Chris's sister Rachel and their friends requested to do a Disney weekend trip to Food and Wine and we had to say yes. No need to convince me because any excuse to go to Disney is a good excuse, ammirite? I was so excited to finally share a trip around the world with friends and spend time enjoying each others company.
There were a lot of "firsts" this trip for some of us; from first-time rides to first-time around the world for Food and Wine. My favorite first was that some of them haven't been on the new Test Track, in-fact enjoy this amazing ride photo.
Overall it was a much needed vacation-ish weekend filled with great friends, good foods, and "free-flowing" wine. We've got some reviews for the things we tried down below. We also got a guest review and an bonus review from the La Cava del Tequila Lounge found in the Mexico pavilion; neither of those are in the pricing of the Quick Statistics since either Chris and I didn't pay for it nor is it apart of Food and Wine festival.
We really wanted to try most of the items that we marked as a suggestion or highly recommended. This was one of those items and honestly it fell a little short for both of us. The braised beef was delicious, there was plenty of it too, it was very tender and the seasoning was flavorful. I was NOT a fan of the tiny egg noodles, honestly they were kinda gross and did not remind me of stroganoff at all. Additionally, I was confused why this dish was in the Cheese Studio booth since there seemed to be no cheese aspect of it. Upon writing this review apparently it was with a "fine herbs cheese sauce" and we did not taste that. The beef was cooked in a well seasoned sauce that did not resemble any cheese texture or flavor. We also agreed that we wished this dish was paired with the side dish that came with the Beer-braised Beef of the Belgium booth, but more of that below.
Hmm… Can I have MORE of this? Honestly this was our favorite thing we've had at the festival that day and honestly probably of the whole festival. This was amazingly delicious and I almost got another one while we were there (but I restrained myself). It reminded me of the cheesecake from Flower and Garden festival (which was also my favorite). But the flavors of this Maple Bourbon Boursin Cheesecake were spot on. You could easily taste the bourbon cream and the pecan crunch gave it that perfect extra texture. Dreaming of it as I'm writing this review.
I mentioned back on first trip to food and wine that we had the Seared Scallops from Coastal Eats and we later walked by this booth and thought it would be better. We were right. Skip Coastal Eats and head straight to The Wine & Dine Studio booth for these Seared Scallops.
They were cooked perfectly and we thought the pairing was very nice. At first we couldn't figure out what the white was, it tasted very much like a light mashed potato puree but later found out it was celery root. Mildly surprised because I hate celery and celery root flavored things; mostly for the texture but this was so smooth and you could really taste the truffle in it. Paired with the wild mushrooms it gave it the best compliment to the scallops. We had a hard time trying to figure out what the huge black vegetable looking object was on the plate. We tasted it a few times, it tasted great, but we wouldn't figure out what it was. Chris thought it was a truffle but there is no way Disney would put a truffle of that size on a plate. When we were discussing these reviews among each other, and overlooking the menu, I was shocked to find out that there was supposed to be brussels sprouts in this dish. Our conclusion is that either we did not get any brussels sprouts or the huge black vegetable looking thing was the brussels sprout. Not sure but it was still great and we highly recommend.
I recalled I have has both of these items from previous Food and Wine festivals as soon as I picked up the dish. There were actually 4 mussels that came in this dish and it's not a bad dish for the price. But it was a little dry and honestly not filling at all. If you want to splurge for something that flavorful and nothing too special then this is the dish.
And again when I saw what this looked like I recalled that I have had it before. But for the price this is one of the lower priced frozen drinks found at the festival and the Cast Member was kind enough to fill it a little over the top since it was melting on me and I couldn't get a descent photo. It falls flat on flavor but is a refreshing wine for a hot day.
We wished we had a full size version of these, they were just so great! A good take on nachos but Greek style. Not a bad portion for the price. I'm a little surprised to learn this was a vegetarian dish because we were convinced we had lamb crumbles so that just shows how good it tasted.
Honestly not much to say about this flight. I don't think I have ever had Greek wine before but they all had similar tastes to what Chris and I have tasted with our Cooper's Hawk Wine Membership tastings. We did enjoy some of them but honestly they were nothing special. The price was good, this was one of the cheaper wine flights you can get during the festival.
Well we're going back to it. We really wish that we could have the smoked Gouda mashed potatoes with the beef from the above referrenced Braised Beef "Stroganoff". This beer was honestly gross, which was SUCH a let down. It wasn't tender at all, it was two huge blocks of beef that have been cooking for a while it felt like. It was flavorless and we were so disappointed. But the mashed potatoes… oh man these mashed potatoes. Let's just say we're going to figure out how we can make our own smoked Gouda mashed potatoes at home because that part was heavenly. Safe to say we probably will not be coming back to try this again.
Overall this was a great beer and it is apart of the flight that they offer at the Belgium booth.
I've been trying to go to La Cava del Tequila for many years now. Yes, I just said years. For those who don't know, La Cava del Tequila is a small bar located inside the Mexico pavilion. Honestly that line is always killer. Plus, I'll admit, I've turned into the worst "APasshole" – I absolutely hate waiting in long lines and honestly I couldn't imagine waiting in a long line for an expensive tequila drink mostly filled with ice. But that was negative-Nancy-Stacy speaking, and she's gone now, and positive Stacy is here to tell you – IT'S WORTH THE WAIT. So we waited 50 minutes, almost missed our fastpasses for The Land (lol okay that maybe could have been missed) but I had such a great margarita that honestly I didn't care at that point.
Overall they were both solid, strong, and large for the price. In The Wild One the margarita was sweeter and I found out that the Blank Ant Salt is a mixture of dried chiles, crushed black ants, salt and sugar. It gave it a very nice spicy kick to the drink. Chris LOVED El Diablo, it was totally what he loves in his margarita and that is for it to say it'll be spicy and it delivering on the spice level. I tried it, I liked it, but it was too spicy for me. It had a great flavor but I do not think I could have drank a whole glass of that. Chris did mention he felt like that drink was fitting for him and only he could have finished it all without complaining and enjoying it. So if you want to challenge him to this, you let me know. Hehe. His rim was filled with sweet salt which I thought also paired well with the spicy drink.
Our friends Herin (@Herinwarner) and Stephanie (@reallysteph) had the opportunity to try the Loaded Mac and Cheese with Nueske's Pepper Bacon, Cheddar Cheese, Peppers, and Green Onions from Coastal Eats, see what they have to say about it below.
Herin: I liked it, it had a lot of different flavors going on. I normally don't like heat and the dish had the kind of heat that wasn't spicy but more flavorful. It wasn't like an annoying feeling of having your mouth burn off for example. I'd give it an 8.5/10.
Stephanie: I'd agree with Herin but I would give it an 8/10 because it is kinda spicy and I was shocked by the spice. I think it must have been the jalapeno in it. But I got a good portion of Mac for my money so that's a win. It was a nice solid snack.
Honestly thanks for following along with us. We have been enjoying doing these reviews together and enjoying good food. My favorite thing on our drives back is to discuss all the foods and drinks we tasted, rate them, and talk about how we can do it at home or how they were compared to other things. It really brings us closer together, and gets Chris to get his chef imagination going. After another trip he called me to say that Scallops were on sale and we had to buy it to try it out. They were amazing that day for dinner. We currently have one more trip planned and it sounds like the last one for Food and Wine this year. I'm running the 10K during Wine and Dine Half Marathonl weekend so we're going to do our best to try the last few things on our suggestions list. We have decided to skip the following items so if they really are that amazing and we should rethink our decision please tell us!
The following items have been taken off our list: Beef Nigiri (Japan), Hummus Fries (Morocco), Moqueca (Brazil), Spanish-style Paella (Spain) and Teriyaki-glazed SPAM Hash (Hawai'i).
Tell us what we should try in the comments section below!
Stacy is a natural born Disney lover. Since she was a little girl she would have the cassette tape of Beauty and the Beast on repeat during car rides singing every song, repeating every word. Now as a young adult Stacy is trying to figure out how to be a successful adult, post-graduation, and runs away to Walt Disney World on the weekends. Besides Disney, Stacy loves the simple pleasures of life like sunflowers, french fries, cuddles with her beloved pooch, time with her amazing boyfriend, and diving deep into a TV show series. Follow her adventures on her personal Instagram @StacyTally.
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iRender nXt for SketchUp is a rendering system that allows you to enjoy the AccuRender Ray Trace engine directly from Google SketchUp. Materials, lights, reflections and scene settings are all stored in the SketchUp model so that the model can be rendered as a photorealistic image without having to redefine the scene after the 3D Export.
iRender nXt for SketchUp expands these capabilities by adding fractal plants, solid materials, Radiosity, and other advanced rendering settings.
Fast ways to make new reflective or transparent materials such as metal, plastic, and more. Just right click on a Face, Group, or Component to edit its material.
Render a fast, small preview before creating the full rendering.
Automatically saves the rendered image when it is complete. This is useful when you start a rendering and accidentally forget to save it before exiting SketchUp.
iRender nXt for SketchUp has improvements in models and images which allows it to process larger models.
Support for SketchUp section planes.
When you make changes to the SketchUp sun, sky, ground plane or fog, the changes are automatically noticed and recorded for iRender nXt for SketchUp.
Render larger models by re-sampling large textures and images.
Incorporate the effects of light reflecting from or being blocked by fog or haze.
create an interactive 3D PDF Presentation using your model and your Rendered Image.
When SketchUp releases a new version, you will need to reinstall your Render Plus applications to use the new version.
Lighting Channels is an important new feature of iRender nXt for SketchUp which lets you quickly adjust light sources.
nXt Path Tracer is a new rendering engine for iRender nXt for SketchUp.
Image Filters can be used to sharpen your rendered image or apply other standard filters.
iRender nXt for SketchUp includes several post processing features to make changes to your rendered image without the need of using other third party software. These are all combined into the Post Processing Wizard.
A Trimble 3D Warehouse collection of objects, such as light fixtures, which have lights placed in them so they can be used directly with iRender nXt for SketchUp.
Making it easy to position your rendered model in a background and retrieve the settings for future renderings.
Making it easy to find, examine, and edit the artificial lights placed in your SketchUp Model for rendering with iRender nXt for SketchUp.
Let's you change the view and zoom after rendering and re-render without having to change the view in SketchUp.
Five lighting presets which make it easy to set lighting without having to set individual values.
Downloadable models from our 3D Warehouse use to get started quickly with advanced lighting and rendering settings.


Gracious Heavenly Father, at the close of another year, I want to thank You for the joys that You have given me during the last year and for the difficulties You have used in my life to allow me to grow in my relationship with You.
Wise, infinite Father, in the coming year I ask that You will direct me to be surrendered to You so that I will not have to be embarrassed about my life's record when it is revealed in eternity. Give me more consciousness of fulfilling the directions in Your Word about how to live a Christ-centered life.
Thank you that I can move into this new year knowing that You hold the future and that You will always be with me.


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Katherine Hawley
Lying with Bar Graphs
Katherine Hawley on why it matters when we're given misleading statistics.
We've accumulated a sheaf of fliers from the local council elections, and the general election will bring more: leaflets stuffed through the door by diligent local activists, filled with promises and pledges, alongside photos of the candidate looking smiley or severe in recognisable constituency locations. Most of us don't read manifestos, so printed election addresses are the main way in which we hear unedited what the parties want to tell us.
Those flimsy sheets of paper matter: it matters whether we're getting truths or falsehoods shoved through our letterboxes. And there's a particularly insidious way in which falsehoods get sneaked into our homes every election season: the ludicrous bar graph. Ludicrous bar graphs list accurate data about the votes secured by each party locally at the previous election, then visually misrepresent how close-run the elections are. If there isn't a ludicrous bar graph lying around near your front door, you can see some egregious examples here.
Parties use these misrepresentations to get out their core vote, and to encourage tactical voting: no point wasting your vote on a party which is in a 'distant' third place.
These graphs are undeniably misleading (and undeniably a personal bug-bear of mine). Yet politicians are not neutral statisticians, and it's no surprise if they selectively present data: that expectation is already built into our approach to reading election materials, if we read them at all. But can a picture – or a graph – be an outright lie, if it is accompanied by accurate numerical data?
Philosophers' distinctions between lying and merely misleading are designed with verbal or written language in mind, not pictures: lying involves falsehood in what's actually said, whereas merely misleading often involves falsehood in what's implied or suggested. (Jenny Saul's Lying, Misleading, and What is Said, published by Oxford University Press in 2012 is an exemplary contribution to debates around such definitions.) But with a conventionalised system of visual representation such as bar graphs, we can make an analogous distinction between "what's said" and what's merely implied or suggested by the graph. On that count, ludicrous bar graphs, in which the bars are out of all proportion to the data, are downright lies; even when they are juxtaposed with accurate numbers.
Does it matter? It's illegal under UK election law to knowingly make a false statement about the personal character or conduct of a rival candidate; there are no other special restrictions on election materials. But the wrongness of lying is a moral matter even where it's not governed by the law.
Indeed, these insidious lies are damaging in a way that a blatant lie is not. Local parties distribute ludicrous bar graphs because they know they'll get away with it: many of us have little statistical literacy, and even when we can see that the graph is ludicrous, some of us may struggle to see a picture as a lie. This cynical behaviour casts a shadow over the rest of the election materials: if we know that a party will lie when they can get away with it, we can't take on trust what they say about other matters. That's so even in situations where we know the party isn't lying, because they won't get away with it: if that's their only reason not to lie, then they don't deserve our trust.
Katherine Hawley is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, and the author of Trust: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press 2012). She blogs regularly at Psychology Today (https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/trust), and her website is https://katherinehawley.org.

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ടെലിവിഷന്* എന്ന പരമ്പരാഗത മാധ്യമത്തെ ഒറ്റയടിക്ക് ഇന്റര്*നെറ്റുമായി സമ്മേളിപ്പിക്കുന്ന സങ്കേതമാണ് ഗൂഗിള്* ടിവി. ഈ സങ്കേതം ഉപയോഗിച്ചിട്ടുള്ള ആദ്യ ടെലിവിഷന്* സോണി കമ്പനി അവതരിപ്പിച്ചു. അമേരിക്കയിലാണ് ആദ്യം ഇത്തരം ടിവികള്* ലഭ്യമാവുക. ഡിസംബറോടെ ഇത് മറ്റ് രാജ്യങ്ങളിലും വില്*പ്പനയ്*ക്കെത്തുമെന്ന് റിപ്പോര്*ട്ടുകള്* പറയുന്നു.
24 ഇഞ്ച്, 32 ഇഞ്ച്, 40 ഇഞ്ച്, 46 ഇഞ്ച് വലിപ്പങ്ങളില്* നാല് മോഡലുകളാണ് സോണി ഇറക്കുന്നത്. ഇവയുടെ വില യഥാക്രമം 600 ഡോളര്* (26000 രൂപ), 800 ഡോളര്* (35000 രൂപ), 1000 ഡോളര്* (44000 രൂപ), 1400 ഡോളര്* (61000 രൂപ) എന്നിങ്ങനെയാണ്.
'ടെലിവിഷന്റെയും പൂര്*ണ ഇന്റര്*നെറ്റ് സെര്*ച്ചിന്റെയും അനുഭവം ഒരുമിച്ച് ലഭ്യമാകുന്ന ലോകത്തെ ആദ്യ എച്ച്ഡിടിവിയാണ് സോണി ഇന്റര്*നെറ്റ് ടിവി'യെന്ന് സോണിയുടെ സീനിയര്* വൈസ്പ്രസിഡന്റ് മൈക്ക് അബാറി പറഞ്ഞു.
ടെലിവിഷനെ ഇന്റര്*നെറ്റ് ബ്രൗസിങിനുള്ള ഉപകരണം കൂടിയാക്കി മാറ്റുകയാണ് ഗൂഗിള്* ടിവി ചെയ്യുക. യുടൂബ് വീഡിയോകള്* ഇനി തടസ്സമില്ലാതെ ടെലിവിഷനില്* തന്നെ ആസ്വദിക്കാം.
ഇന്റല്* ആറ്റം പ്രോസസറും ഗൂഗിളിന്റെ മൊബൈല്* പ്ലാറ്റ്*ഫോമായ ആന്*ഡ്രോയിഡുമാണ് ഗൂഗിള്* ടിവിയുടെ കാതല്*. ഗൂഗിളിന്റെ തന്നെ ക്രോം ബ്രൗസറാണ് ഇതിലുള്ളത്.
ലോഗിടെക്കാണ് ഗൂഗിള്* ടിവിക്കാവശ്യമായ വയര്*ലെസ് കീബോര്*ഡ് നിര്*മിക്കുന്നത്. ബില്*ട്ടിന്* ഓപ്ടിക്കല്* മൗസോടു കൂടിയ ക്യുവര്*ത്തി കീബോര്*ഡ് ഉപയോഗിച്ച് സുഗമമായി ഇന്റര്*നെറ്റ് ബ്രൗസ് ചെയ്യാന്* കഴിയും.
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While many people are focused on the recent launch of Google TV, there are a range of existing alternatives for people who want more than just TV on their TVs — or who may what to "cut the (cable) cord� entirely. The chart below offers a short overview and comparison of the major providers and systems available in the US market. It is not intended to be definitive or exhaustive.
Each product or system below requires some sort of new hardware, either a set-top box or a entirely new TV. Prices range from a low of $59 for the cheapest Roku box to well over $1,000 for the largest Sony Internet TV.
This widget or app approach is very analogous to the smartphone universe and we should see that model continue to gain traction as an alternative to simply putting a browser on the big screen (as you have now with Opera on the Wii). Internet content and its presentation need to be optimized for the "form factor� of TV and the "lean back� experience. YouTube, for example, has developed a special "lean back� version for this reason.
Some of these systems are more "social� than others (e.g., Boxee, Xbox Live). But overall the available content and degree of internet access varies widely. While I would handicap each of these providers somewhat differently and believe some have a better chance than others, it's still quite unclear which systems will penetrate the mainstream.
Update: I was corrected that the Boxee Box does offer full internet access through a browser.
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The Logitech Revue with Google TV's Web browser offers you no more protection or control than a run-of-the-mill desktop version.
Google TV becomes less mysterious every day. We now have Logitech's pricey Revue box and peripherals to fawn over. Everything looks so sleek and black. The color is fitting; it matches the darkness at the heart of this otherwise innovative product.
Yes, we need a device that brings together our online, desktop, and television-viewing worlds. I want a platform that can break down barriers, with a search engine that traverses all digital mediums and brings back a single, cohesive results page. This is bliss. So why do I think it could turn into a horror show?
A core component of Google TV—and the Logitech Revue—is the Google Chrome Web browser. This makes perfect sense. Google has built one of the best Web browsers on the market. It's so good it's captured over 10 percent of the market in just two years.
According to one Google exec I spoke to at the Logitech Revue launch event, the browser inside the device is actually Chrome 5. It will even get slipstream updates just like the Chrome browser on your desktop or laptop. In case you didn't know, Google is quietly updating Chrome for you, whether you like it or not.
Surely, I thought, the browser inside the Logitech Revue with Google TV couldn't be exactly the same as a run-of-the-mill Web browser. I was right. A Google executive explained that this browser was entirely devoid of Chrome, meaning the thin interface Google wraps around the desktop version is gone. Another Google rep did tell me that Google made the UI slightly different to optimize for the TV "form factor."
I wondered what other tweaks Google might have made to try and optimize the browser for Revue with Google TV.
Wait a minute, I said to the Google exec. What if someone is operating his Revue with Google TV And he stumbles on a pop-up chain (accidentally hitting an adult site comes to mind). Does the Google TV Chrome browser do anything to suppress the pop-ups or at lease shield the user from this kind of activity? This isn't, after all, a PC.
Nope, the browser doesn't do anything, because it's simply Chrome. It will protect you only in the ways Chrome on the desktop can protect you.
And there's the fatal flaw. It gets worse. Remember, this Chrome browser has no interface or controls. So how do you shut it down and stop those out-of-control pop ups? How do you even change the browser settings? To be clear, it's really just a browser. Throughout the Logitech Revue with Google TV press conference, both companies repeated that mantra. When asked about commerce integration, execs said that "the whole Web is accessible" through the browser, which means, shopping sites, content sites, and everything else. If that's the case, don't you need some sort of protection from "the whole Web?"
You can't install security software on Google TV, so how do you automatically block the bad stuff?
To me this is more than an issue. It's a big, dark problem that literally lies at the core of Google TV. I don't understand how Google can put a browser on a device without the traditional controls of a computer and not make any kind of software adjustments.
If something bad starts to happen on Logitech's Revue with Google TV, what's a user supposed to do? Shut off the TV? No, the activity will still be live and right there when you turn on your set. There are, in fact, Ctrl Alt and Delete buttons on the Revue Remote Control keyboard, so I guess you could use that to reset the box. That seems very un-TV-ish. How, though, do you clear your history and cache?
Look, I'm glad Google, Logitech, and other partners are diving into this, but if they let this problem slip by, what other crucial product mistakes have they missed?


The Juicy Loosey - A Jucy Lucy or Juicy Lucy is a cheesy cheeseburger with the cheese inside the meat patty instead of on top, resulting in gooey melted core of cheese within the patty.
1. Place beef, Worcestershire sauce, garlic salt, and pepper in a bowl; mix well. Portion into eight even units. Shape each portion into a thin round patty that's slightly larger than the cheese slice.
2. Fold cheese slices in half twice so you have a little stack of quartered cheese slices. Place a folded cheese stack on 4 the patties, covering cheese with remaining 4 patties.
3. Tightly crimp the edges of the patties together to form a tight seal.
4. Did you make a tight seal? I hope so, because it needs to be TIGHT to avoid a blowout as the cheese melts, creates steam, and tries to find its way out of its meaty prison.
5. Preheat a cast-iron skillet or heavy-bottomed pan to medium heat (or fire up a medium-hot bed of coals on your backyard grill), and cook burgers over heat 3 to 4 minutes on first side. Burger may puff up due to steam from melting cheese. This is normal. Do not be alarmed.
6. Flip, and using toothpick, prick top of burger to allow for steam escape. Allow burger to cook 3 to 4 minutes on this side.
7. Remove patties from pan or grill. Bun those suckers, slap some condiments on, and dig in.


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Q: Pokémon go glitch I have recently started playing Pokémon GO, and I just reached level 13. But suddenly, every pokémon I catch seems to run away (I mean literally all of them) and I can't use gyms or pokéstops. I really need a fix on this as I enjoy the game very much!

A: Have you been GPS Spoofing or using 3rd-party map applications such as PokeRadar to assist you in your gameplay? Because these things are cheating, and Niantic may ban you if caught. If you are "Banned", you can still "play" the game, but all pokemon will flee from you, and gyms and pokestops will not work. Sounds an awful lot like what you're experiencing.

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Free trolley service coming to Schenectady, will stop at Casino
Deal has been 2 years in the making
By Stephen Williams | January 25, 2017
PHOTOGRAPHER: Patrick Dodson
A CDTA trolley in Saratoga Springs in July 2012. The trolley buses in Schenectady will be similar.
SCHENECTADY — It's going to be free to take a trolley bus between downtown attractions like Proctors and the new Rivers Casino & Resort.
A new Capital District Transportation Authority service will run between downtown Schenectady and the Rivers Casino, starting in late March, CDTA officials said Wednesday.
The "Downtowner" service will provide free trips to the general public, while a separate universal access agreement will allow employees of the casino to ride CDTA buses for free, said CDTA CEO Carm Basile.
Schenectady Metroplex Development Authority is organizing the underwriting of the shuttle service, at an estimated cost of $125,000 per year. The casino will pay for the access agreement for its employees.
The service will connect Schenectady's increasingly vibrant downtown with the casino, which is scheduled to open Feb. 8. It will also incorporate a stop at the downtown city train station, which is expected to be rebuilt in the next couple of years.
"The trolley will be perfect between (the train station) and the new hotels," said Norman Miller, a Schenectady County representative on the CDTA board.
Metroplex Chairman Ray Gillen confirmed Metroplex is working on plans to subsidize the service.
"We are working with the Mohawk Harbor developer, Proctors and others to link downtown to the harbor with a trolley bus," Gillen said in an email. "The local cost share would be around $125,000, and we are looking to raise that from multiple groups, including Metroplex."
Downtown and the casino site are less than a mile apart, but anyone walking would have to do so along busy Erie Boulevard.
The trolley buses will be similar to those now used during the summer months in Saratoga Springs. They resemble a historic street trolley but are built on the chassis of small buses. The trolleys are smaller than a regular commuter bus, designed to carry fewer people.
Two established bus lines will also serve the casino site.
Meeting Wednesday in Albany, the CDTA board approved the purchase of two trolley buses at a cost of $304,184. Delivery is expected in late spring, but service will probably start before then, using the two Saratoga trolleys, which won't be needed for summer service there until early July.
Under a separate agreement, Rush Street Gaming — the parent company of the Rivers Casino — will pay for its employees to ride CDTA buses for free throughout the four-county bus system. More than 1,000 people are expected to work at the casino, which is scheduled to open to the public on Feb. 8.
Basile said the employee access agreement will go into effect on Feb. 5.
Basile said negotiations with Mohawk Harbor developer the Galesi Group began about two years ago. He cited it as an example of a developer working closely with CDTA.
"Way before shovels were in the ground, we were talking to the developer," he said.
Also at Wednesday's meeting, the board approved $7.9 million in new bus purchases, including the acquisition of four new articulated buses: 60-foot vehicles that bend in the middle to give them the capacity to carry more people than standard 40-passenger buses. The authority received its first two articulated buses last year.
Basile said those buses — which cost about $800,000 each and won't be delivered until late this year — will be used on existing routes with high-service demand.
CDTA is carrying slightly fewer riders than it did a year ago, when it had a record 17.1 million riders. But Basile said total ridership is still likely to be near 17 million when CDTA's fiscal year ends on March 31.
Reach Gazette reporter Stephen Williams at 395-3086, [email protected] or @gazettesteve on Twitter.
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Dareton Public School serves the small township of Dareton, a horticultural district of Coomealla, and an Aboriginal settlement located one kilometre from the town. Our long term goals are to: acknowledge and cater for different cultural backgrounds that make up our school community; increase student outcomes; involve the parent body and wider community in school activities; develop the professional needs of all staff; develop a physical environment that is safe and pleasing.
Trinity Lutheran College is a co-educational school which caters for students from Preparatory to Year 10. The College currently has over 500 enrolled students. The school is situated at 920 Fifteenth Street, Mildura and is located in a developing part of the city, surrounded by housing estates. The Centre Plaza shopping complex is close by. The large grounds contain a multi purpose court, two sports ovals, a lawned section and fixed playground equipment. The school buildings are well planned and have pleasant teaching/learning areas. In addition to the 17 general purpose classrooms, the school boasts a Food Technology Kitchen, a Science Centre, Music Room and two Art Rooms, a Library Resource Centre, two Computer Labs, an Activity Area as well as Administrative and Staff areas. The buildings lend themselves to the implementation of the school aims and objectives that set purposeful learning as the goal, as well as caring for the comfort and dignity of every student.
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Sacred Heart Primary School is situated in Mildura, a rural city in the north west of the state of Victoria, Australia. The school is one of two catholic schools in the Sacred Heart Parish. It has a current enrolment of 343 students and operates 14 classes. The school has a staff of 32 professional education and support personnel. Our School exists to support families in the endeavour of learning and growing in an environment that values partnership and trust. Our curriculum is comprehensive, well resourced and needs based – aimed to grow from each child's knowledge and ability base. Teaching and learning exists in the context of our Catholic, Christian Traditions nurturing the whole child and their potential. We look forward to many years' association, actively participating as the children grow and blossom in our care.


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Debunking 9/11 conspiracy theorists part 3 -Thermate, thermite and glowing aluminium
Posted on November 24, 2012 in 9/11, Sceptical/Debunking Videos, YouTube Videos // 8 Comments
In this video Myles discusses some of the claims made by thruthers that can be disproven with a simple google search. Claims such as Al does not glow red, cuts at the base of the WTC and the difference between thermate and thermite.
Thermate
6 Comments on Debunking 9/11 conspiracy theorists part 3 -Thermate, thermite and glowing aluminium
Abandon TV // November 24, 2012 at 9:56 pm // Reply
Debunking the claims of 'conspiracy theorists' is not the same as understanding (and being able to prove with evidence) precisely WHAT happened to the WTC 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 ……. as well as Bankers Trust and the 1,400 'toasted' cars etc etc
In other words, proving Group A's theories wrong does not mean that Group B's theories are automatically right. Disproving the existence of someone else's god does not mean that your god is any more real.
Either we know what happened on 9/11 or we do not. If we claim to know what happened on 9/11 then we must be able to explain all the physical evidence and hard scientific date and account for how it came to be that way. If we can't explain all the evidence then we must concede that we do not really know what happened on 9/11.
Detectives investigating a murder do not spend year after year bickering over theories – instead they get busy examining the evidence. And not just some of it but ALL of it.
Half an hour's research into the EVIDENCE at the WTC will show you beyond all doubt that the towers did not collapse (due to fires, bombs, thermite, jet fuel or any other reason).
– If the towers had collapsed there would be a pile of material in and around the tower's base because that's what 'collapse' means. But there isn't any significant amount of debris on the ground at all. As you can see, the 'pile' of debris from WTC 1 isbarely above street level. Notice the parked ambulance indicating where street level is. The big grey pieces are aluminium cladding. The rest is dust and paper. The distinctive lobby walls are clearly visible, as is the remains of stairwell B where 14 people survived.
The 11 miles worth of massive core columns (47 columns x 1300 ft) were the last part of the towers to remain standing. Had they fallen over sideways (like a tree) they would have fallen across the top of several blocks and this would have been clearly visible (this didn't happen). Had they collapsed down vertically they should be lying on top of the tower's debris 'pile'. But the photo (and many others) shows the 11 miles of core box columns aren't there either. So where are they?
If you claim the towers collapsed then you must KNOW where they went and you must be able to PROVE where they went. Otherwise you're just inventing a theory about an imagined event not the real event (ie you're just making stuff up).
Sure, there are *some* columns lying about (mostly outer 'wheatcheck' columns) but not enough to account for the 11 mile of core columns and 240 miles of outer columns (plus all the horizontal beams, floor pans, lift shafts, trusses etc)
– Had the towers collapsed they would also have created a seismic signal reflecting 500,000 ton buildings slamming into the ground. This also did not happen. The seismic signals were roughly equivalent to 30 story buildings hitting the ground. WTC 7 barely registered any signal at all despite being 47 stories and 230,000 tons.
The seismic signals were also SHORTER than the duration of the destruction. They lasted about 8 seconds, yet the overall destruction times for WTC1 was nearly 30 seconds (if you include the massive core columns which remained standing for a while). Any collapse theory would have to account for that too. During known controlled demolitions the seismic signals can last up to a minute (as the rubble shifts about in the rubble pile).
– Had the towers collapsed to the ground the 14 people in the core of WTC1 would have been buried underneath 500,000 tons of steal and concrete and they would probably have been squished as well. After all, the collapse theory is based on the idea that the weight of the top of the towers was capable of squishing the entire structure below it – but then your theory suggests that force suddenly stopped just a few feet above the heads of those survivors (and left no 'pile driver' behind either). The whole thing is ludicrous.
We know that 14 people DID survive in the core of WTC1 near ground level. They weren't crushed and they weren't buried. Some of them managed to crawl UP and OUT of the debris 'pile' by themselves!
If the weight of the top part of the towers is crushing the lower parts of the towers then that weight needs to be present all the way down to the ground, yes? But we know that there is virtually nothing piled up on the towers' footprints, and those people weren't crushed either …… so what crushed the towers down to that level? What is it? Where is it? How did it work?
If you promote the collapse theory you must know otherwise you're just making stuff up again.
The steel columns in the lower sections of the tower was many times thicker than in the upper sections (obviously, because they had to support more weight above them). So the towers were many times stronger near their bases than higher up (as all towers are). But those massive core columns have all been 'removed' right down to the ground, yet there is no weight sitting on top of them AND we know that 14 people survived just a few feet below the top of the debris 'pile'.
It is as if a monster scooped the towers away like a child scooping away a sand castle. But there are no monsters. The only scientific explanation left is that the towers were turned to dust in mid air and that most of the material never reached the ground in solid form.
Dust does not make a seismic impact.
Dust was everywhere
Everyone and everything was covered in dust
There was so much dust it was visible from space
We can literally SEE the towers turning to dust in mid air
We can literally SEE the core columns turning to dust in mid air.
So we have the situation where direct observation, logic, seismic data, forensic examination of the crime scene and eyewitness testimony all agree from their different perspectives that the buildings did not collapse at all……. they were turned, for the most part, into dust in mid air.
Meanwhile (11 years on), everyone is still arguing over an imaginary event (collapsing towers) which has nothing to do with the real event which took place in the real world on 9/11. The real event as described by the evidence. This is why the whole thing goes round and round in circles.
9/11 is like an endless debate about the murder of 'John'. Everyone has their own theory about who shot him……..Everyone is debating issues like: Who had access to guns? Who hated John the most? How many people heard the gunshot? What kind of gunshot was it? Was there more than one shooter? Did people really hear a gunshot or was it a tire exploding? Could someone claiming to have heard the gunshot five blocks away on West St really have heard it above traffic noise? Was the crime scene cleared illegally? Did they check the drains for the discarded weapon? What about the car seen driving past the crime scene at speed with its window wound down? Were the windows tinted? Was there a passenger in that car or not? Could the body have been shot from a car travelling at that speed? etc etc
People are so busy arguing that no one has bothered to check the corpse. Everyone just *assumes* the body has a gunshot wound because when the murder was first reported it was called a 'shooting'. But in reality there is no gunshot wound in the victim. And so all the theorising and bickering is a massive waste of time and energy and a massive distraction. After ten or twenty years everyone gets so sick of it they can't be bothered to look into it any more.
And this is how cover ups work. You encourage people to interpret an event wrongly from the start by feeding them the wrong terms (the horrific 'shooting' ….. the 'collapse of the world trade centre') and then you encourage them to argue over a bunch of competing theories – ALL of which are based that wrong assumption. Every 'side' of the debate then ends up defending the same erroneous assumptions without even realising it:
"I think the mafia shot John"
"I think his wife shot him"
"I think aliens shot him"
"I think jet fuel fires cased the towers to collapse"
"I think a controlled demolition caused the towers to collapse"
"I think aliens caused the towers to collapse"
…and the harder people argue their position the more they help to reinforce the wrong assumptions and cover up the truth.
Nobody's done a better job of covering up the truth than the '9/11 truthers'
Damo // December 5, 2012 at 11:20 pm // Reply
What I want to know is how a kid and confessed geek from Middlesbrough can afford to fly himself to California to have an opinion on Prop 37 and then get himself to New York to film himself making a terrible attempt of "debunking" 9-11 truthers. Who is funding your "freelance journalism"?
Myles Power // December 6, 2012 at 12:44 am // Reply
The CIA, FBI, MI6, LGBQT and MI5.
Damo // December 8, 2012 at 2:56 pm //
You forgot BBC.
Myles, have a big glass fluoridated water, eat some GM, and get another flu jab, because someone is having "fun with science" …. but it ain't you sunshine.
Aaron Johnson // October 19, 2013 at 5:18 am // Reply
I can understand why you don't buy the 9/11 truth. You just haven't gotten you "Wake Up Call" yet. Don't worry though, everyone gets theirs eventually, EVERYONE.
stevem660 // February 3, 2016 at 8:43 pm // Reply
In my pyromaniacal teenage years I made iron thermite, manganese thermite, chromium thermite, even lead sulphide thermite (smelly afterwards, as it make Al2S3). Years later I tried tin thermite, but was disappointed at the huge loss of tin as fume. Anyway, one thing that struck me was how dazzlingly bright they all are. Hardly surprising when you consider that iron thermite can get up to 2500 deg C. Even at iron's melting point (1538 C) it will be white hot. So that alone proves that the yellow glowing material cascading out of the building cannot have been molten iron. I also made my own version of "thermate" long before I'd heard of it. I read somewhere that MnO2 thermite can make it bang, but I couldn't even get it to light. So I spiced it up with a little Na chlorate. That did the trick. The bang was heard half a mile away. Oops.
Debunking 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists | Myles Power (powerm1985)


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Matt Mitchell - Contributor
still pinching ourselves
I had my first touch of alcohol when I was 23, after my old man died aged 43.
Drugs and alcohol can play a big part in any community, especially in regional towns. I'd seen uncles and aunties drunk nearly every day. They couldn't get any work. It was through boredom. And I just didn't like it, the stuff we saw when we were kids. I didn't want my boys seeing the same things.
The boys' mum and I were pretty cruisy parents, we wanted them to do whatever made them happy. Still do. But we wanted to know where they were at all times, who they were hanging around with.
I didn't want them to play football. They were Goolagongs and I thought golf or tennis or something would suit them.
They were naturals at those sports. Since they were little, they were all pretty coordinated. We had golf sets, tennis sets for them, and they used to play with each other.
But they came home one day and said, 'Dad, we want to play footy for the school.' And that was it. I went and signed them up for Taree Red Rovers and they all started playing footy.
Shaq was a big boy for his age and Lionel was pretty solid. Latrell was the middle fella but he was the littlest of them all. In a footy carnival, he scored 11 tries in one game so we put him up with his brother. And they played together ever since.
I'm hoping they get a chance in the NRL. Shaq's been working hard with the Roosters feeder club, Wyong Roos.
Shaq is totally different than Latrell. He's a big soft teddy bear and needs a lot of encouragement, whereas Latrell, he's always had that killer instinct. He doesn't like anyone beating him. And it always happened at home – Shaq and Lionel would team up and play against Latrell and other boys from down the road. And 'Trell would always try and change the rules.
I've sat down with the boys a few times and talked to them about stuff, about rugby league, about Sydney. I said if they did want to pursue the game, they'd have to work really hard but always have that education to fall back under. We always drummed that in.
Watching Latrell today, I still get goosebumps. Especially when he plays Souths because that's my team. Though I've had to switch allegiance! I've got to hide all my Souths stuff now, put it in the cupboard. There's Roosters stuff all around the house.
His mum and I, we still pinch ourselves with Latrell. We try to go to as many games as we can.
I don't know who started the rumours, but journos have been ringing me a lot lately asking if he's going to Souths. You never know what happens in the future. It's entirely up to Latrell. Rugby league is a business. But his mum and I, we love what the Roosters have done and are doing. Trent Robinson is a really good coach, so our boy's in really good hands.
It's the same for Shaq. He's had hamstring issues and put on some weight. He's got to get the right people around him. He's one of the best front-rowers running around and he can't get a crack. He needs someone to make some time for him, someone who knows young front-rowers and young Aboriginal boys. That's what I'm working on next. Hopefully, we get someone to look after him.
He lives in Wyong to be close to footy and travels to Sydney every morning to work. He's a 23-year-old front-rower. I keep telling him, don't give up on your dream, just keep pursuing and pushing and you'll be there with your little brother.
They had been living together. Latrell bought himself a house. He's the first one in our family to own their own home, so I'm proud of that.
WHERE RACISM STARTED
I stopped playing footy about age 28. I got a really good job at our local high school, as Aboriginal Education Officer. I watched our boys go through high school, finish Year 12, along with a lot of other kids in the area. It's been unbelievable. All the kids in the community. We've got some good kids up here.
But we need to change the Australian curriculum. We're not teaching kids enough about the history of Australia. We learn more about other countries than we do our own. We need to learn more about Australia – and that also means pre-Captain Cook.
But then, kids also don't know enough about bushrangers and fellas like Ned Kelly, why he kicked up things. Same with 150 years of Aboriginal people fighting the frontier wars. We don't know anything about them. We celebrate ANZAC Day. But what about the frontier wars when all the tribal people fought for their lands?
It's where racism started. Because they thought, you know, trap all the blackfellas in one place, on missions and reserves so we can control them. They called it a protection policy. Then there was assimilation, where they stole the kids, took language away, culture. And we didn't learn all that either. And we should, in schools.
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Australia is having grown-up conversations about it. Like on Q&A, on TV and in media. Stan Grant's written a book. But there's been arguments about what history is! There's been governments calling this history 'the black armband view', asking why would we want to focus on negative things? But it's Australia's history. It's our history.
My old man and uncles were part of the tent embassy movement back in the early '70s when they went down to Canberra and fought for Aboriginal rights. The old man was right behind it, right into the Black Panther, black power movement back in the day. He wasn't educated in a white man's way. But he tried to support our people as much as he could.
My brothers and I, there are six of us. The old man sat us down and talked about that sort of stuff. But my old man, he loved everybody. It was just the government and the police that he had issues with.
You know, the police have got to do their job. But sometimes there are means and ways of policing within communities. There are some really good police officers out there. But in the past it was perhaps ingrained in the police to do what the government wanted back in the day. They took people's kids away from them.
Today, Latrell gets watched all the time every time he comes home. The police know when he's home. But they're pretty good, they don't really hassle him.
Going forward, I'd say I am positive for Australia. There's a lot of people with good hearts doing their best. But there's a lot more to learn. We've got to open our hearts a bit more as a country.
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Proud one club man Cameron Smith becomes the first NRL player to reach 400 games on Saturday. He reflects on the early days at the Storm when video replays were on VCR and ice baths were wheelie bins. And the unexpected speech from an AFL icon that sums up how he's feeling.
Willie Tonga
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Apr 2, 2019. Update regarding proposed changes: BCD, Time-of-sale septic inspection no longer being discussed, by Sara Clifford.
The septic ordinance committee met last month to review the changes they've made over the past eight months. Their task has been to update the county's 1997 septic ordinance — a job that has been attempted at least three times before, the last one culminating with a packed public meeting at which residents went line by line over the last draft.
Kennard said an inspector is allowed to go to someone's door unannounced, and the owner is allowed to tell him to leave. If that happens, he'll come back with a warrant.
Kennard said that in his experience, what is holding back most people from fixing their septic problems is a financial issue.
The septic ordinance subcommittee has not yet approved a final draft.
Nov 28, 2018. Brown County Matters – Difficulty selling a house because of fears of a proposed septic ordinance.
March 30, 2018 A plan to update Brown County's septic ordinance is going back to the board of health for more work.
March 27, 2018. Letter: Limit proposed septic ordinance's scope By Tim Clark …"In summary, update the ordinance as needed to comply with existing state code only. "THEN" … Form a project team or contract with a consultant to study and address the larger and more complex issues.
PROPOSED changes to the Septic Ordinance – 2018 Version and past article in the Democrat on the topic to include effects on other aspects of development.
I attended several public meetings last spring held by the commissioners and Health Board to discuss the initial version of this ordinance. In addition to the general public, attendees included septic system installers, realtors, members from the RDC, APC, and Regional Sewer Board (RSB). Articles in the Democrat that discuss what was covered in these meetings is provided below.
They (Commissioners, Health Board/Dept) have yet to communicate any compelling need to justify exceeding the state standards. Perhaps this will be provided at the March 29 meeting.
The NEW changes to the septic ordinance that exceeds the state code include county inspection standards, certification of inspectors, penalties, and fines, etc. Note a septic inspection is part of the process of buying a home and banks also often require inspections. These are private sector functions.
One of the issues that was continuously raised was for the ordinance to clearly identify what was required by state code and what was not. It was often stated that a certain section was exactly like the state code when in fact it was not.
Participants also wanted to know exactly the justification for the higher standards that were going to be imposed by the county. Another suggestion was that Standing Operating Procedures (SOPs) should be developed to clearly identify in detail, how the new standards were going to be administered and enforced. It was recently stated that SOPs will NOT be developed/available until AFTER the proposed ordinance is passed by the commissioners. In other words, you have to pass the ordinance before you know how it is going to be enforced. This can lead to an abuse of power and corruption.
It was also reinforced in the meetings that this ordinance should be part of a larger wastewater treatment PLAN for the County. There has been no action on this recommendation. Dave Redding, President of the RDC in 2017, did identify a concept for a countywide strategy that could be further developed in coordination with the Health Board, Area Plan Commission and Regional Sewer Board. No further action was taken on this suggestion.
The justification last spring for the higher standards was based on assumptions, anecdotal information, speculation, conjecture, and opinions. The commissioners did follow through to support a review by county attorneys to help identify and mitigate any potential liability issues. This does not mean that the higher standards cannot be challenged in court.
The process that was applied in the development of this (or any other) ordinance "can be significantly improved" to provide voters with the assurance that elected and appointed officials performed their due diligence in thinking through all of the ramifications of the change.
Letter: Revised septic ordinance still contains concerns March 13, 2018. In this letter, I will address some of my concerns with Section 703 of the proposed septic ordinance.
APC to discuss shrinking home, lot size minimums – Brown County … Feb 20, 2018 – Those rules are in Brown County's recently revised septic ordinance, which is coming up for a hearing next month before the Brown County Commissioners. The APC talked briefly about making a special zoning district for tiny homes, or designating a pilot neighborhood for them, such as Helmsburg.
Comparison: Key changes in draft septic ordinance – Brown County … March 7, 2017 / Brown County Board of Health members said many of the points in the new septic ordinance they've been drafting are the same as the 1997 version — though they're in a different … Several people at the meeting mentioned a $400 inspection fee, which was published in a previous story in the Brown County Democrat.
Letter: Recent buyer supportive of new septic ordinance March 14, 2017. In regards to the upcoming vote on the septic inspection (March 8 paper). As a recent purchaser of a home in Brown County, we were within days of closing on one property. It had passed the home inspection by my inspection.


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La chiesa di Santa Maria del Rosario (detta anche chiesa del Rosario o chiesa di San Domenico) è una chiesa cattolica che si trova ad Alcamo, in provincia di Trapani.

Storia

Fu fondata nel 1660 con l'attiguo convento (utilizzato per pubblici uffici e case private dopo il 1866) dai Padri Domenicani.

Fino a quell'anno essi avevano dimorato nell'altro convento accanto alla chiesa di Santa Maria della Stella (o Santa Maria della Misericordia o del Ritiro), dove già nel 1587 c'erano otto frati e che necessitava di urgenti restauri; allora si trasferirono nella zona della città dove oggi c'è la chiesa del Rosario e vi trasportarono l'affresco della Madonna, tutt'ora custodito nella chiesa.

Nel 1761 la chiesa fu rifatta e allargata di molto e nel 1947 venne eretta a parrocchia, con il titolo di Santa Maria del Rosario.

Opere
L'interno è a navata unica rettangolare, con 9 cappelle,  presenta le seguenti opere di buon valore artistico:
 Croce (fine del XIV secolo), fissata al tetto
 Antico Dipinto di San Domenico, sul lato sinistro subito dopo l'entrata principale
 San Pietro Martire (tela d'ignoto autore del '600) e sotto di essa una statua in legno della Madonna del Ponte di Giuseppe Ospedale; nella prima cappella a sinistra
 Statua lignea di San Vincenzo Ferreri, (probabilmente del '700); seconda cappella a sinistra
 Tela della Madonna del Rosario con i Misteri, del 1603 e realizzata da Vito Carrera, sul portone secondario
 Tela di Sant' Antonio da Padova di Mario Giambona (1713), proveniente dall'ex chiesa di Santa Maria dell'Itria; terza cappella a sinistra
statua dell'Addolorata, sulla parete si trova un Bassorilievo marmoreo della scuola del Gagini raffigurante "La Dormizione della Vergine" ; quarta cappella a sinistra
Nell'abside: pregevole altare con la Madonna del Rosario e tre statue lignee della Madonna con il Bambino, San Domenico e santa Rosa
 Santa Caterina:(tela d'ignoto autore del '600) sul lato destro dopo l'entrata principale
Santo domenicano in ginocchio davanti alla Madonna con il Bambino di Bernardo Rizzuti Pauletti da Corleone (1718); nel secondo vano
San Domenico, antico dipinto probabilmente del Settecento; ai suoi piedi si trova una statua in legno di sant'Espedito di Domenico Messina; prima cappella a destra
Nella seconda cappella a destra c'è l'affresco di Santa Maria della Stella (1464), proveniente dall'omonima chiesa e attribuito a Tommaso De Vigilia; anche se deteriorato e sbiadito dal passare del tempo possiede tuttora l'originale vigore espressivo.
 Sacro Cuore di Gesù, statua lignea, nella terza cappella a destra
 Elegante altare con il dipinto di san Domenico d'ignoto autore, sui pilastri sono collocati 15 ovali che rappresentano i 15 misteri del Rosario realizzati da Carlo Brunetti nel 1759 dalla Compagnia del Rosario; quarta cappella a destra.

Nella sagrestia si trovava una statua in alabastro, risalente alla fine del XV secolo e attribuita a Pietro de Bonitate, di una Madonna con Bambino, detta Madonna della Provvidenza (oggi custodita nel museo d'arte sacra all'interno della chiesa madre), una tela rappresentante il miracolo di San Vincenzo Ferreri di Giuseppe Renda del 1793 e un'altra raffigurante sant'Angela Merici del 1905 e realizzata da Francesco Alesi.

Note

Bibliografia

Voci correlate
 Alcamo
 Domenicani
 San Domenico

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Maria del Rosario
Alcamo
Maria

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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers expressed interest in re-signing him, but Akeem Spence said he wanted 'a fresh start' with the Detroit Lions.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers expressed interest in re-signing him, but Akeem Spence said he wanted "a fresh start."
And when the Detroit Lions came calling in free agency, Spence turned to one of his college teammates, Lions safety Tavon Wilson, for advice.
"He recommended this place as a high reference point," Spence, who played three seasons with Wilson at Illinois, said during an introductory conference call with Detroit reporters today. "Just the way they're going, they were a playoff team, and they're building something special here. I just really wanted to be a part of that."
The Lions officially signed Spence to a three-year, $9-million deal today, with another $1.5 million available in playing-time escalators.
He's expected to serve as a rotational defensive tackle behind Haloti Ngata and A'Shawn Robinson and said he's especially looking forward to working with Ngata.
"This season, I'm going to be picking his brain, trying to learn everything I can from him, 'cause he's an encyclopedia of knowledge," Spence said. "You've been on different teams and you've been in the league this long. that means you're doing something right and you know a whole hell of a lot of football."
Already, Spence said he has benefited from learning from one of the NFL's best defensive tackles, Gerald McCoy.
Spence played the last four seasons alongside McCoy on Tampa's defensive line, where he had 5 1/2 sacks in 56 career games.
"A great veteran, a great guy to be around, and he just helped mold me as a player, as a pro," Spence said. "I mimic some stuff off him, but I'll never be Gerald, so I'm just good at what I do."
In Tampa, Spence was asked to primarily be a run-stopper, though the 25-year-old said he's looking forward to taking on more of a pass-rush role in Detroit.
"What I did last year, I just did my job," Spence said. "I did what I was supposed to do. I did what the team asked of me. And granted, my numbers weren't what I wanted them to be, but now I'm here in Detroit, got another opportunity, and I'm here to make the best of it."


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The speakers are as follows: (in programme order)
Liz Roberts, Editor of Nursery World
Liz Roberts is Editor of Nursery World, and joined the title in 1996 as Features Editor, becoming Editor the following year.
As well as leading Nursery World's print publications and online service, Liz is very involved in the title's annual awards, conferences and exhibitions.
Liz has been a member of several early years sector working groups and think-tanks, including the Baby Room project, and regularly chairs and speaks at conferences. She is a trustee of CREC, the Centre for Research in Early Childhood.
Liz is frequently asked to commentate on early years matters by national TV, radio and press.
She previously freelanced for national newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian (writing a weekly column for the Parents page). Prior to this, she was Editor of Media Week magazine, and started her career as a journalist on Building magazine, where she was Chief Sub-Editor.
Pennie Akehurst, managing director of Early Years Fundamentals
Pennie Akehurst is an author and leadership specialist with over 30 years' experience in the early years. Pennie has worked in the private, voluntary, maintained and public sector, and spent 17 years delivering strategic early years and childcare priorities within two local authorities; during this time, she provided training and intervention programmes designed to support leadership teams to improve outcomes for children and to manage changes to legislation.
In 2017, Pennie established Early Years Fundamentals Ltd., a research, training and consultancy company dedicated to supporting leaders and managers to understand and manage issues that affect inspection outcomes.
Professor Chris Pascal, co-founder of The Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC), Birmingham
Professor Christine Pascal has done extensive work at government level to support the development of Early Years policy, sitting on a number of national committees. In 2001 she was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to young children.
She has served as a ministerial advisor and as an Early Years Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Select Committee on Education. She has written extensively on early childhood development and the quality of early education services and sat on the Expert Panel of the Dame Tickell EYFS Review.
Chris is a patron of the London Early Years Foundation (LEYF), whom she is supporting in developing their research strategy. She continues to be an active Vice President of BAECE (Early Education).
Penny Tassoni MBE, early years consultant and author
Penny Tassoni is a leading author, trainer and consultant in the early years sector. She is also president of Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY). Amongst her many publications is a wide variety of early education and childcare textbooks and a best-selling series of handbooks, including Penny Tassoni's Practical EYFS Handbook and Understanding Children's Behaviour: Learning to be with others.
Judith Twani, early years consultant and assistant head teacher
Judith qualified as a junior teacher in the days of discovery learning and topic webs. Following five years of teaching, she moved to South Africa to teach in a small rural school which was a pioneer of multi-racial education in the post-apartheid years. There, she developed a pre-school curriculum and introduced a creative approach to teaching.
Getting married and starting a family resulted in Judith taking a career break and, during this time, she led creative arts at a small college in Cape Town. A return to teaching took Judith first to Year 2 and then to Reception where she discovered her passion for early years.
She organised an early years cluster group comprising of practitioners from across early years settings and this gave her the opening to become a local authority early years consultant and children's centre teacher. During this time, she also trained as an NVQ assessor and Ofsted inspector, and spent six months on a secondment to senior leadership in a large primary school.
For a couple of years, she developed her own independent training and consultancy work specialising in early years, alongside her work as a local authority consultant. She delivered training with BEAM on early years maths and has collaborated with Michael Jones, formerly an ECaT consultant, as co-author of 'Let's Talk About Maths'.
She was a regional manager and is now an associate consultant for Early Excellence and is now a part-time assistant head teacher for teaching and learning in a Norwich Primary and Nursery School.
Judith brings to her training and consultancy a wealth of experience and knowledge. She is an inspiring and motivating trainer who combines theory and practical hands on experiences successfully to create an unforgettable day.
Ben Hasan, head teacher, Wentworth Nursery School and Children's Centre, east London
Ben Hasan is head teacher of Wentworth Nursery School and Children's Centre, an Outstanding nursery school situated in Hackney, London. He was previously a head teacher in a nursery school in Tower Hamlets, which achieved two Outstanding judgements during his headship.
Ben has delivered training and lectured in early years at a number of universities including the Institute of Education, Cumbria University, East London University and London Metropolitan University. He has also written articles on early years education for Nursery World and the National Education Union.
Cath Larkin, associate trainer, Quality 4 Early Years
Cath has had a long career in early years as a teacher and nursery school head teacher. Her nursery school was graded Outstanding by Ofsted at three inspections and her leadership was described as 'inspirational'. She also spent two years as a children's centre leader in Manchester. Since 2016, Cath has been an associate trainer for Quality 4 Early Years, supporting leaders and practitioners to enhance their practices through continuous professional development.
June O'Sullivan, LEYF chief executive, Ben Clay, LEYF pedagogy manager and Jean Hudson, manager, LEYF Queensborough Community Nursery, west London
June O'Sullivan MBE is chief executive of the London Early Years Foundation (LEYF), a social enterprise which currently runs 38 nurseries across 11 London boroughs.
An inspiring speaker, author and regular media commentator on early years, social business and child poverty, June has been instrumental in achieving a major strategic, pedagogical and cultural shift for the award-winning London Early Years Foundation, resulting in increased profile, a new childcare model and stronger social impact over the past ten years.
As CEO and creator of the UK's leading childcare charity and social enterprise since 2006, June continues to break new ground in the development of LEYF's scalable social business model. She remains a tireless campaigner, looking for new ways to influence policy and make society a better place for all children and families.
June is a champion of community-based, multi-generational early years education as the basis for greater social and cultural capital to deliver long-term social impact. She continues to advise Governments, as well as a range of organisations, academics and services at home and overseas, about how best to implement a social enterprise vision for early years.
June is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Trustee of London Hostels Association, Director of Social Enterprise UK, Founding Member of International Early Years, a board member of the Early Years Nutrition Partnership and sits on the London Mayor's Advisory Board.
June was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday honours in 2013 for her services to London's children. She won the Social Enterprise UK Women's Champion Award in November 2014 and in February 2015 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Middlesex. In 2016, she was voted one of Debretts most influential 500 and in 2017, she won the NMT Most Influential In Early Years Award.
June is a published author, with an MA in Primary & Early Childhood Studies and MBA from London South Bank University.
Helen Prud'homme, nursery and Reception teacher, currently heading up the Foundation Unit at St Mary's CE Primary School, Banbury, Oxfordshire
Helen Prud'homme is an experienced early years teacher with a passion for allowing children access to a broad range of opportunities, and in keeping the child's interests at the heart of educational policy and practice.
Her vision of early years is driven by the belief that children need to be valued for who they are, not what they'll become. This vision has ensured that children are at the heart of provision and practice, and that well-being and relationships are central to all she and her team provide for the children.
She is the lead of the Foundation Unit in Dr South's Primary School in Oxfordshire, part of the Oxfordshire Diocesan Schools Trust, which she supports with school improvement work. Her teaching experiences include inner-city, town and village schools and nurseries, Forest schools and Fӧrskolas in Sweden.
She is currently on secondment and heading up the Foundation Unit at St Mary's CE Primary School, Banbury, Oxfordshire.


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Can Republicans Hear American Cries?
The American electorate has sent the Republican Party a message: the Republican Party has to be inclusive in order to remain a political force. The post-election reaction from Republican pundits suggests that they heard that message. What isn't clear is whether they understood that message, or heard what they wanted to hear.
Steve Lafleur Assistant Director of Research, Frontier Centre for Public Policy
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Acknowledging that Republicans need to alter their positions on immigration and contentious social issues is a starting point. But it isn't enough. If the Republican Party merely concedes that it has to, grudgingly, soften their stance on issues that affect women and members of ethnic minorities, and toss a few token candidates into the limelight, their success will be limited.
The Republican Party's problems are deeper than simply being slightly offside with the public on these issues: they are culturally offside with the public on these issues. This is a significant challenge they will need to overcome to stay relevant.
If the Republican punditry is any indication, Republicans will work towards a deal with the White House to pass an amnesty for illegal immigrants, stop talking about rape and birth control, and parade around as many non-white candidates as possible to combat the image that the Republican Party has the diversity of a 1950s country club.
But concessions and token candidates won't change the party's image. Slapping Sarah Palin on to the bottom of the ticket in 2008 may have helped the party with some segments of the population, but the gender gap with the Democrats increased in 2008.
There will be a temptation to draft Marco Rubio as VP candidate in 2016. While it might gain the Republicans some support from the Latino community, it could backfire if it is seen as cynical tokenism (especially since he is Cuban, and the Cuban community is politically distinct from the broader Latino community).
If white Republicans plan to hide behind non-white candidates, while even a strong minority of party members appear to be uncomfortable with diversity, they will fail to expand their base. As demographics shift, this will prove to be an insurmountable obstacle for the party. Non-Caucasians and women need to feel as though the party will accept them as equals.
Republican leaders of all races need to reach out to minority communities. This means they will sometimes have to be photographed wearing ethnic garb during cultural ceremonies (without appearing uncomfortable). They will also have to refrain from accusing their opponents of being un-American when they do the same (let alone calling them secret Muslims).
Every Birther and every Republican activist who believes that Barrack Obama is a Muslim should be publicly disavowed by the party. Racially charged rhetoric about foreign trade partners such as China also need to stop. After having allowed their party to be tainted by association with people who implicitly and explicitly stoke racial tensions, the GOP will have to be squeaky clean on racial issues if they want to earn the trust of non-Caucasians. Indeed, dropping the China-bashing would give the GOP the moral high ground on a racial issue against the Democrats, whose union base loves demonizing China.
Missing from the post-election discussion is the cultural impact of Republican insensitivities respecting racial and gender issues on white males. Republicans have difficulties attracting young voters, and these insensitivities are part of that problem. It has become culturally unacceptable for many urban professionals to admit that they would vote Republican under any circumstances. Young men living in big cities tend to have non-Caucasian friends, and hang around with unattached females. Supporting a party that appears willing to reduce access to not just abortion, but birth control, can do considerable damage to their romantic prospects.
While this may seem like a frivolous argument, consider that instead of being open to moderately pro-life Republicans, young urban males are fleeing to extremely pro-choice Democrats. Running a fiercely pro-life candidate won't do the cause of ending abortion any good if they can't get elected. Public opinion dictates political decisions. Change needs to come from the outside. Similarly, backing a party that is (at least in theory) willing to deport millions of illegal immigrants, some of whom are of the same ethnic background (or even related to) as their friends would equally earn the scorn of their peers.
While urban males are not the backbone of the Republican coalition, losing by margins of over 200,000 in Miami-Dade and Cuyahoga County makes the electoral math in Florida and Ohio extremely difficult. These are states the GOP needs to win. Urbanites don't inherently disagree with the core economic values the Republicans claim to support. But if publicly supporting free-enterprise and limited government is equated with racism and sexism, potential urban Republican voters will continue to be shamed into silence. As cities grow, so will the problem.
While it has become a cliché to suggest Republicans emulate Jason Kenney's ethnic outreach efforts in Canada, the GOP needs to realize that those efforts are deeper than tweaking policy and finding non-white people to put in front of the camera. Kenney's efforts have gone far beyond that. He has spent several years becoming intimately familiar with members of these communities, and ensuring that their concerns are echoed both in policy, and in rhetoric. If a Canadian Conservative MP were to call an African American Premier (if there was one) "un-Canadian," he would surely incur the wrath of the Prime Minister's Office.
The GOP should be no less accepting of dog whistle language.
The Republicans allowed race and gender issues to sidetrack the campaign. They sacrificed at least two Senate seats in the process. Though there are many reasons the GOP failed to capture the White House, racial and gender issues were a factor.
Had Romney done as well as George W. Bush among Latino voters, he'd have won the election handily. But pandering isn't enough. If the Republican Party is to have any hope of returning to power in the near future, it has to be the party of one America.
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Concrete Construction Innovations During Uncertain Times
As we face difficult and uncertain times, innovations and advancements keep the concrete industry moving forward.
Sheena Ingle
These have undoubtedly been some of the strangest and most difficult days contemporary Americans have ever faced. While some concrete contractors have been able to keep working through quarantines and pandemic threats, others have seen projects halted.
Whether you're working steadily or trying to figure out how to jump-start your business upon a return to normalcy, now might be an excellent time to learn about the latest technologies, advancements, innovations and expert tips that are driving the industry forward.
New Technologies: Robotics, Data Loggers and More
From robotic demolition that enables big work in tight spaces to high-tech atomized dust suppression solutions, new technological innovations boost productivity, safety, efficiency and advancement.
Robotic technology is allowing contractors to perform a range of tasks autonomously that previously required manual work, such as rebar tying, demolition and surveying. Meanwhile, Stephen Knuth from T&D US says data loggers enable accurate and effective concrete curing.
When it comes to workforce development, National Flooring Equipment vice president Connie Johnson says improving the perception of the concrete construction industry is key to inspiring a new generation of jobseekers to consider contracting. At the same time, Dale Mullikin, a national account director for Atlas Molded Products, says molded polystyrene foam can solve a lot of common challenges with its high compressive strength for a lightweight structural fill.
Wherever your company stands at the moment, learning everything you can about boosting efficiency, implementing best practices and discovering what's new in the industry can only help. Even if we are forced to set new goals in the face of adversity, together, we can all get through these tough times and look ahead to better days.