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Among the leading musicians of the late nineteenth century, Frank Holton emerged from humble West Michigan roots to become not only a celebrated trombonist but one of the most successful musical instrument manufacturers in the world. From his days as a performer with Barnum and Bailey's circus band and the great bands of Ellis Brooks and John Philip Sousa, to his later years when the company he started supplied the world's greatest musicians with the tools of their trade, Frank Holton brought great pride to his friends in Kalamazoo and across the nation as both a musician and as an innovator.
Born in Allegan County, Michigan about 1858, Frank Holton was the son of Mary A. and Otis M. Holton, a respected local farm family. Frank's parents were great lovers of music; his mother played organ and his father was a singer in the village choir. While still in his early teens, Holton became an apprentice in his uncle's blacksmith shop in Battle Creek. It was there that he was introduced to the sound of a brass band, which he found absolutely magical. Soon, he joined the Allegan Band and was learning to play cornet, baritone horn and trombone.
"Mr. Frank Holton of Kalamazoo, was the successful individual contestant on the trombone at the band tournament in Detroit. Frank is indeed a fine musician."
—Kalamazoo Gazette, 15 June 1883
By 1880, Holton was living in Kalamazoo and working as a blacksmith building carriages for Cahill & House, but playing music was his primary interest. In June 1883, Holton was a member of the newly formed Academy of Music Orchestra in Kalamazoo when he entered the State Band Tournament in Detroit. After persuading the Battle Creek Band to accompany his performance, Holton won first prize for his trombone solo, which earned him a tidy $80 cash prize and substantial recognition among his peers. It was during this time that Holton met Miss Florence Weldon, a young music teacher who happened to be boarding with Holton's uncle. The couple hit it off immediately and married early the following year.
During the 1880s, Holton performed with a variety of regional and national bands, including Hi Henry's Minstrels, the Aurora Orchestra of Grand Rapids, Ellis Brooks' New York Concert Band, and Barnum and Bailey's circus band, among others, and his reputation soon began to precede him. He again entered the annual State Band Tournament, but this time was told he would not be allowed to play the trombone because other contestants refused to compete against him. Undaunted, Holton entered as a baritone horn player instead (an instrument he was far less familiar with) and after some quick practice, still managed to claim a second place prize.
During the summer of 1892, Holton was a featured trombone soloist with Ellis Brooks in New York when he accepted an offer to join his longtime friend C. Z. Bronson and others in John Philip Sousa's new band. Holton toured with Sousa's great band during the fall of 1892, performing more than one hundred concerts in just eleven weeks, including an October appearance in Kalamazoo at the Academy of Music. The following year, Holton was first trombonist and a featured soloist when Sousa's band performed at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.
By 1896, Frank Holton was back with Ellis Brooks in Chicago, working as both a business manager and trombone soloist in Brooks' Second Regiment Band. It was during this time that Holton developed his own unique slide oil for his trombone and began sharing it with fellow musicians, soon realizing that this might lead to a new business venture. "As a musician, I had gone further than my fondest expectations," Holton recalled in a 1934 interview, "but even though I had practiced strict economy, it seemed almost impossible for me to save any money out of my earnings. It was at this time that I decided to start a band instrument business." Holton knew he had many friends in the industry who would support his endeavor, but feared the old adage that a professional musician could not succeed in business. "This in my own mind seemed ridiculous," Holton confessed, "yet I did appreciate, that it is rather difficult for a man at forty years of age to begin at the bottom and build a new business."
Holton opened a small shop at the corner of Clark and Madison streets in Chicago and began selling second hand musical instruments along with his popular trombone slide oil. Frank worked nights as a trombonist in one of the many Chicago theaters while his wife gave music lessons to help pay the bills. Frank's musical instrument business began to grow, slowly at first, but steadily. Before long, Holton hired a repairman and began to offer instrument repair services to the local musicians. Holton soon started designing and manufacturing his own brass and percussion instruments, including several models of his famous trombones and cornets. He expanded his business to a larger space in 1900, and in 1904 incorporated his operation as Frank Holton & Company, then built a new three story factory building on the west side of Chicago.
By 1918, Holton's operation had outgrown its Chicago location, so he expanded again and moved his entire operation to the small town of Elkhorn, Wisconsin. As business grew, so did the city of Elkhorn, thanks for the most part to Holton and his company. By the 1920s, Frank Holton & Company was employing hundreds of factory workers and thousands of sales agents from coast to coast, while doing the largest amount of business in its history.
During his lifetime, Frank Holton remained close friends with his former band mates and drew valuable product endorsements from many leading musicians, including trombone virtuoso Arthur Pryor, cornetist Herbert Lincoln Clarke, and bandleader John Philip Sousa. "They knew Holton personally, and respected his talent and ability, and appreciated the quality and the honest workmanship of the merchandise which he was delivering," stated Huber in his 1934 article. Writer Elbert Hubbard expressed similar adulation after visiting the Holton Company in 1915. "If you want to get Sousa started," said Hubbard, "just mention Frank Holton, and he will tell you wonderful tales about a trombone player who was always on time, never off key, who always produced the goods, knocking the yaps and yokels off their seats."
After more than four decades at the helm, Frank Holton retired from the company in 1940; he passed away two years later at the age of 84. In 1964, the Holton Company was bought by Leblanc, a division of Conn-Selmer, Inc., the nation's largest manufacturer of band and orchestral instruments and accessories. Today, Holton remains the oldest continually operating wind instrument company in the United States.
To celebrate the 110th anniversary of the founding of the Holton Company, Conn-Selmer donated 369 musical instruments of historical significance (prototypes, reference models, etc.) to the National Music Museum at the University of South Dakota Vermillion. The same museum houses the Holton Company Band Library, which features hundreds of photographs of bands and musicians dating from the 1880s to the 1930s.
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James Grinwis started circulating a poetry manuscript around 10 years ago, just after grad school at Umass-Amherst. Even then, it was clear that his sensibilities were unusual. That made his poems zing with surprise, with slantwise looks at the everyday that added up to something that read more like an image-drenched dream.
That is, of course, a fine thing indeed if writing poetry is your primary goal. In his case, circumstances point toward a conundrum of artistic experimentation: Grinwis' manuscript apparently didn't appeal to the editors who publish works of poetry, probably because of its unusual sensibilities. Those editors—certainly fickle as anyone—didn't seem to notice the sophistication of his writing for a long time.
When one of them finally did, earlier this year, Grinwis had already completed and begun circulating a second manuscript which surpassed the first in its singularity of vision. Within a few months of the first manuscript's acceptance, the second one got the nod as well. That unusual circumstance instantly vaulted Grinwis into the rarefied territory of poets with multiple titles to their credit, and starkly outlines the space in which his poems live.
In a recent conversation, Grinwis told me that in those years of submitting his work, the manuscripts changed substantially as new poems found their ways in. He says he added them "almost haphazardly, but I liked the result."
That kind of intuitive approach makes a lot of sense with his poetry. The first of the two books, The City from Nome, piles images into mad quilts that instantly intrigue, and later tumble into intuitive meaning. The starting point is often the everyday: "The dog scratches his ear/ and the whole place shakes./ It's similar to how it is/ when you discover the worst:/ the door partly ajar, the cold/ light, something in the wrong/ place." The destination, on the other hand, gets pleasantly odd: "The man's eyes are two glass huts./ He sets his harpoon by the door."
Grinwis tells me he's fascinated by the worlds of science and poetry. Unlikely bedfellows, perhaps, but fertile territory. His second book, Exhibit of Forking Paths (published as part of the National Poetry Series), spools out an unlikely premise, succinctly explained on the back cover: "An elegant fusion of poetry and circuitry." Grinwis took as inspiration the graphic symbols found in circuit diagrams.
Unencumbered by a complete knowledge of the symbols' scientific meanings, he often takes them in literal directions, describing them as if they were strange representational drawings. Where an electrical engineer might see an indication of routing and transforming of current, "I saw things like characters crashing into each other," he tells me. The poems that take the symbols on in that manner play out, in Grinwis' usual surprising fashion, the kind of "a-ha" moments of optical illusions and visual puzzles.
In one, "Aerial," he says: "The cannibal's charm. Go ahead, it says. You're young, excite me. Three tall fires were puncturing the darkness. They shot out from the tip of an icicle. A trifecta-ed lion."
In others, the symbols inspire mini-narratives, spelled out in prose poems. For Grinwis, the long search for publication occasioned a lot of thought about how poetry manuscripts take shape. He tells me he enjoys prose poems (in which line breaks are only brought about by hitting the margin, as in regular prose) and micro-fiction, and in Exhibit of Forking Paths, prose poems, electrical symbols, white space and traditional poems all come into play, offering a surprisingly visual voyage. It's not happenstance—Grinwis was keenly aware of the elements at his disposal. He tells me he took his manuscripts apart and re-assembled them repeatedly, looking for the right order.
For Grinwis, of course, shepherding two books into print required a lot of patience and a lot of self-confidence in the face of rejection. The results, on the other hand, offer an unusual chance to see, in short order, the evolution of a poet and his concerns.

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Elton John, whose first solo studio album in seven years comes out today, told University of Southern California students treated to a free concert of his last week, "You have to keep trying and improving. Coasting is dangerous. I can't just play 'Bennie and the Jets' over and over again."
But John did play "Bennie and the Jets" during his concert at the university's 1,250-seat Bovard Auditorium, along with other hit classics including "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" and "Rocket Man." In introducing "The Greatest Discovery," he noted that the 1970 song had new meaning for him now that he's a father to sons Elijah, eight months, and Zachary, two, with spouse David Furnish.
John also performed five of his new songs from "The Diving Board," which was produced by T-Bone Burnett, including "Home Again," a song he said celebrates the feeling he has each time he walks through his back door after having been out on the road. The album, a return to John's piano-centric roots, is "mature and reflective," said the singer, dressed in a sparkling black suit and hot pink socks. "It's a record by a 66-year-old man, not by a 26-year-old guy who made 'Rocket Man.' As you get older, you change. I haven't been on the radio, and rightly so, because it's other people's turn – but I'm at an age where I can do what I want."
He may be changed, but John has still got it. Ushers passed out earplugs as concertgoers entered the venue, and three times the artist elicited standing ovations from the crowd. His voice roared, as strong as ever, and though he joked about not being able "to beat the shit out of the piano" in the way a guitarist could with a guitar, he did a pretty darn good job of it – even hopping on top of it during "Bennie."[youtube http://youtu.be/m-4ggMaSsNY]
About 40 students from USC's Thornton School of Music were chosen to perform with John on stage, including string players, a harpist, and vocalist, and John was attentive and complimentary to them, at one point blowing them a kiss during his performance. He said, "There is an energy you have called youth that can change the world. I used to have it. I have energy now, but it's not like the energy you have in your 20s, and you're fearless and you go for broke."
At the same time, John shows all of us that courage is ageless, as he continues to put himself out there. "I'm not Lou Reed, I'm not Neil Young, I'm not Bob Dylan, but I'm Elton, so I can still push things," he said. His undiminished passion is what makes his music so beautiful still.
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The Sea Ray 630 Sundancer has a one-of-a-kind cockpit. An imposing 27 feet, the cockpit provides plenty of room for guests, offering a circular seating area with fiberglass dining table, two aft-facing wraparound lounge seats, a raised sunpad, an entertainment center with wet bar and storage, and a transom door leading to the swim platform. The helm - with hydraulic steering and throttle controls, backlit instrumentation, and room for a wealth of optional electronics - is designed for easy owner operation. A separate air-conditioning vent to starboard of the helm allows the helmsman to enjoy the same refrigerated breeze as the cabin passengers. An optional fiberglass hard top provides protection from the elements. Walk down three steps to an environment of luxury, with 66-ounce deep pile, stain-resistant carpeting in living and sleeping areas, oak parquet flooring in the galley, and 14-K gold inlaid ceramic tile in the heads. Immediately to starboard is a custom leather sofa. In the 630 DA, this entire amidships area becomes a large guest stateroom with private en suite head. On the port side, the galley includes custom-molded counter tops and a Blanco sink with sculptured Moen faucet, a flush-mounted Sub Zero refrigerator and freezer with ice maker, custom four-burner electric stove, and built-in microwave - browning oven. The dining area features a circular lounge with a custom hi - lo dining table. Lower the table, slip in a custom cushion, and the dinette lounge converts to a double bed. Forward, the master stateroom is dominated by a queen-size island bed. Coordinated bed linens and upholstery fabrics complement the walls and leather banquettes. Hidden storage is abundant, with deep drawers under the bed and mirrored, cedar-lined hanging lockers. The private master head includes a mirrored vanity with sink, plentiful storage drawers and enclosed shelving. There's a separate medicine cabinet with mirror. The enclosed shower features a molded seat and adjustable shower wand. To port, the guest head includes a molded vanity and sink, shower, full-length mirror and built-in medicine cabinet. The surface-drive propulsion system in the 630 DA precludes an aft cabin, but more than compensates with the spacious mid-cabin guest berth under the cockpit. Sea Ray has outfitted the 630 Sundancer with twin Arneson Surface-Drives to eliminate all underwater appendages. The result is a 50 percent decrease in drag, which gives the boat quicker acceleration, a higher overall speed, and improved fuel economy for a longer cruising range. Shallow water capabilities are also increased by over a foot with the elimination of underwater drive-shafts, struts, and rudders. The Arneson Surface-Drives are coupled to twin T-1040 hp Detroit Diesel T-12V-92TA's, to provide speed and dependability. Additional benefits of the Surface-Drives are trimmable propeller shafts for optimizing thrust, and surface-piercing propellers for more efficient propulsion.
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LOA: 62 ft 6 in
Beam: 15 ft 9 in
Maximum Draft: 3 ft 11 in
Deadrise: 19 ° at Transom
Dry Weight: 64000 lbs
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Engine Option 1: 2x 12V-92 TA Detroit Diesel w-ZF 165-P2 12V-92 TA Detroit Diesel w-ZF 165-P2 1040 HP
Fresh Water Tanks: (200 Gallons)
Fuel Tanks: (1061 Gallons)
Holding Tanks: (65 Gallons)
Number of single berths: 8
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Sea Ray 630 Sundancer Specifications - Standard Equipment Hull and Deck - 316 stainless steel deck rails - 316 stainless steel high-profile bow rail - Four-bolt stainless steel cleats (10) - Boot stripes - Bottom paint with epoxy primer - Custom aluminum swim platform - Fiberglass diamond plate flooring in bilge - Foam-filled under-floor areas - Gelcoat (arctic white) - Gelcoated bilge area - High-performance vinylester resin - Insulated engine compartment - Integral swim platform - Meets applicable USCG and ABYC standards - Navigation lights - NMMA certification - PVC rub rail with stainless steel insert - Rod holders (2) - Stainless steel deck fill plates - Stainless steel deck runners - Stainless steel hull and deck portlights - Translucent deck hatch with lock and sky screen cover Windlass - Deck anchor hatch with freshwater washdown and hose - Lofrans Albatross (chain) with foot switches - Stainless steel anchor chute with stainless steel - Plow anchor Cockpit - Burl instrument panel - Circular cockpit seating with storage - Circular raised deluxe sunpad hatch with gas-assist lift, headrest, bilge access hatch and storage below - Custom slide and swivel helm seat with flip-up thigh-rise bolster and companion bench seat - Fiberglass sport spoiler with stainless steel grab rails and overhead lighting - High-low fiberglass cockpit table - Indirect cockpit lighting - Molded deck access steps - Molded fiberglass entertainment center with wetbar and storage cabinet - Self-bailing fiberglass cockpit with bilge service hatch and stainless steel bilge ladder - Snap-in carpet liner - Transom door - Two aft-facing wrap-around lounge seats with storage and access to fuel transfer valves - Wood-accent steering wheel - Entertainment center for cockpit (120V - 60 cycle) or (220V - 50 cycle): 12V Clarion AM-FM digital cassette stereo with 6-disc CD changer, subwoofer, amplifier, 4 speakers and cockpit remote control - Icemaker - Refrigerator Forward Accessory Room - 12V - 24V DC distribution panel - 20 amp - 120V - 12V converter - 40 amp - 120V - 240V - 24V converter (2) - Battery switches - Water system components Cabin - 120V outlets (GFI protected) - 24V - 120V directional lighting with dimmers - 24V indirect lighting with dimmer - Acrylic cabin door - Acrylic handrails - Corian countertops (Aurora or Sandstone) - Custom curtains - Deep-pile stain-resistant floor carpeting with padding - Floor storage - Interior Sunbrella carpet runners - Stacking washer - dryer (120V - 60 cycle) or (220V -50 cycle) - Throw pillows Galley - 120V microwave - convection oven - 120V Sub Zero refrigerator and freezer with icemaker - 240V custom four-burner electric stove - Bar stools (2) - Breakfast bar - Custom Corian countertop with Corian sink and single-lever Grohe faucet - Galley storage drawers - Glass and dish storage racks - Power vent - Stainless steel stove rail - Wood floor - Spacemaker coffee maker - Trash compactor Dinette (Floor Plan A) - Accent mirror with indirect lighting - Convertible circular dinette - High-low dining table - Storage Salon - Accent mirrors with indirect lighting - Built-in storage - Leather sofa with electrically operated slide-out bed - Skylight - Throw pillows - Antenna and TV coax to dockside - Bose Lifestyle 20 Stereo with Jewel Cube Speakers (2) and LS Bass Module - Color television - Television cord with inlet - VCR with remote Master Stateroom - 120V outlet - Cedar-lined hanging lockers with lights and mirrored doors (2) - Floor storage - Private access to forward head - Queen-size bed with innerspring mattress, pillows (2), sheets and spread - Vanity with mirrors and built-in seating - Bose Acoustimass with 3 speakers with remote control - Color TV - VCR - radio combo with antenna Master Head - Acrylic accessories - Cultured marble floor - Grohe faucet - Medicine cabinet with mirror - Molded vanity with porcelain sink, drawers and storage below - Power vent - Privacy door - Shower with seat, adjustable shower wand and bifold door - VacuFlush head Mid-Stateroom - 120V outlets (GFI protected) - 24V indirect lighting with dimmer - Cedar-lined hanging locker with lights and mirror - Pocket door - Private access to head - Queen-size bed with upholstered headboard and drawers below - Sheets, pillow cases and color-coordinated spread - Throw pillows - Vanity with mirror - Color TV - VCR - radio combo with antenna Mid-Stateroom Head - Acrylic accessories - Acrylic handrails - Cultured marble floor - Linen closet with mirrored door - Medicine cabinet with mirror - Molded vanity with sink and storage below - Shower with seat, adjustable shower wand and bifold door - Sliding privacy door with full-length mirror - VacuFlush head Guest Head - Acrylic accessories - Acrylic handrails - Cultured marble floor - Full-length mirror - Grohe faucet - Medicine cabinet with mirror - Molded vanity with sink and storage below - Privacy door - Shower with adjustable shower wand - VacuFlush head Windshield and Canvas - Aft sunshade - Stainless steel tri-section tinted glass windshield with electric front vent - Sunbrella Bimini top with stainless steel fittings - Windshield wipers with stainless steel washer system - Aft curtain - Canvas storage bag - Front curtain - Side curtains - Windshield shades Technical - 120V - 20 amp - 12V converter - 120V - 40 amp - 240V - 24V converters (2) - 120V and 24V bilge lights - 120V - 240V transient voltage surge protection - 18-gallon 240V water heater - 24V air horn with accumulator tank - 24V automatic bilge pumps (2 aft, 1 fwd) - 24V electric bilge blowers (2) - 24V high water bilge alarms and pumps (1 aft, 1 bilge and 1 fwd) - 24V power vents (3) - heads and galley - 24V shower - condensate sump pump - 240V - 50 amp - 60 cycle and 120V - 50 amp - 60 cycle - Dockside power with 50-foot cords - 240V pressure water system with 24V ShurFlo pump (back-up) - 50 amp - 12V electronics circuit with large ground plate - 65-gallon fiberglass holding tank with macerator pump-out - 8-D batteries (4) with group 27 for generator - Additional A-C raw water pump with manifold installed - Aeroquipt A-1 fuel lines - Aluminum integral fuel tank with fuel system priming pump and electric sending units - Backlit switch panel with weatherproof rocker switches, remote circuit breaker panel and variable dimmer control - Beam dual outlet - Bilge freshwater hose and spigot - C-phone with cell phone interface - antenna - Cable television inlet - Color-coded wiring with chafe protection - Compass (large) - Digital LCD systems monitor for engine diagnostics and pump monitoring - Dual ACR spotlight (24V with single control) - Dual engine hydraulic power steering - Dual hydraulic gear shift and throttle engine controls - Electronic bow thruster - Emergency engine stop - Emergency start system - engines - Engine drip sumps - Fiberglass integral fuel tank with fuel system priming - Pump and electric sending units - Freshwater washdown and dockside inlet with cockpit shower (hot and cold) - Galvanic isolators (2) - Glendinning cablemasters (2) with remote - Halon system with diesel shutdown and override - Hourmeters (2 - forward accessory room) - Macerator with seacock interlock system - Main DC breaker panel - Oil changer system - Power Pac exhaust - lift system mufflers - Racor fuel filters (3) - Ship's bell - Synchronizer - Trolling valves - VacuFlush head system with dockside pump-out - Water tanks (100 gallons each) (2) - Generator is remote start with muffler, freshwater cooling, fuel filter, seacock and seawater strainer, 240V - 60 cycle 20.0 kW Westerbeke diesel with soft sound box - Air conditioning and heating is 240V reverse cycle (40,000 BTU) - GPS - Loran NAV398 with 112 GPS sensor - Raydata multifunction instrument including depth finder, speed and sumlog, water temperature - VHF radio - 220 with remote speaker and 8-foot antenna - Gauges with backlighting including fuel gauge (2), gear temperature gauge (2), oil pressure gauge (2), tachometer (2), voltmeter (2), water temperature gauge (2) Bilge Accessory Package - Bilge ventilation system (Delta T) - Cord reel light - Fan - Fire extinguishers - bilge, lazarette - Storage racks Underwater Gear - 24V heavy-duty bronze hydraulic trim tabs - Bonding system with large zinc hull plate - Rolla nickel aluminum bronze 5-blade surfacing propellers - Seacocks on all underwater fittings - Seawater strainers Engine - T-CAT-3412TA Caterpillar with twin Arneson ASD12 surface drives (T-1309 hp - 976 kW) Sea Ray 630 Sundancer Optional Equipment Guest Stateroom (Floor Plan B - Replaces Dinette) - Acrylic dining table with hydraulic base - Cedar-lined hanging locker with light - Drawers under bunk - Full-size bed with pillows, sheets and coordinated spread - Portlights - TV - VCR combo Miscellaneous - Generator (in lieu of standard) is 220V - 50 cycle 16.0 kW Westerbeke diesel (with Soft Sound Box) - Air conditioning (cockpit) 24,000 BTU (2-ton) - Additions to Raytheon electronics package include autopilot (Raypilot 650) and radar (R41XX WITH 620XX Chart Plotter) - Custom sculptured salon carpet inlay with clear vinyl runners - 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WHEELING -- Planning a birthday bash for an entire state is no small task, and Wheeling wants to make sure West Virginia's 150th is one to remember.
City officials met Monday with representatives from the Wheeling-Ohio County Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Wheeling Area Chamber of Commerce, West Virginia Independence Hall and the Regional Economic Development Partnership to iron out the remaining details as they prepare to welcome thousands to the city where it all started for events surrounding the statehood sesquicentennial.
And those special guests will include Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and members of the state Legislature, who will be holding their June interim meetings in Wheeling.
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Events get under way at 5 p.m. June 19 with statehood-related speeches at West Virginia Independence Hall immediately following the close of legislative committee meetings, said Mayor Andy McKenzie.
"This is a big deal. This is a very historical event," he noted.
That event will be by invitation only because fire code limits the capacity of the courtroom at the historic venue to roughly 250, but there will be plenty for all to do in downtown Wheeling that evening. River City Aleworks will host a Statehood Block Party featuring food, drink and live entertainment from 5-8 p.m., and the band Streamline will take the stage for the city's regularly scheduled Waterfront Wednesdays free concert at Heritage Port at 7 p.m.
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Events June 20 begin at noon in Independence Hall, with historical re-enactments, a 35-gun salute commemorating admission of the 35th state of the Union and a ceremonial bell-ringing. The Wildcat Regiment Band will play Civil War-era music in the third-floor courtroom at 2 p.m., and from 2-4 p.m. tours will be given of the First State Capitol Building at 1413 Eoff St.
The festivities then move outdoors, with nearly six hours of live music at Heritage Port to begin at 4 p.m., including performances by the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra, "America's Got Talent" winner and West Virginia native Landau Eugene Murphy Jr., Johnny Staats and Kathy Mattea. The evening will conclude with a fireworks show at 10 p.m.
McKenzie said Tomblin will arrive in Wheeling the afternoon of June 19 to participate in the speeches at Independence Hall and the block party.
He will stay in the area overnight and take part in June 20's ceremonial bell ringing before heading back to Charleston to attend West Virginia Day events there.
"I was with the governor on Friday, and he's very excited about it," McKenzie said.
Statehood-themed events continue on June 21 with a "Beers and Beards" event at River City Ale Works at 6 p.m., a concert by the Blue and Grey Choir at West Virginia Independence Hall at 7 p.m. and a screening of the movie "Lincoln" at 9:30 p.m. at Heritage Port. June 22 will feature the annual Wheeling Arts Fest from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. with attractions at West Virginia Northern Community College, Independence Hall and the Ohio County Public Library. A Civil War ball gets under way at 6 p.m. at the historic McLure Hotel, which once served as headquarters for Union Gen. William Rosecrans.
Residents can expect to see additional police presence as well as some road closures downtown during Wednesday's and Thursday's events.
On June 19, police will shut down 14th Street between Main and Market streets for most of the day in preparation for the Statehood Block Party at River City Ale Works. On June 20, 16th Street between Chapline and Market will close from about 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. for events at West Virginia Independence Hall, followed by Water Street from about 4 p.m. until after the fireworks show.
"Leave early - I can't say it often enough," Deputy Police Chief Martin Kimball said. "Think it through ahead of time."


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The central government will review restrictions on gold imports, which include a record 10% import duty, by the end of this year, finance minister P Chidambaram said on Monday.business Updated: Jan 27, 2014 12:40 IST
The restrictions on gold imports will be reviewed by March end, finance minister P Chidambaram said on Monday.
"I am confident that by the end of this year we will be able to revisit some of the restrictions on gold import but we will do so only when we are absolutely sure that we have a firm grip on the current account deficit," he said while addressing tax officials at the Customs Day in New Delhi.
To contain the rising gold imports, the government had increased customs duty on the yellow metal three times in 2013. The levy currently stands at 10%.
Besides, the Reserve Bank has also linked imports of the metal to exports amid a widening CAD and depreciation of the rupee.
Gold imports, which touched a high of 162 tonnes in May, fell to 19.3 tonnes in November in the wake of a series of curbs by both the government and the RBI.
The imports in December was a "little higher" than in November, finance secretary Sumit Bose told reporters.
Chidambaram said there has been about 1-3 tonnes of gold smuggled into the country every month following the restrictions imposed on shipment last year.
"I know gold smuggling has increased...But the restrictions on gold import were absolutely necessary because it is these restrictions which have brought down gold import which in April and May had crossed 300 tonnes.
"If we had not imposed restrictions, there was no way we could have managed balance of payments or the current account deficit," he said.
With the clamour for a duty cut on gold imports growing, Congress president Sonia Gandhi had last week written to the commerce ministry in this regard.
Gold imports constitute the second biggest component in the import bill after crude oil. Spurt in gold import had pushed CAD to a record high of $88.2 billion or 4.8% of GDP last fiscal.
Chidambaram said the long-term method to control the CAD is not to indulge in policy repression by restraining the import of gold.
"The long-term goal is to increase exports. We have to earn as many dollars as we need through exports to pay for imports. We need to find ways to increase exports," he said.
For the April-December period, exports aggregated $230.3 billion and imports $340.3 billion, with the trade deficit at $110 billion.
In value terms, gold and silver imports in April-December period declined 30.3% to $27.3 billion from $39.2 billion during the same period a year earlier.
To restrict gold imports, the RBI in August last year had said entities should ensure that at least one-fifth, or 20%, of every lot of import of gold is exclusively made available for the purpose of exports and the balance for domestic use.
Chidambaram said these restrictions were necessary to contain CAD.
"While we have lost some in perhaps tightening the gold smuggling, we have gained tremendously in terms of controlling the current account deficit and being able to manage the balance of payments and bringing about large stability in the currency," he said.
The government expects to bring down the CAD, which is the difference between the inflow and outflow of foreign exchange, to $50 billion in current fiscal from $88.2 billion in 2012-13.
The CAD in the first half (April-September) of current fiscal narrowed to $26.9 billion (3.1%), from $37.9 billion (4.5%) in the first half of 2012-13.
Declining gold imports has also contributed to the improvement in CAD, which dropped to 1.2% in second quarter, as against 4.9% in the first quarter.
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A 42-year-old Glendale woman was banned from owning any pets while on probation after pleading no contest to allegedly stabbing her Shiba Inu dog multiple times while high on cough syrup, officials said.
Merry Jane Clift was sentenced on Thursday to 28 days in jail after being given credit for time already served for the alleged attack on Dec. 28, according to Jane Robison, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Patrick Hegarty also ordered Clift to serve three years of formal probation.
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Clift claimed she was going through a challenging time due to child custody issues, according to police. She later withdrew her story, alleging she suffered a psychotic episode and didn't remember what happened, police said.
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Regents Professors Catherine Hawes, Ph.D, and Charles Phillips, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health have been recognized as among the top 250 most frequently cited researchers in the general social sciences.
Thomson Reuters recently released lists of researchers from around the world who have been cited the most times in publications over an eight year span. All research is divided among 21 categories, including social sciences, life sciences, medicine, engineering and others. Each category then lists the 250 most cited researchers for that category.
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On September 30, 2013, the first graduates of the Richard Gilder Graduate School will receive Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Comparative Biology at the inaugural commencement for the first Ph.D.-granting program for any museum in the Western hemisphere. We're profiling the newly minted Ph.D.s this week.
Throughout her life, Isabelle Vea has lived in and travelled to many exciting places. Among the first students to graduate from the Museum's Richard Gilder Graduate School, Vea grew up and attended college in Paris, where she also received a master's degree from the famed Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle; studied Mandarin Chinese in China for a year; and has spent the past four years in Manhattan, analyzing scale insects at the Museum.
Belonging to the order Coccoidea, scale insect species living today number about 8,000; they are often crop pests, but little has been known about their evolution. For her dissertation, Vea produced a timed phylogeny—that is, a "tree" of evolutionary relationships placed within a time scale—of the superfamily, the first such assessment of the relationships between fossils and recent species in scale insects.
As part of the work, Vea worked with her adviser David Grimaldi, a professor in the Richard Gilder Graduate School and curator in the Division of Invertebrate Zoology, to study the evolutionary relationships of both living species and extinct forms of a smaller group of coccoids, the family Ortheziidae, some of which are about 95 million years old and have been preserved in amber. Among fossil scale insects, males of the species are more likely to fossilize, but in this particular family, the females were preserved in the fossil record.
Prior to conducting her research, Vea hypothesized that scale insect species might have diversified starting at the same time—about 130 million years ago—as the flowering plants (angiosperms) that living scale insect species feed on today. Instead, however, "Isabelle's work found that the group largely diversified before the angiosperms did..." notes her adviser, David Grimaldi. "Scales must have evolved with conifers and other gymnosperms, then shifted onto angiosperms—an insight that could only be derived from study of the fossil record."
In addition to studying the Museum's exceptional amber collections, Vea conducted her own fieldwork collecting modern specimens in France, Croatia, Florida, and New Mexico, as well as at the Museum's Southwestern Research Station, in Arizona. For Museum coursework, she also travelled to Costa Rica and Mexico.
Having studied the evolution of scale insects, Vea will head to yet another farflung destination—to the University of Nagoya, Japan, about 2.5 hours south of Tokyo—where a postdoctoral fellowship from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science will enable her to undertake novel developmental biology research on living scale insects to better understand how males metamorphose.
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Not that it takes much trickery to get a leg up on the Chiefs, but the Bengals just used a fake punt to reclaim the lead from the Chiefs.
A 32-yard run on a fake punt by Cedric Peerman was just one of two fourth-down conversions on the Bengals drive (Andy Dalton scrambled for the other).
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I went around and checked the heads. I unscrewed the nozzle and found this:Sometimes a system is installed, and no strainer screens are placed beneath the spray nozzles, and you need those screens in order to be able to adjust the spray distance.
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I was unable to do that with a screwdriver, so I tried using a drill (I know it was a bad idea) but I was able to get the screw completely out. I then put WD-40 on it, and put it back in the nozzle. I then put the screen on it, and screwed it back into the riser. I was then able to turn the flat part of the screw on the nozzle. I have not adjusted the radius yet, as I am doing some other yard work and I do not want to get the grass wet yet. Since the heads are only a few weeks old, it is annoying that I had to do all this.that's good - sometimes that obvious piece is absent, and no way then exists to adjust radius
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Rant Editorial - 1986 Jeep WagoneerPosted in Features on May 1, 2013
Not long ago my friend purchased an '86 Wagoneer as a parts truck without a title and with the intention of parting it out. He specifically called me twice after buying it to tell me what great condition it was in, and how "it's almost a shame to do." He was right; it's always a shame to dismantle a cool vehicle if it has a solid body and runs well. But, without a title and needing some major interior work, I (with the help of his wife who firmly believed that he did not need two 4x4s) was able to convince him to continue on with his original intentions of poaching the axles and getting rid of the rest of the vehicle.
He had searched for a year before he finally found one cheap enough to use. Available 1980s Grand Wagoneers have been increasing in value and scarcity because they're cool and classic four-door "family trucksters" while at the same time having nice half-ton axles that people (like my friend) search for to recycle under IFS 4x4 vehicles.
A couple months went by and I had been asked to help pull the axles but had been too busy, and we just hadn't gotten around to tackling the project. There was also the question of what to do with the Wagoneer after it was axle-less. After calling around, the discovery was made that a wrecker would come from a local auto parts yard and get the Jeep, no matter what the condition-even without axles-and pay him $300 for it. So last week, my friend and his brother-in-law spent the better part of a day-with little experience and only a few tips that I relayed over the phone-yanking out the axles. They had limited tools, a cheap floor jack, and some decent jackstands. I admired their determination and willingness to dive straight in.
The rear axle came out with limited effort due to its spring-over design. But the front end, with its spring-under-axle suspension and steering draglink, had stopped them short of complete removal.
I got the call while installing a lift kit on an old GMC, and I told him I'd be over later that night. I showed up well after dark and we had the front axle disconnected in less than 30 seconds using a pickle fork. I felt bad for my friend who had tried numerous methods over a period of hours without the tie rod end budging from the pitman arm.
After helping drag the front axle into his garage, I went to take a better look at the Waggy. It really was in great condition-even the paint looked pretty good. The interior needed new everything to be perfect, but it was a solid truck for sure.
Apparently, someone else thought so, too. Between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m., the night before the auto wrecker was to come for it, the Wagoneer disappeared. And less than 30 feet from my friend's bedroom.
The crooks! The nerve of someone stealing his property, even if he did want to get rid of it. Adding insult to injury, they stole the jackstands, too. Though I have to give them a little golf clap for stealing it so silently, especially without the axles!
I got a text the next morning from my friend, letting me know what happened. While I was immediately annoyed that someone took my buddy's stuff, my friend called shortly after laughing about it. They had done him a favor and removed the carcass. He may have been out $300, but there's also a chance that the auto wrecker would have decided that his Waggy wasn't worth the work.
Again, I admired his attitude and optimism.
So, for my friend, to the Waggy thieves I say: May you trip and fall face-first into a fresh cow patty. But also, thank you; your underhanded deeds ended up doing us a favor. Lastly, next time, just ask-he probably would have just given it to you.


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Light can be used to excite plasmon resonance in gold nanoparticles. Plasmon resonance occurs on the nanoscale as the particles become excited and plasmon oscillations arise in each particle of a pair of metal nanoparticles. There is plasmon coupling between the neighboring particles as the individual oscillations affect each other due to their close proximity. The coupling of plasmons between nanoparticles is the basis for the development of the nanoplasmonic ruler, which is used to measure nanoscaled molecular distances. In our specific sample, the gold nanoparticles occur in a 'checkered board' pattern 150nm by 150nm in size across the quartz substrate. The particles of the array in the sample that was investigated have a radius of between 170 and 180nm and a gap of 40nm – 50 nm between the paired particles. An electric field is enhanced in the area between the particles as plasmon resonance and coupling occur and each particle acts as a pole antenna of a dipole. A fairly new method of microscopy, Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy (NSOM), along with far field spectroscopy, is used to investigate and characterize the plasmon resonance and the electric field enhancement that occurs. Electron beam lithography is used to produce samples with a high control over the particle geometry allowing for detailed feedback and device applications.
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Commerce City, Colo. (May 10, 2011) - The injury bug just won't go away. Forward Omar Cummings is the latest to be struck, as he was forced to leave last Wednesday's game at Houston just before the half with an ankle injury. An MRI then revealed a Grade II sprain of his right ankle and he'll be out of action from 2-4 weeks.
That same night, forwards Quincy Amarikwa and Caleb Folan returned after missing the previous game with ankle and quadricepts injuries, respectively. However, in Saturday's match at New England, Folan re-aggrevated his injury and was forced out of the game in the 30th minute. His MRI on Monday showed a mild strain of the right groin, which will keep him out for 1-2 weeks.
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text: Thursday, September 22, 2011 Effective Patient Advocacy: Reducing Copayments in New Jersey A new APTA podcast discusses how the New Jersey Chapter achieved a reduction in co-payment amounts for physical therapy patients. Chapter President Brian Mason, PT, DPT, and Dennis Marco, chapter payer relations specialist, explain how part of the chapter's strategic plan was for the Payer Relations Advisory Group to develop a closer relationship with the Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI). They also share how those connections enabled the chapter to collaborate with DOBI staff to enforce a regulation that DOBI adopted in September 2010. Additionally, they explain how the rule does not apply to all insurers, and that at least 1 large insurer was already in compliance with the rule.


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As the school district's chief business official likes to put it, the budget has "weathered the storm" of the recession.
Paul Reed, who also serves as Newport-Mesa Unified's deputy superintendent, on Tuesday presented the district's balanced, tentative budget for 2013-14, which the board unanimously approved. Trustee David Brooks was absent.
The document, which will go before the board for final approval in August, predicts $233.4 million in expenditures for the next fiscal year — about $6.6 million more than the final numbers from the current fiscal year.
"We remain solvent and moving forward," Reed said.
He also warned that by 2020, Newport-Mesa will be even more on its own when it comes to receiving funding from outside sources, such as the state or federal government.
Newport-Mesa, a "basic-aid" district, relies on property tax revenue to fill its coffers, though that funding source is expected to increase by 2.8% for each of the next two years.
"Property tax growth is our star," Reed said.
But given the reality of being reliant on local funding, Reed urged for reserves to be maintained.
"You have nowhere else to go," he said. "You have to have a reserve level that allows for some flexibility."
The California lottery continues to have a small effect on the schools' budgets, Reed said. The system provides $154 to each student but takes up 1.5% of all district funds.
"For folks who think the lottery saved education, it's not true," he said.
Regarding district personnel costs, Reed said there will not be cost-of-living adjustments for certificated and classified employees.
Healthcare costs are up 3%. The district's payments into its two pension funds — California Public Employees' Retirement System, or CalPERS, and California State Teachers' Retirement System, or CalSTRS — are largely remaining the same as last year.
"Both of those will increase in future years," Reed said, "because both of those systems are underfunded."
District salaries will also be competitive and above the 75th percentile level, he said, which was promised years ago.


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I can't seem to find a straight answer to this question. Apart from the fact that they should not be mixed with Viagra, or protease-inhibitor containing regimens, are poppers dangerous for the health of hiv positive folks? I am on Atripla and I tend to use poppers sometimes. Are there any anecdotal reports for poppers causing viral load blips or CD4 count drops? What about long term cancer causing effects?
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Poppers is a term given to the chemical class called alkyl nitrites that are inhaled for recreational purposes, especially as aphrodisiac and to relax anal area for insertive intercourse. Today poppers are mainly sold in cap vials that people obtain from the internet or sex shops.
Inhaling nitrites relaxes smooth muscles throughout the body. Smooth muscle surrounds the body's blood vessels and when relaxed causes these vessels to dilate resulting in an immediate decrease in blood pressure. The head rush, euphoria, and other sensations result from the increased heart rate.
Poppers are interactive with other vasodilators like sildenafil (Viagra) and could cause a serious decrease in blood pressure, leading to fainting, stroke, or heart attack.
Anecdotally, occasional use of poppers during sex may not present drastic problems of excessive lowering of blood pressure if you follow the reported precautions: Risky Cocktails
But frequent use may present a different risk profile. This report (you can download the PDF) from the University of Rochester summarized reported health issues with poppers:
The Acute Toxicity of Nitrite Inhalants
Surprisingly, I have not found a scientific reference of immune suppression with popper use. All I could find was this in vitro (in the lab) study that showed some suppression in natural killer cell activity that lasted for a few days. Amyl Nitrite Alters Human in Vitro Immune Function Read More: http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/08923979109019724
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Lifting the U.S. ban on crude exports would give refiners more flexibility to run a variety of grades and help narrow the gaping U.S. trade deficit, a Phillips 66 official said on Wednesday as did former Secretary of State James Baker.
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Their comments come as production of U.S. crude has surged to a 25-year high and refiners say their capacity to process more light, sweet crude from onshore fields will eventually hit a wall.
Valero Energy, an independent refiner, has openly opposed lifting the ban as the company takes advantage of cheaper prices for domestic crudes. But oil companies with integrated operations, or with ties to refining units they have spun off, are calling for open markets.
"All in, we're free traders," Glenn Simpson, general manager of crude and international supply at Phillips 66, said at the Argus Americas Crude Summit in Houston. "Free trade is the right solution."
The export ban was imposed in 1975 after the Arab oil embargo.
One oil trader said lifting the prohibition would raise domestic crude prices for Phillips 66, but said there were still overlapping interests between it and ConocoPhillips, which owned the refiner before spinning it off in 2012.
Scrapping the ban would affect refiners differently. Phillips 66 has 21 percent of its refinery capacity outside the United States and has put a plant in Ireland up for sale. Meanwhile, Valero has nearly all its working capacity in North America.
"We ought to be willing to (export), particularly if we generate types of oil that we have a sufficient amount of," Baker said. "There's nothing wrong with exporting it; we've got a huge trade deficit."
But he said it was too early to know if Congress would risk angering voters who still remember the gasoline shortages of the 1970s and periodic calls to guard energy security.
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Jude lives in a henhouse with no roof, that he bought for ten million euro, at the height of the Irish property bubble. One day, his mortgage is rated the debt in Europe most likely to default... The political and financial elite of Europe arrive, with a plan: help Jude put a roof on his henhouse, stabilize his debt, and reassure the markets. It all goes horribly wrong.
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How can I get my 2Yr old to eat Veggies? What he does eat I hide it in his potatoes.
How can I get my 2Yr old to eat Veggies? What he does eat I hide it in his potatoes.
I shred carrots, zucchini, peppers and onions then add them to ground beef or ground turkey for meatballs, burgers, or meatloaf. Sometimes I even add them to crab cakes or salmon cakes! The veggies add extra flavor but the kids don't know they're there so they eat them.
Try pureed (or baby food) pumpkin, winter squash or great northern beans in soups, macaroni + cheese or mashed potatoes. They are also great added to hashbrowns with an egge and pan-fried into patties.
You should try to sqweeze in a vegetable at almost a very meal. That way if your two year old doesn't eat one serving of vegetables he or she will still have a chance of getting his or hers vegetables in. Plus, your child will get used to having more than one vegetable a day and will hopefully start eating them. Also try rewarding your child by giving him or her a special treat or dessert if your child eats his or her vegetables. Never thretean! If you start to thretean your two year old, he or she will think that it's okay to thretean other people themselves whenever they don't get their way.


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Jordanian journalist now with Abus, confirms Palace06/19/2012
After nearly a week without an update on the veteran foreign journalist who went missing since Tuesday in Sulu, Malacaang now concedes that Al-Arabiya TV bureau chief for Southeast Asia Baker Abdulla Atyani and his team are in the hands of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG).
What we can confirm is that he (Atyani) is in the hands of the Abu Sayyaf and that he went there voluntarily for an interview, presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda yesterday told a press briefing.
At 5 a.m. on June 12, I think he was seen riding a vehicle voluntarily. After that, we have no information anymore as to his whereabouts until today, he added..... MORE
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I always consider books to be my friends. They are the ones that guide and show me the right path. Out of all these good friends, if I have to choose my best friend it would be "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho.
Paulo Coelho through this book has taught me that a fighting spirit is very important indeed. The famous quote from the Alchemist, "When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it," has had a big impact on my life. People usually comment about me that I am hard-working and sensitive about my studies; I feel that this is somehow due to this book and this famous quote.
This book revolves around a boy named Santiago who travels to the pyramids of Egypt to chase his dreams. During the course of this journey he meets many people, overcomes many obstacles and learns many lessons. He learns the importance of following his dreams. A huge emphasis has been laid on the Soul of the World. This philosophical, but very influential, concept is definitely the beauty of the book. When we start a task, the first few stages go very smooth. This is because the soul of the world is letting us get comfortable with the task at hand. But later we find many difficulties, because the soul of the world is then testing us.
The Alchemist is a beautiful book indeed! The writing style is simply mesmerizing. You never get bored. It is all very philosophical, symbolic and a fun read. To me this book is an all-time classic – not a doubt in it. Another plus point of this book is that it is not a lengthy 500 page long book like many other best-sellers. Rather it is a very "petite", very concise and to-the-point one. And it is amazing how beautifully Paulo Coelho has summarized these lessons of persistence and chasing your dreams with such precision. I would say to anyone who has not read this book: go grab a copy. You are missing out on a timeless classic.
This book has left a deep impact on me. The Alchemist has not taught me how to make the elixir of life, but the book has given me something much more precious, much handier for the rest of my life. It has given me the formula for the elixir of strife. Now I know struggling, fighting back and chasing my dreams is very important – and when I do that, the soul of the world will always be there with me. A person is never aware of the outcome, and the outcome might differ from what was originally anticipated. But what really matters is your strife, your search for the realization of your dreams, and this is what the book talks about.
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The recognition of the widespread nature of gender based violence in school settings is becoming an area of concern, not least because of its infringement on the rights of the child but also its impact on achieving the development goals related to equal access to education for boys and girls. However, the MDG for example, focuses on quantitative targets (only described in terms of sex disaggregated data) butfails to identify and address some of the obstacles presented by the gendered school environment that girls must overcome to achieve gender equality in education. In many developing country contexts parents are reluctant to send their daughters to school lest they risk violence, exploitation or defilement on their way to school or within the environment of the school. The experience or threat of gender based violence results in poor performance, irregular attendance, dropout, truancy and low self esteem. Other factors such as early marriage,the risk of sexual harassment, pregnancy, HIV and AIDS infection, or other sexually transmitted infections, and demands for transactional sex have detrimental effects on the achievement of equality in education.
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Good God but Sufjan Stevens likes Christmas music. This 58 song collection, recorded as annual EP's between 2006 and 2012 is his second box set of festive tunes, bringing his total up to 100 Christmas songs in 12 years. We can happily say 'fuck you, Cliff', Sufjan is the real King of Yuletide singsong, he couldn't be more Christmassy if he was ho ho ho-ing through a mouthful of plum pudding with the baby Jesus in one hand, a jingle stick in the other and had his arse atop a be-tinsled Norwegian spruce. He knows what he's about here - Silver & Gold completely understands the rules of Christmas music - that number one, there are no specific genre conventions thus we have the most cherished of hymns rendered absolutely faithfully, crooner standards done as completely mental electro epics and originals that are everything from hushed lullabies to garage rock thrashers. Then there's rule number two: the best songs are suffused with joy. Christmas songs*, above all things, above all cash-grabbing, X Factor-voting, Facebook-liking cynicism are about joy, and Silver & Gold is stuffed with it.
The three hours can feel quite daunting at first, but worry not. This is a set of distinct EPs recorded a year apart and each with its own identity.
It also offers something to the Sufjan fan whose eyes are less struck with tinsel and fire- you can hear the experiments and ideas that connected 2005's Come On Feel The Illinois to the more progressive electronic flavours of its successor, 2010's The Age of Adz.
Volume VI (I-V were the first box set), Gloria is essentially 'classic' Sufjan Stevens: 'Silent Night' is done as a hushed folky, the Stevens original 'The Carol of St Benjamin the Bearded' is sweet and melodic and 'Baracola (You Must Be A Christmas Tree)' is an elegiac sigh. Then there's a beautiful rendition of 'The Coventry Carol', because Stevens knows that melodies surviving for over 400 years really don't need to be fucked with.
It points the way to Volume VII, I Am Santa's Helper, a far more knockabout, stripped back affair, which is both the longest at 23 tracks, and the unfussiest of the five volumes. The length makes it a little patchy -the joy of 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas' and 'Jingle Bells' is in singing them, rarely in listening- but the more sacred end of his output is quite stunning. 'Ah Holy Jesus' and 'Idumea' dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are lovely things, the choral arrangements are sincere but not pristine, giving the recordings a charm that marks them apart from the Carols From Kings CD your Granny owns.
'Hark! The Herald Angels Sing' initially sounds as tuneful and unremarkable as a high school sing-along, until a cacophonous drone of beating drums and woodwind rises slowly behind it, creating something pretty wonderful. The originals here are far more knockabout than anywhere else, 'Mr Frosty Man' is garagey fun and 'Ding-a-ling-a-ring-a-ling' is just plain daft. Not as daft as what's to come though.
In terms of completely nutbar mental, Volumes VIII Christmas Infinity Voyage IX, Let It Snow and X Christmas Unicorn go off the deep end. This is where Stevens starts to play with synths and drum machines with the enthusiasm of a small boy in a toy box. In places it's the aural equivalent of drawing on the wall in crayon, though elsewhere things come together nicely.
A nine minute electroclash version of 'Do You Hear What I Hear' probably falls into the former category - it's fun but deeply odd, while the poptastic reading of 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas' that opens Christmas Unicorn is great, weirdly managing to take one of the saddest of the festive standards and imbue it with a hand clappy joy. The decision to segue a robotic, industrial sounding version of 'Good King Wenceslas' into Prince's 'Alphabet St' is nothing short of inspired.
Some of the originals here are very fine indeed: 'Christmas In The Room' in particularly is a lovely, sad pop song that can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the best of Stevens output, while the 15 minute prog-out 'The Child With The Star On His Head' is brilliantly bonkers. The final track of the whole caboodle is both the oddest and also the most brilliant thing here, 'Christmas Unicorn' starts as a rather silly sounding folk pastiche but adds layers of sounds and gorgeous melodies, building voice on top of voice for over 12 minutes, exploding into the kind of grand chorus that would send the Polyphonic Spree packing, before breaking down and resolving again as, of all things, Joy Division's 'Love Will Tear Us Apart', with an emphasis on the 'Joy'.
This is a collection of songs you're only going to listen to once a year, and nothing here is going to enter the mass-consciousness of the Christmas canon. It's very odd, varies wildly in tone and has its fair share of clunky bits, but it's all done in the spirit of fun and is always endearingly sincere. In the end you shouldn't over-think it. Like the season itself it's best to simply throw yourself into it and enjoy.
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When the sun is out and the weather is warm, Orange County residents flock to the beaches to surf, body board and swim in the chill Pacific without a second thought that if something happened, a lifeguard would be there to assist them.
But, in some countries, lifeguards aren't a given. Or if they are, there isn't always uniform life-saving procedures in place or the equipment and infrastructure needed to save lives.
"I think we take it for granted that we have lifeguards here all the time," said Raquel Lizarraga, 25, who volunteers with the Huntington Beach-based International Surf Lifesaving Assn.
It was the disparity in lifeguard services that brought together four Huntington Beach Lifeguards to volunteer their time and expertise to found the International Surf Lifesaving Assn., or ISLA, which works to prevent deaths from drowning by sharing and exchanging life-saving procedures with established lifeguard agencies to areas without any lifeguard around the world.
Since 2008, lifeguards and other emergency personnel have volunteered their time to give assistance in Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Macedonia, Mexico, New Zealand and Nicaragua. The organization is getting requests for help in the Macedonia, Philippines, South Africa and Mozambique, said lifeguard Henry Reyes, 32.
"I think the coolest part of saving lives through ISLA is...we're actually able to expand our rescues exponentially," Reyes said.
ISLA is funding through donations. And, according to Reyes, most of the volunteers travel to the various countries on their own dime. The organization recently won $10,000 from the Chase Community Grant Contest.
A group of ISLA volunteers are spending their New Year's meeting with officials in Peru and assisting Chile's private lifesaving agency to patrol the busy beaches and exchange information.
"We help show them basic things that we seem to take for granted here," said Huntington Beach lifeguard Tyler Erwin, 25.
The organization was founded by Reyes and his then fellow Huntington Beach Junior Lifeguard instructors Peter Eich, Scott Hunthausen and Olin Patterson. It started after Hunthausen, now living in Texas, returned from studying abroad in Nicaragua where his host brother drowned.
"[That] really kick started it off and moved all of us into action," Reyes said.
Since they started working for ISLA, the volunteers have discovered that lifeguard conditions vary greatly.
Chile and Brazil have developed lifeguard infrastructure, but Nicaragua doesn't really have anything, Reyes said. Some places rely on volunteer lifeguards who only work on the weekends while other places have private contractors, he said.
"It's a completely different animal down there," Erwin said.
Depending on the situation, ISLA is conducting lifeguard certification courses, bringing down equipment and teaching how to identify swimmers in need of rescue, about the different rip tides and currents and how to use equipment, like buoys.
"It can be frustrating when you don't have the support you think you need, but it can be rewarding when you are helping them," Erwin said.
In Chile, ISLA will be working with Argentina lifeguards to partner with Chile's private lifesaving agency Servicios Especiales Acuaticos Ltda, or SEAL, which has more than 200 lifeguards, Reyes said.
The group will help patrol the coast of Pichilemu, exchange lifesaving techniques as well as meet with lifeguard officials in Chile, Peru, Argentina, and Uruguay to discuss drowning prevention strategies and exchange programs.
"I just find it really interesting how the different places adapt with the resources they have there," Erwin said.
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The International Surf Lifesaving Assn., or ISLA, is competing in the National Drowning Prevention Alliance's 2013 Lifesaver of the Year contest. ISLA hopes to win a chance to attend the National Drowning Prevention Alliance Symposium in Florida to get the word out on what it does. To vote for ISLA, go to National Drowning Prevention Alliance's Facebook page and vote for Henry Reyes until Dec. 31.