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Only this company has an 80% female board
Among publically traded companies, Travelzoo says it stands out on diversity
Only this company has an 80% female board Among publically traded companies, Travelzoo says it stands out on diversity Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://usat.ly/2tEw5R8
Charisse Jones, USA TODAY Published 5:57 a.m. CT June 19, 2017 | Updated 9:59 a.m. CT June 19, 2017
Travelzoo is the only publicly traded U.S. company with a board that is 80% female.(Photo: Travelzoo)
At a time when the lack of gender diversity on corporate boards is under the microscope, an online travel booking service says that it has become the only publicly traded U.S. company to have a board of directors that is 80% female.
That milestone for Travelzoo, a company that guides consumers to deals on travel and entertainment, stands out at a time when a board member for ride-hailing company Uber resigned just last week after making a sexist remark about women directors, and the boards of most major companies continue to lag in gender diversity.
"Having different perspectives is very important," Ralph Bartel, founder and chairman of Travelzoo said in a statement. "I find it disconcerting that only five of more than 4,000 U.S. listed companies have 60% or more female board members ."
Equilar, a firm that provides research on executives including a gender diversity index, says that among the roughly 4,400 businesses that it tracks each year, Travelzoo's board has the highest ratio of women to men. Among all companies in Equilar's database, only 23 have boards that are at least half female. Four -- Tootsie Roll Industries, Tri-Continental Corporation, American Water Works Company, and Connecticut Water Service -- follow Travelzoo with the number of women on their boards topping 60%.
As of March 31, more than one in five of the companies listed on the Russell 3,000, which is comprised of the nation's largest publicly traded businesses, had no women at all on their boards, Equilar says.
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Obstacles to achieving gender parity were on sharp display last Tuesday when Uber board member David Bonderman uttered what many perceived to be a sexist remark at a meeting convened to address that company's efforts to change a toxic culture that has included allegations of sexism.
When Arianna Huffington, Uber's sole female voting board member, spoke of the hiring of a second female director , Nestlé SA executive Wan Ling Martello, she noted that data shows the presence of one female board member increases the likelihood of another. Bonderman, chairman of the private equity firm TPG, then responded that "actually what it shows is that it is much more likely to be more talking."
Amid a deluge of criticism, Bonderman said hours later that he would resign.
At Travelzoo, shareholders vote to reappoint or select new board members once a year, and the most recent meeting on May 22 led to four of the five board members being female. Prior to that election, the board had seven members, split between four men and three women.
The new make-up was more the result of a desire to pick the best candidates than a goal of meeting a particular quota, says Beatrice Tarka, a Travelzoo board member since 2015.
"This is something that grew organically,'' says Tarka, the CEO of Mobissimo, another online travel search engine. "It happens that we had excellent candidates that also happened to be female, and once the vote happened, we realized we'd have four women on the board . . . It sends a great message to our users, and also to the world, that it's actually possible.''
But while skill and experience mattered most, Tarka noted that Travelzoo's shareholders are progressive in their thinking, and also recognize the particular perspective women directors can bring to a company whose clientele is roughly 64% female.
"We happen to be experts in general marketing, and because we also are female, we may understand certain ways of communicating,'' she says.
With little turnover on many corporate boards, the number of open seats that can be filled by diverse candidates tends to be slim, says Belen Gomez, senior director, research and board services for Equilar. Companies also tend to favor current or former CEOs to fill director positions, shutting out women and people of color who are less likely to have served at that level.
"There is no shortage of qualified women or minorities available and interested in serving on boards,'' Gomez says. "However, if boards only look for experience at a particular title level, they are eliminating an entire pool of candidates who could be just as well qualified with different skill sets and experiences.''
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Ever since Trump won the Republican primaries, the Clinton campaign, the Obama administration and the U.S. and British intelligence services prepared to prevent a successful Trump presidency. The Steele dossier, created by 'former' British intelligence agents and paid for by the Clinton campaign, was the basis for an FBI investigation that was seen as an insurance against a Trump win. Any possible Russia relations Trump might have came under scrutiny. This prevented him from fulfilling his campaign promise of coming to better relations with Russia.
Shortly before Obama left the office he created the tool the FBI needed to put its investigation on steroids. When Trump fired Comey for his handling of the Clinton email affair, the FBI put that tool into action. With unfettered access to signal intelligence the Mueller investigation was able to entrap a number of Trump related people and to flip them to its side. It will use any information they give up to find some angle under which Trump can be prosecuted and eventually impeached. Even if nothing comes off this investigations, the media reports and slander all this created may well be enough to prevent an election of Trump for a second term.
I very much dislike most of Trump's domestic and foreign policy. But he was duly elected under the existing rules. The campaign the media and the intelligence services have since run against him undermines the will of the people. Unfortunately I see no way that Trump could escape from the hold it has gained over him. Exposing it as much as possible might well be his best defense.
-- Moon of Alabama, "The Trump-Russia Scam - How Obama Enabled The FBI To Spy On Trump" (INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE).
Posted by Third Estate Sunday Review at Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Let's be clear: One reason mainstream journalists were so wrong about the 2016 election is because they are largely divorced from poor and working-class voters of all races. They seem especially clueless about "non-college-educated whites." Which may explain their obsession with a group of swing voters they can better relate to: "moderate Republicans in the suburbs."
-- Jeff Cohen, "Mainstream Media Bias on 2020 Democratic Race Already in High Gear" (COUNTERPUNCH).
Late Tuesday night.
Moon of Alabama gets a truest.
As does Jeff Cohen.
Editorial: Where's the press?
At what point does the press stop playing around and start covering real news?
TV: Funny or not: SCHOOLED, Jesse Watters and Greg...
Ava and C.I. cover SCHOOLED and two hours of FOX NEWS.
The conspiracy to overthrow Donald Trump
More and more, that's what it appears.
Anoa J. Changa refuses to let Tom Watson bully or ...
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THE UPSIDE is a disaster
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Sam Smith does a duet!
The worst film acting of the 20th century
The winners are?
Iraq?
Corruption, the story the US press never seems to find.
Stan addresses FAMILY GUY
Repost of Stan's critique.
What we listened to while writing.
Not covering Iraq.
Where are they? The US taxpayer has poured billions into Iraq over the last 16 years so you'd think the press would check in at least once a month. That's apparently too much for their lazy brains and fat asses.
As noted in Tuesday's Iraq snapshot, Basra Operations Command continues to shoot at peaceful protesters and, in fact, shot one in the back on Sunday. They're also arresting them. In addition, they're arresting reporters covering the protests.
These aren't western reporters. They certainly aren't US reporters. US reporters keep 'reporting' on nonsense, not things that actually matter.
Also in Tuesday's Iraq snapshot? The number of US troops in Iraq is increasing signficantly.
All this desire to report/proclaim "Donald Trump is a liar!"? It apparently doesn't apply to war. Because the US officially has a little over 5,200 troops in Iraq but in the last days that number has risen and, in northern Iraq alone, non-western outlets have reported an increase of 20,000. We were discussing that in yesterday's snapshot -- a discussion corporate America media still can't have.
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Informed sources reveal the presence of more than "9000" US troops in "4" military bases deployed in the province of Anbar # - west of Iraq #, after withdrawing from # Syria.
What if, in the US, we had a real media with reporters who actually reported on something other than the president's Twitter feed?
TV: Funny or not: SCHOOLED, Jesse Watters and Greg Gutfeld
What's funny?
How about what a bad state Channing Dungey left ABC in. Wednesday, ABC premiered a new comedy. It was a spin-off which should have helped it -- a spin-off of a popular show. And maybe it did help some?
Ratings wise, though ABC can be grateful for THE CW -- if it weren't for that net-lette, ABC would have been dead last in the ratings on Wednesday. Compared to the ratings for ALL AMERICAN (two hour long episodes on Wednesday), ABC's 2 hour comedy line up was a huge hit. Sadly, for ABC, other networks aired programming as well. ABC did beat FOX in the first hour, but not in the second. NBC and CBS beat ABC in the first hour and FOX, NBC and CBS beat ABC in the second hour -- and CBS aired nothing but reruns for two hours.
ABC aired a comedy block that kicked off with THE GOLDBERGS which was the network's highest rated show with 5.18 million. THE GOLDBERGS' spin-off SCHOOLED followed with 4.82 million viewers.
On THE GOLDBERGS, Lainey (AJ Michalka) left Eric after deciding they shouldn't get married. Having left THE GOLDBERGS, Lainey then showed up in the next half-hour slot as the lead character on SCHOOLED -- a show that takes place in the 90s (THE GOLDBERGS takes place in the 80s). She did not become a rock star. She has returned to town and is now a music teacher at her old high school. Fortunately for her and the series, Tim Meadows continues as Principle Glascot and Bryan Callen continues as Coach Mellor. That's about all the show has going for it -- Michalka, Meadows and Callen. The student body isn't that impressive -- are they supposed to be? Nor is the writing. The 90s culture references aren't funny. They're just kind of tossed out as though they're supposed to be funny, as though, at the table read, someone said, "These are just marking time, we'll have real lines by the time we film." Then they filmed, with no studio audience, and decided the lines were good enough. The lines weren't good enough and a studio audience would have let them know that.
The show's not good enough.
Maybe it will get better as it goes along, sitcoms can do that. If they're filmed in front of a live studio audience, sitcoms often get better as they go along -- THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW, Bob Newhart's 80s show NEWHART, THE GOLDEN GIRLS, EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND, LIVING SINGLE, FRIENDS, WILL & GRACE, THE BIG BANG THEORY -- many, many sitcoms got better as they went along. Again, those were sitcoms that were recorded or filmed before a live studio audience. Shows that weren't? Those shows -- THE COURTSHIP OF EDDIE'S FATHER, FAMILY AFFAIR, PETTICOAT JUNCTION, ARLI$$, etc -- were never any better than their initial episodes. Without a live audience to play to, the shows never grew because 'good enough' was the motto. They had no live energy to play with, nothing to measure by.
What was especially sad about last week's episode was that it was so unfunny after all the time spent working on it. They started back in November of 2016 and even filmed a pilot that aired as part of THE GOLDBERGS over a year ago. What aired last week was a further refining of the show. But they keep messing with the premise and messing with the premise and SCHOOLED just gets worse and worse. That might be a good idea if it meant Lainey could go back to THE GOLDBERGS but this show has put forth the notion that, in the 90s, she's unmarried and not with Eric so why send her back to THE GOLDBERGS and the 80s when we know how it works out (or, in this case, how it doesn't work out)?
About the only thing working to make SCHOOLED look good? SINGLE PARENTS. That's the sitcom Channing swore would be a huge hit. Last Wednesday, it was ABC's lowest rated sitcom and it had reached a record low in a debut season when it posted nothing but record lows. In that regard, it's like another ABC show that Channing swore by: SPLITTING UP TOGETHER. That one is posting CW numbers. ABC is a mess in prime time and that Channing wasn't fired sooner goes to how unresponsive corporate culture actually is.
Somethings just aren't funny. Which brings us to THE GREG GUTFELD SHOW.
Saturday night, US President Donald Trump went on FOX NEWS, specifically on JUSTICE WITH JUDGE JEANINE. He was on to address, among other things, a new report from THE NEW YORK TIMES that, following his firing of James Comey, the F.B.I. opened an investigation into him -- a sitting president.
We managed to miss it even though we tried to tune in. We caught the last bit of her interview with US House Rep. Jim Jordan and then her conversation with Dan Bongino. As a new show came on, hosted by someone named Jesse Watters, we debated whether we needed to pull up JUDGE JEANINE and watch from the beginning?
According to Ty, some of the e-mail recently has been from people shocked that we do not watch FOX NEWS. As TV critics, some readers feel, we should be weighing in on FOX NEWS programming. Strange when you realize no one's saying that about CNN or MSNBC even though it's been some time since we weighed in on either.
As we debated that, we registered that Jesse Watters, host of WATTERS WORLD, was doughy, in a New York kind of way. He probably passed for cute on FOX and that's when a friend we were with informed us that Watters nearly threw away his marriage of ten years last May when his wife filed for divorce after the news that Watters was having sex with Emma DiGiovine, an associate producer. The divorce has apparently been put on hold.
We wondered about Watters' judgment. For example, this episode featured Anthony Scaramucci -- he was briefly in the administration. We'd never seen him before -- we get a the bulk of our news from newspapers, magazines, the internet and especially radio. It was weird how, when Scaramucci smiled, he looked like the joker. Even weirder -- and this went to Watters' judgment -- was when he and Jesse were talking about his (Anthony's) hair and going on about how thick it was. Watters' hair was much thicker than Scaramucci's hair.
If it seems like we weren't taking the 'news' show seriously, we weren't. Neither was Jesse Watters -- he had a faux debate with Scaramucci and Katrina Pierson in which he had Scaramucci play Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Pierson play Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. It was nonsense and produced nothing resembling a public discussion. It was mainly Scaramucci fretting that he didn't have any bifocals -- that would have allowed him to nail his portrayal, he felt -- and Watters offering the direction to look down and that he'd find the characterization that way.
What followed was THE GREG GUTFELD SHOW which at least was supposed to be funny. Supposed to be. It's billed as comedy, satire and news parody. It managed to pretty much miss all three.
The show is set up like a talk show's idea of a panel. The panelists were THE NATIONAL REVIEW's Katherine Timpf, former wrestler Tyrus, THE DAILY SHOW's David Angelo and comedian Jimmy Failla -- all four were new to us.
Katherine Timpf was mildly amusing. Tyrus was funny frequently. (The two have a podcast, it might be worth checking out.) David Angelo was smile worthy if not laugh-out-loud funny. Jimmy Failla? He failed over and over and over but also managed to deliver the biggest laugh for the studio audience. Did that make up for all the groaners? Who knows?
Let's move over to the host. Greg needs to grasp that he has aged out of cute -- even for a FOX NEWS male. It's not that he's 54 per se, it is that his face is doing elderly man things -- like the flesh fold dipping between his brows over his nose. Would a boyish face help him?
We doubt it but, even if it might, he's not going to have one.
So he might do well to grasp that yelling is not funny. Outside of Sam Kinison, we're hard pressed to think of anyone who made a comedy career out of yelling. So it was off putting to hear Greg yelling and yelling and doing so with so much bitterness at the top of the show. It was supposed to be something similar to a monologue that he was delivering -- only seated and with videos. A detached or amused pose would have worked much better than the snarl that only made his wrinkles stand out more (the fold above the nose, the three wrinkles on his forehead, the ones around the eyes) -- where some have smile lines, Greg has anger lines.
He'd also do well to have funnier writers. Two 'skits' involved Pelosi and Schumer's Democratic response to Donald Trump's address last week. The address was about immigration. The 'skits' had Pelosi and Schumer's inner thoughts being broadcast. Fart jokes was about all the writer(s) managed to come up with. Pelosi thinking what was that smell and realizing Chuck had passed gas and then thinking, "See a doctor please. I think something's dead inside you." That's political humor? There were no jokes about the wall Donald wants to build, no jokes about anything really. If you doubt us, at one point, Pelosi's thinking about getting a sandwich and pondering what would go on it: "ham, cheese onions, lettuce, pickles, some mustard . . .". No, it wasn't funny. Even the lines weren't delivered funny. They were recited in a dull monotone.
At the top, we asked, "What's funny?" Answer: Not THE GREG GUTFELD SHOW. In fact, the only real purpose it served was to reveal that there were roaches in the green room. Tyrus revealed he'd killed one when it scared Katherine. Roaches infesting FOX NEWS? As every 90s sitcom would have replied, "Why are we not surprised?"
More and more, it appears a conspiracy has been planned, plotted and carried out against Donald Trump. Not one of us voted for him to be president of the United States. Doesn't matter, he won the election. He is the President of the United States.
But it appears some people in the government were working against him. It appears that way more and more. And it's not just an issue of James Comey (though Ray McGovern does a strong job making the case that Comey was attempting to threaten Trump).
Patrick Martin (WSWS) reports:
A front-page article published Saturday in the New York Times revealing that the FBI secretly opened a counterintelligence investigation into President Donald Trump after he fired FBI Director James Comey has laid bare a massive police state conspiracy by the US intelligence agencies.
The Times published the article in an effort to revive the anti-Russia campaign against Trump, promoting the unsubstantiated and highly dubious claim that Trump is a Russian agent. The facts presented in the Times report are, in reality, far more damning of the FBI than of Trump.
Despite the newspaper's intentions, the picture painted by the Times of the FBI is alarming. The Times depicts a highly politicized intelligence agency whose officials carefully monitor the activities of the two main capitalist parties, keeping a vigilant eye out for any deviations from the national security consensus in Washington.
The Times claims that Trump "had caught the attention of FBI counterintelligence agents when he called on Russia during a campaign news conference in July 2016 to hack the emails of his opponent, Hillary Clinton." Given that this was a sarcastic campaign remark directed against Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, and delivered at a public news conference, Trump's sally can hardly be construed as evidence of a conspiracy.
The Times article goes on to describe how FBI officials monitored the platform adopted at the Republican National Convention, reporting that the spy agency "watched with alarm as the Republican Party softened its convention platform on the Ukraine crisis in a way that seemed to benefit Russia." That is, the nation's top police agency was concerned that the positions adopted contravened certain basic tenets of dominant sections of the foreign policy establishment.
By what constitutional authority can the FBI, based on political positions adopted by one or the other of the two main capitalist parties, open up a secret investigation into treason and conspiracy? Such an operation bespeaks a police state and recalls the methods of the Stalinist NKVD.
Is that how a democracy works? No, it isn't.
Andrew McCarthy (FOX NEWS) explains:
The investigation commenced during the 2016 campaign by the Obama administration – the Justice Department and the FBI – was always about Donald Trump.
We have to remember: The FBI believed the Steele dossier – the collection of faux intelligence reports compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, who was ultimately working for the Hillary Clinton campaign. The Justice Department on four occasions brought surveillance applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), in which the FBI swore that it believed the dossier allegations.
Ostensibly, the surveillance application targeted Carter Page. But Page was just a side issue. The dossier was principally about Trump – not Page, not Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen, or other Trump associates referred to by Steele. The dossier's main allegation was that Trump was in an espionage conspiracy with Russia to swing the election to Trump, after which Trump would do Putin's bidding from the White House. The FBI and the Obama Justice Department could not verify the dossier, but they undeniably believed it.
Moon of Alabama (INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE) zooms in even more:
The NYT claim that the counter-intelligence investigation was initiated because of reasonable suspicion of Russian influence over Trump is nonsense. It was initiated to get access to a set of tools that would allow unlimited access to communication of Trump and anyone related to him. It was Obama who on his way out of the door gave the FBI these capabilities.
There are signs that the unlimited access the FBI and Mueller investigation have to signal intelligence is used to create prosecutions via 'parallel construction':
The Hoarse Whisperer @HoarseWisperer - 18:50 utc - 12 Jan 2019 An active counterintel investigation means the Trump Administration's crimes were only as secure as the weakest link in their weakest moment. We got hints of this early. Our intelligence folks picked up "signals intelligence" or SigInt from Russians talking to Russians.
Those "signals" aren't the kind of evidence that finds its way into a courtroom. In fact, it's important that it doesn't. It would burn sources and methods. It lays out the crimes and the players though... and then prosecutors find ways to make triable cases other ways.
The public sees cases for specific charges carrying significant prison time without ever knowing that the NSA and prosecutors knew so much more than they ever revealed. Now, apply those principles to the cases we've seen Mueller bring forward so far.
Mike Flynn: pleaded out to a minor charge, rolled over in full and then produced five rounds of documents. Likely: Flynn was confronted with the intel they had on him and knew he was cooked. They knew the crimes. They heard and saw everything. There'd be no escape.
By flipping and pleading out Flynn, all of that secret intel stays secret. Our intelligence efforts are protected. And Flynn goes down. And he cooks a bunch of other gooses. He's savvy enough to know that once they have the intel, all that's left to do is make the case.
The 'crime' that di Flynn in was misremembering a phone call he had with the Russian ambassador. Similar happened with Rick Gates, Paul Manafort's righthand man and a member of Trump's transition team. Then it happened to Paul Manafort himself and to George Papadopoulos.
The Mueller investigation, thanks to the snooping Obama and the FBI enabled, knows the content of every phonecall, chat and email any member of the Trump administration made and make to someone abroad (and likely also within the U.S.). It invites people as witnesses and asks them about the content of a specific calls they made. If they misremember or lie - bang - Mueller has the transcript ready. A crime has been created and an indictment for lying to the FBI will follow. This is what happened to Flynn and the others the Mueller investigation entrapped and convicted.
Because of the counter-intelligence investigation the anti-Trump gang in the FBI hastened to initiate, the investigators got hands on signal intelligence - phone calls, chats and emails - that allowed them to indict minor people for petty crimes and to flip them to talk to the investigation.
The aim, in the end, was and is to build a prosecution case against President Trump for whatever minor and petty half-backed illegal doing there may be.
They knew what they were doing -- the FBI, Barack Obama, all of them.
This isn't fun and games. This is serious. This is the sort of conspiracy that can lead to public hangings -- we mean real hangings, we're not speaking figuratively.
This was wrong, it was unconstitutional, it was against democracy and it is a forever stain on Barack Obama's presidency. History will not look kindly on this -- nor should it.
Victoria Toensing and Joseph diGenova (FOX NEWS) address some of the legal aspects:
The New York Times story was created to obfuscate the real criminal conspiracy: violation of Title 18 of U.S. Code Section 242, which prohibits any person under color of law (i.e. Obama administration personnel) to deprive another of "rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution." Such legal protection includes being free from a criminal investigation based on false charges.
Perhaps the bizarre January 20, 2017 email Susan Rice wrote "to herself" purporting to document a January 5, 2017 meeting with President Obama, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, FBI Director Comey and Vice President Joe Biden, gives a clue as to some of those conspirators. The meeting discussed the Steele dossier and Russian collusion, but curiously Rice stressed that the former president said every aspect should be handled "by the book." Yet, Strzok had told his FBI colleague and paramour Lisa Page not to worry about Trump being elected because "We'll stop it."
The brazen plot against President Trump by the Obama-era FBI and DOJ continues, enabled by a complicit media. The odor of corruption has long been noxious. But the Democrats and media hold their collective noses. The criminal clique, via the New York Times, has announced to the world, "Catch me if you can."
It's time the ones hunting Donald Trump were forced to explain their actions.
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History of Sixteenth Church of Christ, Scientist, of Chicago
Sixteenth Church has been a home and haven for many generations of Christian Scientists over 100 years. It exists to glorify God, bless humanity, and adhere to the vision and demonstration of its divinely inspired and guided Discoverer, Founder, and Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. It says to one and all: "Come, ye blessed of the Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." (MATT: 25:34)
Our church was established in 1914 after members of Seventh Church of Christ, Scientist, of Chicago, living in Rogers Park, decided to form a Christian Science church in their own neighborhood. A Reading Room was opened, and they held services at locations in the area, including the old Birchwood Country Club, the Armstrong School, the Masonic buildings, and the Rogers Park Women's Club.
The members broke ground for a church building in 1922 at the corner of Touhy and Ashland avenues. In 1924 they began services in their new Greek-style building and dedicated their church in 1929 free of debt. Sixteenth Church grew and prospered during the Great Depression, and in World War II participated actively in Christian Science wartime activities.
During the 1970s, it became evident that a new church edifice would better meet the needs of the current membership and its desire to more actively share Christian Science with the Rogers Park community. Inspired outreach activities, spiritual vision, and working in unity to demonstrate a more progressive sense of church resulted in growth, along with unsolicited offers to buy the church edifice.
In 1980, the members of Sixteenth Church sold their edifice to another Christian denomination and moved their Sunday services and Wednesday meetings to the North Shore School (formerly the Birchwood Country Club). In 1983, the church purchased property at its current location on the corner of Ridge and Greenleaf avenues. Ground was broken in 1984 and the church held its first service in the new edifice on the eve of Thanksgiving 1985. The edifice was dedicated a year later.
Sixteenth Church continues to keep pace with the times, maintaining and demonstrating its tradition and heritage of Christian Science healing and service. The true sense of church dedication is found in the hearts of its members and friends, not in a material structure. It is found in their love for God and man.
Gratefully and humbly we consecrate ourselves to the vision of the Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, who followed the leadings of God to give us "a church designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master [Christ Jesus], which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing."
(MANUAL OF THE MOTHER CHURCH BY MARY BAKER EDDY)
"Come, ye blessed of the Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world."
MATT: 25:34


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"She's gettin' fat," I said.
Uncle Jack raised his eyebrows and said nothing. I was proceeding on the dim theory, aside from the innate attractiveness of such words, that if Atticus discovered I had picked them up at school he wouldn't make me go.


Aug 29: Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Maaf Zahir dan Batin to all Muslims in Malaysia.
The coinciding of Hari Raya Aidilfitri, the 54th National Day and the 48th Malaysia Day should be a special triple occasion of joy and celebrations for all Malaysians.
It must be a matter of concern to all Malaysians, however, that this is not the case with the recent irresponsible and incessant ramping-up and incitement of race and religious hatred and tensions through baseless and incendiary allegations by certain media.
A call must urgently go out to all Muslim and non-Muslim Malaysians to dedicate themselves to promote the values of justice, freedom, love and compassion on the triple occasion of Hari Raya Aidilfitri, 54th National Day and 48th Malaysia Day – values which are common to all the great religions which have found a home in the country.
Whether we are Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans, Ibans or Orang Asli, whether Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Taoists or Sikhs, let us unite as one Malaysian people first and last to give real meaning to the triple occasion of Hari Raya Aidilfitri, the 54th National Day and 48th Malaysia Day.


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Paramount polishes 'Braveheart,' 'Gladiator'
Mel Gibson's "Braveheart" and Ridley Scott's "Gladiator" finally enter the Blu-ray arena, as the inaugural titles in Paramount Home Entertainment's new Blu-ray "Sapphire Series."
The tricked-out high def movies arrive Sept. 1, with "Forrest Gump," another Paramount mainstay, hoofing it toward a Nov. 3 release.
The series continues Paramount's recent push to upgrade its classic films. The ongoing Centennial Series has right by some of the studio's older legacy titles such as "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," "Sabrina" and "To Catch a Thief." Those titles have best-possible audio and video, as well as new extra features aimed at film buffs.
The new Sapphire Blu-rays come in double-disc sets that take advantage of the Blu-ray players' interactive possibilities.
In the case of "Braveheart," the Sapphire Series ups the ante with two hours of new extra features. (The late 2007 Special Collector's Edition release had a decent package of bonus materials.)
The "Braveheart" Blu-ray features include:
Braveheart: A Look Back -- New interviews with the cast and crew. The DVD had "archival" interviews, meaning recycled press stuff.
Timelines -- An "interactive" extra that clicks off to video, images and text. The three separate timelines cover production, historical and fiction. The historical timeline focuses on "Braveheart" William Wallace and his contemporaries.
Geography -- A history of Smithfield's "medieval killing fields," where Wallace was drawn and quartered. Another feature looks at the "Battlefields of the Scottish Rebellion" in a museum-style format, complete with 3D models.
"Braveheart," like "Gladiator," comes in 5.1 Dolby TrueHD.
"Gladiator" enters the Blu-ray arena with more than four hours of extra features. The set includes both the theatrical cut and the expanded version that adds something like 17 minutes.
The upcoming "Gladiator" Blu-ray comes with new extras and also updates some of the older special features with interactive activities. This is worth noting, since most DVD extras are just repurposed when used on later videos.
"Gladiator" has been well represented on DVD by the exhaustive "Gladiator: Extended Edition" , which included a 200-minute making-of documentary. That fairly remarkable docu, "Strength and Honor: Creating the World of Gladiator," appears on disc 2 of the Blu-ray, this time augmented by an alternative viewing mode leading to updated interviews and other materials. Another innovative feature allows viewers to "bookmark" scenes on the film on disc 1, and then automatically access the supporting exta features on disc 2.
There are two feature-length commentaries, an updated version of the trivia track and the old "First Look" from HBO.
The upcoming "Forrest Gump" Blu-ray includes new extra features such as a contemporary roundtable discussion about Robert Zemeckis' hit popcorn movie.
Also on the Blu-ray front, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has teamed up with the entertainment data provider Gracenote for "movie!Q," which allows home viewers to look up film credits, production info and the like.
The feature is part of Sony's BD-Live services. The Blu-ray player must be connected to the Internet. Gracenote, also a Sony unit, is best known perhaps for providing track information on iTunes.
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We put blu ray in about 9 months ago but don't have a ton of movies under that format. But Braveheart would be a great movie to watch with it.
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Certificates4
Broadsides (notices)2
1785 October 281
1842 May 201
Manuscripts2
Wetzler, Martin3
Beer, Franz Anton1
Belmont, August1
Fleischmann & Co.'s Presshefe1
Independent Order of B'nai B'rith. Shiloh Lodge No. 17.1
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States3
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1. Trade card; Fleischmann & Co.'s Presshefe; undated;
Trade card; Fleischmann & Co.'s Presshefe; undated;
Food industry and trade; Jewish merchants; Trade cards (advertising)
Fleischmann & Co.'s: Presshefe
Fleischmann & Co.'s Presshefe
10. Letter; Leeser, Isaac; Wurmser, B.; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; 1848 March 15;
13. Letter; Mailert, Augustus; Richmond, Virginia, United States; 1848 July 4;
Letter; Mailert, Augustus; Richmond, Virginia, United States; 1848 July 4;
Mailert, Augustus. Cassel, Germany
Mailert, Augustus
15. Pamphlet; Einhorn, David; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; 1865 April 19;
Pamphlet; Einhorn, David; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; 1865 April 19;
The cover of a eulogy given for Abraham Loncoln in German by Dr. David Einhorn at Kenesseth Israel, Philadelphia
Einhorn, David
17. Painting; Cincinnati, Ohio, United States; 1888;
Painting; Cincinnati, Ohio, United States; 1888;
Paintings (visual works)
Watercolor painting of a wreath of flowers with a House Blessing in floral letters; Cincinnati , OH
19. Certificate; Wetzler, Martin; Stover, Adam; Montgomery Township, Pennsylvania, United States; 1844 November 10
Certificate; Wetzler, Martin; Stover, Adam; Montgomery Township, Pennsylvania, United States; 1844 November 10
Baptismal and birth certificate (Taufschein) printed in Allentown by Leisenring. The certificate records the birth of Adam Stover on 10 November 1844 and is colored and illustrated by Jewish scrivener Martin Wetzler who also signs in Yiddish.
Wetzler, Martin; Stover, Adam
German; Yiddish
20. Certificate; Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States; 1858;
Certificate; Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States; 1858;
Baptismal Certificate [Taufschein] signed by Martin Wetzler with images of angels and birds in pinks and greens; Bucks County, PA
22. Die Geschichte der Shiloh Lodge No. 17, U.O.B.B., 1853-1876.
Die Geschichte der Shiloh Lodge No. 17, U.O.B.B., 1853-1876.
Jews -- New York (State) -- Albany -- Societies, etc. -- 19th century.
A bound, ruled volume with gilt edges stamped in gold on the front cover with the title Die Geschichte der Shiloh Lodge No. 17, U.O.B.B. This volume contains the handwritten documentation of the B'nai B'rith order in Albany, New York spanning the years from its inception in 1853 to 1876. The volume was handwritten in German by financial secretary Meier Illch (1830-1902) who was an insurance agent in Albany. The book comprises the lodge's organization and membership listing the names of officers and members. Deaths of members were noted and inscribed by a box in black ink. In April 1865 a full page is dedicated to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Charitable contributions, meetings, and financial records are included in the volume. Documentation is written on the recto of each leaf. Several leaves at the end are blank.
Illch, Meier, 1830-1902.
Independent Order of B'nai B'rith. Shiloh Lodge No. 17.
MS 56, Codex 002.1
23. Certificate; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; 1861 June 9
Certificate; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; 1861 June 9
Certificates; Jewish scriviners
Baptismal certificate filled in and signed in Yiddish by the Jewish scrivener Martin Wetzler; Philadelphia, PA
24. Certificate; Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States; 1868 June 14
Certificate; Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States; 1868 June 14
Baptismal certificate filled in and signed by the Jewish scriviner Martin Wetzler for William Warwood; Allentown, PA
25. Certificate; Wetzler, Martin; Kohler, Bieber Georg; Maxatawny Township, Pennsylvania, United States; Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States; 1864 December 29
Certificate; Wetzler, Martin; Kohler, Bieber Georg; Maxatawny Township, Pennsylvania, United States; Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States; 1864 December 29
Baptismal and birth certificate (Taufschein) printed in Allentown, Pennsylvania by Saeger and Leisenring in 1863. The certificate marks the baptism of Bieber Georg Kohler in December 1863. The certificate is illustrated and signed by the Jewish scrivener Martin Wetzler who signs it December 29, 1864.
Wetzler, Martin; Kohler, Bieber Georg
28. Broadside; Beer, Franz Anton; Germany; 1785 October 28
Broadside; Beer, Franz Anton; Germany; 1785 October 28
Broadsides (notices); Criminals
Broadside by the Chief of Police, Franz Anton Beer, reporting the robbery of four Jewish merchants in their carriage and listing in detail all of the items that were taken from them by highway robbers. It also includes a description of the robbers; Germany
Beer, Franz Anton
32. Letter; Belmont, August; New York, New York, United States; London, United Kingdom; 1842 May 20
Letter; Belmont, August; New York, New York, United States; London, United Kingdom; 1842 May 20
Correspondence; Family papers; Manuscripts (documents)
Letter from the Hon. August Belmont to his brother-in-law Stephan Feist in London; 17 Little Tower Street, London, United Kingdom; New York, NY
Belmont, August; Feist, Stephan
33. Letter; Tobias, Henry; Watertown, New York, United States; New York, New York, United States; 1843 November 5
Letter; Tobias, Henry; Watertown, New York, United States; New York, New York, United States; 1843 November 5
Correspondence; Jewish merchants; Manuscripts (documents); Debt
Letter from Mrs. B. Levy, to Henry Tobias regarding a letter he had sent to her husband concerning money that Mr. Levy owed him. She tells him that Mr. Levy has been away for two weeks and will go to New York to settle his debt with Henry Tobias upon his return. A note in German is written on the back on the letter; Watertown, NY; 179 Hammersley Street, New York, NY
Tobias, Henry
34. Certificate; Reading, Pennsylvania, United States; 1865
Certificate; Reading, Pennsylvania, United States; 1865
Baptismal Certificate [Taufschein] signed by Martin Wetzler with images of angels and birds in pinks and greens; Reading, PA
35. Partitur, between 1860 and 1899.
Partitur, between 1860 and 1899.
Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts; Synagogue music
Collection of over 20 choral pieces for a synagogue choir. The pieces at the beginning of the manuscript (p. 1-46) are marked in parts for soloists and chorus; in the rest of the manuscript parts are also marked for the cantor. The Hebrew lyrics are transliterated for pronunciation by German readers, who might have been in Germany or in the United States. A small number of pieces have attributions, to Naumburg (Louis Naumburg, 1813-1902, p. 1, 115), Abrass (Osias Joshua Abrass, 1820-1884, p. 11), Madame Handvogel (Virginie Handvogel?, p. 73), Blumenthal (Nissan Blumenthal?, 1805-1903, p. 78), and Chalaff (p. 108), Many of the pieces are for weekly services; a smaller number are for holidays. Some leaves show evidence of trimming (for example, p. 133)
Hebrew; German; Italian; French
36. Broadside; Loo-Choo Naval Mission; Loo-Choo, Japan; London, England; undated
Broadside; Loo-Choo Naval Mission; Loo-Choo, Japan; London, England; undated
Broadside that was Lithographed for the Benefit of the Loo-Choo Naval Mission of the Lord's Prayer in fourteen different languages: Hebrew, French, Syriac [Syrian], Polish Jewish [Yiddish], Turkish, German, New Greek [Modern Greek], Latin, Italian, Arabic, Loo-chooan Japanese, Portuguese Jewish [Ladion], Hollandish [Dutch], and Chinese. "A Facsimile of the original M.S. A Production of B.J. Bettelheim. M / (Lord's Prayer. Polyglot) London: by E. Barwick, 1847; Loo-Choo, Japan; London, England
Loo-Choo Naval Mission
English; Hebrew; French; Syrian; Yiddish; Turkish; German; Greek; Latin; Italian; Arabic; Japanese; Ladino; Dutch; Chinese
37. Trade card; A. Rubenstein; undated
Trade card; A. Rubenstein; undated
Trade cards (advertising); Advertisements; Jewish merchants; Clothing trade; Specialty stores
Trade card from A. Rubenstein's Cheap Boot & Shoe Store, with an image of an elephant with an advertisement draped over its back and carrying a flag with its trunk that says, "Hier wird Deutsch Gesprochen" in German
A. Rubenstein
38. Trade card; Jacob Salm; undated
Trade card; Jacob Salm; undated
Trade cards (advertising); Advertisements; Jewish merchants; Clock and watch industry; Jewelry trade
Trade card from Jacob Salm, Watchmaker and Jeweler, with his information written in English and German
Jacob Salm


Let the spring-cleaning commence! Well, more importantly, the tidying up. Because until that is done, we won't be able to see the surfaces that need cleaning.
As always at the start of the school holidays, my first thought is to tidy the house. This is so that we can enjoy the rest of the holidays in an orderly environment.
Also, whenever I'm planning to go away for more than a few days, I like to blitz the house so that it looks extra appealing when we return. It's amazing how a few days away can give you a fresh perspective on your home. Stepping through the door, suitcase in hand, I'm always pleasantly surprised to be reminded how much I love my house. Absence certainly does make the heart grow fonder – especially if the scene that welcomes my return is tidy.
This time, my task is a tall order. Every room in the house is topsy-turvy and a major effort is needed to restore an air of calm. Where on earth should I begin?
Gary was determined and methodical. Unable to speak a word of French, he passed his French O Level purely by skilful planning. He knew that a large percentage of the marks were allotted for the essay question which was likely to be on a limited range of topics. He reckoned that if he learnt by heart an essay on a day at the beach, "Sur La Plage", he'd be in with a chance of passing. So he did – and he passed. On holiday in France a couple of years later, he was still unable to do so much as order a drink in a cafe. But put him sur la plage and he was happy.
Gary took a similarly determined attitude to his future. Leaving school at 16, he needed to choose a career. The biggest shop on the local high street was Woolworths, so he applied to become a trainee Woolworths manager. He did well at his job, ultimately managing the branch in the Strand in London, planning carefully at every step. One of his tasks was to deposit the store's daily takings at the nearby bank. Rather than worry about security, he simply put the cash in a Woolworths carrier bag every day, confident that no mugger would ever think it worth stealing something that came from Woolworths.
He brought a new order to every aspect of his job. One Christmas, he discovered that his staff were comparing the cards he had given each of them to try to decide who he liked best. He then put a list on the staffroom noticeboard allocating points to each Christmas card image. This allowed staff to calculate scientifically how much he liked them. If their card showed a Santa – 5 points, Christmas tree – 4 points, snow scene – 3 points, and so on. I am not entirely convinced he was joking.
Gary's personal habits were also meticulously organised. He enjoyed his food but in a very orderly way. Confronted by a plate of food, he would start carefully at one side, taking little forkfuls across the plate, gradually clearing it in a straight line from one side to another. It was like watching a military campaign, the invading force gradually capture enemy territory, pushing the line ever further back. Gary's only concession to the taste of his food was to choose as his starting point the side opposite his favourite item of food. With a roast dinner, that would be the meat. His progress was fascinating. It was like watching Pac-Man have lunch.
I've always taken Gary's approach to gardening. I'm a fair-weather gardener and I don't bother much between November and March. Then when the first Spring-like day comes along, I venture into the small lean-to that we grandly call our conservatory and revive all the plants out there. Next, I step outside the lean-to, which opens on to my herb garden. I thoroughly weed the herb garden before advancing to the pond immediately beyond it. Once the pond is in order, I progress a couple of steps to the first vegetable bed – and so on, until everything in the garden is to my liking. It's a long, slow job, but the benefit is that you always see the best first and the untidiest bit is always furthest from view. It's the opposite of painting yourself into a corner.
And this holiday it occurs to me that Gary's strategy would work equally well with tidying. I start off upstairs, standing on the landing and sweeping my mind's eye around the first floor, like the radar detector you see on old films of U-boats. First stop is my daughter's bedroom (a complete muddle since she's spent the last week "camping" on the floor for a change of scene), then my bedroom, then the bathroom, then my study. Downstairs, the living room will be followed by the kitchen, then the larder, then (saving the worst till last), my husband's study.
Suddenly, an insurmountable task is made manageable. With the help of my trusty iPod, full of BBC Radio 4 podcats, I feel further empowered. I can do this thing!
Let the holiday commence! Happy Easter, everyone!
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I find cleaning while talking on the phone is the painless way to do it. I chat and get on with it – the hours fly!!!!
That's genius, Truly Myrtle! Thanks for the tip!
Did they have to send in a rescue party? Sadly I have to blame Laura's genes for her untidy bedroom – when I was her age, my mum used to have to bribe my sister to tidy mine!


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Hexadite Wants to Outsource Your Cyber Security- to Machines
Eileen McNulty · August 15, 2014
Eran Barak, CEO of security startup Hexadite believes that security technology has become very sophisticated with the vast majority of applications and services concentrating on detection. Once a problem within the system is identified, it requires a solution — and there are significantly fewer solutions around to do that, and none of them automated.
Cyber security startup Hexadite, which provides an Automated Cyber Incident Response Solution, was launched by three former Israeli intelligence officials, and came out of stealth mode in July to announce $2.5m in seed funding round.
"Hexadite creates a paradigm shift in the cybersecurity incident response market by automating and vastly accelerating previously manual processes," points out Yoav Leitersdorf, managing partner for YL Ventures.
"No one can possibly go through the log files that record intrusion attempts and figure out what they mean in the context of an attack," Barak said. "Security today is very much a big data play not only because of the volume of data that must be checked, but because of the sophistication of attacks."
Malware can incubate for months before it is activated, and the chances of tracking it down under those circumstances — where a file is surreptitiously installed onto a system but doesn't do anything — are extremely low, because administrators don't even know what they are looking at, Barak said.
Essentially, Hexadite is the 'outsourcing' of IT security — to machines. Question regarding the willingness of corporations and enterprises to hand over control of their sensitive tech infrastructure remain unanswered.
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CES 2018: Chinese startup Byton unveils $45,000 EV to rival Tesla
Glesni Holland January 8, 2018, 6:14 pm January 9, 2018
A Chinese startup – named Byton, has unveiled its ambitious electric vehicle concept at CES 2018 in Las Vegas this week.
Byton's massive four-foot infotainment screen runs across the entire dashboard.
The newly formed company, founded by ex-BMW executives, unveiled its first of three vehicles at the event – all of which the firm is hoping to launch by 2022. It has started with a mid-size SUV, due to hit the market in Q4 2019. The plan is to add a sedan and a seven-seater multi-purpose vehicle to the fleet in due course.
With everything from side mounted cameras (instead of your typical mirrors,) to gesture recognition for controlling the infotainment system, the feature list for Byton's concept vehicle suggests it is an EV force to be reckoned with.
It operates on level 3 autonomous driving, with the company planning to upgrade to level 4 by 2020. Amazon Alexa is also integrated into the car, which can be used to search for the company's yet-to-be-built network of charging stations, while Alexa simultaneously asked about rerouting grocery deliveries based on the driver's current location and traffic patterns.
Other notable features include the fact it has an electric driving range of up to 325 miles, while 80% of the battery can be recharged within just 30 minutes. It also has a massive four-foot screen that runs across the entire dashboard which dwarfs that of Tesla X's equivalent – something Byton is calling an SED, or shared experience display. Using this, drivers are able to make video calls using the car's wireless internet connectivity, which the company claims can handle speeds up to 100 gigabits per second.
The car will even sport a built-in facial recognition system that allows the car to automatically adjust the seat settings to suit every occupant, not just the driver. Byton also says its car will be the first to feature a touchscreen embedded inside the steering wheel.
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Signs of Wheeling: Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow
By Glynis Louise Board
West Virginia Public Radio and Weelunk.com
Andy Hogan is a sign collector in the Wheeling area, but his collection is more than a hobby. It's become a giant art instillation on his farm that tells the story of a time gone by in Wheeling.
If you drive onto Andy and April Hogan's farm outside of Wheeling, one of the first things you might notice is a red and white bleached out six foot by eight foot Big Boy sign complete with its trademark chubby boy in red-and-white checkered overalls. The sign used to hang in Wheeling before the Big Boy restaurant chain went bankrupt in 2000. Big Boy wasn't a home-grown business, but it went like many of the home-grown businesses in Wheeling did: away.
Andy Hogan says he started to collect signs before anybody else did. That is to say, before it was trendy to do so. He says he really started collecting twenty years ago.
"I really particularly like Wheeling stuff because since I was in high school it's dropped in half—the population. You just see one business after another close and I became like the grim reaper of business," Hogan said. "I would knock on their door and they would give me—it's a cheap hobby actually—getting the signs. Putting them up was another sort of effort. But actually collecting the signs? Nobody wanted them, so I took them."
Hogan has a man-lifter, which looks like ancient, albeit eccentric, lawn sculpture. But he says it works. It's hard to repair these days since all the manufacturers have long since gone out of business, but he uses it for the difficult task of hanging some of the other signs he's collected.
Like the Kirks Photo & Art Supply sign. It used to hang on Market Street in downtown Wheeling. The sign takes Hogan's sign-collecting to a new level—quite literally. It's easily a 25-foot-tall blue and red structure complete with neon letters. Hogan powers the sign, by the way. At night it still lights up and illuminates the rural back driveway that leads behind the old farm house and up to the barn that sits on the property. Hogan hung the sign on a hefty, weight-bearing pole he erected in his back yard solely for the purpose of hanging such signs. There are two of these huge neon-embossed signs hung there. The other is the old Florsheim Shoes for Men and Women sign.
Hogan says the first Wheeling sign he picked up, though, was from Becker's Hardware. It's hung horizontally off of his garage. It has a red and white checkered border and in red letters it reads, "Beckers Inc. Hardware," and in smaller blue letters beneath that it says "Purina Chows."
"If you've ever been in Becker's, you could go in there and get anything," Hogan remembered. "They had three floors of stuff and somebody would wait on you and you could get seeds to chickens to – my mother went in there and got a new old-stock Conestoga wagon. You know, Wheeling was the gateway to the West and, you know, I'll probably never see anything like that again."
Many of the signs Hogan collects remind him of the people he grew up with. The blue and white twenty-foot long Imperial Display sign that lines an outside wall of the garage reminds Hogan of the Mendleson family that kept the store running for decades.
"I grew up with the Mendelsons. They lived in the neighborhood. And Mr. Mendelson had the business. Today when you go up to a store, I don't know where the owner is. In China or something? Mr. Mendelson cared about Wheeling because his kids grew up in Wheeling. There was more of a local flavor about it. It all stayed in Wheeling. And Mr. Mendelson stuck it out to the very end. He was kind of like the band on the Titanic, you know?"
Clearly Hogan is the sentimental type. He doesn't just collect signs, his property is littered with pieces of Wheeling's history. The oldest piece in his collection is Woodsy's Bar. He moved the dark-grained, 20-foot long wooden bar into his barn.
"This is Woodsy's Bar. It's the longest running bar in Wheeling. It's pre-Civil War and it closed about eight years ago. A friend called me and said if I wanted to come get it, I could. So I picked it up, and got the tin ceiling. It's I think from 1830? Somewhere around there. And I put the tin ceiling up in the addition I did in the house."
Hogan's house, too, is decorated with memorabilia: doors from various wrecked buildings; windows and plaques from old banks. He has an old Wheeling Marsh Stogies roll-top desk in his office space, complete with cigar burns and hidden compartments for storing small fire arms. Above the desk is an old award, framed, that may offer insight into Hogan's love for Wheeling.
It's an award presented to Christian Hess & Sons—a company Hogan's ancestors owned and operated:
"Presented to Christian Hess & Sons, on the occasion of its one hundredth anniversary, from the Ohio Valley Board of Trade, in recognition of the many years of unselfish community services and for contributing so richly to the development of Wheeling as an outstanding American City."
Dated April, 1947.
Bill Hogan, Andy Hogan's father, talks about his family's Wheeling history:
"My mother's family is from here. They go way back. They had an outfitting store for the wagons going west. This is where they'd stop. The B&O Railroad went from Baltimore to the Ohio River, which was Wheeling, and then when you crossed the Ohio River in those days you were in the Wild West. And so they outfitted everybody. It's where the Conestogas picked up cloth and dales china, tobacco, stuff you couldn't grow or obtain out west. They had a big outfitting store, so they were here a long time ago."
Mr. Hogan has lived in Wheeling all of his life. He vividly remembers a different era in Wheeling's history.
"Town was booming in those days. You can't imagine it today but you could hardly walk down the street they were so crowded. I went to Central Catholic from '42 to '46. The war was on and things were booming then. We got forty-five minutes for lunch.
"There was a Saseen Restaurant right across from the Hazel Atlas building. You'd go in there and it was just jammed. In the spring time, that's when they sold milk in little bottles. Half pints with a little cardboard thing on the top.
"We'd walk in and they'd yell out, 'How many milks?' And if there were four of us we'd say, 'Two white and two dark!' And these little bottles would come flying through the air and we would catch them. We'd order sandwiches and we'd pick them up and go out and eat them on the curb because there was no place to eat inside. It was just a roaring place."
Bill Hogan remembers when Wheeling was full of gambling and bars, tight knit communities, and industry. He remembers steel strikes when both the owners and the union leaders were local citizens. After the decline of the steel industry, the population dwindled and today large sections of town have been demolished.
Andy Hogan continues to collect signs. Looking at a framed poster of The Reymann Brewing Company that he has hung over his mantel he explains that of the half-dozen buildings seen in the illustration, there's maybe only one left and nothing much is happening with the riverside property or the town that remains.
"We get the small picture–and it's not just Wheeling; it's our culture–we're big on recycling a pop can but we never think about recycling land," Andy Hogan said. "We've gone from Wheeling to St. Clairsville and now the Highlands. In another twenty years it will be somewhere else. We'll plow another place where we used to hunt or farm. You never recycle anything. It doesn't make sense."
Bill Hogan, meanwhile, is optimistic about the future. He said he has high hopes that the town will become a center for education—one business that you can't ship overseas.
melody favish May 1, 2017
Great stuff! I know it was not a business as such, but do you have any memorabilia from Mount de Chantal? The Mount had great embosed metal plate ceilings and walls.
I'm pretty sure the church sold anything that wasn't destroyed to the highest bidder.
Judy November 17, 2015
I wish we could put the Elby big boy next to Bobo the large elephant in Wheeling!!
Can it be viewed by the public if so address please
Rebecca Mendelson Schwam April 16, 2015
Andy, your farm is a literal trip down memory lane! My Grandpa Iz would be so pleased to see the sign hanging on your garage! Thanks for keeping the memories alive.
Heather April 15, 2015
Glynis November 10, 2014
From Sean O'Leary: Just one small correction. "The Big Boy chain" didn't go out of business. It still exists. It was Elby's Family Restaurants that folded and Elby's was very much a Wheeling-based company that was owned by the Boury family. Big Boy is a franchised branding that for which different restaurant chains have regional exclusivity. In fact, even when Elby's was at its largest with restaurants in West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, it only held the Big Boy franchise for West Virginia, which is why the Elby's across the river from Wheeling in Martins Ferry and St. Clairsville weren't Big Boys.
Gregg Boury November 10, 2014
I'm sorry but Sean is not correct. Elby's, the local company did not fold! The company was sold to Big Boy which subsequently went chapter 7. I have this on pretty good source.
Frisch's big boy is still in the Cinci. area.
marilynhamm November 9, 2014
Andy's place…perfect for a "house" tour fundraiser. Loved the story, grew up with all of those signs and remember quite well babysitting Andy and his siblings!
Jon Swerens November 9, 2014
This is the coolest and saddest story. Andy pretty much has my childhood hanging in his backyard.
Robert Gaudio November 9, 2014
Wonderful story, Glynis. A civilized home for nostalgia.
This is so true. However, I'm glad that they weren't junked and Someone is appreciating them. Those are such iconic signs, they immediately take me back to my childhood. I'm sure there is enough interest for him to charge a small fee to see them, so he can maintain them well.


Drawing digital self-portraits in Art museum: Which receptive and productive processes mediate social transfer effects on empathy and self-perception of adolscents?
Sander, M. C., Werkle-Bergner, M., Gerjets, P., Shing, Y. L., & Lindenberger, U. (2012). The two-component model of memory development, and its potential implications for educational settings. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2, 67-77.
Gerjets, P., Graw, T., Heise, E., Westermann, R., & Rothenberger, A. (2002). Handlungskontrolldefizite und störungsspezifische Zielintentionen bei der Hyperkinetischen Störung I: Ein handlungspsychologisches Rahmenmodell. Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 31, 89-98.
Brand-Gruwel, S., & Gerjets, P. (Eds.). (2008). Instructional support for enhancing students' information problem solving ability. Computers in Human Behavior, 24(3).
Kirschner, P., & Gerjets, P. (2006). Instructional design for effective and enjoyable computer-supported learning. Computers in Human Behavior, 22(1).
Sümer, Ö., Goldberg, P., Stürmer, K., Seidel, T., Gerjets, P., Trautwein, U., & Kasneci, E. (2018). Teachers' perception in the classroom. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops (pp. 2315-2324).
Brucker, B., Scatturin, L., & Gerjets, P. (2017). Learning on Multi-Touch Devices: The influence of the distance between information in pop-ups and the hands of the users. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 174-179). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Brucker, B., de Koning, B., Ehlis, A.-C., Rosenbaum, D., & Gerjets, P. (2017). Watching Non-Corresponding Gestures Helps Learners with High Visuospatial Ability to Learn about Movements with Dynamic Visualizations: An fNIRS Study. In G. Gunzelmann, A.Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. J. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 168-173). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Brucker, B., Ehrmann, A., & Gerjets, P. (2016). Learning on multi-touch devices: Don't cover texts and touch pictures long enough. In J. Désiron, S. Berney, M. Bétrancourt, & H. Tabbers (Eds.), Proceedings EARLI Special Interest Group Text and Graphics: Learning from Text and Graphics in a World of Diversity (pp. 48-50). Geneva, Switzerland: University of Geneva.
Edelmann, J., Mock, P., Schilling, A., & Gerjets, P. (2013). Preserving Non-Verbal Features of Face-to-Face Communication for Remote Collaboration. 10th International Conference CDVE 2013 (pp. 27-34). Heidelberg: Springer.
Imhof, B., Ehlis, A.-C., Häußinger, F. B., & Gerjets, P. (2013). Watching gestures during learning about movements with dynamic visualization activates the human mirror neuron system: A fNIRS study. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2608-2613). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Mock, P., Rosenstiel, W., Edelmann, J., & Gerjets, P. (2013). Ultrasound based positioning for museum environments - A low-cost solution for room-level localization of mobile devices. In R. Franken-Wendelstorf, E. Lindinger, & J. Kieck (Eds.), Kultur und Informatik: "Visual Worlds & Interactive Spaces" (pp. 239-246). Glückstadt: Werner Hülsbusch Verlag.
Walter, C., Schmidt, S., Rosenstiel, W., Gerjets, P., & Bogdan, M. (2013). Using cross-task classification for classifying workload levels in complex learning tasks. In A. Nijholt, S. D'Mello, & M. Pantic (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th Humane Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (pp. 876-881). Geneva, Switzerland: IEEE Computer Society.
Edelmann, J., Gerjets, P., Mock, P., Schilling, A., & Strasser, W. (2012). Face2Face - A system for multi-touch collaboration with Telepresence. IEEE International Conference on Emerging Signal Processing Applications (ESPA) (pp. 159-162). New York, USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Edelmann, J., Mock, P., Schilling, A., Gerjets, P., Rosenstiel, W., & Straßer, W. (2012). Towards the keyboard of Oz: Learning soft-keyboard models from raw optical sensor data. In O. Shaer, C. Shen, M. Horn, & M. Ringel Morris (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGCHI Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, ITS'12 (pp. 163-172). New York, NY: ACM Press.
Imhof, B., Ehlis, A.-C., & Gerjets, P. (2012). Learning with dynamic visualizations: The role of the human mirror neuron system. In E. de Vries & K. Scheiter (Eds.), Proceedings EARLI Special Interest Group Text and Graphics: Staging knowledge and experience: How to take advantage of representational technologies in education and training? (pp. 94-96). Grenoble, France: Université Pierre-Mendès-France.
Kranz, J., Imhof, B., Schwan, S., Kaup, B., & Gerjets, P. (2012). Learning art history on multi-touch-tables: Metaphorical meaning of interaction gestures matters. In E. de Vries & K. Scheiter (Eds.), Proceedings EARLI Special Interest Group Text and Graphics: Staging knowledge and experience: How to take advantage of representational technologies in education and training? (pp. 109-111). Grenoble, France: Université Pierre-Mendès-France.
Walter, C., Cierniak, G., Gerjets, P., Rosenstiel, W., & Bogdan, M. (2011). Classifying mental states with machine learning algorithms using alpha activity decline. ESANN 2011. Proceedings of the 19th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning. Bruges, Belgium: ESANN.
Melis, E., Glasmacher, C., Ullrich, C., & Gerjets, P. (2001). Automated proof planning for instructional design. In J. D. Moore, & K. Stenning (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 633-638). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Gerjets, P., Kirschner, P. A., Elen, J., & Joiner, R. (Eds.). (2004). Instructional design for effective and enjoyable computer-supported learning: Proceedings of the first joint meeting of the EARLI SIGs "Instructional Design" and "Learning and Instruction with Computers" [CD-ROM]. Tuebingen: Knowledge Media Research Center.
Gerjets, P. (2017). Learning and problem-solving withhypermedia in the twenty-first century: From hypertext to multiple web sources and multimodal adaptivity. In S. Schwan & U.Cress (Eds.), The psychology of digital learning (pp. 61-88). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
Spüler, M., Krumpe, T., Walter, C., Scharinger, C., Rosenstiel, W., & Gerjets, P. (2017). Brain-computer interfaces for educational applications. In J. Buder & F. Hesse (Eds.), Informational Environments: Effects of Use, Effective Designs (pp. 177-201). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
Gerjets, P. (2014). Vom Nutzen psychologischer Forschung für das Kunstmuseum. In L. von Stieglitz & T. Brune (Eds.), Hin und Her - Dialoge in Museen zur Alltagskultur (Edition Museum, Band 9, pp. 113-124). Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
Gerjets, P., & Kirschner, P. (2009). Learning from multimedia and hypermedia. In S. Ludvigsen, N. Balacheff, T. de Jong, A. Lazonder, & S. Barnes (Eds.), Technology-enhanced learning: Principles and products (pp. 251-272). Berlin: Springer.
Opfermann, M., & Gerjets, P. (2008). Medienbasierter Erwerb von Problemlösewissen. In J. Zumbach, & H. Mandl (Eds.), Pädagogische Psychologie in Theorie und Praxis: Ein fallbasiertes Lehrbuch (pp. 121-131). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Heise, E., & Gerjets, P. (2001). Wille und Wollen im Licht der psychologischen Forschung. In H. Petzold (Ed.), Wille und Wollen: Psychologische Modelle und Konzepte (pp. 61-97). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Blattner, E., Dutz, S., Gerjets, P., Imhof, B., & Schwan, S. (2013). Vom Nutzen psychologischer Forschung für das Kunstmuseum: Das multimediale Besucherinformationssystem EyeVisit. Museumskunde, 78 (2), 100-105.
Gerjets, P. (2002). Kognitive Kontrolle beim Lernen und Problemlösen in hypertextbasierten Informationsumgebungen: Zielmanagement, Strategiewahl und adaptive Informationsnutzung (Zusammenfassung und Überblick über die schriftlichen Arbeiten zur kumulativen Habilitation). Saarbrücken: Fachrichtung Psychologie der Universität des Saarlandes.
Schorr, T., & Gerjets, P. (2001). Textaufgaben aus der Kombinatorik: Eine Analyse von Bearbeitungsstrategien im Rahmen der Act-R-Architektur (CoPsy Paper 10). Saarbrücken: Fachrichtung Psychologie, Universität des Saarlandes.
Fischer, F., & Gerjets, P. (2005). Symposium "Nutzungs- und Interaktionsprozesse beim Wissenserwerb mit Präsentations- und Kommunikationsmedien". 67. Tagung der Arbeitsgruppe für Empirische Pädagogische Forschung (AEPF). Salzburg, 19.-21.09.2005.
Gerjets, P., & Elen, J. (2005). Instructional design and empirical research: Experiments and/or design experiments? Symposium at the 11th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction (EARLI). Nicosia, 22.-27.08.2005.
Gerjets, P., & Renkl, A. (2005). Präsenz-Workshop des Online-Seminars "Current Cognitive Approaches to Media-Based Learning" für die Virtual Doctoral School in Kaleidoscope. Tübingen, 20.-21.04.2005.
Gerjets, P., & Renkl, A. (2005). Organisation des Symposiums "Affordances for Learning in multimedia learning environments: First insights from a Dutch-German research cooperation" auf der 10. Fachtagung Pädagogische Psychologie. Halle, 28.09.2005.
Gerjets, P. & Renkl, A. (2003). Organisation des Symposiums "Understanding mathematical solutions: Designing example-based and problem-based learning"auf der Tenth European Conference for Research in Learning and Instruction. Padua, 29.-30.08.2003.
Gerjets, P., Özbek, O., Blattner, E., Brucker, B., Peiffer-Siebert, L., & Edelmann, J. (2013). ARTcard - Hypermediale Aufbereitung von Besucherinformationen im Kunstmuseum. Tübingen: IWM.


Below are a few resources that you can use at your disposal to help with teaching this common core standard.... I would love to hear from you if you have any other resources you use to teach this standard. Please comment with a link to your resource should you like to share.
This close reading journal is a wonderful example of how to meet this common core standard.


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Ladies: Rupert Murdoch Is Single!
The fourth time wasn't the charm for the 91-year-old billionaire responsible for Tucker Carlson.
Lauren Tousignant
Photo: Taylor Hill/Getty Images (Getty Images)
Women in the U.S. may be facing the loss of our reproductive freedoms and bodily autonomy—but at least Rupert Murdoch is back on the market.
Marriage Story Could've Been Called Marriage, Is It Bad?
Celebrating Kris Jenner, the Mother of America's First Family
Murdoch, 91, and Jerry Hall, 65, are getting divorced, according to a report by the New York Times. Yes: The man who heavily contributed to the downfall and debasement of American democracy with the founding of Fox News in 1996 is likely to be on the prowl this summer—maybe even on Bumble! Gird your loins, ladies.
Details beyond this are pretty much nonexistent, except for the fact the Times reports that the divorce is "unlikely to change the ownership structure of Mr. Murdoch's empire." More importantly: Will it make its way into the plot for the next season of Succession?
The whirlwind romance between the Fox News menace and the Texas-born model and actress who donated $500 to Joe Biden's campaign in 2020 reportedly began at a rugby match in October 2015. They got engaged in January 2016 and were married by that March. The ceremony took place at Spencer House in London, according to the Associated Press, which is a palace that was built by Princess Diana's ancestors. Very Succession-like.
"They are very sweet together, in a little couple bubble. They act like a married couple already, talking over each other, holding hands," someone told The Guardian of their relationship in 2016. "She puts her feet up on his legs, they disagree on things like any married couple. She hates [Donald] Trump, he understands Trump, it's been like that from the beginning." Pass me the tissues!
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This will be Hall's first divorce—she shares four children with Mick Jagger, who she was in a relationship with from 1977-1999. (Their marriage was annulled in 1999.) But it will be Murdoch's fourth, he was most recently married to Wendi Deng from 1999 to 2014. He was married to his second wife, a newspaper reporter, from 1967 to 1999, and his first wife, Australian model Patricia Booker, from 1956 to 1967. He has never, to the public's knowledge, been married to Tucker Carlson.
Hall—who will be celebrating her 66th birthday in a little over a week—is a Cancer, and Murdoch is a Pisces. This makes them both water signs, so their suns are actually considered pretty compatible. Cancers are also known for being pretty fucking loyal and devoted, especially to their own detriment. This is the only explanation I can think of as to why she was able to stomach socializing with—let alone marrying—the billionaire who threw a bunch of grenades into U.S. politics with the spirit of a little kid trying to skip rocks on a lake. It also makes her asking for a divorce even more shocking! (I am totally just guessing that she's the one who asked for a divorce.)
If she married him for his money—not saying she did, as he is obviously quite a physical specimen—it's very funny to imagine that she hung in there all the way until he was 91 before being like okay fuck this, he is just taking too long to die.
Excited to see who's willing to date this man next!


ITV are serving up a real treat for armchair punters on Saturday, with high-class horse racing action over the jumps at Cheltenham and on the flat at Newbury and Doncaster.
We've put together free tips for six of those races, the 'Matchbook Betting Exchange' Handicap Chase, Teddington Royal British Legion Stakes, Masterson Holdings Hurdle, Molson Coors Stake, Randox Health Handicap Chases, and the Group 1 Vertem Futurity Trophy Stakes.
Sam Twiston-Davies has an outstanding record on Cogry, winning on five of the occasions he has ridden him over hurdles and fences. The last of those successes came in this race last year off a 2lb lower mark, but he actually gets to carry 1lb less this year than he did last year. Cogry went up 6lb for that success but, having come back down 4lb after six runs without Twiston-Davis in the saddle, he should go well reunited with his favourite jockey today, who seems to get him to jump better than any other jockey.
It's really easy to build a case for Young Rascal here and I see no reason why William Haggas' three-year-old won't make it four wins in five races this season. His only defeat this season came in The Derby, where he didn't seem to handle the track, but he has thrived on flat tracks at Chester and here at Newbury. His Group 3 win her last month, in which he beat a rival rated 116, also suggests he's worth his top-rating in the race. That form was also boosted when the third horse home Desert Encounter won a Grade 1 in Canada next time out. Add in the fact he's 2 from 2 at Newbury, is proven with cut in the ground, and his stable is in form, and he probably rates the banker of the weekend.
Gumball looked very useful at times last season, and the stable of Phillip Hobbs wasn't in the best of form on the few occasions this four-year-old ran poorly. He also looks a typical National Hunt horse that should improve with age as he fills his impressive frame. He faces a tough rival in Redicean but, as he's rated just 1lb below that rival, he looks to have a great chance of beating him as he gets 8lb from him here. The others look to have plenty to find on the book.
This Group 3 race was formerly known as the Horris Hill Stakes, a race in which the stable of Richard Hannon had a great record with four wins in the last nine years. This year's representative Dirty Rascal could easily make it five wins in 10 years, as he looked to relish the step-up in trip when well-backed when winning over course and distance last time. The opposition is tougher here, but he looks worthy of each-way support.
The Handicapper looks to have been kind to Modus, who was rated as high as 156 over hurdles but is now given a chance off 146 over fences, which is just 1lb above his last winning mark over hurdles. Admittedly, he was a big flop at last year's Cheltenham and Aintree Festivals, but hated the soft ground there. If the going remains good, it should be right up his street, and he always seems to run well at this time of year. Two of the last three winners of this race have also won off marks of 146 and 147, which suggests that classier types often prevail.
It will be interesting to watch the market for the Group 1 Vertem Futurity Trophy Stakes, the new name for a race that was formerly the Racing Post Trophy. There are several two-year-olds in the line-up, any of which could prove much better than their current ratings. Last year's winning trainer Aidan O'Brien saddles the likely favourite Magna Grecia, but he arrives here after finishing second in a Group 3, unlike last year's winner Saxon Warrior who had subsequently been an impressive winner of a Group 2. Therefore, at a much bigger price, I'm inclined to bet each-way on Raakib Alhawa. The beautifully bred son of Kingman out of a Sea The Stars damn looked a horse with some potential at Newbury first time up in the hands of today's jockey Andrea Atzeni, who has ridden four of the past five winners of this race.


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Advance Gold Closes Private Placement
Advance Gold Corp. (TSXV: AAX) ("Advance Gold" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has filed documents with the TSX Venture Exchange to close its previously announced private placement financing (see February 5, 2020 news release). Subject to the receipt of all regulatory approvals, the Company will issue 2,500,000 Units, each Unit consisting...
Advance Gold's Third Phase Geophysical Survey at Tabasquena Extends Continuous Chargeability Anomaly To 3200 Metres By 500 metres
Advance Gold Corp. (TSXV: AAX) ("Advance Gold" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that the third phase of geophysics at the Company's Tabasquena project in Zacatecas, Mexico has been completed and has expanded the length and width of the continuous chargeability anomaly to 3200 metres by 500 metres. The second hole currently being drilled...
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Kamloops, British Columbia: Advance Gold Corp. (TSXV: AAX) ("Advance Gold" or "the Company") announces that, subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange, it proposes to undertake a non-brokered private placement of units (the "Units") at a price of 10 cents ($0.10) per Unit (the "Financing"). Each Unit shall be comprised of one common...


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Join us for our next long table dinner, Friday, July 27th at 6PM at The Vada House: 1492 Fairfield Road in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
We are able to accommodate vegetarians but not vegans.
Our last long table dinner was held on a balmy October night. We sipped on squash soup and toasted hot apple cider toddies under string lights, laughed in a bohemian tent, and danced long after the stars came out. For a peek at last dinner's photo gallery, click here (Thank you to Lauren Elsasser Photography for snapping these!). For a peek at the video footage by videographer Tristan Peace, click here.
We're excited to host you for our upcoming dinner! Please snag as seat below. Tickets will close Wednesday, July 25th.
For questions, please contact Amanda via text or phone at (570) 592 4359.


I made a theme where the menu should center. Seems when I made it responsive, it now justifies Left rather than centering. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Try removing the the width. You currently have it set to width:1200px.
Thanks Old User, that seemed to work even though I hadn't really thought about using the entire screen. Thanks again for the solution.
Expanding solved the centering problem but I just found out that eliminated my Header on the Mobile view. I didn't have a mobile view so someone suggested adding a second duplicate slide and that worked. So I'm back to my menu being off center. Funny how one change affects multiple objects.