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Michael Moore-Jones
NZ Artists
Furniture and Philosophy — On Vitsoe
This was a feature article published in HOME Magazine New Zealand, July 2019.
Vitsoe's headquarters in Leamington Spa. Photography by Dirk Lindner.
Open your iPhone's calculator and you're looking at a version of the calculator that German designers Dieter Rams and Dietrich Lubs designed for Braun in 1980. It's a modern classic: held in the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection, the functional, clear and even beautiful design is so difficult to improve on that Apple's designers were left simply paying homage. But what irony, then, that our iPhones will barely last three years while Braun's calculators are still going strong almost 40 years later. Apple's designers borrowed Rams' aesthetic, but not his ethic.
At least one company is still committed to both. Vitsœ (pronounced "vit-soo") is a somewhat paradoxical company. Its key product—one of only three that it makes—is a flexible shelving system so understated that it exists merely to highlight the objects placed on it. Vitsœ is a company that doesn't mind being invisible, like its shelves; but then again, you've probably seen these shelves many times without realising it. Called the "606 Universal Shelving System", they're the ones that house your architect friend's books and ceramics, and which adorn the walls of so many Instagrammable mid-century modern houses.
It's a "system" rather than a shelf because every part is interchangeable. You buy some vertical brackets that attach directly to the wall. Between these, you then fit the thin metal shelves or cabinetry. You can start with a small shelving unit and then add to it as required; you can replace individual parts if they wear out; and you can pack them and take them with you when you move—all of this is Vitsœ's sales pitch. Because of their flexibility, I've heard it said sardonically that Vitsœ's shelves are the most divorce-friendly in the world.
All three products Vitsœ makes—the shelves, plus the 620 Chair and the latest addition, the 621 Table—are designed by Dieter Rams, the man behind so many of Braun's twentieth century designs. Clocks, shavers, coffee machines and toasters: Rams designed them all with a clean, uncluttered aesthetic and with the belief that if made well enough, consumer products could improve the world. Planned obsolescence was anathema to Rams. If a product is good, it should last. This was the ethos with which Niels Vitsœ began selling Rams' home furniture designs from the late 1950s.
What the shelves are is environmentally friendly, though you won't see Vitsœ explaining this. The most the company emphasises is that "Recycling is defeat," in the words of Mark Adams, the eloquent and elegant managing director of Vitsœ who brought the company from Germany to England in the mid-1990s. Adams was just 24 when he quit a lucrative office job to join a furniture store that happened to sell some of Vitsœ's products. And for him, Vitsœ is far more than a furniture company—as he puts it, Vitsœ is a "service business that just happens to make some products." He'd never say it (the company's understated philosophy, and a dose of English reserve would prevent him), but the measure of success for Vitsœ seems to be more about how far it can spread its philosophy of "Living better, with less, that lasts longer", than how many products it sells.
Vitsœ is not the only company producing long-lasting, flexible shelves. Swedish company Lundia has a wood-based system that has been sold through an NZ-owned subsidiary for many years. It's slightly less flexible, but the use of natural materials has long spoken to NZ-Scandinavian design affinities. One significant difference between the two companies is that Vitsœ only sells directly to the consumer through their website: you can't go in to a store to pick up any shelves, though Vitsœ's "planners" will design shelving combinations for you after you send them a photo of your wall. The direct-to-consumer approach has further helped Vitsœ reduce wastage since it controls the whole process, down to reusable packaging materials.
As I walked around Vitsœ's beautiful factory (usually an oxymoron) my thoughts turned unexpectedly to New Zealand. I recognised something in Vitsœ's honest and direct use of materials—the building is just exposed timber, glass, metal and concrete, without a single brushstroke of paint. There is something of the Elegant Shed and Number Eight Wire and Colin McCahon's use of unstretched jute canvas to Vitsœ: a transparency and honesty, both in its building and in its philosophy. The normal corporate facade doesn't wear off no matter how hard you go looking—in fact, there is no facade. With Vitsœ and its shelves, what you see is what there is. Much like a Group Architects house in Auckland, I want to say.
I found myself wondering: what if we were to double down on these values, making "living better, with less, that lasts longer" a kind of national design mantra? We seem to already have the foundations built for us by our twentieth century architects and designers. What Vitsœ shows us is that those values are not necessarily synonymous with "local business"—that you can in fact lead the world with them, and turn a good profit at the same time.
Now, just two years after the company completed the move from London to its new bespoke-designed headquarters, Vitsœ seems to be entering a new and exciting chapter in its history. For those who have followed the company for many years this is unsurprising. Vitsœ has always done things differently, always rejected trends and fashions. And at a time when the implications of a century or more of wasteful, throwaway design culture are more than clear, Vitsœ's understated, long-term, slow-but-steady philosophy offers a lesson for us all. The philosophy comes free—beautiful, long-lasting furniture is an optional extra.
Author mmoorejonesPosted on August 6, 2019 January 6, 2020 Categories Architecture, ArticlesTags furniture, UK
Oceania at the Antipodes
This year's Oceania exhibition at London's Royal Academy of Arts has so far made quite an impression. Here's The Guardian's Jonathan Jones: "From a two-headed Tahitian god to a mourner's costume made of pearl shells, this dazzling exhibition is like having the ocean roll under your canoe." Five stars, he says.
But Oceania visiting the antipodes is not exactly new. Since 1945 there have been, as far as I can tell, at least ten major exhibitions of Oceanic and Pacific art in Europe and America. This time, the curation seems far more sensitive and detailed; perhaps the interest is greater, too (certainly the marketing budget is). Yet we shouldn't forget the history of similar exhibitions to be staged—and by comparing them we might be able to glean the extent of changing attitudes, and scholarly progress, towards the art of Oceania.
Here's a list of Oceanic/Pacific exhibitions overseas that I'm aware of, with catalogue links (when available) and descriptions from the host museums. Please get in touch if you're aware of other exhibitions I could include in this list.
1. 1945, City Art Museum of St. Louis: Oceanic Culture. (The entire exhibition grew out of the American experience in the Pacific during WWII, which is fascinating in itself. The catalogue is painful to read, though not unsurprising, for its stereotypes and views of cultural development).
"In the recent conflict in the Pacific, no area was of more vital importance to the ultimate victory of the Allies than Oceania, a vast region where the proportion of sea to that of land is awe-inspiringly large. Yet the myriad Pacific islands, many of them almost infinitesimal in size, were all-important to the execution of the brilliant strategy whereby with dramatic suddenness our enemy was overcome… It is important that we know more about the kind of people who gave us generous aid and among whom many of our own men found themselves living for months at a time under conditions of great hardship."
2. 1946, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York: Arts of the South Seas. Catalogue here.
"Arts of the South Seas was a singularly comprehensive exhibition of artwork from Oceanic cultures. Part of a series of non-Western, non-modern art exhibitions, it featured more than 400 works of art from Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Australia. In the accompanying catalogue, René d'Harnoncourt, the director of the Museum's Department of Manual Industry, explained the impetus for the exhibition: although Oceanic art was relatively unknown in the West, there was great "kinship between arts of the South Seas and recent movements in modern art such as Expressionism and Surrealism."
3. 1979, National Gallery of Art (NGA), Washington, D.C.: Art of the Pacific Islands. Catalogue here. (This is the only other Oceanic art exhibition that I could see referenced anywhere in the RA's Oceania catalogue).
"In spite of the wealth it has to offer, the art of the Pacific Islands remains perhaps the least known of the world's art to the modern audience. Throughout this mass of islands there existed hundreds of cultures, many of them sustained by only a few hundred people. The cultures developed into richly disparate modes with elaborate social systems and highly refined systems of intellectual and religious life. Most striking of all, however, is that these cultures created an extraordinary range of art styles to express and serve their beliefs. The aim of the exhibition this catalog accompanied was to highlight objects that were made before or collected at the earliest contact by Westerners, and which therefore reflect the most pristine state of the cultures."
4. 1984, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York: "Primitivism" in Twentieth Century Art: Affinities of the Tribal and the Modern. (This well-discussed and controversial exhibition was not solely devoted to Pacific art, but included a large section of it. Interestingly neither a description or the English catalogue are available on MoMA's website.)
5. 1984, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), New York: Te Maori. (Perhaps the most important exhibition for New Zealand to be staged overseas. The Met doesn't include any information on the exhibition on its website, nor a digital version of the catalogue. The New Yorker's article from the time gives a sense of the exhibition's US reception; Hirini Moko Mead's Art New Zealand article tells of the Maori response).
6. 2006, The British Museum, London: Power and Taboo: Sacred objects from the eastern Pacific.
"The exhibition will feature several famous examples of Polynesian material including the enigmatic A'a figure from the Austral Islands, the striking feather god head from Hawaii and an intricate nephrite tiki pendant from New Zealand. These objects have had a significant impact on the development of modernist art as they were studied and admired by artists such as Henry Moore and Pablo Picasso (who had a replica of the A'a sculpture in his studio). They also continue to inspire Polynesian artists, many of whom have produced work based upon this collection."
7. 2006, Museum of Art and Archaeology, Cambridge: Pasifika Styles.
"Pasifika Styles was an exhibition and festival celebrating contemporary art work inspired by Maori and Pacific Island culture and historic collections. Showcasing selected works from New Zealand's top contemporary and emerging artists, the exhibition was presented in the Museum's galleries alongside an unparalleled collection of historic Oceanic art."
8. 2006, University of East Anglia: Pacific Encounters: Art and Divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860. (I'm lacking online information about this exhibition, but this review deals with these last 3 exhibitions).
9. 2013, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne: Made in Oceania: Tapa – Art and Daily Life. (Article here).
""Tapa" is the Polynesian word for fabrics made from a special type of tree bark which can be painted and used for variety of purposes. Oceania, in particular, has a rich, multifaceted tapa culture, which the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum presented for the first time in Germany in a special, large-scale exhibition. The exhibition featuring international loans (e.g. from New Zealand and Australia) and pieces from its own collection compared and contrasted contemporary works of tapa. The presentation focused on various aspects, such as gender, religion, identity, migration and diaspora, and examined these further in discussions with artists and in workshops."
10. 2018, Royal Academy of Arts (RA), London: Oceania.
If nothing else, the list dampens somewhat the RA's marketing claims of the exhibition's uniqueness. But some further questions, out of this brief survey: Did it take the American war experience in the Pacific to first spark any interest, however patronising, in Pacific art? What accounts for the subsequent intermittent interest—could these exhibitions be linked somehow to global events that put Oceania/the Pacific on Europe's metaphorical map? And why did it take so much longer for any European exhibitions of Pacific art to be staged than in America; is this representative of the provincialism of European attitudes to art from anywhere else?
In light of that latter question, the Royal Academy's Oceania seems not so much a marking of 250 years since Cook "discovered" the Pacific, but of perhaps a decade since Britain and Europe opened their artistic sights on the rest of the world. Oceania is a fitting beginning.
Author mmoorejonesPosted on November 7, 2018 November 7, 2018 Categories Art, Essays, LinksTags exhibitions, New Zealand, Pacific, UK
"What's It To Me?": Connecting The Dots Between Brexit And Jobs
Note: This post originally appeared on the Asian Trade Centre's Talking Trade blog.
Brexit has been described as an "act of self-harm" by commentators from the President of the European Commission to the Financial Times. The adverbs sometimes differ—grievous, in some instances, unnecessary or gratuitous in others—but economists and trade experts are nearly unanimous that British citizens will be worse off following a withdrawal from the European Union.
But ask those who voted for it, and Brexit seems nothing close to that. Indeed, the very people who would seem most at risk from Brexit are those who, even following the referendum result, are most insistent that their lives will be much improved. Why is it that those probably most insulated from Brexit's risks are most concerned about it, while those on the "front lines" maintain a wholly positive view?
Sunderland, in north-east England, is one of those cities where residents might not have buffers that could protect workers from the effects of Brexit. With the second lowest GDP per capita of any city in the UK, and having only recently recovered from the 1988 shutdown of the last shipyard, Sunderland is in many ways a testament to economic decline and change.
The 61% pro-Brexit vote in Sunderland is what happens when cities fail to recognise the ways in which the global economy has changed, and when they fail to connect the dots between the global economy and individual livelihoods at home. Though proud residents might like to spin a narrative of independence, the reality is that workers here are literally standing on the front lines of an interconnected global economy.
Ask those in Sunderland, however, and you would think Brexit was far less important than Britain losing to Iceland in the Euro Cup. The New York Times carried an article featuring a variety of perspectives from Sunderland, summarised best, perhaps, by Ken Walker, a retired construction worker.
"I don't have any money in the stock market," Mr. Walker, 59, said as he drank a pint of beer in a pub. "So what's it to me?"
It came as a blessing when in 1986—two years before Sunderland's last shipyard was closed—a Japanese car maker came to the city to set up a production plant. Nissan, a giant of the car making world, has operated a successful plant ever since, employing just shy of 7000 in Sunderland alone, and up to a thousand more in two other offices in the UK. The Nissan plant in Sunderland also supports 27,000 jobs across the UK in its supply chain.
The plant regularly produces in excess of 500,000 vehicles per year. And given that many other vehicle manufacturers operate in Britain, it should be obvious that those 500,000 cars are not purchased by Britons alone. Depending on the year, between 80 and 85 percent of cars produced by Nissan in Sunderland are sent abroad.
Those vehicles are not all being exported to booming countries in Asia. Instead, almost 60% of these exports are sent to the European Union. It is precisely because the UK receives preferential access to the EU markets that Nissan originally set up production in Sunderland.
It is figures like this that translate trade—a broad, often loaded term that invites misinformation and scaremongering—into effects on people's lives. For when the UK does leave the EU, Nissan will face tariffs on all those exports to Europe, and will lose access to any EU-negotiated trade deals with the rest of the world.
One possible scenario is that in the event of Brexit, the UK will (at least in the short term) have to fall back on WTO trading rules and Most Favoured Nation (MFN) tariff rates into EU markets. For cars, these rates currently stand at 10%, and for trucks at 22%. Taxes and VAT rates in other countries can also be restrictive, dampening demand further even if Nissan is to gain from a reduced Pound.
Brexit is therefore not an abstract effect on businesses. For Nissan, it means under one likely optimistic scenario, an additional 10% cost to production of cars. In an industry already on the knife's edge between profitability and loss, many firms operating in the UK will move in order to stay competitive.
And all that is if Nissan decides to put up with the uncertainty—on its own incredibly damaging to business—that will ensue perhaps for many years until the UK does formally leave. Why shouldn't the company be proactive to protect its interests and begin shifting production to the continent—or to Asia?
Therein lies the irony. The surest way to "send jobs to China," as the phrase goes, is not to open one's borders, but to close them.
Nissan has already warned about the possible ramifications for its business post-Brexit. Carlos Ghosn, Nissan Chief Executive and Chairman, was quoted as saying "Our preference as a business is, of course, that the UK stays within Europe – it makes the most sense for jobs, trade and costs. For us, a position of stability is more positive than a collection of unknowns." The company has declined to comment since the election, but rumors are swirling on the production lines.
This follows similar warnings from other car manufacturers in the UK, including Toyota and Ford, which in 2012 closed two UK plants causing the loss of thousands of jobs. The industry was already reeling, facing slowing exports to China and Russia. In fact, it was a surge in demand from EU countries that allowed Nissan to weather recent economic storms. Whether it will continue to be able to manage slowing demand in Asia without free access to the EU is very much an open question.
For other pro-Brexiters in Sunderland, "The E.U. is a mystery…" "We've never heard about it up here", the Times again quotes a resident as saying. Even those who seem aware of potential job losses were confident: "No, I can't see them cutting off ties", one resident was quoted as saying of Nissan. For yet another, "Give Brexit a chance. It can't get worse than what's been going on already."
But it can. And of all places, Sunderland should know that it can. Its economic fortunes were in many ways saved in 1986 by a Japanese company that only exists in Sunderland to produce products to deliver offshore. By failing, once again, to connect the dots between the global economy and individual lives, Sunderland risks repeating the past. One hopes for those who commented to the Times that Mr. Cameron's successor will not need to make a fated journey to the Nissan plant to announce its closure, as Mrs. Thatcher did at Sunderland shipyards three decades ago.
***This Talking Trade blog post was written by Michael Moore-Jones and Dr. Deborah Elms, Asian Trade Centre, Singapore***
Author mmoorejonesPosted on July 26, 2016 Categories ArticlesTags Brexit, EU, politics, trade, UKLeave a comment on "What's It To Me?": Connecting The Dots Between Brexit And Jobs
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Trevecca Nazarene University (TNU) is a private Nazarene liberal arts college in Nashville, Tennessee. It was founded in 1901.

History

TNU was founded in 1901 by Cumberland Presbyterian minister J. O. McClurkan as the "Pentecostal Literary and Bible Training School". Part of the Pentecostal Alliance, it started offering bachelor's degrees in 1910, and the school's name was changed to Trevecca College for Christian Workers in 1911, after Trevecca College (now Coleg Trefeca) in Wales. The school was located in downtown Nashville until 1914, when it was moved to East Nashville on Gallatin Road. In 1917, the campus suffered a disastrous fire, and its students and faculty temporarily transferred to Ruskin Cave College. That same year, the school became an official college of the Church of the Nazarene, in order to save itself financially. Shortly after it had become a Nazarene institution, it absorbed the Southeastern Nazarene College of Georgia but still found itself in bankruptcy and forced to sell its campus by 1932.

After occupying a temporary space on the former campus of the defunct Walden University on White's Creek, it was unable to buy the property and relocated to the Nashville First Church of the Nazarene, taking on the name Trevecca Nazarene College (TNC) in 1934. In 1935, the college moved back to its present location on Murfreesboro Pike in southeast Nashville, where it once again leased and then took over the 7-acre campus of Walden University in 1937. President A. B. Mackey bought an adjoining  plot for himself and later transferred it to the college. It was first accredited in 1969 and began offering master's degrees in 1984. In 1995, the school's name was changed from Trevecca Nazarene College to Trevecca Nazarene University (TNU). In 1999, Trevecca offered its first doctoral degree (an Ed.D.), and in 2011, added its first Ph.D. degree (in clinical counseling).

On March 24, 2017, Trevecca announced a partnership with Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts. At that time, Trevecca's president, Dr. Dan Boone, was also announced as president-elect of Eastern Nazarene College. In March 2017, the boards of trustees of both institutions voted to approve a Memorandum of Understanding that would begin a three-year partnership exploring the possibility of an eventual merger. As the president of both institutions, Boone was to provide leadership and oversight for both Trevecca and ENC. Both were to retain separate boards of governance and continue to operate as independent institutions under their respective accrediting bodies. In March 2018, the proposed merger was called off.

Trevecca's Presidents: Rev. J.O. MCClurkan (1901–1914), Dr. C.E. Hardy (1915–1919, 1920–1925, 1928–1936), Stephen S. White (1919-1920), John T. Benson (1925–1926), A.O. Hendricks (1926–1928), A.B. Mackey (1936-1963), W.M. Greathouse (1963–1968), Mark R. Moore (1968–1979), Homer J. Adams (1979–1991), Millard C. Reed (1991–2005), Dan Boone (2005-Present)

Affiliation
TNU is one of eight U.S. liberal arts colleges affiliated with the Church of the Nazarene. TNU is the college for the "Southeast Region" of the United States, comprising the Kentucky, MidSouth, East Tennessee, Alabama North, Alabama South, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Southern Florida districts, which include Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and part of Kentucky. Each college receives financial backing from the Nazarene churches in its region; part of each church budget is paid into a fund for its regional school. Each college or university is also bound by a gentlemen's agreement not to physically recruit outside its respective "educational region." TNU has been accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools since 1969.

Campus
Trevecca has a 90+ acre campus in an urban neighborhood environment, located 1.7 miles southeast of downtown Nashville. The campus of Trevecca Nazarene University is part of the Trevecca Community, which includes other entities that are adjacent to the campus: Trevecca Community Church of the Nazarene;  Trevecca Towers, a Christian retirement community; and Trevecca Healthcare, a nursing home/long-term care facility.

Academics
Trevecca is organized into six schools: the School of Arts and Sciences, the Skinner School of Business and Technology, Education, the Millard Reed School of Theology and Christian Ministry, the School of Music and Worship Arts, and the School of Graduate and Continuing Studies. Each of these schools is divided into departments. Most of the degrees offered by TNU are for traditional undergraduates; however, Trevecca offers bachelor's degrees in 86 baccalaureate majors, two associate degree majors, 20 master's degrees, two doctorates, and six certificate programs. The management and human relations degree is a non-traditional undergraduate degree for working adults. Programs for associate degrees, the master's degrees, a doctor of philosophy degree, and a doctor of education degree are also available.

Student life
There were 3,000-plus students at the college in fall 2016, 1,374 of whom were traditional undergraduates. The undergraduate population has a 1:1.39 male to female ratio, as of fall 2016. As of the fall of 2016, undergraduates represented 43 states, 16 countries, and 28 religious affiliations. The majority of undergraduate students live on campus in residence halls or apartment-style housing.

Students participate in spiritual life activities throughout the school year and summers, including chapels three times a week (a number of which each semester are required for all undergraduates), local community service projects, mission trips both in the U.S. and around the world, small groups (each designed for specific types of spiritual growth and learning), and other spiritually formational activities.

Trevecca has organizations such as the Student Government Association that are in charge of planning and hosting many social life events. Events that have gained the most popularity among the student body include "Friday Night Live" (a rendition of the popular skit show Saturday Night Live), "Trojan Idol", and the Songwriter's Challenge. Since many of these events cost money to produce, there is a need for an admission fee. Student Life Activities Pass (SLAP) cards are sold by the Student Government Association at the beginning of every school year for discounts at on-campus events and around the Nashville area to offset this cost.

In addition to SGA, TNU has a large number of student organizations and groups, including ministry-related clubs, service organizations, political and social interest clubs, and clubs or ensembles for many individual majors.

Trevecca has cooperative agreements with other local universities for programs not available directly through Trevecca, including the Army ROTC at Vanderbilt University, which offers a commission in the Army as well as a degree from Trevecca once the bachelor's program at TNU and the ROTC program at Vanderbilt are both successfully completed. Trevecca and Vanderbilt also have a joint program allowing students interested in marching band to participate in the Vandy band during Vanderbilt's football season. Through a 3-2 program with Vanderbilt University, students can obtain an applied physics degree at Trevecca. After completion of the program's requirements (usually three years at Trevecca and one at Vanderbilt), Trevecca will award the student an applied physics degree. Upon completion of the requirements in the student's chosen engineering discipline at Vanderbilt, that institution will award the student an engineering degree.

Athletics

Trevecca is a member of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II and competes in baseball, basketball, golf, soccer, softball, cross country, track, and volleyball. In July 2011, the NCAA announced that Trevecca had been approved for the Division-II membership process. TNU discontinued competing in the NAIA and TSAC conferences following the 2011–2012 school year, beginning the a three-year transition. As of 2021, the G-MAC is home to Ashland University, Cedarville University, the University of Findlay, Hillsdale College, Kentucky Wesleyan College, Lake Erie College, Malone University, Ohio Dominican University, Ohio Valley University, Tiffin University, Walsh University and Ursuline College in addition to Trevecca.

In addition to intercollegiate sports, Trevecca also has a cheerleading team and holds competitions in a variety of intramural sports, including flag football, softball, and beach volleyball.

Notable alumni

Academic Officials
 Dan Boone, president of Trevecca Nazarene University

Religion
 William M. Greathouse, general superintendent emeritus in the Church of the Nazarene
 Jesse Middendorf, general superintendent emeritus in the Church of the Nazarene
 Nina Gunter, general superintendent emeritus in the Church of the Nazarene

Others
 Kevin Dyson, former NFL player
 Wes Hampton, Grammy Award-winning American gospel singer, tenor for the Gaither Vocal Band.
 James Austin Johnson, cast member for SNL
 Stipe Miocic, professional mixed martial arts fighter, former UFC heavyweight champion
 Chonda Pierce, comedian
 Abner Ramirez, part of the duo Johnnyswim

References

External links

Official website
Official athletics website

Universities and colleges in Nashville, Tennessee
Liberal arts colleges in Tennessee
Private universities and colleges in Tennessee
Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
Evangelicalism in Tennessee
Universities and colleges accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Educational institutions established in 1901
1901 establishments in Tennessee

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Meeting the Sumdees tells story of the coming together of two cultures as a set of WASP Canadian parents become in-laws to a modern Islamic woman, her parents and, by extension, their entire family in Pakistan.
When Sam and Laila meet, sparks fly and in fairly short order, they are getting married. But that isn't all. Sam announces that he is becoming a Muslim, to appease Laila's parents. Nice WASP liberals that they are, Sam's parents Anne and David question why someone would have to do that today, but they go along with Sam.
Before the wedding, Sam, Anne and David find themselves thrown into Pakistani customs. They learn to dance Bollywood style, they eat spicey while people hover over them to see if they will expire and the women and men are separated. A lot.
The wedding is a days long affair in Toronto with both Muslim/Pakistani and non Pakistani evenings. Anne and David and their friends go out of their way to make sure they don't run afoul of any Pakistani rules.
After the wedding, Nasir and Yasmeen plan a 'wedding tour' of Pakistan. To the chagrin of Laila, they invite Anne and David to come along. Laila would much prefer the trip to be only about her. And the battle lines are drawn.
The group arrives in Karachi where Anne is almost overwhelmed by the chaos and crowds. They have to navigate their way through American Express offices with guards packing machine guns and a kafkaesque ordering of lunch in the colonial lodge where they are
staying. David is felled by food poisoning. Once he recovers, they embark on a seemingly endless tour of houses and they must dine in each of them for etiquette's sake.
From Karachi they go to Rawalpindi. Now Sam has come down with food poisoning. But they all are honoured guests at a big reception planned by Yasmeen's relatives and so he attends. At the end of the evening, practising her Urdu by saying goodnight to each person, Anne has lost tack of who hugs whom, and hugs everyone. The last relative is strictly religious and touches no women. But, to be polite, he allows her to hug him, much to the hilarity of the others.
From Rawalpindi the group heads to Multan, an ancient city, where Nasir's older brother, a retired English professor, holds court. Over the entire visit, he drones on, seeming to be telling them that they are infidels and will go to hell.
The group go on a road trip to the Himalays. By this time, Anne is increasingly annoyed about not being allowed to pay for anything, being pushed around by Yasmeen and being separated from her husband and son. Laila thinks that Anne has been embarrassing and takes it out on Sam.
However, just when it seems that everything has gone sideways, the sun comes out and everyone realizes how beautiful it is and just how lucky they are. Canadians, Pakistanis, WASPS, Muslims. Families are the same around the world and Yasmeen and Anne realize that they are, in fact, just two mothers afraid of losing their kids.

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Welcome to Kickstart where you get to see new products here at AutomationDirect. Today I am going to show you our new Click PLC's with Ethernet Communication and Analog IO! If you want to learn more, keep watching! We are happy to announce, there are 12 new CLICK PLC's with Ethernet and.. ANALOG IO in this launch! All 12 of these new ethernet analog PLC units have both discrete and analog I O, plus extra serial communication ports. The new CLICK models are available with four discrete inputs and four discrete outputs, and either two or four analog inputs depending on analog type and two analog outputs. As mentioned, they all have one ethernet communications port, one RS-232 communication port, and one RS-485 communication port. They also come with a built in clock/calendar and battery backup - battery sold separately. Oh, and I almost forgot, you also get 30 days of FREE online training with our friends at Interconnecting Automation! If you need more I O, don't worry, AutomationDirect offers several dozen discrete and analog I O modules that you can simply "CLICK" together to expand your system. Make sure you download the latest and greatest FREE CLICK Software so you can setup your new CLICK Ethernet Analog PLC. You can find the software on our website. Here is where you will see the new setup configurations for the Ethernet Analog CPUs. You can find the specs for these new CLICK Ethernet Analog PLC's on our website at: www.automationdirect.com Don't forget: we sell additional CLICK I O modules with AC, DC, and Relay I O, Analog I O, and more. You can also pick up Ziplink wiring modules and cables for the CLICK PLC, so stop by our website and check out the CLICK PLC lineup. Check back with us often on AutomationDirects websites or on Youtube.com/Automationdirect for more Kickstart videos. If you are watching us on YouTube, please let us know what you think about these new CLICK Ethernet Analog PLC's or how you plan to use them in your application by dropping us a comment down below. Don't forget to hit the like button! Thanks for watching and we hope to see you again soon. If you have any questions about using AutomationDirect's CLICK PLC's, please contact AutomationDirect's free award winning support team during regular business hours. They will be happy to help. Click on this short video to learn more about AutomationDirect's support options and click here to learn more or see more videos on our PLC products. And be sure to click here to subscribe to our YouTube channel to be notified of new Videos.


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The Lucky Duck on Dublin's Aungier Street is a city landmark re-imagined. The iconic building, which lay idle for 20 years, is now beautifully restored and refurbished into a stunning pub, bar and restaurant, bringing back to life an important piece of Dublin's forgotten history.
The ground floor is a traditional Victorian style pub, while upstairs offers a completely different aesthetic with three distinct rooms, each with a small cocktail bar.
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Като́лицька це́рква в Пана́мі — найбільша християнська конфесія Панамі. Складова всесвітньої Католицької церкви, яку очолює на Землі римський папа. Керується конференцією єпископів. Станом на 2004 рік у країні нараховувалося близько  католиків ( від усього населення). Існувало 8 діоцезій, які об'єднували  церковних парафій.  Кількість  священиків —  (з них представники секулярного духовенства — , члени чернечих організацій — ), постійних дияконів — , монахів — , монахинь — .

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 Junguito, Francisco Xavier. Republic and Diocese of Panama  // The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911.

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 Статистика за країною   // Catholic-Hierarchy.org.

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by Jocelyn Anderson | Dec 7, 2020 | Alumni Authors, Culture, Fall/Winter 2020-21
Sameer Pandya '94 explores issues of race, belonging and midlife in his debut novel, Members Only (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020). The book follows Raj Bhatt, a middle-aged Indian American professor, over the course of a very difficult week — one that forces him to confront how society talks about race. Pandya, an assistant professor of Asian American studies at UC Santa Barbara, discussed the book with UC Davis Magazine.
What was your inspiration for writing this book?
I have had this character tapping on my shoulders for years. I wanted to write a novel in the first person about an Indian American everyman. He has a certain education level and class level, so an everyman from a particular milieu. I didn't know how to do it. And then I entered my 40s, and I began to occupy some of these emotional spaces that Raj Bhatt ends up occupying. And then I had this idea of a cringeworthy moment and wrote the opening chapter as a short story. I had a sense there was a lot more here, that I wanted to spend more time with this character. When I go back into his past and his early life, you have an added layer.
Cringeworthy is a word that's come up in reviews of the book, too — in a positive way. What do you hope readers get from it?
There is a way in which the scene that gets us going is profoundly cringeworthy. I didn't sit down to do it that way. The scene itself is incredibly fraught, and the cringing kind of arrives. But what I did try to do on purpose is give this character a self-deprecating humor. I think perhaps the reviewers were also speaking to being able to enjoy the journey with a character that is extremely self-critical, self-referential and self-deprecating at the same time. I tried to balance out the difficult moments with a certain lightness of humor.
How do you think this book fits with the national discussion about race right now?
Part of the reason race as a category has had a consistent presence in our American lives is it operates on all sorts of levels. In this novel, I try to think about the implicit ways race operates. What are the quiet moments that have a strong presence to them? And how, in this one particular character, some of those implicit moments build up over the course of a week and lead to the climax of the novel. This, in a smaller way, is asking the question of how we talk about race.
You majored in history at UC Davis. Did you always want to be a writer?
I loved my time at UC Davis. I majored in history and had a minor in English. When I left Davis, I wanted to be a writer, but, if I'm completely honest, I was scared and nervous. I did a Ph.D. and became a literary scholar. When I was at UC Davis, I wanted to be a writer. I put it off for quite a few years. I returned back to it full time with my full attention in my early 30s when I was ready. That ambition was clearly set at UC Davis — it just took a little bit of time to settle into it.
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So you may have seen the Overnight Adventure to Cathedral Lake in Colorado which was EPIC in every way and in this video I will be going over all of the gear which I personally carried and used.
I will have a video up next week where I will go over my Day Hike Load Out which I carried.
I have other videos for some of the other products so search the channel if you want more information.
Pot : Toaks Titanium Pot 750ml with bail handle.
Pack Cover – Mine is a cheap pack cover which I got from amazon years ago. Purchased on amazon years ago for $10. Works perfectly. It's from Orange sport I believe.
Water bottle : Hydroblue – Review coming soon.
Bear bags aren't allowed or aren't useful above the tree line.
Sunblock cream for face, ears, neck.
Maps loaded on All Trails App. Downloaded so I can use off line with GPS.
Had paper map backups along with a compass! Very important especially when going off trail like Susan and I did. Please do not go off trail unless you are very proficient with route navigation, map reading and location acquiring.


Seven days of events are in store for local Catholic school students.
Great Falls Central Catholic High School, Our Lady of Lourdes and Holy Spirit Catholic School are celebrating National Catholic Schools Week from Jan. 29 through Feb. 4 with seven days of events for both the students and the community.
On Sunday, Jan. 29, the theme is "Celebrating Your Parish," which includes coffee and rolls hosted by GFCCHS students at St. Ann's Cathedral and Corpus Christi Parish. Our Lady of Lourdes and Holy Spirit schools will also serve coffee and rolls in their school parishes, and Holy Spirit will hold an open house from noon to 3 p.m.
Families with students entering pre-K through grade 12 are invited to learn about the curriculum, meet teachers and staff and inquire about enrollment and financial aid.
"Celebrating Your Community" is the theme for Monday, Jan. 30, featuring a community food drive held by GFCCHS students. The drive includes several competitions: freshmen vs. juniors, sophomores vs. seniors and staff vs. all classes. The food collected goes to the St. Jude's Food Pantry. Students can dress for the day in their favorite hat, Holy Spirit is making blessing bags for the Rescue Mission and Our Lady of Lourdes will collect diapers and books for the Cameron Family Center.
Tuesday, Jan. 31, celebrates students. For just one day, kids are allowed to wear sweats and feast on a taco bar for lunch. High school students will head to Holy Spirit and Our Lady of Lourdes to read in the classrooms, K-8 students will participate in a "Why I like attending Catholic School" essay contest, and Holy Spirit will hold a door decorating contest.
The schools get patriotic Wednesday, Feb. 1, with "Celebrating the Nation." Students can dress in red, white and blue patriotic wear and, together with staff, pray for the nation. Holy Spirit School holds an open house from 5-8 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 2, encourages kids to celebrate vocations by dressing in their favorite team jersey. GFCCHS will write letters to priests in the diocese thanking them for their service, and Holy Spirit hosts a luncheon for all retired priests and nuns. At Our Lady of Lourdes, breakfast baskets will be provided for the local retired priests.
Did you attend a Catholic school in Great Falls? Head to Holy Spirit Catholic School from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday for an alumni reception. All graduates of HSCS, Blessed Trinity and Holy Family, Saint Gerard's, Saints Peter and Paul, The Ursuline Academy and Saint Thomas who are 18 and older are welcome to attend.
The school week ends Friday, Feb. 3, by celebrating faculty, staff and volunteers with an all-school Mass where students and staff come together to show appreciation for the gift of Catholic education. Mass is held at Our Lady of Lourdes church at 9 a.m., and all are welcome to attend. Students will stay and listen to Father Garrett Nelson discuss vocations, there will be a blessing of the throats by Deacon Bob for GFCCHS students for Feast of St. Blaise followed by a luncheon for the staff and faculty.
The final day of national Catholic School Week, Saturday, Feb. 4, is themed "Celebrating Families." Students and staff will give thanks for parents, guardians and other family members who play a vital role in Catholic education.


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Waterworks Players present Aladdin
Published 7:06 am Tuesday, November 28, 2017
You may think you know the story of Aladdin, a tale of a street rat who is granted three wishes from a Genie of the Lamp. But this year's holiday pantomime production of "Aladdin," by Waterworks Players makes a delightfully different take on a children's yarn popularized by Disney.
As a beloved form of theatre in the British Isles, pantomimes are melodramatic presentations of familiar nursery rhymes or children's tales that combine song, dance, and slapstick comedy.
Mary Jo Stockton, director of "Aladdin," notes that the "show isn't a quiet and polite theatre-going experience. Rather the audience, ranging in age from two to eighty, interacts with the cast — sometimes in planned events, sometimes in spontaneous reactions — throughout the performance."
The actors expect and encourage this back-and-forth interaction. In some productions the story villain will squirt the audience with water guns, while other cast members might throw candy to children.
Waterworks' first pantomine was "Puss In Boots," in 2006.
"I thought we were going to need plants in the audience to make it work for an American audience but, as a native Brit, I was amazed at how it seemed to come naturally," Stockton said. "The kids just loved it and had no trouble figuring out how to participate. After 10 years, we now have established a Southside Virginia tradition."
Part of the charm for older audience members is that these shows include jokes based on current events and local connections.
"We edit the script to keep jokes current and to tailor dialogue for our community," Stockton said.
Waterworks' production of Suzan Holder's "Aladdin," is a trip back in time but not as far back as you might expect — the usual antics will play out but the characters are straight out of the Eighties. The lead character Aladdin (Elijah Logue) believes there's more to life than washing dirty socks in the Twankey laundry, run by his mother the Widow Twankey (John Burton) and his brother Wishee Washee (Krishon Preston) and with the help of Soapy Sophie (Christy Moore). Aladdin's life changes when seeing the Princess Jasmine (Kolby Grimsley), whom Aladdin falls instantly in love despite the objections of her parents the Sultan (Josh Davis) and Sultana (Kalimah Patricia Carter). Princess Jasmine also has another suitor, the evil Abanazar (Greg Tsigaridas) who is served by two henchmen Shish (Christian Huggard) and Shwarma (Leigh Lunsford). With the help of a big-headed Genie of the Lamp (Pam Wright) and a Ring Genie named Jennie (Sheri Davenport), Aladdin takes on Abanazar in this magical adventure.
The cast also includes an ensemble of memorable characters including Scheherazade (Ava Janowski), two police officers PC Kung Fu (Penny Dorsey) and Officer Tai Chi (Emma Leonard), palace guards (Sarabeth Roberts and Cierra Jeffers), ladies in waiting (Vivian Gearheart, Autumn Shook, and Cally Vogel), and a chorus (Kailynn Hamilton, Elle Franssen, and Laura Boyett).
Tickets are going as fast as a genie's three wishes. Make reservations now for the whole family to attend Waterworks Players' production of Aladdin. Performances are Friday Dec. 1 at 7 p.m., Saturday Dec. 2 at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m., and Friday Dec. 8 at 7 p.m., and Saturday Dec. 9 at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. You can obtain tickets by calling the box office at (434) 392-3452 or visiting the Waterworks web site: http://waterworksplayers.org.
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While Austin, Texas, would seem like the perfect place to host the Summer X Games, with its diverse music scene and all-around laid-back culture matching that of Los Angeles, there were certain factors that made it a less desirable host than some other cities. Minneapolis is a great host for many of those reasons, in that respect.
While travel costs to Minneapolis are slightly higher than Austin, this year's Summer X Games ticket prices are the cheapest in the last five years. The highest average ticket price for X Games while Austin was the host was $203.18, while as of this post, the highest average the last two years in Minneapolis is just $138.00. The overall average of the X Games in Austin for three years was $170.73 per ticket, while Minneapolis has an average of $130.50 through two years.
Another big factor was the weather. The Summer X Games went as far as moving up the event to early June during its three-year run in Texas to avoid the most extreme weather. The problem, along with athlete safety, is that it caused X Games to compete with NBA and NHL playoffs on television.
The average high temperature on a typical Austin day in June is 92 degrees Fahrenheit, while it is just 84 degrees in Minneapolis in July. Another factor working against Austin was the lack of an enclosed venue, which Minnesota has in the form of host venue U.S. Bank Stadium. The home of the NFL's Minnesota Vikings proved a worthy host in 2017 and will look to repeat its success this summer.
The Summer X Games will take place July 19-22 and you can get your tickets here.


Netflix is giving "Fuller House" one last season. The streaming service confirmed the renewal today and left a goodbye message for fans. The show starred Candace Cameron Bure as D.J. Tanner-Fuller, Jodie Sweetin as Stephanie Tanner, Andrea Barber as Kimmy Gibbler, Juan Pablo Di Pace as Fernando, Soni Nicole Bringas as Romona, Michael Campion as Jackson, Elias Harger as Max, Dashiell and Fox Messitt Twins as Baby Tommy, Scott Weinger as Steve Hale, John Brotherton as Matt Harmon, and Ashley Liao as Lola.
The spinoff should still be considered a hit, lasting five seasons where big shows like "Marvel's Daredevil" only got three.
The show was a continuation of the hit 90s series "Full House," but this time veterinarian and recently widowed D.J. Tanner-Fuller finds herself living in her childhood home with younger sister and aspiring musician Stephanie Tanner and DJ's lifelong best friend/fellow single mother Kimmy Gibbler.
The women reuniting to help support one another navigate careers, parenting, and relationships with the kind of love and humor you can only get from the people you grew up with.
The Tanner childhood house is fuller than ever though with not only DJ's three boys — the awkward 13-year-old Jackson, neurotic 7-year-old Max and baby Tommy Jr. — but also Kimmy's feisty teenage daughter Ramona and Kimmy's not so estranged ex-husband Fernando all under the same roof.
Bob Boyett and Jeff Franklin serve as executive producers. Fuller House is produced by Miller-Boyett Productions and Jeff Franklin Productions in association with Warner Horizon Television for Netflix.


What if Measles Strikes the Workplace?
As of April 8, 2019, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed 39 total measles cases statewide since March 13, 2019. Oakland County has 38 cases, and one was a Wayne County resident.


Jemma shares her blog entry which reflects on the five babies she has carried and the impact of multiple miscarriages.
I sobbed the whole way back to my little room. A lady came in and held me. She gave hubs some leaflets. And he kept saying to her "they said her dates might just be out, they're going to rescan her-nothing's 100%". I saw how she looked at him. I already knew and so did she.
Almost 5 years ago I lost my first baby.
That's probably not the way to start a blog but to be honest, I can't think of another way-I've been waiting to find a time when I can speak about what I went through.
And now words seem to fail me.
I was picking up washing off of the floor when it happened. 'Pop'. Honestly that's the noise my tummy made.
I'd never had a miscarriage before. I'd never even thought about it being a possibility for me after having a baby 18 months before. Does that make me ignorant? Did I take it for granted?
Something told me to go the toilet.
He wanted juice. I remember he asked for it as I looked down at the toilet paper. I remember getting up and repeating "juice", "juice" at him so I didn't forget. I got his juice and sat him with a snack in front of the TV.
On autopilot I went to the bedroom, sat on the end of my bed and called my husband. He never answers at work-but he did, straight away.
I waited for him to come and hugged my tummy so tight, I tried to keep it in, I asked the baby not to go, please don't leave me I kept repeating.
My husband came home. "It's just a bit of blood", he said. "It happens to a lot of women". His mum said the same thing. I knew though.
After a long wait at the hospital, lots of bloods taken and a 3 hour wait for a scan, in we went. She scanned…..and scanned…..and no heartbeat was found. It had never been there. Our little baby, who I'd been planning pushchairs and car seats for, had never even been alive.
I remember my baby. I remember feeling pregnant. That was my child.
I went on to have two more miscarriages. Each as heartbreaking as the other but each expected after the first one. I mentally set myself up for loss. Each time it happened I'd say well I knew that would happen, while being as devestated as before.
Little did I know that setting myself up for loss and negativity as I did during those years led to me being diagnosed with severe anxiety disorder and depression a year after my daughter was born.
I fell pregnant for the 5th time, while I was waiting for test results for why I kept losing babies.
This one stuck. I had a daughter. My rainbow after my storms.
I am so blessed to have my children, even if I hadn't had anymore, I was blessed to be given the chance to have one. So many people around the world can't have children and I can't imagine how that feels.
People think when you've had a baby after losses, it helps with the feeling of grief and loss? I can't say it does. My children make me happier than I can explain. But I'll never not grieve for my unborn babies, I'll never not wonder what they'd have looked like, what they would've been like-like their brother and sister maybe?
I have carried 5 babies, and I am a mummy to all of them.
First published on mayflower*blogs. Republished with permission.


Was your business up and running during our recent snow storm? Your customers may have had expectations it was, especially if you are doing business outside your local area.
Remember, your weather isn't necessarily your customer's weather. A customer's office located where there is no weather issue may not know or care if it is snowing in your office's area. They just want to get work done.
Thanks to today's technology being open for business during even the worst storms is possible. We can conduct business from basically anywhere using our laptops, tablets and smartphones. We can meet virtually in meetings as if we were in the same room reviewing documents and presentations together.
During the recent snow event, Signature's physical office was closed but our remote office was open for business as usual. We were able to provide the majority of our products and services to our customers, including County Search Services even where county record rooms were closed. How you ask? By using our DTS Title Plants, that's how. Signature offers this tool to its customers as well giving them the opportunity to complete County Searches using their own computers, at their own convenience. It doesn't matter if the record rooms are closed; DTS is always open, even weekends, holidays and weather events when the courts are closed. DTS allows you to complete County Searches yourself, virtually anytime, anywhere.
Even though we were open for business during the recent storm, we continue to improve our ability to service our clients in this world of ever-changing technology. We realize our collective businesses need to keep up with the changing tide to meet and exceed the expectations of our customers.
Were you able to conduct business during the snow storm? What steps have you taken and/or are planning to take to service your clients?


Once you feel the feather-soft Lush fabric you will need all of these definitions and more to describe what you feel. This elegant but simple borderless design dresses up your space while providing snuggly soft comfort. Prepare yourself for blanket heaven.


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Obituary: Dorothy Schager
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 23 Oct 1952, p. 71 Mrs. Dorothy Shrager, 73, 1266 South Forest Glen Drive, Winnetka, died at St. Francis Hospital, Evanston, on October 19. Wife of the late Edward J., she is the mother of Edward P., Winnetka; Seng A., Wilmette; Richard J., Indanopolis, Ind.; and Mrs. Richard Press, Chicago. ...
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 23 Oct 1952, p. 71 Mrs. Dorothy Shrager, 73, 1266 South Forest Glen Drive, Winnetka, died at St. Francis Hospital, Evanston, on October 19. Wife of the late Edward J., she is the mother of ...
Obituary: Lindsay Peirce
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 23 Oct 1952, p. 71 Miss Lindsay Peirce, 20, died suddenly on October 19, as she was recovering from a heart operation in Baltimore, Md. Born in Evanston. She was the great-granddaughter of the late Andrew MacLeish. Surviving are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley K. Peirce, of Charlottesville, Va.; and a brother, Stanley K. ...
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 23 Oct 1952, p. 71 Miss Lindsay Peirce, 20, died suddenly on October 19, as she was recovering from a heart operation in Baltimore, Md. Born in Evanston. She was the great-granddaughter of the late ...
Obituary: Emma Ley
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 23 Oct 1952, p. 71 Mrs. Emma Ley, 79, formerly of Wilmette, died on October 21 at the Evanston Hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage. Mrs. Ley was the mother of Burt F., Clement C., Mary M., and the late Arthur J. She is also survived by seven grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. ...
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 23 Oct 1952, p. 71 Mrs. Emma Ley, 79, formerly of Wilmette, died on October 21 at the Evanston Hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage. Mrs. Ley was the mother of Burt F., Clement C., Mary ...
Obituary: Joseph Kneip
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 23 Oct 1952, p. 71 Obituary for Joseph Kneip, 65, of 1714 Washington Avenue, Wilmette, provided no date of death. Born in Dorscheid-Luxemburg, Mr. Kneip came to the United States in 1906. Surviving are his widow, Margaret V.; a daughter, Mrs. Peter Endre; two sons, Marcel P. and John J.; a brother Peter, of Chicago; ...
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Obituary: John W. Brown
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 23 Oct 1952, p. 71 John W. Brown, 66, of 1186 Spruce Street, Winnetka, died on October 15 at Summit Hospital, Ocomomowoc, Wis. Surviving are his widow, Mary; two daughters, Mrs. Samuel M. Levine and Mrs. Paul M. Zorn, Jr.; and three sisters, Mrs. G. Tappan Francis, Boston, Mass.; Mrs. Wm. M. Rutter, Princeton, N.J.; ...
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 23 Oct 1952, p. 71 John W. Brown, 66, of 1186 Spruce Street, Winnetka, died on October 15 at Summit Hospital, Ocomomowoc, Wis. Surviving are his widow, Mary; two daughters, Mrs. Samuel M. Levine and ...
Obituary: Casril H. Barnard
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 23 Oct 1952, p. 71 Casril H. Barnard, 410 Cedar Street, Winetka, died on October 10 at the Highland Park Hospital. Born in Chicago, Mr. Barnard was 66 years old. He leaves his widow, Bessie; and three sons, Richard C., James H., and Rober A. ...
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 23 Oct 1952, p. 71 Casril H. Barnard, 410 Cedar Street, Winetka, died on October 10 at the Highland Park Hospital. Born in Chicago, Mr. Barnard was 66 years old. He leaves his widow, Bessie; ...
Obituary: George J. Armstrong
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 23 Oct 1952, p. 71 George J. Armstrong, 61, of 416 [unclear] Sterling Road, Kenilworth, died suddenly in his home Thursday evening, October 16. He was born in Rushville, Neb. Surviving are his widow, Sarah Jane Wells; two daughters, Mrs. Kurt Sterzik, of Manhattan Beach, Calif., and Mrs. William Billington of Kenilworth; and a granddaughter, ...
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 23 Oct 1952, p. 71 George J. Armstrong, 61, of 416 [unclear] Sterling Road, Kenilworth, died suddenly in his home Thursday evening, October 16. He was born in Rushville, Neb. Surviving are his widow, Sarah ...
Obituary: Luthera Angle Smith
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 16 Oct 1952, p. 63 Luthera Angle Smith, wife of Earl J. Smith, 208 Woodbine Avenue, Wilmette, died at her home Thursday, October 9. Mrs. Smith was born October 2, 1881 in Stephenson County, and moved to Wilmette in 1911. Also surviving are a son, Theron A. of Evanston; a sister, Mrs. Mary Ash of ...
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 16 Oct 1952, p. 63 Luthera Angle Smith, wife of Earl J. Smith, 208 Woodbine Avenue, Wilmette, died at her home Thursday, October 9. Mrs. Smith was born October 2, 1881 in Stephenson County, and ...
Obituary: Richard E. Bruns
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 16 Oct 1952, p. 63 Richard E. Bruns, 751 Michigan Avenue, Wilmette, died suddenly on October 7. Surviving are his widow, Ella; a son, W. J. Bruns, Wilmette; and three daughters, Mrs. George King, Winnetka; Mrs. Sylva Powell, Winnetka; and Mrs. W. J. McDowell, Jr., Wilmette. ...
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 16 Oct 1952, p. 63 Richard E. Bruns, 751 Michigan Avenue, Wilmette, died suddenly on October 7. Surviving are his widow, Ella; a son, W. J. Bruns, Wilmette; and three daughters, Mrs. George King, Winnetka; ...
Obituary: Fred C. Bock
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 16 Oct 1952, p. 63 Fred C. Bock, 86, died on October 8 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Norman Altman, 509 Forest Avenue, Wilmette, with whom he lived. Husband of the late Louise, he leaves a sister, Emma Vogt, of Joliet; and two granddaughters, Jeanne Toppan of Newburyport, Mass., and Alice Altmann, of ...
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 16 Oct 1952, p. 63 Fred C. Bock, 86, died on October 8 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Norman Altman, 509 Forest Avenue, Wilmette, with whom he lived. Husband of the late Louise, ...
Room Mothers, Fathers Named at Sears School
Report Wilmette is lagging in blood pledges
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 9 Oct 1952, 3, 63 ...
Phi Kappa Sigma Pledge
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 9 Oct 1952, p. 63 Richard (Dick) Kuhnen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Proctor Kuhnen of 404 Jackson Avenue, Glencoe, was pledged into the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity at Northwestern University. ...
Musical Tones Mark Advent of Key Pulsing
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 9 Oct 1952, p. 63 Beginning Saturday morning, October 11, Wilmette telephone operators will complete calls a new and faster way--through "key pulsing" equipment. A series of musical tones may be heard by the caller ...
Square Dance Opens Club Year
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 9 Oct 1952, p. 63 Square dancing opened the current season of the Northwest Men's Club of Wilmette last Saturday at Harper School Photograph Mrs. William Zinn and Fred Carlstedt...
Obituary: Marguerite H. Mensch
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 9 Oct 1952, p. 63 Mrs. Marguerite H. Mensch, 1418 Forest Avenue, Evanston, formerly of Kenilworth, died at the Evanston Hospital on Friday, October 3. Surviving are her husband, Leopold J.; her mother, Mrs. Walter Roy Hoover, of Chicago; formerly of Minneapolis, Minn.; and a sister, Mrs. Franklin E. Wacaser, of Evanston. ...
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 9 Oct 1952, p. 63 Mrs. Marguerite H. Mensch, 1418 Forest Avenue, Evanston, formerly of Kenilworth, died at the Evanston Hospital on Friday, October 3. Surviving are her husband, Leopold J.; her mother, Mrs. Walter ...
Wants Stop Sign, letter W. B. Van Landingham
Moves from Evanston
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 2 Oct 1952, p. 63 The Herbert H. Phillips family moved in September from Evanston to the 917 Sixteenth Street in Wilmette. The family inludes two daughters, Judith, age 8, and Patricia, age 6. ...
Fraternity Pledge
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 2 Oct 1952, p. 63 James H. Burg of 604 Laurel Avenue, Wilmette, is pledged to Alpha Tau Omega at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa ...
Ajax Roofing Co. Does Repeat Job; After 25 Years
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 2 Oct 1952, p. 63 Garald W. Swiney, owner and manager of the Ajax Shingle and Modernizing Company at 523 Park Drive, Kenilworth, announced that his concern is re-roofing the Dr. Chester Thorsen residence at 1030 Greenwood Avenue, Wilmette. The residence, then owned by Fred Fischer, was roofed by the Ajax 25 years ago. ...
Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 2 Oct 1952, p. 63 Garald W. Swiney, owner and manager of the Ajax Shingle and Modernizing Company at 523 Park Drive, Kenilworth, announced that his concern is re-roofing the Dr. Chester Thorsen residence at ...
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(a) Upon the application of the parent or other person legally responsible for the care of a child temporarily removed under this part or upon the application of the law guardian for an order returning the child, the court shall hold a hearing to determine whether the child should be returned (i) unless there has been a hearing pursuant to section ten hundred twenty-seven of this article on the removal of the child at which the parent or other person legally responsible was present and had the opportunity to be represented by counsel, or (ii) upon good cause shown. Except for good cause shown, such hearing shall be held within three court days of the application and shall not be adjourned. Upon such hearing, the court shall grant the application, unless it finds that the return presents an imminent risk to the child's life or health. If a parent or other person legally responsible for the care of a child waives his or her right to a hearing under this section, the court shall advise such person at that time that, notwithstanding such waiver, an application under this section may be made at any time during the pendency of the proceedings.
(b) In determining whether temporary removal of the child is necessary to avoid imminent risk to the child's life or health, the court shall consider and determine in its order whether continuation in the child's home would be contrary to the best interests of the child and where appropriate, whether reasonable efforts were made prior to the date of the hearing to prevent or eliminate the need for removal of the child from the home and where appropriate, whether reasonable efforts were made after removal of the child to make it possible for the child to safely return home.
(c) If the court determines that reasonable efforts to prevent or eliminate the need for removal of the child from the home were not made but that the lack of such efforts was appropriate under the circumstances, the court order shall include such a finding.
(d) If the court determines that reasonable efforts to prevent or eliminate the need for removal of the child from the home were not made but that such efforts were appropriate under the circumstances, the court shall order the child protective agency to provide or arrange for the provision of appropriate services or assistance to the child and the child's family pursuant to section one thousand fifteen-a or as enumerated in subdivision (c) of section one thousand twenty-two of this article, notwithstanding the fact that a petition has been filed.
(e) The court may issue a temporary order of protection pursuant to section ten hundred twenty-nine of this article as an alternative to or in conjunction with any other order or disposition authorized under this section.
(f) The court shall also consider and determine whether imminent risk to the child would be eliminated by the issuance of a temporary order of protection, pursuant to section ten hundred twenty-nine of this article, directing the removal of a person or persons from the child's residence.
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Q: Cloudflare does not cache static assets with proper headers I've read in the docs that cloudflare caches js and css files. (https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172516-Which-file-extensions-does-Cloudflare-cache-for-static-content-)
But in my case the header cf-cache-status has the value MISS.
One example would be a css reasources like this:
https://example.com/style.a574b.css
with the following response headers:
cache-control: public, max-age=31536000
cf-cache-status: MISS
cf-ray: 405badb4ec2297bc-FRA
content-encoding: br
content-type: text/css
date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 12:53:31 GMT
expect-ct: max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct"
expires: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 12:53:31 GMT
last-modified: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 01:14:20 GMT
pragma:
server: cloudflare
status: 200
vary: Accept-Encoding
via: 1.1 vegur
x-application-context: ourder:prod,heroku:3829
x-content-type-options: nosniff
x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block

The original response (without cloudflare between is:)
 Accept-Ranges: bytes
 Cache-Control: max-age=31536000, public
 Content-Encoding: gzip
 Content-Length: 948
 Content-Type: text/css
 Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 19:17:46 GMT
 Expires:
 Last-Modified: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 13:19:21 GMT
 Pragma:
 Server: Cowboy
 Via: 1.1 vegur
 X-Application-Context: ourder:prod,heroku:20249
 X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
 X-Xss-Protection: 1; mode=block

A: With the Cloudflare Support Help i was able to solve the problem. The empty Expires Header causes the problem.
See this ticket for more details:
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/requests/1508118?page=1

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import unittest
from speedcurve.null import NullObject

class TestNullObject(unittest.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        self.instance = NullObject()

    def test_boolean(self):
        assert bool(self.instance) is False

    def test_getattr(self):
        assert self.instance.empty is not None

    def test_str(self):
        assert str(self.instance) == ''

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We quiz the country's former deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and speak with investigative journalist Seymour Hersh.
In this week's UpFront, we ask Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia's former deputy prime minister, about the possibility of becoming the country's next leader.
And in a Special Interview, the veteran investigative journalist and author of Reporter: A Memoir, Seymour Hersh, discusses his views on media in the Trump era and Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria.
After years of imprisonment, Anwar is making a political comeback as the president-elect of the Parti Keadilan Rakyat (People's Justice Party).
Anwar's newly formed coalition with current PM Mahathir Mohamad - who supported Anwar's first conviction and imprisonment under widely criticised charges - led them to surprising election victory in May.
When asked whether he believed Mahathir would step down within two years to allow him to become prime minister as agreed, Anwar said he had no cause for concern.
"What is important is that there was a written agreement signed in 2015 by all the leaders and I see no reason why I should even demand or harass him to resign earlier, because I think what he's doing now is important," said Anwar.
Commenting on the ongoing 1MDB corruption scandal involving former Prime Minister Najib Razak, Anwar said: "It is one of the worst financial scandals involving any government".
"Najib was responsible. He chaired many of those meetings. He instructed, clearly, the authorities to then disperse the funds," said Ibrahim, adding that it is "imperative that stiff action be taken".
Seymour Hersh's name is well-known in the world of journalism.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, who exposed the My Lai massacre and the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, has become a legendary figure for some.
In recent years, Hersh's reporting on Syria has been vigorously challenged in some unlikely quarters. When asked about accusations that he has become an apologist for Al-Assad, Hersh said: "Bashar understands that if he loses this war, he's going to be like Mussolini ... hanging from a lamp pole."
"I just don't think he's particularly any worse than what goes on any day in Saudi Arabia," said Hersh. "They're all sort of in that same ballpark. And I never saw him as any more of a monster. They were all in this group of people that will kill, kill, kill to survive," he said.
Will Anwar Ibrahim finally rise to lead his country? 101 East talks to Malaysia's leader-in-waiting.
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import { extendObservable } from 'mobx'
import qs from 'qs'
import mobxStore from 'mobxStore'
import { createAction, handleActions, registerAction } from 'utils/actions'
import state, { Tab, TabGroup } from './state'
import { openFile } from '../../commands/commandBindings/file'
import dispatchCommand from 'commands/dispatchCommand'

export const TAB_CREATE = 'TAB_CREATE'
export const TAB_STORE_HYDRATE = 'TAB_STORE_HYDRATE'

const openUrlFile = (files) => {
  // open file depends on url
  let fileArr = [];
  if (files) {
    fileArr = files.split(',');
     const baseOpen = (i) => {
      if (i < fileArr.length) {
        let path = fileArr[i]
        if (!path.startsWith('/')) {
          path = `/${path}`;
        }
        openFile({
          path
        }, () => {
          i++
          baseOpen(i)
        });
      }
    }
     baseOpen(0);
  }
}

export const hydrate = registerAction(TAB_STORE_HYDRATE, (json) => {
  Object.values(json.tabGroups).forEach((tabGroupsValue) => {
    createGroup(tabGroupsValue.id)
  })
  const tabs = Object.values(json.tabs)
  if (tabs.length === 0) {
    dispatchCommand('file:open_welcome')
  }
  const openTabs = tabs.map((tabValue) => {
    const { path, editor, ...others } = tabValue
    const option = { path, editor, others }
    return openFile(option)
  })

  const files = qs.parse(window.location.search.slice(1)).open;
  if (tabs.map.length) {
    Promise.all(openTabs).then(() => {
      Object.values(json.tabGroups).forEach((tabGroupsValue) => {
        const activeTabId = tabGroupsValue.activeTabId;
        if (activeTabId) {
          const index = tabs.findIndex(tab => tab.id === activeTabId);
          if (index >= 0) {
            const { path, contentType } = tabs[index];
            openFile({
              path,
              contentType
            }, () => {
              if (files) {
                openUrlFile(files);
              }
            });
          }
        }
      })
    })
  } else {
    if (files) {
      openUrlFile(files);
    }
  }
})

export const createTab = registerAction(TAB_CREATE,
  (tabProps) => {
    const tab = new Tab(tabProps)
  },
)

export const removeTab = registerAction('tab:remove', (tabId) => {
  const tab = state.tabs.get(tabId)
  tab.destroy()
})

export const removeOtherTab = registerAction('tab:remove_other', (tabId) => {
  const tab = state.tabs.get(tabId)
  tab.activate()
  tab.tabGroup.tabs.forEach((eachTab) => {
    if (eachTab !== tab) eachTab.destroy()
  })
})

export const removeAllTab = registerAction('tab:remove_all', (tabId) => {
  const tab = state.tabs.get(tabId)
  tab.tabGroup.tabs.forEach(tab => tab.destroy())
})

export const activateTab = registerAction('tab:activate', (tabId) => {
  const tab = state.tabs.get(tabId)
  if (tab && tab.activate) {
    tab.activate()
  }
})

export const createGroup = registerAction('tab:create_tab_group',
  (groupId) => {
    new TabGroup({ id: groupId })
  }
)

export const removeGroup = registerAction('tab:remove_tab_group',
  (groupId) => {
    const tab = state.tabs.get(groupId)
  }
)

export const updateTab = registerAction('tab:update',
  (tabProps = {}) => {
    const tabId = tabProps.id
    const tab = state.tabs.get(tabId)
    if (tab) tab.update(tabProps)
  }
)

export const TAB_UPDATE_BY_PATH = 'TAB_UPDATE_BY_PATH'
export const updateTabByPath = registerAction(TAB_UPDATE_BY_PATH, (tabProps = {}) => tabProps)

export const TAB_UPDATE_FLAGS = 'TAB_UPDATE_FLAGS'
export const updateTabFlags = registerAction('tab:update_flags', (tabId, flag, value = true) => {
  let flags
  if (typeof flag === 'string') {
    flags = { [flag]: value }
  } else if (typeof flag === 'object') {
    flags = flag
  }
  return { tabId, flags }
},
  ({ tabId, flags }) => {
    const tab = state.tabs.get(tabId)
    if (!tab || !flags) return
    tab.flags = flags
  }
)

export const moveTabToGroup = registerAction('tab:move_to_tab_group',
  (tabId, groupId) => ({ tabId, groupId }),
  ({ tabId, groupId }) => {
    const tab = state.tabs.get(tabId)
    const tabGroup = state.tabGroups.get(groupId)
    if (!tab || !tabGroup) return
    tabGroup.addTab(tab)
  }
)

export const TAB_INSERT_AT = 'TAB_INSERT_AT'
export const insertTabBefore = registerAction(TAB_INSERT_AT,
  (tabId, beforeTabId) => ({ tabId, beforeTabId }),
  ({ tabId, beforeTabId }) => {
    const tab = state.tabs.get(tabId)
    const anchorTab = state.tabs.get(beforeTabId)
    const prev = anchorTab.prev
    const insertIndex = (prev) ? (anchorTab.index + prev.index) / 2 : -1
    anchorTab.tabGroup.addTab(tab, insertIndex)
  }
)

export const TAB_CONTEXT_MENU_OPEN = 'TAB_CONTEXT_MENU_OPEN'
export const openContextMenu = registerAction(TAB_CONTEXT_MENU_OPEN, (e, node, tabGroupId) => {
  e.stopPropagation()
  e.preventDefault()

  return {
    isActive: true,
    pos: { x: e.clientX, y: e.clientY },
    contextNode: node,
    tabGroupId
  }
})

export const TAB_CONTEXT_MENU_CLOSE = 'TAB_CONTEXT_MENU_CLOSE'
export const closeContextMenu = createAction(TAB_CONTEXT_MENU_CLOSE)

export const TAB_MOVE_TO_PANE = 'TAB_MOVE_TO_PANE'
export const moveTabToPane = registerAction(TAB_MOVE_TO_PANE,
  (tabId, paneId) => ({ tabId, paneId }),
  ({ tabId, paneId }) => {
    const pane = mobxStore.PaneState.panes.get(paneId)
    const tab = mobxStore.EditorTabState.tabs.get(tabId)
    tab.tabGroup.removeTab(tab)
    pane.tabGroup.addTab(tab)
    return mobxStore
  }
)