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December 23, 2007
Christmas Rapping
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Finally – CIDU returns to its roots exploring the meaning behind comics lacking apparent humor and abandons, for the moment, Winkerbashing.
Comment by Charles — December 23, 2007 @ 1:43 pm
Which, panelist, was meant as a joke. Unfortunately an ultra-conservative blogger desperately looking for some reason to slam her (and environmentalism as well, natch) reported it as if she had been serious.
Comment by Blurgle — December 23, 2007 @ 6:53 pm
Comment by Frank — December 23, 2007 @ 10:48 pm
The fact that it could be taken seriously illustrates the problem with today's environmental debate. While most, I think, would agree that a clean, safe environment is optimal, there is a certain subculture of envirowackos that seem to advocate a return to cave-living, even as they tool around from event to event in their suvs, guzzling their "fitness water" from throw-away plastic bottles.
Also, if you don't mind, I think I will avoid shaking her hand, when and if the opportunity arises.
Comment by arik1969 — December 24, 2007 @ 3:53 am
hahahha arik1969, though maybe your comment belongs in the ewwwww files.
Comment by Lola — December 24, 2007 @ 9:35 am
The fact that it could be taken seriously illustrates the problem with today's environmental debate.
I've always find this argument puzzling, when used for any issue:
Person A: Did you hear that people in group X said crazy thing Y?
Person B: Actually, that's not true.
Person A: Well, the fact that I could think it was true shows how crazy group X is!
Strange. Incidentally, did you hear that George W. Bush is so evil that he eats human babies? What? That's not true? Well, still the fact that I thought it was shows how evil he is.
Comment by Autumn Harvest — December 24, 2007 @ 10:51 am
Wow, this simple little comic sure got everyone fired up! Deep, cleansing breaths, everyone!
Comment by Yikes! — December 24, 2007 @ 12:27 pm
Regardless of the toilet paper thing being a joke, the comic's point still stands if she is an ultra-environmentalist. It might not have the sway that it would otherwise, but it still works.
My wrapping job was slightly better than his. Slightly.
Comment by bAT L. — December 24, 2007 @ 11:33 pm
Strange. Incidentally, did you hear that George W. Bush is so evil that he eats human babies? What? That's not true? Well, still the fact that I thought it was shows how evil he is.
The difference between your statement and Crow's is this:
Generally, sane, rational people would think that you are either joking, making a point, or just really, really hate Bush. With her subject matter, the debate has deteriorated to the point, that, even in context, it is difficult or impossible to determine whether she is serious or joking.
You know that there's someone (probably a good many someones) out there who read that and thought, "Hey, what a great idea." People might WANT to believe that Bush eats babies, but most wouldn't take it seriously.
Comment by arik1969 — December 25, 2007 @ 12:49 am
OK, I'm confused. Does GWB eat babies or not?????
Comment by Robverb — December 25, 2007 @ 12:58 am
GWB's appetite could include baby. I don't think reporters are asking these types of questions. When asked about terrorism, W makes threats to reporters about their own kids and terrorists… I don't think they want to taunt a well-known accused baby eater.
Comment by cook — December 25, 2007 @ 4:19 am
As Homer would say: "Mmmmmmm, baby!"
Comment by arik1969 — December 25, 2007 @ 7:21 am
Wait, wait – George W. Bush eats babies? Holy shit, does the press know this?
Comment by Danny — January 1, 2008 @ 9:49 pm
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Social carnivores like spotted hyenas that hunt in packs may be good models for testing theories about the mechanisms of social learning and the evolution of intelligence, suggest scientists who tested hyenas with food-reward tasks that modeled group hunting strategies.
Hyenas outperformed primates when it came to problems that required teamwork, the scientists found.
Photo by Christine Drea/Duke University
"Captive pairs of spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) that needed to tug two ropes in unison to earn a food reward cooperated successfully and learned the maneuvers quickly with no training. Experienced hyenas even helped inexperienced partners do the trick," says a Duke University news release about the research.
"When confronted with a similar task, chimpanzees and other primates often require extensive training and cooperation between individuals may not be easy," said Christine Drea, an evolutionary anthropologist at Duke University.
Drea and Allisa N. Carter of the University of California at Berkeley designed food-reward tasks that modeled group hunting strategies in order to single out the cognitive aspects of cooperative problem solving. Eight captive hyaenas were paired in 13 combinations to see whether a species' performance in the tests might be linked to their feeding behavior in the wild.
The research, published online in the October issue of Animal Behavior, shows that social carnivores like spotted hyenas "are more adept at these sorts of cooperation and problem-solving studies in the lab than chimps are," Drea said. "There is a natural parallel of working together for food in the laboratory and group hunting in the wild."
The experiments were performed in the mid-1990s but are only now being published.
Spotted hyena pairs at the Field Station for the Study of Behavior, Ecology and Reproduction in Berkeley, California were brought into a large pen where they were shown two identical platforms 10 feet above the ground.
"Two ropes dangled from each platform. When both ropes on a platform were pulled down hard in unison–a similar action to bringing down large prey–a trap door opened and spilled bone chips and a sticky meatball. The double-rope design prevented a hyena from solving the task alone, and the choice between two platforms ensured that a pair would not solve either task by chance," Duke said.
The first experiment sought to determine if three pairs of captive hyenas could solve the task without training. "The first pair walked in to the pen and figured it out in less than two minutes," Drea said. "My jaw literally dropped."
Drea and Carter studied the actions of 13 combinations of hyena pairs and found that they synchronized their timing on the ropes, revealing that the animals understood the ropes must be tugged in unison. They also showed that they understood both ropes had to be on the same platform, Duke said.
"After an animal was experienced, the number of times it pulled on a rope without its partner present dropped sharply, indicating the animal understood its partner's role."
"One thing that was different about the captive hyena's behavior was that these problems were solved largely in silence," Drea said. "Their non-verbal communication included matching gazes and following one another. In the wild, they use a vocalization called a whoop when they are hunting together."
In other experiments, Drea found that social factors affected the hyenas' performance in both positive and negative ways, Duke said. "When an audience of extra hyenas was present, experienced animals solved the task faster. But when dominant animals were paired, they performed poorly, even if they had been successful in previous trials with a subordinate partner."
"When the dominant females were paired, they didn't play nicely together," Drea said. "Their aggression toward each other led to a failure to cooperate."
When a naïve animal unfamiliar with the feeding platforms was paired with a dominant, experienced animal, the dominant animals switched social roles and submissively followed the lower-ranking, naïve animal. Once the naïve animal became experienced, they switched back.
"Both the audience and the role-switching trials revealed that spotted hyenas self-adjust their behavior based upon social context," Duke said.
It was not a big surprise that the animals were strongly inclined to help each other obtain food, said Kay Holekamp, a professor of zoology at Michigan State University who studies the behavioral ecology of spotted hyenas.
"But I did find it somewhat surprising that the hyenas' performance was socially modulated by both party size and pair membership," Holekamp said. "And I found it particularly intriguing that the animals were sensitive to the naïveté of their potential collaborators."
Researchers have focused on primates for decades with an assumption that higher cognitive functioning in large-brained animals should enable organized teamwork, Duke said. "But Drea's study demonstrates that social carnivores, including dogs, may be very good at cooperative problem solving, even though their brains are comparatively smaller."
Said Drea, "I'm not saying that spotted hyenas are smarter than chimps. I'm saying that these experiments show that they are more hard-wired for social cooperation than chimpanzees."

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Atlanta, GAHome Menu
M. Rich and Brothers and Company Building
Designated: Landmark Building Exterior
82-86 Peachtree Street, SW &
District 14, Land Lot 76
The M. Rich & Bros. Co. Building is historically significant in two areas: Architecture and Commerce.
The building, as it substantially stands today, was expanded and remodeled by the architectural firm of Bruce and Morgan in 1906. This Atlanta firm was prominent in that the firm designed many public and commercial structures throughout Georgia. Also, Thomas Morgan served as founding president of the Atlanta Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and Alexander Bruce was Atlanta's first member of the A.I.A. Until the turn of the Nineteenth century, the firm designed many courthouses and private homes in the Victorian style. As the "commercial style" began to develop in Chicago with the advent of tall buildings, Bruce and Morgan traveled to Chicago to study this development. Upon their return to Atlanta, they began to employ this style in the design of mercantile structures. The M. Rich & Bros. Co. expansion and remodeling in 1906 was the product of one of their early efforts to employ the new Chicago "commercial style."
The M. Rich & Bros. Co. building is significant both for its role in the development of Atlanta commercial institution and for its role in anchoring Atlanta's original shopping district. As an institution, Rich's, the successor of M. Rich & Bros. Co., has been synonymous with Atlanta department stores. The history of the three buildings that now comprise the 82-86 Peachtree Street compile is an integral part of the early history of commerce in Atlanta's first commercial district. As the company grew, it developed a reputation for being humane and reliable and was responsive to customers within a several hundred mile radius of Atlanta, even at the turn of the century.
The firm that was responsible for building the building that now occupies 82-86 Peachtree Street was established by Morris Rich in 1867 at 36 Whitehall Street (now Peachtree Street), just down the street from 82-86 Peachtree (formerly 52-56 Whitehall Street). When Morris' brother Emanuel joined him in the business in 1871, the firm became known as M. Rich & Co. After the two brothers joined forces, business increased steadily and the following year, 1872, the original store at 36 Whitehall was abandoned in favor of a larger building located diagonally across the street on the corner of Hunter and Whitehall Streets. In 1876, the two brothers were joined by a third, Daniel, and the name of the business was changed to M. Rich and Brothers.
In 1881, the three brothers opened a new store at 54-56 Whitehall Street. The two story building that housed the new store occupied two of the three lots that the subject building now occupies (a third lot, 52 Whitehall Street was added in 1906). Within five years after opening the 54-56 store, additional pace was needed and additional annexes (including an annex located at 46-48 Whitehall Street (now 76-78 Peachtree Street)) were periodically added until 1901, when business had increased to the point that a six story annex was added at the north rear end of the building. Elevator service was installed for the first time and the store was departmentalized. In that same year, the firm was incorporated as M. Rich & Bros. Co. At about the same time, yet another annex was added. This annex, located to the south of the initial site, fronted on 16-20 Hunter Street (now MLK). In 1906, the firm acquired the building located at 52 Whitehall Street. This new four story building (not including the basement) was built on the foundation of the two story buildings that had previously occupied 52-56 Whitehall Street. The construction and remodeling was done under the planning and design supervision of Bruce and Morgan Architects.
During the 1906 renovation and construction both of the rear annexes were integrated into a large T shaped plan. During construction of this new building, the company moved all of its remaining stock into the Furniture Annex on the North side of the building and carried on business until the opening of the new complex on Saturday, June 16, 1907. During the 1906 renovation, which began in June, 1906 and ended in early January, 1907, the Furniture Annex was accessed through the 46-48 Whitehall Street store frontage.
According to a newspaper article that appeared on the front page of the Sunday, June 17, 1907 edition of The Atlanta Constitution, general merchandise was located in the new Main Store section of the building while furniture and carpets occupied the Furniture Annex. The Hunter Ell contained an employee restaurant, offices and several departments including crockery, shoes and pianos.
By 1924, M. Rich & Bros. Co. has outgrown the building and moved into a new location at Broad and Alabama Street. The following year, the building was occupied by W. T. Grant Company, a national department store. W. T. Grant Company remained in the building until 1974 when it closed its doors after declaring bankruptcy. The building remained unoccupied until May, 1978 when Patrick Swindall purchased the building and established Atlanta Furniture Company. Atlanta Furniture Company occupied the building until 1986 when the building was sold to Trion-Winter-MLK Joint Venture. Mr. Swindall took the property back in 1990 after Trion-Winter-MLK defaulted on its obligations under a purchase money security agreement. After 1990, the building was occupied by The Great Five Points Flea Market. In 1998, after extensive renovations to the retail floors that front Peachtree Street and MLK, The Mall at 82 Peachtree opened and has continuously occupied the bottom two floors of the building.
The sprawling department empire, known to hundreds of thousands throughout the Southeastern United States simply as Rich's, began in a rough-hewn one-story wooden building measuring twenty by seventy-five feet, fronting an unpaved street known in 1867 as Whitehall Street (now Peachtree Street). Its founder, Morris Rich (1847-1928) was a native of Kashau, Hungary who came to America at age 13 with his older brother William. Both Morris and William were penniless and uneducated. His first regular job in this country was in a small mercantile store in Cleveland, Ohio where, even as a clerk, he displayed a knack for merchandising. By the time he was 18 he was able to start small stores of his own, first in Chattanooga, and later in Albany, Georgia.
By the spring of 1867, Morris, by sheer determination, had progressed in business and self-education to the point that he was ready to move to Atlanta where his brother William has already established a business knows as William Rich & Company. On May 28, 1867, with $1,000 (some accounts say $500) that he borrowed from William, Morris rented a little store at 36 Whitehall street, a short distance south of Alabama on the east side of the street, only a few hundred feet from the building now known as 82 Peachtree Street.
Morris began his business in the era of barter and trade where typical businessmen haggled and matched wits with their customers to determine the market price for dry goods. Morris, however, chose to establish his business on the premise that all goods had one price for all, based on value and a proper profit margin. The plan paid off and has continued to be one of the company's trademarks to this day.
For the first few years, Morris Rich had only one associate, Abel Titlebaum. Then, in 1871, a younger brother, Emanuel Rich (1849-1897), became an associate and the firm became M. Rich & Company. After Emanuel and Morris joined forces, business increased steadily and during the following year, the original store was abandoned in favor of a larger facility just down the street on the corner of Hunter and Whitehall (now MLK and Peachtree). In 1876, Morris and Emanuel were joined by a third brother, Daniel (1843-1920).
A few years later, in 1881, the three brothers, now trading under the name M. Rich & Brothers, moved a third time to a new store at 54-56 Whitehall Street (now 84-86 Peachtree Street). A newspaper account heralded the new store as the "handsomest store in Atlanta." Here, for the first time, two whole floors were utilized. This store boasted the first plate glass show windows in town, a feature that would be replicated when the store was torn down during the 1906 renovation that produced the subject building that had thirty-three percent more street frontage as a result of the acquisition of third lot (52 Whitehall Street). It was among the first buildings to use plate glass windows for the display of goods to passing "window shoppers."
In 1897, Morris' younger brother, Emanuel, died at the age of forty-eight. Having been a valued partner to Morris for more than twenty years and a salesman before that, Emanuel's death came as s severe blow to Morris and left the store a gap which Morris did not find easy to fill. A young furniture salesman, J. J. Haverty, was ultimately placed in charge of Emanuel's favorite carpet department. J. J. Haverty later founded Haverty's Furniture Company, an Atlanta based furniture chain that now has locations throughout Atlanta and the Southeast.
As the company grew, the firm incorporated in 1901 as "M. Rich & Bros. Co." and floor space was increased by the addition of several annexes along Whitehall and Hunter Street (see HISTORY). The company's continued growth and disjointed physical facility necessitated a major renovation in 1906 when the company held a giant clearance sale in May, 1906 and contracted to the furniture annex that was accessible during the renovation only through the store fronts that the company occupied at 46-48 Whitehall Street. Between June, 1906 and January, 1907, the 1881 structure at 54-56 Whitehall Street was raised and an impressive new four story build was constructed within the walls of the previous store. The new building expanded from just over 40 feet of frontage on Whitehall to 65 feet of frontage. When the new building held its grand opening on January 16, 1907, the four story structure unified the Furniture and Hunter Ell annexes and the 46-48 Whitehall Street storefronts that had afforded access to the Furniture Annex was abandoned.
After its 1907 reopening, M. Rich & Bros. Co. continued to grow and in 1910 the fourth floor of the Main Store was expanded to allow for a new boardroom and two more floors in the Furniture Annex. In the spring of 1924, after fifty-seven years on Whitehall Street, the store moved to its fourth location at Broad and Alabama Street. The new six story structure, the façade and a portion of which was preserved and incorporated into the new Federal Center in 1996, was constructed of steel, Indiana limestone and Normandy tile and cost $1,500,000.00.
In 1926, Morris Rich retired and Walter H. Rich, son of Emanuel and nephew of Morris, succeeded to the presidency of the company. In 1929, the year following the death of its founder, Morris Rich, the present name, Rich's Incorporated, was adopted. Under the presidency of Walter Rich, who served in the capacity until his death in 1947, and his successor Richard H. Rich, Morris Rich's grandson, the company expanded throughout the metropolitan Atlanta area.
Even after the department store giant established numerous stores in shopping centers and malls in the suburbs of Atlanta, Rich's dominated the downtown business and cultural scene.
Throughout the forties, fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties, Rich's was known for two Atlanta landmarks: the Pink Pig and the Rich's Christmas Tree. The Pink Pig was a children's ride that the company operated on the roof of its Alabama Street location during the Christmas shopping season. The ride sat in the shadow of the massive live Christmas tree that was erected just before Thanksgiving on Rich's Crystal Bridge, the bridge that connected the six story Rich's building at Broad and Alabama Streets with an annex that was situated between Forsyth and Spring Streets. After Rich's left downtown Atlanta in the eighties, the Rich's Christmas Tree and the Traditional Thanksgiving Evening "Lighting of the Great Tree" ceremony was relocated to Underground Atlanta. Ironically, the new location of the tree is less than twenty feet from the still extant Furniture Annex at Kenny's alley and Pryor Street.
The impact that the Rich's family and its department stores that remained in family control until the business was sold to Federated Department Stores in the late seventies is unmistakable. Morris, Emanuel, Daniel, Walker and Richard Rich were instrumental in not only in the commercial history of Atlanta but her cultural and religious history as well. Each of these men provided financial, as well as intellectual, support for civic and cultural projects in the secular arena. With the exception of Richard, who was too young to contribute, each of these men were substantial contributors to the building of the Hebrew Temple of 1902. As early Jewish pioneers to the city, the Rich's family helped pave the way for other Jewish immigrants, like the Regensteins, who established another early business ("The Surprise Store," later "Regenstein's") in the same central business district in 1872.
The Rich's family's civic-mindedness contributed significantly to Atlanta's early growth and success in becoming the leading commercial and cultural center in the Southeastern United States. The brothers helped bail out the debt-ridden Cotton States and International Exhibition in 1895. When cotton prices dropped in 1914, and Georgians were caught with unsold surpluses, Rich's M. Rich & Bros. Co. took up to 5,000 bales in exchange for merchandise at above the market price as its "duty and privilege." In 1930, Walter Rich loaned $654,000 to the City Council to help met the teachers' payroll. Again, in 1945, Richard "Dick" Rich, grandson of founder Morris Rich, opened the store's safe on the Sunday before Labor Day to pay a detachment of troops at Fort McPherson whose funds were time-locked in the Fort's vaults.
The architectural firm of Bruce and Morgan remodeled and enlarged this 1882 building for M. Rich Bros. & Co. in 1906. The new four story façade reflects the influence of the Chicago School with wide window spaces located behind uninterrupted vertical piers. The original wide central entrance and great expanse of glass were innovative at the time, as was the well-lighted interior achieved by the use of skylights, atriums and electrical light. Although the exterior and interior design were new and stylish, the underlying construction was traditional wood framing between brick masonry walls. Later remodeling considerably altered the ground floor of the building on Peachtree Street, but the filigree iron work of the spandrels and window framing may still be seen on the upper three stories.
The four story structure at 82-86 Peachtree Street consists of a turn of the century brick bearing wall perimeter with interior wood framing and a flat roof. What is know as 82 Peachtree Street, fronting Peachtree Street (formerly Whitehall Street), is actually a collection of three buildings dating back to 1882. These buildings were expanded and joined together during a major renovation planed and supervised by the architectural firm of Bruce and Morgan. Together, these three buildings form a large T in plan and represent some of the oldest historically significant structures form Atlanta's original Terminus district.
The building that fronts 65 feet on Peachtree Street was largely rebuilt on the site of the original 1882 building that housed M. Rich and Brothers Dry Goods Store. This building is for purposes of this application referred to as the Main Store.
Behind this store and directly to the north is a five story wing of the building that was built in 1901 to house the M. Rich and Brothers Co. expansion into the furniture business. This building is referred to in historical accounts as the Furniture Annex and the term will be adopted in this application. To this day, an M. Rich & Bros. Co. sign can be seen on the lower portion of the north side of the Furniture Annex. Under the name, the painted sign displays the words "Furniture, Carpet and Rugs."
A second expansion was made about the same time into a three story structure behind and directly south of the Main Store, fronting on MLK Boulevard (formerly Hunter Street). According to historical sources, this building was used to house showrooms, offices an employee restaurant on the basement floor. This annex will be referred to as the Hunter Ell.
There is also a section of the building that appears to have been added to the rear of the Main Store during the 1906 expansion in order to join the three buildings together at their new height. This section, along with the two story hallway leading to the Hunter Ell is referred to as the Connector.
The Main Store
The four story Main Store consists of common brick exterior walls with wood framing supported on the interior of 8" round wooden columns. Two large water towers were installed on the roof of the Main Store during the 1906 expansion to provide water for the sprinkler system that was installed by General Fire Extinguishing Co., a predecessor to Grinnell Fire Protection Company. The original engineering drawings for the sprinkler system that was installed in 1906 and updated in 1910 are still in existence and are located in Grinnell's Atlanta area offices located in Lithonia, Georgia.
The Peachtree façade consists of a street level plate glass store front and three bays of floor to ceiling windows on the upper floors. Each bay is divided by a vertical column of with glazed brick. A horizontal pattern reminiscent of the early Chicago style is established by copper filigree spandrels at the bottom section of each window on the top two floors. The effect was calculated, by all accounts, to produce an unbroken vista of plate glass for the display of goods and follows the direction of the early modern movement towards a dematerialization of the structure.
The roof line is capped by a decorative brick cornice with an abbreviated gable. The base of the upper floor window lines sits on a large projecting sill that runs the length of the façade. The street level store front has undergone a series of renovations since 1906 with the current treatment consisting of aluminum glass store fronts surrounded by metal panels. Early illustrations of the original façade depict a glass store front in wooden frames with a large metal canopy hanging over the entrance. The canopy is connected by cable to iron rings that are in the mouths of two ornamental two lions' heads. Subsequent renovations appear to have followed the general pattern of openings and bays established by the original façade.
Openings on the top two floors of the north elevations originally consisted of steel framed industrial windows. These windows have been replaced by double sashed windows similar in design to the ones in the Peachtree façade. There are no openings in the south walls.
The Furniture Annex
The Furniture Annex is a five story building that originally opened in 1901. It has common brick perimeter walls, wood framing supported by square six inch wood columns and a flat roof. The building was originally served by an elevator and adjacent fire stairs. The Furniture Annex dates from an early period than the 1906 Main Store addition and its detailing and fenestration supports historical accounts of its early appearance in the store's expansion scheme. The upper two floors were added in 1910 when the building was again expanded to increase the size of the fourth floor of the Main Store. During the 1910 expansion, a boardroom was added on the southeastern most corner of the Main Store.
Window openings consist of relatively small punched openings with arched lintels and limestone sills in a heavy masonry wall. In 1999, all of the windows in this building were replaced with new double hung bronze tone ones.
The Hunter Street Ell
The Hunter Street consists of three stories and a basement level fronting on MLK Boulevard. The structure consists of brick bearing walls with wood framing supported by six inch square wood columns and a flat roof. The building character and date of construction appears to be similar to the 1900's industrial structure found in the Furniture Annex. The bottom floor of this section, fronting on MLK, (south elevation) is currently occupied by store front businesses and is covered with plate glass. The upper portion of this south elevation was remodeled in the late 1940's or early 1950's when MLK (then Hunter Street) was widened and the entire façade of the Hunter Ell was removed and set back approximately twelve feet from its original location.
The Connector
The Connector consists primarily of a four story façade (which makes up a large portion of the east elevation), and an extension of the south wall of the Main Store. The structure is made up of common brick and the interior framing appears to be a continuation of the wood framing used throughout the Main Store. Window openings in this wall consist of rectangular double hung wood windows with arched brick lintels and limestone sills. The alley running behind the Furniture Annex and the Connector appears to have been raised at some point and now covers what probably was basement level access ways.
The subject building is located within a one mile radius of the "The Zero Mile Post" that literally marks the geographic center of the "Heart of Atlanta." The Zero Mile Post, an actual three-foot stone Mile Post, still visible near the entrance of Underground Atlanta, marks the Southeastern Terminus of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, about which a settlement grew and eventually became "Atlanta." The original terminus was between present Forsyth and Magnolia Streets. It was moved to its present location in 1842. The settlement that sprang up was, initially called "Terminus." It was incorporated as the town of "Marthasville" named after then Georgia Governor Wilson Lumpkin's daughter, Martha) on December 23, 1843. The name was changed to "Atlanta" on December 26, 1845. It was incorporated as the City of Atlanta on December 29, 1847, with the corporate limits extending one mile in every direction. A new City Charter, approved February 28, 1874, redefined the corporate limits as a circle one mile and a half in every direction from Zero Mile Post.
When Marthasville became a legal entity in 1843, the town had several general stores run by Willis Carlisle, John Bailey, John Kile and others, a dozen or more dwellings, a rudimentary hotel (moved from Boltonville), the railroad board house, and four roads which converged at the present Five Points. These roads were Whitehall, Peachtree, Marietta and Decatur. When the Georgia Railroad's first engine puffed into Marthasville on September 14, 1845, only a handful of dwellings and businesses had been added to the area surrounding Five Points.
By 1847, the spurt of commerce generated by the railroad was such that Atlanta had nearly 2,500 inhabitants, 50 large stores and two hotels, though the surrounding woods were filled with shanties and the streets were a maze of stumps and roots. At that time, the best known business enterprises in the business district that would one day be known as the "Heart of Atlanta" were George Washington Collier's Store (and post office) at what is now Five Points; John Kile's tavern; Mose's Fromwalt's tin shop (where he also made stills); Addison Dulin's general store; the Georgia Railroad's banking agency run by agent John F. Mims; James McPherson's bookstore; Austin Leyden's foundry and machine shop; and two hotels established in 1845. Because of its location near the train terminal, the portion of the Whitehall Street nearest Five Points was considered a prime location for any mercantile business or hotel.
The Heart of Atlanta business district continued to thrive until the Civil War, when, as is now legend, virtually the entire area was burned to the ground by General Sherman and his army. During Sherman's occupation in Atlanta, in the fall of 1864, he used the Neal house, located on the grounds of the present City Hall, as his headquarters. The Neal Home, which was spared destruction by Sherman, was later used as Girls' High School and was demolished in 1929 to make room for what is now the old section of City Hall.
After the War came Reconstruction and political and economic turmoil. Despite the turmoil, between 1866 and 1871, Atlanta quickly returned her focus to commercial, cultural and social survival. It was during this period that Morris Rich, along with numerous other Atlanta commercial pioneers, began his dry goods business in this district.
By 1871, Atlanta had 50 liquor saloons, 28 butchers, 150 hacks and drays, 17 insurance agents, 8 wagon yards, 9 printing offices, 391 merchants (not including saloon-keepers), 46 lawyers, 76 physicians, 15 contractors, 15 barbers, 5 boot-and-shoe stores, four wholesale clothing stores, 7 dressmakers, 8 drugstores, 6 furniture retailers, 4 hardware stores, 3 hat shops, 10 jewelers and watchmakers and numerous factories that turned out candy, soap, crackers, furniture and ice. Though the city limits had now expanded to a three mile radius of Zero Mile Post, the vast majority of these business were located in this seminal business district known as the Heart of Atlanta.
In addition to being the geographic point of beginning on what has become a thriving international city, the Heart of Atlanta business district is also significant because it served as an incubator for many businesses that matured as the city itself matured. As the following survey of some of the businesses indicates, many of these businesses, including the business responsible for the erection of the subject building, not only established a long time presence in the Heart of Atlanta business district, they went on to establish a presence throughout the Southeastern United States.
In 1885, the first Haverty's Furniture Store opened at 117 Hunter Street (now MLK), in a building immediately adjacent to the Hunter Street Ell Annex of the subject property. Significantly, Haverty's was started by J. J. Haverty who learned the furniture trade while working for Morris Rich at M. Rich & Bros. Company.
In 1890, Douglas-Thomas & Company opened a dry goods store on Whitehall Street to compete with Morris Rich's establishment. The enterprise prospered and a year later because Douglas-Thomas and Davison with the addition of British-born Beaumont Davison as a partner. By 1894, the business was able to relocate to larger quarters one block north of its original site. That business, which later became Davison-Paxon, and then, Macy's, is not owned by Macy's and continues to this day to constitute an Atlanta landmark further north on Peachtree Street.
Two other businesses, well known to Atlantan's, that also started in this historic district are Regenstein's and Maier & Berkele, Inc. Regenstein's, until recently, an exclusive women's store in Atlanta, opened in 1872 at 74-76 Whitehall Street. Maier & Berkele also began on Whitehall Street in 1890 when Armin Maier, Sr., a jewelers' apprentice, joined forces with John Berkeley, a retired locksmith. Like Rich's these business eventually left downtown Atlanta to follow Atlanta suburban sprawl and infatuation with suburban Malls.
Perhaps the most significant business development to take place in this district occurred less than two blocks from the subject building in the spring of 1886. It was that year that John S. Pemberton, a pharmacist who concocted the still secret formula for Coca-Cola, first marketed Coca-Cola by serving the drink in Joseph Jacob's Pharmacy, located just west of Five Points at the intersection of Whitehall, Peachtree and Marietta Streets.
Today, the Heart of Atlanta business district is still an important business center because of the Five Points Marta Station and its proximity to Georgia State University, the State Capitol, City Hall, the Fulton County Courthouses, the Fulton County Administration Building, the Richard B. Russell Federal Courthouse and the Federal Center.
The M. Rich Brothers & Co. building, now known as 82 Peachtree Street, is significant both for its role in the development of an Atlanta institution (Rich's Department Store) and for its role in anchoring Atlanta's original shopping district. It is also significant because it represents the first introduction of the Chicago "commercial design" into the City of Atlanta by Bruce and Morgan, pioneer architects in the City of Atlanta.
The building has been deemed to meet the criteria for listing on the National Register in two separate studies conducted by the City of Atlanta. A 1978 study by the Urban Design Commission included the building (referred to as the W. T. Grant building, presumably to avoid confusion with Rich's 1924 Store) in its Category 1 list. This list was comprised of buildings which were felt to be eligible for the National Register.
A 1984 study prepared for the Urban Design Commission by noted Atlanta historian Darlene Roth again included the building (Rich's/W. T. Grant's Building at 82-86 Peachtree Street) in a listing of buildings deemed to meet criteria for listing in the National Register.
Bruce and Morgan
Alexander C. Bruce (1835-1927) was the first member of the A.I.A. to work in Atlanta. Bruce was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia and trained in Nashville, Tennessee under the English architect H. M. Akeroid. He was active in Atlanta from 1879 until 1904.
Thomas Henry Morgan (1857-1940) was the founding President of the Atlanta Chapter of the A.I.A. (1906). He attended the University of Tennessee and trained in the office of A. C. Bruce when it was located in Knoxville. Morgan came to Atlanta in 1879 to work in Bruce's new office and in 1883 became his partner. He was the first architect in Atlanta to make blueprints.
Atlanta Historic Resources Workbook, 1978.
Atlanta City Directories, 1872-1931.
Baker, Henry Givens, The Story of a Store – since 1867, Foote & Davis, Atlanta, Georgia, 1953.
Garrett, Franklin. Atlanta and Environs, Vol. II, New York, N.Y.: Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1954
Hertzberg, Steven. Strangers Within the Gate City: The Jews of Atlanta, 1845-1915, Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1978.
Roth, Darlene. City of Atlanta: UDC Historical Evaluation Report, 1984.
Shavin, Norman and Galphin, Bruce. Atlanta: Triumph of a People, Atlanta, Georgia: Capricorn Corporation, 1982.
"Rich's Great White Store Truly A Paradise for Shoppers," The Atlanta Journal, 1/17/07, p. 1.
Mr. Franklin Garrett, Atlanta Historian
Urban Design Commission, City of Atlanta
Atlanta History Center
Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Preservation
Grinnell Fire Protection Company, Blueprint Archives
1886, 1899, 1911, 1931 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
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The proposed nomination of the Atlanta Stockade meets the above-referenced criteria for an Historic Building or Site as set out in Section 16-20.004 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Atlanta.


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Washington State Department of Transportation Aviation Emergency Services is coordinating the search for a home-built airplane that has been missing since early Monday, July 23.
The pilot departed from the Tonasket area, heading for Sequim. Family members notified emergency services when the pilot did not arrive as scheduled.
Searchers from WSDOT, the Civil Air Patrol and Washington Air Search and Rescue set up a search base at the Wenatchee Airport. Douglas County emergency officials are supporting aviation crews in Wenatchee.
Four planes flew routes for six hours Monday night, starting in Sequim and heading to the Tonasket area, flying late into the night. Planes went up again early today and are continuing their to search routes the pilot may have taken.
Skies were clear in eastern Washington on Monday, but it was overcast through the Cascade Mountains and most of western Washington. Better weather today will help in search efforts.
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The Lookingglass Theatre has recreated John Musial's 1997 play, The Great Fire, about the infamous Chicago Fire of October 8. 1971. As many readers will know, 140 years ago the Great Chicago Fire consumed four square miles of the southwest side of "the Windy City" – killing hundreds of people and destroying over 17,000 buildings and homes.
Chicago had been experiencing one of the hottest, driest autumns on record until a strong wind blew up a small blaze to dastardly, chaotic proportions.
No one in the city was prepared for this inferno. The play's intricate personal stories are revealed through the hearts and minds of the city's politicians, residents, firemen, aldermen, orphans and O'Learys. Some actors play multiple characters quite believably.
I half-expected to see and feel the heat and blazing of an actual fire, but, in reality, there was no possible way to portray one in its full magnitude. Instead, using the historical events and the emotional storytelling enacted by each of the actors, (taken from actual letters, diaries and newspapers collected by the Chicago Historical Society), the audience watches the ensemble deal with and attempt to defy the burning of the city.
The actors are all excellent and believable in their roles.Lindsey Noel Whiting, dressed in a white Victorian dress resting on her brilliantly dramatic red hair, represents the blaze. Her initial innocence onstage rapidly transforms her into an escalating fire – from dancing exquisite ballet into sky leaps raging continuously amidst her innocent and battered victims.
The Lake is the escape route many citizens take.
There is Mayor Roswell Mason, (Thomas J. Cox) Judge Lambert Tree (Troy West), and Alderman Hildreth (Cheryl Lynn Bruce). (Among the other memorable characters are Tree family servant Kevin Douglas), and the doomed John Tolland (also played by Cox), the watchman of the offshore wooden filter of the city's water supply. And there is recent Polish immigrant and newly widowed lithographer Julia Lemos (Stephanie Diaz), whose livelihood goes up in smoke, along with the rest of her part of the city.
Ironically, The Great Fire plays on the site of the Water Tower pumping station, one of the very few buildings in the area to survive the fire.
John Musial (playwright, director); John Dalton (scenic); Allison Siple* (costumes); Mike Durst (lighting); Josh Horvath* and Ray Nardelli* (sound); Eric Huffman (original music); Joel Lambie (props); Kathleen E. Petroziello (stage manager).
The Great Fire continues through November 20 at Water Tower Water Works, 821 N. Michigan Avenue. Performances are on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 7:30 PM; 3 PM on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $30-$68 and can be purchased on telephone at 312-337-0665 or online at www.LookingGlassTheatre.org. Check for half-price tickets at www.Goldstar.com
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For well over 100 years, men have used devices to enlarge their penises. The original penis enlargers were simply weights, such as rocks, hung from the penis. The weight would cause slight tearing in the penile tissue. The tears would then be filled in with new cell growth and the penis would become larger. Since these enlargement methods also cause increased blood flow to the penis, erection quality can also improve.
Despite all the other advances in medicine, there had been virtually no new innovations in penis enlargement. Even the highest-quality penis extenders work on the same principle as hanging rocks from your penis! If you wanted a bigger penis, then you would have to put up with uncomfortable devices and even risk cutting off circulation to your penis head. Luckily for men, a new advancement in penis enlargement has occurred: Phallosan.
What is Phallosan?
Phallosan Forte was first innovated and tested in 2005. The device works by suctioning blood into the penis while at the same time stretching the penis. The stretching gives your penile tissues a "workout." Just like how weight lifting causes muscle growth, the stretch on the penis makes slight tears in the penis. These tears then will get filled in by dividing cells. Over time, the penis gets increasingly larger and thicker.
Phallosan is different than other penis enlargement devices because it uses a special vacuum system to apply pressure throughout the penis. First, the penis head is suctioned into a "cap." The cap then attaches to a special belt which gets worn around the waist. The belt pulls on the penis, causing the stretching and gradual growth.
In a clinical study led by Dr. Sohn of the German urological clinic, subjects using Phallosan increased their penis size by an average of 1.9 inches over 6 months.
How Phallosan Differs from Other Penis Enlargers
Before Phallosan, the only option for increasing your penis permanently without surgery was penis extenders, also called penis stretchers. While these devices are effective, they can be very uncomfortable to wear. Since they use "nooses" or straps to attach the penis, they can cut off circulation. Also, these devices do not enlarge the penis head!
Thanks to the unique vacuum condom of Phallosan Forte, you get an equal amount of pressure throughout the penis. This means you get all-around penis enlargement, including the penis head. Phallosan pulls the penis along your body so it can be discreetly worn underneath clothing without any snagging. You can even wear Phallosan while sleeping to maximize results! There are a few other penis enlargers which use a belt and suction cap system similar to Phallosan. However, only Phallosan Forte boasts the vacuum condom which helps maximize results.
Phallosan Forte benefits
Phallosan Forte is made from hypoallergenic materials and is certified by the ED Council Directive. It is completely safe to use for non-surgical penis enlargement. Additionally, Phallosan is tested and shown effective for:
- Treating curved penis syndrome
- Erectile training after prostate surgery
- Internal penile calluses
- Mild erectile dysfunction
You can order Phallosan online and start reaping the benefits within weeks of using this clinically-tested medical device.
Vs. other enlargement options
Ask any guy out there whether they are perfectly satisfied with how big their penis are, and if they are being honest, you will become bored from getting the same answer over and over again, this answer being "no really". It is a strange and difficult thing to explain, but all men wish that their penis is a bit bigger. Just like every woman would like her breasts to be a bit bigger. We all have something that we are not entirely satisfied with.
So, what are the options for guys who wish to have bigger penises?
For one, there are numerous natural pills and supplements that are advertised far and wide as the most amazing products to use in order to get a bigger penis. If you were to believe their claims, everything would be perfect. They are supposedly perfectly natural, they are absolutely safe and they can produce amazing results. The only problem with these products is that this is not true. They may be natural and safe, but they definitely do NOT produce ANY results. No natural product can enlarge the penis and that is the cold and simple, scientific truth.
Then, there is the penis enlargement surgery.
No one can deny that some results can be achieved with this type of surgical procedures and that you may gain a bit of size. However, there are certain downsides that make this a very unadvisable option, so to say. First of all, it is extremely dangerous. Surgeries are in themselves very dangerous and penis enlargement surgery is extra complicated, which means that it involves more risks. On top of that, it is extremely costly. A surgical procedure for enlarging the penis can cost thousands, even tens of thousands of dollars. Finally, the results are not that great and the increase in size is nothing special.
Luckily, there is a third option – Phallosan.
Phallosan is a penis extender device and if you ask us, or anyone who knows anything about penis extenders, the best one on the market. With this device, the increase in penis size is more than substantial and you can gain up to 2 or 3 inches in length, while you can also get at least 20% in girth. It is also a safe option as numerous medical endorsements and approvals have shown. It is quite clearly the only way to go if you are looking to enlarge your penis.
Phallosan Forte FAQ
If you thought that this article will be about answering the questions that we gathered online that have to do with Phallosan, then you were right. This is exactly what is going on in this article and we invite you to check out whether there is something here that might be of interest to you.
Question 1: Is it true that Phallosan can give me extra girth?
Answer 1: Yes it is. This device employs a unique system of distributing the traction force and it allows you to gain substantial increase in the girth of the penis. This is a huge improvement on other penis extenders that do not make this happen, or at least not to that extent.
Question 2: What if I get an erection when wearing Phallosan?
Answer 2: Do not worry about it. This was one of the biggest drawbacks of penis extenders that were developed before Phallosan. Namely, with the ring safely in place and rods doing their work, there was no room in situations when erections occurred. With Phallosan, this is rectified and you can wear it safely even when the erections happen. The condom that is placed around the penis has enough "leg room" and you will experience no troubles at all.
Question 3: Is there something specific that I need to remember when wearing Phallosan?
Answer 3: Yes there is. When Phallosan is in place, your penis goes in a certain direction – left or right. In order to make sure that there are no irregularities in how your penis is enlarged, you will need to switch sides every few days, just to make sure it is evenly increased in size.
Question 4: How long does it take to achieve results with Phallosan?
Answer 4: In general, you should wear Phallosan for at least 6 months. After six months, the increase in size that you achieve is permanent. Of course, you can wear it for longer than that and this will result in further increase in size. The math is simple, the longer you wear it, the better the results will be and the bigger the increase will be.
Of course, the amount of time each day that you wear v is also important. You shouldn't wear it for less than 6 hours. Once again, increased duration or wearing it makes for better results. The good news is that Phallosan is so comfortable that men have reported wearing it for as much as 16 hours without any problems.
Question 5: Are there any good alternatives to the Phallosan Forte
Answer 5: Yes, there are some good penis extenders that can be used as an alternative to the Phallosan Forte. I would suggest that you take a look at one of the penis extender guide online. The first penis extender guide on Google is from Aiclegal.org.
Final thoughts
This is one of the absolutly best penis extenders in the world and I would recommend it to all men men out there who want to enlarge their penis!


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Energy-efficiency based resource allocation for the scalar broadcast channel
Héliot, F, Imran, MA and Tafazolli, R (2012) Energy-efficiency based resource allocation for the scalar broadcast channel In: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC, 2012-04-01 - 2012-04-04.
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Until recently, link adaptation and resource allocation for communication system relied extensively on the spectral efficiency as an optimization criterion. With the emergence of the energy efficiency (EE) as a key system design criterion, resource allocation based on EE is becoming of great interest. In this paper, we propose an optimal EE-based resource allocation method for the scalar broadcast channel (BC-S). We introduce our EE framework, which includes an EE metric as well as a realistic power consumption model for the base station, and utilize this framework for formulating our EE-based optimization problem subject to a power as well as fairness constraints. We then prove the convexity of this problem and compare our EE-based resource allocation method against two other methods, i.e. one based on sum-rate and one based on fairness optimization. Results indicate that our method provides large EE improvement in comparison with the two other methods by significantly reducing the total consumed power. Moreover, they show that near-optimal EE and average fairness can be simultaneously achieved over the BC-S channel. © 2012 IEEE.
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Veterinarians Save Turkey Shot With an Arrow
While a sense of gratitude may be in short supply among turkeys come late November, one lucky bird in particular has plenty to be thankful for. For the last several weeks, witnesses near Davis, California had reported seeing a wild turkey roaming the region with an arrow protruding from its posterior. Now, the well-being of one turkey might not seem like much considering how many will be eaten later this week, but that didn't stop local wildlife agents and veterinarians from stepping up to save it.
Reports first came in of an arrow-totting turkey roaming the Davis region on Halloween, but it wasn't until late last week that agents from the Department of Fish and Game were able to track it down and capture it using a net-gun. From there, they transported the bird to the nearby UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, reports the Sacramento Bee:
Through X-rays, Michelle Hawkins, associate professor of veterinary medicine, determined that the arrow had penetrated only the soft tissue, missing vital organs.
Veterinarians anesthetized the turkey and removed a target arrow, which differs from a razor-sharp hunting arrow. Antibiotics were given to the turkey, and after he could stand on his own, he was released. Captivity is stressful to wild birds.
Although hunting wild turkey isn't illegal in California, officials say that the bird was shot illegally outside hunting season, and with a practice arrow, which is also illegal.


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On evidence of initial sampling of contributions to this annual citywide gallery event (which offers welcome space to emerging or less well-connected international artists), the bleak has come to roost. At Rodeo, Franziska Lantz's oppressive room of mobiles fashioned from found-object detritus dredged from the shores of the Thames (a gamut of animal bone fragments, rusted industrial instruments and soiled camouflage coats) speaks of memory, waste and death. A viewer is made to walk uncomfortably amidst the hanging wreckage as a vinyl soundtrack mix of tribal beats and faint electronic pulses plays from a corner-I was astonished that the material has origin in London, as I felt I was in the presence of the sad unearthed casualties of conflict from a war-ravaged Middle Eastern or African nation, or that I had inadvertently wandered into a back woods cabin from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". A similar distress is found in the desiccated figures of Kris Lemsalu's "Phantom Camp" series in the garret space at Southard Reid, porcelain faces twisted into expressions of tumultuous anguish, hands scraping agonisingly at the face, as if to admit complete and utter defeat, unable to stare directly any longer at a great horror. Most of the bodies are bound amorphously within dirty sleeping bags, appearing mummified, nestling closely as if seeking (and craving) a shelter and warmth that never arrived. The spectre of migrant crisis (or of more localised homelessness) is suddenly and strikingly present. Even Neal Jones's "Allotment Paintings", the most anodyne of all the offerings with their relatively serene garden landscapes, are structured with fairly violent finger drags along the canvas. Relief is found at Project Native Informant, with Loulu Margarine's howlingly psychedelic daisies splayed across the gallery walls, and Yuri Pattison's playful cityscape crafted out of circuit boards, a trenchant comment upon the ubiquity of technology, the beating heart and venous system that now underpins society. Cut us now and we will only bleed data.
I will explore the East End galleries hosting Condo in an upcoming post-I look forward to more instructively challenging material, hopefully with the same abiding core of integrity as to be found in the works reviewed above.


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For the past month I have been choosing repertoire for Solid Ground, our young singers, and Safe Harbour, a small group of talented and experienced singers who will support our young singers in concerts and rehearsals. As we plan our year's activities, we will need music that is seasonal, challenging, inspiring, and most of all, fun. Fun is built into the El Sistema philosophy. Gustavo Dudamel is El Sistema's most famous graduate. He is a world-renowned conductor, having come through the system in Venezuela in a small community program where he began by playing second violin in the orchestra. Now Dudamel is the highly–acclaimed conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.
In speaking about the El Sistema philosophy, Dudamel once told an American audience, "We start by making sure that each child feels like an asset, because they don't come in feeling like that. And we make sure that we never forget fun" (Booth, 2009).
In May of this year, Barb Henderson (our president), Deborah Henderson (our string specialist) and myself went to visit the El Sistema program in Toronto, run by David Visentin. We saw children move through a series of classes that began after school at 4 pm and ended at 6:15 pm. I watched a group of children move from a string class to a choir class, to a drumming class—each lasting 40 minutes. Throughout this time the children were engaged, listening attentively, having fun. At one point, the string instructor (David Visentin) spoke with the class to tell them that they could miss rehearsal to go on a class trip next week. One 11-year-old child put up her hand and said, "I'm not going on that trip, I'm coming here". Three other students said "me too", "same here". As observers, we listened in amazement. It was clear that these young string players were committed to their learning.
Last week I spent many hours researching repertoire for Safe Harbour. It's tricky because the singers are just forming now. We have SATB (soprano, alto, tenor, and bass). My intention is that we will come together for a short rehearsal time—say six to eight weeks or less, depending on the requirements of the music. That means that we are looking for experienced choral singers who can sight-read, learn music quickly, and work together easily for expressive, creative singing.
My hope is that Safe Harbour will be an inspiration to our younger singers. Throughout the year, Safe Harbour will perform with Solid Ground (our young El Sistema choirs and drumming groups), take a break, then come back together again. My hope is that Safe Harbour will be ambassadors for our young musicians: a shining example of what can happen with fine singing, exceptional community, and concentrated effort.
One pedagogy of El Sistema is that great music is revisited many times in a singer's lifetime. In his article about El Sistema, Eric Booth said,
Revisiting of pieces over the years deepens and enriches the performers' understanding and expression, and supports their self-assessment of accomplishment because they can viscerally appreciate how much mastery [the older performers] have gained. Students grow up personally, artistically, socially, and spiritually inside that piece (Booth, 2009).
This is an exciting idea to me. There are so many beautiful gems in the choral literature. In early June of this year, Shannon and I did demonstration classes using a fun piece by Canadian composer Stephen Hatfield. We will continue rehearsing this song, and add repertoire that inspires, challenges, and makes learning fun. We have a piece for choir and bucket drumming called The Beat Of A Different Drum, by Canadian composer Sarah Quartel. Because we will be singing with the internationally acclaimed Finnish choral-rock-star group Rajaton in May 2014, we will learn a song called Ihme Ja Kumma. And let's not forget the campfire favourite Fish and Chips and Vinegar (don't throw your junk in my backyard…). Some Praetorius, Bach—so many choices!
Our first formal performance will be Sunday, December 1, at Victoria Hall. Before that, we will create opportunities for small performances: singing for school classes, interested visitors, whatever we can think of that will help the singers become comfortable singing for an audience.
Music has been ordered. We are inviting singers to participate.
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Last weekend, Nick and I spent some time working on four short, easy and fun science experiments. Here's a photo-essay.
My friend, Mike Adamick, recently wrote "Dad's Book of Awesome Science Experiments," a follow-up to his best-selling book of kids' projects. These science projects are easy to do, teach quick lessons, and were really fun. Here are some photos from our experiments. Enjoy.


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Vicki's life changed more than she could have imagined when she took on full-time care of her grandson Cruz.
As a parent with adult children, Vicki was enjoying working and having time for herself. Yet here she was about to give all of that up and take on the huge responsibility of a new baby, was she crazy?
When Vicki's daughter was on maternity leave she realised she needed to have more income to afford her house for baby Cruz. She had no choice but to return to work when Cruz was a tiny three month old baby. 'She didn't want to leave him' Vicki says, 'she would have given anything, he was her first baby and she knew he would be her only child.'
'My daughter cried a lot the thought of having to leave her baby in day care, so I stepped in and offered to raise him. I gave up work when Cruz was three months old." Now he is four-years-old. Vicki has been there every day for her grandson, right through the critical first thousand days of his life.
This is not what Vicki was expecting from this season of her life.
She had been planning to help her daughter with Cruz, but caring for him full time, was this something she could manage? 'I didn't feel very
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Vicki was worried and extremely nervous, 'What if I'm not good at this?' She had been out of the parenting game for so long, and because her own daughter had been in day-care from a young age Vicki didn't have much confidence or experience in raising a baby full time. She wasn't sure who she could talk to when she was concerned about Cruz, or who she could turn to for support.
As more and more Kiwi parents struggle to make ends meet, grandparents are giving up their jobs or coming out of retirement to raise children – often without access to information, support and emotional preparation.
Becoming a Guardian Angel to a grandchild is a huge responsibility. Vicki's friends have drifted away. "The change in my life means that a lot of them are just not interested. What are you doing, Vicki, they said. Are you crazy? This is ridiculous."
By the end of each day, Vicki is exhausted. "He can be boisterous. He can have a lot of energy. I struggle to do the things I used to do. I'm too tired."
Vicki's friends just didn't want to hear about Cruz's toilet training, but younger mums were hard to talk to as well. 'Some of the mothers were very young mothers – and I was old enough to be their grandmother, they took a while to accept me because of the age gap. I wish I had a playgroup that was for people in my situation, people that had the same struggles as me.'
Plunket playgroups are a great place for the kids to be able to play and socialize together, but more than that it is essential for the mums to be able to talk to one another, share stories, learn from one another and discuss what is going on with their children.
Before getting support from Plunket Vicki felt lonely and overwhelmed, she hadn't raised a child in years. Brain development? Dietary guidelines? Parenting best practice? Things had changed so much since she last changed a nappy.
The prospect of raising a baby was almost too much for her. "I felt worried, that I wouldn't be able to do it. Cruz had bad colic at the start and that was very stressful for me because I hadn't encountered anything like that before."
"I kept asking Plunket, am I doing this right, am I too old school, is it ok if I do this, is it ok if I do that?"
Vicki has given up her job, her days, her friends and her hopes for a leisurely retirement. All because her grandson needed her. Being a parent is a full-time job, and parents and grandparents like Vicki are so grateful for the help that Plunket supporters give to keep Playgroups running.
If you would like to help families like Vicki's, please make a donation today.
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It is a busy week as we open the gallery for the season. Tom my pardner is back from the Celebration In Art Show in Arizona and he, his wife Tammy and I hung and rehung paintings for most of the day. Chris who does that fantastic jewelry and Verna Boller worked hard at shampooing carpet and filling nail holes and touching up walls. We are now officially open and in our first day made a good sale. In spite of the down economy we are optimistic about the season. As Tom says, "We put our trust in the Lord and we can't help but be successful. It sure worked last year with a way better than expected season. That is Tinker our gallery "mascot", who thinks everyone coming into the gallery is there to see him. I have the perfect sales pitch. "If you buy the dog I'll throw in a painting". Toms wife is quick to straighten folks out on that. Dan,our leather worker is the other hombre in these pixs. He has been a great help in opening too.
That big bronze of the Pack horse on the floor is one of our pardner, Bud Boller's pieces. It was commissioned by Charleton Heston and Bud nailed it. Since Charlton's death there is talk about doing a monument of this bronze for the NRA headqurters. If you are ever in Jackson, Wyoming-Look at the bronze in the middle of the town square of the bucking horse. It is Buds.


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I painted and crackled a heart, bird, butterfly & row of flowers (also from Tando), then attached them in front of some gathered lace. The heart, bird & butterfly are on coiled wire. This was such a lot of fun to make and once again I am sad that its not human sized hahahaha!!!!
Thank you for taking the time to have a look, always appreciated, HUGS, Karen xxx


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Mercedes-Benz Vans Invites Creatives, Small Businesses To Hack The Vito Van
Mercedes-Benz Vans invites small businesses, start-ups, product developers, industrial designers, creative technologists, hustlers and hackers to put together a team of like-minded entrepreneurial thinkers and pitch an innovative business idea using the Vito van as the canvas.
Six teams will be chosen to participate in Hack My Van, a one day hackathon on Saturday 6 August where their creativity will be put to the test.
The teams will complete a series of exercises, working alongside a team from Mercedes-Benz Vans, product experts and industrial designers to bring their idea to life – redesigning a Vito van in an innovative and creative way.
A panel of thinkers, entrepreneurs and business leaders including Shane Delia (award winning chef and restaurateur), Diane Tarr (managing director, Mercedes-Benz Vans Australia & New Zealand), and Jane Martino (advisor, Unlockd & TRIBE, co-founder Smiling Mind and board member LaunchVic) will assess the ideas and select the winner, who will be awarded with a brand new Mercedes-Benz Vito.
"We believe that the humble Vito has long been underestimated and has simply been used just to get a job done. When we see a van however, we see something different," Tarr said.
"We see the potential inside. We are excited by the ideas and possibilities for how the Vito van can be reimagined to transform an existing business, or completely reinvented to create new businesses."
Entries close at 5pm on 27 July 2016.


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Ten Examples why the Axis (Hitler) and the Allies were working for the Illuminati (the "Elite").
1. Where did Germany get its money from to rise out of its poverty (and crippled economy) and to build up its infrastructure?
After the First World War, Germany had high inflation and high unemployment. Where did it get the capital to build a huge military machine to conquer Europe (James)? (I encourage you to read this article: Click to read it here.)
Prescott Bush and other Americans, such as Henry Ford, financed and sold to Hitler even after WW2 started.
According to documents obtained from the US National Archives, Prescott Bush, father of George H.W. Bush, was involved with companies that financed the Nazis (Aris).
The Guardian states in an article from 2004 that:
· ● "Bush was a founding member of the bank [UBC] and the incorporation documents, which list him as one of seven directors,[....]"
● ● "UBC was caught red-handed operating a American shell company for the Thyssen family eight months after America had entered the war and that this was the bank that had partly financed Hitler's rise to power [sic]."
· ● "By the late 1930s, Brown Brothers Harriman, which claimed to be the world's largest private investment bank, and UBC had bought and shipped millions of dollars of gold, fuel, steel, coal and US treasury bonds to Germany, both feeding and financing Hitler's build-up to war."
The Guardian said this in the 2004 article about Prescott Bush and his Nazi associations:
"But the new documents [from the National Archives], many of which were only declassified last year, show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis' plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler's rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty." (Aris)
The Guardian article further said:
"Bush was also on the board of at least one of the companies that formed part of a multinational network of front companies to allow Thyssen to move assets around the world.
Thyssen owned the largest steel and coal company in Germany and grew rich from Hitler's efforts to re-arm between the two world wars. One of the pillars in Thyssen's international corporate web, UBC, worked exclusively for, and was owned by, a Thyssen-controlled bank in the Netherlands. More tantalising are Bush's links to the Consolidated Silesian Steel Company (CSSC), based in mineral rich Silesia on the German-Polish border. During the war, the company made use of Nazi slave labour from the concentration camps, including Auschwitz." (Aris)
Hitler got his money from foreign banks and foreign investors, like Prescott Bush. These bankers had money to gain at the expense of human lives. Read number 9 for more on how American companies (such as Ford) supported Hitler.
2. Hitler could have sealed the Strait of Gibraltar and made Germany very secure on her western front. Sealing the Strait of Gibraltar would have reduced Allied activity in the Mediterranean Sea (James). (Read more about this here.)
3. Hitler could have commandeered the French fleet, which was under his control after he took over France, but he didn't (James). Why? The fleet would have supported his dwindling navy.
4. Hitler halted his armies at Dunkirk and allowed the British to escape when their back was to the sea. Why did he do this when he could have easily defeated them (James)?
5. The Germans got their oil from the American company Standard Oil. It was shipped to Spain and transported through France (which had surrendered to Germany) (James).
6. Many Japanese Cities were firebombed by the Americans. Why?
The firebombing in Tokyo killed approximately 100,000 innocent civilians. Many of these were women and children and the elderly. An estimated 500,000 innocent people were killed in the infernos created by the firebombing during some 67 bombing raids. Then, we dropped two atomic bombs on innocent civilians, wiping out Hiroshima and Nagasaki (James).
Worshippers of Moloch burned their children to please their satanic god (who is Satan). Satanists sacrifice human victims. This horrible practice is still happening in America (James). (See this article: The End of April: A Time ofHuman Sacrifice.)


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|Twitter chat: ask experts about food safety on World Health Day 2015
WHO/Europe, together with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), is hosting a live Twitter chat on food safety risks, recommendations to help minimize the spread of foodborne diseases, and the work of each partner in this area. Experts from each organization will be available to answer your questions.
The chat will take place on Tuesday, 7 April 2015, from 12:00–13:00 UTC/GMT (14:00–15:00 CEST/Copenhagen/Rome/Stockholm time).
A safe and nutritious food supply is essential for good health. Unsafe food can lead to a range of health problems, with new threats to food safety constantly emerging. In 2013, there were over 310 000 reported cases of bacterial foodborne disease in the European Union/European Economic Area alone, which resulted in 322 deaths.
How to send questions
Tweet your questions to @WHO_Europe, using the hashtag #safefoodchat.
If you are unable to join the live chat, put questions to the experts on WHO/Europe's Facebook page.
A summary of the discussions will be available after the chat.
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Economic crisis, fears and fragmentation in Europe
March 11, 2013
Over the weekend, we saw protests against austerity across Spain. This comes after a report last week that the number of unemployed people in Spain surpassed 5 million. Also during the last week, large protests occurred in Portugal, another European country strongly hit by the economic crisis. However, Portugal has been the favorite of the troika, because the Passos Coelho government applied austerity during a relatively stable political situation, with the opposition unpopular and the unions split. But the Portuguese people, tired of austerity, are now openly demanding that the government step down. After the protests, Portuguese President Anibal Cayaco Silva — though he was probably aware that he is one of the targets of the protests — said that "the voices that made themselves heard simply cannot be ignored."
Portugal and Ireland are asking for more time to repay their bailout loans. Portugal is due to complete its rescue program in 2014 but Lisbon and Dublin are trying to use Greece — which got concessions in 2012 — as a precedent to demand equal treatment. EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said last week that EU finance ministers could commit next month to giving Ireland and Portugal more time to repay their bailout loans. It is likely that conditions will be loosened, since the European Union wants to show how bailout countries are recovering and able to return to international markets. Moreover, the European Union is becoming more and more aware that the austerity measures are causing growing social unease, especially in Portugal.
News of leaders criticizing the EU for its austerity policies also came from France last week. France has enjoyed relative stability during the crisis, but French Finance Minister Pierre Mosovici is very much aware of the potential for extremist political groups to rise in popularity. He said that continuing a strict course of spending cuts and tax increases would only "nourish a social crisis that leads to populism." Moreover, Moscovici referred to Italy's election result as "a message" that the current pace of budget cuts and structural reforms without a credible growth strategy is not sustainable and will ultimately backfire. Italian elections and UK euroskepticism also inspired far-right politician Marine Le Pen to repeat the idea for a referendum on France's membership in the European Union. She first called for the referendum during last year's presidential election has now put a date on it — January 2014 — and added that if the French president doesn't allow it, her party will turn the next European parliamentary elections into a referendum. Considering the claims coming from both opposition and government, we can well say that both are uncomfortable with France's role in the European Union.
While reports that the United Kingdom is studying how to reduce immigration are no longer surprising, when Germany and Finland said last week they will vote against Romanian and Bulgarian accession to Schengen, many interpreted the move as being fuelled by internal fears of increased migration coming from the non-EU states east and south, which could weaken the national social security systems of the EU core countries.
All these are underlying the general worry in Europe that the current status quo could deteriorate into a continent-wide political crisis that may put into question the existence of the EU as it is today. As Stratfor's George Friedman said in his last analysis on Europe:
"The crisis of unemployment is a political crisis, and that political crisis will undermine all of the institutions Europe has worked so hard to craft. For 17 years Europe thrived, but that was during one of the most prosperous times in history. It has now encountered one of the nightmares of all countries and an old and deep European nightmare: unemployment on a massive scale. The test of Europe is not sovereign debt. It is whether it can avoid old and bad habits rooted in unemployment."
In the European periphery, so far we have seen people angry with their national leaders and tired of austerity that affects their lives directly. We have not seen any significant demonstrations against the euro, the common European currency. On the contrary, while polls show that Greeks are tired of feeling the results of austerity, they still don't see leaving the Eurozone as a solution to their pain. Similarly, Italians have voted against their mainstream politicians but only a few Italians want the lira back. This shows that the politicians still have some room to maneuver to "fix" things at the EU level. Once a significant segment of the population starts calling for their countries leaving the eurozone, we should worry. That's the moment when social problems will indeed pose a dramatic question to the very existence of the EU. And the question will most probably be answered by populist parties, which always benefit from social unrest…
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New EU Parliament election is due on May 2014 and much hope is pinned on a "regenerate" team to come to terms with the situation that you rightly mention. It is to be hoped that the crisis will not get out of hand in the mean time.
The sooner the Eu (whatever that is exactly?) understands that it's no universally loved,and that the UK is not the only country that has sceptics, the sooner it will start working for the people and national governments instead of making it's own agenda towards a Federal Europe where it will rule supreme. I think the EU and it's Europhiles have got to much power they need to be put in to line.
Case for example is the EU budget. The national leaders of the EU countries decided an amount to be paid to the EU. Remember this is paid by ordinary taxpayers who are feeling the brunt of the financial crises. And the arrogant MEP'S, who earn more in two months that many people in the EU earn in a year, decide to reject the budget and demand more!!! How arrogant can these fools be.
I think the nations of Europe are at a tipping point. There are Millions of 15 to 25 year olds who are unemployed right now and there is little or no prospect of that changing for a long time. This is a ticking time bomb and unless the lofty elite in Brussels realise this then all it will take is some charismatic personality to light the blue touch paper and watch the bomb go off.
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I need a new place to hide. Does anyone have any suggestions? As you all know the bath has always been my sacred place. That is where I go to be alone. Saturday night in particular is absolute bliss for me as Derek usually cooks and I take a book and champagne in to the spa for some peace and quiet. But as you have heard previously it just isn't working anymore. I need a new sacred space! Take last Saturday for example. It was the first Saturday in a few weeks that we were home and I was able to escape to the bathroom. So I got my brand new Marian Keyes novel out, lit a few candles and grabbed a glass of bubbles. I slid quietly into the bath and turned on the jets. I opened my book to page 1. Door opens.
"What are you doing Mummy?"
"I'm having a bath"
"Ok. Bye Mummy"
"Bye Darby"
Page 1, paragraph 1. Door opens.
"Hello Wife"
"Hello Husband"
"Just coming in for a perv"
"Ok Husband". Door closes
Page 1, paragraph 1. Door opens
"Hey Mum, where's the dog food?"
"If it's not in the cupboard Tahlia then maybe it is still in the car from when I did the groceries today." Door closes.
Page 1, paragraph 1. Silence. Ahhhh. Short lived. Door opens.
"Just coming in for another perv". Hairy eye ball stare at husband. Door closes.
Page 1, paragraph 2. Making progress. Door opens.
"Mummy, where is the dog food?"
"I've just suggested to Tahlia that it may still be in the car. It might not have got unpacked from the shopping today."
"Oh, ok. Bye Mum." He is so polite and by saying goodbye every time he exits shows he actually has good intentions I suppose.
"Bye Darby." Door closes.
Page 1, paragraph 2. Door opens.
"Hey Mum, I can make my eyebrows wiggle!"
"You are very talented Darby." Door closes.
Phone is ringing. I listen for footsteps. Bingo. Here they come. How fascinating!! I give up. Bath over. I give in to the world and exit utopia.
I need a new place to hide. Does anyone have any suggestions?
PS I asked Derek to put a lock on the bathroom door to allow for privacy. He said (and I quote) "I'll put a lock on there when you are old and saggy and not worth looking at". Apparently the day I find a lock in place I shouldn't take it as a compliment ...
Thursday, December 3, 2009
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Breitling has introduced a special edition of its Superocean that can be used at depths of 1000m underwater.
The Superocean 44 Special, which is offered in black or blue versions, has a twin-gasket screw-locked crown and a security valve that balances pressure differences inside and outside the case.
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The 44mm steel watch houses a mechanical selfwinding Breitling 17 movement.
The watch can be bought with a black rubber strap or steel bracelet.


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vague terrain 04: the body digital is now live
The fourth issue of the Toronto based digital arts quarterly is dedicated to surveying contemporary conceptions of the body in light of digital technology. This issue features work from: Andrea Polli, Andrew Bucksbarg, Chris Twomey, Ellen Waterman, Jenny Mason, Skyapnea, Suguro Goto, Susanna Hood, Testroom, and an interview with Stelarc conducted by David McCallum.
You can examine the work at http://vagueterrain.net/content/archives/journal04/journal04.html
Thanks for the continued support!
greg smith & neil wiernik editors/curators http://www.vagueterrain.net


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Kin Canada signs W Network stars
Maripier Morin (pictured) and Cheryl Torrenueva are set to launch their own channels on the MCN.
Kin Community Canada has signed two Corus Entertainment broadcast talents to be the faces of two new channels in its
W Network stars Maripier Morin (Hockey Wives) and Cherryl Torrenueva (Game of Homes) have signed on to front new channels Pardon My French and Simply Cher Cher, respectively.
The channels, the result of a partnership between the Santa Monica-based Kin Community and Toronto-based Corus Entertainment, will be Kin's first channels featuring Corus talent.
The new YouTube channels are an attempt to expose traditional television viewers to a digital platform and vice versa, said John MacDonald, VP, television and head of women's and family networks at Corus.
"Television and YouTube are complementary instead of replacements for one another," said MacDonald, who confirmed that both Morin and Torrenueva will continue their work on their respective television series. "I don't see people leaving television entirely to go to YouTube, nor do I see people leaving YouTube to go to television."
Pardon my French will feature Morin (pictured) and her take on fashion, beauty and lifestyle, while Simply Cher Cher will see Torrenueva offer her perspective on home design, as well as health and beauty tips.
"I think they'll bring with them some television fans, who maybe the experience of working with YouTube and Kin Community is new for them," says MacDonald. He also believes that a new YouTube audience will translate to new television viewers. Currently, MacDonald estimates that the median age of viewers on their TV shows is in the high 40s, and predicts that the YouTube audience will fall more in the mid-30s.
Rick Matthews, senior manager of partnerships with Kin Community Canada says these kinds of channels offer a more authentic experience for viewers, with their stars acting as creators rather than hosts.
"At the end of the day, you are absolutely in control of the content, and you can represent your brand the way you want to," says Matthews.
- From StreamDaily