The Air Force painting is reflecting some serious paint. The images here are of the painting's status and a detail of the astronaut, and the very detailed charcoal and white chalk drawing of the astronaut. While not every drawing is so detailed, this one reflects a very completed work, and clearly captures Kapsner's passion for, and skill when it comes to drawing.
During the fall season, two models of note have taken time to pose, including the first woman to be promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in the Minnesota Air Guard, which is part of the Minnesota National Guard, Brigadier General Sandra "Sandy" Best.
Another notable model is Air Force Brigadier General David Hamlar, Jr., the first African American to achieve one-star rank in the Minnesota Air National Guard. These remarkable people, whose schedules are beyond busy, visited the studio on multiple occasions to pose.
B.G Best, wearing her dress blues, represents women of significant achievement in the military. B.G. Hamlar is shown in the para rescue scene as a medic–a role familiar to him from his deployments around the globe.
The Air Force painting takes major shape as of mid-October, 2018.
As the Air Force painting begins to take shape, the activity in the studio includes a session with Brigadier General Sandy Best, the first woman in the history of the Minnesota National Guard to be promoted to brigadier general. In her new role, Best serves as chief of staff of the Minnesota Air National Guard and is responsible for command supervision, oversight, and leadership of the 133rd Airlift Wing and the 148th Fighter Wing. Not only does Best oversee operations and readiness for the units, but she is also in charge of manning, training and equipping them. Below are images of Best and the initial drawing, and one with artist Charles Kapsner.
The painting was installed, with the assistance of Tony Armagost and assistance from Ken Pachecki who built the frame, and on hand to provide the know how and major assistance hoisting it from the floor to the wall are staff from the Cemetery, including Kevin Doucette, Steven Cory Engen (who is also portrayed in the painting at bottom right), Val Pilarski, and Donald Stavish.
Cemetery staff are always on hand!
DULUTH, MN. – Veterans Memorial Hall, a program of the St. Louis County Historical Society, will unveil Minnesota artist Charles Kapsner's Marine Corps tribute painting at the Duluth Depot. The temporary exhibition is an 8 foot by 10 foot oil painting and will include appearances by the artist. The painting will be displayed from May 17 to May 21 at Veterans Memorial Hall from 9am to 5pm.
This is the fourth in a series of five paintings honoring the women and men of each military branch. Regional in location, but national in scope, the paintings uniquely portray the stories, faces, and sacrifices of our nation's servicewomen and men. Kapsner's paintings are larger than life and well received by the families of military service veterans. Veterans and active duty military serve as models for the painting which includes soil from Mt. Suribachi which Kapsner ground into the paint as part of the depiction of the Marine flag-raising in 1945.
The artist previously created tribute paintings for the Army, Navy and Coast Guard. The last painting will pay tribute to the Air Force. All the paintings will be on permanent display in Committal Hall, Minnesota State Veterans Cemetery in Little Falls.
It's always a big deal to sign off on a painting, the final brush stroke completes it.


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Q: while loop, computing averages Hello I am fairly new to python and would like to know where my program is failing and why.. thanks, the basic coding is as follows,
    grade = 0
    total = 0
    scorecount = 0
    while grade >=0:
        grade = raw_input("enter grade ->")
        grade = int(grade)
        total = total + grade
        total = int(total)
        scorecount = scorecount + 1
        scorecount= int(scorecount)
    average = total/scorecount
    print average

A: It'd be smarter to use a list to manage something like this.
grades = []

while True:
    grade = int(raw_input('Enter a grade: '))
    if grade < 0:
        break
    grades.append(grade)

print '\nAverage:', float(sum(grades)) / len(grades)

There are better ways to have the user break the loop than entering a negative grade, but there you go.

A: Your checking for -1 AFTER you change it, so you should check that the raw grade is that and break from the loop before processing.

A: You accept the grade, then add it to the average even if it is -1, since you don't check for -1 until the loop starts again.
To quit a loop halfway through, use break. Then, you can write
while True: # loop 'forever' until break
    grade = raw_input("enter grade ->")
    grade = int(grade)
    if grade == -1:
        break # we're done
    # rest of processing...

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Home News Briefs Borealis Cuts Teranet Bid by 7%
Borealis Cuts Teranet Bid by 7%
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TORONTO (Reuters) – Borealis Infrastructure Management Inc said on Tuesday it will cut its takeover offer for Teranet Income Fund (TF_u.TO) by nearly 7 percent as market conditions have deteriorated and the cost of capital has risen.
Borealis, an investment arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System pension fund, said it will now offer C$10.25 a unit, down from the C$11.00 a unit it bid on Sept. 4.
That brings the value of the offer down to C$1.5 billion from C$1.7 billion, excluding debt, based on the latest shares outstanding according to Reuters data.
Units of Teranet were down 8.7 percent at C$9.60 at midmorning on the Toronto Stock Exchange, below Borealis's revised offer price.
Teranet holds a monopoly on the electronic land registry in the Canadian province of Ontario. It recently withdrew its opposition to Borealis' C$11-a-unit hostile bid and left it up to unitholders to make their own decision on the deal.
Teranet was not immediately available for comment on the new offer price.
It initially rejected the bid as "inadequate", and said Borealis had talked about offering C$12 a unit.
Teranet had held out for a white knight offer just as global equity markets were in a freefall, but no new bidders emerged as Teranet conducted an auction process.
Teranet, which was spun off by the Ontario government in 2003, was said to be coveted for its steady cash flow. A large portion of the fund's revenue comes from its exclusive rights to access Ontario's electronic land registry, which it holds until 2017. Teranet collects a fee every time a home in the province changes hands or is registered.
Borealis said it has received Competition Act clearances and is working with the province of Ontario to gain approval for the transaction.
The offer has been extended to 5:00 p.m. (2200 GMT) on Nov. 10.
($1=$1.29 Canadian) (Reporting by Ka Yan Ng; Editing by Peter Galloway)

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Top Three Ways Nikki Haley is like a Palestinian
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nimrata "Nikki" Singh Randhawa Haley on Tuesday walked out of the chamber when the Palestinian ambassador began to speak. Palestine, like the Vatican, has non-member observer state status at the UN. You're not a very good diplomat if you won't even listen to what one of the parties to a dispute has to say.
Ironically, Ambassador Haley has a great deal in common with the Palestinians she despises. Haley seems to be a syncretic Sikh-Christian now, but was brought up in the Sikh religion that originated in medieval north India. Sikhism has some family resemblances to both Hinduism and Sufi Islam but is best thought of as an independent tradition. Sikhs are largely Punjabi speakers, though some speak Hindi. In modern India they have often felt discriminated against by the Hindu majority and there have been several periods of unrest.
Independent India in 1947 inherited from the British Raj a state of (east) Punjab that was multi-cultural. The Akali Dal Party successfully lobbied in the 1960s for a Sikh majority state of Punjab, with Hindu Punjabi and Hindi speakers being hived off into Haryana and speakers of rural dialects into Himachal Pradesh. It would be interesting to know how her parents thought about the Sikh demand for statehood.
The tripartition of the former east Punjab state caused a problem in that the whole state had Chandigarh as its capital. Chandigarh is really nice–I've been there. It was designed by the French-Swiss architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier. Post-1966 Punjab and Haryana both wanted it as their capital. The Indian government reached a compromise such that the city is the capital of both states. That sort of arrangement is what Palestinians propose for Jerusalem, a proposal rejected by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and also by Nimrata Haley. Does she think Haryana should be kicked out of Chandigarh, too?
A small movement of Sikhs is still not happy and wants independence. This movement includes Khalistan. A disgruntled Sikh nationalist serving as her bodyguard assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984, setting off days of anti-Sikh riots and pogroms in New Delhi, which has a significant Punjabi immigrant population. A Sikh was convicted of a 1985 downing of an Air India flight, which killed 329 persons.
Amb. Haley's family name is Randhawa. Obviously, that is a big group with all kinds of members. Some, back in India, are members of the establishment Congress party. But some belong to the more Sikh-centric Akali Dal Party. Some may be Khalistanis. Even the most establishment members of the Randhawa clan would likely agree that Sikhs are widely discriminated against. A Paramjit Singh Randhawa, a Canada-based businessman and supporter of World Sikh Organisation (WSO), for a long time was excluded from India on (possibly unfair) suspicion of separatist sentiments. He may not be a relative of Nimrata "Nikki." India continues to be worried about Sikh extremism in Canada.
1. So the first resemblance between Haley and the Palestinians are that both come from groups that are minorities and face discrimination from the majority. Sikhs, like Palestinians, organized around a demand for statehood and succeeded in getting a Sikh-majority Punjab state in Federal India. Palestinians also want a state, and if they get one at all, it is now likely also to be in federation with Israel.
2. Haley's father and mother, Ajit Singh Randhawa and Raj Kaur Randhawa came to North America in the 1960s, he to do a post-doc in Canada. In 1969, they ended up in Bamberg, South Carolina, where Professor Randhawa taught a historically Black college. Haley's sister Simran told this story:
"My parents were trying to rent a home in Bamberg and the same physician so kindly tried to help. He found a wonderful small home and we moved in. That night he returned to take back the keys as the owners did not want an Indian family renting their home. He found us a second home and we moved. The next night he was back. Once again we were being evicted because of our brown skin. He finally found a third home for us. It was owned by the mill. We would be allowed to live there on three conditions: 1- We had to buy the house and sell it back to the mill when we moved., 2 – We were not allowed to have any alcohol on the premises. 3 – We were not allowed to have people of color at our home. We moved in that evening."
So the second resemblance is that the Randhawas, like Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank, faced forms of housing discrimination and were kicked out of their home for their identity.
3. Simran also tells a story about in-betweenness:
"The beauty pageant story was also of significant impact. Both Nikki and I were in Little Miss Bamberg. However, unbeknownst to our parents, only a black and white queen were selected. We were neither. Just before intermission, Nikki and I were called up on stage, thanked for participating, told we were being disqualified and given crayons and a coloring book as the music began to play."
That is a third resemblance between Nimrata Haley and the Palestinians. She was excluded from the pageant for being neither Black nor white. Palestinians are also in limbo, having no state identity and being neither Israeli nor any other recognized nationality.
But of course, the Indian-American from an immigrant family (did they come on a H1-B visa of the sort Trump is attempting to get rid of?) has done whatever she can to escape her past. She adopted Christian Zionism if not all the appurtenances of Evangelicalism. She threw in with the anti-immigrant, white nationalist Trump administration. And now she is delighting in helping crush the Palestinians the way Indian Moghul Emperor Aurangzeb crushed her Sikh ancestors. She even tried to whitewash Trump's history of sexual harassment. Trump's one-time campaign manager, Steve Bannon, once went to Silicon Valley and noticed all the Indian-American software engineers, and is said to have wondered, "Why are these people here?" Nimrata has attempted to escape her own subalternity in order to pretend to be part of an elite that will never really accept her.
When she turns her back on the Palestinians, Perhaps she is trying as hard as she can to turn her back on herself. If so, that act of the reinvention and disguise of the self requires viciousness toward all who remind her of her own marginality.
France 24 English: "Nikki Haley on violence in Gaza: Israel acted "with restraint"
Filed Under: Featured, Israel/ Palestine


Don't come to an interview saying that you have a passion for business development and marketing, but when I review your LinkedIn page you have five connections and have never written any articles on your subject matter. You don't have to have 1,000 connections either, but employees saying they are interested in marketing need to back this up with some actions. And no, your 1,000 followers on your Instagram account that only has pictures of where you eat and vacation does not count either.
2. Will the applicant commit the "unforgivable sin"?
Gary Vaynerchuk explains that being able to put in long hours is not a skill that he looks for in every employee. The "unforgivable sin" for Vaynerchuk is if employees cannot get along with co-workers, are disrespectful, selfish, or create conflict. How can an employer find out if an applicant is not a team player? Seeing how the applicant treats the receptionist upon arriving for the interview and how they treat the waiter at the lunch meeting can be key indicators. Calling references provided by the applicant can lead to good information. Also, asking around with colleagues and your network about people can surprisingly lead to great information about applicants. For example, it amazes me how many attorneys know of other attorneys in Los Angeles and how important one's reputation is even in a large legal community like Los Angeles.
3. Does the employer follow-up with references provided by applicant?
It is a good practice to follow-up with the applicant's references provided. I'm also a big proponent of conducting a search of the applicant's background on the Internet. For some issues that may arise when an employer uses the Internet to do a search on an applicant, my previous article on the topic can be read here.
4. Does the employer understand obligations when conducting non-criminal background checks?
When conducting background checks on applicants and employees, employers need to take time to review the applicable state and federal laws that apply to background checks. LinkedIn was sued previously for violation of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) for certain background reports it generated for users of the site. In addition, under California law, the Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act and the Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act could apply to background checks in the employment context. These laws are very complex, and employers should enter this area with the knowledge of their obligations before conducting background checks. For more information about background checks, please see my previous article here.
5. Does the employer understand state and local criminal history background check prohibitions?
Effective January 1, 2018 California employers cannot ask an applicant for employment to disclose information about criminal convictions. The new law (added as Section 12952 to the Government Code) applies to employers with 5 or more employees. Once an offer of employment has been made, employers can conduct criminal history background checks, but only when the conviction history has a "direct and adverse relationship with the specific duties of the job," and requires certain disclosures to the applicant if employment is denied based on the background check. In addition, local governments, such as Los Angeles and San Francisco have implemented their own prohibitions on criminal history checks, and employers must also comply with these local requirements. Don't forget about California's prohibition on inquiring about applicant's prior salary history as well.


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Where do you go when you need to find information on a particular subject? Today, the answer, most often, is the Internet. With computers taking over the knowledge arena, reading has been relegated to the back seat.
But a new magazine, which calls itself "the encyclopedia for every school child", is indeed attractive enough to warrant a peek between its covers. Tree of Knowledge, a fortnightly magazine, is split into five sections: The Living World covers biology; Visiting the Past is obviously history; Science Explained focuses on physics and chemistry, Our Planet combines geography with a bit of science; and The Human Factor takes you through the arts and culture.
Going by the first issue, which hit the stands on September 10, this is one magazine that will be more popular with parents; what the kids think remains to be seen. The production is excellent with fabulous photographs, fact boxes with extra information, maps and illustrations. The section on the tsunami under Our Planet tells you all you want to know about these giant waves by focusing on the devastating one unleashed by the 2004 earthquake off Sumatra. The Science Explained section takes you into the astronaut's suit and uses pictures and more pictures to give you all the info you need on why people going into space need those special suits.
The only grouse is that the text could be more child-friendly. While the general appearance of the magazine seems to target the 7-12 age groups, the text seems to be addressing an older group. Also a couple of typos (Gandhiji's wife's name is spelled Katurba) could have been avoided.
It was long believed that corals need warm, well-lit tropical waters to live but recently some white corals have been discovered in cold deep waters where there is also no light. Some of these temperate corals are 30 feet tall. They seem as abundant as the tropical corals but they have not been explored as much.
Tropical coral reefs are found around the Equator about 30° north and south. They are the best known among the corals. They need clear water, warmth and light and are found near the coast line.
Although the chief architects of the huge reefs are the stony corals, not all corals are hard. Some corals are known as soft corals and these don't have the rigid outer skeleton we associate with hard corals.
There are different types of coral reefs — the Fringing reef, the Barrier reef and the Atoll. Fringing reefs are found off the shores of islands and coasts. A narrow stretch of water separates the Barrier reef from the shore. Probably the best known Barrier reef is The Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia. It is 1,269 miles long and from 10 to 90 miles wide. An Atoll is an isolated ring of coral. It is formed when an underwater volcano erupts and the lava rises above the surface of the sea.
Thousands of plants, fishes and invertebrates such as sponges, sea cucumbers, sea squirts and clams live in the tropical coral reefs. The Great Barrier Reef contains some 3000 species of animals.
The reef provides a home to some animals and a place to hide for others. It also serves as a dining table for predators such as sharks which come to forage on animals congregating in coral reefs.
There are, of course, animals that eat the reef itself. Some fish that are found in the open sea use the reef as a place to gather and breed. A few use the reef as a type of spa!
The Wrasse is a fish that gets its food while cleaning other sea creatures. Wrasses eat the parasites and debris on the bodies of other creatures.
Unfortunately, as a result of changing climate, increased pollution and other factors, the world's coral reefs are now threatened habitats.
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The Yamaha bike is one of fastest bike. One of the products of Yamaha is RX-100. This is having 2 stroke and 4 gears. Because of having 2 strokes there will be a sudden pick up in that. The great advantage of that bike is sudden pick up and great speed. The maximum speed we can attain is up to 130 km/hr in the normal Indian roads. The pick up is from 0-60 in just 6 secs That's why most of youngsters love Yamaha RX-100. For the pick up and speed itself it touched the heart of lot of people's including the aged peoples. Because it'll be suitable for all type of persons.
The main drawback in that is mileage. It just gives 35-40 kms/ltr. But the Yamaha lovers won't care about mileage. Another name of that is HILL RIDER. It can easily take of in the hills itself normally and it doesn't slow down. It is having power to take 3 persons in the hills itself. By the name of RX-100, Yamaha has become very popular among youngsters and it gives a fear to the aged persons. Let's we spread the name of Yamaha just for pick up and speed...
Atlanta Internet Access
At large events these days, it is just assumed that you will be able to provide internet access. It is common for facilities to install a hard-wired system to provide participants with access, and there is no shortage of companies that will try to get your business for internet access. So while it's not a problem to get internet access at events, it can be a challenge to get reliable access. The best internet services come from Trade Show Internet.
We specialize in providing network access at large, high-density events, like trade shows and other corporate events. We offer top-of-the-line systems and through our CONNECT service, we can also provide on-site support for our technological solutions. Through the Network Operations Center that we set-up on location, we collect statistics, monitor your network and provide in person support.
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People want to witness the birth, the life, the miracles, and the resurrection of Christ with their own eyes. They don't want to rely on someone else's memory, someone else's words on someone else's paper. Since they can't go back and witness those things with their own eyes, in order to believe in Him, they must see those things in us. And if Paul's crazy words are true, if Christ really lives within us, then it seems like it shouldn't be that hard for the people around us to see those things of Him, shining through us, now.


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Adobe, Apple and Oracle Top 'IT-Threats List' for 2012
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Could it be that the automatic updates feature in recent versions of Windows are actually making the OS safer? Perhaps so. The most recent round-up of the IT-threats landscape compiled by digital security firm Kaspersky Labs, shows that – for the first time – Windows products are safer than many of its competitors.
Topping the list for 2012 with the two most commonly found vulnerabilities were Oracle's notorious Java products which were found on 35% and 21.7% of vulnerable computers respectively. The top ten list included five vulnerabilities found in Adobe products – Adobe Reader (a very popular PDF document reader), Adobe Flash Reader and Adobe Shockwave player. Apple products, specifically Apple iTunes and Apple Quicktime player, feature on the list, as do the popular Nullsoft Winamp media player.
The following is the top ten list of the most popular vulnerabilities, with the number one spot being the most wide-spread vulnerability:
Oracle Java Multiple Vulnerabilities: DoS-attack (Gain access to a system and execute arbitrary code with local user privileges) and Cross-Site Scripting (Gain access to sensitive data). Highly Critical. (35%)
Oracle Java Three Vulnerabilities: Gain access to a system and execute arbitrary code with local user privileges. Extremely Critical. (21.7%)
Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities: Gain access to a system and execute arbitrary code with local user privileges. Gain access to sensitive data. Highly Critical. (19%)
Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities: Gain access to a system and execute arbitrary code with local user privileges. Bypass security systems. Highly Critical. (18.8%)
Adobe Reader/Acrobat Multiple Vulnerabilities: Gain access to a system and execute arbitrary code with local user privileges. Extremely Critical. (14.7%)
Apple QuickTime Multiple Vulnerabilities: Gain access to a system and execute arbitrary code with local user privileges. Highly Critical. (13.8%)
Apple iTunes Multiple Vulnerabilities: Gain access to a system and execute arbitrary code with local user privileges. Highly Critical. (11.7%)
Winamp AVI / IT File Processing Vulnerabilities: Gain access to a system and execute arbitrary code with local user privileges. Highly Critical. (10.9%)
Adobe Shockwave Player Multiple Vulnerabilities: Gain access to a system and execute arbitrary code with local user privileges. Highly Critical. (10.8%)
Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities: Gain access to a system and execute arbitrary code with local user privileges. Bypass security systems. Gain access to sensitive data. Extremely Critical. (9.7%)
Flash is mentioned three times on the list because it has three different (and popular) vulnerabilities. The graph below shows Adobe has the most products in the top 10.
Vendors of products with the Top 10 vulnerabilities, Q3 2012
Threat geography also produced unexpected results with Tajikistan knocking off Russia as the country where users faced the greatest risk of infection via the internet. The safest surfing was in Japan, where only 13.6% of users risked online infection.
The risk of online infection around the world in 2012
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Резолюция 242 на Съвета за сигурност на ООН е приета единодушно на 22 ноември 1967 след Шестдневната война. Тази резолюция призовава за "изтегляне на израелските въоръжени сили от териториите, окупирани в скорошния конфликт" в замяна на приключване на арабско-израелския конфликт. Тези "територии" са Западния бряг, Източен Йерусалим, ивицата Газа, Синай и Голанските възвишения. В Близкия изток това е една от най-често цитираните резолюции.

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Bridelux Shows 2022 / Symposium 29-31st March 2022 / John Nassari Photography
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John Nassari first became interested in photography at the tender age of 13 when his stepfather gave him his first camera. After earning a degree in advertising photography from the then called Medway College 1991 (now called University of the Arts), he pursued a career in advertising and editorial photography.
John followed the academic path throughout much of his career. He completed an MA in Visual Culture at Middlesex followed by a PhD at the University of East London and spent many years teaching at university level.
Working closely with the British Council, John curated exhibitions on identity, exhibiting his work in the UK and around the world. His work has been seen in prestigious galleries such as the Pantheon Gallery, Cyprus, The Town House Gallery, Egypt, and the National Portrait Gallery, London.
In addition to exhibiting worldwide, John has also competed for a number of well-known accolades. In fact, John has been a finalist of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize in 2000, 2006 and 2013, where his work was selected for the final exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery.
John's wedding photography career has seen him win countless awards, and he works very closely with luxury planners, brands and a number of luxury venues and hotels in London including The Savoy, The Landmark Hotel, Mandarin Oriental and One Events. He has photographed Richard E Grant, Jeremy Irons, Emilia Fox, Salman Rushdie, Kevin McCloud, Roxanne McKee, Princess Royal, and David Cameron.
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Tour-Ed Mine has created one of the most unique and educational science field trips for schools in Pittsburgh.
Field trips near Pittsburgh: Take your elementary students, grade school students or science class out for the day on an educational field trip in Pittsburgh they will never forget. Tour-Ed Mine and Museum has created an exciting Pittsburgh science adventure ½ mile beneath the earth's surface. School students will participate in "Coal School" and learn what part coal plays in America. They will discover many uses for coal and explore its challenges. Many do not know that there are three types of coal. You will learn about these and what each are used for. Students will get a hands-on experience how coal was formed and the machinery used to mine this valuable natural resource today and in the 1800s. Students will learn where coal comes from and how coal is formed. Your group will also enjoy an interactive experience of how coal is mined and processed.
Tour-Ed Mine's science-filled field trips are guided and instructed by real coal miners who will showcase and demonstrate the type of equipment used for coal mining in the 1800s and today. Your students or group will enjoy a ½ mile ride beneath the earth's surface in an actual coal miner transportation car called a man trip. Here, the mine instructor will incorporate the science and history of mining of yesterday and today.
Visitors will learn the majority of underground coal is mined two different ways. One is "room and pillar" coal mining where seams of coal are partially mined to leave large pillars or sections of coal intact to support the overlaying earth as they mine deeper into the earth. When the section of mining is complete, the miners then practice "retreat" mining, extracting as much of the remaining pillars of coal as they can as they reverse their way out of the mine. The roof of the seam will have a controlled collapse as they exit each area.
The second way of underground mining is called "Longwall Mining". This involves cutting long tunnels into the coal seam and extracting this coal by a conveyor belt. Hydraulic support systems will hold the ceilings in place. But, in the 1800s they didn't have the conveyor belts and used donkeys and carts to transport the mined coal and the miners had to construct a beam system to hold the ceiling in place.
Tour-Ed Mine & Museum is one of the best and most unique science-filled field trips in Pittsburgh for elementary and middle school students. We designed our field trips for schools in Pittsburgh and beyond for any grade, but most of our visits are for 5th grade field trips, 6th grade field trips and 7th grade field trips. We have created a one-of-a-kind educational adventure combining science and history in an exciting attraction that will keep the attention of all and provide a learning experience they will remember throughout their lives. This attraction is most educational for school kids from early ages through middle school, but will even hold the attention of teachers, staff members and adults alike.
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Kendal Flake in an Ascorti Business rusticated apple.
Luxury Navy Flake in a Savinelli Capri Root brandy.
Euphoria (Amphora Red Match) in a slight bent black pattern etched 1977 Lorenzo Lorsan Sigma level top with a gray swirl colored stem.
Sutliff Private Stock Great Outdoors in a MM Country Gentleman with a "Forever Stem".
Just finishing this bowl of Marble Kake in a medium bend straight grain 2000 Winslow C silver spigot. Next is Kramer's New Mixture in a 2003 IMP horn Meer.
A second bowl of Sutliff Private Stock Great Outdoors in a MM Country Gentleman with a "Forever Stem".
Just finished smoking Angler's Dream in a 2003 paneled black grain relief medium bend Karl Erik Ekstravagant freehand sitter with a smooth rim. Next will be Jim's Working Blend in a 2002 smooth natural straight silver banded Ardor Venere Extra Fatta A Mano Maigret, signed by Dorelio Rovera.
It's still fairly warm, I hope it stays that way.
GH Kendal Mixture #7 in a Cellini Slightly Bent Billiard with black coffee. This pipe has been used for Dark Flake Scented and Dark Plug lately and I can still taste it. I must remember not to use it for #7. It is taking away from the #7 goodness. Oh well.
Half a bowl of Old Colonial in a medium bend beater 1979 Aalborg natural freehand made by Nording. This finishes the trade sample.
Having another bowl of OGS, this one in one of my Charatan Bankers, a Distinction.
Samuel Gawith Best Brown Flake after lunch today, in the Todd Harris JRR morta author.
For my after lunch smoke it's Low Country's Waccamaw in the Ferndown 3* Bark Straight Dublin with a Silver Band and Cumberland stem. Ice tea is on the side.
McClelland 2015 in a Calabresi Canadian.
Dunhill Navy Rolls in a mid-1970s black rusticated straight Savinelli Estella 915 KS billiard.
McConnell Scottish Cake in my Piersel Rhody.


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2018 Phillies Prediction
April 8, 2018 by Avi Cantor Leave a Comment
Photo Courtesy of Rich Schultz
The most powerful word to describe the Philadelphia Phillies this season is "if."
The Phillies have added power-hitting first baseman Carlos Santana and 2015 Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Jake Arrieta to their lineup of young players, giving Phillies fans two guaranteed areas of production. However, the rest of their lineup embodies the word "if" perfectly.
One of 2017 most effective power hitters was first baseman/outfielder Rhys Hoskins, who hit 18 home runs and drove in 48 RBIs despite only playing in 50 games. That means that he averaged one home run for less than every three games he played.
Unfortunately, as many players do, Hoskins has an "Achilles heel" that could run his season into the dirt quickly: the California native has trouble hitting against left-handed pitching.
In 41 at-bats last year against righties, Hoskins batted a mere .171, a slugging percentage that was ten points under his percentage against lefties, and an OPS that was less than his OPS against lefties. Because of this, he has the potential to either flourish like he did in 2017 or flop like several of his teammates have after their rookie seasons. One of these players is third baseman, Maikel Franco.
The Dominican Republic native started seeing regular playing time in the season of 2015 and flourished into a bonafide fan favorite by the end of the season. Franco finished off 2015 with 14 home runs, 50 RBIs, and a batting average at .280.
Franco was rewarded with much more playing time in 2016 and did a fine job. Despite having a lower average, Franco hit 25 home runs and 88 RBIs. Franco is also an excellent fielder, making only 13 errors in 148 games. That's just three more errors than fellow Third Baseman Adrian Beltre, who won the Golden Glove award for outstanding fielding.
However, in 2017, Franco struggled to put up the same numbers as his past two seasons.
The Dominican Third Baseman did worse than his last season in more than ten categories including batting average, fielding percentage, RBIs, home runs and double plays grounded into. If Franco continues this downward trajectory in statistics, the Phillies will have to scramble to find someone else to put at third.
Moving on to the player to Franco's left, Shortstop J.P. Crawford shows an immense amount of potential. The Phillies traded away their previous shortstop Freddy Galvis for Crawford, and for good reason. The former first-round draft pick has a great feel for the position, has a strong throwing arm and is excellent at making tough plays. However, he's a very streaky player at the plate.
In his 23 games, the California native batted just under .215, compiled 15 hits while striking out 22 times. Crawford also hits fly balls frequently at the plate racking up nearly 35 fly ball outs. Given the fact that Crawford is a contact hitter, he needs to be able to hit the ball on the ground to get on base more often. Fly balls are not only easier outs but given his lack of power, fly balls don't benefit him. However, two players who do benefit from hitting fly balls is outfielders Aaron Altherr and Odubel Herrera.
Altherr and Herrera combined last year for 33 home runs, nearly 250 hits, 107 extra base hits and both had averages hovering around .275. Both players are also very effective forces in the outfield. Altherr leads the National League in double plays from the outfield while Herrera led the League in outfield putouts. However, neither player is flawless.
Fans constantly wonder how high Herrera's baseball IQ is due to his ability to make boneheaded decisions in the outfield and swinging at pitches that are nowhere near the strike zone. In fact, one anonymous fan went on Philly's 94WIP sports radio station and said that Herrera had a "tapioca brain."
Altherr, on the other hand, has only started seeing real playing time since last year. The Phillies are notorious for having "one hit wonder" players who have great first years, but manage to string together several seasons of mediocrity or worse.
Even if all of these players play good baseball, Phillies fans still have one thing to worry about. Despite being the club's skipper for a mere eight games, Rookie manager Gabe Kapler has already begun to stir up controversy.
In a game against the Braves on March 31st, Kapler put in reliever Hoby Milner to replace starting pitcher Vince Velasquez. This move made sense to fans due to the fact that Velasquez struggled mightily, giving up 7 runs in less than three innings. However, the problem with Kapler's move was that he didn't tell bullpen coach Jim Gott that he was putting in a reliever. Because of this, Milner came into the game cold which could've resulted terribly for the Phils.
To make matters worse, the Phillies would go on to get smoked by the Braves 15-2 on 19 hits while making a season-high of four errors. Since then, Kapler has been blasted by fans, local media outlets, and even his own players.
Outfielder Nick Williams criticized his choice to consistently leave him out of the lineup saying "I guess the computers are making [the lineup]". This jab at Kapler's strategic moves based on analytics created turmoil in the clubhouse that has likely resulted in the Phillies starting off under .500. However, Kapler has bounced back from bad situations in the past.
In his 12 year career in the Major Leagues, Kapler played for seven American teams and one Japanese team. In that time he's been forced to bounce back from trades and low expectations. The Phillies manager was drafted in the 57th round and became the first Tigers player since the inception of the draft to be picked as late as he was.
So, back to the beginning of this column: If the Phillies are able to milk the talent out of the plethora of young talent that they have and if Gabe Kapler handles being the ringleader of this team, the Phils will be a force to be reckoned with in the National League East.
SLA's Response to the Winter Olympics
Jayla Wright
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An exotic locale. Political Intrigue. North Korean Cheerleaders. The world may have been excited for this year's Olympics, but are students at SLA interested?
According to Junior Cynthia To, kids at SLA aren't that into the Olympics.
"We don't really talk as much about it. Cause in school no one really talks about it unless you actually bring it up. I think it's not really brought up. I feel like if you're into sports you're most likely to watch it or if you're competitive then you'll like to watch it. Other than that, they're not going to be as much as a watcher."
However, To did watch the Olympics herself. Family is a big part of her enjoying the Olympics. It's a chance for her to spend time with both her Dad and Grandpa as well as a time to observe their antics.
"Olympics always pop up around Chinese New Year so it's really cool getting to watch with my family. We're really loud!"
Junior Matthew Milligan is more of a casual viewer of the Olympics.
"I don't actively go to watch it like I'm not like 'Oh it's time for my favorite event.' I usually just turn it on and if I'm just flipping through the channels and I see the Olympics and I'm just like 'Oh this looks interesting.' I'll watch it for a little bit. Or a lot of times my mom will be watching it and then I'll sit down and join her."
"It's kinda funny so we kinda want to continue watching it cause it's actually pretty interesting. My parents like watching it cause they're supporting their home country cause they always support Vietnam for Summer Olympics. My grandpa always goes for his country China, so it's really cool when you go home. They're like 'Go USA!' 'No!' 'Go China!' it's really cool.
Junior Meymey Seng also connected her experience to her family, "The Winter Olympics is something I always look forward to because I just remember enjoying it with my family."
There was one sport both Seng and To found odd enough to comment on.
It's like a shuffleboard thing but they're mopping the floors," To said laughing.
"So my parents and my sister are like making little memes and making little jokes saying like, 'They must be really really good housemaids.'"
To was talking about curling, a sport where players on ice slide stones onto a target. Seng found this sport funny as well but she also saw it as an accomplishment for the US.
"I just saw a lot of memes about it and I heard that the US actually won gold for that. So I was impressed because even though many people saw it as a silly thing we actually did really well in it."
Milligan found that the Olympics being held in the winter caused the low viewing among SLA students.
"I don't feel super strongly about the Olympics and I also think it's the Winter Olympics and people don't always care about that as much cause it's not as exciting, for some reason."
To found that the Summer Olympics grabbed her attention more.
"I'm interested in the summer sports. Summer sports are more interesting to connect to and it's more fun to watch. There's more variety of sports there's swimming, there are water sports, dry sports. But for winter it's all ice so there's not as fun with less diversity.
"And I feel like the summer sports have more countries than the winter sports everyone can connect to that one more."
SLA Responds to the Winter Olympics
March 28, 2018 by Lydia Anderson Leave a Comment
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An exotic locale. Political Intrigue. North Korean Cheerleaders. The world may have been excited about this year's Olympics, but are students at SLA interested? According to Junior Cynthia To, kids at SLA aren't that into the Olympics.
However, To did watch the Olympics herself. the family is a big part in her enjoying the Olympics. It's a chance for her to spend time with both her Dad and Grandpa as well as a time to observe their antics.
. It's like a shuffleboard thing but they're mopping the floors," To said laughing.
To was talking about curling, a sport where players on the ice slide stones onto a target. Seng found this sport funny as well but she also saw it as an accomplishment for the US.
To find that the Summer Olympics grabbed her attention more.
(Watches it because it's on)
"If we had more knowledge on the different sports they're playing
Meymey
"The Winter Olympics is something I always look forward to because I just remember enjoying it with my family."
"The only thing I saw highlighted at the Winter Olympics this year I think was a new thing that they added was curling. I just saw a lot of memes about it and I heard that the US actually won gold for that. So I was impressed because even though many people saw it as a silly thing we actually did really well in it.
"I would definitely recommend watching the Olympics "
"The teams that I would support are the United States and also China
"Olympics always pop up around Chinese New Year so it's really cool getting to watch with my family. We're really loud"
"Some of the sports I question it. Like there's one sport in the Winter Olympics that I really really question a lot and my family questions it a lot too. It's like a shuffleboard thing but they're mopping the floors. So my parents and my sister are like making little memes and making little jokes saying like, 'They must be really really good house maids.'
" It's kinda funny so we kinda want to continue watching it cause it's actually pretty interesting. My parents like watching it cause they're supporting their home country cause they always support Vietnam for Summer Olympics. My grandpa always goes for his country China, so it's really cool when you go home. They're like 'Go USA!' 'No!' 'Go China!' it's really cool.
"We don't really talk as much about it. Cause in school no one really talks about it unless you actually bring it up. I think it's not really brought up. I feel like if you're into sports you're most likely to watch it or if you're competitive then you'll like to watch it. Other than that, they're not going to be as much as a watcher. So for my cousins, they're like 'Cynthia you're the only one that likes watching it. Everyone else in this family doesn't like watching it unless we get together and there's nothing else for us to watch.'"
"I'm interested in the summer sports. Summer sports are more interesting to connect to and it's more fun to watch. There's more variety of sports there's swimming, there are water sports, dry sports. But for winter it's all ice so there's not as fun diversity. And I feel like the summer sports have more countries than the winter sports everyone can connect to that one more."
Students, Staff, Half of Pennsylvania Celebrate Eagles Superbowl Win
March 9, 2018 by lpahomov Leave a Comment
Senior Nathan Little poses with several SLA students — and thousands of Eagles fans — during the victory parade in February.
Autumn Lor
If you didn't already know — because you've been living under a rock — the Philadelphia Eagles won their first ever Super Bowl on Sunday, February 4th. Fans from across the Philadelphia area were extremely excited throughout the whole week after the win. After the Birds' triumph over the Patriots, two huge celebrations erupted throughout the city. The first was on the night of the win where students came out just to have fun. The following Thursday, over a million people came to watch the team ride on top of buses and dance around to celebrate their victory.
The School District of Philadelphia gave all schools the day off because the transportation for students would be differefult with everyone coming in and out the streets. Students were grateful for this because they're weren't planning on going to school on the day of the parade. This allowed students to go without it having to mess up students' attendance.
In 2008, the Phillies won the World Series where, Counselor Intern Tess Lieberson came home from college for one night just for the Phillies' parade. She said that she is a bigger baseball fan than football but because the Eagles are a hometown team, she had to celebrate it and enjoy the city's victory.
The night of the victory, Lieberson went out on Broad Street. She was able to be in a safe place throughout the whole parade, but there were times where the crowd got hectic. However, it never got to the point where anyone was able to hurt her. The biggest problem that she had was walking home because the trolleys were packed. She didn't live far so she was able to walk home.
For others, it wasn't that simple. Junior Sharron Norton stated that on the day of the parade, she had trouble knowing which stop to get off and which way to go. This was her first time getting off at Race-Vine on Broad Street Line and Norton ended up walking the wrong way. She and her friend needed to walk towards City Hall but ended up walking to the Spring Garden. Despite the benefits of free train rides, trying to walk anywhere was nearly impossible.
After the parade, Norton went to Chinatown to find something to eat. People were waiting outside of Jefferson Station for the regional rail trains.
On the night of the Super Bowl, Senior Jhazzelle Majarucon threw a party for friends to come over and watch the game. Majarucon lives in Center City, so at the end of the game, her and her friends came outside and danced alongside with other fans, blew air horns, and screamed, "F– Tom Brady!" This chant echoed throughout the night and even made its way to Tess Lieberson.
Lieberson admitted to participating in the chant but stated that. they only pointed out to Brady and not the whole team was because Brady being the main man of the team makes him a very easy person to hate so for the fact that he was the reason why the we lost the Superbowl in 2004.
Not only did the city glow with green lights everywhere, the other Philadelphia teams have been experiencing a lot of victories as well. The Philadelphia Flyers haven't lost a game since the Super Bowl. The 76ers are 8 win and 2 losses since the Super Bowl, and the Phillies are ready to get back on the diamond with a new team.
Overall, students and teachers all had a good time at the celebration and it didn't affect the students the next day for school.
Eagles Fly with Support from SLA
January 22, 2018 by lpahomov Leave a Comment
SLA students show their Eagles pride on Monday, January 22nd. Photo by Autumn Lor.
The Philadelphia Eagles have made a real comeback in the 2017-2018 National Football League (NFL) season — and SLA is celebrating!
On Sunday January 21, 2018, Quarterback Nick Foles Number 9, lead the Philadelphia Eagles to victory and taking the team to Minnisota for the 52nd Super Bowl, on February 4, 2018.
People on social media were overly excited before, during and after the game. Students and other citizens/fans, come outside their homes and sang to the Eagles anthem all night long. SLA is located in the heart of Philadelphia This home game really showed how hard the eagles worked for this season and students weren't scared to should that. Students on Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram showed their loved.
Some students at SLA are delighted about what is going on in the football world. Some students are very straightforward and open to talk about the team, while others could care less about the Eagles or football in general.
During the normal NFL season, the Eagles' record was 13 wins and 3 losses and went playoffs. In week 12, Quarterback Carson Wentz got hurt during the game against the Seattle Seahawks but was also announced as the NFL Midseason MVP. In week 13, Wentz tore his ACL and is out for the rest of the reason but Foles was ready to come in. In the past 10 seasons, the Eagles made it to playoffs 4 times. The last time they went to the Super Bowl was 2004, 13 years ago.
There are definitely students at SLA who have all this information memorized. During the regular season, SLA was not overwhelmed with kids in green jerseys, but there were a handful of students who faithfully repped for the team every week.
"People on the team have really stepped it up this season… I was really scared with Jason Peters tore his ACL and MCL. Halapoulivaati Vaitai had to take Peters place but ended up doing a job well done. There really is no star player when it comes to the Eagles," Junior Leo Cassel-Siskind said with confidence.
Students who watch every game of football have a lot to say about the Eagles. However, not everybody shares their enthusiasm.
Every Monday, English Teacher Joshua Block asks his classes who has good news. The first person to raise their hand is Cassel-Siskind. He gives a recap of their game that happens within that week.
Other students who walk around school with Eagles' gear did not have the same passion as Cassel-Siskind but still said good things. When students around the school were asked if there was one thing they could say about the Eagles, many responses were given.
Senior Jorin Gerveni screamed, "E. A. G. L. E. S!" And then laughed. "I think this year is one of the greatest comebacks by the Eagles," he continued. "We're making it to the Super Bowl."
Other people who are very excited about the Eagles are Freshman Payson McConnell, Junior Kamil Kielar, Senior Justin Mack, and Senior Addison Zheng.
Zheng believes that this is their breakout season, while McConnell says that Carson Wentz is the best. Others believe that they are unpredictable. Former student Jahmar Askew states, "The Eagles are underestimated compared to other NFL teams. When people throw shade at them, I have to protect my city and our team."
"The team is really young, talented, and is a playoff caliber team this year," Mack Stated.
However, other students aren't as interested in football. Junior Eric Valenti believed that football lacks in culture and doesn't show sportsmanship. Other students were upset about the noise from last night's celebration on and around Broad Street.
The game before, the New England Patriots took the win and will be facing the Philadelphia Eagles for the Superbowl. The big question is: who is playing at halftime?


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The trail on Cape Perpetua travels through a grassy bald area. Photo courtesy U.S. Forest Service.
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Description: Located on the Pacific Coast of Oregon, the Special Interest Area is centered on the rugged Cape Perpetua headland, a bluff of volcanic basalt rising 800 feet above the Ocean. The 2,700-acre area includes a Visitor Center, 26 miles of maintained trails with access to the adjacent Cummins Creek Wilderness Area, and an Auto Tour road to the top of the headland where, on a clear day, you can see 40 miles out to sea. Habitats in the Special Interest Area include:
An open, grassy bald on the south flank of the headland;
Verdant old growth temperate rainforest of Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) and western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla), including one giant 15 feet across;
Wind-sculpted strand communities dominated by spruce; and,
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Viewing Information: Wildflowers can be viewed from March through October. The season begins in the spruce-hemlock forest with evergreen violet (Viola sempervirens), stream violet (V. glabella), seaside bittercress (Cardamine angulata), western trillium (Trillium ovatum), coltsfoot (Petasites frigidus var. palmatus), skunk cabbage (Lysichitum americanum), and salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis) appearing. This is followed by the grassy bald with bigleaf lupine (Lupinus polyphyllus), Columbia larkspur (Delphinium trolliifolium), rosy plectritis (Plectritis congesta), tufted saxifrage (Saxifraga caespitosa var. subgemmifera) and field chickweed (Cerastrium arvense). Along the beaches flowering red current (Ribes sanguineum), silk-tassel (Garrya elliptica), Hooker willow (Salix hookeriana) and the ubiquitous salal (Gaultheria shallon) are early bloomers. As the season progresses into late spring and summer, fingecup (Tellima grandiflora), youth-on-age (Tolmiea menziesii), Scouler's corydalis (Corydalis scouleriana), red columbine (Aquilegia formosa) and bleeding heart (Dicentra formosa) are common along streamsides in the forest with Pacific rhododendron (Rhododendron macrophyllum) in bloom on the slopes. Ferns are a dominant feature in this habitat where sword-fern (Polystichum munitum), deer-fern (Blechnum spicant), lady-fern (Athyrium filix-femina), wood-fern (Dryopteris austriaca), and licorice-fern (Polypodium glycyrrhiza) are easily found. Late spring in the grassy bald finds colonies broadleaf stonecrop (Sedum spathulifolium), lanceleaved stonecrop (S. lanceolatum), and gold-back fern (Pityrogramma triangularis) growing on basalt boulder outcrops. Pacific paintbrush (Castilleja littoralis) can be seen among the Roemer's fescue grass (Festuca roemeri) that dominates the bald. Cow parsnip (Heracleum lanatum), with its umbel of white flowers a foot or more across, is common along the beach as is Henderson's angelica (Angelica hendersonii). Look for the smaller seaside daisy (Erigeron glaucus), early blue violet (Viola adunca) and springbank clover (Trifolium wormskjoldii) in grassy areas where the shrubs are not dominant. The last wildflower show of the season is provided by the chaparral broom (Baccharis pilularis) growing along the edge of the bald. From August through October and into November, it produces hundreds of small white flowers until the winter rains arrive once again.
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Directions: From the town of Yachats, proceed south on US Highway 101 for 1.5 miles. To reach the grassy bald and Cape Perpetua scenic overlook, turn left at the sign marked "Cape Perpetua Campground" and bear left. The road continues for approximately 2 miles and ends at a trailhead and the overlook. For the Visitor Center, continue south on Highway 101 and turn left at the "Visitor Center" sign. Beach areas and tide pools can be accessed from trailheads along Highway 101 immediately west of the Visitor Center road.
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New Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission ready to take on a new decade: Appointment of Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring, Dr Kieran FitzGerald and Mr Mark Toland recommended by the Oireachtas
New Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission ready to take on a new decade: Appointment of Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring, Dr Kieran FitzGerald and Mr Mark Toland recommended by the Oireachtas.
The term of the current Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission expires this month and a new Commission has been nominated to government. It is expected that the three Commission members will be officially appointed by the President shortly.
Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring of the High Court, who has already been at the helm of the organisation for over a year, was nominated by government for re-appointment as Chairperson for a new term. There was an open competition process, managed by the Public Appointments Service, to fill the remaining to two positions on the Ombudsman Commission. Following this process, the three new members were nominated to the Houses of the Oireachtas today.
Dr Kieran FitzGerald, to be reappointed for a second term, and Mr Mark Toland, to join from the Garda Síochána Inspectorate, will join Justice Ring to form the tri-part Ombudsman Commission. Dr FitzGerald has been instrumental in the establishment and development of GSOC throughout its first decade, serving firstly as Head of Communications and, since 2011, as Commissioner. Mr Toland will bring to GSOC four years of experience in the area of police oversight, from his role as Deputy Chief Inspector of the Garda Inspectorate, as well as a wealth of policing experience, from a distinguished 30 year career with the Metropolitan Police Service in the UK.
Chairperson Justice Ring congratulated the new Commissioners on their nominations. She said:
"2017 will be the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. I believe that the existence and successful operation of an independent police ombudsman is a very important component of Ireland's justice system and that's why I have accepted the challenge of continuing in my role as Chairperson of GSOC."
"A lot has been achieved by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission in its first decade, but there remains more to do. The oversight system, and the policing system itself, can only benefit from continuous improvement, as a result of learning that has been made over the last number of years. I am very much looking forward to working with Kieran and Mark to drive forward this continuous improvement – building on the work that has been done to date and continuing to advance police oversight in Ireland.
She added: "I would like take the opportunity to thank outgoing Commissioner, Carmel Foley, for her dedicated service to GSOC over the last ten years and wish her well into the future."
Over the last nine years, GSOC has:
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In relation to disciplinary investigations which are conducted by the Garda Síochána, GSOC has provided a new and important level of oversight. GSOC's investigators have conducted reviews of disciplinary investigations undertaken by Garda officers, supervised disciplinary investigations when they deemed it to be in the public interest and even investigated significant disciplinary matters themselves.
In addition to dealing with complaints, GSOC investigators have conducted approximately 1000 independent investigations following referrals from the Garda Commissioner, or in the public interest.
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Flare supports authoring and output for left-to-right (LTR) as well as right-to-left (RTL) languages. This includes English, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, multi-byte languages, and more. Flare supports bi-directional languages not only at the topic level, but all the way down to the paragraph and sentence level. If you have a sentence containing both LTR and RTL languages, Flare will treat each of them appropriately in that sentence.
Broadly speaking, selecting a language can mean a couple of different things. First, it can mean specifying a language for the content that you are producing. However, it can also mean choosing a language for the Flare interface as you do your work. See Selecting a Language.
Full authoring of LTR and RTL text is supported in Flare's XML Editor.
The XML Editor supports the following related to RTL.
RTL text is readable and can be edited in the XML Editor.
Flare supports CSS and HTML direction properties (e.g., "direction: rtl" and dir="rtl"). If these properties are set to "right," the following occur.
Tables flow from the right to left (i.e., cell 1 is at the top right, cell 2 is to the left of it).
List item bullets and numbers are to the right of their content instead of left.
If an RTL language has been selected for the project or topic, the default direction for content is right-to-left. On the other hand, if an LTR language is selected, the default direction is left-to-right.
A language skin can be used to display the interface in a specific language for online outputs. Language skins hold only text used for the output; they do not control the look of the output. To control the appearance of the output, you must use a regular skin in addition to the language skin. See About Language Skins.
The language set at the project or target level affects the skin used for the output if you are generating WebHelp outputs. Flare provides completed language skins for certain languages, such as French, German, Spanish, and more. You can customize these language skins with your own translations, as well. For other languages, you can create language skins. See Creating User-defined Language Skins and Editing Language Skins.
Let's say you select French as the project language. If you generate HTML5 Tripane, the French skin is automatically used, so the output looks something like this.
If you have translated your project into other languages, you can link Lingo projects or additional translated Flare projects to your master project to create multilingual output (see How to Select Languages for a Specific Target). When you build the target, Flare will included translated content from each linked project.
Note: Generating a PDF output using a multilingual target uses the same process as PDF stitching (see Stitching PDFs). However, creating a multilingual target automates the process and allows you to work from multiple Flare projects at once. Additionally, because you do not need to generate each PDF separately every time the document is updated, generating output from a multilingual PDF target saves considerable time. See How to Select Languages for a Specific Target.
In the Language tab for the target there are multiple options that are selected by default when you choose an RTL language at the project or target level. The options are used to automatically invert the following: (1) language-related style rules locally, (2) language-related style rules in the stylesheet, (3) image callouts from MadCap Capture, and (4) page layout settings. See Selecting a Language.
HTML5/HTML Help/EPUB/WebHelp/WebHelp Plus Local styles, CSS styles, and image callout options are shown.
There are certain features in Flare that use special hotspot images (e.g., drop-down and expanding text effects). Flare's default images for these features are designed to work with LTR outputs. However, if you are using an RTL language, Flare automatically inverts the default images so that they make sense for that direction as well.
This inversion occurs in any of the following features that use hotspot images.
Drop-Down Text For more information, see Editing Drop-Down Text.
Expanding Text For more information, see Editing Expanding Text.
Togglers For more information, see Editing Togglers.
Concept Links For more information, see Editing Concept Links.
Keyword Links For more information, see Editing Keyword Links.
Related Topics For more information, see Editing Related Topics Links.
Shortcuts For more information, see Editing Shortcut Controls.
This is also done in HTML5 skins and Standard skins for any items that use images where background settings can be specified. See HTML5 Skin Styles and Standard Skin Styles.
Note: Custom images that you create and add are not inverted. If you want to have inverted versions of an image, you need to use two different skins—one for the LTR images and a second for the RTL images.
If you are using an RTL language, table styles in your project need to write additional CSS rules behind the scenes in order to work correctly with RTL tables. Because this can potentially double the size of the table style file, this behavior does not happen by default if you create and save a new table style. However, the behavior kicks in automatically in the following two scenarios.
Several languages come with built-in spell checking support in Flare. You can see which dictionaries are installed on your computer by opening the Options dialog (File > Options) and selecting the Spelling tab. See Options Dialog.
You can download more dictionaries from openoffice.org. After you download a new dictionary, you can install it by clicking Import Dictionaries at the bottom of the Options dialog (File > Options) in Flare. See Importing Dictionaries.
Note: For more information about hyphenation patterns in different languages, see http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/tb87nemeth.pdf.
Note: Dictionaries are stored in your AppData Windows folder.
After completing a project in one language, you might need to have it translated into another language.
MadCap Lingo One of the easiest ways to translate a Flare project is for a translator to open that project within MadCap Lingo, which is tightly integrated with Flare. Because of this integration, there is no need to transfer localized files outside of the actual project, which helps prevent content and formatting corruption. In addition, translators can leverage all previous translations created in other tools by importing Translation Memory eXchange (TMX) files.
After opening your project in Lingo, a translator can immediately see a list of all of the files (e.g., topics, snippets, variables), index markers, and concept markers than need to be localized. Then, after translating the content in the Lingo interface, the translator can export the results to a new Flare project in that language. For more information, please refer to the documentation provided with MadCap Lingo.
Third-Party Translation Tools Each file in a Flare project is XML-based and accessible in third-party tools. You can even use MadCap Lingo to package your project files and send them to a translator who is using another tool. That way, the translator receives all of the files requiring translation. It makes things easier for translators, who receive a complete list of files that they can import into the third-party tool; no guessing is required. It also makes things easier for you as the author, because you do not need to worry about forgetting to send often-missed Flare project files that require translation and can easily be overlooked. For more information, please refer to the documentation provided with MadCap Lingo.
You can publish directly in different languages to Salesforce®. The list of available languages depends on the organization, but below you can see all the languages that Salesforce® currently supports and their Flare equivalents.
If you publish a project in an unsupported language, the articles will default to the organization's default language. See Creating Publishing Destinations for more information on publishing directly to Salesforce®.
Zendesk offers multilingual support for articles published to their Help Center dashboard. If you publish your project in an unsupported language, the articles will be published in the default language set in your Zendesk Help Center dashboard.
You can publish your output to Zendesk in the following languages supported by Flare.
Click the drop-down in the Language field and select the language you wish to use in your output.
After you publish your output to Zendesk, go to your Zendesk Help Center dashboard.
Go to your account settings in Zendesk.
In the Zendesk account settings, click the Localization tab.
In the Languages section, click the drop-down arrow to select another language.
In Zendesk Help Center, click Guide settings.
Click the drop-down arrow in the Language section to apply the language to be used for your Zendesk dashboard.
In the upper-right corner, click Update.
Note: For each language used to publish your project, you need to set up the default categories and sections for each language in Zendesk.
You can export an entire Flare project, or parts of one, to another location. One reason you might want to use this feature is to quickly and easily archive projects, especially if you have an extremely large Flare project and need to archive only parts of it. Another use for this feature is translation. If you only need a portion of a master project to be translated, you don't want to send the translator all of the files, but rather a smaller version of the project containing only the files requiring translation. See Exporting Projects.
Let's say you have a Flare project with seven targets you need to translate the content associated one of those targets from English to French. You could send your entire Flare project to the translator, but that would mean the translator would be getting files associated with all seven targets, not just the one requiring translation. So you decide to export only the portion of the Flare project that needs to be translated.
First, from the Project ribbon you click Export Project. On the first page of the wizard, you click in the Export From drop-down and select Using Target.
On the next page of the wizard, you select the target whose files you want to export. In this case, let's say the target in question is named "Product1_Web Output." In addition, you tell Flare to convert your variables and snippets to text so that they become part of the topics, rather than separate files.
After clicking Finish, the relevant files and content are exported to a new, smaller Flare project. Only the files and content necessary to produce the Product1_Web Output target are included in the export. Therefore, the translator receives only the files requiring translation.
You can stitch existing PDFs into your output by adding links to them in a table of contents (TOC). This is supported in PDF output and all of the online targets. See Stitching PDFs.
The PDF stitching feature can be especially useful if you have created multiple PDF versions of your documentation in different languages. Each existing PDF could be a version of the content in a unique language.
Let's say you have an English project, which you send away to be translated into Arabic, French, and Spanish. At the end of the translation process, you've got three PDF files, one for each of those languages.
In Windows, you copy those three PDFs into the Content subfolder where your project is located.
In Flare you open the TOC that you are using to generate the PDF output for your English content. Then you drag and drop the three PDFs to the bottom of that TOC.
You don't necessarily need to put the PDFs at the end of the TOC; they can actually be placed anywhere. But we put them at the bottom because we want the final stitched PDF to move in order from English to Arabic to French to Spanish.
After generating the final PDF target, the other PDFs are stitched into the output along with the English content.
Note: When generating localized HTML Help targets, it is sometimes necessary to set the Windows system locale to match the language that the project is set to. It is necessary to do this when the project contains topic file names with non-English characters. To do this in Windows: 1. Open the Control Panel; 2. select Regional and Language Settings; 3. select the Advanced tab; 4. from the drop-down in the section called Language for non-Unicode programs, choose the same language that the Flare project is set to; 5. restart Windows.
Note: If you have inserted MadCap Capture images that contain objects with text, you can auto-size those objects automatically when the output is generated. This can be done by selecting an option in the Advanced tab of the Target Editor. The original image file and its associated properties (.props) file remain unchanged. Only the output image is affected. You might use this option in case you accidentally cut off text in your image callouts or if they are translated into another language that requires more characters in the translation. See Auto-sizing Capture Image Objects to Fit Text.


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# Exceptions

## Exception Classes

All exception classes in Kotlin are descendants of the class *Exception*. Every exception has a message, stack trace and an optional cause.

To throw an exception object, use the *throw*{: .keyword } expression

``` kotlin
throw MyException("Hi There!")
```

To catch an exception, use the *try*{: .keyword } expression

``` kotlin
try {
  // some code
}
catch (e : SomeException) {
  // handler
}
finally {
  // optional finally block
}
```

There may be zero or more *catch*{: .keyword } blocks. *finally*{: .keyword } blocks may be omitted. However at least one *catch*{: .keyword } or *finally*{: .keyword } block
should be present.

### Try is an expression

*try*{: .keyword } is an expression, i.e. it may have a return value.

``` kotlin
val a : Int? = try { parseInt(input) } catch (e : NumberFormatException) { null }
```

The returned value of a *try*{: .keyword } expression is either the last expression in the *try*{: .keyword } block or the
last expression in the *catch*{: .keyword } block (or blocks). Contents of the *finally*{: .keyword } block do not affect the result of the expression.

## Checked Exceptions

Kotlin does not have checked exceptions. There are many reasons for this, but we will provide a simple example.

The following is an example interface of the JDK implemented by *StringBuilder* class

``` kotlin
Appendable append(CharSequence csq) throws IOException;
```

What does this signature say? It says that every time I append a string to something (a StringBuilder, some kind of a log, a console, etc) I have to catch those IOExceptions. Why? Because it might be performing IO (Writer also implements Appendable)... So it results into this kind of code all over the place:

``` kotlin
try {
  log.append(message);
}
catch (IOException e) {
  // Must be safe
}
```

And this is no good, see [Effective Java Item 65](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/effectivejava-136174.html): Don't ignore exceptions.

Bruce Eckel says in [Does Java need Checked Exceptions?](http://www.mindview.net/Etc/Discussions/CheckedExceptions) :

Examination of small programs leads to the conclusion that requiring exception specifications could both enhance developer productivity and enhance code quality, but experience with large software projects suggests a different result – decreased productivity and little or no increase in code quality.

Other citations of this sort:

[Java's checked exceptions were a mistake](http://radio-weblogs.com/0122027/stories/2003/04/01/JavasCheckedExceptionsWereAMistake.html) (Rod Waldhoff)
[The Trouble with Checked Exceptions](http://www.artima.com/intv/handcuffs.html) (Anders Hejlsberg]

## Java Interoperability

Please see the section on exceptions in the [Java Interoperability section](java-interop.html) for information about Java interoperability.

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In December last year, this mini manuscript sold for $1.1 million to the Museum of Letters and Manuscripts in Paris, and now a letter Charlotte Brontë wrote to Miss Holmes, a woman who lived with the family of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, will be going up for auction this June.
Charlotte tells Miss Holmes that she can relate to the toil of governesses. She, too, had been engaged as one for several months, and later had introduced her readers to Jane Eyre, a character well familiar with the occupation while living at Rochester's manor. Charlotte understood how hard those women worked, and could well remember the weeks of loneliness spent in a stranger's house.
"That life has on me the hold of actual experience; to all who live it--I cannot but incline with a certain sympathy; and any kind feeling they express for me--comes pleasantly and meets with grateful acceptance."
Jane Eyre's experience as a governess was marred by the existence of the mad woman in the attic; consequently, she had to always look over her shoulder, for fear of physical harm or worse. The wild woman, locked in a room, is an apt metaphor for a woman's passion needing to be leashed, while her powerful sensuality waits for the right moment to escape the bonds of Victorian propriety. Charlotte's experiences as a governess usually forced her to subdue a different kind of passion: her frustration and anger over the lack of control of her wards, which drove her to conclude that she lacked the temperament for the job. She was able to transmit her experiences into Jane, a conscientious, moral, and intelligent character similar to the author herself, who also kept a watchful eye on those unruly thoughts and desires.
"I know my own sentiments because I can read my own mind, but the mind of the rest of man and woman-kind, are to me sealed volumes, hieroglyphical scrolls which I cannot easily either unseal or decipher; yet time, careful study, long acquaintance overcome most difficulties, and in your case, I think they have succeeded well in bringing to light and Construing that hidden language whose turnings, windings, inconsistencies, and obscurities, so frequently baffle the researches of the honest observer of human Nature."
The 3-page letter to be auctioned next month is expected to fetch $30,000, or around $10,000 per page. This might be considered low since another letter of Charlotte's sold in June 2010 for $55,000.
Margaret Smith has painstakingly accumulated about 950 letters, ranging from 1829 to February 1855, in a wonderful three-volume set entitled The Letters of Charlotte Brontë. The book is priced considerably less than those auction amounts, but the letters are obviously not the hand-written versions. Nonetheless, Charlotte's correspondences to her friends and editors provide a glimpse into this very private woman's thoughts and views.
What would Charlotte think if she knew her little 'scribblings' were selling for astronomical amounts of money? She would certainly be shocked, but her real concern might be that her private letters were being read by thousands of strangers.
I've read some of the Margaret Smith collection and it's wonderful to read Charlotte's letters. She would be surprised to see her letters selling for thousands of dollars (who wouldn't be?) but privately delighted. Thank you for posting this. I enjoy your blog.


"You are applying for work with a franchisee of Taco Bell, not Taco Bell Corp. or any of its affiliates. If hired, the franchisee will be your only employer. Franchisees are independent business owners who set their own wage and benefit programs that can vary among franchisees."
Paramount to success is delighting Restaurant Guests; then following restaurant basics in understanding and adhering to food safety and sanitation procedures, abiding by guest and employee safety and security policies. Following all company standards and policies including, but not limited to: preparing and producing quality food with speed and accuracy, personal conduct, following all safety and security policies.
Summarize the purpose of this job in two or three sentences using the space below.
The position's incumbent has a significant affect on customer loyalty. In addition, each restaurant crew member is accountable for their impact on expense of doing business, such as absenteeism and appropriate use of resources.
List the five to eight principal responsibilities performed in the order of importance. (Note the most "important responsibility is not necessarily the one which requires the most "time".
Describe the nature and significance of key contacts inside and outside the company.
Primary service relationships with outside customers; team building relationships with co-workers and appropriate working relationships with other internal visitors and vendors.
Education: Basic Math and Reading skills.
Specialization: (licenses, certifications, etc) Food handler's certificate according to state or local requirements. Reliable transportation, valid driver's license, driving record and insurance for positions that require driving: Above Store Leader, General Manager, Assistant Manager and Shift Manager.
Personal Effectiveness - Ability to follow directions and learn quickly; presents positive, can-do attitude; takes personal ownership of tasks and responsibilities; presents a tidy appearance with good hygiene.
Professional Focus: is punctual and flexible in maintaining hours of employment; performs work effectively and safely in an environment where there is constant change and minimal direct supervision; communicates viewpoints and concerns to fellow employees and managers in a constructive manner.
Customer Service: acts in a friendly, courteous and helpful manner toward customers and co-workers at all times - can anticipate bottlenecks in service and willingly acts to resolve them.


There are laws and regulations that state what levels of noise are accepted within certain times of the day. If one has a party at home, if one has a manufacturing business or an entertainment business, one has to have regard to the neighbors and try to reduce the level of noise being produced. Failure to do so could result in cancellation of licenses or even prosecution.
There are two churches in my neighborhood. The first one is no problem, but the second one is on the other end of the scale. The second church seems to have freedom of will to make noise at any time of the day. The congregation, of about twenty five members, has church services with a sound system which can be heard all around the neighborhood. There is no place inside my house where I can have some peace. Church services are held daily from about six in the evening to nine or ten in the night. On Saturdays the services go to midnight. On special occasions it has gone all the way to four the next morning.
I have spoken to the pastor but nothing has changed. I have brought it to the attention of the municipal body and nothing. Called police several times and nothing can be done since it's "just a church service". I have a problem with the noise level that is produced and not with the pursuit of their faith. I need some peace and quietness in my house so that I can have a normal life.
I have a full-time job in Belize City, I am also a part-time student at the University of Belize, and to top it all I am a parent. My day starts at four in the morning. I get ready and then I take a bus to Belize City. Having spent my day between work and school I take a bus back home. By the time I reach home I am exhausted, but no rest for the devil. I cannot listen to the television, do my school work, much less sleep. It's not until the service is over that I regain focus and order.
At the end I respect the diversity and personal space and all I ask for is equality.


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This integration was tested against AspectJ 1.8.9.
Run the code as usual. Just ensure that Clover JAR is present in the class path.
While running the code, Clover will write coverage recording files to the folder where Clover database was created during compilation.
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Student and Alumna Awarded Knight-Hennessy Scholarships
The Career Center is pleased to announce that Serage Amatory, graduate student and Radwa Hamed '17, were among 68 students selected for the prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholarship out of an applicant pool of 4,424.
The award provides recipients with a fully-funded graduate degree at Stanford University in Stanford, California. The aim of the program is to shape a new generation of leaders and as such it complements scholars' graduate work with leadership training, mentorships and experiential learning opportunities.
Amatory, from Barouk-Chouf, Lebanon, will pursue a master's degree in international policy at the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences after graduating from AUC this year with a bachelor's degree with a double major in political science and multimedia journalism and a focus on Middle East politics. A passionate advocate for the rights of women, children and the LGBTQIA+ populations, he aspires through changes to the educational system in Lebanon to promote a secular, equal opportunity and gender-neutral society there. Amatory chose to apply to the Knight Hennessy Scholarship because he was excited to find a program that "empowers students and armors them with the real tools of leadership and communication."
Hamed, who hails from Cairo, will pursue a master's degree in design impact at the Stanford School of Engineering. At AUC she earned a bachelor's degree as a double major in computer engineering and electronics engineering.
Hamed aspires to help change people's daily lives in Egypt and other developing countries with a focus on education, reviving cultural heritage and tourism. She described the Knight Hennessy program, with its focus on enhancing students' leadership skills and connecting them to mentors to a "once in a lifetime opportunity."
Both Amatory and Hamed attended an immersion weekend at Stanford in February as part of the Knight-Hennessy selection process. Hamed's main takeaway from the interview process was that it "mainly focuses on who you are as a person and what impact you want to do in the world." Amatory added, "What seemed to count the most is who you portray yourself as before the panel…All they want at that stage is to get a closer look at your character and who you really are. Kind of like putting a face to a name but more of putting a persona, charisma and character to an application!"


Customers around the globe are reaping the benefits of software-based WAN optimization. Australia's largest independent locally-owned manufacturer and distributor of wood-based building products is no exception. Gunnersen has implemented Silver Peak to ensure its recovery point objectives (RPO) are achieved.
Gunnersen was experiencing severe network difficulties and unable to achieve its disaster recovery (DR) goals despite having upgraded its bandwidth from 4 megabit-per-second (Mbps) to 10 Mbps connection.
"We were amazed when Silver Peak's solution far exceeded our WAN performance target," said Stephen Watson, information systems (IS) manager for Gunnersen. "The Silver Peak software achieved between more than 80% compression on DR, and network traffic dropped from flat-out on 10 Mbps to less than 3 Mbps on average. Actual throughput was greater than 60 Mbps on a 10 Mbps connection. The performance is incredible and the results have been stunning – beyond belief," added Watson.
Watch this video to see how Gunnersen achieved its disaster recovery objectives quickly and easily with Silver Peak.
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London: IBM has taken the top slot — beating Microsoft and Accenture — when it comes to deploying Blockchain technology across industries, a new study has said.
The "Blockchain Enterprise Survey" by market research firm Juniper Research that included 400 company founders, executives, managers and IT leaders, ranked Microsoft and Accenture after IBM.
"Even if companies conduct initial testing using a public blockchain, in most cases the shortcomings of these chains should disqualify them from many use cases, including financial settlement, public sector deployments, logistics and land registry," said research author Windsor Holden late on Monday.
Among enterprises either actively considering, or in the process of deploying blockchain technology, more than four in 10 (43 per cent) ranked IBM first — more than twice the proportion selecting second-placed Microsoft (20 per cent).
Among respondents, more than two-thirds (67 per cent) stated they had already invested more than $100,000 in Blockchain technology by the end of 2016 while 91 per cent of these companies confirmed that they would be spending at least this amount in 2017.
Touted as a key technological innovation of the digital cyptocurrency Bitcoin, Blockchain technology is disrupting traditional processes across industries — from financial transactions to marine insurance and more.
For a layman, a blockchain can serve as "an open, distributed ledger that can efficiently record transactions between two parties".
For use as a "distributed ledger", a blockchain is typically operated by a peer-to-peer network which allows users to manage the ledger in a secure way and without the help of a third party.


Loomis Avenue South East is a short street that runs from near I-20 and runs right into Grant Park, where the Atlanta Zoo is located. The older homes have a lot of character and the neighborhood has great potential to be very beautiful and charming, and has a great location. However, many homes have fallen into disrepair, but several were being renovated when I was in the area, so I have hopes for this neighborhood to greatly improve.
Travelling to Bryan St Southeast?