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Meet the Artist: Tom Rogers, "NEW PAINTINGS"
Meet the artist: June 1, 4-6pm, Exhibition Dates: June 1-June 30, 2018
The Harwood Museum of art is launching the summer art season with a series of openings in June. The first of which is a Studio 238 exhibition for Tom Rogers, titled "New Paintings." The concept that inspires his recent paintings is modest but sensuous: rhythmic combinations of saturated color and an array of shapes and patterns. For Rogers, the act of painting means playing in space, exploring and experimenting in pursuit of visual intrigue and amusement. His method makes use of the juxtaposition of vibrational colors, quizzical and illusory optical effects, and ambiguous foreground/background relationships.
His artist statement reads, "Making my art is a joyous, fulfilling endeavor. Each piece has its own animated background story. Creating new shapes, patterns and color relationships that are the foundation for each piece is an intellectual and mechanical process. The image then starts to get its soul when I draw the linear design by hand. I often will scan a small sketch into a computer to develop and elaborate on the design, to play with scale and to evaluate color ideas. I am enthusiastic about mixing traditional painting techniques and new electronic technology. I carefully consider surface texture, edges, and, at times, I consciously reveal the drawing beneath the paint. I like to work with oil paint alone, without other mixtures or media. Applying the pure fluid pigment is one of the most pleasurable aspects of my work. It is wonderfully meditative and transcendent." For Rogers, art functions in part to inspire feelings, memories and response. He presents his paintings in order to provide that inspiration, amuse viewers, and to counterbalance the weightier considerations that seem ubiquitous in these times.


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Crokes Talks - News & Reports
The popular Crokes Recalls afternoon get together was held on Wednesday April 27th between 3pm and 5pm in The Village Cafe. Great time had by all in attendance. Watch for next Months event on the last Wednesday in May
Tonight's guest speaker is Frances Black
KC Wheelers found a new use for our Club Hurling arena this week. For the 22 who signed up to the bike repair workshop on Wednesday this week, it was a great success. The event was professionally presented by 3 mechanics from Belfield bike shop.
EVENT on April 21st Kilmacud Crokes 8pm – 9pm
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'Exam preparation – how to be at your best during study and exam season'
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Tony Griffin and his team of www.soar.ie delivered a workshop for a group of under 15/16 footballers/hurlers in the club on March 31st. Lots of positive feedback received.
The Kick Start Crokes Cycling group pictured on their 50km spin out to Howth to finish up the 8 week program. Well done to all invoklved.
The Kickstart Crokes programme - which started in early January and saw members sign up for an 8 week exercise program across a number of activities including jogging, cycling, Pilates, yoga and circuit training – finished up on Sunday March 13th.
John shares his inspiring story. Function Room, Glenalbyn House, 8pm on 25 February 2016

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Well, I'm blogging. I have decided after playing dress up, taking building classes, and just hanging around Second Life for a few years now to go ahead and blog about it. I'm obviously no pioneer (there are tons of SL blogs out there), but I thought it might be good to do something slightly constructive with all the hours spent in Second Life, so here I am.
This is the pixelated me, Lizzy Yexil, at the Neva River sim in Second Life. The sim is open to the public through March 29th from what I've heard, so if you haven't visited yet and sightseeing is something you enjoy, I suggest you go check it out.
I love my new skin. I haven't ventured much when it comes to buying skins, so I usually just return to the same few places when I need a change (particularly LAQ and Belleza). I stopped by the Skin Fair: 2013 just to see what else was out there. After getting ejected three or four times for being a lag monster, I was pleasantly surprised to find a skin that I love from a place I had never shopped before. The Astrali skin in Plute from The Plastik really surprised me and it's a refreshing change. I actually altered my shape drastically after getting the Astrali skin because it inspired me to revamp my look, but it would have worked with either shape. I just wanted something a little sleeker.
Fresh blog, fresh av, fresh start.
I'm wearing:
- Skin ~ Astrali Skin (Basic) – Plute-Shadow by The Plastik
- Eyes ~ Liquid Light Mesh Eyes (Spring Night) by Mayfly
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- Dress ~ Moffet – Cream (Size S) by ColdLogic
- Shoes ~ Westerly Booties – Collection (Color Changer HUD) by Hucci
- Bracelet and Earrings ~ Bali Crescent Bracelet and Jewelry Set by Earthstones


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This cake I made a while ago in my desire to do something good and I found the foodnetwork, on Anna Olson.By mistake, I put blueberries in dough, as they were in the original recipe above and in addition, I added cream to the batter seemed a little vigorous ... but eventually came a fluffy loaf with a texture that melts in your mouth! Can be made with other fruits, blackberries, cranberries, apricots( cut in smaller pieces).
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Money and Relationships; How the Two Really Mash Up!
When people think of money, they probably think of the long hours it takes to make it. Or that it's never enough. Hard to get. Always getting spent.
There are the few who think quite the opposite; they think there are an abundance of them and that they get rewarded with lots of them every time they do what they love.
Whichever one you think about money, when we take it and mix it with love, what happens?
It's something definitely worth thinking about when it comes to successful relationships, especially when lack of money (or lack of control of money) gets you stressed out.
Money affects basic, day-to-day living in the relationship
Everything seems like a business, doesn't it? There are budgets to maintain and it's very important to know that without any money, no food would be on the table.
I know I know. This is incredibly basic stuff. But the point I'm trying to make, especially in this day and age, is that money is hard to come by and being smart in how to keep and SAVE money is just not optional anymore. One wrong misstep and it could affect the relationship big time, especially when a study shows that more than 60% of Americans wouldn't have money to deal with unexpected calamities.
Money affects time together with your lover
Some would argue that the point of even being with your lover is simply to be with him or her despite the fact that you work over 80 hours a week. In fact, even 40 hours is a long time. If that's true, then what's the point? You might as well marry your job (hold on, before you think I'm bashing the noble notion of coming home from a long day of work and kissing your girl).
I don't know about you, but when I'm with my girl, I want to spend as much as time with her as possible, because that's why I'm with her in the first place. I would try to go to as much vacations as possible with her. You must be thinking, "But you need a job to pay for rent and food. You can't be leeching from her or the government!"
That's exactly what I thought you would say (or I'm completely wrong). Before I get to that, let me just say one more thing.
Money affects the future of the relationship
So if money affects what we put on the table and how it would affect time with each other, then it would definitely deal with the future of the relationship.
Of course, the future is unpredictable, but what's dangerous is the fact that people believe that "all will always be well" when it comes to the belief of job security and that their retirement will be well funded. Unfortunately, they'll be in for a rude awakening.
Pensions don't exist anymore for most Americans. There, I said it. You need to do your own 401K (or your country's equivalent) and you cannot mess up, or you basically wasted your time.
I can go on and on, but there's a book that is a must read on this very important topic to EVERYBODY living on this Earth. I'll talk more about it towards the end.
But the whole point of this article is to think beyond working a regular job for 30 to 40 years. Most people think that's the only option, but that is not the case; the schooling system made it seem that way (on purpose).
Let's connect this to how you can financially have a happy relationship: Think of something you're good at that you are willing to always improve on. Something that you consider art. And create it as something very valuable that will help or entertain a lot of people who are willing to even PAY for it.
Yes, own a business.
Here's the awesome part: Own a business with your lover (or your lover can own a separate business).
The idea with a business in terms of how it'll benefit the relationship is that businesses eventually ALWAYS give the person time freedom because, unlike a job, you do the work ONCE and it'll forever be of value to people. I hope this article, which I'll write once, will help many people for many years to come, for example.
The number one reason relationships are always successful is because the two people participate in a fun and exciting activity together (get your mind off the gutter. Sex isn't the only thing, but it's very effective). Nothing is more exciting than owning a business that grows, together, that will put food on the table, give you guys more time for each other and secure your future (plus get rid of any overloading debt you may have).
Of course, you can keep working a job, of course, as long as you legit like it. Many people can't say that, but always think long term.
Tony Robbins, a great mentor and master at helping people get breakthroughs on all areas of life, wrote a book with all the knowledge of billionaires on how the average person (you and me) can have a secure future using the powers of smart investing. To learn more, check out his book: MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom. I am not making a single dime from this; this is how much I truly believe this will help every person that aspires to have a great life and not let his or her finances get in the way. Access to his audio book can be found on YouTube.
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I've known a couple who became successful because of their business. Now, they're happily married and still enjoying. They have time for each other everyday together with their business and its growing, of course their love as well. Isn't it wow? It must be best.


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In Kemaman (Malaysia) I was supposed to be escorting a tour on a river cruise through mangrove swamps to a fishing village and a batik centre. Again the promise of good wildlife viewing came to nought, as the tour was cancelled due to one of the river-boats having an accident and being unusable. I therefore spent the morning perusing the wares and buying a few gifts from the stall traders on the jetty alongside the ship. In the afternoon I went for a wander – investigating the patch of scrubland on the land behind the jetty. Found a lovely little lizard that didn't run away, so I got plenty of video, photo's and sketches done. Also saw butterflies, dragonflies, crabs, water snails and inadvertently disturbed a bird sat on a nest under a tree. Back on the ship I wrote and posted the last of the postcards I had promised to send to family and friends and then spent the evening having a Guinness sundowner out on deck – the first time I had managed to get to do that this trip!
Vietnam – As I woke very early I was able to get out on the deck just after 6am to see our arrival into Phu My. I missed most of our passage along the Mekong River but the bit that I saw leading up to our berth had industrial land and buildings off the ship's starboard side and thick endless mangrove swamps stretching to the horizon in all both directions off the port side. Large and small egrets lined the tidal zone in amongst the exposed roots and mud. Our berth was a rather non-descript jetty in amongst an industrial background… pretty uninspiring, especially with the slightly unpleasant whiffy aroma of the water!
Once crew shore leave was granted, I got off ship and bundled myself onto one of the shuttle busses provided for taking passengers and crew to the Vung Tau – a coastal town about 40 mins from the ship.
Mopeds are obviously the favoured transport here… they swarm over the road like clusters of bees buzzing along with one, two, three, four and even five passengers per moped! Whole families sit astride their one moped, kids and babies crammed between the adults, as they pootle along, unhurriedly moving out of the way of horn blasting car and bus drivers.
In Vung Tau the drop-off point was at a hotel complex from where I decided to walk back towards the beach as that seemed as good a destination as any. Any hassle I got from locals trying to persuade me to hire their taxi, cyclo or moped lessened the further away from the hotel complex I got; in the end I could walk unimpeded. Saw two gentlemen from the ship heading in the same direction and we walked together to the beach, where we did the very quintessential British thing and went for a paddle!
The beach is about 10km long and looked full of people as far as the eye could see in both directions. Despite the heat, at least half of them were fully clothed…even when they went in the water! There were colourful kites being flown, big tyre inner tubes for hire and at the water's edge also saw dead jellyfish and hundreds of long pointy shells, tiny hermit and other crabs rapidly burying themselves in the sand as you neared them.
Sailaway was interesting and showed the impressive 'driving' skills of the Officers on the Bridge and the manoeuvrability of such a big ship (69,000 tonnes) in such a small space and in the dark! The ship was basically swung around on a sixpence right up against the jetty. Suffice to say the manoeuvre was carried out very slowly and carefully and took about half an hour to complete. At one point, those of us at the looking out over the front, held our breaths as the bow was swung round, seemingly narrowly missing the corner of the jetty.
The following day, as we sailed up the South China Sea towards Hong Kong, we were in a Force 8 that increased to Force 9 for a while. The top and Promenade decks were closed off and walking around the ship was fun again, although it has to be said for some this kind of weather is not fun.
Our arrival in Hong Kong was early in the evening just about dusk. It was very misty and foggy on our approach and somewhat mysterious as little islands and then skyscrapers came out of the shroud of white like ghostly shadows. At about 8pm the office skyscrapers along the front started their light show - this was a lovely unexpected 'extra'.
Later that evening I went ashore with some friends who were going to the Night Markets off Nathan Road. What an experience that was! Hundreds of stalls lining roads selling all sorts of goodies like fake brand names for bags, clothing, sunglasses and watches. Electronic gadgets, toys, jewellery, souveniers… and people thronged there in a mad hustle and bustle. We wandered around all this for 3 hours and still didn't get to the end of it all.
The following day I was disembarking and had lost my voice!! My throat had been a little croaky the previous night but now I had no voice at all. I was so glad I got this 'bug' at the end of the cruise and not whilst I was still doing classes. I finished packing and was out of my cabin by noon, to then wait til 5pm to leave the ship and be taken to the airport along with about 9 other members of crew. My flight to Paris CDG airport was at 23.35 and took about 12 hours. I had hoped to sleep on the plane but only snatched 10 mins here and there. Arrived at Paris airport in good time and after a quick freshen up and change of clothes I sat and waited for the flight to Bristol - England. This was due to leave at 09.35 but in the end we didn't take off until 11.25 as first our plane had to be repaired, apparently, and then the French air traffic controller strike slowed things down. The flight to Bristol was just 1½ hours and landed at 11.33 UK time. Mum and Dad were there to meet me at the airport and drove me to their house for some lunch and chat. Luckily my voice had rallied around a bit by then and I could just about manage to make some speech-like noises that could be understood! Managed to stay awake all day and went to bed about 9pm, by which time I had been awake for almost 48 hours! I don't even recall my head hitting the pillow.
I woke at 7am the next day. Something was wrong! The ship's engines had stopped! There was no sound; it was eerily silent and disconcerting with no vibrations or slight juddering from the engines. I opened my eyes and thought it strange that I could see objects…. It should be pitch black in my cabin… what was going on! Then I heard a car go by and the images filtering into my brain suddenly made sense as sleep left my mind… I was at home in Bristol in my own bedroom! That was a very disappointing realisation.
So that's it for my 'leg' of Oriana's 2008 World Cruise. I had a fantastic time and shall miss being on that beautiful ship. I hope those that attended my classes enjoyed them and learnt something of use for their future drawing and painting. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting them all and hope our paths will cross again some day.
Signing off on last Ship's log for 2008
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This Blog is to reconise the History of the Jodel in New Zealand all models and designs from thre D-9,D-11 D-18 and all the sub models. The picture is of my newly purchased Jodel ZK-EDR on her Delivery flight. Please feel free to send info and pictures of your Jodels. I'll add Jodel Photo's as i find and receive them.


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by Janet I. Martineau
Way back in 1977, theatre organist Donna Parker performed her first concert in the Midwest in what has since evolved into an international career.
That was at Saginaw's Temple Theatre, on its 1927-vintage Barton organ.
This Sunday, Nov. 20, she returns to officially inaugurate the organ following a $30,000 restoration effort focused on its console. The concert begins at 3 p.m., and tickets are $10 at the door, 201 N. Washington.
|Donna Parker
"I remember the beautiful theatre, the first Barton I had ever played, and the audience being very warm and welcoming," says Parker, who lives in Oregon.
"Absolutely Saginaw is fortunate to have its very own theatre organ in its original theatre setting! So many of these beautiful instruments have been destroyed over the years, and it is only in the last 50 years that saving and treasuring them has come into vogue. But not fast enough. We have lost far too many.
"The theatre organ holds a unique place in American music history. It is only one of two musical instruments to have its origins here in the United States. The other instrument is the banjo."
Parker says she will play a mixed bag of music, from classical to pops, "because the theatre organ is such a versatile instrument, and it is not limited as to the music styles it can effectively perform. I think it is the best kept musical secret, unfortunately, and more people should know about it."
She tends toward playing "anything that has heart and feeling, whether it is upbeat or a ballad. I love to play pieces that people don't expect the theatre organ to perform."
A native of Los Angeles, Parker began organ studies at at 7 and four years later was introduced to the theatre organ. She made her first recording at 15, and was appointed the first official organist for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team.
While in high school, she appeared at Universal Studios in Southern California, providing holiday season entertainment, and combined her love of sports and music by serving as organist for the Los Angels Sports Arena, playing for professional ice hockey and tennis teams.
Now more than 40 years into her career, Parker also has played classical organ concerts with symphony orchestras in major recital halls and more popular fare in casinos, national parks and organ-equipped restaurants -- among them The Roaring 20s in Grand Rapids, Michigan; Paramount Music Palace in Indianapolis, Indiana; The Organ Grinder in Portland, Oregon; Uncle Milt'sin Vancouver, Washington; and Organ Stop Pizza in Phoenix and Mesa, Arizona (seating capacity 700).
"Gosh, where has the time gone," she says when reminded of her long resume and asked to name a favorite performance or two. "There are many wonderful moments to recall, but I think making people happy and forgetting about their troubles for awhile is no small thing.
"I have had two instances where people (one a child and one an adult) who have not spoken in years have suddenly started telling me about how wonderful the music is. When I discovered the music had reached them in such a profound way, it made every bit of work and toil through the years worthwhile."
What makes her choice of instrument a challenge, she says, is "with the magnitude of this instrument (we cannot carry it around in a music instrument case from place to place), we organists must go in and quickly learn what each unique instrument will do.
|The Temple Theatre Barton Organ
"No two are alike, so a quick assessment must be made of sound resources, the condition of the console, and the room acoustics. It is a different challenge and experience each time."
Parker is currently on the board of the American Theatre Organ Society -- she joined at age 10. And she also is a member of an unusual chamber concert group -- Trio con Brio.
"We're three organists playing three organs, or a combination of organs/pianos/keyboards. There are not a lot of venues that can host this experience, so it is unique."
As for the restoration work on the Barton console at the Temple, in January it was dismantled and sent to the Helderop Pipe Organ Company in Detroit.
During the next five months, says Temple Theatre Organ Club curator Ken Wuepper, the console was cleaned and refinished and old cotton insulated wiring was replaced with new fire retardant insulated wire. The leather parts were recovered with new leather and the keyboards were recovered in bone to replace the original imitation "ivories."
In May it was returned to the Temple and additional work continued until its completion in October. Additional restoration of the mechanisms and electrical systems will continue under the supervision of Wuepper.


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Earlier today, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a defendant's belief regarding patent invalidity is not a defense to induced infringement. Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Sys., Inc., Case No. 13-896, slip op. (S. Ct. May 26, 2015). A claim of induced infringement may arise, for example, where a manufacturer (i.e., an accused inducer) sells a product to a third party whose use of that product is alleged to constitute direct infringement. Under 35 U.S.C. § 271(b), induced infringement requires that the defendant knows of the patent and knows that the induced acts constitute patent infringement. Pursuant to the Supreme Court, and because 35 U.S.C. § 271(b) concerns only infringement, an alleged infringer's belief concerning the separate issue of invalidity "cannot negate the scienter required" by the statute.
Plaintiff and patent-owner Commil USA, LLC ("Commil") holds a patent for a method of implementing short-range wireless networks. Cisco Systems, Inc. ("Cisco") made, used, and sold certain networking equipment. Commil sued Cisco for both direct and induced infringement. A jury sitting in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas found Commil's patent valid and directly infringed by Cisco.
Although Cisco originally prevailed on the question of induced infringement, the District Court granted a new trial on that issue. Notably, before that second trial, Cisco sought ex parte reexamination of the validity of Commil's patent before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. And, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office confirmed the validity of all reexamined claims.
At the second trial, Cisco argued that it could not be subject to liability for induced infringement because it had a good-faith belief that Commil's patent was invalid and, thus, did not know that the induced acts constituted patent infringement. The District Court excluded Cisco's proffered evidence in support of that argument and the jury found Cisco liable for induced infringement.
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Cisco appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on several grounds, including the District Court's decision to exclude evidence concerning Cisco's belief of patent invalidity. The Federal Circuit reversed the District Court and held that evidence of a good-faith belief of invalidity "may negate the requisite intent for induced infringement."
The Supreme Court granted certiorari on this single issue and, as it has frequently done, vacated the Federal Circuit's holding and remanded the case for further proceedings. Justice Thomas joined only part of, Justices Scalia and Roberts dissented from, and Justice Breyer took no part in the Opinion of the Court.
Commil argued that induced infringement only requires knowledge of the patent (and not, too, knowledge of infringement). And, the United States government's amicus brief argued the same. The Supreme Court disagreed, citing to and reiterating its holding in Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB S.A., 131 S. Ct. 2060 (2011), that liability for induced infringement requires knowledge both of the patent and that the induced acts constitute infringement.
The Supreme Court then addressed whether a defendant's belief regarding patent validity may be a defense to induced infringement. The Supreme Court answered this question with an unequivocal "no" – emphasizing that questions of infringement and validity are different issues, noting that infringement and validity appear in separate parts of the Patent Act, and stating that noninfringement and invalidity are listed as two distinct statutory defenses to an infringement claim. The Court further noted that allowing such a defense would undermine the long-standing precedent that a patent is presumed valid. The Court stressed that accused inducers have several available options to explore a belief of invalidity, such as filing a declaratory judgment action, seeking review before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (such as inter partes review or, as Cisco did here, ex parte reexamination), and raising the affirmative defense of invalidity.
The Court further noted contrasting "negative consequences" of allowing a defendant's belief of patent validity to serve as a defense to induced infringement. One such consequence, the Court explained, is an increased burden of litigation as the parties and courts would be faced with myriad invalidity arguments from every accused inducer (and associated increases in discovery costs and the
number and complexity of issues for trial). Finally, the Court noted that multiple other areas of the law similarly provide that an act may be intentional even without actual knowledge of whether the accused conduct violates the law, including claims for tortious interference and trespass. Here, too, the Supreme Court found that the reasoning of "I thought it was legal" provides no defense.


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School history
River Valley High School (RV) was the first Chinese secondary school set up by the government. Initially known as the Singapore Government Chinese Middle School when it occupied the premises of Seng Poh Primary School, it was renamed Queenstown Government Chinese Middle School when it moved to Strathmore Avenue.
The 1st Principal was Mr Suen Y-Chern.
|It was relocated to Jalan Kuala and renamed River Valley Government Chinese Middle School.
|Mr Lim Hui Eng was appointed the school's 2nd Principal.
|In June 1962, Mr Wong Chong Chie assumed the post of Principal, making him the 3rd Principal.
|Mr Wong Bing Chie was appointed the school's Acting Principal when Mr Wong Chong Chie vacated his post.
|Mr Ong Pang Boon, Minister for Education, visited the school.
|Mr Wong Bing Chie was officially appointed the school's 4th Principal. The school began its expansion programme to include more facilities.
|Mr Wong Bing Chie retired from service and Madam Leong Fan Chin became the school's 5th Principal.
The school was selected to be a Special Assistance Plan school.
Mrs Pearl Goh became the school's Vice Principal.
The School Alumni was formed.
The school was renamed River Valley High School.
The first Student Council was formed.
In December 1980, Mr Yong Kwei Leong became the Vice Principal.
The school shifted to a new campus at West Coast Road in December 1986.
Mr Chan Kok Heng became its Vice Principal.
|On 1 Jan 1987, Minister of State for Education, Mr Tang Guan Seng, flagged off a 16-km walk from the old RV campus at Jalan Kuala to the new RV campus at West Coast Road.
On 14 Jan 1989, the MP for Ayer Rajah, Dr Tan Cheng Bock, officiated the opening of RV's new campus.
The Archives was completed and it was declared open by Assistant Treasurer of SAC, Mr Lee Tuan, and SAC Member, Dr Ho Nai Kiong.
RV celebrated its 35th School Anniversary with a dinner at the school compound and a concert at the Kallang Theatre.
The school began its facilities expansion programme.
Mr Kwok Kah Kuoy became the Vice Principal.
|RV won the inaugural Trim and Fit Gold Award.
After 19 years with River Valley High School, Mdm Leong Fun Chin left to assume the headship at Hwa Chong Junior College.
Mr Tham Tuck Meng became the school's 6th Principal.
Mrs Lee Yin Ling became the school's Vice Principal.
It became a single-session school in 1993.
The school was among six secondary schools in Singapore to be selected to be an autonomous school. The autonomous school status was given to schools with outstanding achievements.
On 6 August 1994, the school's extended facilities were officially declared open by the Member of Parliament for Ayer Rajah, Dr Tan Cheng Bock.
Mr Ng Lee Huat became the Vice Principal.
The school took part in the National Day Mass Dance Display.
|The school celebrated her 40th School Anniversary with a cultural concert at the World Trade Centre and a dinner hosted by the School Alumni.
|Mrs Tan Miao Ling became the school' Vice Principal.
Mrs Tan Miao Ling left to attend the Diploma in Educational Administration. Miss Serene Teo Swee Choon, Head of Humanities, covered the duties of Vice Principal.
RV was awarded her first Sustained Achievement Awards for Arts, Physical Fitness and Uniformed Groups, making her amongst five secondary schools in Singapore to receive three Sustained Achievement Awards.
On 15 December, Miss Ek Soo Ben became the school's Vice Principal.
Sponsored by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, the school started her Fast Track @ Schools project to spearhead our IT programme. We were the first to officially launch the project at the 44th School Anniversary.
RV became the West 3 Centre of Learning for Science and Technology. This project is co-sponsored by the National Science and Technology Board and the Ministry of Education.
RV was awarded her second Sustained Achievement Awards for Arts, Physical Fitness and Uniformed Groups.
RV celebrated her 45th School Anniversary with a cultural night at the Kallang Theatre and a dinner hosted by the School Alumni.
RV was awarded a Singapore Quality Class Award by the Singapore Quality Award Council and a Best Practice Award (Teaching and Learning) by the Ministry of Education.
We also officially launched the Distinguished Speakers Series and Science Niche Programme.
The school was identified by the Ministry of Education for upgrading and rebuilding under PRIME Phase 3. The long-term development plans for RV included options for a new building with up-to-date teaching facilities and a performing arts centre.
RV was presented a Singapore Quality Class by the Singapore Quality Award Council. We also won a Best Practice Award for Teaching and Learning (inaugural award).
RV won the Thinking and Learning Culture National Award, Best Zone Award and Most Improved Award.
RV was awarded the Sustained Achievement Awards for Physical Fitness and Uniformed Groups.
We began our first fund-raising project for our upgrading plans. "Walk to Reach", a jogathon held together with the School Annual Cross Country, raised about $90,000.
In March 2002, the Vice Principal, Miss Ek Soo Ben, left for the Leaders-in-Education Programme.
In June 2002, Mr Martin Koh Chin Thong, joined RV as her Vice Principal.
In September 2002, Miss Ek Soo Ben, returned to RV as her Vice Principal. End October, RV held a retirement ceremony for Mr Tham Tuck Meng.
The RV Concert Band was invited by the Ministry of Education to compete in the 4th Asian Symphonic Band Competition, Bangkok. The Band was awarded a Silver, beating strong competitors from the other Asian countries.
On 15 December 2002, Miss Ek Soo Ben, officially became the School's 7th Principal.
RV was awarded her fourth Sustained Achievement Awards for Physical Fitness and Uniformed Groups, and third award for the Arts.
On 11 January 2003, the School held a Retirement-cum-Fund-Raising Dinner in honour of Mr Tham Tuck Meng. The Guest of Honour was Dr Tan Cheng Bock.
The RV Chinese Orchestra was the first cultural group to perform at the Esplanade-Theatres-by-the-Bay. This was another fund-raising effort by the School. Both events were well supported by the School Advisory Committee, RV Alumni and the Parent-Teacher Association.
On 26 March, MOE announced school closure due to outbreak of SARS. This was the first time since the war period that schools were closed. Through a concerted effort by all, schools were finally re-opened on 17 April 2003. All other outdoor events, contact sports as well as overseas trips were put on hold due to SARS. We had an extra week of lessons during the June holidays.
RV won 5 Gold Medals in the Singapore Youth Festival Central Judging for Chinese Orchestra, Concert Band, Choir, Dance and ELDDS.
The Netball 'C' Division Girls Team emerged Champions in the West Zone Netball Championships and 4th placing in the National Netball Championships. The Basketball C Division Boys Team emerged 2nd in the West Zone Basketball Tournament and 4th placing in the National Basketball Tournament, while the Cross Country 'C' Division Boys came in fourth.
RV won the Best Practice Award for Arts Education (Bronze award) by the National Arts Council.
RV won the prestigious Best Practice Award for Student All-Round Development by the Ministry of Education.
RV won the Orchid Award (Singapore Environmental Council) for good environmental practices.
RV was awarded her fifth Sustained Achievement Awards for Physical Fitness and Uniformed Groups.
On 25 Oct 2003, RVHS sees many distinguished guests, including the Minister for Education, Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, arrived at RVHS for the launch of the BackPack.NET – Pilot and Trials Pillar. The objective of BackPack.NET is to create opportunities for schools and Institutes of Higher Learning to use Microsoft technologies to develop innovative solutions for Tablet PCs for use in teaching and learning. RVHS was the first school to be involved in this programme.
11th Trim and Fit Award.
On 15 December, RV welcomed Mr Lee Yan Kheng as the Vice Principal.
48th School Anniversary cum Walkathon to raise funds for the School. The Guest of Honour was Dr Tan Cheng Bock.
7 & 8 February 2004: RV Cultural Concerts at Kallang Theatre,
On 16 July, we held our fund-raising Golf Tournament at the Raffles Country Club. Guest of Honour: Dr Tan Cheng Bock
PS Lim Chuan Poh was the Guest of Honour at our Speech Day held on 17 July 2004.
2004 saw a bumper harvest for RV. We were presented the following awards:
A Teachers' Day-Alumni Silver Jubilee-Fund Raising Dinner was held on 3 September. Our Guest of Honour was Mr Lim Swee Say, Minister for the Environment.
12th Trim and Fit Award.
2004 also saw RV moving out of the West Coast site to the holding site at Queensway.
RV moved out of the West Coast site to the holding site at Queensway.
In January, we held a school-wide Carnival to welcome the Secondary 1 students.
We celebrated our 49th School Anniversary on 15 January in conjunction with the RV Fund Raising Donation Draw.
The Director and key personnel from our sister school, Samsen Wittayalai School in Bangkok, Thailand, visited RV as part of the STEP (Singapore Thailand Enhanced Partnership) in January.
In March, two groups of Thai students visited RV. One group stayed for a 2-week Immersion Programme. It was a cultural exchange between the two groups of students.
In September, RVHS was given the approval for the Integrated Programme. This was announced by Minister Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam.
Following the announcement, MOE also re-evaluated the West Coast Site and found it too small to support the 6 year programme. Hence, a new site at Jalan Boon Lay of 7.5 Hectares was allocated to RVHS.
We celebrated our 50th School Anniversary on 15 and 16 January at the NUS Cultural Centre and a Dinner hosted by the Alumni, SAC and PTA.
We began our Integrated Programme journey for Year 1 and 2 students.
RVHS was given the go ahead for the Bicultural Programme for 2007.
In June, RV moved out of the Queensway site to the holding site at Malan Road. A school warming was organised on the last Friday of the June school holidays. This was to support the RVIP programme and wait for the new school building to be ready in 2009.
RVHS was validated based on the School Excellence Model and we were once again awarded the Singapore Quality Class, Best Practice Awards for Teaching and Learning, Student All Round Development, Organisational Effectiveness.
14th Trim and Fit Award.
RVHS was awarded the LEAD ICT@Schools. The LEAD ICT@Schools recognises and supports schools that are ready to achieve a higher level of ICT use from 2006 to 2008. Schools under the scheme will be supported in experimentation and research to push the innovative use of ICT in teaching and learning.
Principal presented a paper at the Suzhou Round Table Education Conference.
RV launched the Bicultural Studies Programme (Chinese) and saw her first batch of SAP scholars. 7 students were awarded the SAP scholarship.
2 students were awarded the DSTA scholarship.
We became the West Zone Centre of Excellence for Science and Technology in April. In June, we officially launched the WZCOE and started our inaugural science seminar at the Singapore Science Centre.
RV was awarded the Sustained Achievement Award for Sports and Academic Value-added, together with Physical Fitness and Uniformed Groups. We were awarded all five of the SAA awards.
15th Trim and Fit Award.
RVHS hosted many distinguished visitors, including Minister for Education from Oman, Minister for Education from Israeli and Permanent Secretary for Education from Jordan.
The Principal presented a paper on "RV Journey to Excellence" at the Indonesian Education Conference.
Mr Choy Ban Heng was selected as the only teacher to represent Singapore for the ASEAN Workshop on ICT-Pedagogy Integration from 26 Nov to 1 Dec 2007 in Bangkok.
In February, RV's last O-Level cohort received their results.
RV had her full cohort of 1,600 Integrated Programme students across four levels.
|In December, Mr Koh Yong Chiah became the school's 8th Principal.
RV moved from her holding campus at Malan Road to her permanent campus at Boon Lay Avenue.
RV organised the 2010 Asian Young Leaders Convention which saw more than 900 student leaders from across Asia gathering in RV, to hone their leadership skills and forge friendships.
RV celebrated her 55th anniversary.
Mr Sze Guan Kheng joined the school as the Vice Principal. Mr Sherwin Cheng became the school's Vice Principal.
RV's first Integrated Programme A-Level cohort received their results in March. Tan Zhi Xiang, RV's top student, was also a national top student.
RV co-organised the 2011 Asian Young Leaders Convention with Wenjiang Middle School in Wenjiang, China.
RV's second Integrated Programme A-Level cohort also produced a national top student. He is Soh Zhi Liang.
RV launched her iPad one-to-one programme.
Mr Loi Guang You became the school's Vice Principal. Mr Gabriel Wong joined the school as the Vice Principal.
In December, Mrs Teo Khin Hiang became the school's 9th Principal.
RV held her first Y.Lead Seminar in July.
Mr Gay Choon Lin joined the school as the Vice Principal (Admin).
RV held her inaugural Arts Fest week from 28 April to 3 May:


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Happy December 1st, everyone! I don't know about you, but now that I have kids, this season takes on a whole new meaning each year. What used to be a season of pretty lights, traditions and cheer has turned into seeing those things through the innocence of my girls' eyes. There is absolutely NOTHING like it!
I wanted to share a few traditions that I have started with my girls. The first, which started today, is our Christmas Advent Calendar. This is something my parents used to do for my brother and I when we were little and I wanted to pass on the tradition to my girlies. My brother and I used to wake up every day so excited to see what was on the card or in the pocket of my mom's handmade calendar. This is what I created this year for our new calendar, thanks to a steal from Scrapbooksteals.com...
The calendar itself came as plain as can be with naked wood and cardboard. I painted mine with acrylic paint to match the papers I was using. I also created a file for my Cameo to cut out the pieces of paper that I wanted to cover the front of the drawers with. Some of them turned out a bit wonky, but wow did that make it So. Much. Easier!
I used papers from Crate Paper's Snow Day collection, which was also a steal which I purchased at Scrapbooksteals.com's retreat in October. I love this collection because it's not overly Christmas-y or holiday-ish. It can be used way beyond the holiday season.
The collection that I purchased at the crop didn't contain all of the papers from the Snow Day line, so I was pretty giddy when I found a 12x12 paper pad at Michaels that had all of them! If you want to look for it, it is the Recollections brand and it's called Peppermint Twist. My daughters had so much fun picking out fun trees and presents for me to cut out and place in the shadow box.
This morning, our Advent Calendar contained something more than just a note about where the girls would find their new Christmas pajamas...our resident elf, Holly, decided it would be a good place to spend the day. :)
This is a tradition that my husband and I started a couple years ago and we absolutely LOVE it! I found this adorable little elf ornament at Target a couple years back (they still have them and they are MUCH cuter this year, to boot!), cut the loop off the hat and decided she would be our friendly elf friend. My girls love running around to see where Holly is hiding and always run up to me with excitement to get me to go look at where she is. The girls talk to her (sometimes read: tell on the other sister to her) throughout the day. (Side note: I love that our elf isn't the typical Elf on a Shelf elf because how in the world would I explain it when the girls see that one in the stores and catalogues??)
A few weeks ago, Holly left a note with the two journals below...
These are the "Dear Santa" books I created last year when I was on the Authentique Design Team, thanks to inspiration from fellow DT member and friend Heather. The note that was left with them said that the girls should work on their lists and then she would return the books to Santa on the first night she returns to our house. It was so fun to look through the first lists that the girls created last year and have them add to it this year. I really hope the girls "believe" for many years to come as I think this will become a treasured memory of their childhoods.
Do you and your families have any fun traditions for the holiday season? I would love to hear some! Be sure to check back tomorrow...I will start sharing Christmas cards that I have made!
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Not sure if the will be any help, might be worth a try.Mount Royal Cem. has been helpful to me in the past they are at mountroyalcem.comyou might find something about your Clarissa Adams there. I heard they may be starting to charge for info. I know it was free.Good luck.Bernice


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Dennis Dechaine, the man serving a life sentence for murder in the death of 12-year-old Sarah Cherry in 1988, is due on court June 19 on a charge of possessing drugs in prison.
A panel of 12 jurors and two alternates was selected on Friday that will hear the case against Dechaine, said Geoffrey Rushlau, Knox County's district attorney. Dechaine is charged with trafficking in prison contraband after he was allegedly found with morphine and the anti-anxiety drug Klonopin.
Dechaine has pleaded not guilty to the drug possession charge. He says he used the drugs in a suicide attempt April 4, 2010.
Dechaine also insists he did not kill Cherry and hopes that DNA form an unknown male found under one of the girl's fingernails will help him win a new trial.
At a hearing Tuesday, Dechaine's court-appointed lawyer will try to convince a judge that the jury would have acquitted Dechaine if it had been given the DNA evidence. Dechaine has previously made four unsuccessful appeals.
Sarah Cherry was abducted from a baby-sitting job in the town of Bowdoin on July 6, 1988. A search for her and Dechaine, then a 30-year-old farmer from Bowdoinham, began after a notebook and a truck repair bill with Dechaine's name were found in the driveway of the home.
About five hours later, Dechaine was seen walking out of the woods about three miles away. Police found his pickup truck on a nearby discontinued logging road later that night.
The girl's body was found two days later, about 450 feet from where Dechaine's truck had been. Her hands were bound in front of her, a gag was in her mouth and a scarf was wrapped around her mouth and neck.
Dechaine said he went into the woods to inject "speed" and was alone and lost. He maintains that someone took his papers, the rope that was used to tie the girl's wrists and the scarf from his truck.
Marathon hearing over proposed oyster farm concludes in Brunswick
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I love the Painted Love DSP but all the metallic in it puts glare in my pictures.
I embossed the front of the Rich Razzelberry card base with the Scattered Sequins embossing folder.
In the center of the card is placed some Painted Love DSP and on top of that a strip of the reverse side of the DSP which I notched at both ends using the Triple Punch.
I used the stamparatus to stamp the heart with its sentiment inside. Because there was no framelit for this size of heart, I fussy cut the heart and placed it on a gold foil scalloped square using dimensionals.
I added a couple of gold foil floral pieces on top of the right side of the heart.
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Stamp: Sure Do Love You
Inks: Rich Razzelberry, Calypso Coral
Papers: Rich Razzelberry, Painted Love DSP, Gold Foil, Whisper White
Accessories: Triple Punch Dimensionals. Lots of Love Box franelits, Layering Squares Framelits, Scattered Sequins Embossing Folder


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60 Years of the Edsel
Tuesday June 27, 2017
It was a car that became a by-word for failure, one jokingly referenced in films as diverse as Peggy Sue Got Married and The Love Bug. It is, of course, the Edsel, which celebrates its 60th birthday this year.
In the early 1950s, Ford's management decided that it needed a new car that would appeal to middle-class buyers who might otherwise opt for a Pontiac or an Oldsmobile. After rejecting such tempting sounding names as 'Intelligent Whale', 'Mongoose Civique' and, my absolute favourite, 'Utopian Turtletop', they decided to name the car after Henry Ford's late son Edsel. The firm commissioned market research concerning the various images of US car brands and eventually decided that their new marque, should be aimed at 'the younger executive or professional family on its way up'.
Ford invested some $250 million in the Edsel project and established a separate 1,300 strong dealership chain. Salesmen were ordered to keep pre-launch demonstrators safely hidden else they would be fined or even lose their franchise and throughout 1957, there was a steady build-up of publicity. The first adverts merely saying, 'Edsel is Coming' but with no photos or footage of the car.
And so, on September 4th, the Edsel was finally unveiled, to a great degree of public apathy. One problem was that even by the standard of late 1950s US car advertising, they were oversold; you can just imagine a team of Mad Men-style advertising executives dreaming yet more outlandish claims. The promotional shorts are especially entertaining but after the elaborate PR campaigns, motorists would have been justified in expecting a car that was atomic powered and possibly capable of flight.
Alas, the reality was that the Edsel was a fairly typical Dearborn product that was graced with a rather peculiar radiator grille. The smaller Pacer and Ranger were Ford derived while the Citation and Corsair were based on the Mercury and one problem was that the line-ups of the two established brands made the Edsel seem superfluous. The timing of its debut was unfortunate as the USA was about to enter a period of recession, which further limited the chances of the marque establishing itself and this was before taking the Edsel's reliability track record into account.
Throughout 1958, Edsel owners frequently discovered the joys of boot lids that would jam and bonnet ornaments that sometimes became dislodged and flew into the windscreen. Then there was the 'Teletouch' automatic transmission, which was operated by push buttons in the middle of the steering wheel and was prone to sticking. Many drivers were heard to say that Edsel stood for 'Every Day Something Else Leaks', while dealerships either closed or added Ford or Mercury cars to their showrooms. A year after its debut the marque seemed to be on borrowed time and a sales campaign involving give-away ponies became notorious for its sheer desperation. Watch and be amazed/appalled.
The last models were built in 1959, and the Edsel now sported a muted grille and attractive styling based on the Ford Galaxie and Fairlane - but it was too late. After 19th November of that year, the car described by Time magazine as resembling 'an Oldsmobile sucking a lemon' was no more. Ford planned a small Edsel, the Comet, which was based on the 1959 Falcon but this was eventually badged as a Mercury.
However, the Edsel was no more flamboyant than rival offerings from General Motors and had it been better promoted and launched a year earlier (in addition to being given a new frontal treatment) it might well have stood more of a chance. Indeed, had it succeeded, there might well have been a possibility of an 'Edsel Mustang' by 1964. As it was, the surviving examples are now all highly collectable for although the adverts' claims that 'the Edsel look is here to stay' were slightly wide of the mark, they cannot be mistaken for any other car on the road.


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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Soldiers who died in service of their country are being honored during a ceremony at a VA hospital in South Carolina.
The public is invited to attend an early observance of Memorial Day scheduled for Friday at the Dorn VA Medical Center in Columbia.
VA spokeswoman Priscilla Creamer (KRAY'-mur) says the ceremony will be held in the main lobby of the medical center's surgical building.
Lt. Col. Larry Murray, commander of the 2nd Battalion 60th Infantry Regiment at Fort Jackson is the keynote speaker.
Murray has served in a number of battalion, brigade and general staff positions with U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
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Photo: This Macaw was one of the many animals found on the rural farm, near Dawson Creek – submitted.
Two Peace Region residents plead guilty to animal cruelty charges last week in Dawson Creek.
Officers investigated an animal neglect complaint at a rural farm near the Mile 0 City.
When they arrived, officers discovered more than 200 animals were housed in an outbuilding with no ventilation. BC SPCA Officers also found that some animals had no access to water, cage sizes were too small and feces were built up in the cages.
Many of the animals found included horses, reptiles, llamas, exotic birds, goats, dogs, wolf-hybrids, cats, a variety of rodents, a boar, a lynx and a coatimundi (a raccoon-like mammal native to Central and South America).
Officers gave owners Michelle Kuberski and Kenneth Bunker a list of orders that were required for the animal's care. During a follow-up investigation, however, officers found that 87 of the animals were still in distress, and were subsequently seized.
BC SPCA reports all of those animals have since been adopted.
Kuberski and Bunker are now sentenced to pay a $700 fine. Both will also receive two years probation. The offenders will have to follow all recommendations of a veterinarian and the BC SPCA with respect to downsizing the number of animals currently in their care. In addition to this, the pair will be forced to give the BC SPCA a list of all remaining animals on the property, and allow officers to inspect the animals with 24 hours notice.
The SPCA says it will be monitoring the animals currently in the care of Kuberski and Bunker to ensure the animals receive appropriate care and treatment.
The BC SPCA is asking the public to continue reporting all cases of animal cruelty. For more information, visit www.spca.bc.ca.


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Last weekend TWO Watford swimmers represented Hertfordshire in the Inter Counties Competition against Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Essex, Bedfordshire and Suffolk. Swimming at Luton Inspire Katie Fitch and Ben Green helped Herts secure a very creditable 2nd place behind Essex. Katie swimming a great 50m Butterfly and Ben swimming his favoured Backstroke. Well Done to both of you for being selected for this excellent event. Lets aim to get more representatives next year!!!
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Sunday, February 18, 2007
OJOS takes to the streets
Leaving the hogar with our photography taller serves two purposes: first, it makes the girl's photography more exciting. On the move in this big city keeps new people and events always in front of their lenses, and they have a million chances to try new techniques and ideas, to overcome fears of pressing the shutter in public or photographing people they don't know. Second, it gives the girls an opportunity to leave the hogar. Like most teenagers, these young women want to be independent, they want to go out, meet people, talk to each other, and not necessarily always be with an adult. Have a 26-year-old ask them if they want to leave the hogar for a few hours to go to the city center (or even the library) armed with their own digital camera, and you will have nearly every inhabitant of the hogar asking where they can sign up. Our excursions, for the most part, are a big hit with the four girls in the taller, and I enjoy taking them out; the responsibility of four young lives always makes me a little nervous, but it's telling the other dozens of young women that I can't also include them that complicates the process even more. There is always the underlying fear that something will happen to one of the girls, especially with the risk of flashing four shiny digital cameras around in public which just begs for attention.
Taking advantage of the fact that the girls have been on summer vacation, we have been leaving the hogar nearly twice a week. Our first excursion was to Santa Lucia, a hill decorated with beautiful staircases and fountains from which one can view the wide expanse of the city. Over an hour away in metro from the hogar, we had just over an hour at the hill which is right in the city center. I waited to pass out the cameras until we arrived just to make sure the girls wouldn't use all of the memory on their cards before we got there. We climbed nearly to the top before we had to trek back down, and each girl seemed to find her own pace along the way-- making it a little difficult to manage with a ratio of two volunteers to four girls. I almost wish we had four volunteers, one for each student, but still we're learning how to move as a group while allowing enough freedom for the girls to be creative. I think in the debate of what age levels benefit more from this particular taller, the type and amount of supervision are important factors to consider.
We've been to the Puente Alto library three times now, and they have even been so nice as to cover some small black and white printing costs for us. Because of the varying levels of computer knowledge, the instructions in Photoshop also tend to vary student to student. I end up walking down the line of computers helping each girl individually, trying to get them on more of the same level before giving directions to the group as a whole. I have started making small instruction guides in spanish with visual aids so that when they are a little more comfortable with the program they will be able to continue to discover new concepts on their own.
As a group, we sit down after each excursion and look at the most recent photographs. What the girls decide to photograph, and how they capture the image, never ceases to intrigue me. Some are more timid to speak in front of the group, but as a whole the girls seem very supportive of each other and the risks they take with their photography. I won't deny that a couple of the girls support a very keen interest in trying to collect snapshots of passing male teenagers of whom they think are irresitably rico, but they're usually too shy to follow through anyways. I choose to exercise more positive feedback on what they are doing well, and definitely find their company an unending source of entertainment and challenge. To say that we run around together always as a happy group would be misleading; each day has a different dynamic as we all continue to wade through the inevitable drama in our lives. But I will say that if even one girl has had a fun or interesting time after our taller than it's been successful. As it stands now, on the Chilean grading scale of 7-1, I would give the girls a big juicy 7 for effort.
Photographs above taken by Claudia G, Yanina, Claudia N, and Herna, respectively.
Friday, February 09, 2007
sorry mom: I talked to strangers all day
Having recently reached the five month mark of my time in Santiago, I've been looking back to see what I've learned so far. Besides mastering the 3-step process of purchasing an item at the pharmacy and how to cut the lawn with a manual grass-cutter, I've also managed to buy a telephone card the other day and successfully follow the automated directions to put more credit on my cellphone-- the first time I've ever been able to accomplish this mammoth task without the help of a Chilean friend. This, coupled with the fact that I just finished my first novel in spanish, gives me hard proof that yes, my spanish is improving.
Armed with this boost of confidence, I decided to talk a walk with my camera yesterday. I've purchased eggs from a tiny egg store on the way to Lider before here in La Granja (Lider is a huge megastore similar to Wal-Mart in more ways than just its obstrusively bright fluorescent lights) and I fell in love with it. A nice little grandma with absolutely no gray hair wears a navy smock with little flowers on it over her clothes and carefully places your eggs in triangular pockets of newspaper which she had folded in anticipation of your visit before you showed up. I thought this might be a good first stop, but on my way there I noticed a house older than most in the neighborhood that boasted about its pan y palta on quaint hand-painted signs. Taking the small detour down the grapevine covered front path, I found myself in a small market in the front room of the house being greeted by whom I soon found out is Marta.
First purchasing a bottle of water, I started talking about the heat (a useful everyday summer-in-Santiago conversation starter) but the conversation quickly moved to discussions about the changing neighborhood and the differences between the city and the campo-- not to imply that the conversation moved quickly: we must have talked for at least 40 minutes. Marta soon called in her viejo, Miguel, who explained that he had purchased the house in the 70s when the surrounding area was used to grow vegetables instead being full of rows of apartment buildings and the sprawling, crowded creature that is Lider. Marta is from Los Andes, in the north, and Miguel is from south of Valdivia but had interesting advice for my upcoming visit to the city: eat seafood, and don't hang out with 17-20 year olds because all they do is party. I left the minimarket with kisses and waves and invitations to please come enjoy a cafecito sometime soon.
The egg store is going to take a little more work than I thought. The abuelita showed extreme opposition to the idea of my bringing my camera out, although we did talk about her children and grandchildren for an extensive amount of time. Surrounded by eggs in her little egg store, I made a solemn promise to myself to win her confidence over, even if I just get a picture of her hands with eggs. I know I'll be back. So I decided to take a ride to the city center to the street around the corner from the hogar in which I lived before Domingo Savio. Having walked down this street, which is the best way to get to any bus or metro from the hogar, about a million times over the span of my stay there, I had met several of the store owners and become intrigued by many others. Alejandro, the owner of the sewing machine store, deserved a visit.
After buying a tea from the counter in the market next door-- Alexandro's market, but he wasn't there at the time-- I joined Alejandro on the little red chairs he keeps on the sidewalk in front of his shop. A tiny store, no wider than a couple of meters, it is completely packed with sewing machines at various stages of repair and disrepair. He explained that he learned how to fix sewing machines back when Singer still had a presence in Chile-- I'm not sure what year, but he is now 75. He's been at this location on Libertad in Barrio Brasil for 15 years, collecting broken sewing machines, fixing them, and then selling them. His hands permanently greased and digging deep in some disemboweled machine, Alejandro and his store captivated me with its piles of strange machanical parts and interesting characters hanging out on the red chairs. Amused by my poking around with my camera in search for little details in his shop, like this crucifix tucked behind the electrical wire right above the hiding place for his beer, Alejandro knows I'll be back.
A few doors down Libertad from the sewing machine shop is a Peluqueria I had always watched, but never entered: I never had a reason. It's a barber shop with maybe two chairs, one tv, maybe one customer being shaved or clipped and a friend of the barber sitting in one of the chairs along the wall. This time the friend and the barber, Mario, were just sitting and watching tv, so I walked in and began introducing myself. The friend left soon after, but I had a nice talk with Mario-- it helped that as of yet the only fútbol game I have been to was a Colo Colo game, which you can see won me a lot of points. Mario has lived in Santiago since he was 6 months old, and has had his Peluqueria at this location for 13 years. He began cutting hair at the age of 16, (now he's in his seveties I think) but still smiles when he talks about how much he loves his job. My favorite part about the barber shop is the mechanical clippers Mario uses-- when I first spotted them I pointed to them, lined up in a row under the mirror, asking in general what they were. Mario replied, "Mis pololas!" Confused as to why he would call his clippers his girlfriends, I looked again at the counter and saw underneath the glass a collage of old pictures of half naked women. I think my confusion was Mario's favorite part about my visit.
Strolling through the center, I wandered over to the Plaza de Armas but couldn't find postcards for my family because the street vendors are still trying to get rid of their photos of the "La Pequeña Gigante" which mesmorized the city a short while ago. I headed towards Alameda to start going home on the metro when I heard the old-fashioned tango music like the kind I play when I'm the last one awake at night. A young couple dressed in black made me stop and think again about how badly I'd like to learn the dance. Angela and her brother Andrés dance every day in one of the pedestrian passages near Plaza de Armas. It turns out you have to apply to the city to be able to perform in this area and only the best are chosen and then assigned a place.
A useful trick to talking with strangers is just to ask them about themselves. Many people like to talk about themselves, they just need some prompting. I'd like to spend even more time with some of these new random acquaintences-- but a good string of introductions certainly makes for an interesting day, a makeshift kind of open-ended scavenger hunt with variable directions and certainly no definite end...
Sunday, February 04, 2007
first week of OJOS nuevos at the aldea
Our first week of OJOS nuevos at the aldea was indeed, as the Chileans would say, "top" Not without its challenges, I would still agree that one, we are off to a promising start, and two, I have a lot of work to do. We have so many more opportunities with this taller, or workshop, that my lesson plans from the last taller are now out of date. Thanks to donations to VE I will be able to purchase a new battery and memory card this weekend, improving two of our cameras and enabling us to leave the hogar as a class to take pictures around the city for the first time. I plan on taking the girls to Santa Lucia, a hill that rises up in the center of Santiago from which one can view the expansive city.
We met twice this past week, the first time on Monday with half the class spent looking at international photography in a slideshow and learning some about the history of photography, and the second half wandering around the hogar taking pictures. At the end of the day we downloaded everyone's first photos and shared them with each other. They liked going off by themselves and showed a lot of initiative in experimenting with their cameras even on the first day. We have some very bold and inventive young women in this group.
Wednesday morning we took the micro down to the Puente Alto (the hogar's neighborhood) library where we will be able to use their computer lab. Lindy helped the staff install Photoshop on six of the computers in the children's library, and we will be able to go as often as once a week to use the internet to explore photography sites and magazines and to use learn how to edit images in Photoshop. While the Aldea will be receiving a computer lab within the next month due to VE's @ccess the future computer program, it is still important to show the girls where the resources are around them and how to use them to their benefit. Each girl will have her own email account as well, and through our email group we can share photos and websites with each other.
As an introductory class, I felt very positive about our first trip to the library. But the gap in computer knowledge among the girls coupled with my lack of spanish vocabulary when talking about Photoshop tricks and techniques showed me that I have a lot more preparation to do before the next time we go to the lab. Another challenge in front of me is that I'm also a new tia for the girls, and still getting to know them as individuals. Which is why one of my favorite parts of the week was after class on Wednesday when I stayed to eat lunch and hang out with the girls. While the Aldea has four houses in which the young women live, during the summer all of the girls who have no alternative place to visit are moved into one of the houses. Lunch had been prepared by a tia and a young woman who likes to cook-- she explained to me the proper way to cook Chilean corn as it is very different from the Midwest corn on the cob to which I am accustomed: this corn, much tougher and on a larger cob than Illinois corn, requires 15 minutes in boiling water, which would explain why the last time I tried to cook it you couldn't even bite into it, it was so undercooked. We ate a corn and potato stew with a side salad of lettuce and tomato with lemon juice, oil, and salt.
For dessert, those who wanted to could have flan, which I happen to love. I sat at a table with three young women, two of which are in the photo class, and learned that they don't like reggaeton that much because the lyrics often demean women, but they do like songs to which you can hold someone close and slowly dance. One has many madrinas and doesn't like flan; the other has no madrinas and had two helpings of flan. Both are incredibly excited to leave the hogar on Monday with our class. I share their excitement, as I have actually not yet climbed the Cerro Santa Lucia, but I am always a little nervous taking our kids out on excursions-- Yet another reason why it's important to get to know the girls and let them get to know me. I will have Ben, another volunteer, with me, but it is still sure to be an adventure.
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Bella Materna Full Cup Maternity & Nursing Bra
Foam cups conceal nursing pads and create a uniform shape. T-Shirt friendly and familiar, this full cup nursing bra essential is the closest to your non-nursing favorites.
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- Adjustable straps
- Four stage hook and eye closure at back
- Infinity Rings to convert your nursing bra to non-nursing
- Oeko-Tex certified to be toxin free
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Recommended care: Hand wash cool. Line dry for longevity.


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Mango Jacket, Gina Shirt, Zara Jeans, Jonak Boots, Eternal clutch
Weekends mean lazyness right, and when it's finally Friday (moment you've waiting for all week long), I kind of just want to lay in bed, and just catching up with my pile of glossy magazines waiting on my desk. Exception, that this Friday, I had to go out, so I pulled out this simple and casual outfit. Jeans are a weekend attire, as well as a grey casual oversized shirt. The only thing giving to this attire a little bit of chic is this amazing white blaze I picked from Mango the other day. The softness of the fabric is unbelievable, and I never quite decided to splurge on a white jacket before this one, because I never get the right shape that suits me. Now that I have (and I hope so!), I kind of never want to stop wearing it. This is much more like me! Happy weekends :)
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