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Annual Fund
The Annual Fund is made up of hundreds of gifts from Gulliver's loyal parents, alumni, students, faculty, staff, trustees and friends. These contributions directly support, strengthen and sustain the extraordinary programs, facilities and resources that define a Gulliver education.
The Annual Fund, launched in 2007, supports key initiatives to advance our strategic plan and enhance the student, faculty and alumni experience. Unrestricted gifts to the annual fund support financial aid and scholarships, faculty professional development, facilities and program enhancement, and service learning and community initiatives.
Donor Societies
Annual Giving
Annual Fund giving is at the foundation of our fundraising program. Gulliver honors and recognizes Annual Fund donors in the following giving societies.
Leadership Society
$10,000 - $24,999
Benefactor Society
$5,000 - $9,999
Raider Society
$2,000 - $4,999
Blue & Silver Society
$1,000 - $1,999
$500 - $999
Up to $499
Founder's Circle
Each year, Gulliver is proud to welcome new members into its Founder's Circle. Their gifts provide the school with flexible resources to support a wide range of school needs. Lifetime membership is granted to those who have made a cumulative contribution to Gulliver Schools of $25,000 or more.
Mrs. K's Society
$1,000,000 and over
Atrium Society
$250,000 - $999,999
Half-Century Society
$50,000 - $249,999
1926 Society
$25,000 - $49,999
Ways to Support the Annual Fund
What will you give to empower the future?
There are many ways to support Gulliver's Annual Fund:
- Make an unrestricted gift in cash or stock
- Participate in Give Miami Day or Giving Tuesday
- Support Breakthrough Miami at Gulliver
- Support a Fund: Athletic, Performing Arts or Visual Arts Funds
- Sponsor a special event or school club
- Establish a family fund within our school endowment
- Make a gift in honor of your alumni year or sponsor alumni reunion
- Leave your legacy with a Brick in your child's honor
- Participate in our Fashion + Philanthropy Series
- Make purchases through Amazon Smile and designate Gulliver as your beneficiary
Ready to accept your invitation to Empower the Future?
Why Give?
YOUR GIFT shows a vote of confidence for the Gulliver experience, past and present!
YOUR GIFT supports all Gulliver students. Your annual fund gift sets a tradition of giving which we hope our current students will adopt as they enter our alumni ranks, supporting the next generation of Gulliver students.
YOUR GIFT helps increase our participation goal, which is essential for Gulliver when we apply for grants from corporations and foundations. The strength of annual giving shows the strength of our school.
YOUR GIFT to the Annual Fund supports Gulliver in numerous ways. The annual fund supports every aspect of the Gulliver experience, including academics, technology, the arts, faculty and classroom resources, student activities, athletics, facility upgrades, campus beautification, and much more.
YOUR GIFT MATTERS. It is that simple. Every gift goes to work immediately to benefit our students. Whether you are part of Gulliver's past, present or future, your support is essential to the mission of Gulliver Schools!
Learn About the Impact of Your Investments
Approved projects for 2017 and 2018 annual fund allocation include:
- Awnings for Athletics Facilities: Provide shade and shelter for students, parents, alumni and fans at Middle School Baseball and Prep Fields.
- Professional Development: Investment in teacher professional development to support 21st century learning and recruit, prepare and retain exceptional teaching professionals.
- Financial Aid/Scholarships: Furthering Gulliver's strategic initiative to advance diversity, inclusion and affordability, over $200,000 will be awarded in financial aid and scholarship support to students with demonstrated need.
- South Playground: A new Kompan intelligent playground for primary and lower school students to provide age appropriate physical challenges while promoting positive social behavior and language development.
- Faculty Lounge Areas Refresh: Updated spaces for faculty planning, collaboration and reflection.
- Outdoor Furniture: Refreshed outdoor campus furniture for an enhanced learning environment at Prep and Academy
- Additional Support: Unrestricted and donor-directed gifts are also supporting research activities, athletics, artist visits and master classes, competitions and travel, new technology, Gulliver's Breakthrough Miami partnership, community impact and service learning and much more.


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Fresh Off The Runway: Elie Saab Spring 2019 RTW
Details: Laser-Cut Leather, Lace, Floral Prints, Embroidery, Organza, Sequins, Leopard Print, Suits, and Day Dresses.
Colors: Black, Cardinal Red, Teal, White, Sunshine Yellow, Royal Blue, and Navy.
Beauty Trends: Smoky Rimmed Eyes, Bronzed Skin, Contoured Cheeks, Sculpted Brows, and Soft Nude Lips.
Celebrity Wish List: Olivia Wilde, kerry Washington, Viola Davis, Scarlet Johansson, Lily Collins, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, & Jessica Chastain.
Flip through the gallery above to see my favorite pieces, and check out the full collection at Style.com

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GoGo Monster
GoGo Monster Third grader Yuki Tachibana lives in two worlds. In one world, he is a loner ridiculed by his classmates and reprimanded by his teachers for telling stories of supernatural beings that only he can see. In the other world, the supernatural beings vie for power with malevolent spirits who bring chaos into the school, the students' lives, and nature itself.
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Chicago Bulls Lapel Pin Sterling Silver
Chicago Bulls Lapel Pin is made in the USA of fine quality Sterling Silver. Let's you wear your team spirit everywhere you go. These items are made to order and ship in about 10 business days. Approximately 15mm wide. Makes a great addition to your NBA team jewelry collection.


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While preparing myself to talk to a group of new teachers at the College of Staten Island, I was reminded of a story that Dr. Gattegno once told about shaving. Every day he shaved, but each time he did so, he started from a different spot on his face. He said that he did this in order not to miss an opportunity to discover something new, about shaving, about himself, or about something completely unknown or unexpected.
This story came to mind because, after I heard it, I tried an experiment that has continued to influence my development as a teacher. The basis of my experiment was the thought that if Dr. Gattegno could be open to the idea of learning something new from an ordinary experience like shaving, surely something could be gained from meeting my classes, every day, as if I were doing so for the first time.
In my experiment, I focused on one particular class, trying to find something new. I acknowledged that I knew the title of the course, some things about the subject matter, the students' names, and at least one way of presenting the material, but there were many things I didn't know, and these were things I could think of as "new." For example, I didn't know whether what I had prepared for the class would work because I didn't know what the students would be like on any given day. Nor would I know the answers to such questions as:
- Would they have read the assigned pages?
- Would they have done the written work before class?
- Would they have understood the assignments?
- Would they be willing to speak in class when called upon?
- Would they be as interested as on the previous day?
- Would they recall the previous day's work?
- Would they understand today's lesson?
- Would they be attentive to the teacher, their classmates, to themselves and their own learning?
The effect of thinking about such questions, of reflecting upon what I didn't and perhaps couldn't know, was to put me more in touch with my students than I had ever been before, and also to provide me with a way of approaching teaching that I continue to follow.
I recognized that a useful way to prepare myself for a class would be to ask not only, "What do I have to teach?" but also, "What do I have to learn" about the students and their ways of learning? What helps them to proceed in their learning, and what stands in their way? Some answers I could get by asking them directly, and some required close observation of the students engaged in learning activities which they could do before my eyes. Other answers required a more accurate understanding of what the course work truly required.
So, I began questioning what I had to learn from myself as a learner. I started to do the assignments I gave to my students, and, more importantly, I learned to analyze what each assignment required of me in order to feel that I had mastered the work, or had done the best possible job. What I learned about my own learning began to guide what I would do with my students.
As a reading teacher, most of my attention was focused upon the process of reading and what activities were required of me in order to develop an interpretation which accounted for the text. Because I was so often very familiar with the subject matter, it was difficult to analyze what I had to do to comprehend the material. So I learned to invent stumbling blocks, such as rewriting the material so it would be understandable to someone less familiar with it, or creating an assignment I'd never done before with the material and then doing it. In this way, I could not only analyze what I had done as a reader, but also I could make "old" material new.
When I wanted to learn more about the way I learned something unfamiliar, I began working with colleagues in my own department. I agreed to read their material and they mine. We first did this in an informal way and then more systematically in workshops. Eventually, I conducted workshops for colleagues outside of my own department. We analyzed the demands of reading that were common to all disciplines, such as developing and sustaining interest in the material; keeping an open mind; hypothesizing and seeking evidence to confirm or disprove hypotheses; holding a dialogue with the text; questioning the material and ourselves while proceeding; and recalling or constructing mental images appropriate to the reading. We also worked to analyze those demands which were specific to each discipline.
Together we recognized that some of the difficulties we experienced in learning, our students also had. What we invented to help ourselves we could offer to our students. For example, when we recognized that we had difficulty remembering or holding on to unfamiliar subject matter over time, thus finding it hard to return to it, we decided to start our sessions by writing one thing we remembered from the previous lesson. Once we wrote one thing, it triggered another. We found this technique helped us recall more and more. Sometimes we shared these writings, and as others spoke, we could see that we had actually held on to more than we originally thought. Occasionally we analyzed why we recalled what we did. Later on, we brought this experience to the classroom by having our students take the first five minutes of class to write at least one thing they had retained from the last class. As this became routine, students grew to expect this writing and began taking responsibility for maintaining the continuity of the course for themselves, rather than seeing each class session as a separate entity, totally unconnected from the rest, which the teacher would magically tie up!
When, in a biology lesson, we recognized that we had difficulty understanding the workings of the heart or the kidneys because we couldn't visualize what we were reading and had difficulty with the scientific terminology, we found it most useful to work first from a three-dimensional model, listing in our own words whatever we could observe, and then together generating questions about the workings of the organ. This changed our relation to the readings. We became familiar with the appearance of the organs being described. We were more curious about their workings, and we also appreciated the scientific terminology which was more precise than our pedestrian descriptions. The biology teacher used the same approach with his students. He involved them first in their own explorations and then had them do the readings, rather than requiring them to first read and memorize scientific terms as the basis for making observations. They too became more interested and prepared to read science.
As we became more aware of our learning processes, we also recognized the value not only of creating techniques which would help students to learn the subject matter in our disciplines, but also of inventing ways that students could use to become aware of their own learning processes so that they could facilitate their own learning.
Looking at teaching time as an opportunity to learn something new and unexpected requires keeping myself in the position of a learner, and doing so continues to yield a great deal.
The day I addressed my new colleagues at the College of Staten Island, I told them Dr. Gattegno's story about shaving. I also talked about how the story and his work had inspired the experiment which I have just described and which continues ongoing.
© Rose Katz Ortiz
New York
The Science of Education in Questions – No 10, Une Education Pour Demain, France. December 1993.
Rose Ortiz, a member of the Department of English, Speech, and World Literature at the College of Staten Island teaches Reading, Composition, and Speech courses.
She coordinates the college's Reading Program, directs the Freshman Workshop Program, and Supervises the Faculty Development component of the Coordinated Freshman Program Linked Courses Project.
She has been working with Words in Color and The Silent Way for about three decades.
"Approaching Teaching with Fresh Eyes" by Rose Katz Ortiz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.


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How does the GitHub + CloudScript integration work? I added GitHub to my PlayFab project and selected my project repository, but all that happened was the "Upload New Revision" button on CloudScript disappeared (as it seems it should), but any commits I make to my script don't show up in the latest revision on the cloud script tab.
I even created another empty repository just for storing the cloud scripts, linked that via the GitHub add-on, but still had the same results.
I had made numerous (30) revisions to the cloud script the old fashioned way before deciding to try using git. Is there something I'm missing? Do the script files need to be in a certain folder or named a certain way for the cloud script feature to pick up on them?
Answer by Brendan · Apr 02, 2017 at 07:44 PM
One you have connected a GitHub repo to your title's Cloud Script, every time you commit to master, the contents of the files will be concatenated and pulled in as a new Revision. That Revision will not automatically be deployed as the live Revision (so that you can test it before deploying) though, so you may want to check your drop-down for the Revision to find your latest updates.
Ah, I knew I was going to feel silly at the answer. That's exactly it, sorry. Thanks for the fast response Brendan!
Hmm, how do you test cloudscript without deploying first? I probably missed that documentation somewhere.
In the call to ExecuteCloudScript, you can run a specific revision for testing by setting RevisionSelection to either "Latest" (which will run whatever is the most recent revision, regardless of which one has been promoted to Live) or "Specific", if you also then set the SpecificRevision parameter to the revision you want to test.
@Brendan I may have a silly question about this topic, but I cannot find the answer nowhere.
When you say that the files will be concatenated, what do you mean exactly? What is the logic behind the concatenation? Are the import and require statements resolved to create a single file? Are the files simply concatenated in an aphabetic order based on their names?
Working on a single file is quickly not possible in js. But I don't find any resource explaining what are the best practice in splitting the js files to work with CloudScript.
Thank you very much!
The files are just concatenated directly - take the string content of each and just append them. I believe the files are processed in the order they're listed in the project, but it shouldn't really matter, as long as you're not splitting a single function or class across files.
Ok, thanks a lot for your answer :)
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text: Wanda Maximoff from X-Men: Evolution. Also known as the Scarlet Witch, she's a mutant who has the ability to manipulate probabilities via hex spheres or bolts. She's a daughter of Magneto and sister to Quicksilver. Though she becomes one of the Avengers, she's a villain in X-Men. She was locked away in an asylum at a young age by Magneto. Because of this horrible memory, she grows up into a troubled, unstable Goth girl, like Rogue. With the help of Mystique, she is able to breakout in order to get revenge from her father, and joins the Brotherhood in an attempt to take down the X-Men. Later in the series, Magneto alters her traumatic childhood memories.


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A controversial parliamentarian in Uganda has been shot dead. Ibrahim Abiriga and his personal body guard was gunned down close to Uganda's capital Kampala.
Famed for donning yellow attire to show his undying allegiance to Uganda's ruling party- the National Resistance Movement (NRM), Abiriga represented Arua municipality, a city in the northwest.
He was one of the legislators that vehemently supported a controversial constitutional amendment last year which removed the presidential age limit. Opponents of the amendment said it was meant to ensure President Yoweri Museveni, in power since 1986, rules for life.


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Blitzbokke Call Up Carel Du Preez
Springbok Sevens squad member Carel Du Preez will replace Philip Snyman in the 12-man team to contest the Scotland leg of the HSBC Sevens World Series this weekend. Snyman, who was included in the original team that travelled to Glasgow last weekend, picked up a calf muscle injury in training and has been ruled out of this weekend's tournament at Scotstoun Stadium. Du Preez, who made his World Series debut for the Blitzbokke in Japan last month, will join up with the squad on Saturday morning.
South Africa's pool fixtures in Glasgow, Saturday 9 May:
12:58 – vs Samoa
16:04 – vs Kenya
19:37 – vs New Zealand
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This morning I felt like I was supposed to share a specific scripture to the first person who got to the school. I specifically heard Jeremiah 14:13 "You will not experience war or suffer famine. I will give you lasting peace and prosperity in this land.". I thought it was cool that God was giving me this word for someone.
As I sat in my office answering emails and such, I heard the front door open! I was super excited to see who it was so I could give them the word. It was one of our lovely small group leader ladies. I gave her the words and she seemed to be super encouraged by it. Later in the day, she came to me and said how it was a great word and that she was encouraged by it.
I just love how God is into surprising people with his word and how He meets us where we are. I love that she was encouraged and felt God's love for her that day!


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My world of minatures
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
At long last
I have not visited my blog for so long, sorry about that, had a long spell of illness last year and then family problems so I am afraid that writing in hey blog was the last thing on my mind. However things are settling down now and thought it was about time that I got back to things and trying to bring things up to date.
Tuesday, 26 July 2016
For my etsy shop
In between working on my dollhouse I have also been making lots of miniatures for my shop
Curtains and Blinds
I am starting making the window dressings. Started with the curtains and blinds for the little girls Rebecca and Rose, bedroom window
I am making the curtains, blinds and the mattresses for the lovely beds from a secondhand sheet bought from a local charity shop. There is a small bit of the sheet that is a bit frayed but can use the rest of it, and there is loads left,for all sorts of things
Dollhouse update
Have got some wonderful item for the interior and now I am going to have to start on the rooms
Thursday, 21 May 2015
Well on the way now and some newly made miniature bags.
Yesterday I really progressed with my doll house and put the window settings in the roof. I am still not sure about the plastic windows that came with the dollhouse so I have blu tacked them into place to live with them for a while to see how I feel after a few days
In the meantime I have not been idle and made some new bags
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
Building my house update
Well work is proceeding on my dollhouse. The first problem I had after I had put together the basic carcass was my youngest granddaughters little fingers and hands. My temporary solution to that was to make some keep out signs and tapes to put across the front and it worked. I told her that the fairies, she believes I am best friends with fairies, put up the tapes as warnings.
However since then I have decided to work on the front of the house as that will be a more secure barrier. I have made up the front doors although I have not attached them to the house yet as it will be easier to work on the inside if I can remove them. I have finished the lower floors and am working on the window frames for the attic. A little difficult as I have to curve to roofs of the attic windows and it is not the easiest thing to do but getting there.
The actual windows in the kit are plastic and I am not sure that I like them very much so I am trying to decide on whether to make the windows out of strip wood, probably will.
In the meantime I have bought hundreds of wooden lolly stick which I am going to cut the curved ends off and then use them as floorboards, I think it will work.Let you know.
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$35 Million Foreclosure Assistance Scam Busted in Maryland
A fraud ring accused of bilking more than $35 million from lenders in a foreclosure assistance scam was busted up by prosecutors on Thursday, with U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland announcing a federal grand jury indictment and a series of arrests for the accused perpetrators. Joy Jackson and her husband, Kurt Fordam, along with six other co-conspirators, were charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and with 15 separate counts of mail fraud to obtain money and property from homeowners and lenders via their "foreclosure reversal" scheme. Jackson was also charged with six counts of money laundering. All face a maximum sentence of 30 years in federal prison and a $1 million fine for the conspiracy and each of the 15 mail fraud counts; Jackson and a few other defendants face additional jail time, as well. "Homeowners who fall behind on their mortgage payments should be wary of con artists who claim that there is an easy way to avoid foreclosure," said U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein. "Just as get-rich-quick schemes are usually fraudulent, get-out-of-debt-quick schemes are usually phony, too." According to the indictment, between September 2004 and June 2007 the defendants, operating through several companies owned by Jennifer Jackson and a friend, fraudulently promised to help homeowners avoid foreclosure, keep their homes and repair their damaged credit by directing the homeowners to allow title to their homes to be put in the names of straw buyers for a one year period. During that time, the defendants supposedly would help the homeowners obtain more favorable mortgages, improve their credit rating and eventually return title to their homes to them. The fraudsters then paid approximately $10,000 to a straw buyer to participate in the scheme; fraudulently bolstered the credit of the straw buyers so they could qualify for more favorable mortgages; obtained fraudulently inflated loans on the properties in the straw buyers names; stripped away the bulk of the homeowners' equity; converted that money to their own personal use; and stopped making the mortgage payments on the homes, resulting in the homes being foreclosed upon. As a result of the scheme, the indictment alleges that the defendants obtained more than $35 million in fraudulent loans on more than 100 homes, and that the homeowners suffered losses exceeding $10 million in stripped equity. The indictment also seeks forfeiture of $35,873,150 obtained as a result of the scheme, including 11 properties owned by the defendants. Joy Jackson's lavish lifestyle was fed by the scheme, according to prosecutors; her over-the-top living was the subject of a Washington Post story Thursday, as well. "These types of crimes create a significant loss of tax revenue, drive buyers into foreclosure, leave lenders burdened with bad loans and neighborhoods with abandoned and deteriorating properties," said C. Andre Martin, special agent-in-charge of the Internal Revenue Service Washington field office, who helped investigate the case.


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Mauja Hi Mauja/Saj Dhaj Ke (Lyrical Video) | T-Series Mixtape Punjabi | Mika Singh | Bhushan Kumar
Gulshan Kumar Presents Bhushan Kumar's T-Series Mixtape Punjabi powered by Hungama brings to you the lyrical video of the 11th mashup of "Mauja Hi Mauja/Saj Dhaj Ke" in the voice of Mika Singh from #TseriesMix TapePunjabi, Releasing only on T-Series YouTube Channel.
Stream It exclusively on Hungama:- http://bit.ly/Mauja-Hi-Mauja-Saj-Dhaj-Ke-Hungama
Song- Mauja Hi Mauja / Saj Dhaj Ke
Singers – Mika Singh
Music By - Abhijit Vaghani
Produced By: Bhushan Kumar
Directed By: Ahmed Khan
Conceptualized & Developed By - Shivam Chanana & Sonal Chawla
Editor: Nitin FCP & Sachin Tiwari
DI & Gfx – Nadeem Akhtar & Satish Prajapati
Creative Assistance & Project Coordinator to Abhijit Vaghani : Parmita Mathur
Creative Designs By – Sunil Sharma
Ashish Sharma - Stylist
T-Series Production Team
Beer Singh
Adaa Ghai
Nikhil Gupta
Andrew D'Souza
Ravi Chaturvedi
T-Series Digital Team
Prashant Shetty
Andrew D'Souza
Vahishta Bharucha
T-Series A & R Team
Shivam Chanana
Sonal Chawla
Varun Arora
Raj Chanana
Vivin Sachdeva
Team AV
Gurashish Singh
Gaurav Kumar
Bhrigu Parashar
Aniket Kharatmal
Tanveer Singh
Additional Music Credits:
Music Programmed By - Abhijit Vaghani
Rahul Pandirkar – Electronic Drum Kit
Harshit Jain – Keyboard/Harmonium
Yashvardhan Prasad – Bass Guitar
Gautam Sharma – Percussion
Ravi Kumar – Acoustic Guitar
Pushpak Trivedi – Electric Guitar
Shomu Seal - Acoustic/Lead Guitar
Rahul Rajendra Bakshi - Punjabi Dhol
Nitesh More - Punjabi Dhol
Sandesh Kadam – Dholak
Avinash Lamba – Dholak
Shashank Hadkar - Thud
Chetan Parab - Bughchu
Sham Adhav - Nagada
Rajendra Salunke - Shehnai
Swati Gopal Marwal - Ukulele
Saarrah Ali – Vocalist
Muskaan Khan - Vocalist
Sadiya Shaikh – Vocalist
Anam Pathan- Vocalist
Arfath Shaikh- Vocalist
Fazl Khan - Vocalist
Bhrigu Parashar - Vocalist
Parmita Mathur - Vocalist
Rehearsed at- T-SERIES Studios
Recorded By - Surajit Ghosh Mazumdar, Dattaray Narvekar
Mixed and Mastered by Aftab Khan at Headroom Studio
Mix Assistant: Dhron Galiyawala
Original Song Credits:
Song - Mauja Hi Mauja
Singer - Mika Singh
Lyricist - Irshad Kamil
Music - Pritam
Song - Saj Dhaj Ke
Singer - Mika Singh, Pankaj Kapur
Lyricist - Irshaad Kamil
Music Director - Pritam
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Join Chris Orwig for an in-depth discussion in this video Challenge: Person in place, part of 5-Day Photo Challenge: Portraiture.
- Alright, are you ready for challenge number two? This one is going to be fun. This challenge is all about working with architecture, it's about photographing a person in a place. Let me show you a few of my photographs which illustrate this challenge and how you can position a person inside of a frame. This first image is from one of my previous courses where I photographed Jared Mason on location in New York City. And you can see in this image that he's framed perfectly by the Brooklyn Bridge. This next photograph is of an artist standing in front of a window, and next we have a photograph of an architect in his studio, and last but not least a photograph from one of my other courses where I interviewed Rodney Smith at his home in New York.
And here you can see Rodney pictured, framed inside of the door which leads to his kitchen. And the reason why I wanted to show you these photographs was to get your creative juices flowing, to get you to begin to think about how you can use architectural space and how you can position a subject not in front of but within that space. Now this challenge has a few parts to it. The first part is to find a location, right? You may be thinking to yourself "Well there really isn't anything architecturally interesting where I live." Well I don't believe it. There's always something interesting that you can use.
Perhaps you live in maybe suburbia and you can find a white stucco wall, green grass and a red fire hydrant. You can position the person at the intersection of those three things or whatever it is. Basicly what I want you to do is use architecture and space and capture a portrait of a person in that space in a curious and creative way. Alright, after you've captured your images be sure to post it online. Use that hashtag, that one is #5DayPhoto. Be sure to post it there so we can check out your work and also be sure to come back to the next movie where i'll share with you my solution to this challenge.
Alright, good luck and happy shooting.
Remember to share your results on Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram using the hashtag #5DayPhoto.


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Mark Your Calendars for Whole Grain Sampling Day – March 2828 February 2018
The seventh annual Whole Grain Sampling Day is an opportunity to promote delicious and healthy eating with whole grains taking front and center.
By Whole Grains Council
Oldways, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving public health via traditional eating choices, invites culinary instructors, schools, and other organizations to participate in the seventh annual Whole Grain Sampling Day celebrated on Wed., March 28. The goal of the day is to put the focus on whole grains and increase the visibility of organizations that offer these healthy foods to their consumers. Last year saw over 200 events across 38 states, reaching thousands of people.
Oldways works through the Whole Grains Council to promote the enjoyment of whole foods and the place of those whole - real foods - in a total balanced diet. They believe that counting numbers of calories, fiber, and nutrients detracts from the pleasures of the table. With no "healthiest" whole grain - it's like asking what's the best fruit or vegetable – they try and educate consumers about the various grain benefits, so wise eaters can enjoy a variety for the best range of healthy nutrients and good tastes.
Whole Grain Sampling Day is a single-day event that inspires classrooms, restaurants, food companies, supermarkets, cafeterias, and even food trucks across the nation to offer special promotions and samples of whole grain items. 2018 will include participation by major organizations such as Hannaford, Hy-Vee, Panera Bread, the Ohio State University, and more. Here are some ideas from other colleges who are or have participated:
- Hillsborough Community College, Tampa Bay, Fla., - Hillsborough Community College will be staffing a table with educational information and free samples of whole grains offered to the college community of students, staff and faculty.
- Oakland Community College, Mich. - The Culinary Studies Institute at Oakland Community College will be creating a special whole grain menu.
- Johnson & Wales University, Rhode Island – Last year Johnson & Wales University had special whole grain menu items in their dining halls and encouraged whole grain choices via social media and digital screens across campus. They also featured a whole grain calendar countdown leading up to the event. Some culinary instructors also included whole grains in their lessons for that day.
- Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, New York - Last year chefs in the High Volume Production class as well as restaurant associates focused their dishes on representing different whole grains as the centerpiece and as accompaniment in the student dining facility. The CIA also highlighted Whole Grain Sampling Day on their Portal site, student dining screen and on their communications chalk board telling their guests about whole grains.
The Whole Grains Council makes it easy for companies and organizations to participate. Resources are available here and include targeted guides for restaurants, food service organizations, universities and more.
"Whole Grain Sampling Day provides campuses, restaurants, retailers, and food companies an easy opportunity to drive traffic," said Kelly Toups, Director of Nutrition for Oldways. "Anything that celebrates whole grain goes, so help us make this the biggest Whole Grain Sampling Day ever."
Photos courtesy of the Whole Grains Council.
About Oldways: Oldways is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving public health via traditional eating choices. They offer educational programs and recipes based on cultural heritage, the goodness of whole grains, and the practices of traditional cheese-making. Find out more at http://www.oldwayspt.org.
About the Whole Grains Council: The Whole Grains Council (WGC), an Oldways program, has been working since 2003 to increase consumption of whole grains for better health, and in 2005 introduced the Whole Grain Stamp, now used on more than 11,000 products in 58 countries. The WGC's many initiatives help consumers to find whole grain foods and understand their health benefits; help manufacturers and restaurants to create delicious whole grain foods; and help the media to write accurate, compelling stories about whole grains. Find out more at http://www.wholegrainscouncil.org.


text: 23 JUNE 2011 June 23, 2011 Here're some delayed (+latest) updates. Puppy Heels got selected as one of the CAPIC Rodeo³ Top 30 images. It will be displayed on the CAPIC website until April 2012. Boat Neck got selected in CQ23 as a winner, and will be published in Issue 23 of Creative Quarterly due out in Summer 2011. It's now posted on the Creative Quarterly Online Gallery: CQ23. To take a sneak peak of the issue, it's here. Finger Wave got selected as a runner up in CQ24, and will be reproduced online in Fall 2011 coinciding with the publication of Creative Quarterly 24. By the way, I finally graduated (yay)! and the 3 images above are some of my thesis pieces. Here's my complete (not really) thesis, here here.I'm currently having a group show with my friends at Art Square Gallery. Parts of my thesis work will be exhibited at the gallery from June 21 to July 4. Here's the event poster made by Inkyung, Haena and Kohsin: I love my house coz there's an unicorn living with me. so happy yay!★NOTE: I just found out yesterday that Finger Wave won a Silver in 3x3 Student Show. It will be published in the 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 8 due out in Fall 2011. (Updated June 26, 2011) SHARE THIS NEWS! Tweet


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- Hi guys.
I'd make this a newspost but I'm not convinced anyone ever sees those (do people even get notified about them?), so I'll just leave it here:
IMPORTANT INFORMATION about the status/future of the comic in 2015.
tl;dr we're doing something cool, hope some of you might be up for joining in.
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Sounds like something the equivalent of PETA in the Pokemon world would say. Not that it's wrong to say so, since it's been known from day one that Pokemon fights have been sentient animal pit fighting. Love this page, though, because playing with perspectives is something I enjoy.
posted by smartboyathome on January 2nd, 2015, 7:28 am
It's all about perspective :3
posted by Dragongirl101 on January 2nd, 2015, 9:31 am
@sulfurbunny: Some people see news posts, but there's no real notification of new ones like there are with comic updates. It's a little stupid.
posted by Luigi_96 on January 2nd, 2015, 10:40 am
I never thought of it like that... That's kind of depressing, actually...
posted by Not Anonymous on January 2nd, 2015, 11:33 am
@Luigi_96 - that's what I figured, but thanks for the confirmation. From now on I'll just use comments on new pages to let people know when there's something happening, since those will have a better chance of getting noticed.
posted by sulfurbunny on January 2nd, 2015, 3:00 pm
I guess some Pokemon will always think of their trainer as its partner, regardless if they're a good trainer, or a total prick. *cough**cough* Paul *cough*
posted by Seiryuu no Kibachiyo on January 3rd, 2015, 7:12 pm
I take it that this is before the Gardevoir mission then?
posted by Kinmotsu_no_Yoryuu on January 4th, 2015, 3:56 am
I honestly had not thought about Pokemon trainer/pokemon relationship in this way...sure, I've thought about how there are the people that abuse pokemon and the people who forget about how to handle their pokemon and the loving and caring trainer, but I never thought of it as the trainer pushing the pokemon till they can no longer do things for themselves...
posted by Goosygander (Guest) on January 4th, 2015, 5:05 pm
@Goosygander - probably a dodgy advert. SJ's Admin will find and get rid of it sooner or later. You don't see ads on SJ pages if you login so you could evade them that way - or just install adblock, I suppose. Though I like to support the SJ folks and give them my ad views.
posted by sulfurbunny on January 5th, 2015, 3:04 am
Did it?
Pardon me for asking, but I made a comment not too long ago Titled "The problems of having a trainer" and I was wondering if it inspired the dialogue in the first three panels? Because it sounds pretty similar to what I said, I am not accusing you of copying me (heavens,no), I would just like to know, did it?
posted by mymom2000 (Guest) on January 5th, 2015, 8:02 am
@mymom2000 - Very unlikely, especially if your comment was recent. I don't recall it to be honest - where is it? More to the point, to ensure timely and reliable updates we maintain a large buffer, which means doing the pages quite a long way in advance: in fact I've just finished page 334! This one would've been done well before Christmas, at the least.
posted by sulfurbunny on January 5th, 2015, 11:08 am
I find it funny that the negative view of Pokemon Trainers comes from none other than the worst trainer.
posted by Axies on January 6th, 2015, 5:32 am
@Axies - well, he'd know, right? :D
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It's a few days past Father's Day, but I have had some things on my heart for the past several days related to Fatherhood, so I will keep it brief as well as belated.
Seeing my husband become a father was one of the most unsettling things I've experienced in my 30 years (THIRTY I tell you!). Here you think you know somebody. You think you love somebody as much as you possibly can.
And then you see your husband fall in love with your baby girl and life, love, everything just gets better.
The Hubs and I have experienced a range of emotions in the eleven months since Hudson was born and since Hudson died, many of which we never want to experience again… but one thing I know we both want to experience again is that parenthood love. It's worth it, people. Maybe I would never have had my heart broken, but I wouldn't trade those 3 days with Hudson for a lifetime without her ever existing, because without Hudson I would never have met the 'Daddy Hubs' that I'm in love with today.
He's the best.
There is this struggle as a parent of a dead baby, this yucky state of being that you are in without your baby still alive to parent. You don't know how to answer questions about how many kids you have. You don't know, no matter how many times people assure you otherwise, whether you still count as a Mom, as a Dad. You don't know if you really want Mother's Day, Father's Day acknowledged.
But I'll tell you one thing. My husband is, was, and will be the best Dad ever. And I'll fall in love with him all over again when Baby Dub Dos is born.


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On, Sunday, the message was titled The Neglected Path to Greatness, preached by Pastor John K. Jenkins, Sr. Since then God has been speaking to me about being great, so I wanted to share from the message, and what God has been sharing with me.
In Matthew 20:20-28, a mother is asking Jesus to allow her two sons to sit on either side of him in the kingdom. Jesus' initial response to her is profound, considering that he was God in the flesh. He says to her in Matthew 20: 23b, "to sit on My right hand and on My left is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it is prepared by My Father." The first thing we see here is that Jesus understood his role. Although he was God incarnate, he respected that this decision could only be made by God the Father. The first key to being great is being unselfish. We have to remember that it's not always about us, even when we have the knowledge and or authority to make a decision. This coincides with the first point of the message which is that we have to be a servant. Most of us deem the word servant as negative, as a position that is less than or beneath us. However, Jesus says in verse 26 in order to be great you must be a servant. A servant is one who executes the commands of another or who cares for the concerns for another. As Christians, we must execute the plans of God vice our own plans. We must have a servant mentality in all aspects of our life. At work we are to respect authority and carry out the plans of leadership. In marriage, we are to serve our spouses by being willing to put their needs and concerns before our own sometimes. No matter what the situation, the word of God shows us how to be a servant in that area. We have to remember that ultimately we are to be a servant of God.
The second thing we must do to be great is to be a slave (verse 27). Most of us when we hear the term slave, associate it with being in bondage. However, to be a slave means to be devoted to another to the disregard of your own interest. It means putting your agenda aside and letting someone else's agenda take the forefront. This takes humility. This means that although you would run the meeting differently, you don't take over the meeting, but allow the person who's leading the meeting to conduct it how they see fit. In marriage, just because you want to leave by a certain time, or you have a specific way of getting the children ready and your spouse is doing the complete opposite of what you would do, does not mean that you intervene and take over. Again, being a slave means putting aside selfishness.
Lastly, verse 28 tells us we must be a ransom. This simply means being willing to give something in exchange for something. There are some things that you must be willing to ransom, to let go of in order to fulfill your God-given assignment. For Jesus, it was to give his life. There are some things that you believe give you life, but yet if you continue to hold on to them you will find that they are bringing you to death-spiritual and or physical. Jesus gave his life so that others could be free. Are you willing to lay down your life-your desires, your plans, your way of success so that you can truly be free?
I encourage you to pause and reevaluate your life. If you really want to be great, the first step is to lay down your life-to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. From there find a good bible teaching and believing church where you can learn and grow in the things of God. Remember that greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4). Greatness comes from within. Cultivate your inner man and greatness will be seen on the outside. Greatness comes from obedience. Just as God promised Abraham to make his name great (Genesis 12:2), as Abraham's seed that promise is yours too! The Walls Group has a song out now and one of the lines says "he made me great, so let me be great". Today is a good day to start being great.
Be blessed, but first comes obedience!
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No brand has the right to exist.
Just because a brand's been around for some time, it has no special privileges. It has to earn that right, by creating value for customers.
And it's no good to have created value 10 years ago. It has to be still creating value today, tomorrow, next week, next year, and so on.
The basis of creating value almost always comes down to being useful.
Can you provide something that will help make my life better? Help me make better use of my time or money? Open up a better experience?
Apple of course is a great example of this. It has created products and services that are simple and intuitive to use, and are just very useful.
In a different way, so too is Starbucks. As well as a great cup of coffee, how many times have you used their "third" place?
Of course, it also has to be affordable to be of value.
I was brought up with the idea that value was largely a function of quality and price. Today though, it's more a trade off of usefulness and price.
Does this brand help me enough, to be worth spending my hard-earned cash?
I don't know how many people I've heard say how useful Wholefoods could be to them, with its healthier products, but they just can't afford to shop there.
And today, it's pretty much a given that any brand has to be reliable. It's of little use to a busy life if it can't be depended on, day-in, day-out.
In many ways, usefulness and reliability are today's definition of quality.
Be useful, affordable, and reliable…and you'll create value for customers.
You'll earn your right to exist.
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This new website is game-changing in the way it enables us to provide our members and stakeholders information specific to their area of focus at the pace they need.
Orlando, Fla. (PRWEB) October 31, 2011
A web portal featuring a dynamic news magazine, robust Resource Center, and advanced search capabilities was launched today by The Institute of Financial Operations professional association, solidifying the organization's leadership position in the world of financial ops.
The website, at http://www.financialops.org, is completely reengineered and redesigned, and enables members and other users to customize information according to areas of interest that align with The Institute's four legacy associations: International Accounts Payable Professionals (IAPP), International Accounts Receivable Professionals (IARP), the National Association of Purchasing & Payables (NAPP), and The Association for Work Process Improvement (TAWPI).
"Whether it's tax or other legislation or advances in technology, the business world in general – and financial ops in particular – is changing at an unprecedented rate," said Thomas M. Bohn, president and CEO of The Institute. "This new website is game-changing in the way it enables us to provide our members and stakeholders information specific to their area of focus at the pace they need."
The site is a one-stop shop for all financial operations professionals.
- Visitors to the site can search by pre-populated topics of focus or by entering their own keywords.
- The news portal includes original articles by professional business writers as well as financial ops practitioners and consultants, blogs, news and advertorials from partners and other vendors, and streaming headlines from several of The Institute's media partners, including CFO, ECM Connection, InsideARM, Payment News, and Spend Matters.
- The Resource Center features thousands of tools and templates, articles, white papers, and research reports on topics such as automation, data capture, tax and regulatory practices, payment trends, and productivity.
The site was designed and built by Orlando-based web development company Intellavia. "We are excited to deliver this cutting-edge web portal, both because of the magnitude of the project and the importance of the subject matter," said Marc Piparo, partner and vice president of technology at Intellavia. "Let's face it, financial operations is a key part of every business, and we are proud to be a business partner of The Institute."
About The Institute of Financial Operations
The Institute of Financial Operations is a membership association comprising four affiliates: International Accounts Payable Professionals (IAPP), International Accounts Receivable Professionals (IARP), the National Association of Purchasing & Payables (NAPP), and The Association for Work Process Improvement (TAWPI).
Based in Orlando, Fla., with offices in Boston and London, The Institute serves as a global voice, chief advocate, recognized authority, acknowledged leader, and principal educator for people in financial operations, with a particular focus on accounts payable, accounts receivable, payments, procure-to-pay, automation, data capture and document management. Combined, the affiliates have more than 6,000 members.
Under The Institute, the affiliates share one board of directors, one staff, and a single portfolio of member benefits available to all, including Financial Operations Matters magazine and a website revitalized and relaunched in late 2011.
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Based in Orlando, Fla., Intellavia is a full-service marketing company that provides results-driven solutions based on proven methodologies. Services include: advertising, branding, e-marketing, Internet, mobile, social media, and software development. Within these core competencies, the company specializes in enhancing the customer experience when relating to an organization's product or service. Intellavia was founded in 2006 by Marc Piparo and Joe Sharpe from the desire to create a progressive interactive agency that would help organizations define, build, measure, and expand their Internet strategy and presence. The company focuses on customer experience management and provides full life-cycle support for today's communication needs. For more information, visit http://www.intellavia.com.


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'Tokugawa-en' in the heart of Nagoya City, which includes 'Tokugawa Art Museum' and 'Hosa Library', is an authentic Japanese garden.
Tokugawa-en originally was a garden annexed to the retreat of Tokugawa Mitsutomo, who was the second feudal lord of Owari Tokugawa Family ruled present Nagoya area. This garden, built at the end of the 17th century, is a typical 'Daimyo garden' which liken the nearby mountains, rivers, sea and plane to the mounds, ponds and other elements of the garden. This garden was completely destroyed during the Second World War though, it was restored to be opened to the public in 2005. The second picture shows 'Kuromon' Black Gate standing as the main entrance of this garden. This old gate was built at the end of the 19th century and survived the Second World War. The front view of Tokugawa Art Museum and Hosa Library can be seen through this gate. The former houses many treasures from the mementoes of the first Tokugawa Shogun down to the ones that used to belong to Owari Tokugawa Family. The exhibits include 9 national treasures and 59 important cultural assets. In the latter, the old important documents of Owari Tokugawa Family amounting to 110,000, 7 of which being important cultural assets, are on display.
Licensed tour guide/travel consultant,
Masahisa Takaki.
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'Atsuta Jingu' Shinto shrine in Nagoya City, worshipping 'Amaterasu Omikami' the Creator of the Imperial Family, is one of the oldest Shinto shrines in Japan.
This Shinto shrine is believed to enshrine 'Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi' sword, which is one of the *Three Sacred Treasures of the Imperial Family.
*Two other Sacred Treasures are 'Yata-no-Kagami' mirror enshrined in Ise Jingu Shinto shrine and 'Yasakani-no-Magatama' comma-shaped bead in the Imperial Palace.
Being built in 113, this authoritative shrine just below Ise Jingu Shinto shrine has long been respected. This originally stood on the point sticking out into Ise Bay though, now is 4 kilometers away from the coastline, since the whole area around this shrine had been reclaimed. In a thick growth of big camphor trees of older than 1,000 years, the 'Honden' main shrine in the first picture is found. In addition, 44 other subordinate shrine buildings also stand there. The second picture shows 'Nobunaga-bey' wall built in the 16th century. 'Oda Nobunaga' who was one of the greatest feudal lords dedicated this wall to this shrine as a token of his gratitude for the victory of a vital battle.
Licensed tour guide/travel consultant,
Masahisa Takaki.
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"Two portraits from Ghana" is the title of the book by Nicholas Scaldaferri, ethnomusicologist and professor at the University of Milan. The book, published by Editions Squilibri is the result of ethnography of the scholar, during which he documented two experiences emblematic of the processes of socio-cultural change that are affecting the sub-Saharan country. The volume is accompanied by a DVD with two documentaries. The first is devoted to Alhaji Abubakari Lunna, "player of lunna, the talking drum of professional musicians active in the population of the Dagomba in the north of the country". The second is focused on William Thomas Cheetham, founder and leader of a Christian religious community, inspired by the Pentecostal-charismatic, near Accra". As you can read in the dedicated page on the website of the publisher, "united by the fact of being at the center of musical activity that involves their families and communities, the two experiences are placed in the same way the crossroads of tradition and modernity, according to the dynamics of transformation brought about by globalization. A classic theme of Africanist musicology, such as that of talking drums, is experienced by the protagonist as well, thanks to its international relations, in a comparatist dimension of great interest and originality, while a devotion of western stand the layers of ancient local cults that contribute to enhance the musical components in the expression of a religious feeling".
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Irizar displays coach range and electric bus at the NEC show
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|The houseboat roof was so small I couldn't get my shadow out of the pic!
It never ceases to amaze me how being confined to a slightly claustrophobic floating cereal box in the middle of a body of water can make you feel more free than you've ever been. I just love the Finger Lakes and the time our family has spent on them over the years. I can think of nowhere better to celebrate Independence Day.
The only thing that could have made it better would have been if Josh had come with us 😦
Title is from "Independence" by The Band Perry
Some photos of mind-blowing aquatic acrobatics after the jump!!!
|The Half-Submerged Pike Dive
|The Cousin's Splash Avoidance Maneuver
|The Lady of Shalott
|The Twisty Frog
|The Happy Sea Otter
|The 180 "Use Your Noodle"
|I don't know what to call this, but she's obviously blasting fire out of her hair
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What the world needs now is love, sweet love
Processing 1 Peter 2:13-17
As I was reading and processing these verses from 1 Peter, a song from the 60's started playing in my head. The song?
"What the world needs now is love."
Just in case you weren't alive in the 60's, there was a lot of tension, rioting, and disunity here in the good ole USA. Much needed to change, frustrations were high, and many took to the streets. Peaceful protests quickly turned violent. I cannot even imagine what that very volatile time would have been like had social media been thrown into the mix.
The scenes from the 60's were much like the ones we've witnessed the last several years. This past weekend, we watched as a protest in Charlottesville, VA turned violent. Since then, we've listened to the news commentate, politicians proclaim and much ranting and raving via social media. I sit in sadness and horror as I listen, read and watch and I wonder, "Lord, what do I do?" "What can I do?"
As the Lord would have it, I am currently studying 1 Peter and the answers to my questions were waiting for me as I opened my Bible this week. Love it!
God used 1 Peter 2 to remind me that I do "something" by doing what is right (a/k/a/ good deeds). I am to keep my behavior excellent. What did excellent behavior look like then and what does it look like here and now? According to God, excellent behavior looks like:
- Submitting to authorities
- Honoring all people
There is more - so much more, but these two behaviors, in light of what's going on in the US, really hit home. I understand we live in a post-Christian culture, but a Christian call to action - to keep our behavior excellent - can make a difference! I believe this because God says that in doing right, we silence the ignorance of foolish men. In doing right. Not in taking to social media to rant, rave and blast our authorities or give our opinions on the political and social climate. But to do good works. We keep our behavior excellent for the Lord's sake and because it glorifies Him and silences the foolish. These are powerful motivators for us to answer this call to action.
What the world needs now is love sweet love. What could love, sweet love, look like today? Honor all people. Yep, some love sweet love the world needs now.
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text: The good folks over at Screen Junkies have finally delivered their honest trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and it's about as brutally honest as these trailers get. We've spent months talking about everything wrong with this film, and this video helpfully sums up just about every point you could make for and against the film. It's a great watch and there's even a longer, ultimate cut of the Honest Trailer that you can check out by clicking here.


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Ten new US regional TV providers added to single sign-on/
Single sign-on can be a time-saver for those who own more than one Apple device that can display video apps, such as the iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. By signing in to a cable or satellite-TV provider once on an iOS device or Apple TV, users then gain instant access to video apps provided with a pay TV subscription. Today Apple added ten more single sign-on providers:
- Comporium
- Fidelity Communications
- Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico
- Northland Communications
- Service Electric Cablevision
- Shentel
- Vast Broadband
- Vyve Broadband
- Wave
These ten providers join 14 others in making it easier for iOS and Apple TV viewers to watch TV anywhere at anytime. Several large national providers, including Comcast, Spectrum, Verizon and Google Fiber are absent from the list, while others -- Dish, DirectTV and Sling TV -- support the service.


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The glamorous life goes to Venice
We do the math. It will be way cheaper for us to have airport shuttle service than to leave our car. Cristina makes the arrangements. An SUV is ordered. Ding Dong. Car is here. What happened to the SUV. A white stretch limo has come to whisk us away.
The girls are thrilled. Driver has barely made it down the hill and we're all shuffling around inside. Alysha and I are in the very back facing forward. We have to. The thing bounces around and rarely seems to go straight. Nausea sets in. Manage (barely) to make it to airport without losing it.
Check in. Drop off bags. Grab nosh and wait until everyone else is boarded before we sashay up. In our comfy cozy sweats. We don't care. We're not the Kardashians. We're from Seattle and are going to be on planes for the next 14 hours.
Settle in and do the things that people do when cramped into ugly (Delta) plane with foam from seat backs poking through and looking at us. Try to watch movie on notebook paper size screen fifteen feet down the aisle. If you don't have a good view (and who does), the screen is dark and blurry. Noelle's ear phone jack doesn't work. Give up. Cristina and Noelle are seated in front of Alysha and I. They recline which reminds me. Try to recline chair but nope. Turn around and look. Knees smooshed up right to the back of chair by smooshed up guy behind me. Poor fellow. Have mercy plus would do no good anyway as chair isn't going anywhere except into large knees. Read entire book on kindle (love kindle). The girls are asleep. But it is only midnight so have at least another hour to go.
Eventually fall asleep. Mouth more or less closed which is a plus. Flash. Giggle. Flash. Blasted kids have woken up. Are taking excrutiatingly horrid pictures of me that they will now facebook to the world. Brats. Ignore them. Fall back asleep. On and off until we arrive in Amsterdam.
We trundle off plane. Good thing about sweats. They don't wrinkle. Get onto next plane. Fall asleep again. More flashes and awful picture taking by tormentors. Arrive in Venice. Head to baggage claim. The airport is nice. Stand at carousel. And stand. And stand. Until realize – no bags.
We are the last hopeful (naïve) ones waiting for the luggage to come off. The rest (and there are quite a few) have already hustled to the lost baggage line. This means we are the last in line. Wait almost an hour. Fairly patiently. Nice lady tells us it may arrive tomorrow. She gives us little packages which turn out to be survival kits. We grumble out the door but snap out of it. It is pretty out! We're on way to the water taxi! How cool is this! So what if everyone will know we are Americans from Seattle land of black and gray sweats.
Taxi takes a very long time. Alysha and I share a Dramamine. Hope I've brought enough of them. We look with interest at the people as they get on and off. A lady sits next to us. We check her out. Completely put together from the bottoms of her white, silver high heeled sandals and violent red painted toes – to the top of her perfectly highlighted, cut, curled and Sophia Loren sun-glassed head. She pulls out an Italian fashion magazine and ignores us.
We arrive at our destination and debark. One thing good about an airline losing luggage – don't have to cart anything around. Tell the girls to go one direction. They ignore me and go the other. Which turns out to be the correct way. As we are walking across the famed St. Mark's square, we are acutely conscious that we are the only ones in the entire place who look like we've been on a plane for 14 hours. And that we are going to be looking this way for at least another day.


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Scotland and Wales push to be allowed compete on tax
A deal to allow Northern Ireland reduce its corporation tax rate to match the Republic's is set to spark fresh demands from Scotland and Wales for more control over their taxes.
The main political parties in the two countries have told the Irish Independent they are carefully studying the arrangement handed to the North and will seek concessions of their own.
The Government here has played down the significance of being in direct competition with Northern Ireland for foreign investors, but the potential for Scotland and Wales to challenge our 12.5pc corporation tax rate is a larger concern.
The current rate in the UK is 20pc but there are plans to reduce this to 18pc by 2020.
However, as part of the new Stormont Agreement aimed at getting powersharing back on track, Belfast will be given power to go even lower.
Jonathan Edwards, an MP with Wales's Plaid Cymru party, said that if Northern Ireland politicians are allowed to make major tax decisions then the same power "should absolutely be devolved to Wales".
He continued: "We look with envy at the Republic of Ireland and what has been achieved in economic terms since independence and your ability to recover from the crash. There is no reason we should not get the same."
Mr Edwards said Wales was currently getting an "inferior" deal from Westminster.
Similarly, in a strongly worded statement, a spokesperson for the Scottish National Party told the Irish Independent that it was "committed to ensuring that Scotland is a competitive destination for business".
"The devolution of corporation tax to the Northern Irish Assembly proves that there is absolutely no good reason why Holyrood (the Scottish assembly) should not also benefit from these powers and shows the complete disregard this UK government has for Scotland.
"Without the full control of Scotland's economy - and the Tories continued refusal to devolve some of the most potent economic levers - Scotland will remain at a competitive disadvantage inside the UK and in the global market."
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said the new latitude being given to the Northern Assembly would make life "a bit more competitive for the IDA".
The CBI's Nigel Smith said companies were unlikely to "up sticks" from the Republic or other parts of the UK, but the North would be in a better position to attract new investment.
A spokesman for Finance Minister Michael Noonan said he backed the extra powers for Northern Ireland as it "has the potential to generate benefits on both parts of the island".
He said: "The 12.5pc rate is a central pillar of our taxation system but it is important to remember that attracting foreign direct investment and stimulating growth is about much more than just having a competitive tax rate.
"A reform of the Northern Ireland corporation tax rate has the potential to generate benefits on both parts of the island."
Tánaiste Joan Burton said she was confident that the Republic can outperform the North in terms of attracting investment, despite the change in corporation tax.
"Time and time again, we are told, yes, corporation tax is a significant draw but the real draw here is the people."
Irish Independent


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Best Places to Picnic in Cape Town/
I love nothing more than to spend a sunny day outside on a picnic. When you live in a city like Cape Town, where there is no shortage of scenic views, it is awfully difficult to pick a place to picnic. Access to fresh air, quiet space away from urban noise, and beautiful, green scenery are just a handful of things I look for when I'm selecting a location to relax. These three locations meet all of my criteria, and are waiting for you to bring a blanket, yummy food, and a few good friends:
Green Point Park and Biodiversity Garden, Green Point
This garden is a phenomenal gem hidden behind the Green Point Stadium and the Atlantic Ocean. Because Cape Town (and South Africa) is a biodiversity hot spot, the creation of this park was a part of the 2010 World Cup planning and combines a vast variety of plant life all in one space. For picnic eats, I would stop by
in Sea Point, or the
at the V&A Waterfront.
De Waal Park, Gardens
This park is a nice, quiet alternative to the Company's Gardens for neighbors and visitors. Families and dog owners are drawn to this park for play-dates and picnics. For picnic eats, I would stop by the
on Orange Street or the
in the Gardens Shopping Centre.
Arderne Gardens, Claremont
Around the other side of Table Mountain, you'll find my favorite place to sit and relax in Cape Town. No matter how often I visit, I always notice a new tree or plant, which makes every visit special and unique. If it's the weekend, I kick back and enjoy watching the festive wedding parties passing by, en route to having their photos taken. I'll never forget
I enjoyed with my friends in this park. For picnic eats, I would stop by the
, located a bit further up Main Road in Kenilworth.
The best part? All of these parks are free, family friendly, and have space to wander around to burn some post-picnic calories. Try to keep these spaces looking great for the next person to enjoy - that means disposing of your litter before you leave, picking up after your dog, and using recycling bins wherever possible. Enjoy!


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Imagine if you cannot share jokes or memes or your views without prior Government approval on social media anymore. Imagine if you cannot do the candle light march to India Gate for a cause you feel very strongly about. Imagine if just on the basis of suspicion you could be jailed. Well that pretty much sums up what happened for 20 months from '75 to '77.
Indu Sarkar the new movie directed by the much debated Madhur Bhandarkar is scheduled to hit the cinemas soon. It has a very crisply edited trailer which just gives you a glimpse into the darkest period of the Indian independence. With an ensemble of star cast which includes some newbies like Kirti Kulhari and veteran actor Anupam Kher, does not fail you in giving the impression of who is playing the real-life characters. Neil Nitin Mukesh looks very much the part of the elder son of the then Prime Minister and some of his dialogues reminding you of some of the most controversial decisions ever to have been taken and implemented in the Indian history. With this political autocratic backdrop, there is an uprising of the Indian people.
As expected it definitely has run into multiple controversies with petitions filed in the court and with requests apparently going from some party members requesting the film-makers to remove content which might reflect badly on the top politicians or influential party members.
Well, needless to say such a movie with names and incidents giving you a clear resemblance to persons living or dead, is bound to attract eyeballs. Bhandarkar has gone on record to say that it is a fictional take on the then situation in India – LOL. What's in a Bollywood movie without some drama, even more, some melodramatized scenes and especially if it has political connotation to it. Well, the verdict will be out in a couple of weeks and it might just click as there is no documentary evidence with the details of the reasons/rationale of the decisions made for such an important chapter in Indian history. Even the Shah commission report is not accessible to all. Would this movie make the cut between a mediocre or a good movie would only be known if the trailer can live up to the intriguing plot it has set the tone for. Hope it does not have the unnecessary songs, undue lengthy drama and silly Bollywood twists or turns.


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Hundred Dollar Day
A perfect example of what Joel Salatin calls "value added". One large zucchini made more than ten loaves and they brought in $21. Pretty good return for that one squash, plus whatever other ingredients went into it. I don't bake so I don't know. Still pretty good though I would think.
This picture was taken last week toward the end of the day after alot had already sold.
We're trying something different this year in that Kelli and the kids are manning the stand in stead of doing the self serve method. Well, actually when they get tired of sitting out there for the last couple hours we've turned it into self serve. It's easy to do, just put up a sign and a money box and walk away.
For some reason for over a week or so I've been thinking about when we still lived in IL, how I used to day dream all the time about living exactly how we are living right now, more than ten years later. I remember how my job became such a chore because all I could do was think and dream of all the things we'd do up north when and if that day ever came.
I used to work at a sewer and water construction business that my great Uncle Joel had started. I worked with my dad as a maintenance mechanic. I had lots of freedom with that job. It was good pay and had flexible hours, a dream job for many. But, I knew there was something else for me. I had to be in a place where I could be free to walk a path less traveled. So I became unbearably discontented.
I love living in a place where life doesn't get drowned out by all the commotion. I really like our little community. Lots of little cottage industries. Small business' where people offer a service or product to fulfill local needs.
I get a kick out of one small business down the road run by a Christian lady. It's a bar. Seems like kind of a contradiction. But, you have to know her and her families story. They got into it many years ago when they were really down and out and that's what they had to do to make it. Now she absolutely hates owning a bar but, she is a widow and doesn't know what else to do. Funny thing is she is a pillar of the community and has tons of positive influence on countless individuals. As time goes by the bar is changing. It is now a smoke free establishment. And her daughter opened up a ice cream shop in one end last year. Looks like it is taking off this year. We think the world of the family. Very special people.
I know some people don't like small communities where everyone knows everyone. There is gossip to be sure but, that's something you have to put up with. Gotta take the good with the bad. If you have a good sense of humor it's not a problem.
A while back we heard a rumor about us, that we had an arsenal here. Wow, now that was quite a surprise! I hardly ever hunt and very rarely will I ever do any target shooting. Shoot the occasional varmint, like yesterday I shot another skunk, but that's about it. Four or five years ago some friends of ours and my brother in law and I did some shooting out in the woods. We shot the day lights out of an old refrigerator. I don't know, maybe that's what got it going, who knows. We joked that maybe we should have an open house or big neighborhood cook out so people can see that, we ain't got no arsenal.
More recently we heard another one, that the reason we hired a driver for the garbage route was because I hurt my back. Another person said they heard I had knee surgery.
Actually you don't have to live in a small community for rumors to happen. After my dad retired there was a rumor going around IL that my dad had a brain tumor. Actually the truth was, he got healed of what we believe was cancer but, a brain tumor was definitely not it.
But, it does seem gossip is pretty well the norm where everyone knows everyone. Most of the time it's all innocent enough. Just good ole neighborliness I reckon. People being concerned for one another. And one thing leads to another. Oh well. Like I said you have to have a sense of humor.
On a different note. We're planning on going to an antique tractor show tomorrow in Edgar WI. It's a pretty big deal I guess with parades and music, a flea market and a black smith demonstration. I think there is even supposed to be a polka. Actually it's the black smith thing that we are mainly going to go see because our daughter Shalea likes blacksmithing. Hopefully we can get some pictures to post here.
We learned about the show from an old timer that we recently bought some sheep hay from. He's really into antique tractors and even has one of his own. An old Farmall with steel wheels. He also has an old engine. I forget what they call it, but it has a big double fly wheel and it only fires once every so many revolutions. It will fire and the fly wheel goes round and round. It has a centrifugal mechanism that senses when it slows down and then fires the engine again. It goes, Pop....................Pop....................Pop, maybe it goes around three or four times between combustion's.
Anyway it should be a good time and hopefully I can bring back a report for you all.
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I was one of those girls that looked forward to being able to date. I was excited at the prospect of some cute guy coming to take me on an adventure every weekend. As I've continued to grow and mature the desire hasn't changed but the circumstances have. Being a busy adult with an equally busy spouse and parenting, Friday and Saturday nights are no longer automatic outings. There are no last minute pop offs or impromptu group outings. Why? Because Things have changed. It takes planning. So many factors to consider. Among the top: Who's gonna take the kids? How long are they available? Do our friends with kids have sitters too? How much is it gonna cost for the date AND the sitter?
Then there's the: How tired are we after this week? Where can we go that's not crowded? We're of transitioning age where can we go that's age appropriate besides dinner and a movie?
This year I want to change the narrative and be intentional about dating my spouse. Neither one of us is thrilled at the prospect of falling asleep on the couch every night through our old age. In fact a happy couple with some 40+ years under their belt advised that the WORST thing we could ever do is become sedentary. They've got to know something! So with that in mind I've developed a year of dates list so that at least once per month we have a chance to connect as him and her. In a city like Atlanta there's so much to do. And unbelievably I've missed out on lots of it by becoming stale and reserved. Here are a few things that we might try this year:
- Game Night in
- Cooking Class
- Ferris Wheel/carnival
- Museum
- Golf round/lesson (or Top Golf)
- Escape room
- Mystery Dinner Theatre
- Beer Tour
- Sporting Event
- NASCAR race
- Porsche tour
- Arcade/go carting


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By Richard Lawrence
Once again the Commemorative Air Force is visiting the Ottawa area as the Arizona Airbase's North American B-25J Mitchell bomber, "Maid in the Shade", set down at the Gatineau Executive Airport and taxied over to the Vintage Wings of Canada ramp as part of the "Flying Legends Of Victory Air Show Tour". This specific aircraft flew fifteen actual combat missions (13 x Italy, 2 x Yugoslavia) from Seraggia Airport on the island of Corsica in November and December 1944 as Battle 18 with the distinctive blue tail and blue ring cowls she now displays. She also participated in America's first large-scale bombing offensive in the Philippines where "the Maid" is credited with eight ships sunk and five planes shot down. After she retired from the military in 1959 she was used as an aerial pest spray aircraft until 1980 when she arrived at the Arizona Airbase of the CAF (AZCAF) and was in restoration for almost 29 years until her first flight in May 2009.
The B-25 bomber, built by North American Aviation and named after Major General William "Billy" Mitchell, was one of the best known and versatile bombers of the second war. It was a heavily armed medium bomber which served in every theatre of war in roles from bombing, anti-shipping, to tactical ground support. It was an exceptionally sturdy aircraft that could withstand tremendous punishment. One B-25C (nicknamed "Patches ") of the 321st Bomb Group, had the aircraft's holes patched with the bright yellow zinc chromate primer. At the end of over 300 missions Patches had been belly-landed six times and had over 400 patched holes. The airframe was so distorted from damage that straight-and-level flight required 8° of left aileron trim and 6° of right rudder, causing the aircraft to "crab" sideways across the sky.
Of the nearly 10,000 B-25s produced, there were many variants with this "J" version having over 4,300 siblings. The "C" version (known as the Mitchell Mk II in the RCAF/RAF) would have been most familiar to Canadians, the "G" version had the nose plexiglass replaced with skin and two additional .50 calibre machines added PLUS a 75mm (3 inch) cannon, and the "J" version as a Strafer variant was outfitted with most of its 14 to 18 machine guns facing forward for strafing runs (8 machine guns in the nose position, 2 fixed on either side of the fuselage below the cockpit, and 2 in the dorsal turret). In short, there was no shortage of variations of this aircraft or job it couldn't be thrown against.
One of the techniques for which the B-25 was known was "skip bombing". This entailed the bomber to fly between 200-250 feet above ground at 200-250 mph and then drop a stick of two 1,000 pound or four 500 pound bombs that would then skip off the water (like skipping a stone) before hitting a ship and exploding (4-5 second delay fuses) or sinking below the ship and exploding next to her. Mast-height bombing was similar where the B-25 would come in at a slightly higher altitude and faster speed and then drop down to 10-15 feet about 600 yards back of the target. At about 300 yards, the bombs were released into the side of the ship.
The B-25 is most notably known as the bomber selected to make the first air raid against the Japanese home islands in April, 1942. For that raid 16 B-25B Mitchell bombers were stripped down of all unnecessary equipment, including most of the defensive machine guns and ammunition, and launched from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (for which they weren't designed) without a fighter escort. LCol. James Doolittle led the 80 man raid for the six hour, 800 mile flight after which they were to go to China to land, another 7 hours. However, one aircraft had issues in flight and diverted to Russia where they were interned and eventually escaped to get home. The 15 other aircraft successfully carried out the raid creating minor damage but a huge success as far as damaging the morale of the Japanese civilian population and boosting the morale of American Troops.
All 15 bombers made it to China where they had to crash land, bailout or ditch and all but two crews (10 airmen) made their way home. Not all crew members made it back with three KIA and eight taken as POWs (3 executed, 1 died). There were also reprisals against the Chinese who assisted the downed airmen with one city, Nancheng, burned to the ground for rendering assistance.
There is a Canadian connection to the B-25 as Canadian aircrew served on them when they served in RAF units which flew the B-25. The RCAF did fly them during WWII but Canadian usage was mostly after the war. The first B-25s for the RCAF were originally destined for the RAF but were diverted to the RCAF and redesignated using the Mark system. These included 1 x B-25B (Mitchell Mk I), 42 x B-25C (Mitchell Mk IIs), and 19 x B-25J-NC (Mitchell Mk IIIs).
No 13 (P) Squadron was formed at Rockliffe in May of 1944 where they operated Mitchell Mk IIs on high altitude aerial photography sorties and became No 413 (P) Squadron in April 1947, flying the Mitchell until October, 1948. In January, 1947, No 418 (Auxiliary) Squadron received its first Mitchell Mk IIs, operating a mix of Mk IIs and Mk IIIs until March, 1958. No 406 (Auxiliary) Squadron flew Mitchell Mk IIIs from April 1947 to June 1958 with No 12 Squadron of Air Transport Command flying Mitchell Mk IIIs from September 1956 to November 1960. No. 5 OTU (Operational Training Unit) at Boundary Bay, British Columbia and Abbotsford, British Columbia, operated the B-25D Mitchell in the training role together with B-24 Liberators for Heavy Conversion as part of the BCATP.
In 1951, the United States Air Force provided the RCAF with an additional 75 x Mitchell Mk IIIs (B-25J) so that second-line units could be equipped and to help alleviated shortages caused by attrition. In all, 164 B-25s served with seven RCAF squadrons in light bomber, navigation training, photo recon, and transport roles.
On a personal note, I had the good fortune to be selected to go for a ride in the "Maid" as part of a media flight and because I'm a veteran. My position was as the left hand waist gunner. From the pictures you can see that there were four of us in this space which normally accommodated two. As well, we had seats which the gunners would not have had, having instead to sit on their parachutes for the entire journey. After a flight briefing by AZCAF's Ted Lloyd we got into the aircraft's waist via a ladder just aft of the bomb bay and then wrestled into seats and seatbelts and waited … and sweated … and waited and sweated. It was a hot day with high humidity and there is no air movement in the waist until the engines start and the B-25 starts to taxi. As the engines turned over, we all put on ear protectors as the B-25 is noisy, so much so that just ear plugs are not deemed sufficient. The first smell is that of exhaust as we are seated just behind the engines but that clears soon enough as you start moving and you start to get some airflow into the cabin. The taxi out to take-off position is not much different than any other aircraft, other than it is 74 years old.
Once the take-off roll started, I was surprised by how much I was pushed into the back of my seat as I expected something gentler. After passing V1 and Vr speeds she jumped up in to the air and started a gentle climb for a couple of seconds and then did what felt like a 60 degree turn. Again, more abrupt than I would have expected. What I gathered from this little bit of experience is that this aircraft handles very nimbly and that the pilots have no compunction about throwing it around the sky.
A couple minutes into the flight, Ted gave us the OK to unbuckle and I was allowed to crawl from the waist position to the rear gunner position in the tail. And that's the only way you can get there is on your belly. It's a small little seat about 12-16 inches off the floor with the machine guns at knee level. Your head sticks up into a blister so you can see targets but your field of view is limited, especially if
you're shorter than six feet. The others moved about standing at the waist gun positions tracking whatever they could see with the guns. A few minutes of this and all of a sudden, we're bidden back to our seats by Ted as we're starting to setup for landing. It's surprising how fast a 25 minutes flight goes by.
I must say that the experience is not a lot different than flying in any other airplane EXCEPT that when you think of it in a historical perspective. You see how these young men, 18, 19, 20 years old with no worldly or life experiences yet, were crammed in together and sent up into the air to bomb another country – to execute government sanctioned killing. Imagine being airborne for hours, knowing that fighters were going to come at you for hours and that you only carried a limited supply of ammunition. Knowing that they could weave all over the sky at double your speed and that you were essentially a sitting target travelling straight and level. Knowing that anti-aircraft fire could bring you down in seconds. Put that together with an uncomfortable working environment, whether it be heat on the ground or cold in the air, and machine gun cartridges bouncing all over the aircraft's inside as you blazed away hoping to hit a moving target and not even having enough room to fully traverse your gun without hitting your buddy on the opposite side. Take a look at the structure of the aircraft from inside and realize what a flimsy vehicle this is to do the job that it has been assigned. I can only commend the courage of any man who would go up and do this a second time. Most went up dozens of times without a second thought. Many didn't return.
As a last historical note, I noticed that the bomb bay doors had a lot of graffiti on it and upon closer examination saw that it was inscriptions from men who had actually flown B-25s. It was pointed out to me that two of the signatures were of aircrew of the Doolittle mission, Ed Sayler (crew #15) and David Thatcher (crew #7). It's worthwhile just to sit there a read the names for a minute or two.
I'd like to express my thanks to Corey Paul and her staff for their excellent service and response times in providing information to me and for thinking to include me in the media flight as a veteran. I'd also like to thank Ted Lloyd for getting me to the tail gunner position in flight, something I'm sure he didn't have to do, and also thanks to Paul Hlavaty for letting me up into the cockpit once she was on the ground, again something he didn't have to do. The Arizona Commemorative Air Force Museum (AZCAF), based in Mesa, Arizona, is one of 86 different airbases, wings, squadrons, and other unit types comprising the Commemorative Air Force organization that fly and house the largest collection of flying vintage aircraft in the world. The CAF is the nation's leading organization devoted to preserving American military aviation history through education, flying and exhibition.
For more photos: http://www.richardlawrencephotography.ca/rlpgalleries/2018/maid/index.html