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Scruggs Center opening a celebratory tribute to local musician (Slideshow)
Molly Phipps
"Isn't that something?" Shirley Europa said, looking at the statue of Earl Scruggs inside his namesake museum, which had officially opened just moments before.
Her eyes glistened as she spoke of her uncle, and the honor bestowed on him and her family.
Across the street at a dedication ceremony prior to the opening of the Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby, bluegrass music echoed through the high ceilings of Central United Methodist Church, culminating in a flash mob of dozens of musicians who converged on the stage to honor Scruggs, the Cleveland County native and legendary bluegrass musician.
Banjo, guitar, violin and bass players performed together while the audience — a packed house of more than 500 people — clapped and stomped in time with the music.
After N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory, Scruggs' family members, other dignitaries and ticket-holders toured the newly opened center, many headed over to the Cleveland County Arts Council to visit a photo booth and try out Earl's favorite snack, milk and cookies.
The mood at the arts council was one of celebration as Darin and Brooke Aldridge played "Wayfaring Stranger" to a crowded room of Earl's fans and friends.
What leaders said
Members of Earl Scruggs' family, fans across the nation and leaders from across the state and county came to the dedication Saturday. Leaders in attendance included N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory, U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry, NC Rep. Tim Moore, as well as Cleveland County commissioners and Shelby Mayor Stan Anthony. Here are some of their comments on the historic event.
"I'm proud of Cleveland County and everyone in North Carolina who made this happen. My staff prepared a speech, but now is not the time for speeches. I came here to listen to music. I want to ask for an encore." Gov. Pat McCrory, who skipped his speech in lieu of more music from a flash mob of performers
"This is a day that 50 years from now, people will look back on." Shelby Mayor Stan Anthony
"I wish Earl was here, but I can just imagine he'd say something like, 'Golly, this is great. I can't believe you're doing this all for me.'" J.T. Scruggs, Earl's nephew
"I came here expecting to see good things and what I saw was much better than I had even imagined." Gary Scruggs, Earl's son
"Earl Scruggs embodies the best of Cleveland County. He took Cleveland County values and made them known to the world." N.C. Rep. Tim Moore
"What a wonderful day for Cleveland County and bluegrass music. It is not often that a county such as ours has an opportunity to share such a homegrown legend. Thanks for bringing Earl Scruggs home." County Commissioner Jason Falls
From a flash mob of musicians to the fans who came to enjoy their music, here's a look at various events during the Earl Scruggs Center's grand-opening day.
Aldridges perform: A little girl wearing a pink sweater and a pink bow in her hair ran and danced in front of the stage during the Darin and Brooke Aldridge performance at Central United Methodist Church. Brooke smiled down at her as she sang both country and bluegrass classics. The duo also performed hymns and Brooke even did a little yodeling. Throughout their performance, the church began to fill. The center pews quickly became crowded when city and county leaders arrived, while a perpendicular row of pews to the right stretched back far into the church, filled with music fans from across the nation. By the final song, fans were lining up at the doors trying to get a glimpse of the musicians and an announcement was made to ensure people weren't blocking the exits.
Bluegrass flash mob: It happened slowly, then all at once. A lone banjo player came onto the stage of the church's sanctuary and began to play. A violin player and another banjo player joined him. A flood of musicians then appeared from a side door near the right of the stage, bass players, guitar players and more violin players. Shelby Mayor Stan Anthony appeared with a guitar. Randy and Gary Scruggs joined legendary bluegrass musician Sam Bush. Down the aisles from the back of the church, musicians kept coming. Within seconds, the audience of more than 500 was stomping the floor in time with the music, clapping in unison and whistling in approval. An ASL interpreter signed and clapped along. When the music finally stopped, magically all on the same beat, the flash mob brought down the house. The performance was so enjoyable to N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory that he decided to forgo his speech and ask for an encore, a request the musicians obliged.
Stories, snacks and photos: Bluegrass music doesn't always have notes or words. But it always has a story. Duo Gingerthistle demonstrated that at the Cleveland County Arts Council with live music early in the day. Ben Seymour and his partner, Becky Cleland, sang an a cappella song, "Walk In Jerusalem." The song, a classic hymn, highlighted the ties between Southern music, whether it's bluegrass or gospel. Seymour then invited the then-small audience to join in with a song accompanied by guitar about the devil taking a farmer's wife, then realizing she was too much to handle. Near the middle of the arts council's hall, warm apple cider welcomed visitors and a pickin' station was set up to the right of the entrance with three banjos for people to try their hand at. At the reception after the dedication, a tall "cake" of Oreos and a table full of milk and cookies — Earl's favorite — awaited friends and fans who had come to celebrate the opening day. Darin and Brooke Aldridge also played at the reception, while people chatted with one another and tried out the council's photo booth and props.
'Doors are finally open': A crowd of umbrellas surrounded the entrance of the historic Uptown Shelby courthouse. Gov. Pat McCrory, U.S. Rep. Pat McHenry, N.C. Rep. Tim Moore, Destination Cleveland County officials, and county and city leaders prepared to formally cut the ribbon that would declare the Earl Scruggs Center officially open. As the ribbon fell, applause began. Despite the rain and puddles in uptown Shelby, the crowd was joyous. People began lining up with their tickets, marked with specific times so that only a certain amount of people could go in at once. The first to see the center on opening day were the officials. A media group followed Gov. McCrory while Brownie Plaster, DCC chairwoman, introduced him to the historical exhibits of the center. Earl Scruggs's family was also present in the first group. His grandchildren, nieces and nephews strolled through the exhibits, taking photos, the little children playing with "The Beverly Hillbillies" television display. The overall feeling was summed up by Jackie Sibley, the county's director of travel and tourism: "We're just really excited that the doors are finally open."


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Running went almost to plan this week with my planned runs all getting completed until this morning. Woke up this morning for my long run feeling sick, had a bad headache and zero energy. So I missed my long run which is disappointing but overall it won't have a major effect on my program. Otherwise things went to plan with my Hills session Tuesday and my intervals on Friday the other key sessions.
Week 5 has a similar theme as recent weeks however I plane to make up a little from my missed long run tomorrow with a race pace hour run instead of a recovery run.
Again my focus is my three key sessions to build strength, speed and endurance. Plenty of rest placed throughout the program to keep me fresh and simplify my running.
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How to simplify interval training?
Interesting how you do your runs based on duration! I've only been using distance as goals in my runs – for example intervals of a certain distance instead of duration. But that's a good way to plan your runs, I think I might try it. Have you tried both ways? What do you find works best for either one?
I've tried both ways and either can work fine. I prefer time as the recovery time is more defined. If I run an 800m interval with a 200m recovery then the recovery is dependent on the speed I jog/walk the 200m. So I prefer time based training for intervals and long runs.


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The GPA, Transparency Requirements and the Fight Against Bid-Rigging and Collusion
None © Erich Schwarz
On 11 January 2013, the World Trade Institute and the NCCR Trade Regulation offered an open forum for representatives of the Swiss procurement profession.
Government representatives, members of international bodies and academic experts met to discuss the acquisition of goods and services – such as pharmaceutical drugs, power generation, hearing aids and construction – and how to locally implement 2012 revisions to the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA). The Agreement includes setting rules to guarantee fair and non-discriminatory conditions of international competition, making it easier for Swiss industries to sell their products and services to foreign governments at competitive prices and for taxpayers in these countries to obtain the fairest price possible for goods or services they purchase from Switzerland. Typically accounting for 15-20% of Gross Domestic Product, public procurement is crucial to the economic system of a state.
In their opening remarks, Professor Thomas Cottier, Managing Director, World Trade Institute (WTI) and Dr Susan Brown, Scientific Coordinator & Sr. Research Fellow Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Trade Regulation outlined that Swiss procurement legislation does not currently contain a general rule allowing conviction for bribery as grounds for exclusion from competition for public contracts. They asked speakers to share their thoughts on how implementation of the 2012 GPA revisions might change this, as well as whether there could be other measures taken against collusion and corruption in public procurement stemming from the new Swiss regime.
Although they presented their thoughts from a variety of perspectives, expert panellists from the World Trade Organization, the Swiss federal government, a cantonal government, the city of Zurich, the OECD, the WTI, the University of Hull and the University of Zurich all agreed on a need for a degree of transparency (sharing information on contract opportunities, setting rules for the process, making and enforcing decisions) in preventing bid-rigging and collusive tendering.
At the same time, the speakers outlined that in certain cases fixed rules around maintaining transparency could result in the exchange of commercially sensitive information, which could enable companies to align their bidding strategies and thereby unintentionally support bid-rigging. In the words of panellist Frédéric Jenny, Chair, OECD Competition Committee, "transparency may also make a procurement procedure predictable, which can further assist collusion".
As further recommendations, the speakers cited a need for public education, for informing authorities when confronted with a case of bid-rigging and even for heavy fines or jail sentences for proven cases was addressed by the panellists. Several panellists outlined concrete mechanisms for improving the overall integrity of the public procurement process: engaging in electronic procurement, issuing certificates of independent bid determination, educating public officials, businesses and civil society, adopting data analysis tools, introducing specialised review mechanisms for public contract awards and auditing public procurement procedures.

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Tags: asiad 2018
Vietnam's national football team awarded US$4,000
VOV.VN - Vietnam's national football team has been presented with US$4,000 by the Vietnamese Embassy in Laos before their upcoming game at the AFF Cup 2018 in Laos.
Victory Cup Award underway in Vietnam
VOV.VN -The Victory Cup Award was officially launched in Hanoi on September 14.
ASIAD 2018: Vietnam bags bronze medal in Kurash
Kurash martial artist Nguyen Thi Lan won a bronze medal for Vietnam on August 30 at the ongoing 2018 Asian Games (ASIAD) in Indonesia.
ASIAD 2018: Vietnam jumps to 14th on fifth day of competition
The Vietnamese delegation won its first gold medal at the ongoing Asian Games (ASIAD) 2018 in Indonesia on August 23, ranking 14th in the medal tally.
All smiles from team Vietnam as they warm up for Nepal
VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Olympic football team were in high spirits this morning as Korean Coach Park Hang Seo put his squad through their paces in a light training session ahead of tonight's match against Nepal.
Vietnam raises the flag for ASIAD 2018
VOV.VN - The Vietnamese delegation officially got the country's ASIAD 2018 campaign underway following a flag raising ceremony held at the athletes' village in Jakarta, Indonesia on August 16.
ASIAD 2018: Hundreds of athletes already arrive in Palembang
Around 350 athletes from 15 countries and territories have already been in Palembang capital of South Sumatra province, Indonesia to compete at the Asian Games 2018.
Olympic Vietnam squad train ahead ASIAD 2018
VOV.VN -Vietnam U23 players gathered at the Go Dau Stadium in Binh Duong province for a light training session on August 9.
20 official Vietnamese players get selected for ASIAD 2018
VOV.VN -Korean coach Park Hang Seo has revealed an official list of Vietnamese players who will compete at the upcoming Asian Games (ASIAD) 2018 in Indonesia.
Vietnam U23s practicing set-pieces for ASIAD 2018
VOV.VN - Korean coach Park Hang Seo has got the Vietnam U23 players practicing their set-piece delivery so that they can replicate the English football team's success at the recent World Cup.
U23 Vietnam still in Group D at ASIAD 2018's football tournament
Vietnam's U23 team remains in Group D together with Japan, Pakistan, and Nepal after a redraw of the men's football at the Asian Games (ASIAD) 2018 was organised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on July 25.
National women football team prepares for ASIAD 2018
The Vietnam national women's football team will play two friendly matches against Taiwan (China) on July 21-22 in order to prepare for the Asian Games (Asiad) 2018, said head coach Mai Duc Chung.
Full line-up of 30 players called up for ASIAD 2018
VOV.VN - According to the rules of ASIAD 2018, Vietnam can add three football players over the age of 23 (U23+3) to compete at this year's tournament. Below is the full squad of Vietnam's U23 + 3 team:
Strongest Vietnam squad for ASIAD 2018
VOV.VN - Van Quyet, Anh Duc and Van Lam are the three over 23 year olds selected to play for the Vietnamese squad in the upcoming 2018 Asian Games (ASIAD 2018), set to take place in Indonesia.
U23 Vietnam strives to overcome ASIAD 2018 qualifying round
Head coach of the national football team Park Hang-seo on July 18 affirmed his determination to help the U23 Vietnamese team overcome the qualifying round of the upcoming 2018 Asian Games (ASIAD 2018).
Vietnam U23's to face Japan at ASIAD 2018
VOV.VN - Vietnam's national U23 team have been placed into Group D with Japan, Pakistan and Nepal for the men's football at the Asian Games (ASIAD) 18, following the result of a draw on July 5.
32 football teams to compete at ASIAD 2018
VOV.VN - 32 men's football teams have registered to compete in the upcoming Asian Games (ASIAD 18) being held in Indonesia.


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Pune: One arrested for leaking health department's recruitment exam paper
As per the FIR, answers for 92 out of the 100 questions in the examination paper were leaked and circulated on social media.
By: Express News Service | Pune |
December 2, 2021 10:27:16 am
File photo of Pune Police. (Express Photo: Pavan Khengre)
The Pune city police have arrested a man in connection with the alleged leaking of the question paper for the Maharashtra State Health Department's Grade C and D recruitment examination.
Police have identified the accused person as Vijay Prahlad Murhade (29), a resident of Jalna district. Police said he was arrested from Aurangabad and then produced before a court in Pune on Wednesday. The court remanded him to police custody for seven days.
Smita Koregaonkar, chief administrative officer of the health department had lodged the First Information Report (FIR) in this case at the Cyber police station of the Pune city police, last week on Friday.
As per the FIR, answers for 92 out of the 100 questions in the examination paper were leaked and circulated on social media. Police booked the accused persons under sections 406, 420, 34 of the Indian Penal Code and sections of the Maharashtra Prevention of Malpractices at University, Board and Other Specified Examinations Act 1982.
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The written examination for recruitment for Maharashtra State Health Department's Grade C and D positions was held at various centers on October 31, 2021, between 2 pm and 4 pm. But the examination paper got leaked and circulated on social media in the morning itself around 8.30 am. Police said the screenshot in this regard that got circulated on social media had Murhade's name and so he has been arrested for further investigation.
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Christmas joy in Bethlehem
By Associated Press | |
PUBLISHED: December 25, 2008 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: August 29, 2017 at 12:43 pm
BETHLEHEM, West Bank – Christians celebrated Bethlehem's merriest Christmas in eight years Wednesday, with hotels booked solid, Manger Square bustling with families, and Israeli and Palestinian forces cooperating to make things run smoothly.
The festivities in the West Bank town contrasted sharply with Hamas-run Gaza. While revelers in Bethlehem launched pink fireworks from a rooftop, militants fired more than 80 rockets and mortar shells at Israeli towns and villages, sending people scrambling for bomb shelters.
The latest attacks, and an Israeli air strike on rocket-firers that killed one person and wounded two, appeared to have buried an unwieldy six-month cease-fire that expired last week.
But 45 miles away, outside the Church of the Nativity, the traditional birthplace of Jesus, good-natured crowds of pilgrims and townspeople gathered ahead of the midnight Catholic Mass that is the holiday's highlight.
A dozen pilgrims from India, Canada, Britain, the U.S. and other countries sang impromptu renditions of Christmas carols.
David Bogenrief, 57, of Sioux City, Iowa, played the trumpet.
"Jesus was the prince of peace, and he can bring that peace to you. We pray for you," Bogenrief told a gaggle of children who gathered to listen.
In Manger Square, vendors hawked roasted peanuts and Santa hats. Many in the square were Muslims out to enjoy their town's annual moment at the center of world attention.
"Bethlehem is like the soul of the universe, and it's like an explosion of love here," said Stefano Croce, 46, a fashion photographer from Rome.
Bethlehem has suffered from the Israeli-Palestinian fighting of recent years, and is now surrounded on three sides by concrete slabs and fences – part of a barrier Israel has built against Palestinian suicide attackers, some of whom came from Bethlehem. The Palestinians see the barrier as a land grab and say it has strangled the town's economy.
Emigration has cut the town's Christian population to an estimated 35 percent to 50 percent of its 40,000 people, compared with 90 percent in the 1950s.
Israel has held peace talks over the past year with the moderate West Bank government of President Mahmoud Abbas, and the spirit of cooperation has allowed Palestinian forces a limited measure of independence in places like Bethlehem, under Israel's overall security control.
Eyad Sirhan, the Israeli military officer responsible for coordination in Bethlehem, said this week that he can talk to his Palestinian counterpart any time, "24 hours a day," about everything from police patrols to garbage collection. Every detail of the holiday preparations was meticulously discussed by the sides, Sirhan said. Safer times mean the Palestinians have counted more than 1 million visitors to Bethlehem so far this year, a rise of more than 20,000 from 2007.
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Meet Kevin Kilpatrick, an Award Winning CPAWSB Instructor
CPAWSB recently presented Kevin Kilpatrick, CPA, CA, with the KBH Facilitator Award, which recognizes facilitators or session leaders who have had a notable and positive impact on their candidates and approach their role with dedication to excellence.
Kevin Kilpatrick, CPA, CA, was initially drawn to the accounting profession because of the mobility and flexibility, the opportunity to make meaningful contributions a designation offered, and the skills and ethics of the professional accountants he knew. The positive encounters he had with the educators he met while pursuing his designation inspired him to become involved in accounting education shortly after he joined the profession. "I wanted to provide a similar experience for students to the one I had been given. Then, when a few friends were unsuccessful on their first UFE exam attempt, I wanted to help them pass – I wanted to make a difference for them."
Kevin has translated that desire into nearly two decades of working as an accounting educator. During that time, he has seen substantial changes to technology, exam formats, course content, and program delivery, but despite those changes, "the key principles and underlying ethical components remain the same." And while he enjoys working through accounting issues and the opportunity to stay abreast of changes in professional standards, he continues to be involved because of the people. "I really enjoy working face-to-face with candidates. I try to understand and respond to individual learner needs." Candidates appreciate Kevin's personal approach, and how he explains difficult concepts in a way that makes sense to them and applies to real life. His passion is evident to anyone in the room with him.
Kevin sees candidates twice within a few weeks, first at the CPA PEP Orientation Workshop, and then a few weeks later at the CPA PEP Core 1 Workshop. During that time, he notices a change in their attitudes. "When candidates arrive at the orientation workshop, they are excited and eager for the program to start. By the module workshop, some candidates are becoming a little nervous as they see their first module exam is only a few weeks away," he explains. "It is important to provide them with a few tips and remind them that their effort will be worth it. It is also important to reassure them that as they proceed through the program, they will continue to acquire new knowledge and skills, which will make enable them to be successful in solving progressively more challenging issues."
In addition to being a session leader, Kevin is also the Core 1 co-lead facilitator, meaning his impact on candidates is amplified: in addition to working with his own candidates, he shares his knowledge and experience with facilitators, who then pass on what they learn from him to their candidates.
CPAWSB is proud to have Kevin as part of its team. Congratulations, Kevin!
Award Winners 2020/2021
CPAWSB presented these members with CPAWSB Award for the past year. These awards recognize facilitators who have had a notable and positive impact on their students and candidates and approach their role with a dedication to excellence.
Nominations for CPAWSB's 2021 Exemplary New Professional Award
Each year, CPAWSB presents its Exemplary New Professional Award to a single recent CPAWSB graduate in one of the four western provinces or three territories. Nominations for 2021 are now open.
Meet Bjornda Bjornson, an award-winning facilitator
CPAWSB recently presented Bjornda Bjornson, CPA, CA, with the David Inhaber Distinguished Facilitator Award. Funded by CPA Alberta, this award is given annually to a facilitator residing in Alberta, who is a Chartered Professional Accountant and is delivering the CPA Professional Education Program modules through the CPA Western School of Business (CPAWSB). The recipient of the award is selected by the CPAWSB and is recognized for their exemplary contribution to furthering CPAWSB's education objectives.
In this series, we ask our award winners five questions about the CPA program.
Meet Kathleen Gerber, CPA, an Award-Winning Recent CPAWSB Graduate
CPAWSB presented the 2020 Exemplary New Professional award to a recent graduate, Kathleen Gerber, CPA, who demonstrated the qualities of a Chartered Professional Accountant during their time as a candidate, and during the year following successful completion of the Common Final Exam. This award is made possible by Kouri Bezeren Heinrichs, an Alberta- based CPA firm.


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Q-Tip Plays Unreleased Version of Kanye West's "Mama's Boyfriend"
This is pretty cool. While at the Red Bull Music Academy, Chairman Mao interviewed Q-Tip. It's a very insightful interview that's about 2 hours long and it covers almost everything having to with Q-Tip & A Tribe Called Quest's career.
But at the 1:37:00 mark, he talks about how there were several versions of Kanye West's "Mama's Boyfriend" (Even one produced by Soulja Boy but we knew that already) and then plays a version that uses Billy Joel's "Movin' Out". "Mama's Boyfriend" was originally suppose to be on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and we mostly remember it because Kanye went around and performed it for Facebook & Twitter employees (A studio version of "Mama's Boyfriend" did eventually leak just not this one).
But that shit Q-Tip played was crazy and should have made the album (Sidenote: Didn't Kanye use that sample for Juelz Santana's "You Oughta Know"). Now unless somebody steals Q-Tip's laptop, I don't know if this version of "Mama's Boyfriend" will ever leak.
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Scottish History
Filtered to: Canvas Historic Environment Scotland Wordsworth
Set in locations ranging from English suburbs to Simla, these 20 tales represent the best of Kipling's chilling narratives, among them: 'They', By Word of Mouth and The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes.
Tales of Mystery and the Macabre
Better known today for pioneering social novels such as Mary Barton (1848), Elizabeth Gaskell also wrote some fascinating tales of the supernatural. This anthology contains nine of her stories, including The Old Nurse's Tale, with its Bronte connections, The Poor Clare and The Grey Woman.
The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll
As well as the complete Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (with John Tenniel's original illustrations) and The Hunting of the Snark, this edition contains the whole bewildering range of Carroll's verses, puzzles, 'phantasmagoria' and stories, plus a miscellany of letters and prose pieces on topics that include women students, vivisection and dining room etiquette.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Gaston Leroux;Mark Valentine;Ed. David Stuart Davies et al
This locked-room mystery is the first and most baffling case of Joseph Rouletabille, a young super-sleuth whose sharpness and mental agility outshines the likes of Hercule Poirot in what has been called one of the greatest detective stories ever written.
The Queen's Gamble
Barbara Kyle
While Isabel Thornleigh's husband advises the French, she finds herself spying for Elizabeth I, who is holding their son hostage. This fourth title in the Thornleigh series can also be read as a stand-alone novel.
The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
Jacob Grimm;Wilhelm Grimm;Illus. Arthur Rackham
The strange, dark tales from German folklore collected by the Brothers Grimm and first published in 1812 have become some of our best-loved fairy stories. This volume is a reprint of an early 20th century edition containing the original 200 tales and 10 legends, illustrated in black and white by one the leading children's illustrators of the day - Arthur Rackham. This reprint edition is bound in gold-embossed red linen.No jacket.
With the White Rabbit blowing his trumpet on the front cover, this volume holds all the wonders of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (with their original drawings by John Tenniel), but also Sylvie and Bruno, Phantasmagoria, The Hunting of the Snark and miscellaneous stories, verses and puzzles. With a introduction by Alexander Woolcott. Bound in gold-embossed blue linen.
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Westport Values Transform A New York Co-op
Posted on December 29, 2020 | 1 Comment
Earlier this month, the New York Times Real Estate section examined the challenges that coop buildings face during the pandemic.
The lead focused on Lori Levine van Arsdale. She's the board president of a 5 -unit cooperative near Gramercy Park. Owners there have not always played nice.
Lori is also an 8-year resident of Westport. Her experience here — with great neighbors who look out for each other — has inspired her to make her city residence a more friendly place too.
That was not mentioned in the Times story. But the other day, she talked about it for "06880."
Lori grew up in New York. She's owned her co-op for 15 years, and loves the neighborhood.
When she she married her husband Jan 8 years ago, he'd lived in Westport for nearly a decade. They blended their families — she had 2 dogs; he had 2 dogs and 4 kids — and bought a new home. It's off Park Lane, behind Trader Joe's.
The van Arsdales (from left): Jansen with Kipper, Stedman, Carolynn with Casey, Jane, Jan with Suki, and Lori.
Many of their neighbors are older than the van Arsdales. Yet right from the start — when a woman brought herbs from her garden — Lori felt welcomed.
Everyone socialized, celebrated birthdays, lent leaf blowers. A neighbor called Lori once in New York, when she spotted an intruder in Lori's back yard. The Van Arsdales' stepsons shoveled neighbors' driveways.
When COVID struck, Lori and Jan spent most of her time in New York. Westport neighbors checked in by phone. One told Lori that her stepchildren — 24, 22, 20 and 18 years old — were doing great. One had offered to go food shopping for homebound neighbors.
"That's the way living should be," Lori says. "I wondered why it wasn't happening in my 5-unit brownstone."
Owners in the self-managed 1851 building did not get along. When 3 units came on the market, Lori decided things could change. She ran for president, and won.
Lori Levine van Arsdale on the steps of her Gramercy Park co-op. (Photo/Katherine Marks for the New York Times)
She had a long conversation with the remaining owners about working cooperatively, and showing each other kindness and appreciation for all the extra work and effort needed to make their units a home.
She brought her Westport sensibility to the new owners too. Neighborliness became the norm. Her husband shoveled the sidewalk and steps; another owner did the patio.
The co-op bought 2 outdoor heaters for the back yard. They added a table and pop-up gazebo, so people could eat together outside.
"It's lovely now," Lori says. "It's like house living in a communal environment."
Adapting suburban values to urban living has changed the dynamics of her building. "I'll never again come home to contentious people," she says.
She's changed her views on city life in general too. "This is what everyone should do for someone else. I've lived in high rises, where the only interaction you have is with the doorman — not even the people on your floor. It shouldn't be that way."
Meanwhile, Lori remains connected to Westport. This is where the family celebrates Hanukkah, Christmas and New Years (it's the van Arsdales' anniversary).
"When we blended our family, we wanted everyone to really feel at home," she says. "We've created a home there. Westport has really rubbed off on us."
Lori laughs. "From the outside, it must have looked like I was living a 'Sex in the City' life. Suburbia to me meant Westchester. I always thought Connecticut would be stuffy. But Westport isn't. It's charming."
COVID has caused many city residents to move here, she notes. She hopes they find this to be a great community too.
But — unless they keep their co-op — they can't bring Westport life back to New York the way she did.
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Don Willmott | December 29, 2020 at 10:27 am | Reply
Good for her. I, too, live in a relatively small NYC co-op building, and the unique style of resident-led governance of a co-op does lend itself to occasional drama. The last thing you want is to be forced to avert your eyes from a hostile neighbor in the elevator.


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Best answer: How important is fishing in Australia?
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Australia's fishing industry is regionally based with catch landed across the Australian coastline. As such the industry plays an important role in supporting regional communities. lobster and prawns) account for around 60 per cent of the GVP of Australian fisheries and aquaculture in 2016–17.
It makes sense, seafood is not just delicious, it's a healthy source of protein and a traditional part of the diet for many of the cultures that make up Australia. But enjoying seafood in these massive quantities means two main things: We're consuming seafood from many different parts of the world, not just Australia.
The most recent national recreational fishing survey estimates that about 3.4 million Australians engage in recreational fishing each year, directly contributing an estimated $1.8 billion to the economy (Campbell & Murphy 2005; Henry & Lyle 2003).
Australia's fishing zone is the third largest in the world, covering 11 million square kilometres, yet Australia is only the 52nd largest producer in terms of volume. In South Australia, fish farming of marine finfish is the most valuable part of the seafood sector.
INTERESTING: How many fish are caught per year?
New report shows industries supported 1.7 million jobs nationally in 2016. … Saltwater recreational fishing supported 472,000 jobs, generated $68 billion in sales impacts across the economy, and contributed $39 billion to the GDP, all metrics that increased 7 percent from 2015 measurements.
People around the world consume fish in their homes and restaurants with other meals. Fish is a staple food in many countries whereas in others it is just considered a type of meal. Some countries have high numbers of consumption of fish. The top consumer countries are China, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Japan.
Australia's seafood comes from wild capture and aquaculture sources. … By volume, imported seafood accounted for around 66 per cent of this consumption. • The value of Australian fisheries and aquaculture production is around $2.4 billion. each year.
Prepared and preserved fish (predominantly canned tuna) is the highest-value imported seafood product into Australia. Prepared or preserved tuna, skipjack and bonito made up almost 14 percent of Australia's total import value in 2016, with Thailand being the lead exporter.
Seabirds and turtles are killed on longlines set to catch tuna. Endangered sawfish are killed in trawlers across our tropical north. Overfishing of once abundant species has led to some species being listed as threatened, such as gulper and school sharks, because they have been fished too hard for too long.
The United States mainly imports seafood from China, Thailand, Canada, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Ecuador. Our top imports (by volume) include shrimp, freshwater fish, tuna, salmon, groundfish, crab, and squid.
INTERESTING: Quick Answer: What kind of fish are in Lake Gogebic?
China (58.8 million tons)
China is the ruler of the world's largest fish producer. This Panda country leaves far away its competitors, including India with a distance of six times more. With a total global fish production of 178.8 million tons, one third of the world's fish production comes from China.
A general increase in imports over the past decade has met Australia's appetite for seafood. More than 200 different species of seafood are imported into Australia, the most significant species groups being prawns, fish fillets, squid, octopus and tuna, which is mostly canned.
Australia's 10 most popular traditional foods
Chicken Parmigiana. This classic Aussie chicken dish – with roots in Italian-American cooking – is a staple offering on pretty much every pub menu in the country. …
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Industrial fishing has been responsible for harmful environmental impacts. Overfishing can deplete resources, many animals like dolphins and sea turtles are products of bycatch, and the massive vessels used require large amounts of CO2-producing fuel.
The fishing sector in the United States was valued at 9.62 billion U.S. dollars in 2020, down from the previous year's size of 9.7 billion U.S. dollars.
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Ilsenburg (Harz) ist eine an der Ilse gelegene Kleinstadt am Nordharz, zugehörig zum Landkreis Harz in Sachsen-Anhalt. Sie wurde 2002 als Luftkurort staatlich anerkannt.

Geographie

Ilsenburg liegt zwischen Wernigerode (Sachsen-Anhalt) im Osten und Bad Harzburg (Niedersachsen) im Westen am Ausgang des Ilsetals an der Bahnstrecke Heudeber-Danstedt–Ilsenburg–Vienenburg. Die Stadt ist an drei Seiten von bewaldeten Bergen umgeben, die über 550 m hoch sind.

Von Ilsenburg ist der Brocken über einen Wanderweg vorbei am Scharfenstein und Kleinen Brocken zu erreichen, der zu Ehren von Heinrich Heine Heinrich-Heine-Weg benannt wurde. Heine hatte die Region 1824 erwandert, den Ilsestein bestiegen und seine Erlebnisse in dem 1826 in überarbeiteter Form erschienen Reisebericht Die Harzreise beschrieben.

Südwestlich der Stadt liegt die Paternosterklippe, ebenso die Bäumlersklippe. Ein Familiendrama von dort wurde von Theodor Fontane aufgegriffen und fand Eingang in seine Novelle Ellernklipp.

Ilsenburg liegt am Nationalpark Harz und ist offizielle Nationalpark-Gemeinde.

Der Harzer Grenzweg am Grünen Band verläuft westlich an Ilsenburg vorbei in Nord-Süd-Richtung über rund 95 km bis nach Tettenborn bei Walkenried entlang der ehemaligen innerdeutschen Grenze; teilweise sind Grenzanlagen und Grenzwege noch erkennbar. Da dieses Gebiet rund 40 Jahre gesperrt war, hat sich dort eine vielfältige Tier- und Pflanzenwelt erhalten.

Am Harzer Klosterwanderweg befinden sich die beiden Klosteranlagen in Ilsenburg und im Ortsteil Drübeck.

Stadtgliederung
Am 1. Juli 2009 wurden die bis dahin eigenständigen Gemeinden Darlingerode und Drübeck mit dem Ortsteil Oehrenfeld eingemeindet. Gleichzeitig wurde die Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Ilsenburg (Harz), deren Sitz sich in der Stadt befand, aufgelöst.

Einwohnerzahlen der drei Ortsteile (Stand: 31. Dezember 2007)*:

* für Darlingerode und Drübeck sind keine jüngeren Daten vorhanden

** mit dem Ortsteil Plessenburg

*** mit dem Ortsteil Öhrenfeld

Geschichte
995 hielt sich Kaiser Otto III. auf einer Burg in der Nähe des heutigen Ilsenburg auf, die im 10. Jahrhundert zum Schutz eines kaiserlichen Jagdreviers im Harz gebaut wurde. 1003 übergab sein Nachfolger Heinrich II. die Burg dem Bischof von Halberstadt zur Gründung des Benediktinerklosters Ilsenburg. Auf dem Ilsestein wurde danach eine neue Reichsburg erbaut, die jedoch 1107 völlig zerstört wurde.

Das in der Umgebung des 1525 im Bauernkrieg verwüsteten Klosters entstandene Dorf entwickelte sich Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts zum Flecken in der Grafschaft Wernigerode. 1545 wurde eine Eisenhütte mit zwei Hochöfen errichtet, die 1697 von Zar Peter I. besichtigt wurde. Ilsenburg entwickelte sich zu einer wohlhabenden Gemeinde, die am Ende des Dreißigjährigen Krieges Residenz der Grafen zu Stolberg-Wernigerode wurde. Diese verlegten ihren Hofhaltungssitz erst 1710 zurück nach Wernigerode.

In den Hexenprozessen in Wernigerode wurde unter anderem Mette Fliß aus Drübeck 1583 zum Tod verurteilt.

Ilsenburg wurde besonders durch die Produktion von Ofenplatten und Kunstguss bekannt. In Ilsenburg, das ursprünglich nicht zur Grafschaft Wernigerode, sondern zum Amt Stapelburg gezählt wurde, und in der unmittelbaren Umgebung reichen die Spuren von Hütten- und Bergwerksanlagen weit in das Hochmittelalter zurück. Es handelte sich dabei um sehr bescheidene Werke, die nur selten in der sonst sehr reichhaltigen schriftlichen Überlieferung des Benediktinerklosters Ilsenburg erwähnt werden. Dazu gehört eine 1311 erwähnte Hütte in der späteren Wüstung Backenrode am westlichen Ilseufer nördlich von Ilsenburg, in der Kupfer vom Goslarer Rammelsberg verhüttet wurde. Spätestens zu Beginn des 15. Jahrhunderts soll an Stelle der Kupfergewinnung die von Schmiedeeisen in einer Eisenhütte getreten sein, die jedoch bereits 1480 als verlassen bezeichnet wurde. Nördlich von Backenrode lagen an der Ilse zwei weitere Hütten, in denen ebenfalls Rammelsberger Kupfer verhüttet wurde. Diese trugen den Namen Betsingerode, werden noch 1495 nebeneinander liegend genannt und wurden nach dem Aufblühen Ilsenburgs als eigentlicher Hüttenort endgültig verlassen.

Bereits 1536 hatte Graf Botho zu Stolberg mit den Leipziger Bürgern Heinrich Scherlin, Hieronymus Lotter († 1580) und ihren Mitgesellschaftern der bei Ludwigsstadt in Oberfranken gelegenen Saigerhütte einen Vertrag abgeschlossen. In diesem gestattete er ihnen den Bau einer neuen Saigerhütte in Ilsenburg und privilegierte sie mit mehreren Freiheiten, darunter der Anlegung eines Kupferhammers. Zu den Gesellschaftern zählte auch der gräfliche Rentmeister Wilhelm Reiffenstein († 1538) aus Stolberg (Harz), der mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit ausschlaggebend dafür war, dass sich die Betreiber der Saigerhütte Ludwigsstadt für einen neuen Hüttenstandort im Harz interessierten. Doch sein früher Tod war einer der Gründe, warum die Unternehmer aus Leipzig sich letztendlich gegen das Experiment der Anlage völlig neuer Hüttenanlagen im Nordharz entschieden und fortan weiter in neue Hütten und Hämmern an der Loquitz im Raum Ludwigsstadt investierten.

Der Hüttenfaktor Peter Engelbrecht hinterließ eine kurze Chronik des Klosters Ilsenburg, in der er erwähnte, dass zur Zeit des Abtes Henning Brandis († 1546) durch die Grafen zu Stolberg ein hoher Ofen in Ilsenburg angeblasen wurde. Eduard Jacobs vermutete, dass dies um das Jahr 1543/44 geschehen sei und brachte diesen Fakt u. a. in Zusammenhang mit dem einige Jahre zuvor gemuteten Bergwerk "Schwarzer Hirsch", das nach dem gräflichen Wappentier benannt worden ist und das in der Wernigeröder Amtsrechnung von 1536/37 erstmals erwähnt wird. Graf Botho zu Stolberg besaß 12 Kuxe an diesem Bergwerk.

Da Ilsenburg einerseits durch die Waldnähe über genügend Brennmaterial verfügte, andererseits durch das gleichmäßig starke Wassergefälle der vom Brocken kommenden Ilse ausreichend Betriebskräfte zur Verfügung standen und außerdem der Ort in kürzerer Entfernung zu den Goslarer Erzlagerstätten und nicht allzu weit von den Eisensteingruben nördlich von Elbingerode lag, wurde schon bald Ilsenburg im Vergleich zu Wernigerode als der günstigere Hüttenstandort empfunden. Daher wurde schon bald den Hauptsitz der gräflichen Messing- und Drahtherstellung hierher verlegt. Spätestens im Juni 1546 hatten in Ilsenburg der Obere und der Untere Blechhammer sowie die Draht- und Messinghütte ihre Arbeit aufgenommen. Während zunächst noch gleichzeitig in Wernigerode eine gräfliche Messing- und Drahthütte in Betrieb war, gab man diese einige Jahre später zugunsten von Ilsenburg auf. Anfang des Jahres 1550 wurde dann in Ilsenburg auch noch der neue Kesselhammer fertiggestellt, mit deren Aufblühen die gleichartige Anlage in Wernigerode, die Niederländerhütte, ihre einstige Bedeutung zugunsten des Werks in Ilsenburg verlor. Fortan entwickelte sich Ilsenburg zum bedeutendsten Hüttenstandort innerhalb der Grafschaft Wernigerode.

Im 18. Jahrhundert wurde südwestlich von Ilsenburg die Ernstburg errichtet.

Im Königreich Westphalen war Ilsenburg Bestandteil des Kantons Ilsenburg. 1893 besuchten Ilsenburg 2400 Urlauber, nachdem bereits 1884 die Eisenbahn die Gemeinde erreicht hatte. Das Hüttenwerk wurde 1911 vorübergehend stillgelegt.

Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges wurde im Ort kurzzeitig ein Außenlager des KZ Dora-Mittelbau angelegt, in dem 16 italienische Militärinternierte zur Zwangsarbeit eingesetzt waren.

Am 31. Oktober 1947 wurde Ilsenburg die Bezeichnung Luftkurort und in Würdigung seiner wirtschaftlichen Bedeutung und als wichtiges Erholungszentrum am 1. Januar 1959 die Stadtrechte verliehen.

In Ilsenburg wurde 1948 die Evangelische Forschungsakademie gegründet.

Der eingeklammerte Landschaftszusatz (Harz) wurde am 1. Februar 2007 amtlich dem bisherigen Ortsnamen hinzugefügt.

Religion
Die evangelische Kirchengemeinde Ilsenburg gehört zum Kirchenkreis Halberstadt. Zu ihr gehört in Ilsenburg die Marienkirche, sie geht auf das 12. Jahrhundert zurück und wurde seitdem mehrmals umgebaut.

Die ehemalige Klosterkirche St. Peter und Paul, die zwischenzeitlich auch als Schlosskirche diente, gehört zum Kloster Ilsenburg. Eigentümer der Kirche, die heute für kulturelle und religiöse Veranstaltungen genutzt wird, ist seit 1974 die Stadt Ilsenburg.

Die katholische Kirche St. Benedikt, benannt nach Benedikt von Nursia, befindet sich an der Schlossstraße. Die 1934/35 von Wilhelm Ulrich erbaute Kirche ist die westlichste Kirche des Bistums Magdeburg, seit 2010 gehört sie zur Pfarrei St. Bonifatius mit Sitz in Wernigerode.

Eine Neuapostolische Kirche befand sich an der Friedrichstraße. Ihre Gemeinde, die zum Bezirk Halberstadt gehörte, ging auf das Jahr 1865 zurück und war damit die älteste Gemeinde der Neuapostolischen Kirche Mitteldeutschland in Sachsen-Anhalt. 2017 fand der letzte neuapostolische Gottesdienst in Ilsenburg statt und die Kirche wurde geschlossen.

Politik

Bürgermeister
Seit der Bürgermeisterwahl vom 22. Mai 2016 ist der CDU-Politiker Denis Loeffke Bürgermeister der Stadt Ilsenburg (Harz).

(laut amtlichem Endergebnis der Wahl zum Bürgermeister von Ilsenburg am 22. Mai 2016; Wahlbeteiligung: 41,4 %)
 Denis Loeffke (CDU): 69,3 %
 Michael Hamecher (SPD): 25,8 %
 Kathy Schneider (Tierschutzpartei): 4,9 %

Stadtrat

Bei der Kommunalwahl am 26. Mai 2019 entfielen die 20 Sitze des Stadtrats auf folgende Parteien und Wählergruppen. Die Wahlbeteiligung lag im Jahr 2019 bei 59,28 %.

 CDU: 8 Sitze (±0)
 SPD: 5 Sitze (−1)
 LINKE: 3 Sitze (±0)
 Freie Wählergemeinschaft Drübeck: 2 Sitze (±0)
 GRÜNE: 1 Sitz (±0)
 Bürgerinitiative "Pro Drübeck unser Heimatdorf − Demokratie leben!": 1 Sitz (+1)

Wappen
Das Wappen wurde am 22. Februar 1938 durch den Oberpräsidenten der Provinz Sachsen verliehen.

Blasonierung: "In Silber auf grünem Boden zwischen zwei grünen Laubbäumen (Elsen oder Erlen) ein rotes Burgtor, dessen Giebel mit einem goldenen Schildchen, worin ein schwarzer Hirsch, belegt ist."

Bis zum Jahre 1808 führte die Gemeinde ein Siegel, das zum ersten Male 1609 nachweisbar ist. Es zeigt das Burgtor zwischen den Elsen, ist also redend (Elisinaburg = Ilsenburg). Nach Aufhebung der westfälischen Herrschaft führte die Gemeinde bis 1900 nur noch den Hirsch der Grafen zu Stolberg.

Das jetzige Wappen wurde von dem Magdeburger Staatsarchivrat Otto Korn gestaltet.

Städtepartnerschaften
 Bad Harzburg (Niedersachsen)
 Burglesum (Bremen)

Kultur und Sehenswürdigkeiten

Bauwerke
 Kloster Ilsenburg
 Schloss Ilsenburg
 Kloster Drübeck
 Ilsetal mit Prinzess Ilse
 Ilsestein
 Froschfelsen
 Marktplatz mit Apotheke
 Krugbrücke über die Ilse
 ehemalige Faktorei Ilsenburg, heute als Wohngebäude genutzt
 Marienkirche mit romanischem Tympanon
 Katholische St.-Benedikt-Kirche
 Vogelmühle
 Fürst-Stolberg-Hütte mit Eisen-Museum

Gedenkstätten

 Ehrenmal für die Gefallenen des Ersten Weltkriegs und Gedenkstein für die Opfer von Krieg und Gewalt 1933–1989 gegenüber der Marienkirche

 Ehrenanlage auf dem Ortsfriedhof (Veckenstedter Weg) für vier namentlich bekannte Personen aus verschiedenen Nationen, die während des Zweiten Weltkriegs Opfer von Zwangsarbeit wurden
 Gedenkstein im Friedenspark zur Erinnerung an den KPD-Vorsitzenden Ernst Thälmann, der 1944 im KZ Buchenwald ermordet wurde

Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur

Unternehmen
Die Ilsenburger Grobblech GmbH ist im Bereich Stahl tätig und beschäftigte 2012 etwa 800 Mitarbeiter. Das Unternehmen gehört zur Salzgitter AG. Der Bochumer Verein Verkehrstechnik ist am Standort Ilsenburg, in Form der ehemaligen Radsatzfabrik Ilsenburg GmbH, ebenso vertreten.

Daneben hat die Thyssenkrupp Presta zwei Produktionsstandorte in Ilsenburg, mit der Fertigung von gebauten Nockenwellen bei der ThyssenKrupp Presta Ilsenburg GmbH und der ThyssenKrupp Valvetrain GmbH.

Bis 1990 wurde in Ilsenburg eines der größten Hüttenwerke des Mansfeld-Kombinats betrieben, in dem unter anderem importierter Elektronikschrott eingeschmolzen wurde. Auf diese Weise gelangten jährlich große Mengen an hochgiftigen Schwermetallen in die Luft.

Verkehr

Der Bahnhof Ilsenburg liegt an der Bahnstrecke Ilsenburg–Vienenburg und der heute westlich von Ilsenburg unterbrochenen Bahnstrecke Heudeber-Danstedt–Bad Harzburg. Stündlich bestehen Verbindungen in Richtung Magdeburg bzw. Halle (Saale) und nach Goslar. Sämtliche Leistungen werden von Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland betrieben.

Ilsenburg hat eine eigene Anschlussstelle an der Bundesautobahn 36 (Braunschweig – Bernburg (Saale)).

Ilsenburg ist an mehrere Radwanderwege angeschlossen, z. B. an die Radwege entlang des Grünen Bandes entlang der ehemaligen deutsch-deutschen Grenze und an den Iron Curtain Trail, welcher als längster Fernradweg Europas entlang des ehemaligen Eisernen Vorhangs von Norwegen bis zum Schwarzen Meer verläuft. Der EV13 kreuzt in Ilsenburg die Europaroute (D3), die hier als Teil des Europaradweg R1 bzw. Hauptstadt-Route (EV2) verläuft.

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Literatur
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Here it is again everyone. I tend to write simplistic songs so forgive if it's too simple. This is a song inspired from my wife's passing three years ago this month. Susan Frazier Feb. 17 1969 to Jan. 30 2006. I tried to find the original file to reduce some of the clicking but, like my wife,the file has been lost for good. I had to download this from the last MP3 save so it should have the same quality from the last time I posted. Some were saying they were getting some clicking. I don't know if maybe turning it down a little will help but you may want to try that. Thanks for all your support and condolences.
a fine song. I like your style. Keep them coming. It took a long time for me, too. It sounds perfect, to me. Thanks.
You are my life saver in the deep waters. Thank you Char, always a pleasure to hear from you.
She is lovely. Thanks for the picture.
Thank you, I felt I should post a pic of her to show the beauty lost to this world, and to me. She was only 36 when she passed away.
song ...thank you for sharin such gem !!!!
Thanks Feter, coming from someone with your talent that means alot.
I remember you , Im glad your back.. sorry about your loss, What a great song who cares about the clicking mostly its when you hear the strings rub but I like that Excellent!!!!!
Ego, hey! Glad to hear from you. I am glad to be back. I've been a bit too busy to set up my account again but I have some new stuff coming. Don't change that dial.
Such a beautiful and loving tribute to your wife's memory.
Thank you Sheila, it's alway nice to hear from you.
it's good to have you back Anthony, and glad you put her picture up here to place a face with this beautiful song.
your vocals are very smooth...nice tune!!!
is the guitar fretting out? or is it a clip?
Thanks musichead, It's a simple song but it's what came out after I wrote the music. I am not sure what you mean by "out" or "clip" But it's just me on my Ovation Acoustic. I am not a trained musician, I taught myself to play by ear. I laid a track picking the main chords and then laid a second track with a lead. The third track was my lead vocals and then two more tracks of me doing the backup vocals. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks again.
I enjoyed this song very much, and I find it a fitting tribute to your wife. You sing with conviction and honesty. I think Susan loves this song and loves you for writing it. I am very sorry for your loss, and I admire your use of music to help heal the pain.
Blessings to you and your son as you carry on your lives in a way that would make Susan smile. I would suggest you continue making music to help you. This song is very, very well done, and I hope many more follow.
Thank you very much. I am glad you like it you are very talented and I respect you comments. Thanks for listening.
song the first time round and still do. Great vocal. Very pleased you are back.
Glad to be back. Missed you and everyone. I've got some new stuff coming but I am going to post some of my old back up first. Thanks for getting in touch.
You are a strong man.
Thanks yrp. I appreciate it. Thanks for the compliment. Not my best singing I would get a little choked up trying to get the words out, but everyone seems to like it and that's what matters. I hope you don't have to feel that for a very long time. Thanks again Dude.
And I'm certainly not the guy who has any right to complain about recording quality, but your guitar and your voice get clipped a lot in this song.
Other than that, the song is great. I just wish it sounded a little better recording wise.
I agree I lost the file though and can't fix it I would have to do it over and I'm just too lazy.
It's a strange thing to say to someone I don't know, but I am very sorry to hear about your loss; that's one beautiful girl.
This is really special. Love the hook, the vocal performance and the entire production, actually. But what really lifts it up is the emotion behind it. I'd say this song was special enough to be heard in Heaven. A beautiful woman like that is probably dancing on clouds every time she hears it. Here's wishing your son a very happy birthday.
Thanks so much for the kind words, they are appreciated very much.
A really lovely melody for a lost love has no equal in this world, or any other. My condolences and accolades.
Thank you Racerat. Much appreciated.
Really nice, I don't pretend, I love it from heart and soul.
Nice lyrics too.I smoke a cigrette, drink a cup of cofee and listen to this awesome ballad of yours.Thanx for sharing my friend.
and sang straight from the heart.
And I agree with everything that Feter commented.
A fitting tribute song for your dear departed wife and she does look very beautiful.
A very rare gem indeed:) Thank you for sharing.
I am so sorry for your great loss too.
Anthony- I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. My wife and I have been married for 18 years and I couldn't imagine what life would be without her.
This is a terrific song- performed with amazing passion and extremely well sung- you have a fantastic voice!


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Please add support for the I/O Linc.
I believe we do support the I/O Linc. If it shows up as an 'unsupported device' when connecting the Insteon hub, post a screen shot of that page and we can take a look.
It just shows up as a Switch, and the I/O Linc is "Switch" and a "Sensor".
Its the sensor part that we are missing?
We should see Open or Closed as well?
I believe supporting it as a switch was all that was available to us through the Insteon API.
I wanted to be able to sense if the door was closed before I attempted to open an already open door?
Here is what I found for the Insteon API, looks like get relay status and get sensor status are available?
device_id	number	Required: Used to identify the device to be controlled.
get_relay_status	Gets the current status of the relay part of the device. Level:100 = On, 0 = Off. Note this does not factor in any configuration options to flip what is sent when the sensor is closed.
get_sensor_status	Gets the current status of the sensor of the device. Level:100 = On, 0 = Off. Note this does not factor in any configuration options to flip what is sent when the sensor is closed.
Unfortunately I believe those commands would require polling. For all other sensors in the Insteon ecosystem, we receive events via their streaming API. Polling would increase server load and latency would be terrible (15 minute response times).
Polling an Insteon device takes ~1 second. In my experience, the Stream is not perfectly reliable (sometimes you turn on a device and the stream never spits out a message about it), so polling is actually a much more reliable way of determining current status.
@Kris, why do you say there would be 15 minute response times? If you are referring to polling constantly, that can make a huge mess, but if you only did it when necessary (for instance, during an Only If clause that fires at a certain time of day) it would be glorious victory. You would certainly need to build some logic into the process that only used polling sparingly.
@veitch.bob, you can tie the sensor to the relay in the IOLinc and then base your Only If clause on the relay status. Granted, this would only work if you're not also using the relay for something else. And I have yet to actually get it to work properly. But it should... in theory.
Oh, also, the Stream only reports when you turn devices on/off locally. It does not report when device state changes when affected by scenes or turned on/off via an app. So again, it is limited in its ability to accurately report device status.
Simply put, our system is not architected to poll ONLY IFs when the WHEN occurs. The ONLY IF information must already be present at time of the WHEN.
Yep, I understand that now, but certainly didn't initially. It would be nice if there was an easy, effectively way to communicate this limitation to your Insteon users, but I'm not sure there is. Back to my question though - why rule out polling entirely? It would really fill a gap in the Insteon (Stream) API.
We feel that polling periodically is often worse than not polling at all, especially when people expect immediate reactions with WHEN triggers.
You haven't experienced the terrible lag of IFTTT, then, have you? I'm just poking them in the ribs, but they often miss their timing by many minutes. If you can get to within one second of the target time, I think that's pretty stellar!
Back on topic, though, I was able to get the IOLinc showing up on the Stream. When you link the sensor to the relay (using the Insteon App to simply config the device) that will ensure that the device is "turned on locally" when the sensor trips.
In my case, for some odd reason the device wasn't sending out Alerts, and simply turning off Alerts and turning them back on again (and also disabling the notifications that automatically enable) reset the Alerts system and after that is when the device's on/off status changes started appearing in the stream.
When my water fountain turns itself on tomorrow morning after checking to see that it has enough water in it, that's when I'll jump for joy and call this little test finally passed!
It does not appear that a flow can be triggered by an Insteon switch (or keypad) being manually turned on or off. It looks to me that only sensors can trigger flows. I'd like to be able to trigger a flow by pressing the On or Off buttons on a keypad or by pressing an Insteon wall switch.
I have seen the odd reference to this, but nothing definitive. In just trying to do a simple test to get Stringify to send me a notification when I press an Insteon wall switch, I get nothing. I am aware of the Insteon keypad issues and of Insteon's event stream deficiencies in general. Am I missing something?
We do have a somewhat complicated but reliable (but not cheap) hardware solution to do this, but it would be much simpler if I am just missing something.
Insteon switches should offer these triggers. If you don't see them, send a screen shot of the flow to support@stringify.com.
Thank you Kris, those triggers do show up, but they simply do not seem to work for me at least. I'm happy to know that this can work though! I will send a couple of screen shots. BTW, with a keypad, even though the individual buttons cannot work as triggers, the main on and off buttons can, correct?
Main on and off should, yes. Can you see if it triggers if you turn the switch on/off via the Insteon app?
I do remember that Insteon only worked with one or the other (physical vs through the app) but I don't remember which :).
I hope it is physical I have tried both and neither work although my other flows do. Screen shots to you soon... Thanks!


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Last year was a record-breaking year for Crowdcube, with 120,000 investments made into 325 pitches, generating £130m of investment. It was very difficult to put together a shortlist of these fantastic businesses, but we managed to narrow it down to 18 companies across six categories, including Funded Business of the Year.
Yesterday, we celebrated our 7th birthday, and invited our shareholders and some of the funded businesses to celebrate with us. We reflected on the achievements both Crowdcube and the Funded Club have made over the past year, and were proud to announce the winners of the Crowdcube Annual Awards.
Here are the winners:
Crowdcube Campaign of the Year - House My Dog
Just 36 hours after launching its campaign, HouseMyDog secured its £180,000 minimum target and sped into overfunding, eventually raising over £480,000 from 355 investors, nearly tripling the original funding goal.
HouseMyDog, a pet services platform connecting dog owners and sitters, was one of Crowdcube's first Irish campaigns, proudly paving the way for future irish businesses to set their sights on crowdfunding. Here are just a few of the comments from voters:
"They are providing a real solution to a real problem, and a platform that has already proved it works well"
"I love their service and I think it's amazing they were able to blow their crowdcube campaign out of the water"
"Endearing brand, animation, video. Excellent use of satisfied sitters and dog owners. The personality of the business founders came through"
Crowdcube Campaign Video of the Year - Grind
Following their successful Crowdcube bond campaign in 2015, Grind raised over £1.9m at the end of last year with the support of 1,287 investors, overfunding to 255%.
Since its 2015 campaign, Grind has become one of the most exciting and fastest growing hospitality brands in London, expanding to nine locations across the capital. The company has also signed an exclusive deal to launch in airports and train stations this year. Here are just a few comments from the voters:
"The founders ambition came across strongly. Compelling video. He is a natural in front of the camera"
"They are a great business without whom my daily life would be less cheerful."
"Very cool business, very cool rewards, in the exciting growth phase and reasonably priced shares."
Entrepreneurs of the Year - Krisi Smith and Mike Turner, Bluebird Tea Co.
In April last year, the team at Bluebird Tea Co. more than doubled their original funding target, raising over £360,000 from 280 supportive investors.
Founders Krisi and Mike started Bluebird Tea Co., an award-winning tea mixology company, in their bedroom. Now, three years on, the couple have six stores across the country where you can sample and purchase over 70 types of loose tea, and grab a delicious mix of tea inspired drinks. Here's just a few comments from the voters:
"They have happiness at their core and spread so much love to their community of tea lovers"
"They have both worked extremely hard over the last few years and turned an idea into a highly successful business that now has several stores throughout the UK. To achieve all of this at such a young age is highly inspiring"
"They've created a really innovative brand shaking up the way tea is sold, turning it into a real experience with unique blends and creativity whilst also being eco conscious in the modern world"
Industry Innovators of the Year - Freetrade
After completing their first Crowdcube campaign in July 2016, Freetrade went on to raise over £1m in February last year with the support of 1,113 investors, overfunding to a staggering 357%.
Freetrade, the challenger stockbroker offering free share trading on your phone, celebrated several milestones in 2017. These included receiving authorisation by the FCA and growing the waitlist for their app to 25,000 people. Here are just a few comments from the voters:
"Sharedealing is often considered expensive and only for the wealthy. To create a low cost alternative will encourage a new generation of investors which will be good for the future"
"Stockbroking is an industry that is resting on its laurels with inflated margins. Freetrade know that and are fixing this and widening the net to appeal to Millenials"
"The product has disruption at its heart – it disrupts an industry that profits from innovation in other businesses, but the sector itself has suffered a glacial rate of innovation. Freetrade opens up new opportunities for investors, enabling people who have been held back from trading stocks by high or opaque fee structures, to enter the market".
Product of the Year - Cocoon
In March last year, Cocoon smashed its funding target, and went on to raise a huge £2.3m with the support of 1,065 investors.
Cocoon makes home security affordable for everyone. Founded by security experts, and backed by Aviva, its unique Subsound technology has been named "the future of home security". The company is on a mission to make protecting your home and the people you love simple. Here are just a few comments from the voters:
"Incredible, affordable product with a transparent team dedicated to making home security smart and easy."
"Simple and intuitive home security with no hidden costs and excellent customer service"
"They really have added something new to the market with a product in a very digital world. It is tidy, non intrusive and very smart. Hats off"
Funded Business of the Year - Monzo
Following on from its incredible initial funding round in 2016 where the company raised £1m in just 96 seconds, Monzo went on to raise over £2.3m in March 2017 from a huge crowd of 6,484 investors.
Challenger bank Monzo is this week celebrating its third birthday. The company has accomplished an incredible amount in this short time, which has included building a user base of 500,000 people, creating a current account and most importantly, in April they received their banking license in to become a fully authorised, unrestricted bank. Here are just a few of the voter comments:
"Monzo is at the forefront of using cutting-edge IT systems, in developing the bank of the future, with no branches, no cumbersome hierarchical structure, no arcane legacy computer systems, and no big corporation pre-conceptions that dictate what it is considered the customer will want! Monzo has used high design IT & innovative business concepts that constantly defy the status quo, to develop and deliver a customer-centric, bank of the future"
"Monzo represents a genuine change in the way a class of business is run. Their crowdfunding reflects their ethos and style"
"When I closed down my Halifax account for Monzo a few weeks ago, the guy at Halifax said 'Oh, you're the third person who has closed their account to switch to Monzo this week'. How's that for disruption!?"
To check out the companies currently looking for funding on Crowdcube, click here.
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A metra train nearly hit an Illinois police officer after the warning lights above the train crossing failed to illuminate in time to stop oncoming traffic.
Police officer Peter Staglewicz of the Mokena Police Department narrowly avoided being struck by an inbound Rock Island Line train, ABC News reported Thursday. Staglewicz was driving on 191st street when in the incident occurred, according to ABC.
Dash cam footage shows Staglewicz veer away from the speeding train just in time to avoid what could have been a fatal accident. Warning lights above the train crossing failed to illuminate until moments before the train sped by.
Metra rider Chris Blake also described Staglewicz's reflexes as "cat-like," according to ABC7.
Chicago commuter train organization Metra said there was a mechanical issue with the lights above the crossing, according to ABC7. The problem was fixed a few hours after the incident, according to Metra.
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This store/eatery is proof that casual dining doesn't mean compromising on dish quality or on dining experience, with sumptuous spreads and wide choice to please all palates!
Chef McEwan has two other similar ventures: a 21,740 square foot grocery store at CF Shops at Don Mills and a 5,500 square foot "grab-and-go" store or prepared meals in the Financial District's TD Centre.
And McEwan is already making headlines! Here is the inaugural press about this great gastronomic space! Chef Mark McEwan Opens Impressive Bloor-Yorkville 'Grocerant' Grocery Store" and "Long-Awaited Gourmet Grocery Set To Open At Yonge And Bloor In January".
Visit McEwan at 1 Bloor St E, Toronto, open daily from 7:30am-8:30pm.
This is a perfect spot to spend an afternoon, sampling, and browsing, seeking culinary inspiration!
Wouldn't it be great to have this just minutes from your front door?
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There's a different charm about businessmen. And, if they are impeccably dressed, you can call it the cherry on the top. Entrepreneur brings to you the most well-dressed male entrepreneurs of India. They make a mark not only with their ventures, but also with their unique sense of dressing.
Favorite evening wear: A Canali suit that spells sophistication, tailoring excellence and comfort for me.
Pulling off a casual look includes: Smart casuals from some of my favorite brands such as Hugo Boss, Armani and Paul Smith. I like to wear a nice pair of jeans with a polo tee and jacket if the weather permits.
Shaving mantra: I like a clean-shaven look.
Favorite fragrance: Tom Ford at the moment.
Favorite cuisine: I love experimenting with new cuisines. These days I am quite partial to Peruvian.
Best work moment: To see Genesis succeed against odds, which has happened several times.
Workout regimen: I love to run. After work, I usually take off to a park and run for a couple of miles, else while traveling and in hotels, I do make it a point to hit the gym.
Favorite evening wear: An evening look essentially would be an all black Bandhgala with grey pockets to it. Grey and black would be my tones for the evening.
Shaving mantra: If I have a choice, I would keep a little stubble.
Get my clothes from: Most of what I wear is gifted by my designer friends. Two brands I really believe in are Zara and Armani.
Favorite evening wear: Chinos with a formal shirt/T-shirt or Jacket depending on where I'm going.
Get my clothes from: I prefer 'made to size' for office formals. For casuals, Armani Jeans, Hugo Boss, Ralph Lauren and A&F are my favorites.
Workout regimen: I am not as regular as I would like to be.
The shoemaker I trust my sole with: I usually buy shoes in Europe, mostly Italian. Cavalli is my favorite.
Get my clothes from: All over when overseas and Troy Costa when in India.


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Facebook Politics: How social media affect constituencies and the upcoming election
October 23, 2012 Staff
By Michelle Eigenheer–
The Internet filled up with gifs and memes of presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Oct. 16, 2012 after the former Massachusetts governor told viewers that he'd made an effort as governor to hire more females and was presented with "binders full of women."
"During election season there are constantly quotes, statistics, political cartoons and video advertisements, analysis on the candidates and pretty much everything that was once restricted to television and newspapers floating around on social networking sites, " said senior English and humanities major Emily Hendrick, "The information is easily accessible and impossible to avoid."
The way that people come by their political knowledge is different from most elections in the past. Outlets like Twitter allow people to post real-time updates of what they're watching in a presidential debate or event, retweet news stories or share their opinions. However, as with the "binders full of women" incident, things can be taken out of context.
The use of social media to find news or political knowledge takes out the journalistic filter that theoretically removes opinion from pieces, leaving only fact. Information can be misrepresented or misunderstood by those who tweet or blog the news.
Social media has another role in politics – bringing the constituency closer to the candidate. With Twitter and Facebook, political candidates can directly speak to voters by tweeting to followers to posting advertisements directly to Facebook walls everywhere.
It allows voters to see a more personal side of candidates. NPR uses John Heckenlively as an example. Democratic candidate in Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District, "Heck" posts news links, "likes" other politicians and asks followers for their support… in his effort to succeed in the Facebook game Millionaire City.
Social media also makes it easier for voters to share issues that they feel are important, as well as their political opinions. This allows Internet users to spread their views in an easier way than previously – fewer door-to-door campaigners and phone banks.
According to a study published in Nature by scientists from the University of California, San Diego, "get out the vote" messages on Facebook can affect the number of people who actually go to the polls. While it has a limited effect, it is still measureable.
Other studies are being conducted now to show that social media has influence in other areas, such as weight loss among Facebook users.
Tags: election, Facebook, Michelle Eigenheer, social media, Twitter
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