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San Diego Planning Commission clears way for sale of city property across from La Jolla High
The San Diego Planning Commission voted to vacate this 0.42-acre parcel on the southeast corner of West Muirlands Drive and Fay Avenue, making it available for sale.
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By Ashley Mackin-Solomon
The San Diego Planning Commission voted to vacate from the city's inventory a small piece of land across from La Jolla High School, meaning the city can sell the property. The proposal was voted down by La Jolla's planning groups in 2018 but unanimously approved by commissioners during their Jan. 28 meeting online.
The 0.42-acre site spans two lots at the southeast corner of West Muirlands Drive and Fay Avenue.
Catherine Rom, a San Diego Development Services Department project manager, said the city acquired the lots for public street purposes in the late 1960s. "Fay Avenue has since been constructed to its ultimate width, consistent with the La Jolla Community Plan," she said.
In 2018, when the La Jolla Development Permit Review Committee heard the issue, city real estate asset manager Mary Carlson said part of the reason San Diego wants to vacate the property is that it houses a run-down, vacant duplex and "right now there are no funds to renovate it."
Several planning commissioners asked whether the space could be used as a small park, but Rom said the parcel was offered to the Parks & Recreation Department and "it was not anything that or the other departments were interested in acquiring for development."
Parks & Recreation determined "it would be difficult to manage because of the slope and because [disabled] access would be difficult because of the slope and small size," Carlson said.
Concerns were raised about access for one nearby resident who uses part of the property to reach the resident's garage from Fay Avenue. However, there is another access point from West Muirlands Drive, and city representatives said they would work with the resident to ensure access.
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Planning Commission Vice Chairman James Whalen asked whether the property would be offered to an affordable-home developer, "or is it just going to be listed on the open market?"
Carlson said the city would notify all the required entities of the land availability, including affordable-housing builders. "They have 60 days to get back to the city with their interest in the property," she said. "If we see interest from these agencies, we are required to negotiate with them for 90 days."
A motion to support the public right-of-way vacation passed unanimously.
In 2018, the DPR Committee voted down the proposal to vacate the parcel. The matter proceeded to the La Jolla Community Planning Association, which approved the down vote without discussion.
At the time, DPR members argued that the property could be used for things such as a small parking lot or overflow parking for La Jolla High School students. ◆
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Welcome to the new dawn at Ferrari. Having flown the naturally-aspirated flag for as long as possible, eventually even the most sacred of sports car makers has had to bow to regulatory pressures and turn to turbos.
Our initial taste of Ferrari's forced induction future, the California T, proved promising, however the addition of a pair of air compressors to Maranello's new super sports car, the 458-replacing 488 GTB, is a much bigger deal.
Any slight hesitation in power delivery, something that would be almost a non-issue in a GT car, will be a fatal flaw in a machine that has driver involvement as its raison d'être. Still, two of the finest tracks on Ferrari's Greatest Hits album, the 288 GTO and iconic F40, have been powered by boosted V8s, and with F1 once again a turbo formula, there's the opportunity for technology to transfer directly from the racetrack to the road.
However, in quiet moments, Ferrari engineers admit that forced induction wouldn't have been on the agenda had it not been forced upon them, but having no choice in the matter, they've clearly decided to make the most of the situation.
The new 488 GTB's 4.0-litre V8 has sacrificed half a litre of engine capacity compared to the outgoing 458's naturally-aspirated unit, but two turbos have sent outputs into the stratosphere.
Compare the 445kW/540Nm produced by the wild 458 Speciale to the 488's 492kW/760Nm. And while the new turbo engine is unable to match the atmo's dizzying 9000rpm redline, it still develops peak power at 8000rpm while maximum torque is on tap from just 3000rpm. Unsurprisingly, given the associated plumbing adds just 10kg to the 458's 1465kg, performance also lifts to a whole new level.
The 0-100km/h sprint is down 0.4sec to a meagre three seconds dead, while top speed lifts to "over 330km/h". Most astounding of all is the 488's 0-200km/h time, the truest 21st century indicator of performance, particularly for cars hamstrung by remaining two-wheel drive. At 8.3sec, Maranello's new weapon destroys its predecessor by a staggering 2.1sec. This is performance in a different league.
Still, while it's all change under the bonnet – or bootlid in this case – some things, like the Ferrari launch schedule, never change. Our initial exposure to the 488 is to take place at Fiorano, under the guidance of 34-year-old Raffaele de Simone, Ferrari's friendly and super-talented chief test driver.
A protégé of the legendary Dario Benuzzi, de Simone is responsible for ensuring that each new Ferrari not only has segment-leading performance, but that that performance is accessible to the average Ferrari owner – no easy feat when the new 488 is capable of lapping Fiorano in 1min23sec, half a second quicker than the 458 Speciale and, staggeringly, almost two seconds faster than the Enzo.
Key to this tremendous ability is, as with all new Ferraris, the masterful integration and calibration of electronic systems. Those sufficiently confident in their own abilities can, of course, fly solo, but such is the level of expression permitted by the second-generation Side Slip Control that only the most committed of drifters will feel the need to switch the systems off.
SSC is now also able to adjust the dampers to subtly alter the 488's weight shift and keep the car teetering on the edge of adhesion, all the while making the driver feel that pole position on an F1 grid is easily within their grasp.
Ingesting a maximum 1.5bar (21psi) of boost, the 4.0-litre V8 revs with such vigour and eagerness that the LED shift lights atop the steering wheel are rarely unlit. Fears of lethargic throttle response are unfounded – Ferrari claims the response time at 2000rpm in third gear is 0.8sec – an undetectable 0.1sec slower than the Speciale – thanks to the turbos housing titanium-aluminium alloy compressor wheels mounted on ball-bearing shafts.
To aid traction and allow the use of shorter, acceleration-enhancing gear ratios, each individual gear has its own torque map, the full 760Nm only available in seventh. It's an unusual but perfectly effective strategy, mimicking the performance crescendo of a naturally-aspirated engine but with always enough urge on tap to evaporate the 305/30 rear Michelin Pilot Super Sports at will.
Weight may have crept up a token 10kg to 1475kg, but the 488 feels more agile, manoeuvrable and light-footed than its predecessor, though the now-traditional super light, ultra-fast Ferrari steering makes it easy to overdrive the car by turning in too early or using exaggerated inputs.
The trick is to simply trust the car, to keep it on a reasonably long leash and let it sort itself out. You can brake hilariously late yet get back on the throttle eerily early, but maintaining a smooth line is essential.
With the track time over and our bellies full of traditional Italian cuisine, we're heading for the lush green hills not far from Maranello and the road that links Pavullo and Vignola, made famous by a thousand photo shoots and now frequently a YouTube star as well.
The combination of many hot summers and cold winters – not to mention the occasional earthquake – has left this tarmac badly scarred, with crater-deep potholes that could swallow a Vespa, broken pavement and puffy undulations.
It's a tough test for any car, let alone a ground-hugging, low-flying supercar, but it's one the 488 GTB must pass, for the majority of owners will spend far more time traversing the occasionally uncomfortable streets of Los Angeles, Sydney and London than they will hot-lapping perfectly manicured racetracks.
If anything, this new Ferrari is even more impressive out in the real world. One press of the 'bumpy road' button on the steering wheel, introduced in the 430 Scuderia at the behest of Michael Schumacher, so the story goes, decouples the dampers from the manettino setting, allowing the powertrain to be set to its sharpest setting while retaining full suspension compliance.
It works wonders, particularly on this third-rate stretch of Italian back road, with no bottoming out or nervous sidesteps. It's a confidence-inspiring setup, always connected and communicative, never feeling wayward.
On the road, the 488 is a latent threat to your driving licence thanks to the velocities it can achieve in the blink of an eye. Thankfully, the tireless Brembo carbon ceramic brakes, lifted from the LaFerrari, are able to shed giant chunks of speed with tireless efficiency.
Hold the left-hand gearshift paddle while doing so and the seven-speed dual-clutch will fire in downshifts as soon as mechanically able, swapping ratios effectively instantly with a perfectly timed flare of revs.
Oh yes, the noise. Has the arrival of noise-suppressing turbos created a Prancing Horse without voice? Hardly. In truth, since the arrival of the flat-plane V8, Ferraris have never been particularly musical, lacking the operatic range of a V10 or brutal thunder of a more traditional bent-eight. The 488 continues this tradition, sounding very similar to the outgoing 458 in volume and timbre, albeit a little smoother and more refined.
Although it raises the high-tech bar by one full notch, Ferrari's latest brainchild follows a relatively economical and straightforward engineering concept and the result is a more accessible, better balanced and absolutely confidence-inspiring car. There is no need for the exotic construction, rear-wheel steering or all-wheel drive favoured by some of Ferrari's rivals, just engineering of the highest order.
Responsible for this mechanical wizardry are folks such as Vittorio Dini, who's been able to turn the California T's grand-touring-focused engine into a proper sports car masterpiece, and Enrico Cardile, whose aerodynamic mastery works wonders for speed and stability without resorting to in-your-face wings that would compromise weight and drag, as well as beauty.
And speaking of beauty, kudos must go to Flavio Manzoni's design, which makes what is essentially a facelifted 458 look like an entirely new car. It's a relatively simple design, devoid of unnecessary ornamentation, spoiled only by the gaping intakes in the rear haunches, a necessary evil to feed the boosted engine the enormous quantities of air it needs.
As the afternoon draws to a close, attention turns to more prosaic matters. Practicality may not be front of mind for most potential Ferrari buyers, but it is no coincidence that sales have exploded in the 20 years since former boss Luca di Montezemolo decreed that Ferraris must be useable everyday.
The 488 takes a further step forward, incorporating keyless entry-and-go for the first time. Italian ergonomics are also a thing of the past, with comfortable standard seats, all major controls located at your fingertips and good vision. Only the lack of a head-up display and sat-nav that dates back to when Michael Schumacher was top dog at Maranello stand out as needing improvement.
Perhaps it is time to rethink our perception of Ferrari. Noisy, uncompromising, capricious – these familiar attributes no longer apply. The 458 was the last old-school mid-engined two-seater built in the holy halls of Modena, and we'll miss its extreme nature and its ability to fuse itself directly to the driver's nervous system.
The 488 GTB is the first new-school model, more sensible, homogenous and comfortable. But while it may be a slightly less emotional driving machine, it is undeniably the faster and more complete car. However, for those addicted to the old-school thrills, remember that there is still the 488 Spyder and Speciale still to come.
Specs: Ferrari 488 GTB
Body: 2-door, 2-seat coupe
Drive: rear-wheel
Engine: 3902cc V8, DOHC, 32v
Bore/stroke: 86.5 x 83.0mm
Compression: 9.4:1
Power: 492kW @ 8000rpm
Torque: 760Nm @ 3000rpm
Power/weight: 334kW/tonne
0-100km/h: 3.0sec (claimed)
Weight: 1475kg
Suspension: double A-arms, adaptive dampers, anti-roll bar (f); multi-links, adaptive dampers, anti-roll bar (r)
L/W/H: 4568/1952/1213mm
Tracks: 1679/1647mm
Steering: electrically-assisted rack-and-pinion
Brakes: 398mm ventilated carbon discs, 6-piston calipers (f); 380mm ventilated carbon discs, 6-piston calipers (r)
Wheels: 20 x 9.0-inch (f); 20 x 11.0-inch (r)
Tyres: 245/35 ZR20 (f); 305/30 ZR20 (r); Michelin Pilot Super Sport
Price: $540,000 (estimated)
Positives: Otherworldly performance; supreme comfort; benchmark handling
Negatives: No more atmo V8; we miss the Speciale; waiting list is already very long
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Sri Lanka president agrees to summon parliament on Nov 7
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has agreed to summon parliament on Nov. 7, speaker Karu Jayasuriya said on Friday, following calls by political parties for a floor test to determine which party held the majority.
The country was thrown into political turmoil after Sirisena appointed opposition leader Mahinda Rajapaksa as prime minister last week after abruptly dismissing the government of Ranil Wickremesinghe.
Wickremesinghe has said his removal is unconstitutional and has demanded he be allowed to prove his majority in the 225-member parliament.
"President called me over the phone and stated to call the parliament on Nov. 7," Jayasuriya told lawmakers.
On Thursday, Rajapaksa said president Sirisena had told him that parliament will be reconvened on Nov. 5.
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Kings 117, Cavalier 104: The Kings win an ugly one
It wasn't pretty but it'll do.
By Greg@gwiss Apr 4, 2019, 9:14pm PDT
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It wasn't a pretty game, but the Sacramento Kings finally opened the floodgates in the late fourth quarter to defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers 117-104. Sadly, the score doesn't truly tell you how close the Kings let the Cavs stay throughout the game. It's frustrating watching the Kings play down to their competition, but at least they closed it out and got the victory.
De'Aaron Fox led the Kings with 16 points, 10 assists, and three rebounds, while Buddy Hield had a team high 23 points. Bogdan Bogdanovic finished with 18 points, five assists and four rebounds. His scoring included some big threes at the end of the third and start of the fourth quarter than really swung momentum for the Kings. Marvin Bagley III has a quiet first half but finished with 15 points and eight rebounds in just 20 minutes of action.
Regardless of the aesthetics, the Kings now have 39 wins and 40 losses for the year. They play again tomorrow night against the Utah Jazz. That's right, another back to back, traveling to higher altitude. I'm sure it will be great.
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L Devine releases new single 'Priorities'
L Devine fuels anticipation for the release of her 'NEAR LIFE EXPERIENCE: PART 1' project by sharing her brand-new single 'PRIORITIES'
Alt-pop singer-songwriter L Devine fuels anticipation for the release of her 'NEAR LIFE EXPERIENCE: PART 1' project by sharing her brand-new single 'PRIORITIES'. The track premiered as Annie Mac's Hottest Record in the World and was the third time that L Devine has been honoured with that accolade. 'PRIORITIES' follows the recent single 'Girls Like Sex', which spent four weeks on the Radio 1 playlist while earning widespread streaming and tastemaker support.
PRIORITIES' shows L Devine's flair for writing songs that express universal experiences with the unguarded honesty of a diary entry. It's a song about a breaking point in a relationship. "When I see the time of my life I see you in the centre," she confesses, but that adoration isn't returned: "You put a drink with your friends twice a week before you put me." Yet L Devinecounters those themes of heartbreak with utterly uplifting pop powered electronica and the vocal talent of a future icon.
L Devine says, "I had the title 'Priorities' in mind for a while. I just wanted to get my frustrations in a relationship out, as I was so maddened that this person wasn't putting me first, like I was with them. Over time, the song's meaning has changed for me. Now it makes me think of the journey I've been on with myself since I wrote it. I've realised all the things I list in the song that this person is prioritising over me, are things I should be doing for myself. I was so fixated on putting my whole self-worth onto this person when really, I just needed to stop and look after myself."
'PRIORITIES' is launched alongside an equally striking official video, which is tightly focused on L Devine's performance. The visual deploys rapid-fire x-ray FX and simulates increasingly chronic wounds across her face as a symbolic representation of the song's escalating emotions.
She will then make her long awaited return to touring in September when she embarks upon a major UK headline tour, which includes her biggest show to date at Heaven. The dates are:
25th – Liverpool, Arts Club
26th – Newcastle, Riverside
28th – Glasgow, Stereo
29th – Edinburgh, The Caves
1st – Manchester, The Deaf Institute
2nd – Birmingham, O2 Institute 3
4th – Bristol, Thekla
5th – London, Heaven
6th – Brighton, Chalk
17th – Hull, Central Library
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Tag: Hans J. Wegner
Custom Wall-mounted Daybed by Hans J. Wegner
In June 2022 this daybed by Hans J. Wegner was not sold by Wright It was was designed by Wegner in 1960 for the architectural structural engineer, Ove Arup.
Author gjePosted on January 12, 2023 January 13, 2023 Categories chair auction, daybedTags Hans J. Wegner, wood, WrightLeave a comment on Custom Wall-mounted Daybed by Hans J. Wegner
Ge460 Butterfly Armchair by Hans J. Wegner
Ge460 Butterfly Armchair by Hans J. Wegner for Getama
The GE460 "Butterfly" is designed by Hans J. Wegner. The chair "Butterfly" is like a butterfly that is ready to put off.
It was created and shown for the first time in 1977, but was designed in terms of its time.
The design is sculptural with a clear division into the load -bearing – the massive frame – and the borne – shells.
"Butterfly" is especially suitable as a freestanding chair, but with its parallel sides can also be placed on straight rows.
Author gjePosted on January 11, 2023 January 12, 2023 Categories armchairTags Getama, Hans J. WegnerLeave a comment on Ge460 Butterfly Armchair by Hans J. Wegner
GE 375 Easy Chair by Hans J. Wegner for GETAMA
Via 1stdibs a Berlin seller offers this GE 375 Easy Chair by Hans J. Wegner (designed for Getama) for sale at Euro €2,750.
Author gjePosted on April 17, 2020 January 4, 2023 Categories armchairTags Getama, Hans J. WegnerLeave a comment on GE 375 Easy Chair by Hans J. Wegner for GETAMA
Henry Fisker passed away
Henry Fisker
Fisker with Wegner
I found this in memoriam today on the FaceBook page of PPMoebler
A legend in Danish woodworking has left us.
Cabinetmaker Henry Fisker was born February 21, 1928 in Vejen, Denmark, and in his childhood he got a close friend in the neighbor's 5 year older boy Ejnar Pedersen. Henry was trained cabinetmaker from Schou Andersen in Vejen and then moved to Allerød, north of Copenhagen, to work with Ejnar and Ejnar's big brother Lars Peder Pedersen. They first worked at Knud Willadsen's workshop at Gl. Lyngevej, where Henry and the two brothers were a major driving force. But when Knud's workshop burned down and had to close, Ejnar and Lars Peder founded PP Møbler on the corner of Toftevej and Vestvej. Shortly after the new small workshop was completed, Henry was recruited and developed a unique lifework by thoroughly and stubbornly building a craft culture with an uncompromising attitude to quality and a relentless appetite to solve all kinds of craft challenges – including those apparently impossible.
Wood was the fascination for Henry, and he meticulously analyzed the properties of each type of wood in order to obtain the optimal utilization of their qualities and adapt his machine layouts to perfect the processing of each item. Understanding wood and how it behaves when working with it was the objective, and for Henry, machinery was the tool, and he worked intensely and ambitiously to find the best technical solution to a craft challenge. His work was very tangible, but the ideas behind was always innovative and imaginative, and when he worked with the most difficult tasks, Henry often wished he could get around the laws of gravity.
Henry has made a great number of prototypes and productions of furniture designed by designers, artists and architects such as Poul Kjærholm, Finn Juhl, Gunnar Aagaard Andersen, Nanna Ditzel, Ole Gjerløv Knudsen and many others, but most of his work has been focused on development and production of furniture designed by Hans J. Wegner, with whom Henry enjoyed a lifelong friendship. Wegner and Henry had a deep mutual understanding of the craft and a common fascination of wood both as an element of nature and as a material for the craftsman.
Henry, or Fisker as he was called, worked at PP Møbler continuously for more than 50 years and in 2004 he received the Queen's honorary medal for faithful service. Henry was stubborn and always told his opinion straight, also to the management, and he generously shared his knowledge. He has been a key driving force in building the exceptional quality for which PP Møbler has become world-renowned, and he stands as a brilliant representative of the very spirit of the workshop.
Despite his immense experience, however, he never stopped learning, and he continued to allow himself new insight; as he said: "I'll never be done with wood. Being a skilled woodworker is a lifelong education".
Henry Fisker died at the age of 91.
Author gjePosted on April 10, 2019 January 4, 2023 Categories chair historyTags Hans J. Wegner, PP MoblerLeave a comment on Henry Fisker passed away
PP530 Tub Chair by Hans J. Wegner
The green PP530 Tub Chair by Hans Wegner I saw in the Design Museum Danmark in Kopenhagen.
PP Mobler about it:
Conceived in 1954 the Tub Chair was a pioneering experiment, and it turned out to be the most advanced shell chair design Wegner ever did, as the back of the chair is a complicated double bent shell comprising two individual shapes: One that is bent and one that is both bent and twisted.
Even besides the complexity of the back, the Tub Chair is a unique fusion, where Wegner merge the moulded plywood technique with upholstery and traditional work in solid wood and even adding a metal angle adjustment mechanism for the back. It is one of the most striking and brilliant examples of Wegner's vision and courage, and still it is a most practical, usable and comfortable chair.
However, the Tub Chair was not technically possible to produce in a rational way within the lifetime of Wegner. As our techniques have developed, PP Møbler has been able to produce this great tribute and introduce this bold design in celebration of the 100 years anniversary of Wegner, one of the greatest designers of all times.
The black one I found at the auction site of Phillips where an early model was sold for UK pound 50,000 in October 2015
The Catalogue about it:
The present lot is one of two known period examples of the 'Tub' chair, a model which did not enter into wider production during Hans J. Wegner's lifetime. The chair seat is composed of two pieces of fabric-covered moulded plywood. It rests on a dramatically angled oak base and is supported by a brass mechanism that allows for adjustment of the back angle. Its complexity prohibited fabrication in greater number, though it was included in the 1954 Cabinetmaker's Guild exhibition in Copenhagen. The chair is a notable example of Wegner's explorations into the possibilities of plywood, but ultimately the demands of employing both laminate and solid wood construction concurrently were too great and he chose to focus on the latter.
The design of the 'Tub' chair shares the intuitive elegance of Wegner's other furniture, and references certain features of his most well-known chair designs specifically. While structurally more elaborate, the clamshell-form seat relates to the 'Peacock' chair (1947) and the forceful forward movement of the base to the 'Folding' chair (1949). The 'Tub' most closely anticipates Wegner's 'Shell' chair of 1963. It is notable that even a decade after the introduction of the 'Tub', the 'Shell' form was still considered too radical for its time. It was following the 'Shell' chair designs that Wegner closed the chapter on his experiments with plywood. However by 1989 it was picked for the cover of the catalogue for the exhibition celebrating Wegner's 77th birthday and has since become one of his most iconic masterpieces. The present chair is consequently a rare illustration of some of his earliest career-defining ideas.
Author gjePosted on October 17, 2017 January 5, 2023 Categories chair auction, chair collectionTags black, Design Museum Danmark, green, Hans J. Wegner, Phillips, Phillips (Phillips de Pury & Company), PP MoblerLeave a comment on PP530 Tub Chair by Hans J. Wegner


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ESET Appoints the Cricket Legend Kumar Sangakkara as Brand Ambassador in Sri Lanka
Kumar Sangakkara, one of the most influential cricketers of all time and former captain of the Sri Lankan National Team, was appointed as ESET Brand Ambassador in Sri Lanka.
Sangakkara's designation comes at the right time for Sri Lanka, where , with rising interest on the importance of cyber security awareness in Sri Lanka.
"I'm very excited to be supporting ESET in Sri Lanka as their official Brand Ambassador. The business world is increasingly using Internet based resources and in keeping with global trends, Internet usage rate in Sri Lanka has increased considerably. There is also an increase in usage of hand held devices for surfing the web for work and for leisure. This means that the risk of cyber-threats looms large and it's critical for all of us to know how to protect ourselves from online threats," said Kumar Sangakkara.
According to Parvinder Walia, Sales and Marketing Director for Asia Pacific at ESET, the biggest challenge in cyber security is building awareness of the threats that exist online, educating consumers about online safety best practices, and reminding them to stay vigilant.
"With Kumar Sangakkara on board as our Brand Ambassador, we are looking forward to building a greater awareness of cyber security issues in Sri Lanka and making the online world safer for businesses and consumers," concluded Walia.
ESET provides exceptional country-specific cyber security coverage and also provides alerts on threats specific to Sri Lanka, ensuring that Sri Lankan businesses and consumers can stay safe from online threats, reiterates Walia.
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City of Jenks unveils plan for downtown redevelopment project
City of Jenks
The City of Jenks unveils a proposal for a mixed-use development project for the city's downtown area. Jan. 10, 2022.
By: Ryan Love
JENKS, Okla. — Jenks city leaders unveiled a plan Monday for a redevelopment project in the city's downtown area.
The proposal would turn the 4.1-acre site on Main Street between Birch Street and a railroad parallel to First Street into a mixed-use development.
"Staff has been hard at work preparing this RFP," Jenks Mayor Cory Box said. "This is a once-in-a-lifetime redevelopment opportunity and we're very excited to release this and explore the private sector's ideas."
A map showing the part of downtown Jenks that would host the city's redeveloped mixed-use project. Jan. 10, 2022.
The development would include retail, office and residential use potential.
The city says the development's goals would also include expanding the sales tax base and improving the city's economy and walkability.
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Profiling Undergraduate Soil Science Education in Canada
Members of our committee have been involved in several recent initiatives:
In 2018, we carried out a survey of professionals and managers who recruit, supervise, or work directly with soil science professionals, with a goal to gather feedback regarding the application of soil science knowledge and field skills in the areas of agriculture, environment, forestry, and/or resource management.
In 2017, we completed a study of Canadian post-secondary units that offer introductory soil science courses, documenting attributes of instructors, students, and teaching approaches in these courses. The findings of this study are published in:
Krzic, M., T. Yates, A. Diochon, M. Swalow, N. Basiliko, and M. Pare. 2018. Introductory soils courses: a frontier of soil science education in Canada. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 98:343-356. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjss-2018-0006
You can find the survey questions here.
In 2015-2016, we carried out an inventory of soil science course offerings at Canadian universities and colleges; the findings of this inventory are published in:
Diochon, A., N. Basiliko, M. Krzic, T.T. Yates, E. Olson, J. Masse, B. Amiro, and D. Kumaragamage. 2017. Profiling undergraduate soil science education in Canada: Status and projected trends. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 97(2): 122-132. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjss-2016-0058
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Biden accuses Sanders campaign of sharing "doctored" video
No. 10 Louisville hands No. 3 Duke its second loss of the week
Queen Sugar Continues Its Matriarchy, Adds 4 New Directors. Cree Summer and Bryan Terrell Clark to Guest Star
(L-R): Cree Summer on May 10, 2019 in North Hollywood, Ca.; Bryan Terrell Clark on April 30, 2018 in New York City.
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Less than a week 'til we're back with the Bordelons!
Queen Sugar has been living up to its titular name, having been helmed exclusively by queens—all female directors handpicked by creator and executive producer Ava DuVernay. The fourth season is adding more directors: award-winning music video director Lacey Duke, C. Fitz, Pratibha Parmar, Deborah Kampmeier and Stacey Muhammad. With these additions, that means Queen Sugar boasts 32 female filmmakers who have made their U.S. scripted television directing debuts.
On Tuesday, Kofi Siriboe (who portrays Ralph Angel) posted a fun behind-the-scenes pic with the caption, "First male director of Queen Sugar."
Ha! Too cute.
As for what to expect with the fourth season … whew. Mess will be had.
Per the official press release:
In the series' fourth season, the contemporary drama returns as the Bordelons find themselves continuing their fight to save their family farm and preserve their father's legacy as they navigate their own personal journeys. Charley (Dawn-Lyen Gardner) remains in the thick of the trials and tribulations in both her personal and professional life as she continues to battle the Landry family while also trying to ensure Micah's (Nicholas Ashe) safety and future. Nova (Rutina Wesley) publishes her memoir and while she goes on a book tour around the country sharing her family secrets and shaking things up at home, she unexpectedly encounters significant relationships from her past along the way. Ralph Angel (Kofi Siriboe) is managing fatherhood and his complicated relationship with ex-girlfriend Darla (Bianca Lawson) after learning he is not the biological father of his son, Blue (Ethan Hutchison), and is encouraged by an old friend to create opportunities for formerly incarcerated men.
Listen. This show is set on a gorgeous sugar farm and Season 4 is about to deliver some sweet tea.
Also, Cree Summer (A Different World) and Bryan Terrell Clark (Hamilton) will be making guest appearances this season. Summer will portray professor Octavia Laurent, a past love of Nova Bordelon (Rutina Wesley) who will be poppin' up on Nova during her book tour stop in Atlanta. Oops, pow, surprise! Clark will heat things up as Darla's (Bianca Lawson) new love interest. Summer and Clark will be joining an exciting guest star list including David Alan Grier, Tevin Campbell, Erica Tazel, and Kendall Clark.
Season 4 of Queen Sugar returns Wednesday, June 12 at 9 p.m. ET / PT on OWN.
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Lawmakers Look To Pass Budget, Float Sales Tax Increase
by Christine Stuart June 22, 2017, 2:20 pm January 21, 2021, 7:01 pm
House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz and House Majority Leader Matt Ritter (Christine Stuart / ctnewsjunkie)
HARTFORD, CT — (Updated 4:17 p.m.) With the governor threatening to veto any resolution the legislature passes to keep government going in the absence of a state budget agreement, Democrats, who hold a slim majority in the House, are being encouraged to adopt a two-year budget.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy told legislative leaders Wednesday that he would veto any short term spending plan the General Assembly passes, which means Republicans would have to deliver votes to override a veto, if that's the path they choose to take.
Will Republicans help the Democrats override a gubernatorial veto?
"I don't see that happening at this point," House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, R-Derby, said Thursday outside the House chamber.
Klarides said a short term spending plan that decides how government is funded for a few months is "more amorphous than the budget."
House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz, D-Berlin, said lawmakers may not agree with all of the governor's choices in the budget, "but it's not like the state is going to stop running," if they don't have a budget by July 1. He said the governor has the ability to operate the state through executive order until there is a state budget in place.
"I think my members want us to do as much as we can to get to the budget," Aresimowicz said.
He said if they can't do that then they will come in on June 29 "no matter what and we'll decide whether it's a continuing resolution or we'll cede that authority to the governor."
Kelly Donnelly, a spokeswoman for Malloy, said the governor will not approve a budget that "adds to our fiscal challenges in the coming biennium. If members of the General Assembly choose to exacerbate our difficulties and kick the can down the road, they should be prepared to justify that fiscally irresponsible choice to their constituents."
Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate met behind closed doors Thursday to get an update on the state budget.
However, there were few details available about exactly what the final product would look like since one doesn't exist.
Aresimowicz, who has been reluctant to take any ideas off the table, said tolls will no longer be part of a budget package.
"We're going to have to come back next year and do some sort of action to get the tolls moving," Aresimowicz said. "So that changed."
House Majority Leader Matt Ritter, D-Hartford, said they also explained to their members what happens after July 1 without a budget in place.
"I think that's a very different realization people have to come to," Ritter said.
House Minority Leader Themis Klarides (Christine Stuart / ctnewsjunkie)
Another idea that was floated Thursday was an increase in the state sales tax from 6.35 percent to 6.99 percent. The revenue generated from the increase would then go to cities and towns to help them offset their contributions to the teacher retirement system.
Aresimowicz said the increase in the sales tax is estimated to raise about $466 million. Ritter said in order to receive the funding local boards and councils would have to vote to endorse the idea.
Senate Democratic leadership said a sales tax increase was not part of their discussion Thursday.
Aresimowicz said he doesn't know if he has the 76 votes necessary to pass a budget yet though because he doesn't have a product in front of him to vote count. He said they're sharing the guidelines of what his caucus believes is important with the Senate Democratic caucus on Friday.
Those guidelines will be used to draft a budget document.
Then legislative leaders from both sides of the aisle are expected to get together on Monday before they meet with Malloy to reassess the situation. Aresimowicz said he's doubtful they will have a final budget product ready by Monday.
"It's a really compressed time frame," Aresimowicz said.
Klarides said she hopes they have at least 48 hours to go over any budget proposal if they're going to be asked to vote on something June 29.
Getting all 151 House members and 36 Senators back together at some point in July or August becomes a logistical problem for a part-time legislature.
"I know where people are and I know how to find them so we'll get them here if we need to," Ritter said.


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Why Should Only the Wealthy Get Solar Panels?
Washington, D.C., has embarked on an aggressive clean-energy plan, but a big challenge will be making sure it doesn't worsen existing inequalities.
By Gillian B. White
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—For homeowners and renters, drawing energy from solar panels on their roofs can be very cost-effective: Some estimates put monthly electric-bill savings between 10 and 30 percent, and on top of that, households that install solar systems can get 30 percent of the cost as a tax credit. But for many, installing solar panels is simply not within reach: Setting up such systems can cost tens of thousands of dollars, which means that their use—and subsequent savings—are predominantly enjoyed by wealthy households.
That's why, as Washington, D.C., moves forward with its clean-energy plan—which would have at least half the city's power coming from renewable sources by 2032—it is doing so with an eye on inequality. The city has mandated that a portion of the money set aside for solar initiatives—just under one-third—target low-income neighborhoods.
In 2015, the top 10 percent of earners in Washington D.C. made six times more than did the lowest 10 percent. That meant that D.C. ranked higher than any state in income inequality, according to information parsed by the District's Office of the Chief Financial Officer.
D.C.'s inequality is not unlike that of most growing major cities, and the divide between its affluent and its poor runs, troublingly, along racial and geographic lines. Wealthier wards, like Ward 3, can have populations that are over 80 percent white, while poorer ones, like Wards 7 and 8, have populations that are over 90 percent black. That socioeconomic segregation takes on added meaning considering the history of D.C.: After years of living in a predominately minority city, longtime residents are quickly being pushed out by whiter and more affluent newcomers as housing prices rise. Maintaining affordability has proven a staggeringly difficult task.
While the city's highest-profile efforts have focused on the availability of housing, it is now devoting some attention to helping poorer households save money on their energy bills. Utility bills for low earners can eat up as much as 10 percent of household income, according to a report from Groundswell, a nonprofit focused on energy issues. For the highest 20 percent of earners, utilities make up less than 2 percent of expenditures. But it's not just a matter of percentages: Poorer families actually tend to have higher utilities bills, usually because their homes are less energy-efficient. On average, a monthly utility bill cost an American household around $115 in 2013, by Groundswell's calculations, but poorer families were significantly more likely to have bills that topped $200 every month.
So, in a city where the gulf between the rich and poor is vast, those who could most use the energy savings have had little access to it. "In the wealthy wards you had hundreds and hundreds of solar installations," said Ted Trabue, the managing director of the D.C. Sustainable Energy Utility (DCSEU), the independent organization enlisted by the District to handle some of its efforts to improve efficiency. "We looked at Wards 7 and 8 and you had less than a dozen systems at the time. We thought, 'Here's the most fertile area for our installations.'"
In July, D.C.'s city council approved a bill specifying that the city's renewable portfolio standard would require 5 percent of the city's energy to come from solar by 2032. The District's plan to bring solar into lower-income neighborhoods is aggressive but not unachievable, Trabue said. Part of the concern, at the outset of the project, was that residents in low-income neighborhoods simply wouldn't know about solar panels, let alone accept the offer to install them. "When you go to someone's house and say you're offering something for free, there's natural skepticism," Trabue said. "We thought if we got 20 people to accept these solar systems in the first year we'd declare success." They wound up installing close to 90.
Despite budgetary restrictions—and Trabue says he isn't interested in spending any of DCSEU's allotment on marketing—word has spread about the program, through homeowners and contractors. "I was told that I would save between 30 and 40 percent, which is major," said Edwin Amaker, a D.C. homeowner who has participated in the program, in DCSEU's annual report. "The less money out of my pocket, the more money I have for the family." The single-family solar-panel program is probably the most well-known of DCSEU's initiatives in low-income communities.
But focusing on how to ensure that renters in multi-family units can access solar savings can have an even more significant impact, Trabue says. That's because many of D.C.'s low-income residents don't live in single-family homes, and most are renters. But wrangling the necessary space, permits, and access required to install solar panels on apartment buildings can be tricky.
A solar array on one of the National Housing Trust's D.C. properties. (via DCSEU)
To ensure that renters can also access the savings solar brings, the District is seeking out partnerships with the owners of apartment buildings, such as the current agreement with the National Housing Trust (NHT). NHT, a nonprofit, owns and operates about eight multi-family properties in the district, with hopes of adding about three or four more over the next year, according to Jared Lang, the organization's sustainable-development manager. The properties all contain affordable-housing units, which made the organization anxious to find new ways to keep their costs low.
"Affordable housing is unique. If the expenses go up—if you make certain investments—you can't raise the rent," Lang said. "You have to become more efficient." Lang estimates that the savings from their most recent solar installation, on a 223-unit building called Channel Square, will amount to $20,000 each year. The plan, Lang said, is to take that money and channel it into resident services such as after-school programs for kids who live in the building.
While Tommy Wells, the head of the District's Department of Energy, says the city is far from done working on solar installations on residential properties, it is piloting another program aimed at small-business owners in Wards 7 and 8. The city, he says, is putting around $500,000 into a program that will add solar capabilities to about 15 businesses located east of the Anacostia River, which divides most of Wards 7 and 8 from the rest of the city. The goal, he says, is "hopefully driving down their power bills but also showing us what's the barrier for small businesses to participate."
D.C.'s program is about more than just energy-bill savings, though. The District hires local contractors for its projects and trains residents in how to install solar panels, with the intention that they can find work in a growing field. That means—the city hopes—creating a form of self-sustaining economic revitalization that can be used well beyond a single project.
But D.C.'s energy program isn't without its challenges. Many developers who are focused on market-rate properties aren't interested in installing panels, Lang said, because they do not consider them cost-effective. And even willing partners face limitations: Lang says that because the NHT's properties tend to be small, their roof space is often tiny, which limits the options for solar installations. And D.C.'s dense tree cover, while great for shade and scenery, isn't especially helpful when it comes to optimizing solar-panel exposure.
On top of that, lots of the housing stock owned or occupied by lower-income residents—particularly in Wards 7 and 8—is relatively old, built around 60 years or so ago, Trabue estimates. That means that their roofs are usually flat, fragile, and in need of repair—in other words, not suitable for the installation of heavy, expensive solar panels. And inside these older homes, the circuits often weren't designed to be hooked up to a solar-energy system.
Now, the District is loosening up the limits on its funding in order to allow DCSEU to put money toward clearing trees, repairing roofs, and updating electrical boxes, which will provide opportunities for solar panels on buildings that DCSEU has thus far had to skip over.
But perhaps the biggest shift in the coming year or so will depend upon how the District's community-solar plans are finally implemented. The program will set up a system meant to allow residents who don't have the option of installing or utilizing solar panels on their homes to buy into solar panels that would be placed elsewhere, such as on government property or office buildings. Those who buy in would receive a credit toward their energy bills for the amount of solar power produced by their shares.
But programs utilizing the community-solar model are just getting off the ground, and some say that the provisions for energy-sharing favor those who can access their own solar panels over those who are buying in. An early complaint from D.C. Solar United Neighborhoods, an advocacy group, alleged that some iterations of the plan turned those using credits into "a second class of solar citizens." And some don't believe that the rules for community solar—which were finalized this summer—are firm enough. "The ink isn't quite dry yet. Until it is and the funding parameters are clear, we're still in the discussion phase," Trabue said.
According to its own timeline, the city still has 16 years to figure out how to derive at least half of its energy from renewable sources. But perhaps an even bigger challenge will be ensuring that the distribution of pricey environmental technology doesn't further divide an already economically stratified city.


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"It is time for Tenacious D to RIDE and help save the world from Trumpian destruction"—Jack Black and Kyle Gass
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Tenacious D—the rock group of Jack Black and Kyle Gass—have announced a tour. Titled "The Purple Nurple Tour - Twisting Hard To The Left!," it finds the duo focusing on U.S. swing states. In a statement, they write, "Donald Trump has proven to be the most divisive, corrupt, and dangerous President in the modern history of this country, and we simply cannot stand for another four years of his administration! Now is the time to elect a REAL leader!"
Tenacious D's tour kicks off this fall in Davenport, Iowa and wraps up in October in New York. Check out their itinerary, along with the rest of their statement, below. Tickets are available here. (Pitchfork may earn a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.)
For the upcoming tour, Tenacious D has partnered with the 46 for 46 campaign to help promote voter registration and civic action.
In 2016, six states were decided by 2 percentage points or less, and ten states were decided by 4 percentage points or less. Swing states played a pivotal role in the outcome of that election, and they will again in 2020. Knowing that, we looked at each other and agreed: just like the tale of Post-Apocalypto, it is time for Tenacious D to RIDE and help save the world from Trumpian destruction. With great rock comes great responsibility.
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Irish America held two receptions honoring the Business 100, 2002. The first, at the Yale Club in Manhattan on November 26, had Susan Kelliher-Ungaro, Editor-in-Chief, Family Circle, as keynote speaker. Ungaro was introduced by Tom Coughlan of Wal-Mart. Then on December 5, irish America traveled to San Francisco to hold its first ever West Coast function. Tom McEnery, the … [Read more...] about Celebrating Irish America's Business 100
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"There is no denying the influence of American business on the Republic of Ireland. The economy in Ireland has grown more than any other European Union country, and the 585 American companies doing business there have contributed significantly to this success" --U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Richard Egan ℘℘℘ This year's Business 100 is indeed a celebration of Irish American … [Read more...] about Irish America's Annual Business 100: Who They Are
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Born in Castlerea, Co. Roscommon on this day in 1860, Douglas Hyde would become a champion of the Irish language and the first Irish President. After attending Trinity College Dublin and becoming fluent in French, Latin, German, Greek and Hebrew, Hyde went on to establish the Gaelic League with the hope of saving Irish from extinction. He became a professor of Irish at University College Dublin and after retiring was nominated in 1938 by Taoiseach Eamon de Valera to be the first Irish president. He was admired by many and served from 1938 until 1945.


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Cult Rush Week: Pretzels and Wine With Peaches Geldof's Sex Cult
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When I first told friends I was going to a meeting of the New York Ordo Templi Orientis branch, called Tahuti Lodge, the general consensus was that I should try not to die, and I should avoid sexual contact.
They were a bit worried because O.T.O., supposedly founded in Germany in the late 19th century, has been described (by no less a source than the Daily Mail) as a "Satanic sex cult." The socialite Peaches Geldof had apparently joined sometime last year, when she was spotted with an O.T.O. tattoo; the Mail and other tabloids quickly followed up with screaming articles about the most famous leader of the "sinister 'religion,'" the sex-obsessed English occultist Aleister Crowley. When Geldof died earlier this year, a dozen or so highly trafficked conspiracy websites highlighted her connection to the group.
(O.T.O., its fascinating PDF FAQ makes clear, is "not a cult." It is, it clarifies, "a California tax-exempt, not-for-profit, religious corporation" that is "officially recognized by the United States government as a non-profit 501c(3) religious organization.")
As it turned out, neither of my friends' concerns proved necessary. The most trouble I had was figuring out which of the many groups clustered in Washington Square Park on a beautiful summer evening was the Tahuti Lodge. What is the protocol for this kind of thing? Should I ask strangers if they're magicians? Is there a password?
The meetup invitation said "We'll Be Meeting Up On The East Side Of The Fountain," so I was looking for a group of unhinged-looking people, possibly in the robes I had seen in their main ritual, the Gnostic Mass. There was a big stage set up on the east side of the square that seemed promising, but the security guy just stared at me blankly when I asked if he was from the OTO. A group of rail-thin women in their 40s looked like they might be into kabbalah and juicing, but probably not sitting naked on an altar.
As it turned out the meetup consisted of two people brown-bagging wine and eating pretzels on the edge of the fountain. I only managed to identify them because one—Frank, a middle-aged dude with a greying ponytail—was holding a pamphlet. He was all in black, with a couple of silver earrings and a red and black tribal-looking tattoo down his forearm, which he described using phrases like "the line of God, broken."
Frank's companion was a blonde woman in her thirties, wearing leather flip-flops and designer sunglasses. I failed to write her name down, because when I told her I was a journalist her face hardened and she jerked her hand from mine. "Those are not our favorite," she said, shortly. "There have been some incidents."
Incidents like the Mail's coverage of Geldof's tattoo, or a Guardian article in which the group is referred to as a "stupid cult" that believes in "sex magic."
Half of that is definitely true. O.T.O. follows the laws of Thelema, a mystical religion based on the teachings of Aleister Crowley. ("Our Order is composed of serious men and women dedicated to the Art and Science of Magick," according to the pamphlet Frank gave me.)
The serious men and women of O.T.O. are also dedicated to sex. Crowley called Thelema a "solar-phallic religion," which involves, I guess, worshiping the sun and penises. (They're also expressly Christian). As you rise up through the orders—there are nine, technically, with a bunch of confusing intermediates—you learn Tantric wisdom, and maybe eat what Crowley called the Elixir of Life, either semen or a mix of semen and vaginal secretions (the U.S. O.T.O. orders deny that they do this). The "final secret," when you reach the top, is a sex thing, but nobody could tell me what it is.
After a couple of awkward minutes around the fountain, a third member showed: George, an adjunct professor with a Ph.D. in esotericism and (like Frank) a greying ponytail. George had just come from a conference on the occult. This was his first time in New York, so he asked about good goth clubs.
George was extremely friendly and happy to share his extensive knowledge of O.T.O. with me. More than happy, really; there is a distinct possibility if I hadn't eventually put up one finger and turned to someone else, I would still be in Washington Square Park listening to him.
O.T.O. didn't technically start with Aleister Crowley—he dated it back to the Knights Templar and the Rosicrucians, but it seems to have been founded by a German Freemason named Carl Kellner around 1895—but he became its spiritual leader shortly after joining in 1910. By 1925, Crowley had pushed out all rivals to power, including the O.T.O. members who had introduced him to the society, and he was elected Outer Head of the Order, a position he held until his death in 1947. (O.T.O., which has suffered a decline in membership since WWII, is currently led by William Breeze, a member of the English industrial band Coil, using the name Hymenaeus Beta.)
An ambitious wizard, Crowley brought with him the complicated hierarchy and many of the occult trappings, composing the Gnostic Mass and integrating Thelema into the teachings of O.T.O. He also brought OTO a great deal of notoriety. The British tabloids called Crowley the "Wickedest Man in the World," (indeed, they still are!) but he actually liked that. What he didn't appreciate was being called a practitioner of black magic. In 1934 he sued a British paper for libel, and won, on the grounds that while he was a magician, he was definitely not a black one.
The magicians I met did not seem particularly wicked. Kyler, the tarot-card reader who always hangs out in Washington Square in a wizard hat, is apparently an OTO member, too, and he periodically swung by our group chat to drop important details, like that he's publishing the Secret of the Red Truck, a book about a love triangle that "takes on time, madness, religion, incest, art and Freud," according to one of the cover blurbs (out July 8!).
The woman told us the story of running into Kyler at a bar while on an OKCupid date with an investment banker. "[The banker] didn't know I was into the occult—I don't usually lead with that. So I was like, oh shit. But it turned out OK." Her sorority sisters are also not into the occult, she told us.
Later a bald guy with a giant beard stopped by to talk about his self-made mystic religion. After that we talked about our dogs for a while. No one produced Elixir of Life, and there didn't seem to be much else to do, so we made our excuses and drifted off into the evening.
Cult name: Ordo Templi Orientis
Spiritual leader: Aleister Crowley
Most famous member: Peaches Geldof
Slogans: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law"; "Love is the law, love under will."
Sample Ranks: Minerval; Magician; Perfect Magician, and Companion of the Holy Royal Arch of Enoch; Prince of Jerusalem; Sovereign Prince Rose-Croix, and Knight of the Pelican & Eagle; Theoreticus, and Very Illustrious Sovereign Grand Inspector General; Perfect Pontiff of the Illuminati; Rex Summus Sanctissimus.
Should you join this cult? If magic, Tantric sex, and cheap wine do it for you, I can't think of a reason why not.
Cult Rush Week is an ongoing series in which Cat Ferguson attends introductory and informational sessions for cults and other esoteric organizations in the New York area. If you know of a cult, email her.


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Nylon Fusion Theatre Company Born of a fusion of New York and London creativity, Nylon Fusion is a theatre company committed to giving voice and perspective to established and emerging artists. We develop and produce plays that explore political, social, and cultural awareness. Named a "Young and Mighty Theater company" by Backstage.
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Nylon Fusion Theatre Company in association with The Constellation Project will present the World Premiere of ray gun say0nara, a sci-fi play with songs written by Steven Mark Tenney, directed by Janet Bentley at The New Ohio Theatre (154 Christopher Street New York, NY 10014), December 4-22. Performances will be on Wednesday, December 4 at 7pm, Thursday, December 5 at 7pm, Saturday, December 7 at 3pm, Sunday, December 8 at 7pm, Monday, December 9 at 7pm, Wednesday, December 11 at 7pm, Saturday, December 14 at 7pm, Sunday, December 15 at 3pm, Monday, December 16 at 7pm, Friday, December 20 at 7pm, Saturday, December 21 at 3pm, and Sunday, December 22 at 3pm. Tickets ($29) are available for advance purchase at www.nylonfusion.org. The performance will run approximately 120 minutes, with an intermission. ray gun say0nara will run in rep with Nylon Fusion's New York Premiere of The Listening Room by Michaela Jeffery.
Say sayonara but don't say good-bye: How far will you go to hold the ideals of your youth? Buck Law helms a dark-ops sci-fi adventure. Mission: to extract Brad Mayhem
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The Listening Room | Open: 11/30/19 Close: 12/21/19
Nylon Fusion Theatre Company will present the New York Premiere of The Listening Room, written by Michaela Jeffery (National Enbridge Playwrights Award recipient; Playwrights Guild of Canada's RBC Emerging Playwright Award finalist). and directed by Ivette Dumeng (Italian American Reconciliation at Royal Family: Jack in the Box/Medusa at Planet Connections) & Lori Kee (Luft Gangster at The Sheen Center) at The New Ohio Theatre (154 Christopher St #1E, New York, NY 10014), November 30 - December 21. Performances will be on Saturday, November 30 at 8pm, Sunday, December 1 at 8pm, Monday, December 2 at 8pm, Friday, December 6 at 8pm, Saturday, December 7 at 8pm, Sunday, December 8 at 3pm, Thursday, December 12 at 8pm, Friday, December 13 at 8pm, Saturday, December 14 at 3pm, Sunday, December 15 at 8pm, Wednesday, December 18 at 8pm, Thursday, December 19 at 8pm, and Saturday, December 21 at 8pm. Tickets ($29) are available for advance purchase at www.nylonfusion.org. The performance will run approximately 85 minutes, with no intermission. The Listening Room will run in rep with Nylon Fusion's World Premiere of ray gun say0nara by Steven Tenney.
On the fringes of a remote desert society, a group of teenage dissidents search for fragments of earlier civilizations still ricocheting between stars. Using antiquated 21st century radio telescopes, The Listeners risk everything to connect to a past that has faded both from memory and record. On the eve of a trial that would decide their fate, The Listeners must choose to conform, or to strike out and seize the future they want to inherit.
The cast will feature Matthew Carrasco (Marymount Manhattan College), Alex Chernin (Blood Wedding in Saratoga Springs), Tim Palmer (The Land of Promises at The Sheen Center), Taylor Petracek (The Academy at Theatre for the New City: The Seagull at Access Theater), and Sara Rahman (Scaly with Insommium Theatre Company) with Set Design by Raye Levine (Design Associate on Extinction at Guild Hall) with Associate Set Design and Props by Lili Jackson, Lighting Design by Gilbert Lucky Pearto (Qucksand with Everyday Infemo/IRT), Sound Design by Bryan Hamilton (Guards at the Taj at Times Square Arts Center) with Sound Consultant Andy Evan Cohen (NYIT Award winner for In the Soundless Awe with New Light Theater Project), and Costume Design by Debbi Hobson (NYIT Award winner for Unmentionables with Nylon Fusion), and Fight Choreography by Randall Rodriguez. The Production Stage Manager will be Stanford Vogel.


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LOS ANGELES, USA – Golden State Warriors will be a star by Stephen Curry, on Saturday, on Saturday, returning to Detroit's anti-trap injuries, coach Steve Kerr said on Wednesday.
Kerr curated Curry twice after the champion, winning the Raptors match in Toronto, though Curry is "dying to play".
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Curry, the most valuable NBA player in the past two years, won a great deal of strength this season when Warriors started the third live NBA title. He won 29.5 points, 6.1 support and 5 rebounds, and 49.2% shot three points from the third.
Curry lost 10 games, Warriors 5-5. He has four races, but he has won 3 victories directly. – Rappler.com


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Republic of Tunisia
الجمهورية التونسية
al-Jumhūriyyah at-Tūnisiyyah
Anthem:
and largest city
Demonym(s)
Unitary Semi- Presidential Republic [2]
Kaïs Saïed
• Head of Government
Hichem Mechichi
• from France
163,610 km2 (63,170 sq mi) (92nd)
• Water (%)
• Apr 2, 2017 estimate
10,432,500[3] (79th)
• 2011 census
11,245,284[3]
63/km2 (163.2/sq mi) (133rd (2005))
Gini (2000)
HDI (2011)
0.698[4]
medium · 94th
Tunisian dinar (TND)
UTC+1 (not observed)
Driving side
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Tunisia (or formally, the Republic of Tunisia) is a country in North Africa. Tunis is its capital.
1.1 Before the Muslims
1.2 Beginning of Islam
1.3 French Occupation
1.5 Independence and revolution
4 Governorates
5 Cities
8.1 Government
8.3 Overviews
Before the Muslims
Since history has been recorded, there were Berber tribes living in what is now Tunisia. Most of them built little towns and ports along the coastline so they could trade with different travellers from everywhere in the Mediterranean Sea. Most of the travellers that used to pass by Tunisia were Phoenicians who started to settle on the Tunisian coast during the 10th Century BC. Later, in the 8th Century BC, Carthage was built by some settlers that came from Phoenicia and regions abroad. After many wars against Greece in 6th Century BC, Carthage dominated the Mediterranean Sea.
During the Second Punic War, Carthage invaded Italy with an army led by Hannibal. The series of wars between the Roman Empire and Carthage ended with the destruction of Carthage in the 2nd Century BC. Its territory in Africa became part of the Africa Province of the Roman Empire.
When the Roman Empire became weak, the Vandals occupied that region. This was in the 5th Century AD, and one hundred years after that, it became under the control of the Byzantine emperor Justinian.
Beginning of Islam
In the 7th Century, it was conquered by the Arab Muslims who built a city which they called Kairouan. This was the first Arab Muslim city in Tunisia. Many Muslim dynasties (monarchies) ruled Tunisia. One of the best known dynasties was the Zirids dynasty. The Zirids were Berber people and followed the rules of the Fatimides, a bigger dynasty in Cairo. When the Zirids angered the Fatimides, the Fatimides sent some tribes known as Banu Hilal who ravaged (destroyed and vandalized) Tunisia.
After a brief occupation of Tunisia by the Normans of Sicily in the 12th Century, the Almohad re-conquered it. After that came the Hafsids. In the last years of their reign, the Hafsids became weak and Spain took control of many cities on the coast until they were finally occupied by the Ottoman Empire.
In 1705, Tunisia became virtually independent during the Hussein dynasty, but still had to follow orders from the Ottoman Empire.
Some controversial financial decisions (money-lending) taken by the Bey in mid-1800s in an attempt to repair the country led Tunisia to become under the control of France. Tunisia became officially a French protectorate in on May 12, 1881, but with the strong opposition of the kingdom of Italy because there was a huge Italian community in Tunisia.[6]
Important parts of the North African Campaign of World War II were fought in Tunisia from 1941 to 1943.
General Erwin Rommel, the German commander in Africa, wished to defeat the Allies in Tunisia, as the Germans had done in the Battle of France when the Allies were inexperienced against the German Blitzkrieg. On February 19, 1943, Rommel launched an attack against the U.S. Forces, with his German and Italian troops, in the western area of Tunisia. That was a disaster for the United States.
After that, the Allies understood the importance of tank warfare. With better supplies than the Germans, they easily broke into the German lines in southern Tunisia on March 20, 1943. In May 11, 1943 the last German troops surrendered, followed two days later by the Italian troops.
Independence and revolution
Tunisia became independent in 1956 with the former Bey of Tunis as King. Prime Minister Habib Bourguiba became the first president in 1957 when it became a republic. Bourguiba focused on education and economic development. He was supportive of women's rights. However, he had a cult of personality around him and most of the power in the country was held by Bourguiba.
In 1987, Bourguiba was removed from power by Zine el Abidine Ben Ali. Ben Ali ruled as dictator of the country until 2011, when he was overthrown in a revolution. The revolution was the first major revolution of the Arab Spring. Tunisia began becoming more democratic, and in 2014, the country held its first free presidential election. The election was won by Beji Caid Essebsi, a secular, liberal candidate.
Tunisia is in the northern part of Africa. The Mediterranean Sea joins Tunisia in the north and east; the coastline of Tunisia on the Mediterranean Sea is about 1,300 km. Tunisia is also bordered by Algeria to the west and Libya to the south-east.
The Sahara Desert covers 40% of Tunisia. The other 60% is a fertile area.
Standard Arabic is the official language by the Tunisian constitution. But Tunisians speak Tunisian Arabic. Tunisian Arabic is a mix of many languages of people that live or lived in Tunisia. It is called Darija or Tunsi.
A small number of people living in Tunisia still speak a Berber dialect, known as Shelha.
Most people now living Tunisia are Maghrebin Arab. However, small groups of Berbers and Jews live in Tunisia.
The constitution says that Islam is the official state religion. It also requires the President to be Muslim.
Governorates of Tunisia
Tunisia is divided into 24 governorates. They are:
Béja
Ben Arous
Kebili
Manouba
Medenine
Siliana
Tozeur
Tunis, Capital of Tunisia
Sfax City Centre
The largest cities in Tunisia are:
Governatorate
1 Tunis 983,861 [7] Tunis
2 Sfax 855,256 [8] Sfax
3 Kairouan 546,209 [9] Kairouan
4 Sousse 544,413 [10] Sousse
5 Ettadhamen [11] 422,246 [12] Ariana
6 Gabès 342,630 Gabès
7 Bizerte 114,371 Bizerte
8 Aryanah [11] 97,687 Ariana
9 Gafsa 84,676 Gafsa
10 El Mourouj [11] 81,986 Ben Arous
Tunisia's economy has many sectors: agriculture (fruit, vegetable oil and vegetables), tourism (when people come from other countries to visit), mining (extracting goods from under the ground), and petroleum (fuel and gas oil). The government used to control the economy, but now it has sold some public companies. This is called privatization.
Tunisia was also the first Mediterranean country to make an agreement with the European Union. This association agreement was signed on March 1, 1995.
Tunisia has plans for two nuclear power stations, to be working by 2019.
↑ (in Arabic) "Article 4". Tunisia Constitution. 1957-07-25. http://www.chambre-dep.tn/a_constit1.html (in Arabic). Retrieved 2009-12-23.
↑ 2.0 2.1 (in Arabic) "Article 1". Tunisia Constitution. 1957-07-25. http://www.chambre-dep.tn/a_constit1.html (in Arabic). Retrieved 2011-04-02. Translation by the University of Bern: Tunisia is a free State, independent and sovereign; its religion is the Islam, its language is Arabic, and its form is the Republic.
↑ 3.0 3.1 "National Statistics Online". National Statistics Institute of Tunisia. July 2009. http://www.ins.nat.tn/. Retrieved 7 January 2009. (in Arabic)
↑ "Human Development Report 2011". United Nations. 2011. http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2011_EN_Table1.pdf. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
↑ "Report on the Delegation of تونس.". Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. 2010. http://www.iana.org/reports/2010/tunis-report-16jul2010.html. Retrieved 8 November 2010.
↑ Italians in Tunisia & Maghreb
↑ 3,980,500 in the metropolitan area
↑ "Mongabay.com, population of Sfax". http://population.mongabay.com/population/tunisia/2467454/sfax. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
↑ "Mongabay.com, population of Kairouan". http://population.mongabay.com/population/tunisia/2473449/kairouan. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
↑ "Mongabay.com, population of Sousse". http://population.mongabay.com/population/tunisia/2464915/sousse. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Part of Tunis metropolitan area
↑ "FITA, population of At Tadaman". http://www.fita.org/countries/tunisia.html?ma_rubrique=cadre. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
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Murder in the Bayou Boneyard
by: Byron, Ellen
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
Maggie Crozat has the Halloween heebie-jeebies in USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Ellen Byron's howlingly funny sixth Cajun Country mystery.
Maggie Crozat, proprietor of a historic Cajun Country B&B, prefers to let the good times roll. But hard times rock her hostelry when a new cell phone app makes it easy for locals to rent their spare rooms to tourists. With October--and Halloween--approaching, she conjures up a witch-crafty marketing scheme to draw visitors to Pelican, Louisiana.
Five local plantation B&Bs host "Pelican's Spooky Past" packages, featuring regional crafts, unique menus, and a pet costume parade. Topping it off, the derelict Dupois cemetery is the suitably sepulchral setting for the spine-chilling play Resurrection of a Spirit. But all the witchcraft has inevitably conjured something: her B&B guests are being terrified out of town by sightings of the legendary rougarou, a cross between a werewolf and vampire.
When, in the Dupois cemetery, someone costumed as a rougarou stumbles onstage during the play--and promptly gives up the ghost, the rougarou mask having been poisoned with strychnine, Maggie is on the case. But as more murders stack up, Maggie fears that Pelican's spooky past has nothing on its bloodcurdling present.
Agatha Award winner and USA Today bestselling author Ellen Byron is a television writer, playwright, and freelance journalist. Her TV credits include Wings, Still Standing, and Just Shoot Me, and her written work has appeared in Glamour, Redbook, and Seventeen, among others. She lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband, their daughter, and the family's very spoiled rescue dog. A native New Yorker, Ellen still misses her hometown and still drives like a New York Cabbie


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Japan funds $338 million TSMC chip development project
The country is hoping to increase investment in semiconductor research to combat the ongoing global shortage
Japan has approved a $338 million (£238 million) semiconductor research project that will see Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) develop new chip technology in the country, amid an ongoing global shortage.
Over 20 Japanese companies are set to take part in the project worth 37 billion yen ($338 million), of which the Japanese government will pay half, according to the AFP.
Senate seeks $52 billion to boost US chip production
Semiconductor revenues surged in 2020 despite shortages
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Dell CEO expects chip shortage to last for "a few years"
The research will focus on tech for 3D chip assembly, to allow the creation of components that are more dense but still small, with the intention of boosting Japan's competitiveness in this key sector.
Construction of a trial facility will begin this summer at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in the city of Tsukuba, about 60km northeast of Tokyo, with a launch date expected in 2022.
Last month, TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, was reportedly making plans to build five more chip plants in Arizona. As the company makes most of its chips in Taiwan, the project in Arizona would represent a major expansion of TSMC's plans to shift its manufacturing to the US.
Discussions around building a TSMC semiconductor plant in Europe reportedly collapsed last month. There had been talks about opening a factory in the region to remedy the impact of the global semiconductor shortage on the continent, with the EU seeking to increase its share of global semiconductor production from 9% to 20% by 2030. The collapse in the talks has meant the chip company switched its attention to markets in North America.
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said in April the global semiconductor shortage might last for another six months, although the crisis is unlikely to be resolved until 2022. However, Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell said in May that he expects the chip crisis "will probably continue for a few years".
Yahoo Japan will pay for staff flights to the office under new remote working policy