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New York Leads the Pack in Incidence of Blockchain Litigation
New Murphy & McGonigle Blockchain Litigation Year in Review Report Identifies Five Key Trends
NEW YORK, — When it comes to litigation in the highly promising yet still evolving space of blockchain, it looks like it's up to you, New York, New York.
The Empire State featured the most active region for blockchain litigation – the Southern District of New York – according to the new Blockchain Litigation Year in Review Report, released today by financial services law firm Murphy & McGonigle.
With the emerging, high-potential sector still facing an undefined regulatory landscape, participants have ranged from established financial services brands to investors to rogue actors. The second annual Blockchain Litigation Year in Review Report quantifies the incidence of litigation in the blockchain sector in 2019 for the U.S. marketplace. This includes cases involving cryptocurrencies, blockchain-based companies, mining companies, crypto-investment platforms, exchanges and ICO issuers and consultants.
"As many companies are investing in or exploring innovative uses of blockchain, this Report helps quantify risk areas and provide a monitor for the litigation climate for blockchain along with current trends," said Daniel Payne, a member of the firm's FinTech & Blockchain Practice and architect of the firm's Blockchain Litigation Database. "There is no shortage of speculation on the potential of blockchain, and this report identifies potential pitfalls and red flags for those investing or sponsoring blockchain initiatives."
According to the Report, based on data collected and analyzed from Murphy & McGonigle's proprietary Blockchain Litigation Database, five key trends emerged in 2019 that require attention from those in the blockchain space.
Five Key Headlines from the Blockchain Litigation Year in Review Report:
The Southern District of New York (SDNY): More Blockchain Litigation Than Any Other Venue
The SEC Remained Active, with High Profile Enforcement Activity
Regulatory Enforcement Actions Drop Off
American Courts Issued Rulings that will Impact the Blockchain Industry
The SEC's "Path to Compliance" is a Road Less Traveled
Key Findings in Report
The Report showed that the Southern District of New York had more than twice as many blockchain cases as any other venue in the United States
"It is not entirely unexpected that a new industry that is both global and decentralized would see litigation emerging in New York," said Payne. "Given cryptocurrency's growing role in capital raising, the incidence of litigation in New York reflects the city's status as the hub of financial services."
Other key findings of the Report include continuing high-profile enforcement activities of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the impact that American court rulings will have on the blockchain industry. Looking ahead, as cases filed in the past few years progress through the court system, courts may begin issuing conflicting rulings on significant legal issues. It is important for members of the blockchain industry to be aware of developing legal trends as they happen.
For a copy of the Murphy & McGonigle Blockchain Litigation Year in Review Report, click here.
The Blockchain Litigation Database
Created in 2018 by Murphy & McGonigle's Innovation Lab, the Blockchain Litigation Database is a proprietary, data-based tool that monitors U.S. litigation in the blockchain industry. The Blockchain Litigation Database is monitored by Murphy & McGonigle, which analyzes and interprets the data to publish the annual Blockchain Litigation Year in Review Report.
Murphy & McGonigle FinTech & Blockchain Practice
Murphy & McGonigle's leading FinTech & Blockchain Practice advises clients on the rapidly evolving legal and regulatory financial services regimes applicable to digital financial instruments, including matters related to trading, clearing, and custodying these instruments. The firm represents a large U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, clients developing platforms for digital securities, and companies seeking the New York BitLicense, among others.
The firm's FinTech & Blockchain Practice is comprised of lawyers who previously served at the SEC, the CFTC and the New York State Department of Financial Services.
About Murphy & McGonigle
Murphy & McGonigle serves the litigation, enforcement defense, and regulatory counseling needs across the full spectrum of the financial services industry – from national banks, broker-dealers, investment advisers, and hedge funds, to national and international securities markets and exchanges. Many of the firm's partners formerly served in senior positions in the US Department of Justice, SEC, FINRA, CFTC, and the New York State Department of Financial Services, and several served in senior executive positions in major financial institutions on Wall Street.
Mark Curran
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The judicial power in the District of Columbia is vested in the following courts:(1) The following Federal Courts established pursuant to article III of the Constitution: (A) The Supreme Court of
the United States. (B) The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. (C) The United States District Court for the District of Columbia. (2) The following District of Columbia courts established pursuant to article I of the Constitution: (A) The District of Columbia Court of Appeals. (B) The Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
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The judicial power of the State is vested in a supreme court, a superior court, and the courts established by the legislature. The jurisdiction of courts shall be prescribed by
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Alaska Alaska Stat. Ann. § 22.07.010 Establishment There is established the court of appeals, consisting of three judges. The court of appeals is a court of record. Court of Appeals Creation of the courts
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There shall be one superior court for the state. The court shall consist of four districts bounded as follows: First District: the area within election districts numbered one to six,
both inclusive, as those districts are described in art. XIV of the state constitution on March 19, 1959; Second District: the area within election districts numbered 21 to 23, both inclusive, and those areas of election districts 18 and 20 within the boundaries of the North Slope Borough, as those districts are described in art. XIV of the state constitution on March 19, 1959; Third District: the area within election districts numbered seven to 15, both inclusive, as those districts are described in art. XIV of the state constitution on March 19, 1959, and the portion of election district 19, as that district is described in art. XIV of the state constitution on March 19, 1959, that is in the Glennallen Venue District on March 1, 2002, described as follows: Beginning at a point on the divide between the watersheds of the Tanana River and the Copper River south of the headwaters of Totschunda Creek; thence southwesterly in a straight line first crossing the Nabesna River to Mt. Allen; thence meandering on the divide mountain peak to mountain peak to a point north of Regal Mountain on the divide separating the Nabesna Glacier from the Chisana Glacier; thence westerly and northwesterly along the divide between the watersheds of the Tanana River and Copper River as it meanders from mountain peak to mountain peak back to a point on the divide south of the headwaters of the Totschunda Creek, the place of the beginning; and Fourth District: the area within election districts numbered 16, 17, and 24, the areas of election districts numbered 18 and 20 not included in the second district, and the area of election district numbered 19 not included in the third district, as those districts are described in art. XIV of the state constitution on March 19, 1959.
Alaska Alaska Stat. Ann. § 22.15.010 Establishment of the District Court of the State of Alaska
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Amazon has partnered with Twitter to launch the '#AmazonBasket' service that allows shoppers to add an item to their shopping basket simply by replying to tweets.
Users need to adjust the settings on their Amazon accounts to use the service, which allows them to instantly add items to their basket by replying to any tweet containing a URL link to an Amazon product with the hashtag #AmazonBasket.
The service has been introduced only in the UK and US so far. In the US it is called 'AmazonCart' and requires Twitter users to use the #AmazonCart hashtag.
The official Amazon account has been tweeting a series of "deals of the day" with the #AmazonBasket hashtag in order to drive take-up of the new service.
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The Shape Open is an annual call-out which invites disabled and non-disabled artists to submit work in response to a disability focused theme.
This year's theme, 'Disability Re-assessed', generated submissions from an exciting multidisciplinary range of artists and includes painting, textile, photography and video works. After a successful six month tour the exhibition has reached its final destination, opening at the Lewisham Arthouse from Wednesday 12 - 29 March 2014.
Join us at the exhibition tour closing party on Friday 28 March 2014 from 6 - 8:30PM for the final opportunity to see this unique and thought provoking collection of works by 29 emerging contemporary artists.
Special mention goes to the Shape Open Prize winners Eric Fong and Katherine Araniello, who were selected by our Open Patron Yinka Shonibare MBE, Marcel Baettig, CEO of Bow Arts and Tony Heaton, CEO of Shape.
Shape, the UK's leading arts charity working to improve access into arts and culture for disabled people.
Eric Fong (Winner of the Shape Open best in show prize), Katherine Araniello (runner up for Best in Show prize), Katharine Armstrong, Lizz Brady, Sophie Brown, Charles Burns, Vivi-Mari Carpelan, Ellie Collins, Maria Constantinou, Alice Dass, Beth Davis-Hofbauer, Jon Adams, Tony Allan, Gabriel Andreu, Rachel Gadsden, Ruth Hamblett, Stephen Lee Hodgkins, Matthew Humphreys, Margherita Isola, Fabienne Jacquet, Kasia Kaldowski, Babis Karalis, Ann Kelson, Pragya Kumar, James Lake, Beth Lau, Dene Leigh, Ilsun Maeng, Aga Maria Masternak, Marion Michell, Graham Miller, Cecilia Montague, Annie Morgan, Andrew Omading, Thomas Owen, Jo Paul, Evaldas Pauza, Bekki Perriman, Simon Raven, Yvette Rawson, Sally Redway, Ivan Riches, Christopher Sacre, Tracy Simpson, Monica Takvam, Will Thompson, Aminder Virdee, Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen, Andy Wild, Naomi Woddis and The Vacuum Cleaner.
Luke George and Elizabeth Rose have been awarded the Griffin Art Prize which includes a six-month residency in a large, well-lit studio above the Griffin Gallery.
Luke George and Elizabeth Rose have been named the winners of the Griffin Art Prize 2013. This young couple - the first collaborative artists to win the prize - met at City and Guilds of London Arts School and currently work together in Faversham.
Luke and Elizabeth competed with nine other shortlisted artists for the prize, which includes use of an exclusive studio space in West London. Luke and Elizabeth work together on their pieces, driven by their connection to one another and a shared enthusiasm to work towards a united vision. They are constantly investigating the possibilities of materials and whether any mark that they make on a canvas is a 'happy accident' that takes their artwork in an entirely new direction, or whether a fresh start is in order. This journey of discovery inspired their exploration into paint and mixed media with their award winning work, Gate (2013).
The prize is an independent annual award aimed at supporting the UK's most talented emerging artists and is open to anyone who has graduated from university or art college within the last five years. The work from the ten shortlisted artists is on display in the Griffin Gallery until 29 November.
Luke and Elizabeth were awarded the one-off opportunity to take up a six-month residency in a large well-lit studio. The studio is above the gallery and adjacent to the Innovation & Development laboratory of leading global art brands Winsor & Newton, Liquitex and Conté à Paris, where high quality art materials are refined and developed using the latest technology and innovation. They will also be given the opportunity to exhibit new work in a solo show in September 2014.
"Luke and Elizabeth show great potential and a great deal of confidence for a pair of young emerging artists. I am really excited to see what comes out of their residency. The Griffin Gallery, along with our sponsors Winsor & Newton, Liquitex and Conté à Paris, is looking forward to starting this supportive process, where we will work closely with them over their six month residency."
The judging panel based their decision on innovation and potential and was made of freelance arts writer Jessica Lack, Director of the Shoreditch based Charlie Smith Gallery, Zavier Ellis, Scottish painter Andrew Grassie and Jenny Lindén Urnes, Owner and Chairman of Lindéngruppen, a family business based in Sweden, focusing on long-term development of industrial companies, including Winsor & Newton, Conté à Paris and Liquitex.
"We are very pleased to present the Griffin Art Prize to Luke George & Elizabeth Rose. The quality of applicants was very high this year and the shortlist was varied in style, medium and genre so it was not easy. However, we were impressed with the way that George and Rose have harnessed the history of abstraction whilst giving us something technically new and visually engaging. It will be intriguing to see how they utilise the studio space with access to the expertise of Winsor & Newton, Liquitex and Conté à Paris, as their practice is very much based on experimentation with materials."
The work on show in the Griffin Art Prize 2013 Shortlist Exhibition includes a wide range of media from painting and drawing, to photography, printmaking and installation. The shortlisted artists include Eleanor Bedlow, Emily Moore, Mary Wintour, Luke George & Elizabeth Rose, Helen Frank, Nicole Wong, Rae Hicks, Scott Robertson, Susannah Douglass and Yuhwa Son.
The Griffin Gallery is an exciting art space located in West London at the head office of some of the world's finest artist materials: Winsor & Newton; Liquitex and Conté à Paris. The gallery uses its independence to support emerging artists and explore the cutting edge of contemporary art and craftsmanship.
Jessica Faiss and Rollin Leonard Receive "Moving Image Award"
Their Artworks "Solitude" and "360º / 18 Lilia" Were Selected for 53 Art Museum in Guangzhou, China.
Moving Image art fair, is very pleased to announce that artists Jessica Faiss, represented by Galleri Flach, Stockholm, Sweden, and Rollin Leonard, represented by Transfer Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, are the recipients of the 2013 Moving Image Award. The Moving Image Award funds the acquisition of artwork exhibited at the fair for the permanent collection of contemporary art institutions. For the 2013 London edition of Moving Image, the selection was made by Mr. James Hu, curator for 53 Art Museum in Guangzhou, China.
Jessica Faiss, Solitude, 2012, video, 8:40min loop. Courtesy the artist and Flach Galleri.
Solitude by the Swedish/Swiss artist Jessica Faiss, is one of two videos in which the beholder follows a suggestive movement forward from the inside of a car or a train, experiencing greyish or autumnal sceneries passing by.
The videos are based on motion and suggestive moments in unpopulated areas in a Nordic environment and describe a state of travelling in a continuous, meditative movement, which is a recurrent theme in Jessica Faiss' works. The artist describes it as a way to capture a sense of vulnerability and loneliness but also of peace and liberation. It's about to face oneself in an existential condition in which suggestive and repetitive movements through landscapes creates conditions for such a meeting to take place.
Although Jessica Faiss is an artist that works in several different techniques the imagery is held together by a visual purity and reduction. Thus emerges a natural dialogue between the different expressions – video, photography, collage and painting – which highlights different perspectives on a ground state. The images in the videos are alternately seductive and disturbing that attract and hold the viewer's gaze and perception. It is a visual language that refers more to painterly qualities than to narrative and narration.
Jessica Faiss was born 1973 in Martigny, Switzerland, but lives and works since many years in Stockholm, Sweden. She is educated at the University College of Crafts, Art and Design in Stockholm and has since then participated in a series of exhibitions in Sweden and internationally.
Rollin Leonard, 360º / 18 Lilia, 2013, Video, delivered as .mp4 and .mov, :36sec loop. Courtesy the artist and Transfer Gallery.
360° / 18 Lilia exploits the mathematical concept of 'highly composite numbers' and what the artist dubs 'visual elasticity' (a common thread in Leonard's work). The number of photographs in this work totals 360, a highly composite number and one with an extraordinarily large number of divisors. This allowed for several timelines to be abstracted evenly from the set and to optimize the time it takes to syncopate again. The result is the face falls out of and back into order in the fewest frames possible. Human faces, bodies, and familiar objects are frequent subjects for the artist partly because of our innate ability to recognize the objects despite scrambling or distorting the image. A face, a subject with high visual elasticity, is especially resistant to being obscured or lost in pattern. Just as you see faces in wood grain, clouds, and shadows, your mind easily knits Lilia together even when fragmented.
Rollin Leonard, born in 1984, lives and works in Portland, Maine where he maintains a photography and production studio. He has shown large-scale video installations, photographic prints, and web-based work since 2004. His medium varies but his conceptual approach is consistent – projecting the logic, meaning, or pattern from one domain into another, often using the human body as a vehicle to do so. Leonard earned a BA in Philosophy and a BA in Painting from the University of Minnesota in 2007.
Leonard's work has been shown at The Photographer's Gallery, London; Point Ephémère, Paris; Museum of the Moving Image, New York; Essential Existence Gallery, Leipzig; Moving Image Art Fair, New York & London; NADA Art Fair, New York; and online at Fach & Asendorf Gallery.
Established in 2012 to help incorporate video and film into the permanent collections of art institutions, the inaugural Moving Image Award honored San Francisco collectors Pamela and Richard Kramlich, who have supported contemporary artists working in video, film, and new media through their private collection and through the New Art Trust, a non-profit organization they founded to advance the collection, preservation, exhibition, and understanding of technology-based art forms. The Kramlichs' dedication has inspired Moving Image to reach out to similarly-minded supporters to expand the inclusion of video, film and new media in museum collections globally.
Moving Image co-founders Murat Orozobekov and Edward Winkleman noted that "presenting a global snapshot of contemporary video art has been one of the goals of Moving Image since its inception and having this opportunity to collaborate with and connect artists with collections on an international level is a testament to our mission. We are so grateful to Mr. Qiangbo Li for his generous support of the Moving Image Award, and have so enjoyed working closely with Mr. James Hu of 53 Art Museum on the award this year. We feel Moving Image London 2013 is perhaps the strongest presentation of the fair to date, and we are delighted that Jessica Faiss and Rollin Leonard have been selected as the recipient of the 2013 Moving Image Award."
53 Art Museum is located in Guangzhou City, China, situated in a modern construction designed from repurposed rail car hangars, the site combines the history of the old industrial atmosphere of Guangzhou and the modern art pavilion aesthetic. Featuring 53 galleries within its walls, the museum is dedicated to the experimental, pioneering, cross-border nature of international contemporary art. Under the slogan of "Standing in Guangdong, with eyes on the world", 53 Art Museum devotes itself to promoting contemporary art, especially video art.
Moving Image art fair returns to The Bargehouse, October 17-20, 2013, during the Frieze Art Fair in London. Located within a short walking distance of Tate Modern, the Bargehouse is adjacent to the legendary Oxo Tower on the South Bank. Moving Image will be free to the public and open Thursday - Saturday, October 17 - 19, 11 am - 7 pm, and on Sunday, October 20, 11 am - 4 pm. An opening reception for Moving Image will take place Thursday, October 11, 6 - 8 pm. Moving Image was conceived to offer a unique viewing experience with the excitement and vitality of a fair, while allowing moving image-based artworks to be understood and appreciated on their own terms. Moving Image London 2012 will feature a selection of international commercial galleries and non-profit institutions presenting single-channel videos, single-channel projections, video sculptures, and other larger video installations.
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The annual chance to see a selection of work by some of the most talented emerging artists from across the UK and beyond.
A further Audience Choice award, sponsored by Exeter Natural Health Centre and voted for by visitors to the gallery, will be announced on the 21st October.
Kevin is an artist and curator and was director of The Royal Standard, an artist led gallery, project space and social workspace in Liverpool between July 2007 and January 2011. He co-curated Cave Art Fair which ran alongside Liverpool Biennial in 2012.
As a practicing artist, Hunt makes sculpture using found, redundant objects, particularly furniture which is reconfigured into something new.
The curatorial collaboration Day+Gluckman have a reputation for working with artists with a rigorous approach to practice and context. Their aim is to develop long-term relationships with artists and seek and initiate opportunities to exhibit, explore, curate and commission.
Since 2008 Day+Gluckman have been programming the Collyer Bristow Gallery, London and are reponsible for the ongoing Sinopticon project which featured in multiple venues across Plymouth in 2012.
Matt joined the Exeter Phoenix team in 2009, having previously worked in various roles in both the commercial and public art sector, including roles at the Victoria Miro Gallery in London and Spacex Gallery in Exeter. He oversees all the exhibition spaces at Exeter Phoenix with a primary focus on the Phoenix Gallery's programme of contemporary art.
Griffin Art Prize judges; curator Zavier Ellis; artist Andrew Grassie; art critic Jessica Lack and arts foundation chair Jenny Linden Urnes have selected 20 artists for the long list of the Griffin Art Prize 2013. Visit www.griffinartprize.co.uk to view the works.


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Get ready for your Easter meal with this great round up of recipes that you can make in your Instant Pot! We love our Instant Pot and use it several times a week! Make sure you check out how easy it is to make hard boiled eggs in the Instant Pot if you plan to cook eggs and dye them.
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE CONSTITUTION, Iraq – Gen. Raymond Odierno, commander of United States Forces – Iraq, Abdel Qader Jassim, Iraqi Minister of Defense and other senior U.S. and Iraqi leaders watched as two Iraqi and three American soldiers marched crisply across the parade field to a display where their units' colors and their nations' flags flew in the wind.
The U.S. soldiers, members of the 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division "Raiders," knelt and removed the American flags from the display. After executing a left face, the detail marched off the field from the direction they came, with the 6th Iraqi Army Division and Iraqi flag remaining on the field.
This gesture—symbolizing the departure of the Raider Brigade and the commitment of Iraqi Security Forces to the people of Iraq—brought the 4th SBCT, 2nd Inf. Div. one step closer to the end of their yearlong deployment as the last combat brigade to depart Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
By Aug. 31, all U.S. combat missions in Iraq will end, and the 50,000 U.S. troops remaining in country under Operation New Dawn will move toward stability operations, advising, training and assisting the ISF in building civil capacity in Iraq.
The Aug. 7 departure ceremony, hosted by the 6th IA Div. served as both a farewell to the Raider Brigade and a look at the capabilities of the Iraqi soldiers who will be assuming full responsibility for the area.
"Together, we have forged strong bonds of partnership and unity of effort, where the Iraqi government, the Iraqi army and police are connected to the people, partnered with the Federal Police, as well as the Traffic and Patrol Police forces, Sons of Iraq, [and] along with the United States Military and Department of State, created irreversible momentum toward a peaceful and prosperous Iraq," Ahmed said.
The 4th SBCT soldiers' focus in Iraq was on building a strong partnership with the ISF to ensure the security of the March 7 Iraqi national election and improving the overall quality of life for the Iraqi people.
Arriving in country in September 2009, the brigade immediately began partnering with local ISF leadership to gain a sense of their Iraqi partners' capabilities and relationship with community leaders and other Iraqi security organizations.
This allowed for brigade leaders to develop an assessment of what specific training and programs they would need to implement prior to the elections in order to be successful.
Among their many achievements, 4th SBCT soldiers introduced military working dog programs to the ISF—a program that had been unsuccessful until the Raiders' arrived— improving their abilities to uncover weapons, explosives and other illegal items during raids and searches.
The latest in evidence collection and other forensic techniques was also taught to the ISF, allowing for improved site exploitation after terrorist attacks and led to the first warrant using DNA evidence to be issued in Iraq's history.
Raider soldiers, in conjunction with two embedded Provincial Reconstruction Teams, and partners in the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Army Corps of Engineers, strived to continue the development and reconstruction of Western Baghdad, Abu Ghraib, Tajiand Tarmiyah.
A few hundred feet away from where the departure ceremony took place was the FOB Constitution Joint Operations Center, where Norris and his ISF partners monitored the Iraqi national elections, accessing the latest on-the-ground information from polling sites throughout western Baghdad.
Another key achievement during the deployment was the brigade helping the Iraqi Army expand the JOC concept to include the Iraqi Police, where they could share the latest intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance information in a centralized location.
Norris said more than 60 percent of Iraqi citizens went to the polls to cast their ballot, showing solidarity against violent extremist groups.
"I am confident that the Iraqi government will move forward, and that the hopes and the dreams of a free and stable Iraq will become a reality," he said.
In a display for gathered dignitaries, 6th IA soldiers presented several demonstrations which showed their capabilities in handling a variety of real-world situations they may encounter.
Iraqi soldiers cleared and secured a building, set up a traffic control point, neutralized an improvised explosive device using a remote-controlled robot and partnered with Raider soldiers to show off hand-to-hand combat techniques.
For the Raider soldiers, the departure ceremony marked the end of a job well done that will have a lasting impact on the people of Iraq.


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The one-million-square-foot shopping center has more than 100 stores.
The one-million-square-foot shopping center includes more than 100 shops and 25 cafés and eateries, including Louis Vuitton, Kate Spade, Cartier, and the city's first Neiman Marcus department store.
Hudson Yards is New York City's new $25 billion neighborhood, which includes office buildings, luxurious residential towers, and a seven-story luxury shopping center with stores like Louis Vuitton and Dior.
In addition to retail stores, the shopping center includes restaurants from Shake Shack to Thomas Keller's TAK Room, a co-working space, and an interactive art exhibition.
Jeff Blau, the CEO of Related Companies, the developer behind Hudson Yards, said on Bloomberg TV that the shopping center is "not a mall," but is instead an "urban retail center." The developers have also dubbed it a "vertical shopping experience."
The Shops & Restaurants at Hudson Yards is not called a mall because it's designed differently than a traditional mall, and it has a more curated mix of tenants, Kathleen Corless, Related's director of corporate communications, told me on the phone following my visit. And on top of that, she said, Related Companies is not a traditional mall developer.
"We are urban planners and we build cities and mixed-use developments, so we think about the retail center as part of the whole neighborhood," Corless said. "It's about the Shed, it's about the 14 acres of open space, several commercial office buildings, 40,000 people a day are going to work there, 4,000 residences ... It's all about thinking about, who really lives here?"
I took a tour of the shopping center on its opening day. Here's what it looks like.
The Shops and Restaurants at Hudson Yards, the $25 billion megadevelopment's seven-story shopping center, opened to the public on March 15.
I was one of the first to go inside the one-million-square-foot shopping center on opening day.
The shopping center opened at noon, and as I made my way inside shortly after that time, it was already starting to get crowded.
The shopping center is seven stories tall, but from the main foyer, I could only see up to the fourth floor.
The shopping center includes more than 100 stores. I passed by Cartier, as well as Piaget and Van Cleef & Arpels, both brands that sell luxury watches and jewelry.
There will also be a Tiffany & Co.
The Shops and Restaurants are open Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., and 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Sunday.
Throughout the shopping center, Hudson Yards features artwork by 13 artists, including this mural by Jamilla Okubo.
... along with tablets where prospective buyers can swipe through virtual tours of the residences.
The shopping center seemed to be dominated by luxury retailers; the Kate Spade store was full of the brand's signature bright colors and prints.
The Coach store appeared to be bustling, so I stepped inside to check it out.
I quickly realized why the store was so crowded: They were serving free Champagne to celebrate opening day.
Some of the shops were offering opening day discounts and special offers.
I headed for the escalators to go up to the next level. One side wasn't functioning so people had to walk up — an unfortunate snafu for opening day.
Near the main entrance of the Shops and Restaurants, a mini red carpet was laid out so people could pose for photos in front of a Hudson Yards-branded backdrop.
Pulsating music was blasting on speakers throughout the shopping center, making me feel a bit like I was at a rave instead of a luxury mall.
As I continued my tour of the shopping center, I realized that many of the shops were serving Champagne or other beverages, and they didn't seem to mind if shoppers walked right out of the store with the glasses.
The escalators are arranged in a way that ensures shoppers have to walk around and pass more shops to get to the next set of escalators. There's no single spot where a set of escalators will take you all the way up.
There are also elevators if you want to go directly to a specific floor.
I passed by what appeared to be a future entrance for Edge, which will be the highest outdoor observation deck in the Western Hemisphere. It will open to the public in 2020.
... and fresh seafood, meats, and cheeses.
There's also a Shake Shack, which was massively crowded on opening day.
There will also be a 35,000-square-foot food hall from Spanish chef José Andrés called Little Spain, but it wasn't yet open when I visited.
Bouchon Bakery from chef Thomas Keller sells French-inspired baked goods, pastries, coffee, and other snacks.
For more upscale dining, there's queensyard, a British-inspired restaurant by luxury restaurant group D&D London. Attached is a more casual café.
There's also Wild Ink, an Asian-inspired restaurant and lounge.
The shopping center includes cosmetics and beauty retailers such as Kiehl's, MAC, and Sephora.
... as well as more affordable options like Zara, H&M, and Uniqlo.
The shopping center is also home to the city's only Neiman Marcus department store.
"Neiman Marcus Hudson Yards will be all about providing physical and digital experiences in a way not seen at other stores, creating a personal customer experience that is seamless and magical," Geoffroy van Raemdonck, CEO of Neiman Marcus Group, said in a press release.
The 188,000-square-foot department store spans levels five, six, and seven at the Shops and Restaurants.
Neiman Marcus had its very own DJ on opening day.
... and a demonstration kitchen where people were watching chefs make pasta.
In addition to its retail and dining options, the Shops and Restaurants at Hudson Yards offers experiences such as Snark Park, an interactive art exhibition space that costs $28.
Kathleen Corless, Related's director of corporate communications, pointed to Snark Park as one of the things that sets apart the Shops and Restaurants from traditional malls. She described it as a "museum-quality design experience, the first of its kind."
3DEN is a mash-up space that includes elements of cafés, co-working spaces, and hotels, where you can find Casper nap pods, a lounge, a meditation room, soundproof phone booths, showers, and more. It costs $6 for 30 minutes.
Jeff Blau, the CEO of Related Companies, the developer behind Hudson Yards, said on Bloomberg TV that the shopping center is "not a mall," but an "urban retail center." The developers have also dubbed it a "vertical shopping experience."
But for not being a mall, it looked an awful lot like a mall, albeit a fancy one. Corless told me one of the reasons they don't like to call the shopping complex a mall because it's designed differently than a traditional mall.
The shopping center is a million square feet, but only 720,000 square feet of that is leased to tenants, according to Corless.
"So then people say, 'Well, what happened to the other quarter of the space?' The quarter of the space is open space, so it creates these really wide hallways that are more like a street scene," she said.
Corless said it also offers a more curated mix of shops.
To me, the plethora of luxury chain boutiques I saw stands in direct opposition to one of the things that makes New York City great: its access to and variety of unique, family-owned businesses. Of course, the Shops & Restaurants is not alone in being full of luxury chain stores. Shopping centers and malls around the country and in New York City — such as Brookfield Place or Westfield World Trade Center, the largest shopping complex in Manhattan — offer many of the same types of shops.
While I personally don't know many New Yorkers who would make a special trip to shop at this new luxury mall, Hudson Yards certainly seems to be betting that they will.


The Gospel gives us a clear purpose for our work; we serve Christ and extend his kingdom through what we do. The Gospel gives us an ethic centred on love, and this guides all the steps we take and the decisions we make.
In his helpful book Mastering Monday[i], John Beckett identified five themes which should be considered in our attempt to demonstrate God's kingdom in the workplace. They are Purpose, Values, People, Stewardship, and Serving. These all are nurtured by the Gospel.
We will briefly focus on the two themes of People and Serving.
The Gospel will lead us to value people above profits. Whether we work in risk management, financial planning, or customer service, it is people, ultimately, whom we are serving. Sadly, the ambition and drive in most workplaces inclines us towards the opposite. The lust for power and prestige means that people are often trampled upon. In a bid to be seen as 'performing', managers will exhaust their subordinates. In a bid to cut costs, organizations will refuse or delay payments to vendors for services rendered. And even employees will offer shoddy service to customers. Likewise, the daily pressure to thrive in a competitive environment often leads us to focus solely on the 'bottom line', without regard for the humans who are involved in shaping it. It helps to remember that without people, whether as employees, customers, or vendors, there would be no business.
As a trader, I should offer goods of good quality to my customers and treat them well in the process.
The Gospel leads us to understand that, ultimately, it is not my CEO or the customer whom I am serving but Christ.
[i]John D. Beckett. Mastering Monday: Experiencing God's kingdom in the workplace. Inter-Varsity Press, 2006.


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'The only way to save our planet, is to make the defense of the environment compatible with pleasure' Says Beigbeder, 'That's the message we bring with 'Le Philtre d'Amour', we are hedonists yes, but we are militant, responsable hedonists! A fun, joyful and optimistic approach to saving the planet is possible'
With a nod to iconic French artist Yves Klein, the midnight blue bottle is reminiscent of the deep hues of the ocean and made entirely from recycled glass, as with all 'Le Philtre' vodka bottles. Pearly white accents and vibrant blues create an effect of waves washing over the bottle and the calligram 'Catch le vague de L'amour, Attrape la love wave' wraps around it, signing off with 'Philtre d'Amour No More Plastic.'
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How a celestial emu inspired Kirsten Banks
The third-year Indigenous Australian astrophysics student delved into her Wiradjuri ancestry after high school. Duane Hamacher reports.
Kirsten Banks plans to complete a PhD in astrophysics.
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Kirsten Banks grew up in Sydney's Northern Beaches with a fascination for weather and meteorology.
With encouragement from her engineer grandfather, she became interested in aerospace engineering. But when the time came to choose a degree course at the University of New South Wales, she opted for physics, using the discipline to expand her interests beyond Earth's atmosphere and into the deeper reaches of space.
"There's just so much out there that we don't know – it's fascinating," the 19-year-old says. "We don't know what we don't know and I find that amazing."
Now in her third year of study, Banks' interests are focused on star formation and planetary geology. Her motivation is to explore places humans might one day live.
But a fascination with astrophysics isn't the only thing fuelling her interest in the night sky. Another factor, just as important, became evident after she completed high school.
"I always knew I had Aboriginal heritage on my father's side, but I didn't know much about it," she explains.
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"When I examined my family history more closely, I discovered my ancestors are Wiradjuri. I was given the contact number of an elder to learn more, who turns out is my great aunty."
Wiradjuri is one of the largest language groups in Australia, spread across communities throughout central New South Wales. Research reveals a wealth of traditional star knowledge stretching back thousands of years.
The Wiradjuri share similar traditions with the nearby Kamilaroi of northern New South Wales. In Kamilaroi traditions, the rising of the celestial emu, known as Gawarrgay, at dusk signals the time the female birds begin laying eggs.
Later, when Gawarrgay is high in the sky, it means male emus are sitting on the nests incubating them. When the celestial emu is perpendicular to the horizon, the chicks begin hatching.
As a child, Banks had learnt a few Dreaming stories, but not in any real depth. When she learnt about the Emu in the Sky, she became fascinated. This inspired a new quest for Banks – to share the astronomical knowledge of her ancestors.
"For tens of thousands of years, Aboriginal people have been using the stars for so many cool things," she says. "It blows my mind. I love sharing that knowledge with other people."
Her passion for astronomy and pride in her heritage enabled her to take a position at Sydney Observatory as a guide, where she leads public tours for mainstream and Aboriginal astronomy programs.
Banks plans to complete a PhD and says learning more about the universe is the driving force behind her desire to pursue a career in science communication. She especially enjoys cultivating interests in astronomy among young girls.
"I love to see their eyes light up and say 'Wow!'" she laughs. "There's no feeling quite like it."
Originally published by Cosmos as How a celestial emu inspired Kirsten Banks
Dr Duane Hamacher is an astronomer and Senior Research Fellow at the Monash Indigenous Centre in Melbourne. His research focuses on Indigenous astronomical and geological knowledge and traditions, particularly in Australia and the Pacific.
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This year, SFGN names as its Person of the year an individual whose career and credentials have been marked and modeled by accumulating a resume of accomplishments.
We choose Anderson Cooper. His life and legacy are a testimony to LGBT success in a straight world.
Bucking the tide and standing up to the status quo, a willingness to shatter taboos and break new ground is always a consideration for candidates who are nominees for persons of the year. But our choice must do more than recognize singular deeds. We want to celebrate the person as well.
When our paper selected Peter Thiel last year, it was not because we particularly liked his politics. It was because we discovered in his history not just a singular worldview, but an honorable entrepreneurial career of supporting noble and sometimes unpopular causes.
In a year marked by political indecency at the national level, complacency at the local level, it occurred to me that the individual celebrated as our 'Person of the Year' need not necessarily have won a marathon, been elected to office, nor have garnered Oscars.
A fundamental principle of my life that I have so often advocated is to pay homage to the value of hard work and commitment. These are values and standards I discovered years ago reading the works of ancient Greek and Roman scholars. They bear truth still today.
So, it is in a year where national figures from Harvey Weinstein to Matt Lauer to Donald Trump have been shamed by wrongfully concealed acts of sexual harassment, that I think our nominee ought simply to be a gay man or woman whose career has been marked by class, not crass; credibility and consistency, not indignities or embarrassment.
The LGBT community today has many known national figures. Their sexuality is not hidden, but their worth is known by their work and good deeds. These fine people are recognized for being outstanding jurists, distinguished broadcasters, recognized professionals, and prominent athletes. Their status is a reminder to everyone that we are a part of our community, not apart from it.
So let me ask you this. Who quietly jumps out at you as a symbol of LGBT stature more than Anderson Cooper?
Here is a man who was a war correspondent years ago now with the versatility to host CNN New Year's Eve celebrations.
Who represents perseverance and versatility more than Anderson Cooper? He can host an interview of a worldwide leader in a studio one night, and then go out a day later during a 165-mph hurricane to interview a family that just lost their home.
Who more than Anderson Cooper shows that a gay man, with a simple microphone and compassionate voice, can distinguish himself with his clothes on, as a spokesperson of responsible journalism, exposing a world full of discrimination and inequality?
You know, I don't need to do an interview with Cooper to make this choice, but I will put it on our agenda for this year.
Anderson Cooper did not hit any special home runs in 2017. But once again he did his job every day, and he did it well, enhancing not just his stature but also that of the gay community. He proves we can all meet challenges, overcome obstacles, and be who we are, along with what we want to be, simply by being ourselves.
For Cooper, he seems as comfortable making jokes with Andy Cohen as he does washing rescued elephants in Myanmar. He is just a good and gracious man who we welcome into our homes daily. I can't wait to hear what he says from Qatar at the Olympics. Boy, are they in for a surprise.
In a year where the American community had too few role models, Cooper remained one. It should be special to us, because he is our role model, a 50-year-old gay man who showcases his talents on 60 Minutes and CNN; who won an award for exposing famine in Somalia in 1993 and hosted a presidential debate in 2016.
Cooper's career narrative has won the test of time. He has authored books, narrated documentaries, hosted syndicated radio shows, and won awards for his work in the fields, like the specials on the earthquake in Haiti back in 2009.
The CNN Heroes Award every year is just another vehicle where he illuminates the good lives and deeds of others, using his talents to showcase daring accomplishment over adversity.
Just a few years ago, GLAAD recognized him with their Vito Russo Award. Today, he gets a classy statue from SFGN, with us not knowing if he has ever picked up our paper. But we like to think we are doing what he does – our job well.
Thus, as we close the door on 2017, a year that will live in disgrace for men and masculinity, we celebrate the life and career of a distinguished gay journalist who fulfilled the admonition of Rudyard Kipling- he has given the unforgiving minute sixty seconds worth of distance run.
We start 2018 by recognizing Cooper's achievements and accomplishments over time, helping make him one of the most prominent and distinguished gay men in the world.
Anderson Cooper is our 2017 Person of the Year, an honor he richly deserves for a career well performed, a character worth emulating, and a community well-served: our own.
Every good citizen adds to the strength of our nation. Anderson Cooper, a gay man, has added to ours, because excellence is more than an individual act you win by a singular deed. It is a habit, and you win it by being tested over time.


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You are invited to a number of special events celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. See the "events" calendar in this print bulletin or online for additional details.
We thank three special musicians for sharing their music with us. Debra Bakland built her legendary status as a teacher of piano during 10 years at Burman University (she just retired as Associate Professor of Music/Emeritus) and 25 years at Walla Walla University. She still loves to teach in her private College Place studio, and we are grateful that she also loves to perform. Lindsay Armstrong serves this year as interim director of choirs at WWU. She graduated last June with a major in voice. Rick Foster, who recently relocated to College Place, began playing guitar when he was 10 years old. He has recorded many albums and is also well known as an arranger with artists such as Chet Atkins and Christopher Parkening frequently featuring his work.
During the distribution of communion emblems, we hear three hymn arrangements by Rick Foster: Just As I Am (No.31), The Old Rugged Cross (No.159), and 'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus (No.524). The offertory presents the middle movement of Sonata in C Major, K.330, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). In the anthem we hear a piece by Homer Newton Bartlett (1845–1920). During his lifetime, Bartlett ranked among the most prominent American composers. If that rank has dimmed a little, he still remains an important and frequently heard late nineteenth-century composer.
As you prepare to worship, I invite you to meditate silently on the meaning of communion, on the texts of our hymns, or the poem on the front of the bulletin.
The 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation is October 31. Walla Walla University has a number of events planned to commemorate the event. Greg Dodds, professor of history at WWU will present at CommUnity on October 31 at 11am in the Sanctuary. Then, later that night, John McVay will interview "Luther" live in Village Hall at 7pm *(see poster). The film "Luther" will be screened Wednesday evening, November 1, at 7pm in Conard chapel. On November 4, Sabbath, at 10:30am in Village Hall there is a special Sabbath School class planned joining Theology and Chan Shun communities. The format is a panel discussion about Adventism and the Reformation with John McVay, Karen Clausen-Brown, Volker Henning, and Greg Dodds (moderator). The worship services that day will also be themed around the reformation. All events are free and open to the public.
David and Melissa Rae, from Kirkland, Wash.
Robert and Judy Cushman, to PUC, Angwin, Cal.
Josefer and Heather Montes, to Kettering, Oh.
Michael Smith, to Spokane Valley, Wash.
Support the WWVA orchestra by ordering home made pies at $12/pie. Perfect for gifts, dinners, celebrations, and/or holidays. Please order early by calling Ronda at 509-730-5891. Pie pick-up will be at WWVA Dining Hall, Nov 5 from 12-3pm. If you have previously used this fundraiser to donate pies to the community Thanksgiving dinner, you can do so again. Please indicate your donation when ordering so the pies can be baked at the appropriate time.
Denominational Retired Workers' Potluck November 5, 5:00 p.m. Fellowship Hall, Village Church.We always welcome new Retirees to come and join our group for a potluck and program each month. Meetings begin in October and run through the winter until June. See you there November 5!
All-Church Potluck - including students and visitors. Sabbath, Nov 11 after Second Serve (1:15 PM) in the Church Fellowship Hall.
We need pies! Each year for the community Thanksgiving dinner, the University Church supplies 50 pies. If you are willing to help, please deliver yours to the church office before 10am on Tuesday, November 21.
The viewing for Bernard B. Yanke will be at Mountain View Colonial Dewitt on Saturday Oct. 28th from 12 pm – 5 pm and on Oct. 29th from 12 pm – 5 pm.
How to Pay for College—Online Webinar. Walla Walla University will host a free online webinar for prospective students and their parents titled How to Pay for College on Wednesday Nov. 8, at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Register at sfs.wallawalla.edu/webinars. This 40-minute presentation will be led by experts from WWU Student Financial Services, and Marketing and Enrollment Services. After the presentation, attendees will have an opportunity to ask questions.
Memorial Service for Mabel Jones, Sabbath, October 28, 3 PM, Walla Walla City Church. Light meal following service in Fellowship Hall. Former City Church Pastor Rick Bowes currently at Meadow Glade will officiate.
You are invited to join Evidence, a youth group hosted in the Youth Room at 7 pm on Wednesday evenings, which focuses on Bible study, community service, and fellowship. The leaders, Cameron Fitzgerald and Emily Ellis, are excited to be part of this ministry and the student's lives.
10:30am — Special combined Sabbath School with Theology and Chan Shun, Reformation panel discussion.


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Brave Wave is a music label based in Japan, dedicated to exploring the interplay between videogames, music and nostalgia.
The dual-natured label produces and publishes music albums, both solo and compilations, as well as composes music for video games.
It is run by Kuwait-based Mohammed Taher, with operating duties handled by Tokyo-based Alexander Aniel, plus special co-directing from Manami Matsumae and Keiji Yamagishi.
The label is known for bridging the gap between Western and Japanese creators, best evident in the video game Shovel Knight (by Yacht Club Games) which Manami Matsumae was able to contribute music to, as well as our mega-hit World 1-2 album, which hosted a wide array of composers from all over the world.
This marriage between Western and Eastern cultures is unique to our label and the foundation of our vision.
Manami Matsumae
Matsumae is best known for composing the legendary music for the original Mega Man (1987), including its iconic "Game Start" jingle. Following her departure from Capcom in 1991, she became a freelance video game music composer. The soundtracks she worked on afterwards include the Derby Stallion series, The Adventures of Lolo,Jade Cocoon 2, Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen, Shovel Knight, and Mighty No. 9. In more recent years, Matsumae has returned to the Mega Man series via Inti Creates, serving as a regular guest arranger for its album releases and joining several other former Mega Man composers in creating the Robot Master themes forMega Man 10 (2010).
Keiji Yamagishi
Keiji Yamagishi, a founding member of the Brave Wave label, has been composing for video games and other media since 1987. Along with his work on the original Ninja Gaiden games, he worked on Tecmo Super Bowl, Captain Tsubasa II, Dynasty Warriors, Onimusha Tactics, and Exile's End while part of TECMO, KOEI, Brave Wave, and also as a freelancer at his own company, Kajiya Productions since 2000. In 2015, he released his first solo album, the critically acclaimed Retro-Active Pt. 1, which saw Yamagishi incorporate a modern touch on his signature chiptune sound. It was followed up with Retro-Active Pt. 2 in 2016. Ryuichi Nitta composed Ninja Gaiden for the Arcade and Ninja Gaiden II. He is part of Kajiya Music along with Yamagishi and a member of Brave Wave Productions. Mikio Saito, also known as Metal Yuhki, has composed for titles such as Ninja Gaiden for the Arcade and Ninja Gaiden II. He has also composed for the Tokimeki Memorial series.
Dugo
Dugo is the alias of Takahiro Izutani, a guitarist and producer hailing from Yokohama, Tokyo. Video game fans should be familiar with his contributions to games like Metal Gear Solid 4, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Bayonetta, Shinobi 3D, among others. Izutani has done a number of remixes for J-pop artists (most notably Ayumi Hamasaki), and is the guitarist and producer of Happy Family, an avant-garde rock band from Japan. Lingua Franca is an album ten years in the making, and with an international assembly of artists — guitar players, violinists, photographers — Dugo is the culmination of Izutani's grand vision of what a fiercly independent solo album can be.
Jake Kaufman
Jacob "Jake" Kaufman (also known as virt or virtjk) (born April 3, 1981) is an American video game music composer. After starting out creating arrangements and remixes of video game soundtracks, he began his commercial composing career in 2000 with the score to the Game Boy Color port of Q*bert. He continued to compose music for games for the next couple of years, working primarily with handheld video games. In 2002, he set up the website VGMix, which hosts video game music remixes, and continues to administrate it. His career began to take off over the next few years, resulting in him transitioning jobs into a full-time freelance composer by 2005. Since then he has worked on several big-name projects such as Contra 4, Red Faction: Guerrilla, DuckTales: Remastered, and Shovel Knight. In early 2015, he and Jessie Seely formed CSP Industries, and launched a Kickstarter for [NUREN] The New Renaissance, a project that they call "the world's first virtual reality rock opera." In late 2015, Kaufman composed and wrote lyrics for Power Overwhelming, the debut album of parody supergroup Big Bad Bosses.
Yoko Shimomura
Shimomura's name is one of the most recognized in video game history, and her compositions are some of the most beloved. Since graduating from Osaka College of Music in 1988 as a piano major, she has contributed her music to some of the most renowned video games, such as those within the Kingdom Hearts, Mario & Luigi, and Street Fighter II series. After working at Capcom and Square Enix for much of her career, she now continues to compose for games through freelance work, and is currently the lead composer on the upcoming Square Enix flagship titles Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts III.
Zinc LeMone
Ryuichi Nitta
Ryuichi Nitta composed Ninja Gaiden for the Arcade and Ninja Gaiden II. He is part of Kajiya Music along with Keiji Yamagishi and a member of Brave Wave Productions. Mayuko Okamura composed for several Tecmo titles, including Captain Tsubasa II and Ninja Gaiden II. Kaori Nakabai composed Ninja Gaiden III. She is part of Kajiya Music along with Yamagishi and Nitta and a member of Brave Wave Productions. Rika Shigeno composed Ninja Gaiden III and Tecmo Super Bowl.
SNK Neo Sound Orchestra
SEGA is publisher of the SONIC ADVENTURE games.
DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou - The Definitive Soundtrack Manabu Namiki
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We recently learned that good things really do come in small packages--and that they're donated by thoughtful and generous people! After hearing about the work we do, the Hats Off to Liz team was given a 2014 CNE Super Family Pass worth $148 to raffle off to our local team members! The pass consists of two Admission Passes and two Ride All Day passes (admission and unlimited midway rides). We didn't approach the CNE and ask for this; they simply heard about what we do from a friend of Hats Off To Liz and decided they wanted to give us a little something, just because.
I know! When does that ever happen?!
Anyway, we decided to put the names of the local members in a hat and draw a winner, and that lucky winner was the lovely and talented Elizabeth Rossi, one of our fabulous crocheters (who specializes in funky brimmed chemo caps)!
And thank you SO much to Joanne Benerowski, Manager, Advance Sales & Community Relations at the Canadian National Exhibition. We are very grateful for your support and generosity. It was nice to be able to offer this exiting little reward to one of our loyal members.
The CNE begins on Friday, August 15 and runs through September 1, 2014. Make sure to stop by for a waffle cone and wander through the grounds of the CNE--one of the top 10 agricultural fairs in North America and Canada's largest community event!
See you at the EX! I'll be the one with the yarn.
Yup, this pretty much sums up just about every Yarnapalooza: lots of knitting and crocheting, but even more raucous laughter. I have to think that items made in the midst of this kind of joy and camaraderie are somehow infused with at least a little good, happy energy. I'd like to believe that, anyway. Pictured here: Bridget, Denise and Mary.
These sweet and snuggly infant loss sets were lovingly made by Hats Off To Liz member Denise. The hats are impossibly small (they would fit an egg), but they are the perfect size for the tiniest of wee ones who are so deserving of something that fits perfectly and was made just for them.
A gorgeous array of chemo caps made by Hats Off To Liz member Mary. The intricate patterns and button embellishments make these hats so special! And that's how we hope the recipients feel when they wear them--extra special!
July 2013 Yarnapalooza group shot! We were excited that Catherine (standing 3rd from left) joined us all the way from Detroit, Michigan!
We've been a little quiet here lately, but that doesn't mean we've slowed down at all! The Hats Off to Liz team has been as busy as ever since our last update way back in January. In fact, we just recently donated 87 chemo caps to Credit Valley Hospital, bringing our grand total up to 479! Most of our hats go to Credit Valley, which is where Liz was treated, but we have also sent some special requests to as far away as Queensland, Australia and Baltimore, Maryland this year.
In addition to the chemo cap part of our work, we also still regularly send infant loss items--blankets & hat sets and burial buntings--to Credit Valley Hospital for their Infant Bereavement Program. Unfortunately the need is so great, they are always pleased when we send a bag of these tiny infant loss items their way. They are definitely a work of heart.
2013 has been a banner year for donations! While no corporate donations from yarn manufacturers have come our way, we've been fortunate to have received enough yarn donations from friends and family members to keep us going since the beginning of the year--we haven't had to purchase any yarn for the group since 2012! Many thanks to Beth Allan, Lori Bianco, Shirley Finkelstein, Donna Fitzgerald, Doreen Amato, Shirley Shearer, Carmie Domet, Elizabeth Tait and Lynn Kozak for the cozy balls and skeins you've lovingly sent our way this year.
Of course since we love yarn, it's hard to resist buying it when we see a good deal, so thanks to the Hats Off team for the yarn I know you buy with your own money in between Yarnapalooza events. You are generous in every single way--both with your talent and time and with your yarn buying!
As the weather starts to grow cooler, we will no doubt find more time to sit inside with our needles and hooks. Fall is the perfect time to snuggle in and get cozy with yarn, and we'll happily continue to make these much-needed comfort items in memory of our sweet friend Liz.
Twenty-seven infant loss blankets donated by Shelly!
Just a few of the 87 hats we recently donated to Credit Valley Hospital.
Yarn in the master's hands.
Our first full year is now behind us, and what a year it was! Our local ranks swelled from just a couple of knitters and crocheters (who easily fit into my tiny family room), to a big, wonderful, raucous group who happily squeeze into any available spot in the house, floor included. On the last Sunday of every month, my house is a tangle of yarn and friends, both new and old, and I can't imagine it any other way now.
We also continue to get donations from afar, which is pretty amazing given that non-local Hats Off members can't take advantage of the donated yarn that locals have at their disposal, and they have to pay to have their donations shipped to Canada. It confirms what I already knew: yarny people are the best.
In 2012 we started a partnership with Holy Name Of Mary College School, whose grade five and six students are learning how to knit and crochet chemo caps and infant loss items to donate to Hats Off To Liz as part of their 2012/13 Stewardship Program. Hats Off members visit the school as often as we can to support the girls and lend a hand as they continue to improve their skills.
We were also featured on the Volunteer Halton website. Their mission is to foster a healthy and socially innovative community through the act of civic engagement. They link volunteers with organizations, like ours, that need help and resources.
And, of course, we made hats and infant loss items that have been donated to The Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga, as well as to chemotherapy patients and bereaved parents near and far, upon special request.
In total, we have sent 322 chemo caps out into the world since December 2011. We've also donated dozens of infant loss items, including wee hats, blankies, and burial buntings, as well as six lapghans for chemo patients.
We also sent out four chemo caps in response to special requests, and the team rallied hard for four children undergoing treatment. We sent out a total of 32 little hats to these wee ones, two sweet girls and two brave little boys.
While it's not something we typically do, we also made a comfort quilt for one of the children. Six Hats Off members each donated squares which were assembled into a fun and cheerful blanket for an 8-year old girl undergoing chemotherapy in Colorado.
So yeah, it's been a pretty busy year! Busy, wonderful, fulfilling and absolutely incredible.
Thank you SO much to the amazing team of yarnies who give so freely of their time and talent to make a difference in the lives of others, and to all the people who have donated yarn and supplies to help further our cause. You are all awesome.
A comfort quilt for 8-year old Kaymen.
We're missing Leah, Donna, Bridget, Mary and Kathy in this shot, but here are the rest of the locals! Back row: Kristin, Denise, Elizabeth, Gaile. Front row: Melinda, Lynda and Stacy.
October was a pretty busy and successful month for Hats Off To Liz! On the 4th we paid a visit to Credit Valley Hospital armed with a bag stuffed to the brim with 58 handmade chemo caps and one lapghan. Later in the month we mailed out 10 chemo caps to a little girl in Colorado, 10 chemo caps to a three-year old in Brantford, Ontario, and 9 chemo caps to a little boy in Windsor, Ontario (all special requests that came in from friends of our team members). We also supplied Credit Valley Hospital with 18 more infant loss sets (burial buntings and hat and blanket sets) as well as four individual blankets.
We managed to get ourselves a little bit of publicity too! We were very excited to be featured on Volunteer Halton's website. Our special article went live at the beginning of the month, complete with a photo of the local team (minus a few absentees), and a link to our website. Donations of new yarn is always welcome, so we're hopeful that the Volunteer Halton piece will help to generate some donations over the coming year.
And speaking of donations, we scored our very first corporate yarn donation in October! It is apparently notoriously difficult to procure donated yarn from manufacturers, but we got lucky! Amtex Yarn Manufacturers in Mississauga, Ontario sent us eight skeins of beautiful 100% merino wool. It's washable and soft so it's perfect for chemo caps. We're so grateful for their support!
We also paid our second visit to Holy Name of Mary College School, where the grade 5 and 6 classes are still eagerly honing their knitting and crochet skills. Some of the girls are even starting to produce items for us to donate. Their enthusiasm is contagious and we're proud and grateful that they chose to support Hats Off To Liz for their year-long stewardship program.
As we head into the start of the beautiful Christmas season, we will be keeping those who are struggling with illness and bereavement close in thought as we create items that we hope will bring them a small measure of comfort during a very difficult time.
A special thanks to our awesome family, friends and supporters! We couldn't do what we do without you cheering us on, donating to our cause, and letting us play with yarn as much and as often as we do.
Donated washable merino wool courtesy of Amtex Yarn!
Some of the 58 chemo caps that made their way to Credit Valley Hospital on October 4th.
Yarnies in action! Back: Denise, Melinda, Gaile, Kristin, Kathy, Stacy Front: Liz and Lynda (in front). Missing that day: Leah, Bridget, Donna and our long-distance hookers and knitters.


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Bilingualism of high-ranking officials: GERFA requests involvement of coordination committee
GERFA (the Study and Reform Group for the Civil Service) is requesting that the governments of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation and the Walloon government make approaches to the coordination committee. This is to the "extent that French-speakers rights are seriously threatened by the draft royal decree."
The decree allows for the institution of operational bilingualism for high-ranking officials, GERFA made known on Saturday.
"At the Council of Ministers held on October 20th, the New Flemish Alliance minister (Steven Vandeput, editor's note) laid before the Council a draft royal decree fixing the review programme for language tests," the trade union indicated in a communiqué.
The trade union went on, "Managers, civil servants within analytical roles and civil servants working within in the courts department are obliged to take these tests, or indeed nearly 4,500 federal civil servants."
GERFA pursued, "The MR (Conservative-Liberals), the only French-speaking government party, has not moved a muscle and has let the project lapse."
It adds that this decree "spells the end of principles laid down in 1932, namely the unilingualism of agents allowing them to be recruited and to have a career in their own language, without any legal requirement to know another language."
GERFA goes on, "The bilingualism service requirement made it compulsory to organise services in such a way so as to respond to the users of two national languages."
It pursues, "The MR has proved itself incapable of maintaining the final barrier to change and accepted this ultimate concession."
GERFA continues, "This will prevent the majority of Walloons in the future (80% of all French-speakers) from going for executive positions within federal ministries."
The task force concludes that it is very much in this context, "and to the extent that the rights of French-speakers are severely threatened, that we are requesting the involvement of the coordination committee [to review this issue]."
Christopher Vincent
The Brussels Times


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Trolley car on Third Street in Bayport.
The City of Bayport was originally three small settlements along Lake St. Croix. In 1856, Stillwater lumbermen Socrates Nelson, David Loomis, and others platted Baytown, organizing it around the firm's sawmill. The following year, another group of investors, including Isaac Staples and Andrew "Jack" Short, platted Bangor on the shore of the lake south of Baytown, and William Holcombe recorded the plat of Middletown to the north.
The three small villages disappeared in January, 1873 when the St. Croix Railway Improvement Company combined them into South Stillwater. South Stillwater was incorporated as a village in 1881. The name, however, caused a lot of confusion with the City of Stillwater, so it was changed in 1922 to Bayport.
One of the first to settle at Bayport was François (or Francis) Bruce, who built a house in 1842 on what is now Central Avenue. Bruce stayed only a short time; in 1850 his house was occupied by Ambrose Secrest. Secrest and his three brothers, with their families, were among the first permanent residents.
In the early 1840s Norman Kittson built a trading post on the point since known as Kittson's Point. Apparently Kittson installed the infamous Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant to mind his store. By April of 1842 Parrant had left; his "claim and improvement" on the point were sold at a sheriff's sale to Joseph R. Brown of Stillwater for $27.50.
John Allen and wife Levina arrived in 1844. Allen built a house and cultivated a field on the east side of Kittson's Point. Struck by gold fever in 1849, Allen sold his property to Samuel Gleason and moved to California. Another early settler was riverboat pilot Joseph Perro, who purchased a great deal of property on Spring Creek, now Perro Creek, in 1847. The springs that fed the creek also fed the fish at the Perro Trout Farm. Some of "Big Joe's" land was sold to the state in 1906 to build the state correctional facility still known as the Stillwater Prison.
By 1852 the townsite proprietors Nelson, Loomis & Company had built a steam sawmill on the bay. Secrest and Perro platted an addition in 1854 that revolved around Secrest's flour mill on Spring Creek. Several other sawmills were built in Bayport over the years including the Tozer mill, which operated continuously from 1878 through 1916. Andersen Windows is the successor to these early lumbering firms. Established in Hudson in 1897 as the Andersen Lumber Company, the firm moved to South Stillwater in 1913, where it grew to be one of the most successful businesses in the St. Croix Valley.
Andersen Lumber Company became Andersen Windows. The Company continues to be the largest employer in the community.
Other businesses that furnished employment for the people of Bayport have been a threshing machine company, furniture and box manufacturers, a brass foundry, several printing houses, and even a soap factory. In 1903 the St. Croix Lake Ice Company began cutting lake ice to store in icehouses for summer use. By the 1930s the Bayport Ice Company was shipping as many as 2,208 rail cars of ice a year to South St. Paul and La Crosse packing houses.
Boat building and repair have long been associated with Bayport. Well-known steamboats built at the Bayport Boat Yard were the rafters Pauline, R. J. Wheeler, Ten Broeck, and Kit Carson. The boatyard, located just south of the Andersen Corporation, was used for repairs and barge construction up through the Second World War.
The first electric street car in the northwest (so said the company) began operating from Stillwater to Bayport in July 1889. The line only lasted through 1892, but in 1905 streetcar lines were again extended to Bayport from Stillwater, connecting valley residents to St. Paul via Mahtomedi until 1932. Until the Hudson bridge was built in 1913, a ferry boat plied the St. Croix between Bayport and North Hudson. Rail came into Bayport from Stillwater in 1872. Stillwater Junction in Baytown was where the rail lines diverged for St. Paul and Stillwater. The track became part of the Chicago & Northwestern lines, which ran four or five passenger trains a day to Hudson and Stillwater. Three railroads carried freight and passengers through Bayport, undoubtedly a reason so much manufacturing located in the village.
Bayport became a city in 1974. While other parts of the county have been growing exponentially, Bayport's population in 2010 was 3,471.
Historic Sites in Bayport
Hazelwood Cemetery
State Prison Historic District
St. Michael's Cemetery
Relevant Online Indexes
1881 Washington County History
1901 Northwest Pub. Plat Book
Hazelwood Cemetery, Bayport
Names in WCHS Scrapbook Index
Poor Farm deaths compiled by WCHS
Poor Farm Register, Volume 1
Stillwater Gazette Photo Collection
Washington County in the World War, 1917-1918-1919
WCHS Biographic Files
WCHS Deeds
WCHS Photograph Collection
WCHS School Scrapbook


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