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When a massive earthquake struck Haiti less than 20 miles from its capital, Port-Au-Prince, last January, humanitarians around the world wanted to mobilize efforts and offer their services to victims.
Three weeks after the earthquake, Mt. Airy resident and retired architect Robert Busser, 72, who was raised in Germantown, flew to Haiti to offer his architectural services from his University of Pennsylvania and Yale University education and experience through the Habitat For Humanity organization.
For 10 weeks, beginning three weeks after the initial quake, Busser trained 30 local engineers in the Cabaret region of Haiti in earthquake evaluation. He created an original document later translated in French and Creole that helped teach local engineers how to indentify if a damaged building could be occupied and repaired or had to be demolished. Those engineers in turn trained 500 additional individuals in the evaluation process.
While there, Busser also designed an archetype for transitional structures. Before leaving, he helped construct about 40 of the now almost 2,000 9 x 20 square-foot (17.5 square meters) homes that were designed to become permanent structures. They were built according to standards put forth in the United Nations' SPHERE Project (a 2004 initiative to develop standard criteria for disaster relief responses).
Busser presented a video and photos during a discussion about those 10 weeks in Haiti on Jan. 12 at St. Paul's Church, 22 E. Chestnut Hill Ave. His talk also focused on current conditions in Haiti and the current cholera epidemic that affects more than 100,000 Haitians.
"The important thing is to let people know there still is an enormous need in Haiti for both money and skills," said Busser, who started Habitat for Humanity in Germantown in 1993 after years of involvement with the group known as St. Paul's Rehabbers. "We were under a great deal of pressure," said Brusser about the experience in Haiti. "There were thousands of people living in tents, and there still are."
Busser developed a design for transitional homes strong enough to withstand hurricane and earthquake conditions (category 2 and level 5, respectively) that could later be made into permanent homes. The initial structures were designed to be built in one day by a team of trained Haitian builders.
Local labor was found in a technical school in Cabaret. It was done by mostly young men in their 20s and a few older men, according to Busser. "They were not only happy about doing the work," Busser said, "but they were also skilled and worked extremely hard."
The frames of the structures are long pieces of material made of a combination of wood and steel fabricated by local workers. Once connected, the foundations of the structures were steeped in five-gallon buckets of concrete. Busser worked with 15 expatriates who helped test the designs. Each structure costs $1,200 to $1,500.
That only 2,000 structures have been built in an area where Busser and other aid workers were serving a population of over 20,000 speaks to the difficult circumstances still facing Haitians. While tarps currently serve as the exterior of the initial structures, when they become permanent structures there will be a concrete block exterior and a metal sloping roof over the house one way, and over the porch the other way, in the center of which will be an air flow system.
It is difficult to imagine a family of four or five or more living inside these structures that are about the size of a large kitchen or family room. But structures that withstand hurricane and earthquake-intensity wind and rain are better than tents where the only foundation is often a large metal stake and piece of rope. These structures will stay up, barring another intense natural catastrophe, at least according to Busser's calculations.
The structures were built on rural farmland that members from local communities agreed was a suitable location for the project and was not subject to flooding, according to Busser. Other structures were built on the grounds where homes used to stand.
"We were very careful to get the OK to use the farmland and to make sure it wasn't land local communities needed to survive," said Busser. Families who received the transitional structures were all families who had lost their homes. They were selected by neighbors living in Village de Dercy, a nearby village where Habitat for Humanity in an earlier mission built 187 permanent homes. (Of those 187, only six were damaged by the earthquake.)
In addition to Busser's work, St. Paul's Church, in cooperation with Rotary and Shelter Box, Inc., sent two shelter boxes to Haiti. These provided disaster relief shelter and lifesaving equipment for 20 people. All totaled, 28,417 shelter boxes were sent to provide relief in Haiti.
"I think a lot of people have forgotten about Haiti," said Busser, who is preparing to teach a course about the experience in the architecture school at Philadelphia University, a course he already taught at UPENN.
It's important to care about Haiti "because we are human beings full of compassion," said Busser, a married man, father of three sons and grandfather of six, who has lived in Mt. Airy for 20 years. "Part of that is caring for human beings who are not as fortunate as we are."
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Abortion does not only break the Fifth Commandment, "Thou shalt not kill." It breaks all the commandments. In this and following columns, let's reflect on how each Commandment illumines and strengthens our pro-life commitment.
The First Commandment is "I am the Lord your God; you shall not have other gods besides me." There are many ways of having false gods. Pope John Paul II once wrote that to think we are the ones who decide whether a child should be created is to say that God is not God. At the root of the contraceptive mentality, and at the root of the so-called "pro-choice" mentality, is idolatry. We place our choices before God's choices. We break the first of all the commandments. In the Old Testament, we read that God's people committed idolatry when they sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire to demons. Until we end the child sacrifice of legal abortion, we are guilty of the same kind of idolatry. We are called instead to worship the Lord of Life!
The Second Commandment is "You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain." This does not only mean that we shouldn't use the Lord's name in cursing when we are angry. It also means that we should not use God's name or His Word to justify actions that he abhors.
There are religious groups and individuals in our society who do exactly that when it comes to abortion. They say they are "prayerfully pro-choice." Groups like the "Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice" claim that God's word allows abortion. They hold "pro-choice" Bible studies, and they even carry out pro-choice liturgies to bless the "choice" of those who abort.
This is a distortion of God's word and an abuse of his name. It is a direct violation of the second commandment. We are called instead to honor the name of God by honoring the lives he creates.
The Third Commandment requires us to Keep Holy the Lord's Day. Scripture tells us the Lord rested on the seventh day. This was not because he was tired, but rather because he was foretelling the Sabbath day that Jesus would rest in the tomb after his work of offering the sacrifice of his passion and death. On that day the Lord preached to the dead and bid them to leave the place of death and to come with him into life eternal.
Keeping holy the Lord's Day, then, reminds us that God is on the side of human life. It also reminds us that he is Lord of life. All our activities and choices are under him, which is why we pause on the Lord's Day to worship him in Church.
We will continue our reflections on the Commandments in the next column. Meanwhile, those who want to nourish their pro-life spirituality with reflections like this for every day of the year can obtain my book Pro-life Reflections for Every Day at priestsforlife.org/store.
This column can be found online at http://www.priestsforlife.org/articles/document.aspx?id=2874
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Reasons Brian Hasn't Written A Post Lately
- He's been legally dead for tax reasons.
- He won the lottery and moved to Peru.
- Cigar Jack killed him to eliminate the cigar review competition.
- He got trapped in a Joe Drinker cartoon ala A-Ha's Take On Me music video.
- He's trapped under a fallen humidor and can't reach the keyboard.
- He's busy planting evidence in McLovin's living room.
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On June 7-9, 2011, Clemson University will hold a two-day workshop on printed electronics lead by Professor Bruce Kahn, Ph.D. The workshop will include a hands-on component where participants will be able to print and take home functional single and multilayer components. The workshop will also have presentations mixed with the hands-on activities and lots of industry networking opportunities. It will feature high-volume gravure printing and optical metrology in addition to the basic skills involved in producing printed electronics.
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Local health assessment finds health gaps
Analysis of the Community Health Needs Assessment indicated that substance abuse, limited health care access and mental health are the top three medical issues in the South Shore, according to a presentation by Barton Health's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Clint Purvance.
Barton Memorial Hospital posted the assessment online in September 2012 as a way to identify health gaps throughout South Lake Tahoe and portions of El Dorado and Douglas counties. The survey, which compiled information from existing county records and 400 area participants, compared South Shore health statistics to those at national and state levels.
In some instances, Tahoe fell far behind those regional or national norms.
Take substance abuse in South Lake Tahoe, which is four times higher than the national average. The Community Health Needs Assessment found that there were more drug-induced deaths per capita in the Barton service area than in either California or the U.S. And almost 29 percent of people in the survey area binge drink compared to 16.7 percent nationally.
"As an emergency physician, I can tell you we've swung too far in the treatment of pain with narcotics as a community. So that's a community problem, it's not just a prescriber problem. We need to swing back to a little bit more reasonable prescribing," Purvance said at last week's City Council meeting.
While the survey didn't record which drugs were most commonly used, focus group participants voiced concerns with illicit prescription drugs, marijuana, heroin, opiates and synthetic drugs, according to Barton Director of Public Relations and Marketing Monica Sciuto.
In May, Barton will go live with a new electronic medical record called EPIC that will keep track of which patients regularly take narcotics and where they file their prescriptions. That data, combined with more education and outreach programs, might help shrink drug use, Purvance said.
Another issue that emerged was access to health services. About 26 percent of people between the ages of 18 and 64 lacked health insurance in the South Shore compared to California's 20.9 percent and the country's 14.9 percent. About 40 percent of the people surveyed said they had difficulty accessing healthcare in the past year.
Purvance said the solution lies in helping enroll patients in county and state programs like Medical. And once Barton completes the $1.5 million expansion of the Community Clinic, doctors will be able to serve 4,000 additional patients per year, Sciuto said.
Barton's Community Advisory Committee also ranked mental health as a priority based on the issue's potential consequences and the feasibility of a solution. While the percentage of South Shore people with fair or poor mental health is lower than the national rate, the number of suicides per capita is higher.
Purvance said Barton brought on a new psychiatrist last year to buffer mental health services. The hospital has also contracted with five additional psychiatrists who help patients via the telemedicine program, Sciuto said.
The news isn't all gloomy though. The South Shore consistently outshone California, Nevada and the U.S. when it came to nutrition status, weight status and physical activity.
About 48 percent of people in the survey area participated in vigorous physical activity compared to 34.8 percent in the U.S. The assessment found that only 15.2 percent of the area's individuals were obese, almost half the national average.
"It's great data for nonprofits, for other community providers that are looking to get some local data on health issues in our community," Barton Community Outreach Coordinator Leanne Wagoner said last week.
To read the full report online, visit http://tinyurl.com/c4gcqwl.


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John David is a reporter with News 8 logging more than a quarter-century of covering television news on a daily basis in the Quad Cities. He spent most of that time at WQAD, where he began as a reporter and weather anchor in 1989.
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His documentary, "Where Did The Jobs Go?", chronicled the aftermath of Maytag's plant closing in Galesburg, Illinois. Shot on location in Mexico and the United States, it received the 2006 Regional RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award for News Documentary. It also received the Eric Sevareid Award from the Northwest Broadcast News Association for a First Place Documentary. The Iowa Associated Press presented a First Place Award for Best Documentary as well.
John followed that extensive project with an in-depth look at health care. "Is Universal Health Care The Cure?" was shot on location in Canada and the United States. The 2005 documentary was revised and broadcast again in 2007 after segments continued to be a hotly-searched topic on http://www.wqad.com.
John spent several years on the beat in Galesburg, Illinois. In 2007, Galesburg Works presented him with an award for compassionate reporting.
John David grew up in Southern California, where he began his broadcasting career at age 16 for KCSN-FM. He graduated cum laude from Occidental College in Los Angeles with degrees in Politcal Science and Theater Arts and Rhetoric. He received his MSJ in Broadcast Journalism with distinction from Northwestern University in 1984.
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MICHAEL MOSES REMEMBERS feeling giddy that day in February 2005 as he walked into chief flight director Milt Heflin's office at NASA's Johnson Space Flight Center in Houston to accept his new job. Among space engineers, becoming a flight director is a crowning career achievement, and Moses half-expected Heflin, known as Uncle Milty, to give a round of high-fives to the nine newly selected directors gathered in the room. But Heflin's words were sober. "We got an hour-long lecture that this is dangerous business, that we are on the pointy end of the sword, and that if we screw up, somebody dies," Moses recalls.
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Not exactly welcoming, the lecture at least had an impact. "That night I hardly slept," says Richard Jones, who like Moses had worked for years in mission control before being promoted to flight director. Another new flight director, Holly Ridings, whose previous job in mission control had been monitoring the attitude of the International Space Station (ISS) in orbit, says that now, "every time I sit down in the flight director chair, there is a little piece of my mind that thinks, 'If things go really wrong today, the U.S. space program could be over—or at least grounded for a very long time.' "
Months later, when I asked Heflin why the shock treatment was necessary when all the new recruits were already battle-hardened veterans, he answered, "Humility was something they needed to pay attention to right away. They could not leave pounding their chests."
For one thing, he says, "there were a number of people who weren't in the room [who] were just as qualified to be sitting there with them." And the new directors will still rely heavily on those people's judgment. The flight director sees the big picture during a spaceflight, but it's the individual flight controllers sitting at 19 consoles—from the propulsion engineer to the booster systems engineer to the flight surgeon—who supply the critical details. Moses, Jones, Ridings, and all but one of the other new flight directors had been reared as NASA flight controllers, in fact. Last year, a spate of retirements and promotions in mission control freed up nine coveted slots for flight director, bringing the total number to 30. It was the second largest collective hire since the job was created in the early days of the space program.
A quick demographic profile of the Class of 2005: Six men and three women, all but one in their 30s. Three native Texans, four from northeastern states, two from the Midwest. The class includes the first African-American flight director, 34-year-old Kwatsi Alibaruhu of Maywood, Illinois, an MIT graduate who joined NASA in 1995 as a space station life support systems officer. And while most of the nine have engineering degrees, 43-year-old Robert Dempsey, a former space station controller for communications and tracking, is also an astronomer, having worked at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore in the early 1990s. All are whip-smart, and all are high achievers.
Last December I spent a day at JSC with the new recruits as they went through their training exercises. By 7:30 a.m., Dempsey is already "on console" in the Flight Control Room (FCR, or "ficker") for the space station. He hands me a set of headphones so I can listen to the comm loop, an open channel between mission control and the orbiting astronauts.
The station ficker is called the Blue Room. There's also the Red Room, used for ISS training, and the White Room, the shuttle ficker, the room Hollywood usually depicts in films. Today's task in the White Room is a simulated docking between the shuttle and the station, with new flight director Michael Sarafin in charge. Before his promotion Sarafin worked in mission control for 10 years as a guidance, navigation, and control officer. He was on duty during the 2003 Columbia accident, but doesn't seem eager to discuss it, at least not with a journalist. "It was a hard day to lose our friends" is all he says.
In today's scenario, the shuttle (a simulator in another room) will perform a two-minute burn of its twin Orbital Maneuvering System engines. The aim is to boost the vehicle into a higher orbit to rendezvous with the station. Two floors above, the simulation supervisor, or "simsup," and his cohorts will try to confound the flight controllers with any number of curve balls. "They might cause a fire, cabin leak, loss of communications, loss of critical flight control systems, or loss of jet thrusters," says Sarafin. "They are pulling the puppet strings behind the scenes. Our job is to react to what they do."
The engines fire and mission control falls silent. The exact positions of the shuttle and ISS are projected as a high-resolution graphic on a 10- by 12-foot overhead screen. Another large display plots the orbit of the shuttle and station onto a world map. A third screen relays telemetry data, caution messages, and emergency warnings from the shuttle and ISS to mission control. It's only a simulation, but I'm transfixed by the realism, knowing that all hell is about to break loose. Suddenly, a yellow warning code indicates three separate temperature spikes in one of the avionics bays that house the shuttle's flight control and computer systems. The EECOM (emergency, environmental, and consumable operations manager), pronounced "ee-com," calmly flips through her mission rulebook ("Our bible," says Sarafin) to find the right protocol and determines—with the help of other flight controllers—that the spikes are caused by a small blockage in the water-cooling loop. Switching to a redundant cooling loop returns the temperatures to normal.
It's this particular EECOM's first simulation in the ficker front room, a significant milestone for a flight controller. She's already endured hundreds of similar exercises in the "back room," where junior flight controllers work in specialist teams, training on each system in year-long rotations like med school students alternating between the psych ward, gastroenterology, and pediatrics. So goes the arc of a career in mission control—back room to front room to flight director.


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Over the winter my coworker and I started walking the skywalk to get in better shape. As we walked into the building to get to the skywalk, we noticed something was going in next door. Finally it took shape and was revealed!
Elm Street Deli is also known as "Toby's" - Toby and his brother used to own the spot in the Enquirer building pre-Bagel Stop days. (I wasn't around then.)
The girls behind the deli counter are a riot! They are really fun and enjoyable while you're up getting your order!
I got a turkey bagel sandwich. The bagel is from Brueggers which is nice cuz I love me some Bruegger's! I got turkey, cheddar, tomato, lettuce, pickles and a little mayo. This was delicious! The bagel came toasted or un. Very good!
The soup for the day was chicken with brown rice. It tasted like white sausage gravy - luckily I love that stuff - but not too healthy. haha! It was thick and very good. The bowl is self-serve and one-size-only so it's sort of honors system as far as how much you take. Because of the creamy nature I did not get a full full bowl.
Russ got tuna salad on the everything bagel as well. He also enjoyed it very much! He got soup as well. For 2 sandwiches, 2 soups and 2 sodas the total was $20 - so it's not as cheap as Subway, etc...
Russ and I went for a walk and then decided we needed some 99% fat free frozen yogurt! Now Columbo isn't my favorite - it's no TCBY or Yagoot - but it's fine and dandy for a hot summer day! This was $4 for the two cups.
Also - can you tell which of us worked for an ice cream parlor for a summer? Yeah - me and my strawberry/vanilla twist! Russ' was a mangled mess! But it all eats the same.
Want to note - we saw the salad's being made - they looked great too!
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Is it possible for a teacher to create a starter movie to be used by a class? As we start to integrate MovieStorm into some of the classes, it would be great if we could set up the senario and then have the students go to a specific tab at the start of the program to get a custom template. All they would need to do is follow a few prompts to record their narration and they would be off and running. This would run more like a tutorial prompting students for information and them putting the movie together.
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Is it possible for a teacher to create a starter movie to be used by a class?
Yes. Just create a movie with everything you require, then save it, distribute that saved movie to the class and they should be able to open it and go from there. If you stop and save at various 'teaching points' as you go along you can gradually lead them through the steps.
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Is it possible for a teacher to create a starter movie to be used by a class?
Yes as Writerly stated this is quite possible.
Its not only possible to have a template movie in the load page but it is possible to have your movie appear under 'starter movie' in the 'new movie' section If thats what you require. The problem is its a little fiddly to do that specifically. especially if you have to do it to every student workstation as well. Basically if you want to do that you have to create a new folder in the 'addon' folder in your moviestorm install then follow these steps;
1. in the new folder, create a folder called 'movies'
2. Add your movie into this folder
3. Open the folder of the movie and open Movie.summary
4. at the bottom of the page, in between </personnel> and </moviesummary> , insert the line
Starter Movies

I told you it was a little fiddly. So I would definitely suggest a more convenient means of sharing your templates. If you have a network drive then a folder containing all the templates would be perfect as just dropping a movie in there would be instantly ready for the students to retrieve it as they start the lesson. It may help to have a shortcut to the user movies folder on each workstation (the folder Moviestorm saves movies to) so they can conveniently share movies to you and one another. Remember your user movie folder is located here:
Vista, Win7, Macs: [Username]/Moviestorm
WinXP: C:/Documents and Settings/[Username]/Moviestorm
We are very keen to get teachers sharing their own movies and lesson plans with one another to collaborate on ideas and progress each project. At the moment its all on here (the education forum) so if you make a template movie for a lesson with your students then please post the idea on here and send us the movie (email me at alex(dot)gowland(at)moviestorm(dot)co(dot)uk. remember to replace (dot) and (at) with . and @)
This is important as we are striving to create our own set of educational starter movies that will come as part of moviestorm and we can only do it with the collaboration of the educators.
Kind Regards,
Alex Gowland
Moviestorm Ltd.
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Notes inadvertently left behind, a previous owner's love of dogs, and world events of the early 20th century (including the sinking of the Titanic) all played into Lisa Mende's design of the kitchen at the Junior League of High Point, North Carolina, 2015 Designer Showhouse.
"Every time I start a project, I go back to the history of the house and look to the interests of the homeowners for inspiration," the designer says. This house was built in 1912 when Art Deco design was emerging, Mende notes, so she chose a classic black-and-white palette and bold geometric patterns (Deco favorites) for fabrics and a wallcovering on the ceiling.
White subway-style tiles extend from the quartz countertops to the ceiling, defining the work zone and creating a clean backdrop that harkens to an early 1900s kitchen. Window fabrics are graphic Deco-like, black-and-white motifs that depict oversize champagne flutes stacked end-to-end. "That's a nod to the original owner of the house, who was a big entertainer," Mende says. (Dorothy Terry's entertaining diaries were found in the kitchen during demolition.)
An existing deeply recessed skylight was also integrated into the design with some clever visual tricks. Mende painted the skylight's wood trim black to match the cabinets, extended cabinets to the ceiling, and covered the ceiling with a graphic wall covering. "Now the skylight feels more a part of the design; it feels fresh and intentional. Light floods the room and makes the room feel warm and inviting."
The palette and motifs, such as "Labyrinth" by Cole & Son on the ceiling, are Art Deco-inspired.
Photography: Peter Rymwid and Dustin Peck
Interior designer: Lisa Herring Mende, Lisa Mende Design, 2935 Providence Rd.., Suite 202, Charlotte, NC 28211; 704/561-1466, lisamende.com.
Cabinet design (by Melonie Plotkowski): Marsh Kitchens, marshkitchens.com.
Cabinet style ("Summerfield"/Onyx): Marsh Furniture, marshfurniture.com.
Cabinetry hardware ("Lewis Dolin Bar Hardware in Brushed Brass, 12-inch pull, #31-105); bar knob (#41-101; 6-inch model (#31-104): My Knobs, myknobs.com.
Flooring (handcrafted from 8x10-inch wide plank White Oak, prefinished with a Custom Amber Matte and finished with soft wire brush): Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, wideplankflooring.com.
Wall and ceiling paint ("Designer White" #33-1); trim paint ("Black" #25-17); primer (Dark Primer): Pratt & Lambert, prattandlambert.com.
Ceiling wallpaper ("Labyrinth"/Black, Beige #93/5018CS, by Cole & Son): Lee Jofa, leejofa.com.
Range (48-inch Professional Series Pro Grand Commercial Depth Dual Fuel Steam Range #PRD48JDSGU); MicroDrawer (24-inch Built-In #MD24JS); refrigerator (48-inch Built-In Side-by-Side" #T48BD820NS); wine preservation column (18-inch Built-In #T181W800SP); dishwasher ("Panel Ready Star-Sapphire" #DWHD651JPR); coffee machine (Built-In, Fully Automatic #BICM24CS, in Stainless Steel): Thermador, thermador.com.
Perimeter countertop ("Serene" #Q1001); island countertop ("Kolams" #Q4009): Wilsonart Quartz, wilsonart.com.
Installation: The Stone Resource, thestoneresource.com.
Backsplash ("Earthenware Elements Rectangle Field Tile"/Gross White 3x6 inches #AS9500FLD): Ann Sacks, annsacks.com.
Main sink ("Cast Iron Kitchen Sink" #L20305-00); main faucet ("Bacchus High-Arc Kitchen Set with Side Spray"/Antique Copper #P21563-00); island sink ("Monte Carlo II Round Bar Sink"#P20283-00); island faucet ("Bacchus High-Arc Basin/Bar Set"/Antique Copper #P21560-00): Kallista, kallista.com.
Wall lights ("Pimlico Double Swing Arm Wall Lamp" #CHD2150); ceiling light ("Sophia Flush Mount" #AH4016, by Alexa Hampton): Circa Lighting, circalighting.com.
Roman shade fabric ("French 75/Mademoiselle," Deco Collection): Cotton & Quill, cottonandquill.com.
Trim ("Nixon"/Lemongrass #1830, discontinued): CR Laine, crlaine.com.
Window treatment fabrication: JD Stanley & Co. Inc., jdstanleyinteriors.com.
Counter stool ("Bess" #3048); fabric ("Strands"/Onyx #1127); trim ("Kiwi," and nailheads): CR Laine, crlaine.com.
Area rug ("Catamaran Stripe"/Sprout, Ivory): Dash & Albert, dashandalbert.com.
Acrylic shelves (custom): Lisa Mende Design, lisamende.com.
Blue-and-white bowls on shelf ("Jardin Des Plantes" #30571251, by Ruan Hoffmann); blue-and-white teapot ("Jardin Des Plantes," by Ruan Hoffmann #30542351): Anthropologie, anthropologie.com.
Blue-matted sketches flanking sink (by Becky Clodfelter); large blue-and-white bowl on island: Lisa Mende Design, lisamende.com.
Black bowl on island: discontinued.
Circle sculpture in black bowl ("Sculpture Sphere, Gold, Small" #1170224): West Elm, westelm.com.
Copper stock pot ("Mauviel"): Sur La Table, surlatable.com.
Kitchen Before
The Terry Estate's kitchen was seriously dated.
Sleek Cabinets
Painted black cabinets with simple Shaker-style doors are accented with hefty brushed-brass hardware. The bar-style drawer and door pulls and brass swing-arm sconces mounted on the walls are reminiscent of ship fixtures, a nod to the sinking of the Titanic—a major news event in 1912, Mende says.
While the vintage of the home affected the design, the new layout and appliance choices were all about 21st-century function. "My first thoughts were how would a modern family live in this space," the designer says. The existing kitchen, while outdated, had been home to serious cooks and entertainers in the Terry family over the decades, and it was important to Mende to continue that tradition. "I wanted the kitchen to work for real cooks," she says.
The work zone is grounded by a large center island that houses a microwave drawer on the range side and bar-stool seating for up to five people on the other. A cabinet next to the microwave stores a stand mixer on a pullout shelf that lifts the mixer to work height.
The new arrangement creates an efficient workstation with the range, microwave, island sink, and mixer all within a few steps of one another, the designer notes. She also provided ample counterspace, two sinks, and a circular traffic pattern around the island to comfortably accommodate more than one cook. "In today's world, both spouses are working outside the home and sharing cooking duties," the designer says. Creating multiple workstations and seating also allows guests to be involved with the cook and food prep when people entertain at home, she adds.
"Summerfield" Shaker-style cabinets painted black are from Marsh Furniture, a family-owned cabinetmaker since 1906 based in High Point. Marsh "came to our rescue," providing these beautiful cabinets in time to meet a tight showhouse schedule, Mende says.
Modern Upgrades
"Today the range is a really important appliance, and I wanted one that was hardworking and beautiful enough to be a focal point," Mende says. For that honor, the designer chose a 48-inch-wide, dual-fuel range with steam and convection ovens with a wood-paneled hood and set it between two windows. On the wall opposite the range are the built-in, side-by-side stainless-steel refrigerator and freezer, a full-height wine preservation column, and a built-in coffee machine.
"Pimlico" double swing- arm wall lamps with a brushed-brass finish illuminate the work surfaces and add vintage charm. The library-style sconces and the chunky brass hardware also have a masculine feel that suits male as well as female cooks—important in today's kitchen where both sexes are regular cooks.
Glossy white subway-style "Earthenware Elements" tiles contrast with the black cabinets and "create a perfect backdrop for the kitchen," says designer Mende. Extended from countertop to ceiling, they have a retro vibe appropriate to the house's age and "make the whole kitchen feel so clean and fresh," she adds.
Functional Range
The 48-inch-wide Pro Grand Commercial Depth Dual Fuel Steam Range has built-in steam and convection ovens, six gas burners (including a 22,000 BTU power burner and an extra-low simmering feature), a titanium griddle, and warming drawer.
Kitchen Seating
Warmth is enhanced by 8- and 10-inch-wide, long-plank, white-oak floors that replaced badly damaged '80s-era parquet. Designated as Original Grade, the planks were sawn from the base and mid-portions of trees, which yields boards that closely resemble antique floors. The planks also were hand-finished with soft wire brushes to give them a gently worn texture that complements the beautiful patina of original old floors elsewhere in the house.
The large island has CR Laine "Bess" bar stools with seats covered in "Strand" fabric and trimmed with "Kiwi" nailheads. Apple-green accents include a "Catamaran Stripe" rug from Dash & Albert. The trim around windows, doors, and the skylight was painted Pratt & Lambert "Black" in a satin finish to coordinate with the cabinets and unify the space.
Badly worn parquet floors were replaced with 8- and 10-inch-wide white oak planks. Handcrafted with a soft wire brush and a custom "Amber Matte" finish, the floors have a warm, aged patina that complements original floors in other parts of the house and creates a sense of flow from room to room.
Scuptural Sink
Mende fell in love with a sculptural undermount double-bowl sink and had it fronted with an apron made with the quartz material used for countertops. "I wanted something rooted in history but not a typical farmhouse sink, so we added a panel of quartz," Mende says. An 18-inch brass rail mounted on the apron keeps towels handy, making the design as functional as it is elegant.
The sinks are fitted with vintage-style copper faucets. "Copper is coming to the fore, and it felt authentic for this space," Mende says. Mixing metals—copper, nickel bar sink, brass hardware, and stainless-steel appliances—makes for a more interesting design, she adds, and ensures the new kitchen is in sync with its storied past.
A vintage-style "Bacchus High-Arc" faucet in antique copper is paired with a "Monte Carlo II" bar sink in hammered nickel. "I wanted to show it was OK to mix metals," says designer Lisa Mende. The island is topped with "Kolams" quartz, which has a subtle faux-grain design. Perimeter countertops are plain white "Serene" quartz. The materials are reminiscent of marble but are far more durable and stain-resistant.
Breakfast Room
With one end of the 26x14-foot room dedicated as a work zone, Mende transformed the other into a breakfast room with a settee and kiwi-green leather chairs around an oval table. "Breakfast rooms have become important features for today's families," she says. "Yes, we love gathering around an island, but we also like a separate space for sitting down and relaxing with a cup of coffee."
Wallpaper ("Shang Extra Fine Sisal"/Royal Blue #T41180): Thibaut, thibautdesign.com.
Trim paint ("Black" #25-17): Pratt & Lambert, prattandlambert.com.
Ceiling wallpaper ("Labyrinth"/Black, Beige #93/5018CS, by Cole & Son): Lee Jofa, leejofa.com.
Dining table ("Dian" #M-7520-202-WAL): French Heritage, frenchheritage.com.
Banquette ("Soho" #5004); fabric ("It's All Greek"/Onyx #1125, with "Kiwi" trim and antique nailheads); chairs ("Sweeney"/Fruitwood finish #245); chair leather ("Rodeo"/Citron): CR Laine, crlaine.com.
Pillow on chair ("Elsie"/Regency, Regency Collection): Cotton & Quill, cottonandquill.com.
Chandelier ("Jean-Louis" #9503): Currey & Co., curreycodealers.com.
Area rug ("Catamaran Stripe"/Sprout, Ivory): Dash & Albert, dashandalbert.com.
Bookcase ("Transitions Horizontal Bookcase" #SBT288): Somerset Bay Home, somersetbayhome.com.
Lamps on bookcase ("Kate Table Lamp" #AH3024, by Alexa Hampton): Circa Lighting, circalighting.com.
Painting above bookcase (custom, by Kerry Steele): Anne Neilson Fine Art Gallery, anneneilsonfineart.com.
Black-and-white painting by kitchen (Dinner Party Table Runner): by Mark Boomershine, markboomershine.com.
Drapery: Black Linen Drapery trim ("French 75/Mademoiselle," Deco Collection): Cotton & Quill, cottonandquill.com.
Fabrication: Donna Stanley, JD Stanley & Co., jdstanleyinteriors.com.
Drapery hardware ("Estate Metal" #12160075 ABRS): Restoration Hardware, rh.com.
Stemware ("Bunny Williams Cobalt Goblets" #BG165); blue-and-white porcelain vase, and centerpiece vase (#AD552): Ballard Designs, ballarddesigns.com.
Napkins ("Belgian Flax Linen Napkin"/Royal Blue #5777490): Pottery Barn, potterybarn.com.
Breakfast Room Before
Now: A low-hanging support beam (added when the kitchen was enlarged in the 1980s) was lifted so it is nearly flush with the rest of the 101/2-foot-high ceiling, unifying and opening up the space.
Elegant Affairs
Dorothy Terry, the wife of Randall B. Terry Sr., who built the High Point house, was a frequent hostess and kept detailed diaries of what she served for luncheons and dinner parties. Dorothy's little black book was discovered when the kitchen was renovated for the Junior League of High Point Showhouse. Her entries from the 1930s give delightful insights into what was popular (remember tomato aspic salad?) and the careful thought that went into those events.
Vibrant Space
Black-and-white dog-motif fabrics on pillows are a shout-out (bark-out?) to Dorothy's son, Randall Terry Jr., who lived in the house with his nine dogs.
Wallcovering is an extra-fine blue sisal from Thibaut. "Rodeo" leather chairs and the "Soho" banquette with "It's All Greek" indoor-outdoor fabric are from CR Laine, and the "Dian" table is from French Heritage. "Kate" table lamps are by Alexa Hampton from Circa Lighting, and the bookcase is from Somerset Bay Home. The chandelier is from Currey & Co.
Watch Lisa Mende talk about her kitchen design:
Designer Lisa Mende totally reorganized and transformed the kitchen, breakfast area, and dog-themed mudroom of the 1912 Terry House for the High Point Showhouse. Her vision included new flooring, cabinets, appliances, counter surfaces, plumbing fixtures, lighting, and amazing new decor more fitting to the vintage structure than the previous 1980s remodeling.
Wallpaper ("Coco"/Mademoiselle, Deco Collection): Cotton & Quill, cottonandquill.com.
Trim paint ("Black" #25-17): Pratt & Lambert, prattandlambert.com.
Cabinet design (by Melonie Plotkowski): March Kitchens, marshkitchens.com.
Cabinetry ("Summerfield"/Onyx): Marsh Furniture, marshfurniture.com.
Hardware ("Equestrian Knob" #32878464); wall hooks ("Equestrian Wall Hook" #32873861): Anthropologie, anthropologie.com.
Cushion and back fabric ("Elsie"/Regency, Regency Collection): Cotton & Quill, cottonandquill.com.
Pillow and trim on cushion ("Nixon"/Lemongrass, discontinued): CR Laine, crlaine.com.
Area rug ("Catamaran Stripe"/Sprout, Ivory, by Annie Selke): Dash& Albert, dashandalbert.com.
Flooring (from 8x10-foot wide plank White Oak prefinished, with Custom Amber Matte, and finished with soft wire brush): Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, wideplankflooring.com.
Dog bed ("Lounge Dog Bed" in "Buffalo Check"/Black #AU015); dog-food container ("Bon Chien Food Canister" #AU010); dog bowl (discontinued): Ballard Designs, ballarddesigns.com.
Dog sketch on door (custom dog portraits by Becky Clodfelter): Lisa Mende Design, lisamende.com.


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The city of Vienna was for centuries the imperial capital and resident city of the Habsburgs and developed at this time to a cultural and political center of Europe.
As the fourth most populated city in the world, after London, New York and Paris, Vienna has consisted of two million inhabitants. After the end of World War I , however Vienna has lost about one quarter of that population.
At the request of the Republic of Austria, the Old Town of Vienna, even today an evidence of the Habsburg rule and the Schönbrunn Palace were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
St. Stephen's Cathedral is, as like the Ferris Wheel in the Prater and many other attractions, one of Vienna's landmarks and stands as one of the tallest buildings in the city and as a metropolitan church in the center of Vienna.


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Google's Astonishing Android About-Face
May 24, 2012 5:00 AM PT
It can sometimes feel like there's a surprise around every corner here in the Linux blogosphere, but it's not often we get to see a company the size of Google make a dramatic shift.
That, however, is just what last week afforded when reports emerged that Google would take a markedly different approach to the launch this fall of Android 5.0, or "Jelly Bean."
Not only is the company reportedly planning to expand its Nexus line for a range of multiple pure-OS devices, but -- despite a distinct lack of success in the area in the past -- it's also apparently planning to sell those devices itself -- at least, if a Wall Street Journal report is correct.
Is this a good move? A bad one? Here in the Linux blogosphere, we take Android's success deeply to heart. Down at the Google+ Grill, the conversation hasn't died down yet.
A Potential for Backfire
"I don't actually feel that this is so much a shift in Google's strategy as it is a combination of several of Google's strategies," suggested Google+ blogger Linux Rants, for example.
"This 'change' in Google's strategy will not mean that you can't walk into any Sprint or Verizon store in the country and buy an off-the-shelf Android phone from the carrier," Linux Rants explained. "Hopefully, giving the [manufacturers] earlier access to the OS will allow them to adapt the OS to their devices more quickly -- says the guy with the HTC Thunderbolt and nothing but promises it will ever get Android 4.0."
There is, however, a potential for the move to backfire, Linux Rants warned.
Namely: "Why buy a phone from Google for (US)$399 when you can buy it from the carrier for $199 if you just renew your contract (which you're probably going to do anyway)?" he said.
'It's Only a Matter of Time'
"I believe Google is consolidating its Android OS, making design standards, to decrease fragmentation," suggested Google+ blogger Alessandro Ebersol. "So, they are going to set up those models as guidelines for the other hardware makers."
Rumors also suggest, however, that Google will be "touching up Android's UI -- much like what they did with ChromeOS, with a taskbar and a start button," Ebersol pointed out. "I see the signs pointing in the desktop direction, and, for that to happen, it's only a matter of time."
Bringing more mobile device manufacturers into the Nexus program is "a no-brainer," opined Roberto Lim, a lawyer and blogger on Mobile Raptor.
'A Bit Ridiculous'
"Giving Google's hardware partners access to the new version of the Android operating system after the launch of the next Nexus device and watching them scramble as they integrate the new operating system on their mobile phone line-up is a bit ridiculous," Lim explained. "With more lead time, they should be able to update their devices faster and design phones which would meet the 18-month operating system support Google has been trying to impose."
As for selling unlocked phones, "the idea does not seem to go well with a lot of the tech media based in the United States, but they are looking at things from the perspective of the US market," Lim pointed out.
"In my own country -- the Philippines -- there are over 80,000,000 mobile subscribers, with less than 3,000,000 availing of postpaid lines," he noted. "I would think a similar situation would exist in China, India and Africa, which make up a pretty substantial chunk of the smartphone market."
'Google's Plan Is a Natural'
Indeed, "the North American mobile market is changing," asserted Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site.
"Stats show that, for the first time, contract renewals are down," she explained. "People are switching to pay-as-you-go plans that cost less than half as much per month, often with fewer limitations.
"These customers are buying their devices outright, not having the cost hidden away in an expensive multiyear contract, and Google's plan is a natural for them," she added.
'Years of Voluntary Servitude'
Telcos currently "don't have an incentive to offer software updates for any devices," Hudson said. "Updates cost money to develop, test, roll out, and deal with glitches in the process. Even worse, from the telco's point of view, an update might add new features that people could otherwise only get with a 'free' phone upgrade at contract renewal time.
"The 'free' phone, of course, is locked," she added. "Think of it as their way of 'thanking' you for two or three more years of voluntary servitude."
As wireless hotspots continue to pop up, meanwhile, "most people don't really need a mobile plan that includes ever-larger gobs of over-the-air data," Hudson opined. "As applications get better at storing data for 'offline mode' usage, even things like GPS map navigation won't be dependent on a constant connection to draw the map tiles -- they'll just work like standalone GPS units, with the map data already stored in the device."
'It Is Very Compelling'
Google+ blogger Kevin O'Brien called the move "an exciting development."
To wit: "By giving this to multiple manufacturers, it could defuse any objection to letting Motorola Mobility have access to Nexus, since it would not be exclusive," O'Brien explained.
Users, meanwhile, will benefit because it's easier "to get the pure Android experience," he added.
"The key is if they can hit the price point that makes this a good deal," O'Brien concluded. "If the phones sell for $800 or so, it will fall flat. But I have heard the figure $349 thrown around.
"If they can get Galaxy SIII and HTC One X class phones at that price point, it is very compelling," he suggested.
'Their Only Real Shot: WebOS'
Indeed, "Google's new direct sales plan seems good considering how bad the telcos can be at disabling phones/changing features or just adding unneeded crapware," agreed consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack.
Slashdot blogger hairyfeet wasn't so sure.
"If the community has ANY sense, they will see the writing on the wall and will start pouring resources into their only real shot: WebOS," hairyfeet suggested.
"Google is paying nearly a billion a year on Android, and they simply won't allow people to have it for free forever, not when they can make a LOT more money by locking it to their own devices," hairyfeet opined.
'Anyone Else Feeling a Little Deja Vu?'
"I predict in the future the source will be slower and slower coming to give Google a much better position before it all but dries up for all that aren't Motorola," he added. "Apple has shown how much money you can make by owning the entire stack; no way Google is gonna flush a billion a year and not want a chunk of that."
Android "did what they intended, which was get their foot in the door -- now that people are hooked, they can close it," he added.
"Anybody remember the old 'Embrace, Extend' meme?" hairyfeet said. "Is anyone else feeling a little deja vu?"
In short: "If the community wants a chance, they better throw every man they can at WebOS, because otherwise it's gonna be nothing but the big three: Google/Motorola, Apple, and MSFT, who will probably buy Nokia," he concluded.
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Blogger Robert Pogson saw it differently.
Google has made "a few technological blunders with Android/Linux, and it still thrived," Pogson pointed out. "The idea is just too good to mess up.
"FLOSS works," he added. "I expect with so many hundreds of millions in the hands of addicts and so many hundreds of millions of people familiar with Google and Android that whatever they do will succeed."
Pogson's main concern? "That the factories may not be able to keep up with demand and prices might remain higher longer," he said.
Of course, "I expect as we saw with the x86 PC, consumers, retailers, OEMs and Google will evolve an ecosystem which works for all," he added. "That requires some trial and error and survival of the fittest."
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In any case, Google and Android are both "agile enough to survive and thrive no matter how the market evolves," he concluded. "For everyone who now has an Android/Linux device, there are dozens more soon to acquire one.
"The Android/Linux device will be the pen, watch and telephone of the 21st century," he opined. "No one else can do it better than the world creating its own software and sharing."


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(CNN) -- Now, no one is claiming that this quirky idea will be the salvation of the music industry.
But at least it might provide a little bit of salvation -- and some welcome cash -- for the singers and songwriters who actually create the music. And some welcome smiles for the rest of us.
It is no secret that in the Internet age, people have become accustomed to thinking they can get music for free. Sure, they can pay 99 cents or $1.29 to download a song -- but a person who really has a hankering to hear a favorite song can just about always find it somewhere for free on the Web.
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry recently reported that worldwide, sales of recorded music fell by almost $1.5 billion last year, much of that loss due to what the IFPI categorized as piracy: people downloading music without paying for it.
Help, however, has come from an unlikely source -- from a member of a long-broken-up 1970s band. He has thought of an ingenious way to make new money from old songs.
Vocalist/guitarist Skip Haynes was one-third of the band Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah -- three Chicago guys who, in 1971, had a big regional hit with a terrific song called "Lake Shore Drive."
The song was about one of the great American roadways: "There's a road I'd like to tell you 'bout, lives in my hometown; Lake Shore Drive the road is called and it'll take you up or down."
"Lake Shore Drive" never became a national hit, but it is so beloved by so many Chicagoans and one-time Chicagoans that it has turned into an anthem that spans generations. Not that anyone in the band had been making a lot of money from it these days.
But Skip Haynes -- now 63, and living in Los Angeles for the last 22 years -- came up with a plan that is so offbeat, yet intuitively smart, that it could serve as a business model for hundreds, if not thousands, of other bands looking for new revenue opportunities.
On his website, Haynes is offering to insert the name of anyone who loves "Lake Shore Drive" right into the song -- four times.
He has a digital version of the master tape (he wrote the song, and said he owns the rights to it). Say that your name is Mike Holiday. Haynes will sing your name, then with a computer click or two digitally splice it into the song.
And there it is: the song you've loved for years, with your own name in it.
He charges his customers $30 for a personalized MP3 version of the song, or $35 for an MP3 version along with a CD version. Fans can download it to their personal music player; they can send it along to friends and family. It's theirs.
With the record business tanking, Haynes told me the other afternoon, "I had to think of something."
He's been doing it for less than a year, and said he has sold several hundred customized versions, mostly through word of mouth that he said followed mentions of his project by disc jockey friends and by the Forgotten Hits and Chicagoland Radio and Media websites.
But Haynes' concept would seem to be transferable to other bands who have been downcast because the music-selling market has so quickly been transformed, to their disadvantage.
A person who loves your song -- especially a song that has been around for years -- may or may not decide to pay 99 cents for a digitally downloaded version of it when he knows he can find it for free somewhere. But he may very well be willing to pay $30 for it if he can get it with the original singers' voices singing his own name somewhere in the lyrics.
Sure, singers who never for a single moment have to worry about money will probably never do this. Paul McCartney is unlikely to offer to record a personalized version of "She Loves (Your Name Here)."
But there are undoubtedly groups from different decades and different musical genres that would be intrigued by the potential financial rewards.
Would the Lovin' Spoonful, for the right price, digitally revise "Do You Believe in Magic" to, say, "Do You Believe in Joyce Shenk"?
Would Gordon Lightfoot turn "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" into "The Wreck of the Gary T. Griffin"?
Jo Dee Messina's "Heads Carolina, Tails California" is a lovely and hard-driving country rocker, but would she balk at making a one-time-only version called "Heads Carolina, Tails Sara Amos"?
And Bobby McFerrin, who had the hit "Don't Worry, Be Happy" -- would he be willing to provide joy to someone by making it "Don't Worry, Jack Meizlish"?
This may not be as outlandish a thought as it sounds. Copyright and publishing legalisms would have to be addressed, but it really is hard to keep financially afloat selling songs these days -- and every band or singer that has had a big hit knows how much people adore that one special song. The trick is how to sell it to them again, at a premium.
Skip Haynes has some advice to his fellow singers and musicians:
Don't agonize over it. This is an easy call. Do it.
"You should hear the smiles in the voices of the people who get their copies with their own names in it," he said. "They can hardly believe it."
Is doing this some violation of an artistic code? Is it selling out?
Haynes doesn't even want to hear that argument. This isn't selling your music to a corporate conglomerate for advertisements, he said -- this is selling one version of a song to someone who loves it, and who now has the chance to be in it.
Besides, he said, unless a musician is sitting in his room playing and singing a song just for himself, everything in the music business is commerce, from the first minute.
"The first time you step into a venue to play for money, you're using the music you make in a commercial way," he said. "The first time someone buys your record, that's a commercial transaction.
"This is just a new way to do it. And I know one thing for sure: This way, you know for a fact that your song is making someone really happy."
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene.


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I mean, maybe, if I was 70 years old and required an enormous adult diaper to contain the vast amounts of incontinence that wearing these pants would cause me to have all the time (from shame) then perhaps I would consider these mutated hospital bottoms as outerwear.
Apparently these $88.00 pants of shame are known as the Jersey Harem Pant. There aren't enough capital letters on the Internet to describe how much I hate these extra-ugly sweat pants. If you really want to throw up all over yourself, you can go check them out. You could pair them with this, and then change into this for the weekend. And then you could throw yourself into a ravine full of rabid weasels.
Normally I try to minimize obscenity in my posts (for all you sensitive souls out there) but...
Fuck you Max Azria.p.s. I apologize for the quality of the camera phone image, I didn't have my nice camera with me because I never expected to see THIS at the mall. Or ever. JESUS.


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Family Organic Farmhouse Restaurant, everything grown from the Farm, with Animals, and outside Bar with Cafe and Garden, needs 2 Logos:
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2] al Pozzo - "which means "The Well" in English
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1] For the Agricultural Organic Tourist Restaurant, called "Al Pozzo", which means "the well" in English. The Clients are typical Farmers and locally families, many of whom do not use Internet. So a classic type logo is needed, not too modern.
2] At the bottom of the Garden is a Snack Bar called "il Rancio" which is open in the Summer and the Son sells, snacks, coffee, tea, Beer, Sandwiches, Salami, Cakes etc... Families come, with children as they have stables, with Horses, a small lake for Geese, Ducks, Qualis, Cow's, there are goat's, pigs, donkey's and chicken's. The 2nd Logo can be a little more modern. The Place is ideal for Children's Parties.
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-There are many animals on the Farm, so any animal related logo's for "Al Rancho" would be good.
-For "Al Pozzo", a typical wishing well was originally used, though it was very old design. The Restaurant's main theme is everything cooked including the animals is all home grown.
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Educational Talent Search (ETS) is a federally funded project designed to motivate, support, and encourage low-income, first generation students to graduate from high school and continue on to a post-secondary school of their choice. ETS is administered by Diablo Valley College. Students from Mt. Diablo Unified School District are preparing for college by participating in ETS.
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The only thing that can ruin watching downloaded television shows on a media center is having a big, loud, gaudy, distracting media center doing all of the work. Genus-PC is trying to eliminate this problem by designing a fanless media center that's still small and sleek to easily blend into your home theatre system. Genius-PC is traditionally known for making heat dissipation equipment, so they used their general cooling know-how to design this machine with heat pipes rather than fans. It looks pretty sexy in this picture, but that does appear to be somewhat CG rendered.
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At Chapter One we've created a first-class dining experience that's contemporary and cosmopolitan - inspired modern-European cooking making the most of fresh, seasonal ingredients. In the restaurant, you'll receive a fine dining experience with regularly changing menus offering outstanding quality and variety.
Our Brasserie offers an alternative lunch and dinner menu of favourite dishes like steaks, burgers and fish and chips with a more relaxed, informal ambience. Serving lunch Monday to Saturday and dinner Monday to Friday.
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Strikingly refined cooking in an out-of-town hotspot.
AA Restaurant Guide 2018
This landmark restaurant is relaxing and stylishly designed. Long-standing chef Andrew McLeish's forward-thinking but generally restrained cooking displays obvious talent.
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Long standing restaurant with many regulars. Wide-ranging menus offer keenly priced, carefully prepared modern European dishes; cooking is light and delicate, mixing classic and modern flavours. Assured service.
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Fine quality, out-of-town dining producing food that's imaginative and respectful, of its ingredients.
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Keen out-of-town prices combined with pleasingly elegant decor, capable service and clever cooking make Chapter One well worth a drive.
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Why drink from the cup?
Receiving the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist from the cup is not a requirement, but receiving the blood of Christ is a fuller sign of the mystery we celebrate.
This question continues to be asked, reflecting an uneasiness for some laypeople about resuming a practice unknown in the Roman Catholic Church for more than 600 years. In the church's first thousand years, Communion under a single species occurred only as a pastoral exception for infants, the sick, and the dying. The gradual reserving of the cup to ordained clergy early in the second millennium was to safeguard against spills and counteract the erroneous view that the laity needed both species to receive the whole Christ.
Today's restored opportunity to receive the sacramental Blood as well as Body of Christ lets us equally honor two invitations: "Eat my Body. Drink my Blood." Receiving from the cup is a heightened liturgical experience of sacrifice, covenant, unity, and sacred banquet.
In the gospels, drinking from the cup is a sign of courageous discipleship. "Can you drink the cup that I will drink?" Jesus challenges. In the Garden of Gethsemane the same image expresses the ordeal awaiting Jesus. Not surprisingly, then, Communion from the cup implied for the early Christians an openness to martyrdom, a willingness to lay down one's life.
If the Eucharist is the renewal of our covenant relationship, it is the cup that explicitly conveys this. In biblical accounts of the first Eucharist, and in our recollection at every Mass, each invitation to the chalice includes a reference to covenant. Our sacramental participation in the new covenant is most clearly expressed by sharing in the cup because-as Hebrews 9 reminds us-blood is a central sign of covenant.
In the earliest generations of the church, the "breaking of the bread" suggested oneness because communicants shared a single loaf. Although separate wafers have clearly weakened that image, the shared cup resonates today with comparable implications. In our world, drinking from the same vessel is a dramatic expression of intimacy and connection-a rare practice even at a family table, a powerful statement in liturgy.
Our Catholic tradition is deeply rooted in signs. But, as the Second Vatican Council recognized, the passage of centuries obscured some signs, and unfortunately some of the sacramental signs had shrunken to minimal proportions. A couple of drops of water sufficed for Baptism. A thumbprint of oil sufficed for sacramental anointings. Tasteless wafers sufficed for eucharistic bread.
The Second Vatican Council made a deliberate effort to recover and clarify the sacramental signs, including the decision that "Communion under both kinds may be granted when the bishops think fit." Documents inspired by the council continued the restoration. The General Instruction at the front of the Roman Missal advised that the faithful should be guided to desire Communion under both species because "Holy Communion has a more complete form as a sign when it is received under both kinds." Repeatedly we are invited to seek fullness rather than legal minimums.
Reception from the cup is definitely an option, not a requirement. Children's participation cannot be presumed without parents' approval. Recovering alcoholics' sensitivities must be respected. And reasonable concern would make all of us refrain from the cup at times when our poor health might put others at risk. Some parishioners have such a strong fear of contagion that they may never be comfortable doing it.
Our short answer to anyone who asks, "Do I have to receive from the cup?" is certainly no; it is not imposed. As a concerned friend or parent, however, we might gently add, "But do you realize what you are missing?"


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CHAPEL HILL – Later this month, Chapel Hill Town Council members will appoint one person to fill the seat left vacant by Penny Rich when she joined the Orange County Board of Commissioners. Eleven residents applied to be considered for that spot on the Council.
All week long, WCHL will be profiling each of those eleven applicants. We continue today in Part 2 of our series, with Loren Hintz and Paul Neebe.
Read Part 1, with Gary Kahn, Maria Palmer and Aaron Shah.
Chapel Hill High School biology teacher Loren Hintz is a UNC grad who's lived in Chapel Hill since 1992; this would be his first time on the Council, but he's been involved in town government for years.
"I was chair of the Transportation Board and have served on the Bicycle and Pedestrian Task Force," he says, "and when this opening came up with Penny Rich (leaving), I thought it was a good time for me to serve."
Hintz says he thinks Chapel Hill is moving in the right direction and he's mostly content with the Council as is, but he'd like to see town officials become more proactive in identifying and solving problems—rather than only responding when citizens complain.
And especially in the wake of Chapel Hill 2020, he says he'd like to see the Council do a better job implementing the recommendations of the town's various boards and task forces.
"I was on the Fordham Boulevard Task Force," he says, "and most of the things we requested be implemented eventually were, but it took a long time…
"People put a lot of time into those efforts, and I think it's important that the Town Council try to implement them as quickly as possible."
Hintz has applied for vacant Council seats twice before, most recently in 2008. He says he brings a great deal to the table: a background in science, an understanding of the needs of local students and parents—and more than three years' experience serving in the Peace Corps in Central America.
Also running for the open seat is Paul Neebe: a real estate broker, a university instructor, and a Juilliard-trained, internationally recognized classical trumpeter. He's lived in Chapel Hill for thirty years and currently serves on the town's Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Board.
With that varied background, he says he's ready to bring numerous ideas to the table.
"The tax increases have been out of proportion compared to the other counties, we seem to be having more and more (of a) lack of low-income housing…we should have more bikeways and greenways in Chapel Hill, I'm really for that…and of course the town is growing, (but) you still want to keep the small-town atmosphere," he says.
Like Loren Hintz, Neebe says he'd like to see more effective communication between the Council and the town's advisory boards. Beyond that, he says he wants Chapel Hill to commit itself to being more of a bike-friendly town than it already is.
And he also says he wants to promote affordable housing, partly by promoting commercial development and shifting the tax burden away from property owners.
"And then hopefully that would make things more affordable for people to buy, because (right now) the taxes are so high it makes houses more expensive," he says. "Also for people renting: if it's going to cost less for someone to buy a house and rent it out, then (renting) is going to be more affordable."
Whoever is appointed to the seat will serve out the remainder of Penny Rich's term, which expires in December—but Neebe says he's also interested in running for another term as well.
Paul Neebe, Loren Hintz, and the other nine applicants will have the opportunity to address the Council at a special meeting on Monday, January 14, at 6:00 p.m. in Town Hall. The Council will then meet on Wednesday, January 23, to consider making an appointment.
WCHL will continue profiling each of the eleven candidates throughout the rest of this week.