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Workshop report: A Jewish Communal Response to #MeToo
A slide from Jewish Women International introduces the program at the July workshop.
Last week, I attended a workshop called A Jewish Communal Response to #MeToo. I came in my role as vice chair of the board for Hillel at Gallaudet. Kudos go to the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington for hosting and inviting organization leaders to the table. Still, an invitation is just the beginning. I was curious to see what the conversation and approach would look like. The workshop, held over breakfast at the Federation's HQ in Rockville, Md., followed a simple and proactive agenda.
First, Federation CEO Gil Preuss greeted us. "Many times," Preuss said, "Change happens when moments arise." In this case, he added, "We can't let this moment pass."
The main program kicked off with the particulars and immediacy of "this moment," courtesy of Lori Weinstein from Jewish Women International. Weinstein is the CEO of JWI and, she noted, bears no relation to the notorious Hollywood figure who triggered today's #MeToo movement. She started by outlining the types of harassment, then shared the picture painted by data from the Chronicle of Philanthropy and the Association of Fundraising Professionals. The statistics point to outstanding challenges for nonprofits, especially in fundraising. Those who give to organizations can take actions and make assumptions that constitute sexual harassment. Continue reading →
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What I'm Consuming: Women on Screen, Part II
Continuing on from Part I, I give you:
Good Girls Revolt
In the Amazon series Good Girls Revolt, it's 1969 and News of the Week only runs bylines with men's names. The media is all about guys like Doug and Randy and Sam. This show, though, is all about Patti and Cindy and Jane. I watched the ten-episode Season 1 soon after it came out last fall, and I'm still thinking about it.
The three main characters work at News of the Week — a fictitious magazine — as researchers and a caption writer, each supporting a man. Patti is a striver whose passion for news wins over her personal life every time. Cindy writes photo captions and feels more at home in the newsroom than at home with her law student husband. Jane was the editor-in-chief of her college newspaper, but now bows to the editorial control of male editors.
The story line clings to those three, but others make welcome appearances along the way. The first cameo is Nora Ephron, who pops up in Episode 1, faces sexism, and … well, I won't spoil it. Let's say she's about nine episodes ahead of her time.
The dialogue moves fast. Patti or Jane talk out who they need to probe, dial a source, and get the job done. They're the Ginger Rogers of the newsroom, doing everything the men do, but behind the scenes and in huge hair.
Does this sound like a ladies'-view version of Mad Men? If you think so, you're in the company of many, many reviewers.
Patti, Cindy, and Jane face their own battles and injustices, but with refreshing results: They don't take out frustration on fellow women. When Nora joins them, Jane gamely shows her around. When Jane hits a wall getting a source to go on record for her reporter's story, Patti steps in to nab the right interview. Next to these alliances, Don Draper's friendships with men look downright catty.
I agree with critics who say that the atmosphere is simplified. The race relations, especially, leave me wondering. Could a white man who buys into mainstream culture dig an FBI conspiracy against the Black Panther Party? Would a black woman in an all-white, male-dominated newsroom find her biggest challenge is awkward small talk? The women are also so selfless and forgiving. Crab mentality and gender stereotypes aside, would that come easily to anyone in the competitive world of journalism?
The best part? For me, it's the DC connection. That comes in the form of Eleanor Holmes Norton. Today, she's a congressional delegate for DC in her third or fourth decade as a DC statehood crusader and law professor. In 1969, she's a self-possessed attorney with the ACLU. It is the Norton character who looks into the researchers' wide eyes and tells them they have a case.
Occasional complications and nuances help move the story along. Patty is a complicated soul, as she grapples with her obsession with getting the story and advocating for herself. She also shows tender feelings for her reporter lover boy while resisting commitment. The male characters are also well-developed. Aside from the chorus of horn dogs and misogynists, several show the pull between the waning ways of the 1950s and the social justice groundswell of the '60s and '70s. In another notable twist, the feared and revered publisher happens to be a woman named Bea. She shows up one day to treat the male cadre of reporters and editors to a three-martini lunch. Bea's appearance shows that gals can be both powerful and sexist.
I haven't come across a parallel of Erin Ramsey's essay urging people to see Good Girls. I will give my own endorsement, though. Give the show a chance — especially if you're a writer, journalist, or witness to injustice.
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What I'm Consuming: Women on Screen, Part I
It's time for another What I'm Consuming. This is a two-part deal focusing on a recent film and TV show. I dedicate this series to Hillary Clinton.
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For Part I, let's talk about "Ghostbusters: Answer the Call"
This remake of the 1984 "Ghostbusters" is known for one thing: A ghoul-fighting cadre that is all female. When the movie came out over the summer, reviews sounded like the wheeze of a noisemaker at a lame party. "Ra ra, it's got a female cast," critics said. "I wish I liked it more."
When I finally saw it this month, I was amazed. In two words: It's wonderful. Perhaps a cult classic in the making.
The co-star Kristen Wiig plays scientist Erin Gilbert. At Columbia, she's a physics professor up for tenure. In the world of movie tropes, she's the cowed loser up for transformation. You can practically see the blinking red arrow over her head, declaring Keep your eye on this one! She'll change by the closing credits! In an early scene, a male administrator at Columbia advises Dr. Gilbert on strengthening her tenure application. His condescending advice? Get a recommendation from a school more prestigious than Princeton. Continue reading →
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Publication: Pressure Point Therapy in O
Look who's in the July issue of O the Oprah Magazine! In the A-Z guide to relaxation for the busy woman, I explain (veeeery briefly) how P is for pressure point therapy. Check out page 104.
It was a pleasure to work with editors Elyse Moody and Molly Simms on this, and to draw on the expertise of Cat Matlock.
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Tagged as health writing, massage, Oprah, pressure point therapy, publications, relaxation, trigger point therapy
What I'm Consuming: Home Fires Burning by Karen Houppert
It seems fitting to finish Home Fires Burning: Married to the Military–for Better or Worse on Memorial Day. And that's what I did. Considering my last What I'm Consuming post* was a while ago, I'm also due for another one. So here it goes. What it is and why it's here This is a book of nonfiction by a writer I respect, who spends years researching her books.** She is also the daughter of a U.S. Air Force pilot. Home Fires Burning weaves together portraits of, as Houppert puts it, "women who straddle the military world–one foot on post, one foot in the civilian sector." Most of the interviews took place on an army base in New York. But each personal story reifies a larger narrative–about war widows, domestic violence, the economics of military jobs, political dissent. Though Houppert is a seasoned journalist, the picture she paints is far from neutral. The book takes a critical angle on military practices, especially when it comes to spouses and children of the enlisted. The stories highlight hypocrisy on the bases and in the military in general. Continue reading →
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What I'm Consuming: Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
It's time for another What I'm Consuming post. I started with a collection of shortish fiction. This next one is a collection of short nonfiction (i.e. essays) — Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay (Harper Perennial, 2014).
What it is and why it's here
Bad Feminist is a collection of essays by a fiction writer and cultural critic. Gay chews on and critiques all manner of things in pieces you may recognize from Slate, The Rumpus, and others.
The book starts off with disarming reads. Gay's first essay on feminism has her questioning the absolutism many associate with the term. "I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy," Gay writes. She is also:
…a woman who loves pink and likes to get freaky and sometimes dances her ass off to music she knows, she knows, is terrible to women and who sometimes plays dumb with repairmen because it's just easier to let them feel macho than it is to stand on the moral high ground.
Filed under Community of writers, Teaching, What I'm Consuming, Women
Tagged as essays, feminism, Roxane Gay, Scrabble, Slate, Sweet Valley High, The Help, The Rumpus, Tyler Perry
What I'm Consuming: The Liar's Wife by Mary Gordon
In the first of what I hope to make a series of posts, I'd like to talk about The Liar's Wife: Four Novellas by Mary Gordon (Pantheon Books, 2014).
I'm calling the series "What I'm Consuming." I'm going to write about things I've watched, read, or heard (and maybe even eaten) that I liked and would recommend.
The Liar's Wife is a collection of an odd genre. I've never seen more than one of these long stories/short novels together before. The quartet comes to 288 pages in all, and comes together well. Three of the protagonists are women — two very young and the third just past retirement age. Only one of the main characters is male — an elderly man looking back on his teenaged years.
Two of the novellas plop real historical figures Simone Weil and Thomas Mann into plausible but completely fictional settings. Gordon then imagines a central character to put in his or her path and a series of events steeped in the figure's heyday.
I'm writing about this here — with a heading that pledges I would recommend it — because of the characters, especially the female protagonists Jocelyn, Genevieve, and Theresa. Here are brilliant women, one of them fortunate in life (financially, family-wise, professionally) on top of that. The other two are survivors of World War II Europe and an affair with a pretentious professor, respectively. These women bask in and benefit from their enviable luck and talents, but also question their worth. It takes a great writer to create a woman who has a comfortable retirement, a loving husband, and thriving children, but wonders if she might be better off roaming the country in a Frito Lay truck and singing in dives — and Gordon makes the reader wonder, too.
How I came upon it
I read this book because Gordon's daughter was a childhood friend. No joke! I didn't realize at the time that Anna's mother was a famous writer. But by this past fall, I knew it well enough to hightail it to Politics and Prose to see the mom from the stone house on North Oakwood Street.
Gordon is a fantastic reader. She read from the title work, performing the parts of the Irish truth twister, his Southern-born companion, and the Italian pizzeria owner as easily as the protagonist with a familiar northeastern American voice. I dug into the book a few months later, during what I'll call a "working staycation" between semesters.
I could have binge-watched yet more Scandal over those cold, laid-back weeks, but the characters and stories in The Liar's Wife kept pulling me back to the printed page. They kept me reading and made me think.
Until next time, happy consuming!
Tagged as books, female characters, fiction, literature, Mary Gordon, novellas, The Liar's Wife
One writer's experience at Binder Con
Check out my experience at Out of the Binders, aka #BinderCon, on Storify: https://storify.com/RheaYK/out-of-the-binders.
I was inspired by the Storify version of the Google For Media Summit, I decided to make one myself for this conference for women and gender non-conforming writers. Thanks for reading!
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Tagged as BinderCon, Leigh Stein, Lux Alptraum, New York, NYC, NYU, Out of the Binders, pitching, publications, publishing, speed pitching, Women in writing


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Here is the last of our Halloween stories–this one has a different twist of being true!
Once a year during the summer I go camping in upstate New York, on property my daughter and her husband purchased with a friend. The area is known as Dunbar Hollow. It is a quiet place surrounded by rolling hills, wildflower meadows, acres of rambling blackberry bushes and it's hard to imagine that a horrific crime once took place here.
As the story is told, Reuben Dunbar and his new wife were expecting their first child when his widowed mother remarried a man named David Lester, who was raising two orphaned nephews, Stephen age 7 and David age 9. Back then a married woman could not hold the right to property and Reuben was fearful that his new stepfather's nephews would inherit property that he thought was rightfully his.
One day David Lester went on a business trip and left Reuben in charge of his nephews. During his absence, the two brothers went missing. Reuben first said they had gone picking butternuts. He then changed his story and said they went fishing. He altered his story once more when he admitted that he did not know where the boys were.
The boys were however found exactly where Rueben had told the search party not to look; one child lying under a tree beneath a blanket of leaves, clubbed to death, and the other boy was found near his brother hanging by the neck from a tree limb.
It was Reuben's conflicting stories, his suspicious behavior and his known animosity towards the two little boys that made him the prime suspect and he was arrested for the murders. His trial lasted twelve days, with Rueben declaring his innocence all the while, but it took the jury only two hours of deliberation to return a verdict: guilty.
Reuben Dunbar protested his innocence until the day of his execution when he realized that there would be no clemency and he confessed to a Baptist minister that he did murder both boys. Reuben was hanged on January 31, 1851.
My daughter and her husband knew this story when they bought the land ten years ago and they weren't frightened by what they heard. It gave the place character was how they looked at it. They wanted to use the area as a camping site on weekends and for summer vacations and planned to build a shed to sleep in at night and it would be a place for their son, Devon, to grow up knowing about the wilderness.
The area is lovely. The wildflowers, moths and butterflies make the land come alive with color and energy and the only sound that can be heard for miles–besides the laughter of my grandson–are the birds and insects that click and snap all day and long into the night. During the daylight everything feels normal, the trees, the insect life, the clouds crawling slowly over the distant hills. At night, though, I sense the change.
There is a cemetery on the property and this is where the Dunbar family was buried. Everyone that is, except for Reuben Dunbar. He was banned from the cemetery and was buried several miles away.
Even the Dunbar Cemetery looks normal during the day nestled on a woodland knoll, an old rot iron fence encircling the graveyard with an elaborate gate, its' hinges long frozen shut with rust, the corroded metal posts now the color of dried blood. In the daylight I'm not bothered much by the metal that over the years has grown thick and plump with pits and bubbles making it look as though the fence had once been boiling hot. It all seems ordinary in a macabre kind of way, even with several fence posts protrude from an old oak trunk looking as if the tree was swallowing them.
My grandson and I stroll through the property, Devon carrying a stick, me with a camera. We often hike up the hill to the cemetery. The trees that tower above us were most likely sapling all those years ago when the first grave was dug.
Standing on the edge of the cemetery, Devon and I watch the sunlight playing like it does nowhere else on the land. Large droplets of light dart across our feet as the wind overhead tosses the limbs back and forth. Devon runs, trying to catch the light as if it were butterflies that he could stuff into a jar.
Most of the tombstones have been heaved up from the earth, dislodged by time. Leaning against each other helter-skelter, they no longer resemble headstones. The names, dates of birth and death are worn away by the weather as though time could erase sorrowful memories and the dead now lay namelessly in the land.
Small moss covered grave markers lay flat against the earth outside of the fenced in cemetery, tangled in amongst the groundcover of vines and broken twigs making it difficult to tell where the graves actually were. A thick blanket of ivy creeps across the hillside eating these small headstones underfoot, etching trails across the marble's pitted surface looking like varicose veins on old dried skin. Devon tries to pick one up, but the marble slabs are too heavy and they fall back onto the land as though the earth will not let them go.
I never venture into the cemetery at night. The snapping of fallen dead tree limbs underfoot is enough of a creepy feeling in the dappled sunlight and I cannot help but imagine that in the dark it might sound like I was treading on someone's old dried bones.
As the evening shadows grow long and the evening air cools, I move closer to the campfire. A glass of wine, the smoky flavor of hotdogs and roasted potatoes cooked in the outdoors lighten the mood as the darkness closes in around my little family.
My grandson sits next to me and displays the treasures he's found during the day, leaves, rocks and even a dead crawly thing. Soon he's slipped into his sleeping bag while the adults finish the wine and clear away the dinner debris. The fire slowly burns out and we hear only the clicking of embers cooling in the evening air. The conversation slows too, and we crawl into our sleeping bags, with stars hanging above us in clusters and smoky ribbons of light.
There is music in the night sounds. Insects call to each other, strange animal cries, the rustling of dried leaves brush against each other as the wind hurries up and down a hillside. It is easy to imagine, laying in the dark, that spirits and ghosts are part of the night sounds. And I think about the murdered little boys. I wonder if they once played in the very spot where I was now tucked away in my sleeping bag. I do not imagine them so much as haunting us, but revisiting their play area. Are they curious about my grandson? Did they also find rocks and leaves and dried up old dead bugs?
I know that I will eventually fall asleep but before I do, I listen for any sign that what I am imagining is true. Are there little ghosts tiptoeing around our campsite? I watch the light of a full moon slowly creep over a distant hill and I wonder if those little ghosts have forgotten the terror of that night when Reuben took them into the woods.
No, I will not stand at the fence of the cemetery in the night but I promise those little spirits that I will visit them in the morning before we head back to the city.
You can check out all of our Halloween stories in our Terrific Tales section.
Margaret Mendel was born in San Jose and has a Master's degree in Counseling from the University of San Francisco & a Master's of Fine Arts in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Currently residing in New York, she has had several short stories and articles published. To learn more about Margaret go to her website.
Margaret: Great storytelling! Truth is sometimes harder than fiction. One of those "Well, you had to be there!" kind of things. Thanks. Yours truly, Toe.
Thanks for your comment, Toe. Yep, some real stuff folks would never believe, but then when I read some fiction, well I just don't know how they get away with those long tales. Guess that's what makes life interesting.
You do such a wonderful job of capturing the spooky feeling of just knowing about a grizzly history, even though long past. I can't wait to read your forthcoming book.
I grew uo not far from Dunbar Hollow. My Mother had told me the same story, she even had some aticles about it. There was a swimming hole somwhere near there where we used to go swimming.
I have been down that trail at night years ago with my dad and sister because we heard it was haunted and we were curois about it I live not far from there. We drove in my dads ick up truck and about half way in the trail the lights stopped working in my dads truck and we got really scared and about 10 seconds after that a tree branch fell in the back of the truck and then the lights came back on there own. Creepy never go back there at night.
I grew up the other side of Cass Hill and heard this story as a boy. Neighbors had the news article hanging on their kitchen wall. I used to hunt up in Dunbar Hollow and remember the cemetary. This was 45 years ago. There was a family name on the fence or gate, Brates, which goes back generations in those parts. West of the cemetary was a big planting of hemlock trees in the shape of a cross, hundred feet each way. In the center was a horizontal tombstone with Dunbar names on it. I always assumed that was the gravesite of the two boys. That tale was great to tell when we'd go camping up there!


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Brief Cuban History
When the conquerors went to Cuba, they brought products that did not exist in the Cuban agriculture. Since there was more work to do, they decided to make the aboriginal people slaves, so that they worked for them. The conquerors also brought slaves from Africa to further work on the agriculture in Cuba. These slaves brought their own language and religion.
The conquerors mixed with the aboriginals, who stated to disappear because of massive extermination, forced work and new illnesses from Europe that slaves were not used to. The aboriginals extinguished and a new race was born "criollo"; a mixture of conquerors and slaves. Because they had been born in Cuba, they started to feel a certain nationalism and they rebelled against the Colony.
Independence War of 1868
Big personalities start to emerge, like Felix Varela and José Martí, who started the first war for Cuba's independence with their ideas. This started in 1868 until 1978, when the conquerors promised to leave Cuba and the Colony. This did not happen, so on the 13th of March, 1878, Antonio Maceo rebelled with the protest of Baracoa. For the next 10 years there were smaller wars until 1895, when the US decides to help Cuba to get out of the Colony, interfering in the war.
In 1902, the US writes an amendment that says that the US can intervene in the political, economical and social issues of Cuba. From 1902 until 1958, Cuba was corrupted politically; there were 5 governors at the same time (Percantia) a governor that lasted for 100 days (Grau), governors that auto proclaimed they were the governors (Bastista). In 1953, a young lawyer with a group of young people decides to assault the Moncada base, the biggest of the whole island. Fidel Castro.
Even thought it was not a big victory, this act served people the function of knowing there was a leader that could go against the dictatorship and tirany at that time (Batista). Fidel was incarcerated and exiled to the East. He spent years in prison until the president of Cuba at the time gives political amnisty. Fidel Castro had met other revolutionary people who shared his ideals, among others, the Argentinian Ché Guevara. They buy a boat and they arrive in Cuba with 82 revolutionaries. Fidel installs himself in the mountains to try and liberate the country from there.
His brother, Raúl, and other young people go to the islands in the centre of Cuba. Between those two places, they start committing different acts to start and liberate the country. In 1958, Batista had lost the connection with the North Government, is taken his money away and he goes away from Cuba, allowing the victory of the new government of Cuba.
After USA
In 1959, Cuba is a small island in the middle of the Caribbean who had broken any relations with the US and it was alone, in a crisis by the dictator. Cuba asks for international help and the Sovietic Union is the one who answers. The URSS sends a boat with men to work in Cuba as well as petrol. This makes Cuba to start following the ideas of the Russian comunism. During those years, they did negotiations with the Russians (chocolate in exchange of petrol).
In 1989, when the Berlin Wall falls and the communist current is no longer in full force, Cuba is left alone again and in a crisis that was called "special period". The Cuban government had to take measures to recover its economy. The most importante one was tourism, without forgetting public health, public education, technology or researches, which were the ones developed with the revolution.
Nowadays...
Nowadays Cuba is developing biotechnology and construction material, while keeping its principal industries like rum, tobacco, etc. Diplomatic relationships with other countries are also helping in recovering: Canada, Spain, Italy, Japan, France, Brasil, Venezuela o China.
5 Things To Take Into Account Before Going To Cuba
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The new cinema will be located in Ankeny, IA adjacent to the city's Prairie Trail development. This hip and stylish district has become home to microbreweries and unique bodegas. Having the distinct designation of being the first 4D theatre in the state, the excitement will draw residents from the nearby metropolis of Des Moines.
Working closely together, the power-house team of MX4D and B&B have successfully opened four previous locations. "Offering a unique out-of-home experience like MX4D has been a great draw for B&B Theatres," says Brock Bagby, Executive Vice President. The cinema chain's other MX4D theatres are in Tulsa, OK and Shawnee, KS as well as Lee's Summit and Liberty, MO.
The high-tech seats for all MX4D auditoriums feature a full range of motion and effects to enhance Hollywood's latest releases. Moving beyond standard 3D, they utilize MMI's newly patented EFX armrest which allows for every customer to have a better uniform experience across an entire theater. Additional atmospheric effects may include wind, fog, and strobes.
Upcoming releases in MX4D, at select theaters, include: Sony's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Disney's Mary Poppins Returns, Paramount's Bumblebee, and Warner Brothers' Aquaman. In addition to these Hollywood blockbusters, MX4D programs select regional and national releases in native languages. Consult the B&B website for showtimes: https://www.bbtheatres.com/page/mx4d
ABOUT B&B THEATRES
B&B Theatres is a fourth generation, family-owned and operated leader in exhibition. Since opening its first movie house in Salisbury, Missouri over 90 years ago, the company has grown to 50 locations and over 400 screens across the United States, with theatres in Arkansas, Arizona, Kansas, Florida, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Iowa, and Texas. B&B is the seventh largest theatre chain in America, with theatres featuring leading edge amenities and technology, including Marquee Suites®, IMAX®, PLF GRAND SCREEN® and MX4D Motion EFX Seating®. For press inquiries, contact: Brock Bagby, Executive Vice President, B&B Theatres, 816-407-7469
ABOUT MEDIAMATION, INC.
For nearly 30 years, MediaMation, Inc. has provided innovative technological
solutions to the Cinema and Themed Entertainment market and has expanded to the esports industry in 2017. MediaMation is an interactive technology company and a worldwide, leading supplier and manufacturer of patented technology for 4D Motion EFX theaters and seats, including its MX4D Motion EFX technology, with over 300 cinema installations worldwide. MMI also designs and implements turnkey creative solutions for complex shows, rides, exhibits, fountain shows, etc. for theme parks, zoos, aquariums, museums, cinemas and FECs.
For more information, visit www.MX-4D.com, follow @MediaMationMX4D on
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South Africa celebrated the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's birth this week. His birthday on July 18 is marked annually around the world and the Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) called this year for people to "take action and inspire change" in Mandela's name.
People around the country heeded the call to do good in honour of Madiba including reigning Miss Universe Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, Miss South Africa title holders Tamaryn Green and Thulisa Keyi as well as former Miss World, Dr Rolene Strauss.
Nel-Peters was in the country to take part in the official Absa NMF Centenary Celebrations. On Wednesday, July 18, she visited the David Makhubo Secondary School in Midrand to do her bit and share her story. In honour of Mandela Day, the school's offices and kitchen were refurbished and other donations made.
The school was established in 2014 as a response to the challenges posed by the socio-economic conditions in the community of Kaalfontein, Extension 23, and surrounding townships. Currently the school has 1151 learners, from grade 8 to grade 12, and continues to face many challenges when it comes to infrastructure and resources needed to provide the best possible learning environment for their students.
Miss South Africa Tamaryn Green – along with Cell C (licence holders of Miss South Africa along with Sun International) – participated in Adopt-a-School's Back to School for a Day activities at Tshilidzi Primary School in Chiawelo, Soweto. Two teams of volunteers took part – one painted a classroom while the other assisted with a touch rugby clinic.
Miss South Africa World Thulisa Keyi (who hails from Mdantsane outside East London in the Eastern Cape) and former Miss World Dr Rolene Strauss joined reigning Miss World Manushi Chhillar in Mvezo (Madiba's birthplace) in the Eastern Cape where they did a handover of the first 100 percent compostable sanitary pad manufacturing unit in South Africa.
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This course will present statistical methods and inference procedures with an emphasis on applications, computer implementation, and interpretation of results. Familiarity with the R programming language (learned in DS 710) is highly recommended. Topics include simple and multiple regression, model selection, correlation, moderation/interaction analysis, logistic regression, the chi-square test, the Kruskal-Wallis test, analysis of variance (ANOVA), multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), factor analysis, and canonical correlation analysis.
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Monday's Bharat bandh was the first pan-India campaign through which the Congress is trying to lead a consolidated opposition against the BJP. With 21 parties extending support to the Congress' call for the Bharat bandh, the shutdown has projected the growing strength of a united opposition in the run up to 2019 Lok Sabha elections. However, the failure of Congress to widen its platform of opposition parties (SP, BSP, Trinamool did not join hands) and convince them to be part of a joint programme is a cause for some worry. The nationwide shut down to protest rising fuel prices received mixed responses. In several states including Assam, Arunachal Pradesh bandh received support of the general public who are hit hard with the growing prices of fuel. There have been claims and counter claims as far as success of the shutdown is concerned. Yet, there is no denying that public response to Monday's Bharat bandh offers both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) reasons to cheer and worry simultaneously. The public anger against BJP is now not just being expressed through opinion polls, different surveys but is visible on streets. For the Congress, success of bandh in the states where it is the principal opposition and in states where it has politically significant allies, proves that the party has succeeded in converting people's anger against the ruling party into some form of protest. The Opposition has definitely scored a political point out of this shutdown.
The unusual spurt in diesel and petrol prices as a result of deadly cocktail of surging global oil prices and falling rupee value signal danger to the country's economy, which is on the path of recovery clocking 8 per cent GDP in the first quarter of this financial year. Besides surging global oil prices and falling rupee, one of the reasons for high domestic fuel prices is the high taxes both at the Centre and states as petrol and diesel are considered to be sources for revenue mop-up. The central excise duty on petrol and diesel more than tripled between 2013-14 and 2017-18. During the same period state VAT increased more than 38 per cent. The excise duty on petrol increased from Rs. 9.48 per litre to Rs. 21.48 in four years. In case of diesel it increased more than four times from Rs. 3.56 to Rs. 15.33.
Rising petroleum prices have a twin impact on inflation: via increased travel costs and a rise in transportation costs. The UPA government had drastically cut taxes in fuel prices as well as import duty on crude to zero per cent to ensure the suffering of common man was minimized as crude oil prices surged and touched a high of $147 a barrel at one point of time, whereas BJP-led NDA government used falling oil prices as opportune moment to mop up additional revenues by substantially hiking taxes. The Modi government should do two things that will be genuinely pro-consumer – (a) bringing petroleum products under the purview of GST and (b) throwing open the market to independent fuel retailers (IFR). The states can take the cue from Andhra Pradesh – where the government decided to go for Rs 2 cut in VAT on petrol and diesel – to reduce the burden on the common man.


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In the very beginning is often a zygote.
I try to let grow up my children in a way that encourages integrity.
For the birth of the twins I have had to search for a hospital which 'allowed' a natural birth and not a caesarean section. So the birth of child one and child two were odd 90 minutes apart.
This week I progress myself and stitch for the very first time... maybe with a thread from a Silk moth.
This week's drawing/art challenge is with the theme DEVELOPMENT.
are designing... Have a look around!
Ariane, I am so impressed by the twins birth story. I truly believe that those moments at birth follow them throughout their lives...you gave them the most peaceful and natural start. I can't say that I have heard of many ( if any) twins born without a cesarean operation. Good for you!
I also agree with the matter of children losing their freedom these days. Here in Marblehead my thoughts about school kids was confirmed by a local yesterday: that kids here are over scheduled. We see kids coming and going to classes, after school sports, etc, but rarely do we see them playing freely without a structure or guide or teacher. Hence, we haven't made any "friends" here. Kids are too busy! I realize why now.
Your embroidery! Is it on paper? That deep rose color is delicious. The circle design so simple and composition has depth and balance.
I have never embroidered with silk. I'm not sure why. I have been denying myself!!! I think I will indulge in some of that. I love to embroider.
I love your stitching, is it on velvet?
Where, my dear , in the world do you find the time????
as usual your flower photos make me swoon.
i am of course loving the circles, the colour tone, the texture. i love your embroidery first! you are an eisenbach star!
and thank you, ariane, for this insight in your own private corner, your headstrong thoughts on a natural birth for twins. you are courageous!
just to perhaps confirm the above... our son wasn't interested in much besides school activities, and i let him go his own way. our life has been such that he could do this, and always in the company of another peer. it was letting him walk the city at 9, or something, just to go get a bread, e.g. it has evolved into being independent today. i often forget and check with him, and he goes: mu-um! just to say, he did go his own way, even as a child, and he's reaping all that this entails.
Oh, Ariane, the Queen of Beauty.
I am sorry I missed your invitation. Although I did post something today, it might be hard to connect it with development. Maybe in a larger sense, and writing is always some kind of development. Oh yes, it's my first poem in Swedish.
I must say, I love everything you do. All your pictures, all your writing. But most of all, maybe the atmosphere that surrounds what I imagine is 'you'.
Tame and fitted, that's what we don't want. We want autonomy and integrity. Especially in children. The hard part is that it must begin with the parents.
thank you, dear Renilde for that quote, I've never heard it before.
don't denying yourself... silk is wonderful!
You're right, dear Patrice, my embroidery is on velvet.
My lovely Milady, how nice to see you here again! - My household is a mess... thats why I have time.
hahah, an eisenbach star, heheehahah! Thanks a lot!
you really make me blushing... and later (with time and possibility for beeing more in depth) I'll come to your place of wise moth.
I go along with you, that its really a challenge to start with us. As parents we must start with ourselves... to be authentic.
Such a friendly, positive involvement here... wonderful. Thank you very much.


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Лакколит () — интрузивное тело грибообразной формы (с выпуклой поверхностью и плоским горизонтальным основанием). Образуется вязкой магмой, как правило, кислого состава, поступающими либо по водородным подводящим каналам снизу, либо из силла, и, распространяясь по слоистости, приподнимают вмещающие вышележащие породы, не нарушая их слоистости. Лакколиты встречаются поодиночке, либо группами. Размеры лакколитов сравнительно небольшие — от сотен метров до нескольких километров в диаметре.

Бисмалит

Особой разновидностью лакколитов являются бисмалиты ( — пробка и  — камень), представляющие собой позднюю стадию формирования лакколита. В тех случаях, когда давление вязкой магмы превышает вес вышележащих слоев, в кровле лакколита может появиться система трещин, куда внедряется магма, с образованием секущего цилиндрического тела. Бисмалиты могут достигать поверхности Земли или оканчиваться в толще осадочных пород, приподнимая их в виде купола.

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 Плутон (геология)

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Литература
 Герасимов И. П. Лакколиты Пятигорья и терминальные углекислые Минеральные воды. Гора Машук // Франко-советский географический симпозиум «Альпы — Кавказ»: Путеводитель по Кавказу: [Материалы к симпоз., авг. 1974 г.]. М.; Тбилиси, 1974. С. 52-66. схем.
 Герасимов И. П. Пятигорские «лакколиты» и происхождение кавказских минеральных вод // Геоморфология, 1974. № 3. C. 3-13.

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'Colditz' the turkey escapes abattoir truck and Royal Family's Christmas dinner table
A TURKEY heading for the Royal Family's dinner table has been spared the chop – after hightailing it from a lorry bound for the abattoir.
By Tom Morgan
00:01, Tue, Dec 3, 2013
Prince Charles on a visit to Rhug Estate's farm [CATERS NEWS AGENCY]
The organically-reared fowl made a dash for it when the truck door was unlatched.
However, the bird-brained beast then sought refuge in the garden of the farmer's mother-in-law – and his goose looked truly cooked.
But farmer Gareth Williams was so impressed by the escape attempt, he decided to spare the bird, which has since been named Colditz.
Gareth, who works at the farm on the Rhug Estate in Corwen, North Wales – where Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall source their Christmas turkeys – was left baffled when he discovered he was one turkey down on arrival at the slaughterhouse.
The poultry farmer said: "I was obviously shocked to see the door was open.
Farmer Gareth Williams with Colditz, the turkey whose leap to freedom earned it a reprieve [CATERS NEWS AGENCY]
Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall source their Christmas turkey from the Rhug Estate [PA]
It is 70 miles to the abattoir so I really didn't expect to see the turkey again. I was grateful it was only one
Farmer Gareth Williams
"It is 70 miles to the abattoir so I really didn't expect to see the turkey again. I was grateful it was only one."
But Colditz soon turned up in the village of Llangollen – and boldly pecked on the front door of Gareth's mother-in-law, Pam Owen.
Gareth, 52, said: "I got a call from Pam and she said a turkey had been found. They had heard it pecking around their courtyard, and even on the front door."
Owner of the Rhug Estate, Lord Newborough, was tickled by the turkey's escape attempt and helped name him. He said: "My father escaped a Nazi prison camp in the Second World War but was captured and sent to Colditz, so we thought that would be a fitting name.
"He's become a bit of a mascot for the Rhug farm."
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In Extension, issues programming is distinguished from disciplinary (base) programming by a focus on broad and complex societal issues, and targeting of nontraditional audiences and interdisciplinary faculty involvement.1 Since its introduction in 1987 as a new programming concept in the Cooperative Extension System (CES),2 issues programming has had its proponents and adversaries. Some believe the underlying philosophy and recommended approach were overdue and are appropriate to addressing the broad and complex problems facing society. Others counter that Extension has always addressed societal issues, in community resource development and public policy education particularly. They further argue that Extension shouldn't dilute agricultural programs and divert its attention to complex issues in which we may not be competent or have much control while exposing ourselves to the risk of controversy and the frustration of failure.
Because such mixed feelings are aroused by issues programming, we surveyed state Extension Services in 1991 to find out whether the concept had been implemented. Our survey showed that most states had initiated the process at about the same time and were addressing many issues. Of the 38 states that responded, 36 had begun issues programming in 1987 or 1988, with 87% of them saying that all counties were participating and 45% indicating that up to one-fourth of their total program effort was on issues. An average of six statewide issues were being addressed covering a wide range from agriculture to family/community to the environment. A variety of planning and implementation procedures were reported from respondents, the most common being state issues planning and oversight teams. Invariably some system of grassroots issues identification and collaborative structure was being used to address consensus issues in the states.3 It appears, therefore, states are committed to the process.
In 1988, the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service (LCES) adapted nationally recommended issues programming procedures to increase nontraditional clientele representation on Parish (County) Advisory Councils, identify local/state issues, and operationalize task forces for addressing priority issues.4 Field faculty with specialist support were intended to serve as facilitators in networking resources required to address or resolve issues. Considerable time and money were invested in faculty training and implementation of this initiative.
In 1991, we evaluated the LCES issues programming effort to see how well it had worked and what could be done to improve it.
This study of the perceptions of faculty and local leaders who had participated in Parish Advisory Councils and issues task forces was conducted to help LCES draw conclusions about the utility of the issues programming process.
We designed a qualitative evaluation using the focus group interview technique.
Four interviews at two sites designed to draw participants from 22 of the 64 parishes (counties) in the state were established. Lists of leaders who had served on a Parish Advisory Council and at least one issues task force were obtained from the selected parishes. Currently employed agents who had been involved with issues programming were identified. A random sample of 22 leaders and 22 agents was drawn to participate in the study. When the interviews were held, 13 leaders and 18 agents attended.
The interviews were moderated by a trained, non-Extension person. Interviews were audio and video recorded and written notes kept. Questions moved from general to specific.
Interview data were analyzed by recommended qualitative data analytical techniques. Perceptual messages were extracted, sorted into categories and indexed, summarized into action/situation- outcome tables, and perception themes/patterns abstracted by the researchers.
Agents expressed strong feelings of resistance toward the changes needed to conduct issues programming. Poorly timed initiation, newness of the concept, fear of territorial problems, and confusion about the process to be followed were contributory factors.
While agents were impressed by the need for and value of staff teamwork to do issues programming, they'd experienced both good and poor cooperation.
Leaders perceived agents performing multifaceted roles of facilitating, coordinating, educating, and leading issues programming. Agents were comfortable in the role of educator, but weren't confident about their role or their ability to lead and facilitate the process.
Both leaders and agents believed volunteers were available in parishes, but weren't being effectively used. They indicated volunteer effectiveness could be increased by proper selection and communication, involving them in issues in which they had interest and expertise, and serving on task forces in planning and implementing programs.
Parish Advisory Councils functioned well in all parishes because they had broad representation. They surfaced broader, nontraditional issues, prioritized doable issues, and legitimized agents' involvement in the issues. Issues task forces, however, had only limited success due to inadequate citizen or volunteer participation and local/Extension leadership. Successful task forces had strong leadership and active Extension involvement, often in a facilitator role.
Some frustration was expressed by leaders that the issues programming process wasn't continued to a planned termination point, with proper communication provided by the agent. Agents accepted this as a caution to future responsibility.
Respondents believed that issues programming was successful even though the process wasn't followed in most parishes. They identified these chief accomplishments: that Extension is broader and better recognized in local communities, has better ties with local governments, and is networking with other agencies.
From a program development perspective, the motivation engendered among leaders and agents for program planning and evaluation, and the closeness and cooperation experienced among them are positive outcomes of the issues programming process.
The full support of field administrators should be enlisted before a new programming initiative.
Agents and specialists should be trained to function in new roles, using communication principles and practices and how to network for resources.
State-level program planners and facilitators should be equipped with the necessary knowledge and skill to implement new programming concepts.
Agents and leaders must be more effectively involved in planning, implementation, and evaluation of Extension programs.
The organization needs to allow more flexibility and adaptability in Extension programming to encourage acceptance and creativity at the local level.
Lessons learned from the issues programming experience in Louisiana, as expressed by agents and leaders, provide useful insights into cautions, strengths, and weaknesses that should be considered in future issues programming efforts.
1. Extension in Transition: Bridging the Gap Between Vision and Reality (Washington, D.C.: Extension Committee on Organization and Policy, 1987).
2. K. A. Dalgaard and others, Issues Programming in Extension (St. Paul: Minnesota Extension Service and ES-USDA, 1988).
3. F. E. Baker, "A Qualitative Evaluation of the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Issues Programming Process Using Focus Group Interviews (Ph.D. dissertation, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1992).
4. F. E. Baker and others, Guidelines for Issues Programming in the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service (Baton Rouge: Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service, LSU Agricultural Center, 1989).
5. R. A. Krueger, Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research (Beverly Hills, California: Sage, 1988).


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Chances are if you've played more than a single game of League of Legends - you...
Chances are if you've played more than a single game of League of Legends - you probably already know just how frustrating and downright infuriating getting an AFK or troll player on your team can be.
Seemingly, these players jump into the game with the sole purpose of ruining your whole playing experience. And with the staggering number of incidents being reported every year - it seems that soft warnings, slaps on the wrist and temporary bans just aren't cutting it any longer.
It's been clear for a long time that the LoL player base wants something done to combat these types of players. However, over the years Riot just didn't seem to be able to put together an effective solution.
That is until they decided to lift the veil on a new set of in-game features that they're putting in place to weed out trolling and AFK players for good.
What Are The New Anti-AFK & Anti-Troll Features In LoL?
While Riot hasn't explicitly outlined every detail on the new features - the developers have already rolled out some updates on the PBN environments across the globe.
The first of these is an option to mute toxic and trolling players during the champion select phase of each LoL match. Added to this comes an option to report a player before the game even starts. However, it's evident that reports aren't processed instantly, meaning you'll still have to play out the match before any action would really be taken to punish the offender.
Riot has also made some very clear updates to the "summoner's code" to outline what is and is not deemed as acceptable behavior inside of the game. This indicates that Riot is serious about ramping up the level of punishment that they'll be dishing out to offenders. And one of the nicer changes is the fact that trolling and going AFK are now outlined far more explicitly when compared to the previously ambiguous terminology.
So, while you may not always be able to rid yourself and your team of a toxic player before the game starts - they're definitely in for a decent degree of punishment should they choose to keep trolling or leave the game altogether.
Enhanced Automated Detection Technology - A New Era Of LoL?
While the changes we covered earlier aren't exactly groundbreaking (rather being a step up from prior conditions) - the new "automated detection technology" is the centerpiece of what's coming to combat toxic players.
Effectively, this system will have the ability to automatically detect and punish players that are evidently trying to lose the match for their team or are going AFK for any given reason.
But that's just the starting line!
Riot has explicitly mentioned that once the technology is released, it will be trained on both of these "easily identifiable" behaviors in order to be used for a much broader scope of automatic moderation in the not-so-far future.
With AFK players and other forms of toxicity being a key problem in today's League of Legends community - Riot is finally taking some much-needed steps in order to combat these destructive behaviors.
With some smaller changes being implemented as an interim solution, the developer has a groundbreaking in-game technology in the works that is set to drive a whole new era of automated in-game moderation for one of the most popular online games in today's day and age.
And while there are no concrete timelines to be mentioned as of yet, the player community is abuzz with excitement over the prospect of toxicity being gradually weeded out of the game.
Now that we've covered the details - it's our turn to hear from you. What's the most toxic behavior that you've run into during a game of League? Let us know in the comments below!
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August 2019 Message from the County Administrator
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Message from the County Administrator
This message is a monthly update in 2019 to better update our citizens and visitors to our website. The information serves as a status report for ongoing projects, and also serves as a preview to different happenings that are in the planning stages.
The Board of Supervisors will hold a Special Meeting at 4 p.m. Wednesday, August 7 in the Boardroom to discuss various items in Closed Session.
The Board of Supervisors will hold its only regular meeting this month at 7 p.m. Tuesday, August 13 in the Boardroom. A Worksession will precede the regular meeting at 6 p.m. Tentative topics include: (1) Medicaid Expansion Program; (2) Adult Services Center; (3) Fire & EMS Apparatus; and (4) Dog Waste Ordinance.
National Night Out activities will be held at approximately 32 locations on Tuesday, August 6 from 5 – 9 p.m. Residents are encouraged to attend the nearest location to their home.
The Annual Back to School Fair will be held from 4-7 p.m. Thursday, August 22 at Scott Park.
Thursday, August 1 is the deadline to file for real estate tax relief for the elderly and permanently and totally disabled persons in the Commissioner of the Revenue's Office.
A Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting will be held for the Hibachi Hut at 12:00 Noon on Thursday, August 1 at the Prince George Commons Shopping Center.
The Hopewell-Prince George Chamber of Commerce will announce its 'Top 40 Under 40' list and hold a reception at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, August 1 at the SonaBank in Colonial Heights.
The Virginia Sales Tax Holiday will be held August 2-4 on items pertaining to school supplies, clothing/foot wear, emergency preparedness and energy efficiency.
The Prince George County Farmers Market will be held every Saturday in August, except August 31, from 8 a.m. – 12:00 Noon at Scott Park.
The Harbor Blast Concert series will continue Saturday, August 10 and Saturday, August 31 beginning at 4 p.m. at the Appomattox Boat Harbor.
The Southern Knights will host a Car Show from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday, August 3 at Richard Bland College.
The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM) will host 'Surface Engineering Day' on Wednesday, August 7, from 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Prince George County Government will host 'Bring Your Child or Grandchild to Work Day' on Friday, August 9.
The Hopewell-Prince George Community Health Center will host a 'Community Health Fair' from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Friday, August 9.
Tree Time Adventure Park will hold its Ribbon Cutting at 11 a.m. Friday, August 9 at its New Scott Park location.
Swader's Sports Park will celebrate its 13th anniversary from 1-5 p.m. Sunday, August 11.
The Prince George County Social Services Advisory Board will meet at 9 a.m. Monday, August 12 in the Social Services Administrative Offices.
The Prince George County School Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday, August 12 in the Boardroom.
The Fort Lee Civilian Military Council will meet at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, August 14 at Fort Lee's Engagement Skills Training Facility.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will hold a 'Flood Risk Review' meeting for the public from 1-3 p.m. Wednesday, August 14 in the offices of the Planning and Zoning Division in the Community Development & Code Compliance Department.
Crater Community Hospice will host a 'Caregivers Café' at 3 p.m. Wednesday, August 14 at the Petersburg Public Library.
The James River Soil & Water Conservation District will host a Farmers Cookout at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, August 15 at the Scott Park Pavilion.
Prince George County employees will celebrate a 'Night at the Diamond' on August 16 when the Flying Squirrels play the Harrisburg Senators.
A 'Book Sale' will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, August 17 at the Burrowsville Community Center.
The Prince George Fire & EMS Advisory Board will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, August 20 in the Boardroom.
The Prince George Business Roundtable will meet at 12:00 Noon Wednesday, August 21 at Southside Regional Medical Center.
The Prince George Planning Commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, August 22 in the Boardroom.
The First 'E-Sports Open: Madden '20' will be held beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday, August 24 at the Central Wellness Center.
Delegate Emily Brewer will present "Mobile Veteran Resource Center" at the Disputanta Community Center, 10010 County Drive, Disputanta, on Wednesday, August 28, from 10:00am - 4:00pm.
Graduation ceremonies for the 2019 Prince George Youth Workforce Academy will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, August 28 at Clements Junior High School.
Prince George County will host an SBA-USDA session on accessing capital and lending for start-up businesses from 9-11:30 a.m. at the Prince George Library on Thursday, August 29.
The Kevin Ferguson Memorial Baseball Tournament will be held August 31- September 1 at the Moore Sports Complex and other County baseball fields.
Here is a capsule glance of other activities that will be happening within County government during the month of August:
The Board of Supervisors at its August 13 meeting will receive four reports: (1) VDOT; (2) Rural Broadband Expansion; (3) Real estate tax relief for the elderly and disabled; and (4) Back to School Fair.
The Board of Supervisors at its August 13 meeting will continue its discussion related to regulating signs in various zoning districts.
The Board of Supervisors at its August 13 meeting will consider an award of contract for the Wastewater Treatment Plant Permit.
The Board of Supervisors at its August 13 meeting will consider a reappropriation for County and School Division purchase orders.
The Board of Supervisors at its August 13 meeting will consider an acceptance of the dedication of a utility easement at Oaks Shades Mobile Home Park.
The Board of Supervisors at its August 13 meeting will consider selecting a firm for A&E services for the Jefferson Park Fire Station.
The Board of Supervisors at its August 13 meeting will consider a resolution authorizing advertisement of a public hearing to pursue a civil penalty for dogs running at large.
The Board of Supervisors at its August 13 meeting will consider a resolution increasing the size of the Parks and Recreation Commission.
The Board of Supervisors at its August 13 meeting will consider a resolution to increase the size of the Parks & Recreation Commission.
The Board of Supervisors at its August 13 meeting will consider a resolution to increase pay for Communication Officers to address pay compression.
The Board of Supervisors at its August 13 meeting will consider a resolution making revisions to the Memorandum of Understanding with the Public School Division.
The Board of Supervisors at its August 13 meeting will consider a resolution approving the design and purchase of new 'Welcome Signs' at the entry ways into Prince George County.
The Board of Supervisors at its August 13 meeting will consider four appointments to the Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) Committee.
The Board of Supervisors at its August 13 meeting will consider two appointments to the Social Services Advisory Board.
The Board of Supervisors at its August 13 meeting will consider approving appointments to the Comprehensive Services Community Policy and Management Team (CPMT).
The Board of Supervisors at its August 13 meeting will hold three public hearings: (1) Consideration of dedication of an easement to Dominion Energy to extend electrical service in Scott Park; (2) Request by Beacon Towers to construct a 199-foot communication tower on the north line of East Quaker Road and the west line of Prince George Drive; and (3) Rezoning request by Blair Gilliam from B-1 to R-1 at 19805 Halifax Road.
Activities are underway for various Parks & Recreation summer activities and registration is underway for fall events. Information can be received at www. http://www.princegeorgecountyva.gov.
Construction of stormwater projects in Birchett Estates and Cedar Creek will continue this month.
Design and planning will continue this month on two utility extension projects on Route 156 and near the Food Lion Distribution Center.
Negotiations will continue this month with a vendor for a new Public Safety Radio System.
An architect has been hired to design a new restroom/concession stand facility at New Scott Park.
Prince George County, Fort Lee technology personnel working to implement new 9-1-1 agreement between the two entities.
Construction of a walking trail around the football field at the Central Wellness Center is expected to begin this month.
The Planning Commission is working on a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors regarding the allowance of food trucks in certain areas around Prince George County.
The Planning Commission is working on a 2020 update of the Prince George Comprehensive Plan.
Design work is underway for water extensions on Route 460 and Route 156; construction bids expected to be sought in December.
Prince George County will participate in a public hearing August 27 regarding a rate increase proposal by Virginia American Water.
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Inferno for Dummies
Richard as Dr. Robert Langdon
Renata as Dr. Sienna Brooks
Due to lack of actors all other characters in the book have been left out
Wanda as Dan Brown
(For those of you who read the book - Sorry, but play along, you know deep down this book wasn't The DaVinci Code - hence...)
The story is set in Florence and Venice Italy
Robert is trying to figure out what he is doing in Florence and Sienna found out her colleague at the hospital just got shot and the assassin is somewhere behind them - better get moving!
The two of them need to get to the Old City but the bridges are closed and the police are looking for them or could it be the assassin they are trying to find? It's all a blur...
....They run into Boboli Gardens. Hopefully, they can manage their way through 11 acres of this outdoor museum and into the heart of Florence without being seen...
The maze of trees should give them some protection - oh no! The police are right behind them and it sounds like they have drones looking for them.
Robert and Sienna both pretend they are statues and the Polizia pass by. That was a narrow escape.
Robert is still trying to figure out why they are being chased by an assassin and the police. He finds a cylinder in his pocket that he thinks may be what the assassin wants from him.
They continue toward Pitti Palace.
This Renaissance palace was bought by the Medici family from Luca Pitti in 1549. This art gallery is full of treasures - too bad there is no time to wander through it.....
...and this bathtub!! Robert shakes his head wondering why the heck would an old bathtub be put in these beautiful gardens....
Wake up Robert! Who cares about the tub.....there are more search teams with drones looking for them. They scurry into a great hiding place - in the dark Grotto of Buontalenti off of the Pitti Palace...
As the Polizia continue to search for Robert and Sienna, they remain hidden in the grotto and move deeper into the 3rd chamber where they stay hidden until the Polizia have passed by.
Robert remembers there is a way into the city through the "Vasari Corridor" - there is a secret door that he hopes he can open. He finds the small door hidden to the left of the grotto, after a couple of pushes they find themselves in the empty Corridor....
......empty of people, but the Corridor is full of paintings that few people are able to see.
Of course Robert forgets he is being chased and puts on his professor cap and points out to Sienna the great works of art lining the walls.
The corridor is not open to the public (except for a price!) -Look behind you it's a Reubens' selfie!
"Really Dr. Langdon, I think we need to go.............."
They pass the church of Santa Felicita that Vasari had to build the Corridor around
The Arno River can be seen from the Vasari Corridor as Robert and Sienna hurry across
Robert and Sienna are able to cross the Ponte Vecchio Bridge from above unbeknownst to the assassin and police looking for them below.
They still need to find their way into Palazzo Vecchio where there should be a clue as to why the police are chasing them.
Robert and Sienna find their way through the corridor from the Uffizi Palace into the Palazio Vechhio, once inside they hope to get lost in the crowds...
....Robert and Sienna come out of the hidden secret door in the PalazzoVecchio unnoticed...
Inside the Palazzo Vecchio, Robert forgets his imminent danger, as he stands in awe in the Salone dei Cinquecento. (The Room of 500). The large frescoes are battles and victories by Florence over Pisa and Sienna, not to mention the ceiling panels depicting the life of the Medicis, a Michelangelo statue, and on and on - such an imposing room....
The magnificent room was enlarged by Giorgio Vasari so that Grand Duke Cosimo I could hold court.
Robert is trying to get Sienna's attention....
Robert found Dante's death mask thinking there might be a clue that makes sense of the craziness
The clue has to be behind the mask....while no one was looking he pulled the mask from the case in search of a clue. Oh no - the police are on to them! Robert hides the mask in his shirt and...
.....he and Sienna are able to escape again by climbing the walls of the palace...where will this lead?
They stay hidden in the top of the tower. The Dante mask holds no clue and Robert and Sienna have no clue as to what to do next...
There has to be a clue in this somewhere - if not the mask, is it hidden in Michelino's fresco? Or does Robert need to find a copy of Dante's Divine Comedy to figure things out...
The book is way too long - so we will skip forward and head to Venice where Robert and Sienna find help.
Robert and Sienna took a fast train to Venice got there in less than 2 hours and jump on a Vaporetto and head to St Mark's square.
Somehow the Poliza find out Robert and Sienna are in Venice and are out in force looking for both of them. Sienna came up with disguises....
.....A hat for Robert will make him look like George Clooney (or Merle Haggard) and a backpack, hair long, and drawing pad will make Sienna look like a very young art student......
....OK, that works... Paparazzi think Robert is George Clooney...
...and the real George Clooney has to be happy he got away from the paparazzi...
Back to the story.....
The best way to get in to St. Mark's Cathedral is through the side door,... "come on Robert, while the polizia are busy staring at George Cloony's new finance, we should be able to get into the church without notice."
The stunning interior with beautiful mosaic colors of gold and bronze and the Byzantine architecture makes St. Mark's one of the most visited sites in Venice. The Basilica was crowded with people and once Robert figured Venice was not the city they should be in...
...Sienna hurries off and leaves Robert alone in the Cathedral ....
... Sienna jumps on a Vaporatto and disappears down the canals....
When Robert finds Sienna missing - he put two and two together and felt betrayed by her.
He knows where she is heading and he will beat her there, he may look old, but he can still run. He jumps on a speed boat....
.... leaves Venice behind him and heads to the airport.
He knows now what the cylinder is, where he must go and what he must do next....
Are you wondering what happens next???
.....Well, get the book, because if Dan Brown ever reads this I am in trouble!
Posted by Richer For Wandering at 4:13 PM
Irish Eyes Are Smiling


Where Did All The Bargains Go On Homes In Louisville?
It seems foreign to me to be writing about a "seller's market" after all these years. Since 2007 there has been an over supply of homes, creating a depressed real estate market here in the Louisville area and across much of America.
But here we are. Driven by much improved consumer confidence and incredibly low interest rates, buyers have been grabbing up bargains left and right, and homes that failed to sell last year are selling this year.
Why Are They Not Taking Advantage Of A Sellers Market?
While homes are now SELLING instead of just SITTING, they still are not enjoying much, if any, appreciation. Understandably, many home sellers are still waiting for home values to improve enough to make good economic sense. Stock is low and the buyers are lined up around the block wanting to buy. Buyer's agents are singing the blues, complaining that they can't find homes for their clients.
Sorry, couldn't help myself. But there are still a few bargains left. There are still many short sale listings and bank owned properties available, and most of them are very attractively priced. It can provide a great opportunity for that bargain you are looking for, but my best advice here is to be sure and link up with a real estate professional who is experienced with guiding you through all the pros and cons of buying a short sale or bank owned property. There is also a mountain of paperwork to work through, so once again, make sure you link up with a Realtor who knows the ropes.
Ready-to-buy buyers are finding it hard to be patient while they are also watching interest rates inching upward. It is important to remember that homeowners are still placing homes on the market, and prices have not spiked. Putting it in perspective, homes are still very affordable in the Louisville area and interest rates are still very low.
Ask your Realtor to add your search parameters into the MLS so that he or she will receive a notification the minute a home that is a fit for you hits the market. And there are several home search sites where you can register to receive immediate notifications as well, such as Search Louisville Houses or Oldham County Homes.
Should The Louisville Housing Market Beware The Ides Of March?


Simon & Schuster's outside counsel Elizabeth McNamara penned a fiery response to the president's legal team.
The publisher behind Omarosa Manigault Newman's new book, Unhinged, dismissed "hollow threats" leveled at the company by President Donald Trump's campaign legal team.
CNN reported Thursday that Simon & Schuster's outside counsel Elizabeth McNamara wrote a fiery letter responding to the Trump campaign's filing for arbitration earlier this week. The campaign claimed Manigault Newman, a former reality star and Trump administration aide, violated a 2016 nondisclosure agreement.
"My clients will not be intimidated by hollow legal threats and have proceeded with publication of the Book as [scheduled]," McNamara replied, according to CNN.
McNamara is familiar with responding to Trump lawyers. Earlier this year, she fought back when lawyers for the president sent publisher Henry Holt and Company a cease-and-desist letter over journalist Michael Wolff's book Fire & Fury: Inside The Trump White House, arguing the book was libelous.
Manigault Newman has recently been promoting her book, which she wrote after getting fired from the White House last year. She's also released audio of conversations she secretly recorded during her tenure as one of Trump's staunchest supporters, including parts of conversations with chief of staff John Kelly and another with the president himself.
The former White House aide has also been making explosive, unverified claims about the president, his family and his administration. Trump responded on Wednesday by calling Manigault Newman "a dog" in a tweet.


i modeled my first ship (with blender), i have textures for this model but i have issues with the configs. I tried to copy all config texts from the cobra mark three (copy worked) and to replace all words like "oolite_template_cobra3-..." with the name of my ship-model. However oolite didnt recognized this ship with these configs. Then i tried to replace the model of the cobra mark three with my model (in the gamefolder [oolite/oolite.app/resources/models/...]). this worked. i really dont know what im doing wrong, so i thought to myself, 'hey, there is this nice forum,why not asking them?
So im asking you now, what could i do in this case?
Welcome aboard, Commander! I've asked the Mods to move this thread to a more suitable place, where it'll get more attention.
Hopefully, someone will then be able to help you. I'm just a dumb pilot, you see - flying a Cobra Mk III is about all I can do!
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Welcome tsoj in the forum!
Please insert the content of your shipdata.plist here, we can take a look on it. Another help is your Logs/Latest.log file, maybe an error printed within about your shipdata like a missing bracket.
Indeed "eyes on" would be useful.
Failed to restore saved game. Could not find ship type. "tsoj_Boomslang-mkII-player" -please reinstall the appropriate OXP.
In this save-file i wrote tsoj_Boomslang-mkII-player instead of cobra3-player.
In there are the three folders Config Models Textures.
Model and texture are in their folders and the shipdata.plist and shipyard.plist and the demoship.plist files are in the Config folder.
"-10.7601 6.3008 -33.8587 6.3 5.6 1.0"
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A tip: if you highlight any code, then click the 'Code' button, it makes it easier to read.
By the way, demoship.plist is no longer used - you will need a shiplibrary.plist to add your ship to the display.
oh, yes, i found also some other inconsistencies in this plist, like i hadnt rewrote the string after "model" (it was still oolite_cobra3.dat).
but i have this problem, that if i restart the game it hasnt changed, but when i restarted it today (after a windows hibernation relaunch) the changes have applied.
Why is that? Have i to logout and in? Or maybe its just one of the defects of my computer.
Smivs wrote: By the way, demoship.plist is no longer used - you will need a shiplibrary.plist to add your ship to the display.
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If you make changes, you need to restart Oolite with the shift key held down until the spinning Cobra appears - that flushes the cache.
Which code editor are you using? If you're not already aware of it, Notepad++ is good (and free).
and all the others like_ship to "tsoj_Boomslang-mkII_template", without the 'is_template' line.
Ok, i followed your tips for template-ships and this and it worked. Thank you all for that help!


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About Sligo Social Services
Sligo Social Services opened its doors to the people of Sligo in 1969, with a clear vision to improve the quality of life of the local community. The fledgling organisation had a clear vision to assist in providing much needed services to those who were suffering the effects of disadvantage and marginalisation. A friendly, confidential and community based Service, we are proud that the ultimate measure of our work is seeing positive change in the lives of others.
The organisation has grown over the years and now provides personal community based services to a wide range of people in Co. Sligo and parts of Co. Leitrim. Sligo Social Services has remained true to its original mission. We are flexible and innovative in our response to those who are experiencing difficulties in our community, recognising their changing needs and circumstances, so that they never find themselves alone and without support.
Sligo Social Services strives to empower individuals, families and communities in the Sligo region in improving their quality of life through the promotion of social justice, equality and the dignity of the human being.
Sligo Social Services is fully committed to upholding the highest standards of Corporate Governance. We believe that maintaining these high standards is integral to demonstrating accountability to those who fund and support our work. It also ensures that the organisation is proactive and responsive in order to achieve the goals of Sligo Social Services.
Sligo Social Services is governed by a voluntary Board of Directors. It is made up of experienced and committed people. The Board is advised by a number of expert committees and is responsible for the overall control and strategic direction of the charity.
A voluntary Board of Directors steer the governance of Sligo Social Services. The Board members also take an active role in fundraising and contribute to the areas of the organisation in which they have the most expertise. See our board here.
Board of Sligo Social Services
All directors are voluntary and receive no remuneration. The Board meets 10 times per year and has its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in May of each year. The directors present their annual report together with the audited financial statements of the Company for the year ended at the AGM.
Mr. Pat Forde (Chairperson)
Mr. Pat McCaffrey (Treasurer)
Mr. Barry MacMahon (Secretary)
Fr. Michael Drumm
Mr. Frank Murphy
Ms. Mary Harkin
Ms. Orla Barry
Mr. Dan Scannell
Mr. Liam McGurrin
Ms. Maeliosa O'Brien
In our Annual Report you'll find details on our structure, activities and accounts for that year.
You can view or download Sligo Social Services Annual Reports since 2014 & Recent Publications here.
Sligo Social Services
Welcome from Chief Executive:
It is my pleasure to welcome you the Sligo Social Service Council website.This website will hopefully help you in learning a little more about our organisation and the work we do.
Sligo Social Services is a unique organisation that has contributed positively to the lives of many children, families and adults in Sligo and Leitrim for more than 40 years.
We provide a pre-school, afterschool's, family support services, counselling for young people and adults, and an open access service. We also provide a meals on wheels service and a befriending service for the elderly in the Sligo area and a number of homeless services including homeless hostels for single adults, and short-term family accommodation. We also offer a substance misuse service for people with addiction and at risk of becoming homeless.
It takes the commitment of statutory funders and donors, from staff, volunteers and our supporters to help us to do all of this and we are very grateful that we have benefited from such support over the years.
You can learn how you can be part of our work through the many volunteering and fundraising opportunities you will see on our website.
It is our hope that we will continue to play a significant role in improving the lives of many within our community.
Thank you for visiting our website. If you have any comments or suggestions as to how we might further enhance our website, please do not hesitate to contact us directly at info@sligosocialservices.ie or 071 91 45682.
Christina McTaggart, Chief Executive, Sligo Social Services
Click here to download reports
Click here to download Audited Accounts
Audited Accounts 2014
Independant Auditors report 2018
Click here to download forms
VolunteerCharter.pdf
Relevant Government Departments:
Children and Youth Affairs
Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation
Environment, Community & Local Government
Health Justice & Equality
Social Welfare Appeals Office
The National Office for the Prevention of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (COSC)
Voluntary Organisations:
Age Action Ireland
Children's Rights Alliance
Conference of Religious in Ireland (CORI)
Disability Federation of Ireland
Focus Ireland
Irish Council for Social Housing
Irish Refugee Council
Irish Senior Citizen's Parliament
Irish Traveller Movement
Lifestart
MS Therapy Centre
National Adult Literacy Agency
National Women's Council of Ireland
One Family
One Parent Exchange Network
Rotary International District
The Simon Community
Other Useful Contacts
Mayo Sligo and Leitrim ETB
Family Mediation Centre
Migrant Rights Centre of Ireland
NursingHomeAbuseGuide.org
Sligo County Childcare Committee
Sligo County Council
Home Youth Liaison Service
MCR Community Centre
Resource House Springboard Family Support Project
Sligo Leader Partnership
Sligo Northside Community Partnership
St Michaels Family Life Centre
Treoir
Sligo Leitrim Directory
(Statutory Agencies):
Citizens Information Board
Further Education & Training Authority (Solas)
Money Advice & Budgeting Service (MABS)
The Adoption Authority of Ireland


This classic fun math game will definitely take you back to your elementary glory days. Remember the stress of not getting eaten by Troggles? Those were the days, when your biggest worry was avoiding digital monsters.


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CASSOC has a new Treasurer
In September, Clan Logan received a surprise request from William Petrie, Chairman of CASSOC(Clans and Scottish Societies of Canada).This organization, that started way back in 1975, aims to bring together various Clans and Scottish Societies to promote and celebrate our Scottish cultural heritage. Members include Clans, Highland Games Committees
and Country Dance Associations, Scottish Regiments, their Associations and so much more.
At the end of August 2020, Kimberly Henwood, the then Treasurer of CASSOC resigned to focus on other challenges. CASSOC has a strong base in Ontario and to be more representative of our Canadian diversity, wanted to consider board members from other Canadian provinces. Clan Logan is firmly rooted in the province of Quebec through various events and our participation with different groups since we started in Canada in 2015.Your Commissioner, has therefore been appointed as the new Treasurer for CASSOC. This is quite the honour for us at Clan Logan. I will work side by side with people I have known for many years.
Our CASSOC board members are the cream of the crop of our Scottish community in Canada. We have a team of very talented, very experienced people that make a very notable difference in our country because they really do care about Scottish culture. They are shining examples of what we have in our Scottish communities that inspire us to do more. Being on the CASSOC board will allow our Clan to build stronger ties with various organizations across our country
and will also give CASSOC the tools needed, for the first time, to reach out to new potential members within the French Community in Canada that are of Scottish descent. I also hope to promote CASSOC and bring together new organizations from Quebec to bring on their own diversity. Our Clan has been a member of CASSOC for many years now and I am grateful and humbled to have been offered this opportunity to give the Best of Clan Logan to all Clans and organizations.
Steven Logan, Commissioner of Clan Logan and Treasurer with the CASSOC team.