The App is available for both iPhone and Android making it the perfect digital companion for recreational fishers, especially those wetting a line in unfamiliar waters.
Fishing new locations can often mean you are unaware of the exact identity of the fish you catch and in turn the rules and regulations for those new species.
The Recfishwest App not only allows you to identify fish through a simple three-step process based on fish shape, tail shape and colour, it then provides the recreational fishing rules for that species. For example, this could be particularly useful when dealing with different types of Emperor species through the Mid-West region.
Using the Recfishwest App, you can correctly identify any fish you catch and find out the exact size and bag limits for the relevant location. All the current recreational fishing rules for WA are in the App, so no matter what species you need to know about, the information is at your fingertips.
Some people wouldn't have realised this, but by having the App and actively using it when you fish, you're actually doing your part for sustainability and healthy fish stocks. If the App guides you to release your catch or outlines specific rules for that fish and your fish doesn't comply, a swift return to the water will ensure you're not in the wrong and the fish can live to fight another day.
The App will even send you reminders about relevant seasonal openings and closures. This information is available on your device, even when you are out of reception range making it a necessity for recreational fishers. The App will give you confidence in knowing the rules so you can focus on your fishing and best of all, it is completely free.
The app currently rates an impressive 4.5 out of 5 stars on the Apple and Google Play stores, and we have been thrilled to hear that the app is assisting fishers out on the water.
We had some positive feedback with some great suggestions to consider for Version 2. We have listened to your recommendations and worked hard to ensure the App remained fresh, up to date and included more information people want to see.
Now we're proud to bring the community the new and improved second version of the App. We've also provided some FAQ's below, for some of the issues people are having with downloading the App.
Version 2 of the App Helping You Return You Home Safe!
In October 2016 we were extremely excited to launch Version 2 of the Recfishwest App. We have added an additional 10 species (with another 30 to be entered in the coming weeks), along with the new 'My Tools' feature, that has been designed to ensure that your fishing experiences are the best they can be, all while keeping it free to download. The new 'My Tools' feature is the ultimate 'Fishing Wallet' allowing you to store all of your licences and safety gear in one convenient location. The reminder notifications of expiry and service dates are the ideal way to keep you on the water with valid licences and safety equipment.
Within the new 'My Tools' feature you'll find My Licences and My Safety Gear. 'My Licences' allows you take a photo of your licences and set reminder notifications for when they're about to expire. It's not just for your fishing licences either, you can customize your licence list and add your Skippers Ticket, Drivers Licence and Scuba Diving Ticket, for example.
We want peoples fishing experiences to be as stress free as possible and now with this new feature, there's no need to stress about whether you have a licence or if it's expired or where it is, simply log it in the App and go fishing! 'My Safety Gear' is another important and helpful feature. Similarly to the licence feature, it allows you to log your safety equipment and set reminder notifications for when your safety gear is about to expire. This feature is the ultimate safety tool, giving you the confidence that all your safety gear is up to date and in a condition that's ready to use in case of an emergency! You can log your flares, EPIRB, life jackets, boat service, scuba diving equipment or even your car or trailer service. We want all fishers to return home safe and if this simple tool can help do that, we believe it's a benefit to the community.
We've fixed some fish identification issues people were having, mainly regarding accessing all of the tail shapes. We've also tried to clean up some of the colours in the fish ID phase, noting most fish can be multiple colours in its lifecycle and may vary across regions. We've added more information for some fish species e.g. features, habitat, how to catch and over the coming months, we endeavour to have these completed for all the species in the App.
Recfishwest strives for great fishing experiences for all in the WA community forever, which is why we have added new features for your convenience. Take the stress out of your fishing and download the app today!
My App won't show pictures? This is a simple fix – the App requires good Wi-Fi connection to download the images to your phone. Simply leave it in Wi-Fi connection and all images and data will download to your phone.
My App is showing the wrong images and fish names? Just like the above answer – the App requires good Wi-Fi connection to download the images to your phone. Simply leave it in Wi-Fi connection and all images and data will download to your phone.
I have an Android Phone and most of the App images won't download? – Android now have put download limits on initial App downloads. So when you download the App not all the images will appear as we had to cut some so you could download the App – but simply leave it in Wi-Fi connection and all images and data will download to your phone and then you will have all the images.
I still can't see notifications? – Simple, just update to the new version in the App store or Google Play store. If you are still having an issue delete the App and download the new version.
I can't find my fish? – First check you're in the correct bioregion. Then go through the improved Fish ID tool. If you still can't find a fish, take a photo of it, release it and send the photo and some catch details to the Recfishwest Facebook Page and one of our Research team will get back to you with a fish ID.


Have you ever considered traveling with a large group of friends? When we were younger, that was easy to do. Grab a bunch of girlfriends or a couple of other couples and off to the beach or theme parks we go. Now that we have families of our own, traveling with a group presents its own set of challenges. The following is our comprehensive list. How to make your multifamily vacation a successful one!
Before you head out on to a big trip together, discuss what your travel styles are like. Do you stick to bedtimes on vacation or is it a free for all. Do you structure and plan activities, or are you more spontaneous? These companions are your best friends and family that you're willing to travel with, make sure you stay that way after the vacation.
Discuss budgets. Yes, it's not a great topic. Yet you don't want to travel with someone that could put a financial strain on your family or vice versa.
A good way to test your travel compatibility may be to do a day trip together. Go to the zoo or the beach. Pay attention to each other's dynamics.
You want to have one person that's the point of contact when your friends or family have questions or when things go wrong. The leader makes the reservations, communicates with the families, arranges the travel dates. This person can change if you travel together yearly.
Alternatively, get a travel agent to be the leader. It costs nothing extra and can take the stress of finding suitable airfare and accommodations out of the mix.
If you're traveling to Florida, I recommend Destinations in Florida for all your theme park needs.
This can be tricky on a multifamily vacation. Maybe start with a resort that has plenty of activities and amenities for kids, as well as locations that offer popular attractions. This is not the time to hike the Grand Canyon if your entire group isn't into it. Think Great Wolf Lodges or Kalahari Resorts for their indoor waterparks.
If you're going to the Orlando area, we recommend Encore Resort at Reunion. It's the comfort of a home rental, so plenty of space, with the convenience and amenities of a resort. You can read our full review here.
This is not the time to get everything you want. Be ready to compromise on some aspects of the multifamily vacation. The idea is to spend time with your friends or family in a new location. A compromise now is worth the quality time you get during the vacation.
Communicate often. If you have questions before, ask. If you're concerned about something, ask. If …whatever, ask.
And if you're the leader, communicate often. Be detailed and let everyone know what's up and when.
Are you traveling with a group of 3 other families and splitting everything 4 ways? Or are there 15 of you and you need to split by the person? Decide ahead of time what the parameters are so no one feels like they are paying more than their fair share.
Splitwise is a fantastic app to keep everyone on the up and up when it comes to finances. If you pay for groceries and your BFF covers activities, no need to figure out who owes what. Splitwise does the math for you.
If you're traveling with a group, getting a large multifamily vacation home is one of the best ways to spend quality time together. Not only do you have a kitchen, but you also have a common space for the kids to play games and the adults to hang out after they go to bed.
Staying in a home with a pool provides even more common areas to hang out in various groups.
And speaking of bedrooms, it might make sense to communicate and figure that out ahead of time too. If there are two masters, but three families, who gets a smaller room?
The same can be said for the kids. Do you want siblings together or similar ages? Discuss this ahead of time so there aren't any fights.
Even if you have a car on vacation, it's worth it to get groceries delivered. Why spend that precious time with your friends and family in a grocery store? Shipt is my choice for this. Sign up at Shipt for 2 weeks free!
If you're going someplace warm, try to find a rental with a pool. This is a great place to relax at the end of the day and come together as friends or family.
If you can, in the larger markets, many home rentals come with game tables. We enjoyed having an air hockey and video game console at our Encore Resort home. This provides something to do in case it rains. Alternatively, it gives the kids something to do while the adults are getting everything ready for the day.
If you don't have games in the home rental, or you're staying in a hotel, pack some games. Whenever we're traveling as a group, it's fun to interact in new ways that board games and card games provide.
With all this together time, you may want to plan for days apart. Maybe do a child swap and each couple gets a night out on their own. Or one family group does Disney while the other heads to Universal. Whatever it is, communicate ahead of time that these are options. Don't feel left out if some members of the family need alone time.
Are you comfortable with your best friend telling your child what to do? Let's face it, kids are going to act up even on vacation. In a large group setting, you may not be nearby to discipline your kid. Establish what the rules are in your family and try to abide by those for each group.
Planning a group trip should also come with planning for emergencies. Should someone get sick or have to back out of the vacation, protect your finances with a trip cancelation policy. Often a multifamily vacation is a greater overall expense split between the families. If one family has to back out, don't burden everyone else with the added costs.
Depending on your needs, travel insurance can cover trip cancelation, medical emergencies and weather-related delays. We've used Allianz Travel in the past with tremendous success.
Traveling together with your friends and family gives you the opportunity to connect with them on a level you can't do day to day. And while planning a multifamily vacation takes a few extra considerations, the memories you make will be priceless.
Above all else, remember to have fun!
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Thomas Friedman Says Sheldon Adelson Is 'Iran's Best Ally'
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman says that American Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson and Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have one major thing in common: They are both trying to destroy Israel.
In an opinion article published in the New York Times Sunday Review, Friedman calls Adelson, who he characterizes as a "crude right-wing, pro-Israel extremist" to be Iran's best friend. He reasons that the casino magnate and GOP mega-donor is feeding right into Iran's strategy by endorsing policies that include delegitimizing the Palestinians, denying that there is an occupation of the West Bank and opposing U.S. pressure on Israel to give back land for peace.
Friedman writes as follows:
"It occurred to me the other day that the zealously pro-Israel billionaire Sheldon Adelson and Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, actually have one big thing in common. They are both trying to destroy Israel. Adelson is doing it by loving Israel to death and Khamenei by hating Israel to death. And now even Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey inadvertently got drawn into this craziness.
"What's the logic? Very simple. Iran's leaders want Israel destroyed but have no desire, in my view, to use a nuclear bomb to do it. That would expose them to retaliation and sure death. Their real strategy is more subtle: Do everything possible to ensure that Israel remains in the "occupied territory," as the U.S. State Department refers to the West Bank, won by Israel in the 1967 war. By supporting Palestinian militants dedicated to destroying any peace process, Tehran hopes to keep Israel permanently mired in the West Bank and occupying 2.7 million Palestinians, denying them any statehood and preventing the emergence of a Palestinian state that might recognize Israel and live in peace alongside it. The more Israel is stuck there, the more Palestinians and the world will demand a "one-state solution," with Palestinians given the right to vote. The more Israel resists that, the more isolated it becomes.
"Iran and its ally Hamas have plenty of evidence that this strategy is working: Israel's 47-year-old occupation of the West Bank has led it to build more settlements there and in doing so make itself look like the most active colonial power on the planet today. The 350,000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank reinforce that view by claiming their presence in the West Bank is not about security but a divinely inspired project to reunite the Jewish people with their biblical homeland.
"The result is a growing movement on college campuses and in international organizations to isolate and delegitimize the Jewish state because of this occupation. This B.D.S. movement – to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel – is gaining adherents not only among non-Jews on American campuses but even within some Hillels, campus Jewish centers.
"Iran could not be happier. The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the world focuses on Israel's colonialism rather than Iran's nuclear enrichment, the more people call for a single democratic state in all of historic Palestine.
"And now Iran has an ally: Sheldon Adelson – the foolhardy Las Vegas casino magnate and crude right-wing, pro-Israel extremist. Adelson gave away some $100 million in the last presidential campaign to fund Republican candidates, with several priorities in mind: that they delegitimize the Palestinians and that they avoid any reference to the West Bank as "occupied territories" and any notion that the U.S. should pressure Israel to trade land for peace there. Both Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney took the money and played by Sheldon's rules.
Read More of Friedman's article here.
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facts April 6, 2014 at 1:12 pm
democrats are beginning to delegimatise the rpublican party and associate it with ois vorfs cbs did a report similar to nyt
Oldtimer April 6, 2014 at 3:12 pm
For once Tom has it right. Pay attention: this is the mainstream interpretation of Mr. Adelson's political endeavors. He has become very visible on the American political scene, and that is very bad for us – (especially Orthodox) and Israel. He feeds into all the stereotypes of "rich Jews" who use their money for unpatriotic purposes. The BDS now have a clear local political target. The perception that a Jewish billionaire is "buying" American politicians is going to come back to haunt us – and Israel. Mr. Adelson should confine his generosity to conventional tzedakah and Israeli causes, and get his face and name off the front pages before he sparks a backlash that will hurt us all.
Pinky from Passaic April 6, 2014 at 3:25 pm
This is very good news.
The fact that Thomas Friedman is criticizing Mr. Adelson proves that what Mr. Adelson is doing to help Eretz Yisrael is proper.
The Commish April 6, 2014 at 6:02 pm
Thomas Friedman is so "open minded" that his brains fell out…….splat…..
Chaim April 6, 2014 at 10:54 pm
Friedman The Oiberchuchem
#2: Wonderful. Now apply the same logic to Mr. Soros.
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Welcome, Dr. Jackson! The BCS Community formally welcomed Dr. Rob Jackson as the new Superintendent. Staff, elected leaders, and community stakeholders attended the drop in last Tuesday, January 24. Sponsored by the BCS Foundation, the drop in was an opportunity for the school community and Dr. Jackson to continue to get to know each other. A special thanks to the BCS Foundation, The BCS School Nutrition Department, Stefanie Hill (BCS Math Curriculum Specialist), the BCS Employee Enhancement Committee, and Becky's Florist for your contributions to the event. For a look at more photos from the event, please visit this link: https://bit.ly/3HHlGgr
2 days ago, BCS Communications
The application window is now open for your child to enroll in one of our Kindergarten Dual Langauge Spanish Immersion programs. This unique K-5 experience provides students an opportunity to become bilingual and bi-literate. There is a dual language program in each of our districts for Kindergarteners at the following schools: Avery's Creek Elementary Candler Elementary Glen Arden Elementary North Buncombe Elementary Oakley Elementary W.D. Williams Elementary West Buncombe Elementary Learn more about how to apply below: https://www.buncombeschools.org/o/bcs/page/dual-language-spanish-immersion-k-5 Space is limited!
27 days ago, BCS Communications
Twilight School is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, February 7, 2023. Twilight School will be held at the Buncombe County Schools Central Office building on Bingham Road in the Nesbitt Discovery Academy beginning at 4 p.m. If you are interested, 1) READ THIS INTRODUCTORY LETTER FIRST: https://5il.co/1mheu 2) Apply here: https://forms.gle/r6tjPC7x4f5iJARVA.
29 days ago, Buncombe County Schools
Hello BCS Staff and Families- We appreciate the hard work that has gone into restoring water and lifting boil water advisories for our school buildings. As of 2 p.m. today, 12 schools across the Enka and Erwin districts remain under a boil water advisory. Those schools are: - Pisgah Elementary - Candler Elementary - Enka High - Hominy Valley Elementary - Enka Middle - Enka Intermediate - Sand Hill Venable Elementary - Johnston Elementary - Eblen Intermediate - West Buncombe Elementary - Erwin High - Erwin Middle Under the direction of the health department, we will resume in person learning for all schools across our school system Tuesday, Jan. 3. At the 12 affected schools, restrooms will function normally, hand sanitizer will be used for handwashing, and bottled water will be provided for students and staff. School Nutrition will follow all Health Department Guidelines. All water will be boiled. Menus will be modified to meals with minimal preparation, Fresh Fruits and Vegetables will not be washed in water, nor will they be served. We will only offer canned fruits and vegetables. Meals will be served using disposable trays and utensils. Handwashing stations are available for all employees in the cafeteria. We continue to monitor the situation and will advise of any changes. But again, with safety protocols in place, we will have in person learning tomorrow for all schools. Please reach out to your school administrators with any questions. #BCS #WeAreBCS #BCSadvantage #WNC #the828 #828isGreat #Asheville #AVLtoday #NorthCarolina
2022 School Report Cards are now available. Click the link below and navigate to view all schools in Buncombe County. You can find your individual school from that page. https://bit.ly/3hriYBh
about 2 months ago, BCS Communications
We're thankful for our students, teachers, families, and staff who make our schools shine every day! May you have a safe and restful Thanksgiving holiday. 🦃🍊🍁🍂❤
🍗🍂 We are #thankful to our school nutrition staff for their care and dedication to providing staff and students with healthy and delicious meals in our cafeterias each day. Here's a look around our district as schools celebrated #Thanksgiving early this week with a yummy turkey lunch complete with cornbread dressing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, green beans, and peach cobbler! Check out our photo album on Facebook! http://bit.ly/3Ar4RSK
For the fastest emergency and weather notifications, please download the new Buncombe County Schools app which is linked in the Apple Store and in the Android Store. Please download the app and sign up for push notifications to the schools of your choosing. In the app, you can keep up with school news, events, lunch menus, and more! Download for Android https://bit.ly/3u6NLGO
Download for iPhone https://apple.co/3nlgLa1
Here's a look at our Kindergarten Enrollment dates coming up next Spring! https://5il.co/1kef7
Hello BCS Staff, Families, and Stakeholders: Please click the link below to view Buncombe County School's Low Performing Schools Preliminary Support Plan. https://5il.co/1kcvm If you would like to comment on the plan, please click this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdZbBMQnXDz8NRtHLDsMtASrkYPXjQHwYQIcJ85gQn7rB7CjQ/viewform?usp=pp_url The deadline to provide feedback is December 4, 2022.
Kindergarten tours are happening the entire month of November! Contact your community school to choose a tour day and time that works for your schedule. Not sure where to start? Please visit: buncombeschools.org/findmyschool . . . . #kindergarten
Hello, BCS Staff and Families: We want to remind you that our district is using a different mass communication system this year. This system does have different features than our previous vendor. Specifically, all calls from your school or the district will come from: >>828-255-5939 or >>828-255-5921. >>All text messages will come from 98900. Please save these numbers to your phone to ensure they are not marked as potential spam in order to receive timely school and district information, especially during the winter months. For the fastest emergency and weather notifications, please download the new Buncombe County Schools app which is linked in the Apple Store and in the Android Store. Please download the app and sign up for push notifications to the schools of your choosing. In the app, you can keep up with school news, events, lunch menus, and more! Parents, please make any changes to your phone number or email address through the Annual Information Update or Returning Student Registration in your PowerSchool Parent Portal account. Your contact information must be up-to-date in PowerSchool in order to receive notifications properly. If you do not have a PowerSchool Parent Portal account, please contact the school data manager. Staff, please update your contact information in LINQ (Time Keeper) in order to receive notifications to the proper numbers and emails. Finally, if you have bookmarked any URLs on our website prior to July 1, 2022, those links will no longer be active. Here are common bookmarks that may interest you and are live on our new site: buncombeschools.org/notifications buncombeschools.org/careers buncombeschools.org/enroll buncombeschools.org/calendar buncombeschools.org/findmyschool buncombeschools.org/volunteer
Dear BCS Staff and Families- We are closely following local and regional forecasts as Hurricane Ian makes its way toward our area. We will be operating on a normal schedule tomorrow (9/30). However, out of an abundance of caution, we will postpone all BCS field trips, after-school activities, and athletics on Friday, Sept. 30. We will continue to monitor forecasts, and should we need to make any further adjustments to our schedule, we'll let our staff and families know as soon as possible. Don't forget to download the new BCS app to receive the fastest notifications. Download for Android https://bit.ly/3u6NLGO
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Students in Avery Creek Elementary's Katie Wilson's English as a Second Language classroom are sharing their unique assets as multilingual learners with the school through a hands-on lesson. Each student traced their hand on colored paper, writing details about themself along the fingers such as their first language, where their family is from, and other pieces of their personal history. "I want to highlight to the students that being multilingual is an asset," said Ms. Wilson. "It makes you a global citizen, it gives you the ability to relate to all kinds of people – there's just so many benefits to having more than one language." The lesson, she said, teaches not only fine motor skills such as tracing and cutting paper, but it also touches on the four aspects of language learning – reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Students had to listen to instructions, read various written topics to write about on the hands, and then share what they wrote to the class before the hands were displayed. The colorful hands were laminated and placed on a bulletin board inside the school to share the rainbow of cultures and languages the students are a part of. "I want them to be up as a badge of honor," said Ms. Wilson.
We are loving our new app! Access documents, menus, news, emergency notifications, and more, right from your pocket. Download for Android https://bit.ly/3u6NLGO
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Hello BCS Families- This is a reminder that students entering Kindergarten, 7th, or 12th grade are required by the state of North Carolina to receive specific vaccines. They are linked on the NC Department of Health and Human Services website: https://bit.ly/3DOeptC All students entering kindergarten also need a North Carolina Health Assessment form. All students in 7th grade are required to have both Tdap and a Meningitis vaccine. All students entering 12th grade are required to have a meningitis vaccine booster dose. The deadline to submit proof of these immunizations and health assessment form is Tuesday, September 27. Talk to your Health Care provider or visit the Buncombe County Health and Human Services immunization clinic at 40 Coxe Ave. Monday through Friday. For questions, contact the immunization clinic at 828-250-5096 or your school nurse.
As we begin this new year, we want to remind you that our district is using a different mass communication system. This system does have different features than our previous vendor. Specifically, all calls from your school or the district will come from 828-255-5939 or 828-255-5921. All text messages will come from 98900. Please ensure these numbers are not blocked on your phone in order to receive important school and district information, especially during the winter months. For the fastest emergency and weather notifications, please download the new Buncombe County Schools app which is linked in the Apple Store and in the Android Store. Please download the app and sign up for push notifications to the schools of your choosing. In the app, you can keep up with school news, events, lunch menus, and more! Parents, please make any changes to your phone number or email address through the Annual Information Update or Returning Student Registration in your PowerSchool Parent Portal account. Your contact information must be up-to-date in PowerSchool in order to receive notifications properly. If you do not have a PowerSchool Parent Portal account please contact the school data manager. Staff, please update your contact information in LINQ (Time Keeper) in order to receive notifications to the proper numbers and emails.
Bus Ridership Week is happening next week! We maintain a fleet of over 200 buses that travel almost 16,000 miles each day carrying approximately 10,000 students. State funding for pupil transportation in each school district is determined by three factors: number of school buses operated, total expenditures, and number of students riding. The number of students riding is determined by an actual count taken in September each school year. ➡ The student ridership count this year will be taken the week of September 26-30, 2022. Funding from the state is based on the number of students that we transport daily. It is important for us to operate as efficiently as possible to work with current funding and bus allotments. **If your child is going to ride a school bus to and/or from school anytime this school year, it is very important that he/she ride as many days as possible during the week of the count. ** The school bus is a safe form of transportation to and from school. It is our goal in the transportation department to provide safe, reliable, and efficient transportation service to our state's most valuable resource--our students.
Bus Ridership Week is coming up soon! Approximately 750,000 students ride more than 14,000 school buses each school day in North Carolina. State funding for pupil transportation in each school district is determined by three factors: number of school buses operated, total expenditures, and number of students riding. The number of students riding is determined by an actual count taken in September each school year. The student ridership count this year will be taken the week of September 26-30, 2022. Funding from the state is based on the number of students that we transport daily. It is important for us to operate as efficiently as possible to work with current funding and bus allotments. **If your child is going to ride a school bus to and/or from school anytime this school year, it is very important that he/she ride as many days as possible during the week of the count. ** The school bus is a safe form of transportation to and from school. It is our goal in the transportation department to provide safe, reliable, and efficient transportation service to our state's most valuable resource--our students.
Free and Reduced Applications for Buncombe County Schools Now you can apply on-line for your children to receive free or reduced-price school meals. Your application will be sent from a secure web site directly to the Buncombe County Schools School Nutrition office, so you don't need to worry about filling out a paper form that could be lost or misplaced. LunchApplication.com is an easy, secure and convenient way to apply for free or reduced meals. It has been designed to make it easy for you to know exactly what information you need to provide and to guide you through the process. Once your application has been received the district office will determine your eligibility and send you a letter with the results. To apply, simply go to LunchApplication.com!


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There are multiple ways to define the build environment in a way that it can be distributed. The following methods are not exclusive and multiple aspects can be used for a single project.
Defining the build environment as part of the development process has a very desirable aspect: changes in the build environment can be vetted like any other changes. Updating to a new compiler version can be subject to reviews, automatic testing, and—in case things break—rollback.
One simple way to have users reproduce the tools that are used to perform the build is making them start building the right version of these tools from source.
Using make or any other compilation driver, the required tools will be downloaded, built, and locally installed before compiling the software.
Like any other inputs from the network, the content of the archive where the required source for the tools is stored should be backed up and verified using cryptographic checksums.
Reference distribution
Using a specific version of a free software distribution is another viable option for a build environment.
Ideally, it should offer stable releases (like Debian, CentOS, or FreeBSD) to avoid having constant updates to the documentation or building scripts.
Recording the exact versions of the installed packages might be helpful to diagnose issues. Some distributions also keep a complete history of source packages or binary packages available for later reinstallation.
Virtual machines / containers
Some aspects of the build environment can be quite simplified by using virtual machines or containers. With a virtual machine you can easily perform the build in a more controlled environment. The build user, system hostname, network configuration, or other aspects can be enforced easily on all systems.
The downside is that it can introduce a lot of software that has to be trusted somehow. For example, it's currently not possible to install Debian in a reproducible manner1. This makes it harder to compare different installations.
Some preliminary work has been done, mainly to identify the issues. Having byte-for-byte identical installations is a requirement to make live distributions build in a reproducible manner, so there is interest by multiple parties in fixing the problem. ↩


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Cassatt The Child's Bath
Mary Cassatt, The Child's Bath, 1893, Art Institute of Chicago. Detail photos Rachel Cohen.
Today, I am thinking about loving a child, and worrying about them.
Over the last few years, I have spent a fair amount of time with this painting, seeing it sometimes with our children, sometimes by myself.
Every part of it is full of understanding.
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Tara Geer At Home, Drawn
Tara Geer, drawing ca. 2012-13. Detail. Photos Rachel Cohen.
Tara Geer draws from life. There were some months, maybe years, where she spent hours up on the roof of her studio building on 133rd Street sketching the tar stains. She drew backpacks and socks, the buses in the city lot across the street, and the cobwebs in the freight elevator shaft. Right now she is sheltering with her family, and like many artists cannot get to her studio.
The things she looks for are oblique, at odds. A relationship of the edges from two separate objects seen across space; a shape from wood grain but no longer embedded in a pattern, and not the dark lines from the wood, but the lighter spaces between.
This gives the drawings a quality of life. The lines have the animated movement of the living world; they seem a part of understood space that can be moved through and felt, even though they don't fall into an easily recognizable form. In this way, they have something in common with Chinese calligraphy, a form Geer attends to, where the characters may seem to leap and spin – a drawing, a thinking mind, a figure, all at once.
As in memories or dreams, the details have been recombined to draw attention to something that matters, though, also as in memories or dreams, sometimes by turning away, veiling, sometimes by stepping akimbo or making a joke.
In many of the drawings, there is a feeling of creatures or beings, that the whole drawing is a being, or that there are creatures lingering in the depths.
This drawing by Tara Geer, made in early 2013, or late 2012, hangs in our dining room.
I see it hundreds of times a day. Sometimes, like this morning, I stand in front of it and study it, with museum-quality attention. Most of the time it is a companion. Or, I do not even notice that I am looking at it, it is a space of reverie, a bit like a window, or a book that one has put down but not yet closed.
This morning I drew some of the areas in it:
This upper corner that seems almost like a planetary area, of axis and orbit.
Two areas where dark angled lines surround an area of wash, of which this is one:
And the central area of tangle.
I thought about it how she managed to make this all one thing that holds together when the pieces are made so disparately, with such different densities and kinds of lines.
It has a lot to do with the wash, and with the whites and grays that run over and through, the thick cloudy areas which hold it together geometrically, spatially, and also psychologically.
I was surprised that after I looked at the tangled area for a while there was a very distinct clarity of the space through and behind. A sense of clear, lit clarity, like the increase in light before sunrise at the end of a quiet street.
It is airy and surprising.
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Tara Geer, detail from drawing, ca. 2012-3. Photo Rachel Cohen.
I met the artist Tara Geer at the MacDowell Colony in 2002. For the next nine years or so, we were both living in New York, and I spent quite a bit of time at her studio, looking. Eventually, I came to have three of her works, which are drawings.
This is one that does not have a title, done before May of 2013, probably in early 2013 or late 2012.
It is work that takes attention very seriously, and I hope, even through these photos, will offer contemplation, at the end of another difficult week, looking ahead to another difficult week.
Some areas of the drawing:
Closer:
Staying close, movement and edges:
Tara Geer's Work Site
Her Drawings with André, Essay on Tara Geer's Studio, Rachel Cohen, NYTimes
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Hiroshige's Views of Kyoto
Frederick Project: Reconstruction
Hiroshige, Kiyomizu Temple (Kiyomizu), from the series Famous Views of Kyoto (Kyoto meisho no uchi), ca. 1834. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, photos Rachel Cohen.
In December of 2019, I went to New York for a few days and various reasons, and I went twice to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I was covering their show Kyoto: Capital of Artistic Imagination, for which they had reinstalled their Japanese galleries with works from their permanent collection that partake in the long Kyoto tradition. Kyoto was for many centuries the capital of Japan – this capital was eventually shifted to Edo, which is now called Tokyo. The two cities were connected by a famously beautiful road, the Tokaido Road, and many artists traveled along this road, making some of the fifty-five stops along it and recording the views of temples and natural wonders.
This morning, I thought I would like to write about a set of four abstract Joan Mitchell paintings called "La Vie en Rose," painted in 1979, which I had looked at while at the Met. But when I went to look at my pictures I couldn't bear the tones – pale rose, white, lavender, black. Some other day they will be wonderful again, but not today.
Most of the other pictures were from the Kyoto exhibition, and I idled around in them for a while. Then I came upon three that I loved.
This was the tonality of this morning. It was gray out, there was a dull feeling of undertaking the routine again. I loved this brown, the way in one area it was blue-infused, and in the others combined with the under-green, like something from a pine woods. I loved the buff-colored space that had been left open in areas, the pieces of olive-gray that formed and scattered.
I was pretty sure these fourth and fifth photos were of the same print, because of the open spaces, the way the branches lifted across them, the palette of gray, and this yellow that made sense.
They were from a woodblock print that had been on the left-hand wall of one of the last galleries, among several, all by Hiroshige, each one under glass, with a glare, and quite hard to photograph. I had taken a few hurried shots on the first visit, and when I returned had forced myself to slow down and try to get better photographs, slightly from the side. I always photograph the wall text at the same time, so I know what my images are from, but hadn't, on the second visit. So I spent a precious forty minutes combing through the 745 Hiroshiges that belong to the Met. Who knew they had so many. In the small thumbnails, blues were most apparent. I was skipping blue, though, looking for gray-brown with some under green, some yellow in the sky. Finally it occurred to me to search for Hiroshige and Kyoto, and I found it. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
It would have been easy to have looked most at the veranda and the larger figures, but I had loved the distant view, which is in the work's title. Kiyomizu Temple (Kiyomizu), from the series Famous Views of Kyoto (Kyoto meisho no uchi), ca. 1834. The reproduction from the Met is clear, and if you go to their website you can zoom in and get details and it's quite nice. But, it does not have the warm tonality I love in my own pictures, which I believe really are closer to the original.
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), who lived in Edo, went several times to Kyoto. He made the trip along the Tokaido Road in 1832, and made several sets of prints about Kyoto.
The people on this veranda are looking across to the distant temple. They point, and, looking again, I can make out small ink lines of figures in the open space of the temple. These other lines of figure seem involved in their own observance, but perhaps a few are looking in turn at the figures we stand close to.
I realized that I couldn't locate this detail, the one that had first caught my eye, whose blue seemed the necessary counterpart to the pine green of the others.
It must be in the print, the foliage so similar. But a little bit of writing lifted in the sky above couldn't be made to fit. Another print then. More searching. Ah, the one that had been next to it. The Great Bridge at Sanjo, ca. 1847-52. From the Metropolitan Museum:
That was the end of the Tokaido Road. I had also taken this detail, of two working women carrying firewood.
When looking back through, I had amalgamated the buildings near the edge of the hill into the other print.
Fifteen years separate the two prints. In the Met's reproductions there is not even a hint of brown in this later one, all is a slatey gray. But, because of a few accidents of juxtaposition and elision in my own records, I felt the details from the two prints were united. I can see how the artist might have thought of that earlier view across to the temple as he and his printers worked at this plate.
Out my own window, the tonality has changed entirely, sky now blue-white and branches lit from the sides with April sun. It was a frustrating little bit of morning, but I learned something about brown and its relationship to green, to buff, to olive. The yellow and blue in the sky matter, even though I could only see the tonalities I wanted when they had been set aside.
Hiroshige, Kiyomizu Temple, ca. 1834, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hiroshige, The Great Bridge at Sanjo, ca 1847-1852, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Xu Longsen and the sense of touch
Frederick Project: Felt
Xu Longsen, Light of Heaven Exhibition, works from 2016-2017, collection of the artist, Art Institute of Chicago, photos Rachel Cohen
Over the weekend, I set out some pictures from Xu Longsen's Light of Heaven exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018. The exhibition was installed throughout the museum's rooms devoted to art from China and was in complex relationships with the other works. Xu Longsen works in series and groups, and from my photographs and the museum's documentation, I can't tell which pieces had which names. All the works are from 2016-2017 and are in the collection of the artist, Beijing.
When I stumbled into it the first time, I was impressed by these tall columns made out of felt and then saturated with washes of ink. The columns conjured up the vertical mountainous ink scroll paintings I love from different eras of Chinese painting.
There was a row of these columns, and one much taller that reached up through the spiral staircase in that atrium space.
On another visit, I found the room of these large wall-size paintings. The five in the next photo were at one end, I believe, and there were two sets on the side walls as well, and a row of columns down the center of the room.
I went to the show several times, and made a lot of charcoal drawings from the room with the wall paintings in it. It was very satisfying to work in charcoal while looking at these. Here are some details from the large paintings in that very beautiful room.
The texture is a very important part of the experience. In all the rooms with Xu Longsen's work there were many Do Not Touch signs everywhere, but I saw people touching the columns every time I visited. I think this is a part of understanding the significance of Xu Longsen's work.
One day, in the room that usually has works from the permanent Japanese collection, and during the Light of Heaven also had one of the large Xu Longsen columns in it, I listened to a woman, probably seventy, a regular museumgoer, a lover of art, perhaps a bit self-important, telling a family who seemed to be from China about some things she noticed in the work. The family – a mother, a father, three children, two boys and a girl, and perhaps another man, a friend or an uncle – seemed very gracious. The woman and one of the sons explained to the museumgoer that the man in their family was the artist.
The museumgoer was surprised and pleased. She went on telling the family what she thought about art. After quite a long while, she let the artist and his family go back to the conversation they had been having about the installation.
The artist, Xu Longsen, was saying something to his family about the column in the center. I can't remember now if he was just very near it, or if he actually reached up and brushed the surface of the column.
A guard said peremptorily, "don't touch the art." "He's the artist," his son said, as did a few others of us in the gallery who had overheard.
The guard said, levelly, "no one is allowed to touch the art."
Light of Heaven at the Art Institute Website
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Rembrandt in Gray at the Gardner
Frederick Project: Stolen
Rembrandt Van Rijn, Self-Portrait, Age 23, 1629. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Photos Rachel Cohen.
I wish I could say that I knew this painting well, but the truth is that I walked by it a few times when we lived in Boston. I went to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum fairly often, because I was writing a book about Bernard Berenson, who was one of her most important advisors in building the collection. But Berenson was focused on Italian paintings, and when I went to the museum I spent a lot of my time in the Italian rooms. On most visits, I never even went around to the side of the museum that has this dark room of Flemish and Netherlandish painting, and where this Rembrandt self-portrait hangs.
The Dutch paintings room at the Gardner is the one from which several important works were stolen in 1990. I also sometimes avoided it because I found it upsetting to see the empty places on the walls where the missing paintings (Vermeer's The Concert, the two large Rembrandt paintings, the tiny Rembrandt self-portrait etching) should have been.
I won't show that injured wall. This is the wall with the as-of-today present Rembrandt Self-Portrait in the photo that the Gardner Museum thoughtfully offers on its website.
My pictures are dated June 10 of 2016, so I must have gone just a few days before we left Boston to move to Chicago. This was a farewell visit. Rembrandt self-portraits have been a touchstone for me, as for so many writers, for a long time. I first remember looking at them carefully when I was seventeen, so about thirty years.
I guess I thought I might at some point want to write about this painting, because I took quite a few pictures and they came out well. I think you can get a sense of the incredible variety of textures that you feel looking at the painting – the velvet hat, beads, the hair, skin, moustache, cloth.
This morning my eye was caught by the gray.
Gray seemed to be connected both to the gray skies we still have, last of March, and to the still life I looked at yesterday by Manet (a Manet was also stolen from the Gardner, which I had forgotten until I looked it up just now.)
It was only when I began to picture myself walking into the room that I thought about the stolen works. And remembered a headline from yesterday, that a Van Gogh had been stolen from a museum in the Netherlands shuttered by the coronavirus.
Wherever there is money, misfortune, human passion, beauty, violence, trust and mistrust, there will be paintings. When you see a painting in a museum, you do not know if you will see it again, if it will be seen by anyone again.
This is the Van Gogh, The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring, belonging to the Groninger Museum, but on loan to the Singer Laren museum. It was stolen early in the morning of March 30th, which was the painter's birthday. The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring was painted in 1884. Van Gogh's father was a pastor, and this was the garden of his parents' home, where he stayed with them between 1883 and 1885. It looks to me, in reproduction, an intimate and significant painting, connecting back to Corot and forward to Vuillard. Van Gogh died in 1890 and was, in the mid-1880s, at the height of his powers. It would be nice to see this painting right about now, at the cusp of spring.
This is a little area of the Rembrandt that struck me as especially beautiful a few days before we left Boston.
CNN article on stolen Van Gogh March 30, 2020
Rembrandt Self-Portrait Experience at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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Late Manet
Frederick Project: Unfinished
Édouard Manet, Morning Glories and Nasturtiums, 1881, McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio. Detail photos Rachel Cohen.
Last summer, the summer of 2019, the Art Institute of Chicago had a Manet show, Manet and Modern Beauty which I reviewed for Apollo Magazine.
The paintings in the show were mostly from the late 1870s and early 1880s, a period when Manet's touch and palette were lightening, he was interested in flowers and fashion, and he was also dying of complications of syphilis. Thus the tone was an odd combination of lightness, fluidity, melancholy, and decay.
It was a very sad show. I had not realized that Manet was only fifty-one at his death, and he had not been one of my favorite painters, more a painter whose accomplishments and influence I recognized, so it had never really occurred to me to wonder what more he would have done if he had lived through the 1880s and 1890s when many of the paintings I love best – by Cézanne, Morisot, Monet and Pissarro – were made.
This painting, Morning Glories and Nasturtiums, 1881, from the McNay Museum of Art in San Antonio, was left unfinished, or was finished in a radical way, with areas of canvas still open and showing through. It leaves much to the imagination. To my eye, it is more like a sketch of thoughts and intentions. Ideas about the meaning of plants and the space around them.
In the show, it was in a gallery with many beautiful letters that Manet wrote to his friends as he was increasingly confined by his illness. He decorated these with water colors of flowers, fruit, bees.
Here is a letter that, in palette and meaning, seems related to the Nasturtiums of 1881. The letter has a watercolor of a horse chestnut. Manet had sent it to Marthe Hoschedé, the year before, in 1880. It belongs to a private collector.
Marthe's father Ernest Hoschedé had been a very important art patron for Manet and others. Ernest Hoschedé went bankrupt in 1878, and moved his family in to a household with the painter Claude Monet and Monet's family. Monet's beloved wife Camille died the next year, in 1879. By the time this letter was sent to Marthe Hoschedé, her mother Alice had formed a new household with Monet and all of their children.
Layers of death, resilience, odd greens, empty spaces around them.
Morning Glories and Nasturtiums at McNay Art Museum
Manet and Modern Beauty at the Art Institute
Cohen on Late Manet in Apollo Magazine
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Cézanne, Study of Trees, c.1904, Fogg Museum, iphone detail
Today I got new lenses for my glasses. After more than a month of squinting and blearing and pretending, my eyes knew themselves at last understood and the world came through with that almost bulging astonishing hyper-detail. Learn the task again. A half an hour, every few years, of seeing everything in the world at once.
I was running errands and had not planned to go to the Fogg, but, feeling my sudden seeing, I turned left. With which painting should I use this beautiful straining and adjusting sight? I thought of a Beckmann triptych that has eluded me for months, and then of a Cézanne I have struggled with for four years, an unfinished painting from 1904.
It was a wintry day in Cambridge, cold. A little snow had materialized as I walked to the optometrist, and then was held in abeyance as I walked away again, and back again, and to the museum. I saw the day first with the impeding old glasses, then with the odd freedom and powerful myopia of no glasses, and then, every branch and twig in dark lines before the gray sky, with the new glasses.
It's on the ground floor. Past the main room of the Impressionists, through a doorway and on the right. Often when I get to see a painting well, I have the experience that it seems bigger than I remembered. Before I was even looking, there was the sense of spaciousness.
With each of the different degrees of seeing I had today, I was aware of the strange effect of the snow clouds. Sometimes the gray sky is leaden, and at other times is in wondrous motion. When it actually particularizes as snow, the eyes draw a hundred relations at once.
My eyes leaped for it. And went directly to its depths. It had always seemed very flat to me, an array of touches on the surface of a gray canvas, but now unmistakeable were the curved road and arching branches.
All those touches of paint with their several directions clustered together were like little flags indicating the motion of air and light.
In the painting, it was summertime, some summer moment in which, by virtue of everything being a little strange, a little distorted, all the relations between things were suddenly clear.
When I walked on the street again I saw that I and the other people walking seemed made solitary by the gray snow sky. But we also seemed held up and surrounded by the palpable space.
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Sargent Notes
John Singer Sargent, Simplon Pass: Chalets, about 1909-1911, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, iphoto of notebook cover
I am writing this in a notebook that has on the cover of it a part of a Sargent water color. It's of a house, gray and brown mingled in the wash, with a roof speckled and dashed with white. An ordinary small mountain house, to which a stone wall in the shape of an S rises.
Watercolor is a medium in which it is easy to lose the structures of things, but here everything has the shape that is proper to it because it does not wish to be otherwise. They are what they are, the house, the green slopes, the rising S of the wall, the gray sky. They do not blame or advise.
I think Sargent thought that, for an artist, it is good to be sketching. That is how to be a house, considering and calm, between the hill and the sky, how to follow and care for a wall of long stone dashes, rising in the shape of an S.
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Happy 100th Birthday Timberland Bank
Dec. 7 marks a century of service
By Gail Greenwood Ayres | December 7, 2015
Respected bank photo courtesy Polson Museum, Hoquiam.
If you knew the history of Timberland Bank, you wouldn't be surprised to learn that for its 100th anniversary celebration, instead of receiving gifts the employees spent their time giving 100 deeds for the 100th year.
It was that same quest to serve local needs that marked the genesis of the bank by four entrepreneurs on Dec. 7, 1915, in Hoquiam.
Each branch or department set aside several days during the year to volunteer at a nonprofit organization doing everything from collecting 766 jars of peanut butter and jelly for the Puyallup Food Bank to painting Pope's Kid Place for medically fragile children in Chehalis to initiating a sock drive for school-aged children in Thurston County to providing free document shredding events throughout the area.
"The purpose of this is to share the strength and vitality of Timberland and reinvest our time and talents to serve local needs," said Michael Sand, Timberland Bank's president since 2003.
The word "Hoquiam" means "hungry for wood." In the late 1890s that hunger was so great that the city, nestled amongst the vast, dense forests of coastal Washington, became home for a plethora of logging and mill operations. Jobs and more people followed as the city's population exploded from 1,500 in 1890 to 10,000 in 1920.
But now the city faced a different hunger – it was starving for homes to house all the people who had come to live in the burgeoning city. That's when four successful businessmen realized that for the city to grow it needed a local bank that could finance loans for houses at an affordable interest rate. So they stepped up to meet that need.
Originally called Southwest Washington Savings & Loan and located in rented space in downtown Hoquiam, a century later Timberland Bank now employs about 275 people at its headquarters and 22 branches, which are located in six counties of Western Washington. In the South Sound area, those branches include locations in Tacoma, Puyallup, Spanaway, Edgewood, Gig Harbor, Auburn, Tumwater, Lacey, Panorama, Yelm and Olympia.
"In looking into our history," said Sand, who has worked at the bank since 1977, "what we discovered over and over again is that despite each financial crisis that came along, the bank was able to weather the storms by staying true to the founding principles and keeping focused on our commitment to serve people and local communities."
Having been one of the few smaller banks to survive the latest bank crises a few years ago, Timberland is well capitalized with a total risk-based capital ratio of 15.16 percent, a Tier 1 leverage capital ratio of 10.64 percent and a tangible assets ratio of 10.31 percent as of the end of the fiscal year, September 30.
Also during this past fiscal year, the company's assets increased to $816 million, which is the first time its fiscal year-end assets have exceeded $800 million. The greatest portion of those assets is invested locally in residential mortgage, construction, commercial and consumer-related loans to thousands of individuals, families, and businesses throughout Western Washington.
As Timberland Bancorp, it has been publicly traded on the NASDAQ exchange (under TSBK) for 17 years, and has amassed a collection of local, regional and national honors and awards. These include being listed in The Seattle Times' "2014 Best of the Northwest" top 20 for publicly held companies headquartered in the Pacific Northwest. In April, it was ranked No. 11 of the state's financial institutions by Market Share.
"I think the bank has survived and thrived because over the years we've balanced old- fashioned customer service and impeccable integrity with up-to-date business practices and technology," said Sand, noting that employees – not a machine – answers the phone and that the bank still offers free checking.
Timberland Bank congrats photo, circa 1998, when the bank went public.
To illustrate this, Sand relates how his predecessor, Clarence Hamre, handled the tough economy in the 1970s and 80s when resource-dependent communities were hit hard by a wave of mill closures, job losses and eventually abandoned homes as families left to find work elsewhere.
The huge decline in the real estate market was a concern, but Hamre, used good 'ole elbow grease to make a difference, Sand said. "He packed his kids in his truck on weekends to clean houses, preparing them to sell. Then he worked with local realtors, found compromises in interest rates and worked with them to help them sell homes again."
It was in the 80s that Hamre, who worked at the bank for 34 years, realized that the bank needed to diversify, so he branched out to the Pierce County market.
Just like his predecessors, Hamre saw a need for people to help finance their homes. So, he established an owner/builder construction loan program for people who wanted to act as their own contractor to build their own home. Many other banks still refer customers to Timberland's construction and owner/builder programs, "because we've found ways to manage the risk," Sand explained.
Looking over the last 100 years, Sand said it became evident that "our goal has always been about helping individuals, families and businesses accomplish their dreams. Over the years, we've had to adjust and be flexible, but regardless of the times, we've found ways to provide handcrafted solutions," he said. "Everyone's needs are a little different, so we take time to listen. There are no cookie-cutter loans here!"
Chairman of the Board, Jon Parker agrees. "Even as the bank continues to pursue new technologies and modern banking practices designed to make banking faster, safer and more convenient for its clients, it's the 'old fashioned' values that have served the bank well," he said "Serving customers with professionalism, honesty, personal service and courtesy will continue to be the blueprint for how the bank conducts its business in the coming years."
For more information about Timberland Bank and its 100th year celebrations, ask at any branch, call 1-800-562-8761or visit the website at timberlandbank.com.
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In the traditional sense, the school system in our country was developed for an agrarian life and industrial-age factory workers. It developed in isolation and for decades proved to be effective, until globalization began to appear.
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According to a report by Android Revolution, HTC One users can expect an update from the current Android 4.1 to 4.2.2 soon, with the international model already receiving the update.
"There were quite a lot of rumours about upcoming HTC Sense and Android 4.2.2 update for HTC One and HTC Butterfly. All were expecting HTC Sense 5.1 to show up, but instead, the version of HTC UI in latest Android 4.2.2 update is still 5.0," wrote AndroidRevolution which got the screenshots of HTC One Android 4.2.2 update.
The new software release lands on handsets with some appealing new features packed inside, such as a percentage battery level indicator and extended quick settings, along with enhancements to Blinkfeed.
Android daydream and the ability to remove the docked icons are also coming to smartphone with the update. The ability to long press the home button for menu settings is another clever touch which is set to arrive on the One with Android 4.2.2.
This update adds the ability to work with Android-native sound profiles – aka EQS or equalizer controls. These controls can be found by tapping one's EQS icon in the upper right corner of the notifications menu.
The HTC One was unveiled earlier this year as the company's new flagship smartphone hosting a bundle of features including a 4.7-inch screen with a full HD resolution, 4MP camera, and two front-facing speakers for stereo sound.
You can read our review of the HTC One here.