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South Africa's electricity shortage is expected to last for the next five years, but should the country not be able to close the current supply gap, even with the successful implementation of demand side management solutions, there would be severe national implications, power utility Eskom regional key account manager Johan Pfister said on Thursday.
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import _root_.io.gatling.core.scenario.Simulation
import ch.qos.logback.classic.{Level, LoggerContext}
import io.gatling.core.Predef._
import io.gatling.http.Predef._
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory

import scala.concurrent.duration._

/**
 * Performance test for the CashSplit entity.
 */
class CashSplitGatlingTest extends Simulation {

    val context: LoggerContext = LoggerFactory.getILoggerFactory.asInstanceOf[LoggerContext]
    // Log all HTTP requests
    //context.getLogger("io.gatling.http").setLevel(Level.valueOf("TRACE"))
    // Log failed HTTP requests
    //context.getLogger("io.gatling.http").setLevel(Level.valueOf("DEBUG"))

    val baseURL = Option(System.getProperty("baseURL")) getOrElse """http://127.0.0.1:8080"""

    val httpConf = http
        .baseURL(baseURL)
        .inferHtmlResources()
        .acceptHeader("*/*")
        .acceptEncodingHeader("gzip, deflate")
        .acceptLanguageHeader("fr,fr-fr;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3")
        .connection("keep-alive")
        .userAgentHeader("Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0")

    val headers_http = Map(
        "Accept" -> """application/json"""
    )

    val headers_http_authentication = Map(
        "Content-Type" -> """application/json""",
        "Accept" -> """application/json"""
    )

    val headers_http_authenticated = Map(
        "Accept" -> """application/json""",
        "Authorization" -> "${access_token}"
    )

    val scn = scenario("Test the CashSplit entity")
        .exec(http("First unauthenticated request")
        .get("/api/account")
        .headers(headers_http)
        .check(status.is(401))).exitHereIfFailed
        .pause(10)
        .exec(http("Authentication")
        .post("/api/authenticate")
        .headers(headers_http_authentication)
        .body(StringBody("""{"username":"admin", "password":"admin"}""")).asJSON
        .check(header.get("Authorization").saveAs("access_token"))).exitHereIfFailed
        .pause(1)
        .exec(http("Authenticated request")
        .get("/api/account")
        .headers(headers_http_authenticated)
        .check(status.is(200)))
        .pause(10)
        .repeat(2) {
            exec(http("Get all cashSplits")
            .get("/api/cash-splits")
            .headers(headers_http_authenticated)
            .check(status.is(200)))
            .pause(10 seconds, 20 seconds)
            .exec(http("Create new cashSplit")
            .post("/api/cash-splits")
            .headers(headers_http_authenticated)
            .body(StringBody("""{"id":null, "creationDate":"2020-01-01T00:00:00.000Z", "modifiedDate":"2020-01-01T00:00:00.000Z", "amount":null}""")).asJSON
            .check(status.is(201))
            .check(headerRegex("Location", "(.*)").saveAs("new_cashSplit_url"))).exitHereIfFailed
            .pause(10)
            .repeat(5) {
                exec(http("Get created cashSplit")
                .get("${new_cashSplit_url}")
                .headers(headers_http_authenticated))
                .pause(10)
            }
            .exec(http("Delete created cashSplit")
            .delete("${new_cashSplit_url}")
            .headers(headers_http_authenticated))
            .pause(10)
        }

    val users = scenario("Users").exec(scn)

    setUp(
        users.inject(rampUsers(100) over (1 minutes))
    ).protocols(httpConf)
}

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The Collector Club is a new digital publishing platform for indie comic books, graphic novels and art journals
The curated site hand-picks comics by independent creators, celebrating self-publishing and aiming to virtually recreate the appeal of browsing a comic book shop.
While there are a few digital publishing platforms for comics, The Collector Club's founder Imi Read feels there is a big gap in the market for a curated site for independent artists to self-publish. The new platform launched this week does just that – allows illustrators, graphic artists, in fact, any type of creative with a vision for a comic-style publication, to submit their work and potentially be published on its growing online library. Unlike its competitors, Read (herself a freelance illustrator and art director) says The Collector Club's main focus isn't only its readers, but its creators as well.
"There are a few digital publishing platforms for comics," Read tells It's Nice That. "The market's top dog is Comixology, acquired by Amazon in 2013. There are a few others targeted at independent creators rather than franchises, such as Webtoon and Tapas. We're the only digital independent comics publisher that offers a curated experience. We're not looking for fast growth. So many publishing sites are saturated with comics from all skill levels and genres that curation goes out the window. Most brands focus on the audience that will bring them a direct profit, the consumer, but we're doing things a bit differently."
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In its first three months of business, The Collector Club is donating 100 per cent of publishing fees to organisations supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. In March, Read put together the Collective Colouring Book – 70 pages of line-drawn artworks by the likes of Genie Espinosa, Raman Djafari and Alex Gamsu Jenkins, as a means of bringing the creative community together at the start of lockdown.
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Georgia Cranstoun creates a collaborative publishing platform, full of cultural gems
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After five years as It's Nice That's news editor, Jenny (she/her) became online editor in June 2021, now overseeing the website's daily editorial output. Contact her with stories, pitches and tips relating to the creative industries on jb@itsnicethat.com.
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United States detains 14 Mexican soldiers who accidentally crossed international border
Fourteen Mexican soldiers were detained at the border in El Paso early Saturday after accidentally crossing into the United States, Customs and Border Protection said.
One soldier was cited for possessing marijuana for personal use, CBP said in a statement, and all were returned to Mexico within five hours.
Border Patrol agents were on the Bridge of the Americas crossing in El Paso after midnight when they noticed Mexican military vehicles had crossed the international boundary, the agency said.
They detained the 14 soldiers who were inside the vehicles.
"The soldiers, weapons and equipment were secured for safety and processing," CBP said. "The soldiers advised that they did not realize they had entered the U.S."
Mexican military leaders were contacted and the soldiers and their equipment were returned to Mexico by 5:00am CBP said.
The Mexican Secretariat of National Defense is yet make an official comment.
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All Fall Down by M. J. Arlidge
Published by Orion Publishing Group on December 10, 2020
Genres: Crime, Mysteries & Detective Stories, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural, Women Sleuths
You have one hour to live. Those are the only words on the phone call. Then they hang up. Surely, a prank? A mistake? A wrong number? Anything but the chilling truth... That someone is watching, waiting, working to take your life in one hour. But why? The job of finding out falls to DI Helen Grace: a woman with a track record in hunting killers. However, this is one case where the killer seems to always be one step ahead of the police and the victims. With no motive, no leads, no clues - nothing but pure fear - an hour can last a lifetime...
When I was invited to read All Fall Down a few months ago, I had no idea what I was in for. I haven't read Arlidge's work before or heard of this series BUT…within a few breaths and a few pages I knew this was going to be a series that I would come to binge read. A story with a strong female sleuth with a tattered background but always focussed on the end result. Six hours later and I was guts deep into a compulsive story and I was 100% in.
All Fall Down is an ambitious story that fulfils on everything it promises.
How on earth do you write a review with so many threads spinning simultaneously without giving anything away?
This story was pinpoint accurate, and the historical elements kept me guessing and I loved the backdrop of the downs. It was compelling, and the story gave us plenty room to grow into characters, to explore the circumstances and to breathe the rotten core that was spilling out, all for the reader to investigate. I'm not ashamed to admit my mind flitted between numerous suspects to which I was wrong each time. The author managed to emit feelings of empathy for such morally corrupt characters deserves to be applauded. This crime series has everything, and the author wraps it neatly, fires it out of the barrel of a gun and the reader has to watch out for the ricocheting bullet.
All Fall Down highlights everything that is human about every person you meet. They are all hiding secrets, hiding pain and anguish and everyone is dysfunctional to a certain degree. We have characters disguising in plain sight, disguising at being good people but deep down they just can't chase the darkness creeping in at the edges. Like I mentioned before, I haven't read the previous books in the series, but it is easy to read the story without knowing a ton of background. Undoubtedly however, there has been a lot of groundwork already carried out.
All Fall Down brings back DI Helen Grace to investigate a whole new dark and disturbing case. A body has been found on a building site, a well-known man, mainly due to his traumatic past has turned up dead with ligature marks around his neck. His notoriety becomes the talking point as he was part of the group of schoolchildren who were held against their will and nearly killed by Daniel King. King was livid that they escaped but he managed to take back one of the kids and torch his farmhouse with the child still contained within. How is it possible that a person could survive such horrors only to be taken out in such a brutal act of violence.
DI Grace has her work cut out for her in this case. She needs to find a quick resolution to the crime before the publicity from it spirals out of control. She is fighting against a tsunami as another victim, Maxine Pryce has recently released a memoir outlining the details around their ordeal. Has this just put a mark upon all their heads and just why are some of the victims so reluctant for the truth to come out?
DI Grace also has trouble in her private life and although she mostly gets it spot on in her professional life, she sometimes gets it wrong in other avenues of her life. I felt really bad for her in this situation because even the best cops can't see rat even in the heavy embrace of passion, it gets in the way, but once a cop, always a cop, she will route it out.
Arlidge creates characters that are so morally incomprehensible that rage is a common emotion whilst reading his books. He should be called the spider because his development of webs and strands and hooking the reader in with one whisper. The first chapter is an absolute doozy. A quick read that builds to a crescendo with the blink of an eye.
All Fall Down cements Arlidge as a highly skilled crime fiction writer. If you like the kind of book where you are constantly picking your jaw off the floor, then you need to pick up this one.
ABOUT M.J. ARLIDGE
M.J. Arlidge has worked in television for the last 15 years, specialising in high end drama production. Arlidge has produced a number of prime-time crime serials for ITV In the last five years, and is currently working on a major adaptation of The Last of the Mohicans for the BBC.
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So the word on the street (haha I am so with it) is that your interview and personal statement get graded. The top scorers (or those who get nearly 100%) are offered early, and the rest follow after. If this is true then I must have done very well at interview etc so am feeling quite pleased with myself!
This entry was posted in BM6, Medical School and tagged application, BM6, Med School, Medical School, So'ton, southampton on Saturday, March 27th, 2010 by Bethaney.
So I got the terrifying email saying my UCAS track status has been updated… and I did it! I have been updated to Conditional Offer! So excited now! The offer was 3 C's in Law, Bio and Chem which I already have! Phoned college and cancelled June resits for Law and am preparing my certificates to send proof I meet the offer.
It seems that there have only been around 10 or so offers so far which is odd but I guess the rest will come out soon!
Have checked track a million times in case I was wrong, but it seems, pending proof and health tests, I am accepted onto BM6!
This entry was posted in Medicine Application and tagged A100, A102, application, BM5, BM6, Doctor, Med School, Medical School, Medicine, So'ton, university on Sunday, March 7th, 2010 by Bethaney.
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I have a letter! From Southampton! Telling me that my application is being kept for further consideration. After a little bit of digging around TSR I have found that 2 letters are being sent out. One like mine, and one rejection after interview letter. Not very many rejection letters are going out from what I can gather so not getting too excited just yet. Should be hearing at the end of March (seems like an eternity away).
Exams went ok. Results are out at the beginning of March so will see how this goes!
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ROBBIE Williams admits it is "mad" how far Accrington Stanley have come in such a short time.
In 2003, they faced Bournemouth in the FA Cup second round and it was a plum draw against the then Second Division promotion-chasers for the Conference part-timers, who were two leagues below them.
Now they meet the Cherries tomorrow for the first time since Stanley knocked them out in that cup run with 16th placed Accrington actually having the upper hand - above the League Two strugglers.
Williams, Peter Cavanagh, Paul Mullin, Andy Procter and Jamie Speare survive from that side five years ago that caused the cup upset.
And defender Williams, who has regained his place in the Reds team recently, says he can't believe it.
"It is mad. I remember the FA Cup trip to Bournemouth seemed a huge thing for us at the time - they were a massive scalp," said the 29-year-old.
"To get a draw there was fantastic and then to win on penalties at home live on Sky was a shock. It was huge for us.
"Saying that they are still a big side and have been unlucky with a 17-point deduction but it is good to meet them on a level playing field."
Manager John Coleman said: "Bournemouth does have good memories for us - that was the catalyst to us going full-time and getting into the league and hopefully that is a good omen for us.
"It is bizarre that we are in the same league and, even without their points deduction, we would still be one point ahead of them. We want to keep it that way and so a win is important."
It is a big game for Jimmy Quinn's relegation-haunted side who, if they beat Accrington, will finally get to zero points in the league.
But Williams says the new look Stanley will not roll over and die as they might have done in the last two seasons when they conceded too many goals.
After a knee operation in March, the long serving defender has returned to the backline and they have steadied the ship, not making the mistakes and conceding sloppy goals of the last campaign.
"I think in the past - especially in the early days when we were in the league - we have perhaps gone for a win when really we should have consolidated and perhaps have been happy with a point.
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"For me, it is good to be back. I missed a large proportion of last season and rightly had to wait to try and get my place back - now I have got to try and keep it."
Rochdale loanee Kallum Higginboth-am, not allowed to play last night, could get the nod to start tomorrow - his one month loan spell is up then and boss John Coleman will speak to him after the game.
Striker Terry Gornell returns after being refused permission by Tranmere to play against them in the FA Cup.


Part of going on vacation involves sticking to a budget. I'm a pretty cheap frugal guy anyways, and I do try to be a bit more relaxed on vacation and not count ALL of my pennies.
Still, the temptation to spend money is (at least for me) a lot harder on vacation, since the routine is different and often you are without the things that you have at home that make it easier to save money.
Several years ago, we were operating on an entirely cash budget, which does make it easier to stick to a budget. If you have the cash, then you can spend it. If you don't have the cash, then there's no way to spend the money! I like credit cards for the points and miles, but it does make it a TON easier to spend money, since you just swipe the card and the money falls off of the magic tree.
So, the following is a report of our expenditures from our 3-day 2-night trip to Indianapolis and Dayton. I include it here for a few reasons. First, it's a nice way for me to keep track of how much these "free" vacations are costing, as well as to look for ways that we could improve things for next time. I don't feel that we need to cut all extra and fun things (it is a vacation after all and the perfect time to splurge), but like I always tell people about budgeting, the point of a budget is to not spend money on things that aren't important to you, so that you'll have money to spend when it's something that IS important.
McDonalds – Friday snack – $10.32 – This was one area that we could have definitely done better. I had it in my mind to get hot fudge sundaes for everyone, but in hindsight, since we were already going out to the store, I should have just bought ice cream and chocolate syrup there, which would have been just as good and cheaper.
Gas – $51.60. I figured this as 344 total miles for our route divided by 20 miles / gallon (about what our van gets on the highway) times $3 / gal (more or less the prevailing price for gas here). You can see here why we tend to focus on smaller, shorter trips, since it would be pretty much impossible to transport 8 people this cheaply on an airplane.
Adding that all up, the total cost was $192.01, with a $100 gift card expected to come in the mail within 2-3 weeks. We also spent 12,000 Best Western points and 30,000 HHonors points, but an "all-inclusive" 3 day 2 night vacation for 8 for under $100 is not bad, if I do say so myself!!
I don't mention this to brag (oh, okay, maybe a LITTLE bit), but more to just share what is possible using miles and points. You don't have to go to an exotic location to make good family memories, and you don't have to break the bank to do so.
What about you? Where are you planning your next vacation?
You could write a whole post on food when travelling with a family of 8! I think one of the key principles of traveling with a young family with 2+ kids is to focus on nice Suits/Residence Inn style accommodations that get you a kitchen in unit. Having a kitchen in unit is a huge enabler for saving money on meals. We've been known to freeze and pack multiple meals that are identical to what we would eat when at home. When we do Disney, we don't stay on resort and get a cheaper unit just off resort with a kitchen. We'll typically splurge once or so a day, but we are serious about saving money on food. We travel for the experiences and the memories, not the food.
We are doing an Indy trip in the beginning of March and we'll be doing something similar to what you outlined here, though it's very likely we will spend a bit more eating out than you did for the 4 of us!
That would have cut down the $15-20 or so Friday dinner costs.


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They opened 10 new express washes here in Lexington in the past year. Between that and crappy weather, it's been tough.
It depends. Your locations cater to people in one of two niches. Those that want to take the time to do it themselves and those that only want touchless washing. Most new tunnels can't win these people over. Focus on being the best self serve and touchless car wash and you should be okay. If you can't clean with the new tunnels and give your fans what they want then you will be in trouble.
Exactly what PEI said. I have a single bay with a Razor in a town of 90,000 and we've had 4 tunnels move in over the past couple of years and it hasn't hurt me at all.
I know it can be frightening because its out of your control therefore focus on what you can control.....your wash and the quality of service and products you offer. Make sure everything is working as it should and the place is as clean as can be. I am a big stickler with my guys that help me to make sure any part of the wash that a customer comes in direct contact with i.e. gun handles in the bay, meter doors, vac claws, vending machines are always to be clean or cleaned and left spotless. Customers are coming to wash and clean their cars they don't want to get dirty in the process of doing it. Also my and my guys are always asking any customer that we see on sight how things worked for them...most everyone says great to which I say awesome thanks please tell your friends and family how great we are. If they say something didn't work right then money refunded no questions asked and I apologize. There is nothing you can do about a new tunnel coming in to your market just focus on your wash. I have a ss that was converted to a mini tunnel with free vacs 1 mile from me. I think he did the conversion after I re-opened my site. The other direction I have a ss and tunnel about 2.2 miles from me. The ss went out of business a year and half after I re-opened my location.....related to me opening I don't know don't care I just try to do the best I can at my location.


Dr Tim Minshall has been appointed as the inaugural Dr John C Taylor Professor of Innovation at the University of Cambridge, a new post that will build on the University's strengths in science, engineering and entrepreneurship.
Dr Minshall, who is currently Head of the Institute for Manufacturing's Centre for Technology Management, Reader in Technology & Innovation Management in the Department of Engineering and Fellow of Churchill College, will take up his new post on 1 October.
The new professorship has been made possible thanks to a generous donation of £2.5million from Dr John C Taylor OBE, one of the most successful British inventors of the last 50 years.
Dr John C Taylor OBE (left) with Dr Tim Minshall at the IfM.
Prior to joining Cambridge's Institute for Manufacturing in 2002, Dr Minshall worked as a manager and then a director of the St John's Innovation Centre – one of Europe's most successful incubators for technology-based start-ups. Since joining the University, he has played a very active role in the development of innovation and technology management activities throughout the University. He also works closely with companies in the Cambridge cluster, the largest and most successful technology cluster in Europe. He has been involved in a broad range of regional and national policy activities to support innovation.
"This professorship presents an extraordinary opportunity to address how we define and develop the innovation skills and capabilities of engineers so they can address economic and social needs: a challenge that has become critical for the UK given the current global economic and political context," said Dr Minshall.
In addition to his research in technology and innovation management, Dr Minshall is also a committed teacher and supporter of engineering outreach to the public. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University, runs outreach programmes with local schools, and mentors students and researchers to develop their public engagement skills. "The development of future engineers is at the heart of my work," he said.
In his new role, Dr Minshall will continue to build on his strengths in innovation and technology management, both in the University and in the UK more broadly.
"The UK has long been superb at invention – the creation of new ideas – but we need to develop a generation of engineers able to create and capture value from these new ideas, and provide these innovators with the capabilities to respond to future challenges and opportunities throughout their careers," he said. "This requires us to take a much more joined-up, long term view of technology, management and policy issues".
Dr Taylor's life's work involved inventing small electrical components that are vital to many other products. Early electric kettles would not turn off when the water was boiling, meaning that they needed constant supervision and were in danger of melting and starting fires if they were not properly attended.
Dr Taylor created the solution to this problem by supplying a small, bimetallic thermostat to domestic kettle manufacturers which would switch off the kettle element when the water started to boil. This invention did not dictate the vessel design, being suitable for metal and plastic jugs and kettles, and providing a universal solution used over a billion times daily.
Having continued to innovate throughout his life, Dr Taylor now has over 400 patents to his name and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). In 2008, he created and donated to his former college the popular Corpus Chronophage Clock, positioned outside the Taylor Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, which has now become one of the city's most popular tourist attractions.


Leica has released a limited edition model of its M10-P digital rangefinder to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American Society of Cinematographers. In February 2019, the ASC will be presenting its awards for the 33rd time which Leica says is 'an ideal occasion to present an exclusive tool for filmmakers: the Leica M10-P ASC 100 Edition.
Leica has been linked to the world of cinematography since its very early days when Oskar Barnack took 35mm motion picture film strips to use them in still cameras. He also used the original Leica camera to test exposure settings for cinema cameras with a still camera.
The limited edition set comes with a Leica M10-P body and a Summicron-M 35 f/2 ASPH lens. The camera includes two cinema-look software modes which have been developed in collaboration with 'some of the world's most influential cinematographers and members of the ASC. ' The ASC Cine Classic mode simulates the analog 35 mm motion-picture film look while the ASC Contemporary mode creates a contemporary digital movie look.
In addition the M10-P ASC 100 Edition lets users select from different aspect ratios used in cinematography. Aspect ratios are visible as a bright-line frame in Live View mode.
With the camera and lens buyers of the set receive a Visoflex electronic viewfinder and a Leica M-PL-Mount which allows for the use for most PL mount cine lenses with the camera. This means cinematographers can view and test scenes with a cine lens before motion picture shooting begins.
As one would expect, the limited edition camera also features a unique design, with black engravings on black chrome surfaces and leathering which is similar to the Leica SL. With its gold-colored anodized finish the design of the lens was inspired by the 'Ur-Leica' brass look. The final touch is the ASC logo on the top plate.
The Leica M10-P 'ASC 100 Edition' will be available beginning autumn 2019. No pricing information has been released yet but expect it to be expensive. More information is available on the Leica website.


What to do when your door is facing the stairs, an elevator, another door, back window or mirror? Here are some Feng Shui solutions for you.
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Tell us about drone racing and the International Drone Racing Association?
Drone racing is the first multi-reality sport and basically takes the best of the virtual and physical worlds and combines it into one unique experience. It allows pilots to fly first-person view these aircraft they build and tune themselves. The first big event to kick it off was the 2015 U.S. National Drone Racing Championships at the California State Fair and involved about 200 pilots and maybe 10 spectators. Fast-forward 10 months and now we've had a multi-million dollar race in Dubai and IDRA has landed an international distribution deal with ESPN.
IDRA is an event production company that hosts races around the world, currently in Asia, Europe, and the U.S. Our goal is to consolidate the drone-racing world so we can set up a standard of rules everyone can adhere to.
We're a multilevel organization and we're focusing more on our marquee events such as the Drone Nationals. We're also doing our 2016 Drone World Championship, which takes place in Hawaii later this year. And in 2017 we're focusing on bringing the World Cup to life.
We're starting continental-based series around the world. North America has already kicked off and Asia is coming together, along with Europe.
This new international community is a full ecosystem in the sense that you have manufacturers, pilots, vendors, and fans, and 10 months ago this was such a small, tight-knit community. Now you have hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of fans around the world pushing drone racing forward.
How are you working with brands?
We're talking to several companies to sponsor the 2016 drone nationals. Some are Fortune 500 - some are endemic to the industry. We have interest across the board, from the financial, entertainment, drone, or technology sectors. Most of the companies we're talking to are household names.
How has the ESPN deal affected the growth of your fan base?
Since the announcement our inbox has been flooded with interest from major companies to news outlets and small drone racing startups we've never heard of before. It definitely moves the needle in the right direction to get brands involved, especially with the number of viewers the ESPN networks bring to the table. They're starting to see the value in drone racing.
It was a several-month-long negotiation between Scot Refsland and ESPN. IDRA and RotorSports were two separate companies that recently merged. Scot used to be CEO of RotorSports and he was the one who negotiated the ESPN deal.
What opportunities has this merger opened up?
Companies in the VR space are very interested in opening up a 'goggle bar' for spectators to get the full virtual reality experience. You've seen similar concepts such as events like Samsung did at SXSW. We're trying to tie that into drone racing because it is a multi-reality sport. We're looking for partners in the technology space that want to bring this new 21st century entertainment to the mass audience.
How do you promote drone racing and your organization?
We're very active on social media. Our AOR BWR also does a great job getting announcements out to the mainstream media. It's mainly through us talking to other companies, promoting it, and telling them what we do. Our relationship with BWR is new; we brought them on for the ESPN launch and we were really happy with the turnout. We're going to continue our relationship with them and we're negotiating a new contract as we speak.
How will you expand communications in your company?
We're focused on fundraising and production for drone nationals, so we'd probably look more toward third-party support in that sense.
What's the future of drone racing?
I see it expanding into a fully sustainable ecosystem where fans, brands, and race organizations intertwine to push that space into a bigger and broader sport. NASCAR has its roots, and look what it is today. With the traction we're getting, drone racing can be as big as Formula One, NASCAR, or eSports. And because it combines those two spheres, it could potentially be bigger.
There are several other leagues out there and we've worked with some in the past, but we're the only one to publicly announce a broadcasting deal. We're trying to do live production and live broadcasting. Between our media production partners in Los Angeles and 30-time Emmy Award-winning producer Dave Gavant, we're looking to bring a new angle to drone racing.


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Music by Sean Callery – 24 Season 5 DVD Feature
By 24 Spoilers , December 5th, 2006 · 1 comment
Here's a great inside look at how 24's Emmy winning composer Sean Callery scores the show.
https://www.24spoilers.com/media/features/Music-by-Sean-Callery.mp4
This feature is found on the 24 Season 5 DVD box set.
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Hector Berlioz's Mémoires, in the superb translation by David Cairns (the English title is A Life & Love of Music). Of course, you can't make a great translation out of a bad source text--it helps that Berlioz excelled as a writer as well as a composer.
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Mr. K wrote: Hector Berlioz's Mémoires, in the superb translation by David Cairns (the English title is A Life & Love of Music). Of course, you can't make a great translation out of a bad source text--it helps that Berlioz excelled as a writer as well as a composer.


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Heart of Glass – Herzog hypnotizes everyone.
Posted by lisathatcher on March 11, 2012 in Film Reviews | 4 Comments
I've just watched Heart of Glass. You know the one – the Herzog film where he hypnotizes his entire cast. Everyone, except for the mystic who plays the central role and (thankfully) the professional glass blowers in the film, are hypnotized before their scene. This gives the film a totally bizarre feel, as if the actors are both there and not there.
Herzog is an excitingly experimental director who tries things that sometimes work and sometimes don't. This film is one of those time when it just doesn't work.
The basic plot line is:
The setting is an 18th century Bavarian town with a glassblowing factory which produces a brilliant red ruby glass. When the master glass blower dies, the secret to producing the ruby glass is lost. The local Baron and factory owner is obsessed with the ruby glass and believes it to have magical properties. Seeing as it appears this magic secret has died, he tries one hair brained scheme after another (from 'reading' the chair stuffing from the dead man's house to murdering a young girl for her blood to color the glass) With the loss of the secret, he soon descends into madness along with the rest of the townspeople. The main character is Hias, a seer from the hills, who predicts the destruction of the factory in a fire, and predicts that it will mean the 'end of the earth' for the villagers. He does this in a kind of Greek chorus, providing us with a running commentary (ahead of time) of what is about to happen. When the factory owner has burned down his own factory, Hias is accused of being the culprit, given his ability to predict its destruction. HIas is able to flee the scene and escape. The film ends with a strange image of a man on a rock who is staring out to sea wandering about the end of the world. Eventually he is joined by three other men who all stare at the horizon wondering in silence about the end of the world. Finally they decide to get into a small boat and sail to the end of the world to find out once and for all what is there.
The problem with Heart of Glass is exactly the problem you think of immediately. The film ends up being more conceptual and schematic than involving a thoughtful narrative and this is almost entirely due to the absolute stupidity of hypnotizing everyone. What you get is a bunch of hypnotized actors sleep walking their way through every scene, not interacting with each other in any meaningful (or otherwise) way, and contributing almost nothing to the narrative. When I read the blurb on the back of the DVD that stated "the entire cast performed under hypnosis" I blurted out a laugh and assumed it was a mistake, like the 578 minute running time printed on the back of the DVD that was (thankfully) a mistake. Then I found out it wasn't an error. The entire cast have been hypnotized.
It has been reported that in order to choose his cast from a group of mostly non-professionals. Herzog first had them hypnotised and then showed them (or should I say, subjected them to) his film Fata Morgana . Apparently those who reacted in the most extravagant ways were selected. Then, during each day of the actual shooting, all the actors, except Josef Bierbichler in the role of Hias, were hypnotised by Herzog's on-the-set psychiatrist. Herzog said, "I wanted this air of the floating, fluid movements, the rigidity of a culture caught in decline and superstition, the atmosphere of prophecy." This is a noble aim, but hypnotized people can't act, and that is the material point. These automatons recite their lines in a meaningless babble, including the rather horrific little twitches, rolled back eyes and utterly empty stares one associates with hypnotism.
This process, rather than serving the narrative, defeats it. For us to understand and appreciate a story, we need to see or sense the physical and social context, along with the individual motivations of the characters as they interact within that context. In Heart of Glass, the mental contexts and motivations of the characters are absent. The characters do no not have meaningful interactions. All we can see is that they are all "mad". That kind of thing doesn't wear well. (I'm giggling even as I write this) The madness that comes upon the villages therefore has no dramatic expansion. We understand the villagers are sheep-like humans who have been following the head glass-blower without taking responsibility for how important he has become to his village. When he has gone, the narrative explains there has been a gradual awareness of their impending destruction, but not the acting.
I looked up 'Herzog on Herzog' to get some clarification on this from the man himself. This is part of an interview I found there:
For your next film, Heart of Glass, you hypnotized the actors. How could you have been sure that your 'experiment' wasn't going to sabotage the whole production:
Herzog:
Well, cinema per se has a secret hypnotic quality to it. Often when I am on the film set I have to ask the continuity girl what scenes we have already done and what is left to do. I am almost unconscious and get a shock when I am told it is the third week of filming already. 'How is this possible?' I ask myself. 'Where has all the time gone? What have I actually achieved here?' I feel as if I had been at a drunken party and somehow got home without being aware of it. As if the police stood at my bedside the next morning accusing me of having killed someone during the night. There were two films that were a strong influence on me during the lead-up to Heart of Glass. One was The Tragic Diary of Zero the Fool,11 which was made with a theatre group from a lunatic asylum in Canada. The other was Jean Rouch's Les Maitres Fou,'1 shot in Ghana and featuring the annual ceremonies of the Hauka tribe who, when heavily under drugs, enact the arrival of the English colonial governor and his people. The reasons for the experiments with hypnosis are quite simple. The script was loosely adapted from a chapter of Herbert Achternbusch's novel The Hour of Death which was, in turn, based on an old Bavarian folk legend about a peasant prophet in Lower Bavaria who, like Nostradamus, made predictions about the cataclysmic end of the world. In the film Hias – a shepherd with prophetic gifts – has apocalyptic visions and foresees an entire town becoming halfway insane and the destruction by fire of its glassworks. At the end of the film the factory-owner burns his own factory down, as foreseen, and the prophet is then blamed for the fire.
At the time I knew very little about hypnosis and it never crossed my mind to use it in a film until I started to think about the story I had before me, one about collective madness, one that calls for these characters to be aware of the catastrophe that is approaching, yet one they continue to walk straight into. I wondered how I could stylize everyone who, almost like sleepwalkers with open eyes, as if in a trance, were walking into this foreseeable disaster. I wanted actors with fluid, almost floating movements, which meant the film would seem to depart from known behavior and gestures and would have an atmosphere of hallucination, prophecy and collective delirium that intensifies towards the end. Under hypnosis the identities of the actors would remain intact, but they would now be stylized. Maybe the title Heart of Glass makes more sense in this light. It seems to mean for me an extremely sensitive and fragile inner state, with a kind of transparent glacial quality to it.
Back then, like today, did some people suspect the whole thing was just a kind of circus gimmick?
Oh sure, but there really was a very clear purpose to it. Everyone but the lead character – the only clairvoyanr one amongst them – was hypnotized before playing their scenes. I stress that the hypnosis was for reasons of stylization and not manipulation. I certainly did not want a bunch of performing puppets for the film. For years people have accused me of wanting to have more control over actors in my films. In the context of what we were doing in Heart of Glass, I assure you that as a director I would have been much better off having actors who were not in trance. And it is a common mistake to assume there is complete control over people under hypnosis. That is not so, for whatever is the hard core of your character remains untouchable under hypnosis. For example, if I ask a hypnotized person to take a knife and kill his mother, he would refuse.
What I did with Heart of Glass was, for me, part of a very natural progression. My attempts to render inner states that are transparent from a certain viewpoint were realized in a kind of nightmarish vision in Even Dwarfs Started Small, in ecstatic states in The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Sterner, and even in the state of non-participation of social activities with the children in Land of Silence and Darkness and Bruno in The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser. In all these films none of the people are deformed, not even the dwarfs.
I found the section where he claimed for years people have been accusing him of wanting to have more control over his actors was the most pertinent. Herzog cites not being able to get them to kill their mothers as proof he isn't the one in control (!) but of course a hypnotized actor can't add their own interpretation, can't see a new perspective and most certainly can't argue a point with a director!
There is, however one redeeming feature.
The cinematography is lush and evocative, with breathtaking panoramas of mountainous landscapes, evoking the German Romantics, along with sepia-tinted interiors of the glass factory workings, evoking the 16h century Flemish paintings of Peter Bruegel. The glass factory scenes are particularly interesting, because they suggest to us some of the unique handicraft skills that have been gradually lost since the coming of the Industrial Revolution. Herzog does lovely things with clouds and fog.
The overall perspective of Heart of Glass reflects Herzog's grim vision of hopelessness. Man's efforts to understand the universe and build a humane civilisation are doomed to failure in the face of his own depravity and the incomprehensibly vastness of great Nature. The universe is infinite and brutal, unmindful and unaffected by our puny efforts to find truth and beauty. Our so-called civilisation has tried to tame nature, but it is based on reductionist mechanism and increasingly drives us further away from any chance of harmony within it. Here in Heart of Glass, Hüttenbesitzer, (the Baron) in the final stages of madness, murders his faithful maid, Ludmilla, in order to see if her blood can be used to recreate the ruby glass.
At the end of the film, Hias recites a further parable about people who lived on two small islands at the end of the earth. These primitive people still believe that the earth is flat and that there are monsters at the edges. Some bold visionaries among them eventually are overcome with curiosity about what is actually out there at the edges, and they set out in a small, pitifully inadequate boat to see what's there. Seagulls follow the boat as it maneuvers out to sea, and Hias closes the film by saying, "it may have seemed like a sign of hope that the birds followed them out on into the vastness of the sea." But, of course, it's not a sign of hope; it's merely some random action of brute nature that is misunderstood by the adventurers, who are full of hubris and misguided hope.
Whatever you want to make of Heart of Glass, it is an interesting experiment, and whatever you want to make of a filmmaker who wants to hypnotize his entire cast, Herzog is a wonderfully experimental director. I really enjoyed a couple of his films, but this one – for me – was just a little too silly.
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"but of course a hypnotized actor can't add their own interpretation, can't see a new perspective and most certainly can't argue a point with a director!"
Herzog has stated that he encouraged the hypnotized actors to improvise and speak poetically. He would do so by giving inspiring stage directions and seeing what kind of results that would provoke within the actors. On the commentary track of the Herzog Anchor Bay DVD box set, he explains all this and states as an example of hypnotized free associative speech the scene where Ludmilla polishes the ruby glass and talks metaphorically about a town made of ruby.
Same poster as before. I just the part you refer to in the Herzog on Herzog book and find it peculiar that you didn't include the very next part, which explains his method:
"The film has a profound poetic quality to it, even when there is no dialogue.
Herzog: I wanted to provoke poetic language out of people who had never before been in touch with poetry. During pre-production I put an ad in the newspaper asking for people who wanted to take part in a series of experiments involving hypnosis. There were sessions once a week for about six months, and we ended up selecting those people according to the types that were needed for the story, and also, crucially, based on their receptivity to hypnosis. We were also careful to choose people who were emotionally stable and who were genuinely interested in what we were doing. Out of about 500 people, we chose thirty-five. Once we had the actors, the aim of rehearsals was also to work out a catalogue of suggestions which would result in the kind of stylized somnambulistic absent- mindedness that you see in the film.
As director I would not say, 'You are a great poet' or 'You are now the most gifted singer in the world', but rather 'You move as if in slow motion because the whole room is filled with water. You have an oxygen tank, and though under water usually you can move only with great difficulty, you feel very light right now. You are just drifting, almost flying.' Or something like, 'You see your partner, but you look through him as you look through a window,' and 'You are an inventor of great genius, and you are working on an insane, beautiful invention. When I come to you and put my hand on your shoulder, you will tell me what you are inventing.' What counted was the way things were suggested to the actors, and soon they were able to feel non-existent heat so intensely that they would break out in a sweat. They were able to hold conver- sations with imaginary people, and two hypnotized actors could even talk to a third imaginary person. The timing of movements and speech were often very peculiar, and once the actors had been
brought out of their states, many had only a vague recollection of what they had been doing."
lisathatcher Post authorDecember 15, 2012
Thank you very much for your comments – and especially for posting the Herzog quote in it fullness.
I guess for me, the overriding question is "why?" And although there is an answer of sorts in his explanation I would argue it does not have the desired results. The people look hypnotised to me …. Not lost in an existential ocean of sorts.
On of my reoccurring problem with Herzog – and with many surrealists – is that the symbols are meaningless or ineffectual.
Happy to be proven wrong. I'd prefer to love Herzog than be indifferent to him which I am.
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James Brawley of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma formerly of Paoli, Oklahoma was born to Thomas Woodrow and Onellia (Wright) Brawley on February 19, 1947 in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma and passed from this life on October 18, 2016 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma at the age of 69 years. James grew up and attended high school in Paoli, Oklahoma. He served his country in the U. S. Navy aboard the U.S.S. Essex during Vietnam War. On April 12, 1973, James married Lenda Joslin in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. From 1972-1988 James worked for H & B Apco Service Station and Garage. He worked for the Ada and Oklahoma City School systems as a mechanic for seven years. Later James worked as a mechanic for Hobby Lobby, retiring in 2006 due to health problems. He was a member of the Church of Christ in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The highlights of his life were his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. In his spare time he enjoyed raising cattle and spending time outdoors. James will be remembered for his kindness and giving to others. Mr. Brawley is survived by: Wife: Lenda Brawley of the home 1 son: Eddy Brawley and Krista Dunlap of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 3 brothers: Denzil Brawley and wife Peggy of Paoli, Oklahoma Terry Brawley and wife Betty of Lindsay, Oklahoma Jerry Brawley of Wayne, Oklahoma 2 sisters: Virginia Schell of Wayne, Oklahoma Ida Nell Hill of Wayne, Oklahoma 6 grandchildren: Lynnsey Pierce and husband Ryan of Rapid City, South Dakota; Joshua Brawley of Midwest City, Oklahoma; Sheree Conley and husband Joe of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Jessie James Brawley of Antlers, Oklahoma and Dustin Brawley of Norman, Oklahoma & Kyah Dunlap of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 5 great-grandchildren: Makinize, Wade, Hayden, Joelle and Tatum Mr. Brawley was preceded in death by: Daughter: Tammy Brawley Bruce Parents: Thomas and Onellia Brawley Brother: Junior Brawley 1 sister: Joan Brawley Baker his twin 1 Grandchild: James Tyler Pruitt Funeral services are scheduled for Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. at the Wooster Funeral Home Chapel with James Allen Lauderdale officiating. Interment will be in the Paoli Cemetery under the direction of Wooster Funeral Home. You may send a condolence to the family at www.woosterfuneralhomes.com.
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Dear Stephen Harper. Thanks for the $100 $73. Now where do I spend it?
We attended our first family protest yesterday for an issue that directly affects our children – the lack of quality childcare in Canada.
In a nutshell, the federal government has decided that their childcare strategy consists of giving parents $100 a month (taxable, which is why it really works out to around $73 per month) to spend with as they wish on childcare under the guise that this will offer families "more freedom of childcare choice".
It's a crock, and here's why. Give us all the money you want. That still doesn't fix the underlying problem that there are not enough quality childcare spaces available, and the competition for those that are available is intense. Parents are getting children on wait lists before they are born and are still unable to find space.
I was interviewed by a radio reporter covering the protest and he asked me if I thought that it was appropriate for the state to be involved in daycare. I was taken aback. There have been many studies that show the benefits of high quality early childhood education programs. According to the American Federation of Teachers, high-quality early childhood development programs have substantial benefits for society.
These studies have established that participating children are more successful in school and in life than children who were not enrolled in high-quality programs.
In particular, children who have participated in high-quality ECD programs tend to have higher scores on math and reading achievement tests, have greater language abilities, are better prepared to enter elementary school, are more likely to pursue secondary education, have less grade retention, have less need for special education and other remedial coursework, have lower dropout rates, have higher high school graduation rates, higher levels of schooling attainment, improved nutrition, better access to healthcare services, higher rates of immunization, better health, and experience less child abuse and neglect.
These children are also less likely to be teenage parents and more likely to have higher employment rates as adults, lower welfare dependency, lower rates of drug use, show less-frequent and less-severe delinquent behavior, engage in fewer criminal acts both as juveniles and as adults, have fewer interactions with the criminal justice system, and lower incarceration rates.
The benefits of ECD programs to participating children enable them to enter school "ready to learn," helping them achieve better outcomes in school and throughout their lives.
Add in the fact that "investments in high-quality ECD programs consistently generate benefit-cost ratios exceeding 3-to-1—or more than a $3 return for every $1 invested", and you have some pretty compelling reasons for the state to be involved in developing and delivering high quality childcare.
Ideally, I am sure that every family wishes they would be able to stay at home with their kids. But the economic reality for most families is that they cannot. And, with benefits as compelling as those listed above, it's hard not to support those calling for more government funding for high quality early education programs for our kids. We all benefit in the end.
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Seems Ontario Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty can't keeps his greedy hans off anyones income, especially those with children.
Whats with that my learned friend, to the tune of a whopping $27.00 dollars of your Universal childcare Allowance?
At least we can get rid of him in October.
I don't live in Ontario, so hard for me to comment specifically on the government's greedy hands. What I do know is that in Ontario they have made some moves to make child care subsidies more universal by eliminating means testing. Great, but the problem remains – more competition for fewer spaces. Bottom line is the same everywhere in Canada. We need more spaces!
What exacerbates the situation in my particular neighborhood is that our local school board, in it's infinite wisdom, is proposing to close our local school because of "declining enrollments." Only problem – because the before and after school care programs are run by an independent society, the School board decided it should NOT factor these into its equation, and so now it is closing the only care program in the district with space to expand, and leaving 70 families without ANY childcare options as the other schools where our kids are going to get shipped are already maxed out. Brilliant. But don't worry, the "market" will sort it out.
I hear you, Scott. I also think it's ridiculous that no consideration is given to the fact that schools are the heart and soul of neighborhoods. Not only do they educate our kids, but you would be hard pressed to find a school that doesn't serve double duty as a community meeting place, election polling station, community center, drop in recreation facility, etc, etc. Yet this is not factored in when school boards make the decision to close a school. It's like part of your neighborhood dies.
Keep voting liberal, and find a nice seat- it's going to be a long time (even with Libs/NDP in power before you get the daycare you desire. Plus, when they do get "proper" daycare in place, spaces will go initially to the lowest income families. Then the skyrocketing costs will come in, followed by strikes by the workersThen that $100^^^oops "$73", will turn into a $273 tax increase for everyone, and we'll all be complaining about another bloated, slow, public system that doesn't match each persons exact needs.
The Liberals are no better when it comes to child care. Child care was the cornerstone of their "Red Book" for at least 4 elections during the Chretien days. It was broken each time.
I'm not advocating a complete state run system, although I do believe that there is a place for the state in the welfare of our children – it benefits us all, as the quote from the AFT in the post suggests. Just some understanding that the "choice" being presented to a lot of families by this government isn't really a choice. If there is no space available then you don't really have a choice, do you? The decision is pretty well made for you.


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Nightmare Alley has an incredible cast tat includes Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper (A STAR IS BORN), Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett, Academy Award nominee Toni Collette (KNIVES OUT,), Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe (THE LIGHTHOUSE), Academy Award nominee Richard Jenkins (THE SHAPE OF WATER,), Academy Award nominee Rooney Mara (GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO), Ron Perlman, and Academy Award nominee David Strathairn.
Del Toro's NIGHTMARE ALLEY features an ambitious young carny (Bradley Cooper) with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett) who is even more dangerous than he is. The carnival cast includes carnival worker Molly (Rooney Mara), head barker Clem (Willem Dafoe), and Ron Perlman as Bruno the Strongman. Richard Jenkins is part of the high society crowd as wealthy industrialist Ezra Grindle.
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Though there is a 1947 film of the same name Del Toro's Nightmare Alley will be an adaptation of the book rather than a remake of that film.
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Home under construction for girls escaping sex trafficking
by: Danny Peterson
Posted: Feb 26, 2020 / 04:52 PM PST
Updated: Feb 27, 2020 / 07:38 AM PST
25 volunteers completed building's roof in one day
CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Ore. (KOIN) — A therapeutic home for girls escaping sex trafficking received the help of over two dozen volunteers Wednesday for a 'Roofing Blitz,' in which the roof of the building was completed in one day.
Called Aniasa's Place, the facility will house six girls at a time, ages 12-18, who are transitioning out of being exploited for sex trafficking. It is slated to open June 2020 and is the brain child of non-profit organization A Village for One.
The volunteers who helped with roofing Wednesday included National Women in Roofing, Bliss Roofing and others. February 26, 2020 (Danny Peterson/KOIN).
"We're really excited, it's a community effort," the organization's executive director, Cassie Trahan, told KOIN 6 News.
The project is A Village for One's first housing facility and is receiving the support of charitable organization Home Builders Foundation, which works to build and renovate housing for the homeless in and around the Portland area.
"It's all about partnership and people getting involved in the community. Because we couldn't do the work that we do out here without the volunteers," Home Builders Foundation Executive Director Brenda Ketah told KOIN 6 News.
Partnering organizations have provided raw materials and labor at no cost, including volunteer Builder Captain Jim Standring of Westland Industries, Inc.
A volunteer-led 'Roof Blitz' saw the roof of a new home to help sexually exploited girls get completed in one day. February 26, 2020 (Danny Peterson/KOIN).
The volunteers who helped with roofing Wednesday included National Women in Roofing, Bliss Roofing, ABC Roofing, Malarky Roofing, and Tecta America.
The facility amenities will include six individual bedrooms for each of its tenants, 24 hour rotating staff, a house parent, full time therapist, drug and alcohol treatment, and an in-house classroom for clients who choose to pursue home school or correspondence school.
The average age of sexually exploited girls is 12-14, Trahan said.
A Village of One is an Oregon based non-profit with a mission to help youth who have faced commercial sexual exploitation and has been working toward opening the housing facility for the past six years, having originally broke ground last year. Its exact address is kept confidential for client safety purposes.
Editor's note: this article was updated to remove the phrase "sex traffic work" to clarify that commercial sexual exploitation of youth is distinct from sex workers who are consenting adults. We regret the error.
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