Garnwelt operates out of a large warehouse and a small storefront. Their warehouse space is 3,000 sq. and their store is about 800 sq. meters.
The couple exports a minimal amount of their products, mostly to Russia, the United States, and Australia. The shipping rates are too expensive for the transaction to be profitable. Andrea and Hans feel that if the shipping rates were lower they could expand their internationally sales. International shipping also takes a long time, sometimes taking multiple weeks to reach a customer in the United States.
Garnwelt has grown exponentially from their humble beginnings, averaging 200% annual growth. The business is able to grow and expand by operating on multiple platforms.
Husband and wife team Andrea and Hans Gönner have been entrepreneurial partners for many years. Before starting their online business Garnwelt, the Gonners owned a big textile company in Riedlingen. This company manufactured and sold ladies' clothes for many years. In an unfortunate turn of events the company went out of business. That's when the couple began taking the high quality wool they were once using to make the ladies' garments and selling it online on the eBay platforms. What started as means to liquidate their failed business, actually turned into an extremely successful online venture. Today the couples sells high quality, branded wool, such as Lana Grossa and Coats/Schachenmayr, that Germany is renown for. The couple was even able to open a small shop for clients to come in and buy yarn. As more and more customers ask for specific brands of yarn, they dedicated all of their strength and money into the brand business and steered away from their own wool, but they still have a plan to sell their own off soon.
We love to come to work every day because it has become a very successful business. We put in a lot of hard work in the beginning, working 7 days a week and very long hours. Yet today now we have seen our hard work pay off.
We accept PayPal on our own website and it is extremely helpful. We don't ahve to wait for the transaction to process. As soon as someone buys the product, we have the money and we can ship it out immediately. It's very seamless and successful.


Lowy, left, and Schiller. Courtesy National Cancer Institute.
Human papillomavirus vaccination series completion will now require only two doses of vaccine for adolescents younger than 15 years. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices approved this recommendation at their biannual meeting in Atlanta yesterday. The new schedule for <15 year olds calls for the second dose to be given between 6 and 12 months after the first dose. Adolescents receiving the first dose of HPV vaccine at age 15 or older will continue to be recommended three doses of vaccine, given at 0, 1-2, and 6 months.
In late 2014, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a 9-valent human papillomavirus vaccine. In early 2015, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices made the recommendation that it be offered as one of the available HPV vaccines this country. The vaccine, made by Merck, is known commercially as Gardasil 9 and generically as Human Papillomavirus 9-valent Vaccine, Recombinant (9vHPV).
A few weeks ago, I attended a talk by the CDC's Anne Schuchat, MD, on US HPV vaccination that she subtitled "How Not to Introduce a Vaccine." In spite of the promise of HPV vaccines to reduce the burden of cervical and other cancers in this country, uptake of the complete three-dose series has lagged far behind the other vaccines on the adolescent immunization platform.
January is National Cervical Health Awareness Month, sponsored by the National Cervical Cancer Coalition. My friend Izumi Kajimoto writes today's post.


The last couple of years, home owners from all over the globe has been experiencing sewer drains in their homes. Its discomforting for any homestead experiencing blocked drains. Damage of valuable property can occur as a result of overflow from drainage and also environmental pollution.
Drain blockage can be brought about by a number of reasons which include; presence of foreign items in the drains, grease and hair in the drains. Tree roots is also another cause of blocked drain since they are attracted to moisture. Since the roots require water, they will crack the drainage pipes causing destruction. The tree roots will continue growing, when they are at the foot of the drainage system, leading to lack of flow of water.
Its possible for tree roots to damage the main sewer. Serious clog problems can arise, as a result tree roots finding their way to the main sewer. Inside the pipe there is conducive environment, which sustains the tree roots. If the main sewer has a problem caused by the tree roots, your house sewer will not also be able to serve its purpose.
Some years back one of the ways to get rid of tree roots was through excavation but now it's not the case due to advancement in technology. Sewer drain snake can be used to get rid of tree roots and because of technology, it has evolved overtime making it the most preferred.
To deal with the problem of tree roots causing blockage, it is advisable to call a drain cleaning company and book an appointment. However not all roots maybe killed during the first service of the drain cleaning company. Having the company do a maintenance every year, it's recommendable especially for home owners who have experienced this problem before to avoid future blockage.
Huge tree root may crack or damage the drainage. In such causes one might be required to evacuate in-order to replace and repair the drainage. Excavating might be expensive but it is better than having to deal with flooding.
Drain clean company also use chemicals, which are environmental friendly to get rid of the tree roots. Before allowing the plumber from the company to apply the chemical, make sure he is licensed and has the necessary equipment. Regularly cutting of the tree roots is not necessary with this method. The plumber cuts down the tree roots and the pipe gets scratched, hence the roots run down.
Having a professional check your bathtubs, sinks and showers regularly is recommended. This will assist in not having problems as flooding, clogging or bacteria breeding. It is wise to call a plumber, anytime you notice something is not right with your drain system.


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Q: HTTP-Request - Missing response - net_error = -3 (ERR_ABORTED) I'am using a RESTful API with CORS. Sometimes (can't reproduce when/why it happend) a AJAX-Request is aborted by the client and no response comes up. This happends not only in chrome, also other browser are effected. I tried debugging a lot and searched a lot for a solution, but I didn't find one right now. All the requests were procceed by the server were well, only the reponse is blocked by client.
The following is a chrome://net-internals/#events based on the request which is aborted by errornet_error = -3 (ERR_ABORTED). Mostly this problem comes up while using SSL, but SSL is not in use.
2681: URL_REQUEST
http://solid-rm-api/api/role/create
Start Time: 2016-02-23 15:55:16.152

t=97023 [st=   0] +REQUEST_ALIVE  [dt=1930]
t=97023 [st=   0]    URL_REQUEST_DELEGATE  [dt=0]
t=97023 [st=   0]   +URL_REQUEST_START_JOB  [dt=1930]
--> load_flags = 34626 (BYPASS_CACHE | DO_NOT_SAVE_COOKIES | DO_NOT_SEND_AUTH_DATA | DO_NOT_SEND_COOKIES | MAYBE_USER_GESTURE | VERIFY_EV_CERT)
--> method = "POST"
--> priority = "LOW"
--> upload_id = "0"
--> url = "http://solid-rm-api/api/role/create"
t=97023 [st=   0]      URL_REQUEST_DELEGATE  [dt=0]
t=97023 [st=   0]      HTTP_CACHE_GET_BACKEND  [dt=0]
t=97023 [st=   0]      URL_REQUEST_DELEGATE  [dt=0]
t=97023 [st=   0]     +HTTP_STREAM_REQUEST  [dt=1]
t=97023 [st=   0]        HTTP_STREAM_REQUEST_STARTED_JOB
--> source_dependency = 2683 (HTTP_STREAM_JOB)
t=97024 [st=   1]        HTTP_STREAM_REQUEST_BOUND_TO_JOB
--> source_dependency = 2683 (HTTP_STREAM_JOB)
t=97024 [st=   1]     -HTTP_STREAM_REQUEST
t=97024 [st=   1]     +HTTP_TRANSACTION_SEND_REQUEST  [dt=0]
t=97024 [st=   1]        HTTP_TRANSACTION_SEND_REQUEST_HEADERS
--> POST /api/role/create HTTP/1.1
                             Host: solid-rm-api
                             Connection: keep-alive
                             Content-Length: 404
                             Pragma: no-cache
                             Cache-Control: no-cache
                             Origin: http://127.0.0.1:8080
                             User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.116 Safari/537.36
                             App-Token: ABC
                             Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8
                             Accept: application/json, text/plain, */*
                             Token: 123123123123123123123123
                             Referer: http://127.0.0.1:8080/src/
                             Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
                             Accept-Language: de-DE,de;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4
t=97024 [st=   1]        HTTP_TRANSACTION_SEND_REQUEST_BODY
                         --> did_merge = true
                         --> is_chunked = false
                         --> length = 404
t=97024 [st=   1]     -HTTP_TRANSACTION_SEND_REQUEST
t=97024 [st=   1]     +HTTP_TRANSACTION_READ_HEADERS  [dt=1929]
t=97024 [st=   1]       +HTTP_STREAM_PARSER_READ_HEADERS  [dt=1929]
t=98953 [st=1930]          CANCELLED
t=98953 [st=1930]   -URL_REQUEST_START_JOB
                     --> net_error = -3 (ERR_ABORTED)
t=98953 [st=1930]    URL_REQUEST_DELEGATE  [dt=0]
t=98953 [st=1930] -REQUEST_ALIVE

Please let me know if you need more information.

A: Coming back to this after months. It has turned out that net_error = -3 (ERR_ABORTED) is allways an timeout abort state fired by the application itself. In our case the XHR-Timeout was globally overriden by an third party library. It was set to 2000ms by this library. In that way some of our request which took longer than 2000ms were aborted by the client. The result is net_error = -3 (ERR_ABORTED).
If you are facing the same problem. Check your codes and ensure that the timeout set in your application is configured for your needs.

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Global Fund for community foundations
Working to build stronger communities across the world
Category: GACP
Posted on April 5, 2014 July 18, 2017
What Does Community Philanthropy Look Like? New report available
What makes the global spread of community philanthropy organizations so exciting is the variety of forms they take, adaptations to different local contexts, challenges, resources, and leaders. The core similarities matter—all in some way help geographic communities mobilize financial and other kinds of capital for improvement of the lives of residents. But so do the differences. Some have endowments, some don't. Some are large, more are small. Some call themselves community foundations, others do not. This diversity is one sign of community philanthropy's flexibility, potential, and rising popularity.
But it also presents a challenge to those who want to better understand and support community philanthropy, especially on a global level. A practice so varied, so organic and tied to local conditions, complicates classification, resists general conclusions, and calls for lots of learning through example. A movement relatively young and quickly evolving, with a limited body of applied research, requires ongoing documentation and study.
So it was that the C.S. Mott Foundation—which has supported a number of initiatives to strengthen and expand community philanthropy—commissioned Barry Knight of CENTRIS to explore the work and develop case studies of eight community philanthropy organizations (seven of which have been GFCF grantees) around the world:
• Amazon Partnerships Foundation (Ecuador)
• Black Belt Community Foundation (United States)
• Bolu Donors Foundation (Turkey)
• Community Foundation for South Sinai (Egypt)
• Fundacion Comunitaria de la Frontera Norte (Mexico)
• Healthy City Community Foundation (Slovakia)
• Instituto Comunitário Grande Florianópolis (Brazil)
• Tuzla Community Foundation (Bosnia)
Why plumbing matters: introducing the Global Alliance for Community Philanthropy
We very excited to be unveiling some new changes to our website this month, along with a new-look e-bulletin. These include a new section on the recently-established Global Alliance for Community Philanthropy (GACP) and in the future, stories and blogs that link directly to the GACP will be easily identifiable through its own distinct logo.
Refreshing one's communications tools is always good to do from time to time. However, the GACP represents much more than an opportunity for a re-branding exercise, providing as it does an exciting opportunity to put community philanthropy on the map of international development. The GACP has big ambitions: it "aims to advance the practice of community philanthropy and influence international development actors to better understand, support, and promote the role of community philanthropy in the sustainability and vibrancy of civil society and in achieving more lasting development outcomes." And what is particularly significant about it is that its initial funder members are drawn from across the development and philanthropy spectrum, including private foundations (Mott Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund), a bilateral donor (USAID) and a private foundation / INGO hybrid (Aga Khan Foundation), each of which has agreed to commit time and resources to thinking and learning about community philanthropy, to sharing experiences of what works and what doesn't, to testing concepts across institutional frameworks and to informing and engaging others in the donor space. As a fifth partner and the Secretariat, the GFCF has been charged with coordinating the efforts of the GACP. We will be drawing on our experiences of using our grantmaking to develop an evidence base for the global community philanthropy field, drawn from a diversity of circumstances, institutions and contexts. Over the last seven years, the GFCF has been working to promote and support institutions of community philanthropy around the world. Our work has been driven by a conviction that local development efforts are more effective when communities are able to articulate and address their needs and also when they have a stake – as co-investors bringing assets to the table – in their own development.
The GACP has been established at a time when the global context for development aid is changing rapidly as a recent article on the Guardian Development Professionals website describes. The search for new models and structures has meant many INGOs restructuring to cut costs because of a dramatic reduction in development aid which has traditionally been a key source of funding for many of them. Some internationally active NGOs are relocating their offices to the Global South, for a variety of philosophical and tactical reasons. As the shifting landscape for development aid changes, pointing to a future with less international funding for development, as civil society organizations in the Global South grow stronger and more established and as new assets emerge in traditionally aid-dependent contexts (whether in terms of new classes of mega-rich and middle classes, or of mineral wealth), there is certainly a need for some radical new thinking about what the future architecture for civil society funding might look like.
At the heart of the notion of community philanthropy is the idea that assets exist in every community and that if these can be harnessed and organized, they can be applied to local development processes in ways that are both more cost-effective and more sustainable in terms of social capital (assuming that people invest their own assets when high levels of trust exist).
And yet, community philanthropy barely features in the mainstream development discourse. In a recent article, An Alternative to Development Aid on the Open Democracy website, Nora Lester Murad, a leading advocate for community philanthropy as a development strategy and a founder of the Dalia Association, Palestine, writes. "While critiques of international aid are becoming mainstream, there is still little awareness about community foundations as a viable alternative, even in the discourse about funding for human rights. In responding to local challenges and opportunities, community foundations and other community philanthropic organizations offer communities a dignified and creative way to organize their resources towards collective self-reliance for generations to come." She goes on to describe her own experience of working with a group of local leaders to establish Dalia, Palestine's first community foundation.
"If only Palestinians had their own money," I thought, "…the wasteful, irrelevant and unsustainable activities posited as 'post conflict development' would stop." But my group of co-founders quickly disabused me of my naïve and simplistic approach. Self-determination is not about having a big endowment. It's about responsibly and intentionally utilizing the resources we have, mobilizing other resources by modelling credible, inspiring practice, and working transparently, democratically and accountably to pursue our own priorities over the long haul."
Over the past seven years, Dalia has introduced an innovative local grants process, "community-controlled grantmaking", which involves local community members in decision-making around the allocation of small grants. They have also developed another strand of work around building local philanthropy among local companies. And throughout they have sought to use their experiences of grassroots grantmaking and philanthropy development processes as an alternative to many of the assumptions of international development aid and a model from which to learn.
In thinking about what sustainable development might look like, who wouldn't find the idea of a local institution that facilitates local people making decisions about their own development, backed by local philanthropic resources, compelling? And yet so far few funding institutions have – for a variety of reasons – had the interest, the resources or the flexibility to invest in creating the conditions which might allow such organizations to thrive.
At the recent WINGSForum, The Power of Networks: Building Connected Global Philanthropy, in Istanbul, the Mott Foundation received an award for its constant and unwavering support for and investment in the development of civil society (and specifically philanthropic) infrastructure around the world. Mott has also invested heavily in the development of community foundations and community philanthropy around the world. In accepting the award on behalf of the foundation, Shannon Lawder, Director of Civil Society described how philanthropic infrastructure might be compared to the plumbing in a house: it's not the most attractive or creative part of construction and design, you can't actually see the pipes but you know they are there, they play an essential and yet invisible role and you would be in trouble without them.
Jenny Hodgson
Global Alliance for Community Philanthropy featured in letter to New York Times
On February 28th 2014, Mirza Jahani, Chief Executive Office of the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A., responded to an earlier article on Pakistan's private philanthropy sector and pointed out that harnessing the creative energies of community philanthropists holds great promise both for social development and for reducing dependence.
He wrote, "A Global Alliance for Community Philanthropy, which the Aga Khan Foundation is pleased to support along with the C.S. Mott Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Global Fund for Community Foundations and the United States Agency for International Development, has just been launched. The alliance studies and supports the practice of community philanthropy around the world. By fostering homegrown civil society energies, we can expand the capacity for self-reliance that is essential to preserving human dignity."
Posted on February 3, 2014 July 18, 2017
The Case for Community Philanthropy – now available in 10 languages!
The Case for Community Philanthropy: How the Practice Builds Local Assets, Capacity, and Trust – and Why It Matters was first published in English in June 2013. Since then, and thanks to the efforts of partners in the Global Alliance for Community Philanthropy, it has been translated into 10 languages, including Arabic, Haitian Creole, Turkish and Ukranian.
See the other languages
For further information on getting the report translated into other languages, please contact Wendy Richardson at the Global Fund for Community Foundations.
Introducing the Global Alliance for Community Philanthropy: article in the EFC's Effect magazine
In a recent article in Effect, the magazine of the European Foundation Centre, Jenny Hodgson, executive director of the Global Fund for Community Foundations, introduces the Global Alliance for Community Philanthropy and its goal of making the case for community philanthropy as a key strategy for increasing local ownership and accountability in local development processes.
Posted on September 25, 2013 July 19, 2017
Advancing the practice of community philanthropy worldwide: GFCF is appointed Secretariat to new multi-stakeholder collaborative
The GFCF has been appointed Secretariat of the Global Alliance for Community Philanthropy, a new multi-donor, multi-stakeholder initiative supported by founding partners, the Aga Khan Foundation USA, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and USAID, which aims to make the case that growing local ownership and accountability leads to stronger communities and that this should be a key focus of development practitioners.
The Alliance offers an exciting opportunity to advance the field and the understanding of community philanthropy globally and the ways in which it can mobilize trust, assets and capacities and, by doing so, strengthen local development outcomes. For the GFCF, the work of the Alliance promises to build on a programme of work that has been developed over the course of the past seven years, aimed at strengthening individual institutions of community philanthropy, supporting the development of community philanthropy networks and raising the profile of community philanthropy among a broader cross-section of stakeholders.
In March 2013, a strategic review of the GFCF was conducted by two external consultants. It examined the work and achievements of the institution to date and concluded that the GFCF "is playing an exemplary role in identifying, nurturing and supporting the field of community philanthropy based on a solid programme of small grants to organisations around the world".
Read the strategic review and options appraisal
More details about the Alliance will become available over the coming months.
Posted on August 14, 2013 July 19, 2017
Position: Programme Coordinator, Global Alliance for Community Philanthropy
The GFCF has been appointed as the Secretariat for a new multi-donor and multi-stakeholder collaborative, the Global Alliance for Community Philanthropy (GACP), which aims to influence international development actors and others to better understand, support and promote the role of community philanthropy in sustaining a vibrant civil society and in achieving more lasting development outcomes. The Alliance will learn from both on-going and pilot projects that build assets, trust and/ or the capacity of local communities. (See The Case for Community Philanthropy for further information)
The Coordinator will take the lead role in coordinating the activities of the Alliance on a day-to-day basis on behalf of the GFCF. This will include managing relationships with Alliance members and their constituents, organizing programme and learning activities and reporting regularly to both internal and external audiences.
Read the full job description. Closing date for applications August 30th 2013
New report makes the Case for Community Philanthropy!
Community philanthropy can be a powerful force for strengthening civil society and building on local initiative, according to a new brief released jointly by the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. (AKF USA), the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Global Fund for Community Foundations, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. The publication, entitled The Case for Community Philanthropy: How the Practice Builds Local Assets, Capacity, and Trust – and Why It Matters, makes the case that increasing local ownership and local accountability leads to stronger communities and should be a main focus of development aid practitioners.
The community philanthropy approach works at the grassroots level by looking at local assets – financial and otherwise – and by building capacity and trust for addressing community needs and priorities.
The case statement crystallizes an understanding gathered in recent years. Last year AKF USA and the Mott Foundation released a report, based on a series of collaborative consultations in North America, Africa and Asia, that explored how community philanthropy has worked around the world to help build local capacity. Amid increasing public interest, those foundations, along with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have supported development of a Global Alliance for Community Philanthropy.
The new publication synthesizes trends (one form of community philanthropy organization – community foundations – grew by a remarkable 86 percent from 2000 to 2010), the rationale, and views from experts. It addresses the role that donors can play in a community-driven practice. "It's a challenge for outside funders investing a lot of money to expect programs to be sustained," notes Shannon Lawder of the C.S. Mott Foundation. "From our experience, the work does continue when you've supported community philanthropy. It works."
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Nora Lester Murad on Community philanthropy and development: Deepening the discussion
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Trump Clarifies 'What's Happening' In Sweden
By Stephanie Liebergen
and Ethan Weston
After mentioning Sweden during a campaign-style rally, Trump later said he referenced the country after seeing a segment on Fox News.
"You look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden — who would believe this? Sweden!" President Donald Trump said during his Florida rally Saturday.
That's Trump expressing his shock over an incident in Sweden. But that left some Swedes scratching their heads because, well, there wasn't one.
Trump was talking about terror attacks around the world when he brought up Sweden. Initially it wasn't clear what he was talking about, and it seemed like the third nonexistent attack cited by this administration.
The first time was when Kellyanne Conway suggested there had been a massacre in Bowling Green, Kentucky. And the second was when White House press secretary Sean Spicer mentioned a nonexistent terrorist attack in Atlanta. Both later admitted they had been confused and were referring to different events.
But Sunday afternoon, Trump clarified his remarks on Twitter. He said he was referencing a segment on Fox News "concerning immigrants and Sweden."
That segment aired Friday night. Host Tucker Carlson was interviewing a documentary filmmaker who tried to connect Sweden's recent rise in crime with the large number of asylum seekers.
It seems Trump was trying to drum up support for his controversial travel ban and immigration policy. But since Sweden started its open-door policy in 2013, immigrants have carried out zero terrorist attacks.
In fact, the last terrorist attack in Sweden was in 2015 and was carried out by a Swedish man believed to have far-right sympathies.


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Common Mexican Music in 2018
Ocean Malandra, Leaf Group Updated March 13, 2018
Common Mexican Music in 2018 (Photo: )
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Music forms an integral part of the social and cultural fabric of Mexico in a way that few parts of the United States--outside of New Orleans, of course--are familiar with. Common forms of Mexican music vary by region and are shaped as much by the diverse landscapes and cultures that inhabit the country as by the colonial history of it, which greatly influenced many Mexican musical styles.
Before colonization by Spain, the most common musical instruments in Mexico were flutes, rattles and drums, as well as conch shell horns that were used at religious celebrations. After the European invasion, string and brass instruments became widespread and mestizo and indigenous peoples in Mexico not only played them but also made them. During Spanish rule, Spanish theatrical orchestras were prevalent throughout Mexico and led to the spread of violins, guitars and harps. When Mexico gained independence, many Mexicans began to use these European instruments to developed regional musical styles. With the advent of radio and television, Mexican music has been influenced by other Latin American styles as well as popular music from the United States.
Regional common folk music styles include banda, ranchera and norteno music, which are based on singers, usually focus on love themes and are the most popular in the countryside. In the cities, Latin pop and Latin rock are popular and include singers and bands from all over Latin America. Caribbean musical styles such as salsa, bachata and reggaeton are commonly heard in Mexico, especially at dance clubs. Mexico's own famous mariachi music is centered in Guadalajara, but it is popular throughout the country; it is not uncommon for Mexicans to sing along when mariachi music is played.
One of the central features of Mexican music is that most of it can be danced to. The country styles of banda and ranchera are danced in close embrace, while some of the Caribbean style music is danced to with elaborate patterns or sensual moves. Mariachi orchestras commonly perform shows that are on par with European operas in terms of dramatic elements and production value.
In the northern deserts, the country styles of banda, ranchera and norteno are the most prevalent; in the south, especially in Veracruz, there is more Caribbean influence. Heavy metal, rock and pop are popular in Mexico City as well as some of the university towns. Mariachi music is prevalent everywhere.
Music in Mexico is a constant to almost every activity and is played on public buses, in grocery stores and even in office buildings and banks. Live music is common on the street in many parts of Mexico, and mariachi bands will often show up at restaurants and give you a live serenade for a small tip.
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Based in San Francisco, Ocean Malandra is a travel writer, author and documentary filmmaker. He runs a major San Francisco travel website, is widely published in both online and print publications and has contributed to several travel guidebooks to South America.
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Home / Sports / Baseball / Baseball in 1939
Baseball in 1939
The Watershed Season of the National Pastime
Baseball in 1939 quantity
SKU: 9780786471638 Categories: Baseball, Sports
In 1939, baseball's past ran headlong into its future. As the game celebrated its 100th anniversary with the opening of the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, it learned that the legend of the sport's origins was purely a myth. On the field, the veteran players who had saved the game after the Black Sox scandal were slowly giving way to a new wave of players, men who would usher in the Golden Age of the game.
Through extensive research, augmented by interviews with such Hall of Famers as Bob Feller, Ernie Harwell, Charlie Gehringer and Monte Irvin, the game's pivotal season is retold here. The appendix provides a statistical summary of the year.
SABR member Lawrence S. Katz has written on baseball history for the Sports Collectors Digest and The Baseball Research Journal. He is an attorney living in West Bloomfield, Michigan.
Lawrence S. Katz
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Bibliographic Info: 22 photos, appendix, index
Copyright Date: 2012 [1995]
pISBN: 978-0-7864-7163-8
Imprint: McFarland
Acknowledgments vi
1. The Unheralded Dawning of a New Era 3
2. The Hall of Fame and the Origins of Baseball 13
3. The Teams 39
4. The Players 67
5. The Media 107
6. The Minor Leagues 117
7. Worlds Apart 139
Epilogue 169
Appendix 173
Book Reviews & Awards
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Is it one more week till spring? A few more days? Who knows. But this time of year always finds me rooting through the pantry and the so-called crisper bin in the fridge, looking in vain for something to whip up, since there's nothing fresh and seasonal going on.
This week, may I present Salmon Soft Tacos? As in, canned Loki salmon and shredded cabbage in place of lettuce and tortillas from the depths of the freezer.
To this end, I seasoned up the canned salmon with homemade taco seasoning.
Fresh cabbage, cilantro and avocado!
The result? Success! At least, for this season of the year. The husband still said he'd rather have fresh salmon. The boy still said he'd rather have a beef taco. The girls thought it was fine enough.
May fresh, local food come soon!
Mix canned salmon with taco seasoning. Check for bones.
Sauté onions in oil or bacon fat over medium-low heat until soft or of desired consistency.
Microwave the beans in a microwave-safe container.
Assemble all ingredients and have people serve themselves.
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Коряковка —  деревня в Кадыйском районе Костромской области. Входит в состав Завражного сельского поселения.

География
Находится в юго-восточной части Костромской области на расстоянии приблизительно 43 км на юг по прямой от районного центра поселка Кадый.

История
Известна была с 1872 года, когда здесь было учтено 16 дворов, в 1907 году отмечено было 32 двора.

Население
Постоянное население составляло 97 человек (1872 год), 126 (1897), 189 (1907), 0 в 2002 году, 3 в 2022.

Примечания

 Населённые пункты Кадыйского района

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Sculptures of Melbourne
Tag Archives: Paul Montford
10 Melbourne Public Sculptures Intended for Children
By Mark Holsworth
These Melbourne public sculptures are all intended for children, due to their theme or because they can be played on. Although Inge King did not intend the black curves of Forward Surge at the Arts Centre for any particular audience, she does appreciate the enjoyment that children get trying to climb up the curves and sliding down. Definitely for any child with ambitions to climb sculptures. This is without looking at the sculptural value of play equipment like the dragon slide in Fitzroy Gardens or a carved logs in the playground of the Fitzroy housing commission flats.
Listed chronologically.
Photograph courtesy of State Library of Victoria
Paul Montford, Peter Pan, 1925 Melbourne Zoo The figure of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan is modelled on Montford's son and the flora and fauna on the base are all Australian.
Ola Cohn, Fairy Tree, 1934, Fitzroy Gardens, Like Montford's Peter Pan, the fauna on Cohn's Fairy Tree are Australian. Cohn also wrote a Fairy story to go along with her carving.
Tom Bass, Children's Tree, 1963, Elizabeth Street, Bass intended for children to climb on this sculpture.
Photograph by Dan Magree
Peter Corlett, Tarax Bubble Sculpture, 1966-68 Originally at the National Gallery of Victoria it is now at the McClelland Sculpture Park. The sculpture was intended to be climbed in and on.
Tom Bass, Genie, 1973 Queen Victoria Gardens, Melbourne, Bass intended to be climbed on by children.
There are two sculptures based on children's book illustrations State Library forecourt. Ron Brooks, The Bunyip, 1994, from Jenny Wagner The Bunyip of Berekeley's Creek.
Smiley Williams, Mr Lizard and Gumnut Baby, 1998, from May Gibbs, Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
Bruce Armstrong, Untitled Installation 1999, at Flemington Children's Centre, Flemington. (no photo available unfortunately)
Browen Grey, Matryoshka Dolls, 2002, on the corner of Brunswick and Gertrude Streets.
photograph courtesy of EastLink
Emily Floyd, Public Art Piece, 2006 EastlLink. Even though children can't climb on it or even touch it Floyd did make it with the children in the back seat of the car in mind.
Emily Floyd, An Unfolding Space, 2010, Phoenix Park, Malvern East, sculpture at children's centre. (I couldn't get a photograph for this one.)
I will end this with a plug for my book Sculptures of Melbourne, a history of Melbourne's public sculptures.
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Sculptors & Stonemasons
This post is based on the tours that I gave to publicise the publication of my book, Sculptures of Melbourne earlier this year. Most of the examples can be found around Gordon Reserve at Parliament Station.
Bertram Mackennal, allegorical relief, 1888 Victoria's Parliament House
I was asked on one of my sculpture tours if Bertram Mackennal would have been a better sculptor if he hadn't spent so much time working on commissions. I replied that I didn't think that he would have been a sculptor at all if not for all the commissions.
Sir Bertram Mackennal, was born in Fitzroy the son of a sculptor and architectural modeller. His father supervised the architectural ornamentation on Victoria's Parliament House and in 1888 Bertram Mackennal did two panels for Parliament House. Mackennal became Australia's first international star artist exhibiting at the Royal Academy, the Paris Salon and doing portraits of British kings.
If Mackennal were alive today he would not be a sculptor. He would have been making pop music, films or something where good money can be made by a talented hard worker.
Bertram Mackennal, Sir William John Clarke Memorial, 1902
In the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century working class stonemasons could see their sons become upper class gentlemen sculptors. The economic power of craftsmen skills is a major factor in breaking down European class system from the Renaissance to the present. The working class lad who became a gentleman, or even a knight, because they were very hard working and very talented.
The stonemasons that built Melbourne, cutting, carving and decorating its buildings had plenty of work for stonemasons and so many could afford to pay for their sons to be better educated and the industrial muscle to demand better working conditions. It was the power of the stonemasons union that could demand an eight hour day in April 1856.
Stanford Fountain
Charles Summers and William Stanford were both the sons of Somerset stonemasons who had apprenticeships in stone masonry before coming to Australia for the gold rush. Stanford was more impulsive than Summers. He was sentenced to 22 years for highway robbery and horse stealing completing his fountain in 1870 while still in Pentridge Prison.
Charles Summers had already got his lucky break when he had become an assistant to an English sculptor. After finishing the Burke and Wills Monument in Melbourne Summers moved to Rome where he established a sculpture business, a business that he passed on to his son. Summers sculpture business in Rome sold more sculpture to the Melbourne Public Library and, also to George Lansell, the "Quartz King" of gold rush Bendigo. When Lansell was in Rome he specifically visited the Summers factory where he purchased a considerable number of sculptures.
Charles Summers, Burke and Wills Monument, 1865
Paul Montford was the son of a sculptor and stonemason and his brother continued his father's stone mason business in London. He employed many stonemasons and amongst them was Stanley Hammond who went on to become a sculptor himself continuing this tradition well into the twentieth century in Melbourne.
The end of sculpture as a family business marks a change in attitude to sculptors and sculpture and art in general. Art as a family business was common for centuries, three generations of the Bruegel family painted just as two generations of the Summers or Montford families sculpted. Art changed from a trade with apprenticeships to a vocation, from a matter of situation and birth to a question of character.
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Paul Montford's Clay Is Still In Use
In the traditional way of making a bronze or stone sculpture a clay model on a wooden or metal armature is first made. A plaster cast is made of the clay model and the clay is pulled off the armature and reused for the next sculpture. The plaster cast is then used to make either a wax model for bronze casting or a plaster model for stone masons to copy. So the clay that Paul Montford used modelled his sculptures, including to create the models for his sculptures at Melbourne's the Shrine of Remembrance, is still being used by sculptors in Melbourne almost a century later.
Paul Montford, John Wesley, 1935
When Montford arrived in Melbourne in 1923 he reported in his first letter (May 12, 1923) to his brother, Louis Montford in London on the availability of materials for sculpture: "no stone that can be carved," "no bronze founders here worth the name" but "good clay and plaster". This would suggest that Montford acquired his modelling clay locally after he arrived. (Catherine Moriarty Making Melbourne's Monuments – the Sculpture of Paul Montford, Australian Scholarly, 2013, p.82)
In other letters Paul tells his brother about the difficulties in keeping clay wet in Melbourne's summer heat. In one letter (Jan, 1926) he reports hosing the cloth covered model for the Desert Mounted Corps Memorial because using "a syringe was too slow". (Moriarty, p.118)
Due to a bizarre treatment for tonsillitis Paul Montford died of radium poisoning in 1938. At the time radium was still considered as a potential wonder drug. And his modelling clay was passed on to his assistant Stanley Hammond, who would have used to the clay to model his many sculptures from the lions at the Boer War Memorial on St. Kilda Road to his statue of John Batman on Collins Street.
Stanley Hammond, John Batman Memorial, 1978
I lost track of Montford's clay after Stanley Hammond death in 2000, at the age of 87. I heard a rumour that Louis Laumen had the clay but that turned out not to be true. I was disappointed not be able to trace this modelling clay from the Montford to the present as it would have given an unusual narrative thread to the first chapter of my book, Sculptures of Melbourne, but it was not essential to the history.
Then on the first day of my promotional walking tours for my book I was given the answer. Some of the Montford's clay is now in the possession of William Eicholtz and is still being used to model sculptures, including Courage. Thanks Will.
William Eicholtz, Courage, 2014
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Sculptures in Catani Gardens
Winter is here in Melbourne but I'm thinking about the public sculptures in Catani Gardens and walking by the beach in the summer. St. Kilda was Melbourne's first beach front suburb and has been on the decline since it was established in the gold boom era. Some might claim that this decline has been arrested since the hight of its seedy existence in the seventies but this might only be temporary as there were earlier attempts. Often these attempts involve urban redesign and the addition of sculpture and other monuments.
Sir John Tweed, Captain Cook, 1914
The Catani Gardens were established in 1906 and developed as a tourist attraction on reclamation work on the land. It extends along the St. Kilda foreshore from the pier to where Beaconsfield Parade meets Pier Road. The gardens were then known as Captain Cook Lawns as the Captain James Cook Memorial stands near the intersection of Fitzroy Street and Jacka Boulevarde. It is another edition of the Cook Memorial by Sir John Tweed. Erected in 1914 only two years after the memorial in Whitby, England was unveiled. The local council intended to have a collection of statues representing British navel heroes to accompany Cook. The statute was relocated in 1988 to it current location to make way for a bicentennial rotunda, perhaps mapping the popularity of Captain Cook as a figure in Australian popular culture.
Unknown artist, Vice-Admiral Sir William Rooke Creswell, 1938
The only other navel figure in the park is the bust of Vice-Admiral Sir William Rooke Creswell founder of the Australian Navy. The bust was original installed in 1938 five years after his death in 1933. The bust stares out to sea and sheltering several spiders. It is not in its original location on the edge of the footpath as it was moved when the road was widened.
The bust of the Vice-Admiral was stolen sometime in the nineteen-seventies and was never recovered; stolen bronze sculptures never are, they are melted down for the metal (see my post Stolen Sculptures). The current bust is new, recast from the original plaster mould. Did the English or European foundry keep the mould (there were no Australian sculpture foundries at the time) and if so why isn't the sculptor known? The bust was restored as part in the 100th anniversary of the Royal Australian Navy and an additional copy was made for the HMAS Creswell Naval base at Jervis Bay, NSW.
Charles Adam Irwin, Sali Cleve drinking fountain, April 1911
The ornate pillar with the sailing boat on top also has a nautical theme is the Sali Cleve drinking fountain designed by Charles Adam Irwin and erected in April 1911. It has also been relocated because of road widening.
Paul Montford, Carlo Catani, 1932
The Catani Clock Tower was dedicated on the Saturday 22nd August, 1932 and presumably the gardens renamed at the same time. The Italian-born civil engineer, Carlo Catani worked for St. Kilda Public Works Department and design the gardens. Clock towers were an important part of civic infrastructure before everyone carried one in their mobile phone. The brick memorial clock tower has a bust of Carlo Catani by Paul Montford and a bronze plaque that reads: "In Honour of Carlo Catani" "A Great Public Servant Of Victoria 1878-1917". Creating sculptures for architectural war memorials, like figures on the Shrine of Remembrance or the Cenotaph in St Kilda was what Montford most wanted to do but mostly he made busts.
The gardens still retain some of their original Edwardian formality and enterprise, it still looks like is a place to promenade and admire bronze statues of worthy notables, although now people are wearing significantly less formal attire. The rough volcanic rock walls are from another era of garden design. They look like parts of the Alexandra Gardens by the Yarra River that was established in 1901 not surprising given both were laid out by Catani.
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The Court Favourite
Paul Montford's sculpture, The Court Favourite (also known as: The Prince) captures the action of a lithe young man playing with a boisterous pet leopard cub. In his right hand the youth, Montford described him as a "Young Indian", clasps a decorated baton with a carved elephant head handle is. The cub crouches low and tugs fiercely at the youth's cloak.
Paul Montford, Court Favourite, c.1906
The leopard was modelled on a leopard at London Zoo, this would not be the last time that Montford used zoo animals as models using a goat and lion from Melbourne Zoo as models for his architectural decorations on the Shrine of Remembrance.
The Court Favourite was first exhibited in 1906 at the Royal Academy in London but not in a bronze edition that would have to wait until Montford and his family had immigrated to Australia in 1923. The sculpture was not cast locally as there were no specialist sculpture foundry in Australia at the time and the model was sent back to Europe to be cast. (He is a well travelled lad with a touch of Orientalism.) Montford believed that the heavy casting of the sculpture made it less likely to be vandalised, still he imagined that young men might want to break parts off especially the baton. It was cast by Foundry A.B. Burton, cast 1929, a foundry notable for casting large sculptures for notable 19th century sculptures. Montford in a letter (June, 1929) to his brother, Louis Montford notes that he sent Burton £90 for the casting and complaining that he couldn't get an advance from Baron Marks.
In 1930 Councillor Baron Marks presented Montford's The Court Favourite to the Melbourne City Council in memory of his brother, Jacob Marks. (Was this Alderman Jacob Marks, President of the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation from 1897 to 1901 and 1907 to 1908?) Baron Marks was a keen amateur sportsman and the President of the St. Kilda Sports Club. He had purchased the sculpture a few years earlier for £400; £100 less than the price paid by the Melbourne City Council for Montford's The Water Nymph.
Paul Montford, The Water Nypmh, 1910
Wednesday 5th Feb 1930 Montford, in another letter to his brother Louis, records the unveiling. "Today is a hot day… I had no waistcoat on which same is not done in best circles. They didn't know it, but they were lucky I didn't show up in pyjamas – Oh! the occasion was the unveiling of the The Court Favourite in Flagstaff gardens just the other side of the city. Marian & I went over by car and enjoyed it all very much. Everybody patted everybody's back, including mine, and in return I patted my own. When all was over we retired to the Mayors Room at the Town Hall where we did it all again, only more so. Now I hope I shall get paid – I haven't had a penny yet."
"Which is the favourite, the slave-boy or panther?" asked the Herald (Thursday 6 Feb 1930) and then narrates: "Spoiled, pampered and flattered, the panther rules the Court, symbol of the human master as fierce, as ruthless, as cruel as itself. The slave dare not use his whip, his smile is as sycophantic as that of the rest, as the patter has his will, today in play, tomorrow – in what sort?"
I want to describe this sculpture as 'high camp' but the Edwardian minds for which it was created for now seem utterly alien in their attitudes. Montford's The Court Favourite still stands in the shade of mature elm trees in Melbourne's oldest public gardens, Flagstaff Gardens established in 1862. There are many sculpture by Montford around Melbourne for more see my post Montford in Melbourne or Catherine Moriarty Making Melbourne's Monuments – the sculpture of Paul Mondford (Australian Scholarly, 2013) where I have sourced all the quotes in this post.
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Painful progress on my book
When I last wrote about progress on my book, Melbourne's Sculpture it was the end of March. I am now three months behind schedule with my book.
Progress of the book has been slowed with getting better photographs than the ones I'd taken, mine weren't really up to scratch for publication. I never really thought of myself as a photographer and I knew that my photography was the weakest part. I should have asked more questions about it and read the camera manual.
So plan B for the photographs and start to develop a plan C; scratch plan B after two months of going nowhere. Move on to plan C and start to develop a plan D and whole vicious cycle goes on. Somewhere in all of this I decided to do some renovations and a major clean up of the house.
Paul Montford, John Wesley statue,1935, Melbourne
There has so many lows, more pleas for help on windy winter nights, so few highs recently (some great sculpture exhibitions at RMIT, Callum Morton at Anna Schwartz and Inge King at the NGV) and far too much waiting. It is hard to be patient and anxious at the same time. Waiting can be horribly distressing and at time I felt I was being drip fed hope. The street artist, Mal Function who makes those little gremlin heads finally read and replied to my email six months later but not too late as it happens.
I didn't feel like writing my blog during this time; too uncertain of what the future would bring, too something. It is an odd feeling because the fate of the book was no longer in my hands. It was a good experience editing with Chloe Brien the book. Everyone is doing a wonderful job holding it together around me, the publisher, David Tenenbaum has been patient, my wife, Catherine and especially my old friend, Paul Candy who had been most helpful when exactly when I needed it. Lots of thanks; I must rewrite the acknowledgements for the book.
The book will now have photographs kindly supplied by the City of Melbourne, ConnectEast, State Library of Victoria and several photographers. More thanks.
Amongst the photographers I actual meet Matto Lucas. I had seen some of his work years ago but I had only met him virtually a few weeks earlier; his Facebook post are are often a work of art. I'd also seen his photography in his blog the Melbourne Art Review.
None of the photographs in this post will appear in the book.
Charles Robb, Landmark, 2005
Bruce Armstrong, Eagle, 2002, Docklands
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Paul Montford in Melbourne
Book review of Catherine Moriarty, Making Melbourne's Monuments – The Sculptures of Paul Montford (Australian Scholarly, 2013, North Melbourne)
With his middle name, Paul Raphael Montford was destined to being an artist. He first trained at Lambeth School of Arts and then at London's Royal Academy of Arts where he was awarded 5 prizes and a travelling scholarship. He had a distinguished career with many commissions in England and Scotland for architectural sculpture. He moved to Melbourne in 1923 and his sculptures adorn the Shrine of Remembrance. Montford came to my attention because he has more public sculptures in Melbourne than any other artist until the 1990s.
Paul Montford, Adam Lindsay Gordon, 1931
Montford's sculptures were not the first neo-classical sculptures to adorn Melbourne. Nor was Montford was not the first British sculptor to move to Melbourne, others had come before him but Montford does have more public sculptures in Melbourne than any other artist until the 1990s. Montford represents the high water mark of neo-classicalism in Melbourne before the tide of art history turned away from the classical tradition. For years that Paul Montford has been ignored by Australian and British art history and Moriarty's book restores him to art history.
The high point of Montford's career was the sculptures on Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance. This gives Moriarty the opportunity to do a scholarly examination of Australia's nascent nationalism. There are plenty of details about the arts and culture in Melbourne, including the various artist's clubs that Montford and his wife joined.
The first half of the book is a short history of Montford, in England and Australia. Moriarty makes the detail of history an engaging read and I reached the end of each chapter wanting more. There is a chapter on his domestic arrangements and his wife was a notable miniature artist. There is also a strange diversion on Montford osteopathy and medicine but it is justified given the interest in osteopathy in Montford's letters and that in 1938 Montford died of leukaemia as a result of a bizarre medical treatment where he was given large dose of radium for tonsillitis.
Montford's signature on base of Judge Higgenbothen Memorial
The second half are the annotated letters from Montford to his wife, his brother and other family members. There are also a few letters to Montford including one from the sculptor, and Montford's professional rival, Bertram Mackennal.
It is this archive of material that gives weight to Moriarty's examination of Montford.
And along with a detailed catalogue of Montford's work this book is the complete reference for Paul Montford
Montford's art is deeply conservative. Robert Menzies assumed that being a conservative artist he would be politically conservative too, appointed Montford to the Australia Academy of Arts. Pacifist, socialist and opposed to the White Australia policy Montford challenges the assumption that progressive artists are both progressive artistically and politically.
With the up-coming federal elections it is amusing to read Montford's analysis of Australian politics and compulsory voting because the situation has hardly changed since 1925:
"We shall have to vote next July or be fined and what a choice. Nationalist or Labour, both Protection and ultra Australian. Labour being keen on making more money and doing less work. Nationalists keen on making more interest with less trouble. The Socialist ideals simply don't exist. Labour has none, Communists is that of a Proletariat – by force leading to a working man's heaven – very undefined. Yet we must vote – penalty £2 if you don't." (p.112)
Moriarty has managed to make a long overdue academic examination of Paul Montford into something more than that; it is an engaging look at life in Melbourne in the 1920s.
Montford, The Court Favourite, 1906
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WHOLE-CHILD DESIGN >
Supportive Environments
We know that for learning and development, context matters – and school and classroom environments are especially critical contexts as they are where students will spend an enormous and influential portion of their lives. A supportive school environment is physically, emotionally, and identity safe, while creating a strong sense of belonging.
In order to create a true sense of safety and belonging, there must be a shared, authentic commitment to giving power and voice to all community members – students, staff, caregivers, etc. – practicing inclusion even when it is difficult. This means designing together the school culture itself (e.g., co-creating classroom norms), as well as prioritizing mechanisms of support and repairing relationships, instead of only discipline, when challenges inevitably arise (e.g., using co-regulatory and restorative practices). As all voices are invited into the conversation, it is especially important that those with power are aware of how their identities and relative institutional positions affect their role in creating a supportive school environment.---Split---
Creating that sense of safety also means we must understand the difference between striving towards calm vs. co-regulation. There are times in schools where a calm environment is supportive to learning – but demanding calm at all times is not responsive to students' developmental needs. In classrooms where students must always be quiet and composed, adults may also be prioritizing their own need for comfort and control, as well as missing a fundamental opportunity to support students' self-regulation skills. Instead, a co-regulating environment provides predictable and consistent structure students can rely on, provides adults who are attuned and responsive to students' needs in the moment, and models and matches the level of engagement and energy required for students to meet their goals.
Creating that sense of safety also means we must be willing to ask: Is this dangerous, or does it cause discomfort for adults? Often, behaviors or even students are implicitly or explicitly labeled as dangerous, unsafe, or problematic, because of biases, cultural differences, or a need for adult-only control – and consequences are given accordingly. In fact, to keep our students (especially those who hold marginalized identities) safe, it is likely that there will be productive discomfort.
This is important for all students, and especially those whose brains and bodies are already on "high alert" for danger, due to chronic stress or trauma. The predictability and consistency of a supportive school environment gives a hyperactive stress response system the opportunity to categorize the pattern of experiences as nonthreatening, thus allowing the nervous system to stay out of "fight, flight, or freeze" mode and in an open, engaging, and learning mode.
A supportive environment is NOT:
Always highly rigid, structured, and educator controlled for the sake of calm, quiet, and order
Relying on exclusionary discipline practices to maintain safety
Mirroring oppressive societal structures that unfairly police students' bodies and choices
A supportive environment IS:
Physically, emotionally, and identity safe for all community members, especially those who hold marginalized identities
Inclusive, creating an unwavering sense of belonging
Co-regulating, predictable, and consistent, especially for students who have experienced chronic stress or trauma
Supportive Environments Core Practices:
Select a core practice below to start redesigning:
Expectation, Norms and Routines
Culturally Affirming and Sustaining Practices
The Science of Supportive Environments
Use the following materials to dig deeper into research from the science of learning and development about supportive environments
Building a Belonging Classroom
WATCH AND REFLECT:
What moves did the educators in this video make to create a physically, emotionally, and identity safe environment?
The video says, "When we feel we don't belong, our brains naturally monitor for threats, leaving fewer cognitive resources for higher-order thinking." What do you think that might look like and feel like for a student?
SCIENCE TOOL
Explore this infographic that explains the interactive process of regulatory support between a caring adult and child, called co-regulation.
Co-Regulating Environments
Check out this infographic that explains how environments can be causes of stress, dysregulation, and excessive cognitive load, or how they can be co-regulating experiences.
The Marshmallow Study, Revisited
Learn how researchers at the University of Rochester revisited a classic experiment to show the role of a supportive environment in students' skill development.
Why Black Girls Are Targeted for Punishment at School — and How to Change That
Watch author and social justice scholar Monique W. Morris's TED talk, where she describes how schools must become contexts for healing and learning.
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Anti-War No More… Whatever happened to the Political Left?
Recall the wrath of the Political Left when Bush increased US troop levels in Afghanistan and Iraq? Recall a similar outcry when Barack Obama sent 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan? You probably don't, because there wasn't one. Remember back to when Richard Nixon began bombing Cambodia without consulting Congress? Have you heard more than a peep from the Political Left today, as Obama's ordered US intervention in the Libyan civil war enters its third month? The War Powers Resolution that was passed into law in 1973 (largely by Democrats) requires the President to end any military action after 60 days unless Congress approves it. Not only has the Obama administration not gotten such approval, it has stone-walled Congressional efforts to obtain information about the Libyan operations from both the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Defense Department. Can you see GW Bush getting such a pass?
In other areas, the Political Left has rolled over as well. Suppose Bush had issued an executive order that any business seeking to bid on government contracts had to submit a list of all the political contributions it had made over the past five years? Obama is considering such an Order and there's nary a peep. Are we looking to play favorites or to subtly suppress the freedom of speech that political activity (including contributions) includes?
What if George Bush had created a Director of Conservative Media & Online Response position in his administration, with the task of attacking anyone in the media who reported unfavorably on Bush or his policies? Well, when Obama created just such a position two weeks ago (substitute "Progressive" for "Conservative") it was met with acquiescence by the mainstream media, who themselves would fall under the administration's review. Hello? Free press? Are you there? (And what, exactly, is "Progressive" about having such a Director within the administration?) When I think of Rapid Response Teams, I think of quick military action in defense of US security, not administration goons trying to achieve electoral security by oppressing those who speak out in opposition. Free speech? Where is Mario Savio when you really need him? (For those of you under fifty, Savio began and led the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley back in the early 1960s). Savio's memory is desecrated every time the Political Left attempts to silence speakers it doesn't like on college campuses, or when the Obama administration attempts to intimidate people in the media or those seeking government contracts. And so much for diversity, I guess.
Barack Obama suckered many young, first-time and dissatisfied American voters in 2008. In less then two years he has revealed himself to be just another cynical politician in the worst sense of both of those words – a corrupt Chicago ward style of politics gone both national and global. Next week, I'll present some more evidence to supports this contention. And if Jesse Lee and the Obama media goons want to get on my case for saying these things, they know where they can find me online. I'll even let them come aboard as subscribers.
And perhaps somebody on the Political Left can explain to us how selective moral indignation is defensible. If Bush was held to be a fascist for his actions and policies, how is Obama any less? Barack "Hope/Change" Obama is not the solution. He is now part of the problem.


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Announcement: Beacon Press Seeks an Illustator for Kindred
by Latoya Peterson
Yes, you read that right. According to friend of the blog Allison:
For many years, Beacon Press–a nonprofit book publisher since 1854–has had the privilege of publishing Octavia Butler's "Kindred," the story of a modern black woman transported through time to the antebellum South. Octavia Butler died tragically in 2006; those familiar with her life and work know how singular and important her legacy remains. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the novel, and Beacon is deeply honored to announce a collaboration with the Butler estate to produce a graphic adaptation of "Kindred." The press is currently inviting proposals from cartoonists who appreciate Octavia Butler's legacy, and reflect hercommitment to social justice in their own work.
Those interested in discussing a proposal should email the editor of the Graphic Books list, Allison Trzop, at atrzop AT beacon DOT org. The deadline is March 16.
Please spread this far and wide, anyone who knows anyone who is an illustrator, graphic artist, whatever.
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Annual Financial Report 2020
Finance Division
Powered by Possibility. Prepared for Challenge.
Carnegie Mellon is a place where the best minds collaborate across boundaries, borders and disciplines to solve the world's most pressing and perplexing problems. That passion and curiosity have never been more important than they are today as we navigate the ever-evolving landscape that comes with a world health crisis, a defining cultural movement and widespread economic decline. Fortunately, challenges have never deterred us. They only serve to embolden us, to incite new ideas and to take the unconventional risks that yield innovative results, setting what we once thought unobtainable squarely within our reach.
Annual Financial Report 2020 [PDF]
Highlights from the CFO and CIO
Investment Office
Angela Blanton, Vice President for Finance and CFO
I am pleased to present the annual financial report for Carnegie Mellon University for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020.
The past year has changed and challenged the world in ways we could never have envisioned. A global pandemic, cultural transformation and widespread economic instability have exposed deep chasms in our society.
But at Carnegie Mellon, in the face of that adversity, we recognized opportunity; an invitation to think boldly and explore boundlessly.
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Charles A. Kennedy, CIO
Built on a foundation of generous gifts and augmented by careful financial stewardship, Carnegie Mellon University's endowment stood at a market value of $2.1 billion as of June 30, 2020. The endowment is an important strategic asset of the university. Carnegie Mellon seeks to advance knowledge and understanding in science and technology, fine arts and the humanities through its research and education mission. By providing a permanent and consistent source of funding for scholarships, professors' salaries, laboratory equipment, etc., the endowment enables Carnegie Mellon's faculty and student researchers to carry out the university's mission. Critically, endowment support for tuition assistance attracts and retains a highly qualified and diverse student body. With its perpetual life, the endowment is uniquely situated to provide funding today and in the future to advance the university's mission and to help Carnegie Mellon students and faculty achieve their goals and aspirations.
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Make Possible Campaign
Accepting the Challenge
What will we make possible? It's a question we answer every day at Carnegie Mellon University and it's the question that launched the Make Possible Campaign on October 30, 2019. Fueled by generous gifts from friends and alumni, the Campaign continues to rise toward the $2 billion goal.
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Conquering the Digital Divide
COVID-19 has exposed longstanding inequities in the country's education system, including uneven access to technology. As many as 60% of some Pittsburgh neighborhoods have no internet access and many others lack connectivity. CMU CS Pathways has partnered with Pittsburgh-based nonprofit Meta Mesh Wireless Communities to solve the digital dilemma with "a solution that doesn't go away."
Read more about the partnership
Defending Democracy
When bots, trolls, state-run propaganda and hate speech infiltrate societal discourse, democracy suffers. Researchers at CMU's newly established Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cybersecurity are studying this flow of disinformation in order to halt its advance, with assistance from the Knight Foundation.
Read about the Center and its $5 million investment
Researchers at CMU and the University of Pittsburgh are developing a new, low-cost ventilator that could end the shortage laid bare by COVID-19. The Roboventilator, as it's called, fills the gap between expensive mechanical devices and the current low-cost, limited-capability alternatives, offering an affordable option for both U.S. hospitals and resource-depleted health systems around the world.
Read more about the Roboventilator
Creating Community
The Tartan Scholars Program guides high-achieving students from limited-resource backgrounds through their first year on campus using mentorship and community building. "I always hear people say 'it takes a village' and now I really see what that means," one of this year's scholars said.
Read about how the Tartan Scholars Program supports first-year students
Groundbreaking Science
Synthetic chemicals, including pesticides and household cleaners, have been infiltrating our waterways for decades, threatening wildlife and building up in the environment unchecked. But researchers at CMU's Institute for Green Science have unveiled a powerful, safe and inexpensive solution to the problem.
Read about the new method to remove harmful chemicals from the water supply
Building a Better Lung
Computational biologists at CMU have partnered with researchers at Boston University to develop an innovative method for generating lung cells. These new cells are easily derived and long lasting, potentially creating an unlimited and stable supply for researchers to study and treat lung disease.
Read about the researchers' new method
The Future of AI is Female
CMU has been shaping the field of artificial intelligence from its inception. So it comes as little surprise that seven CMU women in various disciplines and stages of their careers are dismantling the field's prevailing norms and advancing the future of AI.
Read about seven female researchers shaping AI
Thirty-nine tackles and 7.5 sacks is considered a strong season for any defensive end. But for student athlete Long Tran, last year's return to the field after heart surgery was more than a triumph, it was a reminder to seize opportunity. "You only have a finite amount of time to play sports," he said.
Read about Tran's return to the field
Predicting the Pandemic
One of the challenges of COVID-19 is predicting its path before it takes hold in a community. A project spearheaded by CMU's Delphi COVID-19 Response Team asks Facebook and Google users to help forecast the virus's spread by self-reporting their symptoms.
Read about how researchers are forecasting COVID-19 activity
Dramatic Shift
Professor Denée Benton? The School of Drama graduate and Broadway star is one of the many industry professionals who have dropped into classes to offer advice and inspiration since the spring transition to remote learning. It's a fresh approach to courses that typically rely on face-to-face interaction to impart knowledge.
Read about the innovative ways professors have adapted classes for remote learning
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Olumide Oyedeji
Former D'Tigers captain promises continuous support for grassroots sports development
The former NBA player is planning to have a camping exercise in Ekiti.
byOluwaferanmi Omoniyi
Former D'Tigers captain, Olumide Oyedeji, has assured his commitment to the continuous development of basketball at the grassroots.
Oyedeji made this known during a press conference conducted by the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, SWAN Ekiti State chapter, on Tuesday during his visit to the state.
The former national team captain told journalists he will set up a camp in Ekiti to put smiles on the faces of young girls and boys.
He explained that the creation of the boot camp is a means to develop youngsters across the country-a program he started 21 years ago.
According to the basketball legend, the Olumide Oyedeji Basketball Camp has had over 40,000 beneficiaries since its inception.
"It was something I was determined to do," he said
"I came up with a theme for my own program, bright leadership empowerment, hopes and real basketball team, inter-collegiate basketball championship, read to succeed, readers to be leaders then basketball camp (academy) like what I want to do right here during with mentorship."
While counting the gains of the pet project which he started over two decades ago, Oyedeji said he remains undeterred even though he has had to shoulder the responsibilities almost single-handedly.
He continued: "I'm doing all these programs by myself and for the past 21 years, 97% of it have been self-sponsored, you can see a couple of my players in Baltimore University, Washington State, over 300 on scholarship, over 100 who play across the national teams now and much more
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"Things like this is what I could only do, can't change it but do my best. I hope we have more people up there.
"I started this basketball camp 21 years ago, now we have more basketball ball camps, I love it. I have always wanted to be a pacesetter," he added.
For Oyedeji, raising new talents that will surpass his achievement has been the driving force even though it has been a rough road.
"Anytime you feel like quitting, I always remember the reason for starting; to put smiles on boys' and girls' faces and help to develop them.
"I want to see better Olumides out there because we have them. If you want to be like Olumide Oyedeji, you are limiting yourself," he concluded.
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ARTISTSJorge Galindo
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Jorge Galindo was born in 1965 in Madrid, Spain. Trained in the workshops of the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, his artistic oeuvre spans more than three decades. Galindo is known for his large-scale expressionist paintings in oil, featuring unrestrained brushwork and a brimming dynamism that reflects the artist's physical process of painting. Galindo's gestural marks— splatters, sprays, and swaths of bright colors— attest to his unrivaled skill as a draftsman of the painted stroke, as well as a colorist and a master of composition.
Galindo's paintings of flowers created between 2020 – 2021 further his formal exploration into reproduction, and printed and painted compositions of floral imagery. His visceral marks in paint animate the traditional still life motif, pushing the realism of a 17th century Dutch flower painting into the realm of abstraction. The subject matter first appeared in Galindo's work in 2009, inspired by a floral still life by Henri Fantin-Latour that was reproduced as the cover art of the English rock band New Order's 1983 album Power, Corruption & Lies. Galindo returned to the subject of flowers in 2019, in a collaboration with the Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar. Combining elements of painting, photography, and collage, he enlarged a series of Almodóvar's still life photographs as the ground for new paintings, which the duo realized together— applying paint with brushes as well as with their hands and feet. This ongoing exploration continues in his recent series.
Galindo's work has been exhibited internationally including at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; the Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; the The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, New York; the CAC Málaga, Spain; the Certosa di San Giacomo, Capri, Italy; and The Hall Art Foundation Schloss Derneberg, Germany.
Galindo lives and works in Porto, Portugal and Borox, Toledo, Spain.
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65 Facts About Popular Songs That Will Blow Your Mind. You Won't Listen To Them The Same Way Again.
1. Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" was originally written for Celine Dion.
2. The song "Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia is actually a cover. The original is by Ednaswap.
3. "Tainted Love" is also a cover. The original is by Gloria Jones and came out in 1964.
4. ALSO "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" is a cover of some dude. The original is by a guy named Robert Hazard.
5. One last one: "I Love Rock & Roll" is a cover. It was originally by The Arrows, not Joan Jett.
6. The song "Sweet Child of Mine" was written in five minutes.
7. The song "Like a Virgin" is actually about a guy getting over a breakup.
8. Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" is actually about anal sex.
9. The song "Summer of 69" by Bryan Adams is about 69'ing, like, sexually. Inthis interview, he said: "Some parts [of the song] are autobiographical, but the title comes from the idea of 69 as a metaphor for sex. Most people thought it was about the year 1969."
10. Serial killer Aileen Wuornos was obsessed with Natalie Merchant's "Carnival." She requested they play it at her funeral.
11. Billy Joel's "Only the Good Die Young" is about a man trying to convince a Catholic girl to lose her virginity to him.
12. Sarah McLachlan's song "Angel" is about heroin addiction.
13. The song "Closing Time" by Semisonic is not about closing a bar, it's about the birth of the lead singer's son.
14. "Zombie" by The Cranberries is about terrorism in Northern Ireland.
15. "Slide" by The Goo Goo Dolls is about abortion.
16. "Brick" by Ben Folds Five is also about abortion.
17. And "The Freshman" by The Verve Pipe is about abortion as well.
18. Shel Silverstein wrote "A Boy Named Sue."
19. "Gettin' Jiggy wit It" was written by Nas.
20. The song "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" samples this YouTube video of a girl stacking cups. "OH MY GOSH."
21. Justin Timberlake's "Rock Your Body" was written by Pharrell for Michael Jackson's final album, Invincible.
22. "…Baby One More Time" was rejected by TLC.
23. Rihanna's "Umbrella" was supposed to be a Britney Spears song.
24. Leona Lewis was originally supposed to sing Rihanna's "We Found Love."
25. "Toxic" was intended for Kylie Minogue, not Britney Spears.
26. Britney Spears' "I'm a Slave 4 U" was written for Janet Jackson.
27. "Semi-Charmed Life" is about a couple on a crystal meth binge.
28. "1985" by Bowling for Soup is originally by the band SR-71.
29. "Red Red Wine" by UB40 was originally recorded by Neil Diamond
30. Prince wrote Sinead O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U."
31. "The Way" by Fastball is about an elderly couple who went missing and were later found dead in a ravine.
32. Bruce Springsteen wrote "Blinded by the Light."
33. "Since U Been Gone" was turned down by Pink and Hilary Duff before Kelly Clarkson recorded it.
34. Bruno Mars wrote CeeLo Green's "Fuck You."
35. "Me and Mr. Jones" by Amy Winehouse is about Nas.
36. Avril Lavigne wrote the Kelly Clarkson song "Breakaway." It was meant to go on Avril's first album, the one with "Sk8er Boi" and "Complicated," but it didn't really fit with her image.
37. "How Will I Know" by Whitney Houston was originally supposed to be forJanet Jackson.
38. Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" was written for S Club 7.
39. Jesse McCartney helped write Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love."
40. Frank Ocean wrote the Justin Bieber song "Bigger."
41. Aretha Franklin's "Respect" was written by Otis Redding. You can listen to his version here.
42. "You Oughta Know" by Alanis Morissette is about Dave Coulier (from Full House).
43. "Ben" by Michael Jackson was originally intended for Donny Osmond.
44. Eve 6's "Here's to the Night" is about a one-night stand.
45. Miley Cyrus' "We Can't Stop" was originally intended for Rihanna.
46. "Bad" was originally supposed to be a duet between Michael Jackson and Prince.
47. The song "Hey Ya" by Outkast is actually about a man stuck in a loveless relationship.
48. The DMB song "Crash" is sung from the perspective of a peeping tom.
49. "Disturbia" by Rihanna was originally a Chris Brown song.
50. Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" MAY actually be about his then-fling, Elle Macpherson.
51. Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" is about his then-girlfriend, Rosanna Arquette.
52. Lori Lieberman wrote "Killing Me Softly," not Roberta Flack.
53. Shania Twain or Faith Hill were both given the opportunity to record Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable."
54. "Candle in the Wind" was originally written about Marilyn Monroe but rewritten about Princess Diana when she was killed and titled "Goodbye England's Rose."
55. Bob Marley's "I Shot The Sheriff" is about birth control. Bob Marley didn't want his girlfriend to take birth control pills. The doctor who prescribed the pills was the sheriff.
56. The song "There She Goes" by Sixpence None the Richer is about heroin. The song was actually originally by The La's too.
57. LFO's "Girl on TV" is e-hewitt">about Jennifer Love Hewitt.
58. Usher's "Burn" is about Chilli from TLC.
59. The song "Hollaback Girl" by Gwen Stefani was written in response to something Courtney Love said about Gwen in Seventeen magazine.
60. Madonna's "Take a Bow" is reportedly about Sean Penn.
61. "Hero" by Mariah Carey was originally intended for Gloria Estefan.
62. Lady Gaga's "Telephone" was originally written for Britney Spears. You can listen to Britney's demo here.
63. Prince wrote The Bangles' "Manic Monday."
64. The song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is not about an LSD trip. It's about a painting John Lennon's son drew for him.
65. Prince's song "1999" is about nuclear war.
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269 David Roberts on Climate and Energy and Emily's List's Stephanie Schriock on her new book
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I have been reading, writing, and thinking pretty intensely about this subject matter for over 15 years now. Most recently, from 2015 to 2020, I was with Vox, a news and culture publication for which I still occasionally write. Before that, I was with Grist, a publication focused on environmental news, where I was hired in 2004.
Over those 15+ years I've written for other publications (like Outside) and appeared on a variety of TV shows, radio programs, and podcasts, like All In with Chris Hayes and On the Media and Pod Save America and Why Is This Happening? I've been quoted or cited by all kinds of fancy-pants people, from Al Gore to several US senators to pundits like Michelle Goldberg and Paul Krugman and Jon Favreau and Tom Friedman to media analysts like Margaret Sullivan and Jay Rosen to climate writers like Elizabeth Kolbert and Bill McKibben and David Wallace-Wells.
As for my pre-professional life, here it is in one paragraph: I grew up in a small town in Tennessee, went to a small liberal arts college in another small town in Tennessee, and then, when I graduated, lit out west. I spent a while in Montana getting an MA in Philosophy (with a minor in snowboarding), then went to work on a PhD at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton (three hours north of Calgary, which is three hours north of the border). Edmonton was too cold and academic philosophy was too bleak, so in 1999 I bailed and lit out to Seattle. After a period of professional drift but personal joy (including a wife and a child), I stumbled into the Grist job by sheer luck in 2004. (I happened to see it the first time I ever visited Craigslist.) Been writing ever since.
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Posted on one of the doors of the Vault deli yesterday . . .
Located on the first floor of the Washington Building (home of the Index), the Vault Deli was never a lunch-time staple for me, but a convenient and quick place to grab a slice of pizza or a half-sandwich during a long day of work when I didn't want to stray too far from the office. Still, the place always seemed to do a steady walk-up lunch business.
by Erik on 8/11/2009 @ 5:25pm Sad. They sure served alot od pizza there.
However, for some reason, I stopped going there over the last couple of years.
by L.S.Erhardt on 8/11/2009 @ 5:44pm I didn't even know they existed. I know about the vault catering and such, but a deli?
Guess you gotta work in the building to know it. Talk about poor advertising.
by KevinFreitas on 8/11/2009 @ 5:53pm I used to go there a bit when meeting Sarah for lunch. It was great 'cause they carried pizza by the slice from Round Table (a greasy vice of mine). Seating was awkward but I remember their salads being solid and the lobby area where you could grab a table different in a classy, old school sort of way. But, I'm with Erik, probably haven't been in the last 4 years or so.
Just one more reason for PSP to take up that old by-the-slice call some of us have echoed.
by Crenshaw Sepulveda on 8/11/2009 @ 6:35pm In a civilized city you can get good pizza by the slice in the downtown core. Costco, which is cheap and tasty isn't downtown. Oh, and if that pizza by the slice is sitting under the heat lamp you should run in most cases. Good pizza by the slice goes back into the pizza oven for a bit before they serve it to you. Costco's pizza turns over so quickly I don't hold this against them.
by L.S.Erhardt on 8/11/2009 @ 7:17pm A good pizza should not go through you in 20 minuets or require Maalox.
That being said, Costco pizza is not good.


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