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Liberty's War
American Merchant Marine Museum
A new exhibit documenting the life and times of 1944 graduate Herman Melton.
Art of North Atlantic Fishing
Minnesota Marine Art Museum
Swift Boats at War in Vietnam
Through 12 November 2017
Maritime Museum of San Diego
Turner and the Whale
Through 2017
Hull Maritime Museum
An exhibition that unites Hull's own whaling collections with works from JMW Turner, Turner & The Whale offers unique insight into Hull's finest artists and the artistic mind of one of the art world's most revered landscape painters. On loan from the Tate's national collection, Turner's three rare whaling scenes and one maritime scene date from the period when Hull held the title of the UK's largest whaling port, bringing context to our own nationally recognised pieces and providing the perfect complement to the Turner Prize that bears his name.In partnership with the University of York and the Tate. Supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Robbins Reef Lighthouse: A Home in the Harbor
Through 2017
Noble Maritime Maritime Collection
The Noble Maritime Collection acquired ownership of the Robbins Reef lighthouse, located at the mouth of the Kill van Kull, in 2011. This exhibition pays tribute to the lighthouse, including its history, its restoration, and representations by various artists, including Kathy Fieramosca, Denise Mumm, Robert Padovano, Pamela Talese, Len Tantillo, Dan Thompson, Sarah Yuster, William Behnken, Elle Finn, and John Stobart.
Mapping Ahab's "Storied Waves"—Whaling and the Geography of Moby-Dick
New Bedford Whaling Museum
Throughout Moby-Dick Melville gives clues as to how Ahab managed to actually locate one whale in all the planet's seas. These clues had their basis in actual whaling practice. They include practical navigation, the development and use of cartography, the study of accrued whalemen's knowledge as compiled in logbooks and journals, lists of whales seen and taken, owner's instructions to masters and other forms of shared knowledge among whalemen. The fiction of Ahab's search in Moby-Dick reflected a reality that actually culminated in Matthew Fontaine Maury's Wind and Current Charts. These charts were the first publicly defined maps showing the habitats of whales worldwide and were compiled completely from whaler's logbooks and journals. We have several of the very logbooks read by Maury in the collection. This exhibit will examine the tools, techniques and resources mentioned by Melville and demonstrate their practical application to real 19th century whalers.
Captain Bligh: Myth, Man, Mutiny
Through 7 January 2018
National Museum Cornwall
This exhibition remembers William Bligh in the 200th anniversary year of his death. Featuring relics from the voyage and a specially built reproduction of the Bounty launch, the exhibition challenges the myths and stereotypical perceptions about the mutiny story, one which has become larger than life in Hollywood retellings. Bligh's Cornish roots also play an important part in the exhibition.
Don't Be a Dilbert! US Navy Safety Posters
Through 27 January 2018
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Hampton Roads Ship Model Society 50th Anniversary Exhibition
Through 11 February 2018
The Mariners' Museum
Founded in 1967, The Hampton Roads Ship Model Society provides a venue to exchange views and improve modeling skills for members interested in maritime history and the art of building quality ship models. In honor of the 50th anniversary of The Hampton Roads Ship Model Society, The Mariners' Museum and Park opened an exhibition presenting a selection of ship models from talented members.
Tattoo: British Tattoo Art Revealed
Through 7 January 2018
National Maritime Museum Cornwall
The largest gathering of real objects and original tattoo artworks every assembled in the UK features over 400 original artworks, photographs and historic artifacts. The 100 Hands Project, one of the components of the exhibition, is a collection of one hundred silicone arms, each one tattooed with an original design by 100 of the leading tattoo artists in the UK.
Potomac Waterfowling: Gunning the Nation's River
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
Through decoys, photographs, period objects, and historic documents, Potomac Waterfowling demonstrates our capital's influences on the waterfowling culture of the Potomac—especially the decoys carved for the region's gunning clubs. "The Potomac River decoy style is unlike anywhere else—it encompasses techniques and details found all over the Chesapeake Bay," said CBMM Director of Education and Associate Curator Kate Livie, curator of the exhibition. "Decoy carvers were bringing the traditional decoy forms from their hometowns to the Potomac region when they moved to DC for work. So, you see it all—from classic Upper Bay birds to Chincoteague stools—all created to harvest the Potomac's enormous waterfowl population."
This exhibit is sponsored by Judy and Henry Stansbury, and the world's leading decoy auction firm, Guyette & Deeter. Entry to the exhibition is free for CBMM members or with general admission. Potomac Waterfowling will travel to the Waterfowl Festival in Easton, MD, 10–12 November, and return to CBMM's Waterfowling Building through March 2018.
36 Hours: Jutland 1916, the Battle that Won the War
Through spring 2019
National Museum of the Royal Navy
Through the largest collection of Jutland artifacts ever assembled, this exhibition recognizes the significance of Jutland and humanizes the period for us through the personal stories of those who experienced it. See the exhibit website for more details.
Great Lakes Shipwrecks
Tom Ridge Environmental Center Presque Isle
This exhibit, developed by Pennsylvania Sea Grant, the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the Erie Maritime Museum and the Erie County Historical Society, will focus on the many shipwrecks of Lake Erie, and the stories told by their artifacts.
The Original Gus Wagner: The Maritime Roots of Modern Tattoo
South Street Seaport Museum
The Original Gus Wagner: The Maritime Roots of Modern Tattoo explores August "Gus" Wagner's (1872–1941) early life as a merchant seaman and tattoo artist who traveled the world from 1898-1902, and his return to the United States as a professional tattooist and tattooed man. Most of the artifacts are not on view due to their fragile condition and conservation needs. The reproductions and video projection in the exhibition are a testimony of the richness of Gus Wagner's image vocabulary, his life and artistic influences, and a relatively unknown area of American history during the period from the 1890s to the 1930s.
Jutland: the Battle and its Legacies
20 May 2016 to 2018
National Maritime Museum
Visitors to the exhibition will learn of the battle and the experience of serving aboard British and German warships through objects such as paintings, photographs, ship models and plans, sailor-made craft work, medals and eyewitness accounts. The exhibition will also cover the immediate aftermath of the battle, as well as the protracted controversies it generated which continue to this day.
See the Light: The Preservation of Midcoast Maine Lighthouses
27 May–22 October 2017
Maine Maritime Museum
The new millennium has seen the U.S. Coast Guard handing over stewardship of the nation's lighthouses to the public and private sectors. With the participation of at least a dozen Midcoast Maine lighthouse organizations, See the Light, on view in the Marjorie W. Kramer Gallery, will survey the challenges and success stories of preserving these iconic maritime structures.
37th Annual International Marine Art Exhibition
1 October–31 December
Mystic Seaport's Maritime Gallery
This marine art exhibition and sale is a comprehensive juried show showcasing recent works of more than 100 award-winning marine artists from around the world—paintings, drawings, sculpture, scrimshaw, and ship models depicting tall ships, sailing yachts, working craft, commercial vessels, warships, and scenes of the shoreline, beaches, harbors, and wildlife that inhabit our seafaring world.
See the exhibition page for details.
Pull Together: Maritime Maine in the 1914–1918 Great War
7 October 2017–10 June 2018
Maine Maritime Museum
Pull Together will examine Maine's contributions (and losses) of ships, resources, and personnel in the Great War, including Bath-built commercial sailing vessels sunk (or missed) by the German navy, coastal defenses and patrol craft, and the service careers of Maine-born mariners and Maine-built ships of all kinds, from yachts to four-stackers to submarines. Other related topics will include life in the "delirium" of wartime Bath as revealed in contemporary newspapers, propaganda, posters, photography, and other original collection sources at Maine Maritime Museum.
Seduction and Celebrity: The Spectacular Life of Emma Hamilton
National Maritime Museum
The exhibition carries visitors through the arc of this remarkable story, told through over 200 objects from public and private lenders around a core from the Museum's own collections. Emma's compelling story will be explored through exceptional fine art; antiquities that inspired Emma's famous 'attitudes'; costumes that show her impact on contemporary fashions; prints and caricatures that carried her image to a mass audience; her personal letters and those of Nelson and William Hamilton; and finally the uniform coat that Nelson wore at Trafalgar, retained by Emma until destitution forced her to part with it.


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Sunday, October 3, 2010
guest post on Ginger Lemon Girl
During all the hubbub of September, I completely forgot to mention: A cookie recipe of mine appeared last month as a guest post on Ginger Lemon Girl, a guilt-free, gluten-free cooking blog! My lemon-lavender-almond cookies, moist & chewy with almond meal, really lend themselves to being made gluten free, so I reworked the recipe for Carrie & her friendly readers. (I also made the baking instructions less rambly, 'cause, guys, I tend to go on a bit. Perhaps you've noticed?) Check out the resulting version of the recipe here:
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This is where I'd LOVE to have a writing retreat ... or maybe spend a few months as 'writer in residence' (if I could be so lucky!).
Some of the fabulous timberwork inside the castle
Larnach's Castle in Dunedin, New Zealand, is not only one of my favourite places in the world, it's also chock-full of fascinating history - from its flamboyant first family's drama-filled early days to total abandonment, use as a mental asylum & WWII billet house, and now in the care of its present-day saviours ... what a sensory overload!
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It had better be big
Daniel Soar
- Notable American Women by Ben Marcus
Vintage, 243 pp, US $12.50, March 2002, ISBN 0 375 71378 6
- Assorted Fire Events by David Means
Fourth Estate, 165 pp, £10.00, March 2002, ISBN 0 00 713506 8
In an exam I once took we were presented with a passage that began: 'To see the wind, with a man his eyes, it is impossible, the nature of it is so fine.' I found that sentence so distractingly meaningless, and lovely, that it was hard to concentrate on the rest of the passage, which (much more comprehensibly) described a snowy field over which a light wind was blowing; tiny particles of snow were picked up by the wind and carried short distances in complicated patterns, so that the way the wind blew was suddenly visible, in the same way that dye in water makes visible the flow of hidden currents. Part of the test was, supposedly, to determine when the passage would have been written, and by whom, to contextualise it without external clues. Was this deliberately distorted language, newly written? I had no idea; mesmerised by that sentence, I panicked. Years later, I discovered that the source was Roger Ascham's Toxophilus (1545), ostensibly a book about the pleasures of archery. Ascham was a schoolmaster. His mission, he felt, was to make writing accessible for an audience that knew little Latin but longed to be educated. Now that everything is available on the Internet, the passage appears online in multiple past papers on university websites from Florida to Michigan. In order to test the ability of the must-be-educated to find the context, examiners clearly study other exam papers and transplant words from one contextless context into another, copying also the (deliberately?) misleading modernised spelling that makes you read the words the wrong way. The passage's original purpose – to be understood – seems to be lost on those setting the tests. But perhaps it had lost its context in any case: as a record of a moment during a walk from one parish to the next, it seems to belong to a class of Romantic epiphanies; there is nothing like it in the writing of its own time. It should have been less Wordsworthian; it's unclassifiable.
It doesn't take much to stop seeing through words to their meaning. With a sentence like Ascham's, the sound gets in the way. Words don't always say what they're meant to. I like the sign at the foot of escalators that reads: 'Dogs must be carried.' ('Quick! Must find a dog.') I understand the pleasure of footnotes and parentheses. In certain states of mind – distracted, tired – the sound of words means more than their content; there are reassuring rhythms. I bought Ben Marcus's first book, The Age of Wire and String, in a remainder shop soon after it was published, without knowing what kind of thing it was. I liked the way it sounded:
Certain weather is not recognised by the land it is practised on; funnel clouds necessarily unravel or bank off any crusted terrain, hailstones and other atmospheric shale burn into water before the city receives them, whole temperate zones dissipate over a lake and suck upward. The act of riding procures a medical wind to heal these stagnations. The lark, the griffin and the mallard, all birds of indeterminate temperature and vapour content, function as ignitors of the tide.
The calm assertiveness of these rhythms is permission not to understand. Patterns recur: 'the land it is practised on' fits a metrical formula Hopkins discovered in Shakespeare – he called it an 'outriding foot' – which he underlined whenever he found it; he liked strong caesuras, and believed that the two final (unstressed) syllables enforced a powerful emphasis on the previous one. Marcus's sentences sound as though they belong in an encyclopedia or scientific text; it's as if he'd merely replaced words you might expect to find (and therefore take for granted) with nonsensical others. But he preserves a sense, if not the fact, of accuracy: 'unravel or bank off' feels like precision, in that the second could be a qualifying alternative to the first, or they could be a statement of two possible sets of circumstances. It isn't entirely nonsense semantically: words like 'terrain', 'shale', 'temperate zones' and 'vapour content' imply geography. Elsewhere, there are dictionary sections, which seem to suggest a system of some sort. It's a comforting book to read.
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"I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after,
and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me,
like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."~Emily Bronte
For a long time now I have been painting draped figures, the drapes pooling around the figure in white and adjacent shadows showing the form that lies underneath. I have found a new love, or rather, another love: painting water.
Whether still or active, transparent or opaque, water is what we are (mostly) made of, and it cleanses, heals, renews and invigorates us. I feel more at home in water than on land frankly. It is where I can fly briefly, before needing to breathe. It whispers around us and keeps us buoyant but it can also take us too. Simply speaking, it is where we can lose ourselves. Such a powerful symbol and such a fascinating thing is the perfect subject to paint, especially with the figure incorporated into it.
Included in this post are my three swimming paintings: "Hannah, Surfacing", "Hannah, Flying" and "Hannah, Through". All oil. All on wood panel.
"Hannah, Through", oil on panel, 5"x7", available at Abbozzo Gallery
When I was visiting Hannah in Buffalo in the summer, we had the chance to spend time at her childhood home. I saw the pool in the backyard, had my camera with me, and asked if Hannah would mind swimming while I shot some reference for paintings. Well in 10 minutes I had enough reference for at least three paintings! Just like that. Happiness. Knowing you have viable reference is a huge boost in one's confidence toward the completion of a painting.
"Hannah, Surfacing", oil on panel, 48"x72", private collection, Delaware, USA
I think I have found something special with these paintings. A lot of artists paint water, but everyone's journey is what matters, and I think I have found a whole new story to tell here. The blues, the translucence, the transparency, the distortion, the illusion. There is so much about this subject that intrigues me. When you see these paintings from a distance back they do coalesce but up close, as usual, they fragment into delineated planes of pigment. It is like standing in a field. You see the rows of corn separately but above, in a plane, they are waves themselves that meld together, they blend into the field beyond. Art is about illusion, but not malicious or deceptive of course. It is about transporting you away from your present state and into another place and time.
"Hannah, Flying", oil on panel, 18"x24", private collection, Mississauga, Ontario
Water is special because almost all of us have swam in it, dove into it, floated in it, bathed in it, lamented it, welcomed it, imbibed it, and we all remember its effects on us. I love painting what appears to be there and not there. I do love that the figure is folded in another type of fabric, organic and flowing, which shows form and hides form too.
These paintings are another beginning. The first chapter in a long book. Thanks for reading and here is a beautiful poem by my favourite poet, Mary Oliver. Keep creating and keep believing in yourself.
In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver
Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars
of light,
are giving off the rich
fragrance of cinnamon
and fulfillment,
the long tapers
of cattails
are bursting and floating away over
the blue shoulders
of the ponds,
and every pond,
no matter what its
name is, is
nameless now.
Every year
I have ever learned
in my lifetime
leads back to this: the fires
and the black river of loss
whose other side
is salvation,
whose meaning
none of us will ever know.
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
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Over the summer I saw a large group of my theatre friends' kids all attending a night out together- dinner and a show, all to support another theatre kid who was in that particular production. When I asked two friends, "Your daughter wasn't there…was she doing something else fun?" I was shocked to learn that two of the prominent members of the theatre kid clique were not invited. This wasn't just oversight on the part of tweens and teens, a mom had organized the outing. Recently, another mom in this group started organizing all sorts of "fun" for these kids, still excluding others. The snub is so deliberate and so huge, that I can't help but agonize for the victims.
We talk so frequently about kids bullying one another, about adults bullying one another. When we discuss adults bullying kids, it's framed by abuse. In these social settings, though, as these moms deliberately disregarded one child while cultivating relationships with others, doesn't it feel like bullying? It's classic mean girl lunch-room kind of exclusion. As I continue to wrap my head around how grown women are acting this way in a zip code the size of a walnut, all I can do is care for the young beings who are enduring this behavior. I offered to them a letter:
Dear Teenager,
When I saw the photos of your friends all going to dinner and a play together, I couldn't help but notice you weren't there. I thought maybe you had other plans, but I later learned at least two of my favorites (you and another) weren't asked. That is lousy.
One of the greatest hidden gifts of my life has been exclusion. Since I was a child I have been excluded by my peers, especially the "cool kids". It used to upset me. I'd cry. I would hide in my room and teeter on depression, taking solace in music and books. As I navigated my high school years without a clique of giggling teens at my side, I didn't realize that I was the strongest among my classmates. I had no fear in standing up to make a speech or toast. I didn't worry about what others thought when I stood up for what's right or stuck to my convictions. I didn't miss out on eating at a great restaurant or seeing a fab film because I was solo- I just went. I didn't have an inner circle of besties to "help" me make decisions, so fashion, school, hobby, and decisions the like were all mine- no committee rule. (And to be clear: they were all awesome decisions. 🙂 ) Adults welcomed me into their social circles early in my life, allowing me to cultivate job, communication, and social skills that many of my peers STILL haven't mastered. As a theatre person, this repeated exclusion has fostered the skills needed to excel at direction, stage management, and performing alike. I don't seek validation from a huge group of "friends" or need to be loyal to whomever the nicest mean girl is that moment. I am loyal to the script, the process, the art.
Socially, some of the best friends of my life came to me in college. I still connect and communicate with some high school classmates, but only because of social media. By standing alone and strong, I am better equipped to present my truest self to people I meet. And that's where REAL relationships come from. The exclusion I experience – to this very minute – by alleged friends and best friends allows me to see their true colors. And know that they aren't really my friends. Their behavior reflects on THEM, not YOU.
Finally, as I look back as a technical adult, I am cognizant of the adults who did or facilitated the excluding. Why wasn't there one mom who spoke up and said, "What about Juliet?" Why were there moms who planned outings with my entire cast or team and didn't think to call me- or worse, deliberately didn't call me? Those moms raised kids who do the same. My mom raised a grownup who will never let a kid sit alone at lunch, never let a cast gang up on the outsider, never ostracize a weak softball player.
Being a teenager is one of the very hardest things I've ever done. It sucks. I think you're talented and smart and kind. I also know you would never let one of your friends be left out of a group event and you would worry endlessly if someone was feeling bad. Keep being you. There's no one better.
Maybe we all need a reminder once in awhile about how kindness is truly the only path in life.


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I recently got back my copy of Case in Point, which I no longer need (thank goodness), so I thought that I'd try and pass it along. It helped me out a lot, and I'm hoping it will do the same for someone else.
If you want the book, just drop me an email sometime in the next 7 days (you can use the "Send me an email" link in the right column of the blog). I don't think that first-come-first-serve is fair here, so I'll randomly pick someone via Excel if I get multiple emails and then follow up to get a mailing address.
I'm happy to cover the cost to mail it to anywhere that the USPS delivers too, so don't be shy!
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The real estate industry has undoubtedly undergone a drastic transformation in the past decade. The arrival and prominence of property portals, online classifieds and a large amount of new entrants to the market has not only provided the consumer with a plethora of choices but ensured that leading estate agencies have to continually evolve to stay abreast with service and client offerings.
There are an abundance of key industry changes that agents need to understand and master. Technology has played a major role in this shift, with agencies offering client logins on their websites which indicate to clients the status of their property, its marketing and interest. Similarly agents are having to enhance word of mouth referral strategies to include digital marketing platforms to reach new clients and stay in contact with current clients. South Africa's economic fluctuations don't do anybody any favours either and new legislative amendments occur often, forcing the agent to focus on keeping up to date with all the necessary information in order to assist the client in the best possible way.
At Harcourts training is an important path for our agents and it occurs on a continual basis. We have the Harcourts Academy that has training schedules for agents of all skill levels and this is done to perpetually equip agents with the highest level of insight into the industry. That is often forgotten when clients decide to sell their home privately. The agents knowledge, advice and understanding of markets remain a major contributor to the success of a property transaction.
It is of utmost importance that real estate agencies aim to develop the skills needed to build a highly successful career in real estate. Continually attending a range of dynamic courses and a tailored system of learning. Ensure your agents attend a reputable and leading training organisation.
Even the best tools and individual brilliance can be worthless without the correct focus. Recruit the best people and train them to be even better. This helps your culture of high achievement and success.
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Crop Predictions
Commodities Data
Agricultural Insurance
Storm Damage Assessment
Farmers large and small are increasingly using precise navigation systems and electronic monitoring of soil conditions and crop yields. Imagery from space with its relatively low cost and broad coverage is a highly desired add-on to local monitoring, but often takes days or even weeks to deliver. The result is data which lacks the freshness to be relevant to agricultural communities. With 40 satellites orbiting Earth approximately every 90 minutes, NorthStar will drastically reduce the interval between revisits for any given point on the planet, and provide the most up-to-date data available. NorthStar's hyperspectral imagery will generate data far richer in information content, providing key details about crop health, pest infestations, chemical distributions and hydrology never before available. NorthStar will use predictive analytics tools to analyze this new data on a global scale, enabling the monitoring and comparison of agricultural output to changing population densities. In any region of Earth, NorthStar will have the capacity to detect catastrophic events like the spread of crop disease, earlier than ever before.


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Chalkboard paint is fun to put on just about everything! I have put it on old windows, cabinet doors, wood blocks for my kids... it is versatile stuff ;)
My mom had the fun idea to paint these metal platters - and then asked me if I would write movie quotes on them to hang in her media room. They turned out awesome! Here is a quick tutorial on how I did it:
We used chalkboard paint that you brush on - and painted a few coats.
I went on to my Silhouette software to design the lettering (you can see a screen shot below) - but you could definitely do this in a Word document. Make an outer shape that matches the size of your platter - mine were circles and ovals, and I measured them and made a shape that exact size. Then I knew exactly what room I had available to work with.
Above, you can see it printed out (on the left) and then cut out (on the right). The larger sayings took two pieces of paper that I taped together. These are your templates for tracing and getting precise, pretty lettering wherever you want it (I used this same method when I made a Christmas theme chalk board here).
Above you can see the process for tracing.
1) Rub regular chalk all over the back of the paper.
2) Place your paper exactly where you want it, hold it down firmly with one hand and trace over every line with a pen, pencil or stylus. Try not to let your hand rub on the paper too much.
3) Carefully lift up your paper to see the chalk guide lines you have made.
My very precise lines came from using a Bistro Chalk Marker like you see above. It is like a paint pen -- you smoosh the tip down and let the liquid chalk saturate the tip. Then you write with it and must let it dry. It allows for detailed work - but cleaning up mistakes can be tricky. Certainly once it dries it is hard to get the residue completely off. It is great for more permanent/long term chalk projects though.
It was fun to design these sayings in "chalky" fonts, and they look pretty funky on the media room wall. Goes great with my mom's style!


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Reviewed by Kelly C. (age 11)
I really liked this book. It really catches your attention by making you feel so curious and keeping you interested to read more. My favorite part in this book was when Mary Lou goes on a date with Alex. Another part is when she figures out all the secrets that Carl Ray is hiding. This book is like some of the other Sharon Creech books I've read. They are all alike because they have a lot of the same characters.
I would recommend this book for girls because it has a lot of parts in the book that would probably not catch a boy's attention. The book would be of interest to girls, though, because it has a lot of parts that relate to young girls.


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Wyoming Man Sentenced for Assaulting a Federal Officer
U.S. Attorney for the District of Wyoming Christopher A. Crofts announced today that on October 28, 2015, Justin Hayes, 40, was sentenced in federal magistrate court to 104 days imprisonment on one count of assaulting, resisting, opposing, and interfering with a federal officer, in connection with an incident in which he blew blood into the face of a Bureau of Indian Affairs, Wind River Police Department Officer while the officer was attempting to get Hayes into a jail cell. Following imprisonment, Hayes will serve one year of supervised probation during which time he was ordered to attend recommended alcohol treatment and pay restitution in the amount of $285 a.m.ong other terms and conditions. Hayes was also ordered to pay a $25 special assessment.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.


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Joseph Bisat MarshallVisual Editions2015-2016
Visual Editions is a London-based publisher, co-founded by Anna Gerber and Britt Iverson. They publish Great Looking Stories – both physical books and digital landscapes – that celebrate the ability of design to create and transform experience. I worked with Visual Editions as their in-house designer between 2015 and 2016.
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Branding The South Pennines
I live in the wild, beautiful, rugged place that is The South Pennines. Home of The Brontes, the CoOperative Movement, over 40 micro Breweries, hundreds of miles of bridleways and footpaths, artists, makers and people who generally like to take life by the scruff of the neck. It's a place that until recently didn't have a name – more "That bit in between The Yorkshire Dales & The Peak District". But it really is unique. And the people here really are something else! Feisty, no nonsense and often a bit eccentric.
Pennine Prospects was commissioned to bring the area to the public's interest, to give it a place name, identify its uniqueness, and create a brand, website and material to support this. And I was asked to work with them.
I worked alongside artist Angela Smyth to create the brand, which went across festivals, brochures, posters, display boards in fact everything that came from the project. The centre of the whole project came from Angela's huge 10ft map she painted of the area, which now resides as a ceramic wall in Hebden Bridge, with smaller versions dotted across the area.
It was an absolute pleasure to work on this project, to promote an area I love.
Website is here>>
You can see a lot of the work we did there.
Fold out South Pennines Map & Guide
Fold out brochure
Display Boards (huge!)
Signage for Tourist Information Centre
Canal side Display Boards
Square Badges
Me and some friends even put together an event as part of the work I did on The South Pennines Walk & Ride Festival – The Great Pie Tweed Race. The idea was to get more people on bikes in the area. It started small and ran 4 times, with even a night time Christmas version. Each time it got bigger until there were around 80 riders taking part.
This was the first time we did it. A whole amazing event which cost £35 to put on – and a lot of volunteers. Priceless.


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The next time a conservative critic wants to deride gaming as a waste of time, you might want to point out that a developer named Radication Games has created a title that enables players to help work on treatments for tuberculosis.
That's not hyperbole: the game, called Project Sanitarium, uses a mathematical model to determine how the disease is spread and how effective treatment can be based on historical models. Many factors come into play, such as allocating limited resources and studying accurate cellular responses to treatment. It turns out it's actually more cost-effective than most laboratory experiments and player results may be used in actual clinical trials. In this regard it appears very similar to games such as Plague, Inc., albeit far more benevolent.
The game is still incomplete, but you can download an early development build from the official website. Who knows, your playing the game may end up one day helping to cure a tuberculosis sufferer.
In the meantime, check out the trailer below:


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Christy Clark
North Carolina State House, District 98
Help elect Christy
Christy Clark is running for the North Carolina State House because she believes it is time for the legislature to focus on creating a welcoming North Carolina that works for everyone, not just the wealthiest or privileged few.
Christy was raised in a family dedicated to volunteerism and community service, and she's continued that dedication to community service, leading efforts for gun violence prevention through her work with Moms Demand Action. She has spent countless days in the General Assembly working with legislators, advocating for common sense reforms, working with families impacted by violence, and standing up to the NRA lobbyists and corporate donors. Christy has first-hand experience of how citizens' voices can impact the legislative process and change lives.
As a North Carolina certified paralegal, Christy has helped many small business owners and entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground. She knows first hand how policies that support small business owners and entrepeneurs are critical to making the North Carolina economy thrive.
Christy is running to go to Raleigh and work for the things that truly matter to North Carolinians - quality public education, affordable healthcare, increased job opportunities, clean drinking water, and voting rights. Her Republican incumbent has roadblocked all of these things throughout his time in the legislature, and recently served as the architect of the anti-LGBT law known as the "bathroom bill". Christy is ready to help break the Republicans supermajority in Raleigh and build a North Carolina for all working families.


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Becoming a Care Assistant or Support Worker
At the Human Support Group all new care staff must successfully complete an Induction Training course within the first 12-week induction period. This provides nationally recognised training that will form the basis for successfully developing a career in Health and Social Care. Once completed there are many other courses that can be accessed to develop a care workers skills and their career within the world of Health and Social Care.


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These ordinary looking chocolate squares hold a sinister secret (ok, it's not THAT sinister, but it's definitely a secret):
They're lighters! Makes me want to go out and roast up some chocolate covered smores or something. The only thing these chocolates are melting is my mind. It's totally like blown man, they're chocolates but they're also lighters. Wow man. Like magic. Groovy magic.


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My apartment is small and mostly undecorated. I have a mini couch. I have a bed.
I'm not sure why decorating seems so daunting – even though I know I can always take things down, move them around, I am SO reluctant to buy furniture or hang up pictures.
It makes for a pretty spartan existence.
BUT! Alex and I did a craft project a few weeks ago. We were inspired by Pinterest.
We set up a workspace in Alex's basement, and mod podged our way to map success.
And yesterday I finally hung up my finished product.
Inspired by my crooked hanging skills, I decided to also hang up some curtains I bought about a year ago.
Yep, these have been hiding under my bed for almost a year. I'm afraid the wild cat will climb them. But I suppose it doesn't hurt to try it out.
I think that's the problem with home decor – I don't want to let myself make mistakes. This is really silly, because it's not that terrible to say, "oh no, that looks awful!" or "I'll move this over here now." I'm not sure why I got it into my head I have to get it perfect right out of the gate – and something usually looks better than nothing!
Here's to home improvements, little by little.


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Artic Solar is all about high temperatures. It is what makes solar cool.
We create projects using the breakthrough XCPC (External Concentrating Parabolic Collector) patented technology.
Our purpose is to see the planet flourish. Benefiting the Environment, providing people with clean water and improving Economies by reducing fossil fuel consumption utilizing solar Air-conditioning, refrigeration and Industrial Process Heat.
High Temperature Solar using XCPC Collectors provide enough heat, in a small enough footprint, to be truly practical for Commercial Buildings. But that's not all! High Temperature Solar has many applications. Learn more by clicking on applications tab above.


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A scoop of ice cream frozen to 455 degrees below zero Fahrenheit would freeze off the tongue of anyone attempting to taste it, but in science things like temperatures are relative, and minus 455 degrees can seem delightfully warm to some folks. Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, for example, are happy to discover that a compound known as ET-iododibromide loses its resistance to electricity, becoming a superconductor at minus 455 degrees and at normal pressures. ''The new crystal is still a long way from having practical uses, but it`s a step in the right direction,'' Douglas Carlson of Argonne said. Until now, the warmest a material became a superconductor is at minus 457 degrees. Researchers expect they can alter the compound to produce superconductivity at minus 452 degrees. The goal is to find a material that would be a superconductor at temperatures nearer to those naturally occurring on Earth. Such a material would be invaluable for almost all equipment using electricity.
Chicago police investigating whether 'Empire' actor Jussie Smollett paid brothers to stage attack
Amazon paid no federal taxes on $11.2 billion in profits last year, according to group's analysis
The Aurora victims' stories: Intern's 1st day on the job, a family patriarch, an 'incredible' dad, a Mississippi State fan, a union leader
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All about Tacos For Dessert
There's a reason that numerous formulas found on the Internet for cannoli, the prominent Italian pastry, recommend utilizing a delicate taco shell set up of the conventional wrap. This is on the grounds that the flour-based shell tastes truly magnificent with sweet fillings!
For the at-home cook, making this false cannoli is a moderately basic matter. Utilize conventional fixings, which are ricotta cheddar, powdered sugar, maybe a sprinkle of vanilla and a without flaw part of chips of chocolate. Move them up in a delicate flour taco shell and chestnut it softly on a skillet. There are numerous minor departure from fillings, including the utilization of new natural product.
It ought to be noticed that taco pastries aren't just made at home.Getting treat from a taco seller bodes well; if it's a wedding, for instance, a serving of sweets later at night can without much of a stretch originate from similar suppliers who served gourmet supper tacos for the principle dinner or wedding after gathering. No requirement for an alternate set-up, they simply change the fixings and offering, from salsas to sprinkles, in a manner of speaking.
There are various reasons why a taco pastry is the ideal approach to round out an occasion:
Tacos are a magnificent approach to wrap together extraordinary tastes and surfaces – Food technologists and cooks the world over hope to make the key segments of delectable nourishment in ways that are intriguing and novel. Quite often that includes a perplexing surface and taste profile. A taco providing food merchant would astutely join fillings that have three or four distinct fixings with differentiating tastes and surfaces, supplemented by the slight freshness of a flame broiled external wrap.
Fun – No compelling reason to expound in light of the fact that this is a treat that astonishments. Tacos have been seen by Americans as "celebration!" nourishments since first being presented in the twentieth century by method for fast food organizations. Making a taco dessert essentially takes it to the following level.
Simple to serve – Mobile taco food providers are by and large utilized to rearrange occasions. Everything is independent, refuting the requirement for a setting gave kitchen. The set-up itself is bubbly, and there are no forks or blades required. Contrast that with the frozen yogurt sundae bars (chaotic self-benefit?) or the unremarkable cake-and-treat pastries.
Choice to move the occasion to a movement of locales – The occasion that moves, from outside to inside or to another room, needs an attract to move the group along. What preferable route over the guarantee of the portable taco dessert bar?
Regardless of whether you are engaging family or a tremendous corporate occasion, the treat taco bar can be scaled up to serve all participants in a convenient, engaging design. The party accompanies a cherry on top!


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"To have the support of an organization like the Building Trades of Alberta Charitable Foundation... is outstanding. We greatly appreciate their dedication to safety not only in the construction industry, but also in the community".
Andrea Robertson, President and CEO of STARS
Building Trades of Alberta turns its belief in responsible citizenship into action, day-in and day-out. Since the inception of the BTA Charitable Foundation in 2001, the BTA and its 75,000 building trade workers have contributed more than $5 million to worthwhile organizations in the province of Alberta. Whether through sponsoring worthwhile organizations, support for the Charitable Foundation, Flood Relief work, or volunteering labour to Habitat for Humanity, we have always worked to make Alberta communities better places to live.
Check out these examples of the Building Trades of Alberta supporting Albertans and Alberta communities! Better yet, become involved yourself!
Sponsored Organizations
Over the years, Building Trades of Alberta has partnered with many worthwhile organizations through donations and sponsorships. We have supported scholarships, education resource development, conferences, awards, and events. Through these partnerships, we assist important community organizations and promote excellence within the building trades and the construction industry.
In 2014, Building Trades of Alberta made financial donations totaling $252,850. In addition, the BTA affiliate unions support many worthwhile causes independently and through the Building Trades of Alberta Charitable Foundation. Together, we volunteer our time and money to make Alberta communities better places to live. Our 2014 recipients include:
- Alberta Apprenticeship and Industry Training Board Awards Sponsorship
- Alberta Chamber of Resources
- Alberta Congress Board
- Alberta's Industrial Heartland Association
- Aspen Foundation
- Broadbent Institute
- BuildForce Canada
- Canadian Mental Health Association :"Bottom Line Conference" March 4-6th, 2014
- Canadian Mesothelioma Foundation
- Canada's Building Trades Unions (CBTU) Policy Conference
- Careers: The Next Generation - 2014 RAP Scholarship Recipients Awards Night
- COAA Best Practices Conference v
- Coalition for a Safer Highway 63/881
- Edmonton District Labour Council Labour Day BBQ
- Edmonton Food Bank / Turkey Drive
- Edmonton Garrison Memorial Golf & Curling Club
- Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
- Greater Edmonton Alliance
- Job Safety Skills Society
- Keyano College Foundation BTA Scholarship
- Pathways National Conference April 1-3,2014 (Sunshine Children's Educational Society)
- Provincial Skills May 14-16th, 2014 Edmonton Expo Centre
- Saskatchewan Building Trades Dad's Day Golf Tournament
- Shane J. Cartier (Chuckwagon Sponsorship)
- Trade Up
- Women's Emergency Accommodation Centre (WEAC)
Building Trades of Alberta Charitable Foundation
Building Trades of Alberta Charitable Foundation is made up of over 75,000 unionized skilled trades workers across Alberta who are members of 16 trade unions. Together, we make community reinvestment a priority. Through the Building Trades of Alberta Charitable Foundation, we have contributed more than $5 million to worthwhile organizations in our province!
The Building Trades of Alberta Charitable Foundation is a great example of community partnership at work. Contractors and owners allow the Charitable Foundation to raise money on the job sites where our union members work. Our job stewards voluntarily sell raffle tickets to union members during their breaks. Ticket sales then support the Charitable Foundation's work. The combined work of all these partners make the Charitable Foundation possible - just as they make successful construction projects possible.
The Building Trades Charitable Foundation also holds special fundraising events.
Be sure to check out the impressive list of charitable organizations to which the Charitable Foundation has donated.
Flood Relief
Flood waters hit southern Alberta in June 2013, driving some 100,000 people from their homes, threatening homes, businesses, and communities, and devastating lives.
In response, the Building Trades of Alberta acted quickly to coordinate financial donations from other unions and provide financial support to relief efforts. Donations came from the Building Trades affiliated Local and International Unions and from the Provincial and Canadian Building Trades organizations. Within days, the Building Trades of Alberta presented a $285,000 cheque to the Red Cross Alberta Flood Relief effort.
The members of the affiliated unions, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, and other vital trades likewise volunteered their much-needed labour, working on the ground in coordination with City of Calgary and Province of Alberta disaster relief efforts.
I'm proud of the initiatives that our members have taken in fanning out across Calgary as teams of volunteers this week. And I'm pleased that we were able to offer people in southern Alberta immediate assistance with money donated by our Provincial and International Unions last weekend.
Warren Fraleigh, Executive Director, Building Trades of Alberta
Habitat for Humanity
Building Trades of Alberta volunteers have completed two union-built homes for Habitat for Humanity in Edmonton. The BTA volunteers build these homes in their entirety and on their own time!
Volunteer workers for the Union Built Home are from the following unions: International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftsmen - Local 1, Sheet Metal Workers International - Local 8, UNITE-HERE - Local 47, Construction & General Workers - Local 92 , International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators - Local 110 , International Union of Elevator Constructors - Local 122, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers - Local 146, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades - Local 177, Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons International - Local 222, International Brotherhood of Teamsters - Local 362 , International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers - Local 424 , United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters - Local 488 , International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers Local 720, International Union of Operating Engineers - Local 955, The Alberta Regional Council of Carpenters and Allied Workers - Local 1325, and Millwrights, Machinery Erectors and Maintenance Union (Alberta Regional Council) - Local 1460.
Learn more about the Building Trades of Alberta volunteer work for Habitat for Humanity:
- Union Built Home
- Union Built Home Poster
- Home ownership becomes a reality for two local Aboriginal families
In addition to the Building Trades of Alberta volunteer workers, the following BTA affiliate unions donate to Habitat for Humanity: United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters - Local 488 , The Alberta Regional Council of Carpenters and Allied Workers, and Sheet Metal Workers International - Local 8.
If you would like to volunteer with Habitat for Humanity, you can register online.
Our Community Space allows people to escape the cold, grab a coffee and snack, and make meaningful connections. The redevelopment of our space would not have been possible without generous donors like @BuildingTradeAB. THANK YOU for supporting community transformation and growth! pic.twitter.com/20CHJc7hIn— Bissell Centre (@BissellCentre) September 28, 2018


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Happy Sunday Everyone! This weekend is my turn on the Pretty Little Studio Blog to create Pocket Pages using the Treasure Island Collection.
I took a lot of photos on this museum so I had to do two layouts. If you missed the first one check out yesterday's post.
Pirates Life Journaling Card Set, the alphas are from Simple Stories, the heart sticker from Freckled Fawn and the Arrow from the ArrowAdventure Die Cut Set.
: Faraway Frames Die Cuts! They come in different sizes and this one is 3x4 and fits perfect in this photo!
Other Treasure Island items I used are: Boardwalk Bookmark Set, Sea Shore Note Strips, Anchors Away Flair Buttons, Tiny ABC Lime Stickers, and the Treasure Island 4x6 pack which I love for Pocket Pages! I hope you enjoyed these pages! Make sure you use the Coupon Code: hotJuly to get 15% off your whole order and when your spend $40 you get FREE pack of Metallic Labels!


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Attention is what creates value.
Andrew Zientek is an artist, licensed landscape architect, and educator. His work spans in scale from held object to inhabitable place and oscillates between art, science and landscape / architecture.
In all endeavors, the focus of work is the connection and displacement between people and their local environments. Local environment is meant to include natural systems, urban spaces, cultural history, and interpersonal interactions.
CV [download as pdf]
Educational Credentials:Harvard Graduate School of Design \ Master of Landscape Architecture
University of Wisconsin, Madison \ Bachelor of Science, Landscape Architecture
Teaching Experience:2011 - 2014 City College New York, School of Architecture \ Adjunct Associate Professor
2012 - 2013 Harvard Graduate School of Design \ Lecturer
2012 - 2012 Columbia Graduate School of Architecture \ Adjunct Associate Professor
Professional Experience:2011 - 2015 Principal Andrew Zientek, Brooklyn, NY
2010 - 2010 Assistant Piet Oudolf, Hummelo, Holland
2010 - 2010 Designer Vito Acconci Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2007 - 2009 Director of Design Himmelrich Associates Inc, Baltimore, MD
2004 - 2005 Project Designer EDAW / AECOM, Shenzhen, China
2002 - 2004 Designer Mahan Rykiel Associates, Baltimore, MD
Selected Installatios & Shows:2015 MTV RE:Define Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, TX - "Untitled \ Among A Riot of Objects"
2014 Faberge Big Egg Hunt, New York, NY - "Half Transformed"
2012 Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA - "Not Only"
2011 Clark Priftis Gallery, Baltimore, MD - "Where We Are You"
2010 Harvard University GSD, Cambridge, MA - "At the Dawn of the World"
2009 Harvard University Natural History Museum, Cambridge, MA - "Glass Flowers Up"
2008 Harvester Gallery, Baltimore, MD - "Imaginary Landscapes"
2006 UMass Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA - "Right Hand of Light"
2006 Gallery 244, New Bedford, MA - "Construction Common"
2006 University Gallery, Dartmouth, MA - "One Pierced Moment"
2006 Zeiterion Theatre, New Bedford, MA – "Spatial Music"
Licenses/Registration- Landscape Architect:New York
Selected Publications and Recent Research:Forthcoming – Directionality in Space and Time: From Homeric Greek to Facebook
Forthcoming – Nervous Landscapes: Human and Landscape Co-Evolution
Actar Press: GSD Platform 4 -- Contributor: "Nervous Landscapes"
Actar Press: GSD Platform 4 – Contributor: "Three States of Hors d'Oeuvres"
Green Building and Design -- Secret Garden Project Review, July/August 2011 P. 16
ASLA Dirt – Robert Irwin: The Mechanics of Experience
ASLA Dirt – Alexandre Chemetoff: Site as a Source of Imagination and Knowledge
ASLA Dirt – Vito Acconci's Provocative Spaces


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Thank you
To everyone who came out to our first PTO meeting. Our next one will be Nov 9th immediately following the whole school assembly.
LAST DAYS TO SELL DAN's CHOCOLATES!
The money we raise pays for school activities such as Skate Night, Math Night, Field Trips, classroom supplies, quick dry clay for Art, Author visits and much, much more!!
Orders and money due back this FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13th!!
CHOCOLATE DELIVERED: About 12 days later (before HALLOWEEN!!) to your child's classroom (AROUND WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25th).
USE THE FORM HANDED OUT – or go online via this link or www.dansfundraising.com/f6g5
Please support our wonderful school by participating in this annual fundraiser. We make more than half of our PTO budget from this fundraiser! Questions? Email PTO Treasurer Leigh Fisher at leigh.r.fisher.
Teacher Appreciation Poll:
Parents & Guardians!! – let us know your opinion about Teacher Appreciation here at EES. Feel free to use a pseudonym for privacy. The pto
Please help us continue to offer the Four Winds program at EES by helping out with our annual fundraiser. We are hosting a bake sale on I-89 at the Williston exits from 8:00-4:00 on Saturday, October 28th. You can help by volunteering to take a shift at the sales table. Shifts are 2 hours. We raise hundreds of dollars each year doing this bake sale but your help is essential.
Here's the link to sign up: Four Winds Williston Rest Stop Fundraiser, Saturday, October 28th 2017 from 8:00-4:00
Please contact Gail Rose if questions: grosevt or 802-343-5886.
Thank you for your support!
From the Principal:
I understand that there are concerns about some inappropriate behaviors being experienced before school this week. The information that I have received from families indicates that concerns have resulted in rumors about the extent of the behavior. The problem with rumors is that they often become embellished. Such is the case in this instance. There was a elementary classroom tool used inappropriately outside by one student new to our community. As with any instance of inappropriate behavior, steps have been taken to correct the behavior.
We have had an exceptionally higher number of students join our community this fall, and are continuing to work on teaching EES expectations. As students become more comfortable, they will test limits of their environment, which can result in behaviors that are unacceptable. We working to insure that all are aware of the kind of safe, inclusive environment and climate we want for all children. We appreciate the support of all of our parents as we continue the important work of developing appropriate social skills for our community.
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Additional Areas of Interest
- Theological anthropology; Grace; Theology of communion; Ecumenical theology; Adult theological education; Lay leadership formation; Pastoral catechetics
- Vatican II and the New Evangelisation (2012) Thinking Faith, [Journal Article]
- Kathleen Kirk. The Sensus Fidelium: With Special Reference to the Thought of Blessed John Henry Newman (2012) The Heythrop Journal, Wiley-Blackwell. [Book Review]
- Laity on a Mission (2011) The Tablet, The Tablet. (265) [Journal Article]
- Understanding the "Imago Dei": The Thought of Barth, von Balthasar and Moltmann (2011) Ashgate. Farnham, [Monograph]
- Keeping Faith in Practice. James Sweeney, Gemma Simmonds and David Lonsdale, eds. (2010) Thinking Faith, [Book Review]
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Installation and Programming
PowerPax DCC Programming Booster
Tools Required:
Fine Tip Flat Bladed Screwdriver and Wire Stripper.
Installation and
Programming (PDF - 131 kB)
(You may leave the unit permanently installed for all programming.)
The PowerPax connects in series between the programming track output of your DCC System and your isolated Programming Track. Warning: Do not connect to DCC track output or use for Operations Mode (Mainline) programming or unit will be damaged.
Use 16-20 AWG wire to connect from your DCC System programming terminals to the left, input terminals of the PowerPax marked "From DCC Programming Terminals." Any polarity is acceptable. Then connect the terminals on the right side of your PowerPax marked "To Programming Track" to your programming track. Any polarity is acceptable. Plug in the DC connector of the PowerPax power supply to connector J1 and the AC plug to a suitable 120 VAC outlet. Inspect all your connections!
WARNING: If the PowerPax output is energized inadvertently by contact to an external power source the unit will be DAMAGED. This can occur if a PowerPax assisted program track, even though isolated, makes connection to the mainline by dragging or running a loco across the gap ... the loco will transfer current from the mainline to the program track. You can prevent this by installing a dead unpowered section of track between the programming track and the mainline longer than your longest loco!
Do not use a DPDT switch unless it has Center OFF.
Special Application Notes:
For BLI Switchers and Proto GP9: We found that sometimes a 12 Ohm 1 Watt resistor (Digikey P12W-1BK-ND or equivalent) placed between the PowerPax and the programming track in series with one of the PowerPax output leads solves the problem. With the resistor installed, all three systems were able to read and write CV values correctly. This may be made as a permanent change to your programming track setup if it does not appear to affect the programming performance of other decoders.
Use the same programming track procedures for your DCC System as before. All features are the same including read-back if available. Read-back does not work for programming two decoders at once. For all Digitrax and Atlas Systems use the Direct Programming Mode!
The PowerPax status LED has to two indications: Led steady-on, all normal. Led blinking, short or overload detected, programming power terminated. This indicates either an internal decoder short, a wiring short or a device connected to the decoder drawing excessive current.
The PowerPax is reset simply by recycling the input power by unplugging and reconnecting J1. The status LED will return to steady on if the problem has been corrected.
We have tested the PowerPax for compatibility and functionality with Broadway Ltd locos, Digitrax, Lenz, MRC, NCE, TCS and Soundtraxx decoders in both single and dual decoder configurations with complete success. PowerPax also works with programming software, RR&Co (Train Programmer) and JMRI (Decoder Pro).
How PowerPax Works:
PowerPax is microprocessor controlled. When hooked up for programming, the PowerPax initially provides power to the programming track to charge-up decoder components like capacitors that would otherwise reduce programming energy and cause a
programming failure. When you initiate the programming sequence through your DCC System, the PowerPax also boosts and controls the programming energy to about 200 mA. In the event of an overload or short the PowerPax instantly shuts down to protect the decoder and your DCC System's programming circuits.


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Imaginative and Inventive "Figures of Fun"
By Dennis Paquette, photos P. L. Phillips
Figures of Fun, opening April 3 at Galería MuRo, in Cafe Muro at Loreto 10B, is a collection of new mixed-media sculptures that blend the diverse interests of paper arts, painting, and doll making. Referred to as mixed mâché by artist Philip Louis Phillips, each piece of art begins with a wire form or cardboard structure that is wrapped in layers of paper and fabric scraps from old books, old clothing, or even the paper towels used to wipe up after a round of construction. Further additions are as varied as the pieces themselves. Polymer clay faces, each hand-formed and unique, are added in often surprising ways. And to this construction process is added the flotsam and jetsam of the street: rusted wire, bottle caps, feathers, stones, and bits of wood.
Figures of Fun
Philip Louis Phillips
Mixed media art show
Fri, Apr 3 – Fri, May 1, 10am-4pm
Galería MuRo, Café Muro
Loreto 10B
Open to public for free
Originally intended to be satirical pieces, Mr. Phillips says, "After working with each one for a very short time, I find humanity, a commonality in the faces and in the stories of the figures that emerge in my head as they start having a life of their own." Adding with a smile, "I can't mock them any more harshly than I mock myself." The figures are derived from a long tradition of figure making that has been part of human existence, among the oldest known art. "I like to try to distill these ancient forms and motives in art into whatever kind of art I am making… But I can't suppress my own sense of surreal humor."
Part art doll, part wire sculpture, as well as part theater, the main figures of the show are set in their own wall-mounted stages defining the differences between the figures (dancer, shaman, tired shopper) which becomes difficult when the faces aren't heroic or pretty but enigmatically emotional. Also included and in similar vein are twig dolls (or spirit dolls) that Mr. Phillips calls "little household gods." These spirit figures also contain some of the same wry humor and light surreality that can be found in the larger figures.
"Figures" can be seen at Galería MuRo during open hours of MuRo Cafe at Loreto 10B (every day except Wednesday, from 10am to 4pm). An open to public meet-and-greet the artist will be held on Friday, April 10, from 1 to 4pm. Pieces may be purchased at the gallery.


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Heil Putain!
Lorna Scott Fox
- The Company of Ghosts by Lydie Salvayre, translated by Christopher Woodall
Dalkey Archive, 184 pp, £7.99, January 2006, ISBN 1 56478 350 2
The grumble from the camp of the so-called Anglo-Saxon model is that people have too easy a time over there in France. Social safety nets, protection of small businesses, quality food, pampered workers, productive yet lovely countryside, cheap dentists: you name it, it's got to stop. But those to whom these errors look rather attractive will be confused by Lydie Salvayre's radical idealism, because she thinks that no such social-democratic redoubt exists. For her, France is a neo-fascist midden, run by criminals and patrolled by enforcers wrapped in a cloak of prim respectability handed down from Vichy.
This view – and as far as I can gather from published interviews with Salvayre it's more than just a literary posture – is mischievously reframed in The Company of Ghosts as a madwoman's rant. Salvayre's work applies a cheerful irony to very dark preoccupations: chiefly the connection between political repression and family horrors, and the male sickness of authoritarianism. This is an attempt, in part, to make sense of her own experience: she is the daughter of working-class Spanish refugees, whose ordeals seem to have ravaged her relationship with her father, and affected her mother's mental health and her own early development. She trained as a psychiatrist, and is now practising with young people in Seine-St-Denis, outside Paris. Her first novel, The Declaration, came out in 1990, when she was in her forties; The Company of Ghosts, her fifth, was first published in 1997.
Salvayre's works take the form of tragicomic monologues. Not streams of consciousness: the characters are presented as talking aloud, and if they don't sound exactly naturalistic it's because they happen to have a classical literary background that inflects their turn of phrase. In The Power of Flies her speaker is a museum guide on trial for murder who pours himself out to a judge, a nurse and a psychiatrist; for professional reasons he has read all of Pascal and nothing else. In The Lecture a provincial academic is talking at the town hall on the lost French art of conversation, undercutting his own pompous references and plain incapacity for dialogue with helpless digressions on the recent death of his wife. In La Méthode Mila, the most recent novel, the speaker is a Cartesian scholar who discovers the limits of that method and the virtues of the irrational and the unknowable when he is forced to care for his demented mother.
Demented mothers dominate The Company of Ghosts. It's often not clear which delirious member of the maternal line is holding the floor in overlapping reams of speech within reported speech. The novel's occasion is a bailiff's visit to the squalid flat inhabited by 19-year-old Louisiane and her mother Rose: he has come to inventory their belongings before seizure and eviction. The girl's efforts to charm him away from his purpose while keeping her mother under control fail abysmally, but her continually scuppered, continually renewed attempts to deny the reality of her situation, and salvage a shred of dignity, provide much of the uncomfortable fun. The old woman in her smelly nightdress opens the proceedings by accusing the bailiff (or 'process-server', as the translation lumberingly has it) of being a member of Joseph Darnand's collaborationist militia. Louisiane, 'putting on the afflicted face that circumstances clearly required', tries to apologise in a tone that she thinks is urbane:
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After a lunch at Cava with Erich, we drove to Garrett Park, MD to the community pool to start setting up for Pete's 6th Birthday Party.
|Dylan helps Erich put helium in the
"dinosaur egg" balloons
|Pete (with a new haircut) checks out the inflatable dinos
|Decorated picnic tables at the
dinosaur-themed party
|Pete (2nd from left at the table)
and a "few" of his friends, eating pizza
|Dylan in the lap pool
|Dylan & Pete's half-brother, Miles
|Dinosaur cookies
|Volcano birthday cake
|The cupcake tree
|Dino cupcakes
|Time for the piñata! Pete takes a swing
while his step-dad, Sean, handles the rope
|The mad dash for spilled candy
|A friend and Dylan show their take from the piñata
|Here comes the birthday cake!
|Erich cuts the cake while Vivian supervises
|There is even magma inside the volcano!
|Dylan and Kent with a "Life-size"
Tyrannasaurus Rex
|Kent, Pete, and Erich


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No journey into figure skating history would be complete without discussing the Hammersmith Ice Drome in London and its role in bringing skating from the classes to the masses.
In the early twenties, Claude Langdon (who you'll remember from the "King Bat Of The Forest" blog back in October 2015) bought a rather "sad [dance] hall" called the Palais de Dance at Hammersmith with the goal of giving the "little man" a chance to skate. In converting the dance floor to a skating rink between 1924 and 1927, he discovered that the ancient foundation was built over an ancient well and part of an old farmyard. The reconstruction of the floor into an ice rink - as well as putting in new seating and furnishing - turned out to be a very expensive affair. With the support of friend Captain T.D. Richardson, the rink opened in 1929 with a 'Funk' floor using chippings of coiled steel in the base of the rink and it wasn't long before skaters like Richardson, Howard Nicholson and Trudy Harris were taking the ice there.
Ice skating carnivals had been attempted in a smaller scale at the Duchess of Bedford's Princes Club, Hengler's and the Niagara rinks but these festivities pandered to those with deep pockets, not the masses. If you skated at the Westminster Ice Club, the temporary ice rink in the basement of the Albert Hall or the Park Lane Ice Club at Grosvenor House, you had money, a title or both. Langdon was insistent that the ice at Hammersmith be accessible to everyone - from royals to ragamuffins.
In his 1953 book "Earl's Court", Langdon recalled how ice carnivals got their start at the Hammersmith in the early thirties: "On our ice I coined the idea of the Ice Carnivals, which had a big society following, and were widely taken up by the Press. It was the first time such a thing had been organized on indoor ice anywhere in the world. There were great occasions when at gay parties we roasted oxen whole on the ice; the Duke of Windsor (then Prince of Wales), Sir Samuel Hoare, Lord Lytton, Lord Jellicoe and others were among our guests... There were many attractions to bring the ordinary man and his wife to the ice, even if they could not skate, as well as to interest the wealthy and discerning skaters who otherwise patronized the Westminster Ice Club and Grosvenor House."
Sonja Henie and Cecilia Colledge even came there to practice and give exhibitions. The "London Star" reported that on one such occasion "the principal attraction was little Cecilia Colledge, who is now lady champion of Great Britain and quite apart from her artistic athletics is one of the most beautiful girls in the Kingdom. Cecilia devotes her life to skating. She spends hours on the ice daily either at Westminster or Hammersmith. The rhythm and grace of her movements are a perfect delight, and Continental experts who watched her exhibition performance at the Hammersmith rink assure me that within the next two years this accomplished Marylebone child (for she is little more than that) is likely to win the world championship." As we all know, this prediction eventually proved correct.
|Claude Langdon and Belita
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The American Film Institute will present the AFI Awards 2006 on December 10th. The honorees are selected by jury — one for motion pictures and one for television. The 13 members of each jury will discuss, debate and determine the 10 most outstanding motion pictures and television programs of the year, which will be announced in alphabetical order. Deadline for all television and motion picture submissions is Friday, November 3, 2006. Details about the selection process, submission forms and lists of past AFI Awards honorees are available on AFI's website. [Brian Brooks]
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Pondering Financing, New Partnerships, and "Dogumentaries" in Berlin
by Eugene Hernandez
The 54th Berlinale, the Berlin International Film Festival, opens tonight (Thursday) here in Germany with the European launch of Anthony Minghella's "Cold Mountain." On the eve of this year's festival, director Minghella and about 75 film professionals gathered at the new Ritz Carlton at Potsdamer Platz for the second Screen International European Film Summit, which was this year dubbed, "Modernising European Cinema." Minghella joined Screen's Mike Goodridge on stage for a morning interview, while the rest of the day was spent looking at production, financing, and distribution issues facing the European film community.
Sales agents, the folks who drive the annual European Film Market that runs concurrent with the Berlinale here in Potsdamer Platz, took a minor beating during a morning session, entitled "Collective Power: Buying and Selling Alliances," that looked at ways that producers are partnering with filmmakers and others to handle film sales in different ways. Among those who gathered to explore the topic were Chris Mercier of Indie Circle, Donald Ranvaud from Buena Onda, Margaret Nicoll of Entera Entertainment, and Ivan Hronec from SPI International.
Ranvaud of Buena Onda Films, the founder and editor of FRAMEWORK Magazine in the '70s and '80s, recently worked to unite "City of God" director Fernando Meirelles and Walter Salles ("Central Station," "Motorcycle Diaries") in a unique and still emerging effort. The filmmakers are launching what is described as a sales agent/production company that Ranvaud calls "a new model for sales." He added Wednesday that Mike Leigh and producing partner Simon Channing Williams have also signed on for an initiative that has already produced four films, with five more to come.
Ranvaud explained that he will fully announce the initiative's additional plans in Cannes this year, but indicated that the goal is to "have the directors more integrated in the sales process to reduce the cost in the structuring of the sales company." He also added that the group is structuring a P&A fund for distribution of the films in the United States. He hopes to have it established in advance of Cannes this year. "We want to put transparency, accountability, and creativity back at the center of the business."
Earlier, in the "Picking Up the Pieces: Production after the Meltdown" session, Screen's Colin Brown led a discussion with Peter Aalbaek Jensen, Lars von Trier's partner at Zentropa, and Kim Magnusson of Nordisk Film. The two producers are creating films on opposite ends of the spectrum in Europe, with Jensen making the lower budget Dogme films and other movies on DV at Zentropa and Magnusson working on larger-budget productions.
"You can make fantastic things for no money," smiled Jensen, who now runs the largest production company in Scandinavia. His latest low-cost, DV initiative is intended to inspire new ways of making documentaries. The new effort is dubbed "Dogumentary." After the session, Jensen told indieWIRE that he plans to make six to ten docs this year in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.
Joking that he and his colleagues are like Vikings, Jensen added that he is pursuing productions in Africa, with further details to be announced. "Why not?" he asked during the panel, adding, "Talent is talent, money is money, (it is) not a big problem if you have a modest budget."
An afternoon session, "Risky Business: Banking on Bankability," looked at the state of film finance today, led by session chair John Sloss of Cinetic Media. Heather Mansfield of Mansfield Associates, Adrian Ward of The Lewis Horwitz Organisation, Mo Yusef of Invicta Capital, and Robert Strosser of the advisory board of German Association of Media Funds joined Sloss. While efforts like Mansfield's represent financial institutions, like The Royal Bank of Scotland and Ward's group also works on gap financing efforts, Yusef is primarily an equity partner in financing UK qualifying films.
Mansfield said that European producers do not understand the value of financing that can be gained from the four banks that offer gap monies. She cautioned, though, that banks would not come in for less than $1 million. "The difference between gap and equity (financing) is if you get an equity layer they will want a sliver of your upside forever," Mansfield said. "Adrian and I put (in) gap money (and) as soon as we are re-paid, we are gone — you should look at that as a benefit not as a drag factor."
"I would far sooner put money into 10 $1 million movies, than a $10 million movie," said Yusef. "I feel I could sell that," he added, noting that on the contrary today, "The individual who is inclined to put his equity into a film will be more drawn to a $10 million project (with an actor that the has heard of) — a portfolio approach is much more interesting."
Sloss asked the panelists to what extent financiers, either gap or equity, take into account pure creative elements that are based more on taste and quality.
"Banks shouldn't," Yusef said, "The strength of the creative elements will I assume determine the level of pre-sales," he offered, saying that that will guide banks in making their decision.
"There is a creative rule of thumb," offered Mansfield, saying that even with a film from a first-timer a good script is a good script and a young director can be protected with an experienced cinematographer, but at the end of the day, producers need to be seasoned. "You cannot lend millions to someone who has not handled millions."
"We do read scripts as a minor portion of due diligence," Ward said, adding that he also considers the film's pre-sales as a sign that a project is worthy."
"We don't pretend to know anything about what is a good script and what will work and what won't work," Yusef said, "But it's changing. We are getting involved on more of a risk level, that's a problem and a challenge — because we know even less, than the people who greenlight these things, about what will work and what won't work. So how do we decide?"
"That is specifically what I do," inserted Mansfield. "It's a question of linking exactly with what your bank is expecting to achieve."
"It's not a business that most rational banks would be in," said Ward, "That's why there are only four banks in the world that do gap financing right now. It's about building up the layers — lets look at the sales company, let's look at the track record of their films, the genre." Continuing he added, "There are no absolutes, but it's all we have to go on. I cannot over emphasize the role of the pre-sales. Even if we see a lot of negative, if pre-sales are good, then that will stand out. We need to be able to make a rational decision and justify that to the credit committee."
"It you had a choice why would you go for equity," posed Yusef, "If you believe in your project, you wouldn't choose equity," he said, asking why filmmakers would want to give up pieces of their films and adding that perhaps the movies that are seeking equity money are ones that their makers don't feel so confident about.
"Sadly, I think you are thinking too hard," smiled Mansfield, with Sloss nodding in agreement. "There are myriad reasons for equity, and equity can be priced in other ways, I think that's a whole other panel, really," Sloss added. Concluding the discussion, one attendee asked how it is that in America so many movies are being made with independent money and no government support.
"There is no real process in the U.S. to ordain people through film schools and put them into a system to finance their first movie," Sloss said. "Ninety-nine percent get financing by family and friends and credit cards." Continuing he said, "America is full of people who are willing to do that, and unfortunately, and I really mean this, will basically mortgage their house and their future to follow their vision. We (at Cinetic) see 400 of them and get our pick of them and we've taken the ones that have really worked."
"The streets are littered with the bodies of the people who shouldn't have made their movies," Sloss said, pausing a beat and concluding the discussion.
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