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2016 – what a year it was. We say it every year, but this one really was the busiest we've ever known in Great Elm. We welcomed 400 participants on our weekend courses, a third of whom were new to Jackdaws; we delivered award-winning projects across Somerset and appointed our first ever Artists in Residence – the VIDA Guitar Quartet.
L to R: Margherita Taylor (Classic FM Presenter), René Bloice-Sanders (Company Member), Audrey Hyland (Music Director), Saffron van Zwanenberg (Director) and Sam Taylor (Classic FM Managing Editor). Credit: Music Teacher Awards 2016
The first success of the year was in February, when we attended the Gala Dinner of the Music Teacher Awards for Excellence, as our large-scale project OperaPLUS had been nominated for the Best Classical Music Education Initiative of 2015. We were absolutely delighted to hear OperaPLUS announced as the winners by Margherita Taylor, presenter on ClassicFM, who sponsored the prize. The 2016 OperaPLUS project was then a huge success in April; Artistic Director Saffron van Zwanenberg directed five fun-filled performances of Donizetti's The Love Potion with 18 schools across Somerset packed with acting, singing and segways!
On Tuesday 22 March, the Gelachter Wind Trio performed alongside over 100 children from 12 schools across Somerset in the Grand Finale concert of the Year of the Reed project at the Cheese & Grain Frome. They performed arrangements of music by composers from Duke Ellington to Tchaikovsky interspersed with performances from the Gelachter Trio in the hour long concert.
Song Story 2016 was an exciting and fresh look at Vivaldi's famous Four Seasons concertos. Composer William Carslake, together with Violinist Flora Curzon and Jackdaws Artistic Director Saffron van Zwanenberg investigated this work with four SEN Somerset schools – Elmwood, Avalon, Critchill and Selworthy. Each school focused on one season, working with the team and using the sonnets which inspired Vivaldi's original composition, to create their own music and play and sing along with Vivaldi's original score. There was a spectacular final performance of "Saving Earth" on Wednesday 29 June at Elmwood & Robert Blake Science College, Bridgwater. The students updated the story to tell of the fight against global warming and how we are saving earth from mankind's thoughtlessness; a modern retelling which was really effective. It was a truly joyful experience for all involved.
Since September, Jack's Music Club has been enjoying a new term of varied experiences and sound worlds. We have a whole new intake of keen young musicians attending each week, who gave two fantastic performances at the Jackdaws Christmas Concert, celebrating Ludwig van Beethoven (the concert happened to take place on 16 December, the maestro's birthday). Jackdaws is now also an Arts Award centre and Jack's members have the opportunity to earn a qualification during their usual weekly session.
We have continued to develop our work with the Music Hub for Somerset, taking a very active part in the Singing Strategy for Somerset schools, offering a mixed-programme of teacher training and in-school sessions, and the first Somerset Schools Singing Festival, which took place in the Summer term.
Saying 'Vaarwel'
In May, we said a very sad farewell to Caecilia Andriessen, who retired. Caecilia was one of the very first tutors at Jackdaws and has been leading her unique "Pianos for All" ensemble course for the last 21 years, making the trip over from The Hague with several faithful students every year since 1995. The Pianos for All weekend involved groups of pianists playing music arranged for two, three and four pianos! We will miss this very special and joyful part of our annual calendar.
Saying 'Hello' to our Artists in Residence
In the Summer, the VIDA Guitar Quartet became the first Jackdaws Artists in Residence. It is the first time that such an appointment has been made by Jackdaws, and we are looking forward to unveiling future plans and discovering how the new relationship will bear fruit.
VIDA celebrated this announcement with a fundraising concert on Saturday 3 December; their last before heading off on tour to the United States at the beginning of 2017. The concert raised important funds for Jackdaws and was a great treat for the local community.
The VIDA Quartet have a strong association with Jackdaws through the longstanding relationship between two members, Mark Eden and Christopher Stell (who also perform as the Eden Stell Guitar Duo). The Duo have been teaching at Jackdaws for more than 20 years and, as Artists in Residence, the Quartet will be ambassadors for Jackdaws in the UK and around the world.
L to R: Saffron van Zwanenberg, Leo Nicholson (Accomp Prize), Holly Marie Bingham (2nd Prize), Nardus Williams (1st & Audience Prizes), Rosemary Joshua, Sam Carl (3rd Prize), Joan Rodgers, Julian Jacobson
The 2016 Vocal Awards continued with the same high standards set in previous years. This year it was Nardus Williams, a young soprano currently studying at the Guildhall with Yvonne Kenny, who took First Place as well as the Audience Prize. The Judges – Rosemary Joshua, Joan Rodgers, Julian Jacobson, chaired by Saffron van Zwanenberg – were very impressed with her performance.
We are all looking forward to the Vocal Awards 2017, which will be the 25th year of the competition. Keep your eyes peeled for details of how we are going to celebrate this significant milestone, which kickstarts the celebrations for Jackdaws 25th anniversary in 2018.
Two Great Losses
Sadly, we lost two great friends in 2016. The first was very early in the year when we heard of loss of tutor Kenneth van Barthold on 16 February. He was 88 years old and had been giving courses at Jackdaws for many years. An exceptional man, his obituary in the Telegraph shows just how respected he was.
Then, in April, we received news that a long-time supporter of Jackdaws, Sarah Wheeler, had also passed away. She was a supporter of Jackdaws from the beginning, and a long time friend of Maureen. Sarah led the fundraising campaign that allowed us to buy our building, and when Maureen passed away in 2010, it was she who helped to organise the concert in her memory. She was a great lover of art and music and was a passionate believer in the healing power of both. As a result, she founded the Mental Fight Club and later the Dragon Cafe to share the benefit of both with others. She will be very sadly missed in Great Elm.
We ended the year by releasing a video about our weekend courses. Produced by Tambrisk pictures, the four-minute video showcases our facilities and surroundings whilst answering questions a new-comer might have about their first visit to a Jackdaws music course. Watch the video here…
The Staff and Trustsees at Jackdaws want to thank all friends, supporters, colleagues and organisations who have helped us this year including;
Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation, Rosemary Bugden Trust, the Mercers' Trust, the Mackintosh Foundation, Frome Voices, Cooper Hall Foundation.
Grants were also received from a number of local councils and funding bodies;
Arts Council England, Sound Foundation Somerset, Frome Town Council, South Somerset District Council.
We are also extremely grateful to the number of individuals who have made donations both large and small, and to Friends of Jackdaws, whose regular contributions ensure that Jackdaws can continue to facilitate the joy of music participation for everyone.
If you would like to make a donation to Jackdaws, you can do so by becoming a Friend, or making a one-off donation. For more information read Supporting Jackdaws.
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Finalists of the 28th Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards
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09/23/14 - NNHS Newsletter - I'm a Fool to Want You
"You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes,
and her eyes everywhere in the world."
- David Levesque
Oh, guess what? It's Frank again!
BONUS - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_ObUNriYZM - I'm a Fool to Want You - Frank Sinatra
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_a_Fool_to_Want_You:
"I'm a Fool to Want You" is a 1951 song composed by Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf, and Joel Herron.[1] Frank Sinatra released the song as a Columbia single. The ballad is a pop and jazz standard.
Frank Sinatra first recorded the song with the Ray Charles Singers on March 27, 1951 in an arrangement by Axel Stordahl in New York. It was the second song recorded at the sessions which began with "I Whistle a Happy Tune" and ended with "Love Me". He recorded a second version at the Capitol Tower in Hollywood on May 1, 1957, arranged and conducted by Gordon Jenkins, which was released in 1957 on the album Where Are You?. This album was Sinatra's first recording for Capitol Records and his first stereo recording. Capitol also released the song as part of an EP, EAP-2-855, EBFI-855.
The song was released as a Columbia Records 10" 78 B side single in 1951 backed with "Mama Will Bark" (with Dagmar) as #39425, Matrix # CO-45185-1. The single reached #14 on the Billboard pop singles chart in a 7 week chart run beginning in June and #27 on Cashbox the same month in a 5 week chart run.[2] "Mama Will Bark" reached #21. The song was re-released in 1954 as an A side Columbia single with "If I Forget You" as the B side. Columbia also released the song as part of an EP, 2559, which also featured "I Should Care", "I Could Write A Book", and "If You Are But A Dream".
The Columbia recording appeared on the 1966 album Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits: The Early Years, Volume Two. The song also appeared on the 1986 4-disc collection The Voice: Frank Sinatra, the Columbia Years (1943–1952) and the 1993 box-set album The Columbia Years 1943-1952: The Complete Recordings. The song also appeared on Frank Sinatra: The Best of the Columbia Years: 1943-1952 in 1995 and Frank Sinatra Sings His Greatest Hits in 1997 both on Columbia. In 2003, the song was included on the Sony collection The Essential Sinatra: The Columbia Years.
The song was featured on the 1992 Sinatra: Soundtrack to the CBS Mini-Series released on Reprise Records...
PRAYER UPDATE:
From the Head Cheerleader of 1965, Pam Smith Arnold of CA - 09/22/14, 7:44 PM:
Cuz' Carol,
About 9 months ago, I asked for prayers for my eldest son, Peter (Tomczyk), who deployed to Afghanistan. I am thrilled to announce that he is back in the country, outprocessing all his soldiers at Ft. Hood and will probably be returning to the arms of his loving wife, Sarah, on Wednesday or Thursday.
I would like to thank everyone who offered a prayer of safety and blessings for Peter. While we can all use all the prayers we can get (I know I can!), I wanted to let everyone know my and Peter's good news and say, again, thanks so much.
Typhoon Blessings to you all,
Pam Smith Arnold '65
WHOO-HOO! That is fabulous news indeed, Cousin Pam! Having had a beloved son deployed to "the lands dark and dusty" for a year, I am somewhat aware of the tremendous feeling of relief you are experiencing at this moment! Congratulations all around!
http://www.nnhs65.com/requests-prayers.html
Happy Birthday today to Fred Fox ('63) AND My Oldest Grandson, Andrew Harty (Collinsville HS, IL - '10) of IL!
Happy Birthday tomorrow to Mary Anne Mays Davis ('58) of VA!
25 - Jimmy Stroup ('57) AND James Comer ('57) AND Robert Coffee ('63) AND Don Wilson (John Marshall HS - '64) of VA AND Jerry Allen ('65) of VA;
26 - The late Tommy Scott ('61) (deceased 01/05/10);
27 - Judy McCall Nesbitt ('65) of NC;
28 - Richard Dawes (NNHS / HHS - '62) of VA AND My Granddaughter, Kaiya Harty of IL;
29 - Bill Shaw ('63) of VA AND Bill Weaver ('63) of VA!
Many Happy Returns, One and All!
http://www.nnhs65.com/Happy-Birthday.html
September 23, 1938 - The mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in response to the Munich Crisis.
September 23, 1941 - The first gas chamber experiments were conducted at Auschwitz.
September 23, 1942 - First day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces attacked Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
September 23, 1943 - In northern Italy, Benito Mussolini re-established a new fascist republic, the so-called Salò Republic, a puppet state of Nazi Germany.
Wednesday, September 23, 1964 - Footballer and manager Clayton Blackmore was born in Neath, Wales.
Wednesday, September 23, 1964 - Singer-songwriter (B'z) Koshi Inaba (稲葉浩志) was born Hiroshi Inaba (稲葉浩志) in Tsuyama, Okayama, Japan.
Wednesday, September 23, 1964 - Basketball player and coach Larry Krystkowiak was born Larry Brett Krystkowiak in Missoula, Montana.
Wednesday, September 23, 1964 - Businessman and author Bill Phillips was born William Nathaniel Phillips.
From Jimmy Smith ('62 / '63) of VA - 09/22/14 - "CLASS OF 1963 OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS":
I KNOW YOU HAVE MOST OF THESE, BUT I LIKE GIVING YOU THE WHOLE LIST.
OCT. 2ND: BARRY HATCHETT AND STUART NACHMAN,
OCT. 4TH: DONNA ROUNTREE ( HOLBURN ),
OCT. 5TH: BUTCH RAGLAND,
OCT. 9TH: MARSHA LEAKE ( GARRETT ),
OCT. 10TH: HARRY SEAY,
OCT. 12TH: ANN SEARS,
OCT. 13TH: KENNY BRANSFORD,
OCT. 18TH: JIMMY CRANK AND LIBBY WHITCOMB ( ELLIS ),
OCT. 19TH: DAN COLEMAN,
OCT. 20TH: MIKE OZMER,
OCT. 22ND: CRAIG MILLER,
OCT. 24TH: SUSAN PERKINS ( BEST ),
OCT. 25TH: OWEN SMITH,
OCT. 27TH: FRED SHELTON.
Thank you so much, Jimmy! I like having the whole list too - and this month I was missing a goodly number of them anyway!
From My Friend, Ellen, of MO - 09/22/14:
Thank you, Ellen!
From My Friend, Emily of NC - 09/22/14 - "Spaghetti Pie":
OOH, YUMMY! Thanks, Miss Emily!
From Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) of VA - 09/22/14 - "Magic Coconut Pie":
Magic Coconut Pie
1/2 cup Bisquick
1 cup flaked coconut
1 TBS. butter, softened
Combine all ingredients and pour into 9 inch buttered pie pan. Bake at 400 degrees for 25-30 minutes until custard sets. Like magic it layers into crust, custard, coconut topping. Cool.
Tip: One cup of Bisquick can be substituted by a mix of one cup of flour, 1½ teaspoons of baking powder, ½ teaspoon of salt, and 1 tablespoon of oil or melted butter.
MORE YUMMINESS! Thanks, Sarah Sugah!
From My Niece, Shari, of VA - 09/04/14 - "Ways to decorate using old items... (#17 in a series of 18)":
Love some of these ideas. The show Flea Market Flip, with Lara Spencer, is another source to get great ideas...
COOL BEANS! Thanks, Shari!
From Joyce Lawrence Cahoon ('65) of VA - 09/08/14 - "Church Pics (#11 in a Series of 19)":
IN GOD WE TRUST--If GOD is your co-pilot, change seats!
GIGGLES! Thank you, Joyce!
From My Husband, Paul Harty (Bardolph HS, IL - '61) of NC - 09/12/14 - "Pets that don't know how furniture works! (#7 in a series of 21)":
Pets that don't know how furniture works!
Thanks, Haul Party!
BONUS CROCHET PATTERNS (Sorry, not theme related):
http://www.favecrafts.com/Crochet-Hats-Scarves-Gloves/Scarf-with-Fringe-from-Caron# - Beautiful Scarf with Fringe - with Caron International's Fabulous
BONUS RECIPES (Sorry, not theme related):
http://www.mrfood.com/Chicken/Very-Ritzy-Italian-Chicken/ct/1 - Very Ritzy Italian Chicken - "Very Ritzy Italian Chicken is fancy enough for company, but easy enough to add excitement to any weeknight meal. Our creamy-cheesy topping for chicken breasts taste luxurious.
http://www.mrfood.com/Beef/Beef-with-Barley/ml/1 - Beef with Barley - "Our beef with barley recipe is a great make ahead meal that offers old-fashioned long cooking tasty comfort! Welcome your gang home to this hearty one pot, for a dinner that satisfies long after they're done eating it!"
http://www.mrfood.com/Cakes/White-Texas-Sheet-Cake/ml/1 - White Texas Sheet Cake - "Vanilla rules big-time in our recipe for White Texas Sheet Cake! This moist and melt-in-your-mouth sweet cake is perfect for feeding a crowd!"
From www.ajokeaday.com - 09/22/14:
A young child walked up to her mother and stared at her hair. As Mother scrubbed on the dishes, the girl cleared her throat and sweetly asked; "Why do you have some grey strands in your hair?"
The mother paused and looked at her daughter. "Every time you disobey, I get one strand of grey hair. If you want me to stay pretty, you'd better obey."
The mother quickly returned to her task of washing dishes. The little girl stood there thinking. She cleared her throat again.
"Mother?" she sweetly asked again.
"Yes?" her mother replied.
"Why is Grandma's hair all grey?"
1. Friday and Saturday, October 10 and 11, 2014 - The NNHS Class of 1969 will hold a 45-YEAR REUNION at the Newport News Marriott at City Center, 740 Town Center Drive. For further information, contact Jean Baker Howell at hokie13mom@cox.net.
2. Friday and Saturday, October 17 and 18, 2014 - The NNHS Class of 1964 will hold a 50-YEAR REUNION at the Newport News Marriott at City Center, 740 Town Center Drive. See: www.nnhs1964.com and contact David Spriggs at 757-409-2799 or nnhs64@cox.net.
3. Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - The NNHS Class of June 1942 meets at noon on the second Wednesday of every other month for a Dutch treat lunch at the James River Country Club, 1500 Country Club Road. PLEASE JOIN THEM. Give or take a few years makes no difference. Good conversation, food and atmosphere. For details, call Jennings Bryan at 803-7701 for reservations.
http://www.nnhs65.com/requests-prayers.html - updated 09/23/14 BLOG:
THREE WAYS TO DONATE:
1. Visit the main page (http://www.nnhs65.com), scroll halfway down, and click on the Pay Pal Donate Button (nnhs65@gmail.com);
2. Go to www.PayPal.com, log in, select "Send Money (Services) to nnhs65@gmail.com; or
3. Just mail it directly to my home. Thanks!
I'm a Fool to Want You
Composed by Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf, and Joel Herron, 1951
To want a love that can't be true
A love that's there for others too
I'm a fool to hold you
Such a fool to hold you
To seek a kiss not mine alone
To share a kiss that Devil has known
Time and time again I said I'd leave you
Time and time again I went away
But then would come the time when I would need you
And once again these words I had to say
Take me back, I love you
Pity me, I need you
I know it's wrong, it must be wrong
But right or wrong I can't get along
"I'm a Fool to Want You" midi (sequenced by Mel Webb) courtesy of http://www.midistudio.com/midi/MW_HR.htm - 09/18/08
"I'm a Fool to Want You" lyrics courtesy
of http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/I%27m-a-Fool-to-Want-You-lyrics-Frank-Sinatra/2360DCE1126A348C4825691F000925F1 - 09/23/08
Animated Fools clip art courtesy of http://www.jograham.com/fcfoojcd.htm – 03/31/05
Animated Smiley Divider Line clip art courtesy of http://www.wtv-zone.com/nevr2l82/bars3.html - 03/30/05
Collinsville High School (IL) Logo courtesy of http://www.kahoks.org/chs/ - 09/22/07
Animated "Happy Little Rabbits We Are" clip art courtesy of http://users.bigpond.net.au/jellery/index.htm - 04/25/09

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Math and science courses use a Lab Rotation model in which students rotate roughly twice a week and at the teacher's discretion between a computer lab used primarily for online learning and classrooms used primarily for other learning modalities. Foreign language courses use an A La Carte model in which students learn entirely online with an online teacher of record. Students have the option of taking the online course either at the brick-and-mortar campus or off site depending on their schedule and preference.
The biggest obstacles the school has faced have been learning how to implement the blended-learning models into the school day and finding high-quality online content providers for all subjects. The school is still looking into finding additional quality content providers, but the administrators feel they have a solid and workable blended-learning model in place.
Danville Independent Schools is a small district south of Lexington, Kentucky with one middle school and one high school. The district first became interested in blended learning in 2009 while it was exploring new ways for teachers to shed some administrative responsibilities and focus on teaching the curriculum. Administrators visited High Tech High School and three blended-learning schools in New York, including School of One and School of the Future. From those visits, administrators knew they wanted to combine project-based learning and blended learning, so they started experimenting with ALEKS and other online programs. An NGLC Wave IV Launch winner, the district used the funding to implement a whole-school blended-learning model at both the middle school and high school during the 2013-14 school year.
In 2010-2011 Kentucky used the Kentucky Core Content Tests (KCCT) to assess students in grades 3 through 8 and 10 through 12 in reading, social studies, science, writing, and math. The Elementary School results displayed on GreatSchools profiles are for grades 3 through 5 combined for each subject. Middle School results are for grades 6 though 8 combined, and High School results are for grades 10 though 12 combined. The KCCT is a standards-based test, which means it measures how well students are mastering specific skills defined for each grade by the state of Kentucky. The goal is for all students to score at or above proficient on the test.
Beginning in the 2011-12 school year, and continuing in 2013-2014, Kentucky used the Kentucky Performance Rating for Educational Progress (K-PREP) tests to assess students in grades 3 through 8 in reading and mathematics, 4 and 7 in science, 5 and 8 in social studies, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 11 in writing, and 4, 6, and 10 in language mechanics. The K-PREP is a standards-based test, which means it measures how well students are mastering specific skills defined for each grade by the state of Kentucky.
Beginning in the 2011-12 school year, and continuing in 2013-2014, Kentucky administered the End-of-Course (EOC) assessments. EOCs are tests given to public high school students when they complete a course to assess their knowledge of important course concepts. They are similar to a final exam, except that they are created and scored by an outside testing company, ensuring that the tests are both rigorous and aligned with state and national college readiness standards.


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Mermaid thunderdome: Will Disney & Universal's live-action 'Little Mermaids' face off?
Lindsay MacDonald May 25, 2016 May 25, 2016
Hot on the heels of the release of Disney's live action "Beauty and the Beast" trailer — which broke the record for most views in 24 hours (previously held by "Star Wars: The Force Awakens") with a stunning 92 millions hits — Disney has started making rumblings about a live action "The Little Mermaid."
Deadline reports that the higher-ups at Disney are considering moving forward with the project, and a few producers have already had discussions about the possible live action reboot.
It's an entirely unsurprising move, considering how other Disney live action adaptations have been performing at the box office in the past few years.
RELATED: Chloe Grace Moretz going under the sea for live action 'The Little Mermaid'
On the other hand, the news presents an interesting conundrum, considering there is already a live action "Little Mermaid" movie in the works at Universal. Depending on when these respective films get release dates, this debacle could turn into The War of the Two Mermaids — which coincidentally is another movie we'd absolutely go see.
According to Chloe Moretz, who has been cast as Universal's underwater princess, the two movies may end up being incredibly different.
"A modern revisionist tale is kind of what we're going after," Moretz tells Entertainment Tonight, "You know, making it progressive for young women in this day and age."
The Universal film may also follow the original fairytale more closely, rather than sticking to the Disney version of the story. We're not sure there will be quite as much murder and suicide as Hans Christian Andersen's version, but if so, that would definitely set them apart from Disney's retelling.
RELATED: 'Beauty and the Beast': Emma Watson makes her debut as Belle in first trailer
As for Disney's adaptation, there is little to no news on the film yet, since it has still not been officially announced.
If the recent "Beauty and the Beast" movie is any indication, however, a live action "The Little Mermaid" will follow the 1989 animated film very closely. Get ready to see Ursula, Sebastian, Flounder and King Triton brought to life with some impressive CGI magic!
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Lindsay MacDonald is a Los Angeles based entertainment reporter with an affinity for CW superheroes. She graduated from Pepperdine University with a major in Media Studies and a borderline unhealthy obsession with TV in 2012. She would much rather spend the day binge-watching 'The Flash' or sorting 'Game of Thrones' characters into Hogwarts houses than venturing outdoors. TV words to live by: "Never ignore coincidence. Unless, of course, you're busy. In which case, always ignore coincidence."
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The North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) Fargo District along with the City of West Fargo are improving the Interstate 94 (I-94) and Sheyenne Street corridor. Starting, Monday April 22, work to complete the last year of the major interchange reconstruction project at Sheyenne Street exit will begin in West Fargo.
Construction will start Monday, April 22 on northbound I-29 from reference point 32 to reference point 44 (Christine Exit 44). The project consists of reconstruction of the northbound roadway of the interstate.
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Some people aren't happy with the ever growing stream of big data available on the general population. Some of these people are pissed off, like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, started by Mitch Kapor, who brought you Lotus 123.
Others want more data collected on them, and they are willing to jump through some serious hoops to digitize their whole life.
A Headline at New Scientist said New camera promises to capture your whole life.
Originally invented to help jog the memories of people with Alzheimer's disease, it might one day be used by consumers to create "lifelogs" that archive their entire lives.
One of the biggest fans of the pendant camera is Gordon Bell, shown here wearing his.
Bell, 78, is no ordinary nerd. He was present at the creation. A founder of DEC, which built the first transistorized computers, and then made them small. PDP-8, PDP-11, the VAXen.
Seen over on the left, the gadget on his neck is snapping up lots of information on Gordon.
"Worn on a cord around the neck, the camera takes pictures automatically as often as once every 30 seconds. It also uses an accelerometer and light sensors to snap an image when a person enters a new environment, and an infrared sensor to take one when it detects the body heat of a person in front of the wearer. It can fit 30,000 images onto its 1-gigabyte memory."
This is sort of turning yourself into a Borg, input-wise. Recall the best Borg, Seven of Nine, The Best of the Best Borg - Memorable Moments of Seven of Nine Video.
If it sees you buying a hot-dog, it'll know a great mustard in your (also wired) fridge. If it sees you buying Preperation H, it may try to sell you a padded ring.
I'm not entirely sure this is a good thing, but people keep wiring themselves, and are happy to add it to their browsing clickstream, GPS, app usage, mail, and the other Big Data.
And sometimes, you really need a padded ring.


The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London is looking for three highly motivated and technically sophisticated individuals to work on its text-based research projects. The positions will involve using computer tools and methods to facilitate digital scholarship.
CCH is both a department with responsibility for its own academic programme and a research centre promoting the appropriate application of computing in humanities research. Its research projects cover a wide range of humanities disciplines, including medieval studies, history, literature and linguistics, and music, and also include a number of more general information management projects in both humanities and the social sciences.
The successful candidates will possess strong analytical and problem solving skills: they will be required to identify and engage with the core scholarly questions in a highly collaborative research context; to analyse a wide variety of humanities materials and to model them using XML-related technologies; to design and develop systems for editing and delivering text-based scholarly materials and to collaborate in the design of integrated HTML-based publication. Experience in creating and manipulating XML documents in a range of XML-related standards and technologies (DTDs, XPath, XSLT) is highly desirable, in particular textual materials encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative's guidelines.
All successful candidates will need to have a good understanding of how research is conducted in the humanities and social sciences and will be expected to make a strong contribution to the departmental research profile. They will need to be able to work effectively as part of a team, as well as independently. They must have good communication skills and the ability to document their work in clear written English.
One position is for one year on Fixed Term Contract (Maternity Cover) – within the Grade 5 scale, currently £28,074 to £32,176, inclusive of London Allowance.
Two positions are for one year on Fixed Term Contract – within the Grade 6 scale, currently £30,070 to £39,038 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.
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The article of incorporation for the New Mexico Wool Manufacturing Company was introduced and passed in the New Mexico Territorial Legislature on January 30, 1861. Its founding associates were Ceran St. Vrain, José Guadalupe Gallegos, Oliver P. Hovey, Anastacio Sandoval, Rafael Armijo, José Manuel Gallegos, Hamilton G. Fant, Nazario Gonzales, J. Francisco Chaves; Levi Spiegelberg, A.P. Wilbar, Miguel A. Otero, William W. Griffin; José Leandro Perea (brother of Juan Perea, who was the father of Colonel Francisco Perea);  S. J. Spiegelberg, Tomás Cabeza de Baca, Sidney A. Hubbell, Francisco Lopez, William A. Street, Ramon Luna; Miguel E. Pino, who became commander of 2nd New Mexico Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War; Thomas H. Hopkins; Simon Delgado (cousin of Miguel E. Pino) who, with his mother, Doña Maria de la Luy Baca de Delgado, purchased the Yglesia Castrense in Santa Fe from Bishop Lamy in exchange for $1,000 and a portion of the site for St. Michael's College (San Miguel College) in Santa Fe;  M. Steck, Vicente García, Teodoro Baca, Vicente Romero, José Jaramillo, and Manuel Vigil. They claimed lawful use, occupation, and right to construct roads and erect buildings on, any wild lands within the Territory not the property of other individuals or corporations. They also claimed lawful use of (but not diversion of or injure others use of) water and the right to construct machinery on any river or stream upon said lands. The statement of capital stock was 3,500 shares at $100 each, or $350,000, with the right to increase the number of total shares to 7,500 at a value of $750,000.

In the 1907 publication History of New Mexico: its Resources and People, by George B. Anderson, the company was listed with date of charter January 28, 1863 and evaluated at $750,000.

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Monday 27 August 1979 was a glorious summer's bank holiday in Britain and Ireland. I remember it very well. Mum, Dad and I enjoyed a day trip to Seaton in Devon. We'd spent a happy week there earlier that month, so a return trip was a bonus. We made the most of that lovely Monday.
The following morning, my father brought me a mug of tea and told me the awful news that the IRA had murdered Lord Mountbatten and 18 soldiers. It was only later that I realised that these were separate terrorist atrocities. Mountbatten had been killed by a bomb on his boat in Ireland, along with three others: his grandson Nicholas Knatchbull, aged 14, 15 year old Irish boy Paul Maxwell and Nicholas's 83 year old grandmother, who died the following day.
The killing of Mountbatten was shocking, but it was the cold blooded murder of two teenage boys and an 83 year old woman that seemed so wicked at the time and in retrospect. It prompted the same kind of revulsion as the later terrorist attacks on America in 2001.
That August Tuesday, I wrote LLM (for Lord Louis Mountbatten) and the date 27.8.79 on a book I bought the previous day in Seaton, to commemorate a summer day that saw four lives wiped out on a similar family outing. I was a similar age in 1979 to the two boys killed in the attack.
Reading Timothy Knatchbull's moving account of the attack and the aftermath took me right back to that summer's week in 1979. Timothy survived the bombing along with his parents. Yet his loss was unique. For he was Nicholas Knatchbull's identical twin. Losing a twin is especially traumatic, and Timothy had the added pain of not being able to say goodbye to his brother. (He was rescued unconscious from the water, and was too badly injured to return to Britain for his brother's funeral.) Much of the book describes Timothy's 25 year journey to understand Nicholas's last moments, to mourn his brother and to find his own peace in Ireland, especially in the places that meant so much in his childhood before Monday 27 August 1979.
It's a painful book to read at times, especially the poignant description of the days leading up to the bombing of Shadow V and the harrowing accounts of eye witnesses of the desperate hours after the killers struck. But I read it knowing that Timothy's pain was far, far greater – and inspired by his description of the amazing care that he and his parents received in Sligo hospital, and his love of Ireland despite his family's terrible ordeal in 1979.
It was hard even in the summer of 1979 to understand how Lord Mountbatten had not been better protected by the Irish and British authorities. That August marked the 10th anniversary of the 'Troubles' as Northern Ireland's murderous conflict was euphemistically known. Mountbatten's boat was barely guarded, so it didn't take a genius to place a bomb on it. Knatchbull describes how every summer Mountbatten would write to the British and Irish authorities to check if it was safe for him to visit his Irish castle. Every year the authorities said yes. In 1979, that complacency proved a death warrant for two old people and two teenage boys.
Knatchbull's is no ordinary family. The royal connection (Mountbatten was Prince Philip's uncle) made them a target. Later, Timothy lightly describes how the Queen invited him for Christmas and tenderly helped him in his grief. But he also demonstrates the timeless and classless qualities of love that his own family shared to get through the months and years after the tragedy.
The story of Monday 27 August 1979 is just one of many across the years of the troubles that blighted Ireland and Britain. Timothy and his family showed that the bonds between our two countries and people were too strong for murderous people to destroy. Timothy also had the intelligence and compassion to realise that peace could only come by including terrorists in the peace and reconciliation process. Ironically, as he says, Lord Mountbatten understood this decades earlier in his own role ending British rule in India and insisting that Burmese nationalists be included in the liberated 1945 government in Burma. Mountbatten instinctively sympathised with the Irish, and even had sympathy for the 'old' IRA. Mountbatten's enlightened attitudes were reflected in the grief and sympathy shown in India in the days after the bombing, and by the respect shown by the touring India test cricket team in the fourth test that started at The Oval later that week.
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Dear customers, business partners, and shareholders,
Following the Annual General Meeting in Runbox Solutions for the fiscal year 2019, and consistent with our commitment to transparency, we take the opportunity to review our company's status here on our website.
In 2019 our next-generation webmail app Runbox 7 was officially launched for new customers, featuring a unique browser-based search capability that enables immediate searching and listing of email.
The implementation of security and privacy related improvements as well as infrastructure improvements have continued throughout the year. Our company invests the majority of its profits in further development of our services.
Through 2019 the environmental challenges facing humanity became indisputably obvious, and Runbox continued adapting our strategy accordingly by increasing our support for environmental mitigation initiatives.
In order to support further growth in our customer base, projects to further expand and improve our service's architecture have been initiated. The expanding Runbox ecosystem now extends into the open source community as well, with the open sourcing of the Runbox 7 source code.
Our progress is the result of our hard-working and diverse team, in cooperation with our close business partners around the globe. The operating result continued to be positive in 2019, and the company experienced steady economic growth and a strengthened market position.
Launch of Runbox 7
Our innovative webmail app Runbox 7 was officially launched for new customers in the fall of 2019, while breaking new ground in the email service market.
With the Runbox 7 Webmail we have created a next-generation webmail app that enables an immediate email experience on any Internet-enabled device such as desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones.
Runbox 7 leverages modern web technology frameworks such as WebAssembly, HTML 5 Canvas, and Progressive Web App in combination with our unique database-accelerated architecture. Development efforts have increased throughout the year with improvements toward a fully-featured modern web application.
The project is partially funded by the Norwegian Research Council as a research and development (R&D) project in support of the innovative aspects of the solution.
During the year we launched Runbox 7 Calendar, a new calendar web interface with a CalDAV compatible database storage which can be synchronized with most modern calendar apps. We also launched the Runbox 7 Contacts web interface with CardDAV and vCard compatible storage, which means that Runbox users now can synchronize their contacts with any device.
The development of Runbox 7 can be tracked on our Runbox 7 Roadmap, which is publicly available in the Runbox Forum where our community is growing steadily.
Runbox 7 forms the foundation on which we aim to solve the growing challenges with today's email interfaces, while looking ahead to the future of email.
Improved privacy and security features
While 2018 was the big year for online privacy with the introduction of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Runbox continued to build upon several years of GDPR planning and implementation in 2019.
The groundwork we established with strengthened policies, agreements, and technologies was expanded further with continued efforts in the privacy and security realm.
Located in Norway, we are backed by one of the most privacy and consumer-friendly jurisdictions in the world to keep our customers' data safe. All email service account information and content is stored on our own physical servers, hosted in our data center in Norway in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Privacy is a principle for all development we undertake, and Privacy by Design is integrated in the Information Security Policy we introduced as part of our GDPR implementation.
We have also expanded our blog post series outlining our road towards GDPR compliance, which may be useful for other companies in their efforts to improve the privacy and security aspects of their own organizations and services.
Through 2019 we further hardened the security of our services by upgrading the encryption of connections on our servers, and ongoing projects to implement encryption of data at rest and support for end-to-end encryption which will add more security layers to our services.
Environmental engagement
Our natural environment forms the foundation for all human activity and thereby permeates the operations of all companies. Runbox is built on a strong ethical foundation and the environment is therefore an essential concern when further developing our services.
Runbox is dedicated to decreasing our carbon footprint and other environmental impacts that result from our operations, and in 2019 we continued strengthening this commitment.
The data center where our email servers are located is 100% hydropowered, and our email architecture is exclusively dedicated to the Runbox email service. This ensures that utilizing the Runbox email service does not involve unrelated services that consume energy for purposes other than processing our customers' emails.
Further building upon our efforts in 2019 we have this year achieved CO2 double negative operations, including office facilities and work related travels, by implementing an Environmental Policy and supporting the organization World Land Trust.
Scaling our operations
Our growing customer base and further improvements to security, reliability, and performance have resulted in an increased need for infrastructure capacity. This effort continues in 2020 as we are developing a long term roadmap for infrastructure development where a distributed architecture is our main goal.
This entails proportionally significant investments in hardware and consequentially additional system management resources, mainly provided by our close partner Copyleft Solutions AS here in Norway.
The result of the hard work of our organization and our partners is a steadily growing customer base, and our investments will incrementally benefit our customers with better response times, higher performance, and a more reliable service.
Open source ecosystem
We believe in the exchange of both ideas and computer code, and Runbox has long utilized and supported open source software. With the open sourcing of the Runbox 7 app we have truly joined the open source community as a contributor.
The Runbox 7 source code is publicly available on Github, where everyone can review, comment on, and contribute to our code base. This not only accelerates the development of our service but improves the security of our software through public code review.
This also allowed us to establish the Runbox 7 Bug Bounty Program (BBP) where our services can benefit from contributors from the whole world.
We thank all our contributors for helping us improve Runbox 7 further, as well as all the customers who are providing valuable feedback.
Team and partnership diversity
Our advances are made possible by a diverse and growing team comprised of talented people from all parts of the world. In addition to the Runbox headquarters in Norway and our partner Copyleft Solutions AS, our team currently includes personnel from the UK, Poland, Brazil, and the US – all governed by GDPR compliant agreements.
Additionally we are continuing our relationships with Peregrine Computer Consultants Corporation (PCCC) in order to improve our spam filtering systems, and Shadowcat Systems Limited for Angular and Perl programming resources.
The background, geographical location, and personal diversity in our organization is a great strength. Our team members' commitment to the ethics and policies of our company forms the core of our organization.


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10 Important Takeaways from Seattle's Green New Deal
Climate (Policy) Change
Seattle City Council announced an ambitious list of climate goals. Here's what you need to know.
By Lily Hansen August 21, 2019
Council member Mike O'Brien speaks at a press conference about Seattle's Green New Deal.
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Free transit, electric energy, and a pollutant-free Seattle: This is the dream of local climate activists, environmental groups, and now Seattle City Council. With the passing of last week's Green New Deal, they inched toward that utopia.
Inspired by the Green New Deal first introduced to Congress by Massachusetts senator Edward Markey and New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez earlier this year, the extensive resolution is Seattle's most ambitious environmental goal yet, coupling the climate crisis with possible solutions to the city's growing economic troubles. With the federal legislation hitting a standstill in recent months, Seattle is among a wave of states and municipalities across the country—including New York, Maine, Los Angeles, and soon Milwaukee—taking it upon themselves to pass their own version.
Here are 10 primary takeaways from the city council's Green New Deal and what these changes could mean for the future of Seattle:
1. The resolution shaves off 20 years from mayor Jenny Durkan's original goal for a carbon-neutral city by 2050, as outlined in her 2018 Climate Action Strategy. The new goal: rid Seattle of climate pollutants by 2030. Although the city's current emissions rate comes nowhere near the 2050 goal, council member Mike O'Brien, the resolution's sponsor, wants to motivate local representatives to implement drastic environmental policies soon.
2. Overhaul existing transit and infrastructure. Not only does the city's Green New Deal propose all ride-share vehicles be electric by 2025, it advocates that all King Country Metro buses become fully electric by 2030. With Seattle City Light's almost 15-year carbon-neutral status, O'Brien hopes building-owners will forgo natural gas and energy oil for electric appliances.
3. Expand job opportunities in renewable energy and train workers to "thrive" in their new industry. The resolution also calls for the support of workers' unions and for strengthening employee protection laws.
4. Consider downtown congestion tolls. Equity discussions continue, but council member Teresa Mosqueda thinks a toll might succeed if alternatives such as frequent buses and citywide dedicated bus and bike lanes are available. "We need to convince folks to get out of their cars," she says, "and we can only do that by establishing adequate transit alternatives and creating a mechanism to avoid the unintended consequences of congestion pricing." She's also interested in coordinating with Sound Transit to expedite the opening of future Link light rail stations.
5. Offer free transit (hopefully, eventually). O'Brien estimates that complementary transit could cost over $100–$200 million a year—outside of the city's current budget. For now, he says, the path forward requires dual action: subsidies from the city and a willingness from employers to offer their employees free transit.
6. While this spring's Mandatory Housing Affordability was a win for YIMBYs, Seattle's Green New Deal aims to create affordable housing near public transit, parks, schools, and other neighborhood amenities in order to help prevent the displacement of low-income communities.
7. Expand healthy food access and promote plant-based diets. The council has a few routes for this: One, use soda tax funds to provide low-income residents with nutritionally rich foods and two, commit public property to urban gardening. Independently, Mosqueda thinks we should follow San Francisco and force producers to publicly list the antibiotics in their meats.
8. Create a 16-member Green New Deal Oversight Board to ensure the council remains committed to the goals, as O'Brien puts it, "long after I'm gone." The requirements for membership include eight people directly impacted by racial, economic, and environmental inequities; three representatives of environmental organizations; two labor union representatives; and three climate change experts.
9. Take waste minimization and recycling seriously. A growing number of cities have banned single-use plastics in grocery stores and Mosqueda thinks Seattle should be next. She's also interested in organizing a citywide campaign to reeducate the public on recycling. "I think people here pride themselves on being high recycling consumers," she says. "But when we don't follow recycling protocol, we hurt our climate and the recycling industry."
10. During the public comment period, King County Council member Larry Gossett was inspired to propose a similar, county-level Green New Deal. With increasing pressure from climate activists around the state, we'll likely see climate-focused legislation introduced at both the county and state level sometime in the near future.
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#BlazeATrail From School Leaver To Workshop Foreman
The British Woodworking Federation (BWF)	March 7, 2019
Joinery workshop foreman, Beau Hewlett, started at Oxfordshire firm Gelder Joinery at an early age after leaving school before finishing his GCSEs. He soon found that a woodworking apprenticeship would put his life on a more successful path.
Beau explains, "I started a permanent work experience placement at Gelder Joinery after leaving school aged 14. I wasn't getting on terribly well with school and for the last couple of years I spent my school hours at the Gelder Joinery workshop. It was completely different and something I would look forward to every morning."
An early introduction to woodworking
When Beau joined Gelder Joinery, where his brother Carl Hewlett was working at the time, he had no experience of the trade and hadn't studied woodwork at school. He went on to complete his GCSEs and a long-term placement, after which he was offered an apprenticeship.
"Staying on to complete an apprenticeship and gain NVQ qualifications was a no-brainer after developing a passion for the trade. Being able to make something with your hands, see it through from initial drawing to completed installation gives you a real sense of achievement, and for someone who's more hands-on and practical like me, it's a perfect fit," he added.
Gelder Joinery designs, manufactures and installs windows, doors, garden rooms and internal fittings for new build, renovation and heritage projects. It's skilled and experienced tradespeople support the development of the next generation of woodworkers.
Beau recalls, "Hands-on learning in the workshop is something that you just can't get from the classroom – the amount I've learnt from colleagues who are 50, 60 years old and have decades of experience is invaluable."
Since completing his apprenticeship in 2007, Beau has worked his way up within the company and was appointed joinery workshop foreman in 2015. In his new role, he oversees the day to day running of the workshop, supports apprentices and checks the quality of all products produced. His role is now 60% management and 40% hands-on joinery – the perfect balance for Beau who says he's not suited to an office-based job.
Apprenticeships are vital to the woodworking industry and Gelder Joinery regularly supports the development of new woodworkers on their journeyinto the sector. Providing apprentices with experience of the workplace and helping them gain their woodworking qualifications, the company currently has three apprentices at various stages of their three-year course. Throughout their course each apprentice works alongside every member of the team so that they can learn aspects of the trade from all the firm's qualified professionals.
Beau adds: "Woodworking is a craft, and it's a great feeling to make something that lasts a lifetime. An apprenticeship can open doors to so many roles – not only within your trade but to the wider industry. A woodworking apprenticeship gives you a firm background and understanding of building materials and how a construction site works, so could be the entry to wider roles such as site manager or CAD designer."
This is just one story from a British Woodworking Federation (BWF) member sharing how an apprenticeship is a stepping stone into a long and successful career. Woodworking is an extremely diverse and talented sector with design, production and management roles, as well as office-based marketing and sales roles, so it's unsurprising that the sector has one of the highest ratios of apprentices in the economy.
Helen Hewitt, CEO of the BWF said:
"Our members lead the way and offer apprenticeship schemes that support the development of the next generation of talented woodworkers. Hands-on practical training is invaluable at the start of a successful career. Beau's progression to joinery workshop foreman and his passion for the woodworking sector is a testament to the investment that companies like Gelder Joinery make to develop next generation within our sector."
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