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SS Anglo-Canadian sunk by U-153 under Wilfried Reichmann, same sub which sank the SS Potlatch, SS Ruth
June 30, 2013 March 7, 2017 Updated June 30, 2013 by Eric Wiberg
Photo source: http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/1850.html, from the Allen Collection
The British-flagged and British-crewed, 5,258-ton motor freighter Anglo-Canadian was built by the Short Brothers Limited at Pallion, Sunderland, England, in July of 1928. She was owned by the Nitrate Producers Steamship Company (Lather, Latta ad Company) of London. At 123.84 meters overall and 17.68 meters wide with 7.53 meters draft, she was powered by two oil-fueled engines with a combined n.h.p. of 598.
Before Wilfried Reichman in U-153 encountered her southeast of Bermuda and some 800 miles northeast of Antigua on the 25th of June 1942 the Anglo-Canadian had experienced an eventful voyage. While her crew of 50 under the leadership of Captain David John Williams were waiting to discharge cargo in Vizagapatnam (Vizag) in the Bay of Bengal on the east coast of India, the ship was bombed by Japanese aircraft on April 16, 1942. The captain kept up evasive maneuvers for two hours while the plane attacked in the anchorage, or roads, off the port.
One of the bombs landed in the store room and did not explode, though there were fires on the ship. The Chief Officer and Carpenter entered the room, knowing full well the dangers. They led a fire-fighting team which suppressed the flames. Later the Master, Chief, and 'Chippy,' as carpenters are known, personally carried the ordinance ashore where it was exploded. As a result, the Chief Officer, Bernard Beavis, Carpenter Eugene Bergstrom, and Captain Williams were all given special awards (Williams the Order of the British Empire) and the Lloyds Silver War Medal for Bravery at Sea (archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/Mariners/2003-12/1072717478)
Having discharged in India, the Anglo-Canadian set sail for the US eastern seaboard via South Africa. She left Cape Town on the 3rd of June and called briefly at Ascension Island. Her final destination was to be Baltimore, Maryland. On the 24th of June at 1 pm local time the Anglo-Canadian was struck by a torpedo from U-153 in position 25.12N and 55.31W. The men were able to send an SOS which picked up by the nearby Putney Hill (which itself was found and sunk by U-203 under Rolf Mutzelburg two days later on the 26th of June).
Once the Anglo-Canadian sank Reichmann cruised among the wreckage with the submarine's spotlight on in order to enable the survivors to make it to safety on boats and rafts. The 49 survivors divided into two life boats. Third Radio Officer Leo Maurice Housley, aged 18 was the only crew member killed, and his body remained on the ship.
1942 Baltimore Capt. David John Williams Putney Hill Short Brothers Ltd. SS Anglo-Canadian SS Potlatch SS Ruth Sunderland Shipbuilders U-153 U-203 U-Boats Bahamas
SS Astrea sunk by R.Smg. Enrico Tazzoli under Carlo Fecia di Cossato 6 March 1942
SS Andrew Jackson sunk by U-84 Horst Uphoff, off Cay Sal Bank Bahamas, Old Bahama Channel
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Why it's great: Just 50 miles west of town in the Coast Range, the Jones Creek Trailhead of the Wilson River Trail offers year-round hiking, mountain biking, and lots of fodder for nature- and history-buffs. At the barely seven-year-old Tillamook Forest Center, options range from climbing a 40-foot-tall replica fire lookout, walking a short network of interpretive trails, and scoping exhibits on the vast Tillamook Burn (a series of fires from the '30s to the '50s) and the subsequent massive reforesting efforts. Just south of the forest center, the Wilson River Trail plunges for up to 10 miles into dense Sitka spruce, alder, and big-leaf maple. One mile in, pause along a rustic footbridge and look out for spawning coho in the deep pool below—a final wintry chance to see the fish makes the probable mud worthwhile. Wilson Creek Falls, which jumps down from a ridge before trickling across the trail, provides an ideal turnaround two miles later. To track more falls, continue 1.6 miles along Highway 6 to the Keenig Creek Trailhead, where several cascades can be found within 3 miles of the trail's start.
Don't forget: Don't trust the forecast? Check the Tillamook Forest Center webcam.
Helvetia Tavern The menu at this barnlike Hillsboro landmark goes something this: Hamburger, Jumbo Burger, Jumbo Cheese Burger... Sure, there's also fish and chips and a garden burger, but everyone comes for the giant, meaty burgers. 10275 Helvetia Road, Hillsboro.
Trailhead directions: From Highway 6, between milepost 22 and 23 turn north on North Fork Road and look for the Jones Creek Day Use Area on the left. The Tillamook Forest Center is located just past milepost 22 on Highway 6. No fees or permits required.


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ZEPPELIN longitudinal study: Support from birth (Follow-up 5-9)
The learning sensitive period in a child's first years of life as a primary site of education is utilized in very different degrees. One consequence of this is unequal distribution of educational opportunities. Several studies in the United States show that early support in families can contribute towards increased educational opportunities. Against this background, early support in the form of the Parents as Teachers (PAT) programme developed in the United States was implemented in several communes in the Canton of Zurich. The aim of the ZEPPELIN project is to investigate the longer-term effectiveness of PAT in families in difficult circumstances (social burdens).
In a randomized control trial (RCT) research design, the intervention group of 132 families was compared with the control group of 116 families. The intervention group received PAT support in the form of at-home support and group meetings. For the control group, the customary support for young children offered in the community was available. After the recording of baseline data at child age 3 months, characteristics of the parents, the children, and parent-child interaction as well as stress and protective factors were assessed at yearly measurement time points (at child age 12, 24, and 36 months). As planned, this experimental and longitudinal study will be continued in kindergarten and in the first 3 years of primary school.
The ZEPPELIN project opens up access to parents with great social burdens, with the majority of the parents having migration backgrounds. With its interdisciplinary orientation and methodology (data collection in collaboration with the psychology, child development, dental medicine, and economics departments at the University of Zurich), this experimental longitudinal study with measurement time points from before birth to young adulthood and low attrition is unique in Europe.
ZEPPELIN allows work on research desiderata that have been called for internationally. Sample, design, and interdisciplinary methodology result in a rich and unique body of data in Switzerland, which following the Open Access Policy of the SNSF will be made available to the public via FORS.
The research phase ZEPPELIN 0-3 was successfully completed in 2016 and demonstrated positive effects of early support. For a brief report on the latest research results, see the PDF file on the left side of this page.
New support programme in preparation of school entry: Lernort Familie 5+
The second, ongoing research phase ZEPPELIN 5-9 has two aims: (1) investigation of the longer-term effectiveness of early support, and (2) examination of the question as to whether the effects of early support can be maintained or reinforced by means of an additional family intervention when the children are kindergarten age. In order to distinguish effects of the early intervention (at age 0-3) and the new intervention (at age 5), a new kindergarten intervention group (KIG) with at-risk families was recruited (N = 90), which, in addition to the intervention group, participated in Lernort Familie 5+.
ZEPPELIN 5-9 is supported by a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) grant to fund a research infrastructure.
Research Phases
Previous research phases:
Feasibility study ZEPPELIN/M (2009–2011)
Main study ZEPPELIN 0-3 (SNF 2011–2014–2016)
Ongoing research phase:
ZEPPELIN 5-9 (at school entry, 2017–2020)
In planning:
ZEPPELIN 12-13 (transition to lower secondary education, 2023–2025)
ZEPPELIN 15-16 (transition to upper secondary education, 2026–2028)
ZEPPELIN 20 (tertiary education, 2031–2032)
Prof. Dr. Ute Ziegenhain, Ulm University Medical Center
Prof. Dr. Margrit Stamm, University of Fribourg
Dr. Heidi Simoni, Marie Meierhofer Children's Institute Zürich
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Trautwein, University of Tübingen
Prof. Dr. med. Oskar Jenni, Child Development Center, University Children's Hospital, Zürich
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Andrea Lanfranchi, Prof. Dr.
Leiter Institut für Professionalisierung und Systementwicklung
Simone Schaub, Dr. phil.
Alex Neuhauser, Dr. phil.
Arna Villiger, MA
Erich Ramseier, Prof. Dr.
Maria Moser, MA
Under the patronage of the Swiss UNESCO Commission
Pädagogische Hochschule Bern
Bildungsdirektion des Kantons Zürich AJB
Lotteriefonds des Kantons Zürich
State Secretariat for Migration SEM
Jacobs Foundation
Stiftung Mercator Schweiz
Paul Schiller Stiftung
Vontobel-Stiftung
Swiss National Science Foundation
Progress Report, March 2018
Publications in Project Zeppelin
Lectures in Project Zeppelin

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by Alex Mickelson | Posted on August 26, 2015 November 3, 2015
Anne Stevenson, a principal planner with the City of Edmonton, has spent the last two-and-a-half years with her team developing the Jasper Place Area Redevelopment Plan (ARP) – a detailed 105-page document that sets out the vision for future growth and change in the neighbourhoods of Britannia Youngstown, Canora, Glenwood, and West Jasper Place.
Creating the plan was an intensive effort that involved almost a dozen community engagement sessions and extensive collaboration with multiple City departments. Given the immensity of the project, it's easy to understand the satisfaction Anne and her team felt when City Council adopted the plan on August 24, 2015.
"Developing the plan involved carefully balancing community feedback with technical studies of the area and existing City policies, such as The Way We Grow," explains Anne. "Where all three of these core elements aligned, it was an easy win! Next we focused on areas where two out of three factors aligned, and used that information to help guide the direction of the policies in the plan."
One of Anne's project hurdles came when community feedback and technical studies weren't in full agreement with the direction in the City's Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Guidelines. Both the community and the technical studies indicated that Jasper Place already had a high concentration of apartment units, but the TOD Guidelines recommended more apartment buildings along main roads near LRT stations.
Anne took these competing perspectives into consideration when drafting the ARP and, as a result, the final ARP recommends other types of housing in proximity to new LRT stations, such as row and skinny homes. This balance will increase housing diversity in Jasper Place, while still meeting the intent of the TOD Guidelines to provide more housing near transit.
An innovative approach to community outreach also helped Anne and her team get the best information about the needs of the community. Not only were there almost a dozen public engagement sessions, but the team was also present at a number of other community gatherings such as Big Bin events, community BBQs and Christmas Tea functions. This helped the team reach Jasper Place residents who may not have thought to attend one of the ARP public engagement sessions.
This new approach to consultation helped City staff learn from community members, and gave residents a better understanding of the ARP process and the reasons for the decisions that were made in the final plan. Anne and her team extend their thanks to everyone who participated in the development of the plan. The time and energy contributed by community members was central to building a successful vision for the future of Jasper Place, and the Plan wouldn't have happened without them.
Now that the plan has been approved, you may be wondering…what happens next? The ARP may be complete, but the City's work is far from finished.
From left to right: Michaela Cochran city planner, Anne Stevenson principal planner, Wesley Andreas city planner.
Michaela Cochran and Wesley Andreas, the planners who helped Anne along the journey are excited for the implementation to begin. To kickstart the implementation, a short video has been produced to help staff, residents and the development industry better understand the plan.
"Being 105 pages long, the plan isn't exactly light reading," explains Michaela. "The video helps turn complex policies in the plan into an engaging story about the future vision for Jasper Place".
Michaela, Anne and Wesley hope this story will inspire property owners to come forward with new and exciting uses for their land that align with the plan. Achieving the plan will take time – it won't happen overnight, or even in a year. Instead, the plan will guide incremental change over the next 15 to 20 years as Jasper Place becomes a more connected, vibrant and livable community than ever before. This will require continuing the effective communication between the City and the community; a strategy that the City of Edmonton plans to continue well into the future.
To learn more about the plan, visit edmonton.ca/jasperplacearp.
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С 1699 года жил и работал в Донаувёрте. Часто называется изобретателем педального механизма игры на арфе, однако известны экземпляры педальных арф, выполненных другими мастерами раньше Хохбрукера. Во второй половине XVIII века механизм Хохбрукера в значительной степени был популяризован усилиями его сына Симона и племянников Кристиана и Целестина, успешно концертировавших арфистов.

В 1810 году в Париже Себастьян Эрар усовершенствовал механизм Хохбрукера и запатентовал современную арфу с двойной педалью, благодаря которой этот инструмент занял своё современное место как в оркестре, так и в качестве солирующего инструмента.

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People tend to value knowledge; it's better to know something than just to believe it, even if your belief is correct by pure luck. But why? What's so great about knowledge? In this Wireless Philosophy video, Jeremy Fantl (University of Calgary) explains the so-called "Meno problem" – the problem of explaining why knowledge is distinctively valuable.
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Is knowledge humanly possible? In this video, Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto) looks at skeptical arguments, starting with Ancient Greek and Chinese philosophy, and moving forward into contemporary brain-in-a-vat scenarios. We'll review a variety of reasons to worry that knowledge might be impossible, and we'll examine the difference between global and local forms of skepticism.
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Dr. Whitney Casares | Winning at Parenting Without Losing Yourself | The Breakdown with Bethany
Whitney Casares M.D. is a private-practice pediatrician, an AAP Spokesperson & Published Author, Podcast Host, and a mom to two young girls in Portland, Oregon. She is also the founder of the Modern Mommy Doc and the Modern Mamas Membership community dedicated to helping women thrive in motherhood and parenting. She's pretty much your very knowledgeable best mom friend.
Dr. Whitney is all about helping moms so that they can help their kids. In our chat, we talk about self-care (the real kind), her amazing second book, and what she's struggling with currently.
The Working Mom Blueprint
Bethany Braun-Silva :
So I first want to talk about this book, The Working Mom Blueprint. I have to say when I read the little, I mean, I don't know the subtitle, Winning at Parenting Without Losing Yourself. I almost started tearing up and that's where I guess I am right now in my parenting life. So can you talk to me a little bit about it? I mean, it's your second book, but what was the inspiration behind it? What was the research, the writing process like and how has it been received so far?
Whitney Caseres:
Absolutely. So, yeah, it's my second book. And the first book that I wrote was about how to take care of yourself in that first newborn period. Like how do you not completely lose it when you're in the midst of sleeplessness and trying to feed a baby and all of that. And that really in pediatrics is a huge focus for us. We care so much about that newborn period, but then I realized as I started talking to other moms in my pediatrics practice, like what about all the time after that?
What about your entire working experience? If you're a working mom or there are lots of moms that are at home that have unpaid work that they're doing. Right. What about all those moms? And so after I had agreed with the American Academy of Pediatrics to write the first book, then they said, well, would you want to write a second book too?
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Because what we really want is to think about this idea of not just how do we help kids thrive as the American Academy of Pediatrics, but how do we help moms and families thrive so that kids can thrive. Like we can't put the cart before the horse, so to speak. So I started talking with other working moms. I started talking with experts in the field, psychologists with experts on screen time, on self-care. And then of course, whenever you write a book with the American Academy of Pediatrics, you work extensively with their committees and policies, stakeholders, and all those types of things.
Real-World Parenting Styles & Help
And so we worked together to make sure that it had a lot of really tactical information about child development and about what's normal. We talk about what's really helpful for kids in terms of eating, exercise, sleep and parenting styles. And then, of course, I threw in my own flavor and all the things that I've learned at Modern Mommy Doc talking with moms in the real world because I did not want it to be like an ivory tower type of book. I really wanted it to be like, I'm in the trenches with you and so let me get really real.
So speaking of the trenches, what is something that you're struggling with? I mean, because you wrote this amazing book, you're a mom of two, and you're a pediatrician. So from the outside looking in, it could seem like, okay, she's got it together. She is… So what are you struggling with right now?
Yeah, that's a good question. And here's the thing. If I can't be vulnerable with people then I have like nothing to give. I really think that. Brene Brown, right, vulnerability is like the biggest gift that we can give to ourselves and to other people. In the book, I talk a lot about my relationship with my husband and about struggles that we went through earlier on when we were trying to figure out what was happening with her. And I will say my husband is a very social person and my daughter McKenna, who is my oldest I write about a ton in the book she is too. And COVID took a toll on these little exuberant people who are super smart and who could not be duped by like niceties. Like it's all going to be fine. It's going to be good. Don't worry. Just hold on.
Parenting and Self-Care
Both of them were like, this is horrible. The world's ending. Like, let's just call it. It's hard because I don't always want to be the bubbly one. I don't always want to carry the torch for our family. Sometimes I need respite. Sometimes I need someone taking care of me and really this year I feel like I've been holding the family together. And so now that things are opening up a bit, I have really poured into like, I have to go to my exercise class that I love going to with other people.
I have to take time to listen to the music that I love. I have to sit outside on the porch and put headphones in and read a book or listen to a podcast that I love. So I think the struggle has just been making sure that I continue to show up for myself in a time when those around me, my patients, my partner, my kids just have like needed so much from me, just remembering if I don't have myself I have nothing to give.
Yeah. And I mean, we talk a lot in my profession and of course with you, your profession as well, we talk a lot about self-care but lately, I feel like it's just become this like buzzword, right? It's self-care, manis, pedis, massages. If that's what you like to do then fine. But then there's like, I don't know if you've seen these memes or these Instagram reels, where it's like moms doing self-care, but they're really just doing parenting and household chores and just personal hygiene things that they have to do anyway.
Right, right.
Advocate For Yourself
So I want to know how can moms sort of advocate for themselves first of all, even while parenting within their own families for self-care, and then really just, I don't know. I mean, because obviously, we all need it, but it's so hard to get ourselves to do it. So how do we do it?
Totally. I think it comes down to finding out or being aware of what makes you feel the most alive and awake. Those are the things that really care for your soul. Right. So for me, music is the thing that always makes me feel the most alive and awake. So self-care for me pre COVID could be like going to a concert with my husband. Right. And like being totally in that moment with him and connected. That's self-care.
I love really good food. So self-care could be going out to dinner with a girlfriend. I love movement. So self-care could be, I'm like in my basement doing like a yoga thing and not for exercise to fit into a size zero more for like, oh my gosh, that stretch feels so good on my body. Right. So those are the things that when I think about like what would I do on my perfect day if I had nothing else to do no obligations, no kids, no husband, what would I choose to do?
That's what I always come back to as like that's what I need to integrate into my life over time and in the book because I feel like it's not enough to just say, just go do those things sometimes. I tried to be a little bit formulaic about it, to say, you want to practice self-care, finding yourself, being awake, being alive enough times, returning to your passion, what brings you joy, but then you like remember how good it feels.
And so that it's like, it's filling up your cup every day, a little bit, as opposed to your cup completely draining. And then you got to pour like a whole gallon and it's like overflowing and it's way too much. Right. I think that's what kind of makes this almost like bulimic or like yo-yo thing that happens with moms where it's like deprive ourselves, self-sacrifice, give every single thing to parenting our kids, give every single thing to our jobs.
And then we're like, I'm empty, I'm miserable. And then we go do something that copes, that's a coping mechanism that's maybe not as healthy. Right. We overeat, or we drink too much alcohol, or we binge watch Netflix for like three days in a row, or we explode at our kids and say I've had it, like I need to get out of here. Right. The key for me is to have like microdoses of that self-care every single day. And I practice that by doing five minutes, a day of some type of quiet time with myself right, like doing a guided meditation. And I'm horrible at thinking of what I should meditate on. So I do guided ones, like I use other people.
That's what I do too. I can't do it on my own. I need a guide.
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Totally. Like, please. That's probably why I need exercise classes too, right, is because I can't sit there. And I'm horrible. If I'm by myself at home, the pandemic was ridiculous for me because I'd be like looking at my phone while the person was on the screen trying to talk to me. I got to be in a dark room where they basically lock me in and turn all the lights off and just say like, just listen to this. So yes, five minutes of meditation, five minutes of journaling, five minutes where you tell your partner or your kids, if you don't have a partner like I'm locking the door, this is mommy's special time where she's just going to be like by herself and let the water run on her for an extra five minutes. Right. Listening again, to your favorite song.
It does not have to be expensive. It doesn't have to be intense. And then what I do in my own life and recommend is that people set aside on their schedule, on their calendar three hours a week, one-hour chunks where it is that like larger amount of time where they get to sink into what is the thing that brings me joy. And again, sitting on a porch, reading a book, going out to dinner with a friend, like taking a walk around the block. Right. Whatever it is, that's the thing that makes, in nature, whatever it is, is the thing that kind of brings you back to you.
Modern Mommy Doc
I love that. I love that. I'm only up to like chapter two because I just got the book and of course have no time, but I can't wait to tear through this thing because I was skimming it just now and it looks incredible. Final question. Tell us a little bit about the Modern Mommy Doc community, this website, you have an Instagram community, tell us how you built that up and what it means to you?
Yeah. So I really believe in, we can teach moms the way that will be easier for them in the long run. We can give them a framework, we can give them a north star, but if we want moms to sustainably have a life that is more centered versus conflicted, we have to support them. They have to have other people around them. There are so many haters out there, right? Even like extended family can be haters where you're like, why am I having to explain to you that I have work to do today? This is bizarre. And so you need people around you that really get you, that understands you, that are on that same journey with you, that can lift you up.
Podcast and IG Parenting Blog
And so Modern Mommy Doc, we built it at first to be a podcast and a parenting blog in the Instagram community. And then now we are evolving it, actually really excited. Next month, we're evolving it to be a modern mama's club. All of our on-demand programming that we have, we have videos on-demand that are about parenting and partnership with a spouse, with a partner, with whoever's in your parenting village.
We have one on navigating kids' emotions. and videos on being a new mom that goes through basically our entire first book. We have one on our signature conflicted-to-centered program and model. So we're having that and then we're doing live events with experts who can come in and talk about specific topics within there, and then chats and forums and ways to get support. So we're really trying to dive into this idea of sustainability, accountability, how do you stay aligned over time?
I can't wait for that. I'm really excited about that. Thank you so much. Okay. So here's the book again, The Working Mom Blueprint. And tell us where we can find you and where we can get the book.
Yeah. So the book is available wherever books are sold online, in bookstores and you can find me @modernmommydoc on Instagram or at modernmommydoc.com. Awesome. Thank you so much.
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Bethany Braun Silva
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No love for Huckabees. Tut, tut. I didn't think editing involved in-camera tricks, which is what Eternal Sunshine used. Huckabees was the most innovative film as far as editing goes. Life Aquatic would've been a good pick, too. Anderson did a lot of things with jump cuts and other techniques, and it's not like he was showing off, either.


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Ten years into her career and only 27 years old, Ciara reintroduces the youthful Atlanta R&B veteran in a refreshing new light. Although the first single was the scintillating "Body Party" (which brilliantly samples the Ghost Town DJs hit "My Boo" and has one of the year's most talked-about videos), Ciara favors thumping R&B-flavored singles over steamy ballads. Tracks like "Sophomore" and "Super Turnt Up" present a more forceful incarnation of the crunk/R&B fusion she embodied in the mid-'00s. Yet the most rewarding moments on her first self-titled album come with the collection's boldest risks, like the EDM touch of "Overdose" and a collaboration with her rapid-fire verse-swapping opposite Nicki Minaj on "I'm Out."
I'm Out (feat. Nicki Minaj)
Body Party
Keep On Lookin'
Where You Go (feat. Future)
Super Turnt Up
Livin' It Up
Backseat Love
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The Evolution (Bonus Track Edition)
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2010s Love Song Essentials
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Mike WiLL Made-It: Behind the Boards
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Live Review: Jason Moran and Live Skateboarding at SFJAZZ Center
Posted by: Gabe Meline on May 5, 2013 | Comments (0)
At first, the only sensible reaction was giddy laughter that it was even happening at all. At the SFJAZZ Center last night, Jason Moran's jazz quartet led a jam session on stage—while in the audience, with the first five rows of seats removed, eight skateboarders held a different kind of jam session on a specially built miniramp. Pretty funny, right?
But a few songs into this amusing pairing, conceived by Moran himself, the serious corollaries between the two art forms of jazz and skateboarding began to make perfect sense. As the band onstage improvised in real time, so did the skateboarders, trying trick after trick. As the band was beholden to rhythm and tempo, so were the skateboarders, slaves to that next transition in the ramp, always approaching. As the musicians played off each other's ideas, so did the skaters, by positioning their boards on the platform for the more daring of the bunch to use as extensions of the ramp.
The results were nothing short of thrilling.
Moran, wearing a T-shirt from the East Bay hip-hop group Souls of Mischief, compared modern-day skateboarding to the early days of modern jazz at Minton's Playhouse, "when Diz and Bird and all them were trading ideas and the language was changing so quick."
Live Review: The SFJAZZ Center Opens With Style, Intimacy, and Stars in San Francisco
Posted by: Gabe Meline on Jan 27, 2013 | Comments (0)
By now, perhaps you've heard about, read about or even seen the construction of the new SFJAZZ Center on the corner of Franklin and Fell Streets in San Francisco. Now complete, the 35,000-sq.-ft. building is poised to redefine live jazz in the Bay Area, as it's funded largely by private donations and handily dispenses with the tables-and-waitresses, two-drink minimum nightclub model.
After the SFJAZZ Center was announced, entirely valid concerns rose about the "museumification" of jazz. Jazz has always thrived in nightclubs—or, for that matter, seedy bars. Charles Mingus' famous remarks about nightclub chatter notwithstanding, a certain amount of cultural globetrotting is present when the blues is played on the stage of a $64 million performing arts center.
I'm happy to report that the SFJAZZ Center strikes just the right balance between nightclub and theater. Cup holders allow the audience to bring drinks in from the bar, but nobody drops a credit card tray in front of you while the headliner is in the middle of a particularly engrossing solo. The sound, notably, is stunning, thanks to architect Mark Cavagnero and acoustician Sam Berkow. And as a mini-amphitheater set in the semi-round, with a steeply raked floor, the hall is very intimate—capacity is 700, but feels much smaller than that. There are no seats further than 50 feet from the stage.
2013 Healdsburg Jazz Festival Lineup Announced!
It's gonna be a Charlie Haden kind of weekend opening the Healdsburg Jazz Festival this year, with big names like Ravi Coltrane, Lee Konitz, Jason Moran, Charles Lloyd, Fred Hersch, Bill Frisell and many, many more performing at the best little jazz festival in the world running May 31–June 9.
Haden, who made his name with Ornette Coleman's famed quartet, will be the subject of a two-day tribute on June 1-2 featuring his Liberation Music Orchestra with Carla Bley and his Quartet West with Ravi Coltrane. Who else is playing the opening weekend? Try atmospheric guitar phenom Bill Frisell, invigorating pianist Geri Allen, saxophone legend Lee Konitz, Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubacalba and more.
The second weekend sees Healdsburg favorite Charles Lloyd teaming up with personal fave Jason Moran in a duo setting, the Fred Hersch Trio, the Marcus Selby Orchestra with the HJF Freedom Jazz Choir and others.
Many of the headliners this year have played in Healdsburg before and are returning to the festival, but one name's new: Lee Konitz, who made his name with Lennie Tristano and pioneered much of the "cool" jazz sound that would go on to revolutionize the music. He conducted a student workshop at SSU in 2010, and though it was a little bit unusual, his tone and conception were as good as ever.
For more info. and ticket information as it comes along, see the festival website.
Live Review: Dave Holland's Overtone Quartet at SFJAZZ
Posted by: Gabe Meline on Feb 26, 2012 | Comments (0)
The lights have dimmed, the group on stage has started playing, and the place is quiet. Dave Holland begins playing a soft note on his upright bass, repeating it, while drummer Eric Harland rattles out delicate, precise, quiet snare rolls. Over on the piano, Jason Moran listens intently, forming long, resonant chords. By the time Chris Potter starts blowing, the tone has been set.
This is Dave Holland's Overtone Quartet, a pleasant surprise to those expecting anything close to the jazz giant's past glories. Though Holland played bass on Bitches Brew, and led the avant-garde hallmark Conference of the Birds, his Overtone Quartet is a different creature entirely—it balances on intuition and interplay, bordering on ESP.
A better cast for this particular approach would be hard to imagine. In front of a sold-out SFJAZZ audience at the Palace of Fine Arts on Friday night, Dave Holland's Overtone Quartet exhibited a collective mastery of the art of listening to one another in jazz. In fact, the set's first two selections, "The Outsiders" and "Walkin' the Walk," nearly focused more on input than output.
Then, during Harland's tune "Treachery," a thundering Jason Moran solo opened the floodgates. With his arms bouncing off the keys, Moran's vivacious invention took center stage, and Potter came back in clearly energized.
From that point forward, the band clearly came together. Moran opened "Blue Blocks," the opening track from his most recent album Ten, with a pensive melody; the full band hopped in and fluidly turned it into an earthy, swinging spiritual. "Trail of Tears," a Holland composition, opened with a lovely bass solo, then reimagined the spirit of Henry Mancini's "Charade" as a noir-esque spectre. Chris Potter, who ranges from lilting soprano saxophone to sheets-of-sound tenor, was a weak link on Friday night, but shined here, blowing breathy, low-register Ben Webster notes.
But it was Holland's "Patterns" that brought the night's highpoint. As Moran and Potter settled into a cyclical, repeating figure, with Moran on a Fender Rhodes, Harland worked his magic. First, he jumped schizophrenically from one quiet hip-hop pattern to the next, playing out of rhythm, like a needle being dropped at various places on a record. But he slowly increased the volume and pace, aiming at the sides of his drums, his hi-hat stand and his mounted tambourine. He built to such a point that his cowbell fell off its stand and onto the floor, and by the end of the passage, Harland was exploding all over the kit, the pieces of the previous eight minutes' soloing pouring forth ferociously.
Because of moments like this, it's no wonder the sold-out crowd moaned their disappointment when Holland announced the last song, "Ask Me Why." Naturally, the group was cajoled out again for an encore, and the standing ovation that followed brought the close to a memorable night of jazz played by the best.
(Note: Jason Moran and Eric Harland return to SFJAZZ with Charles Lloyd at the Herbst Theatre on April 22; it's a stellar band that I've raved about before.)
Top 25 Albums of 2010
Posted by: Gabe Meline on Dec 14, 2010 | Comments (1)
1. LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening (DFA/Virgin)
2. Yellow Swans – Going Places (Type)
3. Jóhann Jóhannsson – And in the Endless Pause There Came the Sound of Bees (Type)
4. Robyn – Body Talk Pt. 1 (Konichiwa/Interscope)
5. Titus Andronicus – The Monitor (XL)
6. Standard Fare – The Noyelle Beat (Bar None)
7. V/A – Welcome Home (Diggin' the Universe): A Woodsist Compilation (Woodsist)
8. The Velvet Teen – No Star (Self-Released)
9. Jack Attack – My Rights Have Been Violated (Self-Released)
10. Jason Moran – Ten (Blue Note/EMI)
11. Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday (Young Money/Universal)
12. Goodriddler – The Strength of Weak Ties (Sell the Heart)
13. Grouper / Roy Montgomery – Vessel (Self-Released)
14. RVIVR – S/T (Rumbletowne)
15. Marco Benevento – Between the Needles and Nightfall (Royal Potato)
16. Hanalei – One Big Night (Big Scary Monsters/Brick Gun)
17. Superchunk – Majesty Shredding (Merge)
18. Hearse – Diagnosed (Self-Released)
19. Sam Amidon – I See the Sign (Bedroom Community)
20. M.I.A. – Maya (Interscope)
21. Evan Parker & John Weise – C-Section (PAN)
22. Daniel Bjarnason – Processions (Bedroom Community)
23. Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma (Warp)
24. Joseph Hammer – I Love You, Please Love Me Too (PAN)
25. Best Coast – Crazy for You (Mexican Summer)
Jazz Standards and Style Commanders
Posted by: Gabe Meline on Jun 12, 2010 | Comments (0)
I talked with jazz pianist Jason Moran a couple weeks ago for a feature on the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, and I gotta say, the guy's really smart and down-to-earth—and a hell of a piano player. His soon-to-be-released album Ten is easily the best, most natural-sounding album he's made, and he plays Sunday afternoon at Rodney Strong Vineyards with Bill Frisell. I urge you to check it out. How many jazz pianists can you name who are planning to record a duets album with Ghostface, MF Doom and Jay Electronica?
For those who missed out on Esperanza Spalding's sold-out show last night at the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, or who can't make it to the Charlie Haden / Ravi Coltrane show tonight, be advised that Craig Handy is playing for free in the Hotel Healdsburg lobby tonight from 9-midnight with "special guests." I've seen Craig Handy both chewed out by Sue Mingus for showing up late to a Mingus Big Band show and suffering behind an irascible Freddie Hubbard, so be nice to the guy, okay?
It's not free, but this year's Festival del Sole features a performance at Daryl Sattui's crazy $30 million, 121,000–sq.-ft. Castello di Amorosa by 16-year-old Canadian singing sensation Nikki Yanofsky. You might have heard of Yanofsky through her involvement with the nutsy-cuckoo "We Are The World"-like re-recording of K'naan's "Wavin' Flag" to benefit Haiti, or for singing a laid-back version of the Canadian national anthem for the 2010 Olympics. But you should really just go to her MySpace page, ignore the goofy press photos that look like Blossom, and listen to her insane scat-scattered version of "I Got Rhythm." Damn!
The Wells Fargo Center has announced their upcoming season, including the return of both Wynton Marsalis and Tony Bennett. Marsalis is playing with the full Lincoln Center Orchestra, and you've got time to plan your evening—the show's next February, in 2011! Bennett slips in a little sooner, on September 21, and I've said it before and I'll say it again: at 83, the guy hasn't lost an iota of his voice, talent, or showbiz class. I met him briefly at the then-Luther Burbank Center after a show about ten years ago; he was flanked by Mafia-looking bodyguards and incredibly kind to me, a then-young, googley-eyed fan. Go see him if, and while, you can.
Charles Lloyd at the Healdsburg Jazz Festival
Posted by: Gabe Meline on Jun 1, 2008 | Comments (1)
When I worked at the Last Record Store, and pored through people's record collections on a daily basis, I routinely flipped through countless copies of LPs by Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, and Quicksilver Messenger Service. There's such a glut of these albums in the Bay Area that they're not worth much, and I'd have to break the news gently to a daily stream of baby boomers that we had little use for what to their minds was the greatest music of the century.
There'd almost always be a copy in these collections of Charles Lloyd's Forest Flower, which seemed strange to me until I read Bill Graham's autobiography, Bill Graham Presents. Say what you will about Bill Graham—and you'd probably be right—but Graham truly excelled at the lost art of adventurous booking; placing Neil Young and Miles Davis on the same bill, say, or booking Gabor Szabo together with Jimi Hendrix.
Charles Lloyd, who Graham loved, found himself booked at the Fillmore along such names of the day as Chuck Berry, the Butterfield Blues Band, Jeff Beck, and the Young Rascals—and eventually wound up guilty by association, in my mind, to It's A Beautiful Day. Lloyd to me became just another face in the crowd, and in all the times I listened to Forest Flower, I had the same dismissal: it's close, but it's not Coltrane.
Maybe I've changed. Maybe Charles Lloyd has changed. One thing is certain.
I was such an idiot.
Last night at the Jackson Theater, Charles Lloyd and his quintet gave an utterly transforming performance. Aided by Jason Moran, Ruben Rogers, Eric Harland and Zakir Hussain, Lloyd led his group on a frighteningly inventive sojourn which plunged into unchartered depth and redefined the rules of collective creativity. Amidst a furious storm of talent, the centered Lloyd remarked to the crowd, "It's better to stick with the ship—and go down with it, if necessary."
Now 70, Lloyd still plays in the great searching vein of late-era Coltrane, although his solos aren't an aortic torrent of bitten reeds and quickly-changing ideas but rather more subtly crafted meditations. Last night, lifting his horn and marching in place while switching between tenor sax, alto flute, and a Hungarian instrument, similar to a clarinet, called a tárogató, he brought the audience to numerous pinnacles; or, in his own words, "up there to those elixirs."
Dazzling pianist Jason Moran was responsible for just as many highlights, with a number of propulsive and chord-driven Gershwin-esque solos that incredibly bent the rules without breaking. Zakir Hussain, sitting in on tablas, added a rich texture that never overpowered the group, and bassist Ruben Rogers held the mast of simultaneous improvisation together with a solid, steady hand.
Lloyd and the group were unbelievable—but it was really all about Eric Harland.
So open to different paths and yet so confident of his own, drummer Eric Harland stole the show as the main superprocessor of the group's collective thought. With impeccable touch and flawless taste, Harland not only drummed—he actually deciphered the conversation on stage into the most representational and delightful stickwork this side of Jack DeJohnette.
Given the open space offered by Lloyd's group, Harland responded keenly to every moment on the stand, playing ahead of and behind the beat; keeping time with a footpedal connected to a tambourine; switching to piano when Lloyd directed him, mid-song, and plucking the strings inside while poking hard low notes; going head-to-head with Hussain in rapid-fire rhythm duets; executing ballet-like maneuvers while utilizing every inch of the drum kit; and always, always knowing where the song was headed and when to suddenly stop.
As if to acknowledge his blessed constituents, Lloyd throughout the night placed his hands in a prayer-like position, clasped his arms across his heart, and bowed. He also gratefully thanked the attentive audience, who leapt to their feet and handed him roses at the night's end.
"When folks come with simple living and high thinking," Lloyd said to the people, "it always helps us out."
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On 1 September 2016, Sydneysider Hamdi Alqudsi was sentenced to 8 years' imprisonment, with a non-parole period of 6 years, for his involvement in assisting seven fighters to travel to the conflict in Syria. Mr. Alqudsi was convicted by a jury on 12 July 2016 after attempting to argue that he was trying to save lives in Syria. Ultimately, it was found through intercepted communications that he was well aware of what the fighters he helped get to Syria and the Islamic State were doing there. Moreover, Judge Adamson acknowledged that he had been a key player in the movement of fighters from Australia to Syria as he linked those who wanted to travel with another fighter who was already there and had joined a jihadi group.
Mr. Alqudsi was arrested in Sydney in December 2013.
In July 2015, Mr. Alqudsi launched a constitutional challenge concerning the validity of the Crimes (Foreign Incursions and Recruitment) Act 1978 (Cth) (Aus) which was ultimately dismissed on 27 August 2015.
His criminal trial began on 23 June 2016 and he was found guilty by a jury verdict on 12 July 2016.
Mr. Alqudsi's sentencing hearing occurred on 24 August 2016.
Mr. Alqudsi was charged with seven counts of "performing services for persons with the intention of their entering Syria for the purposes of engaging in armed hostilities there" in contravention of the Crimes (Foreign Incursions and Recruitment) Act 1978 (para. 1). These charges related to seven individuals: Tyler Casey, Caner Temel, Mehmet Biber, Muhammad Abdul-Karim Musleh, "Mr. Aboshi", Amin Iman Mohamed and Nassim Elbahsa (paras. 2-4).
In 2012, Mr. Alqudsi met Mohammad Ali Baryalei, who later travelled to Syria via Turkey where he commenced fighting for anti-government forces by June 2013 (para. 20). Mr. Alqudsi kept in touch with Mr. Baryalei in Syria and, through their conversations, he was informed of the battles Mr. Baryalei participated in and the ongoing fighting (paras. 25-27). He was also informed when Mr. Baryalei joined the Islamic State (para. 53).
Mr. Alqudsi came into contact with Mr. Casey for the second time around April-June 2013 when Mr. Casey expressed his desire to travel to Syria (paras. 19 and 21). Mr. Casey knew Mr. Alqudsi was in touch with Mr. Baryalei and he introduced several of his friends (Mr. Temel, Mr. Biber and Mr. Aboshi) who also wanted to go to Syria to Mr. Alqudsi (para. 21). They began meeting in form of "shura" to discuss how to get to Syria and to organise their travel (para. 22). Mr. Alqudsi met the other men, Mr. Musleh, Mr. Mohamed and Mr. Elbahsa, through various other connections later on (paras. 24, 57 and 73-74).
Mr. Alqudsi would generally get in contact with Mr. Baryalei to inform him of prospective arrivals in Turkey and Mr. Baryalei would meet them or send someone else to meet them (see eg paras. 28-29 and 38-46). In addition, Mr. Alqudsi provided: travel advice to the men with regards to how to get to Syria; instructions for buying SIM cards to keep in contact; information on hotels in Turkey; information for Mr. Baryalei, such as the fighters' contact details; advice on what to pack; information on currency exchange and the money required; assistance to families back home; information about passports; and advice on how to evade detection (paras. 30, 55, 59, 61-62, 70, and 86-87).
Mr. Casey left for Turkey on 29 June 2013 (para. 35). Mr. Temel, Mr. Biber and Mr. Musleh left on 1 July 2013 (para. 37). Mr. Musleh returned and subsequently tried to leave again on 11 September 2013 (paras. 90 and 93). Mr. Alqudsi also assisted with getting Mr. Aboshi and two other associates into Syria in late July 2013 (paras. 46-48). Mr. Elbahsa left Sydney on 12 October 2013 and was confirmed as being in Syria on 15 October (para. 74). Mr. Mohamed attempted to leave on 19 September 2013 but was stopped at the airport (para. 70).
Mr. Alqudsi continued communicating with those in Syria, including Mr. Baryalei, noting to several that they should not "forget that his jihad is over here as much as theirs is over there" (paras. 48, 52-53). He also described himself as the person in charge on several occasions (paras. 51 and 60).
Back in Australia, Mr. Alqudsi attempted to keep his activities secret. For example, he told family members of the fighters to delete messages and photos from their phones (para. 49) and to remove mentions of his name in connection with photos being circulated (para. 51). He likewise told those in Syria to not send photographs to their wives with guns or weapons (para. 53) and spoke in code to other prospective fighters, including Mr. Mohamed (para. 57).
Taking into consideration the extent of the support provided and "the need for general deterrence", what is the appropriate sentence for Hamdi Alqudsi?
Sections 6(1)(a), 6(3)(aa) and 7(1)(e) of the Crimes (Foreign Incursions and Recruitment) Act 1978 (Cth) (Aus).
The Court found that "[e]ach of the seven offences of which the offender has been convicted formed part of a course of conduct assisting men to go to Syria to fight [and the] offender adopted a relatively standard practice with each of them" (para. 84). Moreover, Mr. Alqudsi played a "significant role in assisting each man to go to Syria to fight" and took on a leadership role (paras. 85-86). Vitally, he provided the link between the men and Mr. Baryalei, who facilitated their entrance into Syria (para. 87). This, in combination with his attempts to keep his activities secret from authorities (para. 96), made the seriousness of the crimes "moderately high" (para. 97).
During the sentencing hearing, Mr. Alqudsi suggested that he was attempting to save lives but ultimately conceded that "he knew what was happening in Syria and what the men he helped send there were going to do" (paras. 102-103).
Judge Adamson also considered that, due "to the seriousness of the offending conduct, the importance of punishing the offender and denouncing his conduct and the need for general deterrence", imprisonment was appropriate (para. 122).
Mr. Alqudsi was sentenced to 8 years' imprisonment, with a non-parole period of 6 years (para. 126).
Crimes (Foreign Incursions and Recruitment) Act 1978(Cth) (Aus). This Act has since been repealed with the provisions altered and then incorporated into the Criminal Code Act.
R v Alqudsi; Alqudsi v Commonwealth of Australia  NSWSC 1222 – Constitutional challenge by the accused surrounding the validity of the Crimes (Foreign Incursions and Recruitment) Act.
R v Alqudsi  NSWSC 1615 – Evidentiary challenge concerning the lawfulness of a search warrant.
Alqudisi v R  NSWSC 958 – Application to change bail conditions.
R v. Mohamed  VSC 581 - Sentencing Decision.
N. O'Brien, 'High Court challenge to foreign incursion laws by Hamdi Alqudsi', The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 June 2015.
M. Safi, 'Armed combat not the only reason to go to Syria, trial of alleged jihadi recruiter told', The Guardian, 22 June 2016.
Australian Associated Press, 'Alleged jihadi recruiter "wanted to help" people in war-torn Syria', The Guardian, 7 July 2016.
Australian Associated Press, 'Hamdi Alqudsi found guilty of arranging for jihadists to travel to Syria', The Guardian, 12 July 2016.
M. Kembrey, 'Sydney man Hamdi Alqudsi guilty of helping men fight for Islamic extremists', The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 July 2016.
Australian Associated Press, 'Jihadi recruiter Hamdi Alqudsi breaks down in court: "I love Australia"', The Guardian, 24 August 2016.
M. Kembrey, 'Terrorist supporter Hamdi Alqudsi sentenced to minimum six years in prison', The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 September 2016.
R. Hunjan and S. Daniel, 'Hamdi Alqudsi jailed for six years for aiding men to fight with Islamic State', ABC News, 1 September 2016.
S. Fox Koob, 'Islamic State recruiter Hamdi Alqudsi jailed for eight years', The Australian, 1 September 2016.


There are several foundations and non-profit organizations in Mill Valley. Each organization has its own unique mission and objectives and seeks to serve its community.
The Rotary Club of Mill Valley is a chapter of Rotary International. Its mission is to serve as an organization with members from the business community around the world committed to improving humanitarian services. The Rotary Club of Mill Valley began on July 20, 1926, as Rotary club number 2370 and is in its 85th year. The club in involved in community projects and contributes to international projects.
The Dipsea Race Foundation is the foundation that runs the famous Dipsea Race, the oldest trail race in America which began in 1905. The foundation is a charitable non-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation which was founded in 1997 to keep the race close to its roots which are to "foster national amateur sports competition by sponsoring, maintaining and perpetuating, through charitable contributions and endowments, the Dipsea Race, the Dipsea Trail, the Dipsea Hall of Fame, and educational scholarships."
Kiddo! is a non-profit organization focused on helping Mill Valley's school children enrich their education and growth through a variety and depth of programs. These programs cover art, dance, drama, music, poetry, technology, and physical education. Kiddo! is available to school age children from kindergarten to 8th grade.
Mill Valley Philharmonic is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that manages and supports the community orchestra of almost 60 volunteer musicians. The organization is now in its second decade and relies on donor support to continue the free, live orchestral music for local communities. The 2012-2013 season includes music from the Nordic composers, a Christmas concert, and Beethoven and Stravinsky symphonies.
The Outdoor Art Club started in 1902 and is a private, nonprofit women's organization. Its mission is to preserve natural wildlife and scenery in Mill Valley. Its outdoor art works and exhibits are designed to help people appreciate the beauty of natural surroundings. The Outdoor Art Club stages public events such as the 2012 Marin Masters Show, garden tours, civics and conservation program, a literary program, a garden section, and community blood drive.
SingersMarin of the Choral Singers of Marin is a group of choruses whose participants consist of volunteer singers of all ages. The public concerts are performed for the local community and are well attended. SingersMarin started as a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization in July, 1988. Participants have performed at Carnegie Hall, traveled to several cities including Berlin and Vienna, Vancouver, Sydney, Germany, and Austria.
The Tamalpais High School Alumni Association seeks to preserve the more than 100 year old school. Its goal is to give back to their alma mata by preserving the older Craftsman buildings and restoring the campus grounds. The Tamalpais High School Alumni Association is a 501(c)(3) entity. Other projects undertaken by the Alumni Association include landscaping for the gardens at Tamalpais High School, building a new stage at Mead Theater, restoring WPA artwork , creating a Tam Archives Department, and support for the replacement of two buildings, Benefield Hall and Keyser Hall.
Zero Breast Cancer's mission is to engage the community to help research and find causes of breast cancer. The group focuses on identifying environmental factors and how they play in the development of breast cancer. In 1995 a group of Marin County residents who had many of their friends afflicted with breast cancer founded the organization to provide support and determine next steps in understanding the disease. Today Zero Breast Cancer is at the forefront of breast cancer research and discovering the causes of the disease.
The Mill Valley Library Foundation is responsible for raising funds, promoting, and supporting the Mill Valley Public Library. Maintaining a diverse selection of print and digital editions of books, enhancing technology, and improving experience for its patrons are the key goals of the Foundation.
Select grants in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo communities are supported by the Crescent Porter Hale Foundation, a private family foundation. The Foundation supports arts and music, community services, and education.
The Pearson Foundation promotes literacy, learning, and great teaching. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that partners with businesses, nonprofits, and education experts to find solutions to overcome educational disadvantages that young people and adults encounter worldwide. By focusing on the most efficient and effective practices, its mission is to help a child succeed in school and in the world.
Browse the directory listings of Associations, Foundations and Organizations.


Which means you need those three stronger MINUS detox elements more!
Hi Sari, you say here that an ulcerating tumor indicates disease prigression. Is that true in all or most cases? I am thinking of You Tube videos and posts I have come across where women are using black salve (Cancema, various other brands) to "draw out" breast tumors through the skin and claim to have done so, successfully, followed by rapid healing of what must be a gaping wound. I have always assumed thse individuals were dealing with primary tumors only. I envied their guts in tackling a tumor head on and getting the whole mess of cancer over with 1, 2, 3. Too scary for me.
I now see that I thought my response to your discussion about ulcerating tumors was in the right spot but it appears not. If I continue to have problems posting in correct spot, especially because I am working off an Android, I could always start PMing you and maybe you can stick everything in the right place. I will leave that to you.
I was not aware that ER status can change, like HER status can. If estrogen has a signature on your images, what is the signature of HER2?
Going to watch the video today.
I also read that there is at least 1 blood test to check HER2 status. When I found out I had mets, I asked my doc if my HER2 status could be rechecjed, as he was now recommending a course of treatment based on a pathology report that was 21 months old. I had been doing natural for 21 months before I saw him. I certainly was nit willing to do a repeat biopsy. He said, "It would not change the treatment we are doing now (Herceptin. Also Femara, which I have not told him yet I stopped taking after about 2 week.). The nurse practitioner had already told me that they do not do a HER2 blood test there. I looked online and found out that neither do many of the top cancer centers in the US. I dont know wht. Maybe the test is too new or not considered reliable.
Yes, I am keeping water intake in mind. It is more natural for me to not drink a lot of it.
Then I went on to read 1 or 2 journal articles (just trying to break up my long response), that said that HER2 status may change in the orimsry tumor but it seems to consistently go on to show up in the distant sites—the rationale for Herceptin being the gold standard for conventional treatment for metastatic breast cancer. Made me almost grateful to have mets. Women are denied Herceptin until the standard care of surgery, chemo, radiation fails and the cancer progresses at the primary site or metastasizes. I have started to see journal articles advocating treating with Herceptin at initial disgnosis of a primary tumor. Another choice besides the usual. Not waiting for the usual to failure, either by progression of primary tumor becoming larger, or the cancer spreading to secondary locations. So, upshot is my oncologist's response made sense, in light if the above, at least in my case. I am, by the way, seriously considering no more Herceptin. I have had 4 treatments. At the time I opted for getting targeted therapy, my tumor and underarm lymph node seemed to be getting smaller. I had had some inflammation and minor ulceration of the tumor (3.5″) heal over a 6 month period using cabbage leaves (Hard to know if was making other changes. I have been more than a little bit all over the place.) what orompted my decision to start on Herceptin was coming down with getting sick for a few days end of January, bouts of shortness of breath, feeling miserable, wound up in ER. CT scan in ER showed sudpicion of lung mets. Got pretty scared about possibility of having breathing difficulties or chronic pain and no longer having even a primary doctor to write prescriptions for anything. Final diagnoses with follow up were pneumonia for the lungs, but metastatic lesions in liver and some spots on spine. I have theory, or denial, lol, about what the mets are. In most ways, I have continued to feel better across these 2 years with the lousy periods usually related to detox.


After spending most of the last two weeks lounging around the apartment in sweat pants, nursing a bad cold, I was a bit taken aback to find that my jeans felt tight around the waist when I got dressed to go out today. More reason that I think measuring weight alone is pretty useless; the scale said that I weighed four pounds less this week than last, whereas my waist circumference was about the same. In any case, as I'm starting hormone therapy in one week and it will be difficult to avoid gaining some weight (which is fine as I'm still pretty thin), I figured it wouldn't hurt to get another pair or two of larger jeans to accommodate.
I went to Out of the Closet and found two 30"-waist pairs of men's pants, one jeans and one khakis, for $13 total. Loose (my waist is around 27") but will be fine with a belt, which is just what I wanted. Got them rung up, and for the second time since I started shopping for men's clothes there, the receipt read WOMENS BOTTM for both items.
I know I don't (ever) read as male yet. I can't blame the poor sales clerk. I'm more amused than annoyed. But I am still annoyed especially as this is a supposedly LGBT-friendly chain that has people of all kinds of genders shopping there. Even at a thrift store, the clothes should be rung up based on the items, not on the presumed gender of the person bringing them to the counter. Once again I asked boyziggy if he thought they would ring up a skirt as MENS BOTTM if he brought it to the counter. I'm sure they wouldn't. Of course, as he pointed out, there aren't really "men's skirts" (other than kilts).
I'm not going to let this kind of misgendering ruin my day. But I am going to point it out the next time it happens. I just need to remember to look at my receipt before I leave the store. As with the Angry Birds registration form requiring that gender be specified, it might seem like a trivial issue, and it is compared to the very real discrimination and violence many trans people face every day. But the more this casual misgendering is brought to people's attention, the more awareness will be raised, and ultimately, that's the way hearts and minds are changed.
A question for my understanding.
I happened upon your post in the friends feed of random pictures. I hope you don't mind me asking a question?
As I have never shopped in America, it's more about the way in which items are wrung up at the counter. Here in Australia most stores have a scanning system, as you purchase an item it's scanned and the preprogrammed information about the product appears on the receipt.
I assume from your post that this is not the case in the store you shopped at? I ask, because it may not necessarily be the clerk who has made the assumption about your gender, but a mistake on the part of the person who entered the data about the item originally into the system?
If not, I find it bizarre that the clerk would input it based on your gender... what if you happen to be purchasing the items for someone else? You're right, it seems to be a pretty big assumption on the clerk's part, not only about your gender!
I guess I am just an optimist and hoping that someone wasn't showing their unenlightened state! Although, as cis female, who has the stature (6 foot) and proportions of a large man, I'm often confused by clerks to be male so I understand the annoyance. I find though that it's mostly out of sheer laziness and total lack of awareness of the people in front of them!
I know here is Australia things are slowly changing in regards to the acceptance of trans people. For instance the government organisation I work for now has a policy to support trans staff and clients. I know that a friend of mine has managed to have a form changed at her workplace to include the options 'trans' and 'other' under the question of gender. I know it doesn't seem like much, but slowly things are changing for the better. Hopefully, there will be little and big wins on your side of the water. Actually, I hope there are change for the better across all parts of the globe!
Re: A question for my understanding.
Hi, thanks for writing! Most retail stores in the U.S. also have a scanning system. But this was a second hand store, so the tags were color-coded and entered by hand. I believe the color-coding at this particular store is based on the general item rather than whether it is men's or women's. And at a quick glance I concede you cannot usually tell what "gender" a pair of pants is. Still, since they rang it up as "women's" I assume they are keeping track of their inventory by gender, and it makes sense for them to be more accurate in that case.
And at a quick glance I concede you cannot usually tell what "gender" a pair of pants is.
Because of this I've had people at the register ask me "are these men's or womens?", which I suppose is slightly better than assuming, but my usual response is "heck if I know" because my general strategy in a thrift store is to check both the men's and women's sections for stuff I like, take it all into the fitting room together, and pick a few things that fit. By which point I have no idea which is which and as far as I'm concerned they're agendered pants because I'm an agendered person wearing them. I've even found pants that clearly had women's sizing on them in the "men's" department ad pants that clearly had men's sizing on them in the "women's" department. Because apparently I am not the only person who doesn't care as long as the pants FIT. So why exactly does the store care so much for tracking purposes? And if they really DO care, why don't they just put different colored tags on them to keep track?
Well for me the significant difference is that women's pants usually have incomprehensible sizing which varies significantly from brand to brand and year to year, whereas men's pants usually list waist and inseam. Also, men's pants tend to have larger pockets, which is really important to me now that I've finally stopped carrying a fanny pack.
But in general, when it comes to clothes, I agree with Eddie Izzard (paraphrasing because I can't find the exact quote): "They're not 'women's clothes'. They're not 'men's clothes'. I bought them. They're mine."
Yes! The pocket size! I tend to purchase 'mens' pants, as I mentioned previously I'm quite tall, and they tend to be longer and have decent sized pockets. I hate having to carry anything that doesn't fit in a pocket. Pocketless pant make me cry.
I have to agree on your sizing comment. 'Womens' clothing sizes are all over shop. I can be three different sizes for the same style of pants depending on the brand. Yet, with 'mens' pants the sizing is based on inches, not some made up fantasy sizing! And therefore much easier to identify appropriately sized items.
I wish that the fashion industry, well all industries, would remove the gender bias. It's unnecessary, presumptive and generally problematic. I also wish the wider community would understand that gender is no longer two options of black and white, but a spectrum wonderful colors.
I think the email is great idea. Hopefully it will offer a chance for someone to be positively educated.
Yes, Ziggy asked about that when I complained about the gender on the receipt; if the price had been higher for WOMENS I definitely would have gone back to complain.


You've probably heard about all the people starting businesses as a result of layoffs. You may even be one of them yourself. But do you have a grasp on what the true state of start-up entrepreneurship is today--especially in light of the one-year anniversary of September 11? We talked to a bevy of entrepreneurial organizations to find out. Here's what they had to say.
How do you think the events of 9/11 changed things for start-ups?
Sean Magennis, vice chairman of the Young Entrepreneurs' Organization in Dallas, an international entrepreneurial organization with more than 4,700 members worldwide: I think people are now taking life a little more seriously. I mean that in the most positive light. From a start-up perspective, I think you're finding that people are.looking at their lives and saying "What's important in my life?" A year [after 9/11], people are still saying it--I see this trend in a lot of entrepreneurs I work with. They're saying "What is it that I can contribute?" as opposed to just going out there, making a buck and doing well, because they already know they can do that.
You're starting to hear a lot more about families; a lot of businesses are starting up around the whole [idea of] family--staying at home, relationships, getting back in touch with the softer side. It's really quite interesting. [Also,] the reality for start-ups today is making sure they have a very sound business plan [and] a great mentor team.that can really drill them and [help them] think through the various elements [of starting a business].
There's no lack of start-up ideas out there. The ones that are going to be successful are the ones that have really done their homework. And that's going to be the reality in the next year--and into the next 24 to 36 months. Some companies have flat sales; certain industries are done--yes, we all know that. But the reality is, with the right staff, with the right idea, with a solid work ethic, any entrepreneur is going to make it happen. It's just not going to be easy to get money today.
What is the state of start-ups right now? Where are they headed in the near future?
John Friess, founding member of Starve Ups, a start-up entrepreneurial organization in Portland, Oregon: I think we're building better businesses, and ultimately everyone's forced to maintain a shoestring mentality regardless of how successful their team has been in the past, how much money they raise, and how much protection they've got around their company. I don't think all of that matters that much anymore; it's really about [whether] you can get a viable product to market fast, sell it and get it into the black at a pace probably three to four times faster than what was acceptable two years ago.
That's what I really feel the start-up environment is all about now. [It's] becoming more difficult to get initial A rounds [of financing]--in that you used to be able to get an A round, post-seed round, with just a proof of concept or prototype. In order to receive anything beyond the friends and family round, people are going to need to have products that are generating customers and revenues.
In three to five years, I think it may start to regress back to what we were used to--where there's a little more leeway and flexibility for companies. [Right now,] it'll be difficult to find truly revolutionary products in the marketplace if no one's willing to put dollars behind them when they're just in the inception stage.
What is the attitude from students and young people regarding entrepreneurship today?
Mat Burton, director of university relations for SIFE, a Springfield, Missouri-based international nonprofit educational organization: From the students that we work with, I haven't seen any negative opinions formed. I don't think they're more pessimistic about the opportunity to start their own business. I think, if anything, they're just as anxious, or more than they ever have been, [to start a business].
If you were to walk onto a college campus and ask how many students hope to start their own business, you'd find that it would be a significant portion of the campus population. When they see some of the things that have happened with businesses and the economy, it makes them feel that they'd have a little more control over their own destiny if they owned their own business.


Mentally Ill Are Locked Up: Where Are The Psychiatrists?
Today's LA Times sheds light on the tragic situation in LA County, where the mentally ill are warehoused in the county jail. "3,200 people with a mental illness are behind bars (17% of the jail population)," Steve Lopez reports. Where are the psychiatrists in this discussion? We could ban together to talk about the need to rebuild our mental hospitals; the ones closed when Ronald Reagan was Governor of California. It is not clear to me why psychiatrists are not more involved in advocating for the mentally ill. The resources, in California, are so limited, and yet, what seems like a few years ago (30 or so), we had decent long-term psychiatric hospitals, such as Camarillo State Hospital, which gave the mentally ill a therapeutic community. We need to chime into this conversation so that we can remind the public that the brain influences behavior, and as such, treating brain disease, not just with medication, is a critical component to a civilized society. We need good systems of care which help people who cannot help themselves. Steve Lopez does a huge public service by bringing this to the media. Now, psychiatrists need to join him, by letting the public know that we care too.


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'Florilegium': a Botanical Metaphor of United Romania | Book Launch and Talk
Date: Thursday, May 24, 2018 7:00 pm
21/05 - 12/06/2018 @ RCI & Belgrave Square
The Centenary Celebration, the backbone of our programme in 2018, touch one of its peaks with 'Florilegium', a multi-art event honouring the diversity and vibrancy of the United Romania created in 1918 by showcasing the unique variety and beauty of Romanian botanical richness.
The astonishing biodiversity present in all historical provinces that came together to form a new, democratic state at the end of the First World War is showcased through an exhibition, a book launch, a talk, a botanical-artistic installation, and culinary delights.
The project is organised by RCI London in partnership with The Prince of Wales's Charitable Foundation, Addison Publications, creart - Bucharest Municipality Center for Creation, Art and Tradition, and the Embassy of Romania. With the support of Musiu and AVINCIS winery.
Book Launch: 'The Transylvania Florilegium'
24 May 2018, 19.00 | Romanian Cultural Institute. Free, please book your ticket here
In the presence of RCI President Liliana Țuroiu and Ambassador Dan Mihalache
Introduction by Lady Henrietta Pearson and the RCI London Director Dorian Branea
When HRH The Prince of Wales first visited Transylvania in 1998 he was "totally overwhelmed by its unique beauty and its extraordinarily rich heritage". His Royal Highness saw the importance of its flora and, fearing that some plants might be vulnerable to changes in farming methods, suggested it should be recorded in the form of a florilegium. Lady Henrietta Pearson and the Addison Publications took up this urgent task and the result is the book that we are preparing to launch - a superb publication, 'The Transylvania Florilegium', which is not only beautiful but also important as an appeal for the protection of the environment.
Using the talents of thirty-six of the finest contemporary artists from all over the world, 'The Transylvania Florilegium' is a two-volume edition which contains paintings of 124 plants from a list compiled by famous botanist Dr John Akeroyd FLS, an authority on European plants, who has been working on Transylvanian flora for over fifteen years. The project, headed up by Helen Allen FLS, artist and Principal of The Chelsea School of Botanical Art based at The Chelsea Physic Garden, has taken seven years to complete, with groups of artists visiting the region each year for five years.
In addition to the prints of the watercolours, there is an introduction by Christopher Mills, formerly Librarian at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Dr Akeroyd has also written an informative text for each plant including scientific botanical details as well as recording where and when the illustrated material was found. As with 'The Highgrove Florilegium', which inspired this publication, the paintings have been through a rigorous selection panel of artists, botanists and art historians to ensure a high standard of work.
His Royal Highness, who is writing the Preface, has kindly agreed to sign each set of volumes.
Each volume of 'The Transylvania Florilegium' measures 19½ x 14 x 2 inches. (495 x 355 x 50mm)
The Transylvania Florilegium images: Copyright A. G. Carrick Ltd.
Talk: Romania's Amazing Bio-diversity by Dr John Akeroyd
24 May, 19.00 | Romanian Cultural Institute. Free, please book your ticket here
A revealing talk by revered botanist, conservationist and writer John Akeroyd, one of Britain's great specialists on Central European and Romanian flora. Dr Akeroyd, who since 2000 has regularly visited Romania, will speak about our country's unique botanical richness and the British contributions to the conservation of its ancient landscape, especially the wildflower meadows.
"For some time now, foreign visitors have been flocking to southern Transylvania in Romania, largely drawn by the remarkable architecture of its medieval towns and villages. Today, however, more visitors are coming to its hills to see the wildflowers… These old pastoral systems lie at the heart of Romania's rural economy, but life is inevitably changing as tractors gradually replace horses." (John Akeroyd - extract from Gardens Illustrated Magazine, May 2018)
Additional Events: Photo Exhibition, Palatal Delights
We accompany the main events of 'Florilegium' with a digital photographic exhibition depicting the most beautiful parks of Bucharest, old and new, shot by some of the best Romanian landscape photographers. The exhibition is an invitation to discover Romania's multi-faceted and culturally rich capital and its cultural attractions.
Many thanks to Musiu from Timișoara, the Banat region, one of the first Romanian restaurants featured in the prestigious and exclusivist Gault & Millau Guide, for the culinary delights prepared by chefs Alina Hambaraș, Gabriel Săftulescu and Florin Ghibirdic, which are only matched by the exquisite wines provided by AVINCIS winery, lead by Cristiana Irinel and Valeriu Stoica, one of the top wine producers of the famous Drăgăşani hills in Oltenia region.
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Toxic metals are bad. We don't want them stored in our bodies. If they are, we want to eliminate the source (e.g., amalgam fillings, environmental sources), and help the body get rid of whatever is stored.
Here are two examples of laboratory assessments of nutritional- and toxic minerals using hair samples.
My question to the reader is who (person A or B) is having the worst toxic metals problem. In each case, toxic metals are presented to the right and nutritional mineral to the left.
By the method that most health care practitioners read lab results, it is quite obvious that person A, with the high cadmium has the worst problem, whereas person B has an expected (due to the mercury fillings) but low elevation in mercury.
This is totally backwards. The proper reading of these charts is that person A is far better off than person B.
Person B, on the other hand is low in virtually all nutritional minerals (K, potassium can typically be ignored on this type of test).
We also know that his dental fillings should supply enough mercury for it to show much higher readings if his body had enough nutritional minerals for the task of moving it out of vital tissues. What likely happens instead that the mercury from his tooth fillings end up in his brain-, or other tissues. Bad!
So what do we do? We start working on getting person B's nutritional mineral deficiency under control.
Do we recommend a multi-mineral supplement?
So we will further investigate and deal with digestive- and gut issues before moving on to the mercury itself.
It would be quite useless (if not dangerous) to target the mercury first. Doing so might just increase the amount that would wind up where he doesn't want it.
The risk of causing real harm is imminent when lab values are taken at face value in a vacuum of ignorance about the patient. Unfortunately this is how most health care practitioners look at lab results.


The 2nd Conference for Oil & Gas, Marine, Subsea and Aquaculture batteries will meet to discuss and provide a platform for technological innovations and business opportunities with the latest updates in the fields in Norway and abroad.
The conference is held once a year and is the leading and the only Oil & Gas, Marine, Subsea and Aquaculture Battery dedicated conference, bringing together participants from leading private and public companies, start-ups, investors, academics and businesses that are interested in the offshore battery field.
Seniors speakers from Norway and abroad will participate.


Where do you eat in the winelands? Why at a Top 10 Restaurant of course!
A huge congratulations to Jordan and La Motte as both their restaurants have been judged in the Top 10 of places to eat in South Africa.
Many of you may have seen the news already yet perhaps you have never dined at either establishment and have no idea what the fuss is all about.
Here's a mini break-down of these two wonderful restaurants which each deserve your special attention.
Located in Stellenbosch and with beautiful views of the hills, the restaurant is run by George Jardine who has twice been the winner of the Eat Out Chef of the Year award (2006 and 2007).
The name of the restaurant was inspired by La Motte's admiration of South African artist Jacob Hendrik Pierneef (1886 – 1957). Pierneef's creativity in portraying the beauty of the South African landscape is echoed in the restaurant's offering of traditional cuisine with a modern interpretation. The unique food styles and diverse flavours have been inspired by centuries of cooking, spiced by influences from across the globe, forming the precious ingredients of Cape Winelands Cuisine. A hardcover recipe book of the same title and with beautiful photography now shares these special recipes and their history. Cape Winelands Cuisine, the cookbook, is available from the La Motte Farm Shop and all leading bookshops.
The restaurant interior blends beautifully with the external surroundings – a fresh, natural look inside is embraced by tranquil gardens and majestic oak trees – where a Winelands Tea with a selection of home-baked delights from the La Motte Farm Shop can be enjoyed.
The exclusively arranged Pierneef à La Motte Chef's Table offers a fine-dine menu in line with guests' preferences, as pre-arranged with Chef Chris Erasmus, as well as a harmoniously complementing wine selection.


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Mark Veenhoven (Papendrecht, 3 maart 1998) is een Nederlands voetballer die als middenvelder voor SV Spakenburg speelt.

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Mark Veenhoven speelde in de jeugd van Sparta Rotterdam, waar hij tussen 2017 en 2019 ook voor Jong Sparta Rotterdam in de Tweede divisie speelt. Hij debuteerde in het eerste elftal van Sparta op 14 oktober 2017, in de met 4-0 verloren uitwedstrijd tegen Ajax. Hij kwam in de 79e minuut in het veld voor Loris Brogno. In januari 2019 vertrok Veenhoven bij de Kasteelheren en tekende hij bij Kozakken Boys. Na 3 seizoenen vertrok hij naar de blauwe zijde van de westmaat naar competitiegenoot in de Tweede Divisie  SV Spakenburg waarmee hij deel uitmaakte van het team dat een grandioze stunt uithaalde in het KNVB bekertoernooi door Eredivisie club FC Groningen  in de eigen Euroborg te verslaan binnen de reguliere speeltijd.

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