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Daily Point of Light # 5991 May 2, 2017 By Jia Gayles
Jared Cohen believes that teens have the power to change the world. The Davie, Fla, resident founded Communiteens in 2015 to make community service more accessible to his peers after realizing that many of them saw it as a tedious chore required to graduate high school. "I began Communiteens to make community service meaningful and fun, hoping that participants will gain something valuable from the experience of volunteering," Jared said.
Communiteens has more than twenty volunteers spread across four chapters, including groups located in Weston and Fort Lauderdale. Some activities they've been involved in include: gathering more than a thousand toiletry items in Fort Lauderdale and South Carolina that were sorted and distributed to homeless shelters; decorating more than 100 medals for cancer patients in collaboration with We Live Together; and sorting more than 700 stuffed animals in partnership with SAFE, Inc., which distributes the toys to opportunity youth.
Communiteens empowers teens to take on leadership roles, encouraging its chapter presidents to create a board, utilize social media for promotion, and use a customized toolkit that shows them how to identify and reach out to local community resources. "…teenagers can lead and add value to any area of the community," Jared said. "I think teenagers are ready to be given larger roles and use current technology (i.e. social media and texting) to create campaigns to gather other teenagers [to volunteer]."


for some piece of pity.
"That's the good thing about land lines, at least they're private, you have to wait till you get home."
This is right. That there's no corner of the world where you're on your own is a horrible thought.
Quite apart from the implications concerning the decline of the species which must be drawn from the fact that no one can live without continuously pouring their heads, in the form of pointless chatter, into those insidious plastic slabs, there is the further issue of the increasing encouragement of this phenomenon by the corporate shilling of the global-communication megafirms... and too the question of whether indeed all these putatively "private" (dream on!) communications do not serve a larger purpose: ensuring that "surveillance", that trillion-eyed watchdog of the New State, become nothing less than ubiquitous and total.
The practical reality of this is even more horrible than the thought.
Mother'll listen in given the least opportunity.
Well, here one doesn't need to be anything so grand as a protestor or union leader to be monitored and have every heartbeat logged, in perpetuity.
And indeed, contra the wizard adept snooping practised in the teleplay versions, there isn't even the attempt to mask the electronic surveillance. It's right there on the stats. Data stored for eternity, or until it's found useful to employ it to your detriment.
Every day it's proving truer that the war against "freedom" and its stepchild "privacy" was won decisively in a single battle twelve years ago, though who staged it and by what means will only be known a long time from now, if ever.
Until then, everybody is afraid to know. And too, they've got another call incoming.
Here in the metro it is forbidden to talk on the phone. A good thing. Imagine if everyone started having conversations at the same time. One would go crazy. Instead they just silently text and play games or watch TV, all at the same time. Silently.
That silence is very strange. It happens often on the tube in London without any regulations in place. Strangers closer than they ever should be, every inch of will pressing the others to imagined non-personhood.
One thing has just struck me. On the bus, almost everyone is facing the same way. I know I heard the end of the girl's conversation. I would have had to turn around, look at her and then write. The absence of pity recorded here unsettles me.


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The microscopes, weighing about 7.5-8 kg, were kept in cabinets at the geology laboratory of the university's Baker Hall.
KOLKATA: Twenty microscopes were stolen from a laboratory of the Presidency University here, the police said today.
The theft was reported on Wednesday and an FIR lodged with the Jorashanko police station, a police official said.
"The laboratory has no CCTV making it difficult for us to find out who had visited it before the microscopes were found missing. We are scanning the recordings of other CCTVs inside the campus and at the gates of the university," he said.
The laboratory on the ground floor was last visited by a group of students who worked quite late on Monday.
The police were suspecting involvement of insiders in the theft, he said.


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Young girl dies of electric shock in Bandipora
Srinagar: An 18-year-old girl was electrocuted in north Kashmir's Bandipora district late Sunday.
An official identified the deceased as Farhana, daughter of Ghulam Hussain Dar, a resident of Odina village in Sumbal, Bandipora.
He said the girl received an electric shock at her home and died on the spot.

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Micah Franklin (born May 19, 1972) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played part of one season in Major League Baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1997. Franklin also played in Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan during the 1999 and 2000 seasons, and in the Korea Baseball Organization in 2002 and 2003.

Early life
Franklin was born in San Francisco, California, attended Lincoln High School in San Francisco, and is Jewish. His mother is Jewish and his father was African-American.

Career
Franklin was drafted by the New York Mets in the 3rd round of the 1990 amateur draft. Although he only appeared in 17 games at the major league level, Franklin compiled an extensive minor league baseball career, playing 1,141 games over 12 seasons. In the majors he batted .324/.378/.500.

While in the minors with the Triple-A Indianapolis Indians in 2001, Franklin was one of four players profiled in the documentary film A Player to Be Named Later. He spent time a scout for the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Coaching
In , Franklin was a Major League scout working for the Seattle Mariners.

On December 6, 2017, he was announced as the new hitting coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks Short Season A-Ball affiliate, Hillsboro Hops. A year later, he was promoted to the single-A Kane County Cougars in the same position.

In , Franklin was hired as the hitting coach for the Washington Nationals AA affiliate, Harrisburg Senators.

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Country and Western Festival Returns to Stourport 31/07/2017
Join us for our Country and Western Festival on Saturday 19 August and Sunday 20 August.
Future plans for park up for discussion 27/07/2017
The future development plans for Brinton Park will be discussed at a meeting of Wyre Forest District Council, partners and park users.
Churchill & Blakedown Neighbourhood Plan Adopted 27/07/2017
Planning applications for developments in Churchill & Blakedown will now have to take into account the parish's Neighbourhood Plan.
Great Expectations in the garden! 26/07/2017
Visit Bewdley Museum and see Great Expectations in the outdoor theatre.
Residents urged to reply about voter registration information 26/07/2017
Look out for a letter from us asking you to check information on the electoral register. You need to reply!
Wyre Forest parks retain Green Flag status 21/07/2017
Two of Wyre Forest's flagship parks have been named as some of the very best in the world.
Nominate now for a No Barriers award 21/07/2017
The search is on to find the winners of the annual No Barriers, The Mike Oborski Awards 2017, which reward individuals or organisations that go the extra mile for people with disabilities.
Exchange Place in Kidderminster wins national urban design award 20/07/2017
Wyre Forest District Council and Worcestershire County Council have picked up a prestigious urban design award for the recently opened Exchange Place in Kidderminster town centre
New FREE parking service for Bewdley 20/07/2017
A new free daily park and walk service is being introduced in Bewdley next week to help boost trade and encourage summer visitors to the town.
Community Ambassador Scheme helps St Basils 19/07/2017
Our Community Ambassador scheme has been helping to prevent youth homelessness in the West Midlands.
Don't miss out and volunteer for KAF 2017! 17/07/2017
Find out how you can get involved with KAF17.
Inspirational young people's celebration 14/07/2017
Inspiring work by young people across Wyre Forest and Hagley schools was showcased at this year's Young Citizenship Celebration Evening at Kidderminster Town Hall this week.
River rescuer hailed a superhero 12/07/2017
The mother of a girl plucked from the River Severn has hailed her rescuer a superhero.
Tributes to former councillor 11/07/2017
Tributes have today been paid to former Wyre Forest District Councillor Arthur Buckley who sadly passed away at home on Thursday (6 July).
Residents turn out to first Local Plan session 11/07/2017
More than 200 residents attended Wyre Forest District Council's first Local Plan drop-in session yesterday (Monday 10 July) to have their say on important proposals for future development in the district over the next two decades.
Cherry Fair and 1940s weekend 07/07/2017
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Tell us why you love our parks! 07/07/2017
Residents and visitors to Wyre Forest are being urged to get creative and say what they love most about the district's parks next week.
BID for business improvement in Kidderminster 07/07/2017
The creation of a new Business Improvement District in Kidderminster is expected to take a major step forward next week when Wyre Forest District Council's Cabinet backs the latest stage of the scheme.
Opening Doors into business 06/07/2017
Local students had an insight into working in a local business or organisation thanks to the 'Opening Doors for Business scheme' which ran in Wyre Forest for the second consecutive year.
Council launches major £35 million funding initiative for local development 06/07/2017
Exciting new plans to invest £35 million in Wyre Forest and the surrounding area during the next 3 years have been unveiled by Wyre Forest District Council.
Kidderminster man fined for abandoning vehicle 05/07/2017
Magistrates have ordered a 20-year-old Kidderminster man to pay nearly £520 after he abandoned a car in a residential street.
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Ex-Barcelona President, Joan Laporta, has said the club will no longer sign Atletico Madrid star,Antoine Griezman claiming that he played down the move when the club contacted him last year.
Griezman had initiated talks with Barcelona to move to Camp Nou last year only to later come up with a dramatic u-turn, airing his intention to remain with Atletico Madrid during an infamous video reveal.
Because of that, Barca retaining an interest in the 28-year-old has rumbled on from that point, with another approach mooted for 2019, but Laporta believes a loyal fan base have moved on.
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Canadian Public Health Association affirms support for Chief Public Health Officer of Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada
In light of recent public comments, the Canadian Public Health Association takes this opportunity to re-affirm its support for Dr. Theresa Tam, the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada (CPHO), the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), and the provincial/territorial and local public health authorities responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Canada has a talented and distinguished civil service at the local, provincial/territorial and federal levels. These dedicated public servants continue to fulfill their duties throughout this crisis with integrity, diligence and impartiality.
Public Health is defined as "the art and science of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts of society." From the start of this year, the Public Health Agency of Canada has been monitoring this outbreak, following the evidence and the growing body of knowledge about this novel coronavirus. The Agency and public health officials across the country have been following, and contributing to, the science.
Where the "art" of public health comes into play is in the decision-making process for interventions. While it is tempting to look back mid-crisis with 20-20 hindsight and suggest that Canada should have made different policy decisions, each decision was made based on the best evidence available at that time. The evidence was reviewed using the highest scientific and policy standards to inform government decision-makers.
CPHA expresses its support and gratitude for the efforts of everyone involved in the Canadian response to COVID-19. Throughout this extraordinary situation, people from all walks of life in this country are showing their true grit.
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Telephone: 613.725.3769, ext. 190
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About the Canadian Public Health Association
Founded in 1910, the Canadian Public Health Association is the independent voice for public health in Canada with links to the international community. As the only Canadian non-governmental organization focused exclusively on public health, we are uniquely positioned to advise decision-makers about public health system reform and to guide initiatives to help safeguard the personal and community health of Canadians and people around the world. We are a national, independent, not-for-profit, voluntary association. Our members believe in universal and equitable access to the basic conditions that are necessary to achieve health for all.


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HAYDEN — Just before 7 p.m. Friday, a fire broke out on private and state land near the rest area at mile marker 101 on U.S. Highway 40 west of Hayden. The Murphy Fire grew to approximately 280 acres by Saturday night according to West Routt Fire Protection District's Twitter.
Lightning is suspected to be the cause after storms swept through the area.
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After a goalless first half, Miranda opened the scoring at the Luzhniki Stadium, which will host seven matches at this summer's tournament including the final.
Philippe Coutinho scored a penalty for Brazil's second before Paulinho headed in a third from close range.
Five-time world champions Brazil are now unbeaten in eight games.
They showed no sign of missing Paris St-Germain forward Neymar, who faces a race against time to be fit for this summer's tournament after undergoing surgery on an injured right foot.
Brazil dominated the first half but it wasn't until after the break that they broke the deadlock, when Inter Milan defender Miranda slotted home a rebound after Russian goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev made a good save.
Paulinho was pulled down in the penalty area by Aleksandr Golovin, with Barcelona team-mate Coutinho coolly scoring the spot-kick for his ninth international goal.
Midfielder Paulinho then found himself unmarked to head home Willian's cross.
Brazil's next friendly is against Germany on Tuesday in Berlin, while Russia face France in St Petersburg.


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Q: Excel 2016 Power Query fails to load to spreadsheet I utilize Power Query with most of my spreadsheet due to analyzing a large Excel data files. This is the first time that I have had an ill-defined error in loading a Power Query connection to the spreadsheet.
Excel Error - "Download did not complete:

From what I can see, all the "connection only" queries are updating, and the Query updates just fine in the Query editor. There is no error in the data source as another spreadsheet with a Query from the same source loads just fine. I have turned off background refresh, sidestepped the VBA "Refresh Query" and tried a manual refresh, and turned on "Enable tracing" under Query Options. I even went directly into the connection to "Load to..." and selected "Workbook" with no luck. Every time it returns the same vague error. My team member is also having similar issues with the same report on her computer.
Any suggestions?
Thank you!

A: I believe the issue has been resolved. I duplicated the Query and loaded to the Worksheet again while deleting the previous sheet. It was not ideal considering all my other objects were referencing the old sheet. For some reason, the duplicated sheet loaded just fine.

A: the problem will be with the initial code i.e. the columns you are importing have changed names slightly.
To fix this, reimport it in a new sheet and then copy and paste the first three lines of the import into the original!
Pleasae upvote if this helps :)

A: Check that nothing changed in the folder or folder structure your queries are using for source.
I had a similar problem with a big file with multiple queries. Nothing loaded anymore, even though in query editor everything was perfect.
Turns out that someone has created a new folder and added a file that didn't match the rest of the files in the source folder. All the queries that had something to do with the query reading from that folder stopped working.
Everything went back to normal once that extra folder/file were moved somewhere else.

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Yankees among winners off the field, then win on it
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Monday was all about new faces in new places. While they were only nine games on the schedule, there was plenty of activity off the field prior to Monday's 4 p.m. ET trade deadline.
The Yankees were one of the teams to make a splash by acquiring pitchers Sonny Gray from the A's and Jaime Garcia from the Twins. Gray, who was one of Monday's prized acquisitions, will make his Yankees debut on Thursday. The Yankees sent Luis Severino to the mound on Monday to face the Tigers and he struck out eight in five innings of New York's 7-3 win.
Yankees rookie Aaron Judge hit his MLB-leading 34th home run of the season to lead the way.
While the Yankees got Gray, Monday's biggest surprise of the day was the Dodgers making a last-second deal to acquire right-handed starter Yu Darvish from the Rangers. The Dodgers, who begin a three-game series in Atlanta on Tuesday, will insert Darvish into the rotation while ace Clayton Kershaw remains out with a back injury.
MLB trade news: Yankees acquire Sonny Gray from Athletics
MLB trade news: Dodgers acquire Yu Darvish from Rangers
Dee Gordon breaks up Gio Gonzalez's no-hitter in ninth inning
The Dodgers also picked up some bullpen help by trading for Pirates reliever Tony Watson, who was an All-Star in 2014, and Tony Cingrani from the Reds.
The Yankees (57-47), who lead the Red Sox (58-49) by a half-game in the American League East, and the Dodgers (74-31), who have the best record in baseball, unquestionably got better at the trade deadline.
The Nationals, who saw Gio Gonzalez take a no-hitter into the ninth inning against the Marlins, also addressed an area of weakness by adding relievers Brandon Kintzler, Ryan Madson and Sean Doolittle to boost their bullpen. Doolittle pitched a scoreless ninth inning on Monday to preserve a 1-0 victory.
Studs of the Night
Red Sox rookie Rafael Devers entered Monday's game against the Indians with six career hits. He added four more on Monday, including a double and RBI single in the 6-2 victory. Devers is the first Red Sox player age 20 or younger to collect 4 hits in a game since Tony Conigliaro in 1965.
Astros center fielder Jake Marisnick homered twice as part of a three-hit day and drove in five runs to lead Houston to a 14-7 rout of the Rays. Marisnick, who also walked once, scored four times in the win.
White Sox third baseman Matt Davidson went 2 for 4 with an eighth-inning home run as part of some late-game heroics. Davidson drove in three runs, including a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the ninth to give the Sox a 7-6 win over the Blue Jays.
Duds of the Night
Rays pitcher Alex Cobb was lit up by the Astros, who tagged Cobb for eight runs off of nine hits in three innings. Cobb failed to strike out a batter and walked two while surrendering home runs to Carlos Beltran and Alex Bregman.
Rangers first baseman Joey Gallo went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts in a 6-4 loss to the Mariners. Gallo left three runners on base and is now hitting a putrid .197 on the season.
Marlins second baseman Dee Gordon, who broke up Gonzalez's no-hit bid in the ninth inning of Washington's 1-0 win, made an incredible diving stop and flip to shortstop Miguel Rojas to force out Bryce Harper at second on a Ryan Zimmerman grounder.
Oh, that's pretty. pic.twitter.com/n9DYKuxahu
— MLB (@MLB) August 1, 2017
Even Todd Frazier had to tip his cap to Tigers right fielder Jim Adduci after he robbed Frazier of a home run in the sixth inning of Detroit's 7-3 loss to the Yankees.
Jim Adduci had a different idea for this baseball. pic.twitter.com/idYaPW5DsQ
— Detroit Tigers (@tigers) August 1, 2017
Davidson wasn't the only one with walk-off heroics. Orioles left fielder Craig Gentry smacked an RBI single up the middle off Royals reliever Joakim Soria to lift Baltimore to a 2-1 victory at Camden Yards.
Nationals (63-41) at Marlins (49-55) 7:10 p.m. ET — After Gonzalez took a no-hitter into the ninth inning, the Nationals will send their ace to the hill with Max Scherzer (12-5, 2.23 ERA) squaring off against Miami's Chris O'Grady (2-1, 3.68).


Fiber "how many to hang up in grams"?
And you know what it's like 28 grams of fiber?
What if there was a magic pill that could protect from many diseases, increase life expectancy, make the skin clean and refreshed, get rid of hunger and also help to gain the desired harmony? Unfortunately, the pharmacological industry doesn't know such tools, but nature gave it to us. It's about fiber. However, despite all the advantages of the so-called dietary fiber, 9 out of 10 people do not use and half of the required standards. MedAboutMe figured out how to start eating gluten in much larger quantities.
Fiber is a complex carbohydrate which we can obtain from most plant foods. There are two types of dietary fiber, each with its own properties and characteristics.
Soluble fiber is often compared with a sponge, due to its properties to absorb water and turn into gastrointestinal tract in a gel-like substance. It lowers "bad" cholesterol, slows the absorption of glucose, helps to regulate the chair, serves as a food source for good gut bacteria.
The most known types of soluble fiber is pectin, the fructans and gums. The first is berries, citrus and other fruits, carrots, cauliflower and potatoes; the second lot of beans, barley and wheat, Jerusalem artichoke; and the third contains oatmeal.
Insoluble fiber, which is also called coarse fibers, does not absorb water, therefore, has the ability to excreted from the body unchanged. It helps reduce digestive tract and improve peristalsis, thereby ensuring a daily bowel movement.
Insoluble fiber is lignin and cellulose. It is contained in the skins of vegetables and fruits, nuts, grains, greens and legumes.
Of course, fiber is not a panacea for all diseases, but its positive effect on the body obviously. There is therefore nothing surprising in the fact that experts from different areas — doctors, nutritionists, trainers — it is recommended to pay attention to the amount of dietary fiber in the diet.
Fiber normalizes metabolism, improves bowel function and helps with constipation. Bonuses will be clean skin and a fresh complexion, and even weight control and weight loss. It is proved that dietary fibers help to cope with bouts of hunger, so how to digest slowly and give a feeling of satiety for a long time.
The obvious benefit is the fact that fiber helps to increase life expectancy. This is due to the reduction of the risk of developing diabetes, heart disease and blood vessels, Oncology.
Soluble fibre contained in the bread, bananas, chicory, onions, garlic and some other foods can sometimes cause problems with a chair. Therefore, prone to constipation people it is advisable to consult a specialist.
According to the world health organization recommended daily amount of dietary fiber in the diet of adults ranges from 25 to 30 grams. It depends on the gender, age and some other factors. It is therefore considered that the average daily intake of fiber is 28 grams.
But the downside is that many of us don't get the half of it. That is why those who before were content with a minimum of fiber, should increase its share in the diet gradually, combining menu foods with insoluble and soluble dietary fibers, and drink plenty of water.
Not to bore yourself with complicated calculations, doctors recommend to eat daily 5 servings of fruits and vegetables or to use the principle of healthy dishes developed by the Ministry of health of Canada. The experts suggest 50% portion to give the vegetables and fruits, and the rest distribute equally between proteins of vegetable and animal origin, as well as carbohydrates from whole grain products.
If you have not yet adjusted daily rate of consumption of dietary fiber, now is the time to start. But how to achieve results? Experts recommend to include fiber in every meal, then the end of the day you just cross the finish line. And to make it easier to achieve the goal, we found 12 ways to help you start eating more fiber.
Of course, oatmeal for Breakfast provides an excellent opportunity to include in the diet fiber. If, moreover, add walnuts and Apple slices with peel, the proportion of useful dietary fiber will only increase. But oat cereal can be prepared not only porridge — there are many other interesting options.
Use oatmeal instead of bread crumbs or bake her cookies, muffins and even bread. So you not only diversify your diet, but you start consuming more fiber.
Legumes, i.e. peas, beans and lentils are not only a great source of vegetable protein, but also a storehouse of fat. For example, just one Cup of cooked beans can provide up to 75% of daily needs in dietary fibers.
Try to diversify the menu. Add beans to ground meat, use them for sauces, soups and salads.
When you clean fruits and vegetables, removed half of the insoluble fiber contained in these plant foods. However, peel further provides the presence of the very coarse dietary fibers that are essential for healthy digestion and prevent constipation.
Despite the fact that seeds and nuts are high in calories and contain a lot of fat, it is also a good source of protein and fiber. You just have to know moderation and not eat them in large quantity. They may be a great snack, and Supplement for vegetable salad or dough for baking.
Alternate different seeds and nuts, so you get a lot of fiber and other nutrients. It will be useful to pay attention to almonds, pistachios, pecans, flax seed. Them the most dietary fiber.
Sandwich sandwich — hatred. The thing in the used ingredients. Replace wheat bread with rye or grain, and cheese pasta — lettuce, a slice of avocado or slices of cucumber and tomato. And then you're not a ticking time bomb of refined carbohydrates and an excellent source of fiber. All of these foods are rich in dietary fiber.
If you haven't tasted avocados, now's the time to start. This fruit gives us not only a large number of healthy fats, but a lot of fiber. Half an avocado contains 7 grams of dietary fiber.
Like oven? Try the new flours. Replace the white variety of whole wheat — the second contains 3 times more fiber. A good choice would be coconut flour (30 g 11 g dietary fiber), while the same amount of soy flour has 5 grams. But it's still better than nothing. Even less of fiber can be detected in almond and buckwheat flour, but that is no reason to abandon them. Experiments bring into our lives a sense of novelty and make it richer and more interesting.
Eating fresh vegetables for 10-15 minutes before main meals is a good strategy. So not only are we increasing the amount of fiber in the diet, but faster quenching the hunger, thereby reducing the amount of calories consumed during the meal. But you need to carefully chew.
Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania proved that a similar effect is also achieved, if you start a meal with vegetable soup.
Hummus is prepared with boiled chickpeas and one Cup of this ingredient contains 10.6 g of fiber. If, moreover, to add to the meals pieces of fruit or vegetables, the proportion of dietary fiber on food intake will increase significantly.
Dip fruit or vegetable slices in hummus is not only delicious, but also useful. It is a dish beyond fiber contains plant protein, healthy fats and such minerals as iron.
Some categorically refuse to do dishes — and for good reason. Barley contains 3 grams of fiber per serving. If, moreover, we add mushrooms and vegetables, we will increase the proportion of dietary fiber and get useful vegetable protein.
Dried fruits and candied fruits combined with nuts — excellent source of fiber, vegetable protein and healthy fat. Of course, there will be a lot of calories and sugar, but no one is forcing you to lean on them. Quite a handful to satisfy your hunger, get a boost of energy and the share of food fibers.
Rich in fiber dried apricots, prunes, dates, figs, peaches, bananas and pears.
Berries with seeds are the richest in fiber. For example, one Cup of raspberries or blackberries contains 8 g of dietary fiber. But in servings of strawberries or blueberries, it is already a little less: in the first you can find 3 g, and the second — gram more. But this is good too. Plus in the fact that in the grapes enough sugar and it is of natural origin.
There are berries in fresh and frozen — they are equally useful. Add them to cereal or yogurt, and you will get an excellent healthy snack option.
This vegetable is rich Burgundy color almost does not contain fat, but it is the silicon, manganese and potassium, and 2 grams of fiber. This, of course, not so much, but if you add a little nuts and prunes or mix the beets with the greens, the proportion of dietary fiber will increase significantly.
The benefits of fiber are undeniable. It is a preventive remedy for constipation and malignant tumors of the intestines, improves intestinal peristalsis, helps to create a favorable environment for intestinal flora and improves the immune system.
Fiber is soluble and insoluble, is found in all foods of plant origin.
Soluble fiber has a positive effect on blood sugar and blood cholesterol. Contained in berries, fruits and vegetables. In General, the leaders in fiber — apples, plums, beets, beans, wholegrain bread, baked from bran, brown rice.
To avoid such negative consequences, as the swelling should gradually increase the proportion of fiber in the diet and drink plenty of water.
If you stick to a healthy and balanced diet, worry about fiber is not worth it. For example, one serving of pea soup contains 20 grams of fiber, which almost covers the daily norm.
Dietary fiber is a mandatory component in the diet of a pregnant woman. If you look in the menu of hospitals, you will find them in every meal. The most famous among them — cellulose, pectin, starch. Fiber is found in all plants. Pectin-rich apples and oranges. The starch contained in potatoes, corn, rice.
Dietary fiber, also known as "vegetable fiber", "ballast substances" are indigestible carbohydrates, which play a very important role in the health of each of us.
They bind and remove from the body harmful substances, stimulates bile secretion and peristalsis, lower blood sugar and insulin levels, and serve as a prevention of cancer!
And that's not all! Dietary fiber is processed beneficial bacteria living in the gut, and a precondition of healthy microflora. It strengthens the body's defenses, neutralize decay-causing bacteria and carcinogens involved in the formation of amino acids, hormones and vitamins, and also plays an important role in metabolism.
For the expectant mother dominance in the microflora of the "right" bacteria is very important. Depends on the formation of intestinal microflora in children. Its imbalance can cause a whole bunch of trouble for the baby from abdominal pain and flatulence to atopic dermatitis and prolonged course of infections.
Daily experts recommend eating 25 to 35 grams of dietary fiber. Average rate is 28 grams. Overdo the fiber is not: it is fraught with increased flatulence and malabsorption of vitamins. To obtain the daily rate note the coarse bran (43 g fiber per 100 g of product), peas (78 g), oatmeal (7, 2 g), whole wheat bread (6.5 g), dried apricots (4,5), potatoes (3, 2 g), apples (1, 4 g).


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Home | Resident Artist | Memory & Memoir: Q&A with the Glass Cast
Memory & Memoir: Q&A with the Glass Cast
By Bridgette Ramirez
What if our actors followed the footsteps of their playwright? Tennessee Williams is famous for writing from his own life and memories in The Glass Menagerie, so we wondered what stories our Glass cast would share if given the same opportunity. Hear from our Resident Artists about their childhood experiences and how those experiences shaped them as the people and actors we know today.
Can you share a significant family memory from when you were a child? Why do you think you remember it?
Deborah Strang (Amanda Wingfield): My mother was a remarkable, multi-faceted woman, and I use her in almost every character I create. I remember one day when the stress of caring for 5 children must have tipped her a bit over the edge. She pushed all of the furniture back out of her way, put on a pair of roller skates and madly, insanely skated back and forth through the house totally ignoring us as we ran screaming after her, all of us in shock and awe. I remember it because it's the clearest image of abandon that I have ever known.
Rafael Goldstein (Tom Wingfield): My father would bring plays home and have my sisters, my mother, and I read them out loud. We'd sit in the living room, split up the roles, and act the hell out of whatever we were reading. He brought home Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape one night and that play blew my mind. It was violent, the characters were gritty, and the story was so sad. He had me read the lead role of Yank. We were all deeply affected by the play and we had a great time. It was the first time that I had encountered an adult play in a way that felt artistically mature. It felt like an important stage of evolution.
Erika Soto (Laura Wingfield): I remember when I found out that my mother was pregnant with my little brother. I was 9 years old and had been the only child until then. The only grandchild, too. One day my stepdad picked me up from school and asked me to open the glove compartment of his truck. Inside was a baby's bottle. He asked me what I thought it could be for. For a minute I thought for me, but realized that was very awkward because I was 9 years old! He said it was for the baby. "The baby?" "Yes. The baby." The baby Mom was going to have soon. OH. MY. GOD. MY BODY FELT LIKE A BALLOON SWELLING UP VERY, VERY FAST! It was amazing. There was someone coming. Someone I didn't even know I'd been waiting for for so, so, so long. The idea of a jealous sibling has been and always was preposterous. Being a big sister felt like the BEST. THING. EVER. I remember this because…well, it literally changed my life and how I see it. My brother was my little everything. Soon after having him my mom got pregnant again, so he became even more my responsibility, and I haven't stopped being an obnoxious mini-mom ever since. It's great.
Kasey Mahaffy (Jim O'Connor): The greatest memory of my childhood was on our annual family trip to the high desert of central Oregon. We'd rent a house for a week and spend our days biking and laying out by the pool; nighttimes were reserved for cutthroat Uno matches and particularly salacious reruns of DATELINE. One year, the house we rented came with a record player and a pair of giant standing speakers. However, the only record in the house was Dionne Warwick's "Promises Promises" – an odd fit for four teenage boys in the summer of 1987. My eldest brother Kevin thought this was hilarious and immediately began to blast that title track morning, noon and night, all throughout the house. Burt Bacharach's charge of brass horns became our sunrise reveille. Dionne's triumphant, "Promises, promises can just destroy your liiiiiiiiiiife!" blared on as we tucked ourselves into bed. "IT'S CERTAINLY DESTROYING MINE," my mother shouted through her toothbrush. All the while, my brother Kevin lay crouched by the record player, maniacally cackling. We were on vacation for for 7 days in that house. He must've played that song 567 times. My poor parents. On the last day, Kevin fired up the record player for one final go, and the song began to skip. We had literally worn the vinyl out. Now whenever I hear that song I just hit the deck.
If you were to write an autobiographical play like Tennessee Williams, what would the title be? What would it be about?
Deborah: The Leap. About a woman who never knew what she wanted but found it anyway just by taking the leap.
Rafael: When I was a kid, I knew, didn't think, I KNEW that I was a werewolf. I would wear a mask when I was out and about with my family. I would growl at the camera on "photo day" at school. I'd howl at the moon. I'd call the play FERAL.
Erika: I have fantasized about writing an actor memoir called Real to Slight Character (which is what is most often in the breakdown/description of roles I audition for). I love the idea that your career opportunities can be boiled down to fitting in a category that labels you as "real" and "slight character." The concept and terminology seem hilarious to me and, in a way, accurate! I am real. I am a slight character. So I think that would be it. Or Confessions of a Grown-Ass Drama Queen.
Kasey: It would be titled UNAPOLOGETICALLY GINGER, and would basically be just a collection of mistakes I've made along the way, but in the end it turns out I don't give a sh!t because I am who I am.
We enjoyed getting to know a bit more about our actors, and we hope you did too! See our actors live on stage for The Glass Menagerie through April 26. Tickets available now!
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best New Year's wishes
January 1, 2012 in mini-thought, not so good at blogging anymore, western arts | by Vance Maverick | 5 comments
Best wishes to all for the new year. Among my resolutions: more postings.
Philip Guston, Painting, Smoking, Eating (1973; via the Guardian). I like the heap of his signature hobnailed boots behind him — I think they stand for the compulsive quality of his work. May we all contrive both to harness and indulge our compulsions, in due proportion!
"Paolo Soleri to be demolished"
September 8, 2010 in preservation, the built environment, western arts | by Vance Maverick | 9 comments
Paolo Soleri, now 91, was born in Turin and studied architecture there. He came to the US in the 1940s to work with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West. (He recounts amusingly (The Urban Ideal, 23-4) that with the little English he commanded at the time, he found himself on a bus to Tolleson, Arizona before being set right.) After a few years back in Italy, he returned to Arizona, setting up an architectural center of his own, Arcosanti. Much of its income came from handcraft projects, such as cast metal bells; but it has also been a laboratory for his architectural ideas.
He's a visionary, who has seen certain ecological issues very clearly — notably, that the most sustainable mode of living for billions of humans on this planet of ours is to cluster together in cities, leaving as much as possible of nature to nature. Check out the wide-ranging interview with Jerry Brown (1, 2), from back when Brown was doing his radio program We The People. There's a paradox in Soleri's choice of a non-urban site for the project — a spot that began as wilderness but has been swamped by the development of Scottsdale and greater Phoenix. (Brown, introducing Part 2: "a place called Arcosanti, an urban, well it isn't an urban laboratory, but it is a desert laboratory about a type of urban space and the people are there, what I would say a very elegant, frugal and dense, and complex way of being.")
Along with his years of advocacy and charismatic projection of green architecture, though, he has built a few very interesting practical projects outside Arcosanti. During the Italian interim, for example, he designed the Solimene ceramic factory at Vietri on the Amalfi coast. Its fluted exterior alternates between glass and columns covered with tiles and plates from the factory's own production.
And in 1965, at the Santa Fe Indian School, he designed and built an amphitheater, known for decades as "the Paolo Soleri". By his account, it was conceived for Native American theatrical performance, but it is also well known for graduations, community functions, and music. The school has lately been demolishing a number of its older buildings, including several of real historical interest — check out the murals in the old photo of the dining room. And now they plan to take down the amphitheater as well (the title of my post is from a report by a local TV station).
There's a petition to urge the head of SFIS to reconsider the demolition. Please sign if you're interested. Senators Bingaman and Udall have expressed support for the preservation of the amphitheater, if not yet promised funds. And here's Lyle Lovett speaking on the issue.
(Via Conrad Skinner. Updated after comments.)
A perfect day.
May 29, 2010 in western arts | by eric | 19 comments
Sometimes this happens, out here in the west of the west, and you remember why people come, and stay.
The Edge of the American West South.
May 24, 2010 in history and current events, western arts | by eric | 14 comments
We live in Mississippi. Or so Paramount Studios thought in 1927.
Well, on some measures we're very close.
Good ways to say what you mean, mean what you say.
November 29, 2009 in almost certainly not worth posting about, environmental history, western arts | by eric | 12 comments
Have you ever noticed that bits of the West are like, really amazingly beautiful?1
This is from the base of lower Yosemite Falls—close enough to get wet, anyway.
And this is the view from the balcony of Lookout Studio. I couldn't manage to take a picture of the Grand Canyon that didn't look like a "picture of the Grand Canyon."
Stuff like this goes under the awesomeness of TR category, which we really ought to actually have.2
Previously, on the grandeur of the Grand Canyon.
1Yes, I know I could have borrowed from the Eagles here, but we're all above that, aren't we?
2Look, I know this is a bit cliché, but it makes me happy, ok?3
3Yes, I know there are a bunch of defensively phrased rhetorical questions down here. Give me a break, will you?
Where you stand depends on where it sits.
October 27, 2009 in citified urbanity, fiddling while the UC burns, seacoast of bohemia, the built environment, western arts | by eric | 10 comments
Robert Arnesen's egghead sculptures are a prominent feature of the UC Davis campus. I learned only recently that one was duplicated for an installation in San Francisco.
Reproductions of Arneson's Yin and Yang Eggheads appear along the Embarcadero, situated together just east of the Justin Herman Plaza fountain, across from the Port of San Francisco Ferry Building. The sculpture was dedicated in mid-December. A plaque recognizes it as a reproduction of one in a series of five acrylic-on-bronze sculptures commissioned for UC Davis.
A native of Benicia, Arneson taught ceramics at UC Davis from 1962 to 1991. His Egghead sculptures were created for specific campus locations and were installed during 1991-94. The original Yin and Yang Eggheads sit outside the UC Davis fine arts complex courtyard, where they were positioned by Arneson himself shortly before his death in 1992.
The eggheads that appear in San Francicso were cast in 2002 from Arneson's original molds. Installers positioned the two Eggheads in San Francisco, orienting them like those at UC Davis.
I don't know what they think the word "like" in that last sentence means, but here is the San Francisco Yin and Yang, from that same page:
And here is the original Yin and Yang, as placed, according to the article, by Arnesen himself:
Cowboy culture.
August 3, 2009 in history and current events, western arts | by eric | 32 comments
I meant to blog this the first time it was on This American Life, and the repeat reminded me: Chuck Klosterman on how not to do cultural studies.
… the creators of "I Like America" had made one critical error: While they had not necessarily misunderstood the historical relationship between Americans and cowboy iconography, they totally misinterpreted its magnitude. With the possible exception of Jon Bon Jovi, I can't think of any modern American who gives a shit about cowboys, even metaphorically. Dramatic op-ed writers are wont to criticize warhawk politicians by comparing them to John Wayne, but no one really believes that Hondo affects policy; it's just a shorthand way to describe something we already understand. But European intellectuals use cowboy culture to understand American sociology, and that's a specious relationship (even during moments when it almost makes sense). As it turns out, Germans care about cowboys way more than we do …
As I rode the train from Munich to Dresden to Hamburg, I started jotting down anything I noticed that could prompt me to project larger truths about Germany.
An abbreviated version is as follows:
1. The water here is less refreshing than American water.
2. Instead of laughing, people tend to say, "That is funny."
3. Most of the rural fields are plowed catawampus.
4. Late-night German TV broadcasts an inordinate amount of Caucasian boxing.
5. No matter how much they drink, nobody here acts drunk.
6. Germans remain fixated on the divide between "high culture" and "low culture," and the term "popular culture" is pejorative.
7. Heavy metal is still huge in this country. As proof, there's astonishingly high interest in the most recent Paul Stanley solo record.
8. Prostitution is legal and prominent.
9. When addressing customers, waiters and waitresses sometimes hold their hands behind their backs, military style.
10. It's normal to sit in the front seat of a taxi, even if you are the only passenger.
I suppose I could use these details to extrapolate various ideas about life in Germany. I suppose I could create allegorical value for many of these factoids, and some of my conclusions might prove true. But I am choosing not to do this. Because– now–I can't help but recognize all the things Americans do that a) have no real significance, yet b) define the perception of our nature…
When I returned from my tour, many people asked me what Germany was like. I said I had no idea. "But weren't you just there?" they inevitably asked. "Yes," I told them. "I was just there. And I don't know what it's like at all."
"a din that nothing could down"
November 30, 2008 in tdih, western arts | by Vance Maverick | 9 comments
On November 30th, 1899, at Sixteenth and Folsom Streets in San Francisco, Berkeley defeated Stanford 30-0 in the Big Game. The most famous trophy of the game was the Axe, which had been introduced in the baseball Big Game that spring. But with this victory, the second in a row for Cal football, Mayor James Phelan of San Francisco also awarded Berkeley a finer and more substantial trophy, a lifesize bronze statue called "The Football Players", which stands today in a grove toward the west side of campus, on the way up into the university from downtown Berkeley.
Douglas Tilden was born in 1860, and attended the California School for the Deaf in Berkeley. He went to New York and then to Paris for further studies. He finished "The Football Players" at the end of seven years in Paris — note that, apart from being French, the players are dressed for rugby rather than American football. He did several other public sculptures in the Bay Area, including the "Baseball Player" in Golden Gate Park, the Mechanics' Monument on Market Street downtown, and the California Volunteers' Memorial at Market and Dolores. The monuments are bombastic in the style of the day, and hard to look at seriously now. (My daughter likes the Volunteers' Memorial, not because she's passionate about the Philippines War but because the horse has wings.) But the "Football Players" does something quite different than any of these, turning the conservative academic style to recognizably human ends — the composition, angles of the limbs, etc, harmonize with the gazes and the points of contact between the bodies, making a vivid if prettified image of male friendship and physical intimacy.
Photo by Flickr user marymactavish used under a Creative Commons license.
"To things immortal time can do no wrong"
October 20, 2008 in lamentations, pop culture obsessions, western arts | by Vance Maverick | 17 comments
Would it surprise you to learn that in rural Wisconsin, at the end of the 19th century, there was poverty, failure, vandalism, arson, domestic violence, disease, depression, alcoholism, insanity, suicide, and murder? Michael Lesy's Wisconsin Death Trip (1973, reissued 2000) is built on the assumption that it will. The book consists largely of clippings from the Badger State Banner, of Black River Falls, Jackson County, WI, and images by Charles Van Schaick, a local commercial photographer. After some 200 pages of grim citation, Lesy steps in to comment directly:
Pause now. Draw back from it. There will be time again to experience and remember. For a minute, wait, and then set your mind to consider a different set of circumstances….
The book certainly made a strong impression on me when I saw it as a boy. Reading it now, I have to wonder what the fuss was. The people in the pictures look…pretty much OK. You can see that they lived tough lives (there are some awesome farmer's tans), but there are hardly any whose faces I now find scary, not even the tendentiously blurred ones Lesy enlarged from group photos. Real people can in fact look pretty strange — take a good look at your fellow passengers on the bus, or in the mirror (or, not to put too fine a point on it, at Lesy today). And in the 1890s, many of us were still new to having our pictures taken. (The nakedness of Julia Margaret Cameron's portraits is even stranger, though from a different place and a more privileged social world.)
Similarly, I'm unconvinced that the objective difficulties in Jackson County at that time were historically unusual. (There was an economic depression, certainly, but that was national.) Lesy tries to argue statistically that the area was worse off than its neighbors, considering the suicide rate, economic growth, etc., but his figures are inconclusive. (The suicide rates he cites, for example, are close to that for the US today.) Warren Susman, the Rutgers historian who introduces the book (he was Lesy's thesis advisor) writes that "Many historians have become convinced that there was a major crisis in American life during the 1890s; some have gone so far as to call it a 'psychic crisis'…", but does not explain or offer citations.
The credibility of Lesy's vision of rural hell is not strengthened by his handling of the text. What he excerpts from the newspaper is principally police-blotter items, briefly recounting murders, deaths, the commitment of the insane to the Mendota asylum, etc. Beyond that, he uses no other primary or secondary sources (until the epilogue). Instead, he interpolates invented material — passages attributed to a "Town Gossip" and a "Local Historian", and excerpts from fiction (Hamlin Garland, Glenway Westcott, and apparently Lesy himself).
What bothers me most about the book now is its treatment of Van Schaick, the photographer. First, the book's atmosphere of doom severely constrains one's reading of the photos — it overwhelms the normal liveliness and humanity of such pictures as the young couple laughing, the woman bathing a baby; the handsome young man in a turtleneck, and the men clowning in an office. (OK, I'll relent — to read that they're doctors, clowning with electrical shock equipment, makes that last one legitimately ghoulish.) But worse, I think, is Lesy's strange uncharity toward the man who supplied the meat of the book. In the introduction, Lesy dismisses him as merely conventional, and in the text he gives an anecdote (unsourced, and presumably made up) of Van Schaick's poor hygiene in old age.
Thirty years after, Lesy gave an interview to Identity Theory, which is quite a bit more gracious and humane. Now he gives Schaick his due, making an apt comparison to August Sander — clearly a stronger image-maker, but likewise an example of how meaning and value in documentary photography are built by serial accumulation. So if I'm ungracious to Lesy now, perhaps I should reflect that my equanimity in the face of the images he assembled is partly owed to the shock they gave, to me and many others, back in the day.
Photos from the Wisconsin Historical Society's Death Trip Flickr set, used under a Creative Commons license. See also the large Charles Van Schaick archive at the WHS's own site.
[Updated with some minor corrections.]
New England's God forever reigns
September 26, 2008 in tdih, western arts | by Vance Maverick | 11 comments
America's first composer died on this day in 1800. William Billings was born in 1746 in Boston, and lived there all his life. He was described as "somewhat deformed in person, blind in one eye, one leg shorter than the other, one arm somewhat withered." He was a tanner by trade, and self-taught in music. In 1770, he published The New England Psalm-Singer, a collection of his own compositions. (Above is the frontispiece, by Paul Revere.) He would go on to publish five more such books; his music was widely reprinted; and he taught singing frequently. Yet this was not a living, and he spent the last decade of his life in penury. He was buried in an unmarked grave.
Billings' music is almost all four-part vocal harmony, the prevailing form of religious music in his day. It's essentially diatonic, with little modulation or use of secondary dominants. The technique is crude in a distinctive way, at once rougher and more cautious than the European style of the same period. It's rough mainly in its disregard for contrapuntal rules, such as the prohibition on parallel fifths and octaves. But it's cautious in its treatment of dissonance — indeed there's hardly any, except for passing tones off the beat. (Thus he did without one of the principal expressive tools of classical music — there's never a suspension, or a 6/4 to prepare a cadence.) He was criticized for this by the cognoscenti of Boston, and he responded with bravado, writing a satirical address "To the Goddess of Discord", and a short composition, "Jargon", made up entirely of dissonances. (You can hear it sung here.)
Yet within its narrow limits, the music still has real strength. The secret is in its fresh and vigorous rhythm. He knows how to sustain the pulse for line after line — it must have been satisfying to belt out those closely rhyming texts in their hearty meters. His greatest hit, and the one with the greatest resonance for history — even military history — is the patriotic hymn Chester. He printed this in his first book, and again with more verses in The Singing Master's Assistant (1778). It became one of the most popular songs of the Revolution, second only, they say, to "Yankee Doodle". (You can hear it at the same site.) In its stirring words,
Let tyrants shake their iron rod,
And Slav'ry clank her galling chains,
We fear them not, we trust in God,
New England's God forever reigns.
Howe and Burgoyne and Clinton too,
With Prescot and Cornwallis join'd,
Together plot our Overthrow,
In one Infernal league combin'd.
When God inspir'd us for the fight,
Their ranks were broke, their lines were forc'd,
Their ships were Shatter'd in our sight,
Or swiftly driven from our Coast.
The Foe comes on with haughty Stride;
Our troops advance with martial noise,
Their Vet'rans flee before our Youth,
And Gen'rals yield to beardless Boys.
What grateful Off'ring shall we bring?
What shall we render to the Lord?
Loud Halleluiahs let us Sing,
And praise his name on ev'ry Chord.
If you're curious, here's Wikipedia's score of Chester marked up, with the fifths and unisons in red. (I've also highlighted spots where he doubled one of the tones in a tritone.) For more scores, see the William Billings page at ChoralWiki. And for more information, see McKay and Crawford, William Billings of Boston (Princeton, 1975).
La Moderna
September 7, 2008 in seacoast of bohemia, western arts | by Vance Maverick | 13 comments
Of her tumultuous, nomadic life, Tina Modotti spent only eight years in the United States. She was born in Friuli, northern Italy, in 1896, and spent her earliest years in Austria. Her father emigrated to San Francisco, and in 1913 she followed him. She worked as a seamstress, but soon began acting, rising to stardom in the local Italian theater. In 1918, she married a bohemian aspiring artist named Roubaix de l'Abrie ("Robo") Richey, and they moved to Los Angeles. They had some success in crafts (e.g. batik), and Modotti made some first steps in a film career, appearing most notably in The Tiger's Coat (1920). But in the same period, she met Edward Weston, and they began an intense relationship, both a love affair and an apprenticeship, which turned her toward the work for which she is now remembered.


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Watts Imports & Distribution is a medium sized niche importation, warehousing and distribution company providing specialised services between a number of manufacturers and footwear selling agents and New Zealand independent, chain and department store retailers. The company was established in 1919 and was first registered with the New Zealand Companies Office in 1931. The parent company also has two subsidiary companies: JS Oceania, specialising mainly in German brands Josef Siebel and Romika.
For the last 25 years, the main focus of our business has been the New Zealand agent for many of the offshore based selling houses and as agents for a number of European brands and in recent times, for shoes manufactured in Asia. The company is located in an industrial estate in Albany on Auckland's North Shore and our warehousing footprint is approximately 800m² and includes office space and a small data centre.
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Our licensee business: where we sell our listed brands in Australia and New Zealand. We have two full time sales employees in New Zealand and two commission selling agents in Australia and we sell all footwear "FIS" (Free Into Store) in both countries.
Our agency business: Watts are the acting New Zealand agents for a number of European brands and also act as the "go-between" for a group of Australian footwear agents and New Zealand retailers. Our involvement includes arranging appointments for these agents, allowing them to present their ranges at the biannual shoe fairs held in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Communities, Community, Noted, Religion	 July 7, 2019 July 8, 2019
Historic Maywood Church Building Gets New Congregation, With A History Of Its Own
Sunday, June 7, 2019 || By Michael Romain || @maywoodnews
Featured image: Congressman Danny K. Davis, fourth from left, state Rep. Emanuel "Chris" Welch and Rev. Myron Austin attend Sunday's ribbon-cutting for Rose of Sharon Community Church, which moved into its permanent home in Maywood on July 7. | Shanel Romain
A historic Maywood church building that dates back to 1871 took in its newest congregation on July 7.
Dressed in communion Sunday white, members of the Rose of Sharon Community Church converged on the steps of 201 S. 5th Ave. for a brief ribbon-cutting and prayer before eagerly marching into their new house of worship.
The moment marked a historic transition for Rose of Sharon, whose longtime pastor, the late Rev. James A. Murphy Sr., built the church into an institution on Chicago's West Side. Murphy, who died last year at 87, founded the church in 1955 and pastored for more than 62 years, according to an obituary published in the Chicago Crusader.
Murphy was also a serial entrepreneur, owning an array of businesses on the West Side that constituted their own cottage economy. Murphy owned R.O.S. Cleaners, "a chain of dry cleaners with 13 locations," the Crusader article pointed out; the Turning Point Supper Club; Murph's Place Restaurant; and Century 21 Murphy Real Estate.
Featured image: Annie Beckworth, a member of Rose of Sharon Community Church since 1960, said she's satisfied with the congregation's new location inside of one of Maywood's most historic church buildings. | Shanel Romain
The enterprising pastor also penetrated the city's airwaves, broadcasting his church's live services for more than 50 years on area radio stations. In the 1990s, he created "The Lord Will Make a Way" broadcast on cable television, where he often sung "The Lord Will Make a Way Somehow" — a song that he made his own.
"When people would see him coming, they'd start singing that song," said Congressman Danny K. Davis, a friend of Murphy's and a native of Chicago's Austin community.
"Rose of Sharon was the first church I stepped foot in in Chicago," Davis said during Sunday's ribbon-cutting. Davis said he was also a frequent patron of R.O.S. Cleaners.
"The Murphy family has been an integral part of our community," he said.
While on the West Side, the Rose of Sharon worshipped in four different locations. In 1990, a fire destroyed the third location, at 2950 W. Warren, forcing the congregation to temporarily worship in a mortuary, according to the Chicago Tribune.
"Our faith is on trial," Clementine Murphy, Rev. Murphy's wife of 66 years, told a Tribune reporter at the time. "We`re going to find that we`ll be stronger at the end of this."
Eventually, the church moved into their last location in the city, a spacious building at 4256 W. Walton. After Rev. Murphy's death in 2018, the church moved again, this time to First Congregational Church, 400 N. 5th Ave. in Maywood, where they rented space, before finding their permanent location.
Clementine Murphy, the widow of the late Rev. James A. Murphy Sr., who founded Rose of Sharon, cuts the ribbon on Sunday. | Shanel Romain
Chevonne Nash, the church's communication manager and Rev. James and Clementine Murphy's granddaughter, said that Rose of Sharon's last West Side location was too large and too costly for the congregation of roughly 50 members.
"We wanted to downsize," Nash said. "Also, a lot of our members are from the west suburbs, so this location is easier for them to get to."
The previous congregation to worship at 201 S. 5th Ave., New Beginnings Christian Fellowship, disbanded after its pastor, David Torres, died in 2014.
"The church had been just sitting here vacant, for a couple of years, when we found out about it through our chairman," said Rev. Myron Austin, Rose of Sharon's current pastor. "We believe everything is in divine order."
Annie Beckworth, who joined Rose of Sharon in 1960, gave the church's new location her stamp of approval.
"It's beautiful," she said. "I love it. I love it."
"This is a great location. This corner has a whole lot of history," said state Rep. Emanuel "Chris" Welch (7th), who also attended the ribbon-cutting.
"You're across from the old Masonic Temple, but your church holds a lot of meaning itself," he said. "You're right next to the police station and the park and Fred Hampton Pool. We're looking forward to Rose of Sharon adding to the rich history of this village."
Welch could have added another factoid. According to Douglas Deuchler, who authored a book on Maywood, the church's original congregation, the Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion, included "many prominent Maywood families" as members, including the man who founded the village — Colonel William T. Nichols, a Civil War veteran from Vermont, who named the town after his deceased daughter, May.
Members of Rose of Sharon enter their new house of worship on July 7. | Shanel Romain
Now, the burden of building on that history is up to the historic building's newest hosts. Before she cut the ribbon on Sunday, Clementine Murphy, echoing her sentiments following the 1990 fire, seemed up to the task.
"The Lord will make a way somehow," Murphy said, channeling her late husband.
"We want to keep on going, no matter how hard or rough it might be," she said. "This church is full of love. We believe in sharing one another's burdens and problems. There's no end to church work. You've got to keep going." VFP
Filed under: Annie Beckworth, Congressman Davis, Rep. Welch, Rev. James A. Murphy Sr., Rose of Sharon Community Church
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Greenpeace say samples taken in town first hit by red sludge show high levels of toxic substances.
Greenpeace has warned of "surprisingly high" levels of arsenic and mercury in the red sludge that burst out of a metals plant reservoir in Hungary, killing six people and devastating the surrounding area.
The figures could roughly be translated as 50 tonnes of arsenic, 300 tonnes of chrome and 500kg of mercury set free by the spill, Greenpeace officials said.
"This contamination poses a long term risk to both the water base and the [surrounding] ecosystem," the group said in a statement on Friday.
Hungary's interior minister said there was a limited risk of biological or environmental catastrophe in the Danube river, which was hit by the sludge on Thursday.
Sandor Pinter said alkalinity levels from the alumina plant spill had decreased since Monday to a pH of around nine, well below the 13.5 measured in local waterways first hit by the torrent.
"Let's not even consider the pollution that got into the Danube as real pollution now, as the material that got into the river has pH levels of below nine, which, considering the [large volume of] water, will dilute in a few kilometres," he told a news conference.
"It will not be of an extent which would cause biological or environmental damage," Pinter said.
The company at the centre of of the leak said released $150,000 to local authorities to help deal with the disaster, and offered its condolences to the relatives of those who had lost their lives.
A man injured in the toxic spill died in hospital early on Friday, while another body was recovered from a sludge-covered area in the village of Devecser later in the day, bringing the death toll to six.
Authorities said the volume of the spill was 700 cubic metres, equal to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Viktor Orban, Hungary's prime minister, has described the spill as a natural disaster unprecedented in Hungary.
"If this had happened at night then everyone here would have died," he said as he visited on of worst affected villages. "This is so irresponsible that it is impossible to find words!"


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