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G. CULVERWELL (Late J . B. CRAMER & CO.) Pianofortes FOR SALE OR HIRE. New and Second-Hand. 136, Notting Hill Gate. (Nearly Opposite this Theatre.) --- Enquiries Solicited and Estimates Given Free of Cost, for all kinds of Work, WALTER WALLIS, Builder, Contractor, and Decorator "Lincoln House," Ramsden Road, BALHAM, S.W. BUILDER OF THE Coronet Theatre, Notting Hill; Princess of Wales' Theatre, Kennington; Royal Duchess Theatre, BAlham; Broadway Theatre, Deptford; and Terriss Theatre, Rotherhithe. --- Established in Islington, 1846 Established in Notting Hill 1862 F.W. Mackinney, QUALIFIED OPTICIAN (Diploma Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers), WATCH and CLOCK MAKER and JEWELLER. 156, High STreet, Notting Hill, W. Clocks Wound by Yearly Contract. REPAIRS. Antique Watces & Clocks Restored as New. --- OPPOSITE THEATRE CUMBER CYCLES. ACCESSORIES and REPAIRS. --- THOMAS'S Cash Drug Stores, 99, Hight Street, NOTTING HILL GATE (Two Doors East of Coronet Theatre). Proprietor: J.J. THOMAS, M.P.S.; Ph.C., Pereira Medallist of the Pharmaceutical Society. Accurate Dispensing at Store Prices Pure Drugs, Chemicals & Patesnt Medicines at Wholesale Prices. Speciality in Perfumes & all Theatrical Requisites. --- DES CLAYES & CO.(LONDON) LIMITED WINE MERCHANTS. 27, CHARLES STREET, WATERLOOK PLACE, S.W. All Wines and Spirits Sold by this Firm are Guaranteed Pure, and strictly of kinds and vintages for which they are sold SOLE BOTTLERS OF THE FAMOUS SCOTCH WHISKY "GLENARTNEY." Sole Whiskies supplied at this Theatre. --- ELLIS'S CORONET WATCH. Equal in appearance and Time Keeping to any £5 5s. Watch. Hundreds of Testimonials. OPERA GLASSES from 4/6 to 42/- Immense stock of CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. 94 HIGH STREET., Opposite this Theare. Warranted One Year. --- Notting Hill Conservatory, (LATE J. MAIZE), 11a PEMBRIDGE ROAD, NOTTING HILL GATE, W. T.Penn, Decorative Florist and Garden Contractor, (From Wils & Segar, South Kensington). Table Decorations, Bouquest, Wreaths, Crosses, &c Palms and other Choice Plants on Hire. Gardens Laid out and attended to by Contract or otherwise. Window Boxes made to order and filled with Summer or Winter Plants. Sole Contractor to this Theatre. --- ALLSOPP'S Ales & Stouts EXCLUSIVELY On DRAUGHT and in BOTTLE AT THIS THEATRE. --- G.A. Norris ESTABLISHED 50 YEARS. 32, High street, Notting Hill Gate, W. 2/6 CORONET BROOCH 2/6 JEWELLER, WATCH & CLOCK MAKER. Repairs of every kind undertaken, and Expert and Skilled Workmen only employed, Antique & Latest Designs In Jewellery, Watches, Clocks, etc. Clocks Wound by Contract from £.1 : 1 : 0 per year. Orders by Post receive prompt attention, and Customers waited upon by request. --- J. THOMPSON 81A HIGH STREET, NOTTING HILL GATE, Fishmonger & Poulterer. Best Quality at Lowest Prices. Families waited upon for Orders. Special Terms to Schools. OYSTERS SENT OUT, A Trial Solicited --- 'The Golden Bells' HOTEL and RESTAURANT, (Six Doors from this Theatre) Seating Accommodation fo r250. Private Dining Room, First Floor. Any kind of meal at any time. Suppers served till 12.30. Prices very Moderate. Double and Single Bedrooms. WM. MAGEE, Proprieter --- M. HALL, "Coach & Horses" WINE and SPIRIT ESTABLISHMENT. Opposite this Theatre. LUNCHEONS DAILY BILLIARDS: Two tables. BASS'S PALE ALE CIGARS: FINEST BRANDS KEPT IN STOCK. TOW ALOON LOUNGES. --- THE CORONET THEATRE, Notting Hill Gate, W. Managing Director, Mr. E.G. SAUNDERS. --- Monday, February 20th, at 8, for Six Nights Miss ELLEN TERRY Mr. Frank Cooper and Members of the Lyceum Company --- WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, February 22nd and 23rd, at Eight o'clock, Shakespeare's Play, OTHELLO Othello: Mr. FRANK COOPER Iago: Mr. W.M. MOLLISON Brabantio: Mr. H.COOPER-CLIFFE Cassio: Mr. CHARLES VANE Roderigo: Mr. FULLER MELLISH Montana Mr. LIONEL BELMORE Duke of Venice: Mr. S. LACY Messenger: Mr. F.DAVISS First Senator: Mr. E.BLIND Second Senator: Mr. C.ELGAR Emilia: Miss MAUD MILTON Desdemona: Miss ELLEN TERRY Sailors, Messengers, Herald Officers and Attendants. Scenery by HAWES CRAVEN and W. HANN --- Friday, February 24th MADAME SANS-GENE --- Saturday, Feb. 25th, OLIVIA A Play in Four Acts by W.G. WILLS, founded on an Episode in "The Vicar of Wakefield". --- Stage Manager - Mr. H. J. LOVEDAY. For Miss ELLEN TERRY Business Manager: Mr W.H. GRIFFITHS. --- MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27th, for Six Nights, and One Matinee THE SUCCESSFUL COMIC OPERA THE DANDY FIFTH From the Duke of York's Theatre --- General Manager: Mr RICHARD MANSELL, Acting Manager: Mr. HERBERT CLARK. Musical Director: Mr. VICTOR HOLLANDER. Assistant Acting Manager, Mr. D. FORBES WINSLOW. Treasurer, Mr. CHARLES A. COLES Assistant Stage Manager, Mr. CHARLES HARGRAVE. Electrician, Mr. GEORGE NOXON. --- The PIANOFORTES are supplied by GEO. CULVERWELL, 136 NOTTING HILL GATE. FOR ALL ADVERTISEMENTS fo rthis Theatre apply to The South West Advertising Co., (S.Presburg) Prested Road, Clapham Junction, S.W.
Stiles & Sons, Bakers, Cooks & Confectioners 26, Hight ST., NOTTING HILL Marloes Road, KENSINGTON. FEBRUARY SPECIALITIES Barcelona Cakes. Midget Meringues. LUNCHEONS (Hot and Cold). AFTERNOON TEA. --- CLEMENT & CO., 89 High Street, Notting Hill Gate, W. Artistic and Theatrical Hairdressers. The Best French Waver in the West End. --- Antique Furniture. E. KING. Begs to inform the Nobility o f: Kensington and Bayswater that he has always on view a good supply of Genuine Antique Furniture at Very Moderate Prices. AND INSPECTION INVITED. ADDRESS: E.KING, 15, Leonard's Place, Kensington High St. --- MONTE CARLO CAFE RESTAURANT, 182, Queen's Road, BAYSWATER, W. A. LAMPERTI, PROPRIETOR. Newly Decorated and Lighte dwith Electric Light. LUNCHEONS, DINNERS and SUPPERS at Very Moderate prices. We invite attention to our Special Coffee. WINES, BEER and CIGARS of the Best Quality. THE CRITERION 1/6 Dinner 2/6 Hors d'OEuvres. Two Soups. Fish. Entree. Vegetables. Roast and Salade. Sweet. Cheese, Dessert. From 5 till 9 o'clock, A Special Table d'Hote Dinner Served in Saloon. For Large or Small Parties. Special attention is paid to the Cuisnine, and to the Selection of Wines. Open on Sundays, 6 till 11 o'clock. AFTER THEATRE SUPPERS --- Empire Furnishing Company, 134, Edgeware-rd., London, W. The EMPIRE Of our QUEEN is the Envy of Every Nation. The EMPIRE FURNISHING COMPANY Is the Envy of the Furnishing World. THE BEST FURNITURE. THE LOWEST TERMS Terms so low indeed as to be nearly a gift. Call or write for prices. You pay just as you like and what you like. --- Prospective Engagements. PRIVATE SECRETARY. THE WHITE HEATHER. LIFE OF PLEASURE. DANDY FIFTH. LIGHTS O' LONDON. NEW BARMAID. ORLANDO DANDO. LITTLE MISS NOBODY. TWO LITTLE VAGABONDS. GENTLEMAN JOE. CIRCUS GIRL. GEISHA. --- THE ROYAL Dyeing & Cleaning Co. UP TO DATE FOR BLOUSES, GOWNS, DRESSES, And Everything Special Process. No Unpicking. MODERATE CHARGES. 9, PEMBRIDGE ROAD, NOTTING HILL GATE, W. --- Fuller's American Confectionery, 206, Regent Street, 131, Queen's Road, Bayswater. 37, High Street, Kensington . 78, East Street, Brighton. 33, Bold St., Liverpool. 70, Dale Street, Liverpool. And various Branches and Agencies all over the Kingdom. SOLE PURVEYORS TO THIS THEATRE. --- Lerner & Rosenkrantz Ladies' Tailors and Habit Makers, 22a, Queen's Road, Bayswater, W. GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTERS. --- All Wines, Liqueurs, Brandies, &c. sold at the Bars of this Theatre are supplied by Burne, Turner & Co., Ltd.k Wine Merchants ot H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES. HEAD OFFICE: 150, LEADENHALL, STREET, E.C. WEST END BRANCH: 38a OLD BOND ST., W. WHERE ALL COMMUNICATIONS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION --- GOSS'S DRUG STORES FOUND! A CURE for NEURALGIA, Faceache, Toothache. NEURALGIC DROPS. PRICE 1/- ONLY. SYRUP OF THE TAMARINDS FOR COUGHS COLDS, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS A SPEEDY CURE 7 1/2 d, 10 1/2 d, 2s. OPPOSITE THIS THEATRE. --- Orridge's Stores. 129 & 131, Notting Hill Gate. House Cleaning Materials, Brooms, Brushes, Mats, Twines, Oilmen's Sundries, etc. SOLE CONTRACTORS TO CORONET THEATRE. --- Glass & China Stores, 149, High St., Notting Hill Gate (Same Side as the Coronet Theatre). NOTE OUR Grand Clearance Sale Special Hiring Prices for Parties. SOLE CONTRACTORS FOR THE GLASS AND CHINA SUPPLIED TO THIS THEATRE.
J.M.LEVY (under the Clock.) The Celebrated City Tailor & Juvenile Outfitter, KING ST., HAMMERSMITH, W. Established 25 Years Cycling outfits, School Outfits, Eton suits, Football Jerseys &c. GENT.'S D.B. CHESTERFIELD in Cheviots, Naps, Beavers & Meltons, 16/6 TO 50/- To Order, 27/6 TO 63/- YOUTHS' D.B. CHESTERFIELD Various Materials, 10/6 to 30/-To Order, 18/6 to 35/- ETON SUIT Various Materials, Jacket and Vest, 16/6, 18/6, 21/-, 25/- Trousers, 5/11, 6/11, 8/11, 10/6, 12/6. RUGBY SUIT In various Cloths. Well Tested Fabrics, 6/11, 8/11, 10/6, 12/6, to 25/- HIGHWAYMAN OVERCOAT Deep Capes, Wool Lined, 5/11, 6/11, 8/11, 10/6 to 25/- NORFOLK SUIT Well Tested Fabrics. Numerous Materials 4/11, 5/11, 6/11, 8/11, 10/6 to 21/- YOUTHS S.B.CHESTERFIELD Various Materials 8/6 to 25/- To order, 14/6 to 30/- GENT'S S.B.CHESTERFIELD Extra Long Silk Velvet Collars Wool Lined, 14/11, 16/11, 21/- to 45/- ORDER DEPARTMENT. Gentlemen's OVERCOAT in Cheviots, Meltons, & Beavers, wool lined, 30/- DRESS SUIT, Silk lined, Silk faced, 63/- Gentlemen's BUSINESS SUIT IN A Variety of Materials, Style & Fit Guaranteed. 35/- --- WM. JOHNSON, Job Master, 11, Ladbrooke Grove, North Kensington, W. All kinds of Broughams, Landaus, Victorias let by teh hour, day, week, month or year. PRIVATE OMNIBUSES AND BRAKES. Carriages of every description, and saddle horses at moderate charages. ESTIMATES GIVEN IF REQUIRED N.B.=Livery and Bait Stables. --- THE Kensington Restaurant, 2 CHURCH STREET, KENSINGTON, W. (Opposite KENSINGTON CHURCH.) Large First-Class Dining Room (Newly Decorated) SOUPS, FISH, ENTREES AND JOINTS. WINES and BEER of the Best Quality. Very Moderate Prices. SUPPERS AFTER THE THEATRES. Open on Sundays from 1 till 3, and from 6 till 11 p.m. RAMPAZZI BROS., Proprietors. --- The PUBLIC CYCLE SUPPLY STORES 151, High Street, Notting Hill Gate, W. Cycles, £6 10s. Westwood Rims and Dunlop-Welch Licenses Tyres. COMPLETE. WARRANTED FOR TWELVE MONTHS. MACHINES SOLD ON GRADUAL PAYMENT SYSTEM. REPAIRS DONE BY SKILFUL WORKMEN. Fancy Goods of Every Description in Stock OPERA GLASSES, in Cases, 4s. 6d. and 5s.6d. SATISFACTION ENSURED. PROMPT WORKMANSHIP. --- Victoria Cafe Restaurant 69, HIGH ST., NOTTING HILL GATE, W. (adjacent to this Theatre) HIGH CLASS CUISINE. Luncheons, Dinners and Suppers a la carte. Or by Special Arrangement, and sent out if required. PRIVATE ROOMS FOR PARTIES. Open from 8 am. to 12.30. Sundays 1 to 3 and 6 to 11. BIFFA and CAMPINI, Proprietors.


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Cultured defender Sheehan joined the Hatters on loan from Bradford City in January 2016, becoming Nathan Jones' first signing after taking over as manager.
The Irishman made 20 appearances and captained the team for the final seven matches of 2015-16.
The left-footer can operate at centre-half or left back, and has made over 400 appearances in his career so far with the majority coming during two spells with Notts County.
Sheehan also counts Leeds United and Swindon Town among his former employers, as well as loans with Mansfield, Crewe, Oldham and Peterborough United, after starting out at Leicester City.
He signed a permanent deal with the Town in May 2016 and made 41 appearances in his first full season, including his 50th in a Luton shirt in a 0-0 draw at Carlisle.
Last season proved to be one of his most fruitful as an individual, earning place in the EFL, Sky Bet and EA Sports Sky Bet League Two Team of the Season, as well as scooping the Supporters' Player of the Year and Internet Player of the Year.
Captained the team for much of the promotion-winning campaign, in which he reached his century of appearances for the club.
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package servers

import (
	"reflect"

	"github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure"
	"github.com/rackspace/gophercloud"
	"github.com/rackspace/gophercloud/pagination"
)

type serverResult struct {
	gophercloud.Result
}

// Extract interprets any serverResult as a Server, if possible.
func (r serverResult) Extract() (*Server, error) {
	if r.Err != nil {
		return nil, r.Err
	}

	var response struct {
		Server Server `mapstructure:"server"`
	}

	config := &mapstructure.DecoderConfig{
		DecodeHook: toMapFromString,
		Result:     &response,
	}
	decoder, err := mapstructure.NewDecoder(config)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	err = decoder.Decode(r.Body)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	return &response.Server, nil
}

// CreateResult temporarily contains the response from a Create call.
type CreateResult struct {
	serverResult
}

// GetResult temporarily contains the response from a Get call.
type GetResult struct {
	serverResult
}

// UpdateResult temporarily contains the response from an Update call.
type UpdateResult struct {
	serverResult
}

// DeleteResult temporarily contains the response from a Delete call.
type DeleteResult struct {
	gophercloud.ErrResult
}

// RebuildResult temporarily contains the response from a Rebuild call.
type RebuildResult struct {
	serverResult
}

// ActionResult represents the result of server action operations, like reboot
type ActionResult struct {
	gophercloud.ErrResult
}

// RescueResult represents the result of a server rescue operation
type RescueResult struct {
	ActionResult
}

// Extract interprets any RescueResult as an AdminPass, if possible.
func (r RescueResult) Extract() (string, error) {
	if r.Err != nil {
		return "", r.Err
	}

	var response struct {
		AdminPass string `mapstructure:"adminPass"`
	}

	err := mapstructure.Decode(r.Body, &response)
	return response.AdminPass, err
}

// Server exposes only the standard OpenStack fields corresponding to a given server on the user's account.
type Server struct {
	// ID uniquely identifies this server amongst all other servers, including those not accessible to the current tenant.
	ID string

	// TenantID identifies the tenant owning this server resource.
	TenantID string `mapstructure:"tenant_id"`

	// UserID uniquely identifies the user account owning the tenant.
	UserID string `mapstructure:"user_id"`

	// Name contains the human-readable name for the server.
	Name string

	// Updated and Created contain ISO-8601 timestamps of when the state of the server last changed, and when it was created.
	Updated string
	Created string

	HostID string

	// Status contains the current operational status of the server, such as IN_PROGRESS or ACTIVE.
	Status string

	// Progress ranges from 0..100.
	// A request made against the server completes only once Progress reaches 100.
	Progress int

	// AccessIPv4 and AccessIPv6 contain the IP addresses of the server, suitable for remote access for administration.
	AccessIPv4, AccessIPv6 string

	// Image refers to a JSON object, which itself indicates the OS image used to deploy the server.
	Image map[string]interface{}

	// Flavor refers to a JSON object, which itself indicates the hardware configuration of the deployed server.
	Flavor map[string]interface{}

	// Addresses includes a list of all IP addresses assigned to the server, keyed by pool.
	Addresses map[string]interface{}

	// Metadata includes a list of all user-specified key-value pairs attached to the server.
	Metadata map[string]interface{}

	// Links includes HTTP references to the itself, useful for passing along to other APIs that might want a server reference.
	Links []interface{}

	// KeyName indicates which public key was injected into the server on launch.
	KeyName string `json:"key_name" mapstructure:"key_name"`

	// AdminPass will generally be empty ("").  However, it will contain the administrative password chosen when provisioning a new server without a set AdminPass setting in the first place.
	// Note that this is the ONLY time this field will be valid.
	AdminPass string `json:"adminPass" mapstructure:"adminPass"`

	// SecurityGroups includes the security groups that this instance has applied to it
	SecurityGroups []map[string]interface{} `json:"security_groups" mapstructure:"security_groups"`
}

// ServerPage abstracts the raw results of making a List() request against the API.
// As OpenStack extensions may freely alter the response bodies of structures returned to the client, you may only safely access the
// data provided through the ExtractServers call.
type ServerPage struct {
	pagination.LinkedPageBase
}

// IsEmpty returns true if a page contains no Server results.
func (page ServerPage) IsEmpty() (bool, error) {
	servers, err := ExtractServers(page)
	if err != nil {
		return true, err
	}
	return len(servers) == 0, nil
}

// NextPageURL uses the response's embedded link reference to navigate to the next page of results.
func (page ServerPage) NextPageURL() (string, error) {
	type resp struct {
		Links []gophercloud.Link `mapstructure:"servers_links"`
	}

	var r resp
	err := mapstructure.Decode(page.Body, &r)
	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}

	return gophercloud.ExtractNextURL(r.Links)
}

// ExtractServers interprets the results of a single page from a List() call, producing a slice of Server entities.
func ExtractServers(page pagination.Page) ([]Server, error) {
	casted := page.(ServerPage).Body

	var response struct {
		Servers []Server `mapstructure:"servers"`
	}

	config := &mapstructure.DecoderConfig{
		DecodeHook: toMapFromString,
		Result:     &response,
	}
	decoder, err := mapstructure.NewDecoder(config)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	err = decoder.Decode(casted)

	return response.Servers, err
}

// MetadataResult contains the result of a call for (potentially) multiple key-value pairs.
type MetadataResult struct {
	gophercloud.Result
}

// GetMetadataResult temporarily contains the response from a metadata Get call.
type GetMetadataResult struct {
	MetadataResult
}

// ResetMetadataResult temporarily contains the response from a metadata Reset call.
type ResetMetadataResult struct {
	MetadataResult
}

// UpdateMetadataResult temporarily contains the response from a metadata Update call.
type UpdateMetadataResult struct {
	MetadataResult
}

// MetadatumResult contains the result of a call for individual a single key-value pair.
type MetadatumResult struct {
	gophercloud.Result
}

// GetMetadatumResult temporarily contains the response from a metadatum Get call.
type GetMetadatumResult struct {
	MetadatumResult
}

// CreateMetadatumResult temporarily contains the response from a metadatum Create call.
type CreateMetadatumResult struct {
	MetadatumResult
}

// DeleteMetadatumResult temporarily contains the response from a metadatum Delete call.
type DeleteMetadatumResult struct {
	gophercloud.ErrResult
}

// Extract interprets any MetadataResult as a Metadata, if possible.
func (r MetadataResult) Extract() (map[string]string, error) {
	if r.Err != nil {
		return nil, r.Err
	}

	var response struct {
		Metadata map[string]string `mapstructure:"metadata"`
	}

	err := mapstructure.Decode(r.Body, &response)
	return response.Metadata, err
}

// Extract interprets any MetadatumResult as a Metadatum, if possible.
func (r MetadatumResult) Extract() (map[string]string, error) {
	if r.Err != nil {
		return nil, r.Err
	}

	var response struct {
		Metadatum map[string]string `mapstructure:"meta"`
	}

	err := mapstructure.Decode(r.Body, &response)
	return response.Metadatum, err
}

func toMapFromString(from reflect.Kind, to reflect.Kind, data interface{}) (interface{}, error) {
	if (from == reflect.String) && (to == reflect.Map) {
		return map[string]interface{}{}, nil
	}
	return data, nil
}

// Address represents an IP address.
type Address struct {
	Version int    `mapstructure:"version"`
	Address string `mapstructure:"addr"`
}

// AddressPage abstracts the raw results of making a ListAddresses() request against the API.
// As OpenStack extensions may freely alter the response bodies of structures returned
// to the client, you may only safely access the data provided through the ExtractAddresses call.
type AddressPage struct {
	pagination.SinglePageBase
}

// IsEmpty returns true if an AddressPage contains no networks.
func (r AddressPage) IsEmpty() (bool, error) {
	addresses, err := ExtractAddresses(r)
	if err != nil {
		return true, err
	}
	return len(addresses) == 0, nil
}

// ExtractAddresses interprets the results of a single page from a ListAddresses() call,
// producing a map of addresses.
func ExtractAddresses(page pagination.Page) (map[string][]Address, error) {
	casted := page.(AddressPage).Body

	var response struct {
		Addresses map[string][]Address `mapstructure:"addresses"`
	}

	err := mapstructure.Decode(casted, &response)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	return response.Addresses, err
}

// NetworkAddressPage abstracts the raw results of making a ListAddressesByNetwork() request against the API.
// As OpenStack extensions may freely alter the response bodies of structures returned
// to the client, you may only safely access the data provided through the ExtractAddresses call.
type NetworkAddressPage struct {
	pagination.SinglePageBase
}

// IsEmpty returns true if a NetworkAddressPage contains no addresses.
func (r NetworkAddressPage) IsEmpty() (bool, error) {
	addresses, err := ExtractNetworkAddresses(r)
	if err != nil {
		return true, err
	}
	return len(addresses) == 0, nil
}

// ExtractNetworkAddresses interprets the results of a single page from a ListAddressesByNetwork() call,
// producing a slice of addresses.
func ExtractNetworkAddresses(page pagination.Page) ([]Address, error) {
	casted := page.(NetworkAddressPage).Body

	var response map[string][]Address
	err := mapstructure.Decode(casted, &response)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	var key string
	for k := range response {
		key = k
	}

	return response[key], err
}

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Best of the Bisons captured in new Wall of Recognition
Bisons honour past and present with new permanent installation
September 4, 2019 —
A permanent fixture honouring the very best of the Bisons, past and present, has been installed in the east end of the Extended Education hallway.
The wall features the annual award winners from the Bisons Brown and Gold banquet, past major national award winners (student-athletes and coaches), past athletic directors and national championship teams.
Inspired by the retirement of one of the Bisons most recognizable names, Coleen Dufresne — who won three national championships as the women's basketball head coach and led the Bisons as athletic director for 17 — the wall provides passers by and fans a glimpse at the Bisons' incredible history.
"The University of Manitoba Bisons Wall of Recognition gives us an opportunity to showcase and honour the exceptional contributions of the athletes, coaches and administrators that have blazed their paths in for our university and across the country," says Director of Athletics and Recreation, Gene Muller. " We are extremely proud of them, and so pleased to be able to share their achievements with the University community."
Please stay tuned for an announcement on an official unveiling ceremony.
Alumni, Bisons, Kinesiology and Recreation Management
It's OK to take time for yourself
A new study suggests self-compassion may offer mothers a positive way to deal with guilty feelings about looking after their health.
Kinesiology and Recreation Management
FKRM student has sights on Olympic gold
Taekwondo standout Skylar Park is competing for Canada at Tokyo 2020 this summer. Her studies at UM help keep her focused and grounded.
Intramural sports registration now open
Get in the game this winter at the University of Manitoba.
Connect with Kinesiology and Recreation Management
Contact Kinesiology and Recreation Management
Email: kinrec@umanitoba.ca
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The most famous waterfalls in Kerala,Athirapally and Vazhachal are situated on the Chalakudy river.Athirapally stands at 80 feet tall.Vazachal water fall is close to Athirapally and situated close to the dense forest.
View the beautiful Athirapally water falls.
View the Vazhachal water falls.
Upon arrival our representative will greet you at Kochi Airport/Railway Station.You will be driven directly to Athirapally which is 66 Kms from Cochin.Check in to your hotel and relax.After lunch we go for a sightseeing in Vazhachal.
After breakfast proceed for the sightseeing of Athirapally water falls.Later check out and proceed to Munnar, which is breathtakingly beautiful, a haven of peace and tranquility - the idyllic tourist destination in God's own country. On the way you can also watch the adorable waterfalls in Cheeyappara and colorful flowers in Blossom Garden. Explore rest of the day along with the nature. Overnight stay at the Hotel/Resort.
Day 03 : Munnar Sightseeing.
After breakfast proceed for a morning sightseeing trip of Munnar visiting the Eravikulam National Park, where you can see the very rare mountain goats natively called the Nilgiri Tahr. Visit Tea Museum and Mattupetty Lake & Dam & Kundala Lake. Enroute visit Echo Point, View Point & green carpet of Tea Gardens. Overnight stay at Munnar Hotel/Resort.
From over different categories of tour packages in India and International destinations, Revelation holidays is the tour company to use. Not only are our guides are effective in giving you the best journey, we're knowledgeable about the areas we venture out into. So no matter what you're looking for, Revelation Holidays has it. From South India to North India to multiple day long drives under the sky, we've got you covered. Come explore the nations most beautiful and scenic areas with us, we're certain you'll be wanting more.


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Hang On for Three More Months
Some simple advice for anyone contemplating a holiday gathering: Wait until March.
Zeynep Tufekci,
By Zeynep Tufekci
Associate Professor, UNC
Hunkering down to wait out the coronavirus isn't easy. The costs of isolation are steep. Quarantine fatigue is real. The chance to gather with extended family and friends this holiday season is particularly alluring to those of us battling loneliness. Ritual is the bedrock of human society, and forsaking it feels even more destabilizing in a year that has already thrown us all off-kilter.
Even so, I have a simple suggestion for anyone contemplating a large gathering this month: Wait until March.
I recognize that's not a small sacrifice. For most Americans, the COVID-19 restrictions began last March, when schools shut down and toilet paper was nowhere to be found, and the toll has only mounted over time. It's been a long year. Human connection is no luxury, not something we can easily forego. Socializing is one of the most important contributors to our health and well-being. Social isolation predicts mortality at similar levels to smoking. It's a greater risk than obesity, elevated blood pressure, and high cholesterol.
But this Christmas will be a particularly terrible time to catch the coronavirus. Hospitals nationwide are already overwhelmed, ICUs stretched to their limit. A surge of cases tied to the holidays could further challenge hospitals' capacity to provide lifesaving care. Meanwhile, treatments are improving, testing is expanding, and vaccines are arriving. If your loved ones can stay healthy a few months longer, they might be much likelier to survive the disease—or to avoid contracting it entirely.
[Julia Marcus: The danger of assuming family time is dispensable]
If you want to convince your relatives—especially your elderly relatives, who are at greatest risk—that gathering this holiday season is a bad idea, warning them of the potential consequences will get you only so far. Instead, offer them something that's recently been in scarce supply: genuine hope.
There are good reasons to believe that the United States is about to experience a dramatic turnaround in its fight against the coronavirus, even as much remains uncertain. Keep your fingers crossed, knock on wood, sprinkle evil eyes in every nook and cranny, and offer a thought and a prayer and more coffee to the millions who will be working hard to pull this off. The future—even the near future—looks hopeful, even as the current moment looks particularly grim.
While apples-to-apples comparisons are hard—we were testing so much less in the spring—we almost certainly face a much bigger nationwide epidemic today than we did in the early, awful days of the pandemic, but the death rate is now much lower. Better clinical practices, more drugs, and a deeper understanding of how to treat COVID-19 have improved outcomes. However, those gains are fragile. The current surge of cases has placed hospitals around the nation under great strain. Some face shortages of beds and space, or even more dire, of trained personnel. An ICU bed without ICU nurses, after all, is just a bed.
Since the surge is occurring nationwide, health-care workers cannot go to the trouble spots to relieve their exhausted colleagues, as they did during the initial spring crisis in the New York area. Moreover, many are simply exhausted after a very difficult year. Inexcusable shortages of personal protective equipment at the outset of the pandemic forced nurses to improvise, with some donning garbage bags to treat patients. The months of hard work that followed forced many health-care workers to stay away from family members, to spare them from the risk. Some have watched colleagues succumb to the disease, or faced staffing shortages so dire that they had to keep working after testing positive for COVID-19.
[Read: 'No one is listening to us']
We've recently been breaking horrifying records almost daily: the most cases detected. The most hospitalized. The most deaths per day. All the gains in saving lives may be lost if hospital capacity is so strained that standards of care drop—and they may well drop, because people can only do so much for so long—or if overcrowding forces hospitals to raise the bar for admission. When caregivers are spent and sleep-deprived, medical errors increase, and motor and perceptual skills decline. Exhaustion strains our attention, memory, flexibility, and ability to adapt, and our general mood. We can push our health-care workers and hospital capacity only so far before feeling the consequences—indeed, those consequences are already being felt.
The fight against the coronavirus has been called a "national marshmallow test" that we're failing. In a famous study, children were left alone with a marshmallow for 15 minutes, and promised a second if they didn't eat the first. Kids who were better at delaying gratification were found to be more successful later in life. At first, this correlation was explained as demonstrating the importance of willpower and executive function.
Later, a team of researchers set out to replicate this study and uncovered something profound. Once they adjusted for factors such as household income, mother's education, and home environment at age 3, the effect disappeared. Further variations of the study showed that whether the children judged the promise to be reliable made a great difference in whether, and how long, they were willing to hold off for the reward. Indeed, access to a consistently well-stocked pantry makes it easier to believe those who say that a bigger reward awaits those who can resist eating the marshmallow right away. The precarity and instability of poverty encourage people to live in the moment, simply because the future is so uncertain. Willpower and grit are not merely personal characteristics, existing in a vacuum devoid of social reality. And, yes, hope works, but only when it is realistic and not an empty promise.
If we failed our national marshmallow test this summer and fall, perhaps that says something about how little reason the public was given for optimism. Hope can't just be a slogan or a pep talk; it must be justified by facts, experiences, and trustworthy promises. And in fairness, until last month, it was less clear when and how this would all end.
But hope is justified today. Multiple vaccines are now in development. Pfizer's, just approved for use in the United States, and Moderna's, expected to be approved shortly, both use messenger RNA—a piece of genetic code that carries instructions to create a protein—to deliver the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 to our cells. The spike protein is the bit the pathogen uses as a key to gain entry to our cells. The idea is that by allowing the body to do target practice with just the spike protein, we can train it to handle the actual virus. Using messenger RNA in this fashion has until now been just a promising idea—but research during the pandemic has shown that at least for this virus, it works very, very well.
As late as April, Anthony Fauci and other experts cautioned us that even a year to 18 months would be an optimistic timeline for having a vaccine. Just five months ago, the FDA announced that it would approve vaccines that were at least 50 percent efficacious at preventing disease. Despite that long timeline and those modest expectations—both amply justified by previous experience—we already have two vaccines that have proven to be about 95 percent efficacious in large-scale trials. Even better, they have been shown to cut severe disease to near zero.
The United States is hoping to vaccinate 50 million people by the end of January, and the actual number vaccinated this winter could be even higher. The logistical challenges are substantial and many things can still go wrong. But speedy, effective vaccines have been the most stellar part of the global response, and more—many more—are on the way.
[Read: The next six months will be vaccine purgatory]
The first 50 million people to be vaccinated will give us more bang for our buck than the next 50 million, because the vaccination rollout will start with the elderly and other high-risk groups, health-care professionals, essential workers. While the exact order of vaccination has not yet been decided, the elderly and those at high risk must get some of the first vaccines, because those groups suffer the most from COVID-19. The risk profile of this disease is strikingly exponential: The risk of death for those ages 65 to 69 is a staggering two and a half times that of those just a decade younger. Those just a few years older, ages 75 to 79, face six times the risk of death compared with that same age group (ages 55 to 59). The steepness of this age curve really matters, because it means that protecting the most vulnerable groups with a highly efficacious vaccine will both quickly change our experience of the pandemic and relieve the strain on our hospitals. After that, vaccinating health-care workers ensures that they can continue to fight the pandemic without being sidelined. Essential workers don't have the luxury of staying at home; their jobs may expose them to the virus, and they can expose others in turn. But it now seems plausible that many millions will be vaccinated rapidly. Indeed, the first batch of almost 3 million doses is being distributed as I type.
What about all the skepticism and the cautions? All the warnings that we don't know if the vaccine prevents infection rather than just disease, that we won't be able to stop wearing masks and social distancing anytime soon? Here, it's important to distinguish between things we don't know yet and things that just won't happen. Sometimes, as in this case, We don't know just means "We haven't yet measured it." While we need to wait for actual confirmation to relax, there is no need to assume the worst, which would be that the vaccines suppress the disease but provide no protection against infectiousness.
We already know that symptomatic COVID-19 patients are a lot more contagious than those who remain completely asymptomatic; it is reasonable to expect that reducing or eliminating symptomatic infection will help reduce transmission. Early results, moreover, already suggest that the vaccines may lower the rate of asymptomatic infection by two-thirds just weeks after the first dose is administered. Deepta Bhattacharya, an immunologist at the University of Arizona, told me that decades of research on viral immunology suggest we should feel confident that the vaccines will reduce transmission and contagiousness as well. Studies on those questions are in progress now, but all the indications we have give reason to be upbeat. And those who have been vaccinated already are known to benefit greatly in terms of avoiding the disease themselves.
There are also open questions about the durability of the immunity provided by the vaccines. The existing trials have tracked participants for at least three months and have provided tremendously encouraging data for at least that long. As millions more are vaccinated and as trials and measurements continue, we will get a lot more data. Yes, it's wise for those who have been vaccinated to maintain their precautions for now, especially since vaccines take a while to have an effect. But we can also remind ourselves that, so far, all the data we have seen have been greatly reassuring, far exceeding our initial hopes.
All these reasons for optimism are also reasons to delay your Christmas gathering until March. Even if our hopes are not fully realized, at a minimum, waiting until March helps avoid the risk of infection during this grim period. Plus, March offers potentially better weather, which seems to slow down transmission of the virus while also allowing us to engage in safer practices such as gathering outdoors and opening windows. While young people can occasionally suffer greatly or even die from the coronavirus, and while questions remain about the long-term effects of the virus, an overwhelming majority of those who are hospitalized or die are older, with higher risk factors. As the elderly are vaccinated, hospitals may finally be able to gain some breathing room—lavishing better care on a smaller number of patients, and further driving down the death rate. Plus, scarce lifesaving therapeutics such as monoclonal antibodies—in short supply for everyone except the politically connected—will become available to a greater proportion of those who fall ill. As the essential workers on whom we rely are vaccinated, the rate of transmission is bound to slow down for all groups. And as hospital workers are vaccinated, they may become less stressed.
Vaccinating the first 50 million people won't just protect them—it will make all of us safer and the nation better-off. We don't yet know how much better things will get this spring, but we can already tell that the situation seems set to rapidly improve. We can see the brightening light at the end of the tunnel, if we can make it through this last, darkest stretch. Postpone that Christmas party, if you can. Protect the members of your family who are elderly, or who are at heightened risk; keep them safe now, as we stand on the precipice of relief. We cannot guarantee the future, but just as the dangers of this grim winter are real, so are the reasons for hope.
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This will be a really different experience in your life! Teach at university and taste Cool life! Heilongjiang International University, HIU is located at north of Songhua river in Harbin, China.
Heilongjiang International University (HIU) has celebrated over 25 years of delivering excellent education. Rated 2nd amongst private foreign language universities in China and overall 26th amongst private universities, HIU is proud of it's achievement.
Our focus is preparing students to become global citizens of the future. We receive strong local industry, government and community support in delivering excellent education.
HIU is situated in historic Harbin, the capital of the Heilongjiang Province. Harbin has been influenced by many cultures throughout the years, which is reflected in our impressive architecture.
Maximum of 20 teaching hours per week, paid holidays.
9. Free Mandarin Chinese class and cultural orientation.


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La panchina è un elemento dell'arredo urbano: si tratta di un sedile fisso che può ospitare più persone ed è solitamente situato all'aperto in aree pubbliche come piazze o parchi, nonostante si possa trovare anche in interni quali aeroporti, sale di aspetto, alberghi, ecc. laddove si debba garantire la seduta a più persone. Normalmente è realizzata in legno, pietra o metallo e può avere o meno dei braccioli; è facile trovarla anche di materiale plastico, specialmente se destinata ai giardini di case private.

La panchina, in quanto luogo di sosta e relazione, ha seguito, col passare del tempo, le logiche dell'architettura e dell'organizzazione delle città, riflettendo la trasformazione delle forme di socialità di cui diviene un simbolo.

Caratteristiche
Le panchine vengono costruite con una varietà di materiali diversi, alcuni sono considerati standard per la loro resistenza nel tempo.

Acciaio verniciato a polvere: le panchine costruite con questo materiale si trovano spesso all'ingresso di luoghi come negozi, ospedali e centri sportivi, e possono avere una grande varietà di colori e stili.
Alluminio: le panchine costruite con questo materiale si trovano spesso all'aperto, sono leggere, economiche e resistono agli agenti corrosivi.
Legno: le panchine costruite con questo materiale richiedono un'alta manutenzione perché devono essere trattate regolarmente con insetticidi o essere ritinte per massimizzarne la durata. Solitamente si trovano lungo i sentieri e i parchi pubblici. Quelle realizzate con legni di alta qualità, come il mogano, la sequoia o il teak, sono situate per lo più all'interno di resort, ristoranti o edifici residenziali.
Ghisa: è una lega ferrosa (composta principalmente da ferro e carbonio); essendo un materiale particolarmente resistente agli eventi atmosferici è molto usata nella realizzazione di arredi urbani (lampioni, cestini, ringhiere). Tipicamente per la realizzazione di panchine è combinata con listelli di legno. Le caratteristiche del materiale consentono la realizzazione di motivi ornamentali particolarmente fantasiosi.
Marmo: Le panchine di marmo sono arredi urbani di lunga durata, data la loro pesantezza e resistenza agli agenti esterni. Sono spesso installate in edifici di particolare importanza o nelle piazze storiche. Talvolta il marmo viene usato insieme ad altri materiali per ridurne i costi.
Plastica riciclata: le panchine di plastica riciclata non richiedono una manutenzione eccessiva e sono disponibili in vari colori e stili, oltre ad essere adatte a qualsiasi ambiente. Per questo motivo è possibile trovarle negli stabilimenti balneari, poiché resistono ad agenti atmosferici come la salsedine, particolarmente corrosivi.
Termoplastica: si tratta di un materiale ecosostenibile utilizzato come rivestimento per le panchine in metallo. La termoplastica, rispetto ad altri rivestimenti, è facilmente riparabile e consente alle panchine in metallo di resistere a una varietà di climi e condizioni meteorologiche.
Vetronite: questo materiale particolarmente versatile consente di realizzare panchine con diversi tipi di design, finiture e colori; è adatto sia per interni che esterni. Non richiede una particolare manutenzione e può essere lavorato secondo lo stile di ogni tipo di edificio.

Storia

Panca di via
Le origini della panchina sono riconducibili all'uso di panche pubbliche, che già nell'antichità facevano parte della vita urbana delle città, come testimoniano i resti di sedute pubbliche ritrovate nella Valle dei Templi e gli scavi di Pompei. Tuttavia, è in Toscana tra il XIV e il XV secolo che le panche assumono maggiore importanza, in concomitanza con un processo di valorizzazione delle piazze, delle logge e delle vie principali, che porterà alla nascita delle città moderne. Si tratta di città che non rinunciano all'estetica e che vogliono "mostrarsi ad ogni costo come opera d'arte". Nelle città toscane lo spazio pubblico inizia ad essere utilizzato per svariati tipi di eventi (matrimoni, processioni, giostre, cerimonie) e la panca di via permette di assistere alle vicende della vita pubblica. In particolare Firenze, dalla metà Quattrocento, si avvia a una frenetica espansione costruttiva e le panche diventano tutt'uno con i nuovi palazzi. Palazzo Medici ad esempio, è costeggiato da una lunga panca di via che, pur avendo un aspetto rustico e vernacolare, "traduce la grandezza dei signori di Firenze" e diventa la "soglia che separa e che lega al tempo stesso il palazzo e la sua piazza". Così se da una parte il palazzo si apre verso il popolo e lo spazio esterno, dall'altro l'autorità, in questo caso quella dei Medici, rivendica il proprio potere. Esistono ancora diversi esempi di panche di via come quella che corre intorno a Palazzo Strozzi o quella sotto la Loggia dei Lanzi, altro esempio di luogo di contemplazione dello spazio urbano.

La panchina come luogo di sosta
Nel progredire dei secoli, il luogo pubblico ha continuato ad essere percepito come spazio comunitario. L'idea della condivisione del paesaggio urbano (e del piacere che se ne può trarre) è stata elaborata da ogni società in modo diverso e ha condizionato la definizione e la creazione di luoghi vissuti dalla collettività: dagli spazi delle attività lavorative, politiche e istituzionali, a quelli della discussione pubblica, dei servizi e del divertimento. Per questo motivo la disposizione di ogni fontana, ogni panchina, ogni scalinata condiziona il modo di vivere lo spazio pubblico. Gli spazi urbani prevedono anche la sosta collettiva: come afferma l'architetto e disegnatore Bernard Rudofsky, "nel fornire piacere all'occhio, gli architetti non dimenticavano le natiche".La panchina, in particolare, è il luogo della pausa per eccellenza e, in quanto tale, assume sempre più importanza mano a mano che i ritmi e la vita delle persone si evolvono diventando più frenetici e veloci.

Da prodotto artigianale a prodotto industriale
Durante la prima fase dell'industrializzazione, i metodi di costruzione e i materiali utilizzati dagli architetti per la realizzazione dei sedili da interno vengono riproposti per ambienti esterni e, viceversa, quelli utilizzati all'esterno si ripetono nella creazione degli arredi interni. Lo storico dell'architettura Sigfried Giedion è stato il primo a notare questa correlazione, mettendo in evidenza come la struttura del balloon frame, uno dei sistemi costruttivi più importanti per la creazione di edifici in legno, sia sottilmente collegata al design della seggiola Windsor, oggetto altrettanto importante per la storia dell'arredamento americano: "I sottili listelli da due pollici della struttura balloon frame si alzano nell'aria apparentemente senza peso [...] la stessa idea, di usare sottili membri strutturali per ottenere una costruzione della massima solidità, era apparsa un secolo prima nello sviluppo della seggiola Windsor". Secondo Giedion, il balloon frame e la seggiola Windsor hanno in comune "la stessa tendenza verso il lavoro anonimo e la produzione di serie, ottenendo efficienza e leggerezza con mezzi semplici". La panchina ottocentesca, che non è menzionata dallo storico forse perché ritenuta meno nobile della seggiola Windsor, rispecchia tuttavia questi stessi principi. Un altro elemento costruttivo tecnico che avrà una profonda influenza sulla tipologia di panchina è la ghisa, primo dei materiali da costruzione prodotto industrialmente ad essere usato nell'edilizia. Anche le strutture realizzate con questo materiale rievocano la leggera solidità del balloon frame. Grazie alla sua versatilità, la ghisa ha trovato larga applicazione nella produzione di massa di oggetti di diversa dimensione e destinazione d'uso, come per l'appunto le panchine. Tuttavia, quest'ultime vengono più spesso realizzate combinando materiali diversi: la ghisa è sì utilizzata per creare la struttura di sostegno, ma lo schienale o, a volte, soltanto la seduta sono più comunemente costruiti in legno. È con l'industrializzazione che la panchina diventa protagonista della città, al pari dei lampioni dei ponti degli ascensori dei grandi magazzini e poi dei grattacieli.

In letteratura
In letteratura la panchina svolge la funzione di luogo dell'incontro e del dialogo tra i personaggi; è su una panchina che si conoscono Frédéric Moreau e Madame Arnoux in L'educazione sentimentale di Gustave Flaubert (1869), ne Le notti bianche (1848) di Fëdor Dostoevskij tutta l'azione dei personaggi si concentra dinnanzi alla ringhiera di un canale e poi sulla panchina; nasce e si chiude su una panchina anche la novella di Samuel Beckett Primo amore (1946). La panchina è assoluta protagonista ne La nausea (1938), romanzo di Jean-Paul Sartre: qui il protagonista riesce a capire la natura del proprio male (la nausea, appunto) arrivando a percepire e a comprendere il caos e l'assurdità dell'esistenza.

Ne La villeggiatura in panchina, inserita nella raccolta Marcovaldo ovvero Le stagioni in città (1963) di Italo Calvino. Marcovaldo cerca di sfuggire ai rumori e alle noie della città rifugiandosi su una panchina nel verde.

Nell'arte

Nei suoi dipinti Conversazione in un parco (1746) e Coniugi Andrews (1750 circa), il pittore Thomas Gainsborough ritrae due coppie che fanno parte rispettivamente dell'aristocrazia e della landed gentry britannica, offrendo uno spaccato dell'alta società inglese di metà '700 e dei simboli di status che la caratterizzano. In queste due opere, i soggetti siedono su una panchina decentrata, mentre la natura che li circonda occupa una buona porzione dei dipinti.
Nella Parigi di fine '800, sono alcuni pittori impressionisti a ritrarre la panchina, ormai diffusa nei parchi e nelle strade. Nell'opera Le Banc (1881) di Édouard Manet la panchina si trova al centro dell'ambiente e nessuno vi siede sopra. I dipinti di Berthe Morisot, invece, inquadrano la popolazione parigina anche negli attimi di pausa dalla frenesia della vita urbana, come in Una donna seduta su una panchina sull'Avenue du Bois (non datato) e in Eugène Manet e sua figlia nel giardino di Bougival (1881).

Vincent Van Gogh ritrae una seduta tra gli alberi nell'olio su tela Panchina di pietra nel manicomio di Saint-Remy (1889). In Notte nel Parco (1921) di Edward Hopper le panchine e il lampione consentono a un uomo di leggere un giornale di notte a Central Park.

Nella performance "Vestirsi di sedia" (1971), Gianni Pettena invita dieci dei suoi allievi a percorrere la città di Minneapolis indossando a mo' di zaino una sorta di panchina personale.

Alcuni politici si sono fatti fotografare su una panchina, come Richard Nixon nel 1964 a Central Park o Lenin nel 1922 a Gorki Leninskie.

Panchine letterarie
La panchina è anche oggetto della cosiddetta arte di strada. Nell'estate 2014, cinquanta panchine a forma di libro sono state posizionate per le strade di Londra grazie al progetto Books about Town, ideato e realizzato dalla National Literacy Trust, un ente che promuove l'alfabetizzazione e lo sviluppo della cultura letteraria. La panchina-libro originaria è stata progettata dall'organizzazione Wild in Art. La National Literacy Trust ha poi coinvolto artisti locali e di fama internazionale per decorare i cinquanta esemplari, ispirandosi alle opere dei più grandi autori inglesi. Un progetto analogo è stato lanciato anche in Italia dal Museo d'arte urbana di Torino, quando nel 2010 l'artista intinerante torninese Vito Navolio ha reinterpretato dieci panchine, dedicandole ai principali maestri dell'arte contemporanea.

Panchina gigante

Nel 2010, per iniziativa del designer americano Chris Bangle, è stata installata in Borgata Gorrea, a Clavesana, la prima riproduzione di una panchina fuori scala, resa accessibile al pubblico, che permette ai visitatori di arrampicarvisi e sedersi ammirando il paesaggio di fronte, con una percezione simile a quella che avrebbe un bambino piccolo seduto su una panchina di dimensione standard.

L'idea ha stimolato la nascita di altre grandi panchine, che rappresentano un punto di interesse turistico. Questo ha portato, nel 2014, alla nascita del Big Bench Community Project, associazione che ha l'obiettivo di collegare i costruttori di panchine alle realtà artigiane locali, con l'idea di restituire un contributo alla comunità. Per regolamento le panchine possono essere costruite solamente con l'ausilio di contributi privati, senza fare ricorso a fondi pubblici.

Chris Bangle stesso ha fornito gratuitamente disegni e indicazioni ai costruttori delle panchine, tutte ubicate in posizioni panoramiche ed aperte al pubblico.

Questa moda si è diffusa rapidamente soprattutto in Piemonte sollevando anche perplessità e controversie.

Nel cinema
La panchina è un arredo scenico che agevola le riprese frontali o laterali e che può svolgere diverse funzioni narrative, diventando il luogo dell'incontro o della riflessione dei personaggi.

Nella scena finale del film L'avventura di Michelangelo Antonioni, il personaggio maschile, Sandro, siede su una panchina, mentre la sua compagna, Claudia, è in piedi accanto a lui e gli accarezza i capelli.

In Manhattan di Woody Allen, la scena, riprodotta nel manifesto del film, in cui i due personaggi Ike e Mary, siedono su una panchina è diventata iconica.

In Forrest Gump, il protagonista, racconta la propria vita agli sconosciuti che si siedono accanto a lui in Chippewa Square, a Savannah. La panchina utilizzata per le riprese si trova adesso nel museo di storia di Savannah.

Ne La 25ª ora di Spike Lee: il protagonista, Monty, condannato a scontare una pena in carcere, passa alcune delle sue ultime ore di libertà su una delle panchine affacciate sull'Hudson; queste, tra le più note di New York, disegnate da Robert Moses, furono prodotte per la Fiera mondiale di New York nel 1939.

Panchine nei parchi storici

Reggia di Caserta
La Reggia di Caserta possiede un imponente giardino posto attorno alla via di collegamento tra il cortile del palazzo e la Grande Cascata. Carlo Vanvitelli progettista giardino all'inglese posiziona all'interno del sottobosco vicino alla Grande Cascata, dei blocchi di pietra grezzi con funzione di panchine che sembrano quasi confondersi con la natura. La loro funzione è più decorativa che di seduta vera e propria.

Parco dei Mostri di Bomarzo
Nel Parco dei Mostri di Bomarzo si trova una serie di panche e panchine atipiche che, come le altre strutture presenti nel sito, sono ibridi tra un oggetto e la figura umana, oppure tra due diversi oggetti:

La panca di Proserpina: una figura femminile si prolunga in basso fino a diventare panca.
Casa pendente: un bizzarro edificio la cui struttura interna può provocare le vertigini; come tutti i grandi palazzi del '300, presenta una panca di via, che, essendo accostata all'edificio, segue la pendenza della casa.
La panca araldica: una panca interamente ricavata da un blocco di pietra, completa di schienale su cui sono scolpiti appunto due insegne araldiche.
L'antro (o ninfeo): questo luogo è caratterizzato dalla presenza di una scultura delle Tre Grazie abbracciate, del Ninfeo e della fontana dei Delfini; qui c'è una panca integrata nella costruzione architettonica che, alla sua estremità, è dotata di un sedile di pietra che si trasforma in una figura metà umana e metà spirale.
La bocca dell'orco: la situazione dello spettatore qui è invertita in quanto trovandosi dentro la grotta osserva la natura circostante dalla prospettiva dell'orco.

Parc Güell
Al Parco Güell nella Plaza de la Naturaleza, una tortuosa panchina a forma di serpente assolve la funzione di parapetto e, al contempo, eleva il pregio estetico della piazza: le rientranze e le sporgenze della panchina-balaustra sono decorate utilizzando il trencadís, ossia aggregando cocci di vetro e piastrelle ceramiche variamente colorate. La piazza ospita attività sociali, come riunioni o eventi culturali e religiosi, anche grazie alla presenza di questa lunga panchina.

Parco Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Il giardino di Ermenonville, creato da René de Girardin, cambia nome in Parco Jean-Jacques Rousseau poiché il filosofo francese vi trascorre le ultime sei settimane della sua vita. Le sue spoglie vengono sepolte prima in un'isola del parco (L'isola dei Cigni, ribattezzata Isola dei Pioppi), poi trasferite al Pantheon. La panca delle madri di famiglia, che si trova di fronte alla tomba ormai vuota di Rousseau "diviene panca assoluta, la seduta che assorbe e che concentra l'attenzione del visitatore".

Il circuit-walk garden e il ruolo della panchina
La creazione del parco di Ermenonville è stata influenzata dal "circuit-walk garden", un sistema per cui il giardino è concepito come un grande circuito. Questa visione del giardino può essere collocata nell'Italia rinascimentale e nell'Inghilterra del diciottesimo secolo. Negli spazi progettati in questo modo la panchina consente allo spettatore di "leggere" esteticamente il paesaggio, inquadrandolo nel modo migliore e segnalando la presenza di oggetti degni di nota; così la disposizione delle sedute offre anche una chiave di decifrazione del paesaggio stesso e permette di mettere in relazione la fonte visiva con le emozioni che da essa scaturiscono. La panchina diventa anche il luogo del contrasto tra l'autonomia dello spettatore e una lettura dello spazio interamente progettata da altri: il giardino è destinato ad essere attraversato da soggetti autonomi, ma non c'è libertà nella scelta del percorso, che quindi offre un'unica visione del mondo. La panchina incarna così questa costrizione.

Panchine e socialità

La possibilità di sedersi è stata identificata come un fattore chiave per consentire alle persone di vivere gli spazi pubblici ed interagire socialmente. Il sostare su una panchina consente la lettura all'aperto, la contemplazione del paesaggio e del passeggio o più semplicemente l'utilizzo della seduta come appoggio. Le panchine possono, inoltre, rivelare dinamiche di esclusione e marginalizzazione sociale. In molti casi le amministrazioni pubbliche cercano di evitare che le persone utilizzino le panchine per dormire. Una delle strategie più comuni messe in atto per raggiungere questo obiettivo è ricorrere a design che rendano le sedute particolarmente scomode: le panchine senza schienale, oppure quelle dotate di braccioli che interrompono la seduta, o ancora panchine con sedili inclinati verso il basso. Queste strategie vanno sotto il nome di architettura ostile.

L'inserimento di sedute nei luoghi pubblici è stato riconosciuto dall'Organizzazione mondiale della sanità come un intervento essenziale per creare città più adatte alla popolazione europea la cui età media è in crescita. Per fare un esempio, le panchine facilitano la mobilità di chi soffre di malattie e disabilità che deve organizzare i propri percorsi in base alla disposizione delle possibili soste.

A volte il design degli interni dei grandi centri commerciali ripropone un'organizzazione dello spazio simile a quella cittadina, nel tentativo di favorire il comfort dei clienti. Così oltre a fioriere e fontane, in questi luoghi vengono disposte panchine di tutte le forme, materiali e colori: dalla riproduzione delle panchine di ferro tradizionali all'inserimento di elementi architettonici high-tech, o vernacolari, o naturalistici.

Uso simbolico

Pur essendo considerate oggetti di arredo urbano, le panchine si prestano anche a ricoprire una funzione simbolica e memoriale. Mediante l'utilizzo di combinazioni di colori e materiali la panchina viene trasformata in un elemento simbolico che in determinati casi assume un valore sia culturale che morale: in occasione del Pride Month, in molte città, italiane e non, alcune panchine vengono dipinte con i colori della bandiera arcobaleno, mentre nella giornata contro la violenza sulle donne le panchine vengono colorate di rosso. A Roma il 1 marzo 2020 è stata inaugurata una "panchina della memoria", si tratta di una panchina dipinta con i colori della bandiera italiana che riporta i nomi del giornalista Eduardo Becchetti e dei tipografi Amedeo Fatucci, Leo Funaro e Pellegrino Vivanti, catturati durante il rastrellamento nazista del ghetto di Roma, avvenuto il 16 ottobre 1943.

Sport
Negli sport di squadra, questo termine indica gli atleti che non vengono impiegati da titolari e il luogo fisico in cui si trovano, pronti ad essere impiegati nel caso in cui l'allenatore ne necessiti la presenza in campo. In senso figurato, l'allenatore occupa la panchina della squadra o è chiamato in panchina da una società: si tratta quindi della metafora della squadra stessa.

Non è solo un elemento dell'arredo urbano, nella disciplina del parkour è uno degli elementi architettonici che maggiormente si presta a differenti tipologie di espressioni motorie (Demi tour, Saut de Chat, Jambe intérieure...);

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Bibliografia

Voci correlate
 Panca di via
 Architettura ostile
 Organizzazione mondiale della sanità

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

 Big Bench Community Project

Arredi urbani
Sedute
Terminologia sportiva

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British underwater photographer and BSoUP member LES KEMP from East Grinstead won the Egyptian Underwater Sports Federation (EUSF) award for the best macro shot at the recent first World Cup of Underwater Photography organised by the World Underwater Federation (CMAS) and EUSF at Sharm El Sheikh in the Gulf of Aqaba.
The event was the largest underwater photographic competition ever staged. Competing against 52 other underwater photographers from 29 countries, Les' winning photograph of a sea slug and a second macro shot of the eye of a puffer fish also earned him third place overall in the macro category and a CMAS award.
The competition took place during the week beginning I I June and involved one day of practice followed by three days of competition. Each of the 53 competitors was allowed six films of his or her choice to be exposed during six dives at six different sites - Ras Mohammed, Ras Nasrani, Ras Um Sid, Amphoras, Near Garden and The Tower. Competitors and their models (if any) were split into groups of up to eight and each group assigned a boat for the duration of the event.
Conditions were hot and windy, with record temperatures of 450C in the shade in Cairo! Les Kemp and fellow British team members LINDA PITKIN (second photographer) and AMANDA LEVICK (model), shared a boat with Ireland's NIGEL MOTYER and PAT McCOOLE and Autralia's LANCE and LYN ADRIAN and their model KATHY. The competition dive sites were closed to all other boats during the morning and afternoon sessions, so that no more than 32 divers on four boats were in the water at one time. Although this may seem a large number it has to be remembered that about 200 hundred boats now operate out of Sharm!
Four boats departed from Naama Bay for each of the six dive sites at 15 minute intervals, those having farthest to go leaving earliest. This worked reasonably well, although the 6.30 departure to Ras Mohammed meant that competitors had to forego breakfast! There were also a few last minute substitutes for boats with engine failure. Competitors and their models were accommodated at the New Tiran, Cataract and Kahramana hotels with the jury and organisers staying at the Novotel Hilton.
Early on Friday morning each photographer had to submit six slides - two macro, two fish and two wide-angle - for judging by an international panel comprising WALTER TICHY, President of the CMAS Technical Committee, ADEL EL ABBOUDY (Egypt), HELMUT DEBELIUS (Germany), BYUNGDOO LEE (Korea), BRIAN PITKIN (Great Britain) and ROGER STEENE (Australia). During the six hour session each member of the jury allocated between I and 10 points to each of the submitted slides. All points awarded by any jury member to a fellow countryman or woman were replaced by an average of the points of the other five jury members.
The top ten slides in each category were projected and the results were announced prior to a late gala buffet dinner at the Tower Hotel on Friday evening. Awards were presented to the top ten photographers in each category, to all the members of the jury and the organisers.
The macro category was won by Carlos MINGUELL (Spain), with Milan CZAPAY (Germany) second, beating Britain's Les KEMP, in third place, by just 1.2 points!
The fish category was won by Milan CZAPAY (Germany), with Nigel MOTYER (Ireland) in second place and Lyn ADRIAN (Australia) in third place. Lyn ADRIAN also won the award for the best fish photograph. Britain's Linda PITKIN came tenth in the fish category.
The wide-angle category was won by Claudio BERTASINI, with Xavier SAFONT (SPAIN) in second place and Massimo SANFELICE (Italy) in third place. Claudio BERTASINI also won the award for the best wide-angle photograph.


The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) formulated a standard of "Proximity Services" (ProSe), also called "Device-to-Device" (D2D) communication, which is a promising technology to provide high throughput and low latency services between end-users.
Handover is an essential issue in wireless networks, especially for the mobility of a user equipment (UE). We need to transfer the connection from the source eNB to target eNB so that the UE can achieve the better quality.
The main idea of this paper is that the two D2D devices can communicate directly without additional transmissions through a base station, but their control signals must connect to the eNBs so that the base stations can adjust the power of devices and allocate the resources. And in the current standard of handover mechanism, the number of unnecessary handover could be increased by the effect of shadowing fading. Moreover, LTE-A only considers the handover procedure of single user; the handover mechanism for a D2D pair is not standardized. When a D2D pair moves around the cell boundary, the control signal of two UEs may connect to different base stations. The latency could be increased due to the exchange of D2D related information. Hence, we propose a mechanism of handover decision and timing based on D2D communication in order to minimize the signaling overhead. We hope that two D2D devices can connect to the same eNB as much as possible for a lower signaling overhead. First, we predict the target eNB based on the movement of the two devices and the relationship of signal with the neighboring eNBs. Second, we collaborate two D2D devices with eNBs to make a handover decision in the light of the received power or the stability of connection. Simulation results validate that the proposed scheme can reduce the number of handoffs and the signaling overhead to achieve a better performance.


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Featured Project: Lollygagging at Surly Brewing Co.'s new Destination Brewery
by Loll Designs | Aug 07, 2015
As craft beer aficionados, we're long-time fans of Surly Brewery Co., often hailed as the brewery that started the Minnesota craft beer boom. So, in 2011, when Surly announced plans to open a new Destination Brewery in southeast Minneapolis, we were eager to get involved. After all, lollygagging + beer go hand in hand. After four years of planning and construction, the new beer hall opened in December 2014. Formerly a potato-processing plant, the $30 million, 5,000 square-foot facility includes a 220-seat Beer Hall & Restaurant, featuring custom Loll tables and benches on the patio. The brewery also includes a 90-seat fine-dining restaurant upstairs called Brewer's Table, a 130-seat event center, and a 1.5-acre outdoor beer garden – bigger than a football field! The outdoor beer garden accommodates up to 1,000 beer drinkers and features Loll tables as well as benches surrounded by gas-filled fire pits. Aside from the amazing atmosphere and phenomenal beer, we have to say, the food is nothing short of amazing. The Surly culinary team has put together a bold menu, which has approachable items like burgers and fried chicken, but also some more exciting, upscale items, like bone marrow, beef cheek birria, house-made charcuterie, foie gras and much more. Best of all, the offerings are a perfect partner to their beer.
So why Loll?
Linda Haug, Surly's hospitality operations director, says they choose Loll for several reasons:
The Surly leadership team had seen Loll furniture at Room & Board and liked it – or, in Linda's case, "coveted it."
Surly's architecture firm HGA Architects suggested Loll.
Surly was impressed by the Loll furniture at Duluth-based Canal Park Brewing Company, including how the black Loll furniture stood out against the white of the snow.
The Surly team liked the idea of an up-cycled and Minnesota-made product
Surly was looking for durability – they wanted to be able to leave pieces out during the winter.
With the furniture now on site, Haug says the Loll furniture fits in with the eclectic atheistic that they are trying to create. "With the deck furniture, we wanted it to be a weather-resistant extension of our Beer Hall. Loll worked with us to make the tables look as much in size as the tables inside. With the Loll furniture in the Beer Garden, we wanted to make more of a statement. The black tables look great on the pavers and crushed gravel. The black benches around the fire pits look cozy – it almost makes you look forward to winter."
A little lollygagging. A little beer. A little Loll – Life is good.
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Diego Figueredo (* 28. April 1982 in Asunción) ist ein paraguayischer Fußballspieler, der derzeit bei Caacupé FBC in der dritten paraguayischen Liga tätig ist.

Vereinskarriere
Figueredo wechselte im Januar 2004 von Olimpia Asunción zu Real Valladolid. Bei den Spaniern kam er in der Rückrunde zu insgesamt acht Einsätzen, musste mit dem Klub aber am Saisonende aus der ersten spanischen Liga absteigen. In der Saison 2004/05 bestritt er 28 Partien in der zweiten Liga für Valladolid und erzielte dabei drei Treffer.

In der folgenden Saison wurde er an Boavista Porto verliehen, bei denen er nur sporadisch zum Einsatz kam. Im darauf folgenden Jahr wurde er erneut verliehen, dieses Mal nach Argentinien zum dortigen Erstligaaufsteiger CD Godoy Cruz. Nach dem Abstieg mit Godoy Cruz kehrte Figueredo zu Valladolid zurück, kam aber erst mit sechs Tagen Verspätung aus seinem Urlaub zurück und wurde aus dem Erstligakader Valladolids verbannt. Anfang 2008 kehrte er zum Club Cerro Porteño in seine paraguayische Heimat zurück. Ein Jahr später wechselte er zum CD Everton nach Chile. Dort konnte er sich nicht durchsetzen und kam lediglich auf vier Einsätze.

Anfang 2010 kehrte Figueredo zu Olimpia zurück. Dort wurde er wieder zur Stammkraft.

Nationalmannschaft
Figueredo war 2004 Stammspieler im Olympiadkader Paraguays. In Athen gewann er die Silbermedaille mit der Mannschaft, nachdem man sich im Finale Argentinien geschlagen geben musste. Figueredo wurde im Finale in der 82. Minute mit gelb-rot des Platzes verwiesen.

Bei der Copa América 2004 kam er zu vier Einsätzen im paraguayischen Nationalteam.

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I have had an amazing revelation: Everything that I thought was settling in my reality from external sources, was not from the outside, but from my internal sources and are all a result of weeks of my own manifesting.
Let me explain it this way. About 4 weeks ago, I was complaining about my life, where I was and what I was doing, and continually kept repeating how I wanted change, change to do as I want. To move away from the things I no longer wanted in my life.
This week has been so difficult, because suddenly all these negative things started happening to me, and they just seemed to accumulate and I couldn't understand why, why when I am focusing on manifesting my goals in my life, do I suddenly have all this negative stuff come up.
A couple of days ago it became almost too much too bear, but once I re-arranged my thoughts and the way I was doing things, everything once again started to look up for me, and I stood once again at a point where I could objectively look at what has been happening in my life and find out where the source of these experiences is. What a surprise when I began to realise that everything that has been happening to me is a product of my manifesting!!!
I have realised that in my wishing for change, I failed to formulate that as much as I wanted change, I wanted it for the greater good, and that I also failed to spell out exactly how I wanted things to change, so the universe delivered EXACTLY what I asked for, no more, no less! I got my change but in the fastest, easiest way that the universe could deliver it, and at first I mistook the hardships as someone elses intervention in my life……someone elses' negative influences for lack of a better explanation, and all along I have been the only one responsible for the chaos that has been reigning in my life over the last week or so…….
But heres the crux, I didn't actually formulate my wishes in as many words as I FELT my wishes, does that make sense? I so badly wanted the change that I must have been screaming it out to the universe in my emotional frequencies. I had the emotional connection to the thought I was thinking and was sending that out to the universe like a broken record, over and over again and for weeks on end!!!
What a wake up call, if anything I am more in awe of the natural Law of Attraction than ever before!


In his first elite game at Australia's home of spin at the SCG, Lamichhane trapped both Moises Henriques and Tom Curran lbw to finish with figures of 2-18.
His dismissal of Curran may have been fortunate as replays showed it was headed down leg, but the ball to get rid of Henriques was a big turning wrong'un that the Sixers' captain didn't even go close to getting bat to.
The 18-year-old's four-over spell took him to the top of the wicket-taking lists at the early stage of the tournament, having also claimed five scalps in the Stars' opening two losses.
In the hunt for their first win of the summer, quick Jackson Coleman also claimed 3-18, including a peach of a slower ball to clean bowl Daniel Hughes for 20 off the first ball of his spell.
Only Jordan Silk (41no off 37) and Sean Abbott (22 off 16) put up a late fightback for the Sixers, after they failed to pass 50 before the loss of their third wicket for the third straight time this season.
Meanwhile discarded Australian Test batsman Peter Handscomb took just two balls to impress with the gloves on, pulling off a nifty stumping of Jack Edwards in the first over of the innings off Adam Zampa.


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Here's the thing about pumpkin spice (also hello, how are you, your hair looks fabulous): Pumpkin is good. Spices that accompany pumpkin are good. They are good together. But what's with chucking a bunch of artificial autumnal spice flavor into coffee or marshmallows or cereal or gum (it's a thing) and calling it pumpkin spice, especially when no pumpkin is involved? So bring on the pumpkin soup, pumpkin pie, pumpkin ravioli, pumpkin bread, I say. But let's stick to the stuff made from real pumpkins and real spices, shall we? Thank you and I will now step off of my soapbox. Or my pumpkin box as it were. Do please share your thoughts on this very important and controversial matter.
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If you wanted to submit a session or workshop proposal for ASJA 2021 but wasn't sure if the conference would be in person or virtual, we're pleased to share that it will now be virtual. Based on this new information, ASJA 2021's co-chairs and committee have extended the deadline to October 20. Please fill out this form. Decisions about acceptances will be made by early December. Note that we are especially interested in submissions that promote diversity and are interactive. Questions? Contact ASJA 2021 co-chair Kristine Hansen at kristinehansenwriter@gmail.com.
Crisis Coverage Award Winners Panel: Learn from the Best
Four winners of ASJA's Crisis Coverage Awards: COVID-19 Edition will discuss how they pitched, reported, and wrote their complex and inspiring stories about the constantly changing pandemic. Q&A to follow. This webinar will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 18 from 3 - 4:30 p.m. Eastern and is free for ASJA members or Crisis Coverage Award entrants, $20 for guests. Please contact asjaoffice@asja.org if you participated in the awards and did not receive a discount code via email. Register here today!
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The Client Connections team is looking for journalism or communications majors for our new student volunteer positions. Volunteers will help update our database of 6,000+ contacts, and reach out to invite editors, agents and publishers to our signature event in April 2021. Much of the work is data entry, and would involve 5-10 hours per week from late October until April 2021. As thanks, volunteers will receive virtual mentoring sessions with professional freelancers and free admission to the next ASJA conference. To be considered, send resume and cover letter to Erin O'Donnell (erinod1@gmail.com) and Jeanette Hurt (jeanettehurt@sbcglobal.net) by noon Eastern on Thursday, Oct. 15.
Susan J. Gordon's story "Restoring a Pre-Holocaust Torah, and a Family," was published in the Fall 2020 issue of DOROT: Journal of the Jewish Genealogical Society of New York. It describes what happened after her memoir, BECAUSE OF EVA: A Jewish Genealogical Journey, was published in 2006.
The Ten Best Decisions A Single Mom Can Make by PeggySue Wells and Pam Farrel releases with Baker House Publishing on November 17, 2020. As a companion for the book, Single Mom Circle: Doing Life Better Together launches in October, forming a resource-rich community to equip and encourage solo-parent led families to achieve their full potential.
Along with coaching and writing content for the Lustgarden Foundation, which funds pancreatic cancer research, Caitlin Kelly has been Zooming into high school and college journalism classes across the country. "So fun!"
Jennifer Billock's new book, Classic Restaurants of Milwaukee, publishes with The History Press on November 2. She recently launched a newsletter, Kitchen Witch, about the intersection of food and witchcraft, and she is launching a podcast and travel company called Macabre Traveler that focuses on the spooky places around the world.
Holly Leber Simmons interviewed the leaders of Active Minds for the University of Pennsylvania Gazette and learned how the intergenerational team is helping to eliminate stigma around mental health matters for all ages.
Do you have professional news you'd like to share with the group? A new job, a story you've published (in article, blog post, book, cave painting, etc. form), a new project you've launched, an interview with someone fascinating, a speaking gig? We're launching a new Member News section in the weekly. Send your news (25 words or less) and a link if applicable to Holly Leber Simmons, ASJA Weekly Editor at hello@redpeneditorial.co (that's .co like Coco Chanel). Space will be limited.
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Freelance Economy Surges in the Age of COVID-19
By Dave G. Houser
While the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the American economy and created high levels of unemployment, at least one element of the workforce has flourished in 2020. Freelancers have swept in to fill the jobs gap left by the rapidly spreading virus. According to a survey conducted in July by Upwork — a platform that connects businesses and freelancers — more than 59 million Americans performed freelance work in the past year, representing 36% of the total workforce. This was a 22% increase since 2019.
Shut the Hell Up: A Beginner's Guide to Interviewing
Frank Deford, the exceptional Sports Illustrated feature writer, once observed that interviewing is "two people on a high school date, and it's not just the reporter doing the flirting." Like high school, Deford's advice is fraught with hidden complications. I could spend a series of columns detailing how to conduct a proper interview. It takes a long time to become halfway competent, because there is always more to learn. That is why I talked to Will Harris, who regularly interviews celebrities for high-profile outlets such as The A.V. Club and Vulture.
What Should Journalists and Newsrooms Do When Facing Online Abuse?
"Online abuse is just part of the job if you are a journalist." It is a throwaway phrase many have heard in their newsrooms, coupled by notions that some areas of reporting like crime or war require thick skin. We also associate online abuse with very public, "face-of-the-news" reporters: investigative and political journalists — especially women — have historically been the targets. And while reporting on violence is already highly traumatizing, reporters in many other areas, including local journalism, are increasingly subjected to abuse.
5 Ways to Stand Out from the Competition on Major Freelancing Sites
Being able to run a business at home, earn money, invest, raise kids and socially distance all at the same time has become the 2020 marathon. Parents, professionals, graduates and those caught in-between careers weren't exactly prepared for the new age of working from home; yet, as Covid-19 restructured life as we knew it, we had no choice but to consider alternative work arrangements that supported our families right from our laptops.
75 Grammar Rules for Writers
If you're anything like me, you have a love-hate relationship with grammar. On one hand, grammar rules are necessary for greater understanding and more effective communication. On the other hand, there are just so many rules (and so many exceptions to the rules). It can be overwhelming. But fear not! We are here to share a plethora of grammar rules for writers that we've tackled over the years. If you have a question, we may have the answer.
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