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West Berliners are now looking for peaceful solutions after two nights of the worst clashes in years between police and youthful demonstrators. Confrontations between squatters and police Dec. 12 and 13 have left 70 policemen and an unknown number of demonstrators injured, some two dozen demonstrators arrested or sought for arrest, and shops looted on posh Kurfurstendamm.
Peter Ulrich, West Berlin's senator for the interior, stated afterward that violence against persons or property would not be tolerated, but that the Senate would seek to reach a political settlement rather than settlement by force with the squatters.
At root is the common problem of Berlin, Amsterdam, Stuttgart, and numerous other old European cities: a shortage of housing and especially of low-cost housing. In West Berlin, as in other cities, students and young people have finally taken things into their own hands and occupied vacant buildings.
In many cases the buildings have been awaiting demolition or for new plumbing to be installed in an upgrading to higher-cost apartments. Often the squatters fix up the buildings and enjoy a semilegalized tenancy at the discretion of owners.
The weekend clashes in West Berlin started the evening of Dec. 12 when police evicted squatters from one of the Kruzberg district's 20-odd buildings that have been occupied mostly by leftist or apolitical youths. The primarily German squatters and/or their supporters fought the police with stones and slingshots, broke some display windows and looted shops in this largely Turkish area.
The following night demonstrators demanding the release of those arrested the night before -- as well as opposing the arms race and NATO rearmament -- held what started out as a peaceful protest in the downtown heart of West Berlin. However, possibly at the instigation of "chaotics" -- the slang term for radicals who actively seek street battles with the police -- the protest turned into violence, with an exchange of rocks and tear gas, and plundering that lasted until the early hours of Dec. 14.
Afterward, demonstrators accused the police of brutality, including the driving of a police car into demonstrators at one point. The West Berlin police chief denied the charge, and Social Democrat Interior Senator Ulrich praised the police for their "moderate, energetic, and common-sense" deportment.
The Conservative Senate spokesman and a spokesman for the police union -- representatives of groups that often consider the governing Social Democrat-Liberal coalition soft on law and order -- criticized West Berlin's housing policy. They also criticized a "pseudo right" of squatters that has sprung up with government acquiescene.
Building Sen. Harry Ristock has stated that 80,000 of West Berlin's 1.1 million apartments have no baths or toilets, while an additional 250,000 are substandard in other ways.
The Kruzberg building that was evacuated by the police Dec. 12 was reportedly reoccupied by squatters Dec. 14.

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a: Microbiology Lecture/Lab [Bio 401/402 (3/2)] or Human Physiology Lecture/Lab [Bio 612/613 (3/2)] may be viable substitutes for Bio 240. These classes have greater health professions content and likely to be easier to enroll in. However, some schools may not accept these classes as substitutes - check to make sure.
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On February 12, 2004, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control Board, as established in Section 49-5-60, Capacity Use Designation, declared the whole of Darlington County, Dillon County, Florence County, Marion County, Marlboro County, and Williamsburg County as the Pee Dee Capacity Use Area.
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Raspberry Pi Internet radio in wooden design
The complete image of my SD card and the electronic schematic can be downloaded here.
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Raspberry Pi internet radio image download – 2,6GB updated 01.09.2014
username: pi password: rasp
Please note the hardware will only run on a Raspberry Pi Model B revision 2,
since certain GPIO on the rev.1 or rev.2 B+ is not available.
Please note that the two resistors R42 and R43 "pull up resistance" must be removed for proper operation, see (image-003) EXIT switch (hidden switch) see (image – 004 and – 005)
The middle button is for the EXIT function, making it possible to exit the program (only the radio will be shut down) while the raspberry itself will continue to run and you can make changes to the system, e.g. software update, channel list change and so on.
The components used are all standard components, no exotics were used.
Modified: 01.09.2014 sorce code available via download
Modified: 22.10.2014 Parts list available via download. currently only german! Stückliste.xls in excel format
Modified: 29.10.2014 The St_Radio "start scrip" file is located in /etc/init.d/ and is for the startup of the web radio /home/pi/MyRadiog/ and run the executable file radiog which is the actual program.
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- Energy consumption with amplifier in the switched state about 6 watts. In standby 0 watt + the power supply used idle consumption of.
- Standalone Internet radio
- GLC display 128×64
- True hardware power off switch
- Main switch ( disconnection from power ~ 240 volts )
- USB socket ( for mp3 playback )
- LAN connector ( RJ45 network "Internet" )
- Amplifier 2 x 1W RMS
- volume control manually
- Rotary encoder with push button (selection with confirmation button)
- 3 x button ( On / Off "hardware power off" | hidden button "Exit" | menu )
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It was unseasonably warm for Saskatchewan in November this weekend – and we've got the records to prove it.
Temperature records were broke in nine communities. Broadview set a new mark at 20.6 C, breaking a previous record of 19.4 C from 1949.
Moose Jaw hit 20.2 C, beating an old high of 15.8 C from 1997.
Saskatoon saw 19.8 C, breaking a previous record of 17 C.
Records were also broke in Collins Bay, Estevan, Nipawin, Wynyard, Assiniboia and Rosetown.
Swift Current and Leader, Sask., also came close to breaking record temperatures.
Environment Canada said the warmth in province is due to a huge upper level ridge of high pressure. Temperatures are expected to cool off Monday due to a cold front, before returning to unseasonably warm weather for the rest of the week.


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Nani is in high spirits with the huge success of 'Krishna Gaadi Veera Prema Gaadha' and the Natural Star is breaking his own previous records. It is well-known that the satellite rights of the actor's previous film 'Bhale Bhale Magadivoi' were bought by MAA TV for Rs.3.9 crores.
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"We need to work to connect REO Town, Old Town and also the Saginaw corridor with downtown," he said. "We have to think deeply about what we're going to do with the existing (pedestrian bridge over the Grand River). The Washington Square streetscape is very poor right now and needs to be dramatically improved … ."
Continuing: Two proposed projects by local developer Pat Gillespie, Marketplace and BallPark North, need to be ushered to completion. The city's river trail between Kalamazoo Street and Michigan Avenue needs to be improved, just like has been done with the stretch between Michigan and Shiawassee Street. The building of a performing arts center remains a goal, and several hundred more housing units and perhaps two more hotels would do downtown some good.
Reutter Park on the south end of Capitol Avenue needs to be incorporated better into downtown, and there is work to be done to bring the residential Capitol Club Tower and the Lenawee (an office building proposed to replace the old YMCA building on Lenawee Street) to fruition. Oh, and the EDC has to work to recruit and bring more corporations downtown.
"That's the list of things we need to work on in the coming years," he said.
After one of downtown Lansing's last albatrosses fell last week with the news that the Eyde Co. would work to redevelop the architecturally significant Knapp's Department Store building, a pertinent question is: What's next?
With the ongoing redevelopment of the Ottawa Street Power Station into the headquarters of the Accident Fund Insurance Co. of America, and the Knapp's announcement, it seems that the downtown has no more monumental redevelopment projects to tackle — there are perhaps now more empty parking lots than empty buildings.
As far as empty buildings go, there are a few storefronts on Washington Square that could be filled. The old Oliver Towers housing tower is still largely vacant and occupying increasingly valuable land, and the old YMCA building is stately, but apparently difficult to do anything with except possibly tear down and start fresh. Along Grand Avenue south of Michigan, there are a few parking lots and empty office buildings. On the east side of Grand Avenue is the proposed site of an upscale apartment building — the Capitol Club Tower — and beyond that, a stretch of riverfront occupied by dead (and living) trees and a dilapidated chunk of river trail infrastructure.
Along with his "to do" list, Trezise also keeps a list of things that are "impossible," using the word as optimistically as possible. The power station was an "impossible," so was the Knapp's building, and so was a new City Market. The other two impossible tasks waiting in the wings: a performing arts center and a couple of new hotels.
"That's five impossibles, if you will," Trezise said. "We've hit three of those now."
Take me to the river
If you happen to pass by the old Lansing City Market at the corner of Shiawassee and Cedar streets in the next few days, you may notice that it is slowly being picked apart. In a week, maybe, it'll be gone forever.
Gillespie said that demolition is set to begin today. But it will not happen in one big crash. Last week, the windows were removed, and earlier in the week, the building was picked clean of its rustic hardware, like doors and other ornaments. And during demolition, scheduled to take up to 10 days, as many of the building's old bricks as possible will be salvaged to go inside Gillespie's Marketplace development, which will eventually rise in place of the old market.
Marketplace, and its twin east across Cedar Street, BallPark North, are part of two key aspects of continuing to grow downtown: adding more people, and opening people's eyes to the Grand River. Both will feature a mix of residential, commercial and retail space.
It was Gillespie who, last fall, took interested parties out on a boat downtown to show them a different view of how the city looks from the river.
"We want to maximize the river," Gillespie said. "That's going to be a big part of the next five years."
The first building in Marketplace, with 85 residential units, Gillespie said, could start to rise by the end of 2010. The plans for the development have not changed much since they were introduced in 2007, though interior plans for the building's units have been sketched out. BallPark North, a sort of shoutout to apartments near Chicago's Wrigley Field, would rise from behind Thomas Cooley Stadium's center field, giving its residents a view of ball games. Gillespie would like to start BallPark North simultaneously with Marketplace, and finish them both at the same time.
"I'd love to see them go at the same time," he said.
But while Gillespie's developments at that part of the Grand River express a continued rejuvenation — along with improvements made to the river trail there, as well as on the west bank of the river at the foot of the Ottawa Power Station — pieces of the river south of Michigan Avenue have been more stagnant.
Bob Johnson, head of the city's Planning and Neighborhood Development Department, says that if you look at the way riverfront development has been going, the southern tier of the downtown waterfront is ripe for improvement. The city does not have any new specific projects in mind right now for that section of riverfront, but there is the promise of the Capitol Club Tower project beginning in some form. The project, headed by developers Shawn Elliott and Alan Drouare, would place a high rise between a state office building and the South Grand Parking Ramp. Behind the proposed site of Capitol Club Tower along the banks of the Grand River is a thicket of trees that runs from the parking ramp to the Kalamazoo Street Bridge.
Elliott declined comment on what is happening with Capital Club Tower, saying that he would prefer his actions speak in place of his words. On the surface, at least, nothing appears to be happening. The project was supposed to break ground in 2007 or early 2008, but in an interview last April, Drouare said that the project was feeling the effects of a national credit lending freeze, and that the developers needed to turn some 60 interested buyers into full buyers. The tower was once projected to climb 20 stories, but was scaled back to 12 stories with 84 residential units.
But Johnson still sees hope for the project. He said the developers had to assemble three parcels into one for the footprint of the building, which was no easy task. Therefore, the land is developable, where it once was not.
"The assemblage of those three parcels provides there to be discussion on development," Johnson says. "Heretofore, there could never have been a discussion."
Johnson also said that he has been given "positive indication" that something will be done with the parcel. Trezise said that he has been told the project may not end up being entirely condominiums, but more of an overall mixed-use development.
Aside from Elliott and Drouare, Trezise said he has not heard of any private entity interested in building on that section of the river.
The next level
The progress of downtown Lansing from 20 years ago to now, say those who have seen it and are involved in it, is amazing. But there is still more work to be done.
Trezise has often talked about a "critical mass" of people living in the downtown area that would attract more retail opportunities, perhaps even a grocery store.
Gillespie says that surveys of people living in his downtown developments want more hotels in the area, and they want more dining choices. Trezise says that destination retail stores — like, say, a women's clothing store — and more dining options will take a larger amount of people downtown. And, quoting a recent EDC market study of the downtown area, the area could support at least 300 more housing units, which may push it toward a "critical mass" tipping point.
Eric Rosekrans, a senior vice president of CB Richard Martin Ellis in East Lansing, who studies office space vacancy rates in the area, says that what the downtown area needs is more people. At this point, he said, the downtown area could not support another new office building — that may change by the time the Knapp's renovation is complete in an estimated three years, he said — because there's plenty of vacant office space.
Entertainment venues, like bars, are a sort of ground floor for retail, Rosekrans said. To bring a retailer of national scale, like a drug or grocery store, is going to take more "rooftop counts," or more people living downtown.
"I do not know that retail will be in the near or middle range
future a big draw," he said. "But I think you can bring in some more
that will help that area as long as the living environment continues to
said that an existing agreement with the Radisson Hotel could hamper
his desire to bring two new hotels to downtown Lansing, the goal of
which would be to boost convention business. The city cannot offer as
many tax incentives as it normally could for another hotel.
"It's a problem we continue to work on, but we can't violate the legal agreement, and we won't," he said.
It's taken decades
was nothing. The city was dead," said former Mayor David Hollister when
asked what downtown was like when he took office in 1993. There was
nothing open after 5 p.m., no entertainment, and certainly no loft
said he came into office with the focus of revitalizing downtown. He
focused on three main areas: Washington Square (once known as the
"Washington Mall"), the corridor along Michigan Avenue between the
Capitol and Pennsylvania Avenue (a "sin strip" full of adult
bookstores, drugs and prostitution) and Old Town. Hollister hired a
consultant to come in and study downtown, who told him that downtown
needed loft apartments, maybe a sports arena, more diversity, and
elements that would make it more "walkable."
first real development that Hollister remembers is the new Capital Area
Transportation Authority bus terminal at the corner of Grand Avenue and
Kalamazoo Street. The state had appropriated money for the center for
several years, but the funds had sat around unused.
could never agree where to put it," he said. He went to the state and
told them, "If we don't do something with (the money) this year, you
can take it back."
transportation center gave the city's image a boost, Hollister said. It
was after that that Tom Dickson came to Hollister with an idea about a
minor league baseball team.
told him I would be interested, but only if he put it downtown,"
Hollister said, reflecting that other sites, including the Red Cedar
golf course, were looked at for what would eventually become Thomas
Cooley Law School Stadium (nee Oldsmobile), the home of the Lansing
wanted to use the stadium to clean up the Michigan Avenue "sin strip."
And it worked — after the stadium was built and opened in 1996,
entertainment venues the Nuthouse, Rum Runners and Club 621 opened up
along Michigan Avenue.
soon, downtown Lansing began to appear on people's radar. Developments
like Buildtech president Richard Karp's renovation of the Arbaugh
Building into lofts and Harry Hepler's loft developments and the
now-defunct restaurant Blue Coyote were among the first investments in
urban chic.
the 1990s, most developers were still focused on developing sprawling
subdivisions and suburban shopping malls. But a new trend of young
professionals wanting to
"live, work and play" in an urban area was beginning to take hold.
recalls being one of those developers who had "developed everywhere but
downtown." He said he didn't think of downtown Lansing as holding the
potential of other cities' downtowns like in Madison, Wis., or
Indianapolis. His eyes were opened, he said, while he was giving a tour
of Lansing to an architect visiting from Winter Park, Fla.
told me, 'You have no idea of the opportunity that's going on here,'"
Gillespie said. The architect pointed out that Madison and Indianapolis
were already developed, and that downtown Lansing was an undiscovered
"We drew a one-mile radius around the Capitol and said, 'We're going to commit as many resources here as possible,'" he said.
Gillespie says he does not know why the trend of young people wanting to live in urban areas sprang up, but it's here.
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we're finding is the age group between 22 and 35 like the feel of
living urban, green, and walkable. That sounds like just a lot of the
tag words, but that's what they like," he said. "Their friends are in
Atlanta and Chicago and other big cities. They would like to stay here
but have that same type of experience."
Batting cleanup
Johnson, as the city's sire of urban planning, has overseen a number of projects in the downtown area.
controversially, he had worked for two years on a deal to sell the
North Capitol parking ramp to Lansing Community College. The college's
original plans called for a rehab of the concrete behemoth, and a
rooftop restaurant for its culinary school. But after City Council
killed the deal as too lopsided in favor of LCC, the college withdrew
its offer early this year. Developer Joel Ferguson has been interested
in buying the ramp, but Johnson says the ramp has not been opened up
for general sale.
was also involved in the city's buying the land where the shuttered
BoarsHead Theater sits, with the end goal of building a mixed-use
parking ramp for workers at the new state police headquarters. But
Johnson said he's received word from the state that there's no parking
shortage for state police workers.
was also a plan to build a city-owned parking ramp between the new
Lansing City Market and the Lansing Center. That proposal was scrapped
because the Accident Fund Insurance Co. of America and the Christman
Co. were able to secure financing to build a parking ramp next to the
power station that would serve the new Accident Fund headquarters.
Nearby, at the corner of Cedar Street and Michigan Avenue, there was
what Johnson calls "brainstorming" over building some kind of
performing arts or cultural center. But that idea has not been
discussed recently.
from the North Capitol ramp is the partially vacant Oliver Towers (the
Lansing Housing Commission still has its offices on the ground floor).
The Lansing City Attorney's Office released a formal opinion last
Wednesday, saying essentially that the city of Lansing owns the
building. But to dispose of the building would take the Lansing Housing
Commission working with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development to sell it for fair market value. At last check, Johnson
said, the commission was interested in selling the building and moving
its offices to the former School for the Blind. Patricia Baines-Lake,
the commission's executive director, did not return a call seeking
comment on the status of the building. But Johnson said he is unaware of any specific interest right now in developing that site.
Johnson said that he has not heard of any movement on
the old YMCA building on Lenawee — he said he has not seen a demolition
permit for the building, which means that the "sky is the limit" for
the building. Rosekrans, who represented the owners, The Lawton Group,
said that the original plan for the building was to tear it down and
build an entirely new building. Julie Lawton Essa of the Lawton Group
did not return a call seeking comment.
said that he does not know the condition of the building, but even if
it is in tip-top shape, the layout of the YMCA could be prohibitive.
Much of the building is singleroom dwellings, which may not be suitable
for the class of people looking to live downtown.
asked whether there are any major projects in the works for downtown,
Johnson said any discussions right now are "embryonic, and even that's
a stretch."
important piece of downtown development, he said, is a study being done
by CATA of the Michigan Avenue corridor connecting Lansing, East
Lansing and Meridian Township. The study could produce a recommendation
to build new public transportation infrastructure along the corridor.
Among the options being considered are light rail, modern streetcars, a
bus rapid transit line, and improving the existing bus service.
"The culture of the region, the culture of city, needs to move to a state where we embrace mass transit," Johnson said.
If he could have anything, what would he like to see happen in downtown?
"Two-way streets," he said.
Urban interest
Wein, a 23-year-old MSU computer science graduate student, and an East
Lansing native, has always wanted to see the Lansing region more built
up, with more destinations and more cultural events. After finding the
Web site ModelDmedia.com, which focuses on developments in Detroit, he
decided to start his own development-focused site. He launched
Develop.MetroLansing.com in 2006, right at the beginning of the
administration of Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero, an era that would usher
in a boatload of exciting development projects. Wein's site averages
10,000 views per month, and hosts many forums related to specific
development projects around the region. The site's traffic has grown by
15 percent in the last month.
"I don't know if it's my generation or what, but there seems to be a lot of interest in living in urban areas," he said.
excited about development, though he observes that sometimes there will
be long stretches without development news. Plus, he'd like to see some
of the major projects like the Lenawee and the Capital Club Tower
finally get off the ground. But what excites him now is the possibility
of the development of the Michigan Avenue corridor.
stronger we can build that link, that's really going to be the key to
make things successful," he said of connecting Lansing and East
Lansing. "We can get a lot of destinations along the way."
asked what he thinks is the next step for downtown Lansing, Hollister
said that's it's the Grand River by getting Gillespie, Elliott and
Drouare's developments up and giving people more access to the river
and connecting downtown to Old Town and creating that "critical mass."
Biladeau, director of the downtown Principal Shopping District, sees
the Grand River as downtown's third major street, next to Michigan
Avenue and Washington Square.
"Unfortunately, the river has not been treated as a main street for decades," she said.
the "green" movement underway, Biladeau believes that the city has laid
the foundation for a Grand River comeback because of the combined sewer
overflow project, which has aimed to divert wastewater from being
pumped into the river, and the addition of rain gardens along Michigan
Avenue and Washington Square.
"Along museum drive and that area, there's a lot of opportunity," she said.
hopes that with public improvements along the river, more developments
will follow. The city's river walk runs on the east bank of the Grand
River between Michigan Avenue and Shiawassee Street nearby to the
Impression 5 Science Center and the Riverwalk Theater.
"That's what we can control and work on and do," Trezise said. "And then hope private development will occur adjoining it."


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Blog Archive: January 2008
KnitMap in the New Year!
posted Sat Jan 12 12:00:00 -0600 2008 by Stacy McDowell-King
I hope that everyone had a safe and happy holiday season.
With a brand new year to look forward to, naturally thoughts turn to resolutions and plans for the future. Matt and I are working to plan the future of KnitMap. We have started a list of updates that we'd like to make to the site, features we would like to implement, and bugs to fix.
I'd like to ask all of you to add to our list. What would you like to see at KnitMap? What changes would you like? Features? Please leave a comment or send me an email with your 2008 wishes for KnitMap.
To sweeten the deal, I'll throw everyone who comments into a drawing for some prizes!
Things That Rock
posted Sat Jan 26 11:02:00 -0600 2008 by Stacy McDowell-King
Thank you to everyone who commented with your suggestions for improvements to the site. They are all good ideas, and we're going to be very busy this year implementing as many as we can. Keep checking back for updates as we get them up and running.
I was starting to worry about what prizes to give away, but my LYS came through for me again! I had just asked Matt what he thought I should give away when I opened up my email to find their newsletter announcing the new arrival of the anxiously awaited, much coveted, Socks That Rock by Blue Moon Fiber Arts. Perfect! What better prize to give away to some wonderful users who rock!
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After much deliberation, I picked up two skeins of the lightweight 100% superwash merino in colorways Algae and Puck's Mischief. It was only because I had just last weekend cataloged my entire stash on Ravelry, and was a little overwhelmed by its considerable volume, that I was able to convince myself not to buy any for me too.
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Silly Little Country
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Richard LinklaterI remember watching 'Slackers' long ago. He did a great job.
I am now watching, I think, 'Before Sunrise'. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy talk and talk. They did this in an earlier film where they walked through Vienna, and in this one they hit Paris. Very disturbing to me, as one who thinks he cannot stand either actor, I struggle to fit together my belief that Linklater lets these folk improvise. I guess I can adjust my beliefs - Hawke and Delpy have me believing completely in them. Well, I love to be fooled.
Find a way to see this movie.
The arbitrariness of lifeI was in Ottawa, Canada for the weekend, and when I go there I look for an exhibit at a museum - it is the nation's capital and there is always something interesting. On this trip I chose the 'Pompeii' exhibit at the Museum of Civilzation.
Here is what I knew about the eruption of Vesuvius - lots of people died. This exhibit tells a lot more of the story, which is heartbreaking. The poor people suffered a rain of pumice and stones of varying sizes for many hours as they watched the column bulding out of the volcano, and had to make sense of a phenomenon they had never seen A few hours later the molten lava came down to vaporize them at high speed.
The exhibit shows how wonderfully the simplest of archaeological studies can reveal those terrible hours. The combination of the bodies with the durable nearby objects is very telling.
We have had the tsunami in the last year but in many ways this was far more crushing a story, because of the time to try to sort out what to do in this terrribly unfamiliar environment. People had twelve hours to try to make decisions about what to do. Pliny the Elder (I knew he was a nature nut but did not know he was leading, as an admiral, the Roman navy on a rescue effort) committed his life to a combined rescue and scientific mission. Pliny the Younger documented events that only seemed to make sense many years alter as he watched Vesuvius from across the bay.
For me the saddest tale was of a female body found, surrounded by numerous pieces of jewellery (the display box with this jewellery is impressive); a key piece is her bracelet inscribed 'Dominus meae ancillae'. "The master to his slave girl". Maybe I should have been more taken by the whole family found in the upstairs room of their house (you had to go upstairs as the pumice collection ascended) surrounding a young pregnant woman. Both stories are telling and teribly human.
In the end the exhibit made me feel, as I always do, terribly lucky to be living my life.
If you are near Ottawa go see this exhibit. If you are not, find a way to get there and see it.
UPDATE: The exhibit's first cast of a body is that of a dog, who had evidently been desperately climbing continually up a pile of accumulating pumice. This establishes the tone of the whole exhibit.
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Undermined Again yet Again!I keep saying the point of this blog is to document life in the silliness of the Canadian environment (cultural, physical, etc...). But the news keeps placing silliness pinnacles elsewhere.
Over the last month or so here we have had a Prime Minister ready to bargain at multiple levels to avoid losing a non-confidence vote, which would pretty much force new elections. However, this behaviour is fairly simple and conventional. And he prevailed. But we have a bundle of new motions tonight.
Consider the German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. When his party badly lost provincial elections in a normally no-can-lose province, and for a variety of reasons it is just too complex to explain here, he decided that he needed Federal Elections to be advanced about a year from the originally planned date - they should now happen September this year rather than in 2006.
So how does one achieve this in Germany under the constitution? Not easily. He will be bringing a motion to the federal Parliament, a motion of non-confidence in the government! So basically the motion says "We the government do not have confidence in the government...".
Honest perhaps, but it beats our silliness hands down.
I remain somewhat disarmed.
Sunday, June 12, 2005
Undermined again!I started this blog thinking from time to time I could post some simple links that would show what a silly country Canada is; and it is, but it seems often in ways that require a lot of education.
But I keep finding myself able to post far more economically in behaviour from other countries that is manifestly more silly. And here is a true wonder.
Last week I read the following fascinating post on Dawson's Danube- "Tatort", one of my favourite German Krimis (crime shows), had broadcast on ARD an episode titled 'Scheherezade', the plot of which built on the idea of showing Bush (or the Carlyle group, which Michael Moore adherents understand to be the same thing) to be behind 9/11 and to be shipping hit squads to Germany to eliminate the ever-so-clear evidence for this thesis. (Recall that several of the 9/11 killers spent formative time in Germany, making this even more bizarre, in terms of who is blaming whom). You can find much more here on David's Medienkritik.
Now I am a subscriber in Canada to 'German TV', largely because it means I can practice my German listening skills, but also watch normally quite enjoyable shows - several of the Krimis are very entertaining to me. (Of course I can also watch highlights like the Eurovision Song Contest.)
So last week when I read this I became very excited and consulted the German TV online listings - to my delight, per the listings last week, the episode in question was to appear tonight (June 12) in North America (also last night but I could not check as I was not near the TV). I just checked the current listings for tonight and it is now gone! I will know in about half an hour whether this is a clerical error or a cowardly retreat.
Personally, I thought originally the uproar was a bit much, as the show is fiction; were I ARD, feeling no guilt, that would be my response.
AND the answer is:
The episode originally slated for next weekend (we run normally a week behind what is in Germany) is on and not 'Scheherezade'. In summary, the German state media appear to lack the courage to show to the Americans (and us Canadians too) what they happily, and demagogically, show to their home audiences.
More pleasant surprises - Orchestra London's 'Tosca'I had occasion this weekend to attend a performance of 'Tosca' put on by Orchestra London and Pacific Opera at The Grand Theatre in London, Ontario. I have seen this opera a few times, and it has never been one of my favourite Puccini operas.
The Grand Theatre is a pleasant small theatre. Little did I know what a difference this could make. Sitting in the back of the orchestra section, I was amazed at how close to both the orchestra and the stage, and thus the performers, all of us in the theatre were.
The opera was very artfully staged, very well performed, and quite well sung (all principals were excellent, with a believably noble Cavaradossi, a fiery Tosca, and a tremendously Snidely Whiplash Scarpia), and the orchestra sounded lovely, with the usual small number of passages that seemed to miss slightly. But what was good was so intensified by the scale, and the small misses so obscured by how powerful the good was, that I found the evening an utter delight. It told me a lot about how much one loses by seeing opera in a theatre that allows too much distance from the stage; I am very curious now to experience the new centre in Toronto, as I had stopped attending Canadian Opera Company performances at the larger local theatre some time ago.
Congratulations to Orchestra London and team for a wonderful piece of work.
I had never seen an opera in this intimate a setting and it makes for a wonderful experience.
My understanding is that this was somewhat of an experiment for the companies involved. It seems they have concluded it is a success - I concur completely - and will be putting on 'Rigoletto' next year. I plan to be there.
Friday, June 10, 2005
Must be fair to the CBC and surprised by the Supreme CourtImagine my surprise!
Even greater was my surprise during several evening CBC broadcasts suddenly talking about 'European-style Healthcare'. Given explicit references to this in the ruling(s), I suppose it made sense for the reporters to abandon the standard mantra and take their lead from the justices.
If I understood law a little better I might mix my delight at the outcome of the ruling with the concern expressed by the Eclectic Econoclast at the role the justices have apparently arrogated to themselves.
My own naive reading sets off a little less alarm. There are several rulings (two from the majority and a dissent) but the summary seems roughly to be this. It is on the face of it a violation of my rights (were I a Quebecer) to prevent me from contracting for better than the currently supplied public medical service; to arrive at this the judges had to observe that we get poor service. But even this violation could be permitted if the prohibition on private medical care could be shown to serve a larger purpose, for example, the preservation of the public system. Astoundingly to me, the majority judges then concluded that not only did the proponents of the prohibition provide no evidence for such a concern, but that the evidence (from the OECD) points the other way!
The dissenting judges disagreed, pointing heavily to some semi-governmental studies.
Are the judges prescribing the nature of our health-care system? It does not seem so to me, but setting the burden for the state, that if it chooses to suppress my right to try to take care of myself, the state had better have a system in place that does the job, or a good argument for the situation. And the state has neither, ruled the majority.
Now the state could conceivably respond by enormous over-spending on health-care, likely the worst possible solution.
There is an excellent extensive discussion on this as well from Brian Ferguson.
No doubt we have many days of bluster ahead, before we see we this is really going to take us. The prime minister has already pointed to some $40 billions of dollars he has claimed to earmark to saving this sorry institution. The knee jerked.
Thursday, June 09, 2005
American-style HealthcareOur Supreme Court is ruling today on whether a Canadian is legally permitted to purchase accelerated or improved healthcare with his own money (or possibly via private insurance). I continue to be fascinated at how the CBC reports this (I am not sure about other Canadian media). They give a voice to someone opposed to the idea who does the usual rant on how this would lead to "American-style healthcare". Now in fact what we would get if the court suggests we are able to make medical decisions without the direct intervention of bureaucrats is what I would call European-style healthcare.
And this raises an interesting question to me - why is it NEVER mentioned (in my experience) that Canada has the outlier medical system and that two-tier systems exist pretty well everywhere else? All the reporting I have seen starkly contrasts our humane approach with the, obviously, inhumane "American-style" two-tier approach. Only by using the scare words "American-style" can they make this so frightening - what if they said "UK-style" or "Austrian-style"?
Possible answers:
a) the CBC staff are biased and want to do all they can to maintain their conception of our healthcare system
This kind of theory I generally cannot buy into.
b) the CBC staff are ignorant and actually think European healthcare systems are like ours
Surely some of them have been in Europe, or know Europeans, so this is hard to believe.
c) Help? I can think of no other theory.
Very interesting. An excellent web page at the CBC site
I ran into something like this once before - an ignorant report from Neli McDonald on screen on CBC TV, while at the same time, the CBC web site had an accurate and reasonably correct report on the same subject. Do these people not talk to one another?
Friday, June 03, 2005
The Bible and EvolutionAlways fascinated by Google ads I took a look and found this on my site.
OK - I did mention evolution, and linked to a discussion of blasphemy in previous posts. Not just to increase my revenue, I clicked on this one. It is actually somewhat entertaining.
Tennis and FashionRafael Nadal is into the final of the French Open of tennis.
This would normally delight me - I am always happy to see the young underlings start to knock off their elders (in this case I think the elder was 23). Tennis is one of those great sports where all they have to do is beat the older generation to advance.
But what is it with the Capri pants? They look bad enough on women. I certainly hope this does not spread to the WTA.
I recall much frightful tennis fashion (the young Agassi a leader in the field) but we are reaching new levels here.
Winning is the only thingTodd Zywicki has performed a valuable service today.
Yesterday I posted on a quotation I think now that I did not understand fully. Todd is posting on one I have always understood.
And the use of Vince Lombardi's "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing" more or less to mean its opposite has annoyed me for years. This twisting grew out of the '60s clash of cultures, as Lombardi did not quite seem a believer in flower power or an adherent of The New Left. I have never understood this twisting. Though my own reading is slightly different from Todd's, if in the same spirit.
Vince Lombardi was talking about competitive sports. A competitive sport does not work if the competitors are not competing. During the competition, winning must be the only thing for each competitor, besides the rules that govern the competition. But winning is not everything - in the end it does not actually matter who wins at some fundamental level. It is having competed fully that is key.
Even to me, slightly seduced at the time by the siren call of counterculture, this seemed clearly to be what he meant. And it was brilliantly concise.
I guess too concise.
Now someone should produce a pithy saying to explain the core of those sports (which I cannot motivate myself to play) where cooperation is the key; for example, trying to have a tennis rally that lasts an incredibly long time.
Thursday, June 02, 2005
Watergate, Deep Throat, and this Silly Little CountryA news highlight of the last week for those of my generation is the final confirmation that Mark Felt was 'Deep Throat'. Thre has been much analysis of this of course. Looking back it is hard to know how much he contributed. In the end the sheer checks and balance process of the US Constitution caused the President to resign.
Now here in Canada we had about a week ago a key vote that could have caused our minority government to be forced to go again to the polls. Now tapes have been released apparently documenting discussions between government representatives trying to'persuade' opposition members to change their votes. The government survived.
It is now in other hands to see what happens. The RCMP has the tapes.
I am far less confident that Canadian processes can do the job of the processes in the US.
I lived a year in England (Oxford in fact) and came to enjoy cricket - in fact I found it magic. Now I was as a teen a baseball player so there were similarities. But really! 5 days/ The subtlety of declaration! Which could actually improve baseball.
I continue to spend a lot of time in England. Sadly, they seem to have figured out that shorter matches draw audiences. Ahh the decline of cultures.
Norm Geras is running a debate on cricket. Given that I have now posted on 'culture' I should point out this connection - cricket and dance. You should go by way of Norm back to one of my local papers.
I continue to spend a lot of time in England. Sadly, they seem to have figured out that shorter matches draw audiences. Ahh the decline of cultures.
Norm Geras is running a debate on cricket. Given that I have now posted on 'culture' I should point out this connection - cricket and dance. You should go by way of Norm back to one of my local papers.
CultureThe Web is wonderful. I was about to post on something I had read, that had argued for the denial for people to act on their own, on the grounds that they should adhere to their 'culture'. (This silly little country is prone to such discussions.)
So I was going to start with the tired (but usable in a variety of ways) "When I hear the word 'culture' I reach for my gun."
And I think - Is it really Goebbels? Or who was it?
Off to Googledom.
And I find this wonder from Umberto Eco:
Hmmm. Goering not Goebbels. and not quite into Godwin's Law.
Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism, from Hermann Goering's fondness for a phrase from a Hanns Johst play ("When I hear the word 'culture' I reach for my gun") to the frequent use of such expressions as "degenerate intellectuals," "eggheads," "effete snobs," and "universities are nests of reds."
Moreover it did not mean remotely what I would have liked to use it for. My view is that 'culture' is one of those words that lies behind the most blatant rent-seeking.
Goering's problem is a little different (perhaps there will be a later post on how much, but I am now rattled by my near-lifelong belief that it was Goebbels).
Well, I have to go off and think some more.
The Web is really a wonder.
To clarify some things. I don't have a gun to reach for. I don't work in a University. I may be effete. Perhaps a snob. My head is shaped strangely, perhaps not like an egg.
As for 'culture'. I like to think of myself as a member of the PLO but occasionally I deviate and I worry that its lead member might come and tell me I have to stick to my defined culture. I am meeting the fearless leader soon so I should know more then.
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The town of Weston is picking up the pieces from Superstorm Sandy, a hybrid hurricane that earned the timely Halloween nickname "Frankenstorm."
Weston's public works crew is working around the clock clearing hundreds of trees from roadways that were ripped from the ground from Sandy's gale-force winds.
At the peak of the storm, more than 100 roads in Weston were impassable due to downed trees and wires.
Crews from Connecticut Light and Power Company (CL&P), the National Guard, and the state Department of Transportation are in town assisting with clearing the roads and power restoration. First Selectman Gayle Weinstein said from the town's perspective "everything is running smoothly."
Sandy made its way to Weston slowly, with winds starting to stir on Sunday, Oct. 28. The way it eased into the area led some to believe it wasn't going to be as bad as weather experts had been predicting for days before. "What fooled people was how long the storm took to hit," said Jim Magee, owner of Peter's Market in Weston Center.
But when Sandy hit, it struck with a vengeance, and at its peak on Monday, Oct. 29, dramatic wind surges brought down trees and wires across 138 yards and roads in Weston. Power went out for 100% town.
Remember Irene?
The storm reminded people of Hurricane Irene, and also the 2011 pre-Halloween nor'easter, Alfred, which slammed Weston last year and also caused widespread power outages.
Weston was better prepared for Sandy, having learned valuable lessons from Irene, according to Weston Police Sergeant Michael Ferullo, the town's Emergency Management Director. He said the town was able to start its response and recovery process much quicker because pieces were in place sooner.
CL&P crews were stationed in Weston on Sunday, Oct. 28, before the start of the storm, so they could hit the ground running the moment the winds died down. CL&P liaison Lissette Andino was embedded with the town on Friday, before the storm hit.
As of Wednesday, Oct. 31, there were nine CL&P line crews in town along with four tree crews and four service crews. "With Irene we just had four crews total," Sgt. Ferullo said.
Ms. Weinstein commended CL&P for its response so far. She said while it took CL&P three to five days to get a good handle on Weston's situation following Irene, things went much quicker this time. "Everyone is doing what they can do," she said.
Police, fire, and EMS crews slept on cots in town buildings on Sunday, including Sgt. Ferullo and Weston Police Chief John Troxell, and were ready to handle calls as they came in. Selectman Dave Muller acted as the town's public information officer.
The public heeded warnings to stay off the roads and there were no car accidents or ambulance calls during the storm.
Ken Edgar, a volunteer with Weston's Emergency Response Committee, said he had an easy time getting volunteers to man the comfort station, which provides residents with shower facilities, water and packaged meals.
He said he had to "scrounge around" after Irene to find enough help. But this time, because there was more public awareness, committee volunteers Neil Horner and Dawn Egan had a much easier time.
"We have more than 50 volunteers. A lot of people have stepped up to help their neighbors," Mr. Edgar said. Ms. Weinstein said she appreciated the committee's efforts to rally and help the community.
Restoration underway
With restoration efforts well underway, there is a huge clean up ahead and many power lines need to be restored.
As of Wednesday morning, state highway Route 57 — Weston Road and Georgetown Road — were open, but Newtown Turnpike from Godfrey Road to Valley Forge Road was still closed due to downed trees and 122 local roads were still blocked. Some homes in the Valley Forge area were reporting that power lines and tree limbs were still blocking their driveways so they couldn't get out.
Most of the town is still without power. As of Wednesday evening, CL&P was reporting that about 3,500 out of 3,808 customers in Weston — 93% of the town — were still in the dark. There were no estimates forthcoming from the utility company as to when power would be fully restored.
For families looking for groceries, hot food, milk, water or just a cup of coffee and a doughnut, Peter's Market remained open and didn't miss a beat from the storm because it had an emergency generator back up.
"We're fully operational. We started the generator a day ahead of time so when power went out it we'd be ready," Mr. Magee said.
He said people have had a tough time driving around town because the roads are like mazes, with trees and wires making roads impassable. "I had to walk from my house to Steep Hill Road, and someone gave me a ride to my store, but we had to drive all over in order to get here. Things are crazy here, everybody's numb right now," he said.
While there were no fatalities from the storm, there were reports that trees had crashed onto some houses and cars and that a resident was injured cutting a tree.
Mr. Edgar said one man told him he and his wife were watching a tree blowing in the wind and decided to move into another room when moments later the tree came crashing down — fortunately missing the house.
Statewide, four deaths were reported from Sandy, including the loss of Russell Neary, an Easton firefighter who was killed Monday night when a tree fell onto his fire truck. Sandy is being blamed for at least 55 deaths nationwide, according to the Associated Press.
Sandy's wrath
Sandy was the 10th hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, according to the National Weather Center. Its wrath was felt from Florida to New England and into the Midwest as far as Lake Michigan and affected one-third of the country.
The storm started as a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean and became the largest Atlantic hurricane in diameter on record.
It was upgraded to hurricane status on Oct. 24, as it moved through Jamaica. When it approached New Jersey and made landfall at 8 p.m. on Oct. 29, it was classified as a "post-tropical cyclone."
Sandy morphed from a hurricane into a hybrid storm as it merged with two cold weather systems, thus operating not only as a hurricane but also as a winter storm, according to the National Weather Center. Sandy set meteorological records as the second largest storm in size since Hurricane Olga in 2001, and the weather center said it was the most intense storm since the 1938 New England Hurricane.
Tri-state area
The tri-state area was hit hard from Sandy's surge and high winds, with extensive flooding and damage along the shoreline due to the storm's landing coinciding with a full moon and high tide.
In New York City, the subway system and tunnels were flooded and airports were closed. Waterfront neighborhoods faced mandatory evacuation while 100 mile per hour winds were recorded on bridges. Generators failed at several hospitals including the NYU Medical Center where neo-natal care infants had to be evacuated.
And the world — those with power, anyway — watched with horror on TV as a construction crane dangled precariously from a $1.5-billion high rise under construction on 57th Street.
More than 100 houses in one Long Island community burned to the ground at the height of the storm, with firefighters had to watch helplessly because of flooding and high winds.
A record number of people in New York were still without power at mid-week.
Quick action
Connecticut's shoreline also took a beating with homes destroyed and damaged along the coast.
Gov. Dannel Malloy took action quickly before the storm hit. He activated the state's Emergency Operations Center on Oct. 26, and signed a Declaration of Emergency the next day. On Oct. 28, President Obama approved Connecticut's request for an emergency declaration, ahead of Hurricane Sandy making landfall.
As the storm started gearing up on Monday, Mr. Malloy ordered road closures of the state's highways. The day after the storm, Oct. 30, President Obama made an expedited disaster declaration for the state, authorizing the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate disaster relief.
Moving forward
As clean up continues, Weston is moving forward and coping with the storm's aftermath.
Weston Town Hall is operating regular hours and the library is also open.
Weston public schools closed all week. The decision to open next week will be made on Friday. The senior center is following the school schedule.
The comfort station at Weston High School will be open through Friday from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Weekend hours will be 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Private showers, potable water, Internet and charging stations are available.
Movies will be shown at Weston High School throughout the week.


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Fish soup with salmon and hake
(4 people)
2 medium sized potatoes
1 small fennel bulb about 200 grams
1 small yellow onion
1 tbsp margarine or sunflower/canola/rapeseed oil
0.5 grams of saffron
1 Liter water
200 mL dry white wine
2 tablespoons concentrated lobster or fish stock
2 tomatoes
200 grams of salmon
200 grams hake fillets or other firm white fish
2 scallions
- Peel potatoes and cut into 2×2 cm cubes
- Clean the fennel and cut into pieces. If the fennel has a tassel (looks like dill, cut it off and save for garnish)
- Finely chop the onion
- Heat the margarine in a saucepan. Fry the onion and fennel for a few minutes while stirring. Add the potatoes, water, wine, saffron and lobster stock to the pot. Stir.
- Bring the soup to a boil and reduce heat, cover and simmer for 10 minutes until the potatoes have softened.
- Cut the tomatoes into wedges and add to the pan and simmer for another 5 minutes
- Cut the fish into 2-3 cm pieces and add to the soup. Simmer for another 5 minutes.
- Turn off heat and let soup stand covered for 5 minutes.
- Cut the spring onions finely and sprinkle over the soup and serve with good, ideally, freshly baked bread.
- If you have fennel tassel left cut it with a kitchen scissor over the soup as a garnish.
Tip: To make the soup a little "stylish", you can first scald and peel the tomatoes. However, I am too lazy. Usually I throw in the tomato segments and then I use a fork or tongs to remove the skins of the tomatoes as they loosen from the tomatoes in the hot soup after about 1 minute.


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We tend to operate under the theory that nothing surprises us when it comes to Senator Mark Udall (D-Colo).
He's married to one of the environmental movement's queen bees; he pushes for massive federal subsidies for wind power on one hand while railing against tax credits for Colorado job creators (natural gas companies) on the other hand.
In short, he reminds us of a man in a dark room fumbling for a light switch.
Even so, some things are so befuddling that they warrant mention. Take, for example, news from the Montrose Daily Press that one of Western Colorado's most combative Green Lobby campaigners, none other than Pete Kolbenschlag, was given a hard-to-get ticket to attend the inaguration of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden this week.
Reading the story, it seems as though the environmentalist organizer made an initial inquiry and was rebuffed — just to get a call later to let him know that Colorado's senior Senator had a ticket for him.
Now, we know as well as anyone that the last thing a Senator going in to re-election wants to do is set off a wing-nut in his base but this whole thing seems a bit odd. We find it a bit hard to believe that there wasn't another Coloradan more deserving of this coveted ticket than this guy.
Perhaps in the future the Senator will let rest of his constituents know what the process is for getting a ticket to avoid such glaring examples of how Washington's Iron Triangle works.


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Ooh. The Annabelle dress by Dace. It's not quite my name, but it's close enough, and the dress is stunning. I think I have to have it this fall.
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Today is a scorcher, so I'll be running my errands with a small bottle of Jurlique's rosewater balancing mist in my tote bag for relief (that's meant to be kind of funny, not obnoxious). Happy weekend!
Also: dear Toronto, if any of you are interested in purchasing CB I Hate Perfume, it's available at Ewanika. I called the other day and they're not open yet -- they just moved into the former Annex Books space at Dupont and Bathurst and should be open in late August. Thank you to K-Line for the tip!
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Northwest Girlchoir Tours
Amore choristers enjoy a pre-concert moment together outside San Caterina Church in Taormina, Sicily. July 2015.
Touring and choral festival participation are important facets of the Northwest Girlchoir program. Singers gain valuable experience performing for unfamiliar audiences and under a variety of circumstances. Through repeated performances, singers acquire a deep and often profound knowledge of the repertoire, and they grow as individual musicians and as a cooperative ensemble.
Choristers also forge new friendships and deepen current bonds through days of fun and hard work on the road. Choristers on tour have opportunities to meet and interact with people from many different backgrounds and cultures, including other choirs and singers, homestay families, and people in the community. Singers gain confidence and independence through the challenges and responsibilities of traveling as a group, ordering a meal in another language, sharing a hotel or dorm room with other choristers, and touring an area independently in small groups. Many Northwest Girlchoir graduates speak of choir tours as some of the most memorable and transformative experiences of their choir careers. Learn more about Northwest Girlchoir's touring philosophy.
Northwest Girlchoir Touring History
2017: Argentina and Uruguay; Denver, CO (Sing a Mile High Choral Festival); Leavenworth, WA (Christmas Lighting Festival)
2016: Whistler, BC, Canada (Whistler Cantando Music Festival); Fort Worden, WA (Fort Worden Children's Festival); Eugene, OR (picfest)
2015: Malta and Sicily, Italy; New Orleans, LA (Crescent City Choral Festival); Portland, OR
2014: Denver, CO (Sing a Mile High Choral Festival); Fort Worden, WA (Fort Worden Children's Choir Festival); Fresca Tour Day (Olympic Sculpture Park and Seattle Aquarium)
2013: France and England; Los Angeles, CA; Tacoma, WA
2012: Eugene, OR (Pacific International Children's Choir Festival)
2011: Estonia and Finland
2010: Hawaii; Fort Worden, WA; Fresca Tour Day (Woodland Park Zoo)
2009: Australia; Corvallis, OR (Heart of the Valley Choral Festival); Vancouver, BC; Fort Worden, WA (Fort Worden Children's Choral Festival)
2008: Anaheim, CA (Heritage Festival); Portland, OR; Fort Worden, WA (Fort Worden Children's Choir Festival)
2007: Eugene, OR (Pacific International Children's Choir Festival)
2006: Slovenia/Croatia/Northern Italy; Denver, CO (Sing a Mile High Choral Festival); Fort Worden (Fort Worden Children's Choir Festival)
2005: St John's, Newfoundland (Festival 500); Vancouver, BC (Coastal Sound International Choral Festival); Fort Worden (Fort Worden Children's Choir Festival)
2004: Eugene, OR (Pacific International Children's Choir Festival)
2003: Italy; Missoula, MT (International Choral Festival)
2002: Japan (Manjiro-Whitfield Cultural Exchange); Powell River, BC (International Choral Kathaumixw)
2001: Vancouver, BC (World of Children's Choirs Festival); Eugene, OR; Spokane, WA
2000: Argentina, Uruguay & Brazil; Anaheim, CA (Heritage Festival)
1999: San Francisco (Golden Gate International Children's Choral Festival)
1998: France and Spain
1997: Mexico
1996: Portland, OR
1995: Italy
1994: Victoria, BC; Anaheim, CA
1993: Des Moines, IA (Des Moines International Children's Choral Festival); Chicago, IL
1992: Austria, Hungary & the Czech Republic
1988: Italy & Yugoslavia
1987: Oregon & California
1986: Australia, New Zealand & Fiji
1984: Germany, France & Wales


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Media Business: What are some of the big issues you're dealing with?
Arnone: The USPS is rearing its head again with more changes. This time it is droop-testing publications. If you're too limp, they don't want to mail you without a penalty. Many publications, suffering from a downturn in total number of ads and the subsequent loss in page count, are less stable then before and might be affected.
MB: How is the potential for five-day postal delivery affecting you?
Arnone: It will be interesting to see how the post office complies with the established standards for timely delivery. The present standard for periodicals is one to seven days. Those of us who mail periodicals are well aware that, even with the use of additional drops, the post office does not presently meet this timetable. My organization typically sees delivery times spanning a range double this. There is no doubt that cutting a day would save money, with estimates placing the amount at over $1.5 billion. It is equally important to note that nothing is said about what it will do to improve service, because it won't. Nothing will. Publishers are the victims each time the post office institutes its latest round of changes. Changes are implemented with the promise they will allow the service to deliver fewer pieces in a more mechanized way, leading to greater efficiency and subsequent cost savings. Unfortunately, that has yet to happen. —M.J.M.


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Daimler engages with Netcentric to create a fast, flexible and intelligent web experience to support the entire customer lifecycle.
Industry: Automotive
Capabilities: AEM, Lead Generation, Digitalisation
The challenge
Daimler has been using AEM for various platforms to target different audiences since 2003. These include some of the largest projects ever realised with this technology.
In order to better support an integrated, meaningful, personalised and context-relevant customer journey going forward, it became clear that these separate platforms needed to converge into one. One platform that is able to serve content to all these different audiences worldwide, taking into account customer context, his or her interests and stage in the lifecycle.
From their experience accumulated by managing previous projects with different suppliers, the team at Daimler knew that not only did they need to change the way they work, they also needed the best AEM experts available.
The idea
After an extensive and thorough selection process, we managed to convince Daimler that we were the right partners to lead them towards better agility by demonstrating our unparalleled expertise with AEM.
The execution
We introduced our project approach to Daimler with great success and were able to show the advantages of our methodology and processes, first by creating the absolute transparency we promised and then by generating the desired results to the required quality.
When we started jointly designing the new platform, we created an all-encompassing concept for it. This covered all aspects of the evolving Adobe Marketing Cloud-based platform, including:
- The Adobe solutions, architecture, integrations, and infrastructure
- The process landscapes for operations
- The organisational setup required running a state-of-the-art digital marketing platform and the successful initiatives with it.
The Mercedes-Benz brand in the UK was chosen as the first pilot market for this new unified web experienced. Based on a harmonised technical infrastructure with consistent supporting processes, this was the first key step change towards ever more agility for Daimler – agility that will be needed on all sides to support the planned roll-out of this solution to over 100 countries worldwide.
The Results
The successful launch of the new UK C-Class model overview page on the new platform - using all the new and agile processes – has shown all parties that new concepts work and can be further evolved to support Daimler's digital transformation.