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As part of the Abirdabode Exhibition, myself and Richard Dawson couldn't resist creating some of our own art bird boxes. We got so carried away we couldn't fit them all into the Gallery as part of the main exhibition so came up with a sneaky plan to install them into the library downstairs.
Having got the go ahead from Oldham Library, who were brilliant and completely open to our weird requests, we spent an afternoon installing the boxes on the shelves in the main library. The ten boxes have now formed an art bird box trail amongst the books and the only clues to find them consist of Dewey Decimal numbers and subject headings.
On 14th March, Richard Dawson (Arbarus) and myself launched the Abirdabode Exhibition at Gallery Oldham. The exhibition celebrates eight months of hard work by various groups across Oldham to create art bird boxes* and showcases these bird boxes alongside the Art Bird Flock, which was created at public drop-in sessions over the last year. Almost 250 people attended the launch and was a great success – people seem to really love the art bird boxes and we got a lot of great comments and feedback.
All of the bird boxes created have been made to the BTO's (British Trust for Ornithology) recommended guidelines and following the exhibition, will be installed around Oldham to become the Oldham Art Bird Box Trail.
The groups we worked with included the Dove Stone Youth Rangers, the Barrier Breakers, Grassroots Community Project and Age UK Oldham.
Dove Stone Youth Rangers (DSYR) are a group of young people from Oldham aged 11-19 years and meet every Sunday to plan and participate in activities focused on the environment and the outdoors. The Dove Stone Youth Rangers created their bird boxes from concept right through to finished product, drawing plans, making macquettes, using power tools and bandsaws to create the nest boxes. They also spent several (chilly) sessions in my workshop painting and decorating their bird boxes ready for the exhibition.
The Barrier Breakers are a group of young people supported by Oldham Integrated Youth Service and gives young people the opportunity to have fun with friends whist working on issues that affect children and young people with additional needs. The Barrier Breakers came up with their own ideas and themes then created their bird boxes from kits of parts, using power tools to construct their boxes and also cut out wooden detailing for individual designs.
The Grassroots Community Project is a community orchard and allotment and supports adults with additional needs and young people excluded from education. We worked with Grassroots to create the 'Andy Abode, a large-scale bird box created from reclaimed and re-purposed materials. The group created the bird box from scratch, constructing the frame, creating the different claddings for each side and also building a sparrow hotel to be installed on the inside. Following the exhibition the 'Andy Abode will return to Grassroots and will be used as a shed and storage for Andy, who works there.
We also worked with a group from Age UK Oldham to decorate some bird boxes. The group created a 'terrace' of boxes with each one representing a redbrick house, complete with windows, doors, chimneys and even a TV aerial. Though they didn't make the exhibition launch, Age UK Oldham organised a special trip to Gallery Oldham so the artists could see their creations. We met them there to show them round and indulge in a spot of tea and cake at the Naked Bean Cafe.
All in all, a fantastic launch of the Abirdabode Exhibition, which runs from now until 2nd May 2015 at Gallery Oldham. If you'd like to know more about abirdabode have a look at the project website here. We are also asking for people to nominate locations for the bird boxes once the exhibition is completed. The location should ideally be in the Oldham Borough and be a 'community' space or organisation, a school, a public park, allotments or gardens for supported housing etc. Please email hello@abirdabode.co.uk for further information or to nominate a bird box location.
Myself and Arbarus (Richard Dawson) have been delivering the Abirdabode Project for the last eight months. Funded by Oldham Arts Development, the project aims to bring art and nature together by building bird boxes using a variety of different creative techniques and skills.
We are currently working with a number of different groups in Oldham including the Dove Stone Youth Rangers, the Barrier Breakers, an Age UK older people's group and the Grassroots Community Allotment Scheme in Failsworth.
We're making lots of progress on the bird boxes which is good as deadlines are fast approaching – there's an exhibition of them at Gallery Oldham in March and April. The exhibition opens on Saturday 14th March and will have all the bird boxes made during the project on show. Once the exhibition finishes, the bird boxes will be distributed to various communities, gardens, allotments and housing schemes around Oldham – get in touch if you'd like one for your community!
Most of these images are from Grassroots where we've been building a large-scale bird box for the exhibition!
One more thing… we're doing a drop-in workshop at RSPB Dove Stone Reservoir on 22nd February. This is to celebrate National Nest Box Week (14th – 21st February) and to kick off the RSPB's Discovery Sundays for 2015. We'll be based at Ashway Gap (halfway round from the main car park) between 11am and 3pm – come and see us!
At the weekend myself and Richard Dawson started our new art bird box project 'abirdabode'. Over the next six months we will be running a series of workshops and creative activities for abirdabode; exploring urban and rural habitats, trying different art forms and making beautiful art bird boxes for our feathered friends in Oldham. We will be working closely with Oldham Arts Development and the RSPB to develop the project.
The project launched with a drop-in session at Festival Oldham where we invited members of the public to decorate a bird for the outside of our large-scale bird box. Despite the rain we had lots of visitors, all fascinated by the bird box and the mini-gallery inside showcasing the first art bird boxes and accompanied by local birdsong.
Find the abirdabode project here and keep an eye out for upcoming events.
'Being a Freelance Artist' is me, Jacqui Symons; a Manchester-based artist and designer, who creates public and community art alongside her own work and practice.
Being A Freelance Artist aims to give readers an insight into me and my work whilst at the same time providing advice and support about becoming and surviving as a freelance artist.


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One party to a marriage (read into this de facto) is liable to maintain the other party to the marriage if the other party is unable to support themself adequately and to the extent the first party is reasonably able to do so.
Before making any spousal maintenance orders a court must consider what property orders it will make, as the distribution of matrimonial assets may result in both parties being able to sufficiently meet their own reasonable expenses. The main thrust of such a consideration is the `clean break' principle – the Courts would prefer to make decisions which bring finality to financial proceedings without any ongoing financial commitments, as much as is possible under the circumstances.
Before a Court will examine the quantity of spousal maintenance required, the applicant must demonstrate that they are unable to support themself adequately from their own financial resources. If a person chooses not to utilise a skill, which will generate income for them, then they will not be able to demonstrate to the Court that they require maintenance and the Court will dismiss their application. An applicant cannot be successful where they have not made a genuine effort to gain employment.
What is adequate depends on the circumstances of the case, adequate has been described as more than bare necessity[1], or a standard of living that is reasonable in the circumstances[2]. But, there is no requirement that the applicant's standard of living pre-separation be maintained.
Employment qualifications do not necessarily equate to the capacity to adequately support yourself, what must also be taken into consideration is the length of time that person has been absent from the workforce and whether those absences are as a result of the party's commitment to the children and the home[3].
In determining whether a spouse can adequately support themself the court will consider the age, health, income, property and financial resources of the parties and who has care or control of the children of the marriage, as well as other factors.
The extent to which one party is reasonably able to support the other also depends on the circumstances of the case and is relative to the overall wealth of the parties. The main argument surrounding capacity is whether it should be judged on your existing income or earning potential.
Generally, the courts have adopted the mentality that your capacity to pay spousal maintenance is judged on your existing income, except where deliberate attempts have been made to minimise your income to avoid spousal maintenance. The current school of thought is earning potential is more relevant when considering property orders, not spousal maintenance.
In one case a husband was earning in excess of $200,000 per year as a management consultant during the marriage. After separation he took a job as a university lecturer with a yearly income of $80,000. At trial the Judge ruled that this was a deliberate attempt to minimise his income and he ordered spousal maintenance in the amount of $500 per week. The original decision was overturned on appeal, as the husband produced unchallenged evidence that he only earned $250,000 because he worked in excess of 80hrs per week. Since the separation one of the children decided that he wanted to live with his father, therefore he couldn't do 80hrs per week as a single parent, so he had to take a job which allowed him to properly parent his children[4].
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[1] In the Marriage of Evans [1978] FLC 90-435
[2] In the Marriage of Nutting [1978] FLC 90-410
[3] Mitchell (1995) 19 Fam LR 58
[4] DJM and JLM (1998) 23 Fam LR 396
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There are close to 500 videos of unedited footage and as of June 28, 2003 — 603, 606 watched have watched videos of unedited footage. See all Videos:) http://www.youtube.com/bobc9246
Most of the videos are unedited footage from my 5 trips to Iraq and 3 to Afghanistan 2006-late 2011. It is my and the opinion of many others that these videos are very important for millions of Americans to watch, to see how our Amazing Men and Women were Helping Iraqis and Afghanistan, how they were living and in some FOB's they were worshiping. I like to call this "And Now for the Rest of the Story" said so many times by Paul Harvey. There are also many Videos with the most incredible Americans who do what they can to support those who Serve and have Served with their Military and/or Veterans Support Groups and Companies.!
It is important to continue Helping Active Duty Military, Veterans, First Responders, Families, Companies Hiring Veterans, and Military Spouses, Professionals and Organizations and Companies helping with PTSD, TBI, Veterans who are Homeless, Saving Lives from Suicide, First Responders, Fire Fighters, Police, EMT's, Doctors and Nurses, Essential Workers!
Our Mission for 17+ years was to help Military Service members, Veterans, First Responders, their Families, Supporters and more with our Talking with Heroes Talk Shows!! And we added later www.thankyouforyourservice.us
Due to many health challenges (I am now 75) — 7 surgeries, stage4cancer for the past 3 1/2 years, Covid late 2019 and into 2020, Covid Long Haul since included memory loss and breathing challenges. I am amazed at the changes:) I am now living very near to my daughter and son n law and my 4 amazing Grand Children:)
I am talking with mostly Veterans and we will announce soon a new Leadership Team:) who will collectively take TalkingwithHeroes and ThankYouforYourService ahead for decades to some with our Expanded Mission. A Marine Iraq Veteran who helps Veterans is now creating our new mission… announcing a New Media Network. Announcements will be made soon.
He is rebuilding www.talkingwithheroes.com (which will then operate under our non profit) www.thankyouforyourservice.us
TalkingwithHeroes will relaunch as America's newest National Media Network. Once launched we will invite All Veterans, Military, First Responders Talk Show Programs (Suicide Prevention, PTSD, TBI, Support groups across the Country to List themselves on this new site. Also PodCasts and Videos being produced by Support Groups across America and uploaded to Youtube and other Video Sites. This will give all of these amazing programs and videos a new way to be seen across America.
ThankYouforYourService will become again a news site plus we will invite key support group leaders and experts with Suicide Prevention, PTSD, TBI, Support Groups including Fishing, Camping, Retreats, Christian Family Retreats, Canoeing, Kayaking, and much more to submit articles. For questions or if you would like to be featured on one or both of these sites email bob@talkingwithheroes.com
For those of you who have been aware of my last 10 battling health challenges — I have had a new development:
++A friend from 31 years ago introduced me over a month ago to a new liquid product different from what I had seen before. Since I have had/have many health challenges, I decided to try it. My energy is back. This Liquid "Helps to support the immune system. May help with minor memory problems associated with the aging process" There is a great two minute video here and more. www.neumi.com/bobcalvert
I look forward to announcing that TalkingwithHeroes.com is ReLaunched and introducing to everybody this Marine Iraq Veteran on a new talkingiwthheroes program!!!!!!
Bob Calvert
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www.youtube.com/bobc9246 Close to 500 Raw Footage Videos from 5 trips to Iraq and 3 to Afghanistan plus with incredible Americans back home.
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From 2006-2011 I (Bob Calvert) made five trips to Iraq and three to Afghanistan going on Missions with our Troops. Even with all My Health Challenges since these past years, we have still been averaging 2,000+ viewers per month!! Due to my continued many Health challenges it has become very important to me to find an individual(s), Non Profit or For Profits to continue our Mission. I believe with new Leadership and a relaunch with updated websites we will reach Millions of people watching in the year ahead.
My last trip to Iraq and Afghanistan was in late 2011. Since 2012, (in between surgeries) we produced over 100 videos with Military Support and Veterans Groups from across America setting aside politics and locking arms when it comes to Honoring, Thanking, and Supporting those who serve and have served and their families. Watch 24/7 www.youtube.com/bobc9246
I am a member of a military family. Our dad Richard Gene Calvert was a WWII Veteran who served in the Navy on an aircraft carrier. My brother and sister-in-law also served in the military. My daughter Adrienne and son-in-law Keith served in the Army. My son-in-law is an Iraq veteran, with two deployments to Iraq. My Brother Ted and Sister n Law Brenda, both Served in the Air Force and my Brother Ted also Served in the Army with a Deployment to Afghanistan. I am Proud to have been a part of a Military Family.
It has been a Honor to after 15 years of dedication to have brought the voices of active military members and veterans to the American public. Despite 7 Surgeries and Stage4Cancer since 2012, and late Oct 2020 battled Corona Virus three weeks and since then I have been dealing with what is being called around the world Long Haul. This is long-term damage in different places in the body as a result of CoronaVirus. It is now challenging to get around but I am still here!!!
I am now 75 and I believe I am close to us having a new leadership team who will collaborate on continuing our mission for the next 15 years and more. With more health challenges it became more important to me to find that person)s), organization(s) or company who have the skills to completely take over TalkingwithHeroes.com and ThankYouforYourService still registered as a 501 C3 and everything that comes with it — websites, all social media and more. For latest updates as of April 28, 2022 email me bob@talkingwithheroes.com and lets set up a time to talk.
Our rebuilt TalkingwithHeroes.com LLC Website will now operate under the umbrella of our 501 C3 – www.thankyouforyourservice.us LLC will podcasts, talk shows, videos feature existing Podcasts, Audio, and Video Programs, videos filmed at military and veteran support groups events, produced by others. In essence TalkingwithHeroes will become a Network as opposed to one person:)
Existing podcasts, audio and video programs that would be similar to our missions — military and veteran support, first responders and more. For more info please email me bob@talkingwithheroes.com
With our Re Launch we will continue helping Non-Profit Support Group Organizations with many of these organizations Founded by and Led by Veterans and Military Families, Suicide Prevention, PTSD, TBI. Retreats, First Responders, Wounded Warriors, Jobs and Careers, Gold Star Families, Fishing, Camping, Retreats, and Much More.
I believe it is important for Americans to be able to set aside politics and do everything possible to support our troops, veterans, and their families. It is an honor to do this!! Our Mission goes on and will Continue for Decades to come with New Leadership!!!
For anybody or any non profits or companies who would be interested in talking with me please email me: bob@talkingwithheroes.com
Be SAFE and Many BLESSINGS to Each of YOU:)
THANK YOU To the following for helping keep Talking with Heroes moving forward from the beginning:
*20-year (Ret) Army Veteran Bill Wischnewsky is the owner of Lightning Graphics in Columbus, GA www.lightninggraphicsga.com and a long-time supporter of our missions. Bill helping with our mission for over 13 years. Unfortunately COVID and Shut Downs in Georgia may have cost him his business. He is an amazing person and friend. Thank You Bill for Your Service to our Country and for the Service to our Country of your Children too. Please keep Bill and his Family in your Prayers.
*Colin Clark in Colorado is a businessman and a longtime supporter of our missions. He has been helping with our missions for over 13 years. Colin is an amazing Friend and Dedicated to Helping those Americans who SERVE our Country. Colin is the son of Judge William Clark who was National Security Advisor in the Reagan Administration. See Book – Judge William P. Clark, Ronald Reagan's Top Hand by Paul Kengorhttps://www.amazon.com/Judge-William-ClarkRonaldReagans/dp/1586171836/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537800387&sr=8-1&keywords=Judge+William+Clark+Book
*Eric Chia owner www.chiaweb.com has been and is an amazing friend who I have known since my Daughter was a youngster:) Eric works with and helps many companies both in the USA and overseas. His company makes and markets worldwide many products as well as web services. He took care of our websites since Dec 2005 for about a dozen years and helped in many ways over the years. In early 2020 while I was battling coronavirus we found out that we had been locked out of our own site by somebody who I thought we could trust. . Eric has ReBuilt our site better than ever!!! Eric will have more announcements soon.
We look forward to hearing from you all and we look for to a lot of mutually beneficial collaborating!!!
www.talkingwithheroes.com
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At last night's gubernatorial debate, the issue of potential layoffs of state union workers was a hot topic of conversation. (See CT News Junkie for a more detailed report.) Each candidate indicated that layoffs weren't ruled out if elected.
Employment law is quite the hot topic among various blogs. So much so that it's time for the next installment of Quick Takes — a quick summary of what's new and noteworthy.
Leave it to librarians to come up with a great new resource page for learning about Connecticut's unemployment laws.
I can hear the chuckles now. Librarians?


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For some reason, the watchmaking industry still gets a lot of stick for neglecting women's watches, or else companies are lauded to the high heavens for introducing credible women's timepieces, as if this weren't something they had been by - REVOLUTION
For some reason, the watchmaking industry still gets a lot of stick for neglecting women's watches, or else companies are lauded to the high heavens for introducing credible women's timepieces, as if this weren't something they had been doing for a long time. Do the power tools industry make saw and drills specially for women? Even car companies extend precious few conveniences with women drivers in mind beyond sticking a mirror above the driver's seat. For touch-ups while stuck in traffic. As for watch companies, perhaps there are more watches made for men; but the effort, innovation and care that watchmaking companies put into women's pieces is anything but paltry.
Cartier Ballon Bleu de Cartier Vibrating Setting
It's not just the sparkle that catches the eye here, but movement as well. The lovely Ballon Bleu case gets a carpeting of pave and round diamonds, the latter in delicious harmony with the Ballon's playful curves. But that's not all: through a deviously clever technique pioneered by Cartier at the end of the 19th century, the diamonds on the watch face are each affixed to a spring before they are attached to the dial. The technique is called "tremblant". In English, we suppose it means "jiggles".
Jaeger-LeCoultre Rendez-Vous Moon
Invested with craft and performance worthy of the a JLC, it's fitted with a new in-house movement, the cal. 935, that will keep the moon phase true for 972 years. It's appropriate lunacy, being orders of magnitude more precise than most moon phases on the market. We also like the moon disc in mother-of-pearl, and constellations of diamond framed against blue flinque enamel sky.
Piaget Traditional Oval
Inspired by a '60s model worn by Jackie Kennedy, the design is luxurious, and splendorous in the most classy way. Where a satin strap would have been an acceptable choice, Piaget has instead used a bracelet (gold shown here) composed of very thin links that have been painstakingly chased to effect grooves that resemble shimmery textile. Sheer artistry.
Van Cleef & Arpels Carpe Koi
For the love of aquatic life, in this case a most auspicious carp, rendered with surreal vitality. Some 8,000 coloured stones, and 3,450 man hours, the carp's body is yellow gold laid with yellow sapphires and spessartite garnets, leaping in a spray of blue tourmalines and white diamonds. Press the tail to work the clasp and open its mouth to read the time. To think that such wonders are still possible well past the abolition of slavery.
Grand Seiko, News, Uncategorised
Introducing the Grand Seiko T0 (T-Zero) Constant-Force Tourbillon
Respect for nature informs the overall themes of Grand Seiko, from subtle dial designs to the sublime architecture of the new headquarters in Shizukuishi, Japan. Innovation and respect for the past are at its core, which is why the latest by - Stephen Watson
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Introducing the Breguet Tradition Quantième Retrograde 7597
The Tradition occupies a special place in Breguet's catalogue. The line has been around since 2005, but its legacy dates back much further than that — all the way to the life of Abraham-Louis Breguet himself, and a watch that dates back to 1795: by - Felix Scholz
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I should have been driving up to camp early this morning to retrieve him.
I should have been excitedly anticipating hearing all the stories about his first time as a "real" camper.
I should have been worrying about whether or not the laundromat would be overly busy, and where should we take his laundry so that we could wash it all before the next session starts?
I should have been setting up our room for three kids, his last time as a "day camper" as he transitioned from the first session (he would have been old enough) into the second session (not quite old enough to sleep in, but old enough to "day camp," a perk extended to faculty kids).
I should have been wondering how I would have enough space in the drawers for all three of their clothes, and I should have been listening to him telling Solly and Yael all about what it was like to sleep in the cabins.
I should have been teasing him about how tired he was, and how few letters I got, and how dirty his feet were. I should have been impressed at how dirty his laundry was.
I should have been asking about his color war team, about Shabbat walks, about his favorite lunch and what he had for dinner last night.
I should have been asking him if he planned to come back next summer and I should have heard the answer "yes, for the whole summer, mom."
I should have been drinking in his little face, away from me for two whole weeks, and marveling at how grown up he seemed, how much taller he must have grown, how much he needed a haircut.
I cried as I drove up to camp today.
Because I know exactly how it should have been.
On our way up to camp this morning...talking about Sammy much of the way.
I met my husband at summer camp and I know it will always be a big part of our family's lives. I can't even begin to feel what it must be like for you going up to camp without your Sammy. Wishing you a fun, peaceful, restorative (and sometimes crazy because it's camp!) time at camp this summer.
Indeed; just what you should have been doing. So glad Sammy was in the car in everyone's chatter, and at camp in that feather. Hugs (and a few tears in reading this).
Camp. I never went to camp. Now I'll never leave. Thank you, Sammy. For the feather.
saw a feather in my yard yesterday and thought of sammy. i think i always will.


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The Mangler 2 est un film canadien réalisé par Michael Hamilton-Wright et sorti directement en vidéo en 2002. C'est une suite de The Mangler (1995) mais sans liens réels. Le premier film était une adaptation de  la nouvelle La Presseuse de Stephen King.

Synopsis
Joanne « Jo » Newton, la fille d'un directeur de société informatique obsédé par son travail, pirate avec quatre de ses amis le site web de son lycée privé. Le proviseur Bradeen les punit en les consignant au lycée pour les vacances. Pour se venger, Jo charge un virus informatique expérimental, appelé Mangler 2.0, dans le système informatique de son école sans se douter que le virus possède une volonté propre. Le Mangler 2.0 commence à traquer ses victimes via les caméras et à les assassiner en contrôlant des appareils tandis que Bradeen est directement infecté par le virus.

Fiche technique
 Réalisation et scénario : Michael Hamilton-Wright
 Photographie : Norbert Kaluza
 Montage : Anthony A. Lewis
 Musique : Ferocious Le Fonque
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 Langue originale : anglais
 Format : couleur - 1,85:1 - stéréo
 Genre : horreur
 Durée :
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 États-Unis :  (direct-to-video)

Distribution
 Lance Henriksen : Bradeen
 Chelse Swain : Jo Newton
 Philippe Bergeron : chef Lecours
 Dexter Bell : Will Walsh
 Daniella Evangelista : Emily Stone
 Miles Meadows : Corey Banks
 Will Sanderson : Dan Channa
 Jeff Doucette : Bob, le concierge
 David Christensen : Paul Cody
 Ken Camroux : M. Newton

Production

Accueil critique
Le film est généralement considéré comme un nanar. Total Film le classe à la  et dernière place de sa liste des adaptations de Stephen King. La rédaction de Nanarland lui donne une note de 3,25/5.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Film canadien sorti en 2002
Film d'horreur canadien
Suite de film

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Little Bit Funky: 20 minute crafter. easy peasy silhouettes.
20 minute crafter. easy peasy silhouettes.
Hello! Welcome to my edition of "20 minute crafter."
Like many of you, Little Bit Funky is one of my very favorite blogs, so I am so honored to be sharing one of my projects over here with you!
Everyone knows that silhouettes are still super hot decor.
The plaques that I bought measure about 4 x 6, so I printed my photos at 3 1/2 x 5. I prefer to use cardstock, but if you only have regular printer paper it will work.
Cut out the profiles. I think it's much more interesting to get in all those pesky hairs!
Turn your silhouette over and paint it black. As you can see in my photo, the paper will curl a little, but after it dries, it should lay back down. Let it dry completely.
Using a thin layer of modge podge, glue your silhouette down. Go slowly to prevent bubbles. Use your finger to smoosh out any bubbles and to get it nice and flat. I also put a coat of modge podge on the top as well. Let it dry.
Cut a piece of ribbon about 8 inches long. Using hot glue, adhere it to the back.
Voila! You are done! Now hang it!
You may have noticed that I never painted my wooden plaques. I preferred the look of the light wood. You could vary this project by painting the background different colors, painting your silhouette a different color, or incorporating scrapbooking papers into the mix. I hung ours above our bed, but I think it would be a great idea to make them for scrapbooks too.
Wouldn't it be cool to make one at the same time every year to document change?
how cute, I really like that idea.
Sooooo cute! Can't wait to do this! Thanks for sharing -- I have everything I need to get started -- awesome!!!
These are SO awesome...I will be doing this...like tonight. :) Thank you gals!!
So cute! I'm a huge fan of Chrissie Grace so it's great to see her here.
Very cute idea! Having one for every year to show change would be great. If you're up with design software like photoshop or illustrator you could just trace around the silhouette using the pen tool, colour that in black and then delete the backing photo and add in whatever background you'd like.


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"God gave science to human beings, so that we would praise Him for the miracles He performs." (Wisdom of Sirach 38:6)
Orthodox Thinkers & Theologians
Orthodox Saints & Elders
Physics & Cosmology
Science & Miracles
Nikola Tesla and the Serbian Orthodox Church
Address given for the Berkeley Organization of Serbian Students evening of commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Nikola Tesla's death. Here we offer a slightly revised version of the original Berkeley Address.
By Bogdan Lubardić, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer
University of Belgrade - Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Serbia
Your Grace, Bishop Maxim, very reverend and reverend fathers, distinguished colleagues, dear students and friends, I have been honored by the invitation to address you in the name of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of Belgrade University on the occasion of celebrating Saint Sava's Day here in San Francisco. And yet, I am to speak about the famous Serbian-American scientist Nikola Tesla (1856–1943). I have been asked to reflect, if only very briefly, on his legacy in regard to the Serbian Orthodox Church. It is my modest opinion that the following views may be a reasonable and legitimate evaluation of his position in the collective living memory of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
1. Tesla's deeds.
In this case these words of our Lord Jesus Christ seem to be the primary principle of evaluation: 'You will know them by their fruits' (Mt 7:16). The fruits of Tesla's work are light-giving both in a literal and spiritual sense. On one hand, he has ushered the world into a new era of civilization: the age of electro-magnetic powering and such like industry. Need I mention, to list but a few contributions, his revolutionary AC induction motor and transformer, or his systems for wireless transmission of power and information, or his colossal contributions in other fields such as X-ray analyses, radio communication or remote control, anticipations of the internet and mobile telephony notwithstanding.
On the other hand, he was a light himself, but in an additional — I'd say, in a spiritual sense. For Tesla was a 'revelation' of the mystery of light as a person as well. As a scientist he is probably one of the most important inventors of all time. As a person he is doubtlessly a remarkable example of ascetic self-restraint, a man committed to purity of thought and gentleness of conduct. On both levels he has done us inestimable good. To give light to others is good: to be good is enlightening to others. Tesla was both.
Therefore, the Serbian Orthodox Church has never hesitated to recognize Tesla as one of her own. I shall go further and say this: there is a bond, a special one (yet to be explored apophatically), between the person of Nikola Tesla and what I perceive as the light-gifting energies of the Holy Spirit. These are given to all creatures by our Lord Jesus Christ — the Logos through whom all things are made (Jn 1:3; Rev 4:11). As He Himself says: "I am the light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life" (Jn 8:12). In reference to that, the iconic image of Tesla sitting amongst lightning released by his magnifying transmitter in the Colorado Springs laboratory, with a book open in front of him, seems to be a prophetic spiritual event also, not only an amazing display of a scientific super-genius at work. For it is an image of communion with the physical and metaphysical sides of the mystery of light, at the same time — a sublime initiation into the beneficent workings of Light.
2. Tesla's words.
But there is more. Namely, one cannot forget Tesla's own words on the matter of faith, God and religion[1] — words set in a clearly Christian context:
"I see a friend hurt, and it hurts me, too: my friend and I are one. And now I see stricken down an enemy, a lump of matter which, of all the lumps of matter in the universe, I care least for, and still it grieves me. Does this not prove that each of us is only a part of a whole?"[2]
The following meditations of this outstanding man are illustrative too:
"Many a year I have thought and pondered, lost myself in speculations and theories, considering man as a mass moved by a force, viewing his inexplicable movement in the light of a mechanical one, and applying the simple principles of mechanics to the analysis of the same until I arrived at these solutions, only to realize that they were taught to me in my early childhood. These three words [food, peace, work] sound the key-notes of the Christian religion. Their scientific meaning and purpose now clear to me [...]: to increase human energy. When we recognize this, we cannot help wondering how profoundly wise and scientific and how immensely practical the Christian religion is, and in what a marked contrast it stands in this respect to other religions" (PI 192–193).
It is a quintessentially distinctive mark of Christianity not only to 'tolerate' one's enemy, but to love him regardless of his hostile hatred. As is said by Christ himself: 'Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also' (Lk 6:27–29; Mt 5:39). Hence these thoughts are laid par excellence in the Christian spirit. And there is more to be added here, for, as we can see, the mentioned words are a clear example not only of Tesla's firm belief in the primordial equality of all human beings, as persons —a sense of unity appropriated through spiritual empathy — but also of the fact that he believed that all human beings reach their full potential by living according to what he thought are key postulates of the teachings of Christ and his followers, and, furthermore, he ventures to deduce scientific implications of the listed precepts of Christian religion which, he adds, is special and different in relation to others.
It is certainly true that at other times he expounded views which are not entirely in tune with what we deem as sound, say, in a fully Orthodox sense. For instance, his equaling of the Buddhist doctrine on equality of human beings with the Christian one, or, his negation of 'religion' as 'religion', or his musings on the transience of personhood of any given individual. Still, these views are explainable by his relentless commitment to the service of all mankind, by his liberal comprehensiveness, and by the fact that he understood very well that God and religion are not equal or mutually reducible. In his special way, Tesla gave himself to God, for religion may be, and often is, a distortion of what God truly is. And that is why, according to one source, he says the following:
"Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds. I do not believe that matter and energy are interchangeable, any more than are the body and soul. There is just so much matter in the universe and it cannot be destroyed. As I see life on this planet, there is no individuality. It may sound ridiculous to say so, but I believe each person is but a wave passing through space, ever-changing from minute to minute as it travels along, finally, some day, just becoming dissolved."[3]
Even in the words quoted, however, we see that Tesla does admit that religion — no matter if it is a projection of human desire onto what truly is — may be a liberating force. And the reserve in regard to human individuality is qualified by, as he said, viewing '... life as it is on this planet', or as theologians would say, '... life in the conditions introduced by the primordial Fall.' Finally, the equalling of Christianity and Buddhism, again, is but a function of his faith in peace — and oneness of all created being — understood as a consequence of the doctrine of the fundamentally divine potential of each human being as they stand — or, as he did, kneel[4] — before God, not necessarily before 'religion' taken as what finite and fallen humans imagine God 'is'. And even in that case Tesla is affirmative, again:
"For ages this idea [that each of us is a brother/sister and part of a whole] has been proclaimed in the consummately wise teachings of religion, probably not alone as a means of insuring peace and harmony among men, but as a deeply founded truth. The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one" (PI 177).
Finally, these words (taking their queue from Aristotle), are indicative in the widest theological sense: "... I am convinced that the whole cosmos is united both in the material and spiritual sense. Within the universe there is a centre (jezgro) wherefrom we receive all our strength, all inspiration: it attracts us; I feel its power and values which it emits to the whole of the universe and thus keeps it in harmony. I have not fathomed the mystery of that centre, but I know it exists, and when I wish to give it some material attribute, then I think it is Light, and when I try to understand it spiritually then it is Beauty and Charity. The one who carries this faith inside feels strong, labour is a joy to him, for he feels himself to be a tone within the universal harmony."[5]
3. Tesla's ecclesial inheritance.
The arguments proposed above suffice for us as the Serbian Orthodox Church to endorse Nikola Tesla as one of our own. This ensues from the universality of the Orthodox Church's spirituality, doctrine and faith, particularly from its capacity to endorse otherness economically (oikonomia). It is precisely this that allows us to elevate Nikola Tesla as one of our own, although he belongs to all of mankind, despite — or because of — his unprecedented uniqueness. He was the son of Milutin Tesla, a Serbian Orthodox priest who exposed him to the wonders of the Divine Liturgy at his parish church, in which he rung the bells (although, as a boy, he felt uncomfortable for having to be in church on each Sunday); he was the son of Georgina-Đuka Tesla (born Mandić), her father and brother too being Serbian Orthodox priests; he was baptized in and through the Serbian Orthodox rite, by priest Toma Oklopdžija; he was most probably catechumenized by Orthodox priest Mile Lemaić (or Pilip Lemaić); all three of his sisters — Angelina, Milka, Marica — married Serbian Orthodox priests; Angelina's son, the learned theologian Petronije Trbojević (1876–1933), became the hegumen of the monastery of Šišatovac, and Tesla exchanged affectionate letters with his nephew; furthermore, his schooling was aided in a crucial sense by his uncle and benefactor – Metropolitan of Sarajevo Nikolaj Mandić (1840–1907); he regarded his personal copy of the Book of Holy Services (Služabnik, Venice 1519) as the most valuable one in his library;[6] he was the president of the Serbian ecclesial-educational commune in New York; he was the Godfather of the Church of Saint Sava in Gary, Indiana (1938); he was awarded the St Sava Medal of the I Class (1892) — yet, he always spoke in non-chauvinistic and non-confessionalist terms – of God, of Christianity, of the fundamental unity and oneness of mankind created according to the image of a Higher Reality, that is, according to Light, Beauty and Charity.
He was a Serb — yet he was an American; he was ours — yet he belongs to everyone. But so it is with Christ as well: he belongs to you and me in particular and to everyone 'in general', across boundaries of time and space, social and economic rank or those of race and gender. Such is the case with God and what is godly: Tesla was godly. He did not become a priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church, although his father prayed for this in all earnest — yet he became the priest of the science of light and energy, bearing fruits which we all see to be good. He was born in the village of Smiljane in the Balkans — yet his funeral service took place in New York at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, one of the most impressive Gothic cathedrals in the world; the funeral service was opened by Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning and concluded by Protopresbyter Reverend Father Dušan J. Šukletović, rector of the Serbian Orthodox Church of Saint Sava, together with Presbyter Father Milan Mrvičanin.
Hence it is no surprise to find both Mihailo Pupin's and Nikola Tesla's busts dedicated and standing together next to St Nikolai Velimirović in the forecourt of Lower Manhattan's Serbian Orthodox Cathedral, note, of Saint Sava. It is safe to say that St Sava gave the light of the Orthodox faith to the Serbian nation, being himself a light of Christ by the Spirit. It is also safe to hold that the priest's son, Nikola Tesla, led the whole world into an era of radiance, energy and hitherto unfathomed development and propagation. Both men laboured for the common task, the good of all. All in all, on this 70th anniversary of Tesla's death we are compelled to repeat the words which his mother, the pious woman from Smiljane, uttered to her beloved son before drawing her last breath: "You've arrived, Nidžo, my pride." Let us sing Vyechnaya pamyat (Eternal memory) to our pride, to our Nikola Tesla! For we have inherited him and, at the same time, he has inherited us, the Church. "He who has ears to hear, let him hear" (Mt 11:15).
[1] According to: My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla, NuVision Publications, US 2007, these words also are Tesla's own: "The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible; therefore I devoted the next few months to the study of this work." Although widespread in and through numerous other versions of his autobiography, this sentence, however, does not appear in the 1919 text of N. Tesla's autobiography; vide: Nikola Tesla, My Inventions (Ch. V = "The Magnifying Transmitter"), as published in: Electrical Experimenter VII 2:74 (1919) 173. Still, the mentioned sentence is in some concordance with analogous thoughts Tesla expressed elsewhere and with circumstances of life or attitudes of his mind and heart — which may be reconstructed in favour of the above stated, and vice versa. In the mentioned edition of Tesla's autobiography — and in some others too — these words appear as well: "Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization, because few indeed, will admit the reality that 'God made man in His image' in which case all earth men are alike. There is in fact but one race, of many colours. Christ is but one person, yet he is of all people, so why do some people think themselves better than some other people?" (op. cit., 53). However, only the introductory part of this sentence appears in the 1919 text of N. Tesla's My Inventions (Ch. VI = "The Art of Teleautomatics"), as published in: Electrical Experimenter VII 6:78 (1919).
[2] Nikola Tesla, "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy: With Special Reference to the Harnessing of the Sun's Energy", Century Illustrated Magazine XL:2 (1900) 177 = abbr. PI.
[3] Orrin E. Dunlap, Radio's 100 Men of Science: Biographical Narratives of Pathfinders in Electronics and Television, Harper & Brothers, New York 1944, 122–123.
[4] According to the memoires of famous Yugoslav-Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović: "... [Tesla] told me how ever since his youth, before going to bed at night, he would be on his bare knees praying to God. [...] 'But, yes, I prayed like that all the way until I was fifty. Since that time I pray differently, but it makes no difference, nevertheless, for the essence remains the same, and I pray to God every day'" (tr. B.L.). Vide: Ivan Meštrović, Uspomene na političke ljude i događaje, Nakladni zavod Matice hrvatske, Zagreb 1993, 169–170.
[5] Vladislav Savić, "Nikola Tesla: Our First Great Amassador to the United States" = Vladislav Savić, "Nikola Tesla: naš prvi veliki ambasador u Sjedinjenim Američkim Državama", Biblioteka Nikole Tesle vol. 10, Društvо "Nikola Tesla" za unapređenje nauke i tehnike, Beograd 1952, 14 pp. This quote is from Savić's 1919 interview with Tesla. Although Tesla distinguishes Light in terms of a material attribute of the cosmic Centre (lit. nucleus = jezgro) in relation to the spiritual ones, i.e. Beauty and Charity, it is indicative that here appears a triadic structure of primary values. Still, this is more than remote from even a primitive triadology in the dogmatological sense.
[6] His nephew Sava Kosanović later gave this book as a gift to Harry S. Truman, president of the USA. Vide: Milovan Matić, "Tesla u okrilju pravoslavlja", Pravoslavlje 931-932 (2006) 30-32.
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Despite extensive work carried out on leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in the North Atlantic and Indo-Pacific, very little is known of the at-sea distribution of this species in the South Atlantic, where the world's largest population nests in Gabon (central Africa). This paucity of data is of marked concern given the pace of industrialization in fisheries with demonstrable marine turtle bycatch in African/Latin American waters. We tracked the movements of 25 adult female leatherback turtles obtaining a range of fundamental and applied insights, including indications for methodological advancement. Individuals could be assigned to one of three dispersal strategies, moving to (i) habitats of the equatorial Atlantic, (ii) temperate habitats off South America or (iii) temperate habitats off southern Africa. While occupying regions with high surface chlorophyll concentrations, these strategies exposed turtles to some of the world's highest levels of longline fishing effort, in addition to areas with coastal gillnet fisheries. Satellite tracking highlighted that at least 11 nations should be involved in the conservation of this species in addition to those with distant fishing fleets. The majority of tracking days were, however, spent in the high seas, where effective implementation of conservation efforts is complex to achieve.


Like most homeowners, you may have a (growing) list of home improvement projects. The problem is prioritizing your projects and determining which you should tackle first. Take window replacement, for example. Do you know how to spot when it is time to have your windows replaced? In this article, we hope to teach you what to look for and to help you recognize whether or not the time has come for new windows.
There are a few things to look out for when evaluating your current windows. Here are some key indicators that it's time you replace them.
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This is a big one. If your windows are showing signs of rotting or mold, they are weak and most likely beyond repair, and it is definitely time for replacements.
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Modern Day Ghost Towns
Jason Lankow on 2/12/2009
It may have seemed inevitable given the mortgage meltdown, but it is still shocking when you drive through a neighborhood that seems to be entirely filled with 'For Sale' signs. The cities here aren't entirely deserted, of course, but they are examples of the cities that have been hit hard enough to lead residents to abandon their homes.
Detroit's economy has been hit hard in the last six months, with the Big Three automotive producing companies on the brink of bankruptcy and failure, and in need of government assistance. Due to the manufacturing industry, many experts estimate that the unemployment rate of the Detroit metropolitan area is at a generation-high 21%. Not surprising when 14% of automotive industry workers have been laid off in the last year. As a result of this highly localized recession, there are over twelve thousand abandoned homes in the Detroit area.
The last two decades have seen a surge of growth for the Inland Empire (better known as Riverside County), which had a population of 2.6 million in 1990; in 2007, the population was estimated to be 4.1 million. This massive eastern exodus from the more urban Los Angeles and the high prices of Orange County had a number of implications for the region. First of all, the move eastward drove up the demand and development of housing in the area, which steadily increased throughout the past decade. Secondly, these houses were purchased by many people who wanted to buy bigger homes for the buck than they could get in LA and the OC, which of course led to an increase in speculative building and investing. It is estimated that in 2005, only 15% of area homeowners could actually afford their houses, with the remaining 85% living beyond their means or in adjustable rate mortgages that had not yet adjusted. The latter, once adjusted, would then prove to be unaffordable.
It is also important to note that this area was a known hub for building up Southern California's rapid suburban sprawl – not only was this one of the state's regions with the most expansion, but it was also an area that furnished many of the construction companies with cheap labor that made surrounding communities' growth possible. By August of 2008 alone, the foreclosure rate for the county was over 4,700 houses, up over 174% from August 2007. By the end of 2008, the median price of a home in Riverside county dropped to $220k, the first time it had dipped under $300k since the 1990s. In some Riverside County neighborhoods, as many as 20% of all homes are have been foreclosed and now sit vacant.
Currently, 90% of all sales in the greater Stockton region are either foreclosures or short sales. The median house price dropped to $237K by December 08, the lowest it has been since February 2003. It is estimated that housing prices in former boom markets are more than 40% off what they had been leading up to 2007.
Las Vegas and its surrounding suburbs are home to the nation's third highest foreclosure rate for a metropolitan area, with 1 in 44 at some stage of foreclosure. By end the end of 2008, median housing prices deflated by $20,000 to the lowest since 2005. Housing inventory would also skyrocket to 30,000 in Q3 2008, with the pace of housing sales having declined 34% from the year prior. This volume is equal to 14-16 months of inventory of homes for sale, well above the national average of six to seven months.
Just over a year ago, the Greater Las Vegas Board of Realtors calculated that 45% of the 22,000 single-family houses for sale at the time were actually vacant. Most all of these were houses abandoned by new area residents, or investment properties by the area's thousands of speculators who were drawn to the region because of its recent track record of housing price increases. Squatters are increasingly seen occupying the abandoned properties.
North Los Angeles County, California
With the vision of urban sprawl connecting Los Angeles to Bakersfield and the plans for a train connecting the two, builders began winding through the hills to the north from LA. Today, in Antelope Valley, for example, it is not unusual for long-term rental property owners to have to deal with tenants who recently lost their own home to foreclosure and are having difficulty getting back on their feet. In some cases, tenants do everything from the typical stripping of copper wire to be sold to the more bizarre use of cabinets for firewood. Abandoned investment properties are on the rise.
Miami-Dade and neighboring Broward counties have experienced an extremely high rate of foreclosures over the past two years. It is estimated that 143,000 homes were voluntarily given back to the bank, or foreclosed upon. In Miami-Dade County alone, there are currently 38,000 new condos that are recently completed, or near-completed that are vacant and show no prospects of immediate sale. The MLS for the country shows over 25,000 condos for sale in the county, which equate to a 4.5 year inventory. This of course, does not include unfinished units.
Many experts suggest that the housing market in Miami will witness a further devaluation in 2009 of over 20% of the median housing price. The biggest reason for this is arguably the over-development of medium and high-end condo constructions in the area, many of which are second or vacation homes. It is an extreme case of the common sense knowledge that second homes and investment properties are the most likely to be abandoned in favor of the owners' primary residence when times get tight.
Arizona ranks 48th in New Job Creation. Developers spread to the west to Phoenix and as far out as Buckeye and foreclosures are currently at a record high, which has resulted in plummeting housing prices. This is a hard pill to swallow for many recent first-time buyers, who are witnessing a sharp increase in their monthly mortgage payments, against the background of a house with a drastically decreasing value.
Of the 6,150 houses sold in the Phoenix metropolitan area in September 2008, an astounding 78% of these were vacant when sold. There are currently 55,000 homes for sale in Phoenix, of which 40% have been abandoned and are presently vacant. Most of these are currently bank-owned properties and are being sold at liquidated prices. According to area investor and resident, Donna Butera, this massive departure and house abandonment in Phoenix has had other implications in the community. Understandably, home owners are deciding to walk from their mortgages if the home they just agreed to buy for $350,000 is now only worth $270,000. As a result of the frustration, homeowners are removing everything they can from the homes before they abandon them, selling appliances, cupboards and virtually everything else, including the kitchen sink. As a result, it is not unusual to drive down a street in what was once a nicer suburban neighborhood in Phoenix and now see a majority of windowless abandoned homes.
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Increasingly editors are interested in two things in fiction (1) adventure and (2) something a boy might read. But many writers are stuck when it comes to thinking about adventure. What makes up an adventure and can you do it well in 2000 words or less (sometimes a lot less). Sure you can. After all, Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are is a perfect adventure story in 336 words.
Ordinary World - Stories begin just before the thing that ultimately changes the MC.
Call to Adventure - A need arises, the MC has a challenge.
Refusal/Commitment - the MC resists the challenge, doesn't want to undertake the task but ultimately accepts that the challenge cannot be avoided.
Approaching the First Ordeal - The MC begins to understand the size of the challenge and the stakes are raised.
Ordeal - MC faces a serious challenge and overcomes.
Reward - a time of rest for the MC, sometimes a false sense of completion.
The Road/Resurrection - more complications, when things look much worse than expected and the biggest challenge met.
Mastery - The adventure resolves, often a sense of coming full circle. The MC has changed.
Ordinary World - A boy heads home from a day at the pool and stops in a store for a cold drink.
Call to Adventure - Unexpectedly, the beloved store owner isn't there and in his place is a hostile woman whose attention constantly shifts to the backroom door.
Refusal/Commitment - The boy hurries through his purchase to get away from the unpleasant woman. Once outside, he sits down to sip his drink and notices a lot people coming and going through the back door of the building - something he's never seen before. He begins to wonder what's going on.
Approaching the First Ordeal - The boy watches the store, even creeping close enough to the back door to hear what sounds like a scuffle. Could the woman be doing something illegal and holding the real store owner prisoner. The boy runs to alert a trusted adult.
Reward - The boy returns to the story with the trusted adult, expecting to save the story owner. But the woman tells the trusted adult a believable story and even opens the door to the backroom, where everything is quiet. The boy has now lost the support of his trusted adult.
The Road/Resurrection - The MC sits outside, determined to find out what is really happening. At first everything is quiet, then someone comes out of the backroom door, sees the boy and chases him away. The boy sneaks back, finding a better vantage point to watch the shop. He's caught and this time the bad guy decides to hold onto the boy until their goal is met. The boy is locked into the shop bathroom with the beloved store owner (now slightly injured).
Mastery - Because of his small size, the boy can escape through the cramped bathroom window, though not without some minor injury. He runs to his trusted adult, this time with "proof" - the real store owners ubiquitous cap - now with bloodstains. The trusted adult calls the police and the store owner is saved!
In real life, the trusted adult might have stormed over to the store and given the woman some real conflict, not giving up easily. But then the story would have shifted from being the main character's adventure/challenge to being the story of the actions of a side adult character. To work as a story, the main character has to commit to the challenge and overcome the obstacle on his own.
Since my first magazine publication in the 1980s, I have been steadily writing for money in some form. Today I have over twenty books in print and still more in the pipeline - books for children and adults. I've also written for magazines, educational publishers and even a toy company! Writing is the only thing I've ever done really well that didn't eventually become more like work than fun.
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This is so helpful! I really appreciate the explanations and examples of each step of the Hero's Journey. Excellent article. Thank you for sharing this.
Great article. I appreciated the simplified "Hero's Journey". Makes sense. Now I need to rewrite MY story and add a few more elements I see I missed.
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NASA Chooses 9 Companies to Bid on Lunar Delivery Contracts
November 29, 2018 Doug Messier News 12 Comments
The moon rising over Half Moon Bay. (Credit: Douglas Messier)
WASHINGTON (NASA PR) — Nine U.S. companies now are eligible to bid on NASA delivery services to the lunar surface through Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contracts, as one of the first steps toward long-term scientific study and human exploration of the Moon and eventually Mars.
These companies will be able to bid on delivering science and technology payloads for NASA, including payload integration and operations, launching from Earth and landing on the surface of the Moon. NASA expects to be one of many customers that will use these commercial landing services.
"Today's announcement marks tangible progress in America's return to the Moon's surface to stay," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. "The innovation of America's aerospace companies, wedded with our big goals in science and human exploration, are going to help us achieve amazing things on the Moon and feed forward to Mars."
The selected companies are:
Astrobotic Technology, Inc.: Pittsburgh
Deep Space Systems: Littleton, Colorado
Draper: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Firefly Aerospace, Inc.: Cedar Park, Texas
Intuitive Machines, LLC: Houston
Lockheed Martin Space: Littleton, Colorado
Masten Space Systems, Inc.: Mojave, California
Moon Express: Cape Canaveral, Florida
Orbit Beyond: Edison, New Jersey
NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) initiated the request for proposals leading to these selections as the first step in achieving a variety of science and technology objectives that could be addressed by regularly sending instruments, experiments and other small payloads to the Moon. SMD serves as the NASA interface between the agency's mission directorates, the scientific community, and other external stakeholders in developing a strategy to enable an integrated approach for robotic and human exploration within NASA's Moon to Mars Exploration Campaign.
The Commercial Lunar Payload Services contracts are indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts with a combined maximum contract value of $2.6 billion during the next 10 years. The agency will look at a number of factors when comparing the bids, such as technical feasibility, price and schedule.
Lunar payloads could fly on these contracted missions as early as 2019. In October, NASA issued a call for potential lunar instruments and technologies to study the Moon, with proposals due in January. These early missions will enable important technology demonstrations that will inform the development of future landers and other exploration systems needed for humans to return to the lunar surface, and help prepare the agency to send astronauts to explore Mars.
NASA will re-examine the private market periodically for new and emerging lunar delivery capabilities, and may offer additional companies an opportunity to join Commercial Lunar Payload Services through a contract process called on-ramping.
For more information about NASA's Moon to Mars exploration plans, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/moontomars
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Blue Canyon Technologies Awarded First Phase 1 Contract of DARPA's Blackjack Program
Astrobotic Selected by NASA to be a Lunar Delivery Provider


The Rolling Stones played 3 songs during the half-time show of The Super Bowl in Detroit. After the event, the Stones expressed their displeasure over having Mick Jagger's microphone turned down during the song "Start Me Up". Unplanned edits also affected 2 other songs the band played that day.
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I was mulling around CodePen and found this super cool CSS animation featuring the Star Wars AT-AT walker of The Empire Strikes Back fame written by r4ms3s. I thought to myself, hmm I wonder if it will work in email?
Surprisingly, it does! Well for the webkit based email clients anyways (iOS, Android 4.4 Mail, Apple Mail, Outlook for iOS).
It all boils down to lots and lots of CSS shapes, CSS transforms and CSS animations. I learned quite a bit, especially on how to create triangles from CSS border widths.
Making it work for email.
Added a container div with position relative and overflow hidden to bound the animation.
Added a fallback for non-Webkit clients.
There are so many cool "pure CSS" examples on the net, particularly on CodePen, its fun to test to see if they will "RIE" – Render in Email. CodePen and Putsmail is your friend here.
If you come across any interesting ones that works in email, let me know!
Really cool, good job – recently switched back to iPhone from Android Nexus, this definitely bring the joy back to progressive enhancements in email and "RIE" approach :). Fall-back is funny! for MSO/Gmail.


The availability of procedures tends to favour the trans male population, with only one province (Ontario) offering conditional publicly funded breast augmentation for trans women, while all provinces cover mastectomies for trans men.
Typically, coverage does not include such procedures as: breast augmentation, pectoral implants, facial feminization, tracheal shaving, hair removal, travel, accommodation or medications prescribed outside of hospital.
Some of the more straightforward surgeries, such as mastectomies, hysterectomies and orchiectomies are often performed in-province. In 2017 only Quebec had facilities and expertise for some of the more advanced procedures, such as vaginoplasties and phalloplasties which are offered at the Centre métropolitain de chirurgie in Montréal. However, the government of Ontario announced in June 2017 that it intends to expand the services at Toronto's Women's College Hospital to include so-called bottom surgeries beginning sometime in 2018.
The following chart offers a snapshot of the various publicly-funded transition-related medical treatments or surgical procedures across jurisdictions in Canada.


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Research + Projects
Test Beds
DATA-DRIVEN CLIMATE ACTION Helping cities like NYC reach aggressive targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
QUANTIFIED COMMUNITY Instrumenting neighborhoods to learn how built environments affect the lives of urban citizens.
CIVIC ANALYTICS Our research and education programs are arming city agencies with the tools to put their data to work.
CIVIC ANALYTICS
Civic Analytics: data-driven city operations, policy, and planning.
Research to support quality-of-life in cities through data-driven insight for decision-makers.
The vast amount of data generated from diverse data sources provides both an opportunity and a challenge to urban policymakers and decision-makers. The application of data-driven analytics offers the opportunity to identify new areas for operational efficiencies, enhanced service delivery, and better informed policy design and implementation. When combined with other, correlative data sources – pulled from social media feeds, transit cameras, and sensors – the potential increases significantly to understand and improve the equity, fairness, and efficacy of city government. At the same time, these data create substantial - and very real - threats to privacy and individual autonomy. Our goals are to bring evidence to policy-making, to democratize knowledge through information transparency, and to analyze and address the root causes and disparate impact of discrimination and bias in urban data science.
The Urban Intelligence Lab, through the Civic Analytics Program at the NYU Marron Institute, works directly with city agencies and non-profit organizations to acquire, analyze, and derive insight from data in order to address tangible and significant urban problems. The Lab has worked with over two dozen agencies and NGOs across multiple cities, delivering problem-oriented research that serves the dual purpose of advancing our scientific understanding of cities and having a direct impact on decision-making. Current and recent project descriptions are available below.
Selected city government collaborators:
New York City Mayor's Office of Sustainability
New York City Mayor's Office of Tech & Innovation
New York City Mayor's Office of Data Analytics
New York City Economic Development Corporation
New York City Department of Sanitation
New York City Department of Design and Construction
New York City Department of City Planning
New York City 311
DataKC, City of Kansas City, MO
Washington, DC Department of Energy and Environment
Singapore Land Authority
City of New Orleans
Profs. Kontokosta and Neill awarded NSF AI & Society grant
The project will study bias and discrimination in city predictive analytics
Two new papers published in the Journal of the American Planning Association and Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems
Visit the Publications page for links
Civic Analytics Fellowship Program
Through the Urban Intelligence Lab and the Civic Analytics Program at the Marron Institute, this fellowship program brings together students and post-graduates with a diverse range of technical backgrounds to work with city agencies to data analytics projects that address critical operational and policy challenges and create positive social impact. The fellowship is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Urban Informatics Training for Graduate Students and City Leaders
Through the NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) and the Tandon School of Engineering, students can learn how to connect data science skills with urban operations, policy, and planning. The CUSP MS in Applied Urban Science and Informatics provides in-depth training in urban informatics and its application to city challenges. The Urban Informatics concentration in the MS in Urban Infrastructure Systems at the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering exposes students to the use of data science in infrastructure management and planning. The pending PhD in Urban Systems at Tandon is for students seeking opportunities to develop their research skills at the intersection of civil engineering, data science, and urban planning.
Civic Analytics and Urban Intelligence book
Professor Constantine E. Kontokosta's forthcoming edited volume, "Civic Analytics and Urban Intelligence: How Data and Information Can Shape Urban Planning, Design, and City Operations", with co-editor Dr. Colin Harrison, will be published by Routledge.
Constantine E. Kontokosta
DIRECTOR, URBAN INTELLIGENCE LAB; Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning; Director, Civic Analytics Program
ckontokosta@nyu.edu
Bartosz Bonczak
bartosz.bonczak@nyu.edu
Sokratis Papadopoulos
sokratis.papadopoulos@nyu.edu
yuan.lai@nyu.edu
Awais Malik
Ph.D Candidate, Civil & Urban Engineering (NYU Tandon) and NYU CUSP
awais.malik@nyu.edu
Xinshi Zheng
Civic Analytics Graduate Student Fellow
xz1845@nyu.edu
Graduate Research Assistant, Building Informatics
is1480@nyu.edu
iw453@nyu.edu
Raka Dey
raka.dey@nyu.edu
Prof. Kontokosta brings training urban planning, data science, economics, and systems engineering to the data-driven study of cities.
Constantine E. Kontokosta is an Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning and Director of the Civic Analytics program at the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management. He also directs the Urban Intelligence Lab and holds cross-appointments at the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) and the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering (CUE). He is affiliated faculty at the Wagner School of Public Service, Visiting Professor of Computer Science at the University of Warwick (UK), and a Senior Scholar at the New York Academy of Medicine. Previously, he served as the inaugural Deputy Director of CUSP and Assistant Professor of Urban Informatics at CUSP and CUE, where he was part of the Center's founding leadership team and designed and launched the first graduate program in urban informatics. He is the founding Principal Investigator of the Quantified Community research initiative that integrates hyperlocal urban sensors with city-scale data analytics to understand neighborhood dynamics and well-being, and is one of the largest community-driven IoT projects in New York City. He is a 2017 recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his research in urban informatics for sustainable cities.
Trained in urban planning and computational methods (Columbia), finance and economics (NYU), and systems science and engineering (UPenn), Constantine brings an inter-disciplinary perspective to urban science that integrates fundamental research with impact-driven, use-inspired needs. His work leverages large-scale data with computational methods to understand and drive change in energy efficiency and climate policy, neighborhood change and the impacts of urban development, and community-driven air quality monitoring and environmental justice. Recent projects include research with NYC311 and Kansas City to measure bias in citizen complaint reporting for predictive analytics; with a homeless shelter provider to apply machine learning algorithms to identify at-risk homeless families; and with the City of New York, Washington, DC, and the UN to leverage large-scale data analytics for building energy and climate policy. Constantine's research groups – the Civic Analytics Program and the Urban Intelligence Lab – are motivated by a desire to bring evidence to policy-making, to democratize knowledge through information transparency, and to uncover discrimination and bias in data-driven decision-making.
Constantine's research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), MacArthur Foundation, Sloan Foundation, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the NYC Mayor's Office of Sustainability, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, among others, and he has received several honors for his work, including the IBM Faculty Award, the Google IoT Research Award, the UN Data for Climate Action Challenge Award, the Goddard Junior Faculty Fellowship, the Charles Abrams Award for Social Justice Research, and NYU awards for Teaching Excellence and Outstanding Service. Constantine has published more than 70 peer-reviewed publications in leading academic journals and conferences – in fields ranging from urban planning to signal processing – and has two forthcoming books on urban analytics and data-driven climate action. His research has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, FastCompany, CityLab, Wired, CNN, NPR, and other media outlets. He holds a PhD, M.Phil, and M.S. from Columbia University, a M.S. from New York University, and a B.S.E. from the University of Pennsylvania.
He serves or has served on committees and advisory boards at the National Academies, DARPA, the NSF Northeast Big Data Hub, the UNEP Sustainable Buildings and Climate Council, and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and was the Vice Chair and a Commissioner of the Suffolk County (NY) Planning Commission. In addition to his academic work, Constantine is an accomplished entrepreneur.
The Impact of Mandatory Energy Audits on Energy Use in Buildings
Energy Cost Burdens and Housing Affordability for Low-Income Households
Kontokosta, Constantine E., Vincent J. Reina, and Bartosz Bonczak. 2019. "Energy Cost Burdens for Low-Income and Minority Households: Evidence from Energy Benchmarking and Audit Data in Five US Cities," Journal of the American Planning Association, in press.
Estimating Bias in 311 Service Request Data
Analyzing the Impacts of Urban Land Use Dynamics
Benchmarking, Feedback, and Behavior Change for Commercial Office Building Tenants
Data Quality and Reliability Metrics for Building Energy Disclosure Data
CommunitySense
Using Machine Learning and Small Area Estimation to Predicting Building-level Waste Generation and Recycling
Machine Learning Approaches to Predict and Target Building Energy Retrofits
Using LiDAR to Analyze the Impact of Urban Morphology on Energy Use
The Resilience to Emergencies and Disasters Index (REDI)
The QC Urban Sensing Array
Bartosz Bonczak is an Associate Research Scientist at CUSP working with Quantified Community and Building Informatics teams.
In his research, he applies data-driven approaches to improve building energy efficiency and the analysis of urban topography.
Bartosz received M.S. in Urban Informatics from CUSP (2015) and completed a B.S. (2009) and a M.S. (2011) in Geography with the focus on tourism at University of Lodz in his home country of Poland. Prior to joining CUSP he was Assistant Research Scientist at the Department of Geographical Sciences at University of Lodz.
Sokratis is a PhD candidate in Civil and Urban Engineering at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering and NYU CUSP.
He holds an MSc in Engineering Systems and Management from Masdar Institute, UAE (2015). His research interests lie between applied data science and optimization of building energy performance, with an emphasis on human actions.
Yuan Lai is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Urban Systems in the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and CUSP.
Yuan Lai is a Ph.D. candidate in Urban Systems at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. His research focuses on urban informatics and data-driven city development. He holds a M.S. in Urban Informatics from NYU CUSP and a M.S. in Urban Planning, specializing in urban design and GIS, from State University of New York at Buffalo. Prior to joining CUSP, he practiced as an architect with Moshe Safdie on large-scale building design and master planning projects. He is an Accredited Professional of Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design specialized in neighborhood development.
Awais Malik is a Ph.D. Candidate in Civil and Urban Engineering at NYU Tandon and a Research Assistant at NYU CUSP.
He graduated from Dartmouth College in 2013 with an A.B. in Engineering Sciences with Honors and a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering. He was a member of Dartmouth's $300 House Initiative, and received the Dean of Faculty grant to design and test affordable housing solutions for Haiti. Awais joined CUSP's inaugural class of graduate students in 2013, and was one of the first research assistants at the Kontokosta Research Group. Awais received a Master of Science in Applied Urban Science and Informatics from CUSP in 2014. For the past two years, he has worked on forming a unified, multi-factor index of resilience capacity for New York City neighborhoods: the Resilience to Emergencies and Disasters Index (REDI). Awais' current research focuses on understanding urban resilience by measuring near real-time neighborhood activity.
Xinshi is a Master student and a Civic Analytics Graduate Student Fellow in the Urban Intelligence Lab.
He holds a M.S. in Civil Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2015), and a B.Eng in Architectural Environment Engineering from University of Nottingham, UK (2013). His research interests include developing data science applications for urban infrastructure planning and optimization, as well as geospatial analysis.
Ian is currently pursuing a MS in Applied Urban Science and Informatics from NYU CUSP.
His primary research interests involve the application of data analysis to urban sustainability challenges and resource efficiency. He is also studying the potential for emerging, data-intensive technologies to bring about drastic change in urban systems like transportation, housing, and energy.
Ian's experience includes work in urban design, environmental consulting, and civic technology. HIs study of cities began with a BA in Urban Studies from Stanford University. He also holds a Master's of Environmental Management from Duke.
Ian's research and career interests are in next-gen power grids, microgrids, energy storage technologies, and renewables in the urban environment.
Ian received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2011) from the University of Alberta, Canada, and is currently working towards an M.S. at NYU's CUSP. Previously, he worked as a design engineer at an architectural firm, Dialog, designing building systems and modelling energy usage in buildings. Most recently he transitioned to the technology sector as a data analyst and strategist at a Vancouver company called Hootsuite.
Raka Dey is a rising senior at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering currently pursuing her BS in Sustainable Urban Environments. She is at CUSP for the summer doing research on the Qualified at Hudson Yards project. Aside from engineering, she has focused her studies on architecture, public policy, and urban planning. Through her research here, she hopes not only to gain skills in data science, but also combine her various academic interests. Raka will continue her research on this project during the school year through her Smart Cities class.
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