The 1940 25th Anniversary National Meeting hosted by Anicus Lodge of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania was convened at their beautiful Camp Twin Echo (often called CTE), National Chief Joe Brunton's home camp. Records for number of lodges and delegates were set with 64 lodges and 615 attendees, a nearly 50% increase over the 1938 Meeting. This was the last National Meeting held at a summer camp. With the continued growth they would have to move to a larger venue. During the early years of the Grand Lodge the OA had met in cities, hotels and camps. That would change for the next meeting.
Training was again a major feature of the meeting. This time there were two days of group discussions with 15 different topics some offered on both days. The modern NOAC model for training sessions was under development. Founder E. Urner Goodman gave the keynote address, "25 Years of the Order of the Arrow – and the Future".
George A. Mozealous of Owasippe Lodge, Chicago was elected National Chief. H. Lloyd Nelson with Unami Lodge again was re-elected to a fourth term as National Scribe. Robert Heistand of Katinonkwat Lodge, Columbus, Ohio was elected National Treasurer. Selected for the National Executive Committee were Joseph Brinton, Joseph Brunton, John C. Norsk, William E. Hoffman and A. Frank Dix. Thomas Keane who had been the National Council representative on the committee was retained. The inaugural Distinguished Service Awards (DSA) was first awarded at this meeting. Eleven names were called out to receive the first honors.
Also new this Meeting was memorabilia. Sample medals had been made for the 1938 National Meeting at Irondale, but those were not made available. At the 1940 meeting each delegate received a silver neckerchief, a camp patch and a commemorative medal. Host lodge members received a special silver neckerchief, the first "Host" lodge memorabilia for a national gathering.
Future National OA Committee Chairman Tom McBride served as the meeting Official Bugler.


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Crude Oil Daily
Oil prices jump most on record after Saudi Arabia strike
This image provided on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, by the U.S. government and DigitalGlobe and annotated by the source, shows damage to the infrastructure at Saudi Aramco's Khurais oil field in Buqyaq, Saudi Arabia. The drone attack Saturday on Saudi Arabia's Abqaiq plant and its Khurais oil field led to the interruption of an estimated 5.7
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Oil-Prices-Jump-19-After-Attack-Cuts-Saudi-14442653.php
Oil surged the most in more than a decade after a devastating attack on Saudi Arabia intensified concerns about growing instability in the world's most important crude-producing region.
In an extraordinary start to the week's trading, Brent futures in London leaped a record $12 a barrel in early trading Monday before settling just above $69 for the biggest one-day gain since 2008. Prices may remain elevated after Saudi officials downplayed prospects for a rapid recovery of production capacity.
Saudi Aramco faces weeks or months before most output from its giant Abqaiq crude-processing complex is restored, according to people familiar with matter. Saudi Arabia's Foreign Ministry said Iranian weapons were used in the attacks on Saudi Aramco, while the U.S. blamed Iran for the attacks.
For oil markets, it's the worst sudden supply disruption ever. The attacks that damaged a key processing complex and one of the Saudi's marquee fields highlight the vulnerability of the world's biggest exporter. The crisis also means a "new geopolitical premium" of about $5 a barrel, Mizuho Securities USA's Paul Sankey wrote in a note.
RELATED: Energy prices spike after Saudi oil attack, US blaming Iran
"We have never seen a supply disruption and price response like this in the oil market," said Saul Kavonic, an energy analyst at Credit Suisse Group AG. "Political-risk premiums are now back on the oil-market agenda."
Meanwhile, U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry told CNBC that a "coalition effort" will be needed to counter Iran, which the Trump administration said was behind the attacks.
Haven assets including gold and U.S. government debt surged as investors fled riskier instruments. Currencies of commodity-linked nations including the Norwegian krone and the Canadian dollar also advanced. U.S. gasoline futures jumped 13%.
State-run producer Saudi Aramco lost about 5.7 million barrels a day of output on Saturday after 10 unmanned aerial vehicles struck the Abqaiq facility and the kingdom's second-largest oil field in Khurais. A Saudi military official earlier said preliminary findings showed that Iranian weapons were used in the attacks but stopped short from directly blaming the Islamic Republic for the strikes.
The disruption surpasses the loss of Kuwaiti and Iraqi petroleum output in August 1990, when Saddam Hussein invaded his neighbor. It also exceeds the loss of Iranian oil production in 1979 during the Islamic Revolution, according to the International Energy Agency.
"The vulnerability of Saudi infrastructure to attacks, historically seen as a stable source of crude to the market, is a new paradigm the market will need to deal with," said Virendra Chauhan, a Singapore-based analyst at industry consultant Energy Aspects Ltd. "At present, it is not known how long crude will be offline for."
PREVIOUSLY: Oil posts biggest weekly drop since July amid supply concerns
Aramco officials are growing less optimistic that there will be a rapid recovery in production, a person with knowledge of the matter said. The kingdom -- or its customers -- may use stockpiles to keep supplies flowing in the short term. Aramco could consider declaring itself unable to fulfill contracts on some international shipments -- known as force majeure -- if the resumption of full capacity at Abqaiq takes weeks. Alternatively, the kingdom's own refineries may cut runs just to keep crude exports flowing, according to analysts with JBC and Energy Aspects.
Declaring force majeure would rattle oil markets further and cast a shadow on Aramco's preparations for what could be the world's biggest initial public offering. It's also set to escalate a showdown pitting Saudi Arabia and the U.S. against Iran, which backs proxy groups in Yemen, Syria and Lebanon. Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed credit for the attack, but U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have already blamed Iran.
Trump, who said the U.S. is "locked and loaded depending on verification" that Iran staged the attack, earlier authorized the release of oil from the nation's emergency reserves. The IEA, which helps coordinate industrialized countries' emergency fuel stockpiles, said it was monitoring the situation.
Brent for November settlement rose 15% to $69.02 on ICE Futures Europe. The global benchmark could rise above $75 a barrel if the outage at Abqaiq lasts more than six weeks, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said.
On the New York Mercantile Exchange, West Texas Intermediate futures for October delivery settled up 15% at $62.90, the highest close since May 21. Brent's premium to WTI for the same month closed at $6.35 a barrel.
The drama wasn't limited to flat prices. The spread between Brent and WTI widened as much as 37%, showing that the oil spike will affect global prices more than those in the U.S., where shale output and ample supplies provide more of a buffer.
--With assistance from Nayla Razzouk, Javier Blas, Anthony DiPaola, Michael Roschnotti and Tina Davis.
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The conference will be held at the Albuquerque Marriott Hotel. Located in the Uptown area of Albuquerque, this location offers walkable access to resturants and shops.
Discounted accommodations for meeting participants have been reserved at the same location at the conference.
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This is my code
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A Tsnumai Debt Wave Is About to Implode the U.S. Real Estate Market
bloomberg.com ( Original )
ORIGINAL SOURCE: A $90 Billion Wave of Debt Shows Cracks in U.S. Real Estate Boom by Sarah Mulholland of Bloomberg January 24, 2017
Is this finally the top of the real estate bubble? Sure feels like 2005 all over again, with interest erratic rates all over the place and debt leveraged to the hilt this could blow at any time and it looks sooner rather than later.
Looking back The then Fraudulent Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan said in mid-2005 that "at a minimum, there's a little 'froth' (in the U.S. housing market) Here's complete summary and timeline of what happened back then that seem's similar today: United States housing bubble
Fig. 1: Robert Shiller's plot of U.S. home prices, population, building costs, and bond yields, from Irrational Exuberance, 2nd ed.[1] Shiller shows that inflation-adjusted U.S. home prices increased 0.4% per year from 1890 to 2004 and 0.7% per year from 1940 to 2004, whereas U.S. census data from 1940 to 2004 shows that the self-assessed value increased 2% per year.
Here's Bloomberg's piece today on whats going on;
A $90 billion wave of maturing commercial mortgages, leftover debt from the 2007 lending boom, is laying bare the weak links in the U.S. real estate market.
It's getting harder for landlords who rely on borrowed cash to find new loans to pay off the old ones, leading to forecasts for higher delinquencies. Lenders have gotten choosier about which buildings they'll fund, concerned about overheated prices for properties from hotels to shopping malls, and record values for office buildings in cities such as New York. Rising interest rates and regulatory constraints for banks also are increasing the odds that borrowers will come up short when it's time to refinance.
"There are a lot more problem loans out there than people think," said Ray Potter, founder of R3 Funding, a New York-based firm that arranges financing for landlords and investors. "We're not going to see a huge crash, but there will be more losses than people are expecting."
The winners and losers of a lopsided real estate recovery will be cemented as the last vestiges of pre-crisis debt clear the system. While Manhattan skyscraper values have surged 50 percent above the 2008 peak, prices for suburban office buildings still languish 4.8 percent below, according to an index from Moody's Investors Service and Real Capital Analytics Inc. Borrowers holding commercial real estate outside of major metropolitan areas are now feeling the pinch as they attempt to secure fresh financing, Potter said.
The delinquency rate for commercial mortgages that have been packaged into bonds is forecast to climb by as much as 2.4 percentage points to 5.75 percent in 2017, reversing several years of declines, as property owners struggle with maturing loans, according to Fitch Ratings. That sets the stage for bondholder losses.
CMBS Record
Banks sold a record $250 billion of commercial mortgage-backed securities to institutional investors in 2007, and lax lending standards enabled landlords across the U.S. to saddle buildings with large piles of debt. When credit markets froze the following year, Wall Street analysts warned of a cataclysm, with $700 billion of commercial mortgages set to mature over the next decade.
"At the depths of the panic, it was just that: panic," said Manus Clancy, a managing director at Trepp LLC, a firm that tracks commercial-mortgage debt. "That made people's future expectations extremely bearish. Extremely low interest rates over the last four or five years have forgiven a lot of sins."
The CMBS market roared back after an 16-month shutdown, and lenders plowed into real estate as an antidote to skimpy returns for other investments. The cheap loans helped propel property values to record highs in big cities such as New York and San Francisco, alleviating concerns about the mountain of debt coming due.
Credit for property owners has once again become scarce in some pockets. Borrowing costs jumped following the surprise election of President Donald Trump, and Wall Street firms are being more cautious as new regulations kick in requiring them to hold a stake in the mortgages they sell off. Other lenders are scaling back on commitments to property types and locations where problems have gotten harder to ignore.
Struggling Malls
Lenders are taking an increasingly dim view of retail properties -- especially malls -- as the growth of e-commerce eats into sales at brick-and-mortar stores. Malls tend to have higher loss rates than other property types after a default, increasing the stigma for lenders, according to Lea Overby, an analyst at Morningstar Credit Ratings LLC.
When malls "start to go downhill, if nothing is done to turn the ship around, they plummet," Overby said. "The fate of some of these malls is very, very uncertain."
The Sunset Mall in San Angelo, Texas, added a glow-in-the-dark mini golf course in June, part of a nationwide trend of retailers trying to lure customers with experiences they can't find online. Yet when a $28 million mortgage came due in December, the borrower couldn't refinance it, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The debt, part of a bond deal sold by Citigroup Inc. and Deutsche Bank AG in March 2007, was handed off to a firm specializing in troubled loans.
A similar storyline is playing out at a 82,000-square-foot (7,600-square-meter) suburban office complex in Norfolk, Virginia, whose tenants include health-care services firms. The borrower stopped making payments on a $20 million loan that comes due next month and can't refinance the debt, Bloomberg data show.
Representatives for the owners of the properties didn't respond to phone calls seeking comment on the loans.
Manhattan Tower
Landlords that own high-profile buildings in big cities are faring better. At 5 Times Square, the Manhattan headquarters for Ernst & Young LLP, the owners are close to securing a five-year loan to pay off $1 billion in debt that comes due in March, according to Scott Rechler, chief executive officer of RXR Realty, which owns 49 percent of the building. RXR acquired its stake in the 39-story tower shortly after the building was sold to real estate investor David Werner for $1.5 billion in 2014.
"We are currently reviewing term sheets from a number of institutions and expect to settle on a lender within a week or so," Rechler said.
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Some borrowers chipped away at the maturity wall by retiring their mortgages early in order to take advantage of ultra-low interest rates. At the same time, landlords with the weakest properties have already defaulted, further reducing the pool of loans that need to be refinanced. The maturity wall has been whittled down to about $90 billion from $250 billion in 2008, according to data from Morningstar.
S&P analysts are predicting that about 13 percent of real estate loans coming due will ultimately default, up from 8 percent over the past two years, according to Dennis Sim, a researcher at the firm. That's their base case, but the default rate could be higher, he said.
"There are a lot of headwinds currently -- with the interest-rate increase, with the new administration coming in, and also risk retention," Sim said. "Those three wild-card factors could also play a role in how some of the better-performing loans are able to refinance or not."


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TAUK - Horizon (Official Video)
TAUK - 2.5hr. LIVE SET @ New Mountain AVL - Asheville, NC - 11/19/16
TAUK - 1.5hr. LIVE Set @ Abingdon Market Pavillion - Abingdon, VA 8/14/14
TAUK - 'Rainwalk' ::: Second Story Garage
TAUK - "Mindshift" ft. Joel, Andy & Stasik from UM - Albany, NY 02.21.2015
On their new album Shapeshifter II: Outbreak, New York-bred band TAUK offer an unsettling but ultimately exhilarating look at artificial intelligence and its potential to upend our world. With its dynamic sense of tension and cinematic mastery of mood, TAUK's all-instrumental blend of progressive rock, hip-hop, and jazz proves to be the perfect backdrop for such explorations, giving way to an album that's both powerfully hypnotic and intensely thought-provoking.
"We're all very much interested in A.I., and this idea of machines getting out of the hands of the people trying to control them," notes TAUK guitarist Matt Jalbert, whose bandmates include bassist Charlie Dolan, keyboardist Alric "A.C." Carter, and drummer Isaac Teel. "This album felt like a good setting to tell that kind of story, but in a way where we could have fun with it and let the listener escape into a whole other world."
Equally inspired by classic sci-fi like Blade Runner and more recent films like Ex Machina, Shapeshifter II: Outbreak embeds that narrative into TAUK's most sonically adventurous, emotionally expansive work to date. A continuation of their early-2018 EP Shapeshifter I: Construct, the new album picks up its predecessor's narrative thread with "Prelude": a fantastically unsettling intro track whose frenetic keyboard work and chilling vocal samples set the tone for what's to come. "The idea is that in the EP you're seeing the construction of this being, and in the album you're seeing it break out and become something that you can't ignore anymore," Carter explains.
From there, TAUK charge forward with the driving rhythms of "Recreational Outrage" (a track laced with the ominous throb of a robotic heartbeat), the futuristic soundscape and heady grooves of "CMF 9000," the gauzy reverie and glorious chaos of "Checkmate," and the bright melodies and soulful guitar sprawl of "Convoy." One of the album's most mesmerizing moments, "Let It Ride" builds a brilliant tapestry from its luminous keyboard tones, kinetic guitar work, and kaleidoscopic rhythms. And on "Upside Down," TAUK close out Shapeshifter II: Outbreak with a thrillingly epic burst of unfettered experimentalism.
Arkansauce is a genre-hopping, four piece string band from northwest Arkansas, bending the rules and blurring the lines between bluegrass, newgrass, folk, americana, country, blues, and funk. With a loyal following growing every day in the Natural State and along their tour routes, the band is proud to be stepping into a hard-driving sound unique to the Arkansas quartet.
The third album (If I Were You, released April 2017) of all original material finds the palate expanded with more complex melodies, intriguing rhythms, and hard-hitting hooks that leave the songs whirling around your head long after the listening experience.
The hard-working musicians are filling the calendar with upcoming appearances at premiere music festivals and venues in and around Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Mississippi, Colorado, New Mexico, and Missouri.
The band's roots go back to 2011 when founding members Ethan Bush, Zac Archuleta, and Stephen Jolly began writing together after becoming acquainted through mutual connections in the close-knit Fayetteville music scene. After a couple of years building a repertoire of original music and releasing their first album (Hambone) as a trio, they were joined by Tom Andersen on the upright bass and Adams Collins on the five-string banjo. The road-tested chops Andersen and Collins brought to the table helped to cultivate the mature, well-rounded sound needed to accommodate their sophomore release "All Day Long."
An Arkansauce show is riddled with improvisational guitar, banjo, and mandolin leads, paired with powerful harmonies and heart-felt songwriting, all held together by deep foot-stompin' bass grooves. There's an undeniably intimate connection between the band and their fans that's contagious and leaves everyone in front of, and on the stage wanting more. Arkansauce holds their head high, as they look forward to enjoying everything life and music has in store for them and their fans.
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Wed, August 21
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import arrow
import BeautifulSoup
import json
import requests
import sys

if __name__ == "__main__":

    with open('airports.json', 'r') as f:
        airports_metadata = json.loads(f.read())

    # Only index the airports iwth IATA codes
    airports_by_iata_code = {}
    for airport_metadata in airports_metadata:
        code = airport_metadata['iata-code']
        if code:
            airports_by_iata_code[code] = airport_metadata

    sources = [
        ("Northwestern States", "http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/nwmap.jsp"),
        ("North Central States", "http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/ncmap.jsp"),
        ("Northeastern States", "http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/nemap.jsp"),
        ("Southwestern States", "http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/swmap.jsp"),
        ("South Central States", "http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/scmap.jsp"),
        ("Alaska and Hawaii", "http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/fwmap.jsp"),
    ]

    airports = []
    now = arrow.utcnow().isoformat()

    for source in sources:

        name = source[0]
        map_url = source[1]

        print "%s\tProcessing Delays for Region: %s" % (now, name)
        print "%s\t - %s" % (now, map_url)

        # Request the URL and turn it into soup
        try:
            map_request = requests.get(map_url, timeout=20)
            soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(map_request.text)
        except requests.Timeout:
            print "%s\tConnection timed out." % now
            continue

        # Find the
 element
        dl_el = soup.find('dl', {'class': 'map'})

        # Loop over the element and find all the
 and
 elements
        for dt_el in dl_el.findAll('dt'):

            # The airport code is in the

            airport_code = dt_el.a['id'].upper()

            # Find the next
 element
            dd_el = dt_el.findNext('dd')

            # The element looks like this:
            #

            #

            #        Walla Walla City County Airport (ALW)
Walla Walla, Washington
            #

            #

            #    General Arrival/Departure delays are 15 minutes or less.
            #

            # We can extract the airport name and location
            airport_name = dd_el.div.b.contents[0]

            # The airport name includes the code in parens. Strip that out.
            # e.g. Walla Walla City County Airport (ALW)
            airport_name = airport_name[0:-6].strip()

            airport_location = dd_el.div.b.contents[-1].strip()
            airport_location_info = {}

            airport_delay_text = dd_el.contents[-1].strip()

            # Construct the URL for the realtime status page
            airport_status_url = "http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/flyfaaindex.jsp?ARPT=%s&p=0" % airport_code

            airport_location_metadata = {
                'name': airport_location,
                'lat': None,
                'lng': None,
                'altitude': None,
                'city': None,
            }

            # Get the metadata for this airport
            try:
                metadata = airports_by_iata_code[airport_code]
                airport_location_metadata['lat'] = metadata['lat']
                airport_location_metadata['lng'] = metadata['lng']
                airport_location_metadata['altitude'] = metadata['altitude']
                airport_location_metadata['city'] = metadata['city']
            except KeyError:
                print "%s\tMissing Metadata for Airport Code: %s" % (now, airport_code)

            # By default, an airport has no delay
            delay = { 'type': None, 'details': None }

            # If we find a non-normal delay, then we need to request additional info
            if airport_delay_text != "General Arrival/Departure delays are 15 minutes or less.":

                print "%s\tFound a delay, requesting extended information for airport %s" % (now, airport_code)

                try:
                    detail_url = "http://services.faa.gov/airport/status/%s?format=application/json" % airport_code
                    detail_request = requests.get(detail_url, timeout=20)
                    detail_data = detail_request.json()
                except requests.Timeout:
                    print "%s\tRequest for information timed out." % now
                    detail_data = {}

                # If it times out, we just put "Unknown"
                if detail_data.keys() and detail_data['status']['type'] is not None:
                    delay['details'] = detail_data['status']
                    delay['type'] = detail_data['status']['type']
                else:
                    delay['details'] = {}
                    delay['type'] = "Unknown"

            airports.append({
                'iata-code': airport_code,
                'name': airport_name,
                'location': airport_location_metadata,
                'delay': delay,
                'status-url': airport_status_url,
            })

        # Craft the JSON output
        output = {
            'generated': arrow.utcnow().isoformat(),
            'airports': airports
        }

        with open('delays.json', 'w') as f:
            f.write(json.dumps(output, indent=4))

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Flundra one of three Canadians competing at NFR
Brett Hoffman, For the Calgary Herald
For Dustin Flundra, qualifying the 2014 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas was one big moral victory.
A year ago, the Pincher Creek cowboy finished 19th in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association's saddle bronc world standings, which was four slots away from qualifying for the National Finals.
But Flundra had a great excuse for missing the cut. In June 2013, a bronc stepped on his head. On his ear, to be precise.
The accident occurred at a rodeo in Wildwood and the blow could have killed him. But Flundra said he was very fortunate to walk away with minimal injuries.
"I guess I have a pretty hard head," Flundra said jokingly.
Though he returned to the circuit in September 2013 and made a hard push to qualify for the NFR during the closing month of the regular season, Flundra had missed too many rodeos and just couldn't quite pull it off. So he entered the 2014 season with lots of determination to earn an NFR back number.
"I re-evaluated my situation, where I was in my life and with bronc riding," he said. "I reasoned that if I was going to continue to do it, I was going to put more effort into it than I ever had before, and it's paid off."
When the 2014 regular season concluded in September, Flundra finished in 15th place, which was the last hole to qualify for the NFR, which begins Thursday and runs until Dec. 13 at the Thomas & Mack Centre on the UNLV campus.
For Flundra, it will be his first time back in saddle bronc since 2010 and third overall (he also went in 2009).
"I'm happy that I'm going back," Flundra said. "I worked a lot harder this year to get back."
Flundra competed in more than 80 rodeos throughout the 2014 regular season. When he saw he was near the bubble during last month of the season, he travelled relentlessly.
"I went to about a fourth of my rodeos for the year in September, which was about 20 rodeos," he said.
The regular season concluded on Sept. 28. On that day, Flundra rode in Hanna, Alta. needing to finish in the money to secure his NFR spot. He wound up second with a score of 79 and pocketed $772. When the final regular season world standings were released the next day, Flundra was ranked 15th with $59,356, only $152 ahead of South Dakota's Troy Crowser.
"It's not exactly the way I wanted it, but I'll take 15th place," Flundra said "I'm going to Vegas and I'm quite happy with it."
Flundra is a long-shot to win the world title. With $59,356, he's $67,522 behind No. 1-ranked Taos Muncy who will enter the NFR with $126,878.
Flundra is 34, a relatively elderly age for a rodeo cowboy who busts broncs for a living.
"I worked a lot harder this year than I have in the past to stay in shape," Flundra said. "I'm probably in better shape now than I was when I was 20. I'm having the best year healthwise, and rodeowise that I've ever had and I attribute it to being the in best shape that I've ever been in. I don't know why it took me so long to really get after it."
Flundra will be joined by two other Canadians in Las Vegas — bareback competitor Jake Vold of Ponoka and steer wrestler Curtis Cassidy of Donalda. That's up from the past two NFRs when only a single Canuck competed (Cochrane's bulldogger Straws Milan in 2013 and Nanton barrel racer Lindsay Sears in 2012).
Vold, 27, a first time NFR qualifier, enters the event ranked 10th in the bareback riding world title race with $67,785. Kaycee Feild, a three-time world champion, is ranked No. 1 with $172,383.
Cassidy, 36 — a five-time NFR qualifier (also going in 2002, 2008, 2009 and 2010) — is ranked 11th in the world steer wrestling standings with $57,449. Trevor Knowles is No. 1 with $91,803.
NOTABLE … Trevor Brazile of Decatur, Texas, leads the all-around title race with a commanding $303,119, way ahead of current runner-up, tie-down roper Tuf Cooper ($158,537). Brazile, a tie-down roper and team roper, already has 20 world titles and 11 all-around crowns to his credit … Calgary Stampede champion Kaley Bass leads the barrel racing standings with $155,280, a mark which doesn't include the $100,000 first-place prize she won here last July. Feild, Knowles and Flundra also won 2014 Calgary Stampede titles in their respective events.
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Welcome to Westerberg High where Veronica Sawyer is just another nobody dreaming of a better day. But when she joins the beautiful and impossibly cruel Heathers and her dreams of popularity may finally come true, mysterious teen rebel JD teaches her that it might kill to be a nobody, but it is murder being a somebody…
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Music on Market - Music By Two
Music on Market is a program of The United Methodist Church of Wooster and supported by Main Street Wooster, Inc. and Wayne Center for the Arts. The series provides a diverse selection of high-quality music throughout the year to the entire community. These performances are presented in the Wooster UMC sanctuary - one of the largest, historical venues in our downtown and has handicap accessibility, available parking and proximity to downtown restaurants
All events are free with a free-will offering to help cover the costs that accompany this amazing series. Seating is open style and no tickets are required. Doors open at 6:15.
For nearly 35 years, Music By Two has been delighting audiences with their artistry as a two-piano team. From New York to Chicago, Washington, D.C., and venues in between, their performances have enchanted listeners with a vast variety of styles and genres; romantic, rhythmic, richly-colored tones - performing as if with one voice.
As Music By Two, pianists Nancy Davis & Sharon Johnson, were named finalists in the 2016 Professional Chamber Ensemble division of The American Prize Competition. They have been heard in a variety of venues including: WFMT Radio in Chicago, and have appeared in faculty and guest artist recitals at The Library of Congress, The University of Maryland, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Houghton College (New York), First Friday Series (Ohio), and Music on Market series (Ohio). Their repertoire includes compositions that range in style from romantic to 21st century to sacred. Both as a team, and as individuals, Davis and Johnson are actively involved in premieres of new works on a regular basis. Since the spring of 2005, Music By Two has given multiple premieres of Eric Ewazen's Sonata for Two Pianos. In January of 2007, the duo premiered an unpublished work by Lowell Liebermann, Three Lullabies, Op. 76 in North Carolina. In March 2007, a re-discovered four-hand piano work by Louise Talma was premiered in a concert at The Library of Congress, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the MacDowell Colony. The two-piano version of the Talma work was premiered in January in North Carolina, and later, at the University of Maryland. Music By Two will release soon their first CD, American Landscapes, which includes world premieres of works by Eric Ewazen and Lowell Liebermann.
This is the world we know, the world of air and breathing and sun and beating hearts: This season's concert tour features a unique combination of music for two pianos, as well as the addition of two master percussionists, Eric Willie (UNC Greensboro College of Visual and Performing Arts: Music) and Dustin Woodard (Greatbatch School of Music at Houghton College). Opening with a suite from Bach's St. Matthew Passion for two pianos, Music By Two is joined by Willie and Woodard in David Maslanka's This Is The World, a work whose "…overall feeling…is one of quiet awe at the nature of our world, both the planet on which we live, and the amazing web of life that it supports…" These two exquisite works are connected at their foundations by the music of Bach, as Maslanka masterfully weaves melodies derived from Bach chorales with his own inimitable style and voice, through "…moments of ferocity, whimsy, and grandeur."
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SEDONA – Mayor Sandy Moriarty is used to getting these messages: frustrated emails from residents blaming Sedona's traffic problems on tourists, asking the city to stop marketing to them. Occasionally, she'll pick up an angry call with similar exasperated "rants."
This small town of 10,000 people attracts 2.8 million annual visitors, according to Arizona Department of Transportation data. The number of visitors to the Red Rock Ranger District, which includes Sedona, tripled during the past 10 years, according to a U.S. Forest Service study. Congestion through the town's main artery, State Route 89A, presents a problem. During holiday weekends and rolling spring breaks, cars are sometimes backed up outside of city limits into Oak Creek Canyon, coming back from a day in the Canyon or at Slide Rock State Park.
"It's really a number one problem for the residents," Moriarty said.
Sedona's tourism growth parallels population growth in Phoenix, the state's largest metro area. Maricopa County was the fastest growing county in the U.S., according to U.S. Census data. Both areas face limits in infrastructure expansion. Officials agree: there is no catch-all solution to fix mounting traffic, just millions – and sometimes billions – of dollars and years of planning.
Phoenix commuters spent an average of 51 hours stuck in traffic per year, ranking 13th nationally, just ahead of Philadelphia, according to the 2015 Urban Mobility Scorecard from researchers at Texas A&M University. That number is calculated by examining delays during peak times in urban areas – those 51 hours are extra hours, on top of normal commute time. The good news: that number has hovered around 51 hours for the past several years. Phoenix compares favorably to other cities of similar metropolitan populations, such as San Francisco, where the yearly delay averages 78 hours, or Seattle, with an average of 63 hours. Still, ADOT data shows that roads are getting busier. The question: can Arizona's infrastructure matchup?
"With population growth, we're projected to be over 6 million people by 2040, and so any time you add 30, 40, 50 percent more people in the region, you're going to have more traffic," said Eric Anderson, the transportation director at Maricopa Association of Governments. "That's always going to be an issue for us."
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Ram Pendyala, a professor of transportation systems at Arizona State University, studies how to better predict traffic issues. He theorizes that increasing traffic is partly due to what he calls the "millennial catch-up effect." The nation's 19-35 year olds were hampered by a recession, but recently, because of economic improvement, they have started getting jobs and hitting the road.
"Their travel patterns are beginning to mimic some of the travel patterns of generations prior to them," he said.
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MAG is working with ADOT and other highway officials on a $1.4 billion plan to improve the congested parts of Interstate 10 and Interstate 17. The plan recommends new HOV ramps, improvements for bicycle commuters and upgrades to modernize interstate highways "to current design standards."
But many of Arizona's roads don't need widening or improving: they are simply aging and in need of maintenance. The state's roads earned a "D+" grade on the American Society of Civil Engineers 2017 Infrastructure Report Card. The report cited a $24 billion road maintenance cost from ADOT, writing, "Fewer than 50 percent of Arizona's roadway needs can be addressed with expected baseline revenues." Nationally, the country's roads earned a "D" grade.
"Providing adequate infrastructure is a challenge because we never have quite enough money to do everything that needs to be done out there," Anderson said. "So we're always picking and choosing, making sure we have the right projects out there"
Arizona has gone from 3,098 registered vehicles in 1912 to 1.3 million in 1970 to nearly 7.7 million in 2015, according to numbers from ADOT. Planners have been considering population growth for decades, especially in the population "boom years" of 1946-1973, according to a report put together by ADOT in celebration of the 2012 state centennial. The state's highways went through crucial changes after World War II, with more than 170 miles of historic Route 66 rebuilt and the building of the first direct highway connection between Flagstaff and Phoenix. As the population ticked up, State Loop 101, which coils around Metro Phoenix, was finished in 2001 to the tune of $2.3 billion and about 13 years of construction, data from planning firm EconWorks reports.
According to Pendyala, technology is the solution to the world's traffic woes.
"What we're seeing in the Valley is the future," he said. "If you have a fleet of connected and autonomous vehicles, you could see a very different future where we have essentially tripled the capacity of our roadways."
Using self-driving vehicles – such as what Uber is testing in Metro Phoenix – could cut down on congestion by spacing cars closely together. These cars would move in "platoons," and would be in constant communication, Pendyala said.
"Suddenly you can have a utopian future of really no traffic congestion."
This may not be realistic in the near future. A report from AAA out this year found that a majority of Americans are afraid of autonomous vehicles and three-quarters feared riding in a self-driving car. Yet, there was more trepidation among older generations: where 41 percent of millennials felt "less safe" sharing the road with autonomous vehicles, that number jumped up to 60 percent of baby boomers.
In Sedona, options for improvement are limited. Most of the two main highways – State Route 89A and State Route 179 – are owned by ADOT, not the city of Sedona, Moriarty said. Driving south through Oak Creek Canyon from the Flagstaff area is narrow but picturesque and "the least likely to be able to change much."
The Sedona City Council has spent years confronting area congestion. In April 2016, the council approved a contract with design consulting firm Kimley-Horn to study traffic patterns and come up with suggestions to ease congestion. The study found an average of 16,000 to 19,000 vehicles per day coming through State Route 179 in Sedona. Drivers also faced an average commute of seven minutes to make it through a stretch spanning three-quarters of a mile going southbound on State Route 89A, the firm found.
"If you look at what has been happening over the past say five years or so there's no question that the traffic has been getting worse," John Currivan, a Sedona city councilor said.
AnnaLee Hammon's family has been in Sedona since the 1950s, when the city was made up of "a brothel and a few ranches." Hammon owns Made in Arizona, a wine and gift shop in the heart of the uptown district. She's watched the town change and grow into a tourist destination. And she's watched the lines of brake lights snake further and further through uptown Sedona.
"Traffic at some times is a frustration not only for the locals but for our tourism as well," she said. "They're so excited about getting here and then they're in this line that takes 45 minutes to an hour sometimes to get into town."
There's a wide range of ideas for fixing the issue. Currivan supports better signage explaining delays. Hammon is opposed to putting a road through Cathedral Rock, an idea she said some have posed. Moriarty hasn't made up her mind yet. She's waiting until she has "all the information."
"I have no opinions at this point because I haven't heard all the options," she said. "We're hearing them bit by bit as they go and frankly they change from day-to-day."
Marc Spector, a Sedona resident of 40 years, believes it might be too late for improvements. His idea to fix road congestion is more radical: bar non-residents from driving through Sedona at all. Instead, he proposes building a ten-story parking garage and running shuttles every several minutes for tourists.
Until then, though, his advice to the frustrated residents is simple:
"It comes with the territory. You live in a tourist town, you're going to have to live with traffic. And you just plan your day around to where you're not in it."
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There is a new version of Old School RuneScape, which still appeals to a lot of RS players all over the world. It's RuneScape 3 which was released in 2014 with added features like new customization options, better user-interface, and new camera controls.
Meanwhile, the older version which was released in 2007, called Old School RuneScape, is equipped with its original content, nostalgic gameplay, social networking, and more.
If given the choice to pick one of the two, which RuneScape version should you choose?
The argument is that OSRS is better for those who enjoy playing the older version of RuneScape. Those players who've mastered the early versions of the game and are contented to play the game how it was.
Meanwhile, for those who've played RS3 and enjoyed it, they liked the improved quality of life in the newer version and it automatically crafts every item that's with you. It also has some added features that are only unique to the much newer version of RuneScape like Block Necklaces, Soul Split, and Legendary Pets.
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Overall, it highly depends on your preference and you could not go wrong on either game. One of the best thing about RuneScape is there are gold selling sites that will allow you to trade your OSRS gold to RS3 gold or vice versa. And this makes it a viable option to play both games, instead of choosing just one.
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Total Prize Money: $6,347,213.79
Total Tournaments: 1008
Total Active Players: 3529
Mean Tournament Prize Pool: $6,296.84
Mean Earnings/Player: $1,798.59
Median Tournament Prize Pool: $500.00
Median Earnings/Player: $250.00
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1. Flash Lee, Young Ho $194,924.30 $670,457.77 29.07%
2. Mystik Katherine Gunn $100,000.00 $122,550.00 81.60%
3. applesauce Mark Smith $100,000.00 $100,000.00 100.00%
4. Jaedong Lee, Jae Dong $98,019.82 $646,533.13 15.16%
5. FruitDealer Kim, Won Ki $92,393.59 $103,075.12 89.64%
6. NesTea Lim, Jae Duk $92,376.61 $288,225.07 32.05%
7. MC Jang, Min Chul $89,441.77 $509,852.06 17.54%
8. Cloud Scott Holste Jr. $48,700.00 $111,410.00 43.71%
9. FearItSelf Justin Kats $47,000.00 $166,320.83 28.26%
10. ReMinD Kim, Sung Sik $46,376.82 $174,929.69 26.51%
11. Moon Jang, Jae Ho $44,483.47 $724,964.95 6.14%
12. Pistola Justin Deese $43,700.00 $399,835.00 10.93%
13. OGRE2 Tom Ryan $42,000.00 $295,960.09 14.19%
14. Victory X Cameron Thorlakson $42,000.00 $135,743.39 30.94%
15. Edward Ioann Sukharev $41,931.93 $719,374.82 5.83%
16. markeloff Yegor Markelov $41,931.93 $169,652.45 24.72%
17. starix Sergey Ishuk $41,931.93 $136,585.80 30.70%
18. Zeus Daniil Teslenko $41,169.27 $792,585.87 5.19%
19. ceh9 Arseniy Trynozhenko $41,169.27 $85,789.77 47.99%
20. EffOrt Kim, Jung Woo $40,396.34 $176,733.06 22.86%
21. Lyn Park, Joon $39,414.59 $595,242.81 6.62%
22. TH000 Huang, Xiang $38,604.61 $392,281.48 9.84%
23. RainBOw Kim, Sung Je $35,670.89 $71,224.56 50.08%
24. Maniac Nick Kershner $33,700.00 $88,100.00 38.25%
25. Demon D Daniel Yakovleff $33,700.00 $52,550.00 64.13%
26. MarineKing Lee, Jung Hoon $33,599.81 $212,397.14 15.82%
27. Cypher Alexei Yanushevsky $33,344.19 $234,833.75 14.20%
28. Clutch Weston Price $31,000.00 $53,700.00 57.73%
29. rapha Shane Hendrixson $30,988.50 $461,710.52 6.71%
30. Enigmz Alexis Martin $30,833.33 $32,683.67 94.34%
31. Lunchbox Jason Brown $30,700.00 $222,080.00 13.82%
32. Roy Justin Brown $30,700.00 $214,108.33 14.34%
33. Fabss Fabio Nardelli $30,000.00 $145,387.44 20.63%
34. Hrk Romain Neveu $30,000.00 $30,000.00 100.00%
35. Genius Jung, Min Soo $29,244.23 $93,775.14 31.19%
36. Infi Wang, Xu Wen $27,895.88 $479,464.12 5.82%
37. BestMan Nick Johnson $27,700.00 $48,025.00 57.68%
38. GeT_RiGhT Christopher Alesund $27,529.68 $621,886.05 4.43%
39. Elamite Kyle Elam $27,200.00 $176,174.51 15.44%
40. Rain Park, Seo Yong $26,412.77 $36,043.76 73.28%
41. Grubby Manuel Schenkhuizen $25,867.90 $364,372.91 7.10%
42. Carlos Romão Carlos Romão $25,000.00 $53,600.00 46.64%
43. f0rest Patrik Lindberg $24,723.39 $754,816.53 3.28%
44. cArn Patrik Sättermon $24,723.39 $173,572.35 14.24%
45. dsn Harley Örwall $24,723.39 $170,588.24 14.49%
46. Gux Rasmus Ståhl $23,013.76 $77,523.00 29.69%
47. Movie Jin, Young Hwa $22,781.75 $60,834.43 37.45%
48. Enable Ian Wyatt $22,200.00 $522,597.12 4.25%
49. Chig Kyle Lawson $20,500.00 $54,075.00 37.91%
50. Soldier187 Marcos Sanchez $20,500.00 $32,900.00 62.31%
51. Brat_OK Pavel Kuznetsov $20,170.43 $44,447.48 45.38%
52. Neighbor Mason Cobb $20,100.00 $99,899.51 20.12%
53. Nenad Nenad Stojkovic $20,000.00 $21,000.00 95.24%
54. Ace Aaron Elam $19,700.00 $371,037.50 5.31%
55. Flamesword Michael Chaves $19,700.00 $64,751.79 30.42%
56. Assault Clete LoRusso $19,700.00 $47,512.50 41.46%
57. face Johan Klasson $18,566.31 $64,478.76 28.79%
58. GH057ayame Eric Hewitt $18,500.00 $119,262.26 15.51%
59. Hysteria Jacob Reiser $18,100.00 $209,810.00 8.63%
60. Fenix Jian Carlo Alejo $17,378.37 $33,327.16 52.14%
61. Kal Kim, Ku Hyun $17,221.79 $56,200.38 30.64%
62. walle Dennis Wallenberg $17,146.00 $107,697.38 15.92%
63. Akira Asahara Akira Asahara $17,000.00 $25,000.00 68.00%
64. Cooller Anton Singov $16,905.04 $233,561.53 7.24%
65. allen Jimmy Allen $16,828.30 $80,883.69 20.81%
66. Naama Santeri Lahtinen $16,705.62 $24,374.45 68.54%
67. threat Björn Pers $16,490.82 $55,256.29 29.84%
68. Stork Song, Byung Goo $16,355.23 $293,719.52 5.57%
69. Sky Li, Xiaofeng $16,049.24 $267,715.08 5.99%
70. Calm Kim, Yoon Hwan $15,386.48 $90,668.14 16.97%
71. Booster Moon, Ho Joon $15,000.00 $77,265.97 19.41%
72. Jinro Jonathan Walsh $14,969.11 $29,366.92 50.97%
73. RobbaN Robert Dahlström $14,946.00 $130,438.14 11.46%
74. gob b Fatih Dayik $14,940.08 $222,563.51 6.71%
75. Kapio Navid Javadi $14,940.08 $102,363.77 14.60%
76. tixo Manuel Makohl $14,940.08 $92,479.32 16.16%
77. roman Roman Ausserdorfer $14,940.08 $77,897.10 19.18%
78. Bisu Kim, Taek Yong $14,714.16 $348,379.29 4.22%
79. zonic Danny Sørensen $14,598.18 $138,209.56 10.56%
80. ave Alexander Holdt $14,598.18 $98,452.09 14.83%
81. trace Martin Heldt $14,598.18 $54,180.22 26.94%
82. Sodah Alex Ringe $14,500.00 $55,516.67 26.12%
83. Totz Anthony Pennacchio $14,400.00 $18,000.00 80.00%
84. n0thing Jordan Gilbert $14,125.00 $298,288.81 4.74%
85. Storm Tyler Wood $14,125.00 $102,599.41 13.77%
86. fRoD Danny Montaner $14,125.00 $97,709.41 14.46%
87. minet Oliver Minet $14,089.74 $33,313.19 42.29%
88. 유영혁 Yoo, Yeong Hyuk $13,686.50 $75,483.95 18.13%
89. Knee Bae, Jae-min $13,000.00 $316,118.06 4.11%
90. Snutz Kelvin Nguyen $13,000.00 $194,241.68 6.69%
91. Richard Towler Richard Towler $13,000.00 $14,300.00 90.91%
92. lurppis Tomi Kovanen $12,875.00 $60,044.44 21.44%
93. Anakin Hoa Luu $12,850.00 $91,795.27 14.00%
94. Walshy David Walsh $12,700.00 $180,894.37 7.02%
95. Kyrix Han, Joon $12,662.25 $21,076.53 60.08%
96. IdrA Greg Fields $12,612.86 $75,044.87 16.81%
97. NonY Tyler Wasieleski $12,575.00 $20,650.00 60.90%
98. Gnes Keith Garmond $12,555.80 $14,709.70 85.36%
99. Mew2King Jason Zimmerman $12,543.80 $284,655.81 4.41%
100. HongUn Ahn, Hong Wook $12,461.97 $29,392.10 42.40%


Juliette Mayers was recently named executive director of multicultural marketing for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA). As one of the early pioneers in multicultural marketing, Mayers brings a wealth of experience to the post, where she is responsible for developing and shaping the corporation's business-to-business and business-to-consumer strategies.
Mayers, a seasoned executive with experience in strategic planning, marketing, finance and diversity leadership, has been at BCBSMA for seven years. Prior to joining the health care corporation, Mayers' career spanned more than 20 years with leading organizations such as GE Capital, Bank of Boston and The Ad Club Foundation before coming to BCBSMA. Before entering her current position, she served as director of sales planning and performance at Blue Cross Blue Shield, where she led strategy, planning, communications, sales technology, budgeting and expense management functions.
Mayers has received several leadership and community awards, and was recently was recognized as a "Visionary Woman of Excellence" by Unity First magazine. She serves as vice chair of the board of the anti-poverty agency Action for Boston's Community Development (ABCD) and works with a host of other civic and community groups, including The United Way, One Thousand Women for Mentoring, the Norwell Women's Club, the Newton chapter of Jack & Jill of America, The Boston Club and the Middlesex chapter of The Links.
Mayers holds a bachelor's degree from Northeastern University, where she majored in marketing, and an M.B.A. from Simmons Graduate School of Management. She resides in Norwell with her husband Darryl and two daughters, D'Anna and Danielle.


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Qatar Airways – Five Star Steerage
By Miel | August 12, 2012 | 0
Currently ranked the best airline in the world, for the second year in a row, all I can wonder is why. I am not saying it is the worst of the worst, I've flown on old soviet planes and questionable budget flights of all kinds, but I guess my expectation for the best would be better than it is.
I've only flown Qatar Airways several times, but I have been left with the same question each time. Really? I presume it is the world's five star airline if you are indeed in first class, but steerage is nothing less.
In economy you'd be hard pressed to pick out anyone who might hail from the Middle East. It appears most of the plane I was on was headed to Indian, last time it was the Philippines. The food, movies, and cramped seats are pretty standard of any international airline.
The flight attendants clearly from all over, but not particularly selected for their hospitality. When I got up, a bit bleary eyed, to wander back to the snack area, I got a sharp "what do you want?" They made Lufthansa look friendly.
The 14 hr flight is the first thing to get over, but the layover is much harder. Can you imagine a seven hour layover with not a single restaurant in the airport? Even Fiji's itty bitty airport has a nice restaurant to pass the time and get a last piece of fish. Here we have A&W, Costa (a popular coffee shop in the Middle East) and a cafeteria where they give you a voucher for excessive layovers – 7 doesn't qualify.
I decide to hold out and nibble on my power bar for the seven hour layover, but then am sorely disappointed by the meal offered. First they have one choice, to which my response is, then why are you presenting it as if it is a choice? The food on Kenya Airways is better. This is inedible, and on my standards after 8 hours without a meal, is pretty bad.
The saving grace is one small quiet room, in the upper corner near the men's mosque, where I have been hunkered in for the last six hours. Thank goodness I had one emergency bar in my purse to tide me over and prevent me from the limited unhealthy options that are available.
There is a tiny shopping area where you can marvel at the cost. That sums up the airport.
According to the announcement at landing, they are thankfully building a new airport. It is about time. Portland's airport would be like an oasis here. Did I mention there is no wifi, even paid, outside of lounges? A small room with computers for access, but frankly it isn't worth it.
I'll be happy to be flying through Switzerland on my return!
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Why Jacob Tremblay's New Movie 'Wonder' Will Both Crush Your Heart & Give You Hope
by Olivia Truffaut-Wong
Little Auggie Pullman is about to embark on his very first day of school with kids his age. It's a scary enough moment for anyone, let a lone a kid with some facial deformities who hasn't really been in a mainstream school setting before. If this scenario sounds realistic, it's because it's a reality for many kids across the globe. That said, the new movie about Auggie Pullman, Wonder is not based on a true story. It is, however, inspired by real events.
Writer R.J. Palacio, who published the novel upon which Wonder is based in 2012, was inspired to write a story about a child with facial deformity after a trip to the ice cream store. As Palacio recounted in an interview for NPR's All Things Considered, the author was forced to examine her own mindset, during an ice cream trip, she and her children left abruptly after her three-year-old young son became frightened sitting next to a girl with a facial deformity. "I was really angry at myself afterwards for the way I had responded," she told NPR. "What I should have done is simply turned to the little girl and started up a conversation and shown my kids that there was nothing to be afraid of." Instead of getting to work on a time machine to re-do the day, Palacio wrote Wonder. And the rest is history.
Auggie might not be based on a real kid, but he's pretty real to Palacio and the filmmakers. To help ground him in reality as much as possible, actor Jacob Tremblay visited kids with facial differences and exchanged letters with kids who were willing to share their experiences with him. "They wrote me some stories about them, and I got to come over and visit," he said in an interview with EW. "They wrote me to teach me things, they wrote me some stories," he added. The actor also attended a retreat for kids with facial differences and their families, which was "really fun," he told EW. Tremblay kept all the letters on set to help him get into character. And he also drew upon his newfound friendships for emotional scenes. "I listened to sad music, and I really think about them, the kids I'm friends with. It really helped me," he said.
Now that Wonder is hitting theaters, the time to draw from real life is over. But that just means that the movie has to face its biggest challenge yet: how to leave a mark on the real world. The book Wonder, which is taught in schools (seriously, even Tremblay is reading the book with his class), has inspired an entire "choose kind" movement — #ChooseKind — and the stars of the film are hoping their movie will do the same. "No matter what we're trying to accomplish in our day, there's always that little bit more space to be a little bit more gentle with each other, or sweet with each other," co-star Julia Roberts told NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday when asked what she hopes audiences take from the film. "Whatever it is, there are so many little gentle moments in the day to express kindness to one another, and it's just about taking the time and being reminded to do that."
Many of the Wonder cast is taking part in the #ChooseKind campaign, asking fans to "choose kind" and stay away from bullying. Tremblay even challenged other celebrities to take part, singling out Harrison Ford and Drake in an interview with People Now.
Drake has yet to respond, but in terms of rappers supporting the cause, Tremblay doesn't have to look very far. One of his co-stars in Wonder is Daveed Diggs (of Hamilton fame, in case you didn't know).
Who needs Ford and Drake? I'd say Tremblay and Diggs are more than enough to inspire fans to #ChooseKind.
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