and Middle Holocene Saharan foragers and pastoralists intensively used wild grasses for food but did not intentionally cultivate. Due to increasing aridity in the late 3rd millennium
Documenting Precolonial Trade in Africa
Shadreck Chirikure
Promoted by necessity, scarcity, and/or abundance, trade is one of the most essential cultural behaviors that promoted contact and exchange of ideas, commodities, and services between individuals and communities and variously transformed African societies of different regions and time periods. Anthropological, historical (including historical linguistics), and archaeological evidence points to the existence, on the one hand, of intra-African trade and, on the other, of external trade between Africa and those outside the continent. Traditionally, however, trade and exchange involving perishable and organic commodities such as grain and cattle have until now been very difficult to identify due to a lack of well-resolved documentation techniques. By comparison, that some objects such as metal artifacts, glass beads, ceramics, and porcelain are pyrotechnological products, with a high survival rate that makes their trade and exchange easily visible archaeologically. Given the well-known regional differences across the continent, it is essential to combine multiple sources and techniques, in a multipronged way, to provide a dynamic picture of the mechanics of precolonial African trade and exchange of various time periods and geographies.
Farming and Herding in Eastern Africa: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives
Freda Nkirote M'Mbogori
The inception of agriculture in eastern Africa is a major topic of discussion among Africanist archaeologists, although very sparse evidence exists. Questions range from whether domestication was a local invention or whether it was introduced from the Near East, Asia, or elsewhere outside of Africa. These questions have remained unanswered because wild progenitors and models of the spread of African domesticates are yet to be established using undisputable data. The paucity of direct data has therefore necessitated the use of objects of material culture such as pottery, beads, burial cairns, architectural structures, and so on as indicators of pastoralism and cereal farming. In addition to the origins of African domesticates, research in eastern Africa has concerned itself with questions of farming technologies from later archaeological and historical times to the present. The remains of elaborate farming systems with extensive irrigation networks have drawn considerable attention. Though not unchanged, some of these farming systems remain in contemporary use in Kenya, Tanzania, and Ethiopia.
Food Production in the Forest Zone of West Africa: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives
Richard T. Chia and A. Catherine D'Andrea
Recent narratives on the origin of food production in the West African forest zone have replaced earlier diffusion-based models with viewpoints that emphasize the diversity of sources for plants and animals exploited and domesticated in the region. Management of indigenous tree species, including oil palm and incense tree, managed first by indigenous foragers, have the longest history in the area, dating back to over 8,400 before present (
Forest History
Christopher Conte
Natural and human histories intersect in Africa's forested regions. Forests of several types cover the continent's mountains, savannas, and river basins. Most current classifications divide forest by physical structure. Open canopy forests occur in semi-arid regions of western, eastern, and southern Africa, while closed canopy rain forests with large emergent trees cover much of the Congo River basin, the upland forests of Rift Valley escarpments, and the volcanic mountains in eastern and Central Africa. Along the tropical coasts, mangrove forests hug the river estuaries. For much of human history, Africa's forests have anchored foraging and agrarian societies. In the process of domesticating the landscape through agriculture, Africans modified forests in ways that ranged from large-scale deforestation to forest creation on savanna environments. A boom in forest commodities preceded European colonialism and then continued when foreign governments took formal possession of African territory in the late 19th century. In this context, states ascribed value to forest trees as commodities and so managed them as profitable agricultural crops. Colonial forestry separated people from forests physically and culturally. This fundamental shift in human–forest relations still resonates in postcolonial African countries under the guise of internationally funded forest conservation.
The History of Agriculture in Ethiopia
James C. McCann
Ethiopia's highlands and their lowland peripheries offer a distinctive and, in many ways, ideal setting for human habitation and the evolution of agricultural ecologies. The ranges in climate variability by season and over time framed a sophisticated set of crops, agricultural practices, and local political ecologies. Chief among these was the development and use of the single-tine ox-plow (i.e., the ard or scratch plow) that integrated endemic annual crops with secondary crop introductions and, in some areas, cultivated or intercropped with perennial crops such as ensete and coffee. Animal husbandry to sustain animal traction and pastoral livelihoods in regional ecologies was essential, over time, to regional economies and their political ecologies.
Agricultural patterns existed at the heart of cultural diversities and periods of political conflict and accommodations. In some areas of the south (Sidamo), southeast (Harar highlands), and southwest (Jimma), coffee cultivation complemented annual grain cropping. Yet the plow in its current form as a dominant tool appears in rock painting dating as far back as 500
While Ethiopia's plow agriculture dominated the region's political ecology over more than two millennia, in the late 20th century Ethiopia's agrarian economy began an inexorable set of changes. New crops (such as maize), urbanization, and global migration of peoples and commodities (oil seeds, fibers, and grains) brought new seeds, inputs, and pressures to adapt to change, particularly for smallholder farmers and new enterprises. Heavy investments in dams and irrigated agriculture also foretell new agricultural landscapes of riverain areas that will need to coexist with the classic highland smallholder farms. The story of maize in Ethiopia's agricultural history is emblematic of the struggle between pressures for change and the inertia of tradition felt by farmers. Their agrarian adaptation to new methods, new materials, and a new climate will play itself out in existing geographies and natural contours.
The Marine Fisheries of South Africa
Lance van Sittert
The South African fisheries are environmentally bifurcated by the different current regimes on the west (Benguela) and east (Agulhas) coasts. Limited precolonial subsistence use of the littoral zone was supplemented from the mid-17th century by commercial harvesting of marine mammals for international trade and fish to ration imported slave labor. The liberalization of trade after 1814 led to the commercialization of Benguela fisheries by Cape Town merchants drying barrracouta (snoek) for export to ration indentured Indian labor on the sugar plantations of the southwest Indian Ocean and canning rock lobster to feed the urban bourgeoisies of Europe. The mineral revolution in the final quarter of the 19th century created an expanded southern African demand for fish in the new mining centers of the subcontinent, prompting the colonial state to pioneer the demersal fisheries of the Agulhas current, which were monopolized for the first half of the 20th century by British-owned steam trawlers. The motorization of rock lobster fishing in the same period created widespread poverty in the inshore subsistence fisheries. This became an increasingly politicized issue as Afrikaner nationalists laid blame on the British monopoly over the national fish market. Proposed state nationalization of the demersal fishery and reorganization of the inshore fisheries into cooperatives was defeated in 1944 in favor of state financing of private capital through the provision of research, infrastructure, and finance. Afrikaner nationalists after 1948 utilized the latter to engineer the rapid industrialization of the pelagic inshore fisheries and concomitant rise of Afrikaner capital. Falling inshore catches and increasing foreign competition in the demersal fishery led to a crisis in the 1960s that was resolved through the creation and strict conservation of an exclusive economic zone south of the Orange River coupled with the looting of the Namibian colony's fish resources. The postcolonial states in Namibia (1990) and South Africa (1994) thus inherited severely depleted fisheries resources dominated by white capital and superintended by neoliberal states, severely constraining black capital formation. Both consequently satisfied themselves with blackening the white monopolies and defending their exclusive resource access against escalating insurgencies from the excluded black underclass.
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Royal Mail misses 1st class target
The Royal Mail dipped slightly below its target for delivering first class letters on time at the end of last year, new figures have shown.
The target for next-day delivery is 93%, but it was 91.2% in the period between September 24 and December 2.%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%
In the same period, the 98.5% target of second class mail delivered within three working days of posting was achieved, while 94.8% of standard parcels were delivered on time, 4.8% ahead of target.
Royal Mail said its performance was affected by the traditional pre-Christmas increase in mail, compounded by bad weather.
Mark Higson, Royal Mail's managing director of operations and modernisation, said: "This is traditionally Royal Mail's toughest quarter with a seasonal increase in mail volumes, notably parcels, and the likelihood of bad weather.
"Our postmen and women work extremely hard to deliver to some of the most demanding quality of service standards in the whole of Europe."
Royal Mail said it continued to deliver the vast majority of mail within its "demanding" quality of service targets in the first three quarters of the 2012/13 financial year.
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Film Premiere: Marine Plastics in Port Phillip Bay
Posted in Events by EcoCentre on October 30th, 2013
|4 November , 2013
|7:00 pm
|9:00 pm
Announcing the premiere of a brand new documentary on marine plastics in Port Phillip Bay, produced by an International team of filmmakers in conjunction with Port Phillip BayKeeper.
This documentary is an expose of the extent of plastic pollution in our beloved Port Phillip Bay.
Film synposis: After hearing about expansive amounts of plastic in every major ocean, Port Phillip Baykeeper Neil Blake finds the sands of his local beaches are turning into a kind of micro-plastic confetti. In his journey to measure how far the age of plastics has invaded the bay, Neil discovers a growing community striving to protect Port Phillip's health for generations to come.
Please RSVP as light refreshments are provided: www.trybooking.com/DUKJ
Date: Monday 4 November
Time: 6.30pm for 7pm start
Venue: Beachcomber Cafe, St Kilda Sea Baths Complex
Jacka Boulevard, St Kilda
Brought to you by Port Phillip EcoCentre
The Nurdle Hunters – Plastic pollution talk and survey
Posted in Events, Research by EcoCentre on October 14th, 2013
|19 October , 2013
|1:00 pm
|2:30 pm
Since May 2013, a new wave of plastic pollution has been uncovered by Melbourne BayKeeper volunteers in the form of 'nurdles'. Hundreds of these plastic pre-production pellets have been found regularly on St Kilda Beaches, and more recently, in streams flowing into the Bay.
EcoCentre Director and Port Phillip BayKeeper, Neil Blake, will give a talk about this spreading problem and then lead people on a plastic pollution field survey.
We need ongoing support to measure plastic pollution in the Bay. The aim is to clearly show there's an ongoing issue and to call on government agencies and plastics manufacturers to be part of the solution.
Venue: Port Phillip EcoCentre, Cnr Blessington & Herbert Streets, St Kilda (in the St Kilda Botanical Gardens)
Date: Saturday 19 October
Time: 1pm-2.30pm
>>> For More Information and background, visit the BayKeeper website.
Plasticized: Outdoor film screening
Posted in Events by EcoCentre on January 21st, 2013
|28 January , 2013
|7:30 pm
|11:00 pm
Outdoor film screening at the Port Phillip EcoCentre – 'Plasticized'
A documentary about the massive amounts of unseen plastic pollution in our oceans. An immeasurable amount of plastic pollution of all sizes is floating throughout every major ocean in the world. Aboard the research vessel the Sea Dragon, an intrigued cameraman shares his experience following the 5 Gyres Institute across the South Atlantic on the very first expedition studying the alarming amount of oceanic plastic pollution.
This will be an outdoor movie in the EcoCentre gardens. Please bring along something to sit on. BYO snacks.
When: Monday 28 January, 7.30pm
Where: Port Phillip EcoCentre
55A Blessington Street
(corner of Blessington & Herbert Streets)
St Kilda
Bookings essential, see the Port Phillip EcoCentre website.


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Only hundreds of units separate the trio as Canadians continue to flock to utility vehicles as their favourite conveyances.
Ford has expanded the number of trim levels for the 2018 Escape, to ensure it has something for most shoppers. It is now available in S, SE, SEL and Titanium at prices ranging from $25,200 to $36,300 — before shipping and options. This wide range echoes that of the competition, and includes three engines and both front and all-wheel drive.
The test vehicle was a loaded Titanium version. The standard equipment list at this level is pretty complete — as you would expect — but the addition of a fancier wheels, sunroof, auxiliary floor mats, cross bars for the roof rails, trailer tow package, a "safe and smart package" and shipping brought the tag to near $43,000.
You could save a few thousand by skipping the sunroof, wheels, and trailer tow package (if you don't wish to tow a small trailer), but I would have thought lane keep assist, adaptive cruise control, collision warning assist and blind spot warning would be standard on this trim, not a $1,200 option.
Having that of my chest, I have to say the Escape is a darn impressive little ute. The interior is quite exceptional in this class, more luxurious than the rest. The power from the turbocharged four is also class-leading and the ride/handling balance perfect for my tastes.
In those respects the Escape should be compared to entry-luxury small utes from Audi, BMW Lexus, and Mercedes. Looked in that light, this version of the Escape could wear a Lincoln badge.
The base Escape gets a normally aspirated 2.5-litre four producing 170 lb.-ft. of torque. The SE and SEL versions come with a turbocharged 1.5-litre engine putting out 177 lb.-ft. and the Titanium's turbo 2.0-litre produces 275-lb.-ft. — more power than available in the optional V6 offered by some competitors.
That extra oomph makes all the difference between running with the pack and easily sprinting ahead. Both boosted engines were part of a major makeover for the 2017 model year. At the same time, the Escape got a new look fore and aft.
The only transmission offered is a six-speed automatic. The base Escape comes with front-wheel-drive and the 2,5 engine. All others have all-wheel drive, and it is a pretty sophisticated piece of equipment, operating in front-drive mode under normal conditions to save fuel while monitoring traction and surface conditions every 16 milliseconds, prepared to bring the extra pair of tires into play when needed.
The suspension provides a comfortable ride and the ability to absorb most nasty surfaces without sacrificing handling.
It is not a sports car, but acquits itself better than most utes when the road develops the bends — or you discover an off-ramp is tighter than you thought.
The tester was well equipped with all the assists and amenities expected at this price point. It also had the latest version of Ford's voice-activated SYNC infotainment system.
Now able to connect and control various functions through Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, it has a bright 20-cm, full-colour touchscreen screen and is more intuitive than most — and past versions.
The Escape has plenty of room for a pair of any-size folks up front and reasonable space for two more in the back — certainly as much as others of this size.
The cargo area provides just shy of 1,000 litres of space with the second row seats in use and double that with them folded down.
You can fold one side of the second row down and still have room for a passenger in back, along with a bulky or lengthy cargo.
If you want more space Ford has a number of larger offerings. If you want a lower price, there are other versions of the Escape. If you want a luxurious little ute, this one is hard to beat.
The specs:
Engine: turbocharged, 2.0-litre, four-cylinder, 245 horsepower, 275 lb.-ft. of torque, premium fuel recommended
Transmission: six speed automatic, all-wheel drive
NRCan rating (litres/100km city/highway): 11.5 / 8.8
Length: 4,524 mm
Width: 2,078 mm
Wheelbase: 2,690 mm
Weight: 1,708 kg
Price: $36,299 base, $42,734 as tested, including freight
Competitors: Chevrolet Equinox, GMC Terrain, Honda CR-V, Hyundai Tucson, Jeep Cherokee, Jeep Compass, Kia Sportage, Mazda CX-5, Mitsubishi Outlander, Nissan Rogue, Subaru Forster, Toyota RAV 4, VW Tiguan
Options on test vehicle: panoramic sunroof, $1,750; floor liners, $150; cargo mat, $150; Class II trailer tow package, $500; roof rail crossbars, $150; 19-inch machined aluminum wheels, $650; safe and smart package (lane keep assist, adaptive cruise control, collision warning assist, blind spot warning) $1,195


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Literacy Department
The Literacy Team seeks to empower St. Vrain's elementary teachers and principals so that all students reach proficient levels of literacy. Eight of the district's 25 elementary schools are bilingual and six schools receive Title 1 funding. The Literacy Department's structure and focus reflect the needs of the district's schools. Coordinators work with both English and bilingual teachers, as well as administrators, parents and other district staff to improve student achievement in reading.
Areas of departmental focus include
- Oversight and coordination of elementary literacy assessments, including data collection and reporting
- Oversight of district compliance with READ Act , Individual Literacy Plan (ILP) procedures and reporting to the Colorado Department of Education (CDE)
- Provide coaching to literacy teachers in Title 1 schools and support literacy teachers in non-Title 1 buildings
- Design and facilitate professional development opportunities in the teaching of reading for literacy teachers and classroom teachers
- Ensure that reading interventions are effective and have a solid research base
- Promote the use of effective reading strategies for struggling readers and for those students who are learning English as a second language
- Plan and deliver monthly seminars that focus on maintaining the technical vitality of the district's literacy teachers, providing timely literacy information to schools
- Research and implement technology resources (ex. Lexia) that promote reading acquisition for students
- Expand technology resources that offer support for instruction and promote efficiency in the collection and analysis of student data
- Provide new teachers with literacy training
The Literacy team includes
Priority Programs Coordinator:
Patrick Kilcullen (ext. 57434), firstname.lastname@example.com
Elementary Literacy Coordinator:
Sandra Vazquez (ext. 57403), email@example.com
Department Secretary:
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Many of us have heard of stock indexes, but have only a fuzzy notion of them at best. This short article aims to explain some of the principles of stock indices -- how they work and what they are. Identify new information on a related essay by clicking How To Get The Discount Out Of A Discount Auto.
What Is A Share Index?
A stock index is just an average value for a sizable group of stocks, both those on a specific stock exchange or stocks across a whole investing market. Spiders are formed from stocks with something in common: they're to the same change, from the same industry, or have the same business size or area. Stock indexes give a general snap-shot to us of the economic health of a specific industry or trade.
Many stock indexes exist; in the Usa one of the most well-known are: the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the New York Stock Exchange Composite list, and the Standard & Poor 500 Composite Stock Price Index.
How Can It Work?
There are numerous methods to calculate an index. An index based only on stock prices is known as a "price weighted index." This kind of list ignores the significance of any particular stock o-r the business size.
A "market value weighted" list, on-the other hand, takes into account the size of-the organizations concerned. That way, value changes of small companies have less impact than those of larger companies.
Another type of index may be the "market share weighted" index. This kind of index is based on the number of shares, as opposed to their total value.
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The Standard & Poor 500 Index relies on 500 Usa corporations, vigilantly selected to represent a wider picture of economic activity.
Beyond the United States, the most powerful index is the FTSE 100 Index, based on 100 of the biggest companies on the London Stock Exchange. It's 1 of the most significant indexes in Europe. 2 other essential indexes are France's CAC 40 and Japan's Nikkei 225..
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High-elevation woods filled with oak and mountain laurel, accessible by a road to the summit radio towers. Outstanding skiing.
Property Name: Mount Darby
Town: Mount Washington
Activities: Hunting, hiking, skiing
Special features: Road to summit good for walking, skiing, sledding
Hiking difficulty: Expert — steep
Please note: Only accessible by private road; off-trail the property is nearly impassable
GPS: 42.1259, -73.4658 (frontage)
The 323-acre Mount Darby Reserve was acquired in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and MassWildlife. You're welcome to visit, but there is no improved parking (you can carefully pull off East Street by the gate), no trails (except the tower road), and the mountain laurel is so think that it's easier to climb than to walk. But all that said, this is still a great place to explore.
Most interesting feature: at the time of the acquisition in 2010, there were only tiny streams and a vernal pool; one year later we stumbled on a brand-new, 3-acre beaver pond complex. Busy, busy beavers! Look for that complex on the aerial photo at the northwest.
Between 32 and 40 East Street, Mount Washington. Parking is not available.


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For over a hundred years, Forster Rohner AG has stood for high-quality embroidery. They produce embroideries for elite fashion houses, and range from ready-to-wear to haute couture. With their new innovation of wearable technology by implementing light into textiles, they are going to conquer new markets, reports Regina Henkel.
When Conrad Forster-Willi founded his embroidery company in 1904 under the name of Forster Willi & Co; embroidery was Switzerland's most important exports market. Although this segment of the Swiss textiles industry has since undergone major transformations, the fascination for this unusually versatile product still remains, besides the invaluable know-how that has been handed down from one generation of employees to the next. The idea to implement light in fabrics is a result of both.
With the integration of active bright light in textiles, Forster Rohner expanded fashion design to a new dimension, and managed to create the world's first true hybrid of textile and technology. The special feature: the Forster Rohner fabrics retain their textile properties even after integration of a technical application. In other words: "It was important that the fabric remains a fabric, and also behaves the same way as before, including washability," explains Jan Zimmermann of Forster Rohner. "Even though it's a technical product", he adds, "everyone expects full washability."
For further development, in 2009 Forster Rohner established a separate department for innovation in the field of technical textiles. It is led by Jan Zimmermann, who is an expert in interdisciplinary sciences, not in textiles. For three years, the company from St Gallen has sought a solution – how to integrate LEDs in textile surfaces, without having to give up the textile characteristics of them.
The idea of embroidering electrical circuits with electrically conductive yarns was feasible. In these circuits, LEDs were incorporated in the form of sequins, which are decorative even when switched off. Also, the machinery had to be converted and new machines developed, for example for the application of the LEDs. From lace to robust wovens or leather, nearly every fabric can be embroidered and illuminated. And everything can be washed several times too…


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You'll never believe what this fisherman kept secret for a decade!
A fisherman made an amazing discovery roughly ten years ago but rather than show it to the world, he secreted it away, not knowing it was worth up to $100 million
An unnamed fisherman discovered a two-foot-long pearl weighing 34 kg (nearly 75 pounds).
He didn't know what it was but liked it and decided to keep it under his bed as a good luck charm.
The giant pearl is five times larger than the previous record and was left beneath the bed until a fire forced the fisherman to move his valuables to a new home.
When he revealed the pearl to a shocked local tourism officer in Puerto Princesca, the officer informed the fisherman of the enormous gem he discovered.
The pearl is 1-foot-wide by 2.2-feet-long.
Tourism officer Aileen Cynthia Amurao shared: "The fisherman threw the anchor down and it got stuck on a rock during a storm. He noticed that it was lodged on a shell and swam down to pull up the anchor, and also brought the shell with him.
"This was a decade ago and he kept it at home. He didn't know how much it was worth and kept it tucked away at home as a simple good luck charm. We were amazed when he brought it to us. We now need help from gemologists to fully certify it.
"We're waiting for authentication from [the] Gemologist Institute and other international authorities. But we believe Puerto Princesca is likely earn [sic] another prestigious title and a record breaker for having the world's biggest natural giant pearl from a giant clam.
"We will keep this here in the Philippines and I hope it will bring more tourists to the city."
The pearl was placed on display for tourists on Monday and remains available for viewing.
By Kenya Sinclair (CALIFORNIA NETWORK)
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Just off the border of your waking mind,
There lies another time,
Where darkness and light are one.
And as you tread the halls of sanity,
You feel so glad to be unable to go on.
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Three Miles North of Molkom (2007)
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It's a funny film that imbues you with an odd feeling of Zen.
Full of laughter, weirdness and raw emotion, it's a documentary that provides a real experience.
It's impossible to overstate just how intimate Three Miles North of Molkom is. Though often hilarious, it is also difficult, at times excruciating, to watch.
The enjoyably sarky tone conceals a sympathetic and frequently very funny documentary.
It's a nicely judged little film... unexpectedly heart-warming.
Goofy, amiable and often quite bizarre, this documentary from British producer-directors Robert Cannan and Corinna McFarlane is a little gem: it is effortlessly entertaining, and boasts what has to be the year's most extraordinary scene in factual cinema.
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Friday, October 15, 2010
Postcard Friendship Friday
18 comments:
- The Bodhi Chicklet said...
Funny how we do that, as women - not really see what is reflected back in the mirror for concentrating on the negative. I wish someone would invent a mirror that only let us see the positive...
- October 15, 2010 at 8:45 AM
- Pat - Arkansas said...
I'm wondering if the young lady gazing into the mirror was seeing herself as others saw her? I hope she went out to seek romance; the dishes can wait.
- October 15, 2010 at 10:04 AM
- Beth Niquette said...
Oh, that is just hilarious! I LOVE this postcard! lol Made me giggle up my sleeves this morning.
Happy PFF!
- October 15, 2010 at 11:49 AM
- Debs said...
wow! this is a great card! i'm very interested in typography and would love to find out what font was used on this card...it's wonderful! happy PFF!
- October 15, 2010 at 11:56 AM
- Joy said...
Ah romance brought down by reality. Love this funny card.
- October 15, 2010 at 3:08 PM
- Barb said...
The dishes can always wait - that's my philosophy!
- October 15, 2010 at 4:43 PM
- Sheila said...
Oh dear, somebody was put in her place! :) Lovely card, both great fun and very attractive visually.
- October 15, 2010 at 5:06 PM
- papel1 said...
What a great Halloween Postcard. Quite funny. Happy PFF.
- October 15, 2010 at 5:28 PM
- Crafty Christina said...
Great card! Who needs to do the dishes when romance is in the air??
- October 15, 2010 at 5:56 PM
- viridian said...
The young lady is to one side: is that her mother's reflection, ans mom comes to her room to chide her?
I like the candle in this one.
Happy Postcard Friendship Friday!
- October 15, 2010 at 6:33 PM
- MrCachet said...
This must be a take-off on the mirror-mirror story. What she sees in the mirror is enough to scare any beaux away!
- October 15, 2010 at 6:37 PM
- Funoldhag said...
Funny card. I have a theory that the reason our vision lessens as we age, is that what we see in the mirror is not as harsh as it is in actuality. Just don't put your glasses on before viewing!
- October 15, 2010 at 8:04 PM
- Betsy from Tennessee said...
Too Funny, Snap.... I love your postcards...
Have a great weekend.
- October 15, 2010 at 8:41 PM
- LDH said...
Fun postcards! This one and the 'Floozie' one too :)
Happy anniversary wishes!
- October 15, 2010 at 9:19 PM
- Coffeedoff said...
I love this card. It sent me thinking back to my romantic days. Not a thought for how many dishes I have washed since! Glad I have a dishwasher though!
- October 16, 2010 at 4:17 AM
- Bob of Holland said...
Delicious. The style of the illustration is like the one Windsor McCay used for The Adventures of Little Nemo.
- October 16, 2010 at 4:23 AM
- Vicki said...
Hello, dear friend,
I always enjoy seeing your amazing postcards. This one is very unusual. Yes, I am afraid those dishes are always waiting for us. I think I would rather choose romance, however. Are you enjoying this cooler weather in Central Texas? I sure am. Hope your weekend has been a happy one~love always~Vicki
- October 16, 2010 at 8:24 PM
- nonizamboni said...
What a dear old card that proves some things never change. Thanks for the smile!
Hope your new week is happy.
- October 17, 2010 at 3:38 PM


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Nursing students turn some heads
As part of a term paper, the students developed five resolutions that they presented to their national nursing student association, the Canadian Nursing Students Association (CNSA). And of the five, three of those resolutions were adopted.
Students Robyn Wrice and Traci Trimm (pictured right) acted as Memorial's national delegates, presenting the resolutions at the 40th annual CNSA national conference. Ms. Wrice admitted that it was a very intimidating process. "Traci and I had to stand up at a microphone for about an hour and present five statements to over 100 people and answer any questions that the national assembly had about them. There were some great debates as well."
"The first one we presented was our own group's statement and that one was passed with really no issues. So, it got us excited about the others," added Ms. Wrice. "It was a great feeling to see three out of five passed! The board of directors was so pleased with all the hard work from MUN and we had other delegates approach us to commend us on a job well done."
The resolutions are:
- That the CNSA promote the benefits of interprofessional education (IPE) in nursing education programs and work to implement IPE as mandatory accreditation criteria;
- that the CNSA promote health equity through harm reduction strategies in nursing practice and education; that CNSA take a leadership role in ensuring nursing schools provide quality clinical education experiences for nursing students; and
- that the CNSA recognize that complementary therapies are effective and cost efficient approaches to nursing care, and lobby for programs that prepare future nurses to advocate and implement complementary therapies.
The resolutions will be posted on the CNSA website and will become part of the association and what they advocate for. "It is great to see nursing students contribute so much to a national organization. We could not have done this work without the help, and guidance from Dr. Sandra MacDonald. The board of directors was even impressed to see such a supportive faculty member."
"It is the dream of every teacher to work with students who are so dedicated and motivated. It is good to know that the future of nursing is in their hands. I expect great and wonderful things from them, especially now that they know the strength of their own voices," commented Dr. MacDonald.
This was the largest number of resolutions ever presented by Memorial, which was the only university to present position statements at the conference. The event was attended by more than 600 nursing students from across Canada.


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I thought that I should probably mention one of my hobbies as I'm sure it will feature here quite a bit. In my spare time I like to do digital scrapbooking. I know what you're thinking, toddler? Spare time? Whats that? I don't get much of it and admittedly it is when Riley's sleeping.
Digital scrapbooking is a great way for me to preserve memories and of course my main inspiration is my little man and our family.
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