Can single fathers ever be completely prepared for their daughters to enter puberty?
Puberty is no joke, especially for girls. The coming of age for female humans has been the same process since the dawn of woman. The struggle to cope with the sudden, newfound growth of body and mind is both beautiful and terrifying. In today's society more than ever before, single fathers are coping alone with raising little girls to become grown women. The test is to stay the course and weather the storm until the turbulence calms.
The Maagy Series is a metaphorical journey into the mysterious and murky netherworld of female adolescence.
We first encounter Princess Maagy on her thirteenth birthday when she throws a tantrum because there is no spumoni ice cream for breakfast. The tantrums are not new to King Henry, Maagy's bewildered father. As a single parent, he has spoiled her rotten and now must reap the reward for his over-indulgence. What is new for him is that the innocent little girl he adores and dotes upon is about to blossom into a young woman before his very eyes. He, like most fathers, especially single ones, is woefully unprepared for what is to come.
The journey from childhood to adulthood is an arduous path for girls. One of the most perplexing challenges for any parent is the mood changes that accompany the onset of hormonal cycles in girls. Boys have hormonal surges in adolescence, but they are nothing to compare. Along with these chemical changes comes the desire to break free of parental constraints by ignoring rules and exhibiting blatant defiance. The once sweet little princess becomes a raging force who is uncomfortable and awkward in her own skin. Thus, it is with Princess Maagy by the time she reaches her sixteenth birthday. King Henry is baffled as to how to handle his suddenly brave and brash daughter; a daughter he no longer recognizes.
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The Maagy Series is the perfect coming of age adventure/action series for young girls. This Young Adult fiction/fantasy series stands out from other books, as it is set in a fairytale time and place but with real world relevance to today's youth. Just Maagy, Krispen, Enchantment, and Warrior are the first four books with three more coming.
The Maagy Series is the quintessential fantasy book series that focuses on the maturation of young girls to adult women.
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Catherine Morales is an emerging multidisciplinary artist from Norwalk who focuses on ceramics, painting, and drawing. Catherine creates figurative paintings and translates them into three-dimensional forms. In her ceramic work, she has incorporated representations of herself and others to investigate the childhood experience of verbal abuse.
"Woman figure (Muda)," 2020. Dixon Clay, 35" x 17" x 17″
"Male figure (Mudo)," 2020. Dixon Clay, 35" x 17" x 17″
Catherine served as an assistant to artist Kim Tucker for the exhibition Sunday Morning (2020) at the University Art Gallery at California State University, Dominguez Hills and interned for Professor and Chair of the Art & Design Department, Jim Keville.
Catherine participated in student exhibitions as a member of the DH Arts Collective. She has worked with peers as a teaching artist for the Praxis program and has organized workshops in South Los Angeles.
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Q: Whether Data augmentation really needed in Machine Learning I am interested in knowing the importance of data augmentation(rotation at various angles, flipping the images) while providing a dataset to a Machine Learning problem.
Whether it is really needed? Or the CNN networks using will handle that as well no matter how different the data are transformed?
So I took a classification task with 2 classes to conclude some results

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*Arrow shapes

*Circle shapes

The idea is to train the shapes with only one orientation(I have taken arrows pointing right) and check the model with a different orientation(I have taken arrows pointing downwards) which is not at all given during the training stage.
Some of the samples used in Training

Some of the samples used in Testing

This is the entire dataset I am using in for creating a tensorflow model.
https://bitbucket.org/akhileshmalviya/samples/src/bab50b85d826?at=master
I am wondering with the results I got,
(i) Except a few downward arrows all others are getting predicted correctly as arrow. Does it mean data augmentation is not at all needed?
(ii) Or is this the right use case I have taken to understand the importance of data augmentation?
Kindly share your thoughts, Any help could be really appreciated!

A: Data augmentation is a data-depended process.
In general, you need it when your training data is complex and you have a few samples.
A neural network can easily learn to extract simple patterns like arcs or straight lines and these patterns are enough to classify your data.
In your case data augmentation can barely help, the features the network will learn to extract are easy and highly different from each other.
When you, instead, have to deal with complex structures (cats, dogs, airplanes, ...) you can't rely on simple features like edges, arcs, etc..
Instead, you have to show to your network that the instances you're trying to classify got an high variance and that the features extracted can be combined in a lot of different ways for the same subject.
Think about a cat: it can be of any color, the picture can be taken in different light conditions, its whole body can be in any position, the picture could be taken with a certain orientation...
To correctly classify instances so different, the network must learn to extract robust features that could be learned only after seeing a lot of different inputs.
In your case, instead, simple features can completely discriminate your input, thus any sort of data augmentation could help by just a little bit.

A: The task you are solving can be easily solved without any NN and even without machine learning.
Just because the problem is so simple it does not really matter whether you do a data augmentation or not. The need for data augmentation is task specific and depends on many things:

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*how easy is to augment the data with preserving the ability to correctly mark the class. For image, sounds which we used to see/hear it is not a problem (we know that adding small noise to the sound does not change the meaning, rotating the lizard is still a lizard). For other things augmenting without preserving the class/value is hard (for example in Go, randomly adding a stone can change the value of the position dramatically)

*does the augmented data is drawn from the same distribution you care about. Adding random stones to Go does not work, but rotating flipping the board works and preserves distribution. But for example in a racing king game (variant of chess) it will not help. You can't flip the position (left <-> right), the evaluation stays the same, but it will never happen in real game and therefore drawn from different distribution and useless

*how much data do you have and how expressive is your model. The more parameters you model have, the bigger the chance of overfitting and the more is your need for data. If you train a linear regression in n dims, you will have n + 1 params. You do not really need to augment this. Also if you already have 10bln data points, the augmentation is probably will not be helpful.

*how expensive the augmentation procedure. For rotating/scaling the image it is very cheap, but for other augmentation it can be computationally expensive

*something else that I forgot.

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A significant part of the Fulton Hogan Hiways (FHH) operation is capacity building, to provide career development opportunities for staff, according to FHH General Manager, Patrick Keenan.
Keenan said the company has introduced a programme that includes on-the-job training as well as workshops and seminars, which provides a pathway for promotion within the organisation.
The programme also includes bringing in road specialists from overseas, to not only enhance the quality of work, but also to share international expertise that supports the FHH staff in their career development.
Keenan said the appointment of local civil engineer, Bhan Prakash, to the position of FHH Operations Manager is an endorsement of the programme.
Bhan Prakash has a total of 13 years experience in the roading industry. He began with FHH four years ago as a senior road inspector. He was then promoted as Suva Manager, mid-2015, and managed Suva Central Area Maintenance, until his latest promotion.
Prakash said, "FHH has a good plan in training locals to develop their skills. I have done leadership skill training, internally, and had coaching sessions with a senior manager to get up skilled.
Keenan said: "With a staff of 488, of which 97 per cent are locals, we're providing enhanced training, with positive results in staff development in all sectors of our work. We intend to continue these efforts to benefit both the JV and the wider construction and engineering industry."
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Think about it – a better driver of the ball than Byron Nelson, Sam Snead, Jack Nicklaus, etc… and of course Norman had a Classic Golf Swing, but the Youtube clip really demonstrates what has been lost in the Modern Golf Swing era when it comes to proper mechanics.
I've talked about Norman before, as he was the person to whom I pointed when I would explain that nature of the "short-stop slide," which I have had as part of my own swing for years – when you swing and make a full turn to the finish, you have to release the trailing foot or you'll experience such unpleasant things as the "reverse-C" finish (which you saw a lot of in the Classic era when players didn't release that trailing foot), or in today's swingers, the jumping leading foot.
What I like about Norman's swing is that it was self-taught, so while it wasn't perfect, it's a specimen of athletic motion you don't see in many swingers today.
Now, while I've used different wording to describe the proper pivot action over the years, isn't it interesting that Norman uses the "Piston Action" term in the above video?
Where have we seen this when it comes to MCS?
There again you find the concept of the shoulders and knees moving in unison, as FAS mentioned in a comment that he really liked… and the fact that I've just run across Greg Norman saying the same thing about his hip action that I've said tells you one thing – that a proper mechanical motion is universal in execution.
Any great golf swing uses that same action, and don't confuse a great golf swing with being a great golfer – you can have a terrible swing in terms of mechanics and be a great golfer, and you can have a great golf swing and be a terrible golfer – we're simply talking about mechanics, and every great golf swing has this same action.
It's the reason I've used different great swings at different times to illustrate my points on the swing – you'll find the same mechanics in Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, Sam Snead, and on and on.
Note: You'll also hear Norman describe the essence of what I call the "floating pivot," which concept I gleaned from studying Ben Hogan's "perfect pivot" action, as I came to term it.
Take out the variances due to personal idiosyncrasy, and you're left with the same basic motion.
So, just as you can't re-invent the wheel, only design better ones from the original, you can't re-invent proper mechanical motion.
What was mechanically-sound 50 years ago will still be mechanically-sound today, and the so-called "Modern Golf Swing" hasn't re-invented proper motion – rather it is a mechanically-unsound, dangerous and completely bogus method of swinging a golf club that can't go away soon enough.
Take it from the greatest persimmon driver ever – swing with the hips & legs and leave the back twisting to those trying to re-invent the wheel.


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A Matter of Time: A Conversation with Not.Alone
Sometimes, you have to go out of your way to find good music. Other times, good music finds you. One day on Twitter, I asked my followers to put me on to some local artists. One of the names that kept coming up was Not.Alone, a group from the DMV that effortlessly blends hip-hop, jazz, and soul. The collective consists of multi-instrumentalist producer DÆTÄ, singer/songwriter Marc Amour, and rapper/producer Nomad the Native.
I had the privilege of interviewing the trio inside of their creative space, which is located inside of a picturesque Prince George's County home. Marc greeted me at the door. As soon as I stepped foot inside, I heard melodic sounds echoing from the basement. With Washington Redskins paraphernalia and Afrocentric art plastered on the wall, the basement creates a cozy atmosphere for them to create music. When I arrived, Nomad and DÆTÄ were in the middle of choosing a bassline for a track. The intensity with which they were listening to the song was one that can only be emitted from artists who are dedicated to their craft. After meticulously going over different ideas, they finally settled on a bassline, but they were seemingly unsatisfied. "Let's come back to this later. We don't want to keep Ahriel waiting," Nomad said – and so we began.
Ahriel Nari: Where did you guys get the name Not.Alone from?
Nomad the Native: Not.Alone came from, ideologically, we believe that art and music can be a unifying experience. I remember Jay-Z said in an interview that when he's at his concerts the Black kids and the white kids are all singing Jay-Z lyrics. At least for that concert, that moment, those couple of songs, there's no division between people. It's just everybody enjoying themselves and everybody is together. So that's the idea behind Not.Alone: when we're doing music, or any art for real, we want to be able to highlight the shared experience of living.
AN: Wow, that's beautiful. So, how did you guys first meet and start making music together?
Marc Amour: Me and Nomad met because I went to University of Maryland Eastern Shore. His cousin Desmond and [I] became real tight – that's like my best friend. One random weekend, I rode back to this area with [Desmond] and that's how me and [Nomad] met.
Nomad the Native: I met DÆTÄ in college. We went to Frostburg State University together. My fraternity, Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc., was hosting a talent showcase. [DÆTÄ] was the house keyboardist. There was a portion of the event where a bunch of people were gathered around the piano and he was playing different riffs and loops or whatever, and people were just freestyling. That's how we met – I was freestyling around the piano while he was playing at an event for my fraternity. We just stayed cool around campus. We all eventually got into working on music together in 2015. There were songs here and there that I was working on that I tapped [Marc] Amour for in 2015. A couple months after my solo project dropped [in early 2016], I was unsatisfied with it, sonically. So, I tapped DÆTÄ like, "Yo…what if we worked together? I have a bunch of production ideas and structural ideas. [DÆTÄ] has a bunch of knowledge as far as music theory. So, let's start a music collective and see what happens". While we were bouncing around ideas, we just had random voice notes of chord progressions and [were] thinking about what our purpose was. We were still figuring out our direction. I was like, "Yo. What if we added another person"? So that's when I reached out to [Marc] Amour.
Marc Amour: The first time I actually met [DÆTÄ], [Nomad] had me pick [DÆTÄ] up. I was like, "Why am I picking up somebody? I don't know this person." It was funny because I pulled in the driveway and [DÆTÄ's] Dad came out. He was like "Hey!" I was like, "Hey!". He's like, "You waiting for Marc (DÆTÄ's government name)?" I was like, "Yeah, I'm waiting for Marc." He's like, "Who are you?" I was like, "I'm Marc!"
[everyone laughs]
AN: Were y'all music majors [in college]?
[DÆTÄ raises his hand]
Marc Amour: I didn't get into singing until [Nomad] brought me [into the group] in 2015.
DÆTÄ: HE'S JUST NATURALLY THE SHIT!
AN: I see! Name all of your instruments, [DÆTÄ].
DÆTÄ: Here's the instruments I've gotten paid to play: trombone, bass, and piano. Instruments that I've fooled around on [are] drums – I've been picking apart guitar. I know how to play all of the brass instruments. I was a brass major [in college] so I can play tuba, French horn, euphonium, and baritone. My main three [instruments], though, are piano, trombone, and bass.
AN: Damn, you're talented….
Marc Amour: We jih like can't afford him.
AN: [laughs] I saw on Instagram that you guys do these poetry slams and that's dope! Tell me about that. How did you guys get started with that?
Nomad the Native: Not A Poetry Slam is my lil' baby! Not A Poetry Slam is a combination of an open mic and an open forum. We just kinda wanna foster a sense of community where people can talk about topics that are already on our minds, anyways. We had one last year, the very first one, where we talked about love. The last one we talked about feminism and women's rights issues. The next one is gonna be another topic, you know what I mean? We want to [create a space] where people can share. A lot of the poetry is a catalyst for those types of conversations.
AN: What are your top 5 albums of all time? Take your time.
Marc Amour: For me, definitely Voodoo by D'Angelo. I really love DAMN. by Kendrick [Lamar] – between [DAMN.] and To Pimp a Butterfly [by Kendrick Lamar]. Somebody else jump in while I think…
DÆTÄ: I would say Jazz Loves Paris by Buddy Collette and Harlem River Drive by Bobbi Humphrey. For all you jazzheads, listen to those albums.
Nomad the Native: The first two albums I was ever given were Jill Scott's first album, Who is Jill Scott? and Outkast's Stankonia. The albums that made me want to rap were Kanye West's Late Registration and Common's Be. Then, to bring it back out of hip-hop, Stevie Wonder's Innervisions. I listen to that joint often as hell. So, yeah, I think that's my top 5. I got a bunch of other joints that I like but I wanted to keep it simple.
Marc Amour: For me, I really enjoyed John Legend's second album, Once Again. Then I'm going to say Late Registration [by Kanye West], also. Indicud, [by Kid Cudi] for me, was really, really, really fire. D'Angelo is my favorite singer. I really loved his first album. I love the contrast between his first two albums because the first album was so structured, and Voodoo was so loose and drunken. You wouldn't really think the same artist made them.
DÆTÄ: Not to be cliché, but I love all of Herbie Hancock's music. Any one of his albums you could name and I'd be like, "Yeah, I listen to the whole thing". There's just a lot of good music around so I can't really [name my top 5 albums of all time]. Frank Rosolino had good albums – he got me through college.
AN: Alright, so shifting gears, how did you guys come up with the concept for your Black DeLorean EP?
Nomad the Native: Every once in a while, [Marc Amour and I] challenge each other by [sending] each other a beat or a song and be like, "Write to this," just to see if the other person can do it, [in order to] stay sharp. I challenged him to write his verse on "Time Spent" to a different beat. He [wrote] what ended up being his verse on "Time Spent". I was listening to "Kutless" by NxWorries when I wrote the first verse of "Waay Back" and part of that stuck in my mind – driving around in a car feeling fucking timeless and thinking about what it was like to be back in time. [Marc Amour] had written his verse for "Time Spent" and I was like, "Yo, these two free-floating verses are about time."
Marc Amour: Which was not on purpose at all.
Nomad the Native: So, I was like, "Yo, what if we made an EP about time travel or some shit and call it Black DeLorean?". I was thinking about driving around in a car, so the car time machine was the DeLorean and I love Back to the Future I and II. So, when we decided we were gonna make a lil' EP out of these joints, we took references and our own ideas and threw them together.
AN: Did you all collaborate with anybody else on Black DeLoreanBlack or is it just y'all three?
Marc Amour: It's purely just us – the production, the lyrics, everything. We recorded it ourselves. The only thing we did outside [of us] was get it mixed and mastered.
AN: What is each of you all's favorite song from the EP?
Not.Alone: [in unison] "Time Spent"
Marc Amour: My favorite [song] to perform is "Waay Back" just because of the way we end it. We don't perform it the way that it's recorded, for real. My favorite [song] to listen to is "Time Spent".
Nomad the Native: I think of all three songs, it's the full package of us.
Marc Amour: It's literally the full package of us – the beat, the flow that I have, and the contrasting flow that Nomad comes in with.
AN: What's been the highest point of your musical career so far?
Marc Amour: I really enjoyed performing at Adams Morgan Porch Fest because we really took a situation that was going to be shitty and flipped it. One of the things we learned very early on was to not depend on anything else and to always bring as much equipment that you think you might need. So, we had a homie of Nomad's that was going to supply us with sound – just speakers. When we got there, homie's speakers blew out. We were closing out that space. There was a whole crowd of at least 70 people by the end of the event. So, we're out there and we're just like, "Damn, these speakers don't work". So, we had this little PA joint that held us down.
Nomad the Native: We cranked that joint ALL the way up!
Marc Amour: It was one of those things that turned out to be great. I think one of the things that we didn't consider was the first song that we performed and who the crowd was We were just like, "We're great. We gon' bang out these songs that we practiced". The first song was "Black Don't Crack". When we got out there and realized who the crowd was, we just looked at each other and snickered. . It was a crowd filled with white folk, which is fine. It was funny seeing their reactions, but they were very receptive. It was great.
Nomad the Native: My favorite moment is January of [2017] we performed at the MLK Day Parade in Southeast [Washington, D.C]. We played "Unapologetic" and it's really gogo. It's jih like old school-sounding gogo, not like bounce beat or slow bounce. The crowd was rockin'. I remember there was some old lady that was out in the street. She was with the shits! Then, you know that eccentric aunt that you can talk to about anything that's super open-minded? That aunt, one of my closest aunts, came to see me. It was tight that she was there for that. That sticks in my mind. What about you, DÆTÄ?
DÆTÄ: I liked playing at Black Cat with y'all. It was the first time I really saw people responding to something that I've done, personally. Another one of my favorite things that happens when I'm with y'all is the moment before people know you're good.
Nomad the Native: YOOOOOOO, yeah son. That shit is amazing!
DÆTÄ: We were about to go on [at some bar] and [people] heard us do our soundcheck. There was this one dude in the crowd. He saw me practicing bass. So, I introduced myself like, "What's up, bro? You here to see the music? Yadda, yadda"—just chewing the fat with him. He said, "Yeah, man. I can't wait to hear what you guys really do". He heard [the bands] the went before us perform and he pretty much did not vibe the whole night. Not being malicious, he was just being cool. We go on stage and he has the same [cool demeanor]. The beat dropped and yo, this man went [stank face]. I was like, "GOT 'EM". Then, he started vibing and milly rocking for like two seconds. I was like, "Yo, we just shook the ice off of this man!" Ever since that night, I've been really paying attention to when people really catch the vibe.
AN: So, what's next for Not.Alone?
Nomad the Native: More music. We spent the last couple of years relatively quiet until March. So, this year we got more music. We're trying to drop random joints – songs that are just on our minds. We want to be able to drop a project. We want more visuals because "Time Spent" was jih like a tester, it wasn't even the whole song. We want to get into merch – shirts, some shit that we sell exclusively at shows or you have to fuck with us to catch. Is there anything else next for us, brothers?
DÆTÄ: The world.
AN: Anything else you want to say to the people?
DÆTÄ: All love. God bless.
Marc Amour: [plays guitar]
Nomad the Native: Dawg, be open to new experiences and new people. I'm trying [to] and I encourage you to do the same. Act like you're not the only one here, my nigga. Act like you're sharing this shit with somebody. Boom.
AN: Boom.
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By DL News Staff on Jan 8, 2019 at 5:48 p.m.
Rep. Steve Green
ST. PAUL — State Rep. Steve Green, R-Fosston, performed his fourth oath of office in the Minnesota House of Representatives Tuesday as the 91st Legislature was sworn in at the Capitol.
Green was re-elected to the House in November and represents District 2B, which encompasses all of Mahnomen and portions of Becker, Clearwater, Hubbard, Otter Tail, and Wadena counties. Green is serving on the House Environment and Natural Resources Policy, Environment and Natural Resources Finance, State Government Finance, and Legacy Finance committees.
"It is nice to get back to the Capitol and get to work on behalf of the people in District 2B," Green said. "We face some serious challenges here in Greater Minnesota and much of my focus will remain on those issues so we can not only make improvements to help now, but to strengthen our communities for the long term. I am happy that we are back to business to take on important issues at the Capitol."
Greeen said he welcomes input from local citizens throughout the year, particularly during the legislative session. He can be reached by emailing rep.steve.greenwww.house.mn/2B.
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People love this VIP thing. Tickets are limited to 250 friends and then they're gone. You'll have a little bit of time to decide (at least this year:) But if you want to party from Thursday night's VIP/Presenter Party to Saturday sundown (and get the first shot at VIP tickets again next year), grab a friend and some tickets and we'll see you at the VIP kick-off party Thursday night.
Thursday, May 2nd at 7:00 p.m. near our main hall at the Minneapolis Convention Center in the Seasons Rotunda (overlook level).
And look back on that presenter page. Amazing folks. How fun will it be to hang out with them?
* Enjoy a great swag bag with lots of great items from many Pinners Conference presenters and exhibitors. You'll also receive your Pinners t-shirt this night (fill out a size at registration).
Friday & Saturday, May 3rd & 4th at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.


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Fascinating collections of Mountfield in old photographs.
Available from Trish and Roger at 1, Church Cottages.
Iron Hoops and Holly Sticks: Schooling in Brightling 1733 – 1951 by Anne Holman (Author), Pauline Sondheim (Author), D. Smith (Illustrator). This book can be ordered second-hand through Amazon and may also be available from independent second-hand booksellers.
Top notch account of the Mountfield Hoard found in the field beside Taylor's Cottage. Also available from Trish.
Well told account of the Rother from when it was tidal and navigable to near Robertsbridge to the current relative trickle. Good on what evidence and remains can still be seen today. Only available second-hand online at silly prices (it's a 96pp paperback).
Slightly dry but very interesting history of the planning for and building of Darwell Reservoir, all driven by a great engineer, Sidney Little.
Available from The Brede Steam Engine Society.
Tithe Maps of Brightling, Mountfield and Salehurst.
These are available on CD-ROM (for PC only) from the East Sussex Records Office website (which is very confusing) for £15.00 each. Quickest way in is to Google "East Sussex Record Office" and navigate to Tithe Maps.
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Hispanic Society of America
Art museum, Research library in New York City
Hispanic Society museum building on Audubon Terrace
Location of the Hispanic Society in New York City
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Hispanic Society of America (New York)
Hispanic Society of America (the United States)
May 18, 1904; 116 years ago (1904-05-18)
40°50′01″N 73°56′47″W / 40.833521°N 73.946514°W / 40.833521; -73.946514
Collection size
1,000 sculptures
175,000 photographs
250,000 books
Mitchell Codding
Subway: at 157th Street
Bus: Bx6, Bx6 SBS, M4, M5, M100
The Hispanic Society's 1930 north building (left) and sculptures
Certificate of member for Benito Pérez Galdós.
The Hispanic Society of America, "perhaps New York's most misunderstood institution",[1] is a museum and reference library for the study of the arts and cultures of Spain and Portugal and their former colonies in Latin America, the Philippines, and Portuguese India. Despite the name, it has never functioned as a learned society.
Founded in 1904 by Archer M. Huntington, the institution remains at its original location in a 1908 Beaux Arts building on Audubon Terrace (at 155th Street and Broadway) in the lower Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City in the United States. A second building, on the north side of the terrace, was added in 1930. Exterior sculpture in front of that building includes work by Anna Hyatt Huntington and nine major reliefs by the Swiss-American sculptor Berthold Nebel, a commission that took ten years to complete. The Hispanic Society complex was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2012.
The museum and library have been closed since 2017 for a major renovation. The library and the Sorolla gallery are open by appointment.[2]
Much of the collection is on loan to other institutions during this period.[citation needed]
2 Renovations
Collections[edit]
The museum contains more than 18,000 works in every medium, ranging from prehistoric times to the 20th century. There are important paintings by Diego Velázquez, Francisco de Goya, El Greco, and Joaquín Sorolla, among others, as well as sculpture and architectural elements, furniture and metalwork, ceramics and textiles.
A major component of this museum is the Sorolla Room, which was reinstalled in 2010. It displays The Provinces of Spain, 14 massive paintings commissioned by Archer Huntington in 1911 that Sorolla created from 1913 to 1919. These magnificent paintings, totaling over 200 linear feet (61 m), ring the large room and depict scenes from the regions of Spain.
The library contains over 250,000 books, 200,000 documents, 175,000 photographs, and 15,000 prints. The rare books library maintains 15,000 books printed before 1700, including a first edition of Don Quijote. It also holds the manuscript Black Book of Hours Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae ad usum Romanum (circa 1458), one of only a handful of such works, and the enormous Map of the World (1526) by Juan Vespucio.
Renovations[edit]
In April 2015 the society announced the appointment of Philippe de Montebello to chair the society's Board of Overseers and spearhead a major effort to roughly double the museum's size by renovating the vacant Beaux Arts former building of the Museum of the American Indian, adjacent to the society's original museum building.[3] Beginning January 1, 2017, the museum is closed for extensive renovations, although the library is open on a limited basis by appointment only. The $15 million project will replace the building's roof and lighting.[4] Originally scheduled to reopen in the fall of 2019, the museum is still closed as of late 2020.
While the museum is closed, many of its works are being lent to other institutions. About 200 of the society's most important works were displayed from April through September 2017 at the Museo del Prado in Madrid.[5] The exhibit then traveled to the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City from June through September 2018; the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, November 2018 through March 2019; the Cincinnati Art Museum, October 2019 through January 2020; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from March to May 2020.[6][7]
Although admission to the museum has always been free in accordance with Archer Huntington's trust, due to financial difficulties the society went to court in 2016 in order to be allowed to charge an admission fee to temporary exhibitions to be held in the museum's new facility, while keeping the main hall free.[8]
In 2020 the museum appointed Guillaume Kientz, former curator at the Louvre and the Kimbell Art Museum, as its new director.[9]
Georgiana Goddard King (1871–1939), Hispanist and medievalist
Mildred Stapley Byne (1875–1941), early curator of architecture and applied arts
Clara Louisa Penney (1888-1970), early curator of rare books and manuscripts, Society member
Florence Lewis May (1899-1988), early curator of textiles
Elizabeth du Gué Trapier (1893-1974), early curator of paintings and drawings
Alice Wilson Frothingham (1902-1976), early curator of ceramics
Beatrice Gilman Proske (1899-2002), early curator of sculpture
Eleanor Sherman Font (1896-1982), early curator of prints
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^ Lee, Felicia R. (November 11, 2011). "An Outpost for Old Spain in the Heights". New York Times.
^ Figueroa, Mencía. "Hispanic Society Museum & Library to present Treasures Exhibition at tbe Prado". Hispanic Society of America. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
^ Catton, Pia (April 20, 2015). "New Chairman Hopes to Boost Profile of Often-Overlooked Museum". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
^ Hispanic Society of America to Close on New Year's Day for More Than 2 Years, ny1.com, December 30, 2016, accessed March 2, 2017
^ Museo del Prado News, accessed March 2, 2017
^ Roberts, Kathleen (October 28, 2018). "ABQ first U.S. stop for historic collection of art". Albuquerque Journal. Retrieved February 10, 2019.
^ Newsletter of the Hispanic Society, February 2020
^ Hispanic Society is so broke its asking to charge visitors, New York Post, August 6, 2016, accessed March 2, 2017
^ "Guillaume Kientz Named Director at Hispanic Society". Hispanic Network Magazine | A Hispanic News Source. December 27, 2020. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
List of Printed Books in the Library of the Hispanic Society of America. 1910 – via HathiTrust. (20 volumes, arranged alphabetically by author)
Clara Louisa Penney, ed. (1929). List of Books Printed Before 1601 in the Library of the Hispanic Society of America – via HathiTrust. (fulltext)
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A Collection in Context: The Hispanic Society of America by the Media Center for Art History, Columbia University (includes a virtual tour of the museum)
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Peter Vaillant
Acrylic and resin on canvas
Unframed: 91 x 122 cm
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Bold and colourful original painting by the eminent British abstract artist Peter Vaillant. One of a series of paintings Quattro, Portofino and Riva created in 2012.
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Peter Vaillant is recognised as an acclaimed and awarded British abstract artist phenomenon.
He has obtained notoriety through international exhibitions of unique, colourful, structured depictions on canvas and aluminium. Confirmation of his international consequence can be attributed with artwork adorning public and private collections.
Peter's artwork is reviewed as having a powerful and vibrant modernism. Distinguishable to his peers, Peter's paintings are colourful, intrepid and playful. His artwork has received resounding approval from Nigel Hurst, the CEO of Saatchi Gallery, Peter Randall-Page RA, Ian Davenport (Turner Prize nominee), Sir David Hockney and many others.
In November 2018, Peter was awarded the best artist in the West Country region by the ING Discerning Eye, a coveted exhibition, for his unique representation of abstract art.
In addition to this, Peter's artwork has exhibited alongside influential British artists. Liverpool Cathedral acquired a painting 'Praise' which now hangs alongside other artworks by Tracey Emin and Dame Elisabeth Frink, to name a couple.
The BBC commissioned Peter to create a large painting for Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee Pageant. The finished artwork joined a commissioned piece by Sir David Hockney and both artworks showcased alongside each other in London.
Peter Vaillant continues to push the boundaries with his striking, collectible artwork and Forest Gallery are proud to work in close partnership with this talented artist.
Elements 20 x 20 inches £ 2,500
Mercy 20 x 20 inches £ 2,500
The Call 20 x 20 inches £ 2,500
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Vintage design and high-end components highlight the new Timmerman Scrambler eBike
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Timmerman, a Europe-based electric bike company, has unveiled its newest two-wheeled creation: the Scrambler V2.0. Designed with minimalism and vintage cues at the forefront, this attractive electric bike hits the market this week with a $6,000+ price tag and some impressive performance.
Electric bikes have seen substantial growth in popularity over the last few years as prices have come down and availability has increased. While today's release from Timmerman is arguably on the more expensive side of things, there are plenty of low-cost alternatives on the market. But you'll certainly notice a difference in the amount of attention paid to both design and materials.
Timmerman's Scrambler E-bike V2.0 has the vintage vibe that makes it feel almost as if this isn't an electric bike at all. Obviously the inspiration for this eBike's design comes from scrambler motorcycles that were made popular back in the mid 20th century. This sleek-looking ride may be minimal in design, but there's still plenty under the hood to get excited about.
The Scrambler E-bike V2.0 is ready! The bike is inspired by a Scrambler motorcycle. Instead of a petrol tank, there is now a battery with display and operation. This time the bike is also equipped with a Marzocchi Downhill fork and saddle suspension with an adjustable air damper. The engine can be adjusted from 250 watts to 750 watts.
The "engine" is powered by a custom motor which can be adjusted from 250 to 750W depending on your needs. Range varies by configuration, but we're seeing estimates of around 30-miles. The lugged steel frame is supported by double crown Marzocchi downhill fork and air-dampened seat suspension system that should result in a smooth ride.
Rounding out the list of specs are dual 70mm Shwalbe tires, disc brakes from TCB and a three-speed hub. A built-in LCD display where the gas tank would traditionally sit delivers pertinent information about your ride, including remaining fuel, power consumption and more.
Obviously the big draw here is for the design. Timmerman has done an excellent job of standing out from the pack of eBikes that we've seen lately, which tend to be boxy and rather futuristic looking. I for one am a huge fan of vintage motorcycle design, and Timmerman has really delivered here in that regard.
The Scrambler V2.0 is available now for purchase with a €4,950 EUR price tag which works out to around $6,100 here stateside. Head over to Timmerman's official landing page for more information on this bike and all of its electric-powered transportation offerings.
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DUB ZOO is a unique, genre-bending musical collective, formed and performed by a group of musicians who all share a passion for improvisation. Based on the Sunshine Coast of Australia, DUB ZOO formed as an experimental collaboration, exploring the idea that live improvisation can be an immersive and transformative experience for both the player and the listener.
Since 2016, DUB ZOO have continued to manifest their core beliefs into a musical project that both inspires and energizes. Featuring a collective of vocalists including Lizzie O'Keefe (Dangerous Song), Ben Goldstein (Hot Potato Band) and Graham Moes (Fat Picnic) as well as the multi-instrumental mayhem of Lee Hardisty on keys, sax, flute and kalimba and the heavy weight rhythm section of Paddy Kiernan (guitar), Brad Wenham (bass) and Leon Tussie (drums), they pack out dancefloors and festival stages with high energy and dynamic alike.
In a realm of progressive dub and deep psychedelic grooves, DUB ZOO are back with their upcoming album Strange Times – a ten-track offering that sublimely encaptures the energy of their live shows. When Covid lockdowns hit in 2020, they decided to spend their newfound free time in the studio and started recording at DUB ZOO HQ. As lockdowns continued, so did the recording and before they knew it, they had a huge swag of new material. Strange Times was recorded and produced by band members Brad Wenham and Paddy Kiernan, and was later mixed by good friend and producer Paulie B (Ziggy Alberts, Kingfisha). In a truly collaborative process, the album was finally mastered by Mike Caplan at Lion and Fox Studio in Washington in the US.
As their chronicles delve into personal experiences, listeners can expect an overload of authenticity in Strange Times. With the heavy dub and reggae influences, they encourage listeners to live in the moment, embracing free-thinking and utilising their newfound circumstances to fuel a truly addictive new album. They explain, "As far as what we were watching, it kinda felt like we were watching the world fall apart, albeit from our relatively civilized piece of paradise. But even in Australia we were not immune to the weirdness of these last few years." Songs such as "Confusion", "World on Fire" and "Strange Times" lean into the darker experiences – yet there is a balance. Tunes like "Into The Sun" and "Feel Me" bring the grooves and progressive rhythmic energy DUB ZOO have been known to possess. Their eclectic fusion of poetry and philosophy come to life in a way that will light up any dancefloor. They have truly encapsulated their visionary vibes into an extraordinary album.
DUB ZOO form a collective of full-time musicians and music teachers. Amongst their eclectic range of musical influences and love for nature, gardening and the natural world, their successes span wide. They confide in the joy of releasing music into the world. What happens after that may be out of their control, yet the interest they continue to spark has been profound. DUB ZOO are continuing to trailblaze into a new era for experimentalism.
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Eduard Meiners (* 22. Juli 1691 in Emden; † 19. Dezember 1752 in Emden) war ein deutscher reformierter Theologe, Kirchengeschichtsschreiber und Prediger in verschiedenen Gemeinden Ostfrieslands.

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Eduard Meiners wurde 1691 als Sohn des Emder Bürgerhauptmanns Wiard Hermanni und von Christina Elisabeth Pears geboren. Ab 1707 war Meiners in Leiden als Theologiestudent eingeschrieben. Seine erste Predigerstelle war Groothusen (1712–1715), anschließend folgte Westerhusen (1715–1717). Von 1717 bis 1723 war er Pastor in Weener und direkter Vorgänger von Wilhelmus Schortinghuis. Hier heiratete er 1717 Trijntje Rosingh († 29. Mai 1746), die Tochter von Hermann Rösingh, Prediger in Weener. Sein einziger Sohn, Hermann Meiners († 1749), war nur für einige Monate Prediger. Drei Töchter überlebten den Vater. Schließlich wurde Meiners nach Emden berufen wurde, wo er bis zu seinem Tod im Jahr 1752 seinen Dienst versah. Meiners war Verfasser zahlreicher teils erbaulicher, teils exegetischer oder kirchengeschichtlicher Schriften und ein ausgewiesener Kenner der Kirchengeschichte Ostfrieslands. Zeitlebens war er an der Orientalismusforschung und an den biblischen Ursprachen interessiert.

Zu seinem Werk
In seiner Schrift Kort ontwerp van de Praktyk des Christendoms of de Praktykale Godgeleertheit (1738) forderte Meiners, morgens und abends fromme Übungen wie Gebet und Bibellesen durchzuführen; auch sei das Fasten wichtig. Meiners betrachtete Glücksspiele (Karten, Würfel), Tanz und Theater, aber auch Spazierengehen, Kleidermoden und Haarfrisuren als moralische Laster. Auch wandte er sich gegen das in Ostfriesland beliebte Vogelschießen. Unter Einfluss des Pietismus gewann bei Meiners der Hausgottesdienst an Bedeutung, um das geistliche Leben innerhalb der Familie zu fördern. Zudem setzte er sich für das Konventikelwesen ein, private Treffen interessierter Gemeindeglieder, die dem geistlichen Austausch und Wachstum dienen sollten. Gegenüber Vorwürfen des Separatismus verteidigte Meiners jedoch die Konventikel, solange sie ordnungsgemäß durchgeführt würden. Am 20. Februar 1740 kam es zu einem entsprechenden Synodalbeschluss:  Die Konventikel müssen vom Kirchenrat erlaubt und Zeit und Ort dem Prediger gemeldet werden. Diejenigen, die die Konventikel abhalten, sollen dennoch den Gottesdienst besuchen; nicht erlaubt seien zeitlich parallele Veranstaltungen.

Gegenüber der reformierten Tradition, ausschließlich die Psalmen zu singen, wie sie im Genfer Psalter ihre maßgebliche Form erhalten hatten, empfahl Meiners seinen Lesern beispielsweise Joachim Neander oder Schortinghuis, da viele ihrer Lieder nicht nur für den Gottesdienst, sondern auch für den Christen in allen Lebenslagen geschrieben worden seien. Sie erfüllten nicht nur im Gottesdienst ihre Funktion, sondern dienten auch der Förderung der innigen Frömmigkeit.

Als Meiners' Hauptwerk gilt seine ostfriesische Kirchengeschichte (1738/1739), die insbesondere für die Erforschung der Reformation und des Pietismus in Ostfriesland einflussreich ist. Meiners verteidigte die Auffassung, dass die Anfänge der Reformation in Ostfriesland reformiert und nicht lutherisch geprägt waren. In seiner zeitgenössischen Analyse unterschied Meiners den äußeren und den inneren Zustand der Kirche und hielt die frommen Gemeinden auf dem Land, die sich durch zahlreiche Bekehrungen auszeichneten, im Vergleich mit den Städten Ostfrieslands für geistlich reifer.

Schriften
 Christus alles en in allen. 2 Bände. Emden 1724.
 Jezus der uitverkoornen Geneesmeester. Emden 1740.
 Bevestiging en Verdediging van Oostvrieschlandts gereformeerde hervorminge of een Vertoog, Emden 1738,
 Kerkelijke geschiedenisse van Oostvriesland. 2 Bände. Emden 1738.
 Praktyk des Christendoms of de Praktykale Godgeleertheit. Groningen 1738.
 Levensbeschrijving van Joh. Everhardi. Emden 1735,
 Oostvrieschlandts kerkelyke geschiedenisse, of, Een historisch en oordeelkundig verhaal. Groningen 1738–1739, ; Nachdruck: Nabu Press 2010, ISBN 1-143-47584-4.
 Praktikale godgeleerdheid. Emden 1738.
 Schriftuurlike Wegwijzer. Emden 1747/1753.
 Verklaring over den Sendbrief aan de Romeinen. 4 Bände. Emden 1744.
 Verklaring van den Oostvrieschen Catechismus. Emden 1737.

Literatur
 Walter Hollweg: Die Geschichte des älteren Pietismus in den reformierten Gemeinden Ostfrieslands von ihren Anfängen bis zur großen Erweckungsbewegung (um 1650–1750). Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1978.
 Aeilt Fr. Risius: Aus Weeners kirchlicher Vergangenheit: Zeugnisse der tausendjährigen Ortskirchengeschichte. In: Festschrift zur Indienstnahme der renovierten St.-Georgs-Kirche in Weener. 1972, S. 17–28.
 Menno Smid: Ostfriesische Kirchengeschichte. H. Risius, Weener 1974 (Ostfriesland im Schutze des Deiches, Bd. 6).

Weblinks
Biografien in:
 Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (niederländisch)
 Biographisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden (niederländisch)

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Reformierter Theologe (18. Jahrhundert)
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Face recognition as a function of social attention in non-human primates: an ERP study
Pineda, J.A. and Forrester, Gillian and Nava, C. (1994) Face recognition as a function of social attention in non-human primates: an ERP study. Cognitive Brain Research 2 (1), pp. 1-12. ISSN 0926-6410.
Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1016/0926-6410(94)90015-9
Epidural event related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from four squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) during the presentation of pictoral stimuli that comprised real human and monkey faces. Subjects viewed tachistoscopically presented stimuli belonging to four different categories: familiar and unfamiliar human faces, and familiar and unfamiliar monkey faces. Familiar faces were subcategorized into top, middle and bottom according to the perceived individual's dominance ranking in a social hierarchy, as rated by human judges observing the group's social behavior. Waveform peak components to monkey and human faces showed similarities in their spatial distribution. However, larger amplitude N1 and N2 components were elicited in response to monkey compared to human faces, particularly over lateral temporo-parietal sites. A similar trend was observed for the P3 component, with maximal differences along midline electrode sites. Responses to familiar and unfamiliar monkey faces showed larger N1s to familiar monkey faces and larger P3s to unfamiliar monkey faces. N1 and P3 components elicited by human faces showed no significant differences between conditions. N2 amplitudes were larger over posterior sites for top-ranked monkeys and larger over frontal sites for middle-and bottom-ranked monkeys. Top-ranked human faces elicited the largest N2 components, middle-ranked faces the next largest, and bottom-ranked faces the smallest. N1, N2, and P3 latencies were similarly sensitive to the ranking of human but not monkey faces. These data suggest that non-human primates exhibit evoked potentials to conspecific and non-conspecific faces that are similar in morphology but different in function. Larger amplitude responses to monkey faces suggests increased processing for that category of stimuli. Additionally, monkey ERPs reflect familiarity with conspecifics but not with human faces. Finally, the social status of the perceived individual, or at least the perceived threat posed by an individual, affects the latencies and magnitudes of ERP components produced by the viewer. These data are consistent with social attention hypotheses which propose that higher status (i.e. more dominant or socially meaningful) members of a group receive more attention than lower status individuals.
Monkey, Social status, Hierarchy, Event related potential, N1, N2, P3


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3 On A YA Theme: It's Basketball Season!
Kelly Jensen Nov 19, 2014
It's basketball season! The NBA officially kicked off their schedule at the tail end of October and it runs through April. It seems like no better time to talk about three really solid YA novels where basketball plays a huge part in the story.
As noted in an earlier post about YA football books, what makes for a good sports book isn't that it's only about the athletic pursuit in question. What makes a good basketball book is that the characters are fully fleshed, complex, and dynamic in addition to their passion and skills for the game. Basketball is a big part of the story, but what happens on the court is not the entirety of the story.
Kwame Alexander's The Crossover falls on the younger end of YA, and many may call this one a middle grade novel. It's the kind of novel perfect for those readers who are in that 11 to 13 range, with a story that appeals to stronger readers who may be younger and readers who love a good story who are older.
Twin boys Josh and Jordan are awesome on the court. The twelve-year-olds come from a family where basketball is important and where basketball is a respected pursuit. But this year, things are a little bit different at home. No, the boys aren't in trouble — it's that their dad has been having some health problems and those have been cutting into their lives a little more than they expected.
It's necessary to be vague about the story's plot because it's one that's unexpected and one that's emotionally tough. More than that, what really makes Alexander's book stand out isn't really the "what happens." It's the voice and the characters themselves. Told through Josh's point of view, this is a story about brothers who are close but who are at a pivotal age in their lives where they're pursuing their own individual interests for the very first time. For Jordan, this means a potential girlfriend, and Josh finds being a bit left behind by this to be a huge change in his own life.
The Crossover is a novel in verse, and Josh loves a good, solid beat. That comes through this, and it only enhances those on-the-court scenes.
Sticky hasn't had an easy life. Up until he was 6, he lived with his mother in poverty; she was a drug addict and would often make him go beg for money so she could fuel her habit. When Sticky is moved into a foster home which seems stable, it falls apart when his foster mother becomes ill and he's once again put through the system. It's not an easy life in the foster world, and Sticky isn't the easiest of kids to like. But he's passionate about one thing: basketball. It's his dream to one day play in the NBA, and despite his background, he's got the skills to pursue that dream.
In Ball Don't Lie by Matt de la Pena, we get to see Sticky's backstory through his unstable upbringing through to the current time, where he's shooting hoops in LA, the only white boy in the group he's running with. Sticky also struggles with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, which emerged young and which impacts his thinking and his game playing.
But don't feel too sorry for Sticky. He's hard as nails and he's determined as hell in the game.
Paul Volponi's Black and White takes some of the flavor in de la Pena's novel about street hoops and race and cranks it up a notch. Marcus, who is black, and Eddie, who is white, have found themselves able to forge a meaningful and important friendship. They're both leaders on their school's basketball team, and they're also leaders off the court — the two of them are hard to separate and they take care and look after one another in the best (and okay, sometimes not best) possible ways. Marcus and Eddie have mutual goals in winning the basketball championship for their school, getting into good colleges, then going pro in the sport.
But one bad decision may cost them their friendship. While they're able to accept one another for their differences on the basketball court, that might not be the case when it comes to the judicial court, where the law isn't always fair. Just how tight can Marcus and Eddie's best friendship be? Is it easier to sell a friend out and save yourself or is it better to own up responsibility to your behavior, even if it costs you your dreams?
Volponi writes a solid story about urban teens in a tough situation, and it's not his only foray into the world of teens and basketball. Readers who dig this one will want to also check out The Final Four and Rucker Park Setup.
A couple other YA titles featuring basketball worth checking out include Boost by Kathy Mackel and Matthew Quick's Boy21.
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NORTHAMPTON — The response to Dick Evans at the State House was not warm.
The lawyer had drafted a bill legalizing, regulating, and taxing marijuana, and it was among the topics of a public hearing.
Evans made his case in a short speech. "Antidrug crusader types," of whom there were many, also had their say, he recalled. Then, a legislator asked those in the big crowd who opposed legalization to make themselves known.
"The building shook," Evans said, laughing. "They are still talking about the roar that was heard."
The hearing was gaveled to a close, and Evans said, "that was it for about 35 years."
It was 1981.
Evans, 71, with a shock of white hair, has been involved in pressing for the legalization of marijuana in Massachusetts as long as just about anyone. Now, as chairman of a group pushing to legalize recreational marijuana use by popular vote in 2016, he is poised to be a key player in an effort that could successfully conclude his nearly four decades of advocacy.
The group, the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol in Massachusetts, is backed by the national, well-funded Marijuana Policy Project, and he is currently working with others on crafting the specific parameters of a ballot initiative for 2016 — from how marijuana would be regulated to the rate of a tax on the drug.
After robust Massachusetts majorities approved measures that decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana in 2008 and allowed its use for medical purposes in 2012, political analysts predict a legalization measure will probably garner the tens of thousands of signatures necessary to get on the ballot and enough votes to pass into law.
But the journey to the precipice of legalization has been a long one.
Barry Smith, a friend who traveled with him to the 1981 hearing, said the reaction to Evans's bill was not "the least bit respectful" — though not negative enough for Evans to call it quits.
"Dick is a very, very ebullient fellow, and his spirits weren't permanently damaged," Smith said, "but it wasn't an easy experience."
Sporting a cannabis-green tie in a recent interview at his small law office, Evans recalled the genesis of his advocacy.
The youngest of three boys, he grew up in Tampa. His father was a federal probation officer, his mother a school teacher. All the brothers became lawyers and, Evans said chuckling, one a drug court judge.
After four years in the military, including some time in the Pioneer Valley, he returned to Florida for law school, where he said he struggled squaring the constitutional law he was reading with the country's drug statutes.
Evans moved to Massachusetts and was admitted to the state's bar in 1973.
A few years later, he was hanging out with a colleague on a Saturday, "passing a joint," talking about how "wrong-headed" the marijuana laws were, he remembered. The colleague encouraged him to get involved, and Evans joined NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
After some years in the movement, he said, he began to think that perhaps the reason no one was seriously talking about legalizing marijuana is that no one had shown how it could be done.
"I said, 'Someone needs to write a comprehensive statute,' " Evans said in the interview, "So I did!"
He leapt up on a chair to grab his original legalization bill from a shelf.
Of course, the 1981 effort did not work out as planned, and Evans said he gave up on Beacon Hill, but not on the issue.
Said Evans: "The notion of prohibiting all use of marijuana by all persons in all circumstances, and punishing violators severely, runs counter to the very notion of freedom."Matthew Cavanaugh for The Boston Globe
"The notion of prohibiting all use of marijuana by all persons in all circumstances, and punishing violators severely," he said, "runs counter to the very notion of freedom."
Eric E. Sterling, president of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, a drug law reform group, recalled meeting Evans for the first time at a NORML conference in the early 1980s.
"I was tremendously impressed with him. I remember he gave a very articulate, well-constructed argument for marijuana legalization," Sterling said, adding that, at that time, there were not that many people advocating for the idea.
Evans's paper trail of advocacy is long. Among his many appearances in print, a 1980 op-ed in The New York Times ("The principle that government does not belong on people's backs cannot be tortured to justify the arrest and prosecution of people for what they smoke."); and quotes in a 1996 issue of Time magazine about what he told his son about drugs ("Don't believe much of what they tell you in school about drugs. For example, don't buy into the notion that drug 'abuse' is the same as drug 'use.' ")
Evans's life is not all marijuana advocacy. His primary legal practice focuses on land conservation. He's a Northampton resident, he plays trumpet, and he is involved with a nearby pumpkin festival.
But he said he has felt a sense of duty to press on the legalization issue.
"My job, over the last couple of decades, has been to try and keep the issue alive in Massachusetts — I and other people," he said.
Others in the push to legalize see Evans as both influential and a good team player.
He is "a mover and shaker in the activist movement," not shy about speaking his mind, but "doesn't try and steal the spotlight," said Bill Downing, a fellow legalization activist who has known Evans for 25 years.
But Evans says his advocacy won't last forever: Once marijuana is legal, he plans to retire.
So for all his talk, is Evans himself a user?
He said he has avoided speaking about his own use of marijuana publicly because he has not wanted to give probable cause for his arrest or, these days, for a civil infraction.
"I'll tell you what," Evans said leaning in toward a reporter, "when you and I can share a joint and neither of us has to worry about our job" — he slapped the table for emphasis — "I'll talk about it."
Joshua Miller can be reached at joshua.miller@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @jm_bos.


The 135th anniversary of the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Barcelona, with which the EU Mediterrani collaborates closely, was held on Thursday, September 13 at the Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona in the presence of the new President of the Chamber, Mrs. Paule Celma, its director Mr. Philippe Saman and the mayor of Barcelona Ada Colau. The Chamber of Commerce promotes synergy between companies on both sides of the Pyrenees and provides linguistic and professional opportunities to our students. From the Mediterrani community we congratulate the Chamber for the success of this great event.


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Message of healing in National Sorry Day commemoration at botanic garden
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Members of the Stolen Generations, their families and the wider community will unite to promote healing and hope in the lead up to National Sorry Day later this month.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents and community members from Macarthur, Wingecarribee and across South West Sydney will commemorate Sorry Day - the anniversary of the historic Bringing Them Home Report – at The Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan, on Friday, May 24.
It will start from 10.30am in Woodlands picnic area and will include morning tea and a 12pm official opening followed by a walk through the Stolen Generations Garden.
Sorry Day will be held in partnership with Campbelltown City Council, Liverpool City Council, Wollondilly Shire Council, NSW Family and Community Services, Uniting, Tharawal Aboriginal Corporation and The Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan.
Healing and hope on National Sorry Day: The Australian Botanic garden at Mt Annan.
"National Sorry Day is an opportunity to join with our region's first peoples and to acknowledge, commemorate and remember the Indigenous Australians who were impacted by the past policies of forced child removal that resulted in the Stolen Generations,'' said Mayor George Brticevic said.
"Sorry Day recognises the wrongs of the past and is an important part of the healing process so we can achieve reconciliation, fairness and equity in society,'' Cr Brticevic said.
National Sorry Day has been held annually since 1998 to acknowledge and recognise members of the Stolen Generations
The first Sorry Day in 1998 was held exactly one year after the historic Bringing Them Home Report was presented to Parliament.
The Bringing Them Home Report was the result of an inquiry into the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, and recommended an apology and reparations.
The forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children began as early as the mid-1800s and continued until the 1970s.
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The other day, I was speaking with a friend who works in human resources. She was in the process of filling an entry-level position for her team and was telling me the qualities she was looking for. A clear communicator, a team player and a good problem solver were at the top of her list.
Among employers, my friend is not alone. According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers' most recent Job Outlook survey, more than 80 percent of respondents noted that these were the attributes they most want to see on a candidate's resume.
While technical skills are a critical part of any successful employee's qualifications, we can't underestimate the importance of "soft skills" to an individual's success in the workplace. These competencies allow a person to manage their emotions and interactions with others, and help them build positive relationships, make responsible decisions and empathize with others.
In the education and youth development fields, we call these "social-emotional skills," which are learned through the process of social and emotional learning, or SEL. Strong social-emotional skills help kids succeed and stay in school, and lead positive, healthy lives. Research shows that effective SEL curricula, particularly in out-of-school time programs, have the power to strengthen attachment to school and reduce negative behavior — two significant predictors of success.
SEL in out-of-school time programming provides a unique opportunity for young people to develop – and practitioners to teach – social-emotional skills that will prepare them for success in the workplace. By their very nature, out-of-school time programs have structured but non-traditional learning environments that are flexible and promote creativity.
When SEL is intentionally infused into fun activities, group games, and engaging discussions, young people learn and practice social-emotional skills in ways that feel less like the classroom and more like real life. A basketball game, for example, is no longer just an athletic activity, but a learning opportunity filled with teachable moments about leadership, teamwork, stress management and respect.
Out-of-school time programs that incorporate SEL do so with long-term growth and development in mind. That is, they focus on skills that help young people now and in the future. When a student learns how to stay on task and focus attention, it helps her during this week's spelling test and when she is completing assignments in her first job. Understanding how to identify when a peer is upset is just as important in elementary school as it is in the workplace.
An important aspect of this is using kid-friendly, consistent language about social-emotional skills so young people can actively understand what they're learning. While a second grader may not know what self-management means, he does understand why he should not interrupt while someone else is speaking. In our after-school SEL program, WINGS for Kids, we call this language our "Words to Live By," which serve as the foundation for everything we say, do and teach. It allows all young people and adults in the program to utilize the same language, making it a key part of our SEL lessons and helping kids remember and practice their social-emotional skills during and outside WINGS.
To better understand how this all comes together to help young people develop high-demand workforce skills, allow me to walk you through how we teach accountability in WINGS.
In our SEL lessons, we first focus on being able to identify your part in a particular situation — that is, being able to state what you did. Then, we build upon this by learning how to uphold agreements and, later, how to make amends if agreements are broken. With this foundation about accountability, program leaders are able to infuse this into teachable moments when students might blame others for certain outcomes.
For example, if a young person says, "My teacher didn't give me my homework," leaders take the time to work with them to determine their role in the result. In this case, it may be not checking with their teacher before leaving the classroom for the day to make sure they had the homework assignment. By doing so, young people begin to develop the concept of personal accountability and being responsible for their actions and the results.
While kindergarteners may have a while before they need to think about their first job, it's never too early to begin building the skills that the future workforce and employers demand. By incorporating SEL into out-of-school-time programming, young people are able to develop the social-emotional skills that prepare them for bright futures and success in the workplace.
Nicole Lovecchio is chief programming officer at WINGS for Kids, a nationwide afterschool program focused solely on bringing SEL to at-risk kids. Before WINGS, she counseled youth and their families during two years at the South Carolina Department of Mental Health and has a juvenile justice degree from Shippensburg University.


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The Bowmanville Badminton Club has been a fixture in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada (Toronto suburb) since before WII. Its members' range from beginners to seasoned players (ages 13 and up) and hail from various parts of Durham Region and beyond. Part of the club's success is its social atmosphere. That's not to say a competitive spirit hasn't crept into a match or two. Yet no matter what the game the word "Fun" is always front and center.
Not knowing anyone does not = few games played, at our club.
We operate a "ladder system" when it comes to filling up the courts with games. It's a fair and efficient system where EVERYONE gets to play! We're known for our hospitality no matter what your skill level.
We play Monday and Thursday nights from 7:15 - 10PM at the
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The season runs from Sept. and ends somewhere between the end of April and mid-June (depending on late season membership interest).
Membership is $120 for the season. We do have the odd cancellation due to school closure and/or events hosted in the gym. Unscheduled cancellations are posted on this website ASAP.
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Clevest Wins 2019 BC Export Award for Clean Technology at BC Export Awards
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Richmond, BC, November 29, 2019--(T-Net)--Clevest announced today that it has won the 2019 BC Export Award for Clean Technology.
The award is presented to a BC company that exports technology that lowers costs while reducing environmental footprints, and makes more efficient use of natural resources.
The award was presented to Clevest President and CEO Thomas Ligocki by a representative from Export Development Canada.
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The BC Export Awards pay tribute to the success and innovative approaches of BC export companies. The awards program annually seeks out top exporters and honors them for their achievements in nine categories. The awards are presented by Business in Vancouver, the Ministry of Jobs, Trade and Technology, and the BC Division of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters.
By implementing a Clevest workforce automation solution to fundamentally improve the efficiency and effectiveness of field operations, utilities eliminate paper and paper-based processes, reduce fuel consumption and vehicle emissions, and lower the consumption of water, electric, and gas resources.
Clevest President and CEO Thomas Ligocki
"We are very proud to be recognized for our clean tech solutions, and to be part of the great tech community in BC," stated Ligocki. "Our innovative solutions are helping utilities worldwide reduce the environmental impact of traditional field operations by promoting the efficient delivery of electricity, gas and water resources by utility companies and - in doing so - the efficient use of these resources by consumers."
To date, 230 utilities have selected Clevest to manage their field workers, crews and contractors. Combined, the Clevest solution serves 100M+ consumers through 12,000+ mobile workers and 1,200+ dispatchers.
About BC Export Awards
The BC Export Awards are the oldest awards ceremony of its kind in Canada. Conceived in 1982, the program has recognized well over 300 companies since its inception, reflecting the growth and diversity of BC's economy over the past 30 years. Past winners of the BC Export Awards provide examples of the outstanding talent and expertise that exists within companies from across British Columbia. Many of the BC winners have gone on to international recognition. For more information and to view the full list of 2019 BC Export Awards winners visit www.biv.com/bc-export-awards.
About Clevest
The Clevest team are experts at mobile workforce automation and smart grid operations solutions for utilities. We have a long and successful track record of creating, deploying and supporting solutions around the world.
Over 220 electric, gas and water utilities worldwide have chosen Clevest, from some of the world's largest to many rural electric cooperatives.
We provide a scalable solution for small- to large-sized utilities as well as for the smart grid environment, including deployment and post-deployment activities on a single handheld computer.
And Clevest offers flexible deployment options to suit your software implementation preferences. On-premise or in the cloud, Clevest can deliver its best-in-class utility-specific mobile software suite effectively to ensure your utility realizes the benefits it provides.
Our broad knowledge and experience lets us rapidly respond to the changes that are transforming the utility industry today and produce a complete product suite designed exclusively for utility work types.
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