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Whether kids are looking for a sweet treat or a book to give them chills, these 17 titles will put them in a spooky state of mind come October 31st.
Once the Falll season is officially underway, Halloween is not far behind. Whether young readers are looking for something for a sweet treat or a book to give them chills, these 17 titles will put them in a spooky state of mind come October 31st.
Looking for a Jumbie by Tracey Baptiste. illus. by Amber Ren. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray. ISBN 9780062970817.
K-Gr 2–It's getting dark, so Naya's mother calls her to come to bed. But Naya says that she's not scared of the Jumbies, creatures from Caribbean stories similar to fairies and trolls that come out at night. Naya's mom tells her that Jumbies are only in stories, but Naya goes searching for one anyway. She doesn't find a scary Jumbie, but she does discover an interesting cast of mythical creatures from Caribbean folklore.
Trick or Treat, Crankenstein by Samantha Berger. illus. by Dan Santat. Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316458092.
PreS-Gr 3–It's Halloween, Crankenstein's favorite day of the year! But everything goes wrong. He gets a toothache, his brother laughs at his costume, it rains (and his costume isn't waterproof), he gets lost in a corn maze, his pumpkin carving goes awry, someone else has the same costume as him (but better, of course), and, worst of all, he ends up trick-or-treating at the house that hands out toothbrushes! Poor Crankenstein. Just as he seems most defeated, the doorbell rings. It is someone dressed up as—him! As he finally laughs, he transforms into a human boy. As more friends dressed as Crankenstein show up and they have a party, Crankenstein realizes that the day isn't so bad after all. This is a story about high expectations dashed by disaster that everyone can relate to.
How to Haunt a House by Carolyn Crimi. illus. by Edward Miller. Albert Whitman. ISBN 9780807534267.
K-Gr 2–Halloween is fast approaching, and three young ghosts have one more test to pass before they will be declared ready for the day. Madam Gray assigns three houses for the ghosts to haunt, each one more challenging than the last. Using a series of skills perfected in class, Groana, Moana (not to be confused with the Disney character), and Shrieky work together to achieve their goal. When their practiced tactics fail to work on the final house, however, the three classmates must examine the problem from another angle to succeed.
Vampenguin by Lucy Ruth HCummins. illus. by Lucy Ruth Cummins. Atheneum. ISBN 9781534466982.
PreS-K–It's a memorable trip to the zoo for the Dracula family, although it will be more memorable than some of them realize. After waiting on line, they head to their favorite exhibit, the Penguin House, where they are absorbed watching the adorable little fellows. Many other exhibits follow until finally they decide to head home. It was fun, but nothing special. Observant readers, though, will notice that one family member has a different experience. While the narrator describes the trip around the zoo, the pictures show that after sliding out of his stroller, baby Dracula mingles with the penguins and makes new friends. Baby Penguin, mistaken for the littlest Dracula, gets to enjoy a ride. It's a concept made even more amusing by the uninformed but otherwise illustrative narrator.
The Three Little Superpigs: Trick or Treat? by Claire Evans. illus. by Claire Evans. Scholastic. ISBN 9781338770636.
PreS-K–The latest story about the three Superpigs finds them on a mission to save Fairyland's Halloween candy from the greedy Wicked Witch, only to have an unexpected encounter with the meddlesome Big Bad Wolf. With reimagined bits of "Hansel and Gretel," "The Three Little Pigs," and even "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," this story follows a simple if slightly crowded sequence, from the Superpigs' uncertainty about the right costumes to the Wicked Witch's trail of sweets to the pigs' subsequent capture by the Big Bad Wolf in a candied house. This fairy tale mash-up adventure with a Halloween twist will make a great addition to festive read-alouds and plot sequence lessons.
Halloween Is Coming! by Cal Everett. illus. by Lenny Wen. Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky. ISBN 9781728205861.
PreS-K–Readers follow three friends one Halloween as they visit a festival, gather pumpkins, trick-or-treat, and more. The trio present as a Black girl, an Asian girl, and a white boy who uses a wheelchair. Their class and community are diverse in appearance and include humans and imaginary creatures. The costumes range from ghosts and pirates to astronauts, strawberries, and artists, with nary a culturally appropriative costume in sight. Notably, one boy sports a blue tutu and lace-up ballet shoes. For readers who enjoy the playful, social aspects of the holiday, this is a solid choice.
There's a Witch in Your Book by Tom Fletcher. illus. by Greg Abbott. Random. ISBN 9780593125151.
Toddler-PreS–The book takeover continues! Previous "Who's in Your Book" titles saw monster, alien, and superhero narrators prompting the audience to participate in the narrative, and this time, a plump, green-skinned witch brews up a mess. Children better be ready, for when they are encouraged to wipe it away, the witch grows cross. Spells are slung, then undone, as page by page the wackiness increases. Whether readers are asked to pop bubble bunnies or use a "magic finger wand" while reciting a spell, these invitations are loads of fun.
Poultrygeist by Eric Geron. illus. by Pete Oswald. Candlewick. ISBN 9781536210507.
K-Gr 2–Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side, of course. But what happens when the chicken is suddenly mowed down by a semitrailer truck and wakes up "on the other side"? Geron's debut picture book delivers a fresh take on the classic joke. An ideal Halloween read-aloud and great for children with an appreciation for the macabre.
1, 2, BOO!: A Spooky Counting Book by Paul Howard. illus. by author. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781547606405.
PreS-Gr 2–Adorably illustrated in bright colors, this short book features two white children who have a lot of fun counting Halloween ghosts, skeletons, bats, and candy from one to 10. The rhythm and rhyme will be enjoyed by the very youngest of listeners and make for a fun story time read. Friendly Halloween creatures and cherubic children keep this book cheery and not at all spooky.
Frankenslime by Joy Keller. illus. by Ashley Belote. Feiwel & Friends. ISBN 9781250765802.
Gr 3-5–With the help of her canine lab partner, Igor, scientist Victoria Franken creates varieties of slime that excite and amaze. One night, after Victoria comes up with a new idea, she and Igor return to the lab and begin experimenting. This time, their hard work results in a slime like no other. The story is entertaining, and kids are sure to get a kick out of the detailed illustrations, which also include sticky notes, diagrams, and lists that Victoria has hung up all over her lab.
The Wheels on the Bus at Halloween by Sarah Kieley. illus. by Sarah Kieley. Doubleday. ISBN 9780593174883.
Toddler-PreS–While there's no shortage of picture book versions of "The Wheels on the Bus," Kieley's seasonal spin on this perennial favorite is a sweet treat. This is a quick tale beginning with a community map and an invitation to climb aboard the Halloween Bus. Each spread features a friendly and familiar Halloween figure, including ghosts, candy, cats, and a cute coven of young witches. The text is a straightforward modification of "Wheels on the Bus" and works sung, chanted, or read aloud.
Brains!: Not Just a Zombie Snack by Stacy McAnulty. illus. by Matthew Rivera. Holt. ISBN 9781250304049.
K-Gr 2–A zombie chef decides to give up her favorite food: brains. Since the zombie chef has decided not to eat human brains anymore, she tries to look for a substitute, but animal brains aren't nearly as tasty. Brains are extraordinary, so if she can't have them, she won't have anything at all. This picture book takes a fascinating deep dive into everything about the brain. The book is informative and shares fun facts in an understandable way.
Pumpkin Heads by Wendell Minor. illus. by author. Charlesbridge. ISBN 9781580899352.
PreS-Gr 1–The Halloween season brings with it pumpkins that will eventually become pumpkin heads of all shapes and sizes. They appear se pumpkin heads everywhere, even floating in the sky. They like to play dress up, and you might find one pretending to be a cowboy or a snowman or even a witch! Some of the pumpkins have jobs like scaring crows away or greeting trick-or-treaters. Wherever they're found, they wish visitors a happy Halloween. Gorgeous artwork and pumpkin heads abound in a picture book that's sure to entertain children, especially fans of the season.
Hardly Haunted by Jessie Sima. illus. by author. S. & S. ISBN 9781534441705.
K-Gr 2–The house on the hill thinks that she might be haunted because no one lives there. It's not her fault that her doors creak and the stairs squeak. She tries her best to hold her breath and be quiet, but as she quickly realizes, she likes being noisy. She hopes that maybe one day a family will move in that doesn't mind a little noise and doesn't care if she's haunted. When that day arrives, the haunted house knows that her new family accepts her for who she is. An inventive picture book, this forces readers to focus on the house's perspective, and build empathy for its plight.
Tiny T. Rex and the Tricks of Treating by Jonathan Stutzman. illus. by Jay Fleck. Chronicle. ISBN 9781452184906.
Toddler-PreS–Tiny T. Rex from Tiny T. Rex and the Impossible Hug is back just in time for Halloween. Tiny and his friend Pointy are Halloween experts and want to share their tips with children to ensure they have the best holiday ever. This short and delightful board book is broken down into six "tricks" that are tips for Halloween enjoyment. Maps, costumes, the buddy system, and manners are all covered as readers learn the proper protocols to follow to become treat masters, but the ending shows readers that the biggest reward is sharing treats with others.
Boo Stew by Donna L. Washington. illus. by Jeffrey Ebbeler. Peachtree. ISBN 9781682632215.
K-Gr 2– A girl's unique cooking style saves the day in this fun Halloween read sure to entertain in any season. Curly Locks loves to cook, but none of the townsfolk like her dishes of batwing brownies or cat hair cupcakes. Though she's a little dejected, she continues to concoct her dishes. This is a fun story about pursuing one's passions even when other people might not understand.
How to Help a Pumpkin Grow by Ashley Wolff. illus. by author. Beach Lane/S. & S. ISBN 9781481419345.
Toddler-PreS–An anthropomorphized pup begins planting pumpkins early in the year. As the seasons progress, animal friends join in the work and, ultimately, share in the pie and jack-o'-lantern rewards. The brief, rhyming text is ideal for sharing aloud. Children will also observe that only the dog possesses human traits, wearing clothes and wielding opposable thumbs, while the other animals are less anthropomorphic. Pumpkin tales abound, but Wolff's contribution to the harvest is sweet and welcome.
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Key Tips on Women Breaking Down Barriers: Katie Pyne
As HC&F celebrates Women's History Month, we got a chance to sit down and chat with accomplished filmmaker Katie Pyne. After directing over 70 shoots and working with prolific companies such as CNN and Discovery Channel, Katie has the credentials and experience to make it into any director's seat. However, as she continues on her filmmaking journey, what's been her most surprising obstacle in getting to that prestigious position?
The answer is both simple and complicated: Her gender.
Even in 2021, there continues to be a disturbing disparity between men and women in the Hollywood film industry, particularly regarding women as directors. "I progressed naturally into the director role as part of my career growth. Before that it honestly didn't occur to me that being a woman would be a disadvantage. Coming from the South, I assumed Los Angeles would be more progressive about empowering women in the industry. But it turned out that Hollywood was actually behind the curve."
When Katie moved from Atlanta to LA several years ago, she suddenly ran up against companies who seemed wary of trusting women with big budget projects. Even after she became a director on various sets , junior crew members would sometimes assume she was a makeup artist or an actress.
However, Katie used these experiences to sharpen her skills.
"Being underestimated just because of who I am was actually new for me in the professional arena. So I thought, okay what are the rules of this game? Once I figured those out, I used them to navigate getting hired and working on set," Katie said, carrying a modest but determined demeanor. "When I discovered to what extent the cards were stacked against women directors, that just made me more motivated to keep pressing forward and prove that my voice is just as valuable."
Katie has always been passionate about telling stories that can bridge cultural divides by building empathy. "I became a filmmaker because I want to tell compelling true stories that make people feel something. Helping people walk a mile in someone else's shoes through film is such a powerful tool for connecting people from different backgrounds."
So, how does she utilize this tool?
"My background in documentaries and news prepared me for anything.. I came from unscripted projects with a thousand different potential outcomes to a scripted environment where we have control over every aspect of a scene. I have to pay attention to every detail as a director, so I've learned to constantly listen to my crew and closely observe everything happening on set. Since then, I've grown in confidence and I've become really qualified to tackle any type of project."
Katie's attention to detail has only propelled her career as she stays busy with shorts, commercials, and other projects. Now, she's ready to share insight with women looking to break into the industry.
"Most importantly, don't be quiet when you're uncomfortable," Katie affirmed. "Speak up when someone is treating you disrespectfully. Keep networking and building relationships, and when you get the chance to direct, remember that it's so important to be a diplomatic team leader. If we're not having fun on set, we're not doing it right."
Currently, Katie is in development on several narrative and documentary film projects, working as a Creative Producer on a true crime show, and she also is particularly passionate about her upcoming short film. Based on a personal experience, the short focuses on a woman who conceals an emotional breakdown from co-workers after receiving an unexpected phone call from a past abuser. Katie's still deciding on distribution routes, but she's excited to get it out to the world.
"It's not an accident that I'm here. I'm here for a reason and I'm pushing forward."
HC&F can't wait to push forward with her and see what she accomplishes next. If you want to see more of Katie's work and connect with her, check out the links below:


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Book chapter, "Business Contributions to Peace," Routledge, Upcoming 2023.
Book project on "Private Sector: Friend or Foe? The Impact of the Private Sector on Peace and Security in the Middle East North Africa Region," Palgrave Macmillan, Upcoming 2023.
Book chapter for United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education, Working Group on Business for Peace (eds.) "Field of Business for Peace," Routledge, January 2022.
Principles for Responsible Management Education, "Management Education and the Nexus of Business and the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda," November 2021.
Co-author, "Human Security Business Partnership," London School of Economics and Political Science, December 2021.
Contributor, "The Nexus of Business and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda," UN Global Compact UK Network, October, 2021.
Co-author, "Policy Recommendations on International Development Assistance for the Biden Administration," Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security, November 2020.
Co-author, "Priority Issues for Women of Color in the First 100 Days of the Biden Administration," Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security, November 2020.
WeAreTheCity, "How Business Can Protect Women's Rights and Promote Gender Equality During Times of Adversity, November 2020.
The European, "Safeguarding Women's Rights and Gender Equality During the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Role Does Business Have?," November 2020.
London School of Economics and Political Science, IDEAS, "COVID-19 and the Impact on Gender Equality," May 2020.
London School of Economics and Political Science, IDEAS, "Maximizing the Role of Business in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Environments: Women's Contributions to Peace," March 2020.
War on the Rocks, "Refugees at Risk: Managing the European Union's Declining Power in Turkey," November 2019.
European Parliament, "Report on Inclusion of Women in Peace Processes," May 2019.
Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, "Thin on the Ground: Recalibrating EU and Turkey Engagement in Syria," May 2019.
Journal of Career Development International, "The Impact of the Global Refugee Crisis on the Career Ecosystem," March 2019.
Journal of Middle East Critique, "Mutual Economic Interdependence or Economic Imbalance: Turkish Private Sector Presence in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq," Taylor and Francis Publishing, January 2018.
Turkish Policy Quarterly Journal, "The Presence of the Turkish private sector in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq," February 2016.
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After the Scrapbook lot spotted a section of the TPA/IoD's report, that deals with the entirely correct assertion that lefties are just jealous of the wealth and sexual prowess of the right, it was only a matter of time before #TPAChatUpLines was trending:
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Jason Mack
U.S. Mission to the United Nations
New York City
October 15, 2019
Madam High Commissioner, thank you for your report detailing your office's work. The United States is proud to continue its support for much of OHCHR's programming with significant voluntary contributions, as we recognize that OHCHR initiatives, and in many instances your role as High Commissioner, can prove critical to states honoring the unalienable human rights possessed by every individual.
As we collectively seek to confront unprecedented human rights violations by repressive, totalitarian regimes, we were pleased to see the creation of a new Fact Finding Mission designed to document––independently and transparently––the abusive actions of the former Maduro regime in Venezuela. Documentation mechanisms like the Venezuela FFM––as well as the commissions of inquiry on Burundi and Syria, the Eminent Experts on Yemen, the Kasai and DRC teams, the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, and the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan play an important role in promoting accountability and deterring human rights violations and abuses.
We were also pleased to see that you were able to visit Venezuela. Although not under ideal circumstances, your visit nevertheless allowed a partial, initial accounting of the former regime's abuses. We hope to see you and your team eventually obtain unhindered access in Venezuela. We would also hope for this same unhindered access in Xinjiang, China–– where more than one million Uighurs, ethnic Kazaks, and other Muslims have been detained arbitrarily in so-called re-education camps since 2017––and anywhere else abuses and violations of human rights occur.
We sincerely hope you use your influence with member states and your office's institutional relationship with the Human Rights Council to begin work on removing the flaws that forced the United States to withdraw from the Council; namely the lack of meaningful adherence to the minimal standards established for HRC membership and the persistence of the Council's Item 7, a vehicle for the perpetual unjust condemnation of Israel. We are saddened, but hardly shocked, that countries with appalling human rights records remain members of the HRC.
Noting your engagement on the issue of climate change, we are concerned that engagements on issues peripheral to OHCHR's core mandate risk undercutting the Office's efficacy. We would much rather your Office intensify its focus, for example, on the important and impressive work it is doing integrating human rights considerations into UN peace operations and working to enhance early warning and prevention. Similarly, in other, more politically fraught areas, dedication to the OHCHR's core mission eliminates risks to its credibility and reputation for impartiality.
We would also like to commend OHCHR for its awareness-raising work on the human rights concerns of members of the LGBTI community and take this opportunity to reiterate our call for the complete decriminalization of status and conduct offenses related to sexual orientation.
Madam High Commissioner, what steps do you and your office take to ensure that you receive unfettered access?


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As he was being arrested Monday, a 19-year-old man suspected of killing two people and injuring five others in San Antonio promoted his Instagram account to reporters.
The man, Kieran Christopher Williams, is facing capital murder charges in the fatal shooting Sunday during a concert inside a club, San Antonio police said Monday. Detectives think that at least one of the victims knew the attacker and that the incident was not random, but police did not detail a motive.
Williams promoted his social media account as officials walked him in handcuffs in front of news cameras, NBC affiliate WOAI reported.
"That's me, I'm an upcoming artist," Williams said after reciting his Instagram handle to reporters.
Williams said he was acting in self-defense.
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It's unclear which of the victims Williams was referring to. Williams said that he was targeted and that someone pulled a gun on him but didn't get the chance to shoot.
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The Bexar County medical examiner identified the men who were killed as Robert Martinez, 21, and Alejandro Robles, 25, police said.
The five other people who were shot were expected to recover but have not been identified. One victim was a 46-year-old woman, and the others are 16 to 19 years old, police said.
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Technical Articles
Understanding SAP S/4HANA Central Finance: Part-2
In my previous blog post of this series, Understanding SAP S/4HANA Central Finance -Part1, we have seen the basic understanding of SAP S/4HANA Central Finance, the need for Central Finance and the overview.
Previous blog post of this series:
In this blog post, we will take one more step forward into understanding Central Finance and will visualize some flavors around its architecture.
I tried to keep this blog post series – simple and easy to assimilate.
Objective of this blog post – is to provide a perspective about Central Finance in SAP S/4HANA
.Hope, this blog post – meets its objective.
SAP S/4HANA for Central Finance is a component of SAP S/4HANA System which is installed, also called as Side car approach – which receives the accounting transactions (FI/CO) through Real time replication approach from SAP or Non-SAP ERP Source Systems.
Things to remember:
- Side Car approach
- Real time replication
- Need SAP Landscape Transformation – as a staging area of data
- Having Central Finance accounting interface, business mapping framework and Application Interface Framework for error handling on target system SAP S/4HANA
- It is a one step forward to move towards Innovation products of SAP S/4HANA for digital transformation.
Now, let us see a quick over view of business benefits, though covered in my previous blog post. The business benefits are varied depending on Customer/Business IT landscape, type of business operations, Geographies of Operation, volume of transactions, type and mode of reporting and its use – as such the benefits of Central finance captured below, is for illustrative purposes and is at a very high level.
Benefits of Central Finance in SAP S/4HANA at high level
Following are some of the benefits, business can leverage using Central Finance on SAP S/4HANA.
- Single Source of Truth – As the data gets replicated on to SAP S/4HANA system – businesses can have only one single source of truth for Financial/Management reporting, with a universal Journal.
- Fast Closing – Central finance coupled with FCC(Financial Closing Cockpit) provides a new centralized view to organize the sequence and governance of closing tasks across multiple ERP systems.
- Non-disruptive adoption, simplification and innovation without upgrade
- Ability to realize a common chart of accounts and simplified governance of master data
- Potential for Central process execution and shared services
- Capability of dedicated central reporting instance connecting with SAP and non-SAP ERP systems.
- Move towards SAP S/4HANA
The benefits are indicative and will further depend on Customers' requirements and use cases.
The baseline of Central Finance Approach consists of three elements:
- First, the customer is operating multiple ERP systems, which can continue to be the ERP systems of record.
- Second, the customer has identified a list of business scenarios and master data to be consolidated and centralized by its operations.
- Third, the customer has identified and prioritized the selected business processes, to consolidate – to ensure the quality of master data, organizational unit data and posting rules for documents. As well as their line items for the selected scope of scenarios and the harmonization of processes across the group's entities.
As I mentioned earlier, the objective of this blog post is to provide a basic understanding about Central Finance without a deep dive discussion on design, business scenarios or use cases as it varies and depends on each Customer requirements.
We have seen all through this blog post about the term "Central Finance" – now its the time to visualize its design flow – the Architecture, which is quite interesting once we do a deep dive.
High level overview on the Architecture
Based on the above graphical overview – Central Finance Architecture, contains mainly three systems:
- The first system is the Source System, where the actual business processes run and a FI/CO document is created.
- The second system is SAP SLT layer – it is a integration platform which reads and replicates the FI/CO documents from Sender(Source) Systems.
- The third system is the Central Finance on target system SAP S/4HANA – the system where FI/CO documents are posted and information is stored in Universal Journal
Hope, it gave a conceptual design of Central Finance in a nut shell.
As a part of design, Central Finance is able to replicate Cost Objects as pre-requisite for FI/CO postings.
The above diagram indicates, that we need to know the definition of components relating to architecture namely, SLT, Central Finance Interface, Business Mapping, AIF. Once we know these components, it would be easy to understand, how these components would facilitate the posting of FI/CO documents into Universal Journal. These would be covered in my next blog post at high level.
And further, SAP S/4HANA Central Finance and SAP System Conversion into SAP S/4HANA – both are different topics – its purpose, design, implementation methodology, technology requirements, process requirements – are different. SAP System Conversion/Migration into SAP S/4HANA is one of the other Innovations from SAP, which is not in the scope of this blog series.
Following are some of the pointers for SAP documentation relating to SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Central Finance.
This reference, will help us in understanding some of SAP Innovations in the areas of SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Central Finance.
Please refer for SAP S/4HANA
SAP Notes and information relating to Central Finance.
Central Finance: Implementation and Configuration SAP Note# 2148893
FAQ on Central Finance SAP Note# 2184567
Please always refer to latest SAP notes depending on the release requirements – Component: FI-CF
To sum up – what we covered so far in these two blog posts of this series:
- The need, objective, purpose and benefits of Central Finance
- Illustrative diagram about the need, business benefits and Architecture – at high level.
- Reference Documentation to support for further readings.
What can we expect in my next blog post which is the final part of this series:
- Definition of terms such as SLT, CFin Interface, Business Mapping Framework, AIF.
- Illustrative diagrammatic representation with a daily life simile – to keep the understanding very simple.
- Closing comments
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We tell stories about the future," says Dutch designer Joris Laarman, summing up the work of his studio-cum-laboratory, which he founded in 2004 with his wife, filmmaker Anita Star. The "we" he speaks of also includes some 40 engineers, programmers and craftspeople, along with a growing team of robots.
Many of their greatest achievements — a now-iconic chair formed according to the principles of bone growth, a rococo swirl of a radiator, the world's first functional 3-D-printed steel bridge, to name just a few — are the subject of an exhibition on view through January 15, 2018, at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, in New York. The publishing house August Editions will release an accompanying volume, Joris Laarman Lab, next month.
Equally enamored with functionality and ornament, efficiency and playfulness, the robot and the artist, Laarman uses algorithms to create what he describes as "beautiful objects that make sense." But technology is just one part of his fearlessly forward-looking stories.
"Joris works with three-D printing and programmable materials while showing how craft is really important to bringing these things into our world," says Cooper Hewitt assistant curator Andrea Lipps, who oversaw the exhibition's New York presentation (it originated at Amsterdam's Groninger Museum and will travel next year to the High Museum, in Atlanta, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston).
Lipps points to Laarman's 2006 Bone chair, which mimics how bones cleverly shift density: Material is generated where strength is needed and removed where it is not. Rendered in mirror-polished aluminum, the primordial form is at once suggestive (tibia? fibula? vertebra? rib?), ingenious and elegant.
"He used the algorithm as the form giver, but then the form had to be wrestled out of the computer," she says. "It required a level of skill and craftsmanship and dedication to create this exquisitely beautiful object."
Beyond the rigor and innovation of Laarman's practice, Marc Benda, of New York's Friedman Benda gallery, singles out "the way he extracts beauty from very mundane and very complex explorations that, without his interventions, wouldn't have any place in product design."
Examples range from stunning tables designed to resemble flocks of starlings or flat-topped cumulus clouds (both developed using 3-D animation software) to Half Life, a table lamp powered by genetically modified bioluminescent cells that glow in the dark under the right conditions. Developed in collaboration with scientists at the University of Twente, in the Netherlands, the lamp proved tricky to exhibit because of import restrictions on the organisms involved, but Benda highlights the "beautiful thought process" it represents.
Now spread across two sites — one a former textile factory, the other an erstwhile shipyard — on Amsterdam's gritty outskirts, Joris Laarman Lab is able to spin ever more intricate tales. The designer recently made time to discuss with 1stdibs his career, the exhibition and his latest projects.
You burst onto the international design scene in 2003 with the Heatwave radiator — part of your thesis project at the Design Academy Eindhoven — and almost immediately began working with some of the world's leading furniture companies. It's rare to get that kind of experience so early in one's career. How did it affect you and your decisions about what to do next?
In the beginning of anyone's career, you're just figuring out what you want to do, and after my graduation project, I was shot into this design world that I really didn't know too well. I got in contact with all these big design brands, like Vitra and Flos, and it was a very educational couple of years for me.
I worked on a couple of projects with these brands and found that my passion really lies in the experimental side of the design world — figuring out new manufacturing processes and new materials, making new form languages and manufacturing tools and everything that has to do with the future.
Your Bone chair and the Bone furniture series that followed have reshaped our definition of design in the 21st century. Why do you think they have proved so influential?
This work shows what is possible in the digital age. Now, nature can be more than a stylistic reference. We can use natural principles to generate shapes, like an evolutionary process. Also, this way of designing is an interaction between man and computer. I never could have come up with the design of the Bone chair myself. Mine would probably have looked much more artificial.
You use a broad range of cutting-edge manufacturing techniques and also push those methods forward. How do you become aware of new processes and technologies?
It's quite different for my generation of artists and designers compared with the generation before us. The Internet opened up a whole new world of information, and everything and everyone became much more accessible. I've always been interested in science and engineering, so I just got in contact with people in those fields and then built up a network. Sometimes, we develop or think of an idea, and other times, we're approached by people to work with them on a specific project.
How do you spend your working time?
We have two companies. One is my own production company, which makes all the design works and develops the experimental stuff. And then, I founded MX3D, a robotic printing company. It prints steel, bronze, aluminum and other weldable metals. The metal printing is taking up a lot of time and energy, because it's a new technology that's extremely promising and I want to explore it before everyone else does.
How would you describe your work at MX3D?
You could compare our process to how architects and designers and artists in the early modern period worked. When industrialization happened, people were looking to form languages that were limited by industrial machines — mostly geometric shapes and primary colors, for example. Now, we see that these digital manufacturing tools allow new forms, new materials, new colors, new everything! It's much less geometric and much more organic, with gradients and things divided into little cells. It comes back to codes behind objects that you find in nature.
One of the most exciting projects of MX3D is the 3-D-printed bridge you're making for the city of Amsterdam. How did this come about?
It started more than two years ago with a concept: With this technology, we wanted to see if we could do something really big and functional as sort of a poster project for what is possible — to create something five steps ahead of what people would think is possible. We are located in Amsterdam, and it's a city full of canals and water, so a bridge seemed very logical. It's a whole different engineering and scope compared with what we are used to, because it has to be functional. People will actually walk on this bridge.
Holland has a long welding history, so there are some nice historic links to what we are doing. Every Friday, we're open to the public, so people can observe the process.
That seems to be at the foundation of all of your work — showing the process.
In my personal work, I like to show how stuff is made. I think an object is most exciting when you see somebody's struggle in doing something new. One of my idols from the last century is Gerrit Rietveld, who created these objects that were supposed to be industrially made, but if you look at them closely, you see that they're all hand-hammered into a certain shape that looks industrial, but that was not yet possible.
We are also pushing the envelope, and you see that. You can see the whole experimentation process. In one hundred or two hundred years from now, that will be much more exciting to see than something that is perfectly finished or entirely robotically made.
Is this something you thought about with the Cooper Hewitt exhibition as well? Are visitors able to readily comprehend how the works they're seeing were made?
We added a lot of video material to the exhibition for exactly this reason. Anita, my partner, wife and the mother of my kids — we do everything together — has a film background. We usually use video to document the manufacturing process and the whole concept behind things. In the exhibition, with every work, you can see a video explaining where it comes from.
In addition to objects hot off the metal printer, the exhibition includes the new time-line project you're working on. Is it like a grand unified theory of the world?
It's hard to explain, but it's a time line that I use as context for my work. It starts with the Big Bang and goes way into the future and links all kinds of data streams, from Moore's Law to carbon dioxide to the average lifespan to your own personal happiness. It's all within layers of this time line, so if you click on certain layers you see overlaps. I can look back to when I made a specific work, like five years ago, and see what happened in the world during that time and why I did that — and what's important to work on in the future.
Your work is like an ongoing conversation between craft and technology. Is beauty something you think much about?
Beauty is very important to me. It's quite a philosophical thing. As robots and artificial intelligence become more and more influential, I wonder what is still valuable?
It's very important that people still communicate with other people about the things they are making. Even with an object that is digitally manufactured or made by robots, in the end, you see that it's a concept that comes from a human, not from some computer. And you see that it's made by people, in collaboration with robots.
Are robots good collaborators?
Our company is like a mini-society of the future, you could say. We have a mix of industrial engineers and people who know everything about robots, but also craftsmen who are trained as blacksmiths and carpenters. That combination of those types of people and machines and how they learn from each other is really nice. I hope it's what the future will be like. Maybe that's a bit naive, but I like it.


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What made my second launch party even better than the first? For one thing, I didn't worry about all the strange stuff that bothered me a year ago. You know…calling myself an author, having people actually (gasp!) read what I'd written. Although I still have flashes of panic, most of the weirdness has worn off.
Instead I could focus on getting together door prizes….
And desserts. Okay, the tearoom provided them, but you'd be surprised how much I worried that there wouldn't be enough. (Right, Jennifer?) We had plenty.
Old friends brought new fans.
Ladies had an excuse to get together and visit on a winter Saturday.
And we signed books..
And after it was all over I realized that this was the only picture I looked up for. This is my friend Kim. She's awesome, is always trying to get me to eat better and has put together a killer workout for me…AND she goes to every book signing in central Oklahoma. Plus she did not ask me to sign her bicep with a Sharpie. She wouldn't do that. No, never.
While I wish I'd thought to get better pictures with friends and family, we were all having too much fun to stop and worry about it.
Thank you for celebrating with me. You are such a blessing!


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It is that time of year when we are asking for donations for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Normally, you would be reading this from either John, Trudy, or even Shannon, but this year I, Thomas, wanted to take the time to update you on my life and the incredible need for support.
This past year has been the biggest roller coaster year of my life. I have had some incredible highs and quite literally the lowest of lows. I went from living as "normal" a life as possible, working in a sportsbook, to continuing to coach swimming, to going on vacations, to within a blink of an eye being mere hours from organ failure.
This past June, I had been battling incredible shortness of breath and felt that it was just my usual bout with pneumonia and if I went through another 3-week round of IV antibiotics, I would bounce back just fine; however, my body had other plans. The pneumonia had progressed beyond any point I had ever experienced and I finally agreed to go to the hospital. The walk from my couch to the car was so difficult that on the drive to the hospital, I could not breathe and had actually began to come to fact that I was about to die. Somehow, we made it to the hospital and I thought that I could finally relax because now I was going to get on some high-quality oxygen tanks and could allow the antibiotics to kick in. Unfortunately, this was only the beginning. The doctors told me I should be intubated because my heart was working so hard and my lungs were only spewing more carbon dioxide into my body. While I protested at first, it quickly became apparent that, while my body was working so hard, it was working too hard and would begin to shut down if it persisted any longer. Having doctors tell you that within several hours your body will go into organ failure is something I wish upon no one. Thankfully, I was only intubated for just over 48 hours before I was able to wake up and breathe on my own again. The battle back to recovery was long and difficult. I had to relearn how to do the simplest of tasks such as bathing myself, standing, walking, etc. My weight dropped to scary levels, even for me.
Only 2 short months after, a miracle happened. I was given an opportunity to have early access to Trikafta, which is a new drug aimed to help the underlying cause of Cystic Fibrosis. The drug study had promising results, but they were unsure how it would help someone like me with such an advanced progression of the disease. I have been on this drug for 6+ months now and I can honestly say that it has saved my life. I have had an increase in lung function back to levels that I have not had in almost 2 years. I have gained over 30 pounds since walking out of the hospital 9 months ago. I have been able to get back to living my life.
This, however, is not the end. I went for an evaluation for a lung transplant this winter, and while I am currently healthy enough to not need it, it is coming. When? We don't know. But as amazing as Trikafta has been, it cannot reverse the damage that is already there and I will need to have the transplant at some point.
That is where you come in. The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has been working tirelessly to help those suffering with CF as they transition into transplant. There have been tremendous improvements in the success rates, but more needs to be done. It is still the most risking transplant organ and when I need to go for transplant, I want my odds of success to be as high as possible.
I can't thank you enough for your continued support and I am hoping you can continue to donate to help me and everyone else suffering with this disease.
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Drifting Techniques
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Drifting is slowly becoming a sport in itself. Though it has been in practice since a very long time, yet its true uplift will happen when it will be accepted as a national sport in a country. Slowly but steadily, many crazy enthusiasts have developed different techniques over the years. Some of them can be learnt in a day's time while some of them require months of rigorous practice. Though the basic driving techniques of a drift are always constant, it is the combination of equipments, and techniques which makes the real difference to drifting. Most drift competitors do not incorporate every drifting technique into their arsenal, but make a combination of selected moves to bring out the best in their show.
Some of them are beginner techniques which do not concentrate on the weight transition at all; yet they are used by many experienced drivers across the globe since they are stylish and very attractive. Rather they are focused to induce a loss of traction on the rear wheels by either locking them completely or breaking the speed barrier and then over steering the wheels while maintaining the control. Let us discuss some of these techniques and know more about them.
Handbrake drift: This is a very common drifting technique and usually the very first one which an amateur learns. On a speedy track, if one pulls the hand brake while the car is in motion; the rear wheels come to a complete standstill. This upsets the complete balance of the rear portion of car and causes it to drift. Though it seems to be the easiest method to induce a drift, yet it is the most dangerous and involves a lot of balance. Apart from driver's safety and chances of overturning, handbrake drifts can damage the car's axles, tyres and choke the engine. Hence it needs the touch of complete professionalism for successful execution.
There can be 3 possible ways of achieving a handbrake drift.
The first one can be achieved by approaching the corner at a considerable high speed. You can remove your toe off the accelerator and concentrate on the clutch. At the same time, pull the handbrake to upset the rhythm of the rear end and go for the turn. Now press the accelerator and remove your toe off the clutch. Turn the steering in the opposite direction of the turn so as to achieve a proper drift. Maintain a balance between the angle of the turn and the turning of steering.
The second method could be easier since clutch is never involved. Just at the corner one can leave the accelerator and pull up the hand brake at the same time. The moment car reaches its perfect angle; you can accelerate it once again and achieve the drift.
The third method is far trickier and involves a lot of experience. One can approach the turn at a lesser speed while maintaining the car in a higher gear. While holding the clutch, you can accelerate it upto 7000 rpm and use the handbrake to achieve a perfect drift angle. Just at that moment you can let go off the clutch and concentrate on controlling the car. Such drifts are rarely seen but are actually the ones which are most stylish.
Power slide drift: It is one of the most favourite drifts of the beginners. It simply involves over speeding the vehicle at the corner to slide the car and maintaining a control over it. This teaches the basic skills of a drift and the experience to control the motion of the car at various speeds and angles. The beauty of this drift lies in the fact that it can also be achieved in low power cars. The procedure of obtaining it is also very simple. Try approaching a turn at feather light speed and start turning the vehicle. Once the vehicle is turning, you should press the accelerator hard and achieve maximum speed. At the tip point, the car will begin to steer and slide it in outer direction. You can counter steer the car and maintain an optimum speed to last the drift till the turn finishes.
Shift lock Drift or Compression Slide : This is a useful technique to accelerate faster while exiting the corner, but does a lot of damage to the engine if tried by amateurs. The technique is to lower the shift while accelerating at a corner to momentarily lock the rear tyres due to reverse locking. This technique works very well to maintain a good speed at sharp corners.
Clutch Kick Technique: Drift enthusiasts often tend to gain angle at the expense of speed. Clutch Kick technique is one of the few techniques that help them achieve the desired angle. The technique is to kick the clutch at regular intervals without releasing the accelerator, thus creating jitters in the rear tyres and forcing the wheels to skit and slip. The brakes and the steering have to be matched with the speed and angle to complete a successful clutch kick drift. It can also be used to bring the car back to the drift line if the car is straightening up. This might slow down the speed and damage the crank shaft.
Moving on to the weight transition techniques; these drift moves are not easy since they need the experience of understanding the weight balance between the front end and the rear. The concept lies in the fact that the rear end will skid automatically once the weight is shifted to the front. The rear end will lose the grip and an over steer condition is established. One of the most famous drifts falling under the category of weight transition drifts is the braking drift.
Braking Drift: Usually a RWD vehicle can take the full advantage of this type of technique but if one has the necessary skill set, an FWD vehicle can be used the same way. By simple law of physics, if the brakes in a car are applied all of a sudden, the weight of the car shifts towards the front end. If this action is immediately followed by a throttle, the rear wheels lose traction and hence the car slips. The addition of high performing brake pads is always an added asset.
Feint/Inertia Drift : This drift is also known as the Scandinavian flick. This kind of drift is very tricky and very difficult to master. This drift involves two phases. In the first phase, the driver tries to shift the weight of the car towards the outside of a turn. This is achieved by turning away from the curvature of the turn at high speed and immediately turning in back on the same line. In cases where the rear wheels fail to do the required job, handbrake is used to transfer the weight of car towards the outside.
There are some other drift techniques that are not so popular but you might have a chance to see some rare reflections. One of them is the dirt drop technique.
Dirt Drop Technique: This simple looking drift might go wrong sometimes and result into dangerous accidents. The driver drops the rear part of the car on a less grip surface so as to allow the tyres to slip. The accelerator is pushed hard for further movement of the tyres. When the car slips, the steering and angle have to be maintained in cohesion to achieve a perfect drift.
Pendulum drift: Also known as the Choku-Dori/Manji; this technique depends on shifting of car's weight in a pendulum manner on straight racing tracks. Counter steer and throttle are used in perfect cohesion with brakes. This drift is mainly used to maintain a large angle during drifts. This is one of the finest looking drifts in a group competition where one car imitates the actions of the car just ahead. The move looks like a long snake who wriggles its body to crawl ahead.
There are some advance drift techniques as well which require years of practice to master and execute.
Also known as the famous Kanji series; these drifts vary in levels and difficulties.
The Kanji series are meant for achieving a perfect drift at corners at a good racing speed. A standard of 5000 rpm has to be maintained for such drifts. The first one is achieved by using 50% of full brake capability in cohesion with power-over and clutch kick technique to achieve a desired drift angle while maintaining a good speed. The second type involves reverse RPM and hand-rakes. The third one is hardly used these days since popping the clutch during turns can really do damage to the engine and brake shafts within.
Drifting Techniques have mesmerized the drift fans all across the globe. The sport has become so famous that everyday more and more approved techniques are joining the kitty. Enthusiasts all across the globe have been working day and night to produce more innovative and adventurous tricks.
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If you think you have to wait for a long time for pizza, just be thankful that you didn't have to wait 18 hours like for this one. But result is worth it: a new Guinness World Record for world's longest pizza!
For the 2015 world fair in Milan, Italy, sixty pizza makers came together to cook a sizzling margherita 1,595.45-meter long (that's nearly a mile-long!) The pizza was made using over two tons of tomato sauce and half a ton of mozzarella cheese, and stretched over 800 tables.
After the pizza was declared as world's longest, it was fed to over 30,000 fair visitors, and donated to a local food bank.
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The great outdoors may be one of the cheapest therapies for kids, a new study from Denmark shows. Kids who grow up surrounded by nature have up to 55% less risk of developing various mental disorders later in life, according to the paper from Aarhus University in Denmark, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States of America.
The research used satellite data from 1985 to 2013 to map the proximity of green space to the childhood homes of 943,027 Danes, from birth to age 10, for whom they had longitudinal data on mental health outcomes, socioeconomic status, and place of residence. The study then compared access to green space to data on mental health outcomes for that population, and found that consistent access suggested a big difference when it came to the risk of developing one of 16 different mental disorders later in life.
"If you are surrounded by more green space consistently throughout childhood, you will have an even lower risk of having a psychiatric disorder," said lead researcher Kristine Engemann, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Bioscience and the National Centre for Register-based Research at Aarhus University.
The mechanism through which kids' mental health improves with access to green space is unclear. But we do know that being closer to nature has health benefits: It can encourage exercise and improve social cohesion. If you spend a lot of time in the park, you get to know your neighbors better and build a sense of investment in your community. Time outdoors is also associated with improved cognition. One study in Barcelona studied kids' cognitive development over the course of a year in two different settings, while also controlling for socioeconomic status and family history. Children going to schools with more green space had higher cognitive development than those who had access to less green space. (In both of these studies, correlation is not causation; the researchers cannot show it was the green space that improved cognitive scores, only that those with access to more nature performed better cognitively.)
"Being in an urban environment is typically what we humans consider stressful," said Engemann. Noise, air pollution, infections, and poor socio-economic conditions can increase the risk of developing a mental disorder. There's also less space for kids to blow off steam."For children, if you come back from school and you have a nice yard or you go to the park, that could help children restore their mental capacity faster," she said.
The number of people living in cities is rising fast, with more than 50% of the world's population now living in cities. While urban centers tend to provide better access to health and education resources, as well as jobs, there is evidence that people's health takes a hit. The study cites studies showing that in some places, urban residents face an almost 50% higher risk of developing psychiatric disorders such as anxiety and mood disorders compared with their rural peers.
Engemann says that globally, there is a trend of "densification" in cities—constructing more buildings at the cost of making way for green space. "I think it's important that we acknowledge the value that green spaces have, not because they are decorative or pretty but they can have real benefits to the people living in the city." City planners, she said, should prioritize biophilic design, designing with an eye toward connecting humans and nature.
Green spaces, she said, are "potentially decreasing the risk of a lot of disorders, and can add up to a lot of potential benefits to a lot of people."


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Warner Home Video made some high-definition disc lovers squeal with anticipation this week when it announced the release of the 35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of the classic film "Deliverance" on standard DVD, Blu-ray and HD DVD.
All three films will be available on September 18. The SD disc will have a suggested retail price of $19.97, while the HD DVD and Blu-ray discs will be priced at $28.99.
Warner said the deluxe edition contains several special features, such as commentary by director John Boorman and an examination of one of the most controversial scenes in film history. The special features are included in all three formats.
Widely acclaimed as a landmark film, Deliverance is noted for the memorable music scene near the beginning that sets the tone for what lies ahead: a trip into unknown and potentially dangerous territory.
In the scene, set at a rural gas station, character Drew Ballinger (Ronny Cox) plays the instrumental Dueling Banjos on his guitar with a mentally retarded hillbilly named Lonnie (implied as being an inbred albino in the novel, portrayed by Billy Redden in the film). The boy eventually outplays Drew with his banjo. The song won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance.
The film was selected by the New York Times as one of "The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made," and viewers of Channel 4 in the United Kingdom voted it 45 in a list of The 100 Greatest Films.
In the film based on a 1970 novel of the same name by James Dickey, four Atlanta men (played by Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox) decide to canoe down the fictional Cahulawassee River in the remote Georgia wilderness, before it is flooded over by the upcoming construction of a dam and lake. The trip turns into a fight for survival when local hillbillies attack two of the men.
In a famous scene, Ed (Voight) is tied to a tree with his own belt and cut by one of the hillbillies' knives. Bobby (Beatty) is then forced to strip before being humiliated and then brutally raped by one hillbilly. Attention is then turned to Ed, and the other hillbilly said that Ed has "got a real purty mouth." Forced to defend themselves, the men kill two hillbillies while losing one of their own. (info from TWICE and Wikipedia)
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In a speech to the UN General Assembly, French President Emmanuel Macron called for multi-lateralism and for countries to stop making trade deals with those outside the Paris climate accords, namely the USA.
Trump pulled the USA out of last year saying that the Paris agreement – signed by 195 countries – unfairly penalized the USA and allowed countries like China and India to continue to pollute.
Trump also threatened Iran with even tougher sanctions, and hypocritically accused Tehran of building nuclear capable missiles, increase internal repression, finance terrorism, and fund havoc and slaughter in Syria and Yemen" through proxy forces?
While Trump celebrated the concept of sovereign nation-states and rejected "global governance," Macron called for multi-lateralism in diplomacy and trade.
Macron on the other hand credited the deal – which granted Iran sanctions relief in exchange for a halt to its nuclear weapons program – with bringing stability to the region.
France remains party to the deal, signed between Iran, the USA, UK, France, Germany, China and Russia. Trump unilaterally withdrew the USA from the deal, which he called "a windfall" for Iran.
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Non-sparking tools are increasingly in demand at Peddinghaus. Made of high quality copper beryllium, the tools used anywhere flying sparks can cause danger. Non-sparking tools are used in other sectors, including chemical industries, air-space travel and in mining. Because the security of the working environment is top priority.


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Electrification in simple terms involves running a wire 18' above our tracks that's powered by 600 volts.
This is important because it will allow the operation of our historic trolley and subway cars.
Until electrification happens, we are limited to running self-propelled equipment.
When the Museum moved to Kingston in 1983, electrification of the line was
next year's project.
Unfortunately, the realities of our finances and location have held off the dream of electrification.
Electrification at TMNY has been a hard hurdle to cross for a number of reasons.
The same location that blesses TMNY with a varied route that includes waterfront scenery,
a historic district and a supply of tourists also bristles with underground utilities, most importantly gas pipelines.
Therefore TMNY couldn't
just string some wire without meeting the costly requirements of safeguarding the gas lines.
In 2006, the City of Kingston on the museum's behalf, commissioned a $50,000 engineering study to design and estimate the costs of electrification. HDR, Inc. was chosen for the study and the final report was delivered in 2008. HDR's estimate for the project, including track upgrades, overhead, 12-pulse rectifier substation, and completely restoring trolley B&QT 8361 (a double end Peter Witt) is $7.1M. So, TMNY has a little bit of money to raise! TMNY still has no endowment or other long-term means to sustain the current operation (including staff salary), so that will continue to be the focus of our own fundraising near-term.
Below is the entire cost sheet from the HDR report. This is based on prevailing wages and costs, so the actual price when shovel hits dirt may vary, hopefully downward with volunteers, in-kind services and donations factored in.
In 2009, U. S. Senator Charles Schumer announced an $800,000 federal earmark for track upgrades is in the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development appropriation. This is the largest grant that the museum has benefitted from so far in its history. None of the $800,000 goes to electrification per se, but about a mile of the existing track is updated to modern light rail standards as a prelude to eventual electrification.
HDR Inc. was once again chosen as the engineering contractor for this grant. In 2012 a bid was awarded to Riegel Rail Solutions, Inc. for the actual construction of the project. Work was completed in 2013.
The Board of Trustees will continue to seek grants to move electrification forward.
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In the wake of a deadly tornado that destroyed parts of Van, Texas, a week ago, a dog was found curled up with her dead owner David Tapley, a retired police officer, and nearby his wife, Brenda.
The Great Pyrenees, thought to be about 8 years old (solid information about her previous life, including her name, is hard to come by), is banged up, emotionally and physically.
She's showing signs of shock; her skin is raw and bruised. She has some head trauma, and is now deaf in one ear from a burst eardrum.
But, rather miraculously, she's alive. She has a new name -- Emma -- given to her by a new family, who themselves have one new goal: to help this dog heal.
"My mom and I agreed that we would set her birthday at her survival date. That is the day her life changed. It helps us honor the lives of her owners that perished in the tornado," says Michelle Shockley, who, along with her parents, has adopted Emma. "Trust me, I cry a lot."
Emma with Michelle Shockley, on the way to her new home. Photo: Michelle Shockley
Emma wasn't David and Brenda Tapleys' only pet. Five others -- along with a dozen-odd other animals affected by the tornado -- were brought from the devastation in Van to a horse farm about 20 miles away, where they're being taken care of by the group Nicholas Pet Haven.
Cindy Nash, founder of Nicholas Pet Haven, says that these animals, mostly, remarkably, are seeming OK. (The rest will be up for adoption soon.)
Emma seemed worst hit.
"She has the saddest face and is absolutely traumatized," says Nash. "You can't help but cry when you look at her and just want to sit and hold and love her."
Shockley, who goes by Missy, saw Emma arriving at the dogs' temporary shelter and felt an "instant connection."
"I crawled up into the pickup bed and opened the crate and started loving on her," says Shockley. "Within a minute, she had come out of the crate and laid in my lap."
They brought Emma home, as soon as legally able (it took a few days after the tornado to sort out which pets had folks coming back for them).
Dr. Gary Spence, of Spence & White Veterinary Hospital in Tyler, Texas, tells The Huffington Post that what Emma and the others went through is devastating.
On top of being medically injured, "everything they know is just gone," he says.
But having examined her shortly after her rescue, Spence believes Emma -- with enough time and treatment -- is going to recover.
"Emma's going to be OK," he says.
Photo: Michelle Shockley
Shockley and her parents are determined to see it so.
Emma doesn't have much of an appetite yet, and mostly just wants to sleep, on a big comfy dog bed piled high with blankets. She doesn't yet like going outside unless someone is with her. She's got a lot more veterinarian appointments ahead of her, including one today, to try to make her skin a little less raw.
But Emma's warming to the other family dog, a little pit named Bentley (though still seems befuddled by the cat). Shockley thinks that the doggie is even "starting to recognize her new name." Emma's recently wagged her tail a little, and shown some interest in treats, too.
They're small steps in the scheme of things, but huge to the people who know what Emma lost, know what she experienced -- and love her very much, just a few days into being her new family.
"She deserves anything she wants," says Shockley, who encourages others to adopt and foster rescue pets as well. "I believe all animals deserve that second chance at finding a happy life."
Posted by Nicholas Pet Haven on Saturday, May 16, 2015
Nicholas Pet Haven is looking for more foster and permanent homes for animals affected by the Texas tornado. Find out more on the group's website and Facebook page.
Folks who want to help financially instead can donate here.
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🌕Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Capricorn🐐〰 the last eclipse of the summer is here, unleashing and unlocking the past. We must learn to let go of monetary and emotional constraints holding us back , without guilt or fear. This moon is about healing the divine masculine energy , taking goals to the next level , manifesting prosperity and dissolving obstacles in our path. I pulled cards for this full moon and ended up with one card from each elemental suit :
The Shaman / King of Swords ~ fire of air , his power derives from the fusion of the sword's mobility and the creative force of fire. He thinks thoroughly before proceeding and it's rare for him to impulsively act from passion or love. This card is telling you to release your indecisiveness about options and ultimately, decisions you need to make -- just do it. Use your spirit connections and intuition , you have the tools. You're delaying necessary changes and generally not achieving anything because of fear of making the wrong choice. You are never out of options , the possibilities are endless. (Choice is my oracle card pull) 〰
🌱 Discs / pentacles are the matter from which all forms proceed and to which they ultimately return. Ace of Discs is the creative germ of the earth , the newborn , a new beginning. You are ready to evolve! Begin a new project, a new business venture or career shift. You are moving towards prosperity , manifest it.
🔥 How can you direct your energy in the most valuable way? What are the frustrations that waste your energy? The Five of Wands is asking you these questions. It's time to pick and choose your battles - back to those choices! Transition and transformation is coming whether you like it or not. You need to be ready for it by focusing on your goals instead of petty drama or other things that waste your time and energy. That time and energy could be put towards something useful.
💧 Lastly, the Five of Cups asks you to consciously let go of the past. Stop clinging to past emotions , pessimism , self pity. New opportunities and possibilities (ace of Discs) are waiting for you! But only when you're ready.
Cancer season is all about healing your past traumas, working on your shadow self and nurturing your inner child. Use this full moon and powerful eclipse energy to do the shadow work , do the self care. Take a bath with herbs, light a candle, write in your journal & manifest what it is you want out of life. It's as easy as starting with a to do list. Don't be afraid of the inevitable choices and transitions you will have to make along the way. Don't allow that fear to stop you from reaching your goals 💖


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LOT 14 Deer Reserve Drive, Pocatello ID 83204 Deer Reserve Drive
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- Type: Improved Land
- Subdivision: Deer Valley Reserve
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Scenic mountain and Valley View Acreage Lot in the Rocky Mountain Range of South Pocatello. Welcome to Deer Valley Reserve. Build your dream home on this 2.50 acre lot with an additional 2.50 acres of deeded open space. Open space is directly connected to the Caribou-Targhee National Forest with access to the Slate Mountain Range trail , West Fork Trail and many others from there. Over 100 miles of US Forest Service, BLM, State and local trails for hiking, biking, and horse back riding in the area. Lot is 2 miles south of the city limits, 5 minutes from Juniper Hills Country Club and only 15 minutes to Pebble Creek Ski Area. Lots of Wildlife can be seen here such as deer, moose, turkey, pheasants, grouse, mountain lions and bobcats. Area 70 on Idaho Fish and Game maps acknowledges this area as one of the top areas for deer and moose trophies. Create your own private Idaho hide-a-way with space to roam, panoramic views and abundant wildlife. 11 other acreage lots are available as well. Seller will do a 10% discount on the first lot sold with a full price offer.
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This Improved Land property is located in Pocatello, in county, and has been listed on Southeast Idaho Real Estate. This property is listed at $ 230,000.00. It has , , and is sqft. The property was built in the year . Contact Dustin Hawkins at Idaho Agents Real Estate for more info. Local East Idaho real estate experts.
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Observational Ode to Organic Solidarity,
Let Poetic Justice Prevail. Unveiling the Creative Process of Jelena Maksimović's Homelands,
On the Way from Myself to a Friend,
»We don't have to be heroes to be partisans, but we have to be partisans. No other way!«. A conversation with Marta Popivoda and Ana Vujanović,
Domesticated Spaces Gone Wild,
Behemoth in Lodz: Kill It and Leave This Town,
Film and Animal Ethics
The Curse of Carnivores and the Bloody Progress,
How to Universalise the Cat Species. On Kedi,
Filmic Pandemic Pasts and Futures: The Case of New Queer Cinema,
Exercises in Upright Posture: The films of Mohammad Rasoulof in the Context of Contemporary Iranian Cinema,
The Time of Jep and the Time of Victoria: Love and Pleasure between Boomers and Millennials,
Best Regards from Ljubljana
On the Structure of Public Conflict: ŠOU–RŠ, MOL–ROG etc.,
The Res Privata Republic. The Destruction of the Rog Autonomous Factory as a Happy Meeting of the Left Liberal Futuristic Fantasy, the Neoliberal Governance Technique and the Appetites of the Xenophobic Right,
School Hour
Vagabond: Agnès Varda on a Journey between Realism, Feminism and Post-modernism,
A Newly Opened File on Jean Painlevé,
My Brilliant Friend: An Extreme Close-up of Gender Inequality,
Film and Video Games
Contemporary Films and Video Games. The Role of Video Games in Cinema's Adaption to the Development of New Distribution Networks and Viewing Contexts,
Body in a Parallel Reality. The Correlation between Films and Video Games in the Immersion in Virtual/Diegetic Space,
Video Games and Films: Forward into the Past,
The Audiovisual, Aesthetic and Experiential Side of Video Games and Films,
The Convergence of Films and Video Games. The Historical Connection between Video Games and Films,
Pillow Shots
Never Outside the Cinema Again,
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Barry Needham, age 67 of Loganville, passed away on Wednesday, January 31, 2018. Funeral Services will be held at 2 PM on Saturday, February 10, 2018 in the Loganville Chapel of Tim Stewart Funeral Home. Richard Jenkins will officiate. Interment will follow at Corinth Memorial Gardens. Mr. Needham was preceded in death by his parents: Eugene & Barbara Howington Needham. He is survived by his brother and sister-in-law: Danny and Teresa Needham of Monroe; niece: Abby Needham-Nash (Andy) of Monroe; nephew: Matt Needham (Lindsey) of Cumming; and 2 great nephews: Harper and Henry Needham. The family will receive friends from 12 – 2 PM on Saturday, February 10, 2018 at the Tim Stewart Funeral Home, 670 Tom Brewer Road, Loganville, GA 30052. 770-466-1544. Please sign the online guest registry at www.stewartfh.com
To send flowers or a memorial gift to the family of Barry Needham please visit our Sympathy Store.
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Peru will replace its outgrown Cuzco airport with a 40,000-sq-meter airport, built to international standards and initially costing US$538 million. ProInversión, the Peruvian private investment agency, has granted the Kuntur Wasi consortium a 40-year co-financed DBFOM concession for the new Aeropuerto Internacional Chinchero. Kuntur Wasi is a team of Argentina's airport operator Corporación América, S.A. (CASA) and Peru's Andino Investment Holding. The government of Peru will invest 47% of the funds in the project.
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Further Reading
- Lens Options for Babies with Congenital Cataracts
- What to Expect From Cataract Surgery Anesthesia
- What to Expect After Cataract Surgery
- Comparing Surgical Methods
- How Long to Wait Before Exercise
- Cataract Surgery and Floaters
- Cataract Surgery Risks
- Superficial Keratectomy Before Cataract Surgery
- Best Eyedrops Post-Surgery
- Alternatives to Surgery
- Laser Vs. Traditional Surgery
- Steps to the Surgery
- Laser Surgery for Cataracts
- Cataract Surgery After Vitrectomy
- Age Limit
- Headache After Surgery
- Medicaid Coverage
- Surgery & Blood Thinners
- Multifocal IOLs
- Extended Depth of Focus IOLs
Common & Uncommon Complications after Cataract Surgery
For an overwhelming number of patients, cataract surgery will cause no complications. However, as uncommon as they may be, there are some complications that can arise.
Complications associated with cataract surgery include:
- Posterior Capsule Opacity (PCO)
- Malpositioned Intraocular Lens
- Detached Retina
- Light Sensitivity (Photophobia)
- Intraocular lens dislocations
- Eye inflammation
- Increased pressure in the eyeball
- Swelling of the central retina
- Infection or bleeding within eye
- Non-improvement of vision
Keep reading for a closer look at these possible complications.
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There are a few complications that can arise, but these tend to be minor, and they can be easily addressed if they are brought to light quickly. Examples include posterior capsule opacity and a malpositioned intraocular lens.
In cases where there are rare complications, this is usually due to the presence of underlying eye health issues and will require more involved treatment.
Cataract Surgery Complications
Cataract surgery is a very simple, straightforward procedure. In fact, it is one of the most common and successful operations.
The Ophthalmology journal reported that in a review of 221,594 cataract surgeries, 99.5 percent "had zero serious complications following the procedure." A big reason for this is that there have been so many advancements in surgical tools and techniques, that the risk of severe complications arising during or after the surgery is notably low.
As a result, complications that arise after the surgery are rare, but they do happen. Here's a breakdown of some of these complications:
|Posterior Capsule Opacity (PCO)
|A layer of scar tissue forms behind the lens, leading to hazy vision. Treated with YAG laser capsulotomy.
|Malpositioned Intraocular Lens
|The lens implant is dislocated or misplaced. Surgical repositioning is required.
|Detached Retina
|Rare, but can occur months or years post-surgery. Requires immediate medical attention.
|Light Sensitivity (Photophobia)
|Sensitivity to sunlight and other bright lights. Can be managed with special eyewear and resting the eyes.
|Intraocular lens dislocations
|Displacement of the implanted lens, requiring medical intervention to reposition or replace.
|Eye inflammation
|Redness, swelling and discomfort in the eye. Usually managed with medications.
|Increased pressure in the eyeball
|Can lead to glaucoma if left untreated. Treated with eye drops, medications or surgery.
|Swelling of the central retina
|Can cause vision loss if not treated. Medications and laser treatment can be used to reduce swelling.
|Infection or bleeding within eye
|Serious and rare, can lead to vision loss. Requires immediate medical attention and possibly further surgeries.
|Non-improvement of vision
|Likely due to underlying eye disorders such as diabetic retinopathy or age-related macular degeneration.
In most cases of complications after cataract surgery, medical treatment, resting the eyes, and additional surgery, when necessary, can easily address the problems.
Posterior Capsule Opacity
One of the most common complications that can arise after cataract surgery is a posterior capsule opacity, or PCO. It is sometimes known as a secondary cataract, but this is inaccurate. It occurs when a layer of scar tissue forms behind the lens that was implanted after the surgery.
People who develop PCO will experience vision that is hazy or blurry, similar to what they experienced when they had cataracts. This is why PCO is referred to as secondary cataracts, even though cataracts cannot grow on the artificial lens that is implanted into the eye.
Posterior capsule opacity occurs in about 20 percent of people who have cataract surgery. It can develop anywhere from weeks, to even years, after the cataract surgery, and it can cause vision loss if left untreated.
PCO is treated by use of a procedure known as YAG laser capsulotomy, a quick and painless outpatient procedure where a laser makes a small opening in the clouded capsule to allow light to shine through. PCO cannot develop a second time, so the procedure needs to be done only once.
Malpositioned Intraocular Lens
Another complication of cataract surgery that can occur is a dislocated or a malpositioned intraocular lens. If this happens, patients will be able to see the edge of the lens implant in their vision. They might even have double vision. If the lens misplacement is not addressed, loss of vision is a certainty.
The intraocular lens can become displaced because the capsular bag into which it is placed is incredibly thin — only as thick as a single red blood cell — and can easily break. Ophthalmologists will try to keep the capsular bag intact and in place, to ensure that the intraocular lens is secure and properly positioned. But because the capsular bag is so fragile, the IOL can move.
If this happens, the doctor can surgically reposition it, either by sewing it back into position or using another kind of intraocular lens. If the lens is displaced soon after cataract surgery, it is important to reposition it quickly. The longer a lens implant is out of place, the more likely it will "scar" itself into place and then become more difficult to remove.
If a doctor takes quick action when their patient reports double vision or actually seeing the edge of the lens, there's a chance the displaced lens can be fixed or replaced, with a better likelihood that the problem will not occur again.
Detached Retina
A detached retina can occur after cataract surgery, but this can happen months, or even years, later. Most patients will not suffer too much if they contact their doctor as soon as they notice the symptoms and treatment can happen as soon as possible. However, a small number of patients who do not alert their doctor when their vision suffers may experience a permanent reduction in their vision.
Like most complications that can occur after cataract surgery, instances of a detached retina are very uncommon. The Digital Journal of Ophthalmology writes that they happen in just 1.5 percent of patients.
Some patients experience sensitivity to sunlight and other bright lights after their surgery. They might benefit from eyeglasses with photochromic lenses, which automatically darken when they detect UV rays. Glasses with anti-reflective coating and progressive lenses can help with presbyopia.
In time, however, even these problems should resolve. Some level of photophobia is considered a normal side effect of cataract surgery.
If the sensitivity to light is intense and disruptive, it can be addressed with eye drops, vision aids, and a program of resting the eyes.
Uncommon & Serious Complications
Serious complications from cataract surgery are very rare. If vision loss does occur, it is likely the result of infection or bleeding within the eye.
It is possible that in a small number of patients, vision does not improve after their cataract surgery. If this is the case, it is likely that they have underlying eye disorders, such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration. The presence of these conditions will likely require a combination of further treatment, such as medications, surgery, and vision aids.
However, for an overwhelming number of the people receiving cataract surgery, the procedure is painless, quick, and without significant problems, side effects, or complications.
- Cataract Surgery Complication Rates. (August 2008). Ophthalmology.
- Posterior Capsule Opacification. (March 2015). Kellogg Eye Center.
- Intraocular Lens Dislocation. (2016). American Society of Retina Specialists.
- The Risks and Benefits of Cataract Surgery. (October 2002). Digital Journal of Ophthalmology.
- Extreme Photophobia After Cataract Surgery. (March 2014). American Academy of Ophthalmologists.
- Cataract and Diabetic Retinopathy. (September 2011). Community Eye Health.
The information provided on this page should not be used in place of information provided by a doctor or specialist. To learn more, read our Privacy Policy and Editorial Policy pages.
Further Reading
- Lens Options for Babies with Congenital Cataracts
- What to Expect From Cataract Surgery Anesthesia
- What to Expect After Cataract Surgery
- Comparing Surgical Methods
- How Long to Wait Before Exercise
- Cataract Surgery and Floaters
- Cataract Surgery Risks
- Superficial Keratectomy Before Cataract Surgery
- Best Eyedrops Post-Surgery
- Alternatives to Surgery
- Laser Vs. Traditional Surgery
- Steps to the Surgery
- Laser Surgery for Cataracts
- Cataract Surgery After Vitrectomy
- Age Limit
- Headache After Surgery
- Medicaid Coverage
- Surgery & Blood Thinners
- Multifocal IOLs
- Extended Depth of Focus IOLs


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Business Discretionary Grants Scheme Now OpenPosted on 27 May 2020
Small businesses who have not been able to apply for previous grant schemes are invited to apply for the Ashford discretionary grants scheme from Thursday 28 May.
The scheme is for businesses within Ashford borough, and has a total of around £1.4m. It will be awarding grants of up to £10,000 to businesses who have been adversely affected by the coronavirus but have been ineligible for the government's other business grants schemes. As directed by the government, the scheme will prioritise the following four areas first:
Bed and breakfasts offering serviced accommodation who pay council tax;
Businesses in shared spaces;
Market traders.
Other businesses may apply, but will not be considered until businesses in these four areas have been awarded grants. The second prioritisation will be given to businesses who supply the tourism, retail, hospitality and leisure industry and who have suffered considerable loss of income and have high fixed costs. If funding is still available after these businesses have been paid, we will be assessing applications from small businesses who can show significant loss of earnings and high fixed costs.
The scheme will be awarding grants of up to £10,000 to businesses adversely affected by the coronavirus.
The application process will start on Thursday 28 May and run until 23.59 on Wednesday 17 June. If you would like to apply, please visit www.ashford.gov.uk/coronavirus-advice-for-businesses and select 'Discretionary grants scheme'. Please make sure you have completed and submitted your application by the closing date to be considered in any of the priority levels.
After the closing date, the council will be working through the applications and contacting businesses to let them know if they have been successful, and how much they will be receiving.
Cllr Gerry Clarkson, Leader of the Council, said: "We hope this scheme will help those businesses in Ashford borough who have been unable to claim through the government's other grant schemes. I would encourage anyone with a small business who has suffered a loss of income but continues to have high fixed costs to apply."
More information on all the help available to businesses is online at www.ashford.gov.uk/coronavirus-advice-for-businesses.