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Богослуже́ние миря́нским чи́ном (мирским, соборно-приходским, намного реже — бессвященническим, безсвященнословным) — христианское богослужение, совершаемое в отсутствие священника и без Евхаристии. По форме — обедница (не путать с обедней) — это собрание верующих с чтением молитв, пением христианских гимнов и чтением Священного Писания. Такие богослужения проводят сами миряне.

История и география

Богослужение мирянским чином берёт начало в древности, когда монахи-анахореты редко принимали священный сан и для совершения Божественной литургии приглашали пресвитера либо приходили сами на общую службу в положенный день, удаляясь затем на остальные дни в келью или скит и совершая положенные по времени службы самостоятельно без иерея. В Древней Руси верующие собирались всей «домашней церковью» и прочитывали вечером — повечерие, а ранним утром — полунощницу. В России большое вынужденное распространение практика богослужений мирянским чином получила в среде старообрядцев-беспоповцев. В конце XVIII века на Русской Аляске алеутов и эскимосов крестили мирянским чином, позднее в начале XIX века мирянским чином служили колонисты в Троице-Никольской часовне Форта Росс, а в конце XIX века в канадской местности с русским названием Восток были организованы регулярные богослужения мирянским чином, которые пользовались большим успехом и даже посещались представителями иных христианских конфессий из близлежащих районов. Богослужение мирянским чином вынужденно практиковалось в годы советских репрессий против духовенства: христиане тайком собирались по домам или даже в лесах, в удалённых от центра деревнях; вдали от надзора атеистических властей верующие собирались в «неформальные» молитвенные дома на великие праздники и молились, составляя службу как могли. Особая необходимость в этом возникала в случае смерти кого-либо из жителей деревни, и тогда старушки прочитывали-пропевали чин отпевания, опуская священнические возгласы и молитвы. Нередко и в рабочих районах жилые и торговые муниципализированные дома сдавались в аренду под молитвенные дома; в одном, например, Горьковском крае насчитывалось до 1500 молитвенных домов. В советские годы широкое распространение получило катакомбное движение, в котором, можно полагать, мирянский чин имел не последнее значение в сохранении христианского благочестия. Актуальным оказалось мирянское служение и в первые постсоветские годы, когда священников было ещё мало.

Сейчас богослужение мирянским чином встречается на некоторых сельских приходах и городских. Потребность в мирянских богослужениях возникает и в сибирском регионе, где активна православная миссия: на Чукотке, в Якутии, Тыве. Иногда единоверцы вынуждены совершать службы мирским чином из-за малочисленности священников, владеющих старым обрядом.

Богослужение мирянским чином получило распространение в Эстонской православной церкви, Финляндской Православной Церкви, по крайней мере, до последнего времени практиковалось в Японской православной церкви, Китайской православной церкви, Русской православной церкви заграницей в США, Коста-Рике, Германии, Дании, Ирландии, Португалии, Пакистане, храмах Московского патриархата в Таиланде и Великобритании, Преображенском храме Антиохийского патриархата в Гватемале, в Камбодже, Вьетнаме, на Филиппинах, на Гавайях под юрисдикцией Православной церкви в Америке. Эта практика обнаруживается в Украинской православной церкви. Русские общины, которые молятся мирским чином, есть в Бразилии. На Филиппинах готовилось издание книги по богослужению мирянским чином на местном языке православным миссионерским обществом имени преподобного Серапиона Кожеезерского. Известны случаи проведения мирских служб в Антарктиде.

Мирянские службы могут проводиться непосредственно в храме, часовне (её название как раз и происходит из-за чтения службы часов), дома или в специально обустроенных для этого молитвенных домах, в специально отведённых помещениях, у придорожных киотов, у поклонных крестов, наконец, под открытым небом.

Церковные каноны указывают на необходимость крещения мирянским чином в экстремальных ситуациях. Существует чин литии, совершаемой мирянином дома и на кладбище.

Богослужение мирянским чином является школой для практикующих его. Оно повышает уровень литургической культуры и грамотности прихожан, глубже вовлекает их в богослужение, знакомит с порядком церковных служб и содержанием богослужебных книг. Практикование мирянских служб повышает уровень дисциплины прихожан в отсутствие священнослужителя и готовит их к различным случаям, когда священника рядом не окажется. Изучив на практике богослужение мирянским чином, легко уже проводить службы дома в кругу семьи (которая есть «малая церковь»), особенно, если кто-то из домочадцев тяжело болен или не может выехать из дома в храм по иным причинам. Поскольку структура чина такова, что служить им можно независимо от пола и возраста, то современным благочестивым христианам и поныне доступна старинная традиция привлекать к молитве за всю семью младшего ребёнка или же слабого здоровьем, пока остальные трудятся. Проведение мирянских служб может помочь родителям и учителям в воспитании детей в духе православия. В инославной и иноверной среде проведение служб мирянским чином помогает сохранять свою веру и связь с Церковью, ограждает от опасности сектантского или еретического влияния и, кроме того, позволяет помнить и почитать православные праздники и дни святых. Хотя совершение служб суточного круга мирянами, конечно, не является в уставном смысле полноценным, однако переносит акцент на читаемый и пропеваемый текст, и поэтому при внимательном и благоговейном совершении вполне может практиковаться к духовной пользе прихожан. Более того, здесь важно и то, что богослужение мирянским чином объединяет разрозненных православных людей в вере и любви к Православной церкви.

Проведение богослужения мирянским чином позволяет сплотить приход при выполнении важного богоугодного дела, например, несении трудового послушания или восстановления храма. Это способ воздать почтение заброшенным храмам, ожидающим своего восстановления, вернуть в них молитву и оживить в них богослужебную жизнь.

Помимо того, что оно является миссионерским средством, богослужение мирянским чином помогает решать катехизаторские задачи. Так, во многих исправительных учреждениях России служат мирянские богослужения, в которых активно участвуют осуждённые, что благотворно сказывается на их духовном росте и социализации. В службах участвуют и работники колоний. Есть прецеденты мирянских богослужений и при адаптации бывших заключённых.

Подробнее о чине

Стоит выделять по отдельности богослужение, совершаемое монахами по «мирянскому чину», и собственно мирянское богослужение в миру. В первом случае иногда даже говорят о «монашеском чине», хотя по структуре это обычный мирянский чин. Так служили Серафим (Роуз) и Герман (Подмошенский) в Платине до того, как приняли иерейский сан. Так служат монахини в женских монастырях, когда отсутствует священник. Известно, что и преподобный Паисий Святогорец самостоятельно вычитывал службы дневного богослужебного круга.

К настоящему дню мирянский чин сохранился в двух формах — старообрядной и новообрядной. Отличие старообрядной формы состоит в том, что при ней служба идёт по дораскольным или единоверческим текстам.

Все службы суточного богослужебного круга из часослова могут читаться мирянским чином:
 Полунощница ()
 Утреня ()
 Часы обычные и пасхальные ()
 Почасия, или Междочасия ()
 Изобразительны (), или Обедница
 Вечерня ()
 Повечерие, или Павечерница ()

Вместо литургии мирянским чином служится изобразительны (), более правильный перевод — «уставные (чтения)», называемые также обедницей. Иные службы, доступные для совершения мирянином:
 Акафист ()
 Канон ()
 Лития (обычная и пасхальная), в том числе заупокойная ()
 Панихида ()
 Отпевание усопших (очевидно, без разрешительной молитвы «Господь наш Иисус Христос, Божественною Своею благодатию, даром же и властию…»)
 Парастас ()
 Молебен ()
 Освящение жилища ()

Каждение при богослужении мирянским чином производится только ручной кадильницей — т. н. кацеей. Молитвы, которые по уставу должен произносить священник, опускаются. Возгласы священника («Благословен Бог наш…» и др.) заменяются на «За молитв святых отец наших…» или же «Молитвами святых отец…». Вместо «Господи, помилуй. (трижды) Благослови» мирянин читает «Господи, помилуй. (трижды) Господи, благослови». Все мирные/просительные, сугубые и малые ектении заменяются на «Господи, помилуй» 12, 40 и 3 раза, соответственно, за диаконские прошения на литии — 40, 30 и 50 раз, с прибавлением «Слава и Ныне» в конце, священнические возгласы — молитвой Иисусовой в форме множественного числа: «Господи, Иисусе Христе, Сыне Божий, помилуй нас». Все прокимны, «Бог Господь…», «Свят Господь Бог…», «Слава Показавшему нам свет…» — всё это сохраняется, так как в Типиконе предписывается возглашать их чтецу.

Для тех, кто по тем или иным причинам не смог принять участие в соборной службе, а также когда в домашних условиях невозможно хранить все специализированные богослужебные книги, или просто в силу неграмотности молящегося, в старом обряде существуют указания заменять церковную службу (полунощницу, утреню, часы с почасием и без почасия, вечерню) молитвами (Иисусовыми, Богородице и святым), или поклонами, или псалтырию — хотя это, вообще говоря, и не называют мирянским чином. Если поблизости нет храма или нет возможности пойти в церковь, следует молиться дважды в день чином «Дванадесяти псалмов» (как в праздники, так и на каждый день), что заменяет совершение дневного круга богослужения в храме — этот чин был принесён со Святой горы преподобным Досифеем, архимандритом Киево-Печерским.

Распространение мирянского чина
В новейшее время на высшем уровне в Русской православной церкви необходимость более широкого распространения мирянского чина осознаётся, однако какое-либо окончательное решение до сих пор не выработано, хотя вопрос изредка поднимается. Так, в итоговом документе IV съезда епархиальных православных миссионеров (2010) было упомянуто о возможности совершения мирянами богослужений суточного круга: В тех приходах, в которых по тем или иным причинам невозможно совершение богослужения, возглавляемого священником, богослужебная жизнь чаще всего замирает. Участники предлагают подготовить комплекс рекомендаций по совершению мирянского богослужения (с последующим их одобрением на общецерковном уровне), призванных помочь грамотным мирянам в совершении богослужений на своих приходах.
На Архиерейском соборе 2011 года патриарх Кирилл отметил:
Закономерен вопрос о том, где взять священнослужителей для бóльшего, чем сейчас, числа храмов… А если найдётся ответственный человек из местных жителей, кто сможет совершать службы, не требующие непременного участия священнослужителя: чтение изобразительных, канона, вечерни или утрени, с опущением молитвословий, произносимых священником, то это, несомненно, будет духовной поддержкой для людей, не имеющих возможности посещать храм, находящийся в отдалении от места проживания. Особенно это важно в тех регионах, в частности, дальневосточных, где активно действуют сектанты.
Комментируя предложение патриарха, настоятель Никольского храма на Берсеневке игумен Кирилл (Сахаров) сказал:
Неужели, наконец, действительно прозвучали эти слова? Долгожданные слова. Где-то в конце 90-х годов я подавал Владыке Сергию, нынешнему Митрополиту Воронежскому и Борисоглебскому, а тогда управляющему делами Московской Патриархии, докладную записку, в которой предлагал то же самое. Владыка сказал, что записку эту он передал на рассмотрение в Синод. Тогда никакого решения по тем предложениям, которые содержались в моей записке, принято не было… Как актуализируется церковная жизнь жителей десятков населённых пунктов, не имеющих ни храма, ни молитвенного дома, ни часовни, ни поклонного креста? Почти что никак. Ну могут они посмотреть трансляцию по телевидению на Рождество и Пасху, кто-то имеет возможность «Спас» посмотреть, но собственно церковной жизни-то нет. Вот что печально. А годы идут.

Значительный сдвиг произошёл в апреле 2020 года в связи с пандемией COVID-19, когда на официальном сайте РПЦ стали выкладывать последования богослужений Страстной седмицы и пасхального времени мирянским чином (причём в разделе «Документы», указывающем на официальный статус) в качестве благословения и рекомендации совершать его тем, кто из-за карантинных  мер лишён возможности участвовать в храмовой молитве.

В силу понятных причин мирской чин в ходу у неканонических юрисдикций, сект и маргинальных группировок, которые весьма продвинулись в его популяризации.

Литература
 Последование богослужений
 Изобразительны на pravenc.ru
 Изобразительны на days.pravoslavie.ru
 ВОСКРЕСНАЯ СЛУЖБА для тех, кто не может быть в храме. — Даниловский благовестник, Москва, 2003
 Прот. К.Никольский «Пособие к изучению устава богослужения Православной церкви»
 Священник К. Субботин. Руководство к изучению Устава богослужения
 Замечания о богослужении мирянами без священника, святителя Аверкия (Таушева) (на англ. яз.)
 Часы и Обедница (Изобразительны)
 Указания о совершении служб без священника
 Указания и тексты служб с сайта свт. Ионы Ханькоуского (на англ. яз.)
 Богослужебные указания для «мирянских» служб (на англ. яз.), в частности Переменные части обедницы (на англ. яз.) и как проводить службы мирянским чином (на англ.)
 Православные миссионерские листки на английском, русском, испанском и португальском языках.

Тексты служб мирянским чином
 Вечерня (Vespers): на русском, на английском
 Всенощное бдение (All-Night Vigil): на английском.
 Малое повечерие (Small Compline): на русском, на английском
 Великое повечерие (Great Compline): на английском
 Полунощница (Midnight Office): воскресная на русском, на английском.
 Утреня (Matins): на русском, на английском.
 Шестопсалмие (Six Psalms): на русском, на английском, ещё на английском.
 Часы (Hours): на русском — 1-й, 3-й, 6-й, на английском — 1st, 3rd and 6th, 9th.
 Обедница (Typika): на русском, ещё на русском, на английском, ещё на английском
 Лития (Lity): на русском — 1-й вариант, 2-й вариант, 3-й вариант, 4-й вариант, 5-й вариант, чин в пасхальный период.
 Панихида (Memorial service): на русском.

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2017 was a powerful year for women's voices. Women came forward telling their stories – not only of sexual harassment but of gender imbalances in their industries, disparity for advancement and failure to receive equal pay. While Hollywood made a huge impression, these voices were heard through many other industries, including the commercial real estate industry.
The #MeToo movement gave women power in numbers – through solidarity, women felt strong enough to speak up against harassment and discrimination. While the impact of these stories are in the headlines almost on a daily basis, one thing is clear – a paradigm shift is occurring. Women are breaking glass ceilings and demanding that the power and gender imbalances in the workplace be corrected.
A couple of weeks ago, at our company's Annual Meeting, we did a presentation about PECO NOW (Networking Opportunity for Women) that included a video reminding our associates to 'Speak Up' if they experience any harassment issues. We also highlighted our 2017 results which included several successful networking opportunities, educational events and health-related activities. We were pleased to report that in 2017, there were 29 female promotions.
PECO NOW was formed over 4 years ago to ensure that our female associates had a voice and an opportunity for leadership roles. When we sat down recently to review our past results and activities, we concluded that we were trying to accomplish too many things. We needed to re-focus on why PECO NOW exists – to create more women leaders. Women need to have a seat at the table and PECO NOW was established to help make that happen. When our female associates are tapped to take that seat, we want them to be ready, armed with the confidence, knowledge and skill set they need to succeed so that our company succeeds. In this regard, we updated our Mission Statement to be more focused:
"To provide leadership opportunities to women at PECO through advocacy, support and development."
Going forward, everything that we do must answer this one question: "Will this help women either become a leader or be a better leader if she is already in a leadership role?"
We also established three focused committees: Advocacy, Support and Development.
Our Advocacy Committee will focus on harassment, including sexual harassment. Our message is about maintaining the PECO culture and reminding everyone to SPEAK UP when they see someone not living up to PECO's culture.
The Support Committee will continue its efforts on the 2017 initiative of helping new parents when they go on leave and return to the workforce. This committee will also tackle the issue of aging parents. We believe that if we can help women, even a little, with personal issues such as the stress of being a working mom and/or dealing with an aging parent, then that woman can be a better leader for PECO.
The third committee is the Development Committee. This group will focus on developing our current and potential women leaders through education. This will include speakers, training and collaborative learning, both internally and externally.
As co-chairs of PECO NOW, we are excited about these new initiatives and hope that similar programs are implemented at other commercial real estate companies.
Please reach out to either one of us if you would like more information about starting your own program.
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Throughout her career, Donna Cooper has been a dedicated and effective advocate for public education and Pennsylvania's children, and one of the most influential voices for effective education policy both in the Commonwealth and nationally.
Since January 2013, Donna has been the Executive Director of Public Citizens for Children and Youth, the Greater Philadelphia region's leading child advocacy organization that influences elected officials by combining useful research, practical solution-oriented policy recommendations with the mobilization of citizens who advance the organization's work on behalf of children. For two years before joining PCCY, Donna was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, where she led the Center's research on early childhood education and public infrastructure and was a contributing researcher to the Center's work to reduce the incidence of poverty.
From 2003-2010, Donna served as the Secretary of Policy and Planning for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania where she was responsible for the state's education, public supports, environmental, and healthcare policy. While in this role, she led the development of the Cover All Kids program which expanded access to affordable healthcare to nearly every child in the state.
Donna also served as then-Mayor Rendell's City of Philadelphia's Deputy Mayor of Policy and Planning from 1999–2002 where she designed and led the Greater Philadelphia Works Program, one of the nation's largest and most successful efforts to help single mothers on welfare achieve self-sufficiency.
Donna founded Good Schools Pennsylvania, a grassroots organizing campaign that fought for equitable funding for public education across the state and successfully pushed public education to the top issue in then-Mayor Rendell's 2002 race for Governor.
As head of Good Schools Pennsylvania, the policy leader in the Rendell Administration in Harrisburg, and in subsequent roles, Donna consistently has been supportive of the work of EPLC, especially around school funding issues. Donna earned a master's degree in Government Administration from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree in Intercultural Management from the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont.
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The Irish Government continues to impose the draconian Vehicle Registration Tax on new and second-hand vehicles brought into the State, however MAG Ireland has recently learned that the EU Commission is now investigating the way in which the Irish Government applies VRT.
This investigation has been prompted by Donegal man Ryan Stewart, who made a petition to the European Parliament in relation to the way freedom of movement rights conferred by the EU are infringed by the application of V.R.T. legislation here in Ireland.
Ryan wrote to the Brussels-based EU Committee on Petitions claiming that two groups of Irish citizens – students from the Republic who drive to colleges in the North and cross-border workers – were having their human rights infringed by the way in which VRT legislation is applied in the Republic. The legislation allows for the seizing of vehicles that do not have Irish number plates. This is irrespective of whether you live in the North or the South and infringes the right to travel and work within the E.U.
Thanks to Ryan's intervention, the EU commission examined the situation, and has now instituted infringement proceedings under article 258 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
"I believe this decision by the European Commission is a just and fair decision as certain categories of persons are put in an impossible situation with their freedom of movement restricted by the current application of Vehicle Registration Tax law".
Of course there have been many previous challenges to VRT, and the response from the EU has always been that it's a matter for the individual member state, much to the fury of Irish riders and drivers alike. The difference this time is that the way in which the VRT legislation is applied may be found to be in contravention of Article 258 because it potentially criminalises Irish students who drive to colleges in the North and cross-border workers living in Northern Ireland but working in the Republic.
Now it seems a court will decide and the outcome of this case may change the way in which VRT is applied in this country. MAG Ireland congratulates Ryan on his success thus far. His tenacity and determination serve as a reminder to us as riders that regardless of how many anti-bike proposals we face, there is always a way forward.


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Achill Archaeological Field School are delighted to announce the publication of our 2014 excavation at the 'pony graveyard' in Dooagh in The Journal of Irish Archaeology (Vol. XXV, 2016). The article is co-authored by site director Stuart Rathbone, osteologist David Blauvelt and Dr Theresa McDonald.
In 2014 heavy storms around Achill exposed a peat bed at Dooagh Beach with some 26 large pits cut into it. Exposed bone visible in the pits indicated that the area was associated with the disposal of farm animals. In May of 2014 Stuart Rathbone directed the excavation of two of the pits at the site, discovering the articulated remains of two ponies. The bones were analysed in detail by David Blauvelt. The article gives an account of the excavation of two pony burial pits in Dooagh, and discusses the wider context of the 'pony graveyard'. It further provides a detailed analysis of the pony bones, outlining what they can tell us about the animals' work life on Achill in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Rathbone, S., Blauvelt, D., and McDonald, T. 2016. Excavation of a farm animal burial ground at Dooagh Beach, Achill Island, Co. Mayo, The Journal of Irish Archaeology, Vol. XXV, 123-140.
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Shaky foundations Leaked documents paint picture of a police headquarters project on unsound financial footing long before shovels hit the ground By: Ryan Thorpe Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Friday, Jul. 8, 2022 Last Modified: 4:07 PM CST Monday, Jan. 9, 2023 Updates
The temperature hovered just below freezing on Jan. 15, 2010, when 11 people arrived at city hall for a Saturday meeting in the boardroom of then-chief administrative officer Phil Sheegl to discuss the downtown Winnipeg Police Service headquarters construction project.
This article was published 08/07/2022 (202 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The meeting was consequential for the controversial job, which sparked multiple audits, allegations of kickbacks and corruption, calls for a public inquiry and a five-year RCMP investigation that closed without criminal charges.
In the years since police moved into the new downtown HQ on Smith Street in 2014, the high-profile controversy has largely focused on Caspian Construction — the main building firm — and its various sub-contractors, who have never commented publicly.
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES Police (WPS) headquarters in Winnipeg at the corner of St Mary and Smith.
The City of Winnipeg alleges it was defrauded by the project's construction contractors and design team through a scheme of inflated and fabricated invoices — allegations that remain before Manitoba's civil court.
But documents recently obtained by the Free Press show the municipal capital project was on shaky financial ground long before contracts were signed and shovels hit dirt.
By January 2010, when senior city staff and third-party consultants arrived for the weekend meeting at Sheegl's office, the project had already entered choppy waters.
City councillors had recently learned the price tag for the project had skyrocketed — after being told it would cost $105 million to renovate the old Canada Post building, they were now being told the estimate had spiked to $155 million.
City of Winnipeg:
Sam Katz – former mayor (2004-14).
Phil Sheegl – former director of the property, planning and development department, who later served as chief administrative officer.
Mike Ruta – former chief financial officer.
Deepak Joshi – former director of the property, planning and development department, who also served a stint as acting chief administrative officer.
Jason Ruby – former manager of capital projects, currently the manager of finance and administration for the public works department.
Iain Day – corporate finance.
Winnipeg Police Service:
Keith McKaskill – former chief of police.
Devon Clunis – former chief of police.
Abdul Aziz – civilian employee of the police service, who served two stints as WPS HQ project manager.
Pat de Jong – manager of the auxiliary force cadets, who served on the WPS project team.
Randy Benoit – police officer who served on the WPS HQ project team.
Henry Hagenaars – retired police officer who served on the WPS HQ project team.
AECOM – initial design team hired by city for the WPS HQ project.
AAR – design team hired by city to replace AECOM.
Peter Chang – AAR principal.
Caspian Construction – construction contractor.
Ossama Abouzeid – project director hired by city to replace Abdul Aziz.
Bob Downs – Shindico Realty development manager who played a role in early stages of the WPS HQ construction project.
KPMG – firm hired by city to audit the WPS HQ construction project following revelations of cost overruns.
Glenn Joyal – Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench Chief Justice presiding over civil litigation launched by the City of Winnipeg over the WPS HQ construction project.
RCMP Project Dalton – the multi-year, multimillion dollar fraud investigation into the WPS HQ construction project that closed without criminal charges.
The purpose of the meeting that day was to ensure costs could be contained and the project saved, and the numbers established in Sheegl's boardroom would go on to play a key role in the controversy that followed.
In attendance were, among others: Sheegl; deputy chief administrative officer Alex Robinson; chief financial officer Mike Ruta; property, planning and development department director Deepak Joshi; capital projects manager Jason Ruby; and Iain Day from corporate finance.
There were two representatives from the Winnipeg Police Service: then-deputy chief Shelley Hart, now the mayor of East St. Paul, and civilian employee Abdul Aziz, who would go on to serve two stints as HQ project manager.
Also in attendance was Bob Downs, the development manager at Shindico (a company with close personal and professional ties to then-mayor Sam Katz), and Myron Paryniuk and Steve Loomis from AECOM, the engineering firm later hired for design work on the job.
The Free Press has obtained the meeting minutes from that day, revealing the extent to which the civil servants in attendance were worried that unless the project could be "revised to be within budget," it would be "cancelled by elected officials."
"Project has been given a budget so go and design a police station to fit the budget rather than starting with the program requirements and designing a station so that it costs what it costs," reads the meeting minutes.
"Project to move forward within budget and if police have an issue with the program requirements, they can make their case to (the Executive Policy Committee)."
At the time, the best estimate the city had for the project was $155.5 million, including $126 million for construction, $7 million for furniture, fixtures and equipment, and $12.5 million for soft costs.
"Project has been given a budget so go and design a police station to fit the budget rather than starting with the program requirements and designing a station so that it costs what it costs." – Meeting minutes
There was "no contingency for unknowns" in the $126 million earmarked for construction, according to the meeting minutes. Despite this, the bureaucrats were adamant an additional $7.5 million in savings had to be found to bring total costs down to $148 million.
"Expectation is to deliver a functional police station within budget. AECOM to say it is functional," reads the meeting minutes.
AECOM was not hired by the city until Aug. 19, 2010, roughly seven months after the weekend meeting in Sheegl's boardroom, according to a subsequent audit by KPMG.
The meeting helped kick-start a chain of events that plagued the project throughout its design and construction phases, drawing the ire of city councillors and the public alike.
More than a year later, on Oct. 14, 2011, things were already off the rails.
That day, Pat de Jong, a WPS employee who served on the HQ project team, penned an inter-office memo — recently obtained by the Free Press — that makes clear just how quickly the project had spiralled out of control.
The initial project team consisted of two WPS members and three city staffers from the property, planning and development department.
ARTIST RENDERING An artist's rendering of the street view of the Winnipeg Police Service headquarters. City council approved funding in 2009 to overhaul the former Canada Post building.
But there was significant turnover, and by the time de Jong wrote the memo, it consisted of five members of the WPS and one part-time consultant.
"The DC (likely refers to the director of construction, but the city won't comment on anything related to the leaked emails and documents obtained by the Free Press) position is the only position with the depth of content knowledge within the team. The remaining 5 WPS employees lack the history, understanding of the evolving vision, and any expertise in the areas required," de Jong wrote.
"The only sufficiently (sic) within the current project team is the ability to address the WPS user group needs."
De Jong warned the team lacked the "technical knowledge and experience" to push the project forward, understand the impact of decisions, understand and execute contracts, meet the needs of the design team and construction contractor and manage relationships with other project staff.
"The DC is engaged in issues that should be taken care of at a different level. Timelines and getting in front of same are not being projected and managed adequately, resulting in all 3 stakeholders (Caspian, the design team, WPS) being behind," de Jong warned.
"Timelines and getting in front of same are not being projected and managed adequately, resulting in all 3 stakeholders (Caspian, the design team, WPS) being behind." – Pat de Jong
"Relationships between all 3 parties are strained and projections without substantive intervention are poor at best. Issues are unnecessarily escalated and further fracture relationships. Inability to get in front of issues and manage them creates on-going crisis, requiring daily attention."
De Jong ended on a prophetic note: "All of the above creates significant cost and time over runs to the city."
An internal WPS email recently obtained by the Free Press — dated Oct. 31, 2012, several weeks after the de Jong memo — reveals the extent to which the police service felt it had to battle for change orders during construction to ensure its needs and wants were met.
In total, there were 81 change orders issued on the job, which increased the cost of the project by $19.89 million. According to the KPMG audit triggered by the project cost overruns, this was a "significant volume and degree of change during the course of design and construction."
One of those change orders — the addition of a second passenger elevator in the building — was initiated by former police chief Devon Clunis who, in 2014, claimed the police service had been absolved of responsibility for cost overruns on the project.
BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES Former police chief Devon Clunis (left) with city CAO Phil Sheegl in 2012. An internal WPS email showed the police service felt it had to battle for changes during construction to ensure their needs and wants were met.
In response, Caspian Construction issued a priced-out change order to project director Ossama Abouzeid — who is also being sued by the city. The email was then forwarded to Randy Benoit and Henry Hagenaars, two police officers deeply involved in the project.
"FYI. We have to find money?!" wrote Abouzeid, who replaced Aziz as project lead in June 2011.
Benoit then forwarded that email to three other WPS employees, including then-chief Clunis, prefaced with a warning in all capital letters: "PLEASE DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE."
"This is an example of a Contemplated Change Notice. This one is for the second elevator car…. The Chief order (sic) it as one car… would not be a good idea. However the (Guaranteed Maximum Price contract) only accounted for one elevator car," Benoit wrote.
TIMELINE OF CONTROVERSY
It has been called one of the biggest scandals in Winnipeg's history.
Here are key developments in the Winnipeg Police Service headquarters construction project, some of which have only recently come to light through an ongoing Free Press investigative series.
The push for a new downtown WPS headquarters picks up steam after cost estimates for repairing the Public Safety Building skyrocket.
In February, an estimate from the firm Hanscomb pegs the cost of purchasing and renovating the old Canada Post building into a police headquarters at $179 million.
City council approves $135 million in funding to purchase the old Canada Post site and renovate it into the new WPS HQ.
The Hanscomb estimate of $179 million is withheld from city council. Instead, a lower estimate — which had soft construction costs pulled out and appears to have originated from a Shindico feasibility study — is used to sell the project.
Construction for WPS HQ project begins.
City council learns the project is going to cost tens of millions of dollars more than expected. As a result, council orders two external audits.
The two external audits into the WPS HQ construction project are finalized. The first is a KPMG report that finds numerous city policies were not followed and the capital project was mismanaged.
Last month, the Free Press revealed that an earlier draft version of the KPMG report was scrubbed of negative findings regarding the WPS's role in cost overruns and schedule delays.
The second external audit, from Turner & Townsend, determines the city received good value on the project, with the final price tag falling within the "acceptable range of cost for a facility of this nature."
Those audits — alongside two other external audits into city hall controversies — are forwarded to Manitoba Justice for review which, in turn, passes them along to the RCMP.
The RCMP launches not one, but two criminal investigations — Project Dalton (into the WPS HQ) and Project Dioxide (into a string of controversial real estate deals and capital projects under the administration of former mayor Sam Katz).
RCMP Project Dalton becomes public knowledge when the Mounties raid the headquarters of Caspian Construction that December. RCMP Project Dioxide is not made public until this year when the Free Press uncovers evidence of its existence.
The City of Winnipeg takes possession of the new WPS HQ.
RCMP Project Dalton closes after five years with no authorization of criminal charges.
The city launches a lawsuit against Caspian Construction, former chief administrative officer Phil Sheegl, and more than a dozen others connected to the WPS HQ construction project, alleging they conspired to defraud the municipal government of millions of dollars.
Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal rules that Sheegl accepted a bribe in connection with the awarding of the construction contract on the WPS HQ job, ordering him to pay back at least $667,000 to the City of Winnipeg.
Cases involving the other defendants remain before the courts.
"So I asked for a price for the second car. (CCN). Now I have till the 9th of November to give the green light. Again the cost will have to be 'value engineered' as there is no new money for it. This is what we are facing weekly."
After being awarded a contract for design work in August 2010, AECOM was instructed to submit complete engineering drawings to the city by July 15, 2011.
By October the drawings were still not complete, resulting in AECOM assigning more senior staff to the job, according to an email to city staff from Abouzeid.
"I received a call from (AECOM senior executive) John Monroe this evening. He told me he had several discussions with their team today. He said he was aware of the issues and his mandate is to fix it. We discussed the deliverables as follows," Abouzeid wrote.
"The HQ 100% drawings will be complete by Nov. 2. Sealed. He will have additional staff assigned to the project starting tomorrow. He recognized the mechanical design is behind and he will assign the adequate resources there."
When AECOM finally submitted the drawings, there was significant debate at city hall as to their quality and completeness.
The city then hired the Ontario-based design firm Adjelejan Allen Rubeli to review and assess AECOM's drawings in December 2011. Peter Chang, formerly of AAR, is being sued by the city as part of the ongoing civil litigation related to the construction project.
On Jan. 24, 2012, AAR submitted its report to the city.
"The (AECOM) drawings were not complete and AAR was asked to provide a revised fee to complete the drawings," Chang later wrote to city staff, summarizing the findings.
The city then offered AECOM a chance to respond to AAR's report, which was summarized by Abouzeid in a Feb. 2, 2012 email to Sheegl, Ruta, Joshi and two members of the WPS.
KEN GIGLIOTTI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES In response to WPS requests, Caspian Construction issued a priced-out change order to project director Ossama Abouzeid — who is also being sued by the city.
"(AECOM) claims that the architectural is 97% complete… structural 95%, M&E both at 85%. They also claim they need 5-6 weeks to finish. They made a statement that what they submitted is the industry practice!!," Abouzeid wrote.
"They forgot that up to our meeting of Feb. 1 they were claiming that they are indeed at 100% and that they submitted a 100% invoice back in November. I am still appalled. They knew back on Nov. 2 that they did not reach 100%, why they never tried to complete their work over the last 3 months?"
Abouzeid said it was now "action time" and he wanted to submit AECOM's rebuttal to AAR to determine whether it was accurate.
"On Feb. 1 we drew line in the sand. They failed again to be truthful, or at best, to be accurate in their claims. I would not risk another 6 weeks of promises unless you (as the city) chooses to," Abouzeid wrote.
"I would like to explore if we can get them to agree to stop any work right at this point, hand over source drawings as a 'white label' to AAR, and walk away."
Abouzeid said the city should hold back $2 million of AECOM's fee, as it would likely cost at least that much to get AAR to finish their work, and further suggested it might be necessary to get the city's contracts team involved.
"On Feb. 1 we drew line in the sand. They failed again to be truthful, or at best, to be accurate in their claims. I would not risk another 6 weeks of promises unless you (as the city) chooses to." – Abouzeid's email
The Free Press has obtained a copy of a "strictly confidential" settlement agreement reached between the City of Winnipeg and AECOM, dated Feb. 24, 2012, signed by Sheegl and Robert Johnson, AECOM's executive vice-president.
"Further to our recent discussions, I am writing to confirm that the City and AECOM have agreed to the following settlement in connection with the Project and the Agreement (including resolution of all of the City's allegations concerning AECOM's services and performance," it reads.
As part of the settlement, the city agreed to pay out AECOM's contract nearly in full, which represented a "final settlement of any and all claims against AECOM or any of its employees."
AECOM then handed over its design drawings, which the city could use as it wished. The Free Press has obtained the entire set of AECOM's design drawings.
The firm admitted no liability and the settlement included a gag order on the city. AECOM is not being sued by the City of Winnipeg as part of its lawsuit into the construction project.
"Neither the City nor any of its consultants or contractors shall make any public mention of AECOM or disparaging comments concerning AECOM's services or performance in connection with the Project," the settlement reads.
SUPPLIED AECOM draft plans for the main floor of the Winnipeg police headquarters.
"And the City shall evaluate AECOM without any prejudice as a result of the matters set out in this letter on all future projects at the City's Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants and other City projects which AECOM wishes to submit proposals on."
The settlement was characterized by Chang as follows in a February 2014 email to senior members of the civic administration: "WPS and the City of Winnipeg were sold a set of incomplete, non-code compliant and non-functional drawings for $5.6M!"
As costs continued to escalate on the project, city council ordered an audit. In preparation for a public meeting in November 2013, Ruta, Joshi and Chang went back and forth with emails discussing how much information about AECOM's role could be revealed.
"The 100% drawings that the city received in November 2011 were nowhere near 100% complete, as noted in our preliminary report to the city. As well, despite being told that plans were frozen and signed off by WPS, this was far from the truth," Chang wrote.
"It is hard to defend the city's position without having to point out how the previous design team left the city and the project out to dry."
Chang asked for guidance from the city's legal services department as to how much he could say about AECOM's role at the upcoming meeting.
"The 100% drawings that the city received in November 2011 were nowhere near 100% complete, as noted in our preliminary report to the city. As well, despite being told that plans were frozen and signed off by WPS, this was far from the truth." – Peter Chang
In response, Joshi advocated for the city to reveal everything that had happened with AECOM.
"I think this is a public meeting and if asked the questions we should answer and protect the city's interest. I know there are (sic) a gag order but one must tell the facts which will come out in any audit report and gag orders will not stop that," Joshi wrote.
Chang said city staff should also prepare to answer questions about the settlement.
"Also what may come up is why the city paid the previous design team roughly 100% of their design fees when AAR had a report stating that the overall design completion was at best 60% complete? Bear in mind that 60% complete does not mean 60% correct," Chang wrote.
The KPMG audit would go on to include the following observation about the design process.
"We also observed instances of payments being authorized to the design consultants without appropriate review and due diligence being performed on the quality or completeness of their work output," the audit report reads.
"The supplementary agreement with Caspian provides evidence of significant project cost over-runs and schedule delays incurred by the project which in our view directly relate back to the quality, completeness and timely delivery of the design."
The design work was supposed to be complete by July 2011, but was not finalized by AAR until April 2013 — long after construction broke ground. A clause in the contract between the city and Caspian stipulated that final costing would not be submitted until the design was complete.
RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES South side of the building under construction in 2012. The City of Winnipeg alleges it was defrauded by the project's construction contractors and design team through a scheme of inflated and fabricated invoices — allegations that remain before Manitoba's civil court.
KPMG said the city paid combined fees to AECOM and AAR that were 50 per cent higher than initially budgeted for design work.
But the audit report — at the city's request — was scrubbed of any mention of AECOM, which was instead referred to anonymously as "Design Co."
The city also sent KPMG a "confidential management note" not to be included in the final draft, which reveals that at one point they were so concerned by AECOM's performance they issued a "stop payment" on their account.
As reported by the Free Press last month, the KPMG report was also scrubbed of numerous findings critical of the WPS prior to being released to the public. And as revealed by the Free Press this week, senior city staff also withheld key meeting minutes from the KPMG audit team.
In response to a Free Press request for comment, Felicia Wiltshire, the city's director of corporate communications, provided the following written statement.
"Due to the size and complexity of the project, as well as the ongoing litigation, we are not in a position to speak to each of these items you have flagged," Wiltshire said.
"As we have stated previously, there were many concerns raised regarding the WPS HQ project, many of which are still subject to ongoing litigation. The investigations and audits that have been conducted over the years have resulted in changes to policies and procedures to improve openness and transparency in the decision making process."
AECOM did not respond to a request for comment by deadline.
The KPMG audit report was forwarded by the city to Manitoba Justice which, in turn, sent it to the RCMP, which launched Project Dalton, a multi-year, multimillion-dollar fraud investigation into the project. The investigation closed without criminal charges in 2019.
The City of Winnipeg launched civil litigation against dozens of defendants in January 2020, and the case remains before the courts.
In March, Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal ruled that Sheegl accepted a bribe in relation to the awarding of the construction contract on the project by showing favour to Caspian. Sheegl has appealed the ruling.
Joyal wrote that the decision to remove AECOM from the project was done to "advance the objects of conspiracy, ie: dismissing AECOM to benefit Caspian and its chances to obtain the… contract."
The city's litigation against the other defendants is ongoing.
The allegations have not been proven in court.
ryan.thorpe@freepress.mb.ca
Twitter: @rk_thorpe
KEN GIGLIOTTI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES Design work for the project wasn't finalized until April 2013 — long after ground was broken. A clause in the contract between the city and Caspian Construction stipulated final costing would not be submitted until the design was complete.
BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES A 2011 interoffice memo made clear how quickly the project had spiralled out of control, noting that relationships between main building firm Caspian Construction, the design team and the WPS were strained, with crises calling for 'daily attention.'
RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES Sam Katz was mayor when the police HQ project got the green light and construction was started.
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Professor Andrzej Szczeklik, MD, PhD, was born on 29 July 1938 in Krakow, Poland. In 1961, he graduated from the Copernicus Academy of Medicine in Krakow, Faculty of Medicine. He continued his postgraduate training abroad, including the United States of America and Sweden. He defended his doctoral (1966), and then postdoctoral thesis (1969) at the Wroclaw Medical University, where he worked in the years 1964–1971. In January 1972, he became the Head of the Department of Allergy at the Copernicus Academy of Medicine in Krakow. In 1979, he became Associate Professor, and in 1989 – Full Professor. Professor Szczeklik was a visiting professor at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (1985), King's College School of Medicine, London, (1986–1989), and at Hochgebirgsklinik Davos-Wolfgang, Switzerland (1987–1996). In the years 1990–1993, he held the office of the Rector of the Academy of Medicine in Krakow and, together with Professor Andrzej Pelczar, the then Rector of the Jagiellonian University, managed to restore medical faculties to the Jagiellonian University (12 May 1993). In the years 1993–1996, he held the office of Vice-Rector for Collegium Medicum. His scientific interests focused mainly on the mechanisms underlying atherosclerosis and asthma, in particular the effects of acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin). In 1975, he put forward a theory on the development of the so called aspirin-induced asthma and in the subsequent years, it was substantiated and widely accepted. In 1976, after injecting himself and his colleagues from the research team with a newly discovered substance called prostacyclin, as the first person in the world he described its effects in humans.
In 1991, he won a major international tender for research, organized by the European Community Science Committee. He used procured resources, later on supplemented by the governments of Flanders and Poland, to completely refurbish the hospital building housing the 2nd Department of Internal Medicine. He built a new, 5‑storey clinical wing, new research laboratories, and didactic facilities with which he established one of the most innovative centers of internal medicine and genetics in Europe.
Award of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI).
He was the author of about 600 papers (h‑index – 54, citation count – 9385), in such journals as the Nature, Lancet, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Circulation, Blood, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Allergy, Thorax, and others. He was also the author of several monographs and textbooks published, among others, in the United States, United Kingdom, and France. He was the editor of the first Polish evidence-based medicine textbook – Internal Diseases. He was a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the vice‑president of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2006, a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 1998, as well as of other scientific societies. He was awarded with a doctor honoris causa degree by the Wroclaw Medical University (1999), Medical University of Warsaw (2002), of Silesia (2002), of Lodz (2003), and the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (2009). He was the supervisor of 17 procedures of granting a postdoctoral degree and of 47 PhD dissertations.
In 1995–2002, Professor Andrzej Szczeklik was the National Consultant in Internal Diseases. He was the Chair of the National Scientific Board of the Polish Archives of Internal Medicine, beginning with 2007. Since 2001, he presided over the Committee for Specialist and Continued Education of the Polish Society of Internal Medicine.
Professor Andrzej Szczeklik was also a writer and an essayist. He was the author of two books titled Catharsis: on the Art of Medicine (Znak, 2002), which was translated into English, Hungarian, French, Russian, and Spanish, as well as Kore: on sickness, the sick, and the search for the soul of medicine (Znak, 2007), translated into English, Hungarian, Lithuanian, and German.
He died on 3 February 2012, after a short illness, in his beloved Department at 8 Skawińska Street in Krakow.


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Above, the boys' clubhouse from LockStock (1998). In 2006 Paul Smith cheekily nabbed the space on the left (the baddies clubhouse in the film); more diffusiony stuff there than the heavy hitting menswear of his Covent Garden store -he does not miss a trick that guy [nor does Banksy who tagged by the door "this is not a photo opportunity" -ed.] Anyway, love the shambolic-chic (damn, thought i just invented that...) of the LS&2SB bolthole... nautical relics, stolen antiques, lo-fi audio-tech, 60's modern furniture and pony-hides over broken-in leather chairs. I'd put a block and tackle at the peak, but you can imagine the upstairs is wood floored and wide open. You can see Borough Market from here apparently.


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I have been tagged with multiple memes lately, a I have rudely ignored all of them. No more! What better birthday gift to myself than a blog post. I will now answer these memes with my own. I was tagged by Marco and Steve with the "7 things" thing, and by a couple of Facebook buddies with the "25 things" one. So I decided to reply with a "16 things" post, which I believe is the average of 7 and 25. I liked Vince's idea of using the top tracks in itunes shuffle mode, so I will be doing that. I will also not tag anybody, since this terrible pyramid scheme needs to die.
Before I begin, if you want to read up on antisemitism on the left, this week The Guardian had some wonderful columns written by lefty U.K. Jews on that topic. One column was followed by a rebuttal, but in my opinion both columns complement each other beautifully.


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Ecstasy is a hallucinogen related to amphetamines. It is a chemical (methylenedioxymeth-amphetamine or MDMA) made in drug labs. Ecstasy is also called E, XTC, Adam, Euphoria, X, MDM and Love Doves.
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Ecstasy usually comes in gelatin capsules or tablets. The tablets are small, can be any color, and may have a dove, a hammer and sickle, or a diamond on one side.
Ecstasy can also come in a powder, which is snorted or dissolved and injected.
When you buy Ecstasy, you may really be getting other drugs. For example, dealers often mix Ecstasy with LSD in a practice known as "candy-flipping." As with other illegal drugs, it is impossible to know how safe Ecstasy will be, or what effects you might experience.
Possessing, producing, and trafficking in Ecstasy can result in fines, prison sentences and criminal records.
"Herbal ecstacy" (misspelled on purpose to set it apart from MDMA) is supposed to be a natural and legal alternative. It is a blend of herbs that usually includes ephedra (a basis for some asthma medications) and caffeine. Users often think that because it is "natural," it is safe. At high doses, however, ephedra can cause heart problems. It is also dangerous to take ephedra if you are on certain antidepressant drugs.
You can feel the effects of Ecstasy about 20 to 40 minutes after taking it.
The high can last 4 to 6 hours.
Ecstasy can make you feel mildly intoxicated, relaxed and energetic.
Ravers say Ecstasy lets them dance for hours on end.
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Some regular users become irritable, paranoid, or depressed. They may experience flashbacks or psychosis.
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At the Whitechapel
Brian Dillon · Aspen
In August 1971 the US Postal Service wrote to Phyllis Johnson, the publisher of Aspen, an arts and culture quarterly then in its sixth year, to inform her that the magazine's right to reduced postal rates had been definitively revoked. Aspen, which is the subject of an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery until 3 March, seems to have fallen foul of Title 39 US Code 4354 on several counts, not least the journal's increasingly intermittent publication schedule. There was the matter too of its eccentric form; whatever else it was, according to the Postal Service, a periodical was surely a discrete object made of printed sheets, bound together and maintaining more or less the same format from issue to issue. Aspen was a bureaucratically flummoxing proposition: an unpredictable agglomeration of essays and articles on loose pages or in booklets, packaged with flyers, photographs, diagrams, flexidiscs and even in one issue a spool of 8mm film – all housed in a box whose design and dimensions varied from one mail-out to the next.
In short, Aspen was scarcely a magazine at all; it was a work of art. Johnson, a former fashion editor, had started it with the ambition, as an advert in the New York Times declared, of surveying 'all the ideas that enhance life, that make it meaningful and give it style and verve. Its coverage: everything that can be described as the civilized pleasures of living.'She named it for the Colorado ski resort that seemed 'a symbol of the freewheeling life'. The intended or ideal readership, one of its editors said later, was 'the Sixties'. Early issues are strewn with advertisements for upscaled-hip boutiques ('Are you confused enough for Paraphernalia?'), articles on skiing and rather languidly campaigning pieces on environmentally threatened portions of picturesque America. Highbrow kicks came courtesy of the likes of Lionel Trilling ('Cinema – the Andromeda of the Arts'), pop-cultural connoisseurship from a nostalgic essay on Dixieland jazz by Freddie Fisher. But Aspen quickly attracted notable guest editors who recast its cabinet-of-curiosities eclecticism in their own avant-garde images. Andy Warhol oversaw the third issue, with its 'Fab' cover graphics and flip-book version of his film Kiss. Quentin Fiore, who had designed The Medium is the Massage in 1967, put together a 'McLuhan issue' that also included a diary of more or less random pensées by John Cage, entitled How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse).
With the combined fifth and sixth issues, delivered in an austere white box like a giant cigarette pack, Aspen produced an artefact that was genuinely an addition rather than a deluxe adjunct to the art, literature and thought of the time. Brian O'Doherty, who had considered previous issues 'interesting,but rather shallow intellectually', corralled an astonishing number of works and writings by the US and European avant-gardes. There were texts by Susan Sontag, Michel Butor and Dan Graham,recordings by Marcel Duchamp, Alain Robbe-Grillet and William Burroughs, discreet artworks (or conceptual descriptions of potential artworks) by Mel Bochner, Sol LeWitt and O'Doherty himself. The lifestyle spreads had gone and the advertisements begun to dwindle, so white space and cool grids dominated: the whole, which is also a sort of exhibition, is a key document in the transition from Minimalist art to text-heavy Conceptualism. O'Doherty asked Roland Barthes for an essay, and he gave him 'The Death of the Author', previously unpublished. (Barthes never got paid, despite letters and postcards asking where his fee was that are included in the Whitechapel show.)
At the time of writing, a slightly battered example of Aspen no. 3 signed by Warhol will set you back $22,500 on AbeBooks. (Unsigned you can get it for $1500, andthere's also the whole run minus no. 10 for $9450.) The relative ease with which one can still get hold of the magazine is a little surprising, because the mythology attached to Aspen consists partly in its supposed rarity: O'Doherty has noted that readers were as perplexed as the Postal Service, and most issues were probably thrown away. At the Whitechapel, all ten numbers –publication stopped in 1971 – are tantalisingly vitrined, and there's an accompanying display of other magazines-in-a-box. McSweeney'sadopted the model of a dispersed periodical in 1998, and for the past decade Cabinet (where I'm an editor) has attempted some ofits Wunderkammer mix of essays, artists' projects and paper ephemera. Aspen itself is among the star items on UbuWeb – Kenneth Goldsmith's vast and frequently copyright-flouting collection of artists' texts, films and audio – where its immaterially archived fragments continue to inspire writers and artists still committed to words on pages and actual objects.
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Yes, interesting, but in what sense is the Kindle edition of a book, for example, not 'words on pages'? You'd have to occupy a highly eccentric niche to insist on the physical presence at all times of 30 or 130 pages prior to the one you're reading, and I submit that that would be slightly more worrying than having your dear old mum still with you 30 years after she's carked it -- which incidentally forms the plot of a film I preserve on celluloid in my vast archives, though by now it bores the living daylights out of me.
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Apparently there were 43 illegal roadblocks in Belfast on Monday night. In a bar with Christmas lights on the ceiling, a hundred yards from a City...
From the sea to the river, from the river to the sea
Uri Avnery's latest: "Palestine, from the Jordan to the Sea, belongs to us!" declared Khaled Meshal last week at the huge victory rally in Gaza...


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1963 E-Type Lightweight: Briggs Cunningham was persuaded to enter a team of three lightweight E-Types in the GT category at Le Mans in 1963. Walt Hansgen and Augie Pabst teamed up in this car. Unfortunately they retired after 8 hours due to gearbox problems. Model by SPARK 1/43. Credit: http://www.oldirish.com/collection/models3.html.


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Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire – Thankful Village #34
I love Fairport Convention. I love all of the different line ups of Fairport Convention. I love their strange and compelling first album with Judy Dyble singing. I love Judy Dyble and her following albums with Giles, Giles and Fripp and Trader Horne. I always wish she'd made more albums.
Judy agreed to go with me to Upper Slaughter, not far from where she lived. We took Molly, her greyhound, with us. It was a pleasure to have someone else to break the ice in the village. Judy understood the project immediately. We had only been in the village five minutes before Judy had started talking to a stranger and got us invited to the village soup afternoon.
We ate delicious soup underneath group pictures of the village. Judy and Molly charmed the locals. Talk was of the plight of the village. Upper Slaughter has an older population and a high proportion of holiday homes. We left a donation and sat by the River Eye.
I recorded Judy strumming chords on her auto-harp and drew a picture of Molly.
Later when I got home I constructed Judy's chords into a tune whilst Judy wrote lyrics at hers.
If the accidental theme of Thankful Villages Vol 1 was the church then the theme of Volume 2 has been the river. The river has slowly woven its way through the songs and it snaked its way into Judy's beautiful lyrics too.


This small A-frame cabin looks a lot like those from fairytales. It has some kind of magical aura all around, as if a mystical creature would live inside. This cute tiny house is located in the Redwoods of Cazadero, in California and can be rented on airbnb. So if you would like to spend an unforgettable time with your loved ones, choose this lovely cabin. The interior looks very stylish and not at all tiny, as you have a hall with a living room, a kitchen, bathroom and upstairs bedroom. The bedroom looks especially cozy and has a very unique atmosphere, so you can spend some truly relaxing moments there. The tiny house has wooden finishing on the interior and the front porch offers an amazing view over the tall trees of the forest. The cabin is overall a beautiful structure. Browse the photos to get a better look.


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Yuya Kikuchi worked at Mitsukoshi restaurant on lower Regent Street for four years after arriving in the UK in 2007, having previously honed his cooking skills in Japanese kitchens in Osaka (spiritual home of Takoyaki, popularised by Tomekichi Endo), Brussels and Sydney. His education saw him attain the tricky qualification enabling him to prepare the poisonous Fugu (blowfish), strictly controlled by Japanese law and a fish which can be lethal in the wrong hands: a cheffy 'rockstar' skill. After three months in Paris at the beginning of 2013, he has returned to open his first restaurant on London's Rupert Street. The grime and scuffed nature of this strip of Soho, wedged between Bubbleology and The White Horse pub, has not deterred him. No name is emblazoned on the outside, with just a couple of rough hewn tables for cheek by jowl dining, six seats in the window for solo drop-ins. He's the only chap cooking. It's almost comically small.
The menu sprawls over many small plates (annoyingly sporting the affectation 'tapas'), taking in ramen, sushi and sashimi, and a couple of rice bowls. On each occasion we stick to the small plates, as this is where most of the fun seems to lie, making this little operation stand out from the current clutch of ramen kitchens and generic sushi operations. Spelling mistakes on the blackboards in a childlike scrawl have a naive charm with "breded chicken' and 'caperin' (for the tiny fish capelin) the prime culprits. Cute.
We wade in over several visits, teeth janglingly cold Sapporo lager at the ready.
TAKOYAKI (£3.50) — Gleeful combination of sweet and smoky, with a smoky waft of benito flakes, a squirt of kewpie mayo, the wheat flour battered balls eventually spilling their creamy innards and revealing firm fleshed nuggets of octopus. Joyful. One of the best morsels I've had this year.
SIRLOIN TATAKI (£5) — Cold strips of beef that pleasantly surprise, tender meat having been cooked rosy rare. Yuya's homemade chilli oil is given a flourish with the acidity from citrus based ponzu, to make a thrilling dipping sauce.
GRILLED CAPELIN (£4.50) — This plankton grazing forage fish is a tiny and ugly bugger, and arrives fried with some daikon and a slice of lemon, its head twisted towards us, mouth open as if in protest. Despite an accusatory eye from the sod, we crunch the head off. An iodine twang from the eyeball makes my own eyes widen but I polish it off. Like an angry whitebait that's been pumping iron.
SEARED SPICY COD'S ROE (£4.50) — Four small slices of roe that have flirted with the Japanese spice blend shichimi, crusted with white and black sesame seeds and gentle chilli heat.
GRILLED CONGER EEL (£4.50)— Steamed slivers of delicately melty eel, marinaded in sweet sake. As good as this was, it's a tiny couple of mouthfuls.
AGEDASHI TOFU (£4) — Silky cubes of fried tofu, absorbing umami-rich flavours from a dashi, mirin and soy broth. Satisfyingly savoury.
GRILLED AUBERGINE WITH SWEET MISO (£4) — Simple but effective, a miso glaze revealing soft aubergine that demands to be scooped out to the last scrap.
STEAMED PRAWN DUMPLING (£4.50) — A decent trio of dumplings, sweet chunks of prawn mixed with chives.
CHICKEN KARAAGE (£4.50) — One of the few misses few on the menu, this Japanese fried chicken, marinaded in soy, ginger and garlic doesn't have the thrilling crispy carapace we want. Tonkotsu on Dean Street make a version which pisses on this from a great height.
BREADED CHICKEN AND PONZU (£4.50) — Without the smoky dipping sauce, this 'breded' chicken is a bit yawnworthy. Just highlights how good those Takoyaki balls really are. Order those instead. Twice.
We have other dishes too; some so-so tempura; some Japanese omelette; slightly icky salmon cream croquettes; good prawn croquettes that remind us of the best prawn toast and perplexingly dry slices of pork belly with miso. The memory of those Takoyaki balls continue to reverberate.
The temperature of the Sapporo beers are blizzard cold, and are at an optimum level for slamming down several in quick succession, disturbingly quickly, and prime for Friday night necking in Soho. The wine list is something of a token effort but we spot the very dependable red Château Maris from the Minervois, and wine should be jettisoned for the laudably wide range of sake, fruit sake (plum, pear and yuzu), and shochu, all available by the small measure.
While not everything hits the heights of those blisteringly good Takoyaki (and the bill can ratchet up at a furious pace), the service is sweet, the attitude humble, and good will towards this tiny operation pours easily from us on each visit.


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Johannes Jacobus Prummel (Veendam, 1 augustus 1890 - Groningen, 15 augustus 1964), in vakliteratuur meestal aangeduid als Joh. Prummel of soms als H. Prummel, was een Nederlandse architect, die met name in de stad Groningen werkzaam was. Prummel, zoon van een timmerman, heeft verschillende panden ontworpen die zijn aangewezen als rijksmonument.

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 1924: Verbouwing van een winkelwoonhuis aan de Nieuwe Boteringestraat, Groningen
 1925: Woonhuis aan de Graaf Huynlaan in Geleen
 1931: Woningcomplex aan de Nieuwe Ebbingestraat, Groningen
 1932: Bedrijfspand met woning aan de Oude Boteringestraat, Groningen
 1933: Verbouwing van een woon-winkelpand aan de Oude Ebbingestraat, Groningen
 1934: Woning met pakhuis aan de Prinsenstraat, Groningen
 1935: Portiekwoningen aan de J.A. Feithstraat, Groningen
 1939: Verbouwing van een winkelpand in de Herestraat, Groningen
 1948-1949: Verbouwing tot kraamkliniek van Huize Tavenier aan de Ubbo Emmiussingel, Groningen

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 Lijst van Nederlandse architecten

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Dubbed "the first lady of civil rights" and the "mother of the freedom movement" by the United States Congress, the late Rosa Parks was an activist in the civil rights movement and played an integral role in the Montgomery bus boycott. Parks was arrested on December 4th, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white person. The arrest led to a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama bus system that led to the Supreme Court intervening a year later when they ruled that the segregation laws instituted by Alabama and Montgomery were unconstitutional. Parks continued her activism throughout her life and remained a beacon of hope for the civil rights movement for the entirety of her life. Presented here is a Lady Titleist 3 golf ball signed by civil rights icon Rosa Parks. "Lady Titleist 3" is stamped in red on the "Durable SURLYN" stamped golf ball twice. Parks signed and inscribed the date "5/10/93" with a black marker on the golf ball. The signature and inscription are bold. Comes with an LOA from JSA for the signature.
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College Students Share the Sober Ways They Have Fun
There are other ways to get lit.
By Fresh U
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This article was originally written for Fresh U by Sarah Diggins. It has been given minor edits before re-posting.
We all went into college with preconceived notions of what the student body would be doing for fun on the weekend. You either had older siblings or friends who shared their wild college stories or you watched Animal House. Whether you ran with open arms towards a college labeled with the reputation of being a "party school" or you ran in the complete opposite direction of such a school, it is inevitable that alcohol will play a role over the course of your college experience.
Some consider college to be one big party, and that's okay. As long as you're getting the work that you're there to do done and being responsible, go for it. But what if this doesn't sound like you? It's easy to get lost in the partying shuffle.
Is there pressure to drink in college?
In a survey conducted with 35 college freshmen, sophomores and juniors from schools all over the country, 29 students said they have not felt pressured to drink at college so far. Five of the respondents stated that they have felt "sort of" felt pressured to drink. One agreed that they have felt indirectly pressured to drink.
"Being the only sober one can be awkward." Shoshana, a freshman from Ithaca College also said, "On the rare occasion that I go to parties, I feel there is an expectation to show up already drunk."
Another freshman from Ithaca College shared, "It sometimes feels difficult to find things to do and people to hang out with on the weekends outside of the party scene so it can be lonely not drinking in college."
No one should ever feel alone because of a personal decision to abstain from alcohol use. Despite the messages you may receive from the media about the college experience, you do not need to have a red solo cup in your hand at all times in order to have fun. In an effort to crush this stereotype, this group of surveyed students came up with quite the laundry list of ways to have fun that won't cause a hangover:
1. Have a movie marathon.
Whether it be at the local movie theater or twelve or your closest friends gathered around your laptop on your dorm room floor, there is no way you go wrong with a good old-fashioned movie marathon. Watch new releases, old classics, nostalgic childhood favorites, festive holiday films or ones that are just so bad it's funny, the possibilities are endless.
2. See local shows.
Check out the event calendar for your school and your school's town. Even if you're in the middle of nowhere, most colleges and college towns are always offering cool new live entertainment like musicals and plays or featuring talent acts like comedians, musicians and maybe even a hypnotist. Bonus: most of the events will probably be free or very cheap.
3. Spend time outside.
"My friends and I walk to the Tar River and relax," said Kathleen, a freshman at East Carolina University. If you're lucky enough to go to a school surrounded by nature, go out and explore! That's what it's there for. As mentioned above, immersing yourself in nature can be a great stress reliever. One of my school's area's biggest draws are the gorges, seeing them is a great way to spend a weekend afternoon.
4. Play video, board or card games.
Even if you've completely tired out Cards Against Humanity, there are plenty of other fun games to play with your friends. "Jackbox Games is a game you can play on your computer or with your phone and it's pretty cheap!" Matt, a freshman at the University of Vermont recommended. Some other fun options are Bucket of Doom, Exploding Kittens, Who's Most Likely To, as well as any classic like The Game of Life or Monopoly (just a warning: this one can and will end relationships).
5. Read.
Check to see if your school has a book club, and if they don't, look into starting one, or just put together an informal one with your friends. There's a book out there for everyone, you just have to find it. Hint: if you loved The Fault in Our Stars back in 2013, John Green's new book "Turtles All The Down" just came out this month.
6. Catch up on your shows (or start a new one).
Whether it be West World or The Great British Bake Off, try to find people to binge watch your favorite shows with or start a new show to get invested with.
7. Get ahead on your work.
I know this might not sound like the most fun option on this list, but you will thank yourself immensely.
8. Utilize your campus student rec center.
Most colleges are home to a rec center of some sort with Foosball, air hockey or ping pong tables where you can unleash your inner Forrest Gump.
9. Eat.
"I'd much rather spend money on good food than alcohol or drugs," said Zannah, a freshman at Marymount Manhattan College. I couldn't say it better myself!
10. Work out.
Check to see if your school offers fun workout classes like Zumba or kickboxing. If you're like me and you're not necessarily the most notorious gym buff, bringing a workout pal with you to a workout or listening to music or a cool podcast will make exercise seem a lot less like a chore.
11. Play laser tag, paintball or whatever the trendy thing is now.
Whether it be an arcade, laser tag, paintball, escape room or trampoline park, there's bound to be one of them within the vicinity of your school.
12. Go shopping.
Nothing says fun like a little retail therapy. Most major stores offer generous discounts for college students so make sure you do some research before spending big bucks on that new pair of shoes.
13. Explore town.
Maybe your school lacks the nature mentioned above, but has every store, restaurant and cool place known to man. If you go to school in a city, take time to explore. It's likely that there's something new for you to discover every single day.
14. Arts and crafts are a must.
Watch Youtube videos (or Bob Ross on Netflix) and see what you can create (or how hilariously bad it ends up turning out).
15. Just hang out with people who don't focus on alcohol.
"Mostly I hang out with friends that don't focus on alcohol. I do things I find fun and not things that are fun by society's standards," Ashley, a freshman from Ithaca College, mentioned. Try to seek out people with similar values so the idea of being pressured into doing something you don't want to do isn't even an option.
16. Party.
As a sophomore from Bradley University mentioned, "You can still go to parties and have fun, just don't drink. A lot of people think that by having alcohol in your system, you'll have more [fun] at a party, but that's not true. It's like a mental thing that being drunk you'll have more fun, but you can be sober and have fun."
If you still love to dance and be around people, don't let the use of substances at a party stop you from having a good time.
As you can see, alcohol is not as an integral part of the college student's ability to have fun as you originally may have thought. In fact, when the same group of 35 students were asked to identify the importance of the role that alcohol plays in their college experience so far, no one selected the "very important" option. 40% said that alcohol was not important, 25.7% said that alcohol had a nonexistent role, 17.1% said it was sort of important and the last 17.1% considered it to be pretty important.
No matter how you like to spend your free time in college, just remember that there are always other options. You don't have to pretend to be someone you're not in order to have a good time.
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Don't get too excited, Nokia's test was just that: a laboratory test. Conducted in conjunction with Deutsche Telekom T-Labs, and the Technical University of Munich, Nokia Bell Labs used a new transmission technique to achieve a transfer rate close to the theoretical "Shannon" limit.
These blazing fast speeds, which are around 1,000x faster than the fastest fiber optic internet connections in the U.S., were achieved by using a technique called Probabilistic Constellation Shaping, or PCS, according to ZDNet.
PCS can achieve this level of speed because it handles data transmission in a fundamentally different way. By essentially stacking signals inside the fiber optic cable, instead of transmitting them back-to-back, researchers at the aforementioned labs were able to very nearly scrape the surface of the theoretical limit of signal transmission via fiber optic cable.
The theoretical limit, the glass ceiling which Nokia Bell Labs managed to scuff with their 1Tbps test, was first discovered in 1948 by Claude Shannon, a pioneering engineer at Bell Labs.
That is, of course, a vast oversimplification of a very complicated process, but the end result is a massive increase in transmission speed. While you're not going to see a 1Tbps internet connection any time soon, the fact that the Nokia's Bell Labs were able to reach that speed in a laboratory setting, using a novel transmission method, will have far-reaching implications.
"Future optical networks not only need to support orders of magnitude higher capacity, but also the ability to dynamically adapt to channel conditions and traffic demand," said Marcus Weldon of Nokia Bell Labs in a press release.
High-speed data connections are, of course, an area of great interest as online communications demand more and more from existing hardware. Advancements in the field aren't uncommon, but the Nokia lab test completely surpasses what's capable with current technology. If it becomes feasible for everyday use, it could lead to a huge leap in bandwidth.
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I cast off a lovely hat last week and managed to convince a friend to help me with some photos on the weekend (Thanks H!). I am in love with both the pattern and the yarn. The pattern is Forest Floor from Alana Dakos' Botanical Knits and the yarn is Tanis Fiber Arts Yellow Label DK in the colour Sprout.
I did 1×1 rib for the edging (rather than 1×2) because I tend to like 1×1 better. I was also a bit worried about size since I have a fairly small head and Julie mentioned that her lovely version was just small enough. I'm glad I switched the ribbing because post-blocking the hat just fits. It's actually a tiny bit bigger than I would like, so perhaps if I make it again I will go down a needle size or two.
I'm headed home this weekend for Thanksgiving, so expect some cute dogs photos and lots of food photos in the next few days! I hope you're all having a lovely week.
Linking up with KCCO and Yarn-Along as usual.
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Oh my goodness – you chose the absolute perfect colorway for that pattern. It's beautiful!! Thank you for linking up with KCCO!
Thanks Nicole! Thanks as always for hosting- I haven't been able to link up as much as usual lately but I try to when I can!
Love it! The photos are great, too–perfect background.
Thanks Triona! I am very lucky to go to such a gorgeous school!
What a lovely hat. I love a hat with a bit of a slouch, and the colours in the wool are really pretty.
Thanks Ginny! You're right… forest floor has the perfect amount of slouch. Such a great pattern.
Brilliant slouchy hat. Absoultely 100% gorgeous.
Really pretty hat! The bit of extra size will come in handy if I gets too cold and protect your curls from squishing!
Thanks Kristin! Alas, my hair is straight, a friend modelled for the photos for me. She has fantastic hair!
Love the hat – the colour is fabulous!
Thanks! The sprout colourway is beautiful, and perfect for fall!