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– Victoria University hostel, Wellington
I was in my final year of high school in 2010. Like everyone else, I lived through September 4th, and the aftermath. My school had areas that were damaged, but nothing significant. Then. After February, though, I found out that the department I had spent the majority of my five high school years in was to be demolished and is now gone, which was particularly hard. Also my nearby church, a central part of my life since I was a very young child was quite badly damaged and possibly may not be able to be rebuilt on the same site.
But life after September continued, as it does. With a geologist for a father, he assured me that in all likelihood the worst was behind us and, because of the evidence in other cases, the aftershocks would eventually dissipate, getting weaker and weaker. Our house was miraculously fine, and so were we. Everyone was tentatively hopeful, and happy we'd all got through this alive.
Fast forward to February 21st. I had just arrived at my new University of Victoria hostel. I was meeting new people and engaged in beginning my tertiary studies, having almost completely overcome a serious (incurable) disease that had finally been diagnosed towards the end of 2010. Stress was one of the factors in my wellbeing and this disease, and I was glad I could move on and away from that and the aftershocks. As I hugged my father goodbye as he left for Christchurch again, I had no thoughts that I might fear for his life less than twenty-four hours later.
I was in the middle of my first introductory lecture when I got a tweet from a Christchurch friend. It was a comment on a 'big' aftershock. Everyone gets of Facebook and Twitter to talk about the aftershocks and debate how big they were, so I ignored it. I had more important things to think about.
I was just about to turn off my phone when I got a text from my father.
"Big quake. Lots of deaths. I was in town and buildings collapsed around me."
I couldn't get in contact with the rest of my family for the next five-and-a-half hours. Now, I'm not the sort of person who usually is prone to emotional outbursts, especially not in public with people I don't know, but I instantly burst into tears. I knew my father was in the central city and that my mother and brothers were who knows where else. I had no idea how widespread the destruction was, or even how big the quake was. I was terrified.
I ran out, and up the hill to my hall as fast as I could. I tried, but I couldn't stop crying. True, I tend to horriblize, but for all I knew, my entire city, my entire family was gone. It's how I felt right then.
Luckily, when I arrived at the hall, they had set up a separate TV room for Canterbury people only that was showing the news as it unfolded. There were plenty of tissues, and by the time my friends and family had started replying to my texts I had calmed down.
Logically, I knew that I had—and have—everything to be grateful for. Compared to others, I have lost comparatively little—important places, yes, but neither immediate family or friends, nor my house. Hell, I wasn't even IN Christchurch when the "big one" hit—I don't carry all that trauma, which I even feel guilty for, and churlish for mourning the only city I've ever truly called home. I guess that's some form of survivor's guilt.
As it turns out, I've come back to Christchurch to live. I miss the city I grew up in terribly. I didn't know that it was possibly to mourn something so much, something that wasn't a person or alive. But really, Christchurch was and is a living thing. We make it so. I want to tenaciously cling to the memories I have and, hopefully form some new ones that will help stitch up the ache that comes when I think about what Christchurch once was.
– Sophia
Bryndwr, Canterbury, New Zealand


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Not MackintoshChris Miele
Vol. 17 No. 7 · 6 April 1995
Not Mackintosh
Chris Miele
'Greek' Thomson
edited by Gavin Stamp and Sam McKinstry.
Edinburgh, 249 pp., £35, September 1994, 0 7486 0480 4Show More
The history of architecture is replete with figures whose careers were tied to the fortunes of great cities. John Nash's genius for town-planning could only have flourished in London during the post-Waterloo boom years. Stanford White's feeling for opulence fits the New York scene of the 1890s like an evening glove. So, too, did mid-Victorian Glasgow define the professional life of Alexander Thomson.
Thomson (1817-75) grew up near to what was fast becoming Britain's 'Second City'. After 1800, Glasgow grew fat on the West Indian textile trade, diversifying during the 1830s into heavy industry. The disruptions that followed the start of the American Civil War merely slowed the creation of wealth. Hardly missing a beat, the Glaswegians changed tack, transforming the Clyde into one of the busiest shipyards in the world. In such a place someone like Thomson, raised in modest circumstances, without the benefit of much formal education or a family connection to the building trades, could suddenly find himself responsible for constructing such a complex urban environment. He was fortunate to find early masters, Robert Foote and then John Baird, and in all likelihood they introduced the aspiring architect to the ideas that were to transform his art and profession: historicism and comparative architectural history. In the years of Thomson's apprenticeships in the 1840s, another Scot, James Fergusson, was busily chronicling the history of world architecture. By the end of the decade, it was possible for architects in the most remote provinces to form a clear picture of Hindu cave temples or ancient Egyptian palaces, and to contrast them with more familiar Greek, Roman or Gothic buildings, all without getting up from their drawing-boards. Thomson was, by his own admission, captivated by this new literature. Indeed, he seemed to prefer pictures and descriptions of buildings to the real things, since even at the peak of his success he never left the British Isles to study ancient architecture first hand.
Between 1849 and 1856, Thomson and his partner John Baird (apparently no relation to his former master) designed some two dozen villas. Some were suburban dwellings, others weekend country retreats, but all were linked by modern transport corridors to the swelling parent city. These early works are a mixed stylistic bag: Gothic, Romanesque, Italianate, built for men who had made fortunes in trade, manufacturing and property.
In 1849, Thomson made his first bid to emulate the business dealings of his clientèle by developing, designing and managing a warehouse in Dunlop Street with his brother George. Although this particular venture never made any money, Thomson kept his hand in at the speculator's game. He had a financial interest in several of his best known designs, usually sharing the risk with partners in the building trades. The contributors to this new volume who explore Thomson's relationship with Glasgow have chosen to overlook this activity, focusing instead on his attempt to shape the city through design. Most of the 16 essays are preoccupied with the analysis and theory of style, the pure stuff of formalist art history, so that by the end Glasgow recedes into the distance, leaving Thomson centre-stage, transfixed by the spotlight of international design celebrity. 'An architect of genius', the dust-jacket blithely announces, 'comparable in stature to Charles Rennie Mackintosh'.
Thomson's rare talent matured suddenly in 1856, at about the time he and his brother George were forming an architectural partnership. The exact nature of Thomson's relations with his partners remains unclear. George Thomson, like John Baird before him, seems to have tended to the business side of the practice, leaving Alexander free to design – a fraternal divison of labour, that worked well until 1871, when George abandoned architecture for missionary work in Africa. In that very fruitful year 1856, Alexander Thomson's fixation on the trappings of historical style gave way to an understanding of the expressive power of mass and proportion. Judiciously placed ornaments, derived almost exclusively from ancient Greek architecture, are deployed across surfaces in order to accentuate the geometrical components of designs. His double villa at Langbank – a semi-detached house cleverly planned to give the impression of a single dwelling – marks a definite turning-point.
In that same year, 1856, he built the truly astonishing Caledonian Road United Presbyterian Church in the heart of a new urban district. The body of the church, now only a shell after a fire in 1965, is treated as a podium for a truncated Ionic temple that dominates the main front of the building, sitting, like a heavenly propylaeon or gateway, some thirty feet above the pavement; behind is the low horizontal slab of the clerestory lighting the main auditorium. To the left of the portico rises a great tower, square in plan, of pure masonry. By any standards it is a startling building.
The individual elements of the Caledonian Road Church are not, in themselves, unusual, and have close parallels in the work of more prosaic Glaswegian architects, such as Charles Wilson, whose Free Church College of 1855-7 also features a portico raised above a high base and highlighted by towers. What distinguishes Thomson from even his most talented contemporaries, such as John Burnet Sr, or the Gothically inclined J.J. Stevenson, is the degree to which he was ready to pare down forms to their simplest state. His work is blunt to the point of primitivism, and Gavin Stamp astutely draws out the underlying similarities between Thomson and the most advanced High Victorian Goths working in England at the same time, in particular Burges, Butterfield and Street. Of course, Thomson's stylistic idiom was absolutely contrary to theirs, Greek not Gothic; but his ability to design structures that aim at a single, sweeping architectural effect places him squarely in their league.
And in the design of that quintessentially British urban form, the terraced house, Thomson bested even John Nash, impresario of Regency London's townscape. Thomson's Nos 1-10 Moray Place, Strathbungo (1858-9), and the Great Western Terrace (1867) are arguably the finest terraces ever built north or south of the Border. Again, the key to their success is the subordination of detail to the overall idea. Each terrace strikes the eye of the viewer at a stroke, as a single mammoth bulk, and every detail is sacrificed to one grand and, undeniably, Greek gesture.
Whatever happened in 1856 to produce this change the result was a total and permanent renunciation of all arched styles. From this point Thomson pledged his life to trabeation: the strict rule of post and lintel construction that finds its purest expression in the earliest monumental stone buildings. 'Stonehenge is really more scientifically constructed than York Minster,' was how he explained the preference in 1866. Gradually Thomson developed his favourite idiom, the style of Periclean Athens, with features from ancient Egyptian, Hindu and Assyrian architecture, the details culled from book plates. But his belief, strengthened by a strong Presbyterian faith, that the trabeated styles were more honest and Christian than those using round or pointed arches never flagged. Contrary to what English (and chiefly Anglican) architectural theorists have been saying for some time, Thomson did not see Greek architecture as pagan. Sam McKinstry persuasively argues that, for Thomson, the architecture of the Old and New Testaments was Greek, and thus it was uncorrupted by any whiff of Papal or monastic excess. In 1859, the great Baptist preacher, Charles Spurgeon, perfectly expressed the ideal of a modern Christian temple when laying the foundation stone of his Metropolitan Tabernacle in Newington Butts, South London. 'Greek is the sacred tongue, and Greek is the Baptist's tongue ... Every Baptist place should be Greek, never Gothic.'
For their original admirers Thomson's church designs would have had a bearing on urgent religious issues. In 1843, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland had upheld the right of Church patrons to appoint ministers against the wishes of congregations. 'Evangelicals' protested and defiantly left the Assembly to form the Free Church. In 1847, those who had left the Church of Scotland in the years before this Great Disruption formed the United Presbyterian Church. There followed a church-building boom of unprecedented proportions, with each group, and sometimes factions within groups, striving to express a corporate identity through these new buildings.
This is the background to the power and purity of Thomson's churches, with their deeply symbolic forms. It is barely addressed in this book, although it is central to Thomson's development. The problem facing Thomson scholars may be that he left no clear account of the role religion played in his stylistic conversion, or at least no account as unequivocal as that of his near contemporary, George Gilbert Scott, the most prolific of the English Goths. Reading Pugin, Scott recounted in his memoirs, persuaded him that Gothic was the only style for a Christian country, leaving him to denounce both trabeation and impure Gothic styles.
Rather than suggest the religious motives behind the adoption of Thomson's style, the contributors to this volume stick to his visual sources. The weight of art historical evidence skilfully set out here succeeds in placing Thomson firmly at the end of a great tradition – the Greek Revival – not at its beginning. Even in Scotland, where Neoclassicism survived longer than in England, it was becoming old-fashioned in the late 1850s. In the next decade, Goths from the south, some trained in G.G. Scott's office, would swarm north of the Border to challenge the trabeated styles, but Thomson would not budge. Hence his alias. The case for Thomson's architectural genius is, some contributors seem to fear, thereby greatly weakened.
The sources of Thomson's style are well documented by Charles McKean, David Walker and David Watkin. It is clear that he looked closely at the works of the vigorous school of northern Classicism, and he admitted to having certain favourites. In an 1866 pamphlet attacking Scott's Gothic designs for the University of Glasgow, Thomson expressed unqualified admiration for Thomas Hamilton's Royal High School in Edinburgh (1825-9) and Harvey Elmes's St George's Hall in Liverpool (begun in 1841). His own Caledonian Road Church and Moray Place display more imagination than even these works, with many details that seem to have no precedent, except in books.
Thomson himself freely admitted his debt to architectural publications in an 1859 address to the Glasgow Architectural Society, arguing that the modern architect was fortunate beyond all his predecessors in that he is 'built about with books, containing examples of every known style. If an architect wants an idea, he does not require to fly away into the region of imagination to fetch it – it is ready on hand on the adjoining shelf.' The title that generates the most controversy in 'Greek' Thomson is the Sammlung architektonischer Entwürfe, with engravings of K.F. Schinkel's works from the early decades of the century. Thomson is known to have owned a copy by 1863. But when did he first get his hands on it? His double villa is so like Schinkel that most art historians would take the resemblance as proof of influence, concluding, with proper scholarly caution, that by 1855 it is likely that Thomson had seen the work of Schinkel. A number of contributors, in particular Andrew Macmillan, don't see things in quite this way, and resist any attempt to lessen the unique creative genius of their man by admitting to his being influenced.
Sam McKinstry's excellent essay shows that the final element in Thomson's manner is the work of the visionary English painter, John Martin, whose depictions of scenes from biblical history are set in front of colossal reconstructions of ancient Babylon and Nineveh, fantastic buildings that not only provided some of the details for Thomson's work but also inspired his feeling for scale and mass. These images were widely circulated throughout the 19th century, either on their own or slipped into family Bibles.
The truth may be that Thomson was both a brilliant and a provincial architect. The subject of provincialism is discussed nowhere in 'Greek' Thomson, and this omission is consistent with the book's larger purpose, which is to furnish Thomson with the credentials needed to enter the Pantheon of World-Class Designers. If Andrew Macmillan were to have his way, Thomson would fill a niche between Mackintosh and, of all people, Frank Lloyd Wright.
You sometimes get the imprssion that Thomson enthusiasts are upset by the fact that their man is just not as well known as Mackintosh, Glasgow's most famous son, whose reputation as a world-class designer has been magnified out of all proportion in the city's bid to insert itself on the Euro-culture tourist trail. 'Mackintosh Mania', to borrow a phrase from Alan Crawford, deflects attention from Glasgow's splendid Victorian architecture, and this has done real harm to the conservation of its historic environment. For if Mackintosh is a genius then what is 'not Mackintosh' – and what could be more 'not Mackintosh' than the Greek? – pales by comparison, and is less likely to attract the sort of thinking and money needed to save old buildings.
This is the real agenda of 'Greek' Thomson. Such faults as it has derive from history and conservation mingling too closely. To be fair, Gavin Stamp has openly declared his interest as a founding member of the Alexander Thomson Society, a pressure group that aims to win wider recognition for 'the great man' and wider statutory protection for his great works. A heroic endeavour which perhaps accounts for the drive to create a hero.
Chris Miele is an architectural historian who works in the London division of English Heritage.

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The Safeway store where Ted Bundy worked.
This is the Safeway supermarket store where serial killer Ted Bundy worked in 1968.
The store is situated in Upper Queen Anne in Seattle.
According to a multi-agency report that was compiled by the FBI, Bundy worked at this store between April 12th, 1968 and July 26th, 1968.
At the time, he was a 21-year-old college dropout who had recently been fired from the Olympic Hotel due to suspicions that he was stealing from people's lockers.
During his short stint at Safeway, he stocked supermarket shelves at night. His employment at the supermarket ended in July of 1968 when he suddenly stopped showing up for work.
In July of 1966, an unknown assailant brutally attacked two flight attendants called Lisa Wick and Lonnie Trumbull at a nearby apartment building in Queen Anne. Sadly, Lonnie Trumbull passed away from her injuries.
Several authors have attempted to use Bundy's employment at this store as circumstantial evidence that he may have been involved in the crime. However, this is factually incorrect.
Although this Safeway store is only 1.5 miles away from where the attack took place, the two timelines do not match up. Wick and Trumbull were attacked in July of 1966, which was nearly two full years before Ted Bundy started working here.
This property has been demolished.
The store no longer exists. However, you can still visit the location.
Further details.
The store was demolished in 2022.
Where did Ted Bundy work?
2100 Queen Anne Ave North
Bundy's first confirmed attack took place five years and five months AFTER he stopped working here. There is no evidence to suggest that he was targeting women at this stage in his life.
The store opened at this location in 1968.
When the attack on Wick and Trumbull took place in 1966, Bundy was working for a public utility company called Tacoma City Light.
Bundy in 1968.
In 1992, the FBI compiled a multi-agency report on Ted Bundy. This report contains a timeline of his life, which includes his places of employment.
In January of 1968, he dropped out of school and started travelling. During this period of his life, he visited San Francisco, California, Denver, Aspen, Philadelphia and Arkansas.
In March of 1968, the Olympic Hotel fired him from his job as a busboy due to suspicions that he was stealing from people's lockers.
Then, between April and July, he worked at Safeway.
The image at the top shows what the Safeway store in Upper Queen Anne looked like during the 1960s. The Google Street View image at the bottom was taken in December of 2021.
As you can see, the exterior looks a lot different these days.
Demolished.
The supermarket on Queen Anne Avenue was closed in May of 2022—five months after we added it to our website.
Images from Google Street View show that the building was demolished shortly afterwards.
According to local newspapers, there are plans to build a large multi-use building on the site. The bottom floor will contain a Safeway store. The six stories above it will consist of residential units.
The site where Ted Bundy was photographed with his Volkswagen Bug.
The hotel where Ted Bundy worked as a bus boy.
The street where Ted Bundy attacked his first known victim.
Ted Bundy's rooming house in the University District of Seattle.
Serial Killer House in Seattle, Washington, United States


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Q: Allocate an array with garbage (heap garbage values) I got this question on an interview and even if it may sound stupid, I found it interesting. So, the question is, how would you initialize an array with heap garbage (something that is not zeroes only).
For example as opposed to:
int [] ints = new int[10];
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(ints));

The last print will guarantee that everything is zeroes only.
But is there such a way that you could instantiate this array with potential values that are not zeroes?

A: To be honest, there are two things.
I don't know the exact point of this question, as it requires some investigation of the Unsafe class that is not done on a daily basis. May be the company (which I failed the interview anyway), really does this low level programming.
And second, I got very lucky, I only found out about this while looking how String concat is done, where I first saw this and was intrigued by it.
    jdk.internal.misc.Unsafe unsafe = getUnsafe();

    for (;;) {
        int[] arr = (int[]) unsafe.allocateUninitializedArray(int.class, 10);
        int sum = Arrays.stream(arr).sum();
        if (sum != 0) {
            System.out.println(Arrays.toString(arr));
            break;
        }
    }

This is documented as:

Allocates an array of a given type, but does not do zeroing.

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As I mentioned in my last post, I was in a serious time-squeeze this afternoon. I was working with a private student until 4pm – fortunately, she didn't have any extra questions right at the end. I flew out of the building by 4:05, made it to the subway station at @4:10, and, fortunately, a train pulled in right after I had reached my standing spot. Made it to the community center where we pick up by 4:45. (Play the Lone Ranger Suite). Got my box, looked inside, went over to the trade box, saw the cabbage, grabbed it, went back to my box to get the chard, and back to the trade box to deposit it. Back to my box, baggy-ing everything as I took it out of the box (as I always do – makes it easier when I get home) Switched out the small cabbage for a larger one, and traded the potatoes for 5 cucumbers.
All that took me about 15 minutes, and then I was on the run to my apartment, drop off the goods. Made it to the apartment in 5, dropped the bags in the kitchen, changed clothes, and was back out on the way to the subway by 4:15. YES!!!
Ate all of the cherry tomatoes on the train back to work.
That basil is pretty interesting looking. The leaves are about as big as baby spinach leaves.
The cucumbers are quite large. I've got about 10. I can eat some of them, but I'm thinking of cutting up maybe half of them and trying out a raw sour pickle recipe.
With the cabbage, I'm going to make up a garlic dill jar, and then maybe a "kimchee flavor" jar (using kimchee spices with regular cabbage).
I do want to get up to Fairway and pick up some cashews and almonds so I can make up some pates.
I'm thinking of making up a couple of batches of crackers, since I seem to be on a "fast food" diet tangent. If I have crackers, I can put stuff on top of them and eat easy.
I also signed up for a Mixed Apple Share ($21.25 total for 3 lbs per delivery) and 2 Cider Shares ($20 total for 1/2 gallon per delivery). It came out to a little over $200 for December through March organic fruit/vegetable/cider delivery. All I will have to get from the market will be greens and onions, as I see it. (I have a boatload of dehydrated tomatoes from the summer tomato share.) Oh, but I have already finished 1 of the cider bottles. Yum!
I got the job of "coordinator" (or whatever they are calling it) of the Winter Share Distribution, which is at a local community center. Yea!!! One of the interesting things about the job is that I have to count people and children, so that the center can get funding. Good! Probably more than half of the members come in bearing children. Some come with three or four. Good numbers!
There is a CSA Potluck Dinner tomorrow, coupled with a silent auction. I have donated a malachite and silver necklace and a package of 20 corn crackers with a container of cashew cheez.
Now I need to think about what I will make for my contribution to the potluck. I am really really thinking of bringing a plate worth of the corn crackers and a pot of the cheez, to generate interest in buying the auction item.
Maybe I should make something else as well.
I'm thinking of one of two sweet potato recipes. I like them both because people are surprised when they realize that what they are eating is raw. I don't know if I would make the whole pie, but I would offer the filling — with all those dates, it is very sweet. I am also thinking about a "stuffing" recipe made with sunflower seeds.
• Chop sweet potatoes, apples, and ginger, and run through Champion juicer with ….blank plate. (Alternatively, grate sweet potatoes, apples, and ginger).
• Remove mixtureto a large bowl. Add shredded dried coconut, lemon and orange …juices, and chopped walnuts.
2 large sweet potatoes, peeled and diced.
• Drain dates; reserve soak water.
• Remove mixture from food processor and set aside in a bowl.
• Set mixture aside in a bowl.
• Process cashews, agave nectar, vanilla, and date soak water as needed, until …..smooth and creamy.
• Dehydrate for 6 hours, then refrigerate.
• In a food processor, grind soaked sunflower seeds fine.
• Grind flax seeds fine in a coffee grinder.
• Remove ground seeds to a bowl.
• Place all remaining ingredients, save olives, in the food processor, and mince.
• Add olives and combine all ingredients thoroughly.
• Place in a pie tin, or rectangular tin of suitable size and dehydrate for six hours, or until dressing has reached your desired consistency.
No matter what, I need to go to the supermarket.
If I make 'Amazing Sweet Potatoes" I need lemons.
If I make the sunflower seed dressing, I need the olives.
What will I choose??? I need to decide in the next half hour. Oops! I've just gone for the easy one. Excuse me, I need to go soak the nuts.
GUY LON or KALE…………………..1 bun.
What's up with the "decorative gourds"???? I mean, I stretched no end to pay for the vegetables and fruit in the CSA season, and then they decide that we don't need FOOD? I do not need to pay for decorations. I NEED FOOD!!!!!!! I will complain on Thursday, and, with any kind of luck, I will complain to someone who thinks that decorative gourds are just the ticket.
I mean…. ????? Wasn't this supposed to be about FOOD?????


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It seems we came more frequently when our children were younger. I'm not really sure why. Maybe we were more desperate then to just pull away for some peace, quiet and rest.
As we've aged, our lives have changed as we've gone through the peaks of life's joys and valleys of disappointment or broken dreams.
The circumstances of our lives have kept us from making the trips to the beach as often. Our trips look a little different now. Some years they're not quite as light and carefree as they once were, but there are still many moments of laughter, often at ourselves!
Perhaps, it's just the season that we're in...the season of caregiving and trying to finish well. Loving adult children and embracing the joys of being grandparents and dealing with the physical and sometimes emotional strain that comes as our bodies age. Yet, the legacy of friendship calls us.
This recent beach weekend was a generous gift to us!
Our first day at the beach was stormy and wonderful. It kept us in close together in the lovely condo on the bay that we had been given to enjoy for a few days. The storms outside gave us time to reflect on our lives, often stormy themselves in the trials we all face. So I asked these precious, godly women to share some of the faith lessons they've learned in the journey over the years, especially over these last years since we gathered at the beach.
"Enjoying each others successes and creative endeavors have inspired us to pursue our own creative pursuits. In the friendship we challenge one another to press on.
The four of us have always been dreamers. Perhaps that is part of what has kept us together, the pursuing of dreams, the process of letting our creative minds and imaginations play with big ideas and wonder. In our dreams, we see ourselves connected in the future, being there for each other. All the while knowing that God is in control and many of our dreams might not come true, but the process has knit our hearts together.
From our condo on the bay, in the distance, we could see a tower that was calling to us. Each day of our trip we talked about how we should go down to the tower and climb to the top to watch the sunset. Finally, on our final night, after we came in from the beach, we decided to make our way there, but there was a wall that we could not cross. It was a private tower. Not to be deterred from our adventure, we searched another way to watch the sunset. We walked out on the long pier through the yachts and boats docked there until we reached the end.
Suddenly, my friend squealed and we looked and there was a dolphin playing right there at the edge of the pier. I tried to capture a picture of him, but he was too quick as we searched for him to surface again in the water.
As I reflect on it now, I think we might have missed that gift God had for us if we had reached the tower that we thought we were destined for that evening. Isn't that often the way the Lord works with our plans and dreams? We search and seek to reach them, but often, some of the greatest blessings come along the way, in the detours.
So it is with my dear friends, we know we may never reach some of the dreams we have talked about through the years, but there have been so many blessings in the journey. So many gifts with which God has graced our lives. So many treasures to hold in our hearts and in our hands.
They are a reflection of our years together. Perhaps it's really about opening our hearts and hands to what the Father has for us each moment and trusting that it will always be the best. I'm so grateful that so many years ago, the Lord chose to weave hearts and hands of these three friends of mine together and for the deep love we have for one another.
The next morning, before we left, we gathered hands and prayed. We prayed over the struggles shared over the weekend, over our future, and thanked God for the blessing and joy of friendships that have endured for over thirty years. When we finished praying, one friend asked us to take a moment and look at our hands. These are hands that have worked hard, labored in the workforce and in the home for our families. They are not as beautiful as they once were in our younger years. They bear the wrinkles and scars of time, love and hard work, but they are beautiful in my eyes and I believe in the eyes of Christ.
I asked if we could take a picture of our hands before we left. I wanted a record of that precious memory. These hands have left the imprint of God's touch on my life. These hands have held me in times of crisis and held each other together in prayer. These hands have been lifted up in praise to the Father. These hands have crafted and created beauty in our homes and have graced the homes of others. These hands have cooked meals to sustain our families and to help care for those who could not care for themselves.
These hands have helped to carry each other in times of great celebration and in times of great stress.
These hands were created by the hands of God.
Here at the beach and throughout the year we make our offerings of love to one another; words of wisdom, words of hope, sharing dreams and the longings of our hearts, the joys of our children, the concerns of the depths of our souls, and prayers for each other. We bring our hearts into the conversations on these beach trips. It is a legacy of a friendship that runs deep. Friendship that is tied together in the end by the ever weaving threads of the work of Christ in our lives.
My prayer is that you too may know the beauty of deep friendship in your life. If you have that gift, treasure it.
If not, ask the Lord to show you several friends with whom He would have you invest your life.
Take a moment now and look at your hands and ask a Father to show you how to use them in the gift of friendship.
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Duke energy News
NRC licenses first digital nuclear reactor in the U.S.
By Karen Graham
A fully digital nuclear reactor instrumentation and control system (I&C)—the first of its kind in the U.S.—at a Purdue University research reactor in West Lafayette, Indiana, has been licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
North Carolina orders Duke Energy to excavate all coal ash ponds
Charlotte	- The country's largest electric company was ordered Monday to excavate coal ash from all of its North Carolina power plant sites, potentially adding billions of dollars to the costs consumers pay for electricity.
Duke Energy to invest $76 million in electric car chargers
Duke Energy Corp. plans to spend $76 million to add 2,500 charging stations for electric vehicles in North Carolina at a time when drivers may have a hard time finding a place to recharge as the industry expands.
Solar power proves to be tougher than conventional power plants
In the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, Duke Energy, and Strata Solar — two of the largest solar power operators in North Carolina — report only minimal damage to their solar farms as a result of the storm.
Arsenic and heavy metals in Cape Fear River — Duke Energy
Wilmington	- Water-quality tests on the Cape Fear River near Duke Energy Progress' flooded Sutton Power Plant show elevated levels of arsenic and heavy metals downstream from the breach of Sutton Lake Dam.
Duke Energy turning waste from hog farms into electricity
Charlotte	- A Duke Energy power plant is using renewable natural gas from North Carolina-based hog farms to produce electricity – the first application of the technology from in-state farms.
Duke Energy invests $30M in two battery storage systems in N.C.
Asheville	- Duke Energy today announced plans to install North Carolina's two largest battery energy storage systems – a $30 million investment as part of the company's Western Carolinas Modernization Plan.
Irma will put $3 billion worth of power grid updates to the test
Tampa	- With more than 48,000 homes and businesses in the area around Miami and Fort Lauderdale already having lost power, according to Florida Power & Light, the big question remains - Will FPL's $3 billion upgraded power grid be able to withstand Irma's wrath?
Duke Energy goes solar and drops plan for Florida nuclear plant
Duke Energy Florida's settlement over plans to scrap the proposed Levy nuclear plant will instead bring PV batteries, EV charging, smart meters and grid modernization to customers, the company announced on Tuesday.
Duke Energy abandons plans to build Lee Nuclear plant
Duke Energy Carolinas announced Friday that it is abandoning plans to build the Lee Nuclear Station due to the project's principal designer and contractor, Westinghouse, declaring bankruptcy.
Company uses solar panel technology to make water from air
Scottsdale	- A Scottsdale, Arizona start-up company, Zero Mass Water has developed a system that uses solar panels to produce drinking water from the sun and air.
Duke Energy to appeal $25.1 million fine by NC regulators
Charlotte	- North Carolina-based Duke Energy announced today it is prepared to contest a $25.1 million civil penalty issued by the State Department of Environment and Natural Resources on March 10.
Duke Energy now facing criminal charges for coal ash pollution
Being the largest electric power holding-company in the U.S. may not mean a "hill of beans," now that Duke Energy, headquartered in North Carolina is facing criminal charges of coal ash pollution in violation of the Clean Water Act.
Op-Ed: New coal ash leaks found at Duke Energy's Buck Power plant
Back in mid-November, two environmental groups, Waterkeeper Alliance and Yadkin Riverkeeper, discovered a stream of orange goop oozing out below the normal waterline along a quarter-mile-long stretch of the Yadkin River in North Carolina.
Customers will pay for ash pond cleanup, Duke Energy CEO says
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Charlotte	- Duke Energy expects its customers to pay for the cleanup and removal of hazardous coal ash ponds in North Carolina, CEO Lynn Good said last Friday.
82,000 tons of coal ash spills from plant into N. Carolina river
By Brett Wilkins
Eden	- As many as 82,000 tons of coal ash have spilled into a North Carolina river from a disused coal plant run by the nation's largest electricity provider.
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The Thompson Sextuplets Updates
11/21/1997 - As reported on WUSA-TV: Proctor & Gamble has offered to supply diapers for as long as needed.
11/23/1997 - As reported on Cable News Channel 8: Proctor and Gamble also has given a gift of $ 2,000 to the Thompsons.
11/25/1997 - As reported on WUSA-TV: The Freddie Mac Foundation has donated a house to Linden and Jackie Thompson. Officials from the foundation and Freddie Mac will meet with The Thompsons on 12/1/97 to discuss the family's housing needs. The Chevrolet Division of General Motors has donated a new van.
11/25/1997 - The Information Man has referred givers of various gifts, such as strollers, cribs, etc. to "Sisters-In-Touch" in the Landover, MD area. They are coordinating the gift-giving. People, interested in donating items to the Thompsons, should call SIT at (301) 499-8976.
11/26/1997 - The Thompsons are interviewed on the Maury Povich Show and the nation gets to see the family and official presentation of the major gifts. Burlington Coat Factory of Greenbelt, Maryland and Peg Perego Manufacturers have donated three-seat and twin seat strollers.
12/22/1997 - The President of Howard University presents the Thompson Sextuplet survivors with full scholarships for their education.
01/09/1998 - Entertainer Brian McKnight presents Linden and Jackie with their first night out together alone, since the birth of the children. He provided them with tickets to his concert, transportation, and dinner at BET SoundStage in Landover, MD.
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Phish and chips: A tale of Canadian banking
Published: May 5th, 2005
Canada's banks are moving towards implementing smart cards instead of magnetic stripe-based cards (magstripe cards), with the first transaction planned for early in 2007.
They're making this move in an effort to reduce the amount of fraud associated with skimming (double-swiping a magstripe
card to copy the stripe contents) and PIN-theft (we are all now familiar with the little picture urging us to shield the POS or ATM keypad when punching in our PINs). Meanwhile, in the UK, where they are already moving toward chip-and-PIN cards, fraud is on the rise. The March 8 issue of The Guardian newspaper reported ""Bank and credit card fraud rose 20 per cent last year, costing British banks £505m, with part of the increase due to the introduction of new chip and pin cards.""
The problem with enhanced security technology is it frequently gives people a misplaced sense of security. In the UK case, during the roll-out of chip cards, approximately 100,000 cards were being mailed out to existing cardholders every day. Villains simply stole the cards out of the mail. Foolishly, the cards had been pre-activated, so they were ready for use. This simple mistake cost the British banks £73 million last year.
That's not all. If you want to use your debit card in the U.S., say, where smart cards haven't been implemented, authentication will still rely on the magstripe. The card ""falls back"" on the magstripe. This means that security is no better than it ever was. Again in the UK, recognizing that in an interim period not all POS terminals would be chip-enabled, and recognizing that smart cards fail anyway due to factors such as dirty contacts, they allow the fall-back authentication at any time.
And for ""card-not-there"" transactions, such as on-line purchasing, the technology is irrelevant. It's not clear whether Canadian banks recognize these problems. Interac, in a recent press release, helpfully points out, ""The complete migration to chip is expected to take several years . . . As a result, chip cards will continue to carry the magnetic stripe, which currently facilitates transactions. This will not only facilitate the transition to chip, but also allow cardholders to use their debit cards in other markets not planning to introduce chip in the near future, such as the United States.""
Besides the very real security concerns, there is also the issue of shifting risk. The risk of loss associated with debit card use is set out in the Canadian Code of Practice for Debit Card Services. Loss is certainly borne by the issuer after he has been notified of a card's loss or compromise. Before that you are on the hook unless ""it can be shown that ""the cardholder has been the victim of fraud, theft (etc.)."" You may find it harder to convince your bank that this is so, when a chip-and-PIN card is involved. The burden of proof, and the security risk of the system for which the bank should be responsible, may then have been passed to you.
This is not to be construed as a polemic against chip-and-pin, which certainly can provide banks with greater security. But as we get closer to implementation in Canada it would be useful to have an informed public debate on the consequences, both intended and unintended.
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Reverse Mortgages: When are they a good idea and when should you run?
A reverse mortgage is a source of funding for those over 62 years old. It gives you the ability to tap into the equity of your house – whether you own your home free and clear or if you have a small balance on it. Principal and interest payments do not have to be made on the money withdrawn, just the taxes and insurance that are due on the property each year. You can take money out of the home's equity and use it for a variety of reasons, including supplemental income, home improvements and trips. To more fully understand the process, we sit down with people and explain their options, which differ depending on their age.
Applying for a reverse mortgage is not something that you should rush into. We make sure that everyone involved in the decision is aware of what they are doing, since a reverse mortgage is a little bit different from your traditional mortgage. Although it is regulated by the government, people can be a little intimidated when they don't have all the facts or any knowledge about them.
Other ways that people can use a reverse mortgage.
Let's say that you have a home that is valued at $200,000 that you own free and clear. You can take out up to 60% of home's equity immediately and use the remaining 40% as an equity line. If you don't need the funds right away, you can also take the entire amount in a line of equity to be drawn upon later. The money can be invested in other things such as an annuity or life term insurance policy. If this is the case, we would bring in an insurance or investment professional that could explain available options.
What is the main reason that people would want a reverse mortgage?
We will see a lot of people whose parents are on a fixed income. Instead of having to be financially reliant on their children, the parents can take a lump sum payout and convert it to an annuity that will pay out every month fixed for life. They can also set it for a shorter time if they need a higher monthly amount. With many retirees not having the necessary funds available during their retirement, and with costs like medical expenses rising, it gives people the ability to have another source of income to help them meet their financial obligations and live comfortably during their years in retirement.
What are the three most important things you need to look out for when doing a reverse mortgage?
First off, you should do your homework. Meet with a lender and ask questions, lots of them. There's no such thing as a stupid question. Take your time. Secondly, don't let someone push you into making a decision. A lot of people get into trouble because someone is pressuring them. If this happens, you need to run. You need someone who is going to give you the time to answer your questions and who will make you feel really comfortable. If they are not able to answer your questions or get the answers, then that may be a clear-cut sign that a person is not experienced enough. The guidelines are constantly changing so you need to make sure that your lender is current and providing you with the most accurate and up-to-date information. Finally, if there are other people – such as children or others that are involved in the decision – they need to be sitting in on the meeting and have their questions answered as well. Everyone needs to be equally informed and comfortable with the way things are being handled. All involved must be on the same page.
If you have and questions or would like more information on reverse mortgages, please contact Natalya Hill at 919-614-0388 or www.natalyahill.com.


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Absolute OTO Award

Currently held by  Adela Banášová

First awarded  | Last awarded 2000 | Present

Absolute OTO Award has been annually presented at the Slovak OTO Awards.

Winners

2000s

2010s

 Notes
┼ Denotes also a winner in two or more of the main categories. Ž Denotes also a winner of the Život Award.

Superlatives

Multiple winners

References

External links
 OTO Awards (Official website)
 OTO Awards - Winners and nominees (From 2000 onwards)
 OTO Awards - Winners and nominees (From 2000 to 2009)

OTO Awards
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Slovak television awards
Awards established in 2000

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LERNOUT AND HAUSPIE HAS IMPROVED Voice Xpress in many ways over their last offering. But on balance it still has catching up to do in terms of bug reduction, features and accuracy.
Pros: Command structure most flexible and requires least amount of exact memorization, very good undo capabilities, clear manuals, slick and professional mobile recording device.
Cons: Very weak macro capability, poor recognition engine feedback, lacks recorded voice playback, so-so accuracy.
The installation process left 21 MB of files in the Windows temp directory, but was otherwise smooth. You can use Voice Xpress without enrollment training, although accuracy is just fair. The minimum enrollment training session takes about six minutes (although L&H strongly recommends more).
Enrollment has some unfinished spots. Sometimes it stalls with no indication while you re-dictate a phrase. Our testers also complained about some ambiguously labeled buttons, inconsistent use of typeface in instructions, and failure to restore background images after dialog words disappeared.
In practice, we found that additional training beyond the six minutes helped accuracy somewhat.


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Google last week issued Chrome 73, an update that added support for desktop "Progressive Web Apps" on Macs and consolidated settings - both old and new - that let users opt out of Google's services.
Chrome 73 also patched 60 vulnerabilities; security researchers who reported nine of them were paid a total of $13,500 in bug bounties. Other flaws' rewards had not yet been calculated by Google.
Google updates Chrome every six to seven weeks. It last upgraded the browser Jan. 29.
PWA for Macs
Google added support for desktop "Progressive Web Apps," or PWAs, for the Mac in this version, after Chrome 70 and Chrome 67 did the same for Windows and Chrome OS, respectively.
PWAs are web-based apps which have the look and feel of native-to-the-OS applications. Rather than run inside a Chrome frame, for example, they appear within the operating system's standard windowing.
Google has pitched PWAs rather than Chrome-only apps - the latter were long available in Google's e-store - since mid-2016 when the search giant announced it would phase out the apps.
Shifty settings
Google also said changes to Chrome's settings that would shift some options to a new, more visible, section were "rolling out."
The setting, labeled "Sync and Google Services," will appear under the top People section and include a host of options, including "all of the settings related to data collected by Google in Chrome Browser," according to Google's release notes written for enterprises. "Many of these settings were previously in the Privacy section."
Computerworld's check of numerous instances of Chrome on both Windows 10 and macOS showed that the change had not been implemented after the upgrade to version 73. That's not unusual: Google often deploys a new feature in stages, a practice meant to give the company a chance to fix any problems before all users suffer.
New tools will also be made available to those who sign into a Google account for syncing browsers, including an enhanced spellchecker and more detailed reporting for safe browsing, the technology Google uses to warn users of potentially malicious sites.
Google did not give a reason why it reorganized the sync and services settings, but it may have been a response to the kerfuffle last year over Chrome 69. In that version, signing into any Google service automatically also signed the user into Chrome. Many objected, citing privacy issues; signing in here and having Chrome automatically log in there was unacceptable to them because they believed that once signed into Chrome, data escaped their control and headed toward Mountain View's servers.
In the upgrade to Chrome 70, Google added an option for disabling the automatic sign-in.
For enterprise only
As is now standard, some of the changes to Chrome are only for businesses and other organizations that have adopted the browser.
Along with several new group polices that IT administrators can set for employees' browsers, version 73 now displays an item on the More Tools menu telling users that Chrome is being managed. Clicking "Managed by your organization" takes users to information about Chrome management. (Previously, users had to type about:policy in the address bar to see if the browser was being maintained by IT.)
Elsewhere in Chrome, version 73 added a dark mode for macOS; when the latter is set to the darker shade, Chrome follows suit. Google said dark mode support would be added to Chrome on Windows at some later date.
Chrome's next upgrade, version 74, should reach users on or about April 26.


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MLS Expands To Atlanta – Why?
by David on April 17, 2014
On Wednesday, Major League Soccer announced that Atlanta will be the league's 22nd team. The expansion team, which will begin play in the 2017 season, will be owned by Atlanta Falcons owner
Arthur Blank.
The team will play in new state-of-the-art retractable roof stadium in downtown Atlanta that will have will a 29,000 capacity.
"We are thrilled to welcome Atlanta to Major League Soccer as our 22nd team," Garber said in a statement. "Atlanta is one of the largest and most diverse markets in North America and has a rich tradition in sports and culture.
"And with Arthur Blank joining our ownership group, we are adding one of the most respected owners in professional sports. Arthur is deeply passionate about soccer and our quest to become one of the top professional soccer leagues in the world. We look forward to working with him and the entire Falcons organization on achieving this important goal."
A couple of things worry me about the announcement. One is that the Atlanta team will play in an NFL stadium, on artificial turf. Has MLS not learnt anything from the failed New England Revolution experiment at Gillette Stadium. Even at 29,000 the Atlanta stadium will probably be only half-full, diluting any atmosphere that the fans make.
Atlanta is the third expansion team that MLS has announced, with New York and Orlando joining next season with Miami and Atlanta to come on board in 2017. That is four teams, and 120 roster spots. I am not convinced that there is enough depth and quality in the college ranks, and in NASL, to support another 120 professional player, who can play at the top level. The dilution of talent has to be a worry to MLS.
Third, it is too early to know what sort of financial resources that Arthur Blank will put towards the Atlanta side, but after paying a reportedly $75m expansion fee, I would not expect him to have a Chivas or Columbus size budget. Which potentially causes a problem in MLS as the new teams in New York, Orlando and Miami are very well financed and publicly are committed to signing big name DPs. So will MLS become a two tier league with the free spending Sounders, TFC, NYCFC, Miami, LA Galaxy, Orlando on one side and the Revolution, Columbus, San Jose, Chicago and Chivas on the other side?
What do you think of the MLS expanding to Atlanta?


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Former Orioles executive Andy MacPhail reflects on time in Baltimore
By By Eduardo A. Encina
LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLA. — Former Orioles president of baseball operations Andy MacPhail was at the winter meetings Monday morning as a member of the Hall of Fame veterans committee that unanimously elected managers Bobby Cox, Tony La Russa and Joe Torre into Cooperstown.
Following a news conference to announce the selection of the three managers for enshrinement, MacPhail spoke to members of the local media.
MacPhail said coming to the winter meetings reminds him about how he sometimes misses the offseason and the challenge of assembling a team that comes with it.
"I miss the offseason more than the season, trying to put it together and spending the time trying to understand what the best way to proceed was, with the help of your scouts and any statistical analysis you did. That part I occasionally miss," he said. "I think that more so than every day at the ballpark from 10 in the morning to 11 at night during the course of the summer when, as a GM, you're pretty much just in reactive mode, making sure someone doesn't get hurt or your performance doesn't wane."
Several moves MacPhail made -- trades for key players like Adam Jones, Chris Tillman, Chris Davis, Tommy Hunter and J.J. Hardy – have been instrumental in the Orioles' recent success, but MacPhail is not one to take credit.
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"I'm so pleased with some of the individuals, particularly Adam Jones, who I think has really grown as a player and as a person," he said. "I'm just delighted to see that. I think the world of [manager] Buck [Showalter]. I think he's done a tremendous job. I think he's been a real good fit for the franchise. I'm happy with the way Tillman sort of emerged because there was a time quite honestly when we didn't know if it was going to happen or not. And I hope a lot of those other young arms [emerge]. These guys aren't robots. It takes different timetables for different guys to get it. You never know for certain when that's going to come about. I'm hopeful that guys bounce back and have pretty good years."
Asked if he thought Davis would eventually hit 53 homers when he dealt for him and Hunter at the deadline in 2011, MacPhail smiled. The game is difficult to predict sometimes, but he knew the Orioles were getting a good power hitter.
"If you're counting on someone to hit 50 home runs for you, you're asking for a lot and you're likely to be disappointed. I didn't think the [33-homer] season before that was well beyond his capabilities," MacPhail said.
"I know Davis wasn't the most exciting move in the world when we traded for him, but that's worked out. But I think out of all the things we did, I'm not so sure that J.J. Hardy really wasn't the most important. You just have to have that strong up the middle [presence]. You know how long we struggled at shortstop for a couple years. For someone to come in of that character and cement that position for that long a period of time, it made a tremendous difference. I'm happy for them."
MacPhail also deflected praise for his role in the club's spring training home move from Fort Lauderdale to Sarasota, saying he was merely "President of Complaints."
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"Peter Angelos was the one who got us into Sarasota," MacPhail said. "That really was his deal, because he toured them all. My chief contribution was complaining bitterly about Fort Lauderdale. ... I really think what Peter did there was really underestimated and undervalued. Starting a season with your weight facility as a tent in a parking lot? If you subscribe anything to people's mindset and you think of any of that aspect of people thinking about the environment that they're in, that it matters, that was just a huge upgrade."
MacPhail said he still looks at the hot-stove moves going on and things about what he might do in similar situations, but only casually.
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"I look at it a little bit, but not that seriously," he said. "I'm a big believer in no comments from the peanut gallery. I just try to keep in mind, when you're out, you're out. You chose to get out and you should stay out of it and let people do their things."
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For an industry hoping more people say "yes", yesterday's announcement that superstar soprano Renee Fleming will sing the National Anthem before Super Bowl XLVIII is a PR coup. We certainly get the appeal: The Guardian describes her as an "unlikely…superstar" who "can seem positively down-to-earth" compared to the divas usually tasked with singing at the Big Game.
…and here she is doing a ditty by some dude named Wolfgang.
So how did the opera world score this win?
While details of how the deal went down are scant, Fleming's been making her way into the mainstream for some time now. You may recall that she performed at President Obama's first inauguration; she also sang the anthem at the 2003 World Series.
And a little less of this.
For the record, we really don't get opera—but we do have a feeling this event will make the genre a bit more palatable to many.


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