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The Old Guard revs up the senses with great action and fascinating story
Jul 10, 2020 | 4:01 pm
It's pretty difficult to come up with an original idea in this day and age. Most movies tend to repeat the same beats of those that have preceded them, changing up the details so the copying doesn't seem too blatant. The new action movie The Old Guard has many familiar elements, but its unique story is where it stands out.
Charlize Theron stars as Andy, the leader of a group of mercenaries who have one defining quality: They are all immortal. Their immortality is unexplained, but the group — which also includes Booker (Matthias Schoenaerts), Joe (Marwen Kenzari), and Nicky (Luca Marinelli) — has used it to fight various battles over the course of many centuries.
Andy, the eldest, is starting to experience a dissatisfaction with their ability to actually solve any of the world's ills. She's both disheartened and reinvigorated when a new person, Nile (Kiki Layne) joins the group after being killed in action in Afghanistan. At the same time, they are being hunted down by Copley (Chiwetel Ejiofor), who works for Merrick (Harry Melling), the head of a secretive pharmaceutical group who wants to study and dissect them so their traits can be used to treat others.
Immortality is certainly not a new idea, nor is being an immortal mercenary, as Deadpool would gladly tell you. But there's something about this multi-ethnic, female-led group that makes it supremely fascinating and entertaining. Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and written by Greg Rucka (who also wrote the graphic novel on which it is based), the film is more progressive than your typical comic book movie, even prominently including a same-sex relationship.
It is also ruthlessly bloody, whether it's the violent ways each member of the group is either killed or maimed multiple times, or in the brutality they unleash on others. There's something balletic about the fight scenes, coordinated by Daniel Hernandez. The female fight scenes in Marvel movies have developed an expectation for such sequences, but Hernandez, the actors, and the stunt performers come up with a variety of different touches that make these impress every time.
If the story gets a bit wonky toward the end, Rucka and Prince-Bythewood can be forgiven as they've already delivered a great introduction to characters that most people don't know. It looks like they're aiming for franchise status — Rucka has written 10 issues, so there's no lack of source material – and the end of the film sets up a possible sequel extremely well.
From Mad Max: Fury Road to Atomic Blonde to The Fast & the Furious series, Theron has established herself as a legit action star, and she doesn't disappoint here. Combined with her top-notch acting skills, she is magnetic throughout. Layne, who was captivating in If Beale Street Could Talk, holds her own, carving out her own space in a film dominated by Theron. Schoenaerts, Kenzari, and Marinelli each get their own moments to shine, and Ejiofor makes the most of his limited time on screen.
The Old Guard brings something new to the table for the comic book action genre, popping off the screen despite being limited by its debut on Netflix. It's equal to or better than many recent big screen action movies, with a lot more to say than most of them as well.
The Old Guard will premiere on Netflix on July 10.
Charlize Theron in The Old Guard.
Photo by Aimee Spinks/Netflix
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Austin chefs turn out for farmer-focused food festival, returning this spring
Courtesy of Field Guide Festival
The innovative event invites Central Texans to consider their role in the future of food in the Austin community.
Sometimes reinventing the wheel is a good thing, which may explain the immediate and warm welcome Field Guide Festival received upon its launch in 2021 and return in 2022. Moving past the food festival trope of tiny bites, loud music, and general Baccanalian vibes, Field Guide Festival seeks to foster connections between farmers, chefs, consumers, and everyone in between. Returning to East Austin on Saturday, April 22, the innovative event invites Central Texans to consider their role in the future of food in the Austin community.
Founded by female powerhouses, Lindsey Sokol and Trisha Bates, the goal of the fest is to leave guests inspired to participate in their local food system, equipped with the knowledge of where to find the best, most sustainable food available in Austin and the surrounding area.
"Field Guide Festival presents an answer to the question, 'Where does your food come from?' by highlighting the local farmers and chefs of Austin," Bates shares in a release. "Our festival is the only place in the city where you will see the farmers side-by-side with the chefs who transform their food, creating dishes uniquely representing this exact time and place. You'll never have this food, presented in this way, again."
The recently-released 2023 lineup features an impressive roster of 34 farmer and chef partners who will partner together to create dishes exclusive to the festival using in-season produce. Tickets will include a full day of food and beverages, cooking demonstrations, symposium conversations, live music, and a farmer's bodega — all benefiting the Central Texas Food Bank.
"The Central Texas Food Bank is honored to be a partner of such a special gathering," says Mark Jackson Chief Development Officer of Central Texas Food Bank in a releasE. "Not only will revenue from the event help ensure that thousands of our neighbors facing food insecurity have enough to eat, but attendees will learn about the impact food has on our whole community while having fun."
Curated by Field Guide Culinary Director Chef Philip Speer, the 2023 chef and farmer lineup is below:
Abby Love (Abby Jane Bakeshop) & Amalia Staggs (Farmshare Austin)
Colter Peck (Elementary) & Becky Hume (VRDNT Farm)
Fiore Tedesco (L'Oca D'Oro) & Sean Henry (Hi-Fi MYCO)
Graeme Little (Fairmont Austin) & Julia Poplawsky Lewis (Cielito Lindo Farm)
Graham Fuller (Emmer & Rye) & William Nikkel (Trosi Farms)
Joaquin Ceballos (Este) & Anamaria Gutierrez (Este Garden)
Krystal Craig + Ian Thurwachter (Intero) & Celia Bell (Two Hives Honey)
Mia Li (Ora King Salmon) & Joe + Kasey Diffie (Joe's Microgreens)
Natalie Gazaui (Chef Consultant) & Gregory Mast (Central Texas Food Bank Garden)
Nicholas Yanes (Juniper + Uncle Nicky's) & Perrine Noelke (Local Pastures)
Rhys Davis & Michael Fojtasek (Maie Day) & Marianna Peeler (Peeler Farms)
Kevin & Rosie Truong (Fil N Viet) & Travis Breihan (Smallhold)
Susana Querejazu (Lutie's) & Hannah Gongola (H2Grow Farms)
Todd Duplechan (Lenoir + Vixen's Wedding) & Ryan Gould (Geosmin Regenerative)
Zechariah Perez (Sour Duck Market + Odd Duck) & Montana Stovall (Dancing Bear Farm)
Ooni Chef Demos by Casey Wilcox (Little Trouble) & Christina Currier (Comedor)
Force of Nature Chef Demo by Katrina Ferraro and Freddy Diaz (Las Brasas)
Featuring a mix of savory, sweet, and plant-based options, all food and beverages are included with each ticket, allowing guests to roam and sample everything. Tickets are $100 for adults, while a new Young Foodies ticket option ($50 for ages 13-30) and free entry children 12 and under encourages the whole family to come savor and celebrate the best of Central Texas food.
"New this year, Field Guide will welcome guests of all ages!" says founder Lindsey Sokol. "We've created a food festival that puts education first in order to strengthen the food system for the future, including the next generation. Our goal is to present food in a way no one else in Austin is doing, where the local food system is the priority."
For more information and to purchase tickets for the event, please visit fieldguidefest.com or follow along on social media @fieldguidefest.


What do you do when you've checked out all the usual suspects for some cool scatter pillows to update the living room, but can't find anything to fit the vision in your head that is also kind to your wallet?
If you are mother-of-two Renata Schmittmann, you scour online and in specialty fabric stores for your dream material. Then you take the plunge and buy material from all over the world in bulk and ship it to your home at the Gold Coast. Then you have the perfect pillows made up to adorn your sofa, and launch a fabulous homewares label called Little Home!!!
Of course, if you are the like the rest of us, you'll simply thank Renata for her good taste, discerning eye and huge helping of chutzpah, and head over to the Enchanted Closet to pick up some of the Little Home cushions for yourself for $54.95. You'll find them at The Enchanted Closet online store (postage only $4.95), and at the shop in Victoria. You can find the whole Little Home range on the Little Home website. Congrats Renata!


Happy Tuesday everyone and welcome back to our decorating series!
Today's topic is decorating with blues!! Blues have become an integral part of interior design. Mixing various shades of blue has both calming and electrifying effects. We have really had a small, tiny, little baby obsession with blues this month!
Mix and match various shades of blues and different textures for an calm and elegant look!
Thanks for reading! Now its time for more inspiration! Visit our Showroom for beautiful pieces that will take your breath away!
This next blog series will help you visualize what you can do with antiques. The world is changing rapidly, we are adapting new habits every day. From having the world accessible at your finger tips to staying connected with family, friends, and even the guy that sat behind you in high school English, you know...what's his name...well you would never believe it but he is married with 10 kids and lives in Timbuktu. Not only is our world changing electronically and socially but in home design and comfort.
People don't just buy uncomfortable and non-functional pieces of furniture anymore...you don't want that chair that is upholstered with a tapestry from 200 years ago that no one can sit in it, for fear that it'll rip if it is disturbed. You want something that you can use, something that is one of a kind, beautiful and functional all at the same time.
Well...at Evanstonia Antiques we know this...we completely understand your frustrations, that is why we want to show you how you can incorporate beautiful antiques and family heirlooms in today's homes, which are more modern and active!
Our first theme in this series is Nautical! I love the Nautical theme, the blues and browns give any room a fresh look.
Check out this foyer design, we love the two chairs flanking a console table with various nautical aspects!
We love how our French Louis XV Rosewood Chairs paired with our Chinese console table and nautical lanterns can give the perfect nautical feel (don't forget that we can reupholster any item to make it truly yours)!
Starting with a large library table then adding the perfect accessories like this French Empire desk chair and a great nautical boat scene can transform any basic office into one worthy of a captain!
Just adding a few nautical inspired pieces can really change a rooms look and feel, try these pieces in your living room and you'll know what we mean; Gold Plated Lanterns, Oak Quarter Sewn Table, and a Burr Walnut Display Cube!
I hope that you are as inspired as we are! Don't forget to peruse our virtual showroom for all of your nautical decoration needs!
Here are just a few of our other nautical inspired pieces: Oak Arts and Crafts flip top game table with cabinet, American Octagon Center Table, Italian 17th Centurey Side Chair, French leather arm chair, American Empire arm chair, Austrian Commode, One Pedestal Occasion Table.
Thanks for joining us and reading! Come back next time for more design tips and ideas!
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Happy Wednesday everyone! So glad that you made it to our blog on this rainy day!
I'm just going to jump right in to where we left off last week, restoring antiques to make them better than ever!
Louis XV Oak chairs--these beautifully crafted cane chairs were a bit on the boring side so we spruced them up!
Louis XV Oak Chairs--now with a white glaze over the original stain and a new upholstery instead of the cane--small changes, big difference.
Now that you've seen a few examples of what we do, I know what you're thinking, "why put in all of the effort to restore antiques when you can get something new and take it home right away?" Well, the answer is easy. Old frames that were built centuries ago were crafted with better accuracy and care. Craftsmen in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries built each piece individually and by hand. From the decorative aspects to the functionality, these expert and passionate craftsmen took pride in their work. Furthermore, building furniture by hand was an expensive and painstaking process so these craftsmen built their work to last and be passed down from generation to generation - and they were right. To this day there are pieces that are over 100 years old and are in better shape than something that was built recently and only a few years old.
From sturdier frames on tables, chairs, desks, to metal spring systems in chairs - craftsmen of yore built furniture to last. Every little detail was obsessed over. Now, I'm not saying that the furniture built today isn't as good--ok, maybe I am saying that a little bit BUT, the main reason for this is because it is just too expensive and not as productive to mass produce sturdy pieces of furniture today.
Maybe we're a little biased but we would prefer something that has stood the test of time - sometimes 100's of years! - and is still as good as it was from the first day it was built. You can even see and feel the the unique mark of each craftsmen in each piece and sometimes it's fun to think about the story of that man and where he came from.
Here are just a few more pieces to get your creative juices flowing!
Come by and visit our showroom, online or at our store location soon! We'd love to see and hear from you!
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I am so excited for todays post!
In this post I'm going to show you how you can recreate and freshen up that old chair, dresser, table, china cabinet and more! Our posts in the past have all been about the type of merchandise and the brands that we sell in our showroom but lets go past the showroom and take a look at the magic our expert craftsmen perform.
Where to begin?!?! This has been the hardest post for me to write...there is so much to tell you about that I don't even know what to begin with. With that being said...let's start with a quick tour of our workshop!
Now that you had a tour of where our magic happens! Let's take a look at some of the great things that come out of our workshop.
All we did to spruce this chair up was add a white wash on the existing finish and then upholster it with a more modern fabric that turns this once drab antique into an antique that will pop in any living room!
Look at what you can do with a little bit of white wash and new fabric!
Look at these details...it's amazing what you can do with some imagination!
Instead of a white wash on the existing finish we striped the finish, threw on some white paint and finished the chairs off with a glaze to give them a white vintage feel. Then we reupholstered the chairs in a modern fabric with a vibrant blue motif.
I think that these two chairs are just incredible!
Are you having fun yet?! We sure are! Lets continue...I love looking at all of our work. I think that our craftsmen are just amazing...they can really work magic!
For this set of 6 dining room chairs we wanted to show off the beautiful walnut wood but we had some fun with the fabric. For the front of the chair we used a handsome tweed fabric and for the back we used a new modern fabric. This fabric is recycled leather, it's a new production and we are absolutely obsessed with it.
What is recycled leather? Recycled leather is made out of a real leather backing with vinyl on top. The real leather comes from all different places but it is all recycled and usually a cow hide. The vinyl on top gives you a variety of textures and colors and it makes the leather more durable and allows it to last longer.
The best part is that it is environmental, low cost and so much easier to maintain.
It's really the best of everything all put into one and we absolutely love it!
Tune in next week for Part 2--which will have more examples and ideas of restoring your antiques! We'll also explain why restoring antiques is better than buying new furniture!
Come by and visit our showroom, online or at our store location this weekend! We'd love to see and hear from you. Don't forget to like us on Facebook for great deals and events!
Get crafty with our antique DIY project!!
I know...it's terrible but to try to tie you over for the weekend I wanted to show you a fun DIY project!
I know what you're saying...you're an antique and restoration store...a do it yourself project??? But bare with me...you'll love it!
These are so cute and super easy to make, you can follow my exact instructions or you can wing it and come up with your own creations!
Step 7: Voila--Enjoy your new tea cup garden!!
Extra step--Mix and match many different tea cups for a sweet vintage feel!!
And don't forget to stop by on Monday (6/17/13) for our exciting post on how to restore your heirloom pieces!
As promised on our last post, today's post is about Chippendale style furniture! First question that might come to mind is Why do I say Chippendale "style?" Well, when I say style I mean that the item is created in the style of Chippendale or that it's a replica of the cabinetmaker who first invented the design. We have many different items that are "styles" for example; Louis IX style, Baker style, Hepplewhite style, and the list can go on! But let's get back to our main topic…let me introduce to you Mr. Thomas Chippendale and his Chippendale furniture!
Thomas Chippendale was born in the 1700's and was the son of a carpenter. He worked diligently in his workshop and showroom for many years but the pinnacle of his career was when he published a book that contained his whole collection of fashionable English furniture design. His book was called Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, and was a compilation of all of his designs adapting existing design styles to the fashion of the 18th century.
There were so many carpenters and cabinetmakers that used his designs from the book that sometimes the Chippendale name was given to all furniture built in the 18th century. But this is where we get back to my initial question…Why do you call it "style?" Because of Chippendale's amazing publication it is very hard to distinguish what was built in Chippendale's workshop and what was actually built by Chippendale himself. Unless we know 100% that something is actually built by Mr. Chippendale or in his workshop we add "style" to signify that it is an adaptation or a copy of his work.
Thomas Chippendale's famous book is filled with design ideas and measurements for craftsmen to duplicate his beautiful designs. Below are some excerpts from his book showing the directions that he shared. I have also included some amazing Chippendale style pieces that can be found in our store, Evanstonia Antiques. Lets just marvel at the beautiful design and attention to detail that Chippendale was famous for!
Excerpts from "The Gentleman and Cabinetmaker Director"


An Israeli court has ordered the Palestinian Authority to compensate Palestinians detained by its security services over suspicions that they have collaborated with the occupation authorities, local media reported on Friday. According to the Times of Israel, the court has ordered the PA to pay a total of NIS13.2m ($3.5 million) in compensation to 52 collaborators.
The PA occasionally detains Palestinians in the occupied West Bank who are suspected of collaborating with the Israeli security services. Israel Hayom reported that five lawsuits involving dozens of plaintiffs have been filed against the authority over its crackdown on collaborators, noting that the oldest dates from 2004.
The Palestinian Authority calls its own collaboration with the Israeli occupation authorities "security cooperation". PA President Mahmoud Abbas has described this as "sacred". Critics insist that the PA security services were created solely to protect Israel and its occupation, not the people of Palestine.


Two new guides have just been added to the site! First, we have a new guide on the Desert Slayer Dungeon, which is packed with lots of useful information on the dungeon and the dangerous Slayer creatures that can be found within. A huge thanks goes to Eman1051 and Cougarsrule9 for writing this excellent guide for us! We also have a rewritten Metal Dragon Hunting guide available, which includes everything you need to know about hunting Metal Dragons, from equipment reccomendations to tips on actually fighting these vicious creatures. Another big thanks goes to Vincent for writing this helpful guide!


Hi all, I find myself today in a very dark place. I don't want to bore you with all the details but suffice to say that I am feeling very down.
As many of you who suffer or have suffered with depression and anxiety before will know sometimes we don't deal with things in the best way and that is usually for ourselves. People in my life often don't understand why I give myself such a hard time about things and in lots of ways am my own worst enemy. I never understood it for a long time, I would go over negative words people had said and almost use them as weapons against myself. I would over think the tiniest point until it became like a giant mountain blotting out the sun and I couldn't get over it. I would make people around me miserable because I was so down.
All of my learning over the past few years has massively helped me in this area, 90% of the time I can see things for what they are, from the right perspective and deal with them accordingly. Often by rising above whatever it is or simply by realising it isn't something that I need to let affect me terribly but sometimes this seems almost impossible. Particularly when it's something that has been ongoing for sometime or that has the potential to cause you significant hurt.
My question is and I'm not sure that anyone at all will know the answer is when is enough enough? When do we realise that actually moving on, giving up, or stopping something completely is the best thing to do as opposed to continually trying, faking a smile and making the effort sometimes for the benefit of others. When does it no longer become healthy to struggle on, when is the right time to think it's time to stand up for what I want and not let it get to me anymore?
There will always be people in our lives who will be there no matter what, through thick and thin and for any reason. There will always be some who expect you to be there for them but aren't so good the other way around. Sadly we often realise which kind of friend that person is when it's a time when we really need them.
I think the answer is that sometimes as adults we have to be grown up enough and tough enough I guess to say, enough is enough, I'm not a bad person and I deserve to be treated with respect and care. Now let's see if I have the guts to go through with it!
Happy Sunday to you all, I write this at 1400 hours, so far today we have been to church, walked around the Whitstable Museum (loved it, you must go), had lunch, put away the worlds biggest pile of clean washing, separated what can only be described as two small wrestlers hell bent on destroying eachother (over an empty sweet tube no less) and on the final separation managed to bang my head on the drawer knob of the tv unit in the living room.
Believe it or not this injury made me look at the pretty knob and decide to talk to you today about my love of knobs (furniture ones of course!).
I started upcycling furniture in 2013, I remember this because that is when Karl's grandfather passed away. It was incredibly sad and very quick and I had always been very fond of him. His Nan passed away in 2009 when I was pregnant with Nate so never met either of the boys but George was always lovely with them. Anyway, he left a house full of all the things that he and Karl's nan Kath had shared throughout their lives. Karl's dad invited him and his sisters to have a look and see if there were any pieces of furniture that they would like as a momento of their grandparents. Each agreed how lovely an idea it was and Karl asked if we could have a lovely old chest of drawers and Karl's Nan's dressing table (which still had empty bottles of her favourite Chanel in the drawers). It was that chest of drawers we first painted in Annie Sloan's chalk paint in Paris Grey (a lifelong love).
A trip to Home Bargains gave me some inspiration to change the old metal handles for some more exciting knobs. Home Bargains is a fab place for cheap branded toiletries but the home range is also to die for. I chose ones that reminded me of the crystal maze. I love to this day how they glitter in different light and paint small rainbows across the wood when it's raining and the sun is shining through the window.
That's where it started, I don't think there is a piece of furniture in our house now that doesn't have new knobs. One of my very favourite places to buy them is Queen Bee Home in Canterbury where they have some designs to die for.
It's amazing how you can change the personality of a piece completely by something so simple.
They are both ours….. Right?
Hey all and a very happy weekend to you.
As you know I have two boys, Nate and Leo, 6 and 4. There is only 17 months between them thanks to a happy accident so you would think that they would both be very similar however you would be wrong.
Some days I really struggle just being a mum, I often feel like I'm no good at it and that it comes naturally to so many other amazing mums and yet I'm like an alien trying to understand how these little people work. Some days I'm quite sure this is because they are so different.
Nate is me, he looks like I did when I was little and he has my ways, massively creative, sensitive and kind. He also has some of my negative sides, moaney, short tempered and away with the fairies a lot of the time! Nate loves to sing, he lives spending time with nature and he seems to want to please and this shows by his glowing school reports and praise from teachers.
Leo however is his fathers son, Karl and I went to primary school together so I can say with authority that Karl was full of confidence, bulshey and very practically clever. Leo is like a whirlwind, he has the memory of an elephant, the problem solving skills of a much older mind than he has and can talk his way out of anything. Don't get me wrong he is an absolute love and totally gorgeous to boot but he is one of those children that just has something about him. Almost a disregard for how others think of him, he is totally okay with who he is. Just like I remember his father being.
Together then they can be a very interesting mix, Nate with the flair and explosive moods of Van Gogh (before he cut off his ear) and Leo with the ability to wind his brother up with one word which then causes mayhem and pandemonium. Often Nate the older boy ends up being harassed by his brother because he patiently wants to get things done and Leo wants to move on to the next. I imagine Leo one day being a Steve Jobs type character, terribly brilliant and passionate and massively clever.
I love both of my boys dearly and I absolutely cannot wait to see how they grow and who they grow into. I never expected they would both be so different and therefore present such challenges to parent.
I wonder how many other mums are feeling the same way as I am about their incredibly different children.
Author TiredfromWhitstablePosted on June 11, 2016 Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on They are both ours….. Right?
Judging a book by it's cover….
Hello lovelies and a happy Friday to you all!
I have very much been thinking about positivity this morning. There is that saying about how everyone is dealing with some sort of struggle that you know nothing about. How true is that? We live in a world where we have so much more awareness about health issues both mental and physical and yet there are so many of these things we feel we can't talk about.
There are many interesting discussions currently about how social media such as Facebook and Instagram only show us the good parts of people's lives and that actually everything isn't so rosy in the harsh and real light of day. Well of course that's going to be true for everyone isn't it? I'm not aware of anyone walking this earths surface who is perfect and we all know that is okay!
I am someone who as you know suffers with anxiety and depression, I am still suffering with the effects of my eating disorder even though I'm in recovery. I could include much more of these aspects of my life in my social media accounts however I see them as a space for positivity. Don't get me wrong, I moan a lot and will often put how I am feeling in my posts however I like to post things that are colourful, bright and full of the things I love so I can come back to all the good things and beautiful sights around me without always focusing on my insecurities and issues.
My life is not full of flowers, I don't spend my time endlessly arranging them or growing them or even having the time to buy fresh ones each week but I do enjoy when I can and I love and appreciate how beautiful nature is through them. That's why so much of my account involves them.
It makes you wonder how people would react if you did start posting pictures of crying children after a day at school followed by swimming lessons and so tired they can hardly stand or you miserable because you have put on two pounds and your jeans have gone tight! I'm quite sure judgement would be passed on reverse about how not everyone needs to know all your business and how airing your dirty laundry shouldn't be done in public! We can't win can we!
I like to think that as a modern mum in a fast paced world I can understand that most people around me are having some sort of struggle and often will take the opportunity to show the good side of their life and loves on their social media accounts and what can be wrong with filling little boxes with happiness and colour?
I hope that whatever you are going through today will be a good day and please accept a virtual hug from me.
Author TiredfromWhitstablePosted on June 10, 2016 Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Judging a book by it's cover….
Hey lovely people, how are we all? I'm on my first day off this week and loving the feeling of knowing I have five days at home!
I got to thinking yesterday about stars. I have over the last few years developed what can only be described as an obsession with stars. I remember my mum telling me once that you tend to love the things you need to be surrounded with (I think we were talking about favourite colours). So I must need stars in my life.
My brother in law made a joke about his and my sister in laws imminent house purchase yesterday and chose to veto a house warming gift of a star from me because of how many I have in my home. I had a look around when I got back from work and noticed that yes I do seem to have plenty of stars in the house however they are all different, I am almost like a collector of stars!
You can find stars in many different places (yes I know the sky is one!) I tend to find them in trinket shops, vintage stores, shabby chic furniture stores and various other places. If I see one I can't resist buying it so as a result I have many in different styles and materials. I literally surround myself with them.
Do you have a theme that runs throughout your home? A symbol, something that makes you smile, makes you think of something or be reminded of something? I would love to hear about it.
All of my stars have come from local shops to me in Whitstable and Canterbury and each and everyone makes me smile.
Hey all, just a quick post today as I'm about to zoom off to work.
Today's post is about running, about my running. I class myself as a runner, I started running properly in 2013 when I completed the NHS Couch to 5k podcasts. I can't describe how running made me feel, time to think, some space, something that was only mine and all the while burning calories.
Unfortunately as my eating disorder took hold I came to be at odds with my running and ended up running far too much for far too long on far less fuel that I needed. This was like a kind of self harm, I got up at silly o clock in the morning, if I didn't I felt I wasn't working hard enough, I had to push myself constantly, to be better than the day before, to be fast and of course to lose weight. It became such a huge part of the cycle of me needing to lose weight that when I started therapy with the Eating Disorder Service in my area I was asked to sign a contract promising to cut down my physical exercise by 50%.
I am today two stone heavier than I was at the height of my eating issues at the end of 2014. This is for many reasons, the main one being that I now actually allow myself to eat! Others are that I am now happier with myself, eating a balanced diet and accepting of the fact I was never built to be a size zero.
My running then has had to evolve massively to the me I am today. For example getting up early to run is something now that feels alien, why would I want to go running when I could lay in bed cuddled up to my boys and listening to the birds outside the window. See, that's happiness, contentment and allowing myself to not be so regimented. I accept that to stay the weight I am (still healthy for my height) that I can't sit around doing nothing so now I run to keep fit and enjoy the world around me (oh and eat cake!).
I managed to pull myself out of bed this morning and did a run around the woods, it was hot, sunny and beautiful. The light breeze in my face, birds chirping and fellow runners greeting me as I went by. I am so much slower than I was when I was lighter, I still struggle with not looking at my Map my run too often as it's no longer important how quickly I do it I just need to remember that actually being out and doing it is what it is all about.
I was mean and nasty to myself and my running helped me to continue that. I now see that being healthy and fit is a far greater part of being happy than being skinny ever was. Don't get me wrong I still have those days where I look in the mirror and groan but…. Ladies that's normal!
Embrace who you are, what you do and how amazing you are! Walking, running round, swimming, cycling, you name it, it's all exercise and all does us a world of good, not just physically but mentally too.


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The first of a two-phase design and construction process for the Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) Center on the campus of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS), the Ent Performing Center for hte Arts project includes a black box theater with supporting spaces and offices for the academic theater and dance departments, a theater and supporting spaces for TheatreWorks, an intimate 250 seat recital hall in support of the music department, a 750 to 800 seat performance space/theatre, and the Gallery of Contemporary Art.
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While many of the cases that could be on the NLRB's chopping block were issued on President Barack Obama's watch, one precedent that attorneys said could be endangered predates Obama: the NLRB's 2004 ruling in Lutheran Heritage Village. In that case, the NLRB rendered work rules and handbook provisions unlawful if employees "would reasonably construe" them to prohibit protected activities under Section 7 of the NLRA.
Last month, Miscimarra himself gave a speech at a workforce management seminar sponsored by Epstein Becker Green PC in which he showed attendees a slide of more than a dozen cases he believes were wrongly decided during his tenure. The two he highlighted in particular were the board's rulings on the joint employer issue as well as Lutheran Heritage.


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"""Dumps a Windows shortcut's property bag to stdout.

This is required to confirm correctness of properties that aren't readily
available in Windows UI.

If you run into "ImportError: No module named pywintypes":
Run this script with vpython instead.
"""

import optparse
from pywintypes import IID
import sys
from win32com.propsys import propsys
from win32com.propsys import pscon

def BuildPKeyToNameMapping():
  """Returns a dict mapping PKey values (a tuple of an IID and an int) to their
  names."""
  # The pscon module contains a number of well-known PKey values. Scan through
  # the module picking out anything that looks plausibly like a PROPERTYKEY (a
  # tuple of a PyIID and an int), and map it to its name in the module.
  return {item: name for (name, item) in pscon.__dict__.iteritems() if (
             isinstance(item, tuple) and
             len(item) == 2 and
             isinstance(item[1], int))}

def PrintShortcutProperties(shortcut_path, dump_all):
  properties = propsys.SHGetPropertyStoreFromParsingName(shortcut_path)

  print 'Known properties (--dump-all for more):'

  app_id = properties.GetValue(pscon.PKEY_AppUserModel_ID).GetValue()
  print '\tAppUserModelId => "%s"' % app_id

  # Hard code PKEY_AppUserModel_IsDualMode as pscon doesn't support it.
  PKEY_AppUserModel_IsDualMode = (IID('{9F4C2855-9F79-4B39-A8D0-E1D42DE1D5F3}'),
                                  11)
  dual_mode = properties.GetValue(PKEY_AppUserModel_IsDualMode).GetValue()
  print '\tDual Mode => "%s"' % dual_mode

  # Dump all other properties with their raw ID if requested, add them above
  # over time as we explicitly care about more properties, see propkey.h or
  # pscon.py for a reference of existing PKEYs' meaning.
  if dump_all:
    key_to_name = BuildPKeyToNameMapping()
    print '\nOther properties:'
    for i in range(0, properties.GetCount()):
      property_key = properties.GetAt(i)
      # |property_key| is a tuple of an IID identifying the format and an int
      # (a.k.a. a PROPERTYKEY struct). If this key is one of the predefined ones
      # in the pscon module, display the name given to it by the module. If not,
      # show the key's IID and int -- the viewer may be able to find it in
      # propkey.h.
      key_name = key_to_name.get(property_key, str(property_key))
      property_value = properties.GetValue(property_key).GetValue()
      print '\t%s => "%s"' % (key_name, property_value)

def main():
  usage = 'usage: %prog [options] "C:\\Path\\To\\My Shortcut.lnk"'
  parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage,
                                 description="Dumps a shortcut's  properties.")
  parser.add_option('-a', '--dump-all', action='store_true', dest='dump_all',
                    default=False)
  options, args = parser.parse_args()

  if len(args) != 1:
    parser.error('incorrect number of arguments')

  PrintShortcutProperties(args[0], options.dump_all)

if __name__ == '__main__':
  sys.exit(main())

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key leverage points are identified as ways to intervene in a system, listed in order of magnitude of effect. The 12 levrage points can be found here. Below are some key insights taken from her article, I have focused on the 4 most crucial leverage points to intervene in a system, with #1 being the most important. 4) The power to add, change, evolve, or self-organize system structure Self-organization – Nature does this through evolution, humans do this through technical advancements or social revolution. The ability to self-organize is the strongest form of system resilience. A system that can evolve can survive almost any change by adapting. A key way to remain adaptive is to be well aware that we are forever operating in a dynamic non-equilibrium, where things are forever changing. My advice would be to learn to be comfortable with being outside of your comfort zone. As soon as you fail to do this, you become susceptible to sticking within a set paradigm and this may hinder your ability to readily and effectively adapt to the next disruption. *Self-organization is essentially changing any of the leverage points lower on this list (i.e. 5-12). 3) The Goals of the system If the goal is to bring more and more of the world under the control of one central planning system (the empire of Genghis Khan, the world of Islam, the People's Republic of China, Wal-Mart, Disney), then everything further down the list, even self-organizing behavior, will be pressured or weakened to conform to that goal. This is where zooming out and looking at it from a macro level is useful. Try and figure out, what are the parameters to your system, and then WHO sets these parameters? If I look at other high-impact change-maker's here in South Africa, they are aware of this leverage point, and really push hard against it. A prime example is Bernelle Verster and her efforts in the water industry. 2) The mindset or paradigm out of which the system arises The shared idea in the minds of society, the great unstated assumptions–unstated because unnecessary to state; everyone knows them–constitute that society's deepest set of beliefs about how the world works. There is a difference between nouns and verbs. People who are paid less are worth less. Growth is good. Nature is a stock of resources to be converted to human purposes. Evolution stopped with the emergence of Homo sapiens . One can "own" land. Those are just a few of the paradigmatic assumptions of our culture, all of which utterly dumbfound people of other cultures. This is where new generations with new values can be extremely effective. They are exposed to new technology affecting their social dynamics the most and can change these mindsets from the ground up. 1) The power to transcend paradigms The highest leverage of all is to keep oneself unattached in the arena of paradigms, to realize that NO paradigm is "true," that even the one that sweetly shapes one's comfortable worldview is a tremendously limited understanding of an immense and amazing universe. If no paradigm is right, you can choose one that will help achieve your purpose. The power of transcending paradigms is immense, if you are a high-impact individual and create your own paradigm within which you operate and filter life, you can attract others to adopt your paradigm through inspiration and action. You can create SIGNIFICANT change from this!
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On June 30, Bishop Bambera will celebrate the Wedding Anniversary Mass at 2:30 p.m. in the Cathedral of Saint Peter, Scranton, for couples celebrating their 25th or 50th year of marriage.
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At long last, Four Seasons has arrived in Greece. It's a project that's been years in the making, as the historic Astir Palace outside Athens was closed for a transformative renovation. As we've previously reported, the project is estimated to have cost more than $110 million. The location—a peninsula 30 minutes from the city center and a half hour from Athens International Airport—means that guests can combine a riviera beach break with the rich culture found in the Greek capital (opera, dance, art, and historical heritage like the Acropolis).
Situated on 74 lush, landscaped acres next to the sea, the resort has 300 guestrooms and private bungalows. The extensive facilities run the gamut from swimming pools (including a free-form family pool) and tennis courts to basketball and a variety of water sports. Children can make new friends at the Kids for All Seasons club, while their parents take advantage of the holistically inspired spa that has an extensive hydrotherapy zone. Other perks? You'll also find jogging trails, and there's even a helipad. When it comes to dining, there are eight concepts on site, and you'll find popular restaurants like Nobu's Matsuhisa Athens nearby.
General Manager Sam Ioannidis is a 27-year Four Seasons veteran and leads a team of 700 staff. To celebrate the opening, the Four Seasons Astir Palace Athens is promoting the Grand Opening Offer, which provides 20 percent savings on the room rate plus daily breakfast. For extended stays, there's also a Sixth Night Free package being offered at this time.


Google and Wikipedia are probably the two most popular research tools on the Web, and Googlepedia lets you access both of them at the same time. Whenever you perform a Google search (either from the search or a toolbar) Googlepedia will call up the Wikipedia page of your search term within the Google results page. Googlepedia also turns any Wikipedia links to Google searches and integrates Wikipedia info with them as well.
Whenever you're unable to access a particular Web site, most likely the first thing you do is check with a friend or colleague via IM or phone to see if they're having problems with that site, too. Another option: Head over to downforeveryoneorjustme.com and enter the suspect URL. It will report back whether the site you're looking for is actually down, of if it's an issue on your end.
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Sending or receiving an occasional fax doesn't justify the purchase of a fax machine or even the high per-page prices from local shops. Drop.io provides 100 MB of storage reachable from a customized URL (no registration required), from which you can send any document to a U.S.-based fax number. To receive a fax, e-mail a customized coversheet to the sender that will route the fax to your Drop.io account.
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A growing number of young Asian-American fashion designers are taking the American fashion world by storm with their original designs influenced by their Asian heritage. Unlike the earlier wave of Japanese designers who hit the fashion world in the 1980s, however, these designers do not create clothes that can be specifically identified as Asian fashion but rather strive to create clothes that are aimed for mainstream clotheshorses by wearing their influences lightly. The most recent Asian-Americans to hit in big in US fashion are young Korean clothes designers Richard Chai and Chung Doo-Ri, who have successfully managed to establish a foothold in the highly-competitive New York fashion scene.
What makes Asian fashion so attractive to American buyers is their strong sense of style that makes them so distinct from the majority of clothes produced by American designers. One particular trend is Korean clothes in the street fashion style, which combine the best of traditional and current styles to create outfits that are totally unique and individual. Korean street fashion has become popular in shops selling the latest in trendy or hip-hop styles to the young. But fashions from a wide variety of Asian countries have become particular with America's hip set.
If you wear Asian fashion, you have to be prepared to exude a sense of confidence in order to pull the ensemble off. Although the old saying goes that the clothes make the man, in this case it would be more accurate to say that the wearer makes the clothes. Korean clothes, in particular, require a strong attitude to be worn successfully. And when combined with the right shoes and accessories, the resulting outfit is something that is bound to be so distinctive as to be unforgettable. No wonder that Asian clothes are making a big splash, not only in America, but all over the world as well.
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Combine action-packed cities with the stunning countryside, with a dash of medieval castles and quaint villages along the way. Visit bustling Edinburgh and cosmopolitan London, then head out to experience the beauty of Stirling, Loch Lomond and Yorkshire, with time at leisure to explore timeless York. Sample Scotch whisky and revel in the history and vibrant culture of this magical part of the world.
With a country as vast and bountiful as Great Britain, travelling by train is a great way to cover as much ground as possible while also taking in the breathtaking sights. Let the smooth ride, great service, and amazing vistas transport you from city to city. The train tickets and hotel stays are included in the package, along with some meals and many other travel essentials that will help make this trip easy, fun, and unforgettable.
Upon arrival in Edinburgh, take a private transfer to your hotel and check in.
Castles and whisky today! Use your entry tickets to Edinburgh Castle and the Scotch Whisky Experience.
Edinburgh Castle: Take advantage of your Edinburgh Castle entrance. Situated on top on an extinct volcano and boasting stunning views of the city, the majestic castle has witnessed many defining events in Scottish history.
Local Gem - Scotch Whisky Experience: Make your way to the new Scotch Whisky Experience for a sensational journey! Enjoy a barrel ride through a replica distillery and hear the stories behind this magical craft from expert tour guides and whisky advisors. Discover the aromas and flavours that appeal to your palate and find your perfect single malt whisky.
After breakfast, make your way to the departure point for a full-day excursion to Stirling and Loch Lomond.
Stirling & Loch Lomond Excursion: As you travel through Stirlingshire, your guide will regale you with tales of the turbulent times of William Wallace, dramatized in the film Braveheart. In Stirling, you'll have free time to explore the stunning castle ($) or stroll through the city's beautiful and ancient streets. Next, travel over the Duke's Pass for dramatic views of the Trossachs National Park and its Lochs. Stop in Aberfoyle, a small holiday village at the southern edge of the West Highland Fault. Visit the beautiful loch-side village of Balmaha, where you can take a short but steep hike up to Craigie Fort to enjoy stunning views of the loch, or just enjoy the bonnie banks on flat ground. Return to Edinburgh.
Make your way to the train station and hop on board for York. Upon arrival, make your way to your hotel and check in, then enjoy the rest of the day at leisure to visit York at your own pace.
The day is yours to discover York. The quintessential medieval city, York brings history to life through the York Minster, an extraordinary Gothic cathedral, the Shambles, a street of timber-framed buildings dating from the 14th century, and its many traditional pubs and restaurants just waiting to be explored.
After breakfast, meet up with the tour guide for a full-day trip to Yorkshire, stopping in quaint villages along the way.
Yorkshire Dales Excursion: Travel through Boroughbridge to Masham, famous for its family-run breweries, annual sheep fair and local market held on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Travel further into the Dales to Middleham, then to Castle Bolton, one of the country's best-preserved medieval castles. Your afternoon stop is in Grassington, featuring a bustling market square surrounded by shops offering local foods, specialty gifts, and arts and crafts. Marvel at the beautiful views en route back to York.
After breakfast, make your way to the train station for your trip to London. Upon arrival, check into your hotel and head out to explore London at your own pace.
Enjoy breakfast at your hotel, then take a private transfer to the airport and board your flight home.
From: Edinburgh, leaves at 9:00 a.m. Returns by 6:45 p.m.
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The Yorkshire Dales Day Tour: Operates Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
From: York, leaves at: 9:00 a.m. Returns by 5:30 p.m.
Included: Driver and tour guide, transport via comfortable minibus.
Not included: Entrance to attractions (clients can purchase this on the day), food and drink.


We have much to learn about "subtypes" or "patterns" within autism. The DSM-5 just scrapped the most famous subtype, Asperger's Syndrome, due to lack of evidence. Lynn Waterhouse argues that even "subtypes" or "the autisms" gives the autism category too much credit.
Nonetheless, anyone trying to understand themselves or a loved one will scour books and the Internet for anecdotal data that clicks. We all want to read about people who resonate with our own experiences. No matter where someone is on the spectrum, they'll be able to find others who are remarkably similar, and still others they have little in common with.
People use the term hyperlexia for one of the less-well-known anecdotal subtypes, and I think I've found most of the materials on this subject. I thought I'd make a list of some favorites.
I should say, we've found generic "high-functioning" autism and Asperger's resources more useful overall. Still, hyperlexia resources add extra ideas.
The very best resource may be paying attention to our son and what he's doing today.
The word hyperlexia is overloaded. In speech therapy it can refer to readers who are excellent at decoding but poor at comprehension (a sort of "reverse dyslexia"). But it can also refer to any precocious reader, to autistics who learn to read precociously, or to autistics who learn to read but have a lot of trouble with most other skills. There's no "official" definition of hyperlexia (there's no equivalent to the DSM criteria for autism).
My son and I both learned to read at age 2. For us, I believe reading is one example of a general love of learning information; not just any information, but structured information. For example, if you have things which go in a certain order, or can be placed in categories, those things are much more interesting to memorize. Letters, words, and numbers are at the top of the list. My son also loves street names and driving routes, for example.
He and I both like to explore alternative ways of organizing the same information. So for example, putting letters in reverse order, or sorting them into the three Handwriting Without Tears categories, or listing all the routes that could be taken to drive from point A to point B.
That's what hyperlexia means to us. I don't believe it is that different from the prototypical Asperger's/HFA autistic, but it seems possible that there's a little extra in common between kids who find letters fascinating at an early age.
From what my mother says, I was a more Aspie-prototypical "little professor" kid, while my son learned language in a different way that one hyperlexia source describes as "foreign language phrasebook" and another as "context-appropriate delayed echolalia." He seemed to be brute-force rote-memorizing his way through language, treating every sentence as its own vocabulary word (while the more typical language development path catches on to syntax more quickly). On one formal language assessment, he had a gap between grammar (below average) and lexicon (above average). Over time his language has improved.
My son likes to learn and play with structured information. As far as I can tell it isn't an anxiety response or otherwise something to pathologize. He finds it fun and interesting.
We've used this to teach. For example, he didn't like to work on handwriting until he discovered that Handwriting Without Tears put the letters in three categories and gave him numbered steps to write each letter.
Phyllis Kupperman's presentation. This may be the most comprehensive starting point. Phyllis Kupperman at the Center for Speech and Language Disorders in Chicago has seen many hyperlexic children. She has a continuing education presentation at linguisystems with lots of background, references to hyperlexia-related research, and her own observations. To read this presentation you have to pretend to be a speech therapist and sign up on the site (it's free).
The Center for Speech and Language Disorders, Phyllis Kupperman's practice, has some hyperlexia information online and a bibliography.
The Hyperlex discussion group has a lot of great people along with some useful info in the "Files" area. See the group here.
Priscilla Gilman's book and writing. Ms. Gilman has a lovely memoir, The Anti-Romantic Child, about her son who has hyperlexia and autism. She wrote an abbreviated version of her story in this Newsweek article. She also wrote about the value of her son's reading in the New York Times. Her work was meaningful to us because her account of her son was the first time we "recognized" a child very much like ours.
Language and behavior can be taught very specifically. It is important to understand that hyperlexic children will not "pick up" from the culture around them the way most children do. Given a demonstration or visual model, however, these children can use their strong memories to their advantage.
Drawing a Blank: Improving Comprehension for Readers on the Autism Spectrum by Emily Iland — at last, a book in print! This one is specifically about strategies for readers who struggle with comprehension. As a parent of a child with autism, be aware that dyslexia (where the hard part is DECODING) is a MUCH more common reading disability than hyperlexia and autism (where the hard part is COMPREHENSION). The task of decoding may be very autism-friendly, at least for certain kinds of autism. Because dyslexia is more common, many educational materials and teacher instincts are backward for hyperlexics.
Dr. Treffert argues that early reading may be simple precocity ("hyperlexia I"); a "splinter skill" amidst autism ("hyperlexia II"); or an autism-like developmental pathway he calls "hyperlexia III," in which autistic traits fade over time.
This article attempts to distinguish autism-like from autism, an exercise that I have a lot of trouble buying into. To me, it's also problematic to describe any skill as a splinter skill, something Priscilla Gilman gets at. Skills are skills, especially when they're as powerful as reading.
On the Internet, I've seen more than one parent grasp at the "hyperlexia I, II, III" categories in order to escape the dreaded word "autism." Please remember that simply avoiding the word does not change a person, while appropriate help may well do so. Children may be precocious readers, gifted, introverted, and have significant difficulty in areas such as social interaction and motor skills, as I did.
My mother read Dr. Treffert's article and felt that I was a good fit for "hyperlexia I" while my son was a good fit for "hyperlexia III." But I was also a good fit for Asperger's Syndrome and was socially incompetent throughout school, with repercussions into adulthood. The key trait Dr. Treffert notes for "hyperlexia III" is "affection," but plenty of kids with autism are both affectionate and have autistic traits that stick around long-term (look no further than Priscilla Gilman's son, or our son so far, for examples).
I very much appreciated Dr. Treffert's attempt to unpack some different developmental patterns and the characteristics he had seen in his career. I also appreciated knowing my son was not alone (the "hyperlexia III" description does fit him well).
At the same time, I think it's more mainstream (and likely more useful in practice) to look at hyperlexia and affectionate/attention-seeking behaviors as "good signs" within autism, rather than indicators of a not-currently-recognized condition distinct from autism. For now, autism is a family of autism-like conditions, and nobody really knows how to break them apart.
It's safe to guess that hyperlexia I, II, III are points on a spectrum rather than discrete entities, too.
Hyperlexia in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Tina Newman et al. PDF document here. Some interesting findings: that decoding-with-poor comprehension exists; and that hyperlexic autistics had strong nonword reading (were decoding, not sight-reading). On a more personal note, the paper mentions that "Two families reported that their young children would pull them around parking lots to read all the numbers and letters on the license plates," an experience we remember well (our son did this often from age 2-3 or so).
This paper also has a lot of good references to trace if you'd like to start reading scientific papers related to autism and hyperlexia, though many are not available online. One notable piece of prior research cited, from Fisher et al., found that hyperlexia was a strong indicator of positive outcomes in autism (note that this may be an alternative way to interpret Dr. Treffert's "Hyperlexia III").
A Descriptive Study of Hyperlexia in a Clinically Referred Sample of Children With Developmental Delays, Elena Grigorenko et al. On Springer here, though I think I found it as a free download someplace I can't find right now. Two findings in this paper were that all of the hyperlexics among the 80 children studied were diagnosed with autism; and that hyperlexia was not associated with IQ (it was not more characteristic of the high-IQ children than the other children).
Incidentally, all these hyperlexia papers are great examples of more useful autism research. Scientifically, early reading by itself is almost certainly a red herring, in that there won't be an "early reading" neurology. Rather, either some neurologies are more likely to learn to read early, or learning to read early affects development in important ways, or both. But it's great to see researchers digging in to the autisms and looking for meaningful distinctions.
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Women Who Inspire #TeamMarkon: Celebrating Women's History Month 2020
March 19, 2020 | Culture | Leadership and Leadership Development
To celebrate Women's History Month, we asked some members of #TeamMarkon to share which women have inspired them and why. We also gathered some great photos of our team members striking the #EachforEqual pose, so check them all out below!
I've been greatly influenced by my mom, Zella Dean, who taught me about the importance of sacrifice and focus on family.
I'm also inspired by Mother Teresa for her ultimate humble leadership. The example she set really shows what is possible when you're not preoccupied by trying to get credit.
Steve Genn
My grandmother, Sally Greenblatt had a profound influence on me starting at a very early age. She was a woman ahead of her time in many ways, yet she made the best of it and left a lasting impression with everyone she encountered. Check out Steve's blog post: Leadership Lessons from Nana.
Krissy Goff
My great grandmother was 16 years old when she escaped her home and fled to America. Leaving behind her parents and hiding in the back of a horse drawn wagon, the only reason she escaped alive was because a young guard decided to look the other way when she was crossing the border into Western Europe.
Mary Hodel Zaginaylo married my great grandfather and together they settled in central Pennsylvania. They saved up enough money to purchase a farm and while my great grandfather commuted every week to work on the railroads, she raised their seven girls and one boy (my grandfather) and ran their working farm.
As an Army brat, the place I called home was that farm. We'd spend every summer there and she was always the first one to welcome us. She would make me a cup of "chai" before it was trendy and sit with me at the small kitchen table and tell funny stories about my grandpa when he was a kid. She was home to me. Her kind and loving demeanor was (and is) everything I hoped to be.
There are so many other women who have inspired me throughout my career both personally and professionally (and usually a combination of the two). Carol Ann R, Robin V, Kathy M, Patty W, Phyllis T, Dee G, Natalie H, Shelly T all have made huge impacts on me. I'm also inspired by my daughter, who teaches me the importance of truth and standing up for yourself and others, as well as someone who is the epitome of strength and dignity, my mother.
Every day at Markon, I am humbled by our amazing and inspiring women. It's an honor to work with each and every one of them who are truly making a difference. And finally, more specifically my Ops Team family (men and women), who make me laugh so hard, let me cry when I need to, and above all work extremely hard each and every day to help Markon accomplish our goals. You are the reason why I love coming to work!!
Kyle Werking
In terms of women who have inspired/impacted me and why, I would have to say Katherine Johnson. Katherine is one of the women who inspired the movie "Hidden Figures," which is about a small group of African American women who calculated the precise trajectories that would let Apollo 11 land on the moon in 1969 and, after Neil Armstrong's history-making moonwalk, enable its return to Earth.
I knew little of her before seeing the movie, but was tremendously inspired by all she endured simply to get to work—and then perform such a critical role so flawlessly.
The way she set aside the discrimination she faced from so many people, yet persevered to execute her job in such a precise and professional way led me to a new habit of asking myself: "Are you doing enough? Can you do more? Are you letting silly obstacles block your path?"
I don't know that I'll ever live up to her contributions to human-kind, but I endeavor honor her spirit in how I execute my job every day.
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Drew Thompson
While supporting the House Appropriations Committee, my first female supervisor was Col (Ret) Patricia Murphy. Prior to joining the Committee, Colonel Murphy served in the Air Force for 30 years, did two tours in Vietnam, and was the first female base commander is US Air Force history.
Col. Murphy encountered great adversity throughout her career—adversity that had little to do with mission requirements and everything to do with discrimination based on her sex. Because of her grit and determination, Murphy was a trailblazer for female Air Force officers. Among her proudest achievements was attending the promotion ceremony of one of her junior lieutenants to 4-star general.
Marc Gravallese
My mom. It might sound cliche, but it is so true. She embodied so many qualities that I love to see in people: warm and welcoming, grounded and inspirational, true to her beliefs and values, not afraid to share them while respecting the beliefs and values of others. Not afraid to show both her feminine and masculine sides.
Joel Timmins
There are several women that have inspired or impacted me throughout my life. My great grandmother Maude was born in 1900 and witnessed transportation advancing from horse and wagon to landing on the moon and the space shuttle program. She passed away in 1999 but I was fortunate enough to visit her when I got out of the Marines in 1997. I asked her what she thinks will happen when she passes and her response summed up how she inspired me to love everyone regardless, "Well I don't suppose it matters if I end up in heaven or hell, I'm sure to have friends and family in both places."
My wife, Ivette, is the most inspirational woman in my life. She has traveled the world in the foreign service, including spending an unaccompanied year in the war zone. She somehow manages to be both selfless and high maintenance. 2019 was an incredibly hard year for her with breast cancer and her father passing away.
I'm inspired by the women at Markon every day. I have this great memory of Charlotte Daum standing in the middle of the 1201 New York Ave atrium. She was the only calm person in the building as Turner Construction executives were trying to beat the clock and wrap up the project before it opened to the public that morning.
Michelle Gettle inspires me with her passion in everything she does. From earning her PE and ICC certification in a short amount of time to growing the education market from nothing to proposing statewide CM/PM services to Virginia Tech.
Krissy, Juliana, Catherine, Cathy, Denise, Cheryl, Brenda, Maddie, Chirine, Sharon, Erin, Jessica, Merritt, Emily, Sara, I could go on and on…I can't think of one woman at Markon that hasn't inspired me in some way.
Cheryl Sourbeer
There are two women who are inspiring to me: my grandmother, Kiyo Kaneko, and her sister, Shizu Yoshida. They are both deceased now, but when they were alive, I didn't think of them as inspiring. Now that I'm older, I am able to appreciate their fortitude and accomplishments. Japanese women born near the turn of the 20th century, they were incredibly ahead of their time.
W. Scotte MacQueen
All of my female bosses and peers have inspired and impacted me.
Why? Women in leadership positions are generally better listeners, better at pulling the whole picture together, and have encouraged, challenged, and pushed me in ways my male bosses couldn't.
It's not that one gender is better than the other. Rather, they approach any given situation differently and their communication styles are varied enough that I feel my own skill-set has developed and been enriched by having leaders and colleagues from both genders.
Comment below to let us know which women have inspired you, either in your career, or in life. To all the women on #TeamMarkon, and all those who have made a positive impact on our world, thank you.


Upgrading ARCHIBUS to support globally diverse locations and an evolving operating environment.
Since 2003, Excitech has supported a large car manufacturer in keeping track and maintaining visibility of the ever-expanding complexities across its estate globally.
In terms of production, they are a large global car manufacturer with a vast real estate portfolio. When it comes to facilities management, not least in the area of moves and changes, they are presented with a sizeable challenge.
The manufacturer has a CAFM (Computer Aided Facilities Management) department that is the full-service provider of the real estate, construction and facility services.
Their CAFM Specialists have to ensure control and reporting capabilities across 24 million square feet of space encompassing 22 sites globally.
Where they once looked after occupancy planning, moves and changes for 7,200 people, this number has risen to over 40,000 people. 16,000 pieces of desktop equipment (computers and phones) has become 23,000 items, plus 5,000 assets for planned maintenance.
They first introduced ARCHIBUS over 15 years ago with the goal to better manage their office facilities in Europe by tracking and maintaining occupancy data. In the early days, Excitech helped them to deploy ARCHIBUS as a focussed tool for space and asset management, and for planned preventive maintenance (PPM).
In 2013/14 the company's global headquarters was brought into the mix. ARCHIBUS was also used for moves and changes across 12 sites, incorporating 20 buildings and 2,500 people.
The situation is very different now to how it was with their original implementation of ARCHIBUS. Nothing stands still in their business, or in technology which creates a dual challenge. On the one hand they must ensure that they have the right tools to scale up their ability to handle information as it expands. This is the basis of serving users effectively and accurately, ensuring that each business unit has access to safe, productive and cost-effective workplaces.
On the other hand, they need to ensure constant alignment and integration between ARCHIBUS and the many other solutions in place for users. ARCHIBUS has enabled them to produce reports on both vacant space and potential areas of change far more quickly than they could in the past.
Since various departments in three countries share the database housed in ARCHIBUS, and also share the applications (and licences), the database has to be oriented to each location, and security and roles strictly controlled so that users only see what they are supposed to see.
The manufacturer decided to modify the menu structure to ensure that the most commonly-used commands and reports are easily accessible for everyone who accesses the system. For example, a module labelled 'Tele' (which contains elements of ARCHIBUS applications) is used by telephone administrators. Employees were taught how to effectively navigate through the system when they want to perform a simple task, such as changing a phone number. This way, everybody has everything they need at the click of a button. By choosing to modify the menu structure rather than the software itself, ARCHIBUS upgrades can be simply and easily achieved.
Early on, the manufacturer determined that the measure of a successful CAFM implementation would be whether the system could identify 10 vacant workspaces that were otherwise unknown. On this basis, the cost of the implementation paid for itself almost immediately. Prior to implementing ARCHIBUS, users had no way of accurately tracking occupancy. On top of that, people were also claiming multiple desks at multiple sites. People would be sent to one site to work on a vehicle launch, which led to over-reporting of occupied desks. Now they assign each employee one workstation and identify available positions where temporary employees can work without taking up that space permanently. ARCHIBUS helps users on any site perform their jobs quickly and accurately. The main day-to-day benefit is that information is much more easily and readily accessible.
Having space usage information in an easily accessible format has had a positive impact on the team's interaction with other groups. One of the unexpected benefits of implementing this system has been the far greater level of cooperation that they now have with some of their internal partners, notably the IT groups.
For example, the CAFM team have been able to offer the IT groups access to occupancy data in exchange for information about equipment. These groups are now much more supportive of the controls that they have in place to prevent unauthorised moves and changes - they understand the significant negative impact such actions have on the integrity of the data they maintain in ARCHIBUS.
Excitech took care of the migration of the database from the previous version to the new version across all territories remotely. There was no disruption to daily operations and the resources at the manufacturer are now in line with each other and controlled through a unified view, which makes life far easier for the CAFM team, removing complexity and unnecessary downtime.
Their relationship with Excitech is over 20 years old and have used ARCHIBUS since 2003. This longevity has created a great deal of trust. Excitech has handled the global database migration from version 19.3 to 22.1, as well as assisting with a version comparison and transferring custom capabilities and functionality for their European implementation where these were still required.
Today, all office rearrangements and churn management are performed in ARCHIBUS globally. These moves vary from the large-scale relocation of 240 people to daily individual move requests. Their upfront planning data is far more accurate, available in seconds instead of days or weeks, and keeps them from having to walk around the facilities, writing on floor plans.


You may have heard that chocolate is poisonous to dogs.
If your dog has eaten chocolate, the first thing to do is – not panic! It's probably not as bad as you think.
Find out what the chocolate type is and how much they have eaten. The darker the chocolate, the higher the risk.
VetsNow have created an online chocolate toxicity calculator to assess the potential threat to your dog. Find it here.
If you think your dog has eaten a toxic amount of chocolate, take note of the amount and book your dog an emergency veterinary appointment straight away.
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If your local White Cross Vets practice isn't open, you can call our 'out of hours' service partners Vets Now for advice and treatment.
To find your nearest out of hours emergency vet, visit the Vets Now website here.
If a dog has eaten a full bar of 70% chocolate, that could be serious. But a dog would have to eat a lot more milk or white chocolate to have the same impact.
If you're worried, call your vet immediately. If your pet can be treated within an hour, they should be fine. Ideally within half an hour.
Ask for an emergency appointment and get them to the vets as soon as possible.
Whatever you do, DON'T try to make the dog sick yourself. This can be extremely dangerous and can waste precious time.
Your vet can assess and treat them quickly and effectively.
The severity of the poisoning is influenced by the amount of chocolate eaten as well as the type of chocolate.
Cocoa powder and dark chocolate are the biggest dangers to dogs as they contain more theobromine. Theobromine is a stimulant (a bit like caffeine) that is poisonous to dogs.
Dogs that eat a few smarties or a couple of bites of a chocolate chip cookie are unlikely to develop chocolate poisoning. But baker's or cooking chocolate is highly toxic and any amount could be dangerous.
For milk chocolate, eating more than half an ounce per pound of body weight may put your dog at risk for chocolate poisoning.
For dark or semi-sweet chocolate, eating more than 0.13 ounces per pound of body weight may cause chocolate poisoning in dogs.
Age and general health are also factors that can affect chocolate toxicity in dogs.
Very young and very old dogs or dogs with underlying health conditions or diseases should be treated as higher risk than healthy adult animals.
Due to the large amount of fat in chocolate, some pets may develop pancreatitis (or inflammation of the pancreas) after eating chocolate or baked goods containing chocolate.
We always recommend giving your vet a call for advice or an emergency appointment. This is because it is hard to tell exactly how much your dog may have eaten, and there are so many variables to consider in relation to chocolate toxicity in dogs.
If we are closed, White Cross Vets has an out of hours service run by Vets Now. You can find your nearest Vets Now clinic here.


Google is truly taking over the world. It's taking over the stratosphere too, as evident with news last month that Google's search czar, 59 year old Alan Eustace, eclipsed Felix Baumgartner's record with an even higher jump from space.
Yup, fearless Felix is no longer the record holder for highest jump, though he'll always be the first man to jump from the stratosphere, and the first to break the sound barrier with nothing other than gravity.
More about the jump. Unlike Baumgartner's skydiving masterpiece two years ago (which was admittedly a little hyped courtesy of Red Bull), Eustace trained in relative secrecy. He jumped on October 24, aided by a small group of engineers, beginning just before dawn, near Roswell, New Mexico, and ascended in a helium-filled balloon for two hours.
Then at peak altitude, he jumped, with a little less fanfare and a little more cubic inches. That would be 136,000 feet above terra firm – a full 7,000 feet (almost a mile and a half) higher than our favorite Austrian. No hype, no live streaming. Just a man three years' shy of senior status, who leaped, and hit speeds beyond 800 miles an hour.
Good enough for him to break the speed barrier, though Eustace says he didn't know when that happened.
Cojones to Alan Eustace. The guy's almost 60, and holds down an office job – not your prototype skydiving guru like Felix when you look at him. Yet there he is, quietly – ultra secretly even – as he punctures the sky with a skydiving record that should stand for at least a few months…right?
I can't help but feel a little bad for Felix. Still, he's a legend, and I wouldn't be surprised if he pulls off another crazy stunt to reclaim his skydiving crown in one form or another.


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Local Italian American History: From Agnone to Hubbard Township - Part 1
June 2018 | Ben Lariccia
Filippo Carosella, Filippo Marcovecchio and Alfonso Saulino along with wife Angela Maria, lived in Agnone. Of these, Filippo Carosella and Filippo Marcovecchio were contadini, or farmers, while Alfonso Saulino was a shoemaker. For all of them, as for many in southern Italy, and especially in Agnone, the 1870s were very difficult years. But despite all the challenges the four would face, they would eventually leave Italy and settle in the Mahoning Valley in 1873. Why did they abandon their native land and how did they arrive in the Greater Youngstown area?
Leaving Italy After Unification
The four Agnonesi would have experienced hardships similar to those that hit many Italians after Unification in 1870. The largely rural Kingdom of Italy faced several severe challenges, not least of which were a weak farming sector and lack of manufacturing. With the feudal system recently abolished, peasants lost the free use of village pastures, fields and woodlands. Additionally, by the second half of the 19th century, an expanding birth rate was outstripping the country's ability to gainfully employ its workforce. The widespread areas that produced cereal crops, such as wheat and corn, were especially marked by an underemployed, seasonal labor force. Once the grain harvest was finished, there was very little chance for work elsewhere. For people like Alfonso and Angela Maria and the two Filippos, the future in Italy looked very bleak.
The situation in southern Italy, where Agnone was located, was even worse. Luigi Campanelli, longtime mayor of nearby Capracotta, recorded in his history, "Il Territorio di Capracotta," a list of denunciations of the early central government. In it he inveighed against the country's political leaders. He accused them of favoring northern Italy, increasing taxes on the population, imposing new rents on the sheepherding industry, exacerbating the problem of the brigands, and levying a tax on gristmills – effectively hiking the price of bread. Not surprisingly, many southerners joined Italians from other regions who were leaving. Previous immigration from Italy to the U.S. had been negligible, but by 1870, Italian immigrants arriving on the East Coast were reaching into the thousands.
Transmigration and a Hellish Voyage
Sailing to the U.S. from Italy and surviving the passage would be no small feat for the four from Agnone. While transatlantic vessels in the 1890s and later would depart from Genoa and Naples, in the earlier decades small and less reliable ocean-going ships made for a complicated and prolonged journey. Italians had to make a series of transmigrations across Northern Europe before actually embarking for the Americas. For southern Italians, the first stage in their journey was a trek from their homes to Naples, with the poorest among them arriving on foot. Once at the seaport, the travelers boarded a steamer bound for Marseilles on the southern coast of France. After a brief passage on the Mediterranean Sea, the travelers left the French port and continued overland by rail to Le Havre on the north coast of France. There the "transmigrants" embarked on a vessel bound for the United States.
But there were other challenges. The National Line was a shipping company with a record of fraud and abuse of passengers. Its vessel, the S. S. Erin, proved no exception. A vivid record of the steamer's early December voyage of 1872 survives because of the eyewitness account of passenger Joseph P. McDonnell, a reporter for The New York Herald. He noted that no sooner had the vessel raised anchor than the first sign of trouble appeared. There were no sailors at the lifeboats.
The four Agnonesi boarded the Erin at Le Havre along with 750 passengers, 550 of whom were Italian emigrants.
The conclusion of "Local Italian American History: From Agnone to Hubbard Township" will be printed in our next issue.
The story of the S. S. Erin and its passengers from Agnone is taken from an unpublished study by Joe Tucciarone and Ben Lariccia, "The Coalburg Italians: Coal, Immigration, and Labor Strife in Ohio's Mahoning Valley."
More in this category: « The 1873 Coal War: Speakers to Present on the First Italians in the Mahoning Valley Local Italian American History: From Agnone to Hubbard Township - Part 2 »
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CHARLOTTE COUNTY -- Sheriff's deputies say they apprehended two men armed with firearms who were burglarizing a Port Charlotte home.
The resident called deputies Wednesday morning after she heard footsteps, a loud crash and saw a man climbing through a rear window of her home in the 3300 block of Croton Terrace.
Deputies say they found two men inside the house.
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They say they found a loaded .380-caliber pistol, a loaded .45-caliber pistol and handcuffs fashioned out of plastic "zip" ties in a closet where suspect Frank Sibilia, 23, a homeless man from Port Charlotte, tried to hide from them.
Both defendants face several criminal charges, including armed burglary.
CHARLOTTE COUNTY -- An 18-year-old man was booked into the Charlotte County jail for the 13th time after neighbors claim they discovered him burglarizing their home.
The residents told deputies they returned home early from vacation Wednesday to discover the front door forced open. They said they found Dontavious Clevon Powell, of the 16000 block of Alcira Circle in Punta Gorda, in their living room and wearing a backpack.
After Powell left, the residents claimed they discovered a laptop computer and a cell phone missing.
Detectives arrested Powell at his home on charges of burglary and grand theft but did not find the missing laptop and phone.
CHARLOTTE COUNTY -- For a Port Charlotte couple and their adult son, growing psilocybin mushrooms evidently became a family operation, sheriff's narcotics detectives say.
Detectives arrested William Lorne Mudge, 55, Betty Lou Mudge, 50, and Joshua Lee Mudge, 20, on several drug charges this week.
After getting a search warrant for the Mudge home in the 13000 block of Goodrich Avenue, the detectives say they discovered a growing operation for hallucinogenic mushrooms.
They also charged Joshua Mudge with battery on an officer and resisting arrest with violence.
They claimed the son struck a deputy in the face with his fist.
MANATEE COUNTY -- Two men robbed a woman of money she intended to deposit at a bank inside a Walmart in Bradenton, sheriff's deputies say.
Shortly before 5 p.m. Wednesday, the 55-year-old woman got out of her car in the parking lot of the store at 2911 53rd Ave. E. with the money she intended to deposit at the SunTrust Bank branch inside.
Two men approached her and demanded the money.
The woman told them she had a gun and went back to her car. One of the culprits said he had a gun as well and reached under his shirt as if he intended to retrieve it.
After the woman got in her car, one of the robbers got in on the passenger side and grabbed the money.
Sheriff's deputies describe the suspects as two males -- one was about 6 feet, skinny and wearing a black shirt and shorts that may have been black. The other was about 5 feet, 6 inches and wearing a red shirt and dark pants.
They left in a maroon sedan.


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