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French, 1881 - 1949
Bernard Boutet de Monvel was a French painter, sculptor, engraver, fashion illustrator and interior decorator. Although first known for his etchings, he earned notability for his paintings, especially his geometric paintings from the 1900s and his Moroccan paintings made during World War I. In both Europe and the United States, where he often traveled, he also became known as a portrait painter for high society clients.
He was born in Paris's 4th district, the son of the painter and children's illustrator Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel. His brother Roger became a well-known writer. He was raised in both Paris and Nemours, and he set his sights on becoming a painter from the age of sixteen. Starting in 1897, he studied with Luc-Olivier Merson and Jean Dampt.
In 1898, he was introduced to etching by the American painter Louis McClellan Potter (1873–1912) and soon mastered the technique. Boutet de Monvel focused on colour etching using the 'au repérage' method, which required a separate plate for each colour. Some of his earliest etchings were of his brother Roger — L'habitué (The regular, 1902); L'homme aux chiens (Man with dogs, 1905) — and were stylistically reminiscent of James MacNeill Whistler's work. He also made work celebrating as the citizens of Nemours and the riverbanks of the Loing; these include L'éclusière (The lock keeper, 1901); Les haleurs (The haulers, 1899); Le chaland (The lighter, 1899); and La péniche (The barge, 1899). The Studio devoted an article to these early works entitled "Coloured Etching in France" in 1901.
Following this, his etchings mainly revolved around dandies of the past. Examples include Le beau (The handsome, 1906); La merveilleuse (The marvellous, 1906); Le lion (The lion, 1907); and Les hortensias (The hydrangeas, 1911). He also took the countryside surrounding Nemours as a subject in works such as L'heure du repos (Hour of rest, 1908). In 1912, The Art Institute of Chicago devoted a retrospective to his colour prints.
Boutet de Monvel was simultaneously working in oil painting, especially portraits, which he began to exhibit at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1903. He subsequently began sending works to the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Indépendants as well. In 1907, he began to regularly send his works to exhibitions in the United States at the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh.
Early paintings like Les boucheries (Butcher's stalls, 1904)were starkly composed with bright pigments and strong blue shadows. In 1904, after a field trip to Florence, he suddenly shifted to a pointillist style. The light in the paintings became more vibrant and perspective disappeared. Examples of work in this style include Rita del Erido (1907) and Le Sophora (The Sophora tree, ca. 1907). His 1908 self-portrait entitled The Portrait, which showed him in the Nemours countryside on a stormy day flanked by two greyhounds, earned him critical recognition and nomination to membership in the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.
In 1909, Boutet de Monvel exhibited at Devambez Gallery a manifesto painting entitled Esquisse (Sketch, 1908), a portrait made using only a ruler and a pair of compasses. This geometric vision of a dandy drew critical censure and mockery of it as "rectilinear painting." Nonetheless, it laid the foundations for his signature style and helped to develop a path towards the later style known as Art Deco. Working with a refined geometric linearity, he reduced his palette to black and a few greys and earth tones handled as flat tints. He also tended to draw from a low perspective angle to accentuate the monumentality of his subjects. Works from this period include Comte Pierre de Quinsonas (1913); and MM. André Dunoyer de Segonzac and Jean-Louis Boussingault (1914).
For financial reasons, Boutet de Monvel also contributed illustrations, especially fashion drawings, to magazines such as Fémina, Jardin des modes nouvelles, and Gazette du Bon Ton. Among those he worked closely with were the fashion designer Paul Poiret, who was an early admirer of his talent, and the illustrator Georges Barbier, who were cofounders of the Journal des Dames et des Modes. He was also associated with the Mortigny Circle, which included Pierre Brissaud, Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scevola, Pierre Troisgros, and others.
When war broke out in 1914, Boutet de Monvel was called up as a reservist. He was injured during the Battle of the Marne. After a brief recovery he joined the 4th Bombardment Group as a bombardier. When the group disbanded in November 1915, he was appointed to the Orient Bombardment Group, based in Salonika, Macedonia. In June 1916, when this group disbanded in turn, he joined a new squadron, the C389. In September 1916, he and his pilot flew from Salonika to Bucharest, a feat that earned recognition in both France and Romania.
After several plane accidents, Boutet de Monvel left Macedonia in June 1917 with the Légion d'Honneur award and five commendations. He was transferred to Fez, where the 551st squadron was based, in October 1917. At the request of General Lyautey, who was the Resident-General of French Morocco, he began to paint again for the first time since war had been declared. Continuing in his rectilinear style, he painted the city of Fez and its inhabitants at all hours of the day. He also painted in Rabat and Marrakesh. In the year and a half before he was demobilized in March 1919, he created a singular and powerful vision of Morocco, whose austerity kept it far from orientalist cliché. His Moroccan paintings and his bas-reliefs, which Boutet de Monvel always considered his finest work, were exhibited in 1925 at the Henri Barbazanges gallery under the patronage of Marshal Lyautey. The introductory text to the catalogue, written by Jérôme and Jean Tharaud, ended with these words: "(In Morocco) Boutet de Monvel set down on paper the appearance of a day and forever, just at the point where this profound element is at risk of disappearing".
During the war, he undertook the creation of an album, Les mois de la guerre (The war months, 1914–1918) that remains unpublished.
When Boutet de Monvel returned to Paris, he took up his career as a painter again, especially as a portraitist of sportsmen and dandies. Works from this period include Portrait du Prince Sixte de Bourbon-Parme (Portrait of the Sixth Prince of Bourbon-Parma, 1921) and Portrait de Georges-Marie Haardt (Portrait of Georges-Marie Haardt, 1924). He also took up his collaboration with the Gazette du Bon Ton again, as well as with several fashion magazines, including Vogue. In 1926 he entered into an exclusivity agreement with Harper's Bazaar that lasted until 1933.
Books he illustrated included Général Bramble by André Maurois (1920) and La première traversée du Sahara (First crossing of the Sahara) by Georges Marie-Haardt and Louis Haudouin-Dubreuil (1924).
Finally, at Louis Süe's behest, he joined the design firm La Compagnie des Arts Français on its creation in 1919. Interior designs he participated in included Jean Patou's Parisian hotel (1923), actress Jane Renouardt's villa in Saint Cloud (1924–1925); and Mrs. Edeline Jacques' Biarritz dining room (1925).
A 1926 retrospective of his work at Anderson Gallery in New York was followed in 1927 by an exhibition of his paintings at the Baltimore Museum of Art. His first trips to the United States were made for these shows, and from then on, becoming very much in demand by American café society for his talents as a portraitist. His sitters included Henry Clay Frick, Payne Whitney, and members of the du Pont, Astor, and Vanderbilt families.
In 1929 he painted a series of New York cityscapes through which he endeavoured to capture the dehumanised modernity of a city under construction via a mixture of abstraction and photographic realism. Together with some similar views of a Chicago steelworks in 1928, these paintings bear comparison with work by major figures of the Precisionist movement such as Charles Sheeler.
In the 1930s, his portraits of the international elite included the Maharajah Yashwant Rao Holkar II and Maharani Sanyogita Devi of Indore in court dress (1934), Lady Charles Mendl (1936), and the Marquis de Cuevas (1938).
Back in Paris when the Second World War was declared, he opted not to leave France, and his main work during the war involved a series on secondhand booksellers along the quays of the Seine.
In 1947, the Knoedler Gallery mounted a retrospective of his work. Boutet de Monvel got back into the habit of travelling to the United States to paint portraits like that of Millicent Rogers (1949). During one of these trips between Paris and New York in 1949, he was killed when his plane crashed on Sao Miguel Island in the Azores
Le Jardin de Peyrou; Costume tailleur de Chéruit (1914)
Bernard Boutet de Monvel (French, 1881 - 1949)
Femmes sur les terrasses, Rabat (1918)
Dunoyer de Segonzac et Boussingault peignant (1914)
Bouquiniste sur le quai des Grands-Augustins (1949)
Mariners (Les Haleurs) (1906)
Vue de New York (1928)
Une robe du soir de Worth (1920)
Twee wandelende mannen met bolhoed (1894 - 1949)
Tenue de matin (1913)
Les yeux innocents (1914)
Les premières roses ; Tailleur et robe d'après-midi, de Worth (1920)
Les beaux jours de fez ; ou ; la fatma improvisée (1920)
Le paysage romantique ; Costume tailleur de Worth (1914)
Portrait of Brenda Frazier
Le dernier carrosse (1920)
Le choix difficile ; Manteau du soir de Worth (1914)
La Commode en Laque. ; Robe du soir de Worth. (1914)
Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1912, Costumes Parisiens, no. 7 (1912)
Habit de soiré (1912)
Bergson a promis de venir ; Robe de dîner de Worth (1914)
Battue d'automn (1923)
South Works Steel Mill in Chicago, Illinois (1928)
Sylvie et son Chien Champagne
Bernard Boutet de Monvel et sa fiancée, Delfina, en promenade (1920)
Luc resolved to change his life (1920)
Luc surprised by a painting by Jean Metzinger (1920)
Luc in front of a painting by Jean Metzinger (1920)


More buskers than usual will be vying for the public's attention this weekend at The Forks.
The annual busker auditions are set for centre court, where potential buskers will have five minutes to impress the audience and judges with their performances. The winning buskers will receive a coveted busk pass to perform year-round at various indoor and outdoor stops throughout The Forks.
The auditions run from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. today, and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. On Saturday, entertainers will audition from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.


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Os subníveis eletrônicos são subdivisões das camadas eletrônicas. Eles são designados pelas letras minúsculas, s, p, d e f . Sendo os subníveis g, h e i teóricos (estando vazios nos átomos dos elementos conhecidos).

Divisão das camadas eletrônicas
As camadas eletrônicas dos elementos conhecidos, denominadas por letras de K a Q, possuem as seguintes configurações de subníveis:

Capacidade eletrônica dos subníveis
Cada subnível comporta um número máximo de elétrons:
 subnível s: 2 elétrons
 subnível p: 6 elétrons
 subnível d: 10 elétrons
 subnível f: 14 elétrons

Assim, a camada 1 por possuir apenas o subnível s, comporta apenas 2 elétrons. Já a camada 2 é formada pelos subníveis s e p e comporta 8 (2 + 6) elétrons. E assim por diante.

De forma simplificada, quanto mais distante está o subnível do núcleo, maior é sua energia. Desta maneira, poderíamos escrever a seguinte ordem crescente dos subníveis de energia:

No entanto, à medida que se afasta do núcleo, a diferença de energia entre os vários subníveis vai se tornando cada vez menor e aumenta a possibilidade de haver inversão na sequência esperada.
A energia de um subnível é proporcional à soma do número quântico principal (representado pela letra n) e o número quântico secundário (ou azimutal, representado pela letra l). Onde n é um número entre 1 e 7, e l é um número entre 0 e 3 (com n e l ∈ ℕ). Dessa forma para o subnível 3d temos:
(n + l) → (3 + 2) = 5,
e para o subnível 4s temos:
(n + l) → (4 + 0) = 4.
Assim, o subnível 4s, por exemplo, apesar de estar mais distante do núcleo que o subnível 3d, apresenta energia menor que a dele.
A ordem crescente dos subníveis de energia passa então a ser a seguinte:

O último subnível da configuração eletrônica do elemento é responsável pela determinação do seu número quântico secundário ou azimutal (l), onde S=0, P=1, D=2, F=3.

Referências
Santos Filho, Pedro F. "Estrutura atômica & ligação química". Campinas: UNICAMP, 1999.
Peruzzo, Tito Miragaia; Canto, Eduardo Leite do. "Química: na abordagem do cotidiano". Volume único, 1 ed., São Paulo: Moderna, 1996.
Dayah, Michael. Ptable: The Interactive Periodic Table. 1 Out. 1997. Web. 8 Mar 2019 <https://ptable.com>

Estrutura atômica

Física atômica e molecular
Propriedades periódicas

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NBA Basketball Betting: Charlotte Hornets at Brooklyn Nets
by James Murphy in NBA on Feb 28, 2019 11:56pm
Eastern Conference action on Friday night's NBA card features a pair of teams desperately trying to hold on to one of the lower playoff berths. The Charlotte Hornets are currently in 8th place right now but they're not doing a particularly good job of staying there. They've lost 7 of their last 10 and now lead the Miami Heat and Orlando Magic by 1/2 game. Washington is also lurking just three games back.
We're more interested in the Brooklyn Nets. Kenny Atkinson might not get the love he deserves but he's done a remarkable job cleaning up the mess left by Lionel Hollins. In his first season as head coach he went 20-62, last year he guided the team to a 28-54 record. This year he's done the unthinkable–as of this writing Brooklyn is one game over .500 with a record of 32-31 SU and have done even better against the spread going 35-28 ATS. Brooklyn's performance has slipped from their torrid pace in January but that might have to do with scheduling as much as anything else.
Atkinson might not get any run for 'Coach of the Year' but if he gets the Nets to the playoffs you can make a strong case that he deserves it. Currently, Brooklyn is at the front of the 'third tier' pack of teams. They probably won't catch Boston who they trail by 5.5 games but they're 1.5 games up on Detroit and 3 games up on Charlotte. Then again, the Celtics have lost 4 straight so who knows what could happen if that trend continues and Brooklyn puts a few wins in the bank.
Tonight's game against Charlotte is one they can definitely win. Probably not quite a 'must win' but definitely a game that would really be good to win. The Nets are a team we're happy to back financially and they've responded going on a 25-13 ATS run. Charlotte has covered only 3 of their last 13 games going 3-7-3 against the spread. The Hornets kicked the Nets around a lot while they were down but the tide is starting to turn. The Nets won outright on February 23 at Charlotte as +3 underdogs. The line on this game has Brooklyn as -3.5 point chalk. Pointspread math suggests that these teams are evenly matched on the hypothetical 'neutral court'. That's a tough sell. For that matter, it's a tough sell that Brooklyn shouldn't be a bigger favorite here. The Hornets have been horrible on the road this season going 8-21 SU/12-17 ATS and have gone 1-4 in their last 5 road games. Their only win/cover came at Phillips Arena against the moribund Atlanta Hawks. Nets cover this one with relative ease.
BET BROOKLYN NETS -3.5 OVER CHARLOTTE HORNETS
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Snap One joins ONVIF and gains certification
Bea 24th October 2022
Snap One has announced that it has joined the ONVIF open forum, which provides and promotes standards for interoperability of IP-based physical security products. The company's ONVIF supported product lines include the new Luma x20 surveillance cameras and ClareVision security solutions, enabling Snap One partners to immediately add these products to existing ONVIF conformant systems.
Snap One Sr. Product Director, Forest Liu says: "Snap One is proud to join the global ONVIF consortium to help advance the standards and interoperability of our security systems and products. Our product teams are already hard at work making our existing and upcoming security offerings fully ONVIF-conformant to provide partners even greater choice and flexibility when designing or updating security systems."
Snap's initial ONVIF-compatible products include a full range of Luma x20 IP surveillance cameras, from 2MP to 4K resolutions in turret, bullet, dome, fisheye and PTZ models. Combined with ONVIF-conformant digital video recorders up to 64 channels, Snap One offers a complete ONVIF conformant solution. By supporting ONVIF Profile S (which sets streaming video standards), Profile G (which is for edge storage and retrieval), and Profile T (which is for advanced video streaming), these products can be added to existing ONVIF compatible security systems.
ONVIF is an Open Network Video Interface Forum which is dedicated to developing a global interface specification for the security industry, including standards for IP video. ONVIF has grown to over 480 members that are committed to standardising communication and ensuring interoperability between network video devices regardless of manufacturer. Aligning with a global standard interface allows for increased usability and lower costs for Snap One's partners and end users, enabling Snap One's Luma x20 cameras and recorders to be combined with existing ONVIF-supported equipment.
ONVIF's various 'profiles' allow Snap One partners to easily identify specific interoperable features from access control and edge storage to door control and streaming video. As of October 2022, the features needed to meet ONVIF requirements for IP surveillance cameras (Profile S, Profile G and Profile T) are as follows:
• Video codecs: H.265, H.264, MPEG4 and MJPEG
• Audio capabilities: bi-directional audio
• Events: input, output, video motion and tampering detection
• Other capabilities: pan tilt zoom (PTZ), edge storage and retrieval
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Snap One Launches IP-Enabled Wattbox Solutions in EMEA and APAC
Daniel J Sait 18th November 2022
Addition of Snap One solutions to winery delivers business benefits
Snap One unveils Partner Award winners at CEDIA 2022
Press Play On Outdoor Audio With Snap One
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Uhbaan and Daamin lost their father on Father's Day
Srinagar, Jun 17 (PTI) In a tragic coincidence, one-year-old Daamin and four-year-old Uhbaan lost their father, Jammu and Kashmir Police officer Arshad Ahmed Khan, on a Father's Day. As the body of Khan, who breathed his last at AIIMS in Delhi on Sunday evening, was brought to the police lines here on Monday, Uhbaan was unable to gauge the tragedy. Held by his maternal uncle at the wreath-laying ceremony, Uhbaan, too young to understand the magnitude of the tragedy that has befallen on him, woke from a slumber with the bugler playing the 'last post' and guard calling for 'shok salami shastra' (reversing of arms in honour of fallen soldiers). The police band was playing 'Wattan ki raah mein wattan ke naujaan shaeed ho (many youths have sacrificed their lives for nation)', a song from 'Shaheed', the 1948 movie starring Dilip Kumar. His brother Daamin, who is just 18-month old, was home and he had to play the role of an elder son at this tender age. He was carried by a police officer near the coffin of his father where he placed flowers. Uhbaan also gave the last salute to his father before he was taken to his home in the civil lines area near Karan Nagar. K Vijay Kumar, the advisor to the Jammu and Kashmir governor, Director General of Police Dilbagh Singh, Additional Director General of Police B Srinivas and Inspector General of Police (Kashmir) Swayam Prakash Pani were the pallbearers. Hundreds of people gathered at Khan's house to have a last glance of the fallen police officer. Daamin could be seen looking into eyes of the mourners and often greeted the known faces with smiles. Born to Mushtaq Ahmad Khan and Mehbooba Begum in Balgardan Srinagar, Khan was appointed as Sub-Inspector in Jammu and Kashmir Police in 2002 and served in various important capacities. During the 2016 agitation following the death of Burhan Wani, the poster boy of Hizbul Mujahideen, Khan, who was then posted as Station House Officer of Bijbehara, single-handedly cleared the highway and ensured that there was no traffic restriction. Khan, whose ancestors were from Peshawar in Pakistan, never succumbed to political pressure and was shifted from Bijbehara after he had rounded off many so-called activists of a political party. Khan had suffered injures in last Wednesday's terrorist attack in Anantnag in which five CRPF personnel were killed by a lone Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist, who targeted a patrol team of the paramilitary force. Known for his professional brilliance, Khan's popularity could be gauged from the fact that locals from his area of posting had gathered to enquire about his health. People at Chadoora in central Kashmir, where he was earlier posted as Station House Officer, had offered prayers and sacrificed goats for his early recovery. Khan, who was posted in the volatile south Kashmir for some years now, "was a brilliant operational officer", recalled one of his senior officers. PTI SKL SKL SMN SMN
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Q: Slick2D input.isKeyDown Hello I create a code for my game that when you press the key SPACE it run a sprite, but my problem is that I want that when I'm not pressing SPACE the Sprite get restarted (the frame get back to 0)
So I tryed something but it does'nt look like it working. Maybe I did something wrong. If someone could help that would be great.
My code
note: Attacking is a boolean set to false by default and Princess,PrincessBasicAttack and PrincessLeftBasicAttack are three different animations.
if(input.isKeyDown(Input.KEY_SPACE)){
    Attacking = true;

}
    if (Attacking == true){
         if (right == true) {
             Princess = PrincessBasicAttack;
             Princess.update(delta);
             if (Princess.getFrame() >= Princess.getFrameCount() - 1){
                 Attacking = false;
                 PrincessBasicAttack.setCurrentFrame(0);
                 }
            }
         if (left == true) {
             Princess = PrincessLeftBasicAttack;
             Princess.update(delta);

                if (Princess.getFrame() == Princess.getFrameCount()){
                    Attacking = false;
                }
                if (Attacking == false && Princess.getFrame() != 0){
                    Princess.setCurrentFrame(0);
                }
         }
    }

A: Did you try calling a restart() method on an animation?
if(input.isKeyDown(Input.KEY_SPACE)){
    Attacking = true;
} else {
    PrincessLeftBasicAttack.restart();
    PrincessRightBasicAttack.restart();
}

http://slick.ninjacave.com/javadoc/org/newdawn/slick/Animation.html#restart()

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package mota.dev.happytesting.Views.fragments;

import android.content.Context;
import android.databinding.DataBindingUtil;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;

import java.util.Observable;
import java.util.Observer;

import mota.dev.happytesting.R;
import mota.dev.happytesting.ViewModel.AccountViewModel;
import mota.dev.happytesting.Views.interfaces.FragmentInteractionListener;
import mota.dev.happytesting.databinding.FragmentAccountBinding;

public class AccountFragment extends Fragment implements Observer {

    private FragmentInteractionListener mListener;
    public static final String TAG = "AccountFragment";
    private AccountViewModel viewModel;
    private FragmentAccountBinding binding;

    public AccountFragment() {
        // Required empty public constructor
    }

    public static AccountFragment newInstance(String param1, String param2) {
        AccountFragment fragment = new AccountFragment();
        Bundle args = new Bundle();
        fragment.setArguments(args);
        return fragment;
    }

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    }

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                             Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        // Inflate the layout for this fragment
        binding = DataBindingUtil.inflate(inflater, R.layout.fragment_account, container, false);
        viewModel = new AccountViewModel(getContext());
        binding.setViewModel(viewModel);
        setupObserver(viewModel);
        return binding.getRoot();
    }

    private void setupObserver(Observable o)
    {
        o.addObserver(this);
    }

    @Override
    public void onAttach(Context context) {
        super.onAttach(context);
        if (context instanceof FragmentInteractionListener) {
            mListener = (FragmentInteractionListener) context;
        } else {
            throw new RuntimeException(context.toString()
                    + " must implement OnFragmentInteractionListener");
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onDetach() {
        super.onDetach();
        mListener = null;
    }

    @Override
    public void update(Observable observable, Object o)
    {
        if (observable instanceof AccountViewModel)
        {
            //do somenthing!
        }
    }

}

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Gayndah Mandys don't seem as expensive as the Buderim kind.
We'd just had a coffee at a place where one could get Avoes on toast with Mushies, and had driven past a sign which said "Aggies Cheap" so why should we have been surprised when Mandys were on offer?
I suspect there will have to be hints given before all of the above can be translated by those who don't live around these parts!
I did have to look up something- mandys would be mandarins, which I've never eaten, and Gayndah is a place. There are times when the Aussie version of English sounds so bizarre to northern ears!
At least there wasn't an apostrophe.
Gently returning from whence it came.
View from a big lunch.
What not to do with someone else's culture.
another fine shadow to get in the way.
A little slice of sunshine.
How quickly they grow up.
Moffat Headland a bit closer than usual.


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Madison Sprague II LLC, of Kirkland, Wash., is developing the structure, which will be located at 4707 E. Sprague, on the east side of the Custer Road entrance to a recently constructed Wal-Mart Stores Inc. supercenter. Wal-Mart Stores, the giant Bentonville, Ark.-based retail chain, opened its new 160,000-square-foot supercenter at 5025 E. Sprague this fall.
Construction of the Mattress Firm outlet near the entrance to the Walmart store is expected to be completed by early next year. A city of Spokane Valley building permit lists the value of the project at $405,500, and Madison Sprague II paid $463,000 to buy half an acre for the building site this summer, the Spokane County Assessor's Office says.
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The new store will be a franchise outlet of a retail chain operated by Houston-based Mattress Firm Holding Corp., which has more than 1,000 outlets across 28 states, the company's website says. The retailer carries different brands of mattresses, bed frames, pillows, bedding accessories, and related products.
The project architect is Winton Architects Inc., of Phoenix, and Spokane Valley-based Whipple Consulting Engineers Inc. provided land development consulting services for the project.
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James Radido Oduor aka 'Odu Cobra' who was killed in the 14 Riverside Drive terror attack.
My good friend and colleague Japheth Mutinda, who edits this column, is one of the biggest football fans I know.
Like me, he's a diehard Madridista. He also has a longstanding intimate affair with Arsenal and the Brazilian national football team.
And he loves his Tusker; the Ruaraka-based club, not the alcoholic beverage by the same name.
Yet, Japh is not a 'sofaset branch' football fan. Every weekend, when he's done with his graveyard shift on the Nation Sport desk, the guy loves going out to the stadium to catch some action in the Kenyan Premier League, especially when his beloved Tusker is playing.
Last weekend was no different. He has recounted to me how last Sunday he made another pilgrimage to Kasarani Stadium to watch Gor Mahia's clash with Cameroonian side New Stars de Douala in a Caf Confederation Cup first leg play-off match.
He tells me that like on so many other occasions he was in the company of a close buddy of his by the name James Radido Oduor, or simply 'Odu Cobra' among his contemporaries.
Throughout the match, Japh recalls, Cobra kept ranting and raving about the 'questionable' technical decisions of Gor Mahia's Turkish-Cypriot coach Hassan Oktay.
When the coach pulled out creative midfielder Francis Kahata for George "Blackberry" Odhiambo, Cobra was so incensed to the point he threatened to storm out of the stands in protest.
"I'm here to watch beautiful football! Kahata is the only player on the pitch who plays that kind of football," he fumed.
Thankfully, other close friends including Raymond Omondi and sports journalist Jeff Kinyanjui, prevailed upon Cobra to stay on until the end of the match.
Still, Cobra wasn't happy with the proceedings on the pitch. He wanted the 'ineffective' Rwandan striker Jacques Tuyisenge substituted.
Then right at the death, Tuyisenge struck for what would be Gor Mahia's match winner and Cobra wildly celebrated the goal like a man possessed, never mind his initially misgivings about the goal scorer.
"I'm not celebrating the goal, I'm only celebrating the sumptuous cross which led to the goal," he was quick to say in cheerful jest. That was Cobra for you - a stickler for perfection. The man loved beautiful passes, crosses and even well-executed goal-kicks!
Those moments will forever remain etched in Japh's mind. Turns out there were the last moments he would share with Cobra, who was among the victims who lost their lives on Tuesday during the 14 Riverside Drive terror attack, where atleast 21 people lost their lives.
I had learnt of Cobra's death earlier on Wednesday morning, long before Japh shared his poignant tale.
My editor, Kenfrey Kiberenge, had posted a curt and sombre message in one of the WhatsApp groups I belong to.
"Guys it is a sad day for me and my friends I have lost my good friend James Oduor. He was at the hotel when the attack happened," read the message which triggered a flurry of the standard 'pole sana' messages which Kenyans accustomed to offering those who are grieving.
Unbeknown to most of my colleagues on the desk, their 'pole sana' messages were actually misdirected. My editor had only forwarded the message 'as received'.
About an hour later, my bosom friend and multi-media journalist, Isaac Swila, frantically attempted to reach me on phone. But I only got to see his missed calls much later.
When I returned the call, Swila told me that he'd been made to believe I was related to Cobra - which isn't the case, I actually never knew him in person - and that he wanted to reach the family through me.
Such was the great interest that Cobra's untimely demise evoked within the Kenyan sports journalism.
I've since read endless eulogies from my colleagues and friends in the media about this young man whose life was brutally cut short at his prime by cold-blooded Jihadists who place little value on human life.
All the messages paint the picture of a fun loving young man with a trademark heavy beard who possessed the charm and wit to warm his way into the hearts of his close friends.
The demise of Cobra, like that of the more than a dozen victims of the Riverside Drive terror attack, is indeed a heartrending one.
Although gone, their spirits will forever live in the hearts of family, relatives and friends with whom they shared their lives.
Go well Cobra and all victims of Riverside terror attack. Till we meet again.


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There's not much that I actively dislike about the blogging community but if you asked me, the one thing I would probably say is the occasionally throwaway culture that slips into certain feeds, with competitor products being advertised just weeks apart. Of course, we are all welcome to like more than one brand at a time but I truly believe that there are some things that are your go-to products and as a loyalist myself, I tend not to sway from my daily favourites.
One of the things that I hold close to my heart/wrist is my Freedom To Exist 40mm Rose Gold & Tan Watch – a product purchased via a Kickstarter campaign whose founders I have since met and become even more intrigued by the brand.
Kirsty Whyte and Paul Tanner have more than 25 years worth of experience between them of bringing ideas and sketches to life as products. They met while designing for Habitat before both joining Made.com as two of their first ever employees. That knowledge and experience, combined with a love of classic detailing that make vintage watches truly timeless, inspired them to create Freedom To Exist – a minimalist watch brand with a story to boot.
Never one to miss a chance to explore more of a brand I adore (one that I also get many a compliment on), I had a chat with Paul to ask his advice on setting up shop and how Freedom to Exist came to be. I also didn't need too much convincing to shoot it against Morag Myerscough's latest installation in West Smithfield Rotunda Garden!
Firstly, I love the name Freedom To Exist, what does it mean to you both personally and how did you come up with it?
It dawned on me that the only time I wasn't using my phone, was during the 20 minutes at the start of a flight when they ask you to turn off electronic devices. I was using it to wake me, to manage my diary, for my news, for my social interaction, for work, for play, for music, for everything…and most noticeably, I was using my phone to tell the time. During that 20 minutes on the plane, I was checking the time on my phone repeatedly, and it really hit home how utterly dependent I was on the device.
Due to a chain of events – Kirsty was unable to find a watch she liked that would fit her, they tended to spin or slide on her wrist, we decided to create a watch brand that solved this issue – when brainstorming names, we gathered a series of words we felt summed out how we were feeling and what we wanted to achieve. Having "the freedom to exist" was a motif for not being dependent on your phone, it was about having the headspace and the calmness to be who you want to be, without the need for a device that beeps, monitors you and dominates your life.
Using my plane metaphor again, that 20 minutes as we took off made me feel more relaxed and de-stressed than I had been for a while, and I suddenly felt free as I was unable to check my email, news or social feeds, even if I wanted to.
Your business is still fairly young but you have seen great success since you set up. With so many watch brands out there these days, and the ever-increasing throwaway trend culture, what makes you stand out from the crowd?
We created a product that has the best specification we could achieve for the price point. Quality and honesty were two important words when designing the watch, and our use of Italian leather on the straps, and Swiss Ronda mechanisms gives us a point of difference against our peers, as they tend to focus on the logo and often don't even mention the specification.
We also offer a long guarantee, and it is our intention to support the customer for many years, should they need our support.
You also have brand ambassadors who come from all different creative lifestyles. What do you look for when working with someone to spread the Freedom To Exist message?
We look for people that would use our watch as their go-to timepiece. Some of the Ambassadors came to us, and others we contacted. It was important that in their social feeds that if they wore our watch, it was because they liked it, which then made it the only watch that they wore. The 'influencer' culture is taking over social media, and often if you look at their feeds, you can see them advertising multiples of the same product, i.e. they advertise a different watch brand each month and we did not want to be part of this.
With us being self-funded we wouldn't be able to pay the large fees that this kind of promotion requires, but also, the kind of customer we are looking for wouldn't be interested in a new watch brand that was doing the same as all the other ones. Our whole ethos is about discretion and quality, and our Ambassador selection reflects this. A common theme amongst our Ambassadors is that they all work with their hands, so we have teamed up with photographers, carpenters, stylists and designers.
What's your secret to staying motivated?
Each time Kirsty and I get a sale, we still text each other, and I think this will continue to even when we have a 100 strong team. Seeing people wearing our watches is also a big motivator. Often we bump into friends unexpectedly in town, and it's great to see that they are wearing the watch they bought from our Kickstarter campaign – it shows they really do like it rather than wearing it just to support us.
That's me! One of the things that attracted me to your brand in the first place was the lack of branding, can you tell me a little bit more about your design decisions and how you both work together to create the watch designs?
We felt that a watch was a very personal item, often it's a gift and may signify an 18th, 21st, 30th, 40th , 50th birthday or another significant milestone. We felt that a lot of the watches on the market at our price point were using the watch face as retail space rather than respecting the use of the watch. With the advent of social media, people are getting more and more distracted by the noise of everyday life, and we wanted to ensure that our new brand did not to add to this.
In terms of how we work together, Kirsty is the creative force behind the watch design, our social media and all branding and I look after the finances, the website and the product development. As we have separate skills that complement rather than overlap, it makes us an efficient team.
And of those designs, what's your go-to Freedom To Exist model?
It's one of the new ones which is just about to be released in a new silver colourway. I have been wearing a prototype for a couple of months and I have had a number of people stop to ask me where it is from. It's the fte4208. We have also upgraded the design with quick release straps, which means I can swap it for a tan strap, depending on my belt and shoes.
You ran a Kickstarter for the 40 Edition which was successfully funded (hooray)! What do you think is the key to a great Kickstarter campaign?
The video. I think this makes or breaks a campaign. Customers watch the first 20 seconds, and then if they're interested they scroll down to start reading about the project while still listening to the video. A product that solves a problem is definitely something that will get a lot of attention and depending on how unique it is, and the size of the audience it could help, it could make getting press a lot easier, but the video sells the story and customers are buying the story more so than the product.
You've also just done your first trade show at Scoop, how did that go and any advice for trade show newbies?
You should attend the event before attending. Normally fairs are every 6 months or every 12 months, and you should attend the one before you intend to exhibit at. It will give you an understanding of the layout of the venue, the kind of stands that get attention (and adversely the ones that don't), the types of people that are attending, and most importantly the kind of competition you will be facing.
I would also advise that for any paperwork you create to give away at the show – price lists, press books, business cards etc – you should avoid making them specific to the event so that you can use them for other fairs, and even the same fair the following year. I have a friend who printed a lot of material with "TRADESHOW X 2016" across the top, and only gave away 50% of his leaflets away, and due to the trade fair name and date on the documentation, he had to throw the rest away rather than use them again.
What can we expect from Freedom to Exist next?
In the short term, more colours and more materials, and ultimately new designs and a wider product range. Currently fte is our side project, and the next step would be for Kirsty and I to pursue it fulltime, which once we hit a certain turnover, is something we are really looking forward to doing.


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Hillary Clinton and Me Part 1
The inauguration was a year ago this week. Pundits and the press are saying how far we have come from the positive feelings the country had when Barack Obama became president. Now we are all hanging our heads and falling into despair.
I hate their commentary. You keep saying negative things and quoting poll numbers and people begin to feel negative. Barack Obama has accomplished a lot in his first year in office. He had a shit-load of tough things to handle. He had worked hard, passed important legislation and tried to be bipartisan while doing it. He even offered his biggest opponent to the presidency, Hillary Clinton, an important job, Secretary of State.
I met Hillary Clinton at the Drake Diner in November of 2007. It's a local eatery in Des Moines, Iowa, and we were both there at five in the morning—she to be interviewed by all the major networks, me to sit in a booth in the background and drink hot coffee. I guess you could say I was window dressing. But I wanted to be there and I did get to meet her.
When there was a break in the interviews, she came to our booth. I leaned over, shook her hand (I had met her once before after a town hall meeting that previous January) and told her I was worried about her. Was she getting enough sleep? How did she do it every day? She knocked the so-called wood of the shiny booth table and said so far she was hanging in there, doing just fine. My husband John told me later he thought he saw a tear in her eye. John is from a large dramatic Irish Catholic family. His mother used to light blessed candles during a thunder storm. Tear in her eye? Hillary? I don't think so. I was sure he was exaggerating.
Then came the iconic moment in New Hampshire. In Portsmouth, Marianne Pernold Young, a photographer standing behind a table where Hillary was talking with 16 women voters, asked her a similar question. "How do you do it? How do you keep upbeat and so wonderful?" And when Hillary replied about having help with her hair and then just went into the major guts of her life, her face pinked up, her armor crumbled, she got emotional.
"I just don't want to see us fall backward as a nation. I mean, this is very personal for me. Not just political. I see what's happening. We have to reverse it. Some people think elections are a game: who's up or who's down. It's about our country. It's about our kids' future. It's about all of us together. Some of us put ourselves out there and do this against some difficult odds."
My God, yes. Difficult and impossible odds. Talk about having to have thick skin. But that's what you need to be in politics, especially today when the color of your pantsuit can deflect from the important words you are saying or the actions you are implementing.
I am Hillary's age. We both graduated from high school in 1965. We graduated from college in 1969. We heard the news about Martin Luther King being shot under the same circumstances—away at school, struggling with course work and social stuff and bam—the world changes in a second. And then in June, 1968, I'm doing final exams and Bobby Kennedy is assassinated. How do you cope? What makes any sense? We both had those same questions. But they took us down different pathways.
I got a job right out of college teaching English in a secondary school. I needed money and had to turn down two scholarships to get a master's degree, because I wanted to get my life going, I wanted to get married.
I come from a family of English majors, readers, poetry lovers and classical music fanatics. That is the richness that I inherited. It swirled around me from the moment I could breathe. But we did not have money. My father died of a heart attack when I was 3. I have an older and a younger brother. My mother typed in our dining room to pay the bills. She was tough and took good care of us. By seventh grade she was working in downtown Chicago and I was in charge of laundry and cooking. I also looked out for my younger brother. And the widow-factor worked on me big time. "Make sure you can get a job after college, that you can support yourself and a family. Be a teacher. You'll have the summer off and you'll be home in time to take care of your kids."
Make sure. Make sure. So there went the idea of going into advertising or just being a writer. The widow-factor blunted the master's degree goal. And so did the Catholic-factor. My mother not only raised us to love music and literature, she also raised us in the Catholic Church. Hillary was a Methodist so she didn't have nuns telling growing bodies that French kissing was evil. She didn't have an acne-faced priest tell a roomful of girls not to masturbate, that the temptation was always there. How could he be sure about that temptation, someone asked? Because he knew, he said with a soft smile. Yikes.
Senior year we all had to assemble for a sex talk given by a married couple. Four girls asked what 69 meant and the couple kept evading and evading. Hell, maybe they didn't even know!! Those were different times. While Hillary was attending the Maine East and Maine South co-ed high schools, earning her National Merit scholarship and experiencing the highs and lows of the debate team, I was buried in the library at the Academy of Our Lady, again Catholic, all girls. There I worked to get A's to earn four scholarships and deal with the widow-factor. I did sing in the Chorus and worked on the small yearbook. Hillary was already becoming politically conscious. I was already dating my future husband and writing in my diary about that. But who could blame me? My mother sang the praises of marriage and family, pined for my father, had no interest in meeting someone else. She worked hard and worked for little pay because she did not have a college degree. My pathway was really chosen for me: and I was a good Catholic girl on top of it. When it was 1969 and the boomer world was exploding, I was not doing drugs or burning my bra. I was planning a wedding as soon as I could afford it.
While I lived on the south side of Chicago, Hillary came from a northwest suburb, Park Ridge. She had a hard-working father who did well in his own business. Her mother was a stay-at-home mom. She has two brothers as I do. Neither one of us was born with a silver spoon in her mouth. I married my high-school sweetheart, worked hard as a teacher, had children, went back to school to become a nurse, worked again. I'm living a good life.
Hillary is living an amazing life. She was more than just moved by the death of Martin Luther King. It shook her to the core. In time it changed her political affiliation from Republican to Democrat and made her certain that she wanted to go on to law school—Yale Law School.
I'm smart. That's always been my big thing—I am smart. It gives me self-esteem. It's something to get up for in the morning. I know who I am and what I do well—writing, medical research, parenting—so backing Hillary in her run for president of the United States was logical and true for me. I believe so much in my own abilities, why wouldn't I believe in another woman's abilities to run this country.
And if I am smart, Hillary is smarter. That's one of the reasons I showed up at the Drake Diner. Out of all the candidates, Hillary was the most electable in my mind because of her smarts. She is on it. She gets the entire picture of things that go down. People use their votes for different reasons: he's from my state, he's a lawyer, she went to high school with me, he is a born-again Christian. After GWB, the only thing I thought we should be focusing on was to get someone in the oval office with brains. We did that. Barack Obama is extremely bright. I love the guy.
Hillary reminds me of my friend Carole Doris, who is also a lawyer. Carole and I went to Mundelein College, a school that no longer exists. Many all-girls schools collapsed because of economics and because girls wanted a coed situation. Mundelein was subsumed under Loyola University, the next door neighbor on the shore of Lake Michigan, the big school just waiting to take over the small one.
Carole and I both majored in English and minored in education. I would study six hours for our Victorian Lit test. Carole would study two. She'd get an A and I'd get a B. Always. I'm smart. But Carole Doris is Hillary-smart. She is now Chairman of the Metra Board in Chicago—that means she's a big wig in transportation. But Carole can tear up like Hillary and she cooks like a gourmet. I saw a different side of her when she planned wedding showers the summer we both got married—1970. She was all about making favors and playing party games. I'm sure Hillary has spent time in the kitchen preparing food for a birthday party or a family dinner. She says she's familiar with the heat of the kitchen. Hillary is a wife and a mother who doesn't always have a chef with a big white hat working the stove.
Hillary's school, Wellesley, in Massachusetts, is still going strong, an all-girls school with a population of 2,318 students. The school motto is: "Non Ministrari sed Ministrare" – "Not to be ministered unto, but to minister." How fortuitous. In New Hampshire, was Hillary thinking of those words when she became emotional and talked about wanting to reverse what has happened in this country?
Or was she worrying about her hair? I can answer that—no.
Hillary Rodham was all about course work and career and using her smarts. Hillary Clinton is still that person. If we had gone to school together, I might have spent some time with her talking about the spiral helix or the true meaning of Faulker's THE BEAR, but I don't think we would have been tight close friends. My insecurities dictated some of the friend-moves I made. In college I fought the battle of beauty versus brains. The Mundelein was preparing materials to send out to high schools to lure young women to our programs. Five girls were selected from my dorm for photographs. Coming and going to class in my tattered raincoat or my one special Garland sweater, I saw them posing: on the college steps, sitting on the porch of the old library, reading in the lounge. It made me sick. These were the rich, well coiffed, well heeled girls who wore too much makeup. They didn't represent Mundelein as far as I was concerned. The ones with the smarts did. Like Carole. Or maybe me. But I was learning what pushes people's buttons.
Even as a junior in college with my 2.5 out of 3.00 and other activities I was trying to be the best on all fronts. I was kind of obsessed. I tried out for the college board. In the sixties that didn't mean I was going to be on a quiz show or that I would be honored at my college—it meant that I had a friend take my picture and I filled out a form that I picked up at the department store Caron Pirie Scott in downtown Chicago. Carsons hired 100 female college students to work in the junior clothing departments at the downtown and suburban stores. College board girls wore the same outfit and had their pictures up on the walls at the store. We were featured in an article in the newspaper. What were we really? Salesgirls. But at that time of my life, being on the college board was huge. When I was accepted I not only had a good summer job, but I had glamour and praise for my looks. I hate admitting that.
Hillary certainly did not work on the college board. I imagine that her summer jobs dealt with social justice. I know that after we graduated, in the summer of 1969, I worked for an agency that handled workman's compensation. I pulled cords on an old switchboard and typed up the information that members of the various unions had written done on their claim forms. Where did the accident occur? Answer: in the bedroom. How did the accident occur? The usual way. These labor people needed to create a different form for women who were applying for aid because they were pregnant!!
While I was slowly learning that women were still on the sidelines in so many ways, Hillary was doing odd jobs as she traversed Alaska. There wasn't much social justice in washing dishes in the Mount McKinley Nation Park, but there was in the work she did at the processing cannery in Valdez. When she blew the whistle on the awful working conditions, they fired her. But they were shut down overnight also. I don't think Hillary was thinking about glamour. Her consciousness was definitely raised.
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The Madd Hatta is a twenty year radio Icon in the nation's 4th largest city - Houston. Madd Hatta is the morning show host at Houston's hip hop hit maker, KBXX 97.9 The Box. The Madd Hatta Morning Show is consistently ranked in the Top 5 among Houston's Morning Drive shows in Houston. A graduate of North Carolina A&T State University, he has given his time to many community causes and organizations including The Boys & Girls Club, HIV Awareness, Coca Cola's "Share the Dream" and his own initiatives Hatta's 100 and Hatta's Elves. Never forgetting his roots; his passion for entertaining, educating and serving his audience are the backdrop of every broadcast. In 2008, while hurricane Ike bolted for the Houston skyline, The Madd Hatta stayed behind and remained "the voice of calm" with vital information and support for the community. Just a few months later, he singled handedly registered 5,000 people to vote for the historic Presidential election during a 90 hour live on-air voter drive. Madd Hatta's hip-hop label, Paid in Full Entertainment, spawned the successful rap group, Paul Wall & Chamillionaire, both are platinum selling artists. The Madd Hatta is also a product of his label with several albums behind his name including his 2007 project titled "Still Standing". His gospel label, Soulmuzick, has achieved success with its artist, Houston native, Shei Atkins. Madd Hatta is also a renowned DJ mixer and can be heard on Friday evenings on sister station KMJQ –FM during "Club Majic" mixing hip-hop, old school, funk and soul (Rated #1 Adults 25-54). The Madd Hatta has been nominated for the prestigious Marconi Award and Billboard's personality of the year. In 2013, Madd Hatta was inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame.
Earlier this year, Baltimore Ravens star running Back, Ray Rice, got caught on video dragging then-fiancee out of an elevator in Atlantic City back on February 15, 2014.
NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, gave Rice a 2 game suspension that many thought was the NFL taking a weak stance on domestic violence.
TMZ has posted a newly released video of the 5-foot-8-inch, 220-pound hitting Janay Palmer, she hits back. Rice then punches her, she bangs her head on a railing inside the elevator as she falls to the floor appearing to be knocked unconscious. When the elevator door opens, Rice takes the still knocked out Palmer, and drags her out of the elevator.
The video is shot from inside the Revel Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, and is the footage shot before the previously circulated video that showed Rice dragging his unconscious wife-to-be out of the elevator on Feb. 15.
Rice and Palmer are now married.
The video was released a week after NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said he "didn't get it right" in the way he handled the situation with Rice.
Last week, Goodell announced the NFL's tougher stance on domestic violence, a move that will result in a six-game suspension for a first offense and an indefinite ban for a second offense committed by any NFL personnel.
The Baltimore Ravens have announced that Ray Rice's contract has been terminated.
The #Ravens have terminated RB Ray Rice's contract this afternoon.
— Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) September 8, 2014
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Students protest at vigil for victims of Denver-area school shooting
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Students attending a vigil following a shooting at a school near Denver shouted "mental health" and stormed out of the event to protest politicians.
Attendees walked out and chanted after Sen. Michael Bennet and Congressman Jason Crow spoke at the vigil Wednesday evening at Highlands Ranch High School, The Denver Post reported. It said several hundred students were at the vigil that went from a peaceful event to a demonstration, and included protests against the media and politicians.
The students returned to the vigil held inside the gym, it said.
The two suspects accused of carrying out a mass shooting at a Denver-area charter school made their first appearances in court Wednesday.
Neither of the suspects -- 18-year-old student Devon Erickson and 16-year-old Alec McKinney -- were formally charged.
Eighteen-year-old Kendrick Ray Castillo was killed and eight others were wounded in the shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch. First-degree murder and attempted murder charges will be filed, said 18th Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler. He said he wants time to consider other charges.
Erickson took the two handguns used in the shooting from his parents, according to a law enforcement source with direct knowledge of the investigation. Both guns were purchased legally, the source said.
Both suspects are scheduled to appear separately in court again on Friday afternoon.
Erickson spent most of his hearing Wednesday with his head bowed, his bushy head of hair -- colored with streaks of purple -- obscuring his face. He spoke only when spoken to directly by the judge, and at one point signed a court document while holding his handcuffed wrists in front of him.
Prosecutors have not decided whether they will seek to try the 16-year-old suspect as an adult, Brauchler told reporters.
Authorities initially referred to the 16-year-old suspect as female. But the suspect's lawyer said in court that McKinney goes by the first name Alec, and uses the pronoun "he," Colorado Judicial Department spokesman Rob McCallum said.
Brendan Bialy, a student who helped disarm one of the suspects, said he knows both alleged shooters. Erickson was a student in his class, where another student was killed and several were wounded, he said.
Hero student is a "legend"
Bialy wants people to remember Castillo as a "legend."
The two were sitting by a classroom door when someone from their class arrived late and took out a gun, he said. Castillo immediately rushed him.
"It was immediate, nonhesitation, immediate jump into action," Bialy said of Castillo's reaction. "The gunman was there and then he was against the wall and didn't know what the hell hit him."
Bialy and a third student joined in and wrestled with the shooter, who may have fired once or twice more during the struggle, Bialy said.
Once he got the gun away and the other student had the shooter pinned down, Bialy went over to Castillo, who was unresponsive. Castillo died at the school.
He was a kind, hilarious jokester who was always ready to help his classmates, student Tuscany "Nui" Giasolli said.
Nui's mother, Nyki Giasolli, said if not for the heroism of her daughter's classmates, "I wouldn't have my baby today."
"All these kids are alive because of (Castillo's) sacrifice and the bravery of all the boys to neutralize the threat," Giasolli said.
But across town, Castillo's parents are mourning.
A father's mixed emotions after losing his only child
At his home in Denver, John Castillo struggles to stop sobbing.
He's torn between pride and anguish after the heroics of his only child.
"Selfless -- that's what my son was. And it got him killed. But he saved others," the father said.
"Because of what he did, others are alive, and I thank God for that. ... But there's another part of you that wishes he just turned and ran, retreated, hid."
Like many parents, John Castillo waited at a reunification center Tuesday for buses to drop off survivors. One by one, he watched parents and children embrace with relief.
"We didn't have that," he said.
But he takes solace in knowing other children are alive because of Kendrick.
More than 1,850 students attend the STEM school, which includes grades K-12 . The school will be closed the rest of the week.


Fail Detroit | We all fail. Learn from it.
We all fail. Learn from it.
It was July 2008. We had just signed all the docs to close the sale of ParentsClick to Lifetime Television, their first digital acquisition. Our flagship products, MothersClick (a social network for moms) and Mom Blog Network (the largest mom blogger network at the time), along with FathersClick, and our nationwide network of parenting sites, were now part of the largest TV network for women, Lifetime Television.
To us, this acquisition was a match made in heaven. With our technology and online network for moms, combined with Lifetime's massive TV reach, we thought we had an unstoppable, winning combination. Little did I know, we were completely wrong.
We didn't know it, but at the time of our acquisition, in 2008, Lifetime Television was simultaneously in the process of acquiring Project Runway from Bravo TV. Our acquirers had a different end game in mind for us. They knew Bravo TV didn't leverage their website for the TV show, and Lifetime figured they could crush it connecting Project Runway with an engaging online social network for Project Runway fans.
During the fall of 2008, we opened Lifetime's new office in San Francisco. We found a wonderful space in Potrero Hill, with huge windows, opening up to a beautiful view of the Bay Bridge in the distance. The following year, Zynga would open a small office, across the hall from us, around the corner from Zynga's first office. By 2010, they would lease almost the entirety of our building and would make numerous offers for our space—the most premier space in the entire building.
It was during the opening of our new office in 2008 that Lifetime told us about our first project post acquisition: the Project Runway community website, to be powered by our infrastructure.
This was awesome. Being the CTO, and now a Director of Technology for Lifetime Television, I was stoked to put our infrastructure to the works. 100,000s of page views an hour we had to be ready for, being able to withstand super-spiky TV traffic. A tech guy's dream come true.
And then, on a beautiful day in late November, an email came across our inboxes: Stop. Change of plans..
Huh? We were full steam ahead, contractors and developers hired, and now a change of plans?
We didn't know, but a legal battle was ensuing over the rights of Project Runway between NBC Universal, Bravo, and Lifetime. So, we stopped the work we were doing. We were told we now needed to build a different community site, one for every Lifetime TV show, not just Project Runway.
But something about the change didn't feel right. It felt like we were trying to jam a square peg into a round hole. It wasn't made to fit like that. Or rather, we hadn't planned that, we couldn't turn on a dime and deliver something in 6 weeks, could we?
Turns out, it didn't have to make sense. Our acquisition contract and earnout stipulated that we repurpose our infrastructure for any and all of Lifetime's needs. It never said it had to make sense.
That Christmas, we still weren't done pivoting all of the Project Runway work for the generic Lifetime community. I still remember working on Christmas day through New Years. It was a miserable holiday to say the least.
I was working even harder than when we were a startup. I didn't know that was possible. But this time, I couldn't see the results or understand Lifetime's strategy. This was crazy. And what about our the websites Lifetime had acquired? 6 months after our acquisition and our flagship products, MothersClick and Mom Blog Network, were left largely untouched. 6 months. That's an eternity in the online world.
We were so busy attending to Lifetime's own community needs, our communities were languishing. And finally, sometime in early 2009, Lifetime had noticed. We had finished the Lifetime community website. The Project Runway acquisition was still up in the air, and now we had the bandwidth to focus on finally combining Lifetime's forces with ParentsClick.
We knew what needed to be done.
Our site was built for moms. Our network, for parents. Wasn't that large and focused enough? We would kill our brand. Our messaging would be mixed. A site for moms, but also women? So we kicked off numerous brainstorm sessions with the team at Lifetime. In San Francisco, in NYC, and weekly over the phone.
So much planning. Brainstorming. Back and forth. It was wearing me out. And why? I never really understood.
Eventually I did. Lifetime was afraid of failure. No one wanted to take responsibility. How do you solve that? Hold meetings. Lots of them. Then there is no one to blame.
Halfway through 2009, we launched the new MothersClick. From at technical standpoint, it was faster and leaner than ever. We were finally running Drupal 6 and editing and managing content was a breeze. But from a consumer point of view, it was a complete mess. It looked and navigated like a magazine for women. But it didn't speak to the true nature of the content: a site for moms, by moms.
We had alienated our users for months working on other projects, and now we spring on them a completely redesigned site that takes away the very essence of what was working, to appeal to a larger audience of women?
An overnight success? How about an overnight failure that was a year in the making.
Soon after that launch, Project Runway came to Lifetime TV. And Lifetime TV merged with A&E Television. It was late summer 2009, more than a year after our acquistion. And we were to start once again on the Project Runway community site. We finished it later that fall and launched it to mediocre, fanfare at best. Not the smashing success like everyone hoped for.
From late 2009 to early 2010, we finally focused 100% on MothersClick and Mom Blog Network. For the former, we simplified the site, improved the messaging, and made it feel more like a mom-site again. It helped a little, but it was too late. The damage was done.
This 2nd redesign of a site didn't do anything to move the needle. Our community was gone. The internet had shifted: Facebook and mobile were booming and our approach was antique. We were too busy with our heads down on other projects to notice the trend.
Design by committee failure at its best. Hundreds of thousands dollars, gone. Numerous contracting agencies fired and bridges burned. Developers quit.
My pride and joy for nearly 5 years was now a hunk of junk.
To top it off, our earnout and bonuses were tied to success product launches for our flagship products, successful communities built, and a flourishing team. We had none of that. And it wasn't because we couldn't. It's because we listened all too closely to our bosses at Lifetime and didn't stand ground on what we believed. So we lost nearly all of our earn out.
We fought it. But after 2.5 years since acquisition, the fight within me was gone. We had built a wonderful company, small, but wonderful. Had sold it to a billion dollar company. And watched it crumbled, failure after failure, from within. So I quit my role as Director of Technology in 2011 and moved to Detroit and I've never looked back.
The burning lessons learned are still fresh in my memory. Keepsakes that I'm passing on to the startup companies I've invested in and mentor.
The words "fail faster" hang above my desk at work.
Ted Serbinski is a Partner at Detroit Venture Partners, where he leads investments in early stage software startups. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential, emerging venture technology partners in the Midwest and a key player leading the startup renaissance in Detroit. Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of ParentsClick, acquired by Lifetime Television. Ted is an internationally recognized web architect that has been building websites for 15+ years, including 8 years as a lead, open source developer, for Drupal. Ted earned a Bachelors of Science in Computer Engineering from Cornell University. Ted currently blogs about being both a founder and a VC, sharing his insights on his 52 Startup Lessons website.
In early 2001, I walked into an all-company meeting at ePrize completely battered and exhausted. Fifteen minutes prior to the meeting I had to prepare my remarks for the fact that the company I had founded in 1999 – my baby – would close its doors. We had secured venture funding from a longstanding, stable investor. However, with the dot com bubble burst, this capitalist decided to get out of venture deals altogether; in addition, anything "e-" was shunned, along with Pets.com. Our VC pulled the plug and I was left scrambling. Negotiations got hostile and there wasn't a contingency plan. After a whirlwind mad dash we brought on new investment and the wire went through 15 minutes in advance of this meeting.
Preparing myself to speak to a group of 35 passionate people who had jumped on board with me was heartwrenching. Knowing I'd have to tell them that they were the first people to believe in this idea for what ePrize could be wouldn't count for anything, since we'd have to padlock the doors. Knowing their blood, sweat, tears, and passion for what we collectively envisioned would be for naught was brutal.
Of course I was able to breathe a sigh of relief walking into that fateful meeting in 2001, but that 15-minute interval before it was an inspiration for how I'd lead the company for the next many years. Watching that second-hand tick on changed the way I do business, since I knew I never wanted to have to sweat like that ever again.
Not only did we build a reservoir tank of confidence in our vision and abilities going forward, but more importantly, this incident led me to build the business in manageable chunks and always allow for a contingency plan. Sometimes, Plan A isn't what you thought it would be – and that's ok. If you're prepared adequately in advance for the potential need for a Plan B, it isn't as alarming to go with it. Avoiding the scramble is only possible with careful thought processes and action plans before you're in crisis mode. Utilize times of "a plateau" when things are going well to figure out the ways you can reinvent and preemptively solve problems – even before they arise.
Now, ePrize has hundreds of employees, grown from that first core group of people I all knew by first name (along with their families). When you think of what's to come, remember that it's never a linear journey. Relish in the bumps along the way – they're what make you a great, resilient leader – but be ready for them to make sure they don't ruin the trip entirely.
Josh is CEO and Managing Partner of Detroit Venture Partners and the New York Times Bestselling author of Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity. He is the Founder of ePrize, the largest interactive promotion agency in the world providing digital marketing services for 74 of the top 100 brands. Josh is also a Berklee-trained professional jazz guitarist performing regularly in jazz clubs throughout the United States.
Go Big! That was our mindset from the beginning. We had some great success as a startup. Some of our first clients were national firms with international exposure. We were working with Black Enterprise Magazine, Inc. Magazine, Buick, Pepsi, and the American Cancer Society to name a few. We were a mobile marketing company on the rise. Our company, Victory Mobile, started in 2009 with a strong buzz and momentum, and we looked to leverage this early success and shoot for the stars.
After you get one big client, you automatically begin to think, "This is easy." Our sales pitch started out with the big names. "We've worked with this company and that company and you know, this other company." It sounded great at the time, but for some reason it wasn't working. Although our big contracts did come around once per year for services, we hit a wall. We were unable to get more clients and at the time, did not understand why.
So what really happened? Here's what I've deduced. We didn't pinpoint how we obtained our earlier clients. The initial success felt good, but our analysis after the fact was lacking. If we had taken a closer look, we would have noticed how our relationship with the firms mattered more than a proposal or cold call.
We were aiming for the stars when our focus should have been elsewhere. We were a small company with high hopes and a taste of success. But we were based in Detroit and had no Detroit-based clients. We were a small company looking for big clients that we couldn't handle at the time. This stubbornness cost us months of disappointing sales. After banging our heads on the wall trying this sales technique and this marketing tool, we decided to change our focus and diversify.
We decided to change our focus from national firms to local companies. This allowed us to see our customers face-to-face, build stronger relationships with our clients, and more directly market to potential customers on a daily basis.
We also diversified our product base in response to our client's needs. We went from a "Mobile Marketing Company" to a "Branding, Digital Marketing, and Communications Firm." Working with our clients more directly, we discovered all of their true needs and were able to meet their demands.
Our customers were always satisfied with the service we provided, but we found out it was the relationships we built over the years, not necessarily the services. The idea: know why your customers choose you and stay with you.
We're in the services industry and for all the marketing that we do, our best acquisition strategy has never compared to a happy client telling their friends and fellow business owners about our great work. Almost all of our business is referral based now and we don't mind. The business is consistent and we love it. My suggestion: Do great work and ask for the referral. Keep it simple and see your business grow.
Marcus Burrell is the COO of Victory Mobile LLC and In The Black Suites LLC. He oversees the daily operations and growth of both firms. He also owns The Ultra 1 Consulting Group, and The Ultra 1 Holdings Group. Mr. Burrell holds his Series 7 and 66 securities licenses. He recently held the position of Assistant Vice President of Business Banking at Chase Bank, Detroit Main Branch. He has also earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, in Economics.


92982 is indeed a blast from the past. How much post-production work, if any, have you done on this archived recording?
a bit… it's hard to remember now, but i'm sure i agonized over it. there was some minor editing and possibly a little eqing. my recording technique in those days was atrocious, so it's always frustrating now to try to work with some of these old recordings, but I've become more forgiving about certain things I can't change that are just part of the texture and life of the piece… other things like certain mistakes that I hated then and now usually get edited out. but… the mistakes back then taught me a lot and led to some great discoveries… some of them though are just mistakes. so i try to be thoughtful about the editing and really true to the session.
What was the motivation for dusting off this "document of that night" and releasing it 27 years later?
I have had the roughs on my ipod for years and always loved it so it was in the line up for production.
How much do you remember of that day that would spawn your new direction? And how much of that memory is preserved and triggered by this music?
i can picture the space and the evening and the windows open… everything comes back when i hear this. it was a very happy productive time. we were broke, and working most of the time, but couldn't wait to get home to our space station to continue with the real work of discovery!
Many artists attempted to replicate that 'basinski' sound, but have failed. Why do you think that is, and what is your secret?
What was your setup for recording 92982?
two old norelco continentals, lots of old used tape, an inexpensive analogue echo box of some kind, some microphones, an little mini mixer box… maybe another two tape decks for the piano variation piece because that one ran through two tape decks to get the tape delay and feedback loops.
How has your sound changed over the years? Are there any new production techniques that you have developed?


text:
Glorified and Sanctified
Farewell, Great Grand Mama: More, Abq Jew hopes, to follow. But for now -
1991 | Grandma Fran; Great Aunt Lil; Great Grand Mama | Together Again
be God's great name throughout the world
which He has created according to His will.
May He establish His kingdom
in your lifetime and during your days,
and within the life of the entire House of Israel,
speedily and soon; and say, Amen.
May His great name be blessed forever and to all eternity.
Blessed and praised, glorified and exalted,
extolled and honored, adored and lauded be the name
of the Holy One, blessed be He, beyond
all the blessings and hymns, praises and consolations
that are ever spoken in the world; and say, Amen.
May there be abundant peace from heaven, and life,
for us and for all Israel; and say, Amen.
He who creates peace in His celestial heights,
may He create peace for us and for all Israel;
and for all who dwell on Earth;
and say, Amen.
Onomatopoeia and The Jews III
Say That One More Time? First posted on November 14, 2011, reposted on November 24, 2014, Onomatopoeia and The Jews has become an Abq Jew Thanksgiving classic for everyone who remembers it.
For those of you dear readers who don't, and for those of you who were inexplicably or even explicably not yet following Abq Jew - here it is again! You're welcome!
An onomatopoeia (or onomatopœia, from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία), is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.
Common occurrences of onomatopoeias include animal noises, such as "oink" or "meow" or "roar".
Animal names - especially bird names - are often onomatopoeic. For example: Winnie the Pooh got his name from the sound he made when trying to blow a bee off of his nose.
The turkey's name, however, is not onomatopoeic - although he onomatopoeically says"gobble, gobble". At least in English. There are several opinions as to what a turkey says in Turkey.
But speaking of turkey - it's time to get ready for Thanksgiving! For some of us this means lining up a kosher bird from Trader Joe's, which goes great with kosher pareve stuffing from Natural Grocers. But that's only for those of us who eat meat.
Now, there are several good, Jewish reasons not to eat meat. Humans were, before all, intended to be vegetarians. It was only after Noah and the Flood that God allowed us to eat meat. And even kosher animal slaughter is still - well, the slaughter of animals.
On the other hand, how's this for onomatopoeia: m-m-m-m-m-m-meat!
But what to do if there are vegetarians in your family who will be at your Thanksgiving table? Or worse - vegans?
(Abq Jew apologizes for claiming that vegans are from a planet orbiting the star of that name. That was wrong, and ... insensitive.)
But how's this for onomatopoeia: TO-FU!
Oops! Insensitive again! And speaking of insensitive - here is the famous (well, Abq Jew remembers it) Tofu Turkey Thanksgiving scene from Everybody Loves Raymond.
Happy Thanksgiving, New Mexico!
Stan Lee, Jewish Literary Hero, 95
Jews & Comics: In the midst of what has turned out to truly be a Blue Wave (see Reflections On The Elections), there has been some sadness this week.
Observing Armistice Day (now Veterans Day); worrying about the hundreds of rockets fired on Ashkelon and Southern Israel; and remembering Stan Lee.
Tablet Magazine's Jacob Siegel tells us:
Stan Lee, who was almost certainly the most famous man in comics, has died at 95 ... Over the course of his life, Lee worked as a writer, editor, and publisher of Marvel Comics and became the face of the company.
He created or had a hand in creating titles like Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Fantastic Four, and the Incredible Hulk among countless others.
Lee was born Stanley Martin Lieber in New York City in 1922, a first generation son of Romanian Jewish parents. In 1940 he entered the comics business by going to work at Timely Publishing.
There, he met and worked alongside the artist Jack Kirby, another son of New York City and Jewish immigrant parents whose name would become legendary among followers of comic books and American popular culture.
But you knew that, didn't you?
While we mourn his passing, we also recognize that Stan Lee lived a good, long life. Not a perfect life - but a good one. Tablet Magazine's Liel Leibovitz concludes his tribute:
But if you're looking to understand what makes Judaism's edicts eternal, what makes American popular culture so widely resonant, and how the two intersect, you could do much worse than picking up a Stan Lee comic book and following it into a world where good and evil still do battle, even if down here they've settled into a dance of mutual convenience.
We've had great comics masters before Lee and since; what we've never had is one so adept at breathing new life into old ideas, so attuned to the ancient stories and so wise to realize how much they still matter.
Since his passing, tributes to Stan Lee have been published and broadcast ... well, almost everywhere. Here is just one example - a video tribute from Marvel stars.
Reflections On The Elections
A Blue Wave Big Enough: Abq Jew would be happy to report that all of the eager and anxious waiting before Tuesday's midterm elections was worth it. However, as we have since learned - some of it was, and some of it wasn't.
Here in our beloved Land of Enchantment, a a lot of the ... anticipation ... was definitely worth it.
It turns out we are sending three (3) Democratic Representatives to the House of. And outside NM, Max Rose, Kevin Thomas, Mikie Sherrill, et al, won their races. Perhaps not overwhelmingly terrific ... but not too shabby, either.
And then there was Florida's [Constitutional] Amendment 13. Which on Tuesday Floridians approved, 69%-31%.
The Florida Bar Journal explains (sorta) what's in the Amendment.
The humane treatment of animals is a fundamental value of the people of the State of Florida. After December 31, 2020, a person authorized to conduct gaming or pari-mutuel operations may not race greyhounds or any member of the Canis familiaris subspecies in connection with any wager for money or any other thing of value in this state, and persons in this state may not wager money or any other thing of value on the outcome of a live dog race occurring in this state. The failure to conduct greyhound racing or wagering on greyhound racing after December 31, 2018, does not constitute grounds to revoke or deny renewal of other related gaming licenses held by a person who is a licensed greyhound permitholder on January 1, 2018, and does not affect the eligibility of such permitholder, or such permitholder's facility, to conduct other pari-mutuel activities authorized by general law. By general law, the legislature shall specify civil or criminal penalties for violations of this section and for activities that aid or abet violations of this section.
Or, in simpler terms -
Florida has banned greyhound racing,
effective December 31, 2020.
Florida is now home to 11 of the 17 greyhound racing tracks still operating in the US. An estimated 7,000 greyhounds will need to be re-homed during the next two years.
But that's just counting the dogs at Florida's tracks. There are thousands more greyhounds in the breeder / trainer 'pipeline' - being bred and trained specifically for racing, all over the country.
Abq Jew declines the invitation to join the highly-charged argument about whether greyhound racing is humane or cruel or just 'is'. It doesn't matter anymore.
Adopt-A-Greyhound.org
We have work to do.
But let's get back to the Blue Wave for a moment.
Has Abq Jew ever mentioned that he 'grew up' - as much as anyone can - in the then-beautiful Santa Clara Valley (before it turned to Silicon) of Northern California? When (and where) everybody went surfing?
Here are three things that Abq Jew has learned about surfing.
Surfboards are pricey. Even when you could buy a Sunnyvale home for thousands (not millions), surfboards cost more than groceries. Or books.
Getting to the beach (as they call it there, as opposed to the Jersey Shore) meant tying your surfboard onto (or into) your 'woody' (or your mom's Dodge Dart) and traversing the Santa Cruz Mountains via Highway 17. One of the most dangerous roads in the state, country, world, and, perhaps, universe.
If you make it to Santa Cruz, and are able to find a place to park near the beach, then shlep your feshluggeneh (that's a technical term) surfboard out into the 'blue' waves, you discover that
Geez, the water is cold!
Nevertheless ... there were The Beach Boys.
The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.
The group's original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson; their cousin Mike Love; and their friend Al Jardine.
Distinguished by their vocal harmonies and early surf songs, they are one of the most influential acts of the rock era.
The band drew on the music of jazz-based vocal groups, 1950s rock and roll, and black R&B to create their unique sound, and with Brian as composer, arranger, producer, and de facto leader, often incorporated classical elements and unconventional recording techniques in innovative ways.
The Beach Boys began as a garage band, managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, with Brian's musicianship dominating their creative direction.
In 1963, they gained national prominence with a string of top-ten hits reflecting a southern California youth culture of surfing, cars, and romance, later dubbed the "California Sound".
There's a Jewish connection!
Yes, really. Jews for Surfing! It begins with that second paragraph.
It all depends, you see, on how you count. Among the first members of the group was none other than David Marks.
David Lee Marks (born August 22, 1948) is an American guitarist who was a member of the Beach Boys from February 1962 to August 1963.
At age seven, [he] moved into a house across the street from the family home of the three Wilson brothers, Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, later to become the founding members of The Beach Boys.
David is Jewish. He was ... a frequent participant at the Wilson family Sunday night singalongs.
Marks performed on the Beach Boys' first four albums, Surfin' Safari (1962), Surfin' U.S.A. (1963), Surfer Girl (1963), and Little Deuce Coupe (1963), before leaving the band due to personal issues with manager Murry Wilson.
Since Marks did not appear on the 1961 single "Surfin'", the first performance by the band that would become "the Beach Boys", most historians discount him as a true founding member of the group.
As you watch the video, kindly remember - we all were young, once.
As Abq Jew is preparing to release this blog post to the world, details of the latest gun-shooting mass tragedy - this one in Thousand Oaks, California - are beginning to emerge. And although we may not have heard of the others -
This is not the first mass shooting since Pittsburgh.
Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA15) says:
It's absolutely heart-wrenching to listen to #borderlineshooting victims' families describe their loss. Life is fragile. Take a second today to tell a loved one what they mean to you. Or even better, a break to just hold them.
It was college night. They were dancing. Yet, now we mourn the loss of their innocent lives. May memories of the #BorderLineShooting victims always be a blessing to those who loved them.
#EnoughIsEnough
Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA28) says:
The mass shooting in Thousand Oaks is horrific, and all too familiar. Once again we are devastated by the loss of life. And we are grateful to the first responders, one of whom lost his life. Our response must not be familiar. We must do something about gun violence.
We must ACT.
Thalia Gets Religion: Waiting. That's what we're all doing, Abq Jew suspects. Don't want to say anything until the midterm elections are over and counted. And we find out whether the American People and our Constitution have won. At least a little.
In the meantime, the Search for Truth
and Lost Guitar Picks continues.
Guitar Players! Friends & Family of Guitar Players! Jews All Over!
Do you know about Thalia Capos?
Thalia's are the most gorgeous, scientifically-designed, and pricey guitar capos on the market. Yes, Abq Jew has one. (It was a gift.) And loves it. For what it's worth.
So Abq Jew - who is not working on commission here - is happy to announce that
Thalia Capos have got religion!
For example ... Thalia's Blue Abalone & Chai MOP (Mother-of-Pearl) / Chrome Capo, pictured above. About which Thalia says
Chai, which means "Life" in Hebrew, is one of the most recognizable symbols of the Jewish faith. Comprised of the letters Chet and Yud, together they form the word "Chai" - a word that reflects the importance of life in Judaism.
According to the Gematria, a Jewish mystical tradition that assigns a numerological value to Hebrew letters, the Chet has a value of 8 and the Yud has a value of 10, adding up to the number 18.
Because of this, the number 18 represents good luck and gifts are often given in multiples of Chai, or 18. It symbolizes giving the recipient the gift of "life" or luck.
In case you're wondering - Thalia's theological capos come in lots of other ... flavors, too. Your OM, your Cross, your Trinity Knot, your Infinity, your Dove. Your Alchemical Elements. Your Dragon Scales. And for atheists and agnostics - no insignia at all!
But if you're shopping for Chanukah or Hanukkah - Thalia now offers rosewood picks with a Chai or Magen David, too! Just sayin'. For what it's worth.
But while we wait - eagerly and anxiously for election results, here's a little Buffalo Springfield.
For what it's worth.
For all you kids out there -
Buffalo Springfield was a Canadian-American rock band active from 1966 to 1968 whose most prominent members were Stephen Stills, Neil Young, and Richie Furay. The band released three albums and several singles, including For What It's Worth.
The band combined elements of folk and country music with British invasion and psychedelic-rock influences, and, along with the Byrds, were part of the early development of folk-rock.
With a name taken from a brand of steamroller ....
And while we're still alive and kicking ... Abq Jew urges you all (if you haven't done so already) to get out there on Tuesday and
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for or against political candidates.
Alright ... cue the Better Angels!
Securing Our Jewish Institutions
Two Important Community Conversations: The Jewish Federation of New Mexico, in partnership with the JCC of Greater Albuquerque and congregations across the state, announces two important community conversations on securing our Jewish institutions:
Wednesday, November 7, 7:00 p.m. at the JCC of Greater Albuquerque,
5520 Wyoming Boulevard Northeast
Thursday afternoon (time TBD), November 15, at Temple Beth Shalom,
205 East Barcelona Road, Santa Fe
Each session will include a panel of Jewish communal lay and professional leaders, as well as representatives from the FBI's New Mexico field office.
Panelists will discuss how congregations, organizations, and law enforcement agencies are working to ensure that Jewish spaces remain safe, after which the forum will open to the audience for questions and discussion.
These events are free and open to the public.
Please contact the Jewish Federation of New Mexico
at (505) 821-3214 or info@jewishnewmexico.org.
As we mourn the loss of life in the attack on the Etz Hayim /Tree of Life synagogue, Zach Benjamin, Executive Director of the Jewish Federation of New Mexico, talks about the loss and steps being taken for the safety of Jews and Jewish institutions in New Mexico.