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But at Exposed editor Dustin Schoof's command, I am only allowed to pick five and they must be my personal favorites.
So here goes nothing.
1. Adele - "21"- Yes, I know she has made every top album list of the year, so this choice is not all that shocking. Adele's haunting vocals give me chills but her depth warms my soul. Even though top 40 radio has maybe warn out some of the songs for my A.D.D. characterized musical taste, it would be musically irresponsible for me not to select such an epic album. "Rumour Has It" is a track that radio has yet to demolish and remains my favorite hidden gem on the album.
2. Black Keys - "El Camino"
Even though it was just put out in December, this album has resonated with me since its release. The Black Keys as a band are one that I am always enthralled with because of the blues-style guitar riffs and punchy sound. But the latest single, "Lonely boy" off the album offers another refreshing additive with upbeat tamborines and edgy retro organ melodies.
3. Awolnation - "Megalithic Symphony" - This album may be one of the less familiar on this list, but it's one that hasn't left me since I first encountered it. The band's breakout single, "Sail," which brought the band in to the mainstream, seemed like a reach for alternative airwaves because of its darker electronic style, but was named FMQB Magazine's top single of the year in the modern rock genre. But other tracks break away from this mold and the entire album offers a journey marked by lead singer Aaron Bruno's angst-ridden lyrics and end-of-the-world antics set to pop beats.
4. My Morning Jacket - "Circuital" - Indie hipsters have always loved My Morning Jacket and are probably disgusted with the people that are finally being turned on to this influential band. But if there is any album that would do it, "Circuital" is that album. Individually strong tracks such as "Holdin' On To Black Metal," "Victory Dance" and "Outta My System" hold up as works on their own, but offer a contrast not only to previous MMJ material, but to each other to create an album obsession that is unavoidable.
5. Coldplay - "Mylo Xyloto" - Dustin will have something to say about this one, I'm sure. But you can't deny the impactful songwriting and the choruses that stick with you after first listen. Frontman Chris Martin's passion for performance resonates through each song and makes singles such as "Paradise" ones that you revisit daily, just because you can't get enough of them. Not that this is a new concept for Coldplay, but the album holds up to the legacy.
So let's discuss. What were your favorite albums of 2011? To be fair, you too can only pick five. Where do you agree and disagree with this list? Are there albums you want to know more about?
Feel free to post your insights in the comments section below.


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Recently we were so impressed by John Bernhelm of San Francisco, when he dove into the Pacific Ocean to help raise money for Saving Mothers with the Cold Water Challenge — a charity challenge shared over social media. We asked John a bit about his experience, and why he chose to support Saving Mothers and maternal health.
Q: How did you hear about the Cold Water Challenge? Were you called out by a friend before participating?
A: A few of my friends and family from back East posted Cold Water Challenges on Facebook early this summer. I didn't think much of it then, because I figured it seems like a better idea when it's a steamy 95°F outside, and I was dubious of the value of positive social network peer pressure. That changed when my uncle posted a video of his son drenching him with a cooler full of ice water and then challenged me to do the same. The basic idea is that if someone doesn't feel up to the challenge, they should donate to the charitable organization of the challenger's choice. I liked the other option - suffer a bit of cold and good-natured public humility while getting the ball back in your court to name a different organization and challenge others. I felt the "standard" rules of giving the challenged a small 24 hour response window and giving less to your chosen organization upon performing the challenge kind of lame, so I changed things up a bit. Also, California is suffering a severe drought, so why not use the cold waters of the Pacific instead of wasting valuable potable H2O?
Q: Why did you choose to support Saving Mothers?
A: I came across Saving Mothers back in 2010 when I was looking for an out-of-the-box Mother's Day gift. A good friend had posted about the organization on facebook - there's that social media at work again - and I knew my mom would rather have a donation to a great cause in her name than another Amazon gift certificate. Since the day I ended up doing the Cold Water Challenge happened to be my mother's birthday, I thought I'd make another gift in thanks of the love and care she has provided all of my life and for the healthcare support we have been fortunate to receive living in a developed country. Also, I planned to call her out in the challenge, so maybe choosing Saving Mothers was the spoonful of sugar to help the icy water go down.
Q: Why do you think maternal health an important global issue?
A: Maternal health speaks to the very base of Maslow's hierarchy of needs for the entire society. A mother's health is necessary for her and her family to survive, thrive, and aspire to self-actualization. I believe that the physical and social stresses caused by maternal complications stand in the way of fighting poverty, hunger, and violence the world over. A healthy beginning and a strong family gives a child it's best chance to grow, learn, and make a difference, regardless of where she or he may live. What's more is that so many maternal health issues can be solved with proper training and access to the right resources! So I see Saving Mothers work at bringing those things to places that need them most a super important step, not only in saving mothers and children, but in saving the world!
Q: What do you take away from this experience?
A: A little cold water and light-hearted social-network-shaming never hurt anybody. I had fun with the cold water challenge, and though the whole idea is pretty silly, if a bunch of people learned about Saving Mothers, some made generous donations to a great cause, and at least one passed on the challenge to others, then it was totally worth dragging my roommate to the beach one chilly morning and getting a nice Pacific Ocean wakeup call.
Thanks so much for your support, John!
Feeling inspired? Check out John's video, and start a Cold Water Challenge of your own!
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Diane Tanner RN.CNM. (Ret) commented 2016-05-27 14:05:16 -0400Please send me an email, as to who Ican call, to contact , red info. on participating with your group. I am a retired CNM, living in the Sacramento area. Many thanks. Diane Tanner. [email protected]

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I LOVE the short film "Assignment" by Adam Wong Sau Ping (FB, Chinese Wikipedia) (黃修平《功課》【浸大60周年校慶6×10短片】)
Full list of 12 short films: 浸大60周年校慶6×10短片 HKBU 6×10 Short Films. Worth a watch even some are better than others.
I LOVE the short film "Assignment" by Adam Wong Sau Ping (FB, Chinese Wikipedia) (黃修平《功課》【浸大60周年校慶6×10短片】)
Full list of 12 short films: 浸大60周年校慶6×10短片 HKBU 6×10 Short Films. Worth a watch even some are better than others.
Director/producer/independent reporter Kempton Lam has made three full-length documentaries from 2004 – 2015. Kempton's debut documentary Long Hair Revolution 「長毛革命」 has been collected by the Canadian National Archive since 2009. The three documentaries are collectively known as "Revolution Trilogy" 「革命三部曲」 and are in Cantonese with English subtitles (廣東話、英文字幕). You can watch the three films at this YouTube Playlist (beautifully projected on your big screen HDTV or on your computer). Enjoy!
Long Hair Revolution 「長毛革命」 (full-length 2005) (read film & Canadian national archive info)
HKtv Revolution 「香港電視革命」 (full-length 2015) (read Director's Statement)
Umbrella Revolution: History as Mirror Reflection 「雨傘革命實錄:以史為鏡」 (full-length 2015) (read Director's Statement)
Documentary title: Women's Horizon (好風景)
Directors: Jo Ho Ka Wui (何嘉滙) and Bryan Chang Wai Hung (張偉雄).
Casts: Kitman, Esther, Kai Kai (佳佳), Charlene, Chan Hei (陳熹).
Film rating: **** out of 5
Film review:
Women's Horizon (好風景) is documentary that recorded the different small slices of lives of five Hong Kong women from 2010 fall to 2012 spring. In 58 minutes, the filmmakers were successful in getting the viewers to see how the five women living their lives and for this reviewer, to care about them all. The filmmakers were careful in telling/reminding the viewers by putting up slides on screen part way through the film stating "We are not comparing or judging. We don't want the audience to generalize all Hong Kong women either. This might only a be a tiny part of their life. Going in front of the camera may cause hesitation or glossing over issues, We want to capture that brief moment of their sincere reality."
Without heavy hands nor trying to sensationalize things, the film gives viewers windows to the women's work lives, family lives, their aspirations, their disappointments, their dating/love lives, and more. And at one point, we felt like an intimate participant along Kai Kai's political protest and can emphasize the changes she must have gone through since the beginning of the film.
Watching the film, there are many scenes with Kitman, Esther, Kai Kai, Charlene, and Chan Hei that put a smile on my face, made me laugh out loud, got me thinking, felt sad, and got me scared for what I saw on screen. These are signs of a good documentary.
As far as this reporter knows (plus checking with Jo), Women's Horizon is possibly the first Hong Kong documentary that wishes/plans to come back to revisit the same documentary subjects in a few years time (if the documentary subjects are willing to participate). Jo mentioned to this reviewer in an video interview that she and Byran were inspired and influenced by the British Up Series when they were planning the documentary in 2010. As a big admirer and lover of the Up Series, this reviewer hopes Jo & Byran's wishes will come true and viewers will have the pleasure to learn more about Kitman, Esther, Kai Kai, Charlene, and Chan Hei in a few years.
Women's Horizon (好風景) film outline,
"[Women's Horizon (好風景)] Paints a portrait of five unique Hong Kong women. Kitman, a big fan of online sweepstake;; Charlene, a dance instructor and urban fashion shop owner;; Esther, growing up in in a christian community aspiring to live the life within the church;; Chan Hei, was an advocate for the fair treatment of sex workers and is employed at a bookstore;; Kai Kai, Representative of the League of Fanling North Villages and Residents. The documentary recorded their lives from 2010 to 2012. It represents a history of their growth, a reflection of their temporal moods and aspirations for the the future. The images filmed are like five mobile mirrors into individual lives revealings their feeling intentionally or unintentionally. The documentary is not aiming to judge but solely at catching a glimpse of the women's innermost feelings in this era."
Here is a trailer,
Jo Ho Ka Wui (何嘉滙) is the co-director of HK documentary Women's Horizon (好風景) with Bryan Chang Wai Hung (張偉雄). A documentary that recorded the lives of five Hong Kong women from 2010 to 2012. Here is a description of the five women from the film outline,
"Kitman, a big fan of online sweepstake; Charlene, a dance instructor and urban fashion shop owner; Esther, growing up in in a christian community aspiring to live the life within the church; Chan Hei, was an advocate for the fair treatment of sex workers and is employed at a bookstore; Kai Kai, Representative of the League of Fanling North Villages and Residents."
Here is a trailer,
When Jo and Bryan were first planning to shoot Women's Horizon in 2010, they talked about being inspired by the British Up Series documentary that has "followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old." The directors of Women's Horizon hopes to revisit the lives of the five Hong Kong women in a few years to make another documentary. Over the two and a half years, the filmmakers made the documentary with their own money and shot ~60 hours of footage and editing the footage down to a 58 minutes documentary.
Here is an extensive and exclusive interview with co-director Jo Ho Ka Wui (何嘉滙) conducted on the eve of the film's world premiere on September 9th at the Chinese Documentary Festival 2014.
Is Freedom of Press in Hong Kong under severe attack by HKSAR Chief Executive Mr. CY Leung as Ms. Li Wei Ling 李慧玲 (FB page) alleged? You be the judge yourself after watch the full press conference. I personally believe Ms. Li Wei Ling 李慧玲 is a person of the highest integrity through her years of journalistic work. Have a watch of the clip 李慧玲回應被商台解僱事件記者會 starts at 1m23s (full press conference with Cantonese Q&A on 2014/02/13, over 1 hour long) and judge for yourself.


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It's like a custom for me to include a song from Dan Fogelberg for the last post of the year.. A song that always in my mind when each year are at it's end. Reminding me the whole year on what I achieved, what I did, whom I met and the forgiveness I've asked. Regrets are not my things since I always accept the way God have planned to me.
2010 will always in my mind as towards the end of the year, I've choose to walk different path. 2011 will be a truly new chapter for me and my family. But as the songs that hopefully you will have some time to view it, some memory are too hard to be forgotten.
Happy New Year 2011 for you, and please take care of yourself. Enjoy the last day of 2010.
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Tourism Australia brings the best of Australian business events to the world at IMEX Frankfurt
Australian business events industry partners will today join Tourism Australia on the Australia stand at IMEX Frankfurt, showcasing the latest developments in incentive and association offerings from across the country. Providing even more opportunities to showcase Australia, Tourism Australia is also sponsoring the media centre and the Associations Day program at IMEX Frankfurt.
Commenting on the importance of business events to the visitor economy, the Minister for Tourism and International Education, Senator Richard Colbeck said, "International business events contributed over $3.8 billion in visitor expenditure and over 800,000 visitors in 2015. Business events also generate closer people-to-people links and drive our knowledge economy".
This year, 18 Australian business events products and destinations (up from 15 at IMEX 2015), with 30 delegates in total, will give buyers an excellent opportunity to discover why there's nothing like Australia for business events. The Tourism Australia team will be conducting business appointments as well as group training sessions and networking opportunities on the stand.
"Tourism Australia hosts the Australia stand at IMEX Frankfurt because it provides the platform for Australian industry to meet qualified buyers, do business and network," said Penny Lion, General Manager Business Events Australia. "It's great for Australia that we're joined on the stand by such a high calibre of stand partners, as buyers are always looking for new ideas and information".
Four Points by Sheraton Sydney, Ovation Australia, and Shangri-La Hotel Sydney are all new exhibitors on the Australia stand, adding even more for buyers to discover.
In order to bring association buyers at IMEX Frankfurt all the latest news on Australian innovation and innovators, Tourism Australia has also developed a new, bi-annual publication, "Australia Innovates", which features selected content originally created by Austrade.
"It's a great way to continue to build on our work in showing the world that not only is Australia a stunning destination for business events, it also has a depth of knowledge that can really help associations deliver on their event objectives," said Ms Lion.
"Having recently finalised new research on association delegate behaviour, we know that Australia is strongly perceived as a quality destination for business events. We look forward to sharing further insights from this research in the coming months, to provide industry with a competitive advantage when it comes to developing delegate acquisition strategies," said Ms Lion.
"There is so much happening in Australia right now and visitors to our stand at IMEX Frankfurt will benefit from the wealth of business events knowledge and experience being shared. We can't wait to help buyers discover why Australia should be their next event destination," said Ms. Lion.


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February 28, 2017
The MidAmerica Region (MAR) Nominating Committee is pleased to submit the following Committee Report and proposed slate for consideration at the 2017 Regional Assembly Business Meeting.
For the development of the 2017 Regional slate, the committee met monthly via conference call beginning in the fall of 2016 and increased frequency to bi-weekly in January and to weekly in February 2017, with e-mail conversation in between meetings. We used a Dropbox to share, store, and exchange files. We are beginning to gather a good set of documents (including a Maybe Next Year List of potential candidates) and establish a process.
Per our charge in the Regional Bylaws, we reviewed pending vacancies on the Board of Trustees, Nominating Committee, and Midwest UU Conference (MUUC) Board of Directors due to term limits or other reasons. We also contacted individuals whose terms were ending but would be eligible to continue in their current or different positions.
After circulating a Call for Nominations through Regional Communications, the Minister Associations, Congregational Presidents and other lay leaders, Black Lives UU, Liberal Religious Educators and Directors Association, and MidWest Leadership School contacts, the Committee collected nominee questionnaires from those interested in open positions, conducted phone interviews with potential candidates and completed reference checks. We wondered if our emails were reaching their intended persons. We had a of a lack of response from our ministers and presidents list, but when we were able to make contact, we always received a warm reception. We noted some deficiencies with the list of Ministers and Congregational Presidents, as a member of the committee's congregation wasn't on the list. We sought recommendations from Regional Staff and non-traditional groups to try to expand the diversity of our nominations. We need more work in the area of diversity.
As you will see from the proposed slate, we are proposing persons for every open position. We are pleased that two members of the Nominating Committee have
volunteered for another term, as have two members of the Board of Trustees, and one member of MUUC.
While this slate is due February 28th, we continue our work per MAR bylaws. We are looking for nominees for Camp UniStar; we have one current vacancy to fill and will have a vacancy to fill by June 30th.
We want to express our deepest gratitude to all those willing to serve, to those who are continuing to serve, and to those whose terms have ended. We would like to extend a special thank you to Tammy Lemmer. She has provided invaluable leadership to the MAR Nominating Committee since its inception. She served as the chair then passed that leadership on and stayed on to help support the committee throughout this year. It is with deep respect for Tammy's leadership that we recommend her for an at-large position on the Board of Trustees.
PROPOSED SLATE - MidAmerica Region Board of Trustees
We submit the following nominees for three year terms indicated (I = Incumbent, N = New Candidate):
(I) David Lauth, First Universalist Church, Minneapolis, MN
(I) Janis Chaney, Bismarck Mandan Unitarian Universalist Church, Bismarck, ND
(N) Tammy Lemmer, UU Church of Greater Lansing, Lansing, MI (to complete Rev. Cooley's term, then begin her own term July 1st)
(N) Dixie Collinson, Open Door UU Fellowship, Owensboro, KY
MidAmerica Region Nominating Committee
We submit the following nominees for two year terms indicated:
(I) Kay Slama, UU Church of Wilmar, MN (completed Brian Bach's term, starting her first term)
(I) Rob Gallegly, Carbondale Unitarian Fellowship, Carbondale, IL
(N) Bob Lovell, UU Church of Greater Lansing, Lansing, MI
Midwest Unitarian Universalist Conference Directors
There are two vacancies on MUUC. To fill these vacancies, we submit the following nominees for new three year terms (2017-2020).
(I) Rae Jane Araujo, Heritage UU Church, Cincinnati, OH
(N) Ted Lau, Eliot Unitarian Chapel, Kirkwook, MO
Respectfully submitted,
Katherine Daniels - Quincy Unitarian Church, IL
Kay Slama - UU Church of Willmar, MN
Tammy Lemmer - UU Church of Greater Lansing, Lansing, MI
Kees deWit - UU Congregation of Fort Wayne, IN
Robert Gallegly - Carbondale Unitarian Fellowship, Carbondale, IL
Rev. Brian Chenoweth - UU Church of Lexington, KY
Rev. Martin Woulfe - Abraham Lincoln UU Church, Springfield, IL
MidAmerica Region 2017 Slate of Nominees Biographies and Pictures
Board of Trustee Nominees:
There was one vacancy due to resignation and three Board of Trustee terms are ending. The Nominating Committee recommends Tammy Lemmer to fill the At-large Trustee vacancy immediately. Two of the three trustees are willing to continue and the Nominating committee identified a new candidate. Terms are three years.
(N) Tammy Lemmer, UU Church of Greater Lansing, Lansing (MI) to fill vacancy of At-large Trustee
Tammy Lemmer
(2017-2020) Tammy Lemmer has been a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lansing (Michigan) since 2002. After working for over 12 years in domestic and sexual violence prevention, she now works for the Tri-County Office on Aging, while also doing contract work with the Michigan Department of Education with an emphasis on safe and supportive school environments for LBGT youth. She is very active in community activities, and serves on her local school board. Tammy's congregational involvement includes volunteering with Children's RE, (including facilitating Coming of Age and Our Whole Lives for Middle Schoolers), Social Action initiatives, and Stewardship and Capital Campaign Committees. Her other leadership roles at UUCGL include serving on the Congregation's Board of Trustees for five years (with terms as VP for Programs and Secretary,) Nominating Committee, and Program and Policy Transitions committee (for reviewing and updating the congregation's Constitution and Bylaws). She is currently Chair of Denominational Affairs. Within the Region, she is an experienced delegate, and has served as a member and chair of both the Heartland District and the Regional Nominating Committees.
(I) Janis Cheney, Bismarck Mandan Unitarian Universalist Church (ND) for At-Large Trustee
Janis Cheney
(2017-2020) Janis Cheney joined the Bismarck Mandan UU Church in Bismarck, North Dakota in 1982. She has served on the congregation's Board of Trustees on several occasions including three terms as President. She is active in all aspects of congregational life focusing on adult RE, new member welcoming and orientation, and worship facilitation. Janis served on the Prairie Star District Extension Committee for nine years, attended General Assembly in Minneapolis and attends district conferences, workshops, and webinars. A Camp Unistar regular for 17+ years, she is married and has 2 young adult daughters. In her day job, she is ND State Director for AARP.
(I) David Lauth, First Universalist Church in Minneapolis (MN) for At-Large Trustee
David Lauth
(2017-2020) David Lauth is a member of First Universalist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has served as a member and President of the First Universalist Board of Trustees. He currently serves on First Universalist's Nominating Committee and Pastoral Care Committee, and he has previously served on its Personnel Committee, Music Committee, and Committee on Ministry. He was the District Coordinator for the 2010 UUA General Assembly in Minneapolis. In that role, he worked with the General Assembly Planning Committee, and he recruited and led a team of 200 local volunteers. Prior to the formation of the MidAmerica Region, he served as a volunteer conflict consultant for the Prairie Star District, working with a number of congregations that were experiencing difficult conflicts. He is also a singer/songwriter, and he performs regularly at the services of UU congregations throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin. He is a labor and employment lawyer and mediator, and he has an active volunteer mediation practice. David is passionate about building a strong future for Unitarian Universalism and our work in the world, and he is excited about this opportunity to serve the MidAmerica Region.
(N) Dixie Collinson, Open Door Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Owensboro (KY) for At-Large Trustee
Dixie Collinson
(2017-2020) Dixie Collinson is a member of a lay-led congregation -- Open Door Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Owensboro, KY (ODUUF). Dixie has served her church as Vice President and President of the Board of Trustees and in other capacities, including adult and youth RE, music, assisting with childcare and participating in social justice endeavors. Dixie's articles appear regularly in the faith section of the local newspaper. Dixie attended Midwest Leadership School in 2015, and actively seeks to build bridges with other faith communities, including the Muslim community, in the Owensboro area. Dixie is a Business Systems Analyst with Owensboro Health Regional Hospital.
MidAmerica Region Nominating Committee:
Three Nominating Committee terms are ending. Two of the three individuals are willing to serve again, one was appointed to the Board of Trustees, and the committee identified a new candidate, all slated for two year terms (2017-2019).
(I) Robert Gallegly, Carbondale Unitarian Fellowship, Carbondale, IL
Rob Gallegly
(2017-2019) Robert T. "Rob" Gallegly lives in Carbondale, IL, and is a member of the Carbondale Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (CUUF). After joining in 2008, Rob served various roles: RE teacher, member and then chair of the nominating committee, trustee, vice-president, member of the choir, computer network consultant, and one of the resident kilt wearers. Professionally Rob is a senior technical project manager for the Hyatt Hotel Corporation. He has worked for/with Hyatt for 13 years. Additionally, he is vice-president of Serenity Data Services, a data security company that holds patents on hard drive destruction technology. Rob serves on the Carbondale Elementary School Board. He also teaches for two martial arts clubs (Aikido, Kali) at Southern Illinois University with his wife Karen. Regardless of his many projects, Rob enjoys spending time with his wife and playing with their son.
(I) Kay Slama, Unitarian Universalist Church of Willmar (MN)
Kay Slama
(2017-2019) Katherine M. (Kay) Slama is a consultant in behavioral health and management who has been a member of the UU Church of Willmar MN since 2006. She has served on its board, and as Social Justice Chair for 9 years. Kay participates actively in MUUSJA (MN UU Social Justice Alliance). She presents several services at her church each year, generally on social justice or environmental topics. Kay's experience includes conference coordination, grant writing and reviewing, clinical psychology, teaching in university professorship positions, membership on professional boards, Executive Director of a mental health center, and author of professional publications, as well as web-based workshops on Dealing with Stress. Many of her current professional activities involve rural services and advocacy. Among other activities, she enjoys the outdoors, photography, and volunteer social justice work.
(N) Bob Lovell, UU Church of Greater Lansing, Lansing (MI)
Bob Lovell
(2017-2019) Bob Lovell has been a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lansing since 1980. He has served as Coming of Age Mentor, Ministerial Search Committee Chair, President, and in other roles. He has been an alternate or delegate to the Regional Assembly many times and he and his wife Kathy are Chalice Lighters. He has also enjoyed ushering at the last three General Assemblies and plans to do so again in New Orleans. In addition to church work, Bob is a volunteer with an American Red Cross disaster team and with a bicycle advocacy committee, and is a retired statistician, manager and teacher. He looks forward to contributing to the MidAmerica Region as a member of the Nominating Committee.
Midwest Unitarian Universalist Conference Directors:
There are two terms ending on MUUC. One director is willing to continue and the committee identified a candidate for the other term. We submit the following nominees for three year terms (2017-2020).
(I) Rae Jane Araujo, Heritage UU Church, Cincinnati (OH)
Rae Jane Araujo
(2017-2020) Rae Jane Araujo served as Treasurer of the Heartland District before the formation of the MidAmerica Region. For over 30 years Rae Jane has been a member of Heritage Universalist Unitarian Church in Cincinnati. Current congregational roles: Co-chair of the Universalist Convocation Planning Committee; Labyrinth Arts Festival Steering Committee; Finance Committee; and Delegate to the UU Council of Greater Cincinnati. Past congregational service: Board member; Chair of the Building Committee when the church was built; Member of the Membership, Personnel, Stewardship, Welcoming Congregation, and Ministerial Search committees. Rae Jane is married and has two children and two grandchildren.
(N) Ted Lau, Eliot Unitarian Chapel (MO)
Ted Lau
(2017-2020) Ted Lau, with his wife Cindy, has been a member of Eliot Unitarian Chapel in Kirkwood, Missouri, since 1990. Many church activities have been meaningful: leading small groups, visiting the sick as a pastoral care associate, and offering his musical talents as an accompanist and choir member. In 2011-12 he chaired the Ministerial Search Committee, and attended Central Midwest District Assemblies to promote EUC. He assisted the Board in refreshing the church's mission, vision and values statements, and leads the Healthy Communications Team. Ted looks forward to serving the MidAmerica Region.


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Return Path Partners with 8Seconds to Offer Multivariate Email Testing and Boost Email ROI
New solution provides real time, image based content optimization to increase click-through rates and maximize email revenue.
NEW YORK, September 12, 2017 — Data solutions provider Return Path today announced a new Multivariate Testing solution powered by European email optimization leader 8Seconds. This solution allows marketers to quickly and efficiently identify the email creative that resonates best with their audience, thereby improving email performance and driving more revenue from the email channel.
Marketing content that has been thoroughly tested is known to perform better than untested content. But many marketers fail to test due to the time, expense, and complexity of traditional testing methods. The feature rich Multivariate Testing solution from Return Path and 8Seconds provides an automated way to test multiple combinations of creative elements, simultaneously.
When an email is sent, the initial recipients are shown different versions of the email to gather engagement data based on open and click rates. Once there is enough data to determine a "winner," this optimized version is automatically displayed to the remaining recipients as they open. On average, the email containing the optimized combination of creative elements performs 200 percent better than losing combinations.
"Marketers are constantly looking for ways to improve subscriber engagement and increase revenue from their email program. Multivariate Testing offers a way to optimize emails in real time based on subscriber response," said Return Path CMO Daniel Incandela. "At the same time, mailbox providers are working harder than ever to deliver only messages that are truly wanted by their users. Increased opens and clicks provide those positive engagement signals mailbox providers are looking for—so optimizing email content has the potential to improve inbox placement, as well."
Any number of image-based creative elements can be tested, including header and body images, calls to action, banners, logos, buttons, and more. Insights from email tests can also be used to optimize other channels, such as websites, landing pages, banner ads, and offline communications. The solution is platform neutral, so it works seamlessly with any email service provider.
"While contextual content and personalization improve an email's relevance, effective testing can dramatically improve the response rate and ROI of an email campaign. Traditional testing methods, such as A/B testing, are often costly, complex, and slow to deliver meaningful results. Our technology allows marketers to easily test and adapt their email campaigns in real time, so they can see immediate benefits," said Basile Fattal, 8Seconds Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "As a leader in the email space, Return Path is working with both email senders and mailbox providers to solve the industry's most challenging issues. We are extremely excited to partner with them and help further boost email performance for Return Path clients."
For additional information about Return Path's Multivariate Testing solution or to schedule a demo, please visit our website.
About 8Seconds
8Seconds is a European marketing automation technology venture that develops algorithmic-based and context-relevant content optimization tools aimed at increasing audience engagement and conversion performance for email responders. 8Seconds very quickly became the global leader in real time email optimization for image-based creative content thanks to its focus and dedication on the email marketing channel. Information about the 8Seconds cloud service features can be found at 8Seconds.net.
About Return Path
Return Path analyzes the world's largest collection of email data to show businesses how to stay connected to their audiences and strengthen their customer engagement. Our data solutions help analysts understand consumer behavior and market trends. We help mailbox providers around the world deliver great user experiences and build trust in email by ensuring that wanted messages reach the inbox while spam doesn't. To find out more about Return Path solutions, visit us at returnpath.com or request a demo.


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An interesting renewable energy project looks to slowly be taking shape in Montana which would combine smart grid technology with renewable energy sources into a self-contained system that doesn't mix in non-renewable power sources such as coal. This project, called the Wind Spirit Project, has just been submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission by developer Grasslands Renewable Energy LLC for regulatory approval.
The Wind Spirit Project, if approved and fully implemented, could potentially be up and fully running by 2017. The stated goal of this project is that "renewable energy from multiple geographic areas will combine with energy storage technologies and smart grid components to create a more consistent renewable energy supply." Grasslands says the energy "would be collected via series of 230KV AC transmission lines and transported to large markets using high voltage AC and DC transmission lines." 3,000 megawatts of energy are planned for Montana with the idea of making "renewable energy more efficient and cost effective."
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Based in the South Coast Metro area near Costa Mesa, CA, Jesus Equihua is a professional Graphic Designer. He has studied at Golden West College, where he completed their rigorous and well-established Digital Arts program. He loves to challenge himself in undertaking new and exciting projects. In addition to the Digital Arts program at Golden West College, he completed two semesters of a special internship offered by the Digital Arts department, under the guidance of Sean Glumace, David Dluzak, and Debbie Bales.
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There are many intrusion detection systems (IDSs) and intrusion prevention systems (IPSs) on the market, but one of the best, oldest, and most reliable also happens to be free. The open-source IDS/IPS tool called Snort has been covered a few times in Windows IT Pro, most notably by Douglas Toombs in "Sniff with Snort" (InstantDoc ID 42606).
Toombs provides a little background: "With a history going back to at least 1998, this flexible package has a long, proven track record. With contributions from open-source community members and network administrators around the world, Snort has grown into a very capable product. Snort can perform real-time traffic analysis and logging of IP traffic at Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet speeds."
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In this Meow Mix commercial, the brand's catchy tune gets an electronic mix courtesy of a cat DJ. The song was actually composed by DJ Ashworth, but it's more fun to think that this is what groups of cats get up to when humans aren't looking.
The ad features a ton of colors, dancing kitties and disco balls that explode with cat food. The video is being used to promote the 'It's Meow Time' contest, asking people to compose their own 30-second version of the original Meow Mix jingle with their car for a chance to win a trip to Hollywood. In addition to this, for each jingle that's submitted to the contest, Meow Mix will be donating 100 cat meals to the Food Bank for New York City.
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You have helped us raise an amazing £1.8 million so far to support A.A.H. projects in Africa.
For every Penne Giardinera pasta dish purchased in our restaurants , we donate 50p on your behalf to Action Against Hunger.
Action Against Hunger are a dedicated and hardworking humanitarian charity dedicated to saving the lives of malnourished children and providing families with access to safe water and good nutrition in the poorest countries across the globe.
Truly inspired by their tireless work, we have worked with this charity since 2007 by raising funds through pasta donations and through our own staff running marathons, cycle races and many more activities.
Healthy Mums Healthy Kids appeal – helping mothers and children in Senegal survive and thrive.
Carluccio's is thrilled to support Action Against Hunger's #HealthyMumsHealthyKids appeal in partnership with the UK Government. Running until 2nd December, all donations made by the general public will be matched by the UK Government through the UK Aid Match initiative. This includes donations from the sales of Carluccio's signature Penne Giardiniera dish.
Your donation will go twice as far!
The match funding will go towards Action Against Hunger's Healthy Mums Healthy Kids appeal, providing mums and children in Senegal with the nutrition and support they need to survive and thrive.
Action Against Hunger's teams and local partners in Senegal will support teenage girls so they can stay healthy and give birth to healthy children when they become mums. The programme will help them learn how to provide the care and nutrition their children need for a brighter start to life and a happy future.
Carluccio's have also been supporting another Action Against Hunger nutrition programme in Senegal, thanks to the funds raised through the sales of our Penne Giardiniera dish, so the #HealthyMumsHealthyKids programme has a particular appeal for us.
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Our latest co-funded project with Action Against Hunger, is focusing on the root causes of malnutrition in Senegal. This has a very high presence within the country and largely affects children under 5 years old, 9.8% of the overall population. In some vulnerable areas of the country, it exceeds the emergency threshold of 15%. Matam is one of the worst affected areas of the country, with 1 in 5 (19%) of children under 5 are severely malnourished. The projects objectives are to strengthen the management and prevention of Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) at community level by developing community skills and improving sustainability by building capacities of two major national stakeholders in nutrition and food security.
In April this year, Simon (our co-founder and Chairman) led a small team to Senegal to see how the funds that you've kindly helped to raise has been spent. Over the course of 5 days they travelled through Dakar (the Senegalese capital), Matam, and Orkadiere. By the end of Day 1, they were high on emotion to see how privileged we are, realising just how easily things can be taken for granted. From just the people that they met in the local villages - the team found the whole experience truly amazing and yet humbling. It brought home the reason why we are fundraising and made us proud to be part of it all.
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Read on for the full story on previous trips from Simon Kossoff, Chairman
Throughout we were struck by the contrast between the terrible situation faced by the people we met and their utter delight, welcome and hospitality for a small group of rather overwhelmed Carluccio's representatives.
Myself and a keen member of our team (an avid fundraiser) visited Burkina Faso.
We left London early on a Sunday morning for a flight to Paris and then onward to Ougadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. We continued our journey driving over five hours South East via Fada to Pama. Finally after more than 48 hours we climbed into the truck this morning to visit our projects.
We saw a clay hut village where we are running a "warrantage" project. Warrantage is loan system where families put their harvest into a store and are paid 80% of the value as a loan. 6 months later they withdraw their grain and sell it at the higher out of season price for only a miniscule interest rate.
I was asked to unlock the grain bank and we saw the 69 sacks the village had stored last season. The villagers are advised to spend the grain loan on setting up income generating activity and we saw a family who dry and de husk rice raising the value by 60% and another who brews a local "beer" Dolo. We tasted her half finished product - it reminded me of beer I brewed as a student!
Next stop a vegetable garden where we help provide the well, the seeds, the training and fence to allow a community to grow their own food in what is otherwise a bone dry landscape.
Last stop a community meeting in a very poor village where last year they suffered terrible drought and our money helped out. I was asked to speak to the meeting which I did in English, then translated to French, then the local language. As the translation trickled through all 150 villagers laughed! I don't know why.
If our previous experiences were about seeing successful projects in the field then the next were much harder, visiting the malnutrition projects that are at the hard edge of the work AAH do here in Burkina.
We have debated what images to send as some of what we saw was quite difficult but what is an enduring reminder of the trip is the MUAC band. A simple tool that measures arm circumference in children from 6 months to 5 years old. It is a reliable indicator of whether a child is severely malnourished. It includes a simple green, orange, red indication, unfortunately all too many of the children we met were in the "red" zone.
But though these experiences are hard it makes me all the more proud of the difference we have made. But whilst £1,300,000 is a big number, it's really just a start.
In early May 2009 Neil Pangbourne, our logistics manager, and I had the opportunity to travel to Monrovia the capital of Liberia in West Africa to see the Action Against Hunger Projects where the money we are raising from Penne Giardinera sales is being spent.
Liberia was a wealthy country in the 1960s and 1970s helped by natural resources of diamonds and rubber, but years of political strife and civil war have destroyed infrastructure and displaced millions of people. Monrovia a city who's population has doubled in just a few years to 900,000 (the size of Birmingham) has no electricity, no running water and wholly inadequate sanitation, 85% of the people are unemployed and life expectancy is only 45 years.
Despite this awful and frightening backdrop our money is delivering results. We saw the children's feeding centre which cares for 120 mothers and their severely malnourished babies. There we met emaciated babies who would die without access to the clinic and a wonderful 18 month old boy called Maddison, cured with our help a few months ago and now a bouncy and very cheeky young man.
We visited the slum town of Westpoint to meet people living in the worst imaginable conditions there joining Ernesto, a social worker who we support, and his group of teenage mothers who simply have no idea how to care for their children. Children who without Ernesto's and our support could simply fade away.
An idea born from a company Christmas party - cycling from Glasgow to London to raise money for Action Against Hunger, was a huge success. At over 480 gruelling miles the team of 6 employees and our CEO took 6 days to cover the distance. In the process they raised over £48,000.
And because the challenge was serious Bianchi Cycles kindly teamed up with us and donated the excellent Nexus 7 bikes to help the team on their quest.


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Times have gone when frontline heroines would be starring in around 8 to 10 films in a calendar year. At times, heroines had even starred even in 12 films an year. Nowadays, in the face of stiff competition, it's becoming extremely difficult for heroines to star in 4-5 films per year at the most.
2011, the year which drew to a close three days back, witnessed the on-screen dominance of many young heroines. While leading heroines such as Nayantara, Trisha, Shriya Saran and Tamannaah suffered setbacks, young hotties in the form of Hansika, Amala Paul, Kajal Aggarwal, Samantha and Anjali have started dominating the Tamil and Telugu film industries.
Hansika debuted last year and had three films releasing out of which only the Vijay-starrer Velayudham turned out to be successful. She, however, has two big releases coming up in the form of Oru Kal Oru Kannadi and Vettai Mannan opposite Udhayanidhi and Simbu respectively in that order. Anushka delivered back-to-back hits in Simbu-Bharath starrer Vaanam and Vikram-starrer Deivathirumagal where she played with aplomb the advocate's role. She has a few films up her sleeve including films opposite Vikram and Aarya.
Lakshmi Rai too had back-to-back successes in Ajith's Mankatha and Raghavendra Lawrence's Kanchana. Thanks to her improved looks, Rai was appreciated and loved by fans in both the films. Richa Gangopadhyay, the other newcomer, had two releases in Mayakkam Enna opposite Dhanush and Osthe opposite Simbu. However, both the films managed only average business.
Anjali had the best year in her career and attained the top position of starring as heroine in maximum number of films in 2011. After impressing everyone with her amazing performance in 2010's Angaadi Theru, Anjali kept up the good work last year as well and starred in consecutive hit films in Ajith's Mankatha and debutant director Saravanan's Engeyum Eppodhum. She had other releases such as Magizchi, Karungaali and Thambi Vettothi Sundaram.
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TOKYO, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Japanese government bonds were mostly steady on Wednesday, with the exception of super-long yields which dipped on prospect of Japan reducing the maturity's issuance amount.
The 40-year yield was 1.5 basis points lower at 0.965 percent. The 30-year yield stood unchanged at 0.810 percent after going as low as 0.805 percent.
Japan's government is set to reduce the amount of newly issued 30-year and 40-year JGBs for the next fiscal year starting in April 2018, government sources told Reuters on Tuesday.
The finance ministry expects demand for super-long JGBs from investors such as life insurers to wane in the future.
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MIRAMAR -- His interest in baseball is undying. Give him the body of an 18- year-old, and he`d do just about anything to make it as a pro.
Carl Andrietta, 35, is associated with enough teen-agers to feel a part of their generation.
When it comes to youth baseball, Andrietta is a Lou Piniella type who loves the game, puts up with a lot of guff and gets along with almost every player.
He`s the boss, but he`s no tyrant.
And like many baseball junkies, Andrietta coaches more than one team each spring and summer. For 13 years he has been active in youth baseball in and out of Miramar.
For the past two summers, Andrietta has coached the Miramar Post 253 District 9 American Legion baseball team. Prior to the American Legion summer schedule, he also assisted on the Miramar High School baseball team for five seasons.
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Now Andrietta is the head coach at Miramar High. He accepted the position last fall after former coach Bob Hackett (13-10-1) resigned.
``I don`t like sitting around doing nothing,`` said Andrietta. ``I`d go nuts.``
There`s no problem there. Andrietta is too busy to go nuts.
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Andrietta not only coaches baseball, he also works full-time for the United States Post Office and part-time for the Miramar Parks and Recreation Department. When he`s not coaching at night, he is tending to the needs of ball teams at a variety of Miramar fields including those at Fairway and Forzano parks.
Forzano is home to Miramar High and Post 253.
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MUNSTER'S CHAMPIONS CUP clash with Glasgow Warriors will go ahead as scheduled in Thomond Park this Saturday.
As EPCR statement this Wednesday confirmed the decision was made after consultation with the province's management.
This Wednesday lunchtime 17,500 tickets were sold for what will be an emotional occasion for players, officials and supporters – the 1pm kick-off will be just 24 hours after the Friday funeral of Anthony Foley.
Tournament organisers have requested that a minute's silence or minute's applause be observed in Foley's memory at all games in the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup this weekend.
Munster Director of Rugby Rassie Erasmus and captain Peter O'Mahony addressed the media in Limerick today.
In a statement on behalf of the squad, Erasmus said:
"On behalf of the squad I would like to offer our sincere condolences to the Foley and Hogan families, in particular Olive, the two boys Tony & Dan, Axel's parents Brendan & Sheila & sisters Orla & Rosie. Our thoughts continue to be with them, Axel's extended family, and close circle of friends at this time.
"From a Munster Rugby point of view we wish to acknowledge and thank those that have expressed their sympathies and thoughts with us during this time and thank everyone for their thoughtful considerations – it has been quite overwhelming and is testament to Axel himself that we are hearing from all corners of the world, across all sports and walks of life. The great man touched so many hearts.
"One's life is greater than any sport or sporting occasion, however Thomond Park held a special place in Axel's heart, and as difficult as it will be to play the next game, no matter the time, opposition and venue, we have an opportunity to play there this Saturday; that is something that is hugely important to all of us and cannot be easily dismissed.
"Playing in Thomond Park further ties us to his memory and will be a chance for all, including our supporters and the community, to feel that connection and closeness to him at this time."


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Selections follow ratification of UNESCO convention.Two Thousand and Two has been named the International Year of Culture by the United Nations. It also marks a turning point in cultural recognition for the State of Israel.
Israel ratified the UNESCO Convention for the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage on Jan. 6, 2000, joining 159 countries that signed this convention over prior decades. Israel's National Commission for UNESCO is housed within the Ministry of Education and led by Daniel Bar-Elli. An optimist by nature, Bar-Elli is a creative problem solver who approaches even daunting hurdles as temporary barriers. The government thus wisely established the public committee responsible for evaluating Israel's proposed World Heritage site nominations under the auspices of the National Commission.
Architect Michael Turner is chairing the committee. Turner volunteered his time and expertise to achieve the seemingly impossible in an improbable span of time. Turner is a renowned expert and advisor to the United Nations on the preservation and restoration of cultural heritage sites worldwide. In less than one year from Israel's signing the UNESCO Convention, he succeeded against all odds in achieving official world heritage site status for Israel's first two candidates: Massada and the Old City of Acre. Both were officially declared World Heritage Sites in December 2001.
The committee solicits comments and the involvement of professionals and academics, generates public interest, prepares the tentative list for presentation, and establishes an educational framework for protecting the natural and physical heritage of the region.
Israel's World Heritage declaration states that, "The wealth of culture and the origins of histories in the region is a meeting place of west and east, north and south. It must be the collective responsibility of the communities of the region to generate the consensus so needed in ensuring that this heritage, cultural and natural, will be preserved and enjoyed by the world community. Israel is at a crossroads of universal cultures in time and place, as reflected in her world heritage sites. It is the cradle of world religions and living traditions of ideas and beliefs, among them Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Druze and Bahai. These cultural sites are associated with important historic events of religions, which represent the ongoing interchange of human values and cultural conditions."
Site candidates will include sites located geographically in Israel, multinational sites with boundaries in Israel, but shared with neighboring countries, and sites in Israel that could be inscribed as part of the world collection and cultural routes. Future nominations will also involve historic ports, Nabatean trade routes and imported urban architecture.
Israel's Interdisciplinary Center of Herliya (IDC), a leading private university, has launched a major public effort in support of Israel's World Heritage Committee. The Lauder School of Government/Institute for Policy and Strategy recently announced the Sea of Galilee World Heritage Site Initiative, a global campaign for the preservation of the Sea and its surrounding heritage, including religious antiquities, archaeological treasures and natural landscapes. This international endeavor will forge a global leadership on behalf of the Sea, the Galilee and its unique ecosystem.
The Sea of Galilee (Kinneret), the nation's most significant reservoir, is so low today that it
hardly requires a miracle to walk upon the waters. The Galilee, itself, is a vital but threatened periphery of the country. Foreign tourism – a mainstay of the Galilee economy – suffered an acute drop over the past two years and regional businesses are facing a dire future.
Israel's World Heritage Committee identified the Sea of Galilee and Dead Sea, ancient Jewish, Christian and Moslem sites, and the Journeys of Jesus in its long list of tentative and proposed nominations. Both the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are integral components of the five-million-year-old Great Syrian-African Rift Valley. The Rift Valley extends over 4,000 miles from the mountains of Turkey, through Syria, Lebanon (the Beka'a Valley), Israel (the Jordan Valley in the north and the Dead Sea and Arava Valley in the south), the Red Sea, and into Africa as far as Tanzania.
Decisive Israeli steps to preserve the ecosystem at the upper reaches of this Valley will no doubt have positive consequence for many nations that share this common world heritage.
There are over 700 World Heritage Sites worldwide, and it is firmly documented that sites and countries accorded such prestigious recognition experience almost a 40 percent rise in tourism over a two-year period. Indeed, UNESCO is the most effective global vehicle for promoting tourism to heritage sites and to the countries responsible for their preservation. Nations compete intensely for this stature. Moreover, given the fact that leading Arab nations hold official positions on the World Heritage Review Committee, Israel's achievement in this sphere is all the more remarkable.
The international advisory body to UNESCO on cultural heritage, (the International Council of Monuments and Sites, known as ICOMOS), is comprised of the world's leading non-governmental organizations (NGOS). Therefore, by signing the Convention and receiving World Heritage recognition, Israel has made positive cultural inroads into the United Nations, to related international bodies and to the NGO community, all of which until now have been so sorely lacking.


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Pottsville school gets approval
Pottsville is to get a new primary school.
The Catholic school on Charles Street was approved subject to a number of conditions involving traffic, noise and koala habitat.
There were 18 objections to the school, which will cater for 420 students.
The chairman of the Joint Regional Planning Panel, Garry West, says traffic was the key issue.
"We were concerned by the traffic issues, clearly by putting in a lot of extra traffic, you're talking about a primary school, parents dropping their children off and that's going to obviously generate additional traffic and the opening of Charles Street to just open it to vehicular traffic without pedestrian or bicycle access didn't make sense," Mr West said.
Koala trees at the proposed primary school will stay despite efforts to cut them down.
Mr West says the design has been modified to keep the koala trees.
"Potentially some of the koala habitat trees that were initially proposed to be removed will be retained and will still sit and the actual curvature of the bus bays will actually go around those trees keeping those trees in place," Mr West said.
Topics: education-industry, primary-schools, catholic, urban-development-and-planning, environmental-impact, pottsville-beach-2489, lismore-2480


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John Daly has gone 17 straight years on the PGA Tour with at least one round in the 80s. He didn't even manage that Friday in the Valspar Championship in Palm Harbor, Fla.
He missed a 4-foot putt on the last hole at Innisbrook and shot a career-high 90.
"I didn't give up," Daly said. "I tried."
He used up 12 of those shots on the 16th hole — tied for his fourth-highest score on any one hole — but was more concerned with the putting yips. Daly said the yips began last Sunday in Puerto Rico and reached a low point at Innisbrook.
He took 70 putts over two days, including a four-putt on the second hole of Friday's round.
"You're going to have big scores on holes. That's just the way golf is," Daly said. "But when you've got the yips, that's no fun."
For Daly, there was nothing fun about Friday, especially the 16th hole.
He started with a tee shot into the water. He had about 270 yards to cover the lake after his penalty drop and failed twice. From there, he hit a smother-hook well to the left of the water, only to hit what he described as a shank with his 7-iron well right of the green. He took three chips to reach the green and one-putted for a 12.
Daly's highest score ever was an 18 on the sixth hole of the 1998 Bay Hill Invitational. This wasn't anything like that. For one thing, he hit only three balls in the water.
"I got two good drops and hit a heel-cut 3-wood into the water," he said. "Then I shanked a 7-iron, chili-dipped a chip, it was buried, didn't get that out. … It was a good 12. I got up-and-down for 12."
It was the 16th time on the PGA Tour that Daly has made at least a 10 on a hole. Friday was the one-year anniversary of his most recent when he took a 10 on the third hole after twice hitting a tree while trying to get out of a forest.
On the PGA Tour alone, he now has 62 rounds of 80 or higher.
Daly said he needed to find help with the yips after what already has been a bad week. The 47-year-old with two majors said he was treated for plantar fasciitis in his left heel on Wednesday, and he was walking with a slight limp toward the parking lot.
"I'm falling apart," he said.
The putting is what unnerved him. Daly had some of the softest hands in golf when he won the 1991 PGA Championship and the 1995 British Open at St. Andrews. But his putting stroke, even more than elbow surgery last year, has hurt him. His last good chance to win a tournament was the 2005 American Express Championship at Harding Park, where he three-putted from 15 feet in a playoff against Tiger Woods.
"It's my head, my hands, and I can't stop it," Daly said. "On a short stroke, I get quick. On my normal, long stroke, I come up. Even my legs are moving. I should just go put myself in a straitjacket and try that. I've always been a quick putter, so I should never get the yips. But I got 'em. I got 'em bad."
Robert Garrigus shot a 5-under 66 to build a three-shot lead going into the weekend. Garrigus is among the longest hitters in golf, and he took advantage of his power on a pristine afternoon in the Tampa Bay area. He birdied all the par 5s for the second day in a row. Garrigus has made only two other birdies this week, on a par 3 and a par 4.
Garrigus was at 7-under 135. He was three shots ahead of Kevin Na, who shot a 68. The group at 3-under 139 included Justin Rose, Matteo Manassero, Pat Perez and Matt Every.
EUROPEAN TOUR: Alejandro Canizares of Spain retained a one-stroke lead over Seve Benson of England by shooting a 4-under 68 in the second round of the Trophee Hassan II in Agadir, Morocco. Overnight leader Canizares made seven birdies and three bogeys for a total of 14-under 130.
"I felt really confident so I was not thinking too much, I needed to let the golf happen," Canizares said. "In some cases my putter was a little cold today but I kept it going on the back nine."
Canizares won the Russian Open in 2006 and shared fifth place at the Qatar Masters in January.


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The Movie Club
I stand corrected: Scott saw every movie released this year except Beowulf.
Wesley: I'm gladdened to know Into the Wild made you all mushy. It had the same effect on me, despite Eddie Vedder, despite the ersatz-'70s aesthetic. I caught it a little earlier than you did, during the first week of November, just as I was beginning a leave of absence from work in order to come to terms with some health issues I've been grappling with this year. My reaction was the opposite of yours, Wesley, and was no doubt marked by a state of mind avid for a healthy dose of overblown naiveté. I immediately and powerfully sympathized with the questing hero—I, too, am a privileged young man undergoing an existential crisis!—but as his quest went on (and on and on and on and on), I found myself less and less invested. The trajectory of the movie proved emotionally frustrating but ethically acute: My gradual alienation from the "hero," our ostensible audience surrogate, was replaced by empathy with all those marvelous supporting characters he encounters on his journey, a set of alternative families he briefly joins then abandons. Into the Wild is a conventional treatment of the same theme contemplated through kaleidoscope in I'm Not There. Both movies celebrate the thrill of personal reinvention while simultaneously attending to the spiritual toll of perpetual escape. Neither film is hagiographic; neither odyssey ends up feeling very heroic. If I'm Not There packed the greater wallop for me, it's probably because I connect on a deeper intellectual and emotional level to Haynes' mega-meta technique than Penn's nostalgic naturalism.
I journeyed Into the Wild in the company of Jim Davis, my oldest and dearest moviegoing companion. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, back when I was a civilian cinephile living in San Francisco, Jim insisted that I join him for a rare screening of Antonioni's The Passenger at the Castro Theater, site of many unforgettable movie memories: an evening spent pulverized by a pristine print of Raging Bull; the cold, gray, melancholy afternoon when I finally discovered that Casablanca was just as enchanting as everyone said; three puzzling, playful hours in the company of Peter Greenaway's The Falls. It was at the Castro, sitting next to Jim, that I submitted to the eye-popping, soul-shattering sublimities of Vertigo, a film I knew, but didn't really know at all, from pan-and-scan VHS.
Pardon my walk down memory lane (ew, why is the floor so sticky?), but I wanted to chime in on Le Crux du Moment so eloquently discussed by Scott, Wesley, and Dana. I agree with you all on the various inadequacies and aggravations besetting a night at the movies in these impolite times, and, at the same time, the incomparable wonderment of a flawless 35mm projection and the social pleasure of going to the movies and talking them through with friends. All of us, critics and civilians alike, can agree that something is being lost in the dark.
Yet I feel compelled to speak up in defense of iThings, holo-pods, and the living room cinematheque. In the fall of 2005 I attended a press screening of The New World at an excellent multiplex in Manhattan. If anything would seem to require, even demand, the largest possible screen, it was the whispering raptures of Terrence Malick's transcendental period piece. And it was, indeed, gorgeous to behold on that big, bright screen—though an infinitely more ravishing immersion came several months later when, on a flight from Los Angeles to New York, I squinted at the 12-inch screen of my mighty little PowerBook running The New World on DVD. Maybe it was the headphone factor, the intensely private space created by an isolated aural environment, or the gestural intimacy enabled by literally holding the film in your lap, but my nervous system came alive to the movie in an entirely new way. For whatever reason, it is this "diminished" viewing of Malick's masterpiece, not the theatrical one, that ranks alongside Vertigo at the Castro in my personal pantheon of cinematic amazements.
Nothing on the little screen this year rivaled that landmark (The New World, indeed), but there were many bright lights on the iCinema circuit. Scott mentioned the terrific IFC First Take program, which is throwing its weight behind the type of marginal art-house fare that used to find its way to New York courtesy of Wellspring, the late, great theatrical distribution company recently bought, and dismantled, by the Weinstein Company. Better yet, IFCFT gives cinephiles from Chattanooga to Okefenokee access to movies they otherwise couldn't see except by ordering a DVD months after reading our rave reviews of, say, The Flight of the Red Balloon, the latest masterwork by Hou Hsiao-Hsien and surely one of the highlights of 2008. (More of those in my next post; and y'all with me on the Hou, yeah?)
This has been as extraordinary a year for DVD as it has for new releases: Ford at Fox, Histoire(s) du Cinema, and The Films of Kenneth Anger are cinematic "events" no less exciting, in my book, than There Will Be Blood. And then there's the matter of the current golden age of television, which hopefully didn't cut to black with the death of The Sopranos. Giddy as Movie Club 2007 has been for an abundance of first-run riches, our greatest praise—"narrative film of the decade," no less—has been for two serialized HBO dramas. Also worth mention is the splendid second coming of Battlestar Galactica, a tremendously subtle and affecting meditation on artificial intelligence, as well as the consistently deranged, delightful, and diabolical South Park. An honest list of my favorite motion pictures in 2007, regardless of medium, would include this, this, this, and this.
That said, the single best thing, of any kind of thing, I saw in 2007 was Max Ophüls' immortal 1953 film The Earrings of Madame de…, revived in a glorious new 35mm print at Film Forum in New York. It may not be long before seeing any movie projected on celluloid becomes exclusive to specialized cinemas, film festivals, or museum programs. On the flip side, the next Ophüls may very well devote herself exclusively to the medium of scalp implants.
Cinema is dead, long live cinema!


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him: Wanna play Xbox?
me (cue whine): Noooooo. I hate shooting games. They make me feel sick. I don't want to play.
him: Even if you get to shoot zombies?
me: ...
Let me be clear on this: I hate first-person shooting games. I mean, I really, really hate them. They stress me out. They give me heart palpitations. The motion makes my stomach turn. In theory, I get why people like them, really I do, but they're just not for me.
The thing is, I really love zombies. If you asked me: "Vampires or werewolves?", I'd answer zombies. But then I'd have to clarify because really, there's not much sexy about a zombie. I love zombies, but I'm not in love with them. Ours is a platonic love, based on terror, death and mayhem.
Or something like that.
So we played.
Note to self: first-person shooting games with zombies in them are still first-person shooting games.
And then, when I'd finally figure out how to get out from behind the barrel, a zombie would throw up on me and the horde would attack. I'd feel a sick sense of relief flood through me as my little green life bar turned orange and then red.
And then one of my teammates would come kill all of the zombies and heal me. And I'd have to keep playing.
Finally, finally, the game finished. I died at the end. I should have just stayed hidden behind the barrel.
My arm was sore, my stomach was turning, my eyes were burning, my heart was pounding. I'm pretty sure that 120 minutes of trying to find the x button and the b button gave me carpal tunnel syndrome. I was jittery and irritable and my neck and shoulder ached.
Perfect state of mind for going to bed, right?
I woke up in the middle of the night, as I usually do at least a few times every night. I could hear a drunken party in the distance. There was shouting and laughter, just barely loud enough for me to hear it.
But wait a second...


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Island oasis right here in MN-Nicollet Island that is!
A dozen years ago, my artwork was highlighted in the Travel Channel's show "Passport to Design" featuring a facelift of this historic home on Nicollet Island. The home is now up for sale, and the owner says the hardest thing to leave is the custom artwork throughout. So , I decided to reminisce and share the wonderful elements created for this world traveler:
Mural makes Boy's Bedroom come to life
HE picks all his favorite things … we designed around the Pottery Barn Kids bedding, and the space transforms to one of his favorite places!
The Delight is in the Details
One Room's Guarantee -Spring is Here!!
Is it real or is it….?
I love people who love art, and my recent client is certainly one who loves unique art! It all started with a special design to be painted on a precious end table. When I was invited to her home, I noticed all her wonderful unique art, especially her large free-standing horse sculpture on wheels made of wood and metal that she acquired while living in CA (behind the hand painted table). photo #1
Then on Halloween, her beautiful cat decided to jump on for a ride, tipping it, braking the sculpture in two. Not being able to repair, and wanting to immortalize her artwork in some way, she thought of her "Untapped Resource" and gave me a call.
With the cat supervising, we began to create a mural on the wall. photo #2 – #3. When finished we re-attached the saved metal pieces, and the result was a real success! photo #4 Subscribe to my website – SherylVanderpol.com and like my Untapped Resource Facebook page, for more inspiration monthly. 763-542-1116
Handpainted Bonus Room Play Area
A whimsical play area was created from this unused under-the-stairway space. Colorful hand-painting was a real asset for this TJB home. Perfect space to play and store toys – out of sight!
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The most important asset of every agency is its people. And at Avantgarde we try to recruit some of the best talents in their field. Take Florian Gampert, Junior Art Director in our Munich office. Earlier this year, Florian – together with his friend Kevin May – won the People's Choice Award at the first Adobe Creative Jam in Munich.
The Adobe Creative Jams are unique two-part creative experiences where design duos compete in a tournament utilizing Adobe Creative Cloud; meanwhile, a group of creative leaders will be detailing their own creative process in the Creative Jam Presentations next door to a large audience. After three hours and no rules, the teams present their work to an audience/jury who chooses a winning team.
The challenge was to complete and interpret the words "Creativity is…" in under three hours. As one of five participating teams, they chose to create interactive posters with Adobe Creative Cloud, HTML 5 and JavaScript. To find matching expressions for the term creativity they asked and portrayed passers-by with their camera during the concept phase.
They merged the portraits with the relevant interpretation of creativity and turned them into abstract illustrations, creating a unique visual from every asked person. The evolving poster series showed the diversity of creativity in a unique way winning them the People's Choice Award.
Here's a little extract of their idea:
While every snowflake is clearly identified as such, no two (are) alike. Various parameters ensure that every snowflake is unique. – The same goes for creativity.
Congratulations to Flo and Kevin.
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While the world always seems to balance on the brink of good and evil, the world also teeters on the edge of another foreboding dilemma, and it is that of global warming and its effects. Now there are many that believe that global warming is merely a hoax at its best, but how can one deny the facts that have been scientifically proven by some of the most intelligent scientific minds in the world, let alone the sheer weight of evidence that we see flashing on our television screens of the news reports of the devastation occuring all around the world. Global warming is a real scenario, and there are consequences that have and will continue to come to pass if we don't heed the call NOW! I won't go into all the manifestations of global warming in this post as I am sure you have heard a good deal about it already, or maybe even too much. Now I am not a scientist by any stretch of the imagination, nor do I even belong to any environmental organization, but I am just a concerned citizen with a family that I cherish dearly....and I am concerned about their future as well as the future of all of mankind, and for those succeeding us. I never had the opportunity to see Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth but I do a lot of research and keep up with the world news and what is happening to this planet every day of the week. I am planning to see The 11th Hour with Leonardo Di Caprio however, so I can learn more about this exisiting problem that we are all facing, and I want to learn what more I can do as an individual to help this world we live in.
About The 11th Hour:
'The 11th Hour' Warns of Environmental Collapse By Penelope Poulou Washington DC27
August 2007
The new documentary "The 11th Hour' sounds the alarm over global warming and offers insight into the causes and effects of global pollution.
The documentary starts with news footage of hurricanes raging, floods taking homes, people drowning. Others, on their rooftops, are pleading for help. These images are not new. Nor is the message they evoke: extreme weather phenomena can destroy human life. Like the Oscar winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," "The 11th Hour" warns against global warming. But the focus goes beyond climate change. It deals with the human dynamics that contributed to these changes since the industrial revolution.
To do that, movie directors Nadia Conners and her sister, Leila Conners Petersen, interviewed more than 50 scientists, ecologists, authors, professors and other experts on climate change. One of them is environmentalist Kenny Ausubel. Ausuber says that human society exploits nature to such a degree that it risks depleting it. He says, if people continue to live at odds with nature, their existence is at stake.
Leila Conners Petersen says as challenging as it was to gather all these interviews it was not difficult to convince these people to give their input on global warming. "A lot of them felt an urgency about the situation just like we did," she says. "And the fact that Leo was involved they felt 'Oh my Gosh! Now, we're going to be heard!'"
Actor Leonardo Di Caprio produced and presents the documentary "The 11th Hour" "Leo" is none other than actor Leonardo Di Caprio. He is the producer and the presenter of the movie. Standing in front of a mountainside, Di Caprio is warning the end of a healthy planet is near.
Scientists such as Patrick J. Michaels, senior fellow of environmental studies at Cato Institute, disagree.
"We (climatologists) know, I think to a pretty small range of error, how much it's gonna warm in the next 20 to 50 years or so," he says. "It's not that much. It will be about eight tenths of a degree Celsius or so. To spin that into the end of the world story is absurd. It stands history on its head," he notes.
The scientists who warn against global warming are as vocal as global warming doubters. They say time is running out and change has to occur on all social levels, from the administrations to the corporations to the local communities right down to the individual. In spite of its doomsday scenario, filmmaker Nadia Conners says the film ends with a message of hope.
"It is a very hopeful time," she says. One of our favorite lines in the film -- the Paul Hawken line, 'What an incredible time to be born -- because it's this generation that gets to change this world.' And everything that we do has to be redesigned."
Although not the most visually exciting film, "The 11th Hour" has a sobering effect. At the same time, it inspires the viewer to get up from his seat and go do something to make this a better world .
More Information about Global Warming:
See Video HERE
Wikepedia: The 11th Hour
The Weather Makers
Global Warming: Early Warning Signs
National Resources Defense Council
Time For A Change
Live Science
Green Peace
Global Warming: Early Warning Signs
National Resources Defense Council
Time For A Change
Live Science
Green Peace
The following is an excellent video that I highly recommend you viewing at your convenience.
Video (20 mins) of Tim Flannery, Author of The Weather Makers at the State Library of Victoria speaking to high school students about global warming and what can be done about it. The talk, presented by The Centre for Youth Literature and Text Publishing, marked the launch of We Are the Weathermakers.
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Also I have posted a poll on this blog "How Do You Feel About Global Warming" You can find it by scrolling down on the right hand side of this page. I would appreciate you taking 10 seconds of your time to participate in my poll if possible. It is merely for my own personal use as I am curious as to know how others feel about this issue.
Thanks for reading my post about a serious issue that faces us all.