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209. Timothy, welcome. It is nice to see you
again. I am sure it is a judgment on you that you have been here
before and you have been invited back. It must have been that
you did well the last time you came here. Are you still enjoying
(Mr Kirkhope) Very much, yes.
210. I thought I would start off with the difficult
(Mr Kirkhope) Very much indeed. I was slightly puzzled
about your arrangements, in a way, because obviously you started
your investigations into issues, which I am very happy to talk
about, obviously before we had the Convention about to go up and
running. I do not know how you want to play it this afternoon
but I was hoping perhaps to make a few remarks of my own and then
answer all the questions you have, on a wide area or more specifically,
as you wish.
211. I will concede that to you, for old time's
sake. You are welcome to make a brief contribution and then we
will ask you a few questions.
(Mr Kirkhope) Fine. Thank you very much for giving
me the opportunity, first of all, of coming and being with you.
I do not need to go over my background. Very briefly, though,
I am Timothy Kirkhope, Member of the European Parliament for Yorkshire
and the Humber, with six others, since 1999. I was a Member of
Parliament for Leeds North East from 1987 to 1997. Most of the
time I was in that position, I was a whip in the then government
whips' office. I was in the Home Office from 1995 until 1997 and
currently I am spokesman for the Conservatives in Europe on justice
and home affairs issues (mirroring, to some extent, what I did
in the Home Office), and I am also now a full member of the new
Future of Europe Convention. Chairman, I am very interested in
the heads, as it were, that you are considering and have been
considering for some time, particularly about the connections,
trying to connect the citizens, as it were, with their elected
representatives and others. If I may just go quickly over three
or four points that I think are relevant here. First of all, I
think we have to admit that there is a considerable difficulty,
not just a difficulty in the United Kingdom but also throughout
Europe, in trying to connect citizens with their elected representatives,
and that is evidenced obviously by election turnouts and particularly
the disappointing turnouts, for instance, for our own European
Parliament elections in 1999. It is something of which we are
all aware but it is not easy to find a solution to it and in that
I think it also comes to the relationship between the various
democratic and non-democratic bodies in Europe. That relationship
seems to me in great need of redefining and I am hoping that the
Future of Europe Convention is going to move in some way towards
remedying that; for instance, the relationship between the Members
of the European Parliament that I referred to; the fact that we
have been voted on a PR systemand the goods and bads of
the PR system are another debate, I am sure; our relationship
in the European Parliament with the national parliament, which
is not perhaps the easiest relationship at times; our own relationship
within our regions; and, indeed, the identity or non-identity
of regions in the UK and that is against a background of devolution
which has of course been moving ahead. Then, as I say, there is
the question between our own Parliament and the national parliament,
and that is a matter of some difficulties on which I would be
happy to elaborate in a moment. There are also the structures
that are not democratic. Our own relationship as MEPs with a great
number of structures that have been put in place by government
is a difficult one. For instance, to give an example, the development
agencies that have been set up. They obviously have a considerable
amount of influence and power over the very large budgets that
are made available for regional assistance and so on. There is
no formal consultation process between the agencies and Members
of the European Parliament. I like to point out that the seven
of us in Yorkshire and the Humber, for instance, are the only
democratically elected representatives of the region as opposed
to any other bit of it, and I find that is something that is a
considerable problem. There is a mismatch there. At the same time
there is also a problem in trying to talk in terms ofas
I am sure others coming before you will be talking in terms ofthe
situation of Europe and the regions. I believe that national parliament
plays a vital role in this structure. The problem is, however,
you either go to the extent of saying that it is Europe and the
regions or you talk in terms of Europe and the national parliaments.
We have to try to deal with all three of those concepts and try
to bring them together in a democratic fashion. I wonder myself,
Chairman, whether there is a future for the Committee of the Regions.
I have very little evidence, having been here now since 1999 and
previously in Westminster, that, even though its original aspirations
may have been worthy ones, it actually is achieving very much
at all, frankly. The same argument would go for ECOSOC. I find
it very difficult, every time I look at the budgetary exercise
here, to see why we are spending money on those two bodies and
of what benefit that is to the democratic process or, indeed,
understanding in Europe. The enlargement process, Chairmanvery
briefly on that. We could well see 28 states. There is a question
in the Convention, which will be a very large question, of this
whole aspect of integration against enlargement, and quite a number
of leaders in Europe have made it perfectly clear that the enlargement
processwhich certainly I support and I think most British
politicians supportcannot succeed if in fact it is accompanied
by a success of those who would like to have much further and
deeper integration in Europe. It really is almost impossible to
envisage all those countries, regardless of the voting system,
whether it is qualified majority or whether we are staying with
the other system, whether it is possible to bring them together
in any system on an integrated basis. The final point I would
like to say in introduction is the whole question of scrutiny.
One can compare the different national parliaments and the way
they scrutinise European legislation. I personally feel that there
is a great amount of deficiency in this. The Danes, for instance,
are enormously strong on their scrutiny: they look very, very
carefully at almost every piece of legislation. In the United
Kingdom, dare I say, the House of Lords seems to me to have a
broader approach to scrutiny than your own House. That of course
is very easy to explain, because the House of Commons has limited
legislative time in its very busy timetable and of course it tends
to look very specifically at items of legislation that come before
it; the House of Lords tends to take a rather broader approach
which quite often can be very useful in the overall scrutiny process
of what is going on here. Finally, Chairman, may I say that as
far as we are concerned we would like to have a much better relationship
than we have at present. We think the Convention is an enormously
important opportunity. It is not just an opportunity to try to
put together, as some people would like, the constitutionalthough
I basically think that would probably not be a successful proposalbut
it is a big opportunity for us to try to get the balance right
between the democratic institutions and, indeed, thereby increase
the confidence and respect which the citizens of Europe in all
the nation states have for their own politicians as well as the
politicians who serve them out here in Europe.
Chairman: Thank you. You have covered the headings
of some of the issues on which we would like to question you in
a wee bit more detail.
212. May I welcome you, Tim, to our meeting
and say how nice it is to see you again. I appreciate the role
reversal very much as I was a whip in the European Parliament
for the Conservatives at one time. I wonder how much difference
you think it would make to the European Parliament and, indeed,
other parliaments if the Council were to meet in public when legislating.
We have had a substantial body of evidence from witnesses saying
that, in so far as it is playing its legislative role, the Council
should meet in publicnot when it is playing its executive
role. How would you react to that question?
(Mr Kirkhope) It is one of those things that it is
very difficult to argue against if you are trying to see more
transparency, openness and so on, but in practice, and having
had experience of this a little myself in government, I would
say to you that, although it is a fine aspiration, I wonder from
a practical point of view whether it is really achievable, looking
at the way in which Council operates. So much of the work is done
sort of in the margins, in ways which I think it is very difficult
to open out to public observation, as it were. It is spoken of
by a lot of people as being a major ingredient in improving the
democratic situation in Europe. My own view is that it is not
the priority. My own view is that the priority probably in practical
terms lies elsewhere, in what I think are the totally undemocratic
parts of Europesome of the organisations in Europe, the
bureaucracy, the Commission. These are the areas where I believe
we need to be looking for much greater . . . The word "democracy"
is difficult, because of course you then move straight to the
question of electing either the Commission or the presidents of
the Commission and so on and I think that is also a very difficult
area. I think it is the right thing to say, Anne, but I actually
do not feel myself that in practice it would be very easy to achieve.
There are loads of vested interests against it, of course, within
the system, but I still think it would be very difficult to achieve.
213. When you mentioned some of these other
bodies that perhaps are less democratic, comitology comes to mind,
and anyone coming from the UK has enormous problems trying to
explain to the electors what comitology is. Do you believe it
is important to open up comitology and other working groups to
public scrutiny and how can that be achieved?
(Mr Kirkhope) I think it is certainly possible for
us to do that to some extent. But I do not think it is easy to
achieve itagain, for the same reasons I have just given
a moment ago. I think that certainly as far as public scrutiny
is concerned you then have to start to decide what you mean by
public scrutiny. At the very lowest level it is simply public
observation of what is going on. At a different level it is actually
an organisational thing, in which a representative body or people
who are already representative are able to see what is going on
here and presumably communicate that to the wider electorate or
citizens or whatever it may be. I think that in a way again is
fine, as long as you have something in place which actually can
achieve those ends, and I think that is quite difficult in itself.
214. You will be pleased to know that we take
our scrutiny responsibilities very seriously. We are meeting with
the Leader of the House in the near future to examine ways to
see how we can improve on that. One of the most difficult areas
we find is the conciliation process, even as members of the national
party Scrutiny Committee, trying to find out at what stage a particular
item of legislation is. Do you believe the conciliation process
could be made more public? Or would that jeopardise the negotiations
and make them even more protracted?
(Mr Kirkhope) I think there is a possibility that
that could be a more public forum. Certainly the conciliation
process, in my view, is quite important and it is something which
has been extremely useful for a number of respects. Of course
then you have to, I suppose, turn your mind to one other point,
and that is that the consensuality of Europe is somewhat different
from the usual sort of national parliaments' attitudes, particularly
the UK one. That was the biggest difference, Chairman, that I
found when I came here: there was no question of dividing us swords'
lengths and so on, but in fact it was very much in the round,
everything, and everybody strives enormously hard to try to get
a solution to everything which is agreeable to everybody. My own
fear for that is that sometimes that results in things coming
out at the other end which are unacceptable to everybody or just
about unacceptable to everybody. The conciliation process, though,
is very important, and certainly we have had some great successes
with that recently. Answering Anne's question directly, though,
as to whether that could be opened out more: it depends whether
that would affect the result of it, whether in fact the outcome
of it would then be, if you like, something which was even less
acceptable than is possible under the present rules.
215. Can I ask you what steps you think are
needed in order to make subsidiarity apply consistently across
the European Union.
(Mr Kirkhope) This is one of those terms. It is almost
like the old term "federalism" which means different
things in different people's minds. Subsidiarity seems to mean
different things in different people's minds as well, but I am
pretty confident I think I know what you mean by it and what I
think I mean by it as well, and that is certainly something which
the Convention is going to be looking at, in the sense that a
lot of people do protest their belief in subsidiarity but the
realities here are often quite different. It is important that
the things that can be done at levels which are different to our
levels should be done there. In particular the national parliaments
and the role of the national parliaments needs to be enhanced
by making it extremely clear what precisely it is that we would
expect them to be looking at. This may sound an obvious remark
Chairman, perhaps it is, but it does seem to meand it is
quite surprising to say thisthat it is not at all clear,
not at all clear, in the minds of many people here as to what
is the province of our national parliaments. It is true to say
also that some national parliaments do not have the same attitude
as the British one, inasmuch as they are extremely happy not to
have matters ceded to them, as opposed to the British Parliament
view which is: "We would like to make sure that we have what
we can deal with best in our hands." Some people on the Convention
are looking at the whole idea straight away of drafting a constitution.
That is probably one of the reasons why there are so manyin
my view, too manyMembers of the Constitutional Affairs
Committee from the European Parliament on this Convention or associated
with it. I have no doubt that a number of people you may be seeing
will be very proud about their background on the Constitutional
Affairs Committee. I am proud of mine on the justice and home
affairs side, and I think that is actually more important in many
ways, looking at the future of Europe, than theirs. However, not
getting into a tiff over that, the Constitution issue is going
to be with us all the way through this process. I do not know:
we have had differences from the British Government, we have had
different explanations of what they mean by a constitution or
a set of articles or whatever you like to call it. There is, in
my view, an important question, and that is that, in terms of
supporting the national parliaments in the whole democratic process,
we must at least make it clear what are the principles which we
would use in deciding what should be the national parliaments'
competence rather than the European Parliament's competence. For
instance, it is extremely unclear and if we can get clarity through
the work of the Convention, without going down the road of a constitution
as such, then I for one would be very pleased and I think it is
Tony Cunningham: One or two things have already
been asked, but if I could just pick up on one or two points.
Certainly the one thing I would wholeheartedly agree with you
on is the Committee of the Regions. I am not even sure what it
does. Having spent five years in the European Parliament and then
the House of Commons, I have no idea who is on it, what they do
or anything else, so the sooner they get rid of that the better.
Angus Robertson: Speak your mind, Tony, come
216. A very searching question!
(Mr Kirkhope) It would be nice to take something away
from this, Chairman.
Mr Hendrick: Why don't you sock it to ECOSOC
as well.
217. Having said that, moving on to one or two
questions. We have talked about the European Parliament being
seen as irrelevant as far as the electors are concerned. You have
made that point and the turnout of the European elections in 1999,
where we had figures of less than 10 per cent in some areas, which
was appalling. In what ways are you going to be going to the Convention?
What ideas have you got to increase the relevance? Finally, on
the Napolitano Report, what is your view on the emergence of a
constituent power, exercised jointly by national parliaments,
the Commission, the European Parliament and governments?
(Mr Kirkhope) On the first point, this is a $64,000
question, is it not? I feel myself there are a number of problems
which exist in the UK which do not exist in any other European
country. First of all, in the UK we are blessed (if that is the
right wordand I think it is probably the wrong word) with
a media which simply does not want to know anything at all about
what is going on in Europe, unless it is in some respects even
slightly sensational. Of course those who have strong views about
Europeand I have known about this, as some in this room
knowEurope at one stage in my political career was coming
out of my ears night after night, as a whipif you have
a very polarised view about Europe, you are a total fanatic who
wants to integrate absolutely everythingsuddenly you are
no longer going to be a Brummy, you are no longer going to be
a Geordie, you are going to be a European citizenand then
of course you can get in the press if you say it enough. If, on
the other hand, you want to pull us out of Europe and tell them
all to go to blazes, and we are going to do our own thing on our
own, do a Switzerland or whatever it may be, then of course you
can get publicity in the media. But if you want to make positive
constructive comments or even criticisms of the European situation
. . . I can tell you now that the MEPsand I am not going
to be party politicalfrom all parties who represent the
UK here, in the vast majority of cases do an extremely good job.
They work terribly hard. Those who have been in your department
know that. They contribute a lot. Their work is of enormous significance
from a British point of view as well as a European point of view,
but to have that problem straight away .... And you have it in
a slightly different way in London but it is not so bad. You have
got a very, very strong lobby, you do get quite a lot of coverage
of your goings on. The BBC for instance, Today in Parliament
(although I know it has been reduced in time and all that sort
of thing) and if you take a look at the Parliament Channel on
Satellite. We see no reason why some of our debatesand
I agree they look a little sparser even than yours, although yours
are looking sparser every week, but, never mind, they should be
on television ... There should be an interest in this somewhere
and it just does not happen. That is one of the things. Secondly,
we have been given an electoral system for the European Parliament
from 1999 onwards which makes it extremely difficult, even in
individual casesnot undesirable, but unnecessaryfor
Members of the European Parliament to connect with ordinary citizens.
Under a PR system with a list, what is the point? The only people
you need to connect withlet us be quite blunt about thisare
members of your party. I, as a politician, just do not like that
kind of thing and I ignore it to some extent. It is not that I
do not like the members of my partyAnne, I think you are
all wonderful peoplebut you cannot be a really true politician
unless you actually are connecting with ordinary people and doing
the work all over the patch that you represent. It is very, very
difficult for us: massive regions, five million people, hundreds
of square miles to cover. It is not easy to do that. The structural
thing makes it difficult for us, the media makes it difficult
for us, the British thing makes it difficult for us. Britain is
of course part of Europe. We win more than we lose in terms of
the arguments we have, actually. Maybe, in reality, some of you
would disagree with me of what has actually happened with treaties
and so on, but certainly in the parliament we win more arguments.
We do very well from a British perspective and I think that is
what we should continue to do, frankly. I am certainly not a Europhileas
I think quite a lot of people will know. I believe in a positive
engagement. As far as this matter is concerned, there is this
great scheme of things which says that we want to sort of bring
this great coalition of positive forces together. I actually am
not, myself, very keen on this unless and until we can restate
precisely the functions of the constituent parts. We have problems
in that. That is, I hope, one of the things that this Convention
is going to do. It is unusual. I was on the Charter of Fundamental
Rightsa very difficult experience, I have to say. I went
on there with high hopes of reforming things, of getting the Ombudsman
more powers, the Court of Auditors more powers, and taking power
away from the Commission for the benefit of everybody. Of course
I failed. My voice was one of only a few. My name was on all the
posters as having been an architect of the Charter of Fundamental
Rights. That is not something about which I am particularly pleased.
I think, nevertheless, that it had a convention style: that everybody
got together in different components. It did not quite work with
the Charter of Fundamental Rights, but I suspect that on this
occasion, as long as we do not straightjacket ourselves too much,
if we allow a lot of lateral thinking and fresh thoughts, we might
just conceivably do some good out of this Convention, on that
sort of grouping of all the national parliaments and other interests
brought together. That is a good way, but I think other than that
we have to be very, very cautious indeed.
218. In your opening statement you made a bit
of an exclusive statement about the debate being about "Europe
and the regions" or about "national parliaments and
regions". I come from what is described in some places as
a region, but it is actually a nation which now has subsidiarity,
has legislative powers, which has elected politicians who are
responsible for a whole wide range of issues where their Westminster
counterparts are not, and there is a concern that there is not
a connection between their democratic responsibilities and what
is going on at the European Union level. One of the proposals
that has been made to try to counter this democratic deficit is
that sub-state authorities with legislative powers should be designated
"Partners of the Union" with certain specified rights.
What is your view on that?
(Mr Kirkhope) It is a very interesting thing about
Scotland. I did not mention this but the Chairman knows this,
I was, for four of my five years in the House of Commons Whips'
Office, grandly titled the "Scottish Whip". I think
the only success I can claim is that I . . . Oh, it is not a success.
I am sorry, I will rephrase that entirely. I was going to say,
"The only thing that really I could claim is that over my
tenancy of that important job the number of Scottish Conservative
MPs seemed to go down year by year," so, I suppose, maybe
. . .
219. Congratulations.
(Mr Kirkhope) I do not think it was much that I did.
I am sure you would say that. But you cannot be everything, of
course. It is entirely up to Scotland, under its devolution status,
as to what it does on a whole range of issues nowand you
have those set quite clearly, I think. You say you are a nation.
You presumably claim that you are a nation for a lot of reasonsand
I do not want to get into a discussion about that really. It is
a bit like, I suppose, one of the German lender, Baden-Wurttemberg
or Bavaria. I suppose they would claim a not dissimilar sort of
status, after all, they do have some legislative powers within
the federal structure of Germany. Those things are very clearly
laid down as well. Their relationship with the European Union
is a mixture of a regional connection, of course, and also a connection
through their own national federal parliaments. You have heard
from Professor McCormick, of course. He will have put the case,
I think, very strongly that there should be a greater recognition.
Although he is only an alternate, I am very pleased that he is
making contributions, certainly from the European Parliament point
of view, to the Convention and its work. I, myself, raised concerns
about Scotland and about Wales in terms of any interests they
might have in relation to the Convention, how those could be properly
listened to. I do not intend, if you do not mind, to go any further
down the argument of nation state for Scotland. I think at the
present time you cannot better the fact that you are a region
and accepted very much as a region in the same way as the northern
part of England is a region which more and more feels at a disadvantage
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How to clean up compressed files?
When I go into XP and run Disk Cleanup, I get an option to clean up Compressed Files which tend to be as big as 2GB to 3 GB!
Since I have a small HDD, space is at a premium.
When I run Vista's or Windows 7's Disk Cleanup, I never get that option. I always have to go into XP to clean up compressed files!
Is there any way to get Disk Cleanup to show the option to remove compressed files?
Is it also because I have my XP running on a FAT32 partition compared to Vista / Win 7 which itself is on NTFS?
Or is it because XP is on a completely separate HDD?
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|21 Feb 2009
Well, geez! Over a week has passed and no answer?
C'mon guys!
I even tried the Extended Disk Cleanup which I got from Vistax64.com, but no use!
Please help!
Thank you for your time!
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|16 Mar 2009
Tha option in Disk Cleanup was thought of as very time consuming and in-efficient. If you really want to get rid of such files, you might want to download CCLeaner from www.ccleaner.com It is very powerful and fast and can also scan your registry for problems. Hope this Helps
|My System Specs
|19 Mar 2009
Thanks for the reply Mitchell!
I am already using CCleaner and I love it! But even CCleaner does not have thae option I am searching for!
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|19 Mar 2009
Alright, But either way the option is no longer available, Though once Disk Cleanup scans your disk and is at the part where you select what you want removed, Click "Cleanup System Files". This allows you to free up much more space (20 Gb more for me :) ).
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USKS Martial Arts
Since 1987, the U.S.K.S. Family Center is committed to providing excellence in `Mixed Martial Arts` instruction & services for the entire family.
4493 Clayton Road, Concord 94521
Offering classes for children as young as 4 yrs old and for men & women of all ages who believe respect, confidence, discipline, self-control are timeless qualities. New Student Specials Available!


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The Wed-o-matic.
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Wedding Cake, 6,000 Volts
- Kinetic sculpture
- Technology/Intervention
We decided to take the idea of a wedding cake and wedding cake "toppers" to a new, artsy, absurd level and to use the cake as an opportunity to make a collaborative art work. To symbolize our common interest in all things mechanical and electrical, the cake was embedded with a sparking Jacob's Ladder made from a re-used 6,000 Volt neon sign transformer. The cakes rotated on geared, motorized platforms and every time the two dolls' hands would touch, a firey spark would appear between them.
Video clip of the 6000 Volt wedding cake machine: The WED-O-MATIC (13mb) →


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individual cranial sacral unwinding sessions with rebecca bruno
60 min Individual Cranial Sacral Unwinding sessions: bringing the nervous system into balance and resourcing the soul with resident artist Rebecca Bruno
sessions are $80 + to make an appointment or ask questions email Rebecca at firstname.lastname@example.com
Tea Party WITH RESIDENT ARTIST LIZ MIGLIORELLI AKA SISTER SPINSTER
Stop by for tea or bring your own lunch to this informal meeting with our knowledgable resident artist. Liz will share her knowledge of herbs, recommend the right herb for the situation, and answer any questions. And of course, she will serve herbal tea.
Liz Migliorelli is a western herbalist and magic maker who believes in affordable, accessible, community-based health care and the healing power of plants. She came to the herbal path through her own healing crisis as well as a frustration with the loss of ancestral wisdom and privatization of health care in the United States. Disenchanted by sterile doctor's offices, she believes in the healing that comes from our own gardens, the local land and our kitchens. She is devoted to encouraging others to find empowerment through self-care and harm reduction, to find healing in a cup of fir tip and strawberry leaf tea, and to find magic in the simple practices that connect us to the Earth.
FLOWER ESSENCE CONSULTS with RESIDENT ARTIST LIZ MIGLIORELLI AKA SISTER SPINSTER
Flower Essence Consultations are a great way to work with the energetic and spiritual components of your health that are at work. You are asked to come to a session with a prepared intention in order to best decide what flower, gem, animal and environmental essence might be the best fit for you. Liz will craft a blend that is specific for your intention and personal mythology.
Each session will be no more than 30 minutes and will cost $20.
email Liz to make an appointment: email@example.com
Lauren Winter Trunk Sale
We are excited to host a one-day-only trunk sale in our shop with resident artist Lauren Winter. Come try on her beautiful and carefully made garments, and enjoy snacks and drinks with us, on your way to or from work this Friday.
We will also have an exclusive online flash sale on the have company website, so keep an eye on our instagram for listings this Thursday through Saturday....
Board Game Night with resident artist Lauren Winter
Lauren Winter just wants to get folks together to meet, hang out, play games, share food, and drink some local beer. Chill out and have fun and make a new friend.
Bring your favorite board game or card game and a dish to pass, or just play what we have and eat what we make.
Oh, and get a sneak peek at Lauren's trunk sale items while you are in the shop.
Clothing Swap with Taylor McVay
Join resident artist Taylor McVay (of Blueprints for Sewing) for a clothing swap!
Breathe new life into your old clothes by sharing them with friends and strangers. Enjoy a night of exploring other people's sartorial history and create outfits of your own. Tell stories about your clothing and transform them into something new.
Taylor will be there to provide alteration and re-fashioning guidance. A sewing machine and hand sewing supplies will be available to alter and modify your finds (no experience necessary!)
Bring up to 2 grocery bags worth of clothing that needs a new home. This is the perfect opportunity to pass on those beloved garments that are never worn or no longer fit. Please bring items that are clean and well-loved but still wearable. ( Leave your worn out tees, socks, and underwear at home. Recycle them as cleaning rags! )
At the end of the night, all leftover clothing will be donated or recycled.
Bring a potluck dish to share, or a $5 donation for Taylor's expertise. Of course no one will be turned away!
Pop-up book club night with resident artists Meg and Tif Fussell
Come and share your favorite book. Perhaps read a passage from it, perhaps talk about it, perhaps not if you are too shy, perhaps just come along and hold your book for others to see. Have you read something recently or in your past that spoke to you? Changed your take on things? Helped you make that mountain a molehill? Tif's been on her own 'spiritual' journey made deeper by the written word of others. Lets have our own 'pop-up' one night only book club. Share words, share hearts.
This event is free and you can come anytime between 5 + 8pm.
A Day in the Life of an Artist with Brandi Harper
Brandi Harper, knitwear designer and owner of natural knitwear brand purlBknit invites you to spend the day with us. She is teaching a knitting class, cooking for all attendees, building a wall mural during a live performance, and serving love on tap.
Learn to arm knit as a form of mediation and make a Spring Fish Net Scarf setting your intention for this new season. Take a walk around the block or just chill out while the dinner table is set. Eat a light home cooked meal surrounded by good vibes and music. Watch Brandi create a mural made mostly of fiber in a theatrical one-woman play where song, dance and audience participation is the accompaniment. A performance you have to experience to truly understand. We end with a Q&A and sweets. Leave feeling full, happy and a bit more free. $36 all activities & materials included. Come to one part, come to all. Activity descriptions & times below.
Arm Knitting Workshop & Hot Tea | A Crafty Meditation
Join artist in resident @purlBknit for a 2-hour moving meditation where a ball of yarn, your hands and a cup of hot organic tea is all you need to unwind and unleash the creativity within you. In this class you will learn how to knit just using your arms to weave a beautiful lacey fabric. You leave with one Spring Fishnet Scarf. No knitting experience necessary. Materials included in price.
Time: 3 to 5 pm
Dinner is Served | Let There Be Food
Vegan and gluten-free friendly.
Time: 6:30 to 7:30 pm
Meditate by Fiber | A Live Performance
Theatrical play created by purlBknit celebrating fiber, dance and music. Tiny songs, yoga inspired movements and the in motion creation of a wall mural called "Mediate by Fiber".
Time: 8pm
We finish up with a Q&A with the artist and something sweet of course!
Follow Brandi on Instagram @purlBknit to watch the event unfold.
Have questions? Email Brandi at email@example.com
Setting Intentions / Contemporary Manifesto Writing with resident artist Danielle Freiman Sunday 4/3 3-5pm
Join Have Company artist in residence Danielle Freiman for a workshop on setting intentions and drafting a contemporary manifesto. Manifestos can be used to declare personal intentions, define a project or creative practice, and provide a framework for a Big idea. Participants will have the opportunity to talk about personal and collective intentions for the present/future, as well as draft a Manifesto zine to keep and share.
The cost of this class includes materials and you will go home with your own Manifesto zine, written by you and assembled by Danielle.
Danielle Freiman is an interdisciplinary artist and currently curates Good Habits, a small business and social art practice in Somerville, MA, featuring handmade zines, jewelry, and written manifestos. She received her BFA from the Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Additional work can be found at daniellefreiman.com and @_goodhabits_.
Connecting with Everything, Always with Whit Forrester + Feb 28 + 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Join Have Company artist in residence Whit Forrester for an afternoon discussion and artists talk. The artist will give a slideshow talk speaking about the evolution of their work through the movements of the planets and stars in their natal chart. The authors work spans queer idenitity, relationship to land, the sacred and divine, disease, Saturn Returns, mercury retrograde, addiction, growing cannabis, and increasingly, sacred geometry and fractal relationships. This talk is going to be an experiment in the application of strategies being developed by the Queer Astrology Roadshow. At the end of this talk we will be making a collective experience geared around transformation using crystal bowls.
COST : $5 - $70 sliding scale , NOTAFLOF (just come)
Anyone giving over 30 bucks is also purchasing a tarot reading sometime in the 2 weeks after the 28th.
STITCH IN for reproductive rights + Fri 2/26 5-8p
Eliza Fernand will host a stich-in for reproductive rights as part of artist Chi Nguyen's activist project, Draw the Line: 5.4 Million and Counting. Come embroider for reprodcutive rights in Texas, and have your work become part of a quilt to be used at the Supreme Court rally on March 2nd, 2016.
All materials and intruction will be provided by Eliza, there is no cost, and you are welcome to drop in for any amount of time.
On March 2nd, 2016, the United States Supreme Court will hear the most important reproductive rights case in almost 25 years. The decision will determine whether Texas can shut down nearly all abortion care providers in the state and prevent 5.4 million women of reproductive age from accessing the healthcare they need.
Using craft as activism, artist Chi Nguyen — in partnership with the Textile Arts Center and the Center for Reproductive Rights — is holding a series of stitch-ins to make physical the number of women whose right to safe and legal abortion is currently at risk. With each line representing an individual woman, the 5.4 Million and Counting project is only finished when all 5.4 million lines are embroidered.
The public is invited to Draw the Line by joining the embroidery process at the stitch-ins, or by sending in your own 10×10" swatches with as many tally marks (卌) as you would like to embroider. All swatches will be patched onto a larger quilt to be used at the Supreme Court rally on March 2nd, 2016.
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Wimmins Bizness PotLuck Thursday February 25 at 6pm
Wimmins Bizness PotLuck
Thursday February 25 at 6pm
Women-run Business Potluck
Are you a woman who runs a business, project or non-profit? Or want to start one? Join residents Rachel Berks (Otherwild) and Sarah Williams (Women's Center for Creative Work), for a casual conversation about how they started their business and nonprofit, lessons they've learned, resources that have helped, the challenges they've faced and the rewards of doing this kind of work. They hope others will come with their stories, advice, and questions! Bring a dish or drink to share.
On Keepings & Memory with Courtney Knight + Tue Feb 16th + 6-8
more about Courtney here: http://courtneyknight.com/
Improvisation workshop : sounds & movement with Will Owen & Marlee Grace + Sat 1/30 6pm
Artist in residence Will Owen & local dance artist Marlee Grace are teaming up to bring you an informal class/showing/workshop of music and dancing
Will & Marlee will share some of their own knowledge of the art of improvising as musicians and dancers as well as collaborating - and then we can all practice and experiement together! Our friends Amy Wilson (Dance in the Annex) & Fiona Dickinson will be joining us as well, and we take on the idea that everyone is a teacher, so we'll all be learning from each other
Class is $12 at the door or sliding scale, no one turned away, beginners welcome!
OPENING RECEPTION : Seriality in the Archive : a selection of works by Jeff Kraus and Chris Cox
Have Company is pleased to present 'Seriality in the Archive'. A selection of works by Jeff Kraus and Chris Cox.
In both artists practices the archive functions as a index that is pulled from to create new works. Selections from the archive are transformed through repetition and re-use.
Jeff Kraus has created a personal hieroglyphical library that is reoccurring in works, continually re-contextualized these symbols find new meaning and connotation as new works are created using the same library.
Chris Cox takes his personal archive of photographs and through literal reconsideration, construction, and re-imaging the photographs and figures original relationship is reconsidered as the pictures become new works entirely.
Opening reception on January 8, 2016 from 6-9 pm. Light refreshments will be served.
Exhibition on view through Friday, February 26.
Sara Strickler
Sara Strickler was in residence December 13th - 22nd, 2015
visit her website
listen to her Have Company Podcast


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We could not be more over the moon to introduce our brides to the couture bridal house Anna Maier. Run by the meticulous Charles Bunstine, Anna Maier was built from the Ulla-Maija brand that was founded over a decade ago as a couture bridal house. As Ulla stepped back, Charles rebranded the bridal company to Anna Maier in honor of his great grandmother a master tailor who had roots from eastern France. What remains consistent {and what thrills us about this company} is its foundation in couture make and approach.
Anna Maier is one of the few remaining companies that truly make to measure, allowing an individual pattern to be made specific to each bride. The beauty of each gown is hand-tailored and hand-crafted to suit the individual. It's true luxury and something we are grateful to be able to share with Colorado brides.


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State Theater
1603 11th Avenue,
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The State Theater was opened September 19, 1925. Another theater photo that I found on the Blair County GenWeb site is the State Theater in Altoona, PA. The movie on the marquee, "Kiss Me Kate", was released in 1953 so the photo should be from the early-1950's.
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A Marr & Colton organ was installed in this theatre in 1925.
What a nice b/w photo of this theatre that had a Marr & Colton organ in 1925. What is the current status of this theatre other than just being 'closed'?
During an urban renewal project, the State theater was
demolished in 1972.
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This opened on September 19th, 1925.
This appears to be the photo to which Patsy refers in her comment of of November, 2005
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For years, the local Spook has been keeping the County safe from evil. Now his time is coming to an end, but who will take over? Many apprentices have tried and only one boy is left...
Spook's: Seventh Apprentice
This haunting stand-alone story is a must have for SPOOK'S fans and a perfect introduction to Joseph Delaney's terrifying series which has sold 3 million copies sold worldwide!
The Spook is away on a dangerous job, and left behind, his seventh apprentice, Will, is compelled to help a boy whose father has been kidnapped by a ruthless and bloodthirsty witch who has the body of a woman and the face of a pig. But Will has never encountered a real witch in the flesh before. And dark-fighting skills are not yet advanced enough to fight an enemy of such power . . .
This story will chill your blood and frighten you to your very bones. Just remember not to read after dark.
From the series that inspired the forthcoming movie Seventh Son, starring Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes and Julianne Moore.


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How does Joliet Catholic senior running back Ty Isaac feel about the recent news that junior running back Silas Redd was leaving Penn State for Southern California?
"I really don't have any concerns at all," Isaac said. "I see no real negative with him coming to the team. I know that I will need to compete for a job no matter which school I attend, and competition just makes everyone better. Hopefully he can come in and teach me a few things."


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Museum Quality Framing 1 ReviewsPricey, but high quality standards
High quality framing and helpful staff. I brought in a valued watercolor done by a family member who is a professional artist. The manager did a wonderful job of ascertaining what would look best to highlight and preserve this painting, while keeping costs down. The work was done in a timely manner, despite it being around the holidays. There is often a discount coupon available.
U-Frame-It Factoria Plaza 1 ReviewsGreat new owners
What a wonderful frame shop! The couple that owns the store are so friendly and helpful. They helped me pick out everything I needed, and had it framed and finished in no time flat. I'll definitely come back again, and refer my friends.
Imagekind 2 ReviewsOne community to buy, create and sell art online
Imagekind is one community to buy, create and sell online. You can shop framed and canvas wall art from thousands of independent and emerging artists ...
Aaron Brothers Art & Framing 1 ReviewsTurned around!
Been here a few times in the past, not impressed. Gave them another chance for custom framing and had a great experience with the new manager of the store. The staff really seemed to care alot more about my experience and i will be back.
Acclaimed Photography 1 ReviewsAmazing family photos!
Kerri did our family photos this fall and they were so much better than we ever imagined! She did a very professional job, was quick to act and get ou...


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Waterfront Dining on Saquatucket Harbor
Simply Beach. Wychmere Beach Club blends Cape Cod's classic Americana style with discreet glamour and luxury. Stunning vintage beach and nautical receptions. A Longwood venue.
We realized that there was a continual need for attractive deliverable restrooms where a woman could feel comfortable in a formal dress and sit without wincing.
Fun, whimsical, and creative photography.
Working lavender farm on beautiful Cape Cod available for hosting weddings and events for up to 250 guests. Unique and charming setting
Calligraphics Studio offers custom designed wedding cakes & invitations to match your wedding color scheme or theme: Cape Cod, Renaissance, Medieval, & Victorian are our specialties. We also offer custom designed wedding invitations, menus, Save the Dates, and all your wedding stationary needs.
Add color & imagination to your wedding to make it unique. Custom invitations designed just for you will create a buzz about your upcoming wedding. Let us put your ideas down on paper!
Welcome to Sol Spa, Cape Cod's original holistic day spa. We offer complete spa services including massage, body treatments, aesthetics and nail care.
In our wedding, bridal and spa packages you will find a list of our essential beauty treatments and relaxing services.
We are available for rehearsal dinners, private parties and small weddings. While we do not have a private dining room, we have several areas of the restaurant that are aside and can accommodate about 25-30 people. For larger parties, the main dining room is available during the off-season.
Cape Cod Bed and Breakfast, Cape Cod Vacations, Cape Cod Inns, Cape Cod Resorts, Cape Cod Harwich Port Resort
Your wedding ceremony should express all that you each bring to this moment and draw in your family and friends who share in your lifetime. Let us craft one with you.
Celebrate your wedding with picturesque views of Nantucket Sound, and the perfect atmosphere for your special day!
We invite you to join us, make new friends and experience what Wychmere has to offer. Unwind at our fully serviced private beach and pools and enjoy a leisurely lunch at our Boardwalk Cafe.
Whether you are looking for hair, natural nail care, facial, massage, or waxing services, our team of professionals will pamper you with our amazing touch for a relaxing and enjoyable visit.


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Friday, October 4, 2013
Our first flu clinic date, in Ann Arbor, is set. It's 9-11 a.m., on Saturday, October 12. Sign up sheets are available in the office, or you can call anytime to make an appointment.
Flu strains in circulation this year include two influenza As, and two influenza Bs. All of our treatments are quadrivalent--they protect against all four strains. Flu mists (with a live vaccine) are available to healthy patients age 2 and over; flu shots (with a killed vaccine) are available to patients 6 months and up. Either treatment becomes effective around two weeks after it's given, and should last through the end of flu season next spring.
If you can't make it that Saturday, don't worry: we have plenty of flu mists and flu vaccines available in both Ann Arbor and Chelsea. Call anytime to schedule a visit.
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Zendaya Shows Off Serious Dance Moves in 'Zapped' Music Video - Watch Here!
Zendaya schools everyone in hip hop in this brand new video for "Too Much" from her upcoming movie, Zapped.
Zapped centers on 16 year-old Zoey Stevens (Zendaya), a skilled dancer and straight-A student who is having a hard time adjusting to a new high school, a new and klutzy dance squad, a new step-dad, three new rowdy step-brothers and an unruly dog. But things change when a dog training app on her smart phone begins to somehow control all the boys around her.
Spencer Boldman also stars in the DCOM, premiering on Friday, June 27th, just ahead of Girl Meets World!
Zendaya – "Too Much" Music Video From 'Zapped'


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A team of female dentists is rebuilding abuse survivors' smiles
When an Ontario survivor of domestic violence left her abusive partner, he left her with a painful reminder of the violence she experienced at his hands — damaged teeth.
More: New domestic violence law allows victims to break their leases
"I just didn't want to open my mouth," she said. "I was so ashamed of it and I was so sorry," the woman told CTV News, asking them to simply identify her as Sam. She needed reconstructive surgery on her teeth, but in Ontario, there are no publicly funded long-term dental services for women like Sam to access. While some medically necessary dental services are available under the Ontario Health Plan if done in a hospital, that's often not enough for low-income women.
That's where Project Restoring Smiles steps in, a team of female dentists working to fill a service gap for women who have survived abuse. "Our vision is to restore confidence in women who have survived domestic violence by addressing the physical effects of abuse," explained Dr. Tina Meisami in a statement. "Restoring a woman's smile has an incredibly powerful impact on her overall physical and mental health."
Project Restoring Smiles provides women with thousands of dollars' worth of dental treatments — both cosmetic and medically necessary — including orthodontics, crowns and bridges, fillings, dental implants, cleanings, root canals, extractions and surgical facial reconstruction, veneers, bleaching and scar revision. In our appearance-obsessed society, the cosmetic services offered give women a leg up when interviewing for new jobs and starting their lives anew. "It is inspiring to know that something as simple as restoring a smile can help someone's self-confidence, her relationships, her job prospects — it really improves her life," said Meisami.
Sam recalls breaking down into tears when she found out she could get her dental coverage done for free. Meisami performed two reconstructive dental surgeries on her, which Sam says changed her life. "I'm forever grateful for this," she said.
More: 10 domestic violence facts we should all be taking very seriously
Unfortunately, Sam's story is not unique. According to Statistics Canada data, there are nearly 8,000 women and children living in shelters across Canada, many of whom are victims of intimate partner abuse. "The length of our wait list tells us that a lot of survivors in our community need access to dental care," said Meisami. Project Restoring Smiles has treated 45 patients since launching five years ago, giving abuse survivors around $200,000 worth of free dentistry services.
Project Restoring Smiles is currently based in the Toronto area but recently announced plans to expand to St. Catharines and Ottawa. "This growth marks the first step in the Project's goal to offer services nationwide across Canada," said Meisami.
If you're interested in helping this charity go national, you can make a donation at its website.
More: Domestic violence victim shares injuries from vicious attack


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Written by library staff member Carolyn Branch for the 1984 History of Callaway, published by the Kingdom of Callaway Historical Society. Transcribed by library staff member Kris Breid, April 2004. The photograph at left was taken in 2003.
On February 25, 1907, the Fulton Women's Club met at the home of Mrs. J. K. Smith. The program for the day included a "most interesting lecture" presented by Professor Willis Kerr of Westminster College. The Professor's topic was "Books." It must have been an inspiring speech, because one of the club ladies immediately made a motion to "consider the matter of forming a public library." The motion carried, launching the Fulton Women's Club on a major project, which culminated only four years later with the erection of the present library building. Such impressive results in a short period of time were possible only because the whole community became involved in the planning, hard work, and excitement of the "library movement."
The library first opened on July 2, 1908, in two rooms at the northeast corner of the Odd Fellows Building. While the library flourished in these temporary quarters, the Library Association, led by Mrs. D. R. Kerr, Mrs. W. Ed Jameson, and Judge D. H. Harris, continued to campaign for a permanent library building.
They knew there was a possibility of receiving the donation of a building from Andrew Carnegie if public support could be assured. In order to gain that support, a library tax proposal was placed on the April 1910 ballot. When the tax passed, correspondence with Mr. Carnegie began immediately. In April 1911, he made an offer to provide $12,000 for a library building if the city would "agree by resolution of council to maintain a free public library at a cost of not less than $1,200 per year, and provide a suitable site for the building."
The city council moved quickly to meet Mr. Carnegie's requirements. A special election was held May 24. The $4,000 bond issue, which passed with a vote of 280 to 11, provided funds to buy a lot at 709 Market Street. Local architect M. F. Bell, working with Carnegie's New York representative, soon completed plans for the new building. In September 1911, W. R. Odor was awarded the building contract.
The cornerstone was laid on November 2, 1911, and the library moved into the completed building in July 1912. The library continued to grow with the strong support of many active community clubs. For example, in 1917, the Music Club led a movement to have a wooden floor installed over the cement in the basement meeting room. Eventually, several clubs joined together to pay $61.50 for a new wood floor and stage installed by W. B. Williamson.
Although the library started with less than 500 books, by 1931 the collection had grown to include 8,080. Through the years, this growth continued, and many changes were made to the building's interior to accommodate the increased number of books and library users.
Several of those changes took place during the 1950s. For the first time, a telephone was installed. In 1951, a hand railing was added to the front steps of the building. Not enough money was available for two railings, one on each side of the steps, so a compromise was reached by placing the one handrail down the center at a cost of $34. 18.
On December 14, 1955, the Fulton Sun Gazette, noting that the population of the city had more than doubled, ran a brief editorial urging that "the city council consider a campaign to enlarge the library's facilities." Interior remodeling done three years later, in 1958, included, for the first time, a room set aside especially for children. Regular story hours began the following year.
In 1960, the Fulton Library Board of Trustees and the Fulton City Council entered into a one-year contractual agreement with the Callaway County Library, a unit of the Daniel Boone Regional Library, and in October 1961, the Fulton Free Public Library merged with the Callaway County Library District. A steady growth in the number of people making use of the library over the next five years proved the wisdom of the merger. In 1960, 28,520 books were checked out. By 1965, the number had grown to 44,972.
In 1967, the Callaway County League of Women Voters led a campaign to remodel the library building and expand library services. The remodeling which followed that successful campaign included sacrificing the basement meeting room to make room for a children's library, and removing two interior walls upstairs to provide a larger reading area for adults. Those closely involved with the library, however, realized this second remodeling was really only a rearrangement of already overcrowded conditions.
The library became a NRC Licensed Public Document Room in 1974. Since no other space could be found for it, the valuable, but voluminous, collection of materials relating to the Callaway Nuclear Plant were housed on top of the card catalog.
Use of the library continued to climb. In 1976, 110,601 books were checked out; circulation had more than doubled since the 1967 remodeling. Seating was becoming an increasingly serious problem. Librarians often noticed students sitting on the basement steps, or on the floor between bookshelves.
By 1977, the problem of overcrowding could no longer be ignored. The board adopted a building program calling for a new county library building and hired Kenneth E. Wischmeyer and Partners to begin its design. The League of Women Voters of Callaway County conducted an in-depth study of the library's problems and endorsed the building plan the following year.
The Callaway County Board had secured an agreement with the Daniel Boone Regional Library Board that provided that tax revenues generated directly form the Callaway Nuclear Plant would be placed in a special building fund. In the spring of 1980, the board decided to use this money to begin purchasing the property necessary to erect an addition to the library building. By November, the library owned the two lots south of the building on Market Street and the two directly behind it on Court Street.
In 1981, the Friends of the Library and the League of Women Voters of Callaway County led a campaign for a 20-cent library building tax levy. Despite the best efforts of all involved, the levy was rejected by the voters. After a second attempt to pass the levy also failed, the board began to work with the architect to revise the building plans to fall within the scope of the tax levy finances generated from the Union Electric Nuclear Power Plant.
In July of 1983, as the library marks its 75th anniversary, the building program is at last underway. Construction of an addition to the west side of the building will begin in the spring of 1984.
Through the years, the library has flourished because of the faithful and devoted services of librarians, board members, and concerned citizens. Although we can't list everyone, we hope the following will be useful to future generations.
Head Librarians
Gretchen Yates Sapper, 1917
Sallie Coons, 1917-1944
Myra Sharp Deaver, 1918-1919
Grace Patton, 1944-1958
Freida Mittwede, 1957-1978
LaDonna Justice, 1978-present*
Mary Beckham Brown, 1919-1931 and 1944-1955
*present = 1984
Members of the Board
Judge David H. Harris, 1908-1911
Mrs. W. Ed Jameson, 1908-1932
Elizabeth Kerr, 1908-1944
Walter F. Henderson, 1908-1954
Don P. Bartley, 1908-1950
Mrs. E. N. Tuttle, 1908-1948
J.Tandy Bush, 1908-1954
Ada Bush, 1908-1948
Dr. Martin Yates, 1908-1912
Millard Thurston, 1910-1939
R.A. Wells, 1910-1912
Mr. Hales, 1912-1915
Dr. Gage, 1912-1920
J.H. Atkinson, 1915-1916
Baker Terry, 1922-1926
J.B. Reeves, 1923-1946
Dr. Herbert Day, 1930-1933
Harry Fisher, 1935-1956
Frances Dieter, 1939-1944
Arthur Norris, 1941-1943
John Westbrook, 1943-1957
Mrs. Carl Wishmeyer, 1944-1946
Anna J. Tait, 1944-1961
Homer Larsen, 1946-1956
Thelma Dahl, 1948-1953
Mrs. Harold Slusher, 1948-1956
Mrs. W. W. Marshall, Jr., 1951-1965
Carl Lorenz, 1951-1954
Mrs. K. Alfred Danuser, 1952-1960
Mrs. John Randolph, 1954-1960
Rev. Wm. R. Sengel, 1955-1959
Hazel Tutt Long, 1956-1961
Dr. Leon Wilkerson, 1956-1965, 1982-present*
Mrs. Robert Maddox, 1960-1970, 1976-present*
Overton Harris, 1957-1961
Judge John Cave, 1958-1961
Ben Freiberger, 1960-1968
Mrs. H. W. Craig, 1960-1963
David Horton, 1960-1961
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Contacts for faculty
A listing of Medicine-specific support networks and contacts for faculty.
Faculty Council
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Faculty Development
Faculty Engagement
The Faculty Engagement office provides service to all College of Medicine faculty. We provide assistance and guidance through all Collegial Processes including appointments, promotion, tenure, leaves and salary matters.
Indigenous Health Committee
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I remember my first dog, I was 11 and she was just a few weeks old. Her name was Gigi and she was the cutest Poodle and who-knows-what mix. I've had dogs almost all my life, so naturally, I've had a few encounters with fleas and ticks.
Thing is, I used conventional (e.i toxic) flea and tick products.
What is wrong with conventional flea and tick products?
The Center for Public Integrity reported the death of a 2 year old child after being bathed with a lice treatment. The autopsy confirmed the death was caused by being exposed to pyrethrin, a chemical found in commercial flea and tick products.
The Humane Society reported 1,600 animal deaths related to flea and tick products for 2008. Even the EPA recognizes most of the chemicals used in these products as poisonous, hazardous, and likely human carcinogens. I could go on and on about the dangers and be detailing which chemicals to avoid but I think it's best if we agree we should just avoid these products altogether.
A couple of summers ago I wrote this post on natural flea prevention, yet my dogs still got fleas once since I wrote that post. It was late in the year too. I thought, ah it's getting cool we're good. That taught me that while my dogs are exposed to grass or the outdoors I can't let my guard down. But this also means I've been able to try many different natural remedies and have figured out what works and what doesn't. and I know that this anti-flea and tick spray works.
DIY Natural Flea and Tick Spray for Dogs
- 4 oz Raw apple cider vinegar
- 2 oz Distilled water
- 2 oz Aloe vera
- 1 oz Castille soap
- 10 Drops of lemongrass essential oil
- 10 Drops of peppermint essential oil
- Combined all ingredients in an 8 oz spray bottle, preferably glass or at least dark PET or PETE plastic
- For prevention: Before going outside, spray on dog's fur until it is slightly damp and work with your hands
- For treatment: Spray on dog's fur until damp and with a fine comb tooth comb through
- Avoid spraying the face
You can use a different combination of essential oils, these two are by far my favourite for this spray but there are others you can use:
- Clary sage
- Lemon
- Rosemary
- Citronella
- Lavender
These spray is not for cats. I am not a cat owner so I have not researched the use and safety guidelines for the feline friends.
A final word about essential oils
Safety is important, so please stick to the recipe above as it already follows safety guidelines for dilution.


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Steve: Okay. So The New York Times article, this is Bruce writing: "This article on the cozy relationship between the commercial personal-data industry and the intelligence industry has new information on the security of Skype." So now switching to The New York Times article, quoting from that: "Skype, the Internet-based calling service, began its own secret program, Project Chess, to explore the legal and technical issues in making Skype calls readily available to intelligence agencies and law enforcement officials, according to..."
Leo: This is way pre-Microsoft. This is under eBay.
Steve: Yes. Years, years. Yes, yes, "...according to people briefed on the program who asked not to be named to avoid trouble with the intelligence agencies. Project Chess, which has never been previously disclosed, was small, limited to fewer than a dozen people inside Skype, and was developed as the company had sometimes contentious talks with the government over legal issues, said one of the people briefed on the project. The project began about five years ago, before most of the company was sold by its parent, eBay, to outside investors in 2009. Microsoft acquired Skype in an $8.5 billion deal that was completed in October 2011. "A Skype executive denied last year in a blog post that recent changes in the way Skype operated were made at the behest of Microsoft to make snooping easier for law enforcement. It appears, however, that Skype figured out how to cooperate with the intelligence community before Microsoft took over the company, according to documents leaked by [none other than] Edward J. Snowden, a former contractor for the NSA. One of the documents about the PRISM program made public by Mr. Snowden says Skype joined PRISM on February 6, 2011." So about six months prior to Microsoft's closing their acquisition deal.
So back to Bruce Schneier, who continues his blog, saying, "Reread that Skype denial from last July, knowing that at the time the company knew that they were giving the NSA access to customer communications. Notice how it is precisely worded to be technically accurate, yet leave the reader with the wrong conclusion." And this is Bruce speaking, saying, "This is where we are with all the tech companies right now. We can't trust their denials, just as we can't trust the NSA - or the FBI - when it denies programs, capabilities, or practices. Back in January, we wondered whom Skype lets spy on their users. Now we know."
Leo: He points out, he says, Bruce says, you can't trust the NSA, and you can't trust these companies. Their denials are meaningless. So we just don't know what's going on.
Steve: We just, yeah, we don't know. In that article, as I mentioned before, was a quote from Dan Auerbach, who's a technology analyst with the EFF, the Electronic Frontier Foundation. And I thought this was the best thing I read. He said, "We reached a tipping point, where the value of having user data rose beyond the cost of storing it. Now we have an incentive to keep it forever." And I think that's just exactly it. We know what's happened to the cost of storage in the last few years. It's just - it's ridiculous how large drives have become and how inexpensive per byte storage has become. At some point the cost to store drops so low that the perceived value of keeping everything outweighs it. And as he says, we've crossed that tipping point.There is a lot more detail. You can read the entire show transcript here, or listen to the entire podcast here. Here is more information about Project Chess.
Now, what's really important to me is that this isn't just about Skype. Skype is just


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William F. Kincaid, sales manager for a fur company and a retired Baltimore police detective, died Monday of cancer at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 59. Services for Mr. Kincaid, who lived on Killadoon Street in Timonium, will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Ruck Towson funeral establishment, 1050 York Road.
For the past five years, he was sales manager for Kent Fisher Furs on Howard Street, where he had worked part time before retiring from the Baltimore police force.
He was assigned to the Central District from 1956 until 1973, serving for a time on its plainclothes squad. At the time of his retirement, he was a detective in the check and fraud unit. He received many commendations from the department and the community.


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Remodeling by Going Modular
March 22, 2016
The one size fits all approach to modular construction may be a thing of the past, and more owners are embracing modular home additions instead of traditional remodeling projects.
Read more: Making the Move to Modular
Modular homes have been around for nearly 100 years. The pre-fabricated units are built in a controlled factory environment and must follow all local building codes. They're then transported to the building site by truck.
While modular homes previously had the stigma that they weren't customizable or attractive, the modern modular home is quite the opposite.
"It's not your father's modular," said Michael Winn, owner of Winn Custom Modular near Washington D.C. in a recent interview with the Washington Post. "Anyone who's picked up a copy of Dwell magazine has quickly discovered that modular construction has become very cutting edge. The modern approach is highly automated, customizable, precise, sustainable and fast."
More home owners are looking to modular construction as an environmentally-friendly, cost-effective, and less-stressful alternative to traditional remodeling projects.
Vin and Kerry DeSomma worked with Winn Custom Modular for their recent home addition. "We have three school-age kids and a dog, so the most important thing to us is that the modular addition meant we only had to move out of our home for six weeks instead of nine months. We still had the benefit of the design-build process since we could customize the modular addition, but it was much faster."
The Washington Post listed some basic facts and benefits for owners looking to go modular.
3 Basics of Customizable Modular Additions:
1. The best option for going modular is an upper-level or second-story expansion project. The average expansion project is around 900 to 1,000 square feet.
2. According to Winn, the typical modular project runs around $200,000-300,000, but his client base tends to want high-quality materials in their additions, which can push the price tag up to $400,000.
3. These additions do come with a size restraint: All modular construction must fit on the back of a truck. Another downside is that once the modular unit is constructed, there are no second-chances or room for making adjustments.
3 Benefits of Going Modular:
1. Modern modular design is extremely customizable and able to blend in with most architectural and design styles.
2. The construction of these units is energy-efficient and eco-friendly. Since materials are precisely assembled in a controlled factory environment by a computer, the amount of waste is extremely limited. Many modular additions use local material and are built with more framing material and with tighter air seals, making the structure more energy-efficient and natural disaster-resistant.
3. Modular additions can be constructed in half the time of traditional home addition projects, which also cuts down the cost of labor and saves owners when it comes to the cost and effort of finding long-term living arrangements during construction.
Source: "Modular construction is an increasingly popular way to grow a house," Washington Post (March 17, 2016)
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"I'm all right now, but you should have seen me last week," began many a monologue by comedian Rodney Dangerfield. A week after chemotherapy, I am starting to feel human again. The point to having these treatments is to keep the size of the cancerous tumors on my liver small. If they get too big, a transplant is out of the question. I hope this one does some good. I sure don't look forward to any more.
But, enough of my gloomy stuff.
EARLIER THIS WEEK I received two emails asking for information and/or advice about the Soka Gakkai International. I thought this was a bit strange, but in the off chance they were legit . . . Dude, if your girlfriend has been in the SGI all her life, my advice is either become a fanatic yourself or find another girlfriend. You can't change her. You won't be able to save her. It sounds to me like you are not that into Buddhism yourself, so I say go find a nice yoga girl . . . Now, as to the current state of health of the SGI fearless leader, Daisaku Ikeda – I haven't a clue. There are rumors that he has been secluded in a hospital for some time, and that he is in a coma, etc. I am sure that no one, outside a small circle of people in Japan knows the truth. There are also rumors that he will be mummified after he passes away. Well, I have heard of crazier things . . .
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD about the controversy stirred up by the sale of Buddhist jewelry at a New York store. Jewish groups and some politicians were outraged and, as the New York Daily News reports, "The apologetic owner of a Brooklyn jewelry store blasted for hawking earrings that look like swastikas said Wednesday that she will stop selling the controversial baubles."
The swastika is a traditional Buddhist symbol and it is not unusual to see them displayed in temples and on Buddha statues. Although this latest controversy is a different situation, I have long felt that ethnic Buddhists should cultivate more sensitivity about this issue. Regardless of which way it is facing (the Nazi's turned it around), to many people it is odious symbol, representing hate and mass murder, particularly for those Buddhists with Jewish origins. I, who am not Jewish, know the difference between a swastika and the Nazi emblem. My elementary school in Wichita Kansas had swastikas carved at each corner. I thought that was kind of cool, then. Now that I am an adult and have met a few holocaust survivors, when I walk into a Buddhist temple and see swastikas about, I feel uncomfortable.
The swastika just carries too much emotional baggage and bad karma with it to be useful. Traditional or not, it serves no purpose to continue using the swastika as a Buddhist symbol. Ditch it, or use it with more sensitivity. And you definitely have to wonder what is in the mind of someone who would walk around in New York city wearing swastika earrings . . .
FINALLY, some very sad news . . . After 40 years, Bodhi Tree Bookstore has closed. Yes, that great smelling, cozy little institution on Melrose Ave in Los Angeles is a thing of the past . . . As Teresa Watanabe wrote in the LA Times, the store had served "as a world-renowned spiritual mecca for seekers of all persuasions — including Gov. Jerry Brown, Beatle Ringo Starr and actress Shirley MacLaine, whose memoir chronicled how her metaphysical journey began at the Bodhi Tree in 1983."
I spent many an hour perusing the titles in the Buddhism corner, and listened to many great talks there as well. Of course, this is part of a growing trend but I have to say that there is just something wrong about a world without bookstores . . .


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• Planning, developing, coordinating, and directing a number of large and important projects or a project of major scope and complexity
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Couling, Catherine
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Room: 4W
Phone: +61 3 5122 8312
Catherine Couling is a Ph.D. student with the Geotechnical and Hydrogeological Engineering Research Group (GHERG). She started her Ph.D. in 2014 after she was the recipient of a Federation University Postgraduate Research Scholarship. Earlier that same year, Catherine received her Bachelor of Civil and Environmental Engineering from Monash University, Australia.
BEng Hons (Civil & Env), Monash University
GradIEAust , Engineers Australia
Research Topic
Analysis of time-dependent geotechnical factors affecting brown coal mine batter stability
Supervisors: Professor Rae Mackay & Dr Ali Tolooiyan
In 2007, a portion of the nearly complete north-eastern batter of the Yallourn brown coal mine collapsed. The focus of this current research is the case study of a selection of time-dependent geotechnical factors believed to have influenced the long-term stability of the brown coal batters. This research will investigate the relative significance of some of the causes contributing to the batter failure, particularly the long-term geomechanical behaviour of materials, influence of geologic structures and groundwater conditions. Both two- and three-dimensional finite element modelling, combined with existing data recorded at the time of failure and new data collected from geomechanical testing of materials, are being used in this investigation.