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Meeting Name: Board of Supervisors Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 11/3/2009 8:00 AM Minutes status: Final
Meeting location: Board of Supervisors Meeting Room
09-1367 1 1. Agenda Item PRESENTATION of Certificate of Appreciation to Rod Barton, County Veterans Service Officer, for his many years of service to El Dorado County and El Dorado County Veteran's and their families. Presented Action details Not available
09-1366 1 2. Presentation PRESENTATION by Supervisor Sweeney of a Certificate of Recognition to Terry Tawney upon his retirement from the County of El Dorado. Presented Action details Not available
09-1370 1 3. Agenda Item Approval of Board of Supervisors Meeting Minutes for the Special Meeting of Monday, October 26, 2009 and the Regular Meeting of Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Approved Pass Action details Not available
09-1230 5 4. Agenda Item Chief Administrative Office recommending the Board approve employees eligible to receive the County's Early Retirement Incentive Plan. (Refer 11/3/09, Item 4) Approved Pass Action details Not available
09-1320 1 5. Agenda Item District Attorney recommending the Board authorize the Chairman to sign the Certification document pertaining to the Grant Award Agreement with the State of California, Governor's Office of Emergency Services for the Elder Abuse Program. FUNDING: State of California Office of Emergency Services. Approved Pass Action details Not available
09-1321 1 6. Agenda Item District Attorney recommending the Board receive and file the Fifth Annual Report on Real Estate Fraud for Fiscal Year 2008-2009. FUNDING: Real Estate Fraud Prosecution Trust. Received and Filed Pass Action details Not available
09-1233 1 7. Agenda Item Health Services Director requesting authorization to execute revenue-generating agreements on behalf of the County with other agencies for the provision of acute inpatient psychiatric treatment for individuals referred by the those agencies, contingent upon approval by County Counsel and Risk Management. FUNDING: Revenues from Other Agencies. Approved Pass Action details Not available
09-1324 1 8. Agenda Item Health Services Department recommending the Board receive and file the following Freedom of Information Act reports for special taxes for County Service Areas 3 and 7, specific to El Dorado County ambulance services for Fiscal Year 2008-09: 1) Statement outlining Government Code § 50075.1 (a), (b), (c) and (d) indicating the specific purpose of the special tax; the requirement that proceeds be applied pursuant to subdivision (a); the creation of an account into which the proceeds are deposited; and 2) Annual report pursuant to § 50075.3 that details revenue and expenditure data based on El Dorado County FAMIS accounting system for each tax year. Approved Pass Action details Not available
09-1335 1 9. Agenda Item Human Services Department recommending the Board authorize the Chairman to sign a grant application to be submitted to Marshall Foundation for Community Health, requesting $5,000 in grant funding for support services to vulnerable elderly residents and their caregivers at the County's Senior Day Care center. FUNDING: Marshall Foundation for Community Health Grant. Approved Pass Action details Not available
09-1299 1 10. Agenda Item Sheriff's Department recommending the Board approve Budget Transfer adding $453,415 to said Department's operating budget for the Fiscal Year 2009 Homeland Security Grant Program, and additions to Fixed Asset List. (4/5's vote required). FUNDING: Fiscal Year 2009 Homeland Security Grant. Approved Pass Action details Not available
09-1323 2 11. Agenda Item Sheriff's Department requesting relief of accountability for a cash shortage of $100 in the Placerville Jail Inmate Trust Account due to a counterfeit $100 bill accepted by staff. Approved Pass Action details Not available
09-1280 1 12. Agenda Item Transportation Department recommending the Board authorize the Chairman to sign Annexation Agreement AGMT 09-52624 with Granite Grado Ventures - Project II, LLC to provide for the future annexation of the Forni Retail Plaza development into the Missouri Flat Area Community Facilities District No. 2002-01. Approved Pass Action details Not available
09-1276 1 13. Agenda Item Chief Administrative Office, Parks Division, recommending the Board: 1) Terminate the current Lease Agreements 230-L0511, parcel APN 90-040-32 and 231-L0511, parcel APN 90-040-31, between the County of El Dorado "lessor" and Shingle Springs Station, LLC in accordance with Paragraph 7 - Termination of the original Lease, effective December 31, 2015; and 2) Waive three (3) months, October 2015 through December 2015, of lease payments, $564 per month for Lease Agreement 230-L0511, parcel APN 90-040-32 and $137 per month for Lease Agreement 231-L0511, parcel APN 90--040-31 for a total of $2,107 in lease payments. Approved Pass Action details Not available
07-1529 2 14. Agreement Transportation Department recommending the Board authorize the Chairman to sign the First Amendment to Funding Agreement AGMT 07-1491 with the El Dorado County Transportation Commission for the Camino Area Corridor Project Study Report, subsequent to review and approval by County Counsel, which amends the Agreement to extend the expiration date from November 5, 2009 to February 26, 2010, and acknowledges a change in the County Officer or employee named as Contract Administrator. FUNDING: 2004 General Plan Highway 50 Traffic Impact Mitigation Fee Program. Approved Pass Action details Not available
09-1350 1 15. Agenda Item Supervisor Knight recommending reimbursement/liquidation of Funding Agreement 209-FO611 dated August 30, 2005 between County of El Dorado and Cameron Park Community Services District for the County's Community Enhancement Program; and direct the Auditor-Controller to reimburse Cameron Park Community Services District the approximate remaining balance of $322,554, thereby closing out the account of said Agreement pertaining to Invoices dated August 26, 2009 and September 16, 2009; and further recommending approval of Budget Transfer 2010020 for same. (Cont'd 11/3/09, Item 15) (Est. Time: 10 Min.) FUNDING: County's Community Enhancement Program - $322,554. Continued Pass Action details Not available
09-1136 1 16. Agenda Item Supervisor Nutting recommending waiver of rental fees in an amount not to exceed $280 for the Pioneer Volunteer Firefighters Association for use of the Pioneer Community Center and kitchen for the Association's 12th Annual 2009 Crab Banquet Fundraising events to be held on January 9, 16, 23, and 30, 2010. Approved Pass Action details Not available
09-1374 1 17. Agenda Item Supervisor Santiago requesting the Board direct the Auditor-Controller to pay El Dorado County Chamber of Commerce promotional funding in the amount of $1,385 for the County portion of the United States Forest Service National Environmental Policy Act Analysis costs. Approved Pass Action details Not available
09-1325 1 18. Agenda Item Hearing to consider adoption of a Resolution by the Public Housing Authority (PHA) to: 1) Authorize submittal of a consolidated application to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to allow the El Dorado County Public Housing Authority (PHA) to participate in the Continuum of Care (CoC) Homeless Assistance Programs to receive renewal funding in the amount of $13,339 under the Supportive Housing Program allocation to continue to support the dedicated Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) project implementation and ongoing administration and maintenance; authorize the PHA, as lead CoC agency, to include in said application a funding request on behalf of the proposed grantee, Womenspace Unlimited South Lake Tahoe Women's Center, for a one-year grant of up to $163,462 for supportive services to transitional housing participants; 2) Approve a required cash match in the amount of $3,176 from the Housing Element Implementation General Fund contribution for the El Dorado County HMIS renewal project; and 3) Authorize the Assistant Director of Human Services, as the Adopted As Amended Pass Action details Not available
09-1377 1 19. Agenda Item District Attorney presenting Certificate of Appreciation to Nancy L. Hayes, Legal Secretary, in recognition of her dedicated and loyal service to the people of the State of California and the El Dorado County District Attorney's Office from 1984-2009. Presented Action details Not available
09-1101 2 20. Agenda Item Community Development Agency, Transportation Division, recommending the Board approve and authorize the Chair to sign Contract Change Order 122 with DeSilva Gates/Viking, A Joint Venture in the amount of $79,609.50 to resolve all claims on the U.S. 50/Missouri Flat Interchange Phase 1B project, CIP No. 71336, Purchasing Contract No. 304-C1099 and confirm that it is in the public interest to waive competitive bidding for the work described therein. FUNDING: State Transportation Improvement Program/Proposition 1B Funds. Approved Pass Action details Not available
09-1309 1 21. Agenda Item Chief Administrative Office, Procurement and Contracts Division, and the Environmental Management Department recommending the Board: 1) Award request for proposal (RFP) 09-961-119 for the development of a landfill gas utilization project at the Union Mine Landfill to STI Engineering of Silverado, California; and, 2) Authorize the Director of Environmental Management, or her designee, upon County Counsel and Risk Management approval, to execute a contract for same; said contract will include onsite electricity generation, usage and revenue sharing agreements. FUNDING: No County/CSA No. 10 funding will be required to obtain, install and operate the landfill gas to electricity system. This is a revenue generating project. Adopted As Amended Pass Action details Not available
09-1364 1 22. Agenda Item Chief Administrative Office recommending the Board authorize the Chair to sign Agreement 233-S1011 with the City of Placerville, Marshall Medical Center and Buxton Company in the total amount of $90,000 for a targeted retail retention and expansion development tool, noting the original Buxton Agreement 233-S1011 has been modified to reflect a cost sharing between the County of El Dorado, City of Placerville and Marshall Medical Center. Fiscal Impact FY 2009/2010 Targeted Retail Retention and Development Tool (Buxton): $35,000; $17,500 paid by the City of Placerville, and $17,500 paid by Marshall Medical Center Fiscal Impact FY 2010/2011 Targeted Retail Retention and Development Tool (Buxton): $55,000. Paid by the County of El Dorado, Economic Development. Approved Pass Action details Not available
09-1364 1 Agenda Item Chief Administrative Office recommending the Board authorize the Chair to sign Agreement 233-S1011 with the City of Placerville, Marshall Medical Center and Buxton Company in the total amount of $90,000 for a targeted retail retention and expansion development tool, noting the original Buxton Agreement 233-S1011 has been modified to reflect a cost sharing between the County of El Dorado, City of Placerville and Marshall Medical Center. Fiscal Impact FY 2009/2010 Targeted Retail Retention and Development Tool (Buxton): $35,000; $17,500 paid by the City of Placerville, and $17,500 paid by Marshall Medical Center Fiscal Impact FY 2010/2011 Targeted Retail Retention and Development Tool (Buxton): $55,000. Paid by the County of El Dorado, Economic Development. Approved Pass Action details Not available
09-1322 1 23. Closed Session Item Conference with Legal Counsel - Significant Exposure to Litigation pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(b): Title: Tax Refund Claim of Robert Bayer. Number of potential cases: (1). No Action Reported. Action details Not available
09-1361 1 24. Closed Session Item Conference with Legal Counsel - Existing Litigation pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(a): Waste Connections of California, Inc., dba El Dorado Disposal Services v. County of El Dorado, et al., El Dorado County Superior Court Case No. PC20090649. No Action Reported. Action details Not available
09-1376 1 25. Closed Session Item Conference with Legal Counsel - Significant Exposure to Litigation pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(b): Number of potential cases: (1). No Action Reported. Action details Not available
09-1386 1 26. Agenda Item Board of Supervisors to hold a discussion regarding the appointment of a Sheriff to serve the remainder of the current Sheriff's term. ON DECEMBER 10, 2009 UNDERSHERIFF MANFRED KOLLAR WAS APPOINTED AS SHERIFF EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 27, 2009, TO COMPLETE THE TERM OF RETIRING SHERIFF JEFF NEVES. (SEE FILE 09-1432) Approved Pass Action details Not available
09-1386 1 Agenda Item Board of Supervisors to hold a discussion regarding the appointment of a Sheriff to serve the remainder of the current Sheriff's term. ON DECEMBER 10, 2009 UNDERSHERIFF MANFRED KOLLAR WAS APPOINTED AS SHERIFF EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 27, 2009, TO COMPLETE THE TERM OF RETIRING SHERIFF JEFF NEVES. (SEE FILE 09-1432) Continued Pass Action details Not available
09-1384 1 27. Closed Session Item Conference with Legal Counsel - Significant Exposure to Litigation pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(b): Title: Protest of Award of US 50/Missouri Flat Road Interchange Improvements Phase 1B (Contract No. 71336). Number of potential cases: (1). No Action Reported. Action details Not available
09-1387 1 28. Closed Session Item Pursuant to Government Code Section 54957.6; Conference with Labor Negotiator: County Negotiator: Director of Human Resources and/or designee. Employee Organization: El Dorado County Employees Association Local No.1, representing employees in the General, Professional, and Supervisory Bargaining Units; Operating Engineers Local No. 3 representing employees in the Trades and Crafts, Probation, and Corrections Bargaining Units; Deputy Sheriff's Association representing employees in the Law Enforcement unit; El Dorado County Criminal Attorney Association; El Dorado County Deputy County Counsel Association; El Dorado County Managers Association; El Dorado County Law Enforcement Managers Association. No Action Reported. Action details Not available
09-1394 1 29. Closed Session Item Conference with Legal Counsel - Significant Exposure to Litigation pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(b): Title: Collection of California Building Standards Commission Fees Under Health and Safety Code Section 18931.6. Number of potential cases: (1). No Action Reported. Action details Not available
09-1143 2 30. Agenda Item NEW BUSINESS Human Resources Department recommending adoption of Resolution amending Article 6, Section 1, Salaries; and Article 10, Section 1, Paragraph B.3 of the Modified Last, Best and Final Offer with Operating Engineers Local Union No. 3, Probation Bargaining Unit. (Approved 9/22/09, Item 15) Adopted Pass Action details Not available


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Remember the Antiquities Act Trump despised when he shrank Utah's Grand Staircase and Bears Ears? Well, he just used that law to create a monument.
(AP Photo/Adam Beam) U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke speaks with reporters at the Camp Nelson National Monument on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, in Nicholasville, Kentucky. Camp Nelson was a Union Army depot during the U.S. Civil War and was a recruiting center for black soldiers. Zinke announced Saturday Camp Nelson has been officially designated as a national monument.
By Thomas Burr
| Oct. 27, 2018, 11:07 p.m.
| Updated: Oct. 28, 2018, 5:07 a.m.
Washington • President Donald Trump, who blasted the Antiquities Act in carving up two Utah national monuments nearly a year ago, used the authority under that law Friday to name a new monument in Kentucky days before the midterm election.
Trump, who shrank the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah by 2 million acres in December, employed the Antiquities Act to create the Camp Nelson National Monument in Kentucky, protecting the historic site that has local and congressional support but prompting critics to say the move was purely political.
Camp Nelson — a former supply depot and Union Army hospital that served as a recruiting center for African-American troops and a refuge for freed slaves — sits inside a House district where incumbent GOP Rep. Andy Barr faces a close race against Democrat Amy McGrath.
"Camp Nelson and its role in our nation's journey from Civil War to civil rights deserves to be protected, full stop," said Kate Kelly, public lands director at the left-leaning Center for American Progress and a former senior Interior Department official.
"But we can't ignore the deep irony and injustice in President Trump using the same authority to protect one chapter of America's story, while illegally stripping protections for another national monument that honors Native American history and culture," Kelly continued. "Given this announcement comes mere days before a tight election in Kentucky, we must also question whether the historic site is being used as a political pawn."
The Camp Nelson monument is the first Trump has designated under the 1906 law that has been used by every president since Teddy Roosevelt to preserve public lands.
Last December, Trump flew to Utah to severely diminish the size of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase monuments created by Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, respectively. In doing so, Trump joined a chorus of Utah GOP elected officials charging that the Democratic presidents had overstepped their authority and were denying the voice of locals.
"Past administrations have severely abused the purpose, spirit and intent of the century-old law known as the Antiquities Act," Trump then declared at the Utah Capitol, adding that, "These abuses of the Antiquities Act give enormous power to faraway bureaucrats at the expense of the people who actually live here, work here, and make this place their home."
Unlike the two Utah monuments, the new one in Kentucky has support from local officialdom, and the House overwhelmingly passed legislation sponsored by Barr to turn the camp into a monument. The Senate has yet to pass companion legislation.
The Camp Nelson monument is tiny compared to Utah's now-smaller monuments, 525 acres total as opposed to 1 million acres remaining in three parts of the original Grand Staircase monument and 200,000 in two pieces of the Bears Ears' initial designation.
Rep. Rob Bishop, a Utah Republican who heads the House Natural Resources Committee and is a strident opponent of the Antiquities Act, noted Saturday that more than 400 House members had voted for Barr's legislation to create the monument and that it enjoys local support.
"The monument President Trump announced today will serve as a historic marker for the commonwealth of Kentucky and memorialize a site important to African-American soldiers in the Civil War," Bishop said. "I appreciate President Trump joining the House in recognizing the unique historic nature of Camp Nelson and applaud the president for obeying the letter of the law in using his congressionally delegated authority to create national monuments."
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Saturday in visiting the monument that Trump used the Antiquities Act as it was supposed to be applied: preserving a site in the smallest form needed to protect it.
"The camp tells the story about Americans who risked absolutely everything they have and everyone they love to fight for their freedom, the cause of liberty and to preserve the Union," Zinke said. "I thank the president for using the Antiquities Act as it was truly intended, and I can think of no better place for his use of the act than to recognize African-Americans for the sacrifices they made for this country and for the contributions they made for all Americans' freedom than by elevating Camp Nelson to national monument status."
Still, environmental groups charged that Trump was being hypocritical in using the Antiquities Act after being so highly critical of it previously, especially because the Bears Ears monument was sought by Native Americans who consider the southeastern Utah area sacred.
"There is no dispute that Congress gave presidents the authority to establish national monuments on public lands and waters," said Steve Bloch, legal director for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. "That grant of authority did not, however, also convey the power to eliminate or dismantle those places."
SUWA is one of several conservation groups and tribes that sued Trump, Zinke and other government officials immediately after the president dismantled the two Utah monuments. The lawsuit, which contends the Antiquities Act allows the creation of a monument but not the removal of such a designation, continues in federal court in Washington.
Dan Hartinger, deputy director for parks and public lands defense at The Wilderness Society, said that his group "wholeheartedly" supported Camp Nelson as a monument
"However, all national monuments that recognize our diverse history must be protected and honored — including Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, where a coalition of sovereign tribal nations proposed and advocated for the monument," Hartinger said. "Honoring Camp Nelson's role in advancing equality while simultaneously working to strip protections from Bears Ears is disrespectful and hypocritical."
The Center for Western Priorities' executive director, Jennifer Rokala, found irony in Trump using a law to create a monument while single-handedly working to weaken the Antiquities Act.
"If his attempts to shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments were to succeed, it would make his designation today protecting Camp Nelson equally temporary," Rokala said. "America's national monuments are monuments to our history and heritage, from African-Americans who served in the Civil War at Camp Nelson, to Native Americans from five tribes who honor Bears Ears as their ancestral homeland. An attack on one monument is an attack on all monuments, so it is long past time for President Trump and Secretary Zinke to stop undermining and start honoring the legacy of all Americans."
Bishop, in a statement released Saturday, said the president's action to create the Camp Nelson monument should be codified by Congress — and soon.
"I am hopeful the Senate will follow the House and the president's lead in giving Camp Nelson the prominence and security it deserves through the force of congressionally enacted law," Bishop said, praising Barr for leading the effort to seek monument status.
Barr's race is considered a toss-up by the political handicapper the Cook Political Report and a New York Times/Siena College poll shows the incumbent with a 1 point lead ahead of the Nov. 6 election.
Just over 22 years ago, Republicans slammed Clinton for creating the Grand Staircase monument, arguing that he was doing so to shore up political points with his Democratic base right before the general election.
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April 29 – May 5, 2017 | No. 154
As the World Health Organisation works on a set of guidelines for 'healthy housing', a Melbourne architect is exploring creative ways to help people with health-related requirements. By Michele Tydd.
Design for wellbeing in healthy houses
BLOXAS director Anthony Clarke.
Credit: FRASER MARSDEN
It took a brief involving a 10-year-old autistic boy to steer Melbourne architect Anthony Clarke towards a largely uncharted area of specialisation.
The boy's parents were one of Clarke's early clients and they wanted their new family home to allow for their son's developing sense of independence within a safe environment. Clarke's small team at BLOXAS went into overdrive to better understand the autism spectrum and the boy's individual needs.
"We designed the house so every room had a sense of its own space – even to the point where each had its own roof and ceiling profile – but with a subtle line of sight throughout for the parents' peace of mind," says Clarke.
That was 2012 and the substantial reno-build project in East Brunswick attracted much attention and helped put BLOXAS on the map as one of Wallpaper* magazine's "world's top 20 emerging practices".
While few casual observers twigged how the spectacular design was operating on different levels, it proved to Clarke what could be achieved by approaching this health-related niche with scientific vigour.
"The aim is to give people with neurological conditions that involve debilitating sensory issues a sense of belonging so they don't feel isolated and marginalised," says Clarke.
Housing and its one-upmanship aesthetic makes for addictive clickbait but architects such as Clarke are part of an emerging global shift to strengthen the often overlooked connection between wellbeing and our built environment.
The World Health Organisation for the past four years has engaged international experts to stitch together a comprehensive set of guidelines relating to housing construction, renovation, use and maintenance to promote better health. It identified risks that include respiratory and cardiovascular diseases from indoor air pollution, preventable household accidents, communicable diseases spread through poor living conditions, illness and death from temperature extremes and depression from isolation.
The impact climate change will increasingly have on housing is also under the spotlight.
"We've built homes in places that don't make much sense in a climate-change world, so location will become increasingly important," says the University of Sydney's chair of urban and regional planning and policy, Peter Phibbs, who is one of the two Australian experts on the guidelines panel.
Ageing populations throughout developed countries have made designing for the over 55s another guideline priority.
"Unfortunately in Australia we have a somewhat Peter Pan mentality on this score," says Phibbs. "People in their 50s and 60s, for example, are notorious for building so-called dream homes that are incompatible with the ageing process. Bathrooms where you have to climb into showers, narrow hallways that make assisted mobility difficult and too many steps to get in and out of the house are often reasons people have to move on, and that is incredibly expensive.
"We did a project a few years ago involving community workers who said social isolation is the biggest health risk for older people, so easy access, not just in and around the house but also connection to the wider community, is essential for wellbeing as we age," he adds.
While aimed at professionals, the WHO guidelines, due to be published by early next year, are also meant to improve consumer intelligence.
"If, for example, new units are not selling because buyers realise the design of certain rooms could be improved by allowing for more natural light or cross-ventilation which we know is better for us, that will resonate with developers," says Phibbs.
Anthony Clarke says he supports any measure to shed more light on the healing power of good design in everything from housing to hospitals.
And while he sees consumer intelligence as important, he says it is a two-way street.
"We keep each brief alive to track our projects and their effectiveness so the process is heavily reliant on us spending time to understand the client's special needs as well as their ongoing feedback," he says.
The client living in Clarke's Garden Pavilion, another high-profile project in Brunswick, whose complex sleep disorder had deprived him of a regular night's rest for decades, is acutely sensitive to light and sound. He needed a bedroom/workspace within the new family home where he had total control over the sensory environment.
The team worked with thickened concrete block walls, a sound-absorbing ceiling and a system of charred western red cedar shutters – selected for the soft timber's sound absorbency – to eliminate any external light. By day the space opens onto the light and lush garden.
"Our client, whose condition also involves an obsessive disposition, now has a ritual where every morning and night when he opens or closes the shutters, the charring leaves a slight mark on his hands, which is a visual signal of the clearly defined sleep/wake cycle he needs," says Clarke.
But in the initial follow-up the team learnt there was still some slight internal noise leaking from other rooms of the house to be addressed.
"We sent the builder back to reconfigure certain parts of the wall, which resulted in 99 per cent noise control," says Clarke. "This sort of honest feedback can be fed into the next project and the next a bit like a research paper that builds a body of knowledge on a certain topic."
About the time Clarke began working in this health-related area, he also began lecturing students at RMIT and Monash University on designing for dementia and "placelessness", which Clarke describes as the state some people find themselves during life's transitions.
"Aged-care facilities are still pretty bad when it comes to dealing with dementia," he says.
"I know it's hard because sufferers can become easily confused and aggressive. But segregating them into special wings or even separate buildings doesn't seem to me the way to go."
How would he do things differently if given the brief?
"First I'd look at what these people have lost – and I think it's primarily independence – so I'd look at creative ways to change that," he says.
"When they leave their rooms to go walking, for example, I'd perhaps try to find different surfaces that might trigger memory and provide a signal if they are heading in the wrong direction."
Clarke grew up in Tasmania, and from age 15 spent four years working in an architectural office in Hobart doing odd jobs and studying drafting at night before tackling an architectural degree in two different states.
Soon after graduating, he spent a year in Japan and France working with top architects (Shigeru Ban Architects and Ateliers Jean Nouvel) studying their approach to work more than their actual work.
As he affably chronicles his unconventional rise from office dogsbody to a pioneering architect, which involved many moves to experience different places and their architecture, you have to wonder if there isn't a streak of obsessive compulsiveness in Clarke's own personality.
When he decided to move to Japan, for example, he sent 10 handwritten letters to his employer of choice only to get rejected every time. And every project involves between 20 and 40 models to test the strength of the initial concept "even though that concept rarely changes from the beginning to the end".
Struggling for most of his career to figure out where he fits in, Clarke now knows what he wants to achieve.
"If anything is to change, we have to go deeper," he says. "Otherwise we're just feeding the beast and building for money and Instagram."
This article was first published in the print edition of The Saturday Paper on Apr 29, 2017 as "Health and home".
Michele Tydd is an Illawarra-based freelance journalist.
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Releases > Releases March 2018
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THE FRIEL SISTERS
Before the Sun
Own label FRL 002, 11 Tracks, 48 Minutes
www.frielmusic.com
Donegal and Glasgow are the two ends of the see saw on which the Friel sisters play. Big full bodied ensemble playing straight out of the stall, with the selection of Young Tom Ennis, King of the Pipers/ Hunt The Cat, the middle tune starting on a fiddle solo from Clare Friel, the final tune is more Bothy Band than the Bothy Band. They pare things back on track 8 An Coolin March.
Anna sings a touching version of Kelvin's Purling Streams, a song of emigration from county Antrim, one to learn, as the melody is quite infectious. The sisters sing together in unison on the slower songs Moorlough Shore; the melody is a close relative of The Foggy Dew.
The Friel family originated in Dóire Na Mainsear the next townland over from Ranafast. They pay tribute to those roots on the sets Ranafast Jig/Statia Donnelly/My Former Wife. It opens with a fiddle solo from Clare Friel, with the pipes to the fore as we reach the second tune. There's some deceptively simple accompaniment on A Stór a Stór A Ghra. The backing musicians on the album are Hajime Takahashi (guitars) and Cathal O' Currain (bouzouki) and a fine job they do of sitting in with the three sisters.
The liner notes are beautifully presented, with the many family links explained and much careful research into the background of the music. Engineered by Jack Talty and produced by Ciarán Ó Maonaigh, this is Donegal music in the hands of accomplished musicians. The album comes with the blessing of both Triona Ni Dhomhnaill and Tommy Peoples, praising the Friels' sensitive, tasteful and authentic mastery of words and music.
Seán Laffey
ÉILÍS CREAN
Searbh Siúcra
Own Label, 18 Tracks, 74 Minutes
There are many unsung heroes of Irish traditional music: so much of the tradition consists of local activities, teachers and composers and musicians who often don't stray far from their own hearth but whose music can spread across the globe. One such is fiddler, accordionist and composer Eddie Kelly, a native of East Galway, living in his adopted hometown of Castlerea in County Roscommon since 1958. Éilís Crean was one of Eddie's pupils for many years before she moved to Tennessee. She is dedicated to preserving East Galway fiddling, and has released this recording of 21 Eddie Kelly compositions in collaboration with several well–known musicians. If like me you are not familiar with Eddie Kelly's tunes, Searbh Siúcra will hold many treasures for you.
The music here includes jigs, reels, hornpipes, and four delightful slow airs. Éilís has also added a few East Galway standards which Eddie would have played regularly: The Freize Britches, Pull the Knife and Stick it Again, The Jug of Punch, The East Galway Reel of course, and a number of compositions by the prolific Paddy Fahey. That lonesome bittersweet mode so familiar from the playing of Paddy Fahey or Lucy Farr is also present in Eddie Kelly's tunes such as The Meelick Team, Caught in a Cobweb, or The Cloonlish Hornpipe. All the pieces here are taken at a moderate pace, giving Kelly's compositions space to breathe. Crean's fiddle is supported by John Regan on button box, Mike McGoldrick on flute, and fiddler Kevin Burke who also wrote a fine introduction to the CD. There's also guitar and keyboards from Geraldine Cotter, John Doyle, Jeff Taylor and John Mock. As well as some lovely new tunes, this album offers a chance to appreciate and absorb some of the East Galway fiddle style.
Alex Monaghan
DECLAN FOLAN
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A fiddle album in the old Sligo style – not such an unusual thing, you might think, but with so many players today blending different styles and inventing their own, it's actually quite rare to hear a major recording which recreates that seventies sound of Fred Finn, Paddy Ryan, Charlie Lennon and a young Frankie Gavin. I say seventies rather than fifties or thirties, because this is music of the revival rather than a return to the 78s of Coleman and Killoran, or the dance band style of the Irish showbands. Declan throws in one track of ensemble tunes, adding swing sax and banjo to the more traditional flute and concertina, and there is a fine relaxed duet with fluter Damien Stenson on Johnny Henry's Reel, but otherwise the fiddle alone carries these grand old melodies, with discreet and dependable accompaniment from a few well–known hands on piano, guitar or bodhrán.
Folan's playing is delicate but firm, capable of sweetness on some of the hornpipes and barndances, but more suited to the crunchy rhythmic playing of jigs and reels. Slower tracks don't really feature on this CD, which I think is Declan Folan's first official solo album, a major landmark for Sligo fiddle fans after a long wait. The fiddling here is mature, masterly, moulded by tradition but also showing strong individual character. Declan finishes on a version of Lord Gordon's Reel with his own variations, a captivating performance.
Before that is a rake of reels and jigs: Tilly Finn's, The Maid on the Green, Music in the Glen, The Golden Keyboard, George White's Favourite, Tell Her I Am and The Drunken Landlady among them, classics every one, handled superbly on Folan's fiddle. There are some Michael Coleman tunes, The Old Grey Goose for example, but much of this music wasn't written until after Coleman's famous recordings: compositions by Martin Mulhaire, Brendan Tonra and Charlie Lennon for instance. Declan Folan puts them all together flawlessly in an exciting and energetic album, some fast, some slower, All in Good Time.
JAMES PATRICK GAVIN
Sleight of Hand Records. SOHR1702CD, 10 Tracks, 53 Minutes
www.jamespatrickgavin.com
Music that echoes and maps traditional migration paths between Fermanagh and London. Fascinating debut concept album from musician and composer James Patrick Gavin. Exploring complexities of emigration through instrumental tracks, and songs both original and traditional, music shaped by a uniquely specific ode to place, family, belonging.
Acclaimed fiddle–player and guitarist James grew up steeped in traditional music around Holloway Road, while retaining links with his Irish grandmother's Fermanagh home–place.
"The road to Damascus on a red London bus" – this line from J Eoin's song Lady–O–Dreams' about a once legendary music pub in London's Angel, is a lyrically apt reflection of Gavin's concept. James was taught by fiddle mentors like Karen Ryan, (herself a recipient of an Unsung Hero teaching–award). Gavin's multi–dimensional influences are gathered on this CD in a very reflective sense. London–Irish vibrancy evident in the collective musicianship of James's outstanding folk–music contemporaries, Orlaith McAuliffe (flute), accordionist Tommy Black–Roff (accordion), Banjo–player Hugh O'Neill, (banjo), Dominic Henderson and Paddi Benson (Uileann Pipes), Jez Hellard and Adrian Lever (guitar), J Eoin (song composition, vocals, guitar).
His grandmother Mena Gavin features in the spoken–word element, but linked also to stand–out tunes like Gavin's composition Standing Stone, tune as ode to ancient landscape, but significantly also the name of Mena's Fermanagh cottage.
'London, Ireland, and the music in–between'. And it's that limnal in–between which seems to create a musical fearlessness, tenderly moving aspects in compositions like The Old Keady Dog, glimpsed also in the poetic quality of the liner–notes, the meticulously storied maps. Great London–Irish edge to Gavin's music, and that feels linked to a quirkiness in his father Seamus's surreal story behind his Fermanagh blues song London Town. (Which began one day in the 80s after falling headfirst out a building–site window onto the wrong side of a crowbar!). Poignant note in how looking up at a muddy London skyline evoked a mountain–cairn in Fermanagh. Tae, is another gorgeous song, an emotionally strong tribute to his own father. Chewing the Fat ironically breaks new ground in how it honours family, across the ley lines of an ancient landscape. This music feels real! And all the better for that.
Deirdre Cronin
TONY O'CONNELL
Live and Well
TOC 120 917, 13 Tracks, 46 Minutes
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Tony O'Connell is no stranger to concertina circles or indeed traditional music aficionados. This album is his first solo recording, following the successful release of three duet albums previously in collaboration with Ben Lennon, Andy Morrow and Eamon Riordan. The opening track features a beautiful selection of jigs played seamlessly in a duet with the brilliant Bríd Harper on fiddle. These are two striking newly composed jigs from the pen of John Dwyer. The playing is effortless; a natural lilting flow is further enhanced by contemporary style accompaniment from guitar stalwart, Arty McGlynn. The style is pure and simple, traditional music at its best, allowing those wonderful double octaves to sing through.
Moving on, there is music sourced from the Cape Breton tradition paired with South of the Grampians a great intricate tune Tony learned from the playing of Frankie Gavin. There are tasteful harmonies here producing a very sweet, melodic sound. A set of slides provide that unmistakable lift and joy of Sliabh Luachra music, proving once again that O'Connell is indeed a master of his craft on this album.
His Cailín na Gruaige Doinne, is a lovely sweet tune played in a simple yet effective arrangement, with drones & chords used to great effect. One of the most impressive aspects of this collection of tunes is the vast range from which they have come. There's lots of references to the greats that have possibly influenced O'Connell on his musical path, and lots of newly composed tunes from artists including Tommy Peoples, Tommy Potts, Richie Dwyer and Peadar O'Riada, and there's also lots of references to his native Munster music.
Track 11 treats the listener to a lovely set of jigs spirit and a deep love of the tradition, complemented with lots of tasteful yet subtle variation to enhance the melodies. There are fantastic chordal progressions here with an unmistakable drive from Arty Mc Glynn.
Track 12 highlights O'Connell's finesse when it comes to polka playing. This time the accompaniment is in an unassuming traditional vein on bouzouki from Cyril O'Donoghue. The final set opens with Carraigín Ruadh a beautiful composition of Brendan Tonra's, played with Bríd Harper on fiddle. This presents a highly impressive musical drive and swing from this duet pairing; this is music from the heart.
Genuine, unassuming, gorgeous music. Highly recommended.
Edel Mc Laughlin
ULAID & DUKE SPECIAL
A Note Let Go
Ulaid & Duke Special B076FLY8ZJ, 10 Tracks, 50 Minutes
www.ulaidmusic.com
Duke Special is one of those musicians who's helping carve out new channels for the musical energy of this island. His style echoes vintage Vaudeville as well as contemporary ballad. But his accent comes from somewhere more ancient than that. Ulaid are straight down the line traditional Irish artists, but who are also prepared to experiment with other sounds and settings. What could be a finer blend than that?
And so it was that these four musical forces got together and decided to explore old texts for some new life. And why not? It was a perfect decision – to dive into poems and documents collected by antiquarian and historian Francis J Bigger, which had ended up at Belfast's Central Library. This was serious stuff – Bigger was the guy who restored some of the fabric of old Ireland. So Duke and Ulaid were not playing about here. They were tapping into deep roots – and bringing various art–forms together.
In the hands of expert players, Bigger's texts developed into a musical tribute to Belfast. In a bid to capture the spirit of collaboration, the artists recorded the tracks live over two nights at Analogue Catalogue studios in the Mourne Mountains.
And here is the result. It's a magical excursion into other realms. Of course, there is lament, such as the achingly beautiful Shipyards Of Belfast and the sorrowful On Account Of My Dog Fido. But there is freedom in the flamenco dance tune El Garrotin and jubilation in The Poet's Mission. Emotions are explored, feet are freed and roots are laid bare for all to see. What a wonderful, life–enhancing moment.
Clive Price
CAROLINE KEANE & TOM DELANY
Never Say Goodbye, Say Good Luck
12 Tracks, 44 Minutes
Here we have a fine new recording from concertina and pipes duo, Caroline Keane and Tom Delany. From the opening bars, this album establishes itself as a solid recording of pure, traditional music. There's a wide range of tune types on display here moving from the usual jigs and reels to the more unusual setting of hop jigs, hornpipes, a slow air, and an O'Carolan tune. One of the most appealing aspects of this collection for me is the depth and range of musical sources that have contributed to the music on this recording. There are references to greats such as Willie Clancy, Joe Cooley and Paddy Taylor, for example. The main focus is duet playing, and there's a couple of solos thrown in for good measure as well.
There's a healthy mix of 'newly composed' tunes stemming from the pen of various composers including Richie Dwyer, Paddy Keenan, Maurice Lennon, Seán Ryan, Ed Reavy & Joe Liddy. There's even a couple of tunes from the artists themselves, creating their own unique stamp to the recording. Coupled with all the warm traditional melodies, there's even a French composition from Michel Bonamy adding a unique melody to the album. There's even tunes sourced from the Goodman collection.
It's refreshing to see so many of these wonderful tunes in one place – and the playing doesn't disappoint either. If it's rich, solid traditional music played to a highly polished finish – look no further than this highly impressive debut recording. Recorded by Donogh Hennessy & Martin O'Malley, it features a high calibre of guest musicians including Hennessy on guitar, Cyril O'Donoghue on bouzouki, Laura Kerr (fiddle), Brian O'Loughlin (flute) and Robbie Walsh (bodhrán and bones).
RICHARD NEYLON
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An All–Ireland senior champion in various categories on pipes, flute and saxophone, Richard Neylon should be a familiar name. Neylon's playing is memorable too, old style, grand tunes, big sets of powerful piping, and a few flute pieces to lighten the mix.
I'm not sure if An Buailteoir Aerach refers to a hurler or a beater, but either way it's a belter of a reel to open this debut album. Catalina is a much gentler track, the flute intro layered with pipes and saxophone on Maurice Lennon's Waltz. Richard also provides drums, with accordion from Stephen Doherty and fiddle from Fiachra Hayes. More reels, including Finbarr Dwyer's Hollybush and the great old Cameronian, really show off the pipes in a flowing yet rhythmic performance, a touch of wildness combined with some tight closed fingering and staccato triplets.
The pace and control are exciting, exhilarating, and the accompaniment from Conor Early drives the tunes along. Relaxed low whistle delivers a gorgeous version of The Kilnamona Barndance, and I'd have kept the pipes and sax back until the punchy shift into Lucy Farr's. Neylon does a fine job of being a one–man Irish skiffle band in the vein of At the Racket, sticking a snappy Jim Ward's Jig on the end for good measure.
Having run through most of the colours in his repertoire on the concert pipes, Richard switches to a Rogge low B set for a pair of classic piping jigs, regulators and drones providing the only accompaniment, a real virtuoso performance in the bygone style of fairground pipers. And then round we go again: a set of reels, the slow air An Spéic Seoigheach, three very familiar slip jigs with concertina from James Frawley, plus a few more reels and jigs.
The title piece is by Neylon, perhaps combining his Irish and jazz influences, and starts a trio of jigs with a more modern feel and a surprise ending on the old favourite known variously as Father O'Flynn or The Top of the Cork Road.
On the other hand, the final lament Cumha Mhichil Breathnaigh on solo pipes is stately and moving, a wonderful piece of piping and a melody, which will stay with me I'm sure. Look out for the name Richard Neylon, and expect great things.
ANGE HARDY
Bring Back Home
Story Records STREC1701, 14 Tracks, 51 Minutes
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Ange Hardy began these songs on her kitchen table, and that homely beginning has blossomed into one of the most beautifully crafted folk albums to come out of England this millennium. She is joined here on this her sixth album by Lee Cuff (cello), Alex Cumming (Accordion) Jon Dyer flute and whistles, Lukas Drinkwater (bass), Evan Carson (percussion) and veteran fiddler, the seventy year old Peter Knight.
Her original work is lyrical and on occasion liturgical, and whilst much of the album has a distinctly English accent, there's a Celtic underlay providing a melodic cushion and no small amount of pathos. On Once I was a Rose, Ange's voice chimes like a bell over a double tracked hummed harmony. Summer's Day is a bucolic stroll through a mid–summer meadow of her native Somerset, she pairs this with the tune: Little Wilscombe. Peter Knight closes this on fiddle, rambling towards an Irish tune, as if it is a distant shore to which the walk might take us. There are two traditional songs here, both with Roud Numbers, Hardy's version of Claudy Banks stays true to the original lyrics, to which she has added her own melody. On The Water of Tyne she opts for the traditional melody, words and music fitting like a tailored glove.
Bring Back Home; her title track could easily be mistaken for a traditional folk song such is her deftness with phrase and meter. Ange has an acute and critical ear for the empty polemics of politicians which she applies to What May You Do For The JAM, about those families back home who are just about managing in these austere times. Bring Back Home casts sparkling shards of music over the twinkling dewy grass of a summer sunlight morning. The liner notes are works of art thanks to the illustrator Michael Cook. The Folk scene is the spiritual home of Ange Hardy and this album is a love letter to her nearest and dearest.
Séan Laffey
DECLAN O'ROURKE
Chronicles of the Great Irish Famine
Warner Music Ireland MM112, 13 Tracks, 64 Minutes
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"The songs in this project are an attempt to bring fresh air to an unhealed wound, and to remind the Irish people of what we have overcome, through the examination of what has lurked just below the surface of collective memory for a long time." That statement is included in the CD notes of Declan O'Rourke's new recording, Chronicles of the Great Irish Famine, and one assumes them to be his own words. Indeed, all through the CD notes to the songs, Declan leaves us in no doubt about his desire to explore the Great Famine tragedy through the songs he has composed, all but three of them his own, Eugene Donegan, Jack Maher and John Spillane his collaborators. Thankfully the words to all 13 songs are supplied.
What he calls the 'project' has been fifteen years in the making, and it combines the traditional Irish music and modern song–writing to present a series of heartrending true accounts Declan came across through his readings. He was particularly affected by John O'Connor's The Workhouses of Ireland. "My grandad was born in a workhouse in 1916," Declan states. "Discovering that was the catalyst for my journey into this chapter of history, and consequently the whole collection of songs." Declan's choice of melody for each song is impressive and along with the sensitive and mood–setting arrangements the effect is quite moving. Indian Meal deals with American corn known by the people as 'Injun male' and often referred to as 'Peel's Brimstone' after the British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel. It was difficult to cook, hard to digest and caused diarrhoea. Mary Kate tells the sad story of 4,000 adolescent girls who were taken from the workhouses and shipped to Australia between the years 1848 and 1850.
"They're sending workhouse orphan girls, Across the world to New South Wales, They've picked me out. But won't allow my little sister come."
Declan does well to note the work of the extraordinary American
woman, Asenath Nicholson, who was on a self–appointed mission to bring the Bible to the Irish poor in the hungry years. In the CD notes she is misleadingly identified as a Quaker; she was an independent 'Bible Christian" unattached to any church. But she had several Quaker friends whom she admired for their selfless work in helping the poor and the starving. She did outstanding work for the starving people, and in The Connaught Orphan, Declan sings movingly of how she helped a recently orphaned boy in County Mayo.
Asenath was not a passive observer of what she witnessed. She was openly critical of much of the relief provisions she observed and reprimanded many people for failing to do more.
Her targets include (not unexpectedly) the British government, relief officials, and absentee landowners, and she details her experiences in two books that make for compelling reading, Ireland's Welcome to the Stranger and Annals of the Famine in Ireland. In his notes and through his songs, Declan urges us to read her books, and learn about the great work she and other brave people did for the Famine poor.
Aidan O'Hara
MIKE O'DONOVAN
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Limerick born Mike O'Donovan has been part of the local music scene for more than three decades. He was very prominent on the early 70s local folk and rock scene featuring on the Exposure concerts around in Limerick that were in the Colosseum (now known as the Belltable). He has also spent time in London at the cusp of the 70s progressive rock explosion. Back in Limerick he pursued various bands and groups on the local live circuit and while noted as a solo performer, guitarist, and singer songwriter his work was never exposed to a mainstream audience until now.
With the release of his debut solo album No Time like The Present his talents get full airing and prominence. Someone listening to it will find diversity in the music and they will find a mix of influences. Musically the grab bag is a rich and full one including everything from acoustic folk/rock songs with sensitive lyrics delivered in a restrained manner to full–tilt rock songs in the mould of Van Morrison, Paul Brady and betimes Robbie Robertson. The quality of musicianship is without question including Van Morrison's rhythm section of Dave Keary (guitar/production) and Paul Moore (bass) with excellent keyboards from James Delaney, Richard Nelson on pedal steel guitar and the brass section of Michael Buckley and Ronan Dooney while an uncredited guest spot from Horslips' Johnny Fean lights up the closing rocker Strangest Situations and pushes it into AOR heaven.
The opener Underground hits at a late 70s Van Morrison type edge and echoes of Steely Dan and Richard Nelson's pedal steel adds haunting atmosphere to Ghosts and the gently wistful If there's a Time. On a Night like This with a Mariachi brass arrangement hints at Ry Cooder territory. The diversity and overall quality No Time Like the Present speaks volumes for Mike O'Donovan's artistic integrity and introduces a major talent centre stage.
John O'Regan
DOUGIE McCANCE
Own Label DMM01CD, 9 Tracks, 42 Minutes
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This man has played with the chart–topping Red Hot Chilli Pipers for several years now, and travelled the world performing traditional music, rock and pop on the Great Highland Bagpipe. Composed is a departure from the big stage in a few ways: the sound is smaller, more intimate on most tracks, Dougie is the only piper, and as you may have guessed from the title most of the music is McCance's own.
Not that there isn't a degree of Chilli Pipers mayhem about this recording: the pounding cross–beat of In the 128, the jarring bass line on Wee Michael's March, the electronic weirdness and mixed rhythms of The West Highland. The bulk of this album is more in tune with contemporary piping than the RHCP crowd–pleasers: jigs, reels, marches and airs, high octane and lavishly arranged, but basically good traditional tunes. Leaving Home reminds me of the Shotts & Dykehead classic airs Piper Alpha and By the Water's Edge. The final funky set of McCance reels is similar to a Battlefield or Mànran set, folk rock on pipes and fiddle.
As well as his own fine compositions, Dougie has included a couple by fellow pipers Kyle Warren and Alasdair White, as well as the MacKenzie sisters from Lewis, Graham Rorie from Orkney, and John McCusker from Bellshill. Rorie guests on fiddle, with piper Ali Hutton picking up electric guitar, Gus Stirrott on bass and Matt Arnott on drums. Acoustic guitarist Pablo Lafuente seems to be on every Scottish CD at the moment, and deservedly so. Katie MacFarlane provides Gaelic vocals on Kingston Road, and McCance magically plays harmonies alongside his own melody lines. There's plenty to enjoy on Composed, and McCance's website has videos too, with dancers and everything: click over for a taster and see if Dougie's music blows your chanter.
JOANNA HYDE AND Tadhg Ó Meachair
One for the Foxes
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There is a wealth of musical diversity and creative spark in this new duet album One for the Foxes. As is often the case with solo and duet albums, the main protagonists Joanna Hyde and Tadhg Ó Meachair are joined by a number of guest musicians to give a bigger feel to the overall sound. The result is a fine balance of tunes and songs, which reflect their rich musical experience. The album opens with a rich vocal harmonic Prelude. Joanna Hyde and guest Róisín Ní Ghallóglaigh invoking the words and spirit of WB Yeats, with the gentle accompaniment from Ó Meachair in the backdrop.
Tadhg steps to the fore for the second track, Snowy Eldora being one of his own compositions, as Joanna's fiddle and Tadhg's piano accordion combine over a bed of keyboard. There is more at play than just a smattering of tunes and songs for the sake of it, with Joanna and Tadhg layering each track with great thought and expertise in their use of rhythm, harmony and dynamics.
Those familiar with Tadhg's work as part of successful touring group Goitse, will be pleased with the set Joe Cassidy's, a lively burst which puts the tunes to the fore backed up by Dermot Sheedy on bodhrán and with the much-favoured driving off-beat rhythm of guitar, provided capably here by Seán Óg Graham, who just happened to be also in the role of producing the album at his County Antrim studio, Big Banana Studios.
The eclectic nature of the album draws from both Tadhg and Joanna's backgrounds, with Tadhg of Irish stock and Joanna hailing from the US. That influence can be found on the emotive Storms on the Ocean, a song from the western side of the Atlantic ocean, given a very contemporary feel with Joanna's soft commanding vocals. The duet is joined by a full band sound here, with vocal harmonies and mandolin coming from Dave Curley, along with Double Bass from Conor McGreanor.
The title of the album comes from a dual composition from Joanna and Tadhg, and follows a richly diverse version of Junior Crehan's Her Long Hair Flowed Down Her Back, with American old time fiddling style complimenting the west Clare hornpipe played in reel time. There is a much bigger sound than just two people on this production, and One For the Foxes is a rich collaboration and exploration of styles and mood that packs a multitude of ideas on every turn over the course of 11 tracks.
Derek Copley


These questions often put applicants in an uncomfortable position, and people take different approaches as to how to respond. Some applicants provide a straightforward answer, while others lie and inflate their current compensation in the hopes that they are offered a higher salary in a new role. Many applicants try to avoid the question all together.
However, if 2017's surge of equal pay wage/salary history ban proposals are any indication of things to come, this dilemma for applicants may soon be a problem of the past.
Discussions around closing the gender gap, essentially supporting equal pay for equal work, are nothing new, but the recent successful emergence of local and state legislation makes it clear that this topic demands attention. As salary history bans appear to be a continuing trend, this issue should be on employers' radar when they address their organization's recruiting policies and procedures.
Over the years, on a national level, there have been a number of legislative attempts to ban employers from discussing current or previous salaries with applicants. As recently as 2014, equal pay legislation was blocked in the United States Senate. With federal legislation seeming to go nowhere, cities and states have started taking the issue into their own hands and have successfully passed legislation that some leaders believe will help put women (and minorities) on equal footing with their male colleague counterparts.
According to a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, for the year 2016, women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median weekly earnings that were 82 percent of those of male full-time wage and salary workers.
While women's-to-men's earnings ratio has continued to narrow, there is still obvious room for improvement in bridging unequal pay. The goal of salary history bans is to force employers to offer compensation to applicants based on market demands, or the 'going rate', rather than basing compensation on an applicant's past salary. Proponents of salary history bans argue that offering compensation based on past salary history only perpetuates women earning less than men in similar roles.
Who has passed legislation on pay history inquires?
A growing list of states and cities have passed equal pay/salary history bans, including but not limited to California, Massachusetts, Delaware, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Philadelphia, San Francisco, New York City, New Orleans, and Pittsburgh.
The pervasiveness of salary history bans is expanding quickly, with each state and city law dictating specific requirements that an employer should follow to ensure compliance.
Each law has unique guidelines. As recently as October 12, 2017, the Governor of California signed a state-wide ban into law that states no employer may rely on an applicant's prior salary history in determining what salary to offer an applicant. Also, under this new law, any California employer must, upon request, provide an applicant with the pay scale assigned to the position sought.
Timing of salary history inquires make a difference in Massachusetts, where employers cannot ask applicant's to disclose any previous salary history until after the employer makes an offer.
New York City's law spells out that not only can an employer not ask about pay history, but they are also prohibited from trying to get this information from an applicant's employer or conducting their own search of public records.
Philadelphia passed a salary history ban and employers were preparing to comply by the May 2017 effective date. However, before the law went into effect, the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia filed a lawsuit, asking a federal judge to block the law from moving forward. In part, the lawsuit claims that the salary history ban law violates free speech by chilling employers' ability to make informed hiring decisions, thus putting Philadelphia businesses at an extreme hiring disadvantage.
The Chamber of Commerce lawsuit also claims that there is no evidence that making salary history inquiries perpetuates wage discrimination.
In response to the lawsuit, the City of Philadelphia agreed to temporarily refrain from enforcing the law until the litigation is resolved, and the case remains pending.
Many organizations across the country, while supporting the idea of offering equal pay to women and minorities, believe that salary history legislation will not achieve the desired goal, and will harm their ability to recruit and negotiate. Depending on the outcome of the lawsuit pending in Philadelphia, businesses in other cities and states could challenge the legality of their own salary history bans.
The key for employers is to monitor developments and legislation in their city and state. Not only is this area rapidly developing, but each law is unique. Make sure your managers and hiring team are aware of the laws that apply, especially if you have multiple locations. It is important to consult with legal counsel to understand what steps your organization must take in order to comply.
Employers should also be aware of an important distinction—there is a difference between asking applicants about their past salary history (e.g. 'What is/was your salary?') and asking applicants about their salary expectations (e.g. 'What are your salary requirements?' or 'What salary range are you looking for?').
Employers are still permitted to discuss and negotiate salary for an open position, but in places with salary history bans, they must avoid asking about what the applicant has earned in the past.


Debt and your credit score are more related than many people may realize. For example, a debt settlement can potentially have a drastic affect on your score and as we all know your credit score is a big determining factor in your ability to borrow money from a lender.
Spring is on the way, and that means it's time to start airing out the house and dusting every surface in sight. While you're getting your home in proper order, why not take advantage of this cleanliness-oriented mindset to remove blemishes from your credit rating? A clean credit score is just as important as a clean house, after all. If you're ready to roll up your sleeves and go to work cleaning up your credit, these six strategies will make it shine and give your credit report that fresh, springtime feel.
One of the biggest mistakes that people make with their debt is allowing the full extent of the problem to weigh on them until they are paralyzed in denial. Stay positive and believe that you can get your debt under control. Why? Because you actually can. Rather than thinking of debt as one big impossible problem, break it down into bite-size pieces. Visit a non-profit debt counselor who can help you make sense of your debt and how to deal with it.
If you are carrying balances on several cards or lines of credit, choose the one with the highest interest rate and pay down as much of it as you can afford. Why? Because paying off one debt will raise your credit score, get you out of the trap of paying only the interest, reduce your overall debt and give you a sense of accomplishment. It will also get you into the good habit of making real payments as opposed to just moving debt around. After paying off the first debt, you can apply your new good habits to eliminating the next one, and so on. Make a list of your debts in order of interest rate from highest to lowest, and pay them off in that order.
Did you know that you are only ever supposed to use about 30 percent of your credit? Any heavier use will lower your score, because it tells creditors that you can't actually handle so much credit. One quick way to boost your credit score is to raise your borrowing limit. If possible, raise the limits on your credit cards and other borrowing accounts – but only if you can avoid using the extra credit, which will only add to your debt and render this strategy useless.
You may be tempted to cancel cards that are paid off or aren't being used. Sadly, this is not a good practice, because it increases your utilization rate — the ratio between your debt and your available credit — and lowers your score. You should always aim for as large a gap as possible between what you owe and your maximum credit limit. When you cancel cards, you are lowering your overall credit limit, which only magnifies your debt. Creditors are far more concerned with your utilization rate than they are with the amount owed.
For example, if your total limit is $10,000 and you owe $3,000, you have a utilization rate of 30 percent, which is the maximum utilization rate you can have at any given time without seeing an adverse effect on your credit score. If you cancel a card with a limit of $2,000, your credit limit shrinks to $8,000 while your balance owing stays at $3,000. You are now using 37.5 percent of your available credit, which is a high enough utilization rate to harm your credit rating – even if you don't borrow any more money. A better strategy than canceling is to cut the cards up or make them physically inaccessible.
When dealing with creditors, nothing is worse than dropping off the map. Remember that financial ups and downs are normal and common. Try not to think of credit repair as a personal failure, but simply as a task to be completed. Communicate with creditors and let them know you are sincerely trying to meet your financial obligations. Sometimes it makes no difference, but in other cases it can get you an extension on a deadline, a lower interest rate, or some other kind of break that helps your credit score. Just think – a single conversation could save you hundreds of dollars down the line. Isn't that worth it?
Always pay your bills on time, even if it puts a strain on your finances. Being late on your payments is a surefire way to lower your credit score – sometimes by as much as 100 points, according to FICO. Get organized with a calendar or reminder system. The single best thing you can do to clean up your credit is establish a spotless history of on-time payments.
This spring, clear out more than the closets – clean up your credit score! Remember that credit repair is a marathon, not a sprint. Credit repair is an opportunity for you to develop sound financial and borrowing habits that will serve you well in the years to come. Develop a solid strategy and always be diligent in repairing your credit, and you'll quickly see the benefits of financial responsibility.


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Etobicoke, Canada – September 6, 2006: Tanida Software announces today the release of Tanida Quiz Builder 1. This quick and remarkably easy tool enables you to create quizzes and tests to evaluate the performance of pupils, students or trainees. With its intuitive interface and easy-to-follow forms, you can jumpstart your first quiz project in a few simple steps. Simply select a question type, type in a question and answers, hit "Enter" and then go through this sequence again until a quiz is created. Quiz Builder gives you a choice of 8 question types, an opportunity to add images and immediate feedback to each question. You can customize your own grading system too. The output can be deployed on a web site or a CD-ROM as a Flash file (SFW), a standalone executable (EXE) or a Word document (DOC).
Compared to complex CBT authoring tools, Tanida Quiz Builder's ease of use really stands out. The interface is incredibly simple, and you will be able to design a quiz and customize its properties in a few minutes without ever reading the user manual. The program allows you to incorporate up to 8 types of questions, including True/False, Multiple Choice, Multiple Answer, Fill-In-The-Blank, Matching and Click Map. Each question may have its own point system and an image, which adds interest to a quiz and makes a question clear. Quiz Builder allows you to provide quiz-takers with a feedback based on their answers. What's more, you can display results and specify actions that quiz-takers follow when they complete a quiz. The program supports score reporting (AICC, SCORM 1.2 and 2004), as well as posting to server scripts.
Founded in 2000, Tanida Software is an Information Technology company, developing e-learning software for home and office use. Tanida's clients include thousands of corporate, government, academic organizations and many individual users worldwide who use their software to quickly create rich, interactive learning content resources. The company currently offers two premier products, Demo Builder 5 and Quiz Builder 1, that enable learning professionals and subject-matter experts create e-learning tutorials, demos, quizzes and tests. For more information, please visit http://www.tanida-software.com.
Please, let us know if you have questions or would like any additional information on Tanida Quiz Builder 1. Evaluation copy is available upon request to all editors considering a review.


I'm actually shocked I didn't see this collaboration coming . . . it's so on point! Carpet bags crafted beautifully by Stanley & Sons using carpet from Mikael Kennedy's side business (which is proving to be a big hit) King Kennedy Rugs. The collaboration is a limited number of 7 bags, each one being unique given the nature of material sourced. Talk about the perfect holiday present for those in your life who covet an impeccably crafted tote, support the collaborative work of artisans, and idolize Mary Poppins. Take note Mr. N'East Style. Take note.


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Arlucea-Marquínez (en euskera y oficialmente Arluzea-Markinez) fue un municipio español, estaba situado en la provincia de Álava.

Historia
Fundado en 1961, pasó a formar parte del municipio de Bernedo en 1976.

Subdivisiones
El municipio estaba formado por varios pueblos, que a su vez formaban concejos:

Concejos
 Arlucea (en euskera y oficialmente Arluzea)
 Marquínez (en euskera y oficialmente Markinez)
 Oquina (en euskera y oficialmente Okina)
 Urarte

Despoblados
 Berroci (en euskera y oficialmente Berrozi)
 Izarza (en euskera y oficialmente Izartza)

Demografía
Supuesto demográfico 2000 a 2017 si el municipio todavía existiera:

Referencias

 Municipios desaparecidos de Álava

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Q: Select no banco utilizando "like" Estou tentando fazer um select no banco mysql, mas gostaria de usar o like, que deveria receber o valor de uma variável do java. Como posso fazer essa interação?
public void returInfoClient(userClient) {

    Connection mConn = (new ConnectionFactory()).getConnection();

    String sql = "SELECT nameClient, userClient, descriptionClient, passwordClient, birtDate
                  FROM Client
                  WHERE userClient LIKE 'userClient%';" //quero que o userClient venha do parametro da função
                  + "values(?);";

    try {
        PreparedStatement stmt = mConn.prepareStatement(sql);
        stmt.setString(1, userClient); //quero usar o userClient do parametro da função para o like do select
        stmt.execute();
        stmt.close();
        System.out.println("retornando informações author");
        connection.close();
    } catch (SQLException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

A: Sua query está errada. O correto seria:
String sql = "SELECT nameClient, userClient, descriptionClient, passwordClient, birtDate FROM Client WHERE userClient LIKE '?%';"

Obs: A assinatura do seu método está faltando o tipo do parâmetro userClient
public void returInfoClient(TipoDoObjeto userClient) {

A: Na linha 12 você passa a String que será o termo de busca concatenada com o wildcard % do like
public void returInfoClient(userClient) {

    Connection mConn = (new ConnectionFactory()).getConnection();

    String sql = "SELECT nameClient, userClient, descriptionClient, passwordClient, birtDate  FROM Client  WHERE userClient LIKE ?";

    try {
        PreparedStatement stmt = mConn.prepareStatement(sql);
        stmt.setString(1,  userClient + "%");
        stmt.execute();
        stmt.close();
        System.out.println("retornando informações author");
        connection.close();
    } catch (SQLException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Se você colocar o userClient diretamente na String sql, conforme o R.Santos sugeriu, pode abrir uma brecha para SQL Injection. Você pode ver mais sobre SQL Injection aqui.

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Sciandri Family Vineyards (pronounced "she-andri") is one Coombsville's 'hidden' gems, located at the edge of rolling hills bordering the 850 acre wilderness Skyline Park. They are located only about 10-12 minutes from the city of Napa but this location feels far removed from any urban environment.
This small family owned vineyard (22 acres total) is planted to slightly over 4 hillside acres. The Sciandri's (Ron and his wife Roberta) moved here in 1989 after looking for 4-5 years for a unique place to live in the valley. Ron spent a career with the fire department in San Francisco, beginning in 1969 – eventually becoming Captain, Battalion Chief and ultimately the Assistant Fire Chief. Soon after moving here, Roberta asked Ron about his plan for "landscaping" their property – his answer was to plant grapes – their first grapevines were planted in 1999. And for those who knew Ron, he was a great farmer who truly enjoyed showing visitors to the property his efforts including a number of fruit trees, vegetables in raised beds – and of course his vines.
All members of the immediate family are involved (three generations) in various aspects of the business from vineyard to bottle (total production as of our last update is under 800 cases). Building a young business such as this from the ground up brings with it a certain amount of personal satisfaction but to already have multiple generations involved will hopefully instill pride and the desire to keep the business within the family for decades to come.
The family oversaw the vineyard management for several years; today they employ one of the top vineyard managers in the valley, Javier Renteria. Before vineyards grew here this was open pasture land. For several years the Sciandri Family sold fruit to several area producers. Tasting the wines that used grapes from their property validated the quality of their particular terroir. In part, this was the impetus to begin crafting their own wines.
Enter Don Baker, a Napa winemaker who has been making wine in the valley for many years including stints at Merryvale and William Hill Estate. He is a UC Davis graduate who has International wine making exposure with some time spent in Chile helping to develop vineyards and a winery for Jackson Family Wines (Kendall-Jackson). Having tried some of Don's other wines, the Sciandri Family knew that his wine style would be ideally suited to their own preferences.
Ron's focus for Sciandri was to produce only estate wines and for a number of years they did so. The 2006 was their first release – a 100% Cabernet Sauvignon. With other red varietals planted on the property they also produce a Bordeaux styled blend. In a tribute to their Italian heritage, the small block of grapes planted near their house comes from their family vineyard in Italy. It is very likely that some of the obscure varietals growing here are the only ones growing in all of Napa. One of these varietals historically only grows in and around their ancestral village in northern Italy. These few vines have special significance to the family, not only are they a connection to their heritage but fruit from these vines is co-fermented every year with the rest of their vineyard.
This hillside vineyards are rocky; the grapes/clonal choices planted on site produce small fruit with concentrated flavors. The Coombsville region is located in the southern part of Napa Valley closer to the San Pablo Bay's cooling influences which means their harvest dates are generally among the last in the valley. The moderate cooler climate of this part of the Napa Valley ensures a very long hang time. Remarkably, some Coombsville growers have picked Cabernet Sauvignon into the first week of November (depending on the vintage).
Their daughter Rebecca has worked in a number of winery related jobs over the years – even for one of their Coombsville 'neighboring' wineries. Ron used to say he couldn't afford to pay her – but ultimately it was decided that she focus her efforts on the family winery. Today she is their only full time employee. In part, Rebecca worked with another Coombsville vintner Tom Farella to obtain the region's sub appellation status (granted in late 2011 and still Napa's 'newest' AVA). Coombsville is a an area located approximately east of the town of Napa; it is mostly composed of gentle rolling hills planted to numerous vineyards. The soils are volcanic and generally are very well drained. A number of premium wineries own or lease vineyards from the region; most of the vineyards here are very small. Unlike a number of other AVA's in Napa, there are no wineries here that allow tastings by walk-in (all are appointment only).
Despite Ron's opposition to making wine from grapes not grown on the property – and heaven forbid…a white wine, Rebecca was instrumental in creating a Rosé and a Sauvignon Blanc. Over the years she learned that she could not present this idea directly to her father, but rather approached their wine maker Don – who then presented the idea to Ron as his own idea. Ron saw through this of course, but ultimately he relented and they created a Rosé from Cabernet Sauvignon grapes grown on site. For later vintages of the Rosé they sourced Syrah grapes.
And if her father wasn't interested in producing a Sauvignon Blanc, Rebecca decided that she would. She has earned another title in the wine world; winemaker – her first wine for Sciandri Family Vineyards was a 2016 Sauvignon Blanc.
The 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon is noticeably dark in the glass with a very elegant bouquet that shows aromas of plum and red cherry along with a note of dustiness. The palate is smooth and balanced from start to finish showing dark fruit – black cherry and blackberry. The finish is anchored by soft smooth delicate tannins that slip over your tongue like silk. One of their winemaker Don Baker's axioms is to show varietal characteristics without the wine being dominated by oak. In other words as one winemaker told us, these are wines that have that "delicious" factor rather than the "wow" factor. He has made this vintage well in that regards, there is just a hint of oak towards the finish as well as notes of cocoa powder. As a result this is a wine that does very well with food.
Their packaging represents the family's history. The wine label is blue (how many blue labels can you find on wine bottles – not many) but this color is traditional and it is designed well (with significant input on the design from Rebecca). The colors are taken from the flag flown in their family's village in Italy. This village is named Quercia which means Oak in Italian; – an oak leaf on the label portrays a number of individual grapes – each of these grapes represents a family member involved in the winery.
To a great man, Ron Sciandri – one of the nicest and most impressive of character people we have met in the past 10 years working on the Napa Wine Project. He will be sorely missed.


Hi everyone. I've got a problem with 3089. It worked fine until yesterday, but today when I tried launching the game, it launches the settings menu no problem, the command window in the background says that Java seems to be working, but when I try to actually launch the game, the screen goes black for a minute and then it kicks me out.
No error messages are displayed. Tried rebooting, uninstalled Java and reinstalled. I'm running Windows 8.1 with Java 7 u51.
I uninstalled Java 7 u51 and installed u45 (had to get an Oracle account to download the older installer) and the game works again.


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From Biology to Blogosphere
Emily Thwaites, Staff Writer
It's not every day you find a cancer biology researcher by day and a 'fashionisto' by night, but that's exactly how Calgarian fashion and lifestyle blogger, Vincent Law, describes himself. A Hong Kong native, Law moved to Calgary during his teens and has remained here ever since.
"I finished my undergrad and grad school in cancer biology, so I do clinical research," says Law. "Fashion [has been] a passion of mine since I was little, but I never really got the chance to focus my passion to be a part of my education."
Four years ago, Law established his blog, Binzento ("Vincent" in Japanese). "I guess I wasn't very creative… the domain 'Vincent' had been taken," he laughs.
"It's my name, and for the longest time I've had this huge appreciation of the Japanese culture and Japanese fashion," says Law. "It's just very unique and distinctive from other cultures."
What's interesting about his blog, is Law has really thought outside the fashion-blogging-box.
"I've seen a lot of blogs online that talk about personal style, or fashion design," says Law. "And for me, they're all interesting but there [was] nothing really at that time in Calgary… or even Canada for that matter, that really highlighted and embraced Canadian talent and emerging designers."
The motive behind his blog was to provide a platform to showcase the work of fashion entrepreneurs. Law says he owes his blog's success to his engagement with designers.
"When I travel to Milan or Paris, I don't just go to shows. I visit studios; I visit designers. Go to their workspace, go to their home and learn the story behind their work," says Law. "Fashion's all glamour upfront, but there's so much work behind it. I guess the backstage component, people kind of forget about all the dirty work behind the scenes."
The personal touch and emotion that Law brings to his blog truly makes it distinct from others of its kind. What's more, the connections he makes with the designers are genuine and long lasting.
"I've met so many people in the last four years, and some of them became really close friends."
Currently contributing for Vogue Italia, Law says he writes about Canadian designers in order to promote them to editors he meets in Italy. On top of his already jam-packed schedule, Law somehow manages to find the time to run his first entrepreneurial venture, Vinegar Designs Lab. This advertising company focuses on creative designs, productions and advertising for brands.
When asked where his favourite place is to shop in Calgary, Law reflects for a moment.
"That's a hard question because I think Calgary is growing [in terms of] the fashion community. I don't think I have a favourite shop."
Law usually shops for designs, so if a "particular store carries that particular piece or particular collection, then I would definitely shop there." Law adds that he often shops online and also frequents Holt Renfrew when looking for certain designers.
"I'm a huge supporter of Canadian designers and fashion because we're such a small community, so you know, I go for Canadian brands once in a while." Personal favourites of Law's include Leo Boutique, Frank & Oak, Caitlin Power, Travis Taddeo and local menswear designer KaaDiki.
"If I'm travelling to Fashion Week in another country, then I definitely would pick out all the Canadian fashions that I think are pieces for that week, cause' I just want to, represent in a way."
When it comes to personal style, Law says he doesn't really have a set style. "It really depends on what captures my attention and captures my eye. I try to be versatile that way."
Law says he likes anything that's unique, beautiful and exhibits really great designs. "A lot of fashion personalities, Anna Wintour, or Anna Piaggi or Anna Della Russo, they all have a very unique sense of style. I think for me though, because I'm not really putting myself out there as a fashion icon per se, I'm more of a creator, I guess."
A lover of avant-garde fashions, it is no surprise Law's favourite designer is Vivienne Westwood, responsible for bringing modern punk into the mainstream. Other fashion inspirations of his include Belgian designer Martin Margiela and Japanese designer Yojhi Yamamoto, both very non-conventional street designers.
"I like things that are not always in order," says Law. "Some people want everything perfectly done, like everything has to be pale outfits, everything has to be symmetrical. I like things that are intentionally being distorted, designs that are very unique, but, they have a theory or mathematics or physics behind [the design]."
Channeling his inner scientist, Law always looks for a rationale as to why the designer created the piece. "If the designer [tells] me there's no rationale behind it, then it would not be something I would be attracted to."
To check out Law's blog, head over to his website www.binzento.com, or check him out on Instagram @binzento
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