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The Annual Parent Leadership Breakfast was created to commemorate our years' work over a hot breakfast. As our organization has grown, so has the breakfast; we look forward to highlighting outstanding Detroiters that go above and beyond to ensure a better future for our children, with the Parent Champion Awards.
This year's breakfast will take place on Saturday, December 9th at Cass Tech High School. Click below to register!
Designed to celebrate those people who make unseen, heroic sacrifices every day to make sure their children's needs are met and that they attend school each day ready to learn.
For those people who look after others' children as their own: the troop leaders, postal workers, grandparents, block club leaders, crossing guards, and coaches. Village Leaders are considered parental figures and show their love for all children in the community.
Elizabeth Riachi
Elizabeth Riachi won top honors in two categories – The Resilience Award and the Village Leader Award, and was chosen for the Resilience Award not only for her own resilience, but also for the resilience she inspires in others. Elizabeth has suffered physical challenges these last few years but she has remained constant in her parent outreach at Munger Elementary-Middle School and in support of DPN. As a breast cancer survivor, she has presented 6 workshops for DPN telling her story to encourage timely screening and early detection, inspiring many women to step up and get mammograms. She has assisted with Gleaners food distributions, facilitated DPN workshops, and is now a certified trainer in all DPN's core programs. As a trained Literacy Coach, Elizabeth has also provided over 100 families with DPN's Pathways to Literacy home visits as part of this Early Childhood Literacy Program. She helps with all things DPN Español and is a pillar in Southwest Detroit. As of a few months ago, she is now dealing with newly diagnosed cancer but has not skipped a beat in support of her community.
Minnie Davis
Minnie Davis is President & CEO of Young Men-N-Motion, Inc., where she provides outreach services, housing support, training, mentoring, resources and referrals to homeless and at-risk young men ages 11 to 26, to ease the difficult transition to adulthood. Minnie has served in human services and education over 30 years. She has dedicated her life to being an advocate for children and adults, working and volunteering in the homes, schools and community. She takes pride in being a mother of one daughter, one adoptive son, and also being a foster and adoptive mom of 17
surrogate children. She also serves as an Alumni of AmeriCorps and as Program & Resource Director of the Mathis Community Center. Minnie's kind and courageous heart gives all of us hope for our village.
Rhonda Askew
Rhonda Askew pushes through no matter the trials facing her, from losing everything in a house fire to having incapacitating leg surgery, to her mother's passing. Through it all, she continues to be there for her community, for her three children, three grandchildren, and her great-grandchild. She has faced tremendous adversity over the years, but her strength and tenacity as a parent has never wavered. She is now celebrating 18 years of sobriety, during which time she has always been of service to others, and has served on the board of several organizations, including Creekside CDC and Cody Rouge Community Action Alliance. Rhonda has organized, with other parents, the Southeastern Neighborhood Association Block Club and helped establish the Detroit Cardinals Pop Warner Football Team. She was also awarded the Spirit of Detroit Award in June 2017 from Bridges of Hope.
Karen Lewis
Karen Lewis is a tireless advocate for domestic violence victims. Karen's daughter was 8 months pregnant when her boyfriend stabbed her to death causing Karen to lose the life of her daughter as well as what would have been her first grandchild. Karen opened The Angel House to assist victims of domestic violence to escape their abusers by relocating them out of state so that they can start a new life. She also holds support groups for victims and teaches a 6-week course, "Thriving After Abuse."
Dorothea Nicholson
Dorothea Nicholson is a single mother with two special needs children who was in a fight for her life to receive the appropriate support and services necessary for her children to be academically successful. As a result, she has become a tireless advocate for our most vulnerable children – those with special needs. Dorothea spends most of her time ensuring parents are well-informed, understanding of, and able to articulate the needs and rights for their children with special needs. Dorothea is not afraid to speak up for parents and children or challenge administrators who attempt to shortchange students with special needs.
Nicole Maloy
Nicole Maloy is the mother of six children, and she plays an active role helping the children in her community. She hosts an Annual Backyard Bible Camp at her home free of charge for dozens of children each summer. She also hosts movie and game nights in her home, serves as hair stylist for the children on her block, and helps to get other children home from school. This year she organized a food and clothing give-away from her home and made it a community service event for the children.
Shoniqua Kemp
Shoniqua Kemp is a determined advocate for children and parents who has never let personal adversity stand in her way. Even during times when she experienced homelessness, Shoniqua stood up for children through her parent organization in the Osborn neighborhood and through DPN, making advocacy trips to Lansing and even to Washington, D.C. Shoniqua has always fought to ensure that schools provide children with a safe environment and what they need academically, and that parents are made to feel welcome in the school.
Ora Williams
Ora Williams has always taken the part of the kids who are often forgotten – those with incarcerated parents. She served as after-school coordinator for VIP Mentoring, which provides mentors for children with incarcerated parents. She organizes Fellowship Chapel's Angel Tree, providing Christmas gifts from their incarcerated parents to children whose parents are in prison and unable to buy their kids presents. And she serves as president of Mothers of Inmates Support Team, where she discovered that many grandparents are raising their grandchildren due to incarcerated parents. This led her to initiate the Grandparents Parenting Again support group at DPN eight years ago. Ora herself is a grandparent parenting again – she has been parenting her 10-year-old granddaughter, Aniya, since Ora's son Jason passed away three years ago.
Acknowledges the community members who can always be relied upon to be there. This could be a grandparent who never stops praying, a pastor who keeps his church doors open, or a teacher who stays in touch with her students long after they've graduated.
For people who give of themselves with passion, joy, and unwavering commitment to improve the lives of young people in Detroit. Whether through legislation, advocacy, volunteering, or other avenues, this person is always working for the well-being of all children and give a voice to important issues that affect our children.
Tanisha Burton
Tanisha is always there when she is called upon to uplift and empower parents. She takes every opportunity to assist parents with tools to help their children excel. She lives the example of how parents not only care for their own, but care for the ones without parents as well. Tanisha also holds administrators, district leaders, and teachers accountable for providing the best possible learning environment for students and has often assisted other parent leaders with resources and tools to ensure their children receive the same level of support.
Louise Harris
Mrs. Harris has devoted her life to making conditions better for all children in Detroit, and she has focused her work in the schools and community organizations in and around the Osborn neighborhood, which has been her home for most of her life. For the better part of four decades, Mrs. Harris has been a constant presence at community meetings, school board meetings and various task forces and committees working to improve education outcomes. She is most concerned about helping all children read better and has been involved as a volunteer in myriad effort as a tutor and mentor, including United Way, Boys and Girls Clubs and the SAY Detroit Play Center. Even in her 80's, she continues to speak with passion and hard-earned authority on what is going well and what still needs to happen to make Detroit a better city for children.
Labrita Dobine
Labrita is a tireless volunteer who puts her own troubles aside when called upon to help others. Even during periods when Labrita and her three pre-school children were displaced due to flooding, she threw herself into volunteering in the Hope Starts Here program for early childhood education, where she has hosted community conversations and served on the strategic planning team. Lobrita is always there whenever her community needs her.
Johnathon Matthews
Johnathon is the principal of the Academy of Public Leadership at Cody, where he sets a tireless example of dedication to ensure that all children have a real opportunity to get a diploma than Johnathon. He is keenly aware of how schools move their most challenged children in order to improve their school's test scores, and Johnathon continues to give these students a home and opportunity to succeed at his school. He thoughtfully and creatively comes up with pathways, ideas, and approaches to understand and reach each of his students, and continuously encourages and challenges others to do the same. It's safe to say that hundreds of young people now have a high school diploma and a more optimistic outlook and chances in life because of what Johnathon has done for his students over the past ten years.
Henry McClendon
Henry is a pastor, community leader, father, grandfather and friend to many. Henry consistently talks about what kids in Detroit need, and he consistently works on strategies to help kids in Detroit do better. For more than ten years, he has almost single-handedly made Restorative Practices a must-do for schools across Detroit. He also actively recruits and encourages fathers to join and attend a ministry that meets from 6 to 8 am every Saturday morning for a year, and Henry is at every session. On these two issues alone, Henry is Always There, as he has been on many other causes and issues to make things better for children in Detroit.
Robert Thornton
Robert is senior program officer for the Skillman Foundation, where he has served for 16 years. Robert has provided support for the Foundation's faith-based, fatherhood and boys of color work. His true passion is demonstrated in his unwavering efforts on behalf of youth and the monumental challenges facing African-American and Latino boys in particular. Robert coordinated the Skillman Foundation's Good Neighborhoods community change work in the Brightmoor, Chadsey Condon and Cody Rouge neighborhoods. Prior to joining the Foundation, Robert spent 13 years at New Detroit, Inc. in various leadership positions including community economic development, consensus building, conflict management, race relations, and diversity. He is a lifelong resident of metropolitan Detroit and serves faithfully as a Deacon at the Hartford Memorial Baptist Church.
LaTonya Peterson
LaTonya has been a dedicated and active member of DPN for well over 10 years. She teaches Love and Logic Parenting, provides loving and nurturing childcare at DPN events, and volunteers to handle front desk duties to help things run smoothly at the office at all times. The people in her classes find her to be understanding about their challenges and dependable for needed advice. She handles all types of situations with a smile and patience. She is also the mother of four children and has one grandson, Alexander.
Jason Wilson
Jason was part of one of the most well-known hip hop groups to come out of Detroit in the 1980's, but committed his life to helping young people in Detroit after losing his brother to gun violence. He founded The Yunion to reach young people through relationships and has used martial arts and music as a platform. His messages and motivation for parents and children have reached millions through You Tube in the past few years, and have even been replicated on the award-winning television show This Is Us. Every conversation with Jason will eventually lead to a story about young people and how and why we need to do better by them.


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This weekend is the Walden Artisan Market in East Nashville. Carolyn will be there all weekend & will have all kinds of stuff you'll want to buy, i.e. furniture, tea towels, bell jars, notecards, etc. Jessica & Caryn will also be there, although I think Caryn is only there on Sunday. Anyway, you should definitely stop by. There will be deals to be had!
Tonight Mary Katherine is coming over to watch Twilight. We read the series together, but haven't seen the movie yet. In preparation, I bought red wine, made red velvet cupcakes & painted my nails red. Let the blood flow, I say!
John is in the studio all weekend with Aaron Robinson et al, so I've got the next 48 hours to myself. Tomorrow I'm going to do my paper for class & go to the Walden Artisan Market. I think I'm taking Linda to Smyrna on Sunday to meet the family.
Speaking of Linda, she's been on a hunger strike since Wed night, but apparently she's finally given in & eaten her dog food. She's been on medication since "the surgery" & Wed was the last day of her medicine, so it must have been some weird reaction to going off the meds. Last night her stomach was rumbling so loudly I could hear it over the TV. I felt so bad for her, but she refused to eat. This morning she was still anti-dog food, but she wolfed down 2 pieces of ham. At some point between when I left for work & when John woke up, she ate her dog food. Oh Linda, you diva.

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University Partners
Deakin Business School
Deakin Business School is a Strategic partner. Deakin University and BSchool are currently exploring several different opportunities within the Post Graduate space. BSchool and Deakin University are collaborating to develop unique global pathway programs for their Bachelor and Master's degrees. BSchool postgraduate pathway programs also contain DeakinCo Micro-credentials which provide important soft skills for the future of work.
DeakinCo is an Education and Micro-credential partner. BSchool works closely with DeakinCo to certify all BSchool Global Online Pathway Programs. BSchool also works with DeakinCo to develop unique Micro-credential pathways for verifiable future skills that can be converted into postgraduate qualifications. BSchool's new International Bachelor and MBA Pathway Programs are the latest initiative created by this partnership which will enable future students to complete a Bachelor or MBA at a significant discount.
University of Melbourne
BSchool recently delivered a 4-month bespoke transformational development program called 'The Propel Program' to 60 high performing staff members within University Services at the University of Melbourne (UoM). The program was aimed at high potentials and was designed to teach them the key skills necessary to be successful in their current and future roles. The success of The Propel Program showcased the ability of BSchool to successfully deliver a high quality Enterprise program to a large cohort of emerging leaders and middle managers.
BSchool collaborated with ANZ during their Business Ready Campaign in 2016. BSchool helped publicise Business Ready through activations with BSchool's high profile Entrepreneurs. ANZ was also a major sponsor of Idea Nation in 2016 and donated the $20,000 prize money to the winner, Haweya Ismail, of Mud and Musk (www.mudandmusk.com).
Centre for Leadership Advantage
The Centre for Leadership Advantage represents a highly regarded consulting team of organisational psychologists, scientist-practitioners, leadership specialists and thought leaders. Their team has advisory and industry experience in ASX-listed, private, not-for-profit and Government organisations. CLA has deep expertise in the scientific basis of leadership and how it can be measured in the workplace. BSchool and CLA have worked closely on a number of key leadership research and delivery projects in 2018.
Australia Post
BSchool collaborated with AusPost during the launch of their MyPost Business Campaign during mid 2016. BSchool created a unique online course on Branding for MyPost Business members with Naomi Simson. AusPost was also a major sponsor of BSchool's Idea Nation 2016. BSchool released its new exclusive short courses with MyPost Business customers in late 2017.
Institute for Working Futures
The Institute of Working Futures (IWF) is a Strategic partner. IWF provides research, side-by-side consultancy support and tools to assist people, regions, companies and industries to transform human capability and seize opportunities at speed. IWF is a team of scientist-practitioners who have served on the front lines for over 20 years. IWF is led by Dr Marcus Bowles. a true innovator in the space who has promoted global research, invested in social and commercial ventures and driven breakthrough thinking around the future of work.
Business Chicks
BSchool and Business Chicks collaborated in 2015 and 2016 to create unique entrepreneurial programs and events for the Business Chicks community. BSchool has more recently worked with Business Chicks to release a joint White Paper and Executive Summary on Women in Leadership with CLA in 2018. BSchool consulted with Business Chicks and CLA to co-design their latest launch of Leadership Programs for Women known as LEAD in late 2018.
ADC Forum
The ADC Forum, previously known as the Australian Davos Connection, is an independent, not-for-profit organisation founded in 1996 by the Australian members and participants of the World Economic Forum (WEF). ADC Forum is an internationally connected community, enabling a strategic architecture for businesses to intersect with governments and academia across the world. BSchool has a longstanding partnership with ADC and released a joint White Paper on Leadership with CLA in 2018. BSchool and ADC are currently exploring opportunities in China and Africa for BSchool pathway programs.
Tasmanian Government
BSchool is working closely with the Tasmanian Government to help kickstart the startup community In Tasmania by providing a building to the Enterprize Hub (www.enterprize.space) in Launceston. BSchool is also working with Enterprize to bring a series of entrepreneurial events to Launceston in 2019. The Tasmanian Government was a minor sponsor of Idea Nation 2016.


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The 15th YearTaste of Pacifica is now fast approaching. It is presented by Pacifica Chamber of Commerce and has been announced that there is something new this year? Hmmmmm sounds interesting right? Be excited to join an indoor/outdoor event, at the Pacfica Moose Lodge, enjoying food, wine & live music, activities along with raffles and a silent auction. Each person will receive a complimentary wine glass and 2 wine tickets.
There are 18 local restaurants, 2 wine suppliers, 3 dessert vendors & 1 cheese supplier that will serve and showcase their best bites & wines that will compliment the feast.
What is NEW this year!
The Taste of Pacifica Passport
Each attendee will receive a Passport with all the participating restaurant information. After the event, take the Passport and patronize a minimum of 6 of the participating restaurants, get a sign off by the restaurant, bring the Passport to the Pacifica Chamber and you will be entered into a raffle with an awesome prize to be drawn.
When and where is this happening?
Pacifica Moose Lodge
776 Bradford Way
Pacifica, CA 94044
Date/Time Information:
Saturday, June 24, 2017
12pm to 3pm
Transportation: Limited street parking. They will offer a free shuttle to and from Vallemar School beginning at 11:30am w/last return to Vallemar at 3:15pm
$45 Advance – $50 Door. Tickets can be purchased online via pacificachamber.com or call at 650-355-4122, Mon. – Fri. 10am – 5pm.
Age qualification: *21 & over.
Below are the participating restaurants:
A Grape in the Fog
Beach Monkey Organic Cafe
Boat Dock's Bakery
Devil's Slide Taproom
French Patisserie
Gorilla BBQ
Grocery Outlet
Kenny's Cafe
Luigi's Italian Restaurant
Mazzetti's Bakery
Moonraker Restaurant
Nick's Seashore Restaurant
Oceana Market
Pacifica Jack Cheese by the Pacifica Historical Society
P Town Cafe
Pacifica Thai Cafe
Puerto 27 Peruvian Kitchen & Pisco Bar
Rock 'n Robs
Round Table Pizza
Safeway Linda Mar Shopping Center
Salada Beach Cafe
JUST ADDED! Shampa's Pies
Sun Valley Market
Tam's Chinese Cuisine
Take a look at the aerial view of last year's Taste of Pacifica. Enjoy!


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Gendell Family & Adams Family Garden Gateway Matching Challenge
Join the effort to enhance the already superb Duke Gardens by creating spaces that more readily lead to special student experiences and meaningful interactions between community members. By taking advantage of this matching fund opportunity, you will double your impact on this important project.
Students such as Anna, Becca, Gigi and Judy come to Duke expecting amazing academics paired with an unparalleled student experience. What they discover is that sometimes their most defining college moments take place outside the classroom. For many Duke students, those defining moments happen at the iconic Duke Gardens.
For Becca, it was the chance to see that there was a better career path. For Anna, whose video you saw on the Garden Gateway page, it was a research opportunity that she might not otherwise have pursued. And for Gigi, whose video is below, it was a way to make her student experience more purposeful.
It is important to continue to grow and to facilitate a wide array of opportunities for students, community members and visitors. With the new Garden Gateway project, we can strengthen relations with the Duke and Durham communities, provide better access, and enrich the lives of those around us.
Duke Gardens is the gateway to campus and an emotional touchstone for many people, but it lacks a pleasing and functional main entrance. The Garden Gateway project will create this entrance, along with the necessary amenities to better host events and classes.
The Garden Gateway project is a $30 million plan to create spaces that enable the Gardens to welcome visitors and accommodate student events, performing arts, conferences, educational programming for all ages, weddings and celebrations of all kinds. Your gift will help support a visitor entry pavilion, including a lobby, café and gift shop; an events lawn; an enlarged events hall; additional classrooms and much more.
An especially effective way to support the project is participation in the Gendell-Adams Garden Gateway Challenge. Unrestricted gifts to the Garden Gateway, up to $100,000, are matched dollar for dollar by the challenge, doubling the impact of your philanthropy. For details, contact Kate Senner at email@example.com or 919-684-5579.
— Ellen Adams '62


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Bellingham Hill Family Homes (BHFH) is The Neighborhood Developers' first supportive housing project and was built for the benefit of formerly homeless families. These homes specifically targets families living in shelters, families who have lost their homes and are in other temporary housing, or families in imminent risk of losing their housing. Working with Housing Families, Inc. out of Malden, MA, BHFH provides supportive case management to help the support families living at BHFH. BHFH offers a deep level of affordability in the community, offering Section 8 Project Based Vouchers for all seven units.
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|7 rental apartments
|7 units for <30% AMI
|Development Consultant:
|Dan Violi
|Resolution Architects
|NEI General Contracting
|Permanent Financing:
|Boston Private Bank & Trust Company
|Subordinate Debt:
|The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development; Community Economic Development Corporation; and City of Chelsea
|Predevelopment Financing:
|Neighborhood Stabilization Loan Fund
|Additional Funds:
|NeighborWorks America; The Neighborhood Developers, Inc.
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|Neighborhood Stabilization Loan Fund


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Rats are considered an unavoidable bane of urban life and have been generally associated with filth, disease, and pestilence. One of the most ominous events--The Black Death and the following European plague outbreaks--they have been linked to may not actually have involved them (they would blame it on the fleas anyway).
A new study suggests another rodent might have been to blame: the gerbil (actually the great gerbil from Asia). In this study, Schmid and colleagues looked at climatological data contained in tree rings in Europe and Asia (the traditional home of plague) to determine if such conditions were conducive to rat populations. The study attempts to unravel a few paradoxes regarding plague in Europe: what was the rodent reservoir that allowed plague to persist there (which disappeared in the late 19th century when plague outbreaks tapered off) and was plague something that seeded Europe at the time of The Black Death and persisted in rodent populations there?
What the evidence presented in this paper suggests is that tree ring data in Europe from the time of known plague outbreaks do not support a climate suitable for rat populations to thrive. However, tree ring data from Asia do show a correlation with a climate conducive to gerbil population booms followed by busts, forcing resident fleas to look for alternate hosts (i.e. humans and other animals, including rats). This finding is at odds with the traditional view that attributes the presence of plague in an infected European rat reservoir.
The authors speculate that repeated introductions of plague to Europe from Asia occurred to produce each plague outbreak--a finding that may absolve the rat of its role in perpetuating Europe's plague outbreaks.
This study shouldn't dissuade people from having gerbils as pets as it is not applicable to captive gerbils. Similarly, it shouldn't encourage people to have rats as pets (don't forget about rat bite fever).
What the study does do, at least for me, is provide another great concretization of how infectious diseases affect and are effected by absolutely everything: animal population, international trade, seasons, and, in the case of the Black Death, perhaps the structure of Western society.


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The "Make-in-India" (MII) is the current government's flagship initiative, launched by the prime minister in September 2014, aiming to encourage international companies to manufacture their goods in India. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently inaugurated the MII Centre at the Bandra Kurla Complex, a commercial complex in the suburbs of Mumbai. He, along with Swedish Prime Minister Kjell Stefan and Finland's Prime Minister Juha Petri Sipila inaugurated the Centre.
Thousands of people and mascots of lions swarmed the weekend opening of the MII drive to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), pitched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as "the biggest brand that India has ever created".
The Make-in-India Centre was based on theme of Innovation, sustainability and design. It showcased country's some of the most innovative and trendsetting products. Also, it showed the manufacturing process for the first time after the launch of 'Make-in-India' initiative, launched in September 2014.
In the uncertain worldwide economic environment, the Prime Minister said India was the right place to invest. PM Modi said, "We want to present to the world the enormous opportunities that India presents... This is the best time to be in India, even better to 'Make in India'." Promoting India as the "preferred manufacturing destination" globally, the Indian PM said, "FDI inflow has been up 48 per cent since my government came into office. FDI inflow in December 2015 was highest-ever in the country... we want manufacturing to be 25% Of our GDP". He also said that, they are working towards making taxing regime transparent, stable and predictable. Further, a number of initiatives that were taken by his government for doing business in India trouble-free, along with enabling policy decisions and corrections were listed out by the Indian Prime Minister.
The Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that the state will be announcing five new policies aimed at ease of doing business, during the event. The host state is targeting to bag around Rs 4 trillion in investments during the maiden 'Make-in-India' week
The Indian PM also holds bilateral meetings with senior foreign leaders. Over 9,000 delegates were expected to participate in different events.
The week will have participation from various union and state ministers, Chief Ministers, senior government officials, top industrialists and businessmen from India and overseas along with several government and business delegations abroad.
It was an event meant to showcase the best of India. The MII week concludes on 18 February.


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New Obsession
I think having Jill do my makeup has made me feel more inspired to do my makeup better on a day to day basis. Yesterday I added to my "nice lipstick collection" and got NARS in Carthage. I also got Benefit's Finding Mr. Bright kit, a Sephora peachy shadow, and white Sephora eyeliner.
I put on most of it today!
I also wore this awesome thrifted unicorn bracelet, my Michael Kors sunnies, and a blue bird pin from Avalon Exchange in St. Louis.
Love you, love your show!


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Happy Sunday!
Wow, you brought it this morning, Monroe, a solid 3-hour rush on a Sunday. Thank all of you and this shop is starting to feel a lot like the Marysville shop...those huge bursts of customers where the drive thru is packed and the lobby is full. We love this town and appreciate each and every one of you...oh, and a shout out to the super cool couple from Russia this morning, its always nice to discuss different viewpoints over coffee. Happy Sunday all!


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I'd like to introduce you to Amy, the New England Quilter
I'm 35, my name is Amy. I grew up in Maine and now live in New Hampshire. I have quilted on and off (when I have the time and inspiration) for over 10 years. I love making homemade quilts, sewing, and other crafty projects. I love making fabric coiled baskets and my latest craft has been crocheting rag rugs and baskets. I love these crafts, because, like quilting, you can be very creative to achieve a unique piece of art. One of my favorite items in my shop is the Smiles Around the world memory matching game.
Other interests include hiking, basketball, swimming, cooking, finding sea glass at the ocean, and spending time with friends and family. I also have an Etsy Shop. Follow me on Twitter or Plurk
Amy and her son – what a cutie patootie!!!
Here's a headband from her Artfire shop.
Amy's blog is full of pictures of her cutie patootie little boy, and his new fire truck bed, her handmade goodies and links to some awesome blogs.
Her Artfire shop is full of things for baby – quilts, diaper & wipes travel cozy, fabric blocks and beach balls, fun baskets and more headbands… my goodness this girl is busy!!
Head on over to visit Amy – see you tomorrow! 🙂


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Episode 24 - Curiosity for Better Holidays with Kathy Taberner and Kirsten Taberner Siggins
This week we discuss the power of curiosity to change the dynamics of family gatherings. We speak with Kirsten Taberner Siggins and Kathy Taberner, a mother/daughter coaching and writing team, about their experience using curiosity in coaching. They share some strategies and insights to employee with our close relations as we come into the holiday season.
Their book is The Power of Curiosity
The first 2 chapters are available free online though the Institute of Curiosity here or more information about the book here.
Find Kathy Taberner and Kirsten Taberner Siggins online @InstofCuriosity or on facebook.
How are you going to use curiosity to tranform your holidays? Let us know @OverConflict
Kathy Taberner and Kirsten Taberner Siggins
Kathy Taberner and Kirsten Siggins are mother/daughter communication experts. After 10 years of coaching leaders in organizations, they recognized how crucial curiosity was to understanding others and building relationships. Before sharing the skills with their clients they put the curiosity skills to test in their own personal relationship. If they could improve the quality of their conversations, and relationship, as a mother/daughter team - even in conflict - then you could to. With the success of their curiosity skills they founded the Institute Of Curiosity, a coaching and training organization that helps people shift from reacting in conversations to responding, even in conflict.
Kathy and Kirsten are also the authors of "The Power of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding" giving you both the skills and method you need to stay curious and connected in every conversation.


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*DISCLAIMER* - This book was provided to me as an advanced reading copy. This is my honest review.
"But whoever shares her lipstick that day, whoever borrows her eyeliner, whoever kisses her cheek that night or dances too close or clinks her flute of champagne, whoever touches her hand to admire the rings, whoever catches the bouquet at the end of the night - all of them, everyone, is exposed. This is how the sickness travels best: through all the same channels as do fondness and friendship and love."
— Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers
In her dreamy, introspective sophomore novel, Karen Thompson Walker takes us into Santa Lora, California, a small college town plagued by a mysterious illness that causes its sufferers to fall into a deep sleep from which they can't be woken. The Sleepers, as they come to be known, are dreaming, although no one can figure out what it is they dream about. The city shuts down to those trying to come and go, and a once vibrant community filled with students and families falls into a panic. Some people hide inside, others join search and rescue efforts. Few families are left untouched by the illness.
The plot is interesting, but it's not what drives the novel. It is Walker's ethereal narration that will keep you reading this page-turning story. Her ability to write life into fictional characters and give them histories - and futures - that you care about is incredible, and this book, which often reads more like a character study than a disaster novel, showcases that talent.
Focusing on several key characters - two young college students, a newly married couple and their young child, and two sisters and their dad - The Dreamers explores the impact of illness on family relationships and friendships. Disease doesn't discriminate, and its spread can be both obvious and deeply confusing. As they exchange their normal lives for ones of uncertainty and fear, Walker's characters remain startlingly human. A young college girl cries over a boy who doesn't reciprocate her feelings. A new father longs for the days when he had fewer responsibilities. A young girl fears more for her cats than herself.
The Dreamers reads like one long, lovely train of consciousness. My favourite pages are the first ones, where Walker describes the emotions of the early days of freshman year of college, when new students are forging friendships and trying things they've never been allowed to do before. The desire to belong and fit in runs so deep that, even as the illness starts to spread around the university, many of the students are concerned mostly with what they're going to do and wear that night. It's just so human.
"And this seems like the beginning, this here, the start of everything. She is warm with a furious hope, the elation available only to the very young.
— Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers
Walker also does a miraculous job of describing the illness. Rather than shy away from the science and epidemiology of viruses, she explores the intricate passage of illness from one person to the next, describing in beautiful literary prose the spread of the Santa Lora Virus and the ways it ties complete strangers to one another.
The Dreamers, which comes out early next year, is a beautiful novel - literary fiction at its best. It's dreamy, emotional, and beautiful. You won't be able to put this book down.
You can pre-order The Dreamers on Amazon.


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Jesus Christ is the same
Hebrews 13:8
Today is the first day of Wedding Week at my house.
WW has been the endpoint on our to-do list for months. Actually, that's not completely true— WW has been the focal point of my to-do list. Even with all my hints and reminders and notes and suggestions, it has not entered Phil's head that Wedding Week is the deadline when everything Must. Get. Done.
And maybe that's why he's positioned to have fun this week and I'm up ridiculously early, uptight and anxious because of all the to-do's not crossed off The List.
I know that if I stay up late tonight and get up early tomorrow and work like a crazy woman I can still do it. The garage that resembles the aftermath of an earthquake, the books still in boxes that crowd my creative space, the guest room comforter that I haven't replaced with that charming crisp comforter I saw in the catalogue— that catalogue that followed me to Firwood Cottage as if to say,
"Uh, Di… you really need newer, better, brighter, nicer stuff… let us help you! And we'll offer you a discount so you can feel like you got a deal! Then you can put the old one that's too-good-for-Goodwill in the garage…"
In just a few days everyone will see my not-doneness.
My sister, who is the best decorator in the world—the one whose Pinterest page I copy shamelessly, whose garage has never, ever been messy.
My daughter who been hearing stories about our new/old, way smaller, and more charming home but still hasn't seen it and probably imagines it is nicer than it is.
And the rest of my kids whose eyes grew round with incredulity as they watched the process of turning what was a stinky, ugly 1969 ranch into a home their perfectionist mom can find rest in… and still cannot quite believe that I've really adopted the minimalist mentality they embrace.
And oh— I need to wash my windows! Add that to my list of not-dones.
Or… not.
Maybe the garage will wait for a day when I have time to dawdle through memories before I give the rest away. Maybe the rain is coming in a couple of days to wash the dust off the windows. And maybe I like those little hand prints silhouetted on the door to the patio— because when baby Scarlet comes this week she'll see those markings of her last visit and feel right at home, right welcome at Amma and Pop's house.
Maybe my list needn't drive me. Maybe I am more than the sum total of what I haven't got done. Maybe clean windows don't define my worth as a woman.
And maybe it's time I do what I've been learning. Because starting last spring and all this summer I've heard the wind of the Spirit whispering rest to my striving. I've been in a sort of remedial school of the Spirit— hearing, feeling, sensing an invitation into a new way of experiencing His love.
Of living fully in the present, of listening to Him in the moment— this moment.
A way of being that unchains me from my self-imposed obligations, setting me free to be aware of His speaking to me now, not later, not when my list is done, not when I have time.
All summer I've been going on worship walks. Not to be confused with power walks or prayer walks or the-dog-needs-walking walks. These are more like rambles, strolls through the woods near my house. No watch, no phone, just me.
And I notice.
How the wind cleans the firs and cedars of excess needles, blanketing the ground with pungent softness. The freshness of the sky, the pokiness of blackberry bushes, the spinning of spiders.
Mostly I notice Him; the maker of beauty, redeemer of wrecked things; this One whose specialty is bringing order to chaos and beauty to brokenness.
And on these rambling forays He has been teaching me to notice the now. What He is doing now, what He is saying now, who He is wanting me to love on right now.
Now is so entirely unnatural for me. I am a dreamer; a woman who lives in her head, who thinks up ideas and possibilities and plans. I live by lists, all those things I want to do in the hopes that I can capture that elusive sense of completion. Of dreams achieved.
I live, not in the now, but in the when.
When the children grow up, when the cottage is finished, the bills are paid, the book written, the garage organized…I'll be done: happy, complete, and at peace.
And some of you live in the then. The happy days of how it used to be. You fill your moments with memories of a time that seemed less stressful, better, fuller, more satisfying and safe. You're thankful… for the past, for what used to be.
When your belly didn't bulge, when children didn't bicker, when you were being pursued. You mourn days lost, a way of life you will never have again.
You live, not in the now, but in the then.
I think God is all for memories, and certainly all for dreams. But those are places to visit- occasionally. Take a vacation into the past. Go on an adventure into future possibilities. But…
Live in the now.
And so, I tuck The List away this week. I file it under "later", close the drawer, and look up. I catch His grin and smile back.
He is here and He's been here all along. He loves this family of mine, loves the way they laugh and tease and shed tears so easily and have to apologize so frequently. He loves their passion and their personalities, relishes their genuine, rare, flawed-but-faithful love for each other. And so do I.
I am drinking it in, great gulps of now.
Will you join me?
From my heart,
P.S. I am loving your comments! I felt welcomed back all week as I read your words and heard your hearts once again. Thank you. I feel richer when we're talking.
P.S.S. If you want peeks at my week, I'll be posting pictures shamelessly on Instagram. @dianewcomer is my moniker there, a fun place to notice the now.
still trying to reconcile my list with my reality
the one whose minimalist message has tugged at my too-much sensibilities long enough to convince me to learn to live simply.


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Thinning of The Veil: Painting 2
This painting has a deep forest feel. This is a thinning you'd find deep in the woods where ancient trees grow. Where Dryads and Satyrs dwell.
The paintings in this series are for sale. I don't have the listings up in the shop yet. I know, I'm running behind.
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Solo show at the lovely bar Les Idiots in Ménilmontant, Paris.
The title refers to the famous line "Adieu veau, vache, cochon, couvée ; [...] " from Jean de la Fontaine's tale Perrette and the Pot of Milk.
Shortly after a couple of weeks spent in Sweden as a helper in an organic farm, it helped me change my point of view on meat and how we consider animals we eat in an abstract way, how we choose to treat them with respect, how we choose to form a bond or not before killing them, milking them, getting their eggs, taking their skin.


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Faith Series - The Kingdom Way
Hebrews 11:1-3
Today, we begin an 8-week series on the topic of faith. In life's journeys, we encounter plenty of moments that shake the core of what we know and believe to be true. We are susceptible to leading a life full of doubts, worries, and even fears. Faith is not just good tool for us, it is a necessary agent that allow us to engage God on His terms. Through faith, miracles and healing can be had; through faith, we can hope against all odds and be restored of true joy. The Bible teaches us that it is impossible to please God without faith, but it is truer that it is impossible to fully experience God without faith.


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Prizm News / November 1, 2018 / By Prizm News
'There's a thread of an extension of myself—a queer black woman—that exists in the work,' she says.
By Prizm News
Mickalene Thomas says her identity is always a thread in her art.
"There's a thread of an extension of myself—a queer black woman—that exists in the work. In some ways it's executed very subtly. In some ways, it's executed very provocatively."
The Brooklyn-based artist's work is on display for the next two-plus months in separate exhibits at two Ohio museums:
• "I Can't See You Without Me," a collection of more than 50 works that includes her signature rhinestone-encrusted paintings and a new video installation, runs through Sunday, Dec. 30 at the Wexner Center for the Arts on the Ohio State University campus in Columbus.
• "Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs," a collection of portraits, is being shown through Sunday, Jan. 13 at the Dayton Art Institute.
In each, according to Senior Curator Michael Goodson at the Wexner Center, Thomas "makes it look easy to live and love."
Among Thomas' muses in both exhibitions is her late mother, known as Mama Bush, whom she says was the kind of mom kids wanted to be around.
Thomas also portrays herself and her partner, Racquel, in paintings and photographs. "Je t'aime trois," the video piece that's premiering in Columbus, is the third installment of a series that focuses on the couple, their gazes, their bodies, their intimacy.
In the piece, she says she aims "to tell a story, to create a narrative, to take notions of beauty in the black body through the lens of the gaze."
"There's seldom that you see the positive messages of two black bodies together, especially two women, two queer women."
Visit mickalenethomas.com to learn more about the artist and see more of her work.
Visit daytonartinstitute.org for hours and to learn more about Mickalene Thomas' exhibition and a companion photography show, "tete-a-tete."
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Following yesterday's story about Château Margaux, today we look at what motivated one Chablis domaine to adopt screwcaps over 10 years ago, and why it's extending their use to elsewhere.
Grégory Viennois, technical director, Domaine Laroche
In 2001 Domaine Laroche in Chablis became the first Burgundian producer to switch to screwcaps, even for its grand cru wines. At the time Michel Laroche said the move was motivated by problems with the natural cork supplied to his winery, commenting that as much as 10% of his wines from the 2000 vintage were affected by closure-related problems, whether that was TCA or so-called random oxidation.
Speaking last month to the winery's technical director, Grégory Viennois (pictured, left), it's clear Viennois believes the decision to switch to screwcaps for the Domaine Laroche wines from Petit Chablis to grand cru, was the right one.
Looking back, Viennois says: "At the time Michel Laroche had to move quickly to retain reliability in the wine, including premier and grand cru, and screwcap was the most reliable closure at that time for all his wines."
Nowadays, he says that screwcap not only offers consistency, but also, notably, less penetration of oxygen through the closure compared to natural cork.
As a result, Laroche is able to reduce the amount of sulphur dioxide added as an anti-oxidant before bottling. Viennois says: "And it is an aim at Domaine Laroche to reduce the amount of total sulphur dioxide in the wines."
The domaine uses a Saranex-lined screwcap, which has a higher oxygen permeability than the Saratin-lined option, although Viennois insists that the oxygen ingression is very light, but enough to help the wine breathe.
He also says that Laroche hasn't suffered problems with reduction on its wines bottled under screwcap: "It's not a problem we have, but mastering the level of sulphur dioxide before bottling is so important," he explains, although the use of a screwcap with a more permeable liner may also help in avoiding this issue.
Laroche has just repackaged its wines from its property in the Languedoc, Mas La Chevalière, and has used screwcaps across the range. Viennois points out that the switch is not a problem for reds such as Grenache and Pinot Noir, but is more difficult for Syrah. The latter is highly reductive, but also, he says, "screwcaps can make the tannin quite harsh."
Explaining his decision to not only stick with screwcap, but also extend its use to Laroche properties, he says, "The most appropriate closure is the one which will respect the wine, and at the moment, the screwcap is the best option for whites."
This profile is an extract from a longer article in the August edition of the drinks business which considered three winemakers and their closure choices, as well as the results of an experiment by Paul Pontallier at Château Margaux.
Please address this issue; if a natural cork is thrown into a land-fill it's not that big of a deal, compared to having screw cap thrown into the same land-fill!
IL serait intéressant de connaitre la matière utilisée pour la doublure de la capsule ( quel type de plastique ou dérivé ) qui sera en contact avec le vin.
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This is extraordinary: Rev. Edward Malloy, outgoing president of Notre Dame, blasted the University for its handling of Tyrone Willingham. Here are two prime cuts from the article on ESPN.com:
"I thought we were going to abide by our precedent, which was a five-year window for a coach to display a capacity to be successful within our system and to fit," Malloy said. "Both [athletic director Kevin White] and I have a very high regard for [Tyrone Willingham]. Having lost to Southern Cal, we had a meeting called by my successor [John I. Jenkins] with a strong presence of the Board of Trustees, which led to a result."
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"Notre Dame will get a coach," Malloy said. "I hope that person does well. But I think the philosophical hit that we have taken is a significant one. I am not happy about it. And I do not assume responsibility for it. I think it was the wrong move and the fact that other schools have made similar choices after three years suggests that they are feeling the same pressures that we are."
Malloy will retire in June and so he did not vote on Willingham's future. The Monk wonders whether Malloy could have said more in Willingham's defense, but it seems that the new President and the AD wanted to put their own stamp on the program.
Apparently Malloy had a meeting with White, Jenkins and numerous Trustees and the feeling was that UND needed what Malloy called a "messiah" coach who could return the program to its glory. The participants also seem to have thought that up to three such coaches were available in this offseason (Urban Meyer of Utah and Bobby Petrino of Louisville are the most prominent names). So UND wanted to strike fast and hard. By this standard, it failed miserably: Florida signed Meyer, Petrino is staying at Louisville. So ultimately UND has Ty Willingham's firing that disgraces it, a lack of a messiah coach that frustrates it and a former-to-be president that publicly excoriates it. Bad, bad and worse for the GoldenDomers.


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The Police Case "Not Traced"
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-- on nothing. With this, the police committed a serious offence. The fact that it was done to me, a prominent minister, appears to have been driving the lunacy I have described elsewhere on this blog. I asked W/O Olivier then
had so intensely pressured him. He would not name them, but stated that they belonged to the Church, and pointed to their house -- in Green Point, on the hill.
One of the persons so identified by W/O Olivier told me that I would be charged
I was charged. To put it simply, someone inside the Church knew that the police would set me up -- about three months before it happened. The photo shows Capt. Du Plessis' HQ.
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For the families of the missing, there was a hellish pilgrimage yesterday, as thousands searched hospital to hospital, often on foot, for their vanished loved ones.
Miracles were rare.
"Gracias a dios!" Sandra Petrocino, 34, sobbed openly on Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village after learning, by cell phone, that her missing husband Manuel's name was on a list of survivors.
"She's in and out, but I believe she'll make it," Mark Mardenfeld of Pennsylvania said after finding his daughter, Deborah – the first survivor, "Jane Doe No. 1," pulled naked and unconscious from the rubble – at NYU Downtown Hospital.
But these lucky family members were far outnumbered. Outside Bellevue Hospital on First Avenue, trembling mother Lenore Shahid broke into tears after failing to find her 25-year-old son, Khalid – a computer technician working on the 103rd floor of the north tower.
"My son! My son!" she cried of the young man she had kissed goodbye two hours before the blast.
Volunteers gave water and candy to the throng – 500 people at a time – lined up at an information post at the New School at Sixth Avenue and West 11th Street, set up by St. Vincents Hospital.
There, the worried waited to view citywide lists of blast-patient names. Nearly all came away with nothing but diminished hope.
"We're identical twins," Maribel Topaltzas, 31, said, leaving the New School with no news of her lost sister, Claribel Hernandez of Astoria.
"I sit down and try to feel something," she said, noting that twins sense each other's feelings. "And I don't. I'm empty."
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Hello Friends! Today we are talking about Jharkhand Nagar Nikay Chunav 2018. Here we will discuss all about Jharkhand Nagar Nigam & Nagar Palika Elections. You will come to Know exact dates. Also, we will share the Official Notification that was released was Election Commission i.e. CEO Jharkhand. There are Total 34 Nagar Nikay seats i.e. There will be 5 Nagar Nigams (Municipal Corporations), 16 Nagar Palika Parishad & 13 Nagar Panchayats. Let's Get Started and Discuss all about Jharkhand Nagar Nikay Election 2018.
Jharkhand Municipal Corporation Election 2018 – Nagar [Nigam/Panchayat/Palika Parishad]
Type of Elections – Nagar Nikay Chunav
Local Bodies – Nagar Nigam (Municipal Corporation], Nagar Panchayat, Nagar Palika Parishad
Election Process Schedule – Starting from 15th March 2018 till 21st April 2018
Jharkhand Nikay Chunav 2018 – Complete Election Date/Schedule
Date of Release of Official Notification – 15th March 2018
Starting Date of Filing Nomination – 16th March 2018 to 22nd March 2018
Screening/Scrutiny of Nominations – 23rd March 2018
Date of Allocation of Election Symbols – 28th March 2018
Polling/Election Date – 16th April 2018
Vote Counting/Result Date – 20th April 2018
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Battle of the Atlantic
Tons of American-produced supplies and war matériel, as well as hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops, had only one way to get to Europe: in ships crossing the North Atlantic. German submarines, or U-boats, posed a constant threat to Allied vessels, even ships in U.S. coastal waters; by wars end, more than 2,500 would be sunk. But the deployment of ships in convoys, as well as ever-improving detection technologies and anti-sub weaponry, ensured that thousands of tankers, merchant ships, and troop transports made safealbeit nerve-wrackingcrossings. Allied counterattacks ultimately destroyed most of the U-boat fleet.
Because lone ships at sea were highly vulnerable to attacks by prowling German U-boats, the Allies began to dispatch supply and troop ships in groups. At first, several ships were accompanied by a single destroyer. Soon dozens of vessels, sometimes more than 100, were sailing together with multiple warships. Airplanes acted as spotters, first flying in patrols above coastal waters and later launched from escort ships. Convoys transported everything needed to wage war: an iron mountain of weapons, ammunition, equipment, supplies, planes, and vehicles, and tens of thousands of troops.
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"Damn the Torpedoes!"
Even when traveling in protected convoys, the U.S. merchant fleet of tankers, freighters, transports, tugs, barges, and newly built Liberty ships was vulnerable to attack by wolf packs of German U-boats. A torpedoed vessel hit midships in the engine room could sink in less than a minute. Often it caught fire or exploded first, and ships transporting fuel oil or munitions were especially vulnerable. One in twenty-six U.S. mariners died during the war, a rate higher than that of any of the other services. Those who survived the sinkings returned to sea again and again.
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No excuses, right?!
I know I'm in jeans here as I demonstrate some exercises, but that's just it. Even if you don't have time to change clothes, you can sneak in a workout almost anytime and definitely anywhere! Here are 3 exercises you can do with your kids' Megablocks. :-)
How about you? When are you getting your fitness in?
In good health,


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Toyota supplier Toyotetsu is transferring stamping work to Ontario from Kentucky to supply the new Lexus RX, which is built in the province. It's also expanding operations in preparation of the soon-to-be redesigned RAV4.
Toyota builds the Lexus RS at a plant in Cambridge, Ont., while the RAV4 is assembled in Woodstock, Ont. Both facilities are less than a one-hour drive from the Toyotetsu plant in Simcoe, Ont.
Toyotetsu is moving the stamping work to Simcoe from its Somerset, Kentucky, plant, eliminating the need to import parts and then assemble them for shipment to the Lexus RX assembly line.
"Over time, as their customer demand increased but their capacity could only increase so far, the logical next step is to ask where else can we install this process closer to the plant it supplies," Toyotetsu assistant general manager of administration Andrew Elkin said of the move from Somerset.
Because the parts have always been stamped in the United States and assembled in Canada, the move had nothing to do with the possibility of a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement throwing a wrench into the supply chain, Elkin said.
"It's pretty straightforward," Elkin said of the move.
About 93 per cent of all Toyotetsu's product made in Simcoe ends up in Toyota vehicles built in Ontario, Elkin said.
The total cost of the expansion is $29.4 million, but the government of Ontario is kicking in nearly $1.2 million from the Southwestern Ontario Development Fund. The fund will cover up to 15 per cent of eligible project costs.
With that expansion now complete, another is already underway. The next phase of expansion — the plant's fourth since it opened a decade ago — is in preparation of the next-generation RAV4.
The compact crossover RAV4 now is Toyota's best-selling vehicle in the United States. It was freshened for the 2016 model year and is on track to move to a Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) platform sometime next year as a 2019 model.
Elkin couldn't put a price tag on the next phase of the plant currently being constructed.


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David Mundell has 'no credibility' with Scottish businesses that fear the economic fallout from Brexit, according to Business for Scotland.
BfS CEO Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp said David Mundell 'keeps on selling a bad deal', and urged him to listen to real businesses, not the handful of carefully selected Conservative Party supporters that have spoken out in support of the Withdrawal Bill this week.
Responding to David Mundell's speech today, MacIntyre-Kemp said the Scottish Secretary could learn from First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and the united Scottish Parliament.
"Mundell needs to listen to real businesses, not just a handful of carefully selected Conservative Party supporters, urged to support the Prime Minister in her moment of desperation. The Scottish Secretary talks about business support but even the leaked CBI internal emails demonstrated their praise for the Withdrawal Agreement was false," said MacIntyre-Kemp.
"The FM is listening to real businesses across the country, is hearing the fears particularly of those who export, and is acting to keep Scotland in the Customs Union and Single Market to protect exports and Scottish jobs.
"We are being fed a false choice of May's deal or No deal – we can Brexit and still stay in the Single Market. That is now more of a possibility given the likelihood of the PM's deal being voted down and a No Deal being utterly unacceptable."
The legal advice published by the UK government yesterday confirmed that if the backstop is activated, Northern Ireland would effectively remain in the Single Market for goods – with the rest of the UK treated as a third country. This is clearly inconsistent with the Scottish Secretary's previously stated resignation red lines.
"Despite saying he could not support a deal that leads to Northern Ireland having a different relationship with the EU than the UK and saying he would resign if that was brought forward, Mundell keeps on selling a bad deal – he has no credibility left with any Scottish business that's worried about a deeply damaging Brexit," said MacIntyre-Kemp.
"All forms of Brexit are harder on Scotland than the rest of the UK and surely we need a Scottish Secretary that stands up for Scotland and means what he says."
Business for Scotland's EU survey of 758 Scottish business owners and directors revealed that only 8% of Scottish business owners trust the UK Government to secure the best Brexit deal for Scotland, and 79% want to see a second EU referendum after the terms for leaving the EU are clear.
Additionally, the respondents were asked if they believed negotiations would be more productive with direct involvement and representation of the devolved administrations – 77.98% said yes.
You can read the results of the BfS EU survey here.


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Preheat Oven 350 degrees
1/3 Cup butter softened
1 ¼ Cups flour
3 oz cream cheese
2 tsp baking powder
¾ cup sugar
½ tsp salt
1 egg yolk
3 3/4 cups coconut
2 tsp orange juice
1 tsp almond extract
In a large bowl mix butter, cream cheese, sugar, egg yolk, juice, almond extract. Stir together dry ingredients and add to mixture . Stir in 3 cups coconut. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour. Shape into balls and roll in remaining coconut. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet for 10-12 min. Optional, dip edge in melted chocolate when cool.
I melted Hershey's dark chocolate chips. I don't have double boiler so I placed a glass mixing bowl on top of a pot of boiling water. I used 1 cup of chips and 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream. Stir until the chocolate is completely melted and smooth. Remove from heat and dip cookies.
I made these for my Additional Relief Society Meeting last night. They were a huge hit. I had many requests for the recipe.


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Built to replace Grumman's venerable S-2 Tracker antisubmarine aircraft, the Lockheed S-3A Viking entered service on 20 February 1974 with Air Antisubmarine Squadron FOUR ONE (VS-41) Shamrocks. The first operational deployment of a Viking-equipped squadron took place when VS-21 Fighting Redtails went to sea with Carrier Air Wing ONE (CVW-1) aboard the modified Kitty Hawk-class carrier USS John F. Kennedy in 1975. The Viking would go on to serve for 42 years. Sixteen of them were modified for the electronic warfare role as ES-3A Shadows. Six of them became long-range carrier on-board delivery (COD) US-3As. However, the majority of fleet Vikings, or "Hoovers", spent most of those years either finding things that needed finding or passing gas that needed passing. This is the story of one of those fleet Vikings.
Is it proper to say the last of the last? In the case of this particular aircraft, perhaps. The very last of 186 S-3A Vikings built by Lockheed for the US Navy rolled off the company's Burbank production line during August of 1978. That aircraft, S-3A Bureau Number (BuNo) 160607 (CN 394A-1187), was accepted by the Navy that same year and was assigned to VS-22 Checkmates. The Checkmates were part of Carrier Air Wing THREE (CVW-3) back then, and 160607 deployed seven times, at least some of them as side number 707, with VS-22 and CVW-3 aboard the Forrestal-class carrier USS Saratoga (CVA-60) and the USS John F. Kennedy (CVA-67).
In 1988, S-3A BuNo 160607 was converted to the S-3B specification by Lockheed, which added a number of new sensors, avionics, and weapons systems, including the capability to launch the McDonnell Douglas AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile. The S-3B could also be fitted with a buddy store refueling pod for passing gas to other refueling probe-equipped aircraft. After becoming an S-3B, BuNo 160607 went to a new squadron: VS-28 Gamblers. The Gamblers were part of CVW-6 at that time and the jet deployed four times, at least some of them as side number 702, with VS-28 and CVW-6 aboard the carrier USS Forrestal (CVA-59) before Forrestal was retired. VS-28 was disestablished on 1 October 1992.
After VS-28 was disestablished, the last Viking was re-assigned to the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC)- Aircraft Division at Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River in Maryland. The jet served as a test platform and research aircraft at NAWC Pax River until she was retired in 2005. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) acquired her for research soon thereafter. Today the last Viking built wears registration number N601NA and NASA tail number 601. Since then the remaining "War Hoover" S-3B Vikings in Naval service have all been retired- the last of them in 2016. N601NA is literally the very last S-3B Viking. BuNo 160607/N601NA may be the only aircraft that was both the last one of its kind built and the last one of its kind to be airworthy.
NASA has used the jet for testing the effects of ice accretion on aircraft wings and tails, as well as assessing anti-icing systems for aircraft. The first research flights originated in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, and seek to characterize the icing conditions that exist in the atmosphere's tropical convective layer. Since 2015 the last Viking has been listed as inactive by NASA, who bases the aircraft at Glenn Research Center next to Cleveland Hopkins International (KCLE) in Cleveland, Ohio. This video of the last Viking in flight at EAA AirVenture 2018 was uploaded to YouTube by AirshowStuffVideos.


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Last month, we described a patent-pending Bridgeless PFC converter based on a novel hybrid-switching method that eliminates the full-bridge rectifier altogether. The true single-stage power processing results in many advantages over conventional two-stage PFC converters with front-end full-bridge rectifiers, including efficiency over 98% achievable with appropriate switching devices, 0.999 Power Factor, reduced cost, size and weight, single low cost magnetics, and 100% utilization of all components for either positive or negative half-cycles of input line voltage. The Three-Phase Bridgeless PFC converter extension provides unity power factor operation, low total harmonic distortion, and eliminates the large output DC storage capacitor, yet results in small output ripple voltage. The bridgeless PFC converter of Fig. 1a operates directly of the AC line voltage, since the front-end full-bridge rectifier associated with conventional PFC converters is eliminated.
In Part 1, it was shown that this converter is capable of providing the dc voltage step-up for either polarity of the input voltage. Furthermore, it was also shown that the DC conversion ratio is the same for either polarity of the input voltage and equal to:
Thus, the equality of the step-up dc conversion gains as a function of duty ratio D of the controlling switch S for either polarity (1) is one important pre-requisite for a converter to operate as a Single-Stage AC-DC (Bridgeless) converter with PFC function.
In a clear departure from the previous attempts at bridgeless PFC conversion, all components, all three switches, input inductor L, resonant inductor Lr, and resonant capacitor Cr are 100% utilized as they take part in PFC operation for both positive as well as negative part of input line ac voltage so that there are never any idle components as is the case in conventional PFC converters.
PFC Control Mechanism
The Power Factor Correction is based on forcing the input line current iAC of the converter in Fig. 1b to become proportional and in phase to the input ac line voltage by use of the appropriate control circuit. One circuit, which can be utilized, comprises the conventional PFC IC controller to which current folding and voltage folding signal processing circuits are added externally, as illustrated in the block diagram of Fig. 1b.
The duty ratio modulation is used to control the average input current of the ac-dc switching converter of Fig. 1b; hence the bandwidth of this current feedback loop must be wide enough to force the average input current to be proportional to ac input voltage with minimal or no distortion. This is achieved by use of the switching frequency 1000 time higher than 60Hz, such as 60kHz.
On the other hand, a second voltage control loop should have a low bandwidth (lower than 60Hz) in order not to introduce the distortion in the input current and yet regulate the output voltage. Thus, the output dc voltage will be regulated although with a low bandwidth and will have a small ripple voltage provided an appropriate large size output storage capacitor C is used. Such a large output capacitor is needed in a single-phase AC line PFC converter to fill in for the difference in the pulsating input power and constant output DC power. This large output capacitor C requirement is completely removed when the Three-phase Bridgeless PFC converter is applied to a balanced three- phase ac line input.
Alternative PFC Control Methods
The forcing of input line current to be proportional to input line voltage is accomplished by controlling the duty ratio D of the controlling switch S in one of two ways:
1. Duty ratio modulation with constant switching frequency.
2. Constant ON-time and variable OFF time and therefore, variable switching frequency.
The ON-time interval starts at zero level. Since the two rectifiers limit the current flow to only one direction the resonant capacitor discharge interval is effectively limited to exactly one-half of the resonant period, that is:
DRTS = Tr/2 (2)
Tr = 1/fr (3)
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We have also introduced here a notion of the resonant duty ratio, DR. The resonant circuit is therefore formed by the loop consisting of two resonant components, CR and LR, switch S and respective current rectifiers (one for positive and one for negative input voltage) connected in series as shown earlier, hence limiting discharge current to only one direction.
In this case, the resonant interval DRTS is smaller than ON time interval (Fig. 2a) or equal to on-time interval (Fig. 2b). Note that the duty ratio D higher than resonant duty ratio DR results in a coasting interval shown by zero current level of resonant current since rectifier CR1 is turned-OFF (Fig. 2a).
If one wants to completely eliminate this zero-current coasting interval, a variable OFF-time control, hence variable switching frequency control, should be used.
Constant ON-time and Variable OFF-time Control
For highest efficiency and best performance, zero current coasting intervals described above should be eliminated. The best mode of operation is then to keep the ON-time constant as per:
TON = DTs = Tr/2 = constant (4)
so that duty ratio is proportional to switching frequency, or:
D = fS /2fr (5)
Thus, voltage regulation is obtained by use of the variable switching frequency fS and corresponding duty ratio D as per Equation (5). Note that all DC quantities, such as DC conversion ratio, Equation (1), DC voltages on capacitors and dc currents of inductors are still a function of duty ratio D only, as in the case of constant-switching frequency operation, since the switching frequency (whether constant or variable) is effectively removed from all the steady-state conditions.
Note that this is one of the key differences between the hybrid-switching method and all other conventional resonant methods, in which the steady-state conditions are not only the function of duty ratio D, but also of load current, resonant frequency and other circuit parameters and conditions. In hybrid switching, despite the presence of the resonance, the same simplicity of the conventional PWM control is retained: the voltage conversion ratio and other steady state conditions depend on the duty ratio D alone.
The waveforms of Fig. 2b and Fig. 2c show the constant ON-time (interval DTs) displayed first to emphasize the variable OFF-time and variable switching frequency as well as the elimination of zero coasting intervals of constant switching frequency operation.
The single-stage ac-dc PFC converter is verified on an experimental 300W prototype, which converts 110V AC line voltage and 220V ac line voltage into a 400V output DC voltage with very high efficiency over the wide input voltage range. Fig. 3a shows efficiency measurements at a 300W level over the input ac voltage range from 85Vac to 240Vac and Fig. 3b shows power loss measurements.
Very high efficiency of over 97% was measured over the wide input ac voltage range. Note the very high efficiency at the low ac line voltage of 85Vac as shown in Fig. 3a while the low total losses are shown in Fig. 3b. This clearly indicates the absence of the bridge rectifier on the front. The conventional PFC converters have a significant efficiency drop at the low 85V ac line due to the two-diode voltage drops of the bridge rectifier.
Fig. 4a shows the line voltage (top trace) and ac line current (bottom trace) at 110V 60Hz input voltage. The Power Factor was measured at 300W load to be 0.999 and total harmonic distortion (THD) of 1.7% was measured.
Fig. 4b shows the line voltage (top trace) and ac line current (bottom trace) at 220V AC and 60Hz. The power factor was measured at 300W load to be 0.991 and THD 2%.
The measurements of harmonic currents are displayed in Table 1 for 110V and Table 2 for 220Vac for both 60Hz and 50Hz.
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Computer Servers, PC Power Supplies
Out of many applications required by industry regulations to use the PFC control, perhaps most widespread is the use in computer servers and personal computers. The block diagram of such a system application is shown in Fig. 5, in which the front-end Bridgeless PFC converter generates intermediate high dc voltage for energy storage at 400V for the 20 msec hold-up time requirement.
For such applications, TESLAco has developed a very high efficiency, ultra small size Isolated Storageless Converter™ based on its Storageless Conversion Method. The efficiency measurements data for a prototype of a 600W, 12V output storageless voltage converters are shown in Fig. 6a and loss measurements in Fig. 6b. The only magnetic component in the converter is the isolation transformer depicted in Fig. 6c. This transformer is built using two stacked ferrite toroidal cores, each having a 33mm2 cross-section for a rather small total cross-section of only 66mm2 despite the low operating switching frequency of 68.5kHz. The core type is EPCOSR20x10x7 in N87 material 14/2/3.
Another unique feature is a use of only one-turn secondary for a 12V output DC voltage, revealing a much lower flux excitation of the transformer in this storageless converter as compared to conventional converters requiring at least 3 turns secondary windings for an effective 4V/turn flux excursion and a much bigger ferrite cores at such low operating switching frequency. Clearly, the toroidal structure of the core suggests no DC bias in the transformer, hence no saturation with any DC load current and high overload current capability of two or more times over the nominal load current limited by short term thermal considerations.
Two Output Bridgeless PFC Converter
The early DC transmission system proposed by Edison was a three-wire system with a neutral wire carrying no DC current. For DC transmissions, this results in doubling the transmitted power for the same amount of copper used compared to straightforward two-wire DC transmission system and is therefore the preferred method.
The Bridgeless PFC converter can generate either positive or negative polarity output DC voltage, so as to lead to direct implementation of a three-wire DC transmission system. This is easily seen in the converter of Fig. 1a, in which the change of direction of both current rectifiers CR1 and CR2 will result in the negative output DC voltage. Further size and weight savings and efficiency improvements can be made when two such separate converters are integrated into one single converter with two outputs, having a single inductor L and one active switch S, as illustrated in the converter of Fig. 7.
Three-phase Bridgeless PFC converter
The three-phase alternating current system of Nikola Tesla has replaced the Edison DC transmission system as a much more efficient alternative for long distance electrical power transmission, due to a use of three-phase transformer to raise the transmission voltage to 400kV and correspondingly reduce the transmission current and copper losses. Tesla's three-phase transmission system, however, has among others, one unique property: despite the fact that each 120 degrees shifted phase has a sinusoidal voltage and current, and therefore a time varying instantaneous power, the sum of the instantaneous input powers of a balanced three-phase transmission system is constant and independent of time:
i1 v1 (t) + i2 v2 (t) + i3 v3 (t) = P = constant (6)
This feature of the three-phase transmission system is used to a great advantage in the three-phase Bridgeless PFC converter shown in Fig. 8. Each of the three Bridgeless PFC converters of Fig. 1a is connected to a respective phase of the three-phase star-connected input, while their outputs are connected to a common output voltage, so that the output DC ground terminal is connected to the neutral of the four-wire, three-phase star connected ac input voltage.
The output dc power is a product of the output DC voltage and output DC current and by definition is not fluctuating in time and should be equal to (6) as ac transmission does not store dc energy. This comes as a direct result that, although each phase of the three output currents of the respective individual Single-phase Bridgeless PFC converters, designated as i01(t), i02(t), and i03(t) in Fig. 8 are by themselves time-varying as depicted in the waveforms of Fig. 9 a,b, c, their sum, due to the phase shift of 120 degrees, results in the constant load current I0 and constant power P given by (6) even without a need for any output capacitor C due to following relationship:
i01(t) + i01(t) + i01(t) = I0 (7)
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Note that in the conventional three-phase rectification using six current rectifiers, the resulting rectified dc voltage ripple would require a proportionally large output capacitor C. Although the direct rectification of the three-phase line would result in a relatively good power factor, the harmonic distortion present in each phase will not meet regulation requirements and would therefore require active or passive PFC control for reduction of harmonic currents.
Connection to a Future DC Transmission System
Solar generation is starting to provide increased power to complement the power generated by traditional sources, such as coal, oil, nuclear and hydropower. Solar sources generate a DC power leading to the planning of a future DC transmission lines at high DC voltages. Clearly, such DC transmission lines would be most effective as a three-wire DC transmission system with neutral or ground and positive and negative DC voltages available for long distance transmission.
The Three-phase Bridgeless PFC converter shown in Fig. 8 would be an ideal link between the three-phase AC transmission system and a future DC transmission system. Note that the Three-phase Bridgeless PFC converter can take the same advantage as the single-phase, Bridgeless PFC implementation of Fig. 7 and convert its power to a three-wire DC transmission system.
Second "Impossible" Converter Solution
The bridgeless PFC converter will find its way into other applications as design engineers seek to take advantage of the circuit's size and performance attributes. The second in the series of "impossible" converter solutions, "Single-Stage Isolated Bridgeless PFC Converter" , will be published in the September issue of Power Electronics Technology. This isolated Bridgeless PFC converter, shown in Fig. 10, provides both PFC and isolation in a single-stage power processing consisting of an active switch S on primary side and two current rectifiers on the secondary side and one magnetic core. The design achieves an ultra-high conversion efficiency of over 97%.
Editorial Note: For questions regarding this article and for contact information to the author,readers are directed to TESLAco's web site at www.teslaco.com.
Footnote: Bridgeless PFC Converter™ and Single-Stage PFC Converter™ are trademarks of TESLAco.
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