Luckily for our neighbors, I did not get to drive an excavator this week.
Last week the ReBuild Green dream team worked at breakneck speed deconstructing our house and garage in a mere three days. With only the foundation and driveway left, it looked like we'd be done in one more day. Winning! Sadly before I could give high-fives all around, we were slapped in the rear with a time-out.
This week was spent at a standstill while waiting for the various city of Palo Alto utilities departments to perform their requisite sign-offs and shut-offs. To those who don't know any better (e.g. moi), it seems pretty simple...just flip the big switch that turns off our power, water and gas, right?
No ma'am, it's a little more complicated than that.
While deconstructions get fast-tracked before building permits, it still takes up to 10 working days after you've filled out all the forms and paid the fees to get your water, gas, wastewater and electric utilities disconnected. [For more details, see: A Guide to the City of Palo Alto Utility Disconnections Prior to Any Building Demolition or Excavation.] For people who have trouble reading instructions (e.g. moi), the process of running around to the various departments to fill out forms and pay fees adds another few days to the count. And in case you're wondering, calling the various departments everyday to check where you are in the queue doesn't appear to speed up the process.
By the time Friday rolled around, everything was disconnected except the gas line to the street. Woohoo! However, the gas utility guy (who graciously returned phone calls from both me and our contractor) predicted it'd be up to another week before the gas shut-off. Boo.
A Bobcat poking apart the foundation (water is sprayed to control the dust).
Um, Roderick, you know the gas line to the street is still live, yes?
Yeah, no problem! he said.
It turns out, Rod (the owner of ReBuild Green) found a creative workaround to our waiting for Godot dilema. That morning he had driven over a Bobcat tractor that he had borrowed from his buddy Scott (owner of Scott's Demolition) who was doing another job in Palo Alto. It was armed it with a telescopic sledgehammer-like attachment which I, being a wordsmith and all, dubbed "the Pokey thingy." Rod explained that unlike an excavator, the Pokey thingy "delicately" breaks up the foundation without disrupting the ground and gas lines. The process is more labor intensive than excavation and will take an additional day or two, but I'm betting we'll still be done before the gas gets terminated. Kudos to Rod, Scott and everyone at ReBuild Green for salvaging everything including what would've otherwise been a wasted week.
This slab of concrete is no match for Pokey.
with a sledgehammer. Watching the effort made us decide we don't need a chimney in our new house.
One poke and the brick wall comes tumbling down.
until the very end when the guys carefully dismantled it by hand.
All concrete will be recycled and ground up to make asphalt.
No gas lines (lower right) were harmed during the making of this blog post.


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Monthly Issues
Toys: To Infinity and Beyond
Exploring the two reasons behind the Toy Big Bang…
By Andrew Ferguson
As I remember it – hazily, since this was more than 20 years ago – my toddler son and I needed one last "zot" to finish our project. The result was a swooping, colorful structure that might, in the forge of my son's imagination, serve as anything from a rollercoaster to a warship to a dinosaur from Lost Atlantis.
But wait: What, you might ask, the hell is a zot? If you don't know, I can only stand back and envy the sheltered, unadventurous life you've lived. A zot was a close relative of a "toober." These soft and pliable foam pieces made up the toy called, rather literal-mindedly, Toobers & Zots.
I used to think of them as the Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sprat of the toy world: the long, lean toober and the smaller, flatter, circular zot. Toobers were measured in feet, while zots came in several sizes, but most ranged from a half-dollar diameter down to that of a pencil eraser. Easy to miss, in other words.
And sure enough, as we finished the rollercoaster-warship-dinosaur, the zot that we needed eluded us. We were surrounded on the floor with seemingly thousands of zots… but not the necessary, the indispensable, the Platonic zot that would complete our dream. I had seen it moments ago, and then it was gone.
There's a poignant end to this story, which I'll get to in a moment. But first a historical note: Roughly around the time of my son's toddlerhood, America experienced the Toy Big Bang, a singularity in the history of consumerism and consumption in our beloved, bloated country. The cosmic expansion wasn't merely a vast increase in toys on sale to badgered parents. More perniciously, it also involved an unprecedented exfoliation of parts within the toys themselves.
Toobers & Zots, which had come on the market only months before we confronted the case of the missing zot, was an excellent example. It was sold as a single toy, but in fact consisted of dozens and dozens of individual pieces.
And the collateral damage of the Big Bang touched practically every toy line. For instance: Toys tied to the Star Wars franchise in the late '70s, which clogged the bedrooms of my two nephews, were usually single pieces of injection-molded plastic, like a big bulky Millennium Falcon or an (actually pretty cool) Death Star. But by the 1990s, when my son fell victim to Star Wars, the Death Star and Millennium Falcon came with scores of movable, extractable, easily losable parts, each no bigger than a toddler's toenail.
The most notable contribution to the expansion came, of course, from Legos. For years Legos had been a collection of relatively identical building blocks that could be assembled this way or that, according to each kid's fancy. Without warning in the 1990s, the company shifted its product lines to elaborate renderings of detailed fantasy scenes: a princess's castle, an Indian encampment, a Gold Rush town, Cape Canaveral, and many more. Each scene was peopled by a dozen or more figures. These were called minifigures, appropriately enough, because each was an inch high. Each minifigure, in turn, required multiple accouterments even mini-er than the figure – crowns, feathered headdresses, pickaxes, fuel lines, ammo belts. And the physical environment in which the minifigures disported with their miniaccoutrements required many more detachable parts as well (trees, shrubs, weathered stone, wooden shacks with tiny swinging doors distressed with age). The verisimilitude was dazzling. So was the detailing, if a parent could see it. Lots of the new Lego parts featured details so small as to be barely visible to the naked adult eye.
The trend toward toy disaggregation has only accelerated since then. Even traditional-styled toys, such as the American Girl line of large dolls – appearing, at first glance, so humble and friendly and innocent – come with microscopic, sharp-edged add-ons that are certain either to disappear or worse, reappear unexpectedly, within a week of purchase. Just try keeping track of the pair of earrings miniaturized to fit the pierced lobes of your American Girl, the finger rings, too, and the little bracelet you assemble yourself.
Today's parents must learn the lesson that my wife and I learned 20 years ago, and that my mother and father never needed to learn 30 years before that. A house can become a minefield.
No parent of a young child can walk shoeless to the bathroom or across the floor of the den without facing danger: If the splinter-sized saber of a pirate of the Caribbean doesn't dig deep into your heel, the tiny plastic stiletto slipper from Cinderella's miniature shoe closet will puncture your instep. And if you step on the old prospector's mule cart … you don't want to think about it. Little items bring big pain. And most likely the children, observing carefully, will learn a colorful new word.
From what I can tell, there were at least two ideas behind the Toy Big Bang – one high-minded, the other commercial.
The first was the notion of constant entertainment. The range of playthings had to be so vast as to eliminate the possibility of a child growing bored. Thus the kid could be left alone to play with one little thing after another without bothering the distracted parent (or, more recently, the nannies and daycare workers staring at their phones). Boredom, by this way of thinking, was to be avoided at all costs – the cost of a house with endless clutter and scarred insteps. This ignores the timeless fact that boredom is an indispensable goad to human creativity; it has been the source of most of civilization's greatest advances. The Romans didn't conquer the known world because they were busy with the ancient equivalent of toobers. They divided Gaul into three parts because they got bored.
Second, an open-ended toy with a hundred pieces can always use another hundred pieces. There will never be a shortage of add-ons for mom and dad to buy. It's like crafty moviemakers dreaming up sequels to popular movies, so that Cars leads inevitably to Cars 5. That Death Star could use another corps of Imperial Guards. Suddenly the old prospector needs a wife and kids and a group of sinister banditos threatening his stash of gold. Once glimpsed on a pop-up ad or during a stroll down the Toys R Us aisle, these new additions will be irresistible. And on Christmas Day the clutter quotient will grow at the speed of light.
Forgive me one grumpy note of nostalgia. It was not always thus.
For a sense of what the toy scene was like in my youth, consider Toy Story. It was not only a great movie but also curiously retrograde. Woody and Buzz, Rex the dinosaur and Slinky Dog, Hamm the oinker and Little Bo Peep – these are unitary toys, holdable in the hand, that evoke a simpler, more straightforward world of play. One reason the Toy Story movies worked for audiences of all ages was that they tapped the sentimental attachment that parents have for their long-lost toys. I don't know for sure, but I get sentimental remembering my old collection of Matchbox cars, complete with their delicious lead paint, in ways that I think my son, now married and moving into his late 20s, does not, cannot, feel about "Toobers & Zots."
Which brings me back to where we began, with the disappearing zot. Weeks passed and it never showed up – until one morning at breakfast. Surveying his bowl of Cap'n Crunch, my son let loose with a roaring sneeze. And suddenly, there on his tray, was the zot. Some zots, it turned out, matched precisely the size of a toddler's nostril. Noticing this as we built our swooping structure, my son inserted the zot, inadvertently sniffed, and there it had stayed until a great sneeze could unloose it.
So here's one last reason to regret the Cosmic Toy Expansion and recall fondly the toys of long ago. In all of history, no child ever tried to put a Matchbox Mustang up his nose.
Andrew Ferguson is the author of several books, including Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course on Getting His Kid Into College. He is a former speechwriter for President George H. W. Bush and a current senior editor at The Weekly Standard.
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Velvel Pasternak (October 1, 1933 – June 11, 2019) was a musicologist, conductor, arranger, producer, and publisher specializing in Jewish music. In 1981, the New York Times described him as "an expert on the music of the Hasidic sect and probably the largest publisher of Jewish music anywhere, although he was quick to note that publishing Jewish music is a business that attracts few rivals."

Biography
Velvel Pasternak was born in Toronto in 1933 to immigrant parents from Poland. He received an Orthodox Jewish education and was a graduate of Yeshiva University High School for Boys (class of 1951) and of Yeshiva University (class of 1955). He also studied at  the Juilliard School, and received a master's in music education from Teachers College, Columbia University.

The founder of Tara Publications, he was responsible for the publication of 26 recordings and over 150 books of Jewish music since 1971, spanning the gamut of Israeli, Yiddish, Ladino, cantorial, Hasidic and Holocaust music. He was a regular lecturer on the music of the Hassidim. He died on June 11, 2019, in New York City.

Published works
 Songs of the Chassidim (1970, )
 Songs of the Chassidim II (1971, )
 The Best of Israeli Folk Dances (1997, ) (previous edition 1990)
 The Jewish Fake Book (1997, )
 Z'Mirot and Kumzitz Songbook (1997, )
 Beyond Hava Nagila (1999, )
 The Jewish Music Companion  (2003, )
 Songs Never Silenced--The Folk Music And Poetry of the Shoah (2003, ) (with Shmerke Kaczerginsky)
 The Best of Hasidic Song: Selections from 7 Acclaimed Music Books  (2012, )
 The Big Jewish Songbook (2014, )
 Shlomo Carlebach Anthology: Compiled, Edited and Arranged by Velvel Pasternak (2016, )
 Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections (2017, )

See also
Jewish music

References

External links
Tara Publications

1933 births
2019 deaths
Jewish musicologists
Jewish composers
Sheet music publishers (people)
American Orthodox Jews
Hasidic music
Canadian emigrants to the United States
American people of Polish-Jewish descent

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Dahmer
I might have expected a movie called "Dahmer" to be exploitative, trashy, and made for TV. For all I know, there may have been such a production, but Dahmer is different. It's an art-house movie that treats its subject with seriousness, curiosity, and sensitivity, although that doesn't necessarily mean it lets Jeffrey Dahmer off easy.
Two Times, Two Times
David Jacobson
Artel Kayaru
Matt Newton
R for sex, violence, drugs, language
The movie tells the story of the notorious serial killer in two timelines. The first one we see is the older Dahmer. He works in a chocolate factory and picks up gay men after his shift. The other timeline shows a younger Jeffrey trying to convince his father that he's a normal teenager with typical teenage troubles, even though he has already slipped into murder and madness. Both timelines explore the roots of Dahmer's crimes, the social awkwardness and isolation that apparently contributed to his monstrously amoral and sociopathic tendencies.
The later timeline takes place during a long night when Jeffrey picks up Rodney (Artel Kayàru) at a local knife shop. Following his usual pattern, Dahmer invites Rodney back to his place, where he intends to drug him, rape him, mutilate him, and kill him. But for now, their fresh acquaintance allows us to get to know the older Dahmer.
The older Dahmer knows he is a monster, yet he is relatively comfortable with his identity. He tells Rodney coldly, "I am a pervert. I am an exhibitionist. I am a masturbator. And a killer." Rodney tells him he's just being weird, and Jeffrey replies "what's weird is when you go to church and eat the body and blood of Christ."
The earlier timeline has more to do with the adolescent homosexual's shame, and the social awkwardness and isolation that accompanies it. Dahmer's undeniable yet unacceptable sexual identity teaches him how to hide his true self from authority figures, be they his parents, his grandparents, or the local traffic cop. He later finds that the Closet is a good place to hide all of his unacceptable urges.
Big Roles
The key to this movie is the portrayal of Jeffrey Dahmer, which is outstanding. Up-and-comer Jeremy Renner looks a little like Tobey Maguire. He has that same shy, everyday, boy-next-door quality that Maguire showcased in Pleasantville and charmed America with in Spider-Man. He adds some of the repressed energy Malcolm McDowall occasionally held in check in A Clockwork Orange. Renner brings to life both the older, more self-assured Dahmer who has refined his torture and killing to ritual; and the younger, terrified, self-loathing teenager who can't make sense of his hormones and emotions.
Elsewhere, the acting is not quite up to snuff. Jeffrey's father Lionel (Bruce Davison) falls short of believability. Davison feels like he's playing an archetypal Father, rather than someone specific. Much has been made of the relationship between the real Jeffrey Dahmer and his father, and I confess I am unfamiliar with the specifics, but Dahmer fails to enlighten me as to the heart of it.
Rodney is too big a role for Artel Kayàru. I could never quite understand his motives. The composited character is well written, but the performance fails to convince me of what is in the script. The script allows Rodney to become involved with Dahmer either because he's bored with his job or because he's attracted to Jeffrey in some way. But the performance doesn't convince me of either, nor did it offer an alternative. It's as though Kayàru held back just a little.
One last character does manage to connect. Lance (Matt Newton) is a classmate of Dahmer's, a wrestler whom Jeffrey picks up while his parents are out of town. Perhaps more than anyone else, Newton and is able to match wits with Renner's Dahmer.
Telling the Story
The writing and direction are both above average. Jacobson cuts between times and places, and although the jumps take some getting used to, the texture is a plus for this otherwise stagey drama. Also, the technique allows Jacobson to integrate two distinctly different approaches to Dahmer — the birth of the monster, and the M.O. of the killer.
Jacobson's insight into the criminal mind offers no easy answers. There is some speculation in the earlier timeline about the making of Jeffrey Dahmer, but no "Eureka!" moment that explains it all away. Credit Jacobson, whose script and direction delve deeply without drawing any black and white conclusions.
Perhaps that's what's spookiest about the man — that there is no obvious explanation for his sociopathy. Lots of Americans go thru the same sorts of stresses that Dahmer did, and almost none of them snap so violently. Jacobson explores the mystery but doesn't answer it, and his portrayal rings true.
There is one glaring omission. Dahmer cannibalized some of his victims, and Dahmer completely ignores this fact. The omission makes one wonder if the movie isn't maybe a little too sympathetic toward its subject. But a wonderfully understated ending that appears to just trail off, actually shows Jeffrey making an important choice. On reflection, it's a symbolic act that, to most ethicists, invites righteous condemnation.
Is Dahmer scary? Not really, not like a horror movie, even though the music often overplays the tension. Is it creepy? Yes, if you don't know who Jeffrey Dahmer is, although foreknowledge "spoils" much of the creepiness in the subject matter. So what adjectives fit Jacobson's Dahmer? Sad. Disturbing. Awful. Tragic. One horrible scene made me wince, but Renner's emotion was so pained that it was hard not to feel more pity than squeamishness.
Many people, myself included, don't necessarily want to know about Jeffrey Dahmer. We don't want to sympathize with him or understand him. It's easier if we can believe him to be an aberration and a monster. What Dahmer strives for, though, is not sympathy and understanding, but objectivity, in direct response to people like me who would prefer to dismiss him as a devil. I'm not sure it succeeds completely, but it doesn't fail.
Christina: wtf man? Jeffrey Dahmer is a God! I mean, what's not to love about him? He did so many orgasmic things. The way he tortured those people was so sexy, so positively delightful. It was such a turn on. Dahmer didn't deserve to die; he was a genious. And who wouldn't want to understand him? I sure do...this man is God December 27, 2005 reply
Marty Mapes: Uh... Okay. Whatever you say. Just tell me you don't live in Colorado. December 27, 2005 reply
aVariousSire: YEAH! What's not to understand about a cannibalistic, degenerate GOD like Jerrery Dahmer. I mean, how could one man make torture and murder so damn sexy? Pure genious.
Hail Hitler, Christina. Hail Hitler. December 27, 2005 reply
Prosty: Great...I guess the first poster here will be the next future serial killer. Take the prostitutes, call girls, playboy centerfolds, pinup girls, cheerleaders etc from different cultural backgrounds etc home and out do Dahmer. Now that would get media into a frenzy. Surely she must of been joking otherwise the above statement would have appealed to her or someone she knows. Ah well.. May 28, 2007 reply


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Irvine faces wrath of Rahal
JAGUAR RACING boss Bobby Rahal is concerned that Eddie Irvine's negative attitude will not help to pull the team together in its hour of need.
The new R2 has been slow in testing, and the outspoken Ulsterman openly criticized the car, and the team, after a testing session in Valencia.
There have been many behind-the-scenes changes over the pre-season, and it is a very new team that will arrive on the grid in Melbourne. Rahal believes the key to a good team is its motivation, and Irvine's comments are not the right way to go about getting it.
"I think Eddie is trying to tweak us into getting the job done, but I believe the way to motivate is to be positive," explained Rahal in British newspaper The Independent.
"I mentioned to Eddie that I thought he needed to contribute his commitment more positively."
He explained that when he arrived at the Milton Keynes base he found a team with very bad morale, and Irvine's comments did nothing to change that.
But he now feels that Jaguar is back together, and although the car is not performing as they had hoped, the team is firing towards the future.
"People now see a vision and a goal," said Rahal, "and together we are going to try to achieve that."


Magnetic Inspection Laboratory Inc. (MIL; Elk Grove Village, IL) has been around for quite a while—since 1942, to be precise. As the name suggests, the company began life as a non-destructive testing (NDT) house, providing magnetic particle, liquid penetrant, X-ray and other inspection services to customers in the aerospace and defense industries.
Since then both the company and its range of services have expanded considerably. MIL still offers NDT capabilities, and its customer list still reads like a Who's Who of aerospace and military primes including The Boeing Co., Lockheed Martin Corp., Bell Helicopter, Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. and Bombardier Inc. But over the years the company has gotten into the metal finishing business in a big way. MIL now operates multiple anodizing lines in addition to providing black oxide, chemical conversion coating for aluminum, chemical milling, electropolishing, pickling, etching, glass bead and abrasive blasting, passivation, Teflon impregnation, and zinc and manganese phosphating services in addition to liquid paint, Teflon coatings and dry film lubricants.
MIL's most recent push has been into electroplating. According to laboratory manager Corey Richardson, the company recently completed an expansion program that allowed it to add Type IC anodizing and cadmium cyanide electroplating processes to its capabilities list.
When it came time to plan a wastewater treatment system for MIL's new plating capabilities, managers had two priorities. Obviously, the system had to efficiently handle waste streams from a wide variety of processes. The second criterion involved the floor space available for the system.
MIL checked out several potential wastewater treatment vendors before selecting a design developed by J & T Technologies (Pottstown, PA). "We felt the J & T system handled high solids loadings better than other systems that were proposed, and they worked with us to fit everything into that tight space," Richardson explains.
Nominally sized to treat 120 gpm of mixed waste, the system features a duplex microfiltration system consisting of two independent subsystems, each capable of producing 120 gpm of filtrate. Each filter subsystem contains 24, 6-inch diameter • 6 ft long membrane modules, and each module has 10, 1-inch ID PVDF tubes with 15 ft2 of membrane surface.
The duplex setup enables one side of the microfilter system to be cleaned or undergo other maintenance while the other side handles all of MIL's filtration requirements. It uses membranes from Duraflow LLC (Tewksbury, MA) that are said to produce 40% more filtrate per square foot than competitive membranes, and MIL has discovered that the waster treatment system is capable of outperforming its rated capacity by a significant margin. "When the system is at its cleanest, we have hit as high as 215 gpm operating just one side," Richardson says. The system consistently handles 160–180 gpm of wastewater, he adds.
According to J & T, the microfiltration system removes precipitated metals better than, for example, a clarifier system. As with any pretreatment system prior to solids removal, chrome is reduced, cyanide is oxidized, and the pH is adjusted to the point of minimum solubility for the metal mix. Insoluble metals are then removed by the filters' 0.1-μm physical barrier without long chain polymers, eliminating concerns about particle size, density, electrostatic charge or the chance of overflowing to drain. Sludge volume is also greatly reduced, and the filtrate can in many cases be used for non-critical rinsing.
Combined with the rest of the wastewater treatment system, microfiltration provides levels of metal contaminants that are consistently well below requirements. MIL monitors metals levels in the waste stream daily using atomic absorption spectrometry. Typical results are listed in the table.
Up to microfiltration, MIL's waste treatment process is fairly conventional. Incoming flows are segregated into separate tanks that hold concentrates, rinse waters, cadmium cyanide and chrome-bearing wastewaters.
All acid and alkaline waste streams that don't contain cyanide or chrome enter a 6,500-gal equalization tank. Cyanide-bearing wastes flow into a 1,600-gal tank, and chromium-containing wastes are pumped to a 2,000-gal tank.
Concentrates are handled by batch treatment and cyanides are destroyed in a typical three-stage oxidation method. After primary precipitation, chrome-bearing waste gets pumped into a reduction tank where pH is dropped and Oxidation-Reduction Potential (ORP) adjusted.
MIL recycles some of the alkaline waste from its chemical milling operations by using it in place of a proprietary precipitant for metals. "It's highly alkaline with a high sulfide content, and we add it to the system upstream of the microfilters to aid in precipitating metals prior to filtration," Richardson explains.
Flows from the chrome and cyanide treatment systems commingle with the rest of the waste stream, which is subjected to pH neutralization, coagulation, and precipitation. The commingled flow is then pumped through the microfiltration system. From the microfilter, clear effluent is pumped to drain. Solids generated by microfiltration are allowed to settle in a thickening tank before being pumped to a filter press. Filter cake is sent to landfill as hazardous waste.
According to Richardson, the system has handled all the waste streams generated by MIL's array of processes and significantly reduced the company's output of hazardous wastes. "Previously, we operated a separate chromium treatment system, and we sent out most of our concentrated waste as hazardous," he explains.
For information from J & T Technologies, phone 610-326-4771 or go to jtequip.com. For information from Duraflow, phone 978-851-0447 or go to duraflow.biz.


Below are a list of the top 10 beaches in Lancashire as selected by the users of the Beach Guide website.
The current most popular beach in Lancashire is Blackpool. If you would like to have your say on which are the best beaches in Lancashire just follow the link to the beach and vote by clicking the star ratings at the top right of the page.


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Drum Point Light
(moved to) The Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons, MD, cir. 1883
This screwpile lighthouse was commissioned in 1883 and had been located at the Northern mouth of the Patuxent River. Not very far from shore to begin with, 80 years of silting made it an easy target to vandals once it was automated in 1962. It was moved a couple miles west to its current location at the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, MD in 1975 and restored. There is currently a lighted buoy where it once stood and you can still see the stubs of the old structure's solid iron pilings.
Location: Solomons, MD, 38.331°N 76.463°W
Access: See Calvert Marine Museum
Date Built: Commissioned 1828
Type of Structure: 1 ½ story hexagonal screw-pile cottage
Height: 46 feet above mean high water
Characteristics: Inactive
Foghorn: Yes - Bell
Appropriation: $25,000
Status: Standing, but moved to a museum setting
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In addition to the photos taken in the studio, they took another one in the recently renovated dressing room.
Yesterday, we did a pre-wedding photography of one of our client couples at LST Gallery.
A groom in Tuxedo and a bride in the dress looked wonderful.
Actually, the couple is going to give these photos to their parents on their wedding day.
I can imagine their parents' happy faces!
They are going to get married next month in civilian wedding style at Saami ryoutei restaurant.
We will prepare for the day to make it a memorable day for all of their family members.


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Martin Shaw OBE FRCM (* 9. März 1875 in London; † 24. Oktober 1958 in Southwold) war ein englischer Komponist, speziell von Kirchenmusik.

Werk

Er veröffentlichte über 300 Werke, davon mehr als 100 Lieder, manche davon für Kinder. Das Oxford Book of Carols gab er zusammen mit Percy Dearmer und Ralph Vaughan Williams heraus.

Noten (Auswahl)

Partitur: Singt dem Herrn ein neues Lied (1956), Deutsche Textfassung nach Psalm 98: Horst Brauner, Berlin: Jubal-Musikverlag, 1998
Lied der Sänftenträger, für mittlere Stimme u. Klavier, Verlag Universal-Edition

Familie

Sein Bruder war der Komponist Geoffrey Shaw, sein Neffe der Schauspieler Sebastian Shaw und seine Enkel der Schauspieler Robert Shaw und der Rock-Musiker Mont Campbell.

Weblinks
 Biografie
 National Anthems Org Martin Shaw (Komponist) bei National Anthems Org
 Brüder Shaw bei Smith Creek Music
 Werke

Komponist (Kirchenmusik)
Komponist (Vereinigtes Königreich)
Officer des Order of the British Empire
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Gestorben 1958
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Q: How to update parameters without reloading the view? I have been trying to do this.  I want to change state because my parameters have changed, but nothing else about my state has changed, so I don't want to reload the view. It is expensive, and it causes a flash.  I really just want to get an event that the $stateParams have changed, and go with that.
The only way I can figure out how to update the params goes like this:
$state.go($state.current, {param: value});

This works (codepen), except my controller/view gets reloaded.  Again, I don't want that.
I came up with a hack, but I don't like it.  First, I need to tell it to not notify:
$state.go($state.current, {param, value}, {notify: false});

I'can try to watch for changes on $stateParams, but the change never happens.  Instead, I create a global controller which attaches $stateParams to the $rootScope.  Then from my view controller, I can $watch for changes on $scope.$stateParams.
This works (codepen), but it is really messy.  It seems like there must be a better way to handle this, but I can't find a better way.
Thoughts?

A: What do you think about $watching $location.search() instead?
Codepen fork: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/mbsgr
Updated $watch function:
      $scope.$watch(function() {
        return $location.search();
      }, function(newValue, oldValue) {
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Baylor's gonna be an enticing team the next few weeks
By Tess QuinlanFeb 28, 2012, 10:30 AM EST
The last time Baylor turned in a performance like that, they were 17-0 and about to rise to No. 3 in the polls. Then this happened.
So how will the No. 9 Bears respond this time around?
A 77-48 win Monday against Texas Tech was their best offensive (1.22 PPP) and defensive (.764) outing since drilling Oklahoma State on Jan. 14. It showed everything observers love about the Bears, too. Perry Jones III posted a quiet, yet effective double-double (15 and 10), Quincy Acy ran through defenders (12 points on 7 shots) and the defense was great.
But it was against Texas Tech, a team with one conference victory, and came on Senior Night, a time when pretty much every home team is more amped to play than usual.
So. Again. What to make of Baylor?
Are the Bears (25-5, 12-5) capable of replicating the run of the 2009-10 when they were a few possessions away from beating Duke and reaching the Final Four? Or are they simple a good, not great team that'll end up in the Sweet 16?
Not that the Sweet 16 a failure. Given how far the Bears have come in the last decade, it's a feat. But this team will forever be dammed by its impressive start and its NBA talent. Until it turns in a night like Monday against an elite team, it'll remain one of those good, not great teams.
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Stakeholders encompass everybody inside or outside the project who are involved in or affected by it.
The DSDM philosophy is supported by a set of eight principles that build the mindset and behaviours necessary to bring the philosophy alive.The principles are themselves supportedby people (with defined roles and responsibilities), an Agile process (enabling an iterative and incremental lifecycle to shape development and delivery), clearly defined products andrecommended practices to help achieve the optimum results.
This is the style of thinking that underpins "the way DSDM works". It is this flexibility of thinking that enables DSDM to avoid the dogmatic thinking that is sometimes encountered inthe world of Agile. The ethos of common sense and pragmatism ensures that "individuals and interactions" continue to take precedence over "processes and tools".
Projects embracing the DSDM philosophy, adhering to the principles and following all the guidance associated with the people, process, products and practices will deliver the rightsolution at the right time for the right cost and will allow the sponsoring business to achieve the benefits that justified the project in the first instance.
It is, however, unrealistic to expect everything within the areas of the business, the solution and the management of the project, to align in such a way as to be perfect for the application of DSDM in its entirety on every project. A pragmatic phrase associated with DSDM since its inception states "While you can use all of DSDM some of the time, you can always use some of DSDM" and it is the fact that DSDM is a flexible framework that allows this to be true.
The following sections in this chapter, and the detail provided in subsequent chapters, assume circumstances which support the application of DSDM. Throughout the handbook, reference is also made to circumstances that are less than ideal.The chapter on tailoring DSDM deals explicitly with some of the most common challenges, using the experience of many DSDM practitioners over many years to show how these challenges have been addressed successfully using DSDM.
In the traditional approach to managing a project (left-hand diagram), the features content of the solution is fixed whilst time and cost are subject to variation.
If the project goes off track, more resources are often added (which varies the cost) and/or the delivery date extended (which varies the time). However, adding resources to a late project often makes it even later and a missed deadline can be disastrous from a business perspective and often damages credibility. Under such pressure, quality often becomes avariable, as a result of introducing compromises which have not been thought through, by reducing essential quality control steps or by cutting back on testing.
DSDM's approach to managing the project (right-hand diagram) fixes time, cost and quality at the end of the Foundations phase while contingency is managed by varying the features (the requirements) to be delivered. As and when contingency is required, lower priority requirements are dropped or deferred, with full agreement of the business stakeholders inaccordance with MoSCoW priorities.
A DSDM project will always deliver a viable solution, on time and on cost (on budget), as long as the practices of MoSCoW and timeboxing are followed. Delivery of a Minimum Usable SubseT of requirements is guaranteed as a worst case scenario. However, in all but the most extreme circumstances, the expectation is to deliver far more than the bare minimum.
The level of quality for each project depends on the needs of the individual project. Not every project requires "highest quality", but it does need to achieve the agreed quality level for this project. One of the ways DSDM fixes quality on a project is by agreeing acceptance criteria for individual requirements before development commences. The iterative and incremental approach to development ensures that the more important requirements are built to the agreed level of quality. Only once this has been achieved does development start on the less important requirements. Incremental delivery of the Evolving Solution ensures that, on the day that the solution is deployed into live use, quality is at the level expected and previously agreed.
DSDM ensures solutions are delivered at the right time by breaking the project down into focused, fixed duration Project Increments, and within these into one or more timeboxes also offixed duration and lasting typically, two to four weeks. In order to protect the agreed end date of an Increment or Timebox, agreement is in place from the start that, if necessary, low priority requirements will be de-scoped.
To enable the philosophy of driving out best business value through projects aligned to clear business goals, frequent delivery and collaboration of motivated and empowered people, DSDM offers eight principles, supported by definition of and guidance on people, products, process and practices. All of this guidance needs to be applied with common sense and pragmatism; adapting to the project's environment and context, while preserving the ethos of DSDM presented here.


To writing in a file in Java program we uses a class in java.io package named FileWriter. The main object of the FileWriter class can be created using the following of its constructor i.e. FileWriter(File file), FileWriter(File file, boolean append), FileWriter(FileDescriptor fd), FileWriter(String fileName) and FileWriter(String fileName, boolean append) etc.
How to write a file in Java? To write a file in Java use the class FileWriter... a FileWriter object with a given file object. Using this constructor data is written... and strings. Example of how to write text to a file in java: import java.io.


The Dao Hotel , with its restaurant and swimming pool, located in a quiet area of Pattaya, about 10-15 minutes from downtown and the beaches of Pattaya and Jomtien (moped or taxi). You'll find 4 bedrooms poolside and 7 rooms around a patio at reasonable prices.
The restaurant Dao Hotel , beside the swimming pool is open daily from 07.30 hours and offers a selection of European and Thai dishes.
Internet is available throughout the hotel (Wi Fi), swimming pool, restaurant and rooms. All rooms with a "king" bed is equipped with a bathroom with hot and cold shower, air conditioning and a fan, cable TV, fridge with mini bar , a safe. Dao Hotel can take care of the maintenance of your machine.
For your travels, you will find motorcycles and motorbikes for rent taxis in front of the hotel.
Bangkok airport is 1.30 hours of Dao Hotel . We can provide a taxi to welcome you and take you there.


#59 Magazine and Suite 59 celebrate their 10th anniversary with a group exhibition in Amsterdam which is shortly on view from October 7th until 14th and features works by Donata Wenders, Wim Wenders, André Villers, Mart Engelen and Edward Quinn amongst others.
Wim Wenders is showing a selection of early works from the 1970's that demonstrate a profound captivation towards the places that Wenders dedicated himself to and the sense of place, that went on to characterize his ouevre. Alongside classic motives, Donata Wenders is exhibiting new photographic studies that search to visualize the transcendent movement of the individual in space.


Ooh – a review of one of my short stories!
Found this little piece. It's only short (as is the story), but it's nice to read some positive feedback in any case!
For anyone interested the relevant work can be found here.
Everything within this story needed to be there: Every thought, every action, every word. The writing was exceptional. There was no flowery language, no extra narration. The writing was strong.
Even the dedication at the end fit well. It hit me like a truck, which could only happen with a powerful story.
If you read none of the others on this list, read this one.
This entry was posted in Works and tagged review, The Mirror Man on July 20, 2015 by Mike.


Did you know that there is approximately 120 km of abandoned rail line in the Municipality of the District of Lunenburg?
These groups help the Recreation Department of the Municipality to create more opportunities for recreation and leisure as well as more benefits to our local communities.
Each volunteer trail board has representation from a variety of trail enthusiasts – OHV users, equestrians, bicyclists, walkers, etc. All groups have spent a significant amount of time working together to ensure that these proposed trail developments will provide accessible outdoor recreation opportunities to all community members in an area where none currently exist. These community based efforts have acted as a catalyst for community involvement, fostering community pride and a lively community atmosphere that encourages responsible trail use. Community trail development helps ensure stewardship and community buy-in. This means that the trail will be well-maintained and cared for over a longer period of time. Issues and concerns can be addressed on a community level, and each community is unique, so solutions to trail issues may be different for each community trail.
Trails allow for improved physical and mental health as well as the social well-being of a community. Overall, trails enhance the quality of life for local residents in our communities.
There are also several trails in the Municipality of the District of Lunenburg that exist outside of the "rails-to-trails" program. See the side menu for more information on these trails.
Please leash your pet. Hunting, trapping and overnight camping are prohibited on all Municipal parks and green spaces.
Lastest update: We have a new trail map brochure, created in the spring of 2015. Click below for both sides of the digital copy. You can also pick up a hard copy of the brochure at our Municipal Office at 210 Aberdeen Road.


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I heard the worst presentation last week – a 40-minute rave from a really boring speaker. What do you see as the key elements of positive presentations?
The only thing worse than watching a boring presentation is giving a boring presentation.
Speaking in public is something that can cause professionals great anxiety. In a world where information is everything, the ability to present your ideas and concepts in an engaging way can set you apart from your peers and help your career success.
The average attention span was 12 seconds in the year 2000. Today, it's eight seconds – so it's crucial that you learn how to get and keep your audience's attention.


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Demigod (PC)
Developer: Gas Powered Games
Publisher: Stardock Entertainment
Genre: Strategy RPG
Release Date: April 14, 2009 (US)
Release Date: February 1, 2009 (UK)
Release Date: May 14, 2009 (AU)
T for Teen: Alcohol Reference, Blood, Fantasy Violence, Partial Nudity, Suggestive Themes
Launching the game reveals a beautifully abstract battlefield of walkways and pits built atop enormous physics-defying towers that bring to mind the work of M.C. Escher. Each side comes complete with mirror-image prebuilt bases consisting of static defenses (Towers of Light and Archer's Towers), gold mines that slowly drip money into the demigod's coffers, shops that the demigod can use to buy upgraded equipment and portals through which lesser soldiers are disgorged at various intervals. When these NPC soldiers emerge from the base they will automatically move toward the enemy base, trying to kill any enemy soldier or structure they encounter until they themselves die.
The portals on both sides release the same amount of soldiers at the same time; the game's strategy comes from the fact that the war between grunts will always be a stalemate without the intervention of a demigod. Players need to able to read the battlefield situation and understand where a breakthrough is about to happen, where their soldiers are holding their own and where their own defenses are about be breached and apply their demigod's considerable powers to the place where they'll do the most good. Unlike in most RTS games, Demigod players have no shortage of money or resources, the strategic shortfall that drives the action is the simple fact that their demigod can't be everywhere at once. The few seconds an Assassin takes to upgrade back at base may be all an opponent needs to bring down a key Tower of Light.
As a demigod fights and kills enemy soldiers (or other demigods) they'll accumulate experience points. Leveling up allows the demigod to purchase new powers or upgrade existing abilities from a skill tree. In the case of our Torch Bearer, that meant that we chose "Permafrost" and "Fire Aura" as our first two powers every time. These are "flip side" auras that either increase our own units' attack speed or decreased the attack speed of the enemy by 5% depending on whether we were in fire or ice form. The down side was that it left us with only a basic attack for the first few minutes of the game. The reason to do it was to give us an initial burst of attack strength that allowed our grunt units to begin pushing forward immediately at wherever we decided our breakthrough point was going to be, and keep it no matter which form we adopted.
The gold that accumulates from gold mines is spent in the shops that litter the player's base. Each of these shops sells a variety of items that offer a variety of bonuses. The Armor Shop, for example, has gear ranging from the 450 gold Armor of Rokkur (+300 health, +0.8 health regeneration per second) to the 4,000 gold Forged Armor (+1,200 Armor) to the 5,800 gold Datura's Armor of Vengeance (+100% Thorns, +450 health, +0.9 health regeneration per second). Other shops include rings, boots, helmets, powerful artifacts and consumables such as health potions and spell scrolls. Each demigod has spaces for five pieces of gear, three consumables and one artifact.
What we found interesting as we played is that while a game like World in Conflict packs a ton of strategic decision-making into controlling a half-dozen or so units, Demigod manages with just one. While items from shops cost different amounts of money, more expensive doesn't necessarily mean better. There were more than a few occasions where we would sell our current armor back to a shop (at a loss) to grab a less-expensive piece with a different bonus as the strategic picture morphed. The current talent tree (which will reportedly get much more complicated) offers plenty of deliciously agonizing decisions. Should one go broad with a wide range of skills or go deep into enhancing one particular power set? There are flags all over the battlefield for players to capture for strategic advantages such as extra gold mines, extra portals or other bonuses.
The result is a game that, on the surface at least, looks and feels like an incredibly fast-paced action game but has the heart of a true strategy title. Even in its current very unfinished state (few maps, flags that do nothing, badly unbalanced heroes) Demigod manages to feel like it's on the right track to be an exceptional title for strategy gamers looking for something a little bit different. We'll see how Demigod shakes out between now and its release in spring of 2009. Based on what we've seen so far, it could be a godly experience.
Preview: Demigod (Feb 21, 2008)
Interview: Brad Wardell on Demigod and Impulse (Apr 07, 2008)
News: Chris Taylor to Present the 'Making of Demigod' at GCDC (Jul 31, 2008)
Preview: Demigod (Nov 04, 2008)
Preview: Europa Universalis IV's Million Tiny Steps Forward (Feb 7, 2013)
The Showdown Effect Q&A with Director Johan Pilestedt (Feb 7, 2013)
At The Gates: Turn-Based Strategy From Civ V's Designer (Feb 6, 2013)
Preview: Hands On With SimCity (Jan 25, 2013)
Chris Taylor Gets The Kickstarter Bug, Announces Wildman (Jan 14, 2013)
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Demigod at IGN
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Positioned at the end of the street, and backing onto public reserve, the elevated pair of townhouses feels as though it's surrounded by parkland enjoying commanding views across its leafy surrounds. With a prime position, and public interface to 3 sides, the design for Renwick St sets out to balance the identity of two unique townhouses, with a cohesively designed development that contributes the existing grain of the public realm.
Working with consistent, unbroken forms, clean material transitions are used to convey the separation of dwellings without breaking the rhythm of the development. Townhouse 1 can be identified with its own unique timber cladding, and townhouse 2 with its black metal cladding. These two unique materials, are then blended with a simple light coloured render used throughout. The design is finally complimented with restrained details of curved walls to mimic the irregular site boundary and extruded window shading to frame the views.
With each view of Renwick St offering its own unique story of space and detail, the project sits confidently in its position, offering a considered approach to a two lot subdivision.
Cera Stribley team on project: Domenic Cerantonio, Chris Stribley, Sarah Wardlaw, Jessica Coulter and Daphne Spanos.
Aerial photography of construction process.


It's been three years since Sandra was arrested during a routine traffic stop and was found dead in her jail cell.
The documentary, set to premiere on December 3 at 10 p.m. on HBO will explore the life of the 28-year-old activist as well as her unexplainable and unacceptable death.
Sandra Bland's sisters, Shante Needham and Sharon Cooper, stopped by "The View" on Tuesday to talk about the HBO documentary and how they are still seeking the truth about her death.
I pray that the truth is revealed no matter how long it takes. Sandra Bland deserves justice.
CONGRATS: Miguel & Nazanin Mandi Are Married – See The Gorgeous Pics!


If you never got any of Art Asylum's C3 Minimate sets, then their new DC Minimates are great - you can get whatever you like without a second thought. Those of us who bought the C3 sets, however, have to weigh the options carefully. Obviously wanting to hit the big characters right away, AA gave us plenty of C3 Batmen, and he's appeared in Series 1 and Series 3 of the new two-packs, as well. Before you buy, you have to ask yourself whether you need another blocky Batman.
The Series 1 Batman (paired with a block-figure version of OMAC) is a plain version in blue and gray, so at least that color scheme is new for the Minimates. However, the Series 3 version is worth getting even without costume semantics.
Since he's just a normal human, Batman gets kicked around a lot. This Minimate duplicates that really well, giving us a Battle Damaged Batman. He's still wearing the blue and gray costume, but it's also been painted with various tears, smudges and scrapes. The damage is all over, too - not like Mattel's exclusive version. Arms, legs, chest... even his cowl and the back of his cape show evidence of battle. That's a really good attention to detail!
One new feature for Batman is the cowl. On the previous Minimates, the mask was a separate piece with a cutout for the mouth to show through. It's still a separate piece that fits over the head, but the exposed face is now painted on. This is really a good change - it used to be that even a slight mis-application on the actual head would keep things from lining up properly. By putting the face on the mask, they avoid that problem altogether.
Batman has two accessories. One is a piece to serve as his hair when the mask is off, and the other is a pair of batcuffs that will fit around the other Minimates' wrists. The holes are a little too close together for the cuffs to fit on easily - the figures' arms only move so far inward, so you'll have to stress things a little to make everything fit.
The guy who's given Batman all that battle damage is one that really shows why Minimates are far superior to Lego minifigs - Killer Croc. This scaly former wrestler looks completely brutal as a Minimate, with really detailed paint apps to convey the texture of his skin. He has four yellow toenails on each foot, and his hands are actually molded with little claws. His eyes are solid red, and his rough lips are pulled back to reveal jagged white teeth.
Now, obviously the articulation on this Croc is better than the Lego version. Minimates have twice as much movement as a Lego figure, so that's not even a contest. The paint is nicer, from the shade of green they chose to the way his scales are painted on. His hands are the right color, and his feet are showing out the bottom of his torn blue pants. He even has a belt piece between his hips and chest.
The biggest surprise is Croc's size. He's always been a large character, and Art Asylum recognized that. Rather than the standard 2" body, Killer Croc is one of the 2½" Minimates. It doesn't seem like a big difference, but at that size it's a lot. It's nice that the DCD license does't have the same height restrictions that the Marvel license does, but it does underscore a problem.
As fans, we're going to integrate our collections. We're going to mix Marvel and DC. We're going to have the Daredevil/Batman crossover that will never happen in the comics. But size is going to be an issue, since the Marvel Minimates are held to a hard 2" limit. Killer Croc is bigger than the Hulk? He is if you go by the Minimates. It's cool that DC is willing to make bigger characters bigger, but why not save it for the truly gargantuan guys? Heck, even Minimate Darkseid is 2" tall - don't go crazy with the bigger figures, guys. If Wolverine and Colossus can be the same size, so can Batman and Killer Croc.


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Leah Niederstadt
Associate Professor of Museum Studies, History of Art; Curator of the Permanent Collection; Chair, Department of Anthropology
Anthropology, Visual Art and History of Art
African, African American, Diaspora Studies, History of Art, Film and New Media Studies, Digital Humanities, Anthropology
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niederstadt_leah@wheatoncollege.edu
An anthropologist by training, I teach courses in museum studies and visual culture at Wheaton, where I also serve as Curator of the Permanent Collection. My research focuses on contemporary expressive culture and cultural heritage in Africa, particularly in Ethiopia, where I have conducted fieldwork since 2000, and on the management and use of academic collections.
D.Phil., University of Oxford
Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies, University of Michigan
M.Phil., University of Oxford
B.A., University of Michigan
As an anthropologist and Ethiopianist, I strive to make undervalued traditions meaningfully accessible to both academic and general audiences. In 2009, I co-edited the first issue of African Arts dedicated to Ethiopian art and performance. That issue epitomized my philosophy and approach to research. It was the product of collaborative work, involving a team of scholars and graduate students from multiple disciplines and countries; and it analyzed both canonical and non-canonical forms of artistic production as worthy of serious study. In addition to organizing and editing the issue with Dr. Peri Klemm, with whom I co-authored its introduction, my contribution, "Fighting HIV with Juggling Clubs: An Introduction to Ethiopia's Circuses," was the first comprehensive scholarly article published on this topic.
My most recent article for African Arts, "Visualizing Marriage in Northern Ethiopia: The Production and Consumption of Gama," examines Ethiopian wedding paintings, an indigenous tradition little known outside the major tourist destination of Aksum. I argue that gama remain of critical importance to the identities of the city's Christians, even as commercial photography has become a less expensive form of commemorating weddings. One of my current research projects also focuses on Aksum, specifically on how the repatriation and erection of a 4th-century CE monumental stele, looted by Mussolini in 1937, sparked debates about identity and cultural heritage. This project considers how the stele's 2008 re-erection transformed visual representations of the city and its stelae field, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A second ongoing project is my multi-year study of Ethiopian social education billboards. In 2000, I began an archive of images documenting these billboards, captivated by the imagery used to convey didactic messages. I am interested in the ways in which the mass culture of billboards is used to promote the agendas of Ethiopia's regional state and federal governments, as well as international NGOs. I explore the history of these billboards to consider how the social issues they address have evolved to resonate with the country's multi-ethnic, multi-faith, and multilingual population. Due to my commitment to the digital humanities, I am creating an online map to track the location of extant and destroyed billboards.
Closer to home in Norton, I devote much of my time to intense collaboration with students, through hands-on course-based projects and sustained collections-based research. In 2009, Kayla Malouin-Fletcher, Class of 2010, and I co-authored a conference paper entitled, "Collecting Art, Creating A Legacy: A History of the Wheaton College Permanent Collection." This project made clear to me the global scope of our collection's history and the opportunities for further research, both of which continue to be a source of intellectual stimulation.
My desire to learn more about Wheaton's collection and to engage students directly in object-based research prompted several curatorial projects, including five student-curated exhibitions for Wheaton's Beard & Weil Galleries. What is now known as The Provenance Project was originally featured in a co-authored article "Digital Projects and the First Year Seminar: Making Blended Learning Work at a Small Liberal Arts College" (2014) and led to a 2018 exhibition at the Attleboro Arts Museum. I am co-authoring a study exploring the provenance of the college's William Merritt Chase portrait of Lilian Westcott Hale (c. 1907). A second, in-process article analyzes 61 unattributed satirical cartoons depicting Scottish and English subjects. Through archival and genealogical research, as well as iconographic analysis of their depictions of British material culture, I identified the artist and her biography, traced the collection's provenance, and securely dated it to the 1930s.
Teaching Interests
Experiential, project-based learning is at the core of my teaching. Students enrolled in my museum studies courses and in my last three First-Year Seminars (FYS) have developed projects ranging from student-curated exhibitions to repatriation timelines to digital maps tracing the provenance of objects. To do so, they have collaborated with each other, with other faculty and staff at Wheaton, and with experts both on- and off-campus; and they have engaged with the college's Permanent Collection and with collections held in the Gebbie Archives & Special Collections at the Madeleine Clark Wallace Library
Since arriving at Wheaton, I have developed four museum studies courses that contribute to the History of Art major and minor: Introduction to Museum Studies; Museum Controversies; Exhibition Design; and Exhibiting Africa: Past & Present. Several of these courses also support majors in African, African American, Diaspora Studies, Business & Management, Film & New Media Studies, and Visual Art. In addition to teaching the occasional independent study course, I also regularly offer a course on the visual culture of the circus and FYS courses on a variety of topics.
2018. "Building A Legacy for the Liberal Arts: Deaccessioning the Newell Bequest at Wheaton College." In Is It Okay to Sell the Monet: The Age of Deaccessioning in Museums, edited by Julia Courtney. Roman & Littlefield: Lanham, MD.
2018. "Visualizing Marriage in Northern Ethiopia: The Production and Consumption of Gama." African Arts. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
2014. "Digital Projects and the First Year Seminar: Making Blended Learning Work at a Small Liberal Arts College." Transformations. National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education: Georgetown, TX. With Pete Coco
2011. "'I'm a rich man, how can I die?': Circus Performance as a Means of HIV/AIDS Education in Ethiopia." In The Culture of AIDS in Africa: Hope and Healing in Music and the Arts. Oxford University Press: Oxford, England
2011. "Ethiopia's Vibrant Sacred Art." One, Vol. 37 (2). Catholic Near East Welfare Association: New York, NY.
2009. "Beyond Wide-Eyed Angels: Contemporary Expressive Culture in Ethiopia."African Arts. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. With Peri M. Klemm.
2009. "Fighting HIV with Juggling Clubs: An Introduction to Ethiopia's Circuses." African Arts. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
2002. "Of Kings and Cohorts: Representations of Genna in Ethiopian Popular Painting." The International Journal of the History of Sports, Vol. 19, No. 1. Routledge: London, England.
2009. "Collecting Art, Creating A Legacy: A History of the Wheaton College Permanent Collection." The Problem of Sources in Women's Memory. Women's Library and Information Centre: Istanbul, Turkey. With Kayla Malouin.
2003. "Framing Images: The Evolution of a Narrative Format in Ethiopian Popular Painting." Proceedings. 6th International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art. IES, AAU: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
2002. "The Lion, the Letter and the Umbrella: Iconic Images of Ethiopia in Painted Representations of the Sheba-Solomon Story." Proceedings. 14th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies. IES, AAU: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Audio Guides/Encyclopedia Entries/Exhibition Catalogues
2014. "Introduction" and "Modern and Contemporary Art." Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Volume 5. Harrassowitz Verlag: Wiesbaden, Germany.
2008. "Audio Guide for Lucy's Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia." Pacific Science Center, Seattle, WA.
2007. "Menor kebad new: Life and Work as a Young Ethiopian Artist." Continuity and Change: Three Generations of Ethiopian Artists. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida: Gainesville, FL
2005. "Exhibition Catalogue." Painting Ethiopia: The Life and Work of Qes Adamu Tesfaw. Fowler Museum, UCLA: Los Angeles, CA. With Raymond A. Silverman and Neal Sobania.
2002. "An Ethiopian Painting of the Sheba-Solomon Narrative." Queen of Sheba: Treasures from Ancient Yemen. The British Museum: London, England.
2010. "The Art of Small Things." Journal of Museum Ethnography. Museum Ethnographers Group: Oxford, England.
2010. "A Kingly Craft." African Arts. The James S. Coleman African Studies Center, University of California: Los Angeles, CA.
2007. "Art of Ethiopia." Museum Anthropology. Folklore and Ethnomusicology Department, Indiana University: Bloomington, IN.
The cover of a volume on deaccessioning and museums, edited by Julia Courtney. My contribution explores the history of the Newell Bequest, the largest gift of artwork ever donated to Wheaton.
An image I took for my recent article on gama, wedding paintings from northeastern Ethiopia. It shows the artist Selam Berhane Gebre Iyasus and her father hold the painting she created for her wedding (Aksum, Ethiopia, 2016).


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Q: Java reduce number of constructors Suppose I have some class that has constructors, each of which has 2 params
for example I have 5 types, two of them can be passed as first param and three as second
Suppose the types are A,B,C,D,E. Basically I have something like this:
public SomeClass(A,C) {}
public SomeClass(A,D) {}
public SomeClass(A,E) {}

public SomeClass(B,C) {}
public SomeClass(B,D) {}
public SomeClass(B,E) {}

So as you can see there are all possible combinations of these types
and there aren't optional params, like in standard builder pattern.
What can I do to reduce number of constructors? Is there some pattern to help me?
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I can't use standard builder because if I supplied A then I can't supply B
and if I supplied C then I can't supply D or E

A: You can create a restricted builder pattern:
class MyBuilder {

    public MyBuilder(A) { ... }
    public MyBuilder(B) { ... }

    public SomeClass build(C) { ... }
    public SomeClass build(D) { ... }
    public SomeClass build(E) { ... }

}

Example usage:
new MyBuilder(A).build(C)

If you have only 6 possible combinations, I would probably tolerate the complexity and duplication in the existing code. But if there are more possibilities and/or the code will be extended in the future, then I would recommend this pattern here.

You can extend this pattern to more arguments, but it gets uglier because you need more intermediate classes. For 3 arguments, you might implement something like:
class MyBuilder1 {
    public MyBuilder1(A) { ... }
    public MyBuilder1(B) { ... }

    public MyBuilder2 build(C) { ... }
    public MyBuilder2 build(D) { ... }
    public MyBuilder2 build(E) { ... }

    class MyBuilder2 {
        public MyBuilder2(C) { ... }
        public MyBuilder2(D) { ... }
        public MyBuilder2(E) { ... }

        public SomeClass build(F) { ... }
        public SomeClass build(G) { ... }
    }
}

SomeClass x = new MyBuilder1(B).build(D).build(F);

Unfortunately the intermediate stage needs duplication of methods and constructors for types C, D, E.

A: Create 2 interfaces, one for your first parameter, one for your second parameter. A and B implement the first one, C,D and E the second one.

A: A suggestion.  Put the logic into your builder equivalent class.  Add a method to check that the parameter combination is valid.
class MyBuilder {

  int paramA;
  bool paramAset = false;

  long paramB
  bool paramBset = false;

  // etc for all parameters.

  void setParamA(int newAval) {
    if (checkParamA(newAval)) {
      paramA = newVal;
      paramAset = true;
    }
  }

  void setParamB(long newBval) {
    if (checkParamB(newBval)) {
      paramB = newBval;
      paramBset = true;
    }
  }

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        paramAset && !paramBset && /* other params */ ||
        !paramAset && paramBset && /* other params */ ||
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       ) {
      return true;
    } else {
      return false;
    }
  }

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Jonah Davids Tech
In recent years, the darker side of social media has reared its ugly head. Twitter, who once branded themselves the free speech wing of the free speech party, has become censorious after hateful content spread across the platform. Instagram, a seemingly benign app, has been detrimental to the body image and confidence of young women worldwide. And Facebook, undoubtedly the worst of them all, remembered your birthday last year.
To be very clear, Facebook should not be seen in a positive light. Facebook has been complicit in the dissemination of fake news and has increased the political divide between friends, family, and coworkers. All of who, unlike Facebook, forgot your birthday last year.
This critique only scratches the surface of Facebook's atrocities. Take for instance the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Millions of Facebook users had their data stolen and were subsequently targeted with political advertisements meant to boost the popularity of candidates such as Ted Cruz and Trump. Of course, Cambridge Analytica deserves much of the blame. Like Facebook, they have all of your data. But unlike Facebook, they did not wish you a happy birthday last year. If they are going to use and abuse the data of millions, the least they could do is remember your birthday.
Finally, psychologists have demonstrated a relationship between Facebook usage and mental health issues. The platform brings misery to millions, negatively impacting mood, sleep, and self-image. However, psychologists have also shown that these and other unpleasant symptoms increase when one's birthday is forgotten, and Facebook did remember your birthday last year.
Thus, if Facebook is to be regulated, regulators must be cautious about curbing Facebook's ability to send birthday messages to users. After all, who else is going to remember?
NOTES: The consequences of Facebook are still being explored by researchers, but there is largely a consensus that it is having a negative impact on our politics and mental health (though some researchers have argued the mental health aspect has been overblown).
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Michael J. Harney, est un acteur américain, né le  à New York.

Il a joué dans de nombreuses séries télévisées telles que New York Police Blues, Deadwood, Weeds ou Orange Is the New Black.

Biographie

Vie privée
Harney a un fils.

Filmographie

Cinéma
 1993 : Italian Movie : Mike
 1997 : Turbulences à 30 000 pieds : Marshall Marty Douglas
 1999 :  : Capitaine Mark Travis
 2000 : Erin Brockovich, seule contre tous de Steven Soderbergh : Pete Jensen
 2003 : Les Maîtres du jeu : Micky Swift
 2007 : Captivity de Roland Joffé : Det. Bettiger
 2007 : Ocean's Thirteen de Steven Soderbergh : Blackjack Pit Boss
 2008 : The Onion Movie : Line-Up Detective (en tant que Michael J. Harney)
 2015 :  : Ed Kendall
 2016 : Soy Nero de Rafi Pitts : Seymour
 2018 : A Star Is Born
 2018 : Les Veuves (Widows) de Steve McQueen : sergent Fuller
 2019 : The Banker de George Nolfi

Courts-métrages
 2010 : Salvation Road

Télévision

Séries télévisées

Téléfilms
 1996 :  : Richard Daley Jr.
 1997 : NightMan : Mr. Krueger
 1999 : Millennium Man : Lt. Col. Brody
 1999 : The '60s : Tom Gryzbowski
 2001 : Warden of Red Rock : Henry Masters
 2013 : hIMPERFECT : Pop

Voix françaises

Références

Liens externes

Acteur américain
Naissance en mars 1956
Naissance à New York


Retail isn't dead but like everything else, it's just shifting.
There are a variety of factors influencing a general decline in foot traffic in retail space, not the least of which is the state of the economy and an ongoing increase in online shopping.
That being said, have you been to a Starbucks lately that didn't have a line for their $5 frappaccinos? Probably not. They work hard to get your feet in their doors. Their latest iteration is the mobile ordering system, where you can order from your phone before you get there and presto: your order is waiting for you at the counter when you arrive, all paid for and ready to go. Even before mobile ordering, Starbucks' loyalty system had been running for years and it works. Even I, who is relatively immune to this kind of thing, was just a 'tiny bit' excited when my Starbucks Gold Card arrived in the mail, printed with my name and giving me access to special deals and promotions. I fell for it hook, line and latte.
Do you know someone who no matter what they wear looks just so put together? She could be in just jeans and a t-shirt and somehow looks on point? Winnipeg has many stylish people – men and women. Do you wondering how you can always be stylish too? When it comes to always looking at your best, method dressing is what you need.
WHY SHOULD I CARE ABOUT ETHICAL FASHION?
Ethical fashion is the term that you have probably heard a lot of times these days. It is very important to understand how unethical the industry of fashion can be. If you need more information about unethical practices of the fashion industry watch The True Cost, a documentary by Andrew Morgan on Netflix, takes a look at fast fashion's unadvertised sins, from pollution, poor employees' exploitation, to the unregulated production that caused a factory collapse killing more than 1,000 people in Bangledesh in 2013, to the toxic waste caused by factories producing disposable garments, to the attempts at unionization and increased pay that are prevented by horrible acts of violence. Oh ya, it's a disturbing eye opener.
Ethical fashion is the form of fashion which tries to circumvent some and even all of those problems. It is something that covers eco-friendly fashion, fair trade fashion, sustainable fashion and vegan fashion. It can include brands that donate or an environmental gesture every time that some purchases any of their products.
A wrap dress is one of the most iconic fashion styles of all time. Although well-embedded into the American designer sportswear tradition, the design has become synonymous with Diane Von Furstenburg. Her choice in elastic, synthetic fabrics distinguished her clothing line from other wrap dresses from previous decades.
The first iteration of the wrap dress was the "taxi dress" by Charles James in the 1930s. However, it was Furstenburg's design that dominated the fashion scene in the 1970s and continues to be a staple in women's wardrobes today. Her wrap dress traditionally consists of long sleeves, a V neckline, and a knee-length skirt. It's a classic piece that has crossed over from being a trend to becoming a necessity. Click to continue reading the 10 reasons why you need to have a wrap dress in your closet!


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The Road Runners Club is an association of road runners formed in 1952 to encourage the athletic discipline of road running in the United Kingdom. Since then it has developed into a club that embraces the concept of assisting in the promotion of and training for road races and long distance track races. The most popular distances amongst current members are the half marathon and marathon for which much training advice is available to members. The club operates a unique club championship whereby members send in the verifiable results from any sanctioned race in the world and the results are entered throughout a calendar year. This has proved popular amongst all levels of ability and resulted in 280 championship entries for 2019. The club now embraces all runners from the park run to the marathon and ultra marathon competitors with comprehensive advice on its website.
 Members are spread around the world with even some in Australia and many find the website a valuable source of information on the practical issues of training.

History
The RRC was founded under the leadership of Ernest Neville (1883–1972) as a result of the success of the London to Brighton road running race he had organised, and which took place on August 11, 1951 as part of the Festival of Britain celebrations. Ernest had a lot of previous experience of organising Road 'Walking' races from London to Brighton and was just as passionate about 'Road Running'.

The second London to Brighton Race was staged in 1952 and became an annual event until 2005 when organisational difficulties prevented its continuation on public roads. The exact distance varied over the years from 52 miles 694 yards to 55 miles due to road and course changes. Its "sister" race, the Comrades of South Africa, held over a similar distance, pre-dates RRC London to Brighton race (first race 1921), and continues to this day.

The main trophies at the London to Brighton race were the Arthur Newton trophy (named after another RRC founding member) for the winner and, for the first winning team, the "Len Hurst" belt (which had previously been won by the well-known pedestrian runner of the late 19th and early 20th Century), donated by his wife to the RRC.

In addition to the London to Brighton race the RRC has organised and sponsored various long distance track races when numerous records were set. These included 24-hour and 50-mile track races. Amongst the 100-mile track races were the following:
100-mile track World Best (11:38:54) - Cavin Woodward, October 1975, Tipton near Birmingham
100-mile track World Best (11:30:51) - Don Ritchie, October 1977, Crystal Palace, London
100-mile track World Best (11:28:03) - Oleg Kharitanov, October 2002, Crystal Palace, London

The club's success resulted in similar organisations being established elsewhere in the world, in particular the Road Runners Club of America, and RRCs in India, Korea, New Zealand and South Africa.

The club's badge was designed by a Harold Murrells and is based on the symbol for the Greek element air.

The RRC was important in developing accurate course measurement and procedures for the correct organisation of long distance Road and Track races. Both were pioneered by the late John Jewell.  He is still acknowledged as a leading pioneer in this field by certified course measurers around the world.   The race procedures he formulated are still also the basics with which races are organised worldwide.

John Jewell also initiated a "Standards Scheme" whereby members are awarded certificates for achieving set times over a range of distances. Over the years the scheme has been extended to include times for women and for Masters.
John Trory, the general secretary since 2014, has introduced a unique form of championship where members compete in any officially measured and timed race in the world and enter their times in the annual competition which runs for a calendar year. Custom designed medals are awarded for first 3 places in each age and distance category and a large cup is awarded to the club's overall champion, being the member who acquired during the year the highest age graded percentage.

Structure
The club's constitution states that the management of the club be vested in a council whose members are:
President
Past Presidents
Up to 30 Vice-Presidents
Honorary General Secretary
Honorary Treasurer
and up to 30 other members

Past Presidents

Membership
Originally, only those (men) who were already members of running clubs affiliated to the National Governing Body of their own country were eligible to join the RRC (overseas members being allowed). Since the 1980s membership has been open to all men and women. There are currently (2019) around 675 members. The annual membership fee of only £12.50 has been held for more than 10 years and there are no reported plans for increasing this.

Publications
Roadrunner magazine. Published three times per year, each issue being A4 full colour and approx. 40 pages.
Training For Ultras (1987, Revised edition published 2013. Various international level contributors, Edited by Andy Milroy) Available from Road Runners Club £10 plus postage

References

External links
  Facebook page accessed via website

Running clubs in the United Kingdom
1952 establishments in the United Kingdom


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Coronavirus: Ohio tops 2,500 new cases, breaks record for third straight day
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Local News | Updated Oct 23, 2020
By Kristen Spicker
Ohio broke its record for new coronavirus cases for the third straight day with 2,518 cases reported Friday.
The previous two records were 2,425 reported Thursday and 2,366 reported Wednesday. In the last two weeks, Ohio broke the state record for daily cases six times.
Explore'It's now serious' DeWine says as Ohio breaks another COVID-19 record
There have been 192,948 total cases in Ohio throughout the pandemic, according to the state health department.
Ohio reported 184 additional hospitalizations Friday, bringing the total to 17,866 during the pandemic.
Hospitalization rates have continued to climb the last two weeks in southwest Ohio, with nearly 200 more COVID-19 patients in hospitals.
On Oct. 10, there were 255 coronavirus patients in southwest Ohio hospitals, according to the Ohio Department of Health. On Friday, that number is 424.
Dr. Andy Thomas, chief clinical officer with Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, joined Gov. Mike DeWine's COVID-19 press briefings earlier this week to discuss the rising hospital rates.
ExploreSouthwest Ohio COVID-19 hospitalizations on the rise
"We are certainly at the highest point we've seen across the state at any time during the pandemic in terms of total hospitalizations," he said.
While the state's hospital beds are not at capacity at this time, health officials are watching to see where hospitalizations will peak. Currently, there's no indication of when hospitalizations will level off.
Over the last 21 days, Ohio is averaging 104 new hospitalizations a day.
In the last day, 25 new ICU admissions were reported for a total of 3,682.
Deaths in Ohio increased by 23 on Friday for a total of 5,184. since the pandemic began.
ExploreCoronavirus: What would a purple Level 4 alert mean?
Ohio also is reporting the highest number of red counties since the state first announced the alert system at the end of June. As of Thursday, 74% of Ohioans are living in a level 3, or red, county. Only 1% of Ohioans live in a level 1 county. This is the lowest number of level 1 counties the state has had.
In the Miami Valley, Butler, Clark, Greene, Mercer, Montgomery and Warren counties are all at level 3. Clark County is one of three counties in the state at risk of moving up to the highest status, level 4, or purple, next week.
DeWine said that counties on the watch list currently qualify for level 4 but must meet the indicators for two straight weeks before they move up.


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Macomb Township man uses 4-wheeler to plow street, sidewalks: 'They forget about our street often'
Man says snow plows miss his residential street
We know there are a lot of plow trucks still out clearing residential streets throughout Metro Detroit. But what do you do if you're not sure when or if plow trucks may reach your neighborhood?
MACOMB TOWNSHIP, Mich. – There are a lot of plow trucks still out clearing residential streets throughout Metro Detroit. But what do you do if you're not sure when or if plow trucks may reach your neighborhood?
One neighborhood in Macomb Township received enormous snow over the past few days. A neighbor says his street does not get much attention from snowplows. So he plows the street himself and says there is an important reason why he does it.
"We have elderly residents, and some rescue units need to get in here," said the masked hero. "They forget about our street often. They do a decent job, but it could be better."
Who is that masked man on the 4-wheeler?
He's your friendly neighborhood one-man snow clearing crew.
He wants to keep a relatively low profile, but you can't miss him zipping up and down Oak Pointe Drive in Macomb Township, plowing sidewalks and streets.
"You sort of have to take things into your own hands," the man said. "You can't wait for the government to do everything for you."
On Thursday (Feb. 3), as the snow pounded down, a neighbor posted this video seen in the video player above on Facebook, writing, 'when your street never gets plowed, neighbors take it into their own hands. Thank you.'
As you can see in the video player above, the man is not just doing a part of a driveway; he's plowing the entire neighborhood, knowing ambulances and school buses may have to get through.
"Some people appreciate it, some don't," the man said.
Most people could be heard in the video player above shouting thank you to him, but a few complained.
"You know it is making it harder for me to get out of my driveway," the man said. "I push the snow off to the side anyway."
He said he is not trying to make the town look bad or anything like that, as he is just looking out for his neighbors.
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