America's energy future is at a crossroads. Everyone can agree that we must reduce our dependence on foreign oil while strengthening our economy and creating jobs. But how do we get there?
One path at first appears to be a shortcut: Exploiting our natural resources and drilling our way to an energy-independent future. But it's a deceptive path, which disregards the long-term implications for our landscapes, environment, security, and economy. The alternative is a longer but more realistic path, one that continues to diversify and strengthen the economy through proactive solutions that move us toward sustainable energy independence and create the jobs of the future.
In that first vision—brought to us in ads, policy briefs, and conferences funded by billion-dollar energy companies—America is a land of fossil-fuel extraction, where every region makes its own contribution to a drilling-intensive future. Fossil fuel interests have spent an estimated $153 million in this year alone promoting fossil fuels and attacking clean energy industries, but perhaps the best articulation of this "drill baby drill" vision comes from the American Petroleum Institute, the oil and gas industry's trade association. Its recent platform proposal to the Republican and Democratic party platform committees advocates drilling for oil offshore, for oil and gas onshore, for coal mining in general, and for building pipelines to transport all these dirty fossil fuels around the country. The industry institute applies this same backward-looking strategy to every region of the country, regardless of whether it's the most effective method.
It is clear that this strategy enhances the profitability of big oil companies. But it's much less clear that it enhances the interests of the American people.
And ultimately, it's a mirage. The United States cannot achieve lasting energy and economic security through resource extraction alone. An energy plan based solely on drilling and mining for more and harder-to-reach fossil fuels squanders the opportunity to diversify and strengthen our economy, threatens our nation's ability to lead in the global marketplace, and completely ignores the urgent need to combat climate change and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. Furthermore, it dismisses the significant growth of the clean economy, a diverse set of industries that employs some 3.1 million Americans.
In Washington, however, clean energy solutions have become highly politicized, due in no small part to aggressive lobbying by the fossil fuel industries. The relentless public relations campaign by conservatives to deride the fossil fuel causes of global warming clearly is paying off. The endless drumbeat of conservatives in Congress bashing the high-visibility—but quite rare—public investment failures such as the solar company Solyndra enables them to argue that renewable technologies don't work, and that any government action to promote them has no place in public policy. But this rhetoric is more than just false: It also denies the success of clean energy at the local level, often in the very states and districts from which these congressional naysayers hail. According to a new report, 7 of the 17 states with the fastest-growing green jobs numbers are swing states or "red states" (Republican-leaning in the lexicon of the political scientist)—and red states lead the top 10 states with the largest share of green jobs as a percentage of total jobs. The top three states in that category feature more clean-tech workers than the entire U.S. coal mining sector.
This politicization of energy has real-world consequences. Although investments in clean and sustainable energy systems have underpinned economic growth across America, political support for renewable energy, energy efficiency, and critical environmental protections is declining precipitously. Even policies that were originally enacted with bipartisan support have become almost impossible to move through Congress. Just one case in point: The production tax credit for wind energy is set to expire at the end of this year due to congressional inaction, even though both the House of Representatives and the Senate have introduced bipartisan bills during this session to extend the credit. Letters of support have poured into Congress from businesses across the country, yet political gridlock means project developers can't get financing to put turbines in the ground, and turbine and tower manufacturers can't count on new orders coming into their factories. Altogether, letting the production tax credit expire means that 37,000 Americans working in the wind energy sector will probably lose their jobs by early 2013—and that's just one energy policy for one energy sector.
It's not only renewable energy development projects that are on the chopping block. If passed by Congress and signed into law, the House appropriations bill for energy and water programs for fiscal year 2013 would slash funding for the Department of Energy's overall research and development programs by 11.6 percent, undermining efforts by our national labs and universities to discover and commercialize the low-carbon technologies of the future.
When even relatively uncontroversial programs such as early-stage research and development are under fire, we know the politics of energy have changed for the worse. Paradoxically, though, the actual economics of energy have changed for the better. We've seen significant technological advancement in both fossil fuel development and in renewable and efficient energy solutions. Just a few short years ago, we couldn't have dreamed of the vast shale oil-and-gas resources that would be opened up by new drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." We couldn't have imagined the declining rate of coal as a percentage of our nation's electricity mix as a result of these discoveries. We couldn't have known that solar energy would have nearly achieved cost parity with more traditional forms of energy. And we couldn't have predicted the meteoric advance of new vehicle technologies that would dramatically reduce our carbon footprint in the transportation sector because of dropping demand for gasoline.
In the face of all this political dissention and technological upheaval, the question remains: What is America's energy future?
This paper does not disregard the role of fossil fuels in the U.S. economy. It instead looks beyond the finite contributions that fossil fuels can ultimately make to our nation's energy security and economic prosperity. It also challenges the idea that fossil fuels provide a one-size-fits-all answer to America's energy needs. Every region of our nation has its own intrinsic resources and can contribute in its own way toward the overall movement away from a carbon-only energy future. This paper recognizes the inherently regional nature of energy and sustainability.
In contrast, the vision for America presented by the American Petroleum Institute and its supporters in Washington and across the country embraces a "drill-here, drill-now" agenda without regard to the long-term economic and environmental consequences or to the specific needs of America's diverse regional economies. It ultimately is a shortsighted strategy that will not work. Diversifying away from these fossil fuels is an urgent and essential step to ensuring our long-term climate stability and economic competitiveness.
Organizations and individuals intimately familiar with each region have contributed chapters that identify core strategies that will make that region more resilient to the impacts of climate change, while also creating jobs and economic growth. These energy and resiliency strategies mostly take the form of regional approaches to create low-carbon or no-carbon electricity or fuel to serve each part of the country.
For the Gulf Coast, however, the author focuses on the critical need to restore economically important coastal wetlands, which provide vital ecosystem services as storm surge buffers, pollution filtration systems, and fisheries nurseries. This report will show that this region, which has been paying the price for decades of oil-and-gas drilling and refining, can transition away from extraction to diversify and strengthen its economy.
Although the authors tried to be as inclusive as possible, they haven't addressed every region of the country. Nor have they identified every possible energy generation or resiliency solution for each region. Though the clean energy economy for each state and region is multifaceted, this report highlights specific projects that are currently in operation or that have proven and achievable potential to create significant jobs and sustainable industrial development.
These regions and strategies were chosen to expose a choice fundamentally critical for the future of the country and the planet. The path offered by the American Petroleum Institute and its supporters leads to a dead end—finite resources expended in blind disregard to environmental consequences.
The solutions presented in this report point to a different road—one that highlights clean energy and stewardship as economic drivers that are as powerful as the fossil-fuel industry, one that is available today and sustainable for tomorrow, and that bends us away from our current trajectory of global climate change and self-destruction.
This is a vision that is uniquely American. One of this country's greatest strengths throughout its history has been its huge size and resource diversity, and by capitalizing on the unique strengths of each region, we can harness this diversity to move toward a brighter economic and energy future.
Kate Gordon is the director of advanced energy and sustainability at The Center for the Next Generation in California, as well as a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. Kiley Kroh is the Associate Director for Ocean Communications at the Center.


Victims father speaks at inquest of Gympie cold case: The father of cyclist Brad Edwards, who was killed in a hit and run in Gympie almost 20 years ago, speaks about the inquest into his son's death.
THERE was a dramatic start today to the resumed coronial inquest into the death of Gympie cyclist Brad Edwards, who was killed in an alleged hit and run crash in Corella Rd nearly 20 years ago.
The vehicle claimed to have been involved had been reported stolen, the inquest was told.
Police witnesses told Deputy State Coroner John Lock they believe they know who did it, but have never had evidence to the standard required for a prosecution.
They told the inquest of links which may exist to a car-stealing ring then operating between Gympie and the Sunshine Coast.
The group would steal a car at the Sunshine Coast and drive it to Gympie, where they would then steal another vehicle to take back to the Coast.
This was to avoid police attention, so they would not be returning to the Sunshine Coast in a car which Coast police would be looking for, witnesses said.
Mr Lock announced at yesterday's opening that the inquest was a continuation of one which had been adjourned, after preliminary findings in 2002.
"Eventually it came to my investigative team and detectives asked for the Attorney General to re-open the inquiry," Mr Lock said.
Police witnesses identified the car stealing ring as also involving associates involved in drug offences.
Police officers David Marks, now stationed at Coolum, Mark Woitowitz, now at Dalby and Gregg Davey, now officer in charge of Gympie station, told the inquest of their experiences investigating the fatal crash.
Then Constables Woitowitz and Marks attended the scene and noticed it had been raining.
They reported seeing Mr Edwards in a distressed and badly injured state, just clinging to life, at the roadside near Bonnick Rd, on the Saturday night of November 6, 1999.
Then Cnst Davey said his investigations led him to believe he knew who was driving, after police received an anonymous phone call naming the alleged driver.
In those days, telcos had limited facilities for storing data which would have allowed police to trace such a call from a mobile phone.
He believed that data may now have been destroyed and would have been "dumped" possibly within hours of the call being made.
Another person he had interviewed from the suspect group had told him: "Man, it's not right what happened to that fellow."
He believed it was a reference to Mr Edwards.
"He seemed visibly upset, as in crying," Snr Sgt Davey said.
However, the informant appeared to have "steeled himself" and recovered his composure before he could be formally interviewed; he had then declined to make any further comment.
Mr Edwards' mother Yvonne Hayes was at the bar table as an interested party.
Sobbing she had only with difficulty regaining her composure as she introduced herself to one witness, saying: "I am here to try to find out how my son was killed."
Speaking outside the old Gympie courthouse, where the inquest is being held, Mr Edwards' father, Arthur Edwards said nothing could bring his son back, but he was hoping for closure.


This is our very special birthday episode and we not only have a celebration happening but also a very interesting guest. We start off the show by touching bases with some of our favorite fans and callers.
We are then joined by our guest Elizabeth April, who is an alien contactee as well as a telepath and medium. We begin by asking how she got started with all the paranormal stuff, she informs us that she wasn't always involved in the para world, she actually started out as a competitive athlete which she was very successful at, she became disillusioned with competition due to its materialistic nature and after a past life regression, started a spiritual path which later on led to an alien encounter and the unlocking of her DNA and latent spiritual abilities which she now uses to help others.
Elizabeth takes calls from some of our callers and actually gives them readings on air!, including a very special call from Gary the Mad Martian who gets some very solid advice.
We finish the show with our actual birthday celebration which includes too many hi-jinks to list. Highlights include a performance of "Flat Earth Heads" by Wolfman Mike and a momentary face off between George Senda and Falkie investigator #1 Chefist from Bellgab. Michael and Daniel finish the show by issuing an open challenge to the world to bring in a new era of radio!


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The Joplin Carnegie Library and the Origins of Joplin Public Library: Part Two
Under a bright October afternoon sun, a crowd of ten thousand gathered to watch a parade snake its way from Fourth and Joplin streets to Main Street. It turned under the watchful gaze of the Keystone Hotel and then proceed south to Ninth, where it turned again to the right and came to a stop at Ninth and Wall. It was October 8th, and the people of Joplin had come to celebrate the laying of the cornerstone of the new Carnegie Library.
The parade had formed at 2:30 pm and consisted of a number of different groups. In the vanguard was Police Chief Jake Cofer with a platoon of police officers. Behind the police, the South Joplin band played and stomped in celebration, and were followed by 66 members of the Knights Templar from Joplin and the surrounding area. The contingent of Knights Templar was outnumbered by the 151 members of the Masonic Blue Lodge. Behind the Masons came 2,386 excited school children, headed by 29 high school students and teachers, walked four abreast down the city streets.
A different parade, but an example of a parade down Main Street and how the Elks might have marched that October afternoon.
Behind the flood of children came 24 grey headed members of the Grand Army of the Republic from Joplin's O.P. Morton Post. As in 1865, the veterans marched proudly behind a cherished battle flag. Approximately 60 individuals of the Elks and Eagles followed the veterans and then bringing up the rear were thirty members of the Knights of Pythias commanded by Joplin attorney Joel T. Livingston.
Thousands surrounded the construction site of the library. The limestone walls soared over the crowd, such was the progress that had been made since Augustus C. Michaelis was selected as the architect in February. A platform rested against the side of the building next to where the cornerstone was to be laid. Children, anxious to see the ceremony, climbed the surrounding trees and hung perilously from branches.
A band took up position beside the platform while the mayor of Joplin, John C. Trigg, climbed onto the platform to address the crowd. His speech, the lengthiest of the day, began with the origin of the movement for the library. The mayor boasted that the tax revenue from property valued at $4,000,000 was more than sufficient to support the library, but also noted that it had not been enough for the construction of the building. For this, Mayor Trigg credited industrialist Andrew Carnegie who, "came to the rescue and dissipated all doubts and disquieting fears." Trigg continued:
"No event in the history of the city of Joplin will perhaps stand out in bolder or more prominent relief in the future than the laying of the corner stone of the Carnegie public library building…It should be accentuated as a distinct epoch in the annals of the city, from which to date as from the dawn of the new century, an augmented zeal in the material, moral and intellectual improvement of our people of all classes and conditions…"
After the mayor established the effect of the library on the city, he then described the benefit of books, "The inestimable value of books is no longer a vexed or mooted question. The wise, the good and the great of all ages and nations, divines, poets, philosophers and statesmen, have contributed the most cogent and convincing testimony in support of the premise." Trigg went on, reading excerpts from such authors as Joseph Addison, Richard DeBury, and Louisa May Alcott. Finally, and perhaps to the relief of some in the crowd, the mayor concluded his speech. This was followed by a brief rendition of the song, "Remember Now Thy Creator," that setup the next speaker, Reverend Paul Brown. Brown was a substitute for Judge Picher, who had been unable to attend the ceremonies that day.
Reverend Brown reflected on the origin of free libraries and then spoke of libraries as essential to democracy:
"What is the end of democracy? I answer the end of democracy is a natural aristocracy. There is an aristocracy of nature which no contract or statute can ever abolish….Here in the district, our chief industry, mining, weeds out weaklings and cowards, and creates a natural aristocracy of physical courage and vision in the depths of the earth. Now what does democracy guard against? Not natural aristocracy, but artificial, the aristocracy of mere birth or place or force or accident. Democracy means that equality of opportunity which will give the natural aristocracy a chance."
It was books, Brown argued, that provided the opportunity for men to overcome the privileged aristocracy who were born to fame, title, or fortune. Brown, after noting famous authors of history, praised the city's superintendent, J.D. Elliff, whom Brown stated, had played the crucial role in seeing the library created. Brown soon concluded his remarks, followed by a song from the band, and again, when the time finally came for the actual laying of the cornerstone.
The laying of the cornerstone of the Joplin Carnegie Library.
This august moment was overseen by the Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Masons, John C. Yocum. The Grand Master announced the placement of the cornerstone, as it was guided by a small crane and lowered carefully into place. An invocation was given by the Mason's Grand Chaplain, who was accompanied by the Masonic ceremonies of deposit and consecration. One last speaker arose, Dr. W.P. Kuhn, a senior grand warden of the Masons from Kansas City. Dr. Kuhn opted to win the crowd through praise of the children present, as well a quick joke about Methodist and Presbyterian preachers:
" The Methodist preacher never prepared a sermon or at any rate never had any reference notes, but his services were largely attended, while the Presbyterian divine labored conscientiously over his discourses, wrote them painstakingly out and read them with painstaking fidelity. But, his flock was few, and in a spirit of discouragement he came to the Methodist preacher and asked him why it was that the people crowded to hear him who never prepared a sermon while his own church was all but empty. And the Methodist replied, "My good friend, you write out your sermons and the devil is right there behind you. He knows every word that you're going to say and he is able to circumvent every effort you make, no matter how praiseworthy. Now I don't know what I'm going to say and I know the devil don't know what I'm going to say either, and that's the difference between us."
Dr. Kuhn concluded by stressing the importance of free libraries, as they were part of the "three planks that the structure of every American community is founded." The other two planks were free thought and free speech. Immediately after the crowd sang, "America," and the cornerstone laying ceremony ended with a benediction offered by the Rev. Charles A. Wood.
With the cornerstone laid, construction on the library resumed. The building incomplete, the actual Joplin library, which was already in existence was housed at the Joplin high school and overseen by Lucile Baker, the first librarian. Ms. Baker was a writer for the Joplin News-Herald and used the byline of "Becky Sharp" in a nod to Missouri's own Mark Twain.
The library was finally completed a year later. The city received its first check from Andrew Carnegie at a sum of $5,000. Twelve years later, the city sought and received another $20,000 from the generous benefactor for an addition to the west side of the library. In charge of the library, now at home in its new building, was Mary B. Swanwick, who was joined by assistant librarians Blanche Trigg, Mary Scott, and Hattie Ruddy Rice.
The Joplin Carnegie Library not long after completion.
As of 1911, the library had 15,737 books as well as 2,643 magazines and periodicals. Over the year, over ten thousand people used the library, around 1/4th of the city's population, and almost 65,000 books were circulated. Active card holders numbered almost 7,000. Ten years later, the head librarian, Swanwick, passed away and was eventually replaced by Blanche Trigg, daughter of Joplin Mayor John Trigg. She oversaw the institution until 1949. It was under the oversight of Trigg's successor, Margaret Hager, who helped lead the movement in the 1970s to purchase the Connor Hotel and the rest of the 300 Block as the site of a new library building. That building, the present home of the Joplin Public Library, opened in April, 1981.
Sources: Joplin News Herald, Joplin Globe, "A History of Jasper County, Missouri and its People," by Joel Livingston, and Missouri Digital History.
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The Joplin Carnegie Library and the Origins of Joplin Public Library: Part One
One of the major institutions of modern day downtown Joplin is the Joplin Public Library located in the 300 block between the Third and Fourth streets. The prior occupant of this site was the Connor Hotel. Plans to purchase the block, demolish the Connor, and to erect a new library building began in the 1970's. The Connor collapsed a day before its scheduled demolition in 1978, and all but a few minuscule pieces of the grand hotel remained on opening day of the new library building in April, 1981. Up until that spring day twenty-nine years ago, the Joplin Public Library had been housed in a Romanesque building, a columned temple of knowledge, a few blocks to the southwest. The origin of it and Joplin's library system began more than a century ago.
Undoubtedly, the idea to establish a city library came into being not long after Joplin began to establish its schools and a professional class. The dust of the lead and zinc mines was shaken off by a city that pulsed with a passionate desire for progress. In April 1893, a gathering was held at the Young Men's Christian Association building. It was the first formal meeting of the Joplin Public Library Association. Hamilton S. Wilks was elected president, along with Christopher Guengerich as treasurer, the Reverend E.E. Wilkey as secretary, and C.W. Squire as vice-president. In addition, an executive committee was established with the following women: Mrs. W.H. Picher, Mrs. Clark Craycroft, Ms. Henry Weymen, Lola Spear and Mrs. W.C. Weatherill.
The initial funds to assist in the creation of a library came from a charity event hosted by the Century Club. The club, established only three years previously, was a women's literary society. Its members embarked on a campaign to create a city library through education and outreach. While a public reading room had been the original idea for the city's library, it became obvious that an independent library building was needed. The Century Club, and other Joplin literary clubs, claimed victory in the city election of 1901. The months before the vote had been spent campaigning for an annual tax of ten cents for every one hundred dollars appraised for the care and maintenance of a library building. The measure was overwhelmingly approved.
The Library Committee traveled to visit Sedalia's Carnegie Library, pictured here.
This tax was connected to a requirement to form a non-partisan board to oversee the construction and operation of the library. Ten individuals were appointed to the board: William N. Carter, H. H. Gregg, J. D. Elliff, Henry Kost, E. L. Anderson, Reverend Paul Brown, O. H. Picher, Mrs. Ada Goss Briggs, Mrs. Emma Lichliter and Mrs. Hattie Ruddy Rice. Elliff, the superintendent of Joplin's public schools, was elected president by the board, while the position of board secretary was given to Rice. Shortly after, the board created a committee tasked with overseeing the building and grounds of the future library.
Around May, 1901, that committee explored the possibility of contacting the capitalist Andrew Carnegie. For just under twenty years, the Scotsman offered funds to cities for the construction of libraries. Generally, these donations came upon the promise that the cities guarantee a specific amount of upkeep and continue funding of the institutions. Not long after the president of the board, J.D. Eliff sent off a letter to Carnegie, a reply was received from James Bertram, Carnegie's personal secretary. Addressed from Skibo Castle, Ardgar, Bertram wrote:
Dear Sir – Responding to your letter of May 6th—If the city of Joplin will furnish a suitable site and pledge Itself to maintain the library at a cost of not less than $4,000 a year. Mr. Carnegie will be glad to provide $40,000 for a suitable building.
Very Respectfully.
James Bertram. Private Sec'y.
The promised sum of $40,000 delighted the board. The question then turned to what the library should look like and where that building should be located.
The discussion of location and design carried on through the months of 1901 and into the first quarter of 1902. It was not until October, 1901, that the board finally came to a decision on the placement of the new library. Proposed locations included the intersection of Eighth and Pearl streets, Cox Park (advocated by the people of South Joplin), and the intersection of Joplin and Ninth streets. The two most popular sites, however, were the intersections of Fourth and Pearl and Ninth and Wall streets. The former were owned by a man named Renfrow and the latter by Christopher Guengerich. According to coverage by the Globe, the board's primary concern was a location which benefited the entire population of the city.
The board came to a decision on the location on October 21, 1901, when by a vote of 5 to 4, the Ninth and Wall location barely beat out the Fourth and Pearl site. Prior to the vote, attorney and amateur historian Joel T. Livingston offered a presentation, complete with a special map of the city that how the population of Joplin was concentrated. Incidentally, while Livingston claimed to favor no specific site, his analysis of the city's population placed the epicenter around Eighth and Wall streets. If this swayed the votes toward the Ninth and Wall location, the site was further helped by the testimony of J.W. Freeman, who claimed the location would satisfy the people of South Joplin. It was future Missouri State Senator Hugh McIndoe, as well as Freeman Foundry owner J.W. Freeman, Oscar and C.M. DeGraff, as well as Clay Gregory, who introduced the successful proposition. Thus, the chosen site had strong and influential supporters. As to what type of building would be built at the corner of Ninth and Wall, the discussion continued into the next year.
The Cheyenne Carengie Library design that William Carter favored and became the basis for Joplin's library.
The committee in charge of selecting the design of the library took their task seriously. Initially, a question of whether the city would offer the local Joplin architects was debated. One of the chief proponents against hiring local talent was William Carter, who when asked about the successful architect August Michaelis, sneered, "He learned his business in Joplin." Carter went on to point out that Joplin had no libraries or similar buildings, and as such, Michaelis had no experience in designing a library. Another supporter of seeking a non-local architect was Ada Briggs, who read a letter written by the president of the Sedalia Library board. Prior to this meeting, members of Joplin's committee had visited the city to their north to view their Carnegie library. In the letter, the president warned against allowing local architects to use Joplin's library as an opportunity to learn how to design such a building.
Plans based on the designs of numerous libraries were pushed in an attempt to avoid hiring area architects. One such architectural rendering was the Sedalia, Missouri, public library, which was quickly dismissed for a variety of reasons. It was too big for the lot picked out previously; it failed to include a basement or a separate women's assembly room; and it cost an additional $10,000 more than Joplin had budgeted. Nevertheless, Ada Briggs described the building as, "beautiful simplicity."
In lieu of the Sedalia design, Carter suggested the design of the Carnegie library in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Apparently, the news of Joplin's library design search had spread, as the architect of the Cheyenne library visited Carter the week before to sell him on the design of that building. Carter went so far as to suggest a trip to Cheyenne, similar to that which had gone to Sedalia, but the expense and length of the trip resulted in no support for such an adventure.
In the end, the committee opted to allow local architects to submit plans, based on the fact that a majority of the committee believed that they had already proven themselves with many beautiful buildings about the city. It was even remarked that this was a difference between Joplin and Sedalia. One city had remarkable architecture and the other did not. The committee then reasoned that the advice of the Sedalia library board's president to seek elsewhere for an architect could be ignored simply because Sedalia did not have any local architects of considerable skill. The plans of three firms were accepted to be voted upon. The three were Garstang & Rea, I.A. Hunter, and August C. Michaelis.
August C. Michaelis, one of Joplin's preeminent architects.
At 2'o clock in the afternoon on February 3, 1902, the committee selected the plan presented by Michaelis. By specification, the design was similar to that of the Cheyenne Library, but not an identical copy. This requirement was probably added to soothe those members, like Carter, who did not want to trust the design to local architects. It featured three floors, a basement, first floor, and second. Located in the basement was to be the men's reading room, advertised as a place men could visit in or out of work clothes, as well go so far as to enjoy a smoke while perusing book or newspaper. Filling out the basement was a coal room, toilets, and the boiler. Upon rising to the next floor, the visitor found a main hallway of 33 square foot of marble flooring.
On one side of the floor the general reading room was placed connected by doorway to a reference room. Opposite the general reading room was a reading room expressly for children. In addition to a reference room, a room was set aside for librarians and contained a fire proof vault. At the rear of the floor was located a circular stacks, which at the time was supposed to be filled with steel fire proof shelving. The shelves were to be arranged in a circular fashion with the librarian seated in the center and thus with a 360 degree view of the room. The stacks were expected to hold approximately 30,000 books.
August Michaelis' winning design for Joplin's Carnegie Library
Also located on the first floor was a wide double staircase that rose to the second floor. On this uppermost floor was located a room for the women's club with attached rooms and bathroom. A statuary hall mirrored the hallway below and at the time was thought to be an ideal display area for mineral examples. Separate rooms were set aside for art and for trustees, as well a private reading room. The rooftop was shingled in zinc, though a brief controversy arose when someone claimed architect Michaelis had said otherwise. Michaelis confirmed that the library would indeed have zinc roof tiles. The library was heated indirectly with steam. The library was filled with oak furniture and countertops.
A plan in hand, all that remained was for construction to begin. Part Two will continue the history of the Joplin Carnegie library.
Brown, April 13th 2010 | Tags: Andrew Carnegie, August C. Michaelis, August Michaelis, Cheyenne Carengie Library, history of joplin, Jasper County Missouri, Joplin Carnegie Library, joplin history, Joplin Public Library, Joplin Public Library Association, Sedalia Carnegie Library, Southwest Missouri
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Q: Unable to change HTML iframe source with Javascript I'm trying to have a 'video of the day' on my website. I currently have most of this working, and here's how I plan to have it working in the end:

*

*Have a Python script run once every 24 hours to pick the random YouTube video of the day

*Write the embedded video URL to a text file

*Use Javascript to access the text file and grab the video URL, and use it as the iframe source on my webpage

As I mentioned above, this plan is currently working for the most part. My script is able to pick the random video, and write it to a text file. My web page is then able to pull the video URL from the text file, and write it to the webpage in text form. However, I'm having some troubles having it write the video URL to my iframe.
I did some searching, and people suggested trying the following code:

So earlier in my code, I declared the variable 'finalresult' to be the following value: //www.youtube.com/embed/WJDnJ0vXUgw
When I have Javascript write 'finalresult' to my webpage, it will write the video URL as text to the webpage as expected. However, when I try and declare it as the source for the iframe, I end up with a blank iframe on the page.
Does anyone know what the problem is with my code for it not showing this video in my iframe? Any help would be appreciated.

A: You must be changing the src after any particular event is fired. So try this way,
HTML :

<button id="changeSrc">Change iFrame</button>

javaScript :
var iframe = document.getElementById("mainvideo");

changeSrc.onclick = function(){
    iframe.src = "http://www.w3schools.com/";
};

jsFiddle
Update 1 :
If you want to change the iframe src attribute after page load then go with this way,
window.onload = function(){
    var iframe = document.getElementById("mainvideo");
    iframe.src = "http://www.w3schools.com/";
};

jsFiddle

A: If myframe.src does not work for you, then try out myframe.contentWindow.location.href like in this pen.

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I live in USA…we too have the Bullying problem. Most of the children, young adults will not tell their parents, friends or teachers that they are being bullied…but yes they MUST !
Or the person that is being bullied can be transferred to another school.
The negative psychological effects of being bullied can last a lifetime but sometimes in school you the others who support you and become friends.
Love Yourself in all your uniqueness !


One way that God reveals His will to men and women on earth. Not all dreams are revelations, however. Inspired dreams are the fruit of faith.
He dreamed, and behold a ladder reached to heaven, Gen. 28:12.
The Lord will speak to him in a dream, Num. 12:6.
Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, Dan. 2:1–3.
The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, Matt. 1:20 (Matt. 2:19).
Lehi wrote many things he had seen in dreams, 1 Ne. 1:16.
Lehi dreamed a dream, 1 Ne. 8.


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package org.snf4j.example.websocket;

import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;

import org.snf4j.core.handler.SessionEvent;
import org.snf4j.core.session.IStreamSession;
import org.snf4j.websocket.AbstractWebSocketHandler;
import org.snf4j.websocket.IWebSocketSession;
import org.snf4j.websocket.IWebSocketSessionConfig;
import org.snf4j.websocket.extensions.compress.PerMessageDeflateExtension;
import org.snf4j.websocket.frame.Frame;
import org.snf4j.websocket.frame.Opcode;
import org.snf4j.websocket.frame.PongFrame;
import org.snf4j.websocket.frame.TextFrame;

public class WebSocketServerHandler extends AbstractWebSocketHandler {

	final private static String USER_ID = "user-id";

	final private static ConcurrentMap<Long,IStreamSession> sessions = new ConcurrentHashMap<Long,IStreamSession>();

	final private String host;

	final private boolean compress;

	private boolean chatMode;

	WebSocketServerHandler(String host, boolean compress) {
		this.host = host;
		this.compress = compress;
	}

	@Override
	public void read(Object msg) {
		if (msg instanceof Frame) {
			handle((Frame)msg);
		}
	}

	void handle(Frame frame) {
		if (frame.getOpcode() == Opcode.PING) {
			getSession().writenf(new PongFrame(frame.getPayload()));
		}
		else if (chatMode) {
			if (frame.getOpcode() == Opcode.TEXT) {
				send(((TextFrame)frame).getText());
			}
		}
		else {
			getSession().writenf(frame);
		}
	}

	void send(String msg) {
		for (Long sessionId: sessions.keySet()) {
			IStreamSession session = sessions.get(sessionId);
			String source;

			if (session == getSession()) {
				source = "[me] ";
			}
			else {
				source = "[" + getSession().getAttributes().get(USER_ID) + "] ";
			}
			session.writenf(new TextFrame(source + msg));
		}
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("incomplete-switch")
	@Override
	public void event(SessionEvent event) {
		IWebSocketSession session = (IWebSocketSession) getSession();

		switch (event) {
		case CREATED:
			session.getCodecPipeline().addFirst(IndexPageDecoder.INDEX_PAGE_DECODER, new IndexPageDecoder(host));
			break;

		case READY:
			chatMode = SessionConfig.CHAT_PATH.equalsIgnoreCase(session.getHandshaker().getUri().getPath());
			if (chatMode) {
				session.getAttributes().put(USER_ID, session.getRemoteAddress());
				sessions.put(session.getId(), session);
				send("connected");
			}
			break;

		case CLOSED:
			if (chatMode) {
				if (sessions.remove(session.getId()) != null) {
					send("disconnected");
				}
			}
			break;
		}
	}

	@Override
	public IWebSocketSessionConfig getConfig() {
		SessionConfig config = new SessionConfig();

		if (compress) {
			config.setSupportedExtensions(new PerMessageDeflateExtension());
		}
		return config;
	}
}

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Christmas is probably the longest holiday season for most of us in the world. While some people may understand the true meaning of Christmas, the others may have to join in and consider it as a festive season. One way or another, most of us would feel some kind of peace and joy at Christmas. In fact, Sam Ng was one of those who found his new peace at Christmas a few years back.
Sam had his first car accident on the foggy night of December 23, 1999 - one day before Christmas Eve. Though he was fine, his car was damaged badly. He hoped that he could get his car fixed soon, and was anxiously waiting for the car insurance company to call. He was pre-occupied and in distress until midnight of Christmas Eve. That night he came to church alone.
Sam sat sadly on a pew in church, thinking, "Christmas is supposed to bring happiness, joy, and peace. Why am I sad and not peaceful this evening? I have been looking forward to this evening during the year. Tonight is all about Christ's birth, not about my problems. Therefore, I should celebrate Christmas with joy because God sent Jesus, His only Son, to the world to save everyone including me. "
While the congregation was praying and the candles were being lit, Sam closed his eyes and prayed. He asked God to give him a new sense of peace and the joy of Christmas. Suddenly, he felt a cold breeze although there was no window in the church sanctuary. This cold breeze made Sam felt a great sense of peace and relief. Right in that moment, Sam knew that God answered his prayer. From that night on, his life was filled with the new peace of Christmas. He has lived with joy and he also met a new friend who encouraged him through this unpleasant car accident.
Dear friends, have you ever found this true peace that only Jesus, the Prince of Peace, can give you? Would you like to experience this new peace as Sam did? You can ask Jesus for it any time. Please, don't give up hope, but give yourself a chance to explore more... To know more about Jesus and Christmas, please click here. May God be with you on your way to find new peace at Christmas!
(1) The above story and quotes are based on the true story of a Christian from Seattle. His name has been changed.
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A teacher on Twitter, asked for recommendations to go with a book on learning assessments; I have been thinking about the pedagogical theory informing learning assessments for quite some time, and I am becoming increasingly convinced that, the only meaningful learning assessment, is the assessment of the student herself, as to her satisfaction of the learning experience. If the student's assessment of her own learning experience is not the measure of our learning assessment, then what is our assessment telling us, what is its meaning? Its meaning can only be a measure of the teacher's satisfaction of the students learning experience.
If the student satisfies the teacher's learning assessment criteria, but the student remains unsatisfied by the learning experience; if the student satisfied all 'learning objectives' created by the the teacher, but the student had little opportunity to satisfy their own self-generated inquiries, our learning assessments will have indicated that the 'learning objectives' have been met, yet in no way can it be said that meaningful education or learning taken place.
Teacher generated learning objectives, only indicate if the student has complied with instructions, not whether authentic inquiry as been explored.
Is this the lesson that we want to teach?
Educators need to re-think the pedagogical models that are based on hierarchical structures which have implicit tension with uneven power-dynamics.
We should permit students to be free to learn; free to generate their own inquiries, and assess for themselves, whether their curiosity and need to explore, has been satisfied.
Other-wise, what are we really teaching?


Today we feature Timothy McKeon, a herbalist who speaks quite a few languages. Some I haven't even heard of such as Tok Pisin or Dehong Dai. In his interview he will answer what languages he speaks, his strategies and what keeps him motivated.
My name is Timothy, and I'm a language addict. Ever since I can remember, I've been fascinated with languages. As I grew older this fascination slowly ripened into full-blown obsession with learning languages, learning about languages, comparing languages, listening to languages, breathing languages, etc. In university I studied linguistics, but my real passion is for the actual process of learning a language, picking it apart, finding patterns, exploring accents, understanding how it all works. Once I can read a novel and express myself freely in a language, my enthusiasm wanes a bit, and it's time to move on to the next one.
I speak Irish, English, Spanish, Mandarin, French, and German all more or less fluently. I can read Latin. I can have social conversations in Yiddish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Cantonese, Sichuanese, Breton, Hindi, and Dutch and have more basic conversations in Hebrew, Galician, Ladino, Finnish, Bengali, Catalan, Esperanto, Japanese, Scots Gaelic and Shanghainese. Beyond those, I've dabbled in Uyghur, Korean, Tibetan, Tamil, Sanskrit, Pali, Lakota, Halkomelem, Manx, Welsh, Cornish, Tok Pisin, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Latvian, Estonian, Taiwanese, Russian, Polish, Guaraní, Xhosa, Telugu, Tamil, Manchu, Arabic, Dehong Dai, Toisanese and Hakka. It's out of control.
Yes, quite often. People often say that you know you're really fluent in a language when you start to dream in it, but I haven't found that to be true. I constantly dream in languages I don't speak very well at all. I'll stumble over words and try to work out the proper conjugation or tense all as part of my dream. Once or twice I've had dreams of nothing more than just doing grammar exercises. I guess that probably means I'm not getting very restful sleep!
I really love the idea of constructed languages. I see it as a form of creative expression using linguistic concepts as the medium, drawing from natural languages (or not) in order to create an entirely new mode of communication. But what really fascinates me is the kind of living culture that develops around constructed languages. I've recently started exploring the world of Esperanto, and it's amazing to me that there is an Esperanto culture and a set of values that many Esperantists adhere to, i.e. universal understanding, peace, social responsibility. Zamenhof created Esperanto as a kind of utopian language, and I think it's really exciting that over 125 years later that same mentality has continued to flourish through this completely artificial language.
Well, it is true that the more languages you learn, the easier it becomes to continue learning even more languages. With that in mind, I would say I tend to tackle language families (or at least language family branches) nowadays rather than just a single language. I've become really interested in how languages relate to each other, so it's no longer enough to just learn one language in its standard, static form. I become too curious about what neighboring languages look like or what happens in the different regional dialects of a language, and soon enough I've got Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, and Czech books spread out in front of me when all I really wanted was to learn a few things about Polish. Chinese languages are really great for this kind of exploration because they are all related to and derived from Classical Chinese and are all united under more or less the same written form, but have diverged and developed so distinctly over the centuries. It's fascinating.
This is a tricky question. You don't want to make false claims about your abilities, but you shouldn't sell yourself short on your accomplishments with language learning either. Generally, I say if you can live your life in a language comfortably, then you're fluent. That means you can make friends, do your job, watch the news, read a book, joke with someone, have a deep conversation, sing a song, consult a psychic, fall in love, etc. – all in said language.
That varies from language to language, but generally it's something in the arts and culture associated with a language that keeps me going back. I was recently in Hong Kong, which should provide enough motivation to keep working on Cantonese, but what really got me to spend serious time studying was going to the Cantonese opera. The poetry, jokes, puns, and overall spectacle of it really inspired me to up my game with Cantonese. When I hear sean-nós songs in Irish, I feel the urge to turn back to Irish poetry or start reading old stories again. Kishore Kumar songs from old films get me to crack open my Bengali books. It's always something creative that gets me motivated.
I'll watch movies to keep up languages that I know pretty well, but if I want to practice a language that's newer or less familiar to me, then trashy TV is the absolute best. Terrible reality shows like Top Model (from whatever country) or ridiculous soap operas are perfect for improving listening skills. They tend to be completely predictable, follow a formula, and never introduce particularly complicated concepts – it's ideal for gaining confidence in listening to and understanding a new language.
I do find that some languages just don't grab me the way others do. Why am I obsessed with Finnish, while its neighbor Russian just doesn't hold my interest? I have no idea. Past lives…? Anyway, this sort of arbitrary lack of gravity towards some languages would be the only reason I would stop studying them. And even then, it's never really a full stop.
To learn more about Timothy please visit his web site at https://collectanealinguistica.wordpress.com/.
This entry was posted in Guest Post, Interview, Language Learning on September 23, 2015 by Oliver Antosch.


Although this film has the "Grease" name, it is no way like the original with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. Even though it was supposed to be the sequel, it was very disappointing at the box office. Hopefully, some of you have seen this movie and will do well on this quiz.
Another quiz on the classic comedy-drama about a recent college graduate coming of age in California during the 60's.
Do you remember the classic movie starring Al Pacino and based on the famous robbery in Brooklyn?


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Deaths in Iran's notorious prisons on the rise
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani continues to project himself as a defender of human and women's rights, while evidence on the ground points to the opposite being true.
The number of political prisoners being found dead in suspicious circumstances in Iran's prisons is on the rise. The latest incident was the case of political prisoner Alireza Shirmohammadali, who was reportedly stabbed to death in the Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary last week. A source told the Center for Human Rights in Iran that "prisoners in the ward said he had been stabbed so many times that he died before the prison guards got to the scene."
He was arrested on July 15, 2018, over messages he had posted on social media. Ambiguous charges were brought against him, including "insulting sacred religious beliefs," "insulting the supreme leader" and "propaganda against the state." The charge of insulting Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei can carry the death penalty. The Iranian authorities use such harsh penalties to inspire fear in society and deter people from criticizing the regime and its officials.
Shirmohammadali was only 21 years old and was on a hunger strike when he was killed. Prior to his death, he detailed the conditions of the prison in a letter written in Persian. He wrote: "We went on a hunger strike because of the lack of facilities and threats to personal safety inside the prison… The safety of our lives is of no concern to the prison authorities… Just yesterday, Reza Haghverdi, one of the prison officers, told us very directly that our hunger strike is going to end with death certificates… We have asked the authorities to look into our requests many times but they have not done so."
Iran is obliged to keep prisoners in different sections based on the severity of their crimes and their prior records. Article 69 of the prisons organization's regulations states that: "All convicts, upon being admitted to walled prisons or rehabilitation centers, will be separated based on the type and duration of their sentence, prior record, character, morals and behavior, in accordance with decisions made by the Prisoners Classification Council." But Shirmohammadali was with inmates who had been convicted of severe violent crimes, such as murder.
Shirmohammadali's case is not an isolated one. During last year's widespread anti-regime protests, Vahid Heydari, a street peddler, was arrested. According to state-owned media outlets, the 22-year-old died in police custody. His death stirred anger among many Iranians, who expressed their feelings on social media. Later, the authorities announced that Heydari had killed himself in prison.
Another young prisoner to die in 2018 was Sina Ghanbari, a 23-year-old student. According to the Iranian regime, Ghanbari hanged himself in a bathroom in Evin Prison, which is the country's most notorious jail.
Saru Ghahremani, a 24-year-old Iranian Kurd, was found dead in the city of Sanandaj. His death prompted Iranian actress Bahareh Rahnama to write on Twitter: "This kid was neither political nor a protester, nor a rebel, nor an outlaw, he had simple but big wishes for himself: Like making his mother happy! Why should he be killed?"
The regime generally brushes off the deaths of detainees and prisoners as suicides without providing any credible evidence. Such deaths in police custody or prison appear to have become the norm in Iran. Another individual who faced the same tragedy was Iranian-Canadian environmentalist Kavous Seyed-Emami, who allegedly committed suicide in prison due to the evidence of spying against him.
It should be noted that these are only the cases of deaths and suicides that have been reported by the Iranian authorities. The actual number of people dying in Iranian prisons is most likely much higher.
The regime claims that its prisons are kept in good condition in order to protect the prisoners' human rights. The authorities also often give prison tours to foreign politicians and diplomats, but these are mainly PR stunts because the locations shown off on the tours are cherry-picked. According to Amnesty International and other human rights organizations, Iran's prisons are overcrowded, unhygienic and violent.
Prisoners generally do not have access to safe drinking water, medical care, food or fresh air, and they are exposed to infectious disease. Denying access to lawyers, being forced to confess, and being subjected to systematic torture are among the other methods practiced across Iran's prisons.
In a nutshell, more and more people are being killed in Iran's prisons. This should cause alarm in the international community and particularly the UN Human Rights Council, whose duty it is to prevent such atrocities and promote human rights. Instead of appeasing the Iranian regime, the EU must also hold Tehran accountable.
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By Lily Rothman
MANHATTAN — Chelsea and the Flatiron District may share a boundary, but the two Manhattan neighborhoods have traditionally been worlds apart.
The former is known as the site of the city's most established art gallery scene. The latter is the original "Silicon Alley," home of many local technology start-up businesses.
But now a new addition to the neighborhood, the IMC Lab and Gallery, is bridging the gap — as well as many others.
IMC, which stands for Interactive Media Culture, is an office-slash-gallery that is currently home to a new exhibition that highlights the juxtaposition between art and technology.
The show, titled "Elastic Identity," features works that speak to the artists' fractured selves in a digital age, said James Tunick, the founder of IMC Lab and half of the husband-wife team that runs the gallery.
"Technology is not something separate. It's just another set of paints," Tunick said, "The same technology powers the art that powers billboards in Times Square."
The show includes traditional media such as painting, but also video and software installations. One installation uses a proprietary face-tracking technology developed by IMC to create fragmented images of the viewer. The same technology can be employed in advertisements, and that dual artistic-commercial mission is part of IMC Lab's own multiplicity.
The IMC Lab and Gallery is a for-profit enterprise that, unlike most galleries, doesn't just sell art. The group also offers artists and programmers research support and commercial opportunities, said Tunick, so opening a gallery was a natural choice for this technology company.
He said that unlike other galleries that tend to separate old and new media, IMC Lab prefers to bring them together.
Just as technology has allowed aspiring rock stars to record their own music before signing a contract and has let directors edit their own movies, Tunick sees potential for the same in the fine art world.
Tunick and his wife, Carrie Elston Tunick, are also artists themselves. Their work, as well as the work of Yeji Jun, the show's third curator, is on display at the gallery.
Although the gallery-creator division is traditionally a sharp one, Elston Tunick sees the many hyphenates at play as part of a much larger trend. "That's happening more and more, people having a lot of irons in the fire," she said.
One of her pieces in the exhibit is a video installation of footage from Michael Jackson concerts, which she says is "blurring the lines between opposing emotions, agony and ecstasy."
The Tunicks have been putting shows together since 2002, when they were undergraduates at Yale. Both 30 years old, the couple says they are young for gallery owners and old for technology entrepreneurs — "so that's average," joked Elston Tunick.
They started the IMC Lab and Gallery in the West Village, but moved to Chelsea in January despite a migration by many other galleries for emerging artists to areas like Williamsburg and the Lower East Side.
Still, the pair say that Chelsea is the place to be for established galleries.
"We were really lucky to have found this place," said Elston Tunick.
Elastic Identity is on view through August 25, and the gallery plans to host live performances and an artists' panel in the coming month.
2009: 3rd IMC Exposition, StudioIMC Lab & Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2006: Beyond TV, The Paley Center for Media (formely the Museum of TV & Radio), New York, NY, USA
2005: 2nd IMC Exposition, The Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, USA
2004: Convergence, The Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, USA
2003: 1st IMC Exposition, Remote Lounge, New York, NY, USA
2011: ABOUT FACE - No Longer Empty, New Museum Festival of Ideas for the New City, New York, NY, USA
2010: Digital Art @ Google: We Write This to You From the Distant Future, Google Inc., New York, NY, USA
2010: The World in 100 Years, Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria
2009: Add-Art, Eyebeam, New York, NY, USA
2009: Artists and Innovators for the Environment, Streaming Museum, 7 Continents
2008: From Fluxus to Media Art, Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2007: Stereovision, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL, USA
2002: 9/11 interactive memorial sculpture "WHY", in large format photograph in 9/11 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
2006: Park of the Future proposal for interactive art works in a park in LA finalist in compeitions with UCSD and featured in the LA Times.
2005: CINE (Collaborative Immersive Networked Environment) finalist in SOP III Design Competition w/ Yale Law School & Harvard Berkman Center.
2004: Infinite City published in Jean-Marc Gauthier's book, "Virtual Sets and Pre-Visualization for Games, Movies and the Web" (2005).
2001: 9/11 Sculpture featured in full page photograph in Rolling Stone Magazine, November 22nd issue.
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Harbingers and Psychopomps
Digital Exhibition About Birds
"Build the Circle"
Haiti Circle of Friends Multimedia Event
"Light Years: The Art of Rudie Berkhout"
"Elastic Identity"
The 3rd IMC Exposition
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The IMC Lab + Gallery
56 W 22nd St, 6th Floor
info@theimclab.com
http://TheIMClab.com
Gallery Hours :
Marfa Dialogues/NY
Recent Show Coverage
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IMC Lab + Gallery, 56 W 22 st. 6th flr NY, NY 10010
212-675-7573 --- info@TheIMClab.com


Located opposite Hagley Park this hotel offers spacious modern accommodation with free on-site parking and WiFi access in all rooms. Some suites and studios offer a private balcony or patio.
Each suite and self-contained studio has a spacious living area with flat-screen TV refrigerator and tea/coffee making facilities. Organic tea hot chocolate and plunger coffee are provided.
The on-site award-winning Strawberry Fare dessert restaurant also offers breakfast meals and a wide range of beer and wine.
Hotel Carlton Mill is just 3 km from Christchurch city centre. It is 10 minutes' walk from Christchurch Casino and 8 minutes' drive from Christchurch Art Gallery. Hagley Park features award-winning botanic gardens playing fields and tennis courts. Christchurch Airport is a 20-minute drive away.