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HCB Community
The HCB was born to host people, projects and companies that work towards positioning Lisbon as an open, innovative and creative city.
We bet on diversity to promote encounters between different agents and industries.
Factory Lisbon
Browers Beato
Praça
Startup Lisboa
Casa do Capitão
http://factorylisbon.com
Factory designs, builds and operates campuses for startups and fast-growing tech companies. By partnering with actors from the public and private sector as well as local startup communities Factory brings innovation into urban areas in need of revitalization, focusing on tastefully repurposing iconic sites, designing the ideal location to cluster technology and creative companies. Factory efforts work to support the new tech economy while bringing a new breath of life to urban centers.
Born in 2012 in Berlin as a flexible workspace solution for small and large companies, Factory has grown into a leading developer recognized for adaptive re-use projects and for transforming neighbourhoods across Europe, creating economic, social and political impact in the process.
Factory's mission is to benefit not just those within its locations, but the wider community and cities that embrace it.
10.000 m2 main building + 2.000 m2 rooftop terrace.
12,000 m2 with waterfront views to Tagus river.
Flexible, sleek and modern commercial office units ranging from 100 m2 to 2,000 m2 with hints to the enriched historical past of the Portuguese armada.
In addition, the campus hosts a rooftop public park, public restaurant, three additional event spaces and parking garage.
Differentiating Factor
Active community of innovators, that work together in a collaborative environment. Shared even facilities, a coffee shop and the next hot Mexican Restaurant in Lisbon and a tiny music bar create a unique environment to work on the products of the future.
Mercedes-Benz.io
Factory.com & José Baganha & Arquitectos Associados
Two-digit million budget
http://thebrowerscompany.com
Beato Browers, a multipurpose space that encompassed The Browers Company, a spin-off of the Super Bock Group, which was born with the main objective of contributing to the appreciation of the beer culture and growth of the beer category. Based on a strong collaborative spirit, this new project will establish collaborations with different national and international partners, inside and outside the brewery universe, always seeking to provide new and better experiences around beer.
A microbrewery for small-scale beer production, a restaurant area and an area for cultural events and workshops and the promotion of the beer experience, in an area of approximately 700m2.
Beers will be produced on a small scale, under the seal of the Browers brand, which will coexist in the same space with other national and international beer brands, to offer a diversified and quality portfolio to all those who visit the Beato Browers. It also entails a restaurant area, in partnership with the Multifood Group, to complement the brewery offer with gastronomy that enhances the brewery experience, and there will be regular events in the space, which may be of a brewery, cultural or other nature. Central axis of public access to Culture and Creative Industries, namely with events and integrated collaborative activities in the areas of Music and Public and Urban Art.
The architectural project will be by Eduardo Souto de Moura. This is an ambitious renovation project that, while preserving the original design of the building, will assume a strong current character, modernity and comfort in a space adapted to brewery production.
3 million euros
http://apraca.pt
A new and innovative food retail and catering experience focused on Portuguese products and the producers that produce them, consisting of an informal gathering place to taste, eat, buy and learn at the same time.
A market which combines the best of sustainable and healthy catering with the sale of the product, where there is no boundary between what you eat and what you buy, where the product will be the protagonist and the Producer will be at the center of the offer. A careful, rigorous selection of fresh, organic and artisanal products, available among various services like a Refectory, a Portuguese native meat butcher, a fishmonger with grill, a fresh market, vegetarian space, a wine cellar, a space dedicated to olive oil, a bakery and pastry produced locally, a cheese and delicatessen artisanal and also a grocery store where bulk and organic offerings are prominent.
About 700 products from more than 140 producers that are now available at Praça online shop, even before the opening of the space.
The first food market dedicated exclusively to the excellence of Portuguese products and their producers. The Praça services universe also includes a Forum, which will function as a meeting point between national producers and the public, a School - exactly in the same building where, in times of Military Maintenance it also existed - dedicated to learning and sharing knowledge themes related to food, sustainability, Portuguese cuisine and a space dedicated to Portuguese Startups linked to the gastronomy sector.
3 strong essential commitments: sustainability, innovation and social. In the area of sustainability, Praça is committed to promoting and supporting only producers who practice artisanal, sustainable and organic production, thus revealing respect for the different cycles of the seasons and promoting circular economy practices and minimizing waste. In the field of social commitment, there will be an integration with the Beato community together with other public entities and the launch of a Social Meal Exchange to provide access to meals for needy families in the region. Regarding Innovation, the space will have several urban gardens that will serve the different kitchens as well as the customers themselves.
Broadway Maylan
http://startuplisboa.com
Incubation space to host and support entrepreneurs, startups and technology-based scaleups, supporting them in developing their ideas and business.
Gross area of about 7,000 m2. Workspaces for startups, scaleups and larger technology companies along with virtual incubation. The building also includes shared working spaces, common support areas, social and technical areas, restaurant/cafeteria spaces. Given the centrality of the Startup Lisboa building in the HCB, it will act as the intersection of the various existing pedestrian axes of the complex, reinforcing the integrating mission of the building and of Startup Lisboa itself. The building is intended to be an open space, without physical barriers at the perimeter, with a central reception point to welcome and direct visitors. The covered public square will be the main lounge of Startup Lisboa, serving as a support to all users and visitors.
New space is a new approach to the incubation concept of Startup Lisboa, strongly investing in open innovation, placing the work side by side with promoters of new ideas and larger companies. The aim is to foster the exchange of experiences and the rapprochement between the world of startups and the corporate world, through a dynamic which is not possible in current spaces.
Delta Cafés
SCHARCH Arquitetos
https://casa-capitao.com/
Cultural, artistic and entertainment programming project. Current popular and dance music are the mainstay of this program that extends to other artistic areas, from performing arts, disciplinary crossings, visual arts, image and literature. In addition to its own program, Casa do Capitão will be open to different promoters and will host relevant cultural events of the city.
Building: 1.300 m2
Terrace: 500 m2
An open and inclusive space for discoveries and a meeting point, Casa do Capitão starts from an informed and influential public, of national and foreign residents, consumer of new urban and popular trends, to reach a wider and transgenerational public.
Miguel Marcelino
www.claranet.pt
Claranet's mission is to help our customers do amazing things. Passion: we have a passion for internet technologies and what IT can do for our customers. Pride: we take pride in what we deliver. Quality: we constantly work to improve everything we do.
Claranet 2.0 @ HCB is a 5-year plan, starting in 2022 (and 200 employees), which aims innovation (development of new services) and the establishment of Portugal as a hub for the provision of innovative services for the rest of the group and other international markets. It has 4 pillars: • Creation of a workplace in line with new trends (sustainable, social, collaborative); • Opening of Cloud competence centers (eg: application migration factory); • Investment in innovation: Cloud refactoring, machine learning, big data analytics, cyber-intelligence, future workplace, …; • Investment in specialized on-the-job training centers.
Application Migration Factory: new competence center for the Claranet group. Security Operations Center: new European Security Operations Center. Future Workplace: demo room with a future workstation. Claranet University: v2 – training investment in cloud, security and workplace specialists.
Promontório
https://www.Mercedes-Benz.iO/
Mercedes-Benz.io is the digital subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz Marketing & Sales. With offices in Stuttgart, Berlin and Lisbon (and soon in Asia) and more than 350 employees, it combines technology and creativity professions in one company. In a very close and innovative cooperation model, composed of employees and specialists from Mercedes-Benz.io from Mercedes-Benz Marketing, Sales and IT, they work at the touchpoints of the digital end customer, such as the Mercedes-Benz, on online trading platforms or innovative digital services, such as replenishment and payment applications. Responsible for the creation and management of Mercedes-Benz international digital platforms, including the development of special projects such as the Car Configurator, eCommerce platform and Bertha.
https://deltacafes.pt
Founded by Commander Rui Nabeiro in 1961, Delta Cafés is a company specialized in the roasting and commercialization of coffee. The leader in the national market, it exports to more than two dozen countries and selects origins from the four corners of the world. It is a company with a human face management, whose values are based on a responsible attitude towards the future of the planet.
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Some History of the Names on the Memorial Boards at St. Luke's
There are 130 names on the board at the back, including some civilians who were killed like the 7 children killed on the way to Sunday School in the bombing raid in 1916.
Of the military personnel the average age at death was 26.
95% of deaths were in the army, the rest were naval. No air deaths
The first killed was George Court in the Grenadier Guards on 15th September 1914 age 27. He was quickly followed by two men who drowned with the loss of HMS Aboukir on 22nd September
Frederick Lewis was blown up in the early hours of New Year's Day 1915, age 20, on HMS Formidable just outside Dover harbour, sunk by a U-boat, one of 547 casualties
Albert Trumpeter died at Gallipoli having been wounded in the Suvla Bay landings. He died of his wounds on the hospital ship 'Navasa'.
Adam Biggs was one of those killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Others that died on the Somme included: John Collins, Richard Abbot, SIdney Berry, Charles Blackburn, John Clark, George Coleman, Albert Groombridge, Ivor/Iva Hubbell, Adam Biggs, Sidney Andrieux (most were in the Buffs)
The youngest was James Robert Todd who was only a few weeks past his 16th birthday. His father was a labourer living at Ann's Road. James was killed with the Buffs at Loos on 13th October 1915. He joined up as part of Kitchener's first recruiting campaign along with William Fasham, George Sutton who also died that day.
The oldest was Frank Gee age 47, who served in the Royal Navy and who died of an unspecified illness on 19th December 1917.
The Groombridge (4) family of Central Road had seven sons who all went to war. Four died and are on the memorial. The father was a labourer at the gas works. Two sons died in the summer of 1916 (1 at the Somme) and two a year later. They were aged 20, 22, 22 and 26
Charles Marmon, 36, was born at Garlinge and joined the Royal Navy in England. but emigrated and served with the Australian Machine Gun Corps in 1916. He was killed in France in November that year but his body was never recovered. His mother lived at 35 St Luke's Avenue.
Gunner Charles Richard Bracey died at Gaza just hours before the armistice, aged 30
A curiosity is Private A S Milton who died in 1918. The CWGC has no such person but there was an Albert Samuel Milton of Central Road born 1892 which would seem a match. He survived and died in 1961. Either there was another or he was reported dead and later found OK.
Another curiosity is Captain Injarit Singh. He was a grandson of Maharaja in India, was killed at Festubert on the 23rd November, 1914, while attending to the wounded in a house which was completely destroyed by the enemy's shells. His father received a letter from Colonel C. C. Manifold, IMS, saying:
"It has just been my lot to meet an officer who was attached to the 57th Wilde's Rifles, who . . . was giving me an account of the desperate fighting the 57th had had, and the vicissitudes they had, losing nearly all their officers. I asked him, 'Who was your Medical Officer?' He said, A most splendid fellow. Nothing I could say would be too great praise for him. Ten Victoria Crosses would not have been too much for what he did. There could not be found a braver man. I am filled with admiration, which will always last, for him.' I need not say it was your son he was talking of."
You can read more about Captain Singh here.
From the Thanet Advertiser, 12th Dec 1914:
GALLANT INDIAN OFFICER Dies at the Front. The news that among the gallant Indian officers who have given their lives for the Empire is included Capt. K. I, Singh will be learned with deep regret many residents of the town and district. The deceased officer was attached to the Indian Medical Service and was serving with the Expeditionary Force, having come over with the first contingent. had only recently received promotion to tho rank of captain, and but a short time prior to his death wrote to friends speaking of the nature of his work and of the difficulty experienced bringing in the wounded under fire. Captain Kunwar Indarjit Singh was prominently associated with the parish of St. Luke's. He was a good all-round sportsman, having played county cricket for Kent and representing Ramsgate St. George's both on the cricket and football fields. He was also a daring horseman, and a man charming personality. Captain Singh waa the fourth son of Maharajah Sir Haruum Singh, K.C.1.E., and Lady Singh, of Jallundur City. He took his degree at Pembroke College, Cambridge; and going on to King's College Hospital, took the degrees of M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.P., and M. 8., of Cambridge, and passed third in the examination for the Indian Medical Service. Sir Harnam and Lady Singh came to Ramsgate whan they visited England for the Coronation of the late King Edward.
Many thanks to Margaret Bolton for carrying out this research.
Various notices and questions to do with the life of St. Luke's Church in Ramsgate.

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Artist Sarah Margaret Gibson
Sarah Margaret Gibson
Register Interest in Sarah Margaret Gibson
Memorie di una Vita Passata
Type Still Life/Flower
Red-Tailed Laughing Thrush
Type Animal
Type Figure/Life
Size 133 x 154 cm
Figs and Tarnished Silver
Sarah Margaret Gibson is from Cincinnati, Ohio.
Sarah Margaret is a contemporary realist artist, specializing in figurative works, portraits, and still-lifes. Characterized by a rich tenebrism, Gibson's work often dramatically juxtaposes light against shadow. She believes that light, and all of its symbolic qualities, are better appreciated when contrasted against dark. Building up her paintings from a series of many fine layers, she seeks to give her works a palpable depth and complexity, so that the viewer can continually find new details and facets to contemplate upon each viewing. Through her drawings and paintings, Gibson opens up a dialogue with nature, responding to what she finds beautiful and endeavoring to communicate this with her viewers.
In 2008 Sarah Margaret travelled to Florence, Italy to receive her formal training in drawing and painting from the Angel Academy of Art and The Florence Academy of Art. Over the course of her seven years in Florence, Gibson became profoundly influenced by the work and philosophy of the Old Masters and by the mentorship of great living artists such as Daniel Graves, Jordan Sokol, and Daniela Astone. She taught at the Florence Academy's intermediate studio from 2012-2015.
Sarah Margaret currently lives and works in the seaside town of Largs, on the west coast of Scotland, alongside her husband and fellow artist, Lee Craigmile.


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Le  est le plus fameux théâtre de kabuki à Tokyo. Il est géré par la société Shōchiku.

Histoire
Il est inauguré le  dans le quartier de Ginza et tout de suite considéré comme un lieu de référence en matière de kabuki. C'est un bâtiment de deux étages dont l'extérieur est de style occidental, et l'intérieur, en cyprès du Japon, est de style japonais. En 1911, il fait l'objet de travaux très importants qui donnent également à l'aspect extérieur un style japonais. Cette deuxième version du Kabuki-za brûle entièrement dans un incendie en 1921.

Il est reconstruit en 1923 par , qui s'inspire du style de l'époque Azuchi-Momoyama (1568-1603), notamment pour ses . L'intérieur est cependant fortement endommagé par un incendie dû au terrible séisme de 1923 de Kantō, qui fit plus de  ; il est finalement inauguré en 1924.

Le Kabuki-za a de nouveau brûlé en 1945 à la suite des bombardements américains. Isoya Yoshida (1894-1974) achève sa reconstruction à l'identique en 1951, en s'inspirant du style sukiya-zukuri, apparu dans l'architecture des pavillons de thé à la fin de l'époque Azuchi-Momoyama. Il pouvait accueillir . La salle est détruite en , ne respectant pas les normes de résistance sismique japonaises.

Elle est reconstruite dans le même site de 2010 à 2013 aux premiers étages d'un nouveau gratte-ciel, tout en reprenant certains éléments de façade existants. Le bâtiment est conçu par Kengo Kuma, s'inspirant aussi du style de l'époque Azuchi-Momoyama. Cette cinquième version du Kabuki-za ouvre le , après une semaine de célébrations. Le théâtre communique directement avec la station de métro Higashi-Ginza, située au deuxième sous-sol de l'édifice.

Description
La nouvelle salle forme les cinq premiers étages, ainsi que deux sous-sols, d'un gratte-ciel de . Elle peut recevoir . L'entrée est faite d'un  dont le sol est recouvert d'une moquette rouge vif avec des piliers rouge sombre encadrés par des panneaux de brocart provenant du quartier des tisserands de  à Kyoto, et d'une guirlande de lanternes rouges en papier blanc. Le quatrième étage propose une galerie et un jardin regroupant des objets historiques du théâtre kabuki.

Les dimensions de la scène sont identiques à celle de la version précédente : le plateau mesure  de longueur sur  de hauteur et la partie circulaire mobile de la scène  a toujours  de diamètre. Une passerelle perpendiculaire à la scène, appelée  prolonge celle-ci entre les sièges sur  de long. Le rideau de scène mérite une attention particulière : il n'utilise que les trois couleurs ancestrales des décors du kabuki, le noir, le vert et l'orangé, manifestant le respect des traditions japonaises.

Outre la mise aux normes anti-sismiques, des écrans ont été installés sur les sièges, offrant des explications et des sous-titres, et la fosse fait désormais . La salle contient  répartis sur trois niveaux : orchestre, premier balcon et deuxième balcon. Il comporte aussi un troisième balcon doté de  à prix réduit .

Représentations
Le répertoire du Kabuki-za comporte des pièces mythologiques, des jidai mono (historiques) et des pièces d'amour. Les pièces les plus célèbres sont entre autres Funa benkei, Suicides d'amour à Amijima et Moritsuna jinya no dan (« Le Quartier général de Moritsuna »). C'est dans cette salle qu'a été donnée pour la première fois Iwashi Uri Koi Hikiami de Yukio Mishima en .

Les représentations ont lieu presque quotidiennement, elles débutent en fin de matinée, jusqu'au soir. Le programme est composé dans la journée d'actes de pièces célèbres, entrecoupés de scènes dansées extraites d'autres pièces, et le soir d'une pièce entière. Mais il est possible, si l'on ne veut pas passer toute la journée au spectacle, de ne prendre un billet que pour un seul acte, ou une seule danse.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Hakata-za, théâtre kabuki situé à Fukuoka
 Shinbashi Enbujō

Liens externes
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Bâtiment détruit de Tokyo
Salle de théâtre à Tokyo
Chūō (Tokyo)

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Chapter Seven–The Berdrach Collection
Posted on June 8, 2010 by Ruth
Within the first ten minutes of the carriage ride, it became obvious to Anna that Tam was much more experienced with farm wagons in the open countryside than with a carriage in heavy traffic. His knuckles were white on the reins and he wore an expression of suppressed panic. "You're doing fine," she ventured, from the carriage window. "Watch out for that post!"
They made it at last, via Anna's careful perusal of city maps, and stopping for directions twice, with Anna as translator. Tam's hands were shaking a little by the time they pulled up in front of the Berdrach collection.
"It's all right," Anna soothed. "The cat got off clear. Really. And we didn't even dent the post."
"We've dented the hotel's carriage," Tam hissed quietly. "How am I to pay for it?"
"It isn't real gilt, Tam, it's just paint. I could fix it myself. I will. Maybe you should just take a couple turns about the grounds, to get a better feel for this thing."
"Are you sure? Should you be alone?"
"I won't do anything stupid," Anna assured. "I promised Lady Blackfeather, didn't I?"
Tam grudgingly agreed, and after a moment to regain his nerves, he took the carriage round the drive at a leisurely pace. Anna turned and walked up to the gates of the impressive manor house. A moment later, Varden Chauncellor's carriage pulled up, swiftly and gracefully in the hands of an experienced driver. Varden left the carriage, and looked up at her with a slow, nervous smile. He won't turn my head, no he won't, Anna told herself. Who knew he could smile like that?
The sound of a frightened "Whoa!" brought her attention back to Tam, who had barely reined up in time to avoid another gaudy carriage pulling up with more passengers. She winced, and quickly greeted Varden, to pull his attention away from Tam.
"I apologize for my lateness. I hope I haven't kept you long. You look, er, very well, Lady Anna," Varden said.
I'm still as pale as a fish, Anna thought. "You are very polite. Thank you again for this kind opportunity. I haven't been waiting long at all."
Varden took her arm, and together they were admitted through the wrought iron gates. Anna spared one backward glance for Tam, carefully navigating the circle once more. He waved, a little helplessly. Anna smiled. Varden caught her smile and returned it, that same nervous smile he'd had upon first seeing her.
Oh, no, my head's not turned at all. I'm supposed to be looking at art today. Remember the art.
Remembering the art proved no problem at all, once Anna was immersed in it. The paintings were wonderful, and everywhere, and much better in quality than the awful, stilted conversation being shared between the nobles viewing them. Anna spoke Germhacht quite well, and was pulled into more than one truly inane conversation while trying to admire paintings.
"My family owns a Vonfreir," a girl in maroon ruffles said. "But Mother had the room redone in chartreuse and the colors clashed, so we had to put it away."
"How, um, unfortunate," Anna said.
"Not really," the girl said. "We put up my aunt Greita's still life of flowers and oranges. Or maybe they're lemons. Anyway, the Vonfreir is some dreadful old historical piece. Isn't that dull? Only now how is anyone to know we own a Vonfreir?"
Anna smiled tightly and moved away before she said anything inappropriate. She narrowly escaped another conversation on the travails of having a new ladies' maid to train, and the rudeness of a particular seamstress who refused to make a sixteenth new alteration on a dress. If she were the seamstress, Anna was sure she'd have felt it was the wearer who needed the alteration. Varden was similarly harassed by an old school fellow he seemed not to remember fondly, and an elderly gentleman who had some business with Varden's father that he wanted to pass along.
Anna knew that she should be listening for any important news about the elder Chauncellor, or the theft, or the Pumphrites, but all she really wanted to do was lose herself in the amazing panoply of brush strokes and colors before her, or the intricate old Germhacht pieces where every painted pearl looked like it could be plucked off the smooth board. Varden seemed to want the same, and he steered them into the quieter galleries, where they looked at the works in companionable silence.
While moving between salons it was impossible to avoid awkward introductions to people she would never meet again and was obliged to be polite and correct to. She dodged a few awkward questions about her family by being brief, and gritted her teeth and stayed silent when the fresh piece of scandal about the Blackfeather family's possible involvement with thieves came up. How fast did news travel? Varden noticed her discomfort and led her away from the conversation into a room full of seascapes, where he spoke in a lowered voice. "I know you let the boy fetch paints for you, but I'd advise you not to encourage him. The Blackfeather family is less honest and upright than everyone supposed."
"I haven't heard a thing to back up that accusation," Anna replied, carefully cool.
"Djaren was the last person seen in the library," Varden said, "and then in the morning, an entire cabinet of antiquities from Narmos were found to be missing."
"Second to last. The last person saw fit to spread the rumors of Djaren's having been there. And to burst in with loud accusations the next morning."
Varden's lips thinned.
"Let's not throw idle blame about," Anna said, tired and miserable of it all. "I have a room near the Blackfeathers. I saw Djaren return from the library with only books."
"There was a thief seen—"
"And anywhere you see a thief, all are thieves? I want more evidence than that."
Varden paused. She could see him weighing his words, being careful not to offend her. "Who, then, do you suppose is behind the recent theft?" he asked, finally.
It seemed an honest question, so Anna took it as an opportunity. "What about Mister Pumphrey?"
"Ugh, that horrible little fraud." Varden grimaced.
"He's been trying to weasel into the Society, hasn't he? The Blackfeathers have open access to the libraries, so why would they steal anything there? It's Pumphrey who's been mad to get inside."
"It's a theory," Varden admitted. "He and his hangers-on have been nothing but a nuisance to reputable scholars. Narmos antiquities, though? That's hardly his field, if such sentimental pseudo-science can even be called a field. " He shook his head, changing the subject. "Shall we chance the hall, to get to the Brechthold woodcuts?"
"Yes, lets."
In the hall, however, Anna heard the name Pumphrey tumble through the hum of conversation. She squeezed Varden's arm, and they casually swung round to stand near the speakers.
"Those insufferable people of his," a woman was saying. "My uncle Elbert has been forced to retreat to his country estate, just to be rid of them. Hunting, he says, but we all know the real reason. Thank heavens I'm not a member of the Society. Stars and virtues defend those poor beleaguered archeologists!"
"I don't know," a bald man with an expansive middle said. "Maybe Elbert doesn't need the money, but I wouldn't think some of the others would mind the interest of an eccentric millionaire. He's a bit potty, to be sure, but he's got good business sense. Even owns an island estate on the Western Rim, with gum trees and all."
"He may have gum trees and half the islands of the rim," an elderly man said, with an irritated quaver, "but what he doesn't have is any real scholarship or business in archeology."
Varden made a little snort of agreement and half-turned, as if to go, but Anna planted her feet and kept listening. Since Varden was attached to her arm, he stayed, too.
"Why, hasn't he?" the bald man said. "I thought he'd something to do with antiquities. A collector, yes? Lots of great stone slabs and idols and such, from his travels. I've seen 'em. Can't recall where from. Namlos, or someplace."
Anna glanced sideways at Varden. He was listening too, now, face suddenly intent.
"But that's not my line of work," the bald man said, with a deep laugh. "Wouldn't know a real treasure from a fake. I'm a rail man, myself."
"Pumphrey is well traveled," a pretty young woman with pouting lips said. "But that's all he is. New money, you know. Nobody had ever heard of him before he traveled to the near east and became enlightened or some such in a tiresome old dead empire. And now we only wish he'd go back to obscurity, and take his dull antiques with him."
The elderly man's eyes, surprisingly sharp, caught Varden out from the crowd. "Ah, Varden Chauncellor. Aren't those dead empires your area of expertise? Lend us your professional opinion, here. And whatever happened with that lecture your father was going to host?"
Varden's lips thinned. Anna decided it would be gentlemanly to rescue him. "It's only postponed, isn't it?" she said lightly. "I think old empires sound rather interesting. I didn't know Pumphrey had an antiquities collection, or an interest in . . . Narmos, was it?" She smiled at the bald man. "I had the impression he wasn't a very, um, grounded person."
"He seemed solid enough to me, when I spoke to him a few weeks ago," the man said. "He wanted to see about bringing some heavy pieces up from the coast. We talked business. He's a canny man, Pumphrey. Might have come up from little, but he'll be ruling a trade empire in a decade's time if he keeps at it."
The younger woman laughed. "Dear Lord Ferlezand, we really must be discussing different Pumphreys. The one I know couldn't rule his own household. Have I told you about that dreary thing he called a party, last Wintereve?"
The conversation turned to parties, and Anna let herself be steered away into the woodcuts gallery. Varden smiled at her. "Thank you for that."
"I say, a connection between Pumphrey and Narmos." Anna smiled back. "That's worth following up on, don't you think?"
"Only if old Ferlezand is right. He was telling the truth when he said archeology wasn't his line. He wouldn't know Narmos from Alarna."
"But we could find out if Pumphrey does. He has to be keeping those stone slabs somewhere. Does he have an estate here in Germhacht, do you know?" From his accent, Anna thought that Pumphrey, like Varden, was Arienish. But Varden's father had a summer home in Germhacht. Pumphrey might, as well.
Varden shook his head. "No, his estates, if you can call them that, are home in Arien. His factories, too, right on the river in Logansburg. Unsightly monstrosities."
"Then what is he doing here in Germhacht, do you suppose?"
"Other than collecting mindless followers?" Varden shrugged. "The Society headquarters and library may have attracted him. Or he might simply be here on business. Regardless, he's publicly known to be staying at the Derdrien House, here in town."
"Isn't that where he's giving his lecture?" The one the Pumphrites had interrupted Anna's contemplation of DeAngellis to invite her and Varden to. "Let's shock him and attend. Who knows what he might be hiding in that house?"
Varden frowned. "Awful parlor tricks, most likely. Aren't those beastly people having a séance? It'll be moving mirrors and steam shrieks, to startle his gullible guests."
"You've seen that sort of thing before?" Varden didn't strike her as the sort who visited spiritualists.
"All these charlatans have their strategies." Varden shrugged. "We saw plenty of fortune tellers, wizards, and mediums while traveling through the Borghols. Mirrors, wires, and noise-makers, for the most part." His arms were crossed, and he drummed his fingers. Irritation, or some deeper nervousness?
"We might arrive fashionably late, and miss that bit," Anna suggested. "Surely we could survive the lecture."
Varden stilled his fingers. "An expert eye can see through such tricks easily. It wouldn't be difficult to unmask him."
Did he want to go to the séance or not? He was fascinatingly difficult to read. "Whether or not Pumphrey is hiding stolen antiquities," Anna said slowly, watching Varden's face, "he is certainly misleading innocent people. Stopping such a fraud would be something worth doing."
"You think so?" Varden met her eyes. Those intense darks were especially intense right now.
"I do." She let out a breath. "As long as you're sure you can tell pretend supernatural occurances from real ones."
Varden laughed, sudden and surprising. "Lady Anna, don't tell me you believe there are real ghosts and such?"
Anna considered for a long, careful moment before she spoke. The mountains of Shandor were wilder and higher than anything in the Borghol range, and even farther from what people here called civilization. Anna had seen her share of odd things. Her family's people had stories they held sacred about ravens that spoke in men's dreams, creatures that in older times had changed their shapes at will, wise kings who read their people's hearts like books, and Amryns who could hear the Land's memories and feel its heartbeat. There were things about her home that all Shandorians just knew not to mention to foreigners. Common fairy tale things that wouldn't make someone like Tam blink, would sound ridiculous to Varden's cultured ears.
"I don't know about ghosts," she said at last, truthfully. "But mightn't there be something true, beyond our understanding of the ordinary?"
"I thought you were the one who wanted evidence," he mocked gently.
"Mythology is in all our histories." Anna shrugged, looking idly at a painting, and finding an unexpected mermaid amid the rocks on the shore. "It's written in our cultures, deep to the roots, isn't it? Something must have formed it, and fed it so that it's not only in books, but told by families in the firelight."
"Maybe your family." Varden raised an eyebrow. "I think you've spent too much time near the Blackfeathers. Doctor Blackfeather wrote an entire paper, did you know, on a supernatural hero and some demon god, who were supposed to have battled in the Alarnan wastes. He finds a solid translation of the Sharnish language, and then proceeds to muddy that legitimate discovery with this fanciful gibberish about creatures that never existed. One could be surprised, but all his work is like that. Fairy tales posing as history."
Anna remembered that paper. She'd done the sketches for that dig, and her illustrations had been published, along with Djaren's and Jon's translations of the precious Sharnish. It had mostly been Lady Blackfeather's paper, really, though Anna had helped as well. The hero's magic shield was now lodged in ten-year-old Jon's palm. There were certain things she'd never be able to discuss with Varden, Anna realized. Art though, that was still something, she reassured herself.
"If we left now," Varden said, "we could take the long drive round the old king's court manor, and arrive at Pumphrey's Derdrien gathering just at dusk. There shouldn't be any traffic."
No traffic, that would be good for Tam. Poor dear Tam. "I must bring my coachman," she said.
"What, is he still here?" Varden looked round.
"Outside."
"He's an odd sort of escort."
"But I can trust him perfectly," Anna said, finding the statement true.
"As you wish. Shall we go separately, or . . ."
"I should like to discuss that with Tam."
Varden looked puzzled, but merely shrugged. "An odd name. Wherever did you find him?"
"Shandor."
After polite thanks and goodbyes, they made their way outside, where Tam waited with the coachmen. He was evidently doing his best to talk with them.
"I know some words of Germhacht now," he said, in greeting. "A couple of these fellows have been giving me the right of it about handling a carriage on cobblestones. Are we going back to the hotel?"
"If you don't mind, Tam, we could go look in on what Pumphrey is up to." Anna explained about what they'd heard inside, and the plan to go investigate.
Tam scratched at his head. "You sure this isn't something stupid, that Lady Blackfeather might object to?"
"Varden is a perfect gentleman, Tam."
"Nah, not him, I meant Pumphrey. What if he's possessed or mad or somewhat?"
Anna smiled. "Did you pack along a mallet?"
Tam looked down at his feet, then up with a smile. "Maybe."
"I don't know," Ellea said, "whether this is such a good idea." She sulkily dropped the last of the salon pillows on the floor of the garden gazebo.
"We haven't left the hotel grounds," Djaren pointed out. "We are still technically within the hotel." He made a few adjustments to his hurriedly constructed telescope, all cardboard and borrowed bits of whatnot and spyglass lenses. "If there are hails of blood or comets, we don't want to miss them."
"I doubt we would miss comets." Ellea flopped down amid the pillows and nibbled at a cake. "Don't they make a fearful racket? And flatten cities?
"Do you think there will really be comets?" Jon asked. "I hope not."
"There's really no telling," Djaren said, rather cheerily.
"I shouldn't like to see a rain of blood either," Jon said. "Or lightning that falls like a torrent upon the earth, or a shaking of the world's foundations, or any of those other things in the books."
"We have umbrellas ready too," Ellea pointed out. "So rains of blood are accounted for, anyway."
"Gum suits would be just the thing to protect from lightning, I should think." Djaren paused in adjusting some clamps. "That calls for some experimentation."
"We haven't gum suits," Jon said, looking through the chest of supplies they had hauled out from their rooms.
"More's the pity. Another day, then. We'd need a special generator too, for solid testing conditions, like they have in the silver plating factory."
Ellea giggled suddenly. "Some demon hunter you would make, in a gumsuit, with an umbrella."
Djaren made a face at her. "Not everyone can be Father, and be made of one thing or the next in a moment. Other people have to find other ways to be handy." He consulted some of his notes, then smiled over at Jon. "You've something there in your hand, at any rate."
"I don't know how to use it," Jon said, looking down ruefully into his palm. "I want to be helpful, but I haven't the first idea what to do. I should hate to think that bad things might occur that I could have prevented if I'd only known how."
"How did you save Uncle Eabrey, last summer?" Ellea asked him.
"I don't know. I wanted him safe. I wanted something to protect us."
"Then that will probably work again." Djaren pulled out safety matches and some candles from the supply box.
"I don't think though," Jon said, "that I can stop comets."
"Well, no one can hold that against you," Djaren said. "I don't know if even Father can do that."
Ellea leaned out over the gazebo rail and looked up at the stars. The sky was clear at the moment of clouds and flying fathers. She wished briefly that Poppa was here, and not hundreds of miles past calling for. Even if he couldn't stop comets, he was very reassuring to have near.
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SG Budget Babe: How do you value crypto?
How do you value crypto?
One of the most common questions I get from readers (and skeptics) is how to value cryptocurrencies.
Traditional concepts and ratios like Price-to-Earnings, Free Cash Flow and Net Profit don't quite apply to cryptocurrencies, especially a large number of crypto projects still are in development and aren't ready for mass adoption in the real world yet.
So what's a crypto investor supposed to do?
We need to first understand that the crypto markets are still in their infancy. Unlike stocks (which have been around for a much longer time), there is still no universally accepted metric on how to value a crypto coin right now.
When Benjamin Graham introduced the concept of Margin of Safety, it took a few years before investors started accepting it and it became more widely used as a measurement to evaluating undervalued stocks. Similarly, we're still years away from such valuation metrics for crypto.
Contrast this to the rise of Internet stocks and companies back in the past as well - when companies like Amazon, Facebook and Google first broke on the scene, no one really knew how to conduct financial valuations on them either. Facebook and Google assets weren't physical, and Amazon was losing money and in the red for up till 2009. But we all know how their share prices have performed ever since.
Let's use Amazon as an example.
What would you have done? Probably stayed far away from this investment, because traditional valuation metrics were screaming red flags.
But today, with more Internet companies on the scene, we've become more familiar with growth investing and come up with other ways to value Internet companies at. Google's IPO in 2004 seems ridiculous when you consider the fact that it was asking for $23 billion when its prior revenue was only $1.5 billion, and it had no physical assets to speak of. Facebook had a rocky start to its IPO and how do you even measure the financial value of a "like", anyway? P/E ratios obviously didn't work for Facebook; it was barely making money out of its billion users until Facebook ads became a norm and revenue started pouring in.
You could have waited until then to invest, but wouldn't your returns have been infinitely more rewarding and explosive if you had bought Facebook right after listing, when valuations were still murky and uncertain?
Today, we know how to use cost-per-click (CPC) and click-through-rate (CPC) in our projections of future earnings when valuing Internet companies, but did we know that before when the Internet was still in its infancy?
Even now, such valuations are more of an art than a science. Therefore similarly, we cannot expect to apply traditional knowledge and valuation models to crypto. They just don't work. My friend Aaron from Mr Stingy, also raised a very good point that the model you use will probably fall flat as well if the rest of the world isn't using it too.
But for those who insist on a numerical way to quantify exactly how much a coin is worth, there are still ways to be found. Let me illustrate with 2 examples.
Disclaimer: The below portion is purely for educational purposes, and is not a recommendation to buy any of the cryptocurrencies mentioned.
There are coins which can serve as a source of passive income (i.e. dividend-like investments). An example is KCS, which share a portion of its revenue from transaction fees earned through trades conducted on their exchange with its investors. There will also be buying demand for KCS as it offers discounts of up to 30% on trading fees. Hence, as Kucoin grows in popularity as an exchange, the value of KCS tokens will also go up. You could try to quantify how much it is worth by running daily trade transaction numbers, fees collected from trading, KCS buybacks, and more.
Someone even created a website for you to estimate how much your KCS tokens are worth.
As more people use Kucoin, more trading fees will be collected, therefore the size of the payouts will increase over time. And because your dividends are paid in the form of alt coins, there is also a possibility that you'll be earning as their prices go up as well.
If you hold 1000 KCS, that should give you $10,220 in passive income every year. Not too bad considering how 1000 KCS costs less than USD 6000 to purchase right now. Unfortunately, the Kucoin Shares scheme has been discontinued since last month.
Another example is OmiseGo. I previously shared a financial valuation model on my Facebook page where it examines various scenario, including the price of OMG tokens if it charges X% of transaction fees assuming that it is successful in taking over Y% of the e-commerce or remittance market. The spreadsheet was created by Nodar Janashia and shared online.
Even so, that doesn't mean this standard of valuing OMG tokens will be accepted by everyone. If your assumptions are way off, then your price estimations will also be problematic.
In a nutshell, if you're looking for a universal method to value crypto tokens, there's none. Do not believe any investment course provider who claim that they can teach you a "reliable" method to put a price on the value of a coin, because there's no such standard in the global crypto markets.
Trying to put a price on what a particular crypto is worth is both an art and a science today. And I'll be the first to admit I don't always have all the answers - neither does anyone else. In fact, I don't usually quantify my crypto as much as I do for my stocks; instead, I look at qualitative metrics to assess if a crypto is worth my investment.
You've seen how I tore down Ripple (XRP) tokens previously because they failed to pass my qualitative criteria. You've also seen me do the same for LegitCoin and Bitconnect here.
I'll next share on crypto projects that DO make the cut for me, so stay tuned.
Just like how the Internet changed our lives forever, I think we're seeing the same with blockchain technology. And this is going to be one hell of a ride!


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Promoting gender equality remains high on the agenda at trade union congress in Belgium
Amel Djemail, Equal Opportunities spokesperson for UNI Europa, was asked to speak at on a gender equality panel during the FGTB congress in Blankenberg.
High on the agenda were the various types of gender inequality that women face in the workplace, for example being given lower ranking job titles for doing the same job as a male colleague, and how unions can fight against gender stereotypes.
Djemail emphasised the importance of involving women in trade unions, developing strategies to make unions gender balanced and sharing best practices, such as the UNI mentoring programme where mentors help mentees learn from their experiences.
Formally adopted by UNI Global Union's highest decision-making bodies, Djemail also presented UNI's "40% rule" and campaign, which has had a positive impact on raising women's representation in the structure/sectors of the organisation. Women must be represented by at least 40% not only in all fora, but also in decision-making positions, as it should be in a gender-balanced society.
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Djemail stated: "It was an intense but productive panel discussion on the key topic of our generation – gender equality. As trade unionists, it is essential that we involve gender issues in every step of our collective bargaining negotiations so we ensure that inequality, discrimination and the absurd gender pay gap are no more."
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Now that you've chosen to pursue adoption, how do you share the news with your loved ones? While there's no "right" approach to the conversation, there are several ways to prepare yourself for the best possible results.
Most likely, your friends and family will have questions. Be prepared to explain the adoption process, and decide in advance how much of your story that you will feel comfortable sharing. If you experienced a personal challenge that led to your adoption plans, it is all right to let your loved ones know that you would prefer not to discuss it at this time.
To help the conversation along, you can create a FAQ with answers to questions like "When will you get your baby?" and "What if the birth mother changes her mind?" Another option is to prepare a list of adoption-safe terms and their definitions, such as "birth mother," so that your loved ones will feel equipped to talk to your child.
2. Consider past experiences and be aware of all possibilities.
Of course, there is no way to predict what their response will be, but be prepared to lovingly address concerns and shared excitement. Awareness of all possible responses will help limit disappointment and confusion during the actual conversation.
Also, remember that your close family members might be experiencing the loss of their expectations for grandchildren or nieces and nephews. It's important to express empathy for these potential feelings and listen to their struggles—this is yet another way that you can be Christlike in your adoption journey!
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Now–In Living Color!
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With black going on, the jet began to show some real personality.
Work continued on the jet's paint job on Tuesday–and a long day it was. The detailed layout was completed the day before, so it was mostly a matter of masking off the various colors one at a time, using the additive process. This meant masking for the silver, then the black, and then the red. All three colors were shot with little need to worry about overspray, because once a color was shot, it was covered up – and the spots that hadn't yet received their final color were fine if they got some overspray – because they would get their color later.
The first color shot was some silver, which worked well going directly onto gray primer and the gold of the pin stripes.
The base-coat colors are single-part paints, so there was no need to add hardeners, but reducer was added to make them spray. Drying time was quick, so in just a few minutes, it was OK to start repositioning masking to shoot the next color. While the jet started out the day looking like it was going to be gold, the black really started to bring out the eventual pattern, and when the red was applied, the effect was striking.
Masking is all about layering, and here, the previous silver layer is covered, and the spaces for black are left uncovered.
It was almost disappointing when the red had cured enough to continuing working, because most of the masking was repositioned to cover the red and black (the gold of the pinstripes remaining hidden since the beginning), so at the end of the day, the airplane once again was appeared mostly masked in paper, criss-crossed with various colors and widths of tape. It appeared particularly motley because the team was re-using paper whenever possible, not only to save resources, but to keep from drowning in a sea of used paper.
The first (of three) coats of red really began to make the colors pop!
With only white left to shoot for the major colors, the expectation is that when that is done, detailed air brush work will begin before the end of the day Wednesday!
The day ended much as it began, with the airplane cocooned in paper and tape. The difference was that underneath all that masking, the plane's true colors await the final reveal!
Here is the day's time-laps condensed into 3.5 minutes.
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Seattle Sounders superstar provides an unforgettable experience for campers with Type 1 Diabetes
By Lauren Domino, Director, Philanthropic Services
Pulling up to the expansive soccer fields at Preston Park, excitement was all over campers' faces on a sunny July day. The sidelines were filled with the usual water bottles, cleats and jerseys, but this is no ordinary soccer camp. This is a unique camp for kids with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) led by Sounders FC superstar Jordan Morris.
Jordan, who is a member of the Seattle Sounders FC and U.S. Men's National Team, was diagnosed at age nine with T1D, an autoimmune disease which blocks the pancreas from making insulin, which is necessary for the body to produce energy from food. At a young age, he made the decision that the disease was not going to hold him back. In 2017, he officially launched the Jordan Morris Foundation at Seattle Foundation with a mission to educate, inspire and support the lives of children with T1D.
"I've been given this platform of being blessed to play soccer and I want to use it to do some good. So trying to reach as many younger diabetics as I can to let them know T1D can't hold them back is very important to me," Jordan says of his foundation.
In support of this mission, Jordan kicked off the inaugural T1D soccer camp this July in partnership with his former youth soccer club, Eastside FC, which provided pro bono registration, logistics and instruction for the camp. Offered at no charge to families to ensure all have access, the day-long session quickly filled to capacity, with 100 campers coming from all over the region and a handful from out of state.
"It's been my dream to launch a soccer camp for kids with T1D, and I'm so happy that it's become a reality," Jordan said. "This is a place where kids with T1D can connect with others like them – they can play, make friends and just be kids for the day. I hope it inspires them so that they know nothing can hold them back from achieving their dreams."
Campers of all levels of soccer experience are welcome to attend. Some were playing soccer for the first time while others got to share their soccer skills with new friends. One camper's mother shared how meaningful the experience is for her child. "My daughter was really excited about coming here today as she's never been around other kids with T1D – she's the only one at her school. She loves soccer, and as soon as she arrived, she felt at ease. I don't know how we got so lucky to have Jordan in our hometown and have a camp like this available to our family. It's wonderful," she said.
For Jordan, the work of his foundation is a family affair. His mother, Leslie Morris, oversees many logistics and operations for the foundation and the camp. His sister, brother and sister-in-law helped with social media, the website and camp preparation. His girlfriend served as the onsite photographer. And his father, Dr. Mike Morris, who is also the Sounders' team physician, worked with other medical volunteers to ensure that campers had a safe day. Dr. Morris
also drove roundtrip to South Seattle to make sure two siblings could attend camp when their mother had concerns about their car's ability to make the trip.
When a young camper felt a bit shaky, Jordan helped the child as his blood sugar was tested. Midway through the day, Jordan inspired the kids by sharing his personal story about growing up with T1D, answering questions and posing for personal photos with each camper.
Seattle Foundation is proud to administer the Jordan Morris Foundation and support Jordan's mission in the community. To learn more about Jordan's story and the programs he offers for kids with T1D, visit www.jordanmorrisfoundation.com.
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It's all about Miss Mamo and this little bit of internet. Obviously, you are here to find out more about me and what I do here. It's simple really. Ultimately, I'm here to help you get unstuck and live a fabulous life as a result!
The last few years have taught me that you need to live a life that you wholeheartedly LOVE without question. Above all, I have become a strong believer in that fact. It took me a long time to truly comprehend but once I got it. That was it!
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Tesla sued by black, gay worker over 'unchecked' racism at plant
Kaylen Barker, a former contract worker who inspected brake parts, is the latest to complain that Tesla ignores discrimination based on race, sexual orientation and gender at its plants. According to her complaint, her abuse occurred even as Tesla defended another contract worker's discrimination case in court -- which the company lost and was ordered to pay $137 million in damages.
"I feel like I have been tortured and sent back in time before African Americans had civil rights," Barker said in a statement. Barker, 25, said she was "violated physically, mentally, and emotionally" because she's "an African American lesbian."
A Black gay woman who worked at a Tesla Inc factory accused the electric-vehicle maker in a lawsuit of "festering" racism by ignoring the racial and homophobic slurs and physical harm she endured.
A White coworker struck Barker with a hot grinding tool while calling her the n-word, "stupid, dumb" and a "b----," according to her complaint, filed Tuesday in state court in Alameda County, California.
Barker was hired to work at Tesla's Lathrop, California, sub-assembly plant, by a staffing agency in February 2021. She was fired Oct. 29 after lodging complaints to supervisors, according to the complaint -- a move she calls retaliatory.
Tesla, which doesn't have a public relations department, didn't respond to a request to an emailed request for comment.
Almost three weeks before Barker was fired, Tesla's former head of human resources said a jury was wrong in awarding $137 million to Owen Diaz over racial abuse at its Fremont, California, factory. Valerie Workman, who left Tesla earlier this year, said the company had "come a long way" in addressing workplace harassment since 2015 and 2016.
"Tesla claims that it's changed but it's not a different company," Barker's attorney Bernard Alexander, who also represented Diaz, said in an interview. "Now we have an employee," who faced discrimination at the time of and after the Diaz trial and "Tesla basically did nothing to protect her," he said.
Tesla's Fremont factory has long been the subject of complaints about racial and sexual harassment. Many complaints never make it to court because Tesla's full time employees sign agreements requiring workplace disputes to be handled in closed-door arbitration -- which itself has drawn fire from Tesla investors.
In May, a Black former employee won a rare $1 million discrimination award in arbitration over the company's failure to stop his supervisors from calling him the "N-word." The award won by Diaz is believed to be one of the largest verdicts in a racial discrimination case by a single plaintiff.
Tesla has challenged the Diaz verdict as "without precedent" and said in a court filing it "bears no relationship to the actual evidence at trial." A California federal judge signaled he'll probably cut the jury's award but is yet to make a final ruling on Tesla's request for a new trial and a reduction in the damages award.
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Carrie Underwood maintains her streak as the artist to win the most CMT prizes throughout her career.
Big winners at the 2018 CMT Awards included Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton, Dan + Shay, Little Big Town, Carly Pearce and Kane Brown.
Underwood won her 18th CMT Award for female video of the year for her single "The Champion" featuring Ludacris. The win helps her maintain her streak as the artist to win the most CMT awards throughout her career.
Shelton took home his 10th CMT Award for male video of the year for the song "I'll Name The Dogs." He beat out Dustin Lynch, Jason Aldean, Jon Pardi, Luke Bryan and Thomas Rhett for the award.
Dan + Shay won their first CMT award for duo video of the year for the song "Tequila." Other first time winners included Pearce for breakthrough video of the year for her song "Every Little Thing" and Brown for collaborative video of the year for "What Ifs" with Lauren Alaina. The win marks Alaina's second CMT award following last year's win for breakthrough video of the year.
The full list of winners follows.
Best video of the year; awarded to the artist (male, female, group/duo or collaboration) and the video director. Final nominees announced the morning of the show, with final voting held on social media during the live telecast.
Bebe Rexha feat. Florida Georgia Line – "Meant To Be"
Brothers Osborne – "It Ain't My Fault"
Carrie Underwood feat. Ludacris – "The Champion"
Dan + Shay – "Tequila"
Jason Aldean – "You Make It Easy"
Justin Timberlake feat. Chris Stapleton – "Say Something"
Kane Brown feat. Lauren Alaina – "What Ifs"
Luke Combs – "When It Rains It Pours"
Thomas Rhett – "Marry Me"
WINNER - Blake Shelton – "I'll Name The Dogs"
Dustin Lynch – "Small Town Boy"
Jon Pardi – "Heartache On The Dance Floor"
Luke Bryan – "Light It Up"
WINNER - Carrie Underwood feat. Ludacris – "The Champion"
Carly Pearce – "Every Little Thing"
Lauren Alaina – "Doin' Fine"
Maren Morris – "I Could Use A Love Song"
WINNER - Dan + Shay – "Tequila"
Big & Rich – "California"
Florida Georgia Line – "Smooth"
High Valley – "She's With Me"
Tim McGraw & Faith Hill – "Speak To A Girl"
WINNER - Little Big Town – "When Someone Stops Loving You"
Lady Antebellum – "You Look Good"
LANco – "Greatest Love Story"
Midland – "Make A Little"
Old Dominion – "No Such Thing As A Broken Heart"
Rascal Flatts – "Yours If You Want It"
Zac Brown Band – "My Old Man"
WINNER - Carly Pearce – "Every Little Thing"
Devin Dawson – "All On Me"
Walker Hayes – "You Broke Up With Me"
WINNER - Kane Brown feat. Lauren Alaina – "What Ifs"
Cole Swindell feat. Dierks Bentley – "Flatliner"
Thomas Rhett feat. Maren Morris – "Craving You"
WINNER - From CMT Crossroads: Backstreet Boys and Florida Georgia Line – "Everybody"
From 2017 CMT Artists of the Year: Andra Day, Common, Little Big Town, Lee Ann Womack and Danielle Bradbery – "Stand Up For Something"
From 2017 CMT Music Awards: Charles Kelley, Jason Aldean, Darius Rucker and Derek Trucks – "Midnight Rider"
From CMT Crossroads: Earth, Wind & Fire and Lady Antebellum – "September"
From 2017 CMT Artists of the Year: Jason Aldean, Keith Urban, Chris Stapleton and Little Big Town – "I Won't Back Down"
From 2017 CMT Music Awards: Keith Urban feat. Carrie Underwood – "The Fighter"


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Florence 1 Schools is proud to partner with Chartwells K-12 to provide new and innovative meal options to our students and staff.
Culinary Culture
Great food begins with the best ingredients, and our culinary teams are passionate about using the freshest locally sourced ingredients that are nutritious and minimally processed.
We listen to students and use their input to develop innovative and exciting recipes and menus that connect with current food trends.
Chartwells K12 chefs have a deep knowledge, understanding and passion for food, and they feel fortunate to be feeding kids and changing the landscape of school nutrition. We are in the business of creating memories that will last a lifetime. We continue to be the leaders in culinary innovation because we are always creating, testing and tasting new recipes and concepts in our kitchens.
In accordance with Federal law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, and reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) Program information may be made available in languages other than English. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, and American Sign Language) should contact the responsible State or local Agency that administers the program or USDA's TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.
To file a program discrimination complaint, a complainant should complete a Form AD-3027, USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, which can be obtained online, at www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/usda-programdiscrimination-complaint-form.pdf, from any USDA office, by calling (866) 632-9992, or by writing a letter addressed to USDA. The letter must contain the complainant's name, address, telephone number, and a written description of the alleged discriminatory action in sufficient detail to inform the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civil rights violation.
The completed AD-3027 form or letter must be submitted to USDA by:
mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture
phone (202) 690-7442; or
email: program.intake@usda.gov.
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The Culinary Services Department is located in the District Office Annex Building, 319 S. Dargan Street.


According to a recent report, mom's friend Meredith Bates is conducting a massive online spying program to collect information about people's personal lives for her own use.
The report suggests that Bates monitors online activities on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram among others. Past transgressions include obsessive liking, unwanted commenting, and various degrees of improper poking.
But Bates responds to criticism by insisting the program is entirely legal and exists for a good cause.
"I just enjoy seeing what my friends' kids are up to online. It makes me feel like I'm reliving my youth. Some of the pictures are just so cute!" she said.
Victim Lindsey Frost, whose mom is a friend of Bates', says while the woman's online activity may be legal it has crossed the line of appropriateness.
"It's just weird because we've never met. So I'm not sure why she would like an inside joke between my sorority sisters and I. I don't want to be rude but it's getting creepy," she said.
Despite protests, research shows that Bates' online presence may only be growing. Data suggests she has amassed over 9,000 Facebook friends and follows over 2.6 million people on Twitter.
But Bates says she is merely collecting information to have a better understanding of current events in the lives of people who are borderline acquaintances.
"I like to know what's going on," she said.


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MORIAH PETERS JOINS PROVIDENT LABEL GROUP FAMILY OF ARTISTS
Singer/Songwriter Featured On Forthcoming VeggieTales®: Princess and the Pop Star DVD
Photo (L-R): Holly Zabka, Senior Director, Essential Music Publishing; Jordan Keller, KTR Law Group; Scott Brickell, Manager, Brickhouse Entertainment; Moriah Peters, Terry Hemmings, President & CEO, Provident Music Group and Blaine Barcus, VP A&R, Provident Label Group
NEWS SOURCE: Provident Music Group
(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) Aug. 11, 2011--California native Moriah Peters is the latest talent signed to Reunion Records, a division of Provident Label Group. The eighteen-year-old singer/songwriter will make her national debut this month via a featured role in the upcoming Big Idea Entertainment DVD, VeggieTales®: Princess and the Pop Star.
Raised in Chino, Calif., Moriah grew up singing in church and at school. As a young teenager she began to pursue her calling to music ministry and will see that ministry flourish on a national level with the release of her first label project in 2012.
Moriah makes her introduction to mass audiences this week as the singing voice of Vanna Banana in the latest installment of best-selling children's animated series, VeggieTales®: Princess and the Pop Star. The DVD, which releases Aug. 13 and Aug. 16 in Christian and general market stores respectively, helps young girls understand their uniqueness based on Jeremiah 1:5, which reads, "Before I formed you in your mother's body, I chose you. Before you were born, I set you apart to serve me." Moriah's vocals are featured on four songs, including "That's Not Everything," "Radio Sweetheart," "Alone" and "Right Where I Belong."
The project's director, Brian Roberts, comments, "One thing that was really important to me, was that the voice of Vanna when she sings be something that you kind of instantly believe as the voice of someone who could really be a pop star. After weeks of auditioning people, Moriah came in and from the moment she started singing I was like, 'Oh this is it! It's so exciting!' It was just such fun hearing her put her really great sounding voice and her professionalism into these songs. It just brought them to life in a way that was even more than I hoped for."
A companion CD, VeggieTales: Songs for a Princess, will also be sold simultaneously with the release of the DVD. The CD contains five additional songs showcasing Moriah's vocals as Vanna Banana not on the original DVD. For more information, visit www.veggietales.com or watch the movie trailer at http://www.youtube.com/user/BigIdeaInc#p/u/1/21TrzfihD3E.
To learn more about Moriah Peters, visit www.facebook.com/moriahmusic. Also, follow Moriah on Twitter at twitter.com/moriahmusic.


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Troop 2563 and their new Service Unit, Starry Sky, will celebrate Thinking Day this year with Girl Guides and Girl Scouts around the world.
Thinking Day is the birthday of both Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Boy Scouts, and his wife Lady Baden-Powell, the World Chief Guide. Girl Scouts and Girl Guides all over the world celebrate this day in International Friendship and World Peace.
There are 136 guiding countries with the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS). Let's all celebrate this year by contributing to the World Friendship Fund, and getting to know each other by exchanging shoebox gifts with other Girl Guides and Girl Scouts around the world.
The Deadline for the Thinking Day Shoebox Exchange is December 15, 2000. For those of you that are exchanging within your country, please mail your exchange ahead of time so the troop you are exchanging with will receive them in time for Thinking Day February 22, 2001. For those of you that are exchanging outside your country, please mail your exchange by January 22, 2001.
Our goal is for 2001 or more Girls to participate.
Pass this information on to other troops.
Crafts, recipes, games, troop information, council information, patches, postcards, photos of your troop in uniform...anything you feel another troop would be interested in knowing about you.
To see the list of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts who are interested in exchanging Gift Boxes for Thinking Day 2001 click here.
To see the Thinking Day 2001 matched list go here.
To see the list of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts who participated in our 2000 Thinking Day exchange click here.
We have complied a list of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides webpages here. Check out the sites to see what other GS/GG are doing in their troops.


The Internal Revenue Service has announced that it is granting relief for victims of Hurricane Irma. Affected taxpayers are granted an extension until January 31 within which to file certain individual and business returns and to make certain tax payments. Affected taxpayers are those in Broward, Charlotte, Clay, Collier, Duval, Flagler, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Palm Beach, Pinellas, Putnam, Sarasota and St. John Counties.
If you have further questions about these extensions, please contact us at 516-747-2000 .


Willful blindness. It's actually a legal term that means, you should have known, but refused to know. Think of the legal analyst and top-level executives involved in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme. This is an example of widespread institutional and a governing bodies' willful blindness. But we all engage in willful blindness to some degree in our lives, often putting ourselves and those close to us at risk.
Willful blindness in our personal lives can be very detrimental because problems are not addressed, but rather ignored and the consequences can be devastating. This keeps us from growing and evolving.
Maintaining the status quo. We are all members of families, groups and organizations that have firmly established ways of thinking, doing and living. This leads to similar mentalities being shared among members about certain things. It can take a lot of moxy to be the one to stand up and ask questions.
The truth is, when we question the status quo, it can open doors to innovative new ways of looking at things that lead to positive changes. Questioning the status quo doesn't have to lead to doing things drastically different (although it may), but it does help you to stay fresh and consider how needs and wants may be changing. This can be particularly true in business and our careers, but also in our families.
Fear of conflict. Some people are so conflict resistant, they will tolerate very uncomfortable situations in order to not have any conflict.
Conflict gets a bad reputation. We should not see conflict as "bad", but rather, see the intense fear of conflict as the culprit. Conflict can and does improve our relationships. Often people are misguided in their beliefs that conflict will end a relationship when actually total lack of conflict can be much more detrimental. Some experts believe that having a major conflict a week is a sign of a healthy relationship or family. When we engage in healthy conflict, problems get addressed and resolved, healing is allowed to take place and it becomes possible to move forward in healthy ways. When there is no conflict, the problems don't go away, but rather gain energy and become worse…what resists persists and what is addressed falls away.
Acknowledging the problem means you have to do something about it. When we acknowledge a problem, we have to either do something about it or admit that we aren't willing to do anything differently. Often times, this puts us in conflict with the way we see ourselves or want others to see us. If you don't know something is wrong, you can't be held responsible, but if you know and don't do anything, well, that's obviously bad! Some people can successfully do this and go about their merry way, but most people cannot. (I once had a very close family member who used this strategy for almost every problem that occurred and it consistently resulted in painful outcomes).
This strategy allows you to be a victim of circumstance rather than a mature member of the family, group or organization. Problems left unresolved will only grow and eventually reach a point of crisis. Financial problems not nipped in the bud, can lead to financial ruin. Drug / alcohol abuse and experimentation can lead to addiction and lifelong problems. Unresolved problems in a marriage often lead to divorce. When we acknowledge the problems we are empowered to do things differently and learn from our mistakes. Life is about learning and when we learn from our mistakes and problems, we can grow in ways we never thought possible and create entirely new and better futures for ourselves and others.
Futility Thinking. Sometimes we tell ourselves, "Nothing is ever going to change, so why bother", and so we do nothing.
This is faulty thinking because it gives us a free pass to do nothing. If you think one person can't make a difference remember the names: Jesse Owens who won 4 Gold Medals during Hitler's rein in Germany, shredding the Nazi ideology of aryan supremacy. Mother Teresa, who made it her life's work to tend to the poor, sick and lonely. Jane Goodall, who through her work with chimpanzees, was a pioneering activist for environmental issues and animal kindness practices. You may say, "well, those were extreme cases or circumstances." However, it only takes one person to change a relationship, and one person can have a positive effect on someone else's life. It happens everyday. So why not make today the day?
It takes less energy to ignore problems or minimize the impact of what is happening. This is where Self Care is so important. We simply cannot give what we do not have. Almost everyone understands this concept in relation to money… doesn't matter how much you want to spend it, if you don't have it, you can't. However, when it comes to our energy, rest, health, focus and time, all too often, it can be too easy to ignore the obvious. When we take care of ourselves, we are better able to keep our personal, family and professional lives healthy. If you "know" that you are engaging in Willful Blindness in an area of your life and you know that to continue to do so puts yourself and others at risk, consider reorganizing your priorities and letting some of the less important things fall by the wayside. You will be glad you did.


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Mets' new manager Carlos Beltran makes NYC history as first Latino head coach
Carlos Beltran understands what it means to come first.
Not only has he been named the Mets' first Latino manager in team history, he also claimed the title of first Latino head coach of a major sports team in any of the Big Apple's sports teams.
Rita Moreno, Gina Torres And Laurie Hernandez Will Be Co-Grand Marshals At The 2020 Tournament of Roses
It might only be November but our eyes are already focused on a big event in 2020. That's when the famous Tournament of Roses —the traditional New Year's Day Celebration that includes the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game in Pasadena, California— will be held once again. However, we're already looking forward to next year's celebration, because of the iconic women who will act as grand marshals for the 130th anniversary of the event.
Where to Eat in San Juan, According to a Puerto Rican Chef
Chef Ana Ortiz started "Day into Night," a venture that's not a catering company but a space to create "celebratory dinners," including some in her hometown of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Ortiz has an upcoming pop-up dinner in San Juan and is cooking for a vanilla conference in the mountains, reinforcing that sense of vitality and community from the meals that she prepares all over the world.
Nicky Jam and Anuel AA Team Up For Sensual, Reggaeton-Infused 'Whine Up': Watch
Nicky Jam and Anuel AA have teamed up for an epic new collaboration called "Whine Up" (and no, it's not a cover of the 2007 Kat DeLuna monster hit).
Fat Joe Is Working On Pilot For A Sitcom
Fat Joe might be coming to your TV on a weekly basis. The Bronx rapper is reportedly working on a pilot for a sitcom.
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Puerto Rican artist Ozuna will be part of the Fast & Furious 9
Vin Diesel has confirmed that the Puerto Rican artist Ozuna will be part of the upcoming Fast & Furious 9, slated for a 2020 release.
Rare Genetic Disease That Mostly Affects Puerto Ricans


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Meet our 2020 Thomas Marzen Memorial Scholarship Recipients
by Mike Fichter | Aug 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
AnnMarie Hemmerling of Crown Point has been announced as the top recipient of our annual Thomas Marzen Memorial Scholarship for young Indiana leaders attending college this fall. Hemmerling's pro-life involvement began as a high school sophomore attending the National...
Indiana's 18-Hour Ultrasound Law To Go Back Into Effect After State's Largest Abortion Business Drops Suit
INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana's 18-hour ultrasound law will go back into effect on January 1, 2021, as a result of Indiana's largest abortion chain, Planned Parenthood, conceding it will not win its suit which has blocked the law since 2017. The ultrasound law, part of...
Senator Mike Braun calls for an end to tax breaks for abortion under the guise of healthcare
INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana Right to Life is applauding Senator Mike Braun's leadership in calling for an end to tax breaks for abortion. In a letter sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin last week, Sen. Braun and 102 other congressional members call for new...
Joe Biden Chooses Senator Kamala Harris as His Running Mate, National Right to Life Documents Her 0% Pro-life Voting Record
WASHINGTON—Presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden today announced that Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) would be his vice-presidential running mate. By picking Senator Harris, Joe Biden has reaffirmed his commitment to abortion on demand at any time for...