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Property prices in England and Wales rose by the most in six years in May, fueling concerns that loose monetary policy and a plan to make home buying more affordable may lead to a new housing bubble.
House prices grew by 0.4 percent this month, the highest monthly increase since May 2007, when the U.K. was in the grips of a property boom, according to a report by U.K. property analytics firm Hometrack.
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Prices were heavily driven by London and the prosperous South East, said Hometrack analysts, growing by 0.9 percent and 0.5 percent respectively.
"The impetus for rising house prices is originating almost exclusively from London and the South East, where prices grew at an above average rate... Elsewhere, housing market conditions are improving gradually, with prices trending slowly upwards, averaging just 0.1 percent over May," said Hometrack Director of Research Richard Donnell in the report, which was published on Monday.
"The gap between supply and demand in London is the largest it has been since spring 2009. In the last six months, demand has grown by 15 percent, while supply has declined by 0.6 percent," he added.
Donnell noted that demand for outstripping supply was a nationwide trend in the U.K., with housing sales up 8.2 percent in May, while supply only grew by 2.8 percent.
"The high cost of moving, uncertainty over jobs, and a lack of available housing to move to, means homeowners remain unwilling to put their own properties on the markets. In turn this is putting a further squeeze on supply," he wrote.
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Donnell warned that lack of supply could propagate "mini housing cycles".
"In an effort to secure instructions, a growing proportion of property is likely to come to the market at unrealistically high prices. This will lead to fewer sales, and a period of price re-alignment and a continuation of a series of small 'mini housing cycles', which have been in evidence over recent years."
Housing a 'Political Issue'
Analysts at real estate firm Savills noted that the shortfall in housing had become a "political issue" in the U.K.
"House building has failed to keep pace with the needs of a growing population. The construction of social housing has slowed to a trickle. Five years after the credit crunch, a generation of first-time buyers is still largely priced out of the housing market and forced to pay increasingly higher rents," said Savills's Susan Emmett, in a second quarter research note on U.K. residential real estate.
Emmett added that purchasing property in London was particularly expensive, with house prices at over nine times average earnings, and deposits averaging 59,000 pounds ($89,000).
In his 2013 Budget, U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced a 5.4 billion pound ($8.2 billion) package to boost the housing market, which included the controversial "Help to Buy" schemes, aimed at helping citizens purchase property.
The Help to Buy schemes are due to start in January 2014 and run for three years. One plan is to offer buyers government loans of up to £120,000 ($181,000) towards deposits on homes worth less than or equal to £600,000 ($907,000). Potential buyers will only need to raise a deposit of 5 percent of the purchasing price.
In addition, the government will launch a mortgage indemnity scheme, compensating mortgage lenders for up to 80 percent of the purchase value of a property, in the event of repossession.
Last week, outgoing Bank of England Governor Mervyn King criticized the plans, calling it "too close for comfort" to the U.S. mortgage guarantee schemes that some blame for triggering the financial crisis.
"I am sure there is no place in the long-run for a scheme of this kind. This scheme is a little too close for comfort to a general scheme to guarantee mortgages," King said, speaking on Sky New's Murnaghan program.
"We had a very healthy mortgage market with competing lenders attracting borrowers before the crisis, and we need to get back to that healthy mortgage market. We do not want what the United States have, which is a government-guaranteed mortgage market, and they are desperately trying to find a way out of that position."
The International Monetary Fund also flagged concerns, in a report on the U.K. published last week.
"This measure may temporarily help boost confidence in the housing market, but there is a risk that, in the absence of an adequate supply response, the result would ultimately be mostly house price increases that would work against the aim of boosting access to housing," the IMF warned.
"To mitigate this risk and engineer a supply response, the government should consider fiscal disincentives for holding land without development."
In its second quarter report, Savills said the Help to Buy schemes could see house prices increase by 15.3 percent over the next five years, topping its previous forecast of 11.5 percent.
However, Savills's Emmett wrote that she did not expect the schemes to cause a house price boom, in part due to the vibrancy of the rental market.
"We believe Help to Buy will stimulate values, boost transaction and encourage more private house building... However, we do not expect it will cause a house price bubble," Emmett said in the report.
She added that Help to Buy may attract fewer potential home buyers than the 500,000 predicted by the government.
"The take-up may be limited by buyers' affordability constraints and lenders' take up of the initiative. For both schemes, borrowers will need to meet their chosen lender's credit and affordability checks," Emmett said.
-By CNBC's Katy Barnato
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Scott Hines is an award-winning consumer investigative reporter with Oklahoma's News Channel 4. You can watch his "In Your Corner" segments weeknights on News 4 at 10 p.m. Scott joined KFOR-TV as a general assignment reporter in July of 2004. He was named Brad Edwards' successor in 2007 and continues to carry on Brad's legacy of helping Oklahomans in need.
Scott began his career at the FOX affiliate, WDSI, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. As a reporter there, he covered many stories that gained national exposure. Among them was the Brent Marsh Crematory trial where authorities found hundreds of bodies that were meant for cremation. Scott also served as the number three sports reporter and anchor at the station, covering college basketball and football in the Tennessee Valley.
Since arriving at KFOR, he has dared to go "Behind Kitchen Doors," going undercover to expose the dirtiest as well as the best eating establishments in Oklahoma. He's also exposed the dirtiest metro hotels and daycares.
Today, Scott has picked up right where Brad left off, carrying the torch of consumer activism.
Scott's investigations are entirely consumer driven. He's gone dumpster diving, a phrase Brad helped coin, in a special "In Your Corner" investigation, where he exposed a number of Oklahoma businesses and state offices that were disposing of important customer and employee information without destroying it first.
Besides his hard hitting investigations, Scott spends most of his time sticking up for the little guy, whether he's chasing down a business owner who's defrauded their customers or warning consumers about the latest scam circulating the state. Scott has helped reunite a disabled US war veteran with his family.
He's helped an Oklahoma City woman renew her passport, proving she's a US citizen, after the government tried to convince her she was an illegal alien. He's also helped state and federal authorities put several Oklahoma contractors behind bars, after they cheated customers to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars.
Scott absolutely loves his job and the platform it gives him to make a positive impact on his community. He's danced for a Miracle, even winning a charity ballroom dance competition, which benefited Oklahoma's sick kids. Scott's spearheaded a boxed fan drive for the Salvation Army. He's collected presents for our state's foster children, so they could experience Christmas. Scott currently serves on several area boards, including March of Dimes, Children's Miracle Network, and AIDS Walk of Oklahoma City.
Scott is a graduate of Oklahoma State University where he majored in broadcast journalism and minored in speech communications.
He grew up in the South and Midwest before finding his way to Edmond, Oklahoma. When Scott's not working, you can find him volunteering, coordinating a charity event, in the gym, watching sports, on a yoga mat, playing competitive softball, or hanging out with friends and family.


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Time is running out. The signs are hard to miss.
"Looking at the big calendar (in the dressing room) and seeing that the rest of our season fits on one page?" said Chris Butler. "It's not shocking but . . . ."
But here the Calgary Flames are.
Trudging into the National Hockey League's final month, they are the Western Conference's 14th-place outfit.
Only one NHL club, the Florida Panthers, is sloppier defensively. ("Embarrassing, the number of goals we're giving up," said Butler. "Unacceptable.")
And — bound for Monday's match in Edmonton against the suddenly relevant Oilers — the Flames have lost a franchise-record 10 straight times (0-9-1) on the road.
However, a quiet fade, promised Bob Hartley, is not an option.
"We will never quit — we don't have the right to quit," the Flames coach said after Sunday's session at the Saddledome. "I will not let anyone quit. If someone wants to jump ship, he will not be in the lineup. It's as simple as this. We have a responsibility as professionals — whether we're players or coaches — to always put our best effort out there . . . it's my job to make sure that no one will slip away.
"There's not one bad person, there's not one bad team player, on this team. Everyone's working. You guys saw practice (Sunday) morning. Everyone's upbeat. We know we have lots of work to do and we're facing a big challenge, but the only way we're going to achieve something is by sticking together. The good part of my job is the quality of the individuals that we have in this locker-room."
A nice sentiment, but the schedule makes few allowances for warm and fuzzies.
Only four weeks remain.
This slog is nearly over.
"Obviously, it's been a quick season," said Mark Giordano. "In a regular year, it would feel like you're just getting to the halfway point — or not even — so this went by real quick."
For those still believing in this bunch, the math is straightforward.
With 15 games to go, the Flames possess 30 points. Cracking the West's top eight requires more than 53. So, to pocket 23 points in April, they need a 11-3-1 spree — a tall order for a group that has refused to win three in a row all winter.
"Right now, we need wins everywhere," said Hartley. "We know what's at task . . . and we want to climb in the standings. No one will give us free points."
Sportsclubstats.com, for one, is not holding high hopes, giving the Flames a skinny 2.0 per cent chance of qualifying for the post-season.
"We have no choice but to almost run the table," said Butler. "But it's tough to look far ahead and say, 'Look, we have to win 11 games of our next 15.' I think that's a large mountain to climb. If we look at four-game segments maybe and say, 'Look, we need to win three,' that might be a more realistic (approach)."
Because peeking ahead is never a good idea.
"That's sort of when we get into trouble," said Giordano. "But first of all, we have to get a win on the road."
Yes, there is that.
The last time the Flames tasted success in an enemy barn was six weeks ago — a 4-3 decision Feb. 17 in Dallas (which made them 5-5-3).
Now comes Monday's task in Edmonton — the final date before Wednesday afternoon's trade deadline — against a team that has won three consecutive times. Humiliation at the hands of the Oilers, as the Vancouver Canucks learned Saturday, is only a letdown away.
"You can see and feel that that young group of players is really growing well together," Hartley said. "It's going to be speed. It's going to be skill. We will have to be at our best. For us, time is running out. Those two games (against Edmonton) are more than vital."
Attempting a high-risk attack against the northerners, however, is a bad idea. Like, really bad.
"You're not going to win many games when you trade chances with them," said Giordano. "They have a lot of skill up front. So we feel if we play a tight, defensive game, that's where you can beat them. That would be a huge win.
"We know we don't have much room for error anymore."
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Podcast Episode 117 – One Strange Podcast (NSFW)By boliver on January 7th, 2015
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Like father, like son for Young baseball family
Rockies outfielder hooks up with dad for a pregame interview on Tuesday
HOUSTON -- Rockies outfielder Eric Young Jr. isn't from Houston, but his two days playing in the city have been nothing short of a homecoming. His father, Eric Young, is an analyst for Astros games on Comcast Sports Net.
Prior to Tuesday's game, father interviewed son on camera for nearly 20 minutes, and Young Jr. even recorded a Father's Day message on camera.
The elder Young, who amassed 1,731 hits in 15 Major League seasons and officially retired with the Colorado Rockies in 2008, said the interview was an emotional experience.
"This is very rare, for a dad to interview his son, who also plays in the Majors," Young said. "To be able to do it is just unbelievable. Him following my footsteps into pro ball, we would talk about it when he was a little kid. The dream is here."
Young's former double-play partner, Walt Weiss, is now his son's manager. Dante Bichette was also Young's teammate and now mentors Young Jr. as the Rockies' hitting coach.
Young Jr. said he grew up idolizing his father's style of play, which was predicated on speed and a quick bat.
"Good thing I got his genes," he quipped. "I'm happy to have those attributes."
Young Jr. also got to see the rest of his family, and his younger brother, all of 6 years old, hit a walk-off home run in his Little League game on Monday.
"I told my brother, 'You hit one and I've hit one this year,'" he said. "I told him, 'You hit another one, I'll hit another one.' It's stuff like that, just getting to see your family, that makes it good to be here."


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hitchBOT is a robot from Port Credit, Ontario.
During the summer of 2014, hitchBOT hitchhiked across Canada from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Victoria, British Columbia. In just 26 days it hitched a total of 19 rides and travelled over 10,000 kilometres. hitchBOT's adventure continued in 2015 as it visited Germany to explore cities like Munich, Cologne, Berlin, and Hamburg. hitchBOT also took a vacation in the Netherlands to see some of Twente's most notable arts and culture locations.
In 2015, a new hitchBOT was created by the team for an American adventure. hitchBOT's journey started on July 17 in Salem, Massachusetts and it had hoped to make it to San Francisco, California. During the two weeks that hitchBOT was on the road, it managed to cross two items from its hitchhiking bucket list with the help of friendly strangers. hitchBOT's journey ended abruptly on August 1, 2015 in Philadelphia.
On December 15th, hitchBOT's family announced that the original Canadian robot would become part of the permanent collection of the Canadian Science and Technology Museum when it re-opens in November 2017. Frauke, David and the hitchBOT team have been hard at work with other exciting projects and are looking into new possibilities for hitchhiking opportunities and robot adventures. Stay tuned for the hitchBOT project's future plans, which will be shared on this website.
Press Release December 15, 2015 |Canadian hitchBOT to Find Permanent Home at Canada Science and Technology Museum.
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I track my rides in an app called Strava and every month they have challenges to ride 1,250km (777mi) and/or climb 8,000m (26,000ft). I always wanted to see if I could do it and September wasn't too busy, so I joined both.
I have a 9mi commute to work each way so I wouldn't have to add too much more to hit that goal. I was also going to a wedding in North Carolina and always wanted to go biking in Appalachia. So I knew that I could hit those goals, but would I actually be able to?
Not only did I meet those goals, but I smashed them by 120% and 145%, respectively.
On this beautiful bike. It's a Freedom Ryder Lean-Steer. Older model with many component and frame upgrades.
Here's a monthly calendar of my progress. After I knew I was going to meet the 777 mile goal, I immediately set my eye on 1,000 miles. But alas, it was not in the cards... this time.
Here's the crowning achievement of the trip: 30 miles and 6200 feet up Mt Mitchell:
I'm a single guy with a job that allows me to do this kind of thing, but I encourage everyone to set a physical activity goal for yourself - be it 100 miles in a month, 3 activities per week, or just 20min of exercise a day.
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5280 magazine: new ranking of Denver's most powerful
UPDATE: Here's the list.
5280 magazine on Friday will be out with its edition ranking the most powerful people in Denver, a list that includes politicians, a law firm specializing in pot legalization and the leader of Colorado's most strident gun rights group.
"Influence. Clout. Juice. These synonyms for 'power' are all things one can find inside the Capitol and City Hall, in the law firms on 17th Street, and in the boardrooms of international corporations," 5280 writes. "But that is perhaps a too-narrow definition of power — of what it takes to incite change, to move our city forward in tangible (and intangible) ways, to make our lives as residents of the Mile High City richer."
The list also includes leaders in education, the arts, business and health care.
The first three on the list are, in order, Broncos legend John Elway, Gov. John Hickenlooper and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock. Hickenlooper's chief of staff, Roxane White, is No. 10 and his chief legal counsel, Jack Finlaw, is No. 43 and DA George Brauchler, who admonished the governor by calling him the state bartender is No. 39.
Here are some other listings:
Legislative leadership. Senate President Morgan Carroll is No. 4, while House Speaker Mark Ferrandino is No. 36. "Her liberal background would make a statewide race difficult if she wants to go in that direction, but one thing is certain: Carroll's political story won't end after this term." Carroll was elected Senate president after Democrat John Morse was recalled last year for his support for gun legislation. Which leads us to ….


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Saturated Summer Hello Card
Learn how to make this card using these free instructions. Handmade hello cards are the perfect way to show you care, and with these card-making steps, creating this design is easy.
SUPPLIES: Cardstock: (New Moon, white) Avery Elle Clear stamps: (assorted from Reflections set; hello from Flap Happy set) Paper Smooches Dye ink: (True Black, Orange Zest, Raspberry Fizz) Papertrey Ink Fibers: (pink ribbon) Avery Elle Die: (circle) Spellbinders Finished size: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"
1 Make card from cardstock.
2 Die-cut circle from cardstock.
3 Place die cut negative over cardstock rectangle with repositionable adhesive.
4 Stamp flowers, leaves, and circles in masked opening. Remove mask.
5 Stamp hello on panel.
6 Mat panel with cardstock and adhere to card.
7 Tie on ribbon bow.
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Visit Vocations Toronto at www.vocationstoronto.ca, a resourceful site in answering these questions.
In the Second Book of Samuel, we are told once more about King David in the
Old Testament. He knew God and related to God very personally and yet when
an attractive woman came by, he forgot God and the ways of God and could
only think of the woman. He even arranged to have the husband of the woman
murdered so that he could continue his relationship with her. David is
given to us as an example of faith.
Faith does not immediately heal us of our sinfulness and certainly not of
our desires. Yet as we continue to walk in faith, our lives are changed.
David, once he is confronted with his sin, repents wholeheartedly.
Saint Paul in the Letter to the Galatians reminds us that salvation is not
a result of our doing good things. Salvation comes from belief in God and
trusting completely in God. Trust in God allows us to repent of our sins
and to continue walking on the way with the Lord Jesus..
The Gospel of Luke today gives us an account of a banquet with Jesus.
Surely the people present were all good people, striving to do good. Yet
for many of them, it was impossible to see the good in the woman who could
only cast herself at the feet of the Lord with a very womanly love and show
her love for him with ointments and tears. Jesus accepts her love and her
Living with God will demand our whole being, heart, mind, soul, body and
spirit. There are times when we may sense that we are fully integrated in
seeking God. There may be other times when we know that we are only broken
human beings and not fully given to God. Living our faith is a process.
It is a journey with Christ and in that journey we come to know Him and to
love Him more and more, even when we recognize our sinfulness and
Jesus is always present for us. It is we who are not always present for
Him. He always loves us even when we forget about Him. He always pardons
us even though we continue to sin even after repentance. He invites to His
banquet no matter how many times we have refused His invitation. He never
tires of seeking us. Let us thank the Lord for His love. May we turn to
Him today, even in the smallest way, and ask Him to transform us in His
love. Let us love our Lord Jesus with all our being.
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Pictorial Review 5221; ca. 1930; Part of an ad found in an undated Pictorial Review pattern envelope. The ad is printed on pattern tissue paper & measures 12.5 x 25 inches. There are no descriptions for the designs. The only copy reads: "A few of the most popular Pictorial Review summer styles - attractive day-time frocks, formal afternoon & evening gowns, and juvenile types. You can buy Pictorial Printed Patterns for any one of these & hundreds of other styles from the local Pictorial Review Pattern merchant, also patterns for any of the new styles illustrated each month in Pictorial Review. After Chanel (as stated in Pictorial Review, June 1930 Ref.)
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Startup founders, especially the serial kind, rarely come up short in the idea department. But finding a co-founder (or two) willing to help you execute, especially on a technical or Web-based idea, can be a challenge.
Where do you look? What skills should a co-founder bring to the table? And more importantly, how do you evaluate the relationship's ability to withstand the ups, downs and inevitable pivots of startup life?
We asked 13 successful founders who are members of the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) to share their hard-won advice on what to look for in a startup co-founder (and what to do in the meantime to convince them you're a worthy co-leader). Here's what they had to say:
1. Prioritize Values Alignment
Determine and partner with people who share your values. It's easy to learn new skills, but it's hard to change one's character — if possible at all.
— Kevon Saber, Fig
2. Find Your Complementary Skill Set
When looking for a co-founder, find your complement. Look for someone who is skillful at things you don't know how or don't like to do. It's important to work with someone you can trust. Begin your search within your own network to make screening candidates easier. If you exhaust your own network, search within business schools, alumni networks, entrepreneur meetups and organizations.
— John Berkowitz, Yodle
3. What Don't You Know?
Your co-founder should have a similar set of values and work ethic, but ideally should compliment you by being an expert in what you don't know. If you are building a web-based technology and you are a sales guru, you might need a tech co-founder. You may be building a product and you need someone to market it. Figure out what you don't know and find someone who knows it well as your co-founder.
— Aron Schoenfeld, Do It In Person LLC
4. Search Your Circle First
Your friends are people that already share some sort of similarity with you in the way you think. If the people you already hang out with have the skills you need, then reach out to them about the idea. With a friend, you start the business relationship ten steps ahead in comparison to starting with some one you just met.
— Raul Pla, SimpleWifi and UseABoat
5. Seek Authentic References
Seek references of people that have previously worked with the person. Friends can seem great to work with at first, but in a high-pressure startup environment, Everything can change. A breakup between co-founders is one of the most common pitfalls.
— Christopher Pruijsen, Letslunch.com
6. Build First, Recruit Later
If you're working by yourself on the Next Big Idea, start building prototypes immediately. The startup world is heavily biased towards builders, so if you can't prove that you can build a single core part of the future value of this idea, then you'll be a worthless co-founder in this project. Sell yourself as a worthy co-leader for your company, and you'll recruit better co-founders.
— Neil Thanedar, LabDoor
7. Vest Your Equity Over Time
It is very difficult to find the right co-founder. You need to have a similar work ethic and timeline for the investment, your chemistry has to mix well, and your talents have to be complimentary. Instead of getting all of your shares at once, consider vesting your equity over time so you have a fair solution if these factors do not line up as well as you expect, as is often the case.
— Doug Bend, Bend Law Group, PC
8. Be Willing to Go It Alone
Everyone wants to find the perfect co-founder, but if you want something done, do it yourself. Start building your company yourself and prove to your future team that you have a viable business model and some momentum. You'll also keep more equity yourself if you've already made lots of progress on your business. If you are truly committed to your business, go at it alone.
— Matt Wilson, Under30CEO.com
9. Watch Out for Red Flags
It's essential that you and your co-founder have complementary work styles. That doesn't mean that you need to do everything in the same way, but that you can work effectively together. Defensiveness, fierce independence, lack of communication, and erratic productivity are red flags that someone might not be a good business partner.
— Elizabeth Saunders, Real Life E
10. See the Person as a Whole
You need to see how they act with their personal life, how they act when they're dunk, and when they're under stress, because you will be spending a lot of time with them. Traveling together is an excellent way to see someone under all of these conditions. Likely, it won't be something you set out to do, but instead something the two of you will fall into.
— Nick Reese, Elite Health Blends
11. Take Your Time
If you are an entrepreneur in need of co-founder, you should limit your search to someone you know, even if it's not that well. The risk is too big to bring a stranger into the fold, no matter how talented they may be.
— Andrew Schrage, Money Crashers Personal Finance
12. Partnerships Are Like Marriages
Treat it like a marriage. When you choose a co-founder, you are committing to a long-term relationship, so don't just dive in — you wouldn't get married after one date, would you? Build a relationship with potential co-founders, and find the one who's the best fit for you.
— Bhavin Parikh, Magoosh Test Prep
13. Know What You Want
Know what you are looking for; don't go out there just to find someone and evaluate them on the spot. Search to find exactly who you're needing. If you don't do this, your venture won't grow and you'll still have to find your missing links later.
— Jordan Guernsey, Molding Box
The Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) is an invite-only nonprofit organization comprised of the world's most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program that helps entrepreneurs start and grow businesses via live video chats, an expert content library and email lessons.


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Stop the Spies
Art & About, Sydney. 19 SEPT – 12 OCT 2014 2014
in collaboration with Luca Lonescu & Celina Stang (aka Neon Nomads)
Live Streaming / LED Fabric
Made possible by Holler Sydney, Nylon and stopthespies.org
This year the organisers of Art & About, Sydney invited artists from around the globe to pitch ideas exploring the "endangered – the 'at risk', the threatened, the exposed and the risky from all perspectives".
I chose to take this as an opportunity to raise awareness of the eroding privacy of our digital lives. This was especially topical as Australia was putting a motion through the senate to retain 2 years of every citizen's metadata.
To bring this to life I worked with Neon Nomads and Holler Sydney to create giant all-seeing eyes, envisioned as stark symbols of the government's threat to online privacy.
We installed these in Hyde Park, the heart of Sydney's CBD and the centre of the Art & About. Each 'eye' was linked to a 'spy-station' situated away from, but within line of sight of it's linked giant eye.
Each station had a voyeuristic-looking scope attached, and the surround-environment was designed to ensure the passer-by understood peeping in to the scope live-streamed their eye to the giant conical LED installation.
However the stations served a greater purpose.
Looking through the scope not only live-streamed the viewer's eye to the installation, but using a two-way mirror system we were able to present the user with information about the proposed changes to online surveillance legislation, and urge them to visit stopthespies.org. and take a stand.
On 3 October 2014 the bill was passed by the Senate allowing the government to spy on it's citizens, but not without a clear warning; we're watching you, watching us.


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So here it is, the database the education establishment didn't want you to read: Data on how well Los Angeles' third, fourth and fifth grade public school teachers did in improving how their students did on standardized tests.
Dry, you think? Not at all. I spent two hours with the database on Sunday, and found it absolutely gripping. It's not the teacher ratings that are so interesting. The value-added data here is only the first piece of what should one day soon be full public reports on teachers that incorporate all sorts of measures.
No, what's fascinating is what the teachers themselves contributed to the database.
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
The Times gave each teacher whose data was posted the opportunity to respond to the ratings. Many teachers, predictably, criticized the paper for posting the data, arguing that teaching can't be summed up with data points. Several teachers didn't stop there -- and went on to describe what their lives as teachers are like.
Here's my favorite, from Oxnard Street Elementary fifth grade teacher William R. Torres, who was less than happy about being found to be less effective than most teachers in the value added data:
"Even though we are on summer vacation I went to my school today to get my classroom ready. Interestingly enough I just received THIS YEAR'S CST scores. For this year (2010) 59% of my Fifth grade math students passed. 25% of them passed LAST YEAR. My added value would be 34 %. The average kid raised their scaled score by over fifty points. This would put me in the MORE EFFECTIVE category for 2010. I had 3 special ed students who raised their test scores. I had 2 girls who were separated from their families by child protective services who raised their scores by over sixty points. I had one child who stole from my desk and who missed more than thirty days of school who also increased his scores. I had a girl who missed over twenty days of school and who was in court frequently because her mother's boyfriend was going to prison increase her scores by 176 points. She went from far below basic to proficient. I had a super bright child who came up with a new way to add fractions whose test score went up 171 points. One day this year I was walking through the yard and a girl was choking and no one knew what to do. I did the steps of our emergency training and ultimately stuck my hand into her mouth and pulled out some blood and some food. She was more scared than injured. I emceed the school Halloween parade this year. I did this in English and Spanish and we raised money for the kids. I ended up buying ten pizzas for the kids who stay after school until six because their parents are working. I have about fifty phone numbers of parents in my phone because that is what we teachers do. I spearheaded a bathroom clean up project and was there on Saturday for beautification day and got twenty strangers to sponsor our class for Christmas and the kids received over nine thousand dollars worth of gifts. My wife and I even kicked in about five hundred dollars because we wanted those poor kids to have a Christmas to remember. That is what we teachers do. For test taking time my wife goes to Starbucks and gets the extra pastries they normally throw out every night and we give the kids a treat. From 2002 until last year I took about two years of post graduate courses that cost me well over fifteen thousand dollars. If I did not take the courses I would have been fired. That is what we teachers do. To help pay for the courses I took side jobs in addition to my teaching job. Last year was the first time I was free to simply teach. And my test scores skyrocketed. And that is commendable. However I think that being a good teacher is also about shedding tears with a parent until darkness falls because that parent is terrified that her daughter is on drugs. It's about making the entire campus better. Not just your little room. It's about helping the 200 pound second grader who is fighting and bringing him into your fifth grade class to give him a fresh start. It's about being positive and being informed. It's about spending your own time and money on people you may never see again. It's about taking the time to talk to kids who come back to you after they have graduated and they want to say they enjoyed your class. It's about going out to the yard during your break time and lunch time because you want the kids to know that you are always around and available. My job is about making great kids and I take that, very seriously. Numbers and stats have great value and some say teaching is a science but teaching is also an art. It's about emotions, feelings, instincts, relationships, patience, perseverance and a sense of humor helps. It is about reaching into the souls of children. What number or test score do you use to measure that? Sometimes the movies that make the most money are not the best movies. They do not make us better humans. Sometimes the numbers only tell part of the story. Shame on you, Los Angeles Times. Just because your numbers are low does not mean that you become low."


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For Immediate Release, December 4, 2012
Judge Rules SANDAG's Transportation Plan Violated California Law
Ruling Emphasizes SANDAG's Failure to Adequately Address Climate Pollution in
2050 Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy
SAN DIEGO— Superior Court Judge Timothy Taylor has ruled that the San Diego Association of Governments violated state law by failing to fully account for, and take steps to reduce, climate pollution in its environmental review of the region's long-term transportation plan.
SANDAG's 2050 Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy will increase climate-disrupting greenhouse gas emissions from development and transportation through mid-century, at precisely the time the best science — reflected in a landmark executive order signed by former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger — shows dramatic reductions are necessary to avoid dangerous climate disruption. The Associated Press reported yesterday that greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise rapidly around the world and that such increases will likely lead to an even greater increase of global temperatures than previously predicted.
"The court is setting an important example here for regional planning agencies throughout California," said Kathryn Phillips, director of Sierra Club California. "We cannot wait another 40 years to adopt sensible transportation and land-use policies. Thanks to California laws requiring public agencies to be open about their plans, we were able to hold SANDAG accountable for its faulty planning practices."
"Climate change is here, it's dangerous, and we can't keep ignoring the warning signs," said Kevin Bundy, a senior attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity. "We also need our elected leaders to be honest with us about choices that affect our future. This ruling means that SANDAG can no longer just hide the ball and pass the buck when it comes to climate pollution."
Judge Taylor ruled that SANDAG broke the law by ignoring Gov. Schwarzenegger's executive order and failing to use its considerable authority to reduce the region's contribution to dangerous climate disruption through the transportation plan. He noted that much of San Diego County is in a low-lying area that is likely to be affected by sea-level rise. He also said SANDAG's approach of "kick[ing] the can down the road" and leaving compliance with state law to local jurisdictions charged with approving specific projects is not permissible.
"Today's ruling will create a brighter future for San Diego," said Jack Shu, president of the Cleveland National Forest Foundation.
The ruling comes in response to a lawsuit brought by Cleveland National Forest Foundation, the Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club under the California Environmental Quality Act. California Attorney General Kamala Harris intervened in support of the lawsuit on behalf of the people of the state of California. A companion case challenging the transportation plan was filed by CREED-21 and Affordable Housing Coalition of San Diego County. The lawsuit centered on a number of serious concerns about the SANDAG Plan, which invests heavily in freeways at the expense of public transit. Rather than promoting "smart" growth, the plan will lead to sprawl development, increasing climate disrupting pollution and other significant air pollution throughout the region.
SANDAG approved its $200 billion plan in October 2011. The Regional Transportation Plan was a planning update that is required every four years. The Sustainable Communities Strategy, on the other hand, was the first SCS in the state to be adopted since the passage of S.B. 375, a new state law intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — and combat climate disruption — through smarter land-use and transportation planning. As Judge Taylor's ruling indicates, SANDAG's failure to address the severe impacts of its long-term transportation plan on global climate change subverted the overarching purpose of S.B. 375.
The adopted transportation plan front-loads the expansion and extension of freeways, thus inducing sprawl and reinforcing the region's dependence on expensive, car-oriented transportation. Petitioners demonstrated that the SANDAG Plan's heavy reliance on automobile transportation will lead to a regional per capita increase in greenhouse gas emissions that directly conflicts with state guidelines.
SANDAG must now conduct new environmental review for its 2050 plan to ensure it adequately addresses the risk of climate change. It is likely that the more rigorous environmental review will lead to a revised plan that does a better job of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as required by state law.
About the Petitioners
The Cleveland National Forest Foundation (www.cnff.org) is made up of private citizens who believe that action must be taken to protect the remaining undeveloped lands in the forest and that sound regional planning to build sustainable, quality urban communities is fundamental to saving the integrity of our wilderness areas.
The Center for Biological Diversity (www.biologicaldiversity.org) is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 450,000 members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.
Sierra Club California (www.sierraclubcalifornia.org) represents the Club's 13 local chapters and 160,000 statewide members and advocates to protect California's natural resources and to improve the health and safety of Californians.
CREED-21 works to ensure open, accountable, responsive government in order to protect the San Diego region's environment.
Affordable Housing Coalition of San Diego County advocates on behalf of the public to preserve the supply of affordable housing in San Diego County, ensure that residents have access to affordable public transportation and other services, and to ensure informed government decision-making on policies and activities that increase the demand for affordable housing in the region.
Shute, Mihaly and Weinberger LLP (www.smwlaw.com), whose attorneys are lead petitioners' counsel in the case, specializes in government, land use, natural resource and environmental law. Since 1980, the firm has provided representation to public agencies and community groups throughout California.
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Electoral College vote affirms Obama re-election
Tradition trumped suspense Monday as members of the Electoral College cast the official, final votes in the 2012 presidential election, a constitutional formality on President Obama's march to a second term.
The rite playing in state capitols involved party luminaries and tireless activists carrying out the will of each state's voters. The popular vote from state-to-state dictates whether Democratic or Republican electors get the honor, but the outcome wasn't in doubt. Obama had well more than the 270 votes required to win the White House.
Obama was on course to get 332 votes to Republican Mitt Romney's 206, barring defectors known as "faithless electors." California's 55 electoral votes -- the largest cache in any state -- helped put the Democratic president over the top by late Monday afternoon. Electors also were affirming Joe Biden for another term as vice president.
"Everybody votes for president, but nobody gets a real vote except a presidential elector," said elector Mike Bohan of Oregon, which was in Obama's column.
Ceremonies around the country had their share of pomp and electors in red, white and blue ties. Wisconsin's electors donned pin-on buttons with headshots of the president. A bit of controversy erupted in Arizona, where a few electors voiced doubts that Obama was "properly vetted as a legitimate candidate for president" by raising debunked claims about his birth certificate.
In New Hampshire, electors supporting Obama signed their four ballots and then certificates that were sealed in envelopes with wax that has been in the secretary of state's office for more than 70 years.
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Colorado elector Anthony Graves called his votes for Obama and Biden "one of the great honors of my life."
In a rotunda decked out for the holidays, Minnesota's 10 electors called out the name "Barack Obama" one after another in an exercise meant to avoid a miscue that left the state with an accidental faithless elector in 2004. Former legislator Al Patton, who was also an elector four years ago, acknowledged the historical magnitude was less than in 2008 when Obama was elected the nation's first black president. But Patton said he was still honored to be involved.
Vermont's meeting of three electors was witnessed by a fifth-grade class.
"It was an amazing teachable opportunity," said Cindy Tan, a teacher at Chamberlin School in South Burlington. "It only happens every four years."
Connecticut's electors convened in the state Senate chamber and solemnly remembered the victims of last week's school shooting before carrying out their task.
In Mississippi, which Romney carried comfortably, six men chosen earlier as electors met in a small committee room in the state Capitol and cast their votes for the GOP candidate. Well aware they were doing so in a lost cause, they opted for humor.
The state's Republican governor, Phil Bryant, joked that Billy Mounger, an 86-year-old elector, probably wished to vote for Calvin Coolidge, a renowned small-government conservative president in the 1920s.
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"I would rather be here casting my vote for the next president of the United States, but Arkansas did all it could do to see that through and I'm proud to cast my vote as Arkansans wanted it cast," said state GOP Chairman Doyle Webb, one of the electors.
The certified tally sheets are on their way to Washington, where Congress will officially count them on Jan. 6. Obama is to be sworn in a couple of weeks later.
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White Christmas storm: #1 for December; #4 overall
It's official: The snowfall that began wreaking havoc on Charlottesville and Albemarle County December 18-19 measures 20.5 inches and ranks as the area's fourth deepest since McCormick Observatory began keeping records in 1894.
"This is the biggest single snowfall event that has occurred before the end of December," says Jerry Stenger, director of UVA's climatology office. "It should guarantee a white Christmas." Just a few weeks ago Stenger put the odds of a white Christmas at one in three.
The recent storm comes in first on the list for this millennium and would have been number three overall were it not barely edged out by the 21-incher that launched the brutal winter of '96 and brought 14 more inches of snow a month later.
Thomas Jefferson measured the most snow: 36 inches in 1772's Washington & Jefferson Storm. "That was during the period known as the 'Little Ice Age,'" says Stenger, "which ran from about the mid-13th through the mid-19th centuries."
Here are the top storms, courtesy of Stenger, and some of these have monikers. This one's maximum snows were probably not experienced over a large enough chunk of the U.S. to put it in the running for an "official" name, says Stenger. Nonetheless, the Hook thinks the White Christmas/Snowpocalypse of '09 should have one, and readers are invited to offer their own suggestions.
And, reminds Stenger, "There's plenty of winter left!"
Major Snow Events in Charlottesville 1894–2009
(From records at McCormick Observatory)
Rank Year Mon Day Total Moniker
1 1922 Jan 27-28 24 Knickerbocker Storm
2 1962 Mar 5-7 23 Ash Wednesday Storm
3 1996 Jan 7-8 21
4 2009 Dec 19-20 20.5
5 1899 Feb 13 18
6 1983 Feb 11-12 16.3
7 1969 Dec 26 16
8 1989 Dec 12-13 14.5
9 1996 Feb 2-3 14
10 1960 Mar 16-17 13.5
11 1987 Jan 22-23 13
12 1980 Jan 4-5 12.6
13 1958 Feb 15-16 12.3
13 1960 Mar 3-4 12.3
15 1924 Mar 11 12
15 1966 Jan 26-27 12
15 1993 Mar 13-14 12 Storm of the Century
Updated 9:40am December 24
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Or " The Depression Storm "
Call it "VNOT's No Plow" storm. Happy holidays. Thanks for the superior information service on your website during this storm. How impressive that a WEEKLY newspaper was better than many of the local broadcast media on continuous updates when we needed them. Kudos!
How about "Ash Knicker Storm"
As far the effectiveness of the local and state crews in this area, why not call it the "Storm of the Century?"
Well, the data are actually collected at a specific location, in this case the observatory, but if someone has accurate meteorological data extending back a century for a spot in downtown C'ville then they would be more than welcome to post that information.
Santa is on his way; this year it will be a breeze getting around with all the snow on the ground, and we're not the only ones with a white Christmas. A whooping 58.3% of the nation is covered with snow--take a look:
Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!
Totally agree Gary, the best coverage of the storm and superior slideshows. How about " Stranded "
December 24th 4:30pm , two multi-vehicle accidents blocking 29 going North, disabled vehicle blocking 29 going South, WINA saysm avoid 29 all together if at all possible--
We measured 16" in the City, with our handy-dandy yard stick, guess it depends where you live. That makes it tied to #7
ditto," Great Snowpocolypse"
(or rather, it ties for 2nd place along with 1962....)
I think "The Great Snowpocolypse of 2009" has a good ring to it. :) That's my vote.
btw the official snowfall in downtown Cville was 23", not 20.5. We live off of Locust Avenue and came up with 23" using our handy dandy tape measure. Cville weekly is confirming that as well in this week's issue. So that definitely makes this storm 2nd place, not 4th.
I thought we were having a global warming crisis. No real need to know who the joke is on. We know who is really in charge.
Waynesboro spent $115,300 on snow removal. Does anyone know what Charlottesville and Albemarle spent ? Doesn't look like we'll get any FEMA money based on this statement
"Caldwell said FEMA required the department to file its expenses by locality because the government will make reimbursement only if the snowfall exceeded the historic record in that jurisdiction."
Snowfall ranged as high as 29 inches in Stuarts Draft.
good point Jo. How can there be global warming when it gets cold in the winter? Clearly global warming is a myth perpetrated and propogated by a shadowy cabal of leftists and environmental goods corporations bent on world domination!! (sarcasm)


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Tunes (1958)
Like most early Protestant hymnals (many European hymnals continued the pattern), Anabaptist hymnals contained no musical notation, printing the name of the tune to be used at the head of the hymn.
Old Dutch Mennonite hymnals like Veelderhande Liedekens (1556 and repr.), Een Nieu Liedenboeck (1562), Lietboecxken van den Offer des Heeren (1563), Hans de Ries' Lietboeck (1582), Het Tweede Liedeboeck (1583), and many others of the 16th and 17th centuries follow this pattern; at the head of each hymn is found at least one and often two tunes of familiar songs, religious as well as secular. Mennonite hymnals outside Holland generally continued this practice until the middle of the 19th century or later. Tunes were in these cases handed down by memory, except when printed in separate books either for the accompanying organ or for voices. The first Palatinate Mennonite hymnal, the Christliches Gesangbuch of 1832, did contain many tunes, but Jacob Ellenberger, the editor, also prepared a lithographed book of tunes in four-part harmony for use with the hymnal. The first regularly printed tune book for Mennonites appeared in the mid-19th century. It was Vierstimmige Melodien (Dürkheim, 1856), which served the hymnal of the South German Mennonites. Franz's Choralbuch (Leipzig, 1860) served the hymnal of the Mennonites of South Russia with a four-part harmonized tune book. His 1865 Choralbuch was for only one part. A West Prussian Choralbuch appeared in 1898. All of these appeared in reprinted editions, the Franz Choralbuch of 1865 in the United States and Canada as well. Neither the Dutch nor the American Mennonites produced tune books of their own. An examination of the tunes in these books as well as the titles of the tunes used in all European Mennonite hymnals after the Anabaptist period reveals that they used the tunes prevailing in Protestant hymnals from which the hymns were borrowed.
There has been almost no composition of hymn tunes by European Mennonites. In the 20th century some hymn compositions by American Mennonites have appeared in American Mennonite hymnals. In the Church hymnal, Mennonite (Mennonite Church 1927) 27 of the 645 tunes were by 12 different Mennonite composers, all members of the Mennonite Church (MC). Among them were J. D. Brunk, who had 12, A. B. Kolb 3, W. K. Jacobs 2, the rest one each. Since then Walter E. Yoder (Mennonite Church) has composed a number of tunes, of which three have been used, two in Life songs No. 2 and one in Songs of the church. Four tunes by Thersa Hostetler (MC) were used in Songs of the church, A total of 10 Mennonite (MC) tunes were used in this hymnal.
A thorough study of the hymn tunes used in the 52 English hymnals of American Mennonites published 1832-1956, made by Paul Wohlgemuth, revealed that of the 3,860 tunes used only 168 were composed by Mennonites. Wohlgemuth comments: "The Old Mennonites have produced the greatest number of composers and the greatest number of Mennonite hymn tunes. The only Mennonite outside of the Old Mennonite Church who has composed hymn tunes to any extent is Herbert C. Richert, a member of the Mennonite Brethren Church. In the opinion of the writer, Mennonite hymn tunes do not meet the standard of the English or German hymn tunes, yet they are generally better than the standard type of American gospel song. It appears that what is generally called 'Mennonite Hymnody' (the hymn tunes appearing in Mennonite hymnals) is in essence a hymnody borrowed from many different sources." Wohlgemuth's statistics reveal further that only 191, or 5 per cent, of the total of 3,860 tunes used were by German composers, and another 57 from other European countries outside England (which furnished 10 per cent); America furnished 57 per cent, while 23 per cent were of unclassified origin. It is clear that modern American Mennonites are singing predominantly American and English tunes, although those groups using German hymnals such as the Amish, the Old Colony Mennonites, and the Canadian General Conference Mennonite and Mennonite Brethren groups, of course sing predominantly German tunes. Wohlgemuth makes the following general comment: "The publishing of Mennonite hymnals in the English language began during the birth of the gospel song movement in America. The influence of this movement upon Mennonite hymnals is seen in the use of many American hymn tunes of the refrain type. The gospel song movement has been the greatest single influence upon the Mennonite hymnals published in the English language. The one group of hymnals that has been least affected by this movement is that published by the General Conference Mennonites. In recent years the trend in the larger Mennonite branches has been to use more dignified and more highly qualified hymn tunes."
The first Mennonite hymnal to appear with notes giving the melodies was the 1648 edition of the Gesang-boeck by Hans de Ries, although in the 1618 Het Boeck der Gesangen the first part containing the Psalms had tunes. In the 18th century all new Mennonite hymnals published in the Netherlands were provided with notes, though many reprints of older hymnals as late as the 1814 reprint of the Kleyn Hoorns Liet-boeck were without notes. The first European Mennonite hymnal outside Holland to publish melodies (this time with four-part harmony but not for all hymns) was the 1910 edition of the South German Gesangbuch, although the 1832 Christliches Gesangbuch for the Palatine Mennonites printed one-part melodies with numerous hymns. No Mennonite hymnals printed in Prussia or Russia ever contained tunes, either four-part or one-part. The first official American Mennonite hymnals to contain tunes (four-part) were the General Conference Mennonite Gesangbuch mit Noten (1890) and the Mennonite Church (MC) Hymns and tunes (1890), although the latter printed each tune only once accompanied by the several hymns appropriate to be used with it. The Philharmonia by M. D. Wenger, published at Elkhart in 1875, describes itself as follows: "A collection of Tunes, Adapted to public and private worship, containing tunes for all the hymns in the English Mennonite Hymn Book, the Gemeinschaftliche, Unparteiische und Allgemeine Liedersammlungen, the Unparteiische Gesangbuch, and the Mennonitische Gesangbuch, with Instructions and Explanations in English and German, also English and German Texts to most of the Tunes, Metrical Indexes, etc., including a greater variety of Metres of Church Music than any other Work of the Kind now Published."
After 1890 all the official hymnals of the major American Mennonite bodies appeared in modern form with tunes and hymns printed together page by page.
The Harmonia Sacra, which contained tunes with hymns, although printed by a Mennonite (Joseph Funk) and edited or written by him (preceded by Die Allgemein Nützliche Choral Music of 1816, and called A compilation of genuine church music in its first four editions 1832-47), was intended for the general public including Mennonites, but was not used in the regular Mennonite worship service.
The sources of the hymn tunes used by the Anabaptists, as indicated in their five 16th-century hymnals, the South German-Swiss Ausbund, the Lower Rhine Ein schon Gesangbüchlein and the four Dutch: Lietboecxken van den Offer des Heeren, Veelderhande Liedekens, Een nieu Liedenboeck, and Het Tweede Liedeboeck, together with the tunes in the Lieder der Hutterischen Brüder first published in 1914 from earlier manuscript materials of 16th-century origin, have been studied carefully by Rosella Doerksen. She had the benefit of George Jackson's study of the origins of the tunes of the Ausbund, the results of which appeared in 1945. Jackson concludes from his study of the 36 transcribed Ausbund tunes published by J. W. Yoder and a comparison with the tunes found in Erk and Böhme's Deutscher Liederhort (2nd ed., Leipzig, 1925) that the Ausbund tunes as sung today by the Amish are 16th-century tunes, many of them folk-tunes, some of them, such as the Hildebrand-ton, going back to medieval sources. Jackson published a table of "Amish Tunes and Old German Folk Melodies with Which They Show Greater or Lesser Kinship."
Rosella Doerksen's conclusions are as follows: (1) No original tunes by Anabaptists are extant, and there is no evidence of any dependence upon original melodic compositions by Anabaptists. (2) The tunes in the Anabaptist hymnals were borrowed, chiefly from various Reformation era sources, both sacred and secular, including many folk-tunes, German and Dutch, but including a few French, and including a very few medieval liturgical tunes. Fortunately all hymns carry an indication of the tune to be used, either by a title or by the first line of the song most commonly sung to that tune in the source used. (3) The secular tunes chosen need not come out of secular sources but may come directly out of earlier Lutheran or Reformed [or even Moravian. HSB] hymnals which borrowed secular tunes for sacred hymns. (4) On the whole the Anabaptist tunes were basically a folk-song art. (5) There was considerable duplication of tunes among the various hymnals, just as there was of the hymns.
The three German Anabaptist hymnals, according to Rosella Doerksen, contained a total of 607 hymns, to which 347 tune indications were given. Of the 73 Ausbund tunes 45 were duplicates of the 179 Hutterite tunes, and of the 95 tunes of Ein schon Gesangbüchlein 38 were duplicated either in the Ausbund or in the Hutterite tune collection. Some tunes were used very often, e.g., in the Hutterite hymnal one was used 32 times, another 30 times. Detailed lists of tunes of various categories are found in Doerksen's study. Much less attention is given by Doerksen to the Dutch Anabaptist tunes, hence her results for the Dutch hymnals are meager but still worthwhile.
Transcriptions of a considerable number of Amish hymn tunes have been made. J. W. Yoder published his transcriptions in Amische Lieder. Arthur Roth's manuscript transcriptions are deposited in Mennonite Historial Library at Goshen College. The Library of Congress has recordings of a number of these tunes made by Allen Lomax, and a copy of these is in Mennonite Historical Library (Goshen, Indiana, USA), besides some recordings by John Umble.
Burkhart, Charles. "The Church Music of the Old Order Amish and Old Colony Mennonites." Mennonite Quarterly Review 27 (1953): 34-54.
Duerksen, Rosella R. "Anabaptist Hymnody of the Sixteenth Century, a Study of its Marked Individuality Coupled with a Dependence Upon Contemporary Secular and Sacred Musical Style and Form." Doctoral dissertation, Union Theological Seminary, 1956.
Jackson, George P. "The American Amish Sing Medieval Folk Tunes Today." Southern Folklore Quarterly 10 (1945): 151-57.
Jackson, George P. "The Strange Music of the Old Order Amish." Musical Quarterly 31 (1945): 175-88.
Umble, John. "Recent Research in Amish Hymn Tunes." Mennonite Quarterly Review 24 (1950): 91-93.
Umble, John. "The Old Order Amish, Their Hymns and Hymn Tunes." Journal of American Folk-lore 52 (1939): 82-95.
Wohlgemuth, Paul W. "Mennonite Hymnals Published in the English Language." Doctoral dissertation, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1956.
Yoder, J. W. Amische Lieder. Huntingdon: Yoder, 1942.
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Glimpses into the Past
Editor's note: I am happy to announce that I am once again the Historian of the Town of Westport after a 4 year hiatus from this position. Many people have commented on the long absence of this newsletter featuring bits of history of our beautiful town. I hope the return of this publication is informational and inspires readers to do additional research on the featured topics. If my readers have questions and/or comments, or suggestions for future topics, please send them to me at email@example.com.
Tidbit: did you know that the appointment and duties of the Town Historian are governed by the Title U, Articles 57 (Divisions of History and Public Records) and 57-A (Local Government Records Law) of the New York (State) Arts and Cultural Affairs Law?
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|Father Isaac Jogues was tortured by Iroquois Indians on the island in Coll's Bay.
|William Gilliland surveyed and named the patent of Bessboro.
|The first settlement within the borders of our town was formed by Edward Raymond near the mouth of the brook which empties in Lake Champlain near Camp Dudley. This settlement was almost entirely destroyed during the Revolutionary War.
|Hezekiah Barber made the first permanent settlement within the town of Westport.
|A township was formed which included the present day Elizabethtown and Westport.
|Enos Loveland formed a settlement near the present Hoisington Cemetery on Ledge Hill Road.
|The first map of the Village was made. The map laid out 34 lots and 3 streets: Washington, Liberty and Water Street. Water Street ran north and south along the lake shore and intersected Washington and Liberty.
|John Halstead built the first frame house (Halstead Tavern) at the top of the lake hill.
|Main Street was laid out and the number of lots was raised to 62.
|Charles Hatch settled at Northwest Bay; Jesse Braman and Aaron Felt settled near the falls in Wadhams.
|The first church was organized in our town. It was a Baptist church and was called "Northwest Bay Church."
|James Coll started a new settlement near where Edward Raymond had lived in 1770.
|The first schoolhouse was built.
|The name of Westport was given to the town when the division was made from Elizabethtown.
|The first town meeting was held at the home of Charles Hatch.
|The first Methodist church was organized here.
|Charles Hatch began building the Old Stone Mill.
|Lumen Wadhams came to the settlement now named after him.
|The first post office was established at Wadhams Mills.
|Merriam's Forge was built on the Boquet River near the Essex Town Line.
|Francis Jackson built the Sisco furnace near Northwest Bay. "Jacksonville" was the most important iron enterprise in Westport's history.
|The settlement known as "Cheever" was removed from the Town of Westport and added to the Town of Moriah.
|The population of the town was 2352 according to the census. That was the highest the number of residents ever reached here.
|A fire destroyed the buildings containing the old Lake House hotel, a home, several stores, the Post Office and the Town Clerk's Office.
|The railroad between Albany and Montreal was finished opening the doors to Westport's tourist industry.
|The first known murder to have been committed within the town occurred when Betsy Wells Debosneys was shot and stabbed by her husband on the lake road to Essex.
|The Westport Inn opened on the site of the former Halstead Tavern.
|The Westport Library Association was incorporated; and the Westport Library built the following year.
|The village schoolhouse was built near what is now the Federated Church parsonage. This schoolhouse was in use until the present day central school was built in 1933.
|Westport Water Works was chartered bringing water from the "Mountain Spring" to the village.
|A flood swept away the ruins of Merriam's Forge.
|The steamboat "Ticonderoga" was built and carried passengers and freight between Plattsburgh, Burlington and Westport.
|The Village of Westport becomes incorporated.
|First hard top state road built through the main village street.
|A concrete highway was built between Westport and Wadhams.
|Westport Yacht Club was built.
|A fire destroyed 4 buildings on Main Street between the bank and what is now Bessboro Gift Shop. A grocery store, harness and plumber shop, soda fountain and a second story apartment were lost.
|The Westport Inn was demolished.
|The Incorporated Village of Westport was abolished.


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Love has long been the domain of poets, artists and philosophers, but it's only in the past 50 years that it has really begun to hold the attention of scientists. What they are discovering is startling. Oxytocin, now dubbed the "hormone of love", holds immense sway over the way we feel when we make love, how we give birth, how successful we are at breastfeeding and how we connect to our newborn babies.
Even Jamie Oliver, cook extraordinaire, has reason to contribute to the flow of this amazing hormone, because eating a meal with friends also triggers the release of oxytocin. Having dinner with someone, after all, is more than being fed, it's a way to establish links with our companions. This gives business lunches a whole new therapeutic meaning!
Oxytocin is released from the posterior pituitary gland located in the brain. Both women and men release it during lovemaking. Oxytocin also triggers and regulates contractions during labour and birth and enables milk to be let down and ejected during breastfeeding. After the birth the level of oxytocin can be higher than during labour. This is protective because it makes sure the uterus squeezes down, stopping bleeding after birth and expelling the placenta and membranes. It also helps connect us to our beautiful, wide-eyed babies.
Of all the hormones in the body, oxytocin probably gives us the greatest happiness in life. The prototype for the effect of this "hormone of love" has to be the amazing love a mother has for her baby. Oxytocin may in fact be an important influence on who we become later in life. Messing with it could be messing with the very blueprint of life!
Oxytocin is under threat in our society and with this threat come serious consequences. Fear and stress are probably two of the greatest threats to the hormone. Michel Odent, the famous French obstetrician, writes in his book The Scientification of Love that the price the human race has paid for civilisation is problems with low sex drive, difficult childbirth and difficulties breastfeeding.
In the 1920s, a South African called Eugene Marais, a poet who wrote about pain and love, conducted an unusual experiment. He wanted to confirm that there was a connection between the pain of birth and maternal love.
Knowing Kaffir bucks never rejected their young, he gave a group of 60 labouring females a few puffs of chloroform and ether and noticed that the mothers refused to accept their newborn lambs afterwards.
Of course, human behaviour is more complex than animals' and human mothers don't reject their babies if they have pain relief during labour, but what this and many other subsequent experiments have shown is there are consequences from intervening in the birth process.
If a mother in labour is stressed or frightened, her levels of adrenaline increase and levels of oxytocin decrease. The neocortex ("new brain") is a highly developed part of our brains that becomes activated under stress, bringing our thinking, worrying brain alive. We are no longer in that other world or parallel universe women go into when their neocortex is quiet and their primal brain (the old instinctive brain) is in control of their bodies.
High levels of adrenaline also impact on a woman's production of the natural pain relievers released by the body in labour, called endorphins. This all leads to a mother who has more painful and less effective contractions. As a midwife I see this manifested in a terrified, wide-eyed mother (adrenaline makes you ready to fight or flee danger) who is not coping with labour and ends up with an epidural and then a synthetic version of oxytocin in a drip to get the contractions going again.
We refer to this as the cascade of intervention and it goes something like this:
It might have been.
If we go back to the beginning of this cascade of intervention, we realise the frightened mother is often the key. Of course babies get distressed for different reasons or some simply won't fit through their mother's pelvis. The environment, though, can play a huge role in making women so frightened they actually alter the course of labour. The bright lights, shiny gadgets and strangers coming and going are not conducive to a good labour. We don't make love in such an environment, neither should we give birth in such an environment. The flow of the same hormone involved in both these fundamental human activities is similarly affected.
UTS Professor Maralyn Foureur, one of the authors of a new book called Birth Territory and Midwifery Guardianship has a passion about oxytocin and particularly how the environment we give birth in can impact on the flow of this important hormone.
She says, "The human body constantly adjusts to cues from its surrounding environment and the way we interpret our environment is through our senses. What we see, hear, taste, touch and smell triggers off a cascade of brain chemicals that control every body state and the major contributor to all this activity is oxytocin.
An environment that is regarded as safe and nurturing results in a flood of oxytocin. In contrast, when other surroundings make us anxious, oxytocin is shut down. Women understand this intuitively, stating in a large UK study that "the type of labour and delivery space influences how hard or easy it is to give birth."
A recent study showed the amazing impact of putting women in warm water when their labour slowed down. In this study they randomised women to either having the traditional medical approach of speeding up the labour with a synthetic hormone or putting them in warm water. More of the women who got into water gave birth normally without medical intervention.
Michel Odent calls this amazing response "releasing the brakes" that the stimulated neocortex has put on labour. This means our bodies calm in the warmth of the water, endorphins are released, pain is reduced and oxytocin begins to flow again. A similar effect can be seen when women are massaged or are just generally well supported and comforted. Reducing fear is a great way to increase the chance of a normal birth. This is why birth centres with big baths and double beds and no machines that go "ping" can help women achieve a normal birth.
The care women receive during pregnancy, labour and birth can make a huge difference. Knowing the midwife who cares for you before the birth is one thing we know makes a difference, as is having good support people (Cochrane reviews).
Carolyn Hastie is the midwifery manager of the stand-alone midwifery unit at Belmont in the beautiful Hunter Valley. She sees women labour and birth differently when in a non-technical supportive environment. Carolyn says, "With one-to-one midwifery care, when women in labour ring, they are going to be speaking to someone they know and trust. That is instantly calming. The friendly voice on the end of the line soothes them, allowing their physiology to be in a relaxed, optimal state for birthing well. The birth environment is familiar to the women. They have seen their midwife for their antenatal care in the centre, with its profusion of plants, artwork, colour and photos of happy mothers and babies. They are relaxed, focused, confident and comfortable about coming in to give birth. They have looked forward to immersing themselves in one of the big baths when they are in strong labour. As the women slip into the baths, surrounded by the nurturing, loving presence of their families and midwives, they are infused with a sense of safety and trust. Birth proceeds as it is meant to and babies are born calmly, into a loving, peace-filled environment. Everyone is ecstatic. What a way to enter the world — a living testimony to the power of love."
The most important organ involved in childbirth is the brain, not the uterus, because it houses, amongst other things, the wonderful hormone of love. For birth to unfold as it should, women need to feel safe, loved and honoured — no different to lovemaking, actually!
Happy Valentine's Day to all the lovers and mothers. May your oxytocin flow freely!
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Very well written and pertinent information provided on oxytocin. Excellent points especially considering the controversy of fathers in the delivery room, the use of pitocin to induce labor, etc. all elements that have the ability to upset our natural life rhythms. Pregnancy and delivery are two of the most important times in our lives. Thank you for sharing your expertise and wisdom here. There is also more information regarding oxytocin at Oxytocin Central if your readers are interested.


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Use of shots for back pain grows as effectiveness questioned
Meningitis scandal draws attention to controversial treatment
The nation-wide outbreak of fungal meningitis cases linked to a now-shuttered compounding pharmacy in Framingham, Mass., is shining a spotlight on the use of steroid shots to relieve back pain.
It's estimated 70 percent of adults will experience back pain at some time, and NewsCenter 5's Liz Brunner reported Tuesday some question if the shots are at all effective.
To date, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 490 people in 19 states have been sickened by tainted steroid shots produced at the New England Compounding Pharmacy.
Thirty-four people have died, including Joyce Lovelace's husband Eddie. Last week Lovelace told a Congressional committee, "I come here begging for you to do something."
NECC co-owner and pharmacist Barry Cadden invoked his Fifth Amendment right when he was subpoenaed to testify before Congress. He has yet to make a single public statement about the scandal.
PHOTOS: Ideal time to use steroids for back pain
Across the U.S. each year millions of back pain sufferers are treated with steroid shots in the hope it will ease pain and inflammation.
Tom Presby, of Fairhaven, has received a long list of treatments during his eight year battle with back pain, including shots, medications, physical therapy and pain patches. Severe back pain has left Presby unable to work.
"It's affected me dramatically," said Presby. "It's going to be, probably, a lifelong thing."
He's not alone. A recent review of Medicare records showed a 629 percent increase in the number of shots given for back pain, even though there has been no documented corresponding improvement in patient outcomes.
And that's the problem, said famed New York University bioethicist Art Caplan, Ph.D. "The studies do not support this huge use of shots for back pain," he said. "In fact, there isn't a lot of evidence that these shots do a lot of good."
Caplan points to a British Medical Journal study showing steroid injections for back pain were no more effective than a saline placebo.
And a recent review of a dozen studies published in the Annals of Internal Medicine determined the shots had no long or short-term effect on pain caused by sciatica.
"It's an important tool to get the acute pain under control," said Dr. Zacharia Isaac, the medical director of the spine center at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Isaacs hears the concern, and agrees steroid injections do not work well for pain that stays in the lower back.
However, he said that when pain radiates down a person's leg, or is caused by stenosis or a herniated disc, steroid shots can be a useful treatment for carefully selected patients when all else has failed.
"The minority of patients really need any sort of invasive injection therapy," Isaac said.
Caplan said, "I think they do help a few people but there overused many, many times over."
Both Caplan and Isaac call the NECC scandal a tragedy. Isaac said patients are concerned, but often feel more at ease when he reassures them that Brigham and Women's Hospital has not bought any steroids from NECC.
Caplan suggests back pain patients ask doctors plenty of questions until regulators act.
"As your doctor, 'Am I the right person to get these shots? What's the evidence for me?'"
He added, "There is no doubt that we're going to see much tougher regulation. The FDA should be all over these companies."
Isaac said stress, weight and physical fitness all contribute to back pain, and that improving those underlying health conditions often goes a long way toward helping patients' back pain feel better.