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Bella Thorne Is Engaged To Benjamin Mascolo — And Has A Huge Ring To Prove It
"She said YES."
by Mary Kate McGrath
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Ben and Bella are officially tying the knot! On Saturday, March 20, Bella Thorne announced she got engaged to Benjamin Mascolo, around two years after she started dating the Italian singer. Mascolo, who was first linked to the My Own Worst Enemy actor in April 2019, posted a photo with Thorne on Instagram after the proposal. "She said YES," he wrote in the caption.
Mascolo also posted videos from the engagement on his Instagram story, where he can be heard telling Thorne, "I love you so much," in front of a large heart reading "B+B." "Yay, we're getting married," he said in the video. "Celebration in Italy and America both." Thorne also shared the video to her own Instagram story, posting it with a simple engagement ring emoji.
The singer celebrated with a version of the "How It Started/How It's Going" meme as well, sharing a photo of Thorne commenting with a unicorn emoji on one of his selfies several years ago and then ending with his romantic proposal. Mascolo and Thorne were first rumored to be dating in April 2019, shortly after Thorne split from Mod Sun, with whom she was in an open relationship alongside YouTuber Tana Mongeau, according to People.
Thorne had teased a potential proposal via Instagram in January, sharing a picture of Mascolo in Venice, Italy, and writing in the caption, "big announcement coming soon. I'm so happy" with engagement ring emojis. Mascolo commented on the post, writing, "I MISS YOU."
The couple went Instagram official in June 2019 when Thorne posted a photo of them on a boat. He captioned it, "I'm very happy w you," indicating that they were off to a good start. Mascolo later appeared publicly with Thorne at the premiere of Her & Him, the actor's directorial debut, at the Oldenburg Film Festival in Germany.
The two have continued to share plenty of candid moments on social media over the past couple of years. On Feb. 14, Thorne posted a Valentine's Day post on Instagram that celebrated their relationship; it showed the couple cuddling on the couch alongside the message: "caught red handed at dinner serving straight love. #happyvalentinesday." Mascolo hinted that the couple might be thinking about marriage in the comments, writing, "my forever valentine."
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X-COM is a series of sci-fi video games surrounding an Extraterrestrial Combat Unit set up by the nations of Earth to combat an alien invasion. The invasion was first thought to have started in 1999 as documented in the first title, UFO Enemy Unknown, although in 2013 the release of The Bureau X-COM Declassified it was unveiled that the invasion actually began during the 1960s. There are a total of nine games in the series, five of which use a mix of turn-based strategy tactics and real-time base/resource management also happen to be the most popular and successful games in the series. There are also two third-person shooters in the series, one space/flight combat simulator and one play by email game in the series. Each game in the X-COM series is detailed below starting with the most recently released.
One of the most anticipated PC games for 2016, XCOM 2 was released in February 2016 and saw favorable reviews with high marks for the new (at the time) concealment feature. This feature introduced some new gameplay elements and strategy to the game over the previous installment.
X-COM: Enemy Within was released in late 2013 as a stand-alone expansion pack and direct follow up to X-COM: Enemy Unknown that was released in 2012. X-COM Enemy Within follows the same main storyline but does include some minor tweaks and enhancements. For the most part, gameplay is no different than that of Enemy Unknown, players will manage the X-COM base, budgeting R&D, manufacturing as well as sending troops out to defend earth from the alien invasion. It includes a new resource, new enemy faction, new missions and 47 new maps.
The Bureau: X-COM Declassified is a sci-fi game set in the X-COM universe that tells the story of the first contact with aliens in the 1960s and the founding of the X-COM. Set in 1962 players take on the role of CIA Agent William Carter as he leads a team of agents to gather intelligence and protect the US and Earth from a recently discovered alien invasion. It is considered the first game in the timeline of the X-COM series or a prequel to the original X-COM: UFO Defense and its reboot, X-COM Enemy Unknown.
X-COM: Enemy Unknown is a remake of the original X-COM: UFO Defense (also known as UFO: Enemy Unknown) and is set in the near future in the midst of an alien invasion of earth. Players take control of X-COM which is Earth's last line of defense against the aliens, managing budgets, research and troop deployments. Gameplay is split into two distinct phases, operations of X-COM base and finances, and turn-based tactical missions. During the turn-based tactical missions, players control a squad of troops as they try to eliminate alien forces and discover alien artifacts and technology.
X-COM: Enforcer is the fifth game in the X-COM series and the first game that was strictly a shooter and did not contain any tactical or strategic elements found in other X-COM titles. The storyline is not considered canon to the X-COM series and is set in 1999 in a "first alien war" which is not portrayed in any other game in the series. Players take on the role of the Enforcer, a combat robot as battles aliens and rescue hostages. While it does not include tactical elements it does have research paths that allow for different weapons and armor for players to use.
X-COM: First Alien Invasion was a play by email game developed by Hasbro Interactive that was set in the X-COM universe, based on the original X-COM game. In it, each player controls a squad of soldiers with the objective to eliminate the other player's squad. There is no real storyline or campaign, no research, and no resource management.
X-COM: Interceptor is the fourth title in the X-COM series of games that was a departure, at the time of release, from the core turn-based tactical strategy gameplay of the previous titles. Interceptor is a space/flight combat simulator game that has players taking on the X-COM aliens in space as they pilot starfighters and managed resources and money. While it is the fourth game of the series, in chronological order it is third, set between the Terror of the Deep and Apocalypse.
X-COM: Apocalypse is the third game in the X-COM series and has players once again controlling troops in turn-based tactics, managing resources and more. Set some time after the Terror From the Deep, humanity now exists in megacities which the players must defend from a new alien threat.
X-COM: Terror from the Deep is the second game in the series and sequel to UFO Defense. After the alien are repulsed from their first invasion, they try again but this time from the depths of the Earth's oceans. The game's two phases, both the base building/resource management and tactical troop combat phase are set underwater. All of the weaponry discovered in the first game is useless underwater and thus requires new research and development. The gameplay is identical to that of X-COM: UFO Defense.
Make sure to check out X-COM Complete which is a bundle pack that includes all of the early X-COM games.
UFO: Enemy Unknown, known as X-COM: UFO Defense in North America, is a turn-based strategy game set in the near future, 1998, with reports of UFO sightings and alien abductions. Soon the nations of the world come together and create X-COM to protect and defend Earth. The game contains two distinct phases of play, the Geoscape, and Battlescape. In the Geoscape mode, players manage their base, research, manufacture, and troops, while in Battlescape they control a squad of troops sent out to a UFO Crash site or to protect a city from alien invasion. The game received very favorable reviews and was quite successful at tie time. It has since inspired many similar games and spawned a series that currently stands at nine games.
In addition to a freeware remake titled UFO 2000, X-COM: UFO Defense/UFO: Enemy Unknown and many of the other early X-COM games are available in an X-COM bundle through digital distributors Steam and GamersGate.


Following the success of our fundraising in 2011, the Foundation was able to support cancer research at the Royal Marsden Hospital with the purchase of a new machine.
Members of the Foundation visited the Institute of Cancer Research at The Royal Marsden Hospital in January to see the 'SureCycler' machine which we have donated in Patrick's name to improve research into prostate cancer.
Patrick's Dad, Alun Evans, developed prostate cancer in 2002 making it is a very significant disease for his family, and Patrick was always keen to support prostate cancer research. We are so proud that as we celebrate our charity's second birthday, we have used our funds to buy a machine which will help identify those men who are at increased risk of developing aggressive prostate cancer.
On our visit to the Institute, we met Professor Ros Eeles, whose research into prostate cancer will benefit significantly from our donation. The SureCycler will enable analysis of DNA samples rapidly, so less time and samples are wasted and research is able to move forward quicker.
Our machine will be specifically used in the study of the length of the ends of chromosomes in our DNA, which are thought to shorten as cancer develops. By studying these changes in the chromosomes and their link to prostate cancer, Professor Eeles' team are hoping to identify individuals at increased risk of aggressive prostate cancer much earlier. By identifying the individuals at risk early, this leads to improved screening and treatments.
Wearing labcoats and under strict instructions not to touch anything, we saw our machine (and shiny plaque!) in it's new home in the lab. Despite the deceptively small size, we were impressed by the powerful nature of the machine, not to mention it's very modern touchscreen! They even trusted Patrick's sister Louise to practice using the machine. (We assure you no actual DNA samples were used, harmed, or wasted during this experience!).


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A resume can open doors or close them even faster. The goal is to peak a potential employer interested enough to win you an interview. Resumes play a key part of your ability to get an interview. Remember, this is the only thing that employers can go off of to base their decision on interviewing you. If you are concerned that your work experience / resume isn't traditional enough, that perhaps it requires a little explanation?
Here are 7 true ways to get yourself noticed on paper!
The standard resume format. This document begins with an objective that demonstrates your goals are highly compatible with the position for which you're applying. Next comes a list of recent employers starting with the most recent or current. Also included are related accomplishments, educational information, certifications and special skills.
clearly see how well you can serve their organization's needs.
qualities you bring to the table. List examples of how you managed challenges in your career, explaining the actions taken (emphasize whether they were independent or team decision). Provide the outcome of your efforts in quantifiable terms: percentages, cost savings, numbers or before-and-after comparisons.
Your resume will probably pass through several hands, not all of whom may be familiar with nursing or your particular medical specialty. When referring to things such as a hospital unit, a certificate or an association, spell out the term the first time it's used, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses; for example: Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) or Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) etc. After that initial definition, you're free to simplify future references by using just the abbreviation.
Many jobs embrace more than one particular specialty. You've probably exercised accounting, administrative or other skills in your current or past positions. Tell your prospective employer about it! Include experiences such as creating budgets or schedules, supervisory or charge responsibilities. Mention committee work or special projects that resulted in cost-cutting or downsizing. List quality management activities as well as interdisciplinary committees in which you participated. Include whether hospital you worked at was a teaching or trauma center or whether you have experience teaching or training, including acting as a preceptor to new hires, working with students and giving an in-service presentation. Such diversity will make you stand out as a flexible, well-rounded, capable asset to any organization. Employers feel that if it's not listed on your resume you probably don't have the experience. Remember, the next candidate might have that experience and they could be the person who got the interview or even the job.
Summarize in a sentence or two rather than listing every facility where you've worked. This will show consistency of work rather than making you appear unstable.
Remember, a resume is a summary of your work experience. In order to keep it brief, mention any continuing education programs completed by simply stating "Continuing education specifics provided upon request" if you wish to reference them.
7. Use Catch Words and Phrases That Grab Attention!
Fill your resume with action words to emphasize your role as achiever and contributor to your organization's success. Include words like developed, revitalized, organized, initiated, negotiated, enhanced, completed, produced, expanded, succeeded, improved, implemented, accomplished, surpassed, utilized, global perspective, or effectiveness. Utilize resume building resources in print or online to capture keywords that make employers take notice. Update your resume with them regularly!
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Dodo Bone, Huge Elephant-Bird Egg Up for Auction
By Megan Gannon published 28 March 13
Elephant bird egg up for auction (Image credit: Christie's)
Traces of two awkward birds that have become emblems of extinction are headed for the auction block next month.
The auction house Christie's announced this week that it's selling a femur bone fragment of a dodo bird and a massive sub-fossilized elephant bird egg that's 100 times the size of a chicken egg.
Elephant birds were flightless creatures that stood 10 feet (3 meters) tall and lived on the island of Madagascar until they were driven to extinction by the 18th century, possibly due to factors like disease introduced by settlers or humans' unsustainable appetite for their eggs.
Their eggs indeed would have been big enough to feed a family, or several; the complete one up for auction measures 9 inches (21 centimeters) in diameter and 12 inches (30 cm) in height. It's expected to sell for up to $45,000.
The piece of bone up for sale comes from another clumsy flightless bird, the dodo, which vanished from a tiny island east of Madagascar called Mauritius by the late 17th century, less than a hundred years after its discovery.
According to Christie's, the femur bone was "almost certainly" excavated in 1865 in a coastal marsh on Mauritius called Mare aux Songes during a dig by George Clark (1807-1873), a British natural history enthusiast.
A reconstruction of the dodo. The animal is thought to have gone extinct sometime in the mid- to late-1600s. (Image credit: Dreamstime)
Zoologist Julian Hume of the Natural History Museum in London said this dodo bone fragment has limited value to science since it's one of many hundreds that have been collected from Mare aux Songes, and the osteology of the bird is already well known. But scientists who study the dodo's former stomping grounds might be worried about the buzz, especially if the bone bit goes for up to $22,000, as Christie's expects.
"The big concern is that if it sells for a lot of money, there may be a big increase in thefts from institutional collections or attempts to rob fossil localities like the Mare aux Songes for profit," Hume told LiveScience. "This would result in severe damage to the site and reduce the chances of obtaining any more information about the original fauna and flora of Mauritius."
A fossil-looting frenzy at the site would not be unprecedented.
"Ironically, this is exactly what happened back in the mid-1860s when the Mare aux Songes was first discovered," Hume added. "In 1866, Richard Owen, founder of the Natural History Museum in London, arranged the purchase of 100 bones for the princely sum of £100. This set off a free for all, and within a few years the original site was completely depleted of fossil bone material."
The auction will take place in London on April 24.
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Megan Gannon
Megan has been writing for Live Science and Space.com since 2012. Her interests range from archaeology to space exploration, and she has a bachelor's degree in English and art history from New York University. Megan spent two years as a reporter on the national desk at NewsCore. She has watched dinosaur auctions, witnessed rocket launches, licked ancient pottery sherds in Cyprus and flown in zero gravity. Follow her on Twitter and Google+.

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In Part 1 of a series, I focus on the distinction between high school math and university-level mathematics, suggesting they are effectively different subjects that are best learned in different ways.
One of the biggest obstacles in giving an online course on mathematical thinking, which my MOOC is, is coping with the expectations students bring to the course – expectations based in large part on their previous experience of mathematics classes. To be sure, prior expectations are often an issue for regular, physical classes. But there the students have an opportunity to interact directly with the instructor on a regular basis. They also have the benefit of a co-present support group of others taking the same class.
But in a massive open online class, apart from locally configured support groups and text-based discussions on the MOOC platform discussion forum, each student is pretty much on her or his own.
The situation is particularly bad for a course like mine, designed to help students transition from high school mathematics to university-level mathematics. For one thing, the two are so different as to be in many ways completely distinct subjects.
Not only is the subject matter different, so too is the pedagogy. Almost all students' experience of mathematics learning in school is teacher instruction. The teacher describes a method, does a few worked examples, and then asks the students to do a few similar ones. Rinse and repeat.
It's like teaching someone the elements of bricklaying, carpentry, plumbing, and electrical wiring, and then asking them to go out and design and build a house. You need all of those skills to build a house, but on their own they are not enough. Not even close.
In deciding, almost two years ago now (before the New York Times had heard of MOOCs) to develop a MOOC to help people learn the other kind of mathematics, what I call mathematical thinking, I knew I was taking on a big challenge. I'd found it hard to teach that kind of course in a physical classroom with just 25, carefully selected students at elite colleges and universities.
On the other hand, most people go through their entire mathematics education without ever encountering what I and my colleagues would call "real mathematics," and many of them eventually find they need to be able to handle novel situations that involve – or may involve – or could productively be made to involve – mathematical thinking. So I felt there was a need to have a resource publicly available to help them acquire this valuable ability.
The huge dropout rates in MOOCs did not really bother me. For a mathematical thinking course, it's possible to gain value from dropping into the course for just a few days – and to keep coming back at future times if required. The focus was not on credentialing, it was developing a valuable mental ability – a powerful way of thinking that our ancestors have developed over three thousand years.
That way of thinking can be utilized profitably in many other courses that do yield a certified credential, so students could approach the course as a low-stress, no-risk way of preparing for subsequent learning.
The course is structured as course for those students who seek an encapsulated experience, and in many ways that yields the greatest benefits, in large part because of the interactions with other students working on the same stuff. But the majority of students who have taken it the three times I have offered it have just taken a part of the course.
Each time I gave the course, I changed it, based on what I had learned. When it launches again in February, it will be different again. This time, in some fairly significant ways. In the coming days, I'll describe those changes and why I made them.
First out of the gate, I'll describe what exactly were the problems caused by those expectations many students brought to the course, and how did I try to deal with them. Also, what am I changing in the coming version of the course to try to help more people make what is a very difficult transition: from being taught (i.e., instructed) to being able to learn. The reward for making that one transition is huge. It opens up all of mathematics, and in the process makes it much, much easier.
You just have to master, once, a particular way of thinking, and you no longer need all those rules.
That's what my course focuses on. Stay tuned.


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Dr Salam Rassi
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
Wolfson College
salam.rassi@history.ox.ac.uk
I primarily identify as an intellectual historian with an interest in theological, philosophical, and scientific encounters between Christians and Muslims living in the medieval Islamicate World. I earned my doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2016 and have since held research and teaching positions at the American University of Beirut and the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, Minnesota. I am currently completing a monograph based on my doctoral research on the anti-Muslim apologetics of the thirteenth-century bishop and polymath, Abdisho of Nisibis.
Eastern Christianity
My current research focuses on two interconnected areas: (i) the history of theological encyclopaedism among Syriac and Arabic-speaking Christians in the medieval Islamicate World and (ii) the Syriac reception of Avicennan philosophy. The first—theological encyclopaedism—examines a widespread genre of literature produced by Christian communities in the medieval Middle East: the summa theologica, or summary expositions of the Christian faith. These texts provide key insights into how authors articulated a Christian world view within a broader, non-Christian religious setting. The second—the Syriac reception of Avicennan philosophy—focuses on the impact of Avicenna's metaphysics on the philosophical and theological oeuvre of Barhebraeus (d. 1285/6), a near contemporary of Thomas Aquinas and of comparable significance to the Syriac Orthodox tradition. A further project involves the history of Arabic alchemy, in particular, the representation of the Christian as mediator of alchemical and occult knowledge in the pre-modern Islamic imaginary. Much of this works centres around an unedited alchemical primer attributed to Aristotle, of which I hope to produce a critical edition together with a study of its scientific and literary contexts.
https://oxford.academia.edu/SalamRassi
History of Art & Visual Culture


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At Cooper Summer 2009
Seeing the World through the Eyes of Ashley Bryan, Storyteller
Cover of Let It Shine by Ashley Bryan
Ashley Bryan (A'46), a dignified white-haired man with a matching white moustache, stands holding a book in his hand, in front of a group of children. He starts speaking, a gravelly voice emanating from his thin frame. "This is a story about a little boy with a very long name,"he says quietly.This is when everything changes. Bryan moves forward, punctuating the next line physically, moving his arms almost as if he were conducting an orchestra. "Once,"he says, the word spinning out, starting out quiet, and taking flight with the rest of the sentence, "the little boy, he had a very long name."Each word has a unique sound, sometimes echoing and emphasizing the word's meaning, as when he stretches out "long." Bryan barely looks at the book, Turtle Knows Your Name, though he holds it open as he speaks. "His name was," he continues, and then sing songs the next syllables: "Up-silima-na."His free hand marks the rhythm, his bent knees click in time with it. "Can you say that?" he asks, a sudden serious tone emerging in his voice; The kids gleefully respond, copying his phrasing, "Up-sili-ma-na!" The story unfolds with a collection of sounds, sometimes percussive, sometimes gentle, that can't be read from the page—Bryan snaps his fingers and modulates his voice from high to low, soft to loud, while he encourages his audience to clap, putting his hand to his ear when he wants them to repeat after him. His story fills the space with sound and movement; Bryan doesn't just read a story, he creates a world through his performance of it.
Bryan, an acclaimed illustrator and author best known for his retelling of African tales, has just won the prestigious 2009 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his lifetime contribution to children's literature.He explains that, "we don't have a performance aspect to our poetry in Western culture." It is just this element that his work has sought to introduce. In a way, it's hardly surprising that he has chosen this route, which heavily emphasizes the importance of community (a performance, of course, necessitates an audience): throughout his long life—he was born in 1923—Bryan has been sustained by the various communities of which he is a part. "I have such a reverence for others, for what they have to offer," he says, "I always feel that I am in the other's debt."He quotes a line from Senegalese poet Léopold Sédar Senghor: Je ne sais en quel temps c'était, je confonds toujours l'enfance et l'Eden—Comme je mêle laMort et la Vie—un pont de douceur les relie…He translates this as "I didn't know when it was, I always confuse the past and future, the way I mix up death and life—they are connected only by a tender bridge." Bryan says that for him, storytelling is this tender bridge, not only connecting past and future, but connecting people. "This is why stories are at the heart of civilization."
As a child, he was nurtured by his parents' inclusive style, where the lines between'family' and'community' were blurred. He lived with five sisters and brothers, as well as three orphaned cousins, whom his parents had adopted; and Bryan's mother would consider any good friend of his as one of her own children. This inclusivity was echoed in his Bronx neighborhood and its many ethnic groups: as he puts it, "there were Germans, Italians, Irish, French and a great Jewish community in my neighborhood."Growing up in this atmosphere, Bryan accepted diversity as the norm.Nothing strange then,when he and two of his siblings let his parents know that they wanted to attend the beautiful church next to his elementary school. "We told our parents that we wanted to go to the church where the bells ring on Sunday morning,with the beautiful stained glass windows, so that was where we went."He laughs wholeheartedly at the memory. "It turned out to be a German Lutheran church, and it had services in German and English.We didn't know it at the time, but it turned out that we were the first black family to enter that church. But the superintendent took us into the primary department."
Bryan sees it as natural that he became an artist, partially thanks to his parents, but also because of the era in which he grew up.His parents, who had moved to New York City from Antigua, both had a love of beauty and education. But there was an equal insistence upon self-sufficiency, because there were so many kids in the household. "My parents simply said," he pauses for a moment, and then, his voice deepening, booms, "'learn to entertain yourselves!'"As luck would have it, the upside of growing\ up during the Depression was that Roosevelt's Works Program Administration (WPA) program was in full swing, so many of Bryan's teachers were artists and musicians. Entertaining himself meant drawing and painting; it also meant going over to the elderly people in his neighborhood, as they sat on their park benches, and asking to hear stories. "They'd seen so much,"he explains, "at the turn of the century and after the First World War, and I was fascinated." In kindergarten, Bryan's teacher underlined the importance of creativity when she had them make illustrated books of the alphabet. "You've now published your first limited edition," she told the kids. Bryan sees this as a seminal moment; from here on in, he would continually make illustrated books, in addition to his paintings and drawings.
Bryan had continued to flourish during his time at Theodore Roosevelt High School, and decided to apply to art college. It was here that racism had its first major impact on him. He applied to one of the best-known art school's at the time, but they would not give him a scholarship; he was told that "'this is the best portfolio we have seen, but it would be a waste to give a scholarship to a colored person.'"Bryan doesn't mention the word 'racism,' but in an understated way, says, "So that was my introduction to that." This isn't to say that he didn't think of himself as black; yet, he had managed largely to avoid the scourge of racism because of the strong groundwork put in place by his parents and his extended community. "I had grown up knowing I was black, and that I was part of the black community. But, all of my teachers were white, from elementary to high school, and all of them encouraged me and helped me build that strong portfolio."That robust community was there for him and cultivated a resiliency in him, an ability to look at difficult situations and instead of running away, to question them. "When I went back to Theodore Roosevelt and told my teachers what had happened, they said, 'look, Ashley, come back and take a postgraduate course with us, and develop your portfolio, work on the senior yearbook, take whatever classes you'd like, and in the summer, take the exam for The Cooper Union. They do not see you there.'" He worked hard, and took the exam that summer. "I was fortunate,"Bryan says simply. "You just put your work on the tray with your name and address, and left The Great Hall."However, he also notes that he was the only black person in his class.
A view of Ashley Bryan's studio.
Bryan began attending The Cooper Union in 1940. And, at Cooper, Bryan found a similar sense of community to that of his childhood. At 86, he has seen the passing away of many of his classmates. But, it's clear that he's delighted in the friendships he made there. "I made friends for life at Cooper—we've followed each other and supported each other's work. Of course, of my generation, there are few who are still alive and I'm still close to them: Al and Lotte Blaustein, John Ross and his wife Clare Romano. I hold to them." Before he could complete his studies at Cooper, Bryan was drafted into the US Army. World War II was being waged in Europe, and he was sent to fight in France in 1942. When he returned to New York in 1946, he was left terribly unsettled by the experience: "I came back and finished the degree at Cooper, but like most veterans, I was so spun around. I found that I couldn't go straight on with painting." Like his earlier experience with racism, though, he couldn't just accept the horrors of war. He felt he needed to understand what had happened in Germany during the war. "I wanted to understand why we select war, even though we know the tragedies and destruction that come with it. So I thought philosophy would give me some answers." He attended Columbia University, where he earned a degree in philosophy, but found that it couldn't give him all the answers he needed, so he returned to Europe, at first spending a year in Aix-en-Provence, in southern France, under the GI Bill. From there he moved on to Freiburg, Germany, with a Fulbright. "Remember," he says, "my closest friends whom I'd grown up with and who I was still really close to were German, from the German Lutheran Church. I asked myself why they were different from the people in Germany. And what I came to understand is that when people are under dictatorial force, when they know that their jobs, their families and their lives are in danger if they go by their conscience, they often feed into what the demand is."
"We are all human,"Bryan sums up quietly. "I've seen this as a pattern throughout the world, one group against the other, one religion against another, one ethnicity against another; so it's universal. But there's also equally a universal desire to express a relationship to what is human in each of us. The desire is so strong."He pauses momentarily. "The arts are our weapon,"he continues, "because just as we are all human, so we are all responsive aesthetically to being human. It's what the arts open up; this investing of one's life into trying to understand what it is to be. This is the philosophy that wends through Bryan's life and work, linking them inextricably together. Back in the United States, Bryan was teaching at various times at Queen's College CUNY and Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, and finally at Dartmouth College (where he remained until 1986). He also had a studio on Tremont Avenue in the Bronx. His interest in stories and cultures led him to reading African folk tales, and preparing illustrations for them, in addition to his painting and teaching work. In the early 1960s, Jean Karl,who was an editor at Atheneum (a Simon & Schuster imprint) heard about Bryan and came to his studio. He thought she was there to see his paintings, but she was also intrigued by the African folktale prints he had been making. She didn't say much, but the next day, a contract arrived. "And that," he says, understated once again, "is how I moved from my early limited editions to publishing on a wider scale."
And so, in 1965, when an article by Nancy Larrick came out in the Saturday Review of Books entitled "The All White World of Children's Books," Bryan was ideally positioned to use his art as away to overcome this inequity. It took awhile to develop the work, as he wasn't pleased with the stilted way in which the folktales had been translated—often just word for word in an attempt by linguists and anthropologists to record the hundreds of languages that they encountered. Karl encouraged him to rewrite them in his own style. He realized that the oral tradition, which is so lacking in the poetry of Western culture, was what he was after. "I went to the black American poets, because that was the voice I was after for these stories," he explains. He also drew on the other oral traditions he had encountered in his travels, from French and Indian folktales, to black American spirituals, as well as his own experiences as a child in the 1930s, listening to the stories of his family and neighbors in the Bronx. He used the cadences of the spoken word to bring the stories alive, bouncing off the bright colors of his illustrations. Not only did Bryan's oral storytelling act as a 'tender bridge' between his young listeners and an African history of which they were all too often unaware, but it also linked reading with enjoyment, and equally importantly, with a sense of belonging. Book and performance are of equal importance,he says: "I always hold the book, so that no matter what my voice does, the children can see the link to the book."
He published the first of the African folktales, The Ox of the Wonderful Horns and Other African Folktales, in 1971, and many more followed, including several illustrated books of black American spirituals, as well as the ever-popular Beautiful Blackbird in 2004. Bryan's sense of community continues to inform his life, and he has added community after community to his family. He has been living on Little Cranberry Isle off the coast of Maine for decades; he has an open door policy and happily welcomes visitors whether he knows them personally or not. He had originally started spending summers there in 1946 when he was awarded a place at the newly opened Skowhegan School of Art in Maine. But, never one to stay in one place for very long, he also spends time in Antigua and is constantly traveling. For example, he recently returned from a trip to Kenya, where he has been going for the past ten years. There, he worked with Kemi Nix, of Atlanta's Westminster School, who runs a reading program for disadvantaged children. Bryan was so impressed by the lengths the children would go to for their education in one poor rural town north of Nairobi, walking anywhere from one to six miles each way to attend school, that he decided to raise funds to open a library, in collaboration with Charity Mwangi, one of the women who had invited Nix to her school, Mount Kenya Academy Primary, to run the reading program.
Despite the many obstacles he has overcome and the hardship that he has known, Bryan is remarkably upbeat, though always realistic. "We only have now," he says. "So we have to make the most of the present." It's only in this moment—this moment, which is the tender bridge—Bryan feels, that we have the opportunity to seek meaningful interactions with each other. "Man has reached a point where there is huge potential for devastation and destruction," he says. "So we must then try to tap what is meaningful in us, to find some spirit of what it is to be peaceful as human beings and to live and to create within that." By telling his stories in a way that not only emphasizes the idea of community, but indeed relies upon it, Bryan has ensured that these tender bridges we build are a great deal stronger.
Ashley Bryan's autobiography, Words to My Life's Song, was published in January of 2009 by Atheneum.He has been awarded the Coretta Scott King Award numerous times for his children's literature, and in 2008, he was honored as a Library Lion by the New York Public Library, along with playwright Edward Albee, screenwriter and essayist Nora Ephorn and novelist Salman Rushdie. He has received two lifetime achievement awards, most recently the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in 2009 for his substantial contribution to children's literature, as well as the Arbuthnot Prize in 1990.


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Liz Gadd
Liz works within NPC's research and consulting team as a Senior Consultant. She works with charities and funders to improve their effectiveness and efficiency.
She has 20 years' experience in the charity sector. Prior to joining NPC, Liz worked and volunteered in charities of all sizes working across a diverse range of issues in the UK and internationally. Her previous experience includes with the British Red Cross as the UK Strategy Implementation Manager, and later UK Outcomes & Feedback Development Manager and then with The Challenge Network as a Senior Strategy Manager. Previously Liz spent several years in India as an Organisational Development Advisor via Voluntary Service Overseas.
Liz has special interest in supporting environmental organisations. She has most recently been supporting the set-up of On The Edge Conservation and Client Earth on impact of their litigation programmes. She is a passionate advocate for mental health issues and oversees the Stones Family Foundation's mental health programme.
Liz holds a BA in History and an MA in Politics from the University of Sheffield, as well as qualifications in project management and change management.
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Organisational development, including NPC's What Makes a Good Charity model
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Monitoring & evaluation, including theory of change and outcome framework development
Collaboration and user involvement (co-design/co-production)
Culture change, change readiness & change management
Why I work at NPC:
I'm passionate about supporting charities and funders to improve people's lives and makes communities stronger.
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So I am really enjoying our rehearsals with the 15 singers of the Palo Alto Chamber Chorus. Most of the group also sings (now or in the recent past) with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus or West Bay Opera. We'll be singing Mozart's Missa brevis in D, K. 194 with the Baroque Concerto Ensemble under James Frieman's direction. The concert is Sunday, March 15 at 7:30 pm at the Palo Alto Art Center. The rest of the program includes music by Vivaldi and Elgar, directed by Joyce Malick. Admission is free!


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Citi Becomes The First Major Bank In The Nation To Completely Eliminate Overdraft Fees
Shanique Yates. Feb 25, 2022.
Pesky overdraft fees could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a historic move by Citi.
The United States bank has revealed plans to drop its overdraft fees just in time for summer vacation, CNN reports.
"This latest enhancement is a significant step for Citi as a leader in the banking industry offering the most consumer-friendly overdraft practices," Gonzalo Luchetti, CEO of US Personal Banking at Citi, said in a statement. "We are continuously looking for ways to utilize our industry-leading capabilities to make the financial system easier and more equitable for communities who have little or no financial buffer."
Is Citi one step ahead of the competition?
As one of the leading financial institutions in the nation, the latest move to drop the overdraft fees sets Citi apart from its competitors.
Not only are they dropping the fees for over-drafting an account, but the bank plans to also rid customers of insufficient fund fees, thus setting them apart from competitors made up of Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo.
Per the company, the rollout will begin this summer.
Despite Citi being the first to get rid of those fees completely, Bank of America did reportedly drop its overdraft fees from $35 to $10, which will begin in May. The news came in January and they followed the move with the elimination of insufficient fund fees in February.
"Over the last decade, we have made significant changes to our overdraft services and solutions, reducing clients' reliance on overdraft, and providing resources to help clients manage their deposit accounts and overall finances responsibly," said Holly O'Neill, Bank of America's president of retail banking in a statement, according to Complex. "These latest steps will further support our clients and empower them to create long-term financial wellness. We remain committed to taking actions that will further bring down overdraft fees in the future and continue to empower clients to drive positive changes to behavior pertaining to overdraft."
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Collective defense does not contravene Article 9: Miyazawa
SAN FRANCISCO – Former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa proposed here Thursday that Japan reinterpret its Constitution to allow the Self-Defense Forces to support and defend U.S. forces if a U.S. military operation is directly connected to Japan's security.
Article 9 of the Constitution stipulates that the Japanese people renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes. This is currently interpreted as meaning that Japan cannot defend its allies against enemy attack and can only act against direct threats to Japan.
"I would like to envisage that the Self-Defense Forces can and should be deployed to assist and defend U.S. forces insofar as their activities are clearly and directly relevant to Japanese security risks," Miyazawa said during a speech at ceremonies to mark the 50th anniversary of the signing of a peace treaty between Japan and the Allied powers.
Miyazawa said the Japan-U.S. alliance has not only served the security of Japan well, but it has also played an important stabilizing role in peace and security in East Asia and beyond.
To make the alliance more effective and adapt it to the changed realities of the region, Miyazawa said, "I propose that Japan should define the right of collective security as a logical extension of the right of self-defense.
"This, in my view, does not require revision of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution. The Japanese government, if necessary, should clarify the interpretation of Article 9 with regards to the right of collective defense."
In proposing the change, Miyazawa pointed out the importance of reaffirming Japan's position that the SDF would only be deployed under strict conditions and that Japan will never become a nuclear power.
"This basic stance has served well in convincing other Asian countries that Japan does not harbor any territorial or political ambitions abroad and thus in effecting reconciliation with our neighbors," Miyazawa said.
Miyazawa expressed his belief that China will become an important issue for the Japan-U.S. alliance.
"The guiding political philosophy in China could become more nationalistic," he said. "As China grows economically, so will China's military capabilities. Japan has to be mindful and in fact concerned about the prospect of China becoming a military might with power-projection capabilities."
Miyazawa also proposed a multilateral regime composed of Japan, the United States, China, Russia, and South and North Korea for peace and security in Northeast Asia. iyazawa attended the actual signing of the peace treaty with the U.S. and 47 other countries at the Opera House in San Francisco on Sept. 8, 1951. At that time, he served as secretary to Finance Minister Hayato Ikeda, who later became prime minister.
On Saturday, ceremonies will be held here to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the peace treaty between Japan and the Allied powers and the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, which was signed shortly after the peace treaty.
Common agendas
Despite clear differences in some issues, Japan and the United States can have common interests in security and economic issues, and can work together in dealing with China's rise as a regional power, experts said in a cross-Pacific conference marking the 50th anniversary of the San Francisco Peace Treaty.
Under the theme "Building on the Legacy of 50 Years of Friendship: The Next Generation Looks Forward," the conference was held Friday morning Japan time, linking participants in Tokyo and San Francisco via satellite.
Moderated by Richard Samuels of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Motoshige Ito of the University of Tokyo, 10 panelists — scholars, economists, business leaders and politicians — exchanged views on political and economic issues concerning the two countries.
Despite differences over such issues as global warming and the stance toward China, Japan and the U.S. are capable of forming a common consensus, said Akihiko Tanaka, a professor at the University of Tokyo.
"I am of the opinion that Japan and the U.S. share a greater deal of convergence of interests. . . . If those areas of diversions are viewed as challenges, we may create an opportunity for the convergence of interests," Tanaka said.
Michael Green of the U.S. National Security Council cast his view that the interests of the two countries are converging, especially on the economic front, where the U.S. hopes Japan will experience growth.
On the other hand, Steven Vogel of the University of California, Berkeley, pointed to possible diversions of interest between the two countries.
The Japanese people and government are questioning the presence of the U.S. military in Japan, as seen in the firm opposition by Okinawa residents. Some Japanese political leaders are also in support of reorganizing or reducing the U.S. bases in Japan, he added.
On the other hand, the U.S. wants to upgrade its security relationship with Japan and make it really work in case of crisis, he said. In this context, the U.S. wants Japan to spell out more clearly what Tokyo can do in certain scenarios.
On the economic front, some panelists said Japan and the U.S. can cooperate in dealing with a China that increasingly grows in economic might, while extending support for Japan's structural reform plans. led by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
Jiro Tamura, a professor at Keio University, said that because China is emerging as an economic power and its "nontransparency" poses uncertainty to the global economy, Japan and the U.S. should join forces to form an economic order in Asia-Pacific.
Tamura welcomed Koizumi's reform initiatives, particularly in the field of competition policy, saying it is unprecedented for a Japanese prime minister to promote competition policy and strengthen the Fair Trade Commission.
Robert Feldman of Morgan Stanley in Tokyo said the current fall in stock prices is good because such a negative factor promotes people to implement reforms.
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By Sara Brown -- Nearly 200 Charlestown residents came to a Wednesday night meeting with Representative Michael Capuano to air opposing views of an old issue: the best plan for improvements for the Rutherford Avenue/Sullivan Square area. Some residents argued for a "surface option" that would remove the Rutherford Avenue underpasses, with others arguing that losing the underpasses would clog Charlestown traffic. Capuano said he hopes to find some kind of neighborhood consensus before embarking on the project.
By Eric Moskowitz -- America's safest city for pedestrians? Boston? Tell that to anyone who has ever hopped from island to island at Kenmore, forded four lanes of traffic and two lanes of trolleys on Huntington Avenue, or slammed on the brakes to avoid the legions crossing against the light. And yet, the Hub came out best today on a ranking from a national advocacy coalition. Among the 52 metropolitan areas with at least 1 million residents, Florida claimed four of the five worst spots in the "Dangerous by Design 2011" report from Transportation for America, which advocates for more transportation spending, emphasizing walking, biking, and mass transit.
MassDOT congratulates Boston, Northampton and Somerville, which have been selected as the first cities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to be recognized as Bicycle Friendly Communities by the League of American Bicyclists! Boston gained a Silver designation, while Northampton and Somerville each garnered Bronze designations.
By Jeremy C. Fox -- For the next six months, Blue Line riders will have several extra hours each day when they can bring bicycles onto the train, a move intended to promote urban cycling and ease the transition for those headed to downtown Boston from East Boston and Revere. The formal announcement of the change came Wednesday at an event inside Maverick Station, where MBTA General Manager Richard A. Davey gathered with community activists and cycling advocates to mark the occasion. The ceremony was part of a series of events celebrating Bay State Bike Week, which runs May 14-20.
By Jim O'Grady -- NEW YORK, NY -- New York City is warning drivers that speeding could mean death. Drivers who exceed the speed limit in two city neighborhoods will soon see the words "SLOW DOWN" and the image of a skeleton flashed on electronic signs by the side of the road. As long as a driver obeys the city's 30 mph speed limit, no skeleton will appear. The signs have been placed along stretches of Bruckner Boulevard in the Bronx and Richmond Avenue in Staten Island – roads that, respectively, were shown by a DOT study to have 96 percent and 66 percent of motorists speeding.
By Tanya Snider -- We hear it all the time: The road lobby insists that the only way to reduce mind-numbing traffic congestion on the roads they built is to build new roads. Federal funding gives huge blank checks to state DOTs, which tend to prioritize road building over transit, bridge maintenance or anything else. But mounting evidence suggests that building new roads won't do anything to alleviate congestion. In a paper to be published soon in the American Economic Review, two University of Toronto professors have added to the body of evidence showing that highway and road expansion increases traffic by increasing demand. On the flip side, they show that transit expansion doesn't help cure congestion either.
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Brexit and the pound - is all the bad news already in the price?
Jul 05 2018, 20:27 GMT
David Jones, Chief Market Strategist of Capital.com
There's seldom been a dull moment for the British pound over the last 18 months. The pound/US dollar (GBP/USD) exchange rate started 2017 around the 1.21 mark and ended the year at 1.35. An 11% rise in one year is an impressive one in the foreign exchange markets - but since mid-April of this year, GBP/USD has dropped from 1.44 to almost 1.30 at the end of June, a near 10% slide.
There have been a couple of factors here - disappointment regarding the lack of a UK interest rate rise so far has been one, and the ongoing apparent lack of progress in Brexit discussions is never far from traders' minds. But has this run of pessimism been overdone? It looks like the second half of 2018 could be much better for sterling's fortunes.
There's a saying in markets that "all of the news is in the price" - and it could be argued that we are at (or at least getting near) to that point now. It does feel as if the last two months have seen an ongoing slew of negative news for the pound - and this has pushed it lower against various other currencies. But when sentiment hits an extreme, as it arguably has at the moment, that's when we have to start thinking that all bets have been placed and further negative news is not going to push the market lower.
Admittedly it is only a couple of days since the slide for GBP/USD has stopped in that 1.30 area, so any optimism now may be a little on the early side. But the news at the end of June showed that the UK economy grew at a faster rate than was broadly expected in the first quarter of 2018. This has clearly caused some of the more pessimistic to revise their views for the British currency. It may be some time before we see the 2018 GBP/USD highs of 1.44 reached again, but don't be surprised if the 1.30 level marks something of a line in the sand. These stronger economic numbers also increase the chances of a rate rise from the Bank of England in August, which would traditionally be expected to give a boost to the currency. The last week of June could finally have marked an end to what has felt like a never-ending flow of negative news for the pound.
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Drought conditions exposed Lake Lanier's lake bed in 2007.
The state of Florida is suing Georgia over water, including over how much water metro Atlanta can take from Lake Lanier. When the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, officials expected it to take more than five years to be decided, but now, the case is expected to move much faster.
States don't sue other states that often. When they do, the case goes straight to the Supreme Court. So the process is different.
The Supreme Court nominates a "special master" – someone like a retired judge, or a lawyer. That person does all the scheduling, and listens to all the arguments before the case goes before the Court itself.
"Every special master comes to these cases and figures out the process and figures out the sequence," explained Lewis Jones, a lawyer who's represented the Atlanta Regional Commission in water cases. "It remains to be seen what this special master is going to want to do." Jones was speaking to a North Georgia Metropolitan Water Board meeting.
In this case, the special master is Ralph Lancaster, an attorney from Maine, who has served in this role three times before, and is the only person to ever be chosen by the Supreme Court to do it a fourth time.
One impact from that, she said, will be on the cost.
Once the special master has heard all the arguments, he makes a recommendation to the Supreme Court. The justices can go along with that recommendation, or make another decision.
Whatever they decide, Gil Rogers, a lawyer with the Southern Environmental Law Center, said he thinks it won't be the end of the water wars.
The next deadline in this case is Feb. 2, 2015, when Georgia's response to Florida's complaint is due.


Serving Akron, Brownstown, Lititz, Rothsville, and Warwick in Lancaster County, PA.
Since traveling to the area from Carini in 1983, the Caruso's family has been serving award-winning Italian recipes and family favorites all over Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Pete and his family proudly maintain the family tradition by bringing delicious, authentic, homemade Italian dishes to you and your family.
By the age of 13, Pete found himself moving into the family business; perfecting the recipes and adding his own flavor to the classics. As the years went on, opening his own restaurant in 1995 only made sense; bringing fine Italian cuisine to Rothsville, PA.
Using local ingredients, homemade sauces, freshly made breads and doughs – stop in and experience Caruso's Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria in Rothsville, PA for yourself!


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16-26" tall x 24-36" wide. Ruby Frost Coreopsis (Tickseed) from the Hardy Jewel™Series adds vibrant heavy-blooming color to containers, borders, and cottage gardens. Perfect for naturalizing in drifts among meadow plantings or tucking along rock gardens. Coreopsis are native to North America and easy to grow on any well-drained soil in full sun. Plants thrive in poor soils and are drought tolerant once established. Avoid overwatering. Plants bloom over a long season from early summer through frost with regular deadheading. Simply shear back the top one-third of the plant after flowering to freshen foliage and ignite a fresh flurry of blooms. Divide every two to three years in spring as needed. Rugged and adaptable, plants are deer and pest-resistant.


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Martin de Lewandowicz is a rugged Welsh individualist and historian. He is also among our most versatile guides, leading tours in Italy, Britain, and across Europe. Whew! When not guiding tours for Rick Steves, he leads "mindbending tours" (as Rick describes them in his guidebooks) of his hometown castle in Caernarfon, Wales.
Martin, it seems you've been leading tours for Rick Steves forever. What were you doing before that?
It all started when I broke my collarbone playing rugby when I was at college. During vacations everybody used to get a summer job and earn lots of money, but I couldn't with a broken collarbone, and so I went on an archaeological dig. This sparked my love affair with archaeology, which lasted many years. I went back to college and was doing research into medieval Welsh settlement when something called Margaret Thatcher happened. All the money was cut from research, and I found myself with nothing to do. Somebody suggested that I take up guiding, so I established a guided-tour service in Caernarfon Castle. People liked what I did, and invited me to guide for them elsewhere. While this was going on, I bought a restaurant and, not long after, began working part-time with a TV company on a football show (that's real football — where people strike the ball with their feet). One day, Rick saw me working in Caernarfon Castle, and asked if I'd like to try working with his tour groups. Here I am, 14 years later, still trying! So, the short answer to the question is, "I broke my collarbone."
So, now that your collarbone has mended, what keeps you interested in guiding?
It may sound corny, but every time I see anything — painting, building, or mountain pass — I get excited. I can't get bored with things. Across Europe I see differences in the streets, variety in the food, and am always surprised by how people dress, walk, and behave. Every time I see, say, a church, I react to it in a different way to the time before. Beauty still humbles me. How could I lose interest in what I do? I've got the best story to tell and new people to tell it to every tour.
I expected to get a longer answer from you.
Well, since you asked… Our perception of time — the reality of time for each of us — is like one of those big spools of tape you see on computers in films in the '80s. On our time tape, we record events as dots, but we can stretch the tape or let it go slack at will, like an elastic band. When we're excited by what's going on, we stretch the tape so that we can fit more dots on it and time, for us, slows down. Think of a car accident or falling in love.
When we were young, everything was new and we had so much to record that a summer's day could last forever as we stretched that tape as far as we could. As people get older, little is new and events are more repetitive and time passes faster and faster as the years fly by.
So, the best way to slow down time is to constantly do/see/learn new things, and the best way to achieve this is to travel. Leave your comfort zone and preconceptions at home, and become excited again. Since I'm always learning, always excited by what I see, never say or do the same things, and all tour groups are different, I can't get bored. The other thing is that, by stretching the time, you age slower. At least I do. Can you tell?
Yes. And speaking of variety, you have evolved from a Britain-only guide to one who now leads many tours on the Continent as well: Best of Europe, Family Europe, Venice-Florence-Rome, Heart of Italy…and the list goes on. How do you manage different itineraries so well?
I love a good story, and there's no better story than life. I'm very lucky. I get to stand in front of Notre-Dame in Paris and see a statue of Charlemagne, and then I go to Rome and see where Charlemagne was crowned Emperor of the Romans. I can go to Palazzo Muti in Rome, where Bonnie Prince Charlie was born and died, and then to Culloden in Scotland, where his army was defeated in the last battle fought on British soil.
There is only one "past," and all the wonderful detail of that past, stretched out in time and space, is interlinked. The more I learn and see, the more I begin to understand this. So, I don't see myself as managing different itineraries, I rather think of it as one big itinerary.
Besides — we could choose to do the same thing all the time, or we could choose to do different things all the time. Which would you rather do?
What's the next country you plan to conquer?
All travel and all countries are good. At the moment, I'd like to get deeper into Italy and France. They are both so varied, so complex, and, of course, they do have quite good food and wine.
I know that you genuinely enjoy guiding our Family Europe tour — yet you are acknowledged in the field as a true history scholar. Isn't it frustrating trying to connect with a group of 8- to 17-year-olds?
The best travelers are those who come with no preconceptions, no thick skin on their comfort zone, and who are prepared to accept others. They're like an open book with blank pages — willing to learn. The best travelers accept "difference" for what it is and not something that has to be judged as being "better" or "worse." They're honest and quickly see the good in other people and places and they're flexible in all situations. Hey! That's young people, isn't it?
Which destination on our Best of Europe tour surprises your tour members the most?
They fall into two groups: (1) The things you knew you should be impressed by before you came and yet they still surprise and impress, such as the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, and Venice. (2) The things you hadn't expected would excite you but did: the kindness of the French people, Italian food that isn't like Italian food in the US, the beauty of the Swiss Alps, and the fun of riding a summer luge.
What seems most popular with the kids on your family tours?
First and foremost it's the other kids on the tour. Apart from that, I'd say they really like all of the tour (except for too much art), the food, the castle project at Guédelon, the summer luge, the Eiffel Tower, and Venice. But, above all, I've seen more teenagers struck dumb by the beauty of the Swiss Alps than anything else.
I understand that you've actually met Queen Elizabeth?
Let's say that I've been in the presence of Her Majesty. By that I mean that I was there and she was there, but there were always a few hundred other people there. It's not quite as one-on-one as you might think. She's very small, and has the most surprisingly blue eyes. Ooh, and she lives in a very nice house.
What is your favorite thing to do when you visit the US?
I've loved everything I've seen in the US and have never seen anything I didn't love. The Seattle area (the Olympic Peninsula, the islands, the city, the Cascades) is all gorgeous. The Grand Canyon — what a place! New England is truly beautiful. Las Vegas is a slice of pure American culture, and what a slice. I can't wait to go back.
Do you really collect bits of cockney slang that rhyme?
What I like about rhyming slang is that, like any language, it evolves. To refer to someone as a "third" meant he was a "Richard" (because of Richard III), but then it changed to mean a "Douglas" (after Douglas Hurd, a conservative politician of the '80s). A personal favorite is the modern slang for a British university's lower-second-class degree (2:2), which is called a "Desmond" (Tutu).
Barking, a town just outside London, gives an example of commonly used slang that doesn't rhyme. "Barking mad" is a phrase used in English for someone so crazy that they bark at the moon. Nowadays, you hear "He's three stops down from Plaistow," which comes from the fact that, on the District Line of the London Underground, Barking is three stops past Plaistow. Towards the end of her period in office, a member of Margaret Thatcher's cabinet referred to her by her cabinet nickname, "Daggers." The interviewer asked him if this nickname came from the steely looks she gave people. "No," he replied, "it's from 'Dagenham.' Three stops beyond Barking."
"The best way to slow down time is to constantly do/see/learn new things, and the best way to achieve this is to travel. Leave your comfort zone and preconceptions at home, and become excited again."
See all of our guide interviews to get the inside scoop from more of our great team.


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State Board Committee Certifies Three Finalists for Southside Virginia Community College Presidency
RICHMOND – The State Board for Community Colleges has certified three finalists for the position of president at Southside Virginia Community College. The finalists were among 81 applicants from across the nation.
The three finalists, in alphabetical order, are (left to right below): Dr. Thomas G. Coley of Granger, IA; Dr. Jacqueline M. Gill of Lee's Summit, MO; and Dr. Quentin R. Johnson of Mooresville, NC.
"I am impressed with breadth and width of talent the presidency of Southside Virginia Community College is attracting," said Glenn DuBois, chancellor of Virginia's Community Colleges. "The college's service region is easily the geographically largest throughout the VCCS. While that poses some unique challenges it also offers some unique opportunities for a dynamic leader to step forward and help us demonstrate what a modern rural community college can be for those who depend on it."
Dr. Thomas G. Coley has worked in higher education for more than 39 years. He began his career as an assistant professor at the University of Maryland at College Park in 1980. Six years later he began working at California State University, Fullerton, serving as the college's government and community liaison. Coley proceeded to hold senior executive positions with the Oregon State System of Higher Education; Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio; and Black Hawk College in Moline, IL before becoming the president of Scott Community College in Scott County, Iowa in 2005. He joined Indiana's Ivy Tech Community College System in 2011 as the chancellor of the Northwest and North Central Region. Following a system restructuring, he became the chancellor of South Bend – Elkhart campus, where he works today. Coley earned a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison as well as a master's degree and bachelor's degree from Minnesota State University, Moorhead.
Dr. Jacqueline M. Gill has worked in higher education for more than 20 years. She began her career as the director of continuing education for the NE Campus of Tarrant County College in Hurst, Texas. In 2010, she became the college's vice president of Academic Affairs & Community & Industry Education. Gill moved to Kansas City, MO in 2016 where she became the president of Metropolitan Community College. Prior to working in higher education, she worked for seven years as a social worker in the greater Dallas Fort Worth metropolitan area, including two years of recruiting candidates from underserved populations into healthcare career fields for the Dallas Fort Worth Area Health Education Center in Irving, Texas . Gill earned a doctorate, master's degree and bachelor's degree from Texas A&M University, and a separate master's degree from the University of Texas at Arlington.
Dr. Quentin R. Johnson has worked in higher education senior leadership roles for more than 20 years. That includes, beginning in 2004, serving as the president's chief of staff and acting vice president for Student Life and Enrollment Management at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. In 2011 he became the senior vice president for Enrollment and Student Services at Fairmont State University and Pierpont Community and Technical College in West Virginia. Johnson moved to Guilford Technical Community College in North Carolina in 2012 to become the vice president of Student Support Services, the position he holds today. He also has some Virginia experience, previously serving as the assistant dean for Enrollment Management & Student Services at the UVa School of Nursing. Johnson earned a doctorate from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore; a master's degree from Bowling Green State University; and a bachelor's degree from Defiance College in Defiance, Ohio.
The three finalists seek to succeed Dr. Al Roberts, the college's fifth president, who announced last fall that he was retiring at the end of June, having served as president for five years. The finalists will each visit the college in late March to meet with faculty, staff, students and community members.
SVCC serves one small city and spans ten rural counties across southern Virginia. The college offers 23 degrees at the associate level, a host of shorter-term academic and workforce development programs, opportunities for dually enrolled high school students, adult basic education, and other transitional services for non-traditional students.
About Virginia's Community Colleges: Since 1966, Virginia's Community Colleges have given everyone the opportunity to learn and develop the right skills so lives and communities are strengthened. By making higher education and workforce training available in every part of Virginia, we elevate all of Virginia. Together, Virginia's Community Colleges serve more than 241,000 students each year. For more information, please visit www.vccs.edu.
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Stowe ist ein Dorf in der Unitary Authority Buckinghamshire, England und liegt zwei Meilen nordwestlich von Buckingham. Eine Kurve im Silverstone Circuit ist nach dem Dorf benannt.

In Stowe House, unter anderem berühmt für seinen englischen Landschaftsgarten, ist die Stowe School, ein 1923 gegründetes Internat (boarding school) beheimatet.

Geschichte
Ursprünglich wurde das Dorf in der Herrschaftszeit der Angelsachsen erbaut. Stowe wurde nach einem alten, heiligen Ort einiger Angesehener der Angelsachsen benannt. Es wurde Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts erstmals verlassen, als der adlige Politiker Sir Peter Temple (1592–1653) einen großen Hirschpark in der Nähe anlegte. Die kleine Kirche ist aus der damaligen Zeit erhalten geblieben, und der christliche Gottesdienst wird dort jeden Sonntag abgehalten. Am Rand des Dorfes liegen die Weiler Boycott, Dadford und Lamport.

John Vanbrugh errichtete 1726 in den Gartenanlagen eine Pyramide, die nach seinem Tod im selben Jahr dem Andenken dieses Dichters und Architekten gewidmet worden ist.

Stowe House
Früher war im Stowe House der Sitz der Viscount Cobham. Heute beherbergt sie die Schule von Stowe.
Gebäude und Garten, der viele Monumente einschließt, wurden 1990 in die National Trust aufgenommen und sind der Öffentlichkeit teilweise zugänglich.

Stowe in Filmen
Wegen seiner schönen Landschaft war Stowe Drehort vieler Filme, u. a.:
 In guten wie in schweren Tagen
 Indiana Jones und der letzte Kreuzzug
 Der Sternwanderer
 Lebenszeichen – Proof of Life
 James Bond 007 – Die Welt ist nicht genug
 The Wolfman

Einzelnachweise

Ort in Buckinghamshire

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