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"Econia" became a sponsor of children's tournament "Vashchuk Cup"
"Econia" supported young talented athletes becoming a sponsor of the third international children's tournament "Vashchuk Cup" which was held on 26-27th of December at the arena of training base "Dynamo Kyiv".
10 teams from all over Ukraine were involved in football matches: "Phoenix" (Zhytomyr)",Dynamo" (Kyiv)",Shakhtar" (Donetsk)",Chernomorets" (Odessa)",Dnepr" (Dnipropetrovsk)",Volyn" (Lutsk)",Spartak" (Moscow)",Dynamo" (Minsk) and others.
"Econia" provided "Teen Team" drinking water, which was developed specifically for teenagers leading active lifestyle, for every young athlete for the purpose to quickly recover their strength during the breaks between matches.
According to Iryna Varagash, the president of the company: "this water not only quenches thirst during training exercises, sports challenges, but it is also a source of energy and good mood for the whole day".
"I wish strength, agility and victory to our young sportsmen. Let the strongest sportsman win, and we in our turn, along with their parents, friends and cheer teams will support them ", - said Iryna Varagash.
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"Malyatko" sponsors "Pram Parade" in Cherkassy26.08.2015The "Pram Parade" family festivity as dated by the Independence Day of Ukraine took its place in Cherkassy. The little residents of the city and region accompanied by parents made a ride from "Rose valley" to "Chaika" park with their small colourful transportation.Read more...
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"Malyatko" - water sponsor of Schools for future mothers14.08.2015The brand "Malyatko" became a water sponsor of schools for future mothers which are held by the children's supermarket network "Antoshka" in Kiev, Lvov, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk and Odessa.Read more...

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I plan to retire at the end of this upcoming school year and the wind is certainly going to change direction ~ metaphorically speaking.
So many questions/concerns – do we have enough money saved, what about friends ~ how do I go about making new ones at my age, should we move to a home with a smaller yard, will I get lonely, will we suffer a health set back, will my days feel too empty? Retirement is a bet on the future and I don't want the unknowns or imagined outcomes of what "might" happen to cause me to surrender to my fears and uncertainty ~ or become too overwhelming.
As an elementary school teacher my days are full of movement and ruled by the clock: 7:45 – 8:30 teach math, 8:30 – 9:20 teach writing and so the day goes. I honestly struggle with lack of structure during the seven weeks of summer break (just ask my husband) so I hope I can manage it better once I retire when daily life will not be so planned and rigid.
My friends that have already retired or are in the planning stages have made plans to either relocate to be closer to family or relocate to a region of the country they have always wanted to live, or relocate because they desire the lifestyle offered in the 55+ active adult communities. Not one of them is choosing to stay close by. They have a plan that include things like golfing, or traveling the world, or embracing daily life with family closer by. At first the absence of these folks was gradual and it almost didn't seem real, and I will surely (in two cases already) miss these wonderful people. Of course we will talk and visit, but we also know the dynamics will change ~ that's just the way it is.
I know you can't and shouldn't worry about the future, but for me, that is much easier said than done. Part of the problem is I really don't have a "plan" but I do realize whatever I plan and what I may actually get ~ are two different things. I can fantasize about spending more time with grandchildren, or doing a little traveling, or even try things I have not done before. But in reality 11 out of 14 grandchildren live out of the state not to mention all of our children and grandchildren are very busy with their own lives especially now that the grands are getting older and more involved in activities of their own interests. Next, neither M. nor I are big travelers any more (having visited many places on the North American continent as well as a few places beyond we now prefer destinations within a somewhat reasonable driving distance). Finally, I honestly don't know what I haven't tried yet that I might like to do (skydiving and running a marathon will never be on my list). M. will participate in activities with me to a point, but sometimes I want/need "girl-time" shopping, conversations and lunches. With my peeps moving away that presents a new challenge that will most likely push me outside of my comfort zone. Plus no matter what the plans wind up being, our health is the overall key component. I recognize I am extremely blessed to even have this concern and for that I am very thankful.
If you have made it this far reading this post ~ thank you ~ I really need to start sorting this out.
In closing, I know one thing for sure ~ I have to trust. Trust our financial adviser that we will be okay financially (not over the top just okay). Trust myself that I can get through the adjustments during this transition and accept my new normal. Trust that opportunities will arise that will allow new friends to come into my life. Trust that good health will prevail. Trust that my days will be filled with moments that both challenge and excite me to give it my best. Trust that my husband, our children and grandchildren and I will maintain our close bond and connection. And most importantly trust that God has a plan for me and trust that He is and will be with me in all transitions good and bad. John 14: Let not your heart be troubled…
I read some retirement blogs and many of you have made some major changes, keep busy with quality activities and are making the most out of the "Next Act" in your lives. You have given me inspiration and I will continue to read your advice and words of wisdom, enjoy your adventures, and pay close attention to your successes and failures. I value all that you share. In the meantime, I want to take notes, make lists, whatever I need to do to get my head in the right place so when I walk out that door on my last day of work it will be with a smile on my face and joyful anticipation as the curtain rises on my "Next Act."


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Welcome to Dames Who Make Games, Gamerwife's interview series with the lovely ladies who make our video games. Whether you're a QA tester or a company VP, we want to hear what you have to say. And remember to click "Continue reading" for the whole story.
Regular readers of Gamerwife may recognize Dames Who Make Games interviewee Sasha S. as one of the makers of Let There Be Life, a peaceful little game I reviewed some months back. In addition to being a self-taught artist, Sasha and her husband have made the leap into indie game development with their company, Backwards pieS. Sasha was kind enough to take time from porting Let There Be Life on mobile to answer some questions about her inspiration, influences, and of course, favourite games.
Gamerwife: Let's start at the beginning, what was the first game you ever played?
Sasha S.: Oregon Trail when I was in elementary school. The first game I ever owned was the 1990 hand-held Little Mermaid game by Tiger Inc.
GW: What made you decide on a career in games?
Sasha: When my husband and were engaged, I was in the process of changing careers. I wasn't exactly sure what I wanted to do but I wanted to do something with children.
I thought about writing and illustrating children's books. I took a few art classes and a class on writing for children. When my husband was let go from from the serious games company he was working for at the time, he wanted to start his own indie game studio. We decided that it would be too much for one person to handle and we both jumped into creating Backward pieS (a play on our last name, Seip). It was a perfect fit for me because now I could create art, and do something for children.
GW: Where did you go to school and what did you study?
Sasha: I am self taught, but took a few art classes from the local adult education programs in our area, and a few at the local Audubon Center. I always loved art and drawing. I learned game design through just watching people play our games, and having discussions with my husband.
GW: What was your inspiration for Let There Be Life?
Sasha: Let There Be Life came about from the Edge Online Get Into Games competition in 2013 (Ed: They were the first runner's up). The theme for the competition was "Do No Harm." I love nature and gardening, and came up with the idea of building enchanted trees. Each tree wanted to grow, but didn't want to hurt his flower friends below with the shade cast by his leaves.
I wanted to make an art game that everyone can play. I want children and even their grandparents to be able to play (perhaps together) so we had to have simple controls. It's my hope that Let There Be Life will be able to bring joy and relaxation to its players, because life can be hard sometimes. I wanted to make a game that wasn't like any other game out there.
GW: Were there particular games or artists that influenced your take on Let There Be Life?
Sasha: The art for the game was hand-painted watercolor that I created myself. I took inspiration from wildlife artists and Beatrix Potter.
GW: What are the best/worst things about working in video games?
Sasha: There are so many wonderful things about working in video games and having my own indie studio… where do I begin!
The first thing would be working with my husband. I also love being able to be at home with my pets and making my own hours.
Next would be the joy I get when I hear or see someone enjoying one of my games. Through games I can try to bring a little happiness to lots of people. I really love it when I hear someone say that their child really had fun playing my game.
As for the worst… one is definitely finding a bug in our game and then telling my husband to fix it!
Another bad thing about working in games is the anxiety of worrying about whether our game will be successful. Living in fear of not being able to make a living doing what you love is not fun. I always worry that someone will just flat out hate my game and criticize it.
GW: Are there unique challenges you've faced as an independent developer? What were they and how did you overcome them?
Sasha: Running a studio has so many challenges– from getting the tech to work, to getting things done on time, to finding bugs and fixing them. Creating a game that 'makes an artistic statement' yet is enjoyable for people is a sometimes difficult balancing act.
I overcome these challenges by taking a deep breath, popping the kettle on for tea, and just plugging away at them one by one. I try to approach everything calmly… If all else fails I step away and do yoga. When I come back I usually have a solution.
GW: Have you ever had issues with harassment or discrimination as a women in video games?
Sasha: No, I have the good fortune of working with my husband. We are a small studio– just the two of us. I haven't had any issues with fellow developers or game studios.
I think times are slowly starting to change and women are becoming more accepted. Although, we still have a long road to perfection.
GW: What advice do you have for other women who want to be involved in game development?
Sasha: I would say to other women, "don't give up." Remember that you have value and you have your own set of talents. If you have an idea, speak up. Take risks, and don't worry about failing. If you should make a mistake, learn from it, fix it, and then don't worry about it.
I would also say that us women need to stick together. I like remembering the great women in the past who got us where we are today. To quote Rosie The Riveter: "We Can Do It!"
GW: What games are you playing right now?
Sasha: Am I allowed to say my own game, Let There Be Life?
I've been working so hard porting Let There Be Life to mobile that play testing my own game has been the only game playing I'm doing right now. Hopefully when I'm done with the ports I can play some more indie games. Maybe even some Oregon Trail and Little Mermaid!
GW: Favourite game of all time or game you wish you had made?
Sasha: There's no specific game that I wish I had made, but I would love to work on games that bring awareness to different environmental issues and the conservation of species such as in Audubon's Mission Migration.
I don't really have a favorite game of all time, but in general I like games that have interesting characters, beautiful art, and that are nature-themed and/or bring awareness to environmental issues. A good example would be Ecco The Dolphin. And I really enjoy just riding the horses around in Red Dead Redemption and Skyrim (though I leave the combat to my husband!)
About Sasha:
Growing up Sasha was never allowed to play video games, and now she makes them!
Now that she is married to a game developer she has embraced her inner artist. She can bring her art to life in the games that she and her husband Jason make.
When she's not making games, she enjoys working on her own art which is wildlife or nature-themed. She also enjoys gardening, bird watching and going to steampunk events. I live Shes lives in Pennsylvania with her husband Jason and a bunch of crazy pets, including a cockatoo named Angel.
Thanks again, Sasha!
You can download her game, Let There Be Life, from the Backwards pieS website.


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I've been trying to submit my app to the mac app store and I've been trying to figure out how to solve this issue:
Files Only Readable By The Root User - The installer package includes files that are only readable by the root user. This will prevent verification of the application's code signature when your app is run. Ensure that non-root users can read the files in your app.
I haven't been able to fix this problem for a while and does anyone have a solution?


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Those folks have Moxie! And we ain't talking nerve tonic, kid, though boy oh boy do them Happenstance Theater folks got plenty of nerve! And gumption. And chutzpah! And, well— Moxie! A brand new theatrical collage arrives this summer for the ensemble-based performance company, and if you haven't already guessed, it's going by the title of Moxie: A Happenstance Vaudeville. The company has taken their much cherished vintage aesthetic and much celebrated performance nature and steered it in the Vaudevillian direction. In a TheatreBloom exclusive sit-down interview, we chat with all six company members about the upcoming show and what it's been like creating this new sure-to-be masterpiece all along the way.
Thank you all for sitting down with us! I can't tell you how excited I am about Moxie: A Happenstance Vaudeville. Let's do a quick round-robin of introductions and then we can jump right into the show.
Sarah Olmsted Thomas: I'm Sarah Olmsted Thomas and I've been working with Happenstance since 2012. I joined with Alex (company member Alex Vernon), we joined as a team. Outside of Happenstance we make puppet shows together under the auspices of Alex & Olmsted. Beyond that we cobble a living by various sorts of gigs in and out of the theatre arts. Sometimes its workshops and sometimes its commissions.
Alex Vernon: Maybe me next? I'm Alex Vernon, I too have been with the company since 2012. I also build many of the props and sets and moving things for the shows.
Karen Hansen: My name is Karen Hansen and I have been collaborating with Happenstance since 2009, with Lookout Below. I've known Mark (company Co-Founder Mark Jaster) since 1985, 1986—
That's the year I was born.
Karen: The year Mandy was born! I'm also the company's music director.
Gwen Grastorf: My name is Gwen. I was going to look up when I started working with Happenstance.
Mark Jaster: It was Proofbox.
Gwen: When was that? 2006? 2007?
Mark: I think it was 2006.
Gwen: I got pulled in kind of slowly. I helped out with a couple of shows, and then some more shows. But it really started ramping up in 2010 with the first Cabaret Macabre.
Mark: Even that was sort of a last minute addition.
Gwen: I was a last minute addition. I'm also the social media person for Happenstance, so I'm always posting pictures on the internet. I do some acting on the side with other companies sometimes. And I have a part-time job with Imagination Stage in Bethesda, that's my office job, which I enjoy very much.
Mark: I'm Mark Jaster. I'm the Artistic Co-Director and Co-Founder with Sabrina Mandell, who will be here momentarily.
Alex: In fact, there—
Sarah: There she is, rolling up the drive.
Mark: Ah. Well, I've been with the company since the beginning. Which I think was 2006. I think that was our first show. We opened with Proofbox at the Capital Fringe Festival, the first Capital Fringe Festival. That was our first production together and that was the week after Sabrina and I got married. We sort of founded the company because we had such a lively, productive dialogue about work; making work in different ways and doing it with so many ideas that before one idea was even in production we were already into the next one. We decided we should team up. And we've been doing it ever since. And here's Sabrina!
Sabrina Mandell: Hello everybody!
Mark, when you're not Happenstancing, you do?
Mark: Well, everything sort of falls under the aegis of Happenstance, but I do all sorts of things. Like this morning, I did a couple of solo shows out at a school in Virginia. I've done a lot of mime shows, lots of people have seen me do mime shows. All of us do some freelance things out on the side. As much as we would like it to be, or rather many of us would like it to be the central— well artistically it is the central pull for us—
Gwen: It fills the months between shows.
Mark: It keeps the money rolling in. We teach, we consult, we take classes. We perform solo and special events, The Renaissance Festival, those sorts of things. And here's Sabrina, all settled in now and just in time.
Sabrina: Hello again. I'm Sabrina Mandell.
And you've been with Happenstance company since…?
Sabrina: It began. In 2006. I am its mother.
Sarah: Mother earth.
Sabrina: I am the kombucha mother. We have momma and poppa and the kids all here.
Sarah: We're the babies.
Sabrina: We're a family. Uncle Milkshake, Auntie Pasta…yeah.
Tell us a little bit about Moxie, what it is and where it came from.
Sabrina: Moxie came from wanting to fill a slot in the calendar that was filled last year by a similar show, a sort of family-friendly, summertime show.
Mark: The circus show, Impossible!
Sabrina: Right. The company was interested in visiting the territory of Vaudeville because we hadn't done that yet.
Mark: It felt like so much of what we do anyway has a lot in common with the spirit of Vaudeville in that it is performer driven and that rather than long form it tends to be short form.
Sabrina: Vaudeville is also interested in being economically viable, commercially, and for-profit, which is a different model than a lot of other art forms.
Mark: It's also a period that we are drawn to. Aesthetically we tend to think back: vintage, retro. Most of the work we've done falls between 1890 and 1930.
Sabrina: And that's when Vaudeville was happening.
Mark: That's exactly the arch of Vaudeville. That was another draw for us. Then once we started researching, reading books and seeing videos about it, it was just, "Oh my God, these people have the same values as we do!" They wanted it to be family friendly and we want our work to be accessible up and down the scale. We want scholars to find fun in it and we want kids to have just as much fun and we want it to be a great date show too. We liked that broad spectrum of appeal. Vaudeville had that same target audience of everybody.
How did you go about gathering your inspiration for Moxie?
Gwen: We just collected everything. They ordered some great books. We spent the summer? No, that's not right—
Sabrina: Fall.
Gwen: That's right. We spent the fall, the time we were apart after Cabaret Noir, we spent a lot of that time researching. Everybody did a little bit on their own, a little bit of reading the books and watching the PBS documentary. That gave us a broad idea of all the things in Vaudeville that we might want to include in the show. There were so many things! Our original brainstorm document is huge. Then we narrowed it down a little bit because you can't represent every single type of act there was. But they were all so self-sufficient. One person could have this one act that they did and that was it. They would tour it and take it around and that was their act.
Sabrina: We tried to capture the essence of that.
Gwen: It's sort of a sampling.
Sabrina: It's a sampling of Vaudeville styles.
Mark: And issues.
Sabrina: Yes, and issues.
Karen: It's somewhat chronological too.
Sabrina: It is somewhat chronological. The material isn't necessarily chronological but the treatments of the material are chronological. The treatments kind of go from an 1890's treatment to the more 1920's 'contemporary' treatments. For example, we might have a song from the 1920's that was written in the 20's or was popular in the 20's but we might perform it in the style of the 1910's.
Karen I think I heard you whisper "the name" a bit ago back there. How did you guys arrive at the name Moxie for the show?
Sabrina: Moxie means—
Mark: Chutzpah!
Sabrina: And courage—
Mark: Gumption!
Sabrina: The meaning came after a product—
Karen: A nerve tonic!
Sabrina: Yes, a nerve tonic called "Moxie Soda" that said it would give you all of that.
Gwen: There were all these ads, if you drank the soda you'd get moxie.
Sabrina: It started in the mid or late 1800's?
Gwen: Introduced in 1876.
Karen: Gentian root was the main ingredient.
Sabrina: The word 'moxie' itself means all those things— courage and gumption and—
Karen: Balls.
Gwen: Plus, it has an old-timey feel to it. And as we discovered with Impossible! It's good to have a one-word title for the show. It makes the show very recognizable and marketable.
Will Moxie be along the lines of some of the cabaret type performances that we've seen from Happenstance?
Sabrina: Theatrical collage is what we're calling it. That's kind of what we've landed on to describe what we do.
Mark: Vaudeville was separate, unrelated acts. They would have a horse's act— I mean, we're not going to have a horse's act— but there would be horses and then there would be acrobats, followed by a singer, and then there would be a couple who come up and do a comic dance and then there would be—
Gwen: A gymnast.
Sarah: A celebrity!
Alex: Table-jugglers.
Mark: And they had nothing to do with one another.
Gwen: Although they did choose the performance order very carefully. They had specific orders for a seven-act show or a nine-act show. A lot of times it would be something big and crazy to start them out, followed by a quieter number where they weren't sure if it was a good act or not. If people were new to the Vaudeville circuit, a lot of times their act would go in the second or third slot so that you could test them out. And then the show would end with something more famous. It's kind of like the way they set up concerts where the headlining band goes last.
Mark: Or they would close the show with—
Sabrina: The person who would guarantee that everybody would leave the theatre so that they could clean up for the next sure.
Mark: Like the guy who played the harp and an ocarina through a megaphone.
Gwen: A really bad act.
Mark: They would use the act to clear the house so that they could get a new group in.
Alex: I remember that the video called it 'playing to the haircuts' because that's all you saw of the audience as they left.
Mark: It's a collage in that it's not a linear documentary of the history of Vaudeville, nor is it a story and yet because it's the six of us doing all these different things, we will come in as one act but we will also come in as other things, but you'll know it's still us because that's the way we do it.
Sabrina: There are some poetic through lines. There's a thematic continuum.
Mark: There are little historical references as Vaudeville and history moves from the roaring 1890's, through the first world war, and into the new technology of radio and then suddenly movies—
Gwen: Which heralded the death of Vaudeville.
Is there a Vaudeville act or person that you came across during your research that really stuck with you?
Sarah: Well there is one great character that I remember all of us reading about after Gwen shared that story of the young girl.
Gwen: The young girl?
Mark: Baby Rose Marie.
Sabrina: She was a famous Vaudevillian.
Mark: She made it all the way into TV later as a commercial girl.
Sabrina: They're actually making a documentary about her life because her life was so extraordinary. But her story is that she was in the audience as a child. She started singing one of the songs that the performer who was on stage was singing. The performer on stage heard her from the audience and invited her to come up on stage and sing with her. And that was the beginning.
Mark: She was booked then and there, she started performing.
Gwen: There was a whole lot of information about the child stars.
Mark: And their struggles because of Child Labor Laws. They would chase the child stars off the stage at night, say it wasn't okay, and send the parents to jail.
Gwen: But then there was some parent of the child stars who would just go and pay the bail every night so the kids could be back on stage the next night. I liked the stories of the kind of early feminists, like Eva Tanguay. And Nora Bayes, who with her husband Jack Norworth, wrote "Harvest Moon" and other catchy tunes. But she was billed as "The Fabulous Nora Bayes, assisted and admired by her husband Jack Norworth." It was just beautiful and fun.
Mark: Some of the really interesting history of Vaudeville happens because it happened during the big immigration period. There were lots of people coming, from Europe of course, but with all of this mixing from all over Vaudeville became this leveled playing field. Anybody from anywhere could make it. If you had some skill, whether it be balancing spoons or playing an instrument or singing a song, you could have your chance at success. For its time, it even crossed the racial barriers way more than other media would. There were some African-American performers who made it big in Vaudeville, like Burt Williams. All races, all media, everybody admired this guy, he was a great comic and a great mime. Anyway, we got all into the history of Vaudeville, we read all this stuff, saw all these clips of these amazing performers, and it's just incredible.
How would you say that Moxie is going to fit in with what your audiences have come to expect from a Happenstance show?
Mark: Well it— you know, I've been doing a lot of the talking, does someone else want to start this one? Anyone want to jump in?
Karen: Musically, we kind of discovered that there was no orchestra. It was just a pianist and some sheet music, a really hard-working pianist. So I'm not playing a bunch of instruments this time around, well a few. A lot of the music is from the 1910's, which is a new genre for me. It's very different from the 20's. It has an earlier feel. There are a lot of rags. We're also doing some classical things, like Mark playing the saw and myself on piano, a combination which we haven't explored. The sheet music covers of the period are hilarious.
Alex: I think our audiences have definitely come to expect all of us to play multiple characters.
Gwen: We're doing that!
Alex: They expect us to have an impossible number of fabulous costume changes, and sort of accomplishing high-skill through more essentialized theatrical means rather than actually doing the thing.
Gwen: We've got some physical comedy, a lot of songs, we've got some harmonies, we've got some verbal comedy; we try to make a decent mix of stuff to watch, stuff to listen to, stuff to see.
Sabrina: There's a lot of music in this show.
Mark: As there was in Vaudeville.
Sabrina: This show actually has more group numbers than we are accustomed to. There are more full company members than we normally have.
Gwen: Which is good and a lot of fun for us to learn but it's harder for costume changes. If all six of us are on stage, no one can be off changing. So now we're having to build in someone leaving early or someone staying on after. This is part of how we build our shows, thinking about the logistics of how if we all six do this thing together, we need a couple people to remain while the others change into the next thing.
What would you say has been the biggest challenge about creating something unique?
Sabrina: Time.
Karen: It takes so much time.
Alex: And not falling into old habits. "Oh this is a show made of smaller pieces" but how do we make it different from other shows that we've done that are made of smaller pieces, and finding ways to keep doing that without doing the same thing.
Karen: For me, not worrying about not playing enough instruments. It feels right because that's not what this is about.
Gwen: We do struggle with this interesting notion of not wanting to pander to our dearest fans? We don't want to necessarily repeat stuff we've done in the past, we're always trying to change it and to do something new, but we're still trying to honor the patterns and beloved qualities and dynamics that they like from previous shows. It's kind of a delicate balance.
Mark: We do like to explore the territory. When we were doing the circus show we looked at all these circus posters, and the circus books, we read circus stories and learned circus vocabulary. From that we drew our inspiration and pulled the essential elements of what makes a circus show. The same is happening here with Vaudeville. It's less familiar in a way because none of us have ever seen a Vaudeville show. I sort of hope that people expect to move into the territory with us. When we moved into circus with Impossible! or when we moved into film noir with Cabaret Noir they went with us. I hope they'll want to know what our take on Vaudeville is going to be. We bring our own quirky imaginations and skills to the exploration of that. It's still us, but it's a different territory that is maybe les familiar to our audience.
Is there a moment in the show that speaks to each of you and defines what Moxie is for you?
Sabrina: I don't know that I've discovered that yet. I think I need to feel it with an audience to know.
Gwen: There are a couple things about the passing of time, I think. It's hard to get into Vaudeville without getting into the "end of Vaudeville" that's tinged with sorrow and saying goodbye to this old format. I love the songs so much. I think the songs of this era are so beautiful and I love singing the harmonies.
Sarah: I do agree with Sabrina. We will learn so much once we have an audience so I don't know if I can pick a favorite moment yet. I do have on rose-colored glasses right now because Alex and I just got married so I've been seeing this show as a love show. It felt like that, assembling it with the company, like it has a rosy quality to it. I think there's a romance to it that's very palpable, even though— like Gwen acknowledged— when you hear the word Vaudeville you think nostalgia and melancholy and times bygone. These are times that won't come again. I suppose there is a celebration in that thought process of loving the times that we have now. That also resonates as a familiar theme we've been working through, which is using the past and using nostalgia as a way to be more present and more in the room.
Mark: Nicely put.
Alex: I think what really makes it meaningful to me is that it's not just a variety show where it's a sequence of random fun acts. We do get to revisit some of the characters at different points in their life and follow them along their journey. We get to see how their work has changed them and how they've struggled to adapt or keep up with that.
Did you want to talk a little bit about Woody, Alex?
Alex: Oh yeah! So Woody is a ventriloquist dummy! I forget when exactly he came about, he was added fairly late in the process. I think we realized we needed one more act before the final finale, just to help cover some costume changes. The main thing I always think of when it comes to Vaudeville is a ventriloquist act, it's just so classic and so evocative of that period. I built Woody in my workshop. He's about 20 inches tall. He was really fun to build. It was my first time building a ventriloquist dummy. He has a moveable mouth, eyes that look left and right, and eyebrows that raise and lower.
Mark: And he's nothing but trouble!
Karen: You can say that again.
Mark: Woody is trouble.
Sarah: Woody!
Alex: Maybe you can interview him.
Karen: You should definitely interview Woody.
Sarah: You need to interview him!
Mark: Does your recording device have a bleep function?
Alex: Backstage we might need a bleep function.
Karen: He's laconic.
What would you say working on Moxie has taught you guys about yourselves as performers, as human beings, as ensemblists?
Sarah: For one, it has re-taught me something I have gleaned throughout my lifetime, which is I am better as part of a group. Even with family, I find I'm just a group-oriented gal. I put a lot of time into them. Happenstance is like a family too. I recognize we all bring a set of skills and strengths that someone else doesn't have but collectively we're so much stronger and so much more exciting. The possibilities are exponential than what they are as an individual with a solo work. Having a group that I belong to is incredibly encouraging and it's an encouraging group of people. I brought back an accordion a couple years ago from Vermont, and Karen said, "Alright, let's have you play it in a show." As if I could play accordion! And now I do! There's that encouraging sense among all members. Gwen learned piano, she was playing it in Cabaret Noir. And it's not just with instruments.
Mark: Yeah, I hadn't done a handstand in a long time, and we realized it would be better if my character did this handstand thing that Alex had invented in BrouHaHa and we worked on it and now I'm doing it.
Alex: I think the best thing about working in an ensemble like this is that it's not just a performer ensemble. We're all creating the work together too.
Karen: Everyone has such varied skills. It's amazing. It's perfect.
Gwen: And that's very malleable too. We discover all the time how everyone can help with different stuff. We can expand a skill that we don't necessarily have or are good at. Especially with the musical skills, but even beyond that, there's building and painting and all of those.
Karen: Sabrina could use some more administrative help, but I think that comes later as we grow.
Alex: Even the non-physical building, like crafting these pieces with storytelling structure, I think we're all getting stronger and better at understanding how each other works. We're really getting a better eye for that kind of thing.
Gwen: You know, when we look back at the first Cabaret Macabre that this group of six made together, there are moments where we say "Oh, that wasn't really a group singing number. Why didn't we do that then?" We were still getting to know each other then whereas now it makes so much more sense to have a moment like that be a group number.
Karen: Yeah, I didn't know these guys, Sarah and Alex, then.
Gwen: It used to be, before this company was fully formed, Mark and Sabrina used to work with different people every year. They'd invite some people over to play.
Mark: Along the lines of "who do we need for this particular project." When we did Low Tide Hotel, which was our second Fringe year, we knew we wanted to do Maritime stuff and we knew we wanted it to have someone with a strong voice. My friend, Scott Sedar, was interested so we asked him to come and play.
Gwen: Gorgeous voice.
Mark: He had a beautiful baritone. And he's really tall. Sabrina and I are not tall. So we did this really fun trio where we divided up these characters and built up a collage. Getting back to the company, all of us are very "hands on." We like to do it all, we don't want to just learn our part and do our thing. When we're choreographing something, there isn't one person standing out saying "you will do this, and then you'll do this," with everyone standing around saying, "Okay, if that's what he or she wants I'm going to do it."
Gwen: It's by committee.
Mark: By committee— actually, I would say by consensus.
Gwen: Ah. Yes, consensus.
Mark: When we disagree on something, unless somebody is really willing to say "it doesn't matter that much to me" we keep working at it and changing it until we're able to agree on it. Usually what happens is I think it ought to be this way, so-n-so thinks it ought to be this way, and they're different. And we say "well this is why" and then someone else will say "well what about this way." And by the third way or the fifth way we end hitting a "Oh, cool! That's the way we should do it!" And then we add it into the work.
Gwen: That's something that has come up over the years with that process. We used to build a show in about two months, now we build a show in about five months. With our devising process, we've built in time off between stages of building the piece. We research for two weeks, then take a month off, and come back to it. When we come back to it, sometimes solutions just present themselves.
Karen: You know what else has been fun? The scholarly stuff. After we have these brainstorms and I go home to Vermont to start researching things, thank God for the internet—
Wait a minute, you're not local?
Karen: No. I don't live here. So we do a lot of things by email. It's a nine-hour work commute.
Mark: We have a spare room here in the house so she stays when she comes down.
Karen: It's nice that we can communicate when I'm not down here though. I like history and researching music. I think everyone sort of does enjoy the history of this period.
Gwen: Technology is our friend. Karen makes us MP3 recordings.
Karen: We have a lot of ways of communicating to make these things, it's good. We're lucky.
Alex: Since we own the work completely we can continually change and tweak things through the last show.
Mark: Or right before we open.
Sabrina: Yes! It's constantly growing.
Karen: We're getting better at documenting things too.
Gwen: Google Docs.
Mark: Google Docs and what's the one with the video?
Sabrina: Vimeo.
Mark: Those two. We document things there.
If you guys could sum up the experience of Moxie in just a few words? A sentence or so?
Gwen: For an audience member? Or for ourselves? I think there's something about risk in it for me. A lot of these Vaudeville performers had their lives and livelihoods on the line. A lot of our performers are a little desperate but in a kind of beautiful way. They're out there doing their weird act, singing their heart out—
Karen: With their duck under their arm, which they make quack…
Sabrina: That's not in the show.
Gwen: We almost had the duck! What were we going to call him? Henry thumbs and his performing duck?
Mark: Randy Thumbs and his Performing Duck.
Gwen: He did get cut.
Mark: There is a clip of a Vaudeville performer, Gus Visser, in this duck-umentary
Sabrina: Quack!
Alex: Quack! Quack! Quack!
Mark: This guy would sing a song and then on cue, the duck in his arms, would quack. It was pretty funny and very ridiculous.
Gwen: There is something very "American Dream" about that. You know, "I'm going to get up there and show them what I got!"
Mark: I can dance my heart out or I can sing.
Sabrina: It's like America's Got Talent or American Idol. It's part of that same tradition.
Mark: Anyone could see themselves on the stage. You didn't have to be anyone—
Alex: Anybody could be a star.
Mark: And some of them were. Some of them went on to TV and films.
Alex: But not everybody can be a star.
Karen: So true.
We will be seeing lots of movement in true Happenstance form?
Mark: Oh yeah. Movement, song, spectacle, costumes. A lot of vintage costumes, a lot of new comedy.
Sabrina: I think it's on par with Impossible! For hats and costumes and shoes. Well, not as many shoes as Impossible! That show had like 50 pairs of shoes going on.
Sarah: So many shoes. Pay attention to the shoes.
Sabrina: Don't pay attention to the shoes in this show.
Anything that you'd like to say about the collaborative effort of Happenstance? What it's like to have Happenstance as your life?
Sabrina: I want to say something about that. It feels to me like we, in a lot of ways, are meeting our stride. We've met our stride. Oh my, you're going to have to edit out all that background chatter!
Sarah: Husband!
Alex: Yes, wife?
Sarah: Your presence is expressly requested.
Alex: Excuse me, I have to do my husbandly duties.
Sabrina: See? Now, where was I? Oh, yes. It feels like we're really hitting our stride as an ensemble in terms of our collaboration. It feels like we all really know each other well now and can sort of anticipate the needs of people. In a way that has made the process a lot easier because we're all giving each other a lot more space around all of the "real life" shit that comes along with it. We're really like a family, we're a pretty intimate thing. We're making work that is very important to us.
Mark: It's us in there. It's our hearts and our ideas and our concerns and our obsessions and our skills. It's personal.
Sabrina: Right, exactly. It's personal. Which means that the process can then be personal but we've been through it now the right amount of times that it definitely feels like there is more ease around it than there has been in the past. There is no way we could do what we're doing without having built such a strong ensemble.
Mark: We hit the ground with a common vocabulary. It's a new project but we know each other, we know our weaknesses and strengths, we know our issues, and the dialogue has begun.
Karen: It's very hard to explain, but we share this aesthetic. And also, it's not going to last forever.
Mark: That's true too because nothing does.
Sabrina: Nothing does.
Mark: Our work is always shouting that, "Nothing lasts forever!" In a way, I would say that Moxie! is sadder than most of our pieces.
Sabrina: Yeah, there's something fleeting and sadder about it.
Karen: Well, it's a certain melancholy. It's still hilarious.
Mark: Yeah, it's hilarious too, but it does trace the arc of Vaudeville. It starts, it's flourishing, and then it's dead.
Alex: I hate to interrupt, but I think Woody has decided he'd like to be featured before you conclude this interview.
Oh my goodness. Here in the flesh— the wood? Well, alright, why not? Welcome to the interview, Woody.
Woody: Oh boy!
And how long have you been with Happenstance Theater, Woody?
Woody: I guess about a yard? Ha. Ha. Ha.
Are you excited about getting to perform as a part of Moxie!
Woody: Oh boy. I've been doing this shit for about 50 years!
50 years??
Woody: Oh yeah. And I've been stuck with this guy, he's the worst!
Alex: Woody!
Mark: I told you.
What's your favorite part about the show, Woody?
Woody: Oh boy! There's this great act at the end with a real dummy! It's this guy!
Alex: Woody!
And you like getting to work with Happenstance? Who's your favorite person in the company?
Woody: Uh…oh boy…um…
Sabrina: Me! It's me— I'll pay you later, Woody.
Woody: Oh yes! Sabrina! She's my favorite! But I think it's actually the stage manager gal!
Oh really? What's the stage manager gal's name?
Woody: Oh boy! I don't know, but she's the last to leave and then I get the whole place to myself!
Anything else you'd like to say to us about getting your big break with Happenstance?
Woody: No!
Anything else that anyone else would like to say about anything? About Woody? About the show? About winning Helen Hayes Awards? About anything?
Sabrina: It takes a village!
Karen: Look at all these fabulous people who are helping us right now.
Sarah: It takes a village!
Mark: Sabrina, do you want to go around and introduce the others here with us?
We have had a handful of lovely silent people in and out of this interview today, would you like to introduce and include them now?
Sabrina: Yeah. We have this incredible stagehand who is actually helping with ton of production stuff, named Evangelina Hakes. Say hello, Evangelina.
Evangelina: Hello.
Sabrina: And she rocks. Then we have our incredible Stage Manager who is going to tech this beast!
Sophia Lewin Adams: I am! I am!
Sabrina: Sophia Lewin Adams.
Karen: Sophia Rose.
Sophia: That is my middle name! And hello, everyone!
Mark: The tech for this show is complicated because Roundhouse is moving us in right after they close the last show of their season so it limits—
Sabrina: We have one day of tech. It's impossible, but we're going to make it happen.
Alex: Impossible, you say?
Sabrina: But it takes Moxie and that we've got! The other two people who are incredibly invaluable are Nancy Mendez, who is inside right now helping to construct all of these costumes.
Mark: She built all those headdresses that you just saw come parading through.
Ah, yes. The glorious sun, moon, and stars on parade. The readers are just going to have to come see Moxie to know what we're talking about here, won't they, Mark?
Mark: Yes they will!
Sabrina: Exactly. And then there's Nancy Rodrigues, who is basically my right hand man. She does everything for me.
Mark: She went and fetched the dinner. She does the filing. She's here today to help paint and stitch, she made the flags that Alex and I need in our Alpine number, she's great.
Anything else? Did we forget anyone? Forget to mention anything?
Mark: Do not forget that you will get to hear Gwen Grastorf yodel. That's a selling point.
Oh! Thank you, Mark! I nearly forgot the closing question! Why should people come and see Moxie: A Happenstance Vaudeville?
Gwen: Yodeling. I spent six hours learning how to yodel on the drive to Massachusetts.
Karen: It's really fun. You'll laugh. Everyone will laugh, kids, old people, everybody.
Sabrina: Laughing! There will be laughing!
Sarah: It's the medicine that does a body good! Laughing and laughing together in a room full of people having fun, that's the dream!
Mark: It's a reminder of how fleeting everything is.
Alex: And there are ladies in bathing suits in the show!
Mark: Oh yeah. Oh! And guys! There are guys in bathing suits in the show.
Sarah: There's something for everyone.
Mark: But don't worry, no ankles will be shown!
Evangelina: It's going to be a grand old time!
Sophia: I think it's going to be a lot of fun and it's not something you're really seeing anywhere else.
Karen: That's the truth!
Sophia: Everyone who is in it is just so good! And I'm so excited to see it come together.
Alex: Us too!
Mark: Here's hoping!
Moxie plays June 24 through July 17, 2016 with Happenstance Theater on the main stage of Round House Theatre— 4545 East-West Highway in Bethesda, MD. For tickets call the box office at (240) 644-1100 or purchase them online.


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Cancer Treatment
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Cancer Remedy
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A Sermon Presented on 7-18-10 in The Woodlands, Texas at Northwoods Unitarian Universalist Church, and 8-11-13 at Boca Raton, Florida at UUFBR
As we sit in the stillness of our hearts, I'll start with a little about where I'm from and where I've been, so maybe we can go somewhere in our hearts together:
My soul had its start in my upbringing. As a child of a tenant farmer I was poor, but I didn't know it since there was another kid in our town of 1200 who was poorer! I got much from my childhood:
Honesty and integrity
The Work Ethic and the concept of earning
Joy in harmony of voices in song
Love of poetry and word smithery
Some immunity to anger and crises as my Daddy was explosive and Mother was nonexpressive.
Positivism – This may be a genetic gift. Some of my friends have called me a Pollyanna, which is going a bit far but I have always been an internal optimist, no matter the external situation. Maybe even an eternal optimist.
Perhaps some of this optimism came from the years of gospel music. I used to hear music directors say, "Listen for the harmony" and luckily I did just that. When I find myself a bit off base, I listen to the harmonies of life. . .
I married and had 2 sons who brought me much happiness and taught me well. Now I'm blessed with 5 grandkids!
I did go through my Political Period. When my sons were tiny I went back to finish my degree. While I was there a bill was introduced which banned guppies in kindergarten, turning off classroom lights at transition times, and a class called personal development in high school as well as statues of David in any art book, yada, yada, because they smacked of sex!
My professional training included specializing in education and psychology. Working in a training medical center's Department of Psychiatry, Neurology and Behavioral Sciences taught me to think in an eclectic manner.
I went against 35,000 signatures (obtained illegally in post offices around the state) with a counter petition and coordinated senate hearings in which the guppies won! When I wrote about this I called it "My Venture into the Politics of Guppy Love."
In the early 70's I moved to Texas, and found that at risk children were about to lose state funding. Out came the typewriter and telephone (no WPs then!) and Plan A found its place in Texas schools! Many people made it happen, and I was honored to be one of them.
This was about when I helped start Northwoods Unitarian Universalist Church in our community north of Houston. It was hard to leave it when I retired to Florida but I stay connected with many wonderful people there.
After a dozen years of teaching I started Treetop School because I knew three students I had taught in the past who came to me for help. My sons and I spent several hours a week that summer trying to find an appropriate "placement" for these kiddoes, but found the world wasn't too interested in people who dance to a different drummer.
So I rented a 10 by 12 room with yard and bathroom privileges, and forged a haven for a dozen kids whose needs were not being met. It went over so well that I bought, or should I say mortgaged, a fine little gingerbread house on a wooded acre full of frogs, owls and nature, and the school settled in there for a couple of decades.
We served anyone who needed a sense of community and a lift in reading, algebra, or self-esteem. I insisted on being affordable. We also served a number of part time after schoolers for tutoring with a twist. Many of them were students who would have received no services within the system. I sometimes call them the borderline kids.
Many folks think illiteracy, both intellectual and emotional, exists only in certain groups, but I'm here to tell you it is in this and every community—in mainstream America. (Much is a lack of bonding with themselves and their world.) These students know WHY I DON'T DIG THE BORDERLINE JIG:
Dancing a tune to the borderline time, a little off beat and feeling the heat.
Can't pass the failure test so borderline's mine.
No help my woes to meet but constantly feeling defeat.
We were able to create a homey environment to let kids from 4 to 46 blossom, and it was grand!
Then came my Date with Grief. It began with Hurricane Alicia in '83. From there it blazed downhill as midlife crises hit my now ex-husband and by the time Christmas rolled around I got tears in my stocking and decided to pursue divorce. That was the year I started writing my GRIEF TEARBOOK. Financial and emotional ruin kept me company, but it was both recognized and refused daily. I chose to heal:
Now is a time to heal; let's act on what we feel.
Healing is a choice. Seek it with one voice.
Hug the ones who grieve. Draw circles that receive.
Now is a time to heal; let's get on with what is real.
Next was my Humor Period. My sons were just about grown. I had more time, and a friend and I were starting a series of values books for pre-teens, and I was writing for a few local publications. Enter Larry Mac. Larry hastened to encourage me both in teaching and in writing my psychoeducational articles as well as the nostalgic humorous tidbits I'd collected for years straight out of the mouths of kids. I decided long ago to refer to these as my Near Life Experiences. Here are a few:
I heard lots of "almost accurate" reports about our world. I was told about the country by Egypt called Cereal. Haven't things changed—they called it Syria when I was in school. One girl told me about a program she heard about music in Aging Egypt. Same shelf of the brain as ancient, eh?
A little elf rushed in one morning to tell about a bad accident on the Fierce Elevated. He asked me why it was called fierce, maybe because it was an accident location? Kids can think upside down, but you adults probably call it the Pierce Elevated (an exit near downtown Houston).
Older students have to learn of long ago and far away. It was Greek to all of us the day when we studied epic poultry, or was that epic pottery? I don't really know, I just write poetry myself.
The best one was a jewel for all seasons. We ran onto the word Frankenstein in a book. One student knew all about it. "That's what the wise men gave baby Jesus: gold, Frankenstein, and myrrh!"
Much of what I did at Treetop was built around my passion. I developed methods especially for particular situations. My first and foremost method is warm caring relationship:
You've gotta love 'em to teach 'em. If you don't love 'em, scoot.
Cause they'll make you go to screechin' and they won't give a hoot
If your lesson plans are carried out.
Their little hearts are not so stout, but what they need caring before all.
Ya know . . . respect and measles have several things in common; they are both catching, and they can both take a lot out of you. So, go light on life's measles and power down on the respect.
I used carefrontation and gentle goading when needed. We tried to find a child's learning channel, and help them learn to tune it in by standing on their strengths to pull up their weaknesses. Then I played it like a harp or banjo, depending on the situation. I spent much time keeping kids, parents, and teachers encouraged. Then I'd add a sprinkle of technology to empower them, especially those heretofore excluded from the mainstream—like kids with coordinative problems who thrive when using a word processor or word prediction program.
My motto was and is:
We cheer them up when they need us. . .
We cheer them on when they don't.
I like to top it off with joy and the unexpected, like the time at the end of '89 when our week's social studies activity was to brainstorm a list to summarize the decade. Pretty soon I turned the ideas into a rap, and the students made their own booklets, and drummed or danced along to The 80's Rap. I call that think-joy! Teachers use it now to introduce a study of that decade. It gives them events to research. You'll hear it later when I do the rap.
Other times require the hypnotic voice for students, parents and myself:
Back off, busy – hello calm.
Time is ripe for a healing balm.
Then there's doubt, the yeast of thought!
Bully for a certain lack of confidence.
At times have that certain bit of doubt that keeps you searching for what it's about.
I'm always trying to do more, and wondering. . . and struggling.
Yet I see we all are growing.
Maybe the struggle is the fertilizer.
It doesn't always smell great, but it does the job!
If I've learned anything so far, from my long and lovely life, it is that we can be about the business of drawing circles that include, then guard to see that it doesn't slip into excluding folks who are not yet, or may never choose to be, in our particular circle.
Circles are ingrained into our habits early in life: 3rd graders, cheerleaders, geeks, vegetarians, gay, straight, any color, yada yada. Commonalities are good, yet those same circles which embrace us can turn against us and our success as a society, as a world.
Cherish the circles we have: of friends, of commonalities, of opinions, of humanness, etc. but don't hold them too close or squeeze them too tight, or they'll stop being open circles.
One way to say it is that closed circles don't let light in and become more hardened with passage of time. Open even just a crack in the circle, and light floods in, and the inner light of one circle is also shared with others and the world. This communication with others constructs, one thread at a time, the high wire spinnerets on which peace and harmony live.
How can we think we're better than (fill in the blank) northerners, southerners, Democrats, Republicans, Baptist, Catholics Methodists, Hindu, or that our child-rearing methods or socioeconmic level or beliefs and customs are somehow superior to the fill in the blank. You know the drill by now.
There's a long list of people who lived "out of the net" of conventional tradition and learning: Edison, Nolan Ryan, Walt Disney, Whoopi, Michangelo, Jesus, Mark Twain, Paul Ehrlich, and several Olympic champs.
Think of all our circles as bumper cars. Only if we leave them open so we can get light to steer by, can we avoid hitting others, and maybe even enjoy the fun and fellowship at times with those in other circles.
Also, my idea is that any peace and harmony there is to be had dwells in the space between and among the circles. It's fragile, like spinnerets spiders make, yet it's where the action is, although once made, it is quite strong. But we can only work on its construction when our circles are constantly being extended to include. . .
What if we commit to keeping all our circles cracked open to let the light in, sharing hope with others by including someone who is a bit different from us? What if we practice acceptance? How will that change our shared lives? What if we forgive others, and maybe even ourselves? Doing all of these on a regular basis might even help us hear the harmonies of life.
In the words of a former UU friend and minister Don Vaughn Forester: At this time we can ponder or pray as is your personal preference.
As we relish our shared silence, enjoy floating on it. We might even think about the circles of our lives. Honor one another's reverence. Hear the universe singing, and listen for the harmony.
CLOSING WORDS: May we carry the light of love into our week.
Love is like air:
Breathe it in, but you can't hold it.
Let it go, and it's still there. All around.
May all your circles be open and
May you enjoy listening for the harmony! Go now in peace. God bless.
Copyright by Hildra Tague. Obtain permission for use online or in print.
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Additional material which was spoken just before reading the story Tacky the Penguin to the children assembled in the front:
ADULTS – Close your eyes just long enough to transport yourself into a childhood thinking mode, and you'll reawaken a bit to the tolerance in your heart.
KIDS – Are you sitting on an iceberg? Is everybody good and cold? Let me see you shiver, then give a Brr! Now help me make a Listening Silence. We'll count to 10–but at 5 we'll start whispering. Let's see if we can make a silence when we whisper the number 10.
(reading of the story Tacky the Penguin using a puppet)
As we sing while you go to your classes, you can come and touch Tacky on your way out. Tacky is an odd bird, but a nice bird to touch as he touches your heart:-)
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A heat sink (also commonly spelled heatsink) is a passive heat exchanger that transfers the heat generated by an electronic or a mechanical device to a fluid medium, often air or a liquid coolant, where it is dissipated away from the device, thereby allowing regulation of the device's temperature at optimal levels. In computers, heat sinks are used to cool central processing units or graphics processors. Heat sinks are used with high-power semiconductor devices such as power transistors and optoelectronics such as lasers and light emitting diodes (LEDs), where the heat dissipation ability of the component itself is insufficient to moderate its temperature.
Scope of the Report:
This report focuses on the Heat Sinks in North America and Europe market, especially in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. This report categorizes the market based on manufacturers, countries/Regions, type and application.
Market Segment by Manufacturers, this report covers
TE Connectivity
Aavid Thermalloy
Advanced Thermal Solutions
Apex Microtechnology
T-Global Technology
Market Segment by Countries, covering
United States
United Kingdom
Market Segment by Type, covers
Aluminum Heat Sink
Copper Heat Sink
Copper Aluminum Heat Sink
Market Segment by Applications, can be divided into
Automobile Industry
Electronic Industry
There are 19 Chapters to deeply display the North America and Europe Heat Sinks market.
Chapter 1, to describe Heat Sinks Introduction, product type and application, market overview, market analysis by countries, market opportunities, market risk, market driving force;
Chapter 2, to analyze the manufacturers of Heat Sinks, with profile, main business, news, sales, price, revenue and market share in 2016 and 2017;
Chapter 3, to display the competitive situation among the top manufacturers, with sales, revenue and market share in 2016 and 2017;
Chapter 4, to show the North America and Europe market by countries, covering United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, with sales, price, revenue and market share of Heat Sinks, for each country, from 2013 to 2018;
Chapter 5 and 6, to show the market by type and application, with sales, price, revenue, market share and growth rate by type, application, from 2013 to 2018;
Chapter 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 to analyze the key countries by manufacturers, Type and Application, covering 7 countries, with sales, revenue and market share by manufacturers, types and applications;
Chapter 14, Heat Sinks market forecast, by countries, type and application, with sales, price, revenue and growth rate forecast, from 2018 to 2023;
Chapter 15, to analyze the manufacturing cost, key raw materials and manufacturing process, etc.
Chapter 16, to analyze the industrial chain, sourcing strategy and downstream end users (buyers);
Chapter 17, to describe sales channel, distributors, traders, dealers, etc.
Chapter 18 and 19, to describe the research findings and conclusion, appendix, methodology and data source.
Secondary Research Information is collected from a number of publicly available as well as paid databases. Public sources involve publications by different associations and governments, annual reports and statements of companies, white papers and research publications by recognized industry experts and renowned academia etc. Paid data sources include third party authentic industry databases.
Once data collection is done through secondary research, primary interviews are conducted with different stakeholders across the value chain like manufacturers, distributors, ingredient/input suppliers, end customers and other key opinion leaders of the industry. Primary research is used both to validate the data points obtained from secondary research and to fill in the data gaps after secondary research.
The market engineering phase involves analyzing the data collected, market breakdown and forecasting. Macroeconomic indicators and bottom-up and top-down approaches are used to arrive at a complete set of data points that give way to valuable qualitative and quantitative insights. Each data point is verified by the process of data triangulation to validate the numbers and arrive at close estimates.
The market engineered data is verified and validated by a number of experts, both in-house and external.
After the data is curated by the mentioned highly sophisticated process, the analysts begin to write the report. Garnering insights from data and forecasts, insights are drawn to visualize the entire ecosystem in a single report.
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"But doctor, my teen wants to look healthy and tanned for his/her prom/party/special event….and this is much safer than the sun!"
A tanning bed is NOT a safe alternative to the sun for teens who want a golden glow
Tanning beds emit ultraviolet radiation which is a significant risk factor for skin cancers, including malignant melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
Mistakenly, many people think tanning beds are safer than the sun since they only emit UVA radiation and the sun emits both UVA and UVB rays. However, numerous studies have shown that UVA rays can also cause skin cancer. In addition, many tanning beds emit rays that are 10-15 times higher than midday sun exposure and their rays go deeper into the skin, thus adding to a more dangerous condition.
Despite the increased cancer risk, an estimated 28 million people in North America use indoor tanning devices
Nearly 2.3 million teens have used indoor tanning devices. The prevalence of indoor tanning can be as high as 20-30% of adolescent girls. Worryingly, this will increase the risk of melanoma later in life by 50-70%.
The earlier a person starts tanning and the more tanning that is done, the greater the risk of developing skin cancer later in life
One group of researchers concluded that as few as 4 tanning session per year could lead to an 11% increase in the risk of developing melanoma.
Another significant adverse effect of indoor tanning is photoaging, which is when a person's skin looks radically older than they really are because of cell damage. No one wants to look like they're 60 or 70 when they're in their 30s!
There is a safer alternative to indoor tanning if an adolescent must have a tanned appearance
There are sunless tanning products that contain dihydroxyacetone, a chemical that combines with an outer skin protein to cause a reaction that simulates tanning. It is nontoxic, has few side effects and usually will not cause an allergic skin reaction. A word of caution: Although these products produce a simulated tan, they do not provide any photo protection from the sun (like a "base tan" would). Another negative to sunless tanners is that they can produce an uneven or blotchy tan, especially in the thicker skin areas such as palms, knees and elbows.
Parents are the strongest encouragers and discouragers of teenage indoor tanning
Two of the strongest predictions of teenage indoor tanning are 1) permissive attitudes by parents and 2) the use of these devices by parents themselves. Hopefully, this article can help educate both parents and teens to the dangers of indoor tanning so that everyone can lead a healthier and safer life.
By Mason Gomberg, MD, Pediatric Physician with Westchester Health Pediatrics, member of Northwell Health Physician Partners
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The last week and a half have been so eventful, I've barely had time to knit. Let alone blog about knitting.
My family has been keeping me busy. Saturday after running a couple of errands, I made an appearance at Knit Michigan. I met a friend of a friend, Jae. She was working on a beautiful wrap made out of several different colors of Touch Me yarn.
Isn't it lovely?
Superbowl Sunday was spent with some of the wonderful ladies I knit with on Tuesdays and Thursdays: Beth, Amy, Angela, Jen and Tracey.
I had a wonderful time (I did hardly no knitting) watching the others knit, watching the Knitty Gritty marathon, eating great food and in the company of great friends. Amy's husband even made us a special brownie for our "Knitter Bowl". The ball is a ball of yarn. And the players are cats of course. Too cute!
Now I'm off to try to get some knitting done before bed.