the one that is speaking so softly, you can hear the truth.
Over the last several years, I have been listening to the quiet voices in my head. The voice that doesn't always allow me to follow what is expected of me by others. That is a choice that I have made.
The journey wasn't easy at first, but now, it is – mostly. I live with integrity and I trust my inner wisdom. Life can't get much better than that. But in the midst of some of the greatest challenges, I found myself questioning my values and questioning what I believed. As someone who wanted to be liked, it was painful to see that some people didn't like the transparent me. Learning to honor myself hasn't been easy, but in the end it has become a non-negotiable.
Over the next few weeks, I will be able to share some of what has been happening since I have grown as I have. Much good has come my way since I have chosen to listen to my inner voices.
Living authentically has given me wings to fly and a spirit to soar. I am blessed to feel free within my being. The best gift of all is now I surround myself with people that see me as I truly am.
Receiving this message is confirmation of how far I have come in the last few years.
May we all have the ability to listen to the voices inside our heads.
Note: I will be Counting the Omer for a total of 49 days, from Passover to Shavuot or from Slavery to Freedom. For many, this is simply the Counting the Omer; for others, it is a tool for exploring the kabbalistic teachings in an organized way. For me, it is a time to actively reflect on my Journey Towards Wholeness. The more I am whole, the more free I will become.
I thrive on living authentically and being transparent within my writing and in all human interactions. That does not mean that I always succeed, but it is my work. My hope is that you will find interesting stories or thoughts and if I am skilled perhaps some tools of how you may or may not approach your own life's journey.
Wholeness refers to completeness or shalem in Hebrew. Being full of wholeness means we feel spiritually healthy and undivided or in one piece. (Dictionary.com) Personally, I would add that when we are in a place of wholeness, we are living in a world of Godliness, conscious of a higher power and/or the responsibility we have to the larger world, the universe.
The last 18 months forced me to do a cheshbon hanefesh (inventory of the soul). For the first time in my life, I lost my livelihood due to budget cuts and had to examine what I was really looking for professionally and personally. Status quo stopped working for me and I needed to dig deeply and decide what jazzes my soul, what compromises my values, and what I wanted in life. While my sons are ages 18 and 21, I am still responsible for supporting them and giving them the wings they need to fly. At the same times, I needed to figure out what I needed so that my entire being could flourish and succeed at the highest level.
So over the following 48 days, you will have a chance to read what is important to me, what I struggle with, and the work that I am doing to reach a myriad of goals.
I am a work in progress. My hope is to share the real me including blemishes, warts, and beauty within ever entry of My Journey Towards Wholeness. Being transparent isn't easy, but I have been blessed with amazing women in my life who are also writers and artists; my hope is that they will keep me honest and remind me to let the fullness of my being emerge within my writing.
At this point, I'd l want to thank Randall Miller for the beautiful photo taken in one of the many lakes of Minnesota. This photo seems to be guiding me in the right direction. Randall's photos always move my heart, but this photo has captured my heart. As someone who loves water, it is this photo that seems to be saying it is ok to float and tread water, but know that there is a lot of holy distance to travel.
Thank you for taking the time to join me in my journey.
PS – Carolyn Riker, my new friend and fellow blogger/writer, helped me find the name for my blog series. I love that I have learned to ask for help over the past few years.
Over the last year, I have felt sucker-punched and loved at nearly equal proportions. The good news is that today I am feeling more love and support than I am feeling the harshness of being sucker-punched. The journey that I am taking has been both challenging and intense. I have had to face what it means to lose a job and left without the financial ability to take care of my sons; I have also experienced the gifts of having friends and acquaintances help me to secure positions that mostly allow me meet my family's most basic needs.
As the Gal-Or/Grossman Family prepares to move to the East Coast, I know that it would not have been possible if it weren't for the support of so many people. We have been touched by people helping us in a myriad of ways, too many ways to list. Ironically, I believe that I have personally felt equally impacted by each and every person that has given in whatever way they deemed appropriate. There have been absolutely no small offerings.
With each step, I have had no expectation that anyone would reach out and help. For some silly reason, I initially felt alone and very scared. It is quite daunting to go through dark experiences and believe you will land on your feet. But truthfully, while life has tossed me some vicious punches; I have been enveloped by love and support for entire second half or more of my life. I am surrounded by people that have held on to our family while we walked through fire. Over the years, I have truthfully been far from alone.
Monday night was another example of how one friend brought happy tears to my eyes and warmed my heart. I am blessed, so very blessed.
Before I share about the amazing treasure I received from Indianapolis, I have to tell a story.
Well. . .all my kvetching got the attention of my beloved weird sistah, Ren Fortang, in Indianapolis. During our exchanged she promised to send me some leaves from her yard. AND SHE DID!!! Her little package was full of happiness for me. I couldn't have been happier if I tried.
Now just because I love the term basheret, it was meant to be, I want to share that after opening Ren's gift I was reading Stitches: A Handbook On Meaning, Hope and Repair by Anne Lamott and on page 14, I found Mother Teresa's quote, the same quote that was on the pin. My guess is that there is a huge lesson there, so I better listen up!
Ren's gift is symbolic of the beauty that continues to flow as I emerge from some challenging times and take on my next adventure. I couldn't have made it this far without the enormous support that has surrounded me; I have received so many treasures over the past year and years before that too. I truly believe that when we consciously walk in the world with an open heart and love to share, the world will ultimately grow into a healthier place. My friends have shown me this and I hope to continue paying it forward with each and every step of my life.
Today is 19 Elul or 11 days until 5775; it is a time to reflect and to choose ways in which I can best move towards the High Holy Days and the days that follow. While it is not easy to navigate life's journeys, I always get to decide how to approach my life. In this moment, I am choosing to walk gently and embrace each step with openness. As I say this, I also realize that this would be a good time for a reality check.
All of us have default responses that show how we walk through the world. As someone who has been been beaten in a multitude of ways both violently and emotionally, I choose to see the world as beautiful and to celebrate life at every given opportunity. Life is hard, but amazing moments happen with each passing day.
Reality is what it is and I am choosing to be transparent about what we are currently experiencing. At the same time, please know that many blessings surround my family. Yes, times are painfully difficult, but drowning is not an option. My sons and I have chosen to thrive by diving into the water, swimming as best we can, and sometimes treading so that we can stay afloat. There is no question, we will make it to shore.
On December 16th, my youngest son's 17th birthday, I was told that my job would go to half-time and that I would lose all benefits unless I could afford COBRA. I couldn't, so not only did I lose half of my salary, I lost health insurance and the ability to take care of my nearly adult children or myself.
In June, after I had learned to manage on half-salary by supplementing my income, I lost my half-time position.
June is too late to find a professional position in my field; now I need to wait until next winter if I choose to stay in my field.
I struggle to afford even the most basic needs and sometimes I can't even afford them.
I am a single mother who is barely supporting my sons on whatever I make.
My family moved to Tucson and left many of our closest friends for a job that left us stranded. Jewish professionals do not make enough to easily save the kind of money that would allow us to move back east.
I am sorry that the congregation I worked for is struggling; I am also tremendously sorry that I live in fear of homelessness because of their choices.
Aryeh found my dog playing with my thumb drive; I thought some important documents had been lost forever. Now I have some back-ups to do. Can anyone help me create a cloud that can contain all my computer documents? Unfortunately I do have some significant limitiations.
Loved when my friends shared with me what was good about their week before Shabbat when I asked; Facebook is a great way to stay in touch with so many folks in our lives.
The boys and I had a simple salad for Shabbat dinner; we loved just being together.
After dinner, Aryeh and I taught Dovi to play backgammon!!! And he actually won one game.
Saturday morning, I visited my 98 year old friend and took her to the DeGrazia Museum in the Sun. While it wasn't a total success, I did get my friend out for awhile. AND I can't wait to go back by myself later this week.
The DeGrazia Museum is a hidden free treasure for all visiting or living in Tucson; go when you can and be sure to leave a donation.
Aryeh and I had an amazing time at our friends house; we swam, ate good food; and laughed a lot!
Another friend found me a great High Holiday position in NY, but it ended up not making sense to take it. But when the offer came in, it brought tears to my eyes and made me feel a little more worthy than I have been feeling.
I have had some amazing time to think about my values and what I want to accomplish during the second half of my life. What do I really want to do? Where do I really want to be? Who do I want in my life? I want a life that includes thoughtful people doing things that jazz their soul; I want to be that person too.
A good friend helped me sustain myself by giving me a job; another one helped me find more work when the first job stopped producing enough hours for me.
There are many friends that keep calling, sending notes, and believing in me. They support me when I am feeling good, when I am devastated, and when I am just ok. My most beautiful friends see me as I am, positive (for the most part) and navigating tough times; they support me by being there and letting me know that they are!
Since December, I have been a caregiver to those that are aging, in medical crisis, and/or dying. Helping each individual and sometimes their families as they navigate some of life's hardest times has been an amazing experience for me; I believe that I am making people's lives a little easier when I am their caregiver.
When we really needed help, financial help has shown up on three different occasions since December. Still every month since December has been terrifying.
AND last week a dear friend offered me her house in Charlottesville, VA; I am seriously thinking about trying to get there. I am wondering how to afford getting there and/or the storage costs of that transition.
Two friends offered to drive a U-Haul truck cross country so that I wouldn't have to pay movers.
A fabulous congregation in Boulder offered me a position that I'd love to take, but it is half-time. After the holidays, perhaps I can find another half-time position to compliment the first position. They have a temp Director of Education there for the next couple of months.
Visualize we are good and pray for us to find the sustenance that will help us thrive.
Give me a job. I am good with people in all sorts of settings.
If you hear of a job that you think would be good for my soul. Let me know. I am looking for either a career position in Jewish Education or Social Action work AND I am also open to doing a job in a great environment that is a 35-40 hour week job that will allow me the time to write and do Social Action when I am not working.
If you are a doctor or dentist living in Tucson and you are willing to be there for our family for lower or no costs, let me know.
Keep your eyes open. . . .I am considering asking for concrete help that will allow us to go to the east coast.
Light a candle and visualize us spreading light and being full of light.
The good news is that I believe all will be ok. I am patient and hopeful; the right door is emerging as I type :). Today's text response to a local friend that had asked me how I am was –"up & down. . . .but mostly navigating with a positive outlook." This is how I walk through life. I believe that blessings surround me and I pray that all of us will remain healthy (medical emergencies are not an option). I am actively engaged in living positively as we also play the waiting game for a good job/position that will help sustain my family.
May light surround our family and flow through our family now and always; may that light help make the world a better place.


72 Cuda, originally blue, now plum crazy, numbers matching 340, 4 speed, 8 3/4 rear. Was factory stripper with manual drums, manual 24:1 steering. 2nd owner added rally dash - of which I have all the gauges working, console, 3.91 gears and a complete six pack set up off a Purple AAR during the late 70's early 80's that was local in his hometown. Car still has six pack, it is best I know, an original intake, air cleaner base and top. Carbs have all been replaced through the years including 1 I did 2 years ago. The base is a true steel AAR/TA base. Since I have had the car I have replaced clutch, rebuilt Z-Bar, added TTI headers and X-pipe, viper front disc brakes with DR Diff kit, new master cylinder, all new lines, rear wheel cylinders. Firm Feel Stage 3 16:1 power steering, fast ratio arms, 1.06" torsion bars and adjustable strut rods. 1-1/4" Hellwig fr sway bar, 11/16" tie rods, lower control arm stiffening plates, USCarTool core support, Vintage Air a/c, Promax jettable outer carb plates, new correct linkage. New (installed just before wreck) HV oil pump, intermediate shaft, water pump, cloyes timing set with tensioner. H4 Halogen headlights with relays, LED parking/front turn signals, LED taillights. Engine pulleys and A/C mount from Bouchillon Performance. Champion radiator (still good), and tons of the accompanying small stuff. Interior is good except now rear passenger door panel is broken, drivers seat has torn area from entry/exit and drivers seat back is all the way back now and I have not looked at it to see what broke. I conservatively have $12,500 in parts and car was running, basically complete and painted when I got it. I have Broadcast sheet, some old documentation, no fender tag, and some history with names and a few phone numbers.
It will have a salvage title, I assume, Engine still runs fine and I was able to move it a little in reverse and first, only a little due to passengers rear tire rubbing front of wheel well. I would really like for it to go to a good loving home to be brought back to life as opposed to parting it out if I can.


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'It hit me like a wall:' Halifax women describe suspected drugging at downtown bar
By Taryn Grantfor StarMetro Halifax
Tues., April 24, 2018timer4 min. read
HALIFAX—Two Halifax-area women believe they were drugged at a downtown bar, and they're sharing their story to spread awareness.
Brittany Bernard, 20, and Paige Fitzpatrick, 21, suspect a drink they shared was spiked at The Toothy Moose on Saturday night, and said they feel lucky to have walked away from the ordeal unscathed.
"I thought I was going to die in that bathroom stall," Bernard said in an interview.
The friends had reason to celebrate. On Friday, Fitzpatrick attended the final classes of her final year at the Nova Scotia Community College, so on Saturday at 10 p.m., Bernard rushed home from her job at Lawton's to get ready to go out.
They arrived downtown around 12:30 a.m. Sunday — Bernard's mother drove them from their home in Lower Sackville — and waited in line to enter the bar, Bernard said.
She said they checked their coats and spent a few minutes on the dance floor before heading to the bar to get a drink.
Fitzpatrick said they saw a man standing at the bar, and she went to his left while Bernard went to his right. Fitzpatrick said he bought her a shot and a drink; she turned her head away from him to take the shot, and when she turned back he slid a mixed drink toward her.
Bernard said she bought her own drink, but she alleges the man accidentally knocked it out of her hand. When he offered to buy her a replacement, she declined, saying that she and Fitzpatrick would share the one he'd just bought her, which they did.
After finishing the drink, the women said they left the man at the bar and returned to the dance floor, but soon found they could barely stand.
"Our muscles just kind of gave out," Bernard said.
"We felt like we lost complete consciousness," Fitzpatrick said.
"I didn't feel like I passed out but I just felt like … it hit me like a wall," Bernard said.
Each woman had three or four drinks at home in Lower Sackville before leaving for the bar, but what they felt after sharing the drink that was bought for Fitzpatrick wasn't the result of alcohol, they said.
"It wasn't like a drunk feeling. It was like a 'I don't know where I am' feeling, 'I don't know my surroundings.' A very unsafe feeling," Fitzpatrick said.
The women said their memory is patchy from that time on, but they know they made it to the bar's bathroom where they entered a stall together and both got violently ill.
They said they don't remember encountering the man from the bar again after he bought the drink for Fitzpatrick. In a Facebook post, Bernard described him as "a small built white male."
Little more than an hour passed between the two women arriving downtown and departing for the emergency room. At about 1:40 a.m., Bernard called her mother asking her to pick them up, she said.
Somehow, they made their way from the bathroom to the entrance — they said a concerned woman who saw them in the bathroom might have helped, but they don't remember clearly. There, Bernard said a bouncer offered to call them a cab, and stayed with them until Bernard's mother arrived.
Bernard said emergency room doctors told her their symptoms — vomiting, hazy consciousness, loss of motor function — pointed to a drugging.
They were both tested to make sure their major organs were functioning properly, they said.
By 6:30 a.m. Sunday both women were discharged from the hospital and sent home.
On Monday, Bernard posted about the experience on Facebook.
In part, her post reads: "I am one of THE MOST cautious people when it comes to these things as my mom has always taught me that way ... you can never be too careful, we are sharing our story in hopes it will encourage people to be extra careful with their drinks at any bar or party."
As of Tuesday afternoon, the post had over 1,000 reactions and almost 6,000 shares.
Both women are glad their story is bringing attention to the issue of drink spiking.
"It's a very big problem that's going on that needs to be more out there and shared for awareness because people don't believe that it's really happening, but here we are and it's really happening," Fitzpatrick said.
The women said they reported the incident to the police and submitted victim statements. They said they don't expect their allegations to lead to an arrest or charges, but they wanted to report it so the extent of the problem can be tracked and understood.
In an email to StarMetro, Halifax Regional Police spokeswoman Const. Carol McIsaac wouldn't say who lodged a complaint, but did confirm one was filed to police Sunday afternoon about two women possibly having their drink tampered with at the Toothy Moose sometime after 12:30 a.m. Sunday.
StarMetro reached out to the owner of Toothy Moose for comment just before noon Tuesday, and by late Tuesday afternoon, had not received a response.

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Southborough Community Preservation
FY 2011 CPC Articles
The Community Preservation Act
History of CPA Southborough
CPC Annual Reports
Southborough Plan
Quick overview projects funded
FY2013 CPC Articles
FY10 CPC articles
News articles on SCPC
Letters to the CPC
All Articles Passed at Town Meeting. Thank you.
Below are the articles as listed in the Town Warrant
ARTICLE 20: To see if the Town will vote to accept the report of the Community Preservation Committee for the FY 2011 Community Preservation Projected Receipts and act upon the recommendations of the Community Preservation
Committee and to set aside for later expenditure, certain sums of money from the Community Preservation Fund established pursuant to Chapter 44B of the Massachusetts General Laws, as follows: Estimated Surcharge Receipts (based on Town Treasurer's projections): $248,370.00 State Match (projected State match)…………………...……….……………….. $69,543.60
Total Projected Revenue…………………………………………………….$317,913.60
Set Aside- Open Space
$31,791.36 to be set aside, held in the Community Preservation Fund, and spent in FY2011 or later years for acquisition, creation or preservation of open space, and for the rehabilitation and/or restoration of open space acquired under the
Community Preservation Act.
Set Aside – Historic Preservation
$31,791.36 to be set aside, held in the Community Preservation Fund, and spent in FY2011 or later years for the acquisition, preservation, rehabilitation and restoration of historic resources.
Set Aside – Community Housing
$31,791.36 to be set aside, held in the Community Preservation Fund, and spent in FY2011 or later years for the creation, preservation and support of community housing, and for the rehabilitation and/or restoration of community housing
acquired under the Community Preservation Act.
Administrative Costs – Community Preservation Committee
$15,895.68 to defray the administrative and operating expenses of the Community Preservation Committee in FY2011 for the Community Preservation Fund (discretionary)
Set Aside - Discretionary
Reserved For CPF (General Unreserved Fund) $ 206,643.84
FY 2009 Interest/Adjustments
To accept $17,704.00 of interest/adjustments received in FY10 and to set aside 10% in each of the Historic, Open Space
and Housing Reserve Accounts and 70% to the General Reserve Account.
$ 1,770.40 Set Aside – Open Space
$ 1,770.40 Set Aside – Community Housing
$ 1,770.40 Set Aside – Historic Preservation
$ 12,392.80 – CPF (Budgeted Reserve/Discretionary)
, or take any other action relative thereto.
Proposed by: COMMUNITY PRESERVATION COMMITTEE
Board of Selectmen Recommendation: At Town Meeting
Advisory Committee Recommendation: Support
Summary: These set asides are an annual requirement under the Community Preservation Act.
ARTICLE 21: To see if the Town will vote to appropriate $70,000 of which $33,561.76 from the CPA Housing Reserve Fund and $36,438.24 from the CPA General Unreserved Fund, as requested by the Southborough Affordable Housing
Trust. Monies will be used for the purchase and/or construction of new affordable housing in accordance with the Southborough Affordable Housing Trust rules and regulations, and in compliance with the Community Preservation Act. Said funds to be expended under the direction of the Community Preservation Committee, or take any other action thereto.
Summary: Funds from the CPA and from Southborough's inclusionary zoning bylaw used in the flexible structure of the
Housing Trust Fund will allow the Town to act quickly and creatively in meeting the Town's affordable housing needs.
ARTICLE 22: To see if the Town will vote to appropriate $186,277.50 of which $33,561.76 from the Open Space Reserve Fund, and $152,715.74 from the CPA General Unreserved Fund, to be applied to the Chestnut Hill Bond for the
purpose of open space. Said funds to be expended under the direction of the Community Preservation Committee; or take any other action thereto.
Summary: This article is the Community Preservation Fund's portion of the annual payment of the bond funding for the preservation of Chestnut Hill Farm.
ARTICLE 23: To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $50,000 of which $33,561.76 will derive from the Historical Reserve Fund, and $16,438.24 from the CPA General Unreserved Fund for preconstruction costs for the creation
of the Stony Brook Museum, for the purpose of Historic Preservation, and authorize the Southborough Board of Selectmen to enter into a long term lease agreement with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts upon terms and conditions and with any sublease arrangement that they determine appropriate to the Town, for the Nichols House located at the Sudbury Reservoir #5 Dam. Said funds to be expended under the direction of the Community Preservation Committee, or take any other action thereto.
Advisory Committee Recommendation: At Town Meeting
Summary: Russell Horne, member of the Southborough Historical Society is requesting the funds for the preconstruction construction cost and preliminary plans for the creation of the Stony Brook Museum on the property known as the Nichols House. Once preliminary plans are created they will be used to apply for federal and state grants, for a 2.8 million dollar American History Museum. It is believed that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will lease the property to the Town, and the Town will sublease the building for a museum.
ARTICLE 24: To see if the Town will vote to appropriate $42,360 from the General Unreserved Fund for the proposed completing the Southborough Triangle Park, for the purpose of recreation. Said funds to be expended under the direction of the Community Preservation Committee; or take any other action thereto.
Summary: Monies will be used to complete the landscaping and plantings for the Triangle Park.


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At the Center of the World, History Is Dead. Long Live History. (Updated for 2018)
[Ed: New photos addd 2/17/18 9:29 AM PT]
If you were to visit a place that's touted as the "Center of the World," you might think you'd find it in Egypt, Israel, along the equator somewhere, or at the North or South Poles.
But then again, since Planet Earth is more or less a perfect sphere, pretty much anywhere you go on its surface can be construed as the "center."
Wherever you go, there you are. And so on.
If you were to ask anyone at the Imperial County office or the Institut Geographique National of the Government of France, however, by law they'd have to tell you that the Center of the World is in Felicity, California.
And for that—and all of the other attractions found in Felicity, the town he founded in 1986 and named after his wife Felicia—we have a French-born aeronaut named Jacques-Andre Istel to thank.
A pioneer in both sport and military free-fall parachuting, Istel is widely considered the "father of skydiving"...
...but he's also the author of a children's book called Coe: The Good Dragon at the Center of the World.
Using the tale as inspiration, Istel built an actual pyramid in the desert, just like there is in the book—only this one is in the southeastern corner of California just a few miles west of Yuma, Arizona and just east of the Imperial Sand Dunes.
Istel also more or less elected himself mayor of Felicity and has since operated the "Center of the World" as a roadside tourist attraction.
You need his set of keys to get inside the pyramid where the actual "center" is, and you need his signature to make your souvenir certificate official.
And you can only do that pretty much between Thanksgiving and Easter, when the weather isn't quite so brutally hot there.
However, the grounds are more or less open all year, so it's easy enough to occupy yourself with the Museum of History in Granite...
...a series of 21 monuments comprised of various engraved and etched granite panels covering the History of the United States of America, the History of California, the History of Arizona, and the History of Humanity.
With some granite panels still blank, this "museum" is a work-in-progress that's made Mayor Istel somewhat of a significant historian of his time—though, based on the geometry and geography of Felicity, some might be apt to think he's something of an occultist.
In actuality, he built The Church on the Hill at Felicity and dedicated it in 2008 with the blessing of both Monsignor Richard W. O'Keeffe (on behalf of the Catholic Church) and Reverend Arthur P.Stanley (on behalf of Her Britannic Majesty's Forces).
It sits atop on the manmade "Hill of Prayer," engineered in 1996 and created in 2002 out of 150,000 tons of dirt with the sole purpose of keeping the chapel as the highest building in town.
.With a design inspired by La Chapelle Notre-Dame d'Espérance in Brittany, France...
...it seems an appropriate landmark for a town whose name is derived from the ancient Roman term for divine happiness and blessedness—felicitas.
But there's also something unsettling about the town of Felicity, especially when it's not officially open.
The wind is brutal up there on that fake hill, not blocked by the chapel and, in fact, even perhaps worsened by it. The sand from the nearby dunes gives the entire compound a dusty pallor.
The monuments in the array stand there like triangular tombstones that memorialize events that have passed in short epitaphs, lest we forget.
Not surprisingly, they're the handiwork of master carver Ron Clamp of Memorial Design, a company that specializes in grave markers, headstones, mausolea, and other funerary monuments.
But, though they were built to last 4000 years, there's only so much room on those panels—so, by necessity, the histories etched in Missouri red granite are selective and incomplete. The "Rosetta Stone" is inscribed with only a tiny sliver of the languages that actually exist throughout humanity.
But it's impossible to always tell the whole story. There's always something you've got to leave out to avoid digression and oversaturation. And besides, the Museum of History in Granite is just a fraction of what there is to do and see in Felicity, too.
There's also the "railroad station," which looks like it's just for show but is located pretty close to the Southern Pacific Railway line that runs more or less parallel to the 8 Freeway from Yuma (and points beyond) to Sidewinder Road just east of Felicity. There, it bears northwest through the ghost town of Ogilby, where it once serviced the American Girl gold mine (on land now managed by the BLM).
And just as there's a station with no train, there's also a disembodied, rusted iron staircase—intriguingly once part of the Eiffel Tower in Mayor Istel's hometown of Paris, France.
One of 20 such sections from 1889 that were removed for safety reasons and sold at auction in 1983, this one—number 12 (Escalier élément no. 12 de la tour d'Eiffel)—weighs 6,600 pounds and stands 25 feet high in the middle of the Sonoran Desert.
It's missing its tower, and its tower is missing its original staircase. And, presented as an orphan sculpture, it serves no other purpose.
L'histoire est morte. Vive l'histoire.
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Know Your WaveForm! RGB vs. Luma in the Field
By Art Adams on	 September 12, 2013 Optical Science, Production
Proper exposure in HD is not always easy. Meter readings don't always match what the camera sees. Zebras tell us where highlights are clipped but that's about it. False color gives us broad stroke references… but the most useful tool overall is the waveform monitor. The problem is that there are two kinds: both are extremely useful, but for completely different things.
Most people are familiar with the traditional luma waveform. If a camera or monitor has any waveform at all built into it, it's usually this one. It shows scene brightness from left to right across the image, and there's only one "trace," or line, to worry about. This waveform is distinctly different from RGB parade, which shows traces for red, green and blue individually, usually in that order. (Some waveform monitors offer a different setup that displays colors in a slightly different order, green, blue and red, but these are rare.
Before we talk about the luma waveform let's take a quick look at the Wikipedia entry on Rec 709:
Rec 709 is the set of specifications that defines the HDTV signal and establishes the standard that allows HD hardware and software to talk to each other. Built into it are a set of assumptions about what kind of data is important in an image: lightness is important, color considerably less so.
It has long been known that humans are much more sensitive to visual changes in lightness than in color, and television broadcast systems take advantage of this to decrease the amount of information they have to transmit. They preserve all the lightness information but remove a certain amount of the color as our brains generally won't miss it. To further increase efficiency lightness and color are encoded separately, with the lightness signal itself calculated using the coefficients above.
If this is starting to sound a little geeky, hang with me. The basics are not that complicated.
Our brains determine how bright the world is by mixing a percentage of red, green and blue color into a lightness signal that tells us how bright things are, as opposed to how colorful things are. Green counts as around 70% of that signal, red about 20%, and blue is 10% or less. Luma, the lightness signal in HD, does the same thing: it takes a percentage of each color's signal and blends it into one overall lightness signal. The proportions are the coefficients above.
Those coefficients add up to 1, so if we want to translate them into percent we just have to multiply them by 100: red is 21.26% of the lightness signal, green is 71.52%, and blue is 7.22%.
Is this really important? Yes, it is. Here's why:
Here's a white JPEG image I created in Photoshop by setting 8-bit color parameters to 255, 255, 255. The trace on the luma waveform, at the left of the image, shows that the image is perfectly exposed at 100%. Here's what the same image looks like in RGB parade:
As you can see, each color channel is now split out on its own–red, green and blue–and they are all pegged at 100%. Let's shake things up a bit and separate the colors:
I've now created three patches of pure color. The RGB parade waveform shows how strong each color signal is in its own channel, and each one is pegged at 100% where it appears in its channel. The channel shows red at 100% where the red patch appears, but zero where the green and blue patches appear, etc.
Now is where the fun starts. Let's look at the luma waveform of the same image:
None of the color patches are pegged at 100% anymore. In fact, they're kind of all over the place. What's going on? Well, look at the Wikipedia entry again:
And then look at this:
What I'm trying to show is this: if you are looking at a luma waveform, the simplest and most common waveform format, you'll never see a really pure color hit 100%. It can't. The purest green ever can only hit 71% on a luma waveform monitor. That's just the way the system–both human and HD–works.
The good news is that you'll never see a color this pure in the real world, so this shouldn't be an issue. Most everything you'll see in an image, even colors that appear to be pure, will nearly always be a combination of other colors as well. The purest green screen in the world still reflects some blue and red; the purest blue screen in the world reflects a lot of red and green.
I used to insist on looking at RGB parade all the time but I'm changing my view on that. The main reason for this is that the luma waveform really is a digital spot meter that looks only at lightness and almost nothing else. It's a little insensitive to saturated colors, but so are spot meters. (Light meters are designed for peak response at around 550-600nm, or the green part of the spectrum. Reading saturated blue or red light with an incident meter or a red or blue object with a spot meter may result in an exposure error of one stop or more.)
RGB parade doesn't really show you the video signal, but rather shows you an interpretation of the video signal: it's basically the three color channels broken out into code values, which gives you a combination of color and lightness information but not in a way that tells you what the actual exposure is.
Make sense? Probably not. Let's fix that:
Here's a DSC Labs Chroma du Monde chart with its RGB parade waveform captured in Apple Color. The chart is exposed to put middle gray at 40%, which is where 18% gray falls in Rec 709. (It's actually 41.7%, but I round off for simplicity.) As you can see, each channel has similarities but also differences: the "X" of the grayscale ramp looks the same in each, but the horizontal lines that represent the color chips fall in different places depending on the color channel. What RGB parade is showing us here that you can't see in luma is that the image is white balanced: the neutral tones–white, black and gray–all fall at the same levels in each channel.
If I skew the white balance toward green, this happens:
It's easy to see that all of the neutral colors are now excessively green. White balancing the camera will bring all the peaks into alignment, or if you're white balancing in post it's easy to push the wheels around until the highlights, mid tones and blacks line up. The luma waveform is less helpful in this regard:
This waveform gives us brightness information for every part of the image, but no information about color.
There's another time when parade RGB comes in handy: if we want to see if a particular channel is clipped:
This image looks pretty blue, but it should be okay because nothing is clipping, right? Wrong:
The blue channel is definitely clipped, but since blue is only 7% of the lightness signal we may not see it on the luma waveform. In parade RGB, though, it's really obvious as to what's going on.
I got used to using RGB parade for everything as this kind of information is really useful, but it can be tough setting consistent exposure on flesh tone and objects because the balance of these channels changes depending on the object color. How do I expose dark skin vs. light skin in parade RGB? How do I expose a bright red shirt vs. a light blue shirt? All of these things will look dramatically different on a RGB parade waveform, but not so much on a luma-only waveform.
A good example of a situation where we're only looking at one color or another is green screen and blue screen. As the Chroma Du Monde chart shows us primaries that aren't completely pure (because the Rec 709 primaries aren't pure colors to begin with) I'm going to zoom into patches on the chart to illustrate this point. Here's the blue patch in parade RGB:
In RGB parade blue is up at around 63-64%, while red and green are down at about 32%.
The luma only waveform shows the blue patch at about 38%. The rule of thumb, left over from the film world, is to expose blue no brighter than about 18% gray, so we're only 2% short of that here. (In film you can only capture a saturated blue or a light blue but not both at the same time, so exposing blue at 18% reflectance gives you the best combination of lightness and saturation without sacrificing either.) Both of these waveforms are important but in different ways:
The luma waveform shows us how bright the blue is, for exposure purposes. There's no such thing as a perfect blue screen so exposing it at around 40% doesn't really hurt us here, even though a good part of this exposure information is driven by the fact that there's additional red and green mixed into the blue, as there is in any image. As we saw above, if this was the purest possible blue then this line would be pegged at 7%, as a perfectly saturated blue will never be very bright either to a Rec 709 camera or our eye.
A common trick to increase saturation in blue screens is to light them with tungsten lights covered in blue gel, or balance the camera for tungsten light and illuminate the screen with uncorrected HMIs or daylight blue Kino Flo tubes. This will make a blue screen look more saturated in RGB parade, where red and green will drop away from blue, but the luma waveform may show the overall exposure as being much less.
The RGB parade waveform shows us color channel separation, which is crucial in blue screen work. The rule of thumb used to be that you wanted to see at least 40 units of separation between blue and the other channels for a good key, but standards have loosened enough that the 30% we see here between blue and the other colors is plenty.
In other words, luma shows us overall exposure and parade RGB shows us purity and separation. Notice that the green channel in parade RGB, from which most of the lightness information is derived, is always within about 5% of where the luma waveform falls, because green provides 70% of the lightness information.
I used blue screen as an example because it's a dramatic one, but blue screen is effectively dead with the advent of Bayer pattern sensors as blue channel resolution is only half what you'd see in the green channel.
Here's the green chip shown in RGB parade. It's sitting at about 60%, with about 20% separation between red and green. Here's the luma waveform:
It's basically the average of all the channels. With red and blue around 40% and green at 60%, the luma signal comes in at 50%. That's a good spot for green screen: we tend not to expose it darker than 40% luma, and the addition of some green gel to the lights hitting the screen will drop the red and blue channels down significantly and make the green more pure.
Let's look at a couple of flesh tone examples:
Here's typical caucasian flesh tone. Note how green is near 52%, while red is a bit higher and blue is almost equally lower. The luma waveform looks like this:
The luma trace looks to be around 55%, which is almost exactly what Arri recommends for flesh tone in Alexa's false color mode (52-55%). There's a lot of green in flesh tone, which is why the green in RGB parade and luma match so closely.
This flesh tone is darker and the color balance is a bit different. Green is at around 25% in parade RGB.
The luma waveform puts lightness at around 28%.
To sum up, I used to like RGB parade for everything but now I like it for only three reasons: it's a quick way to judge color separation in green and blue screens, I can quickly see if I'm clipping a color's saturation even if I'm not clipping its exposure, and I can look at a neutral color and see if the camera is white balanced.
I like luma for everything else: it's a great way to quickly dial in an exposure on colored objects because it gives you one composite lightness value, instead of showing you different values based on color saturation that may or may not influence how bright an object really looks.
Ideally I'd have a monitor that showed me luma and RGB parade waveforms at the same time. Ikan has monitors that do this but as of June 2013 the math driving their waveform monitors appears to be wrong, so the scopes aren't accurate enough for professional use. My hope is that the Convergent Design Odyssey 7 will give me this capability with more accuracy, although that'll take some testing to find out for sure.
The nice thing is that the price of having a lot of color and exposure information at the camera is no longer the $5,000-10,000 that companies like Leader and Tektronix charge for their equipment, but a much more affordable $1,000-1,500. In the good old days when we had to get the look right on set producers would happily pay for such high end tools, but these days with raw and log and dwindling budgets this happens a lot less. Fortunately these prices make it possible for a DP or DIT to buy their own scope, just as they would a light meter.
Disclosure: I have worked as a paid consultant to DSC Labs.
Director of photography Art Adams knew he wanted to look through cameras for a living at the age of 12. After spending his teenage years shooting short films on 8mm film he ventured to Los Angeles where he earned a degree in film production and then worked on feature films, TV series, commercials and music videos as a camera assistant, operator, and DP.
Art now lives in his native San Francisco Bay Area where he shoots commercials, visual effects, virals, web banners, mobile, interactive and special venue projects. He is a regular consultant to, and trainer for, DSC Labs, and has periodically consulted for Sony, Arri, Element Labs, PRG, Aastro and Cineo Lighting. His writing has appeared in HD Video Pro, American Cinematographer, Australian Cinematographer, Camera Operator Magazine and ProVideo Coalition. He is a current member of SMPTE and the International Cinematographers Guild, and a past active member of the SOC.
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Director of photography Art Adams knew he wanted to look through cameras for a living at the age of 12. After ten years in Hollywood working on feature films, TV series, commercials, music videos, visual effects and docs he returned to his native San Francisco Bay Area, where he currently shoots commercials and high-end corporate marketing and branding projects. When Art isn't shooting he consults on product design and marketing for a number of motion picture equipment manufacturers. His clients have included Sony, Arri, Canon, Tiffen, Schneider Optics, PRG, Cineo Lighting, Element Labs, Sound Devices and DSC Labs. His writing has appeared in HD Video Pro, American Cinematographer, Australian Cinematographer, Camera Operator Magazine and ProVideo Coalition. He is a current member of the International Cinematographers Guild, and a past active member of the SOC and SMPTE.


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Vale of Avon Lodge
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History of the Vale of Avon Lodge No. 8432 Chippenham Wiltshire
The seed was sown in Corsham on Thursday 27th May 1971. It happened at the Installation Meeting of the Corsham Lodge No 6616. The Provincial Grand Master RW Bro Reginald A C Forrester whilst responding to his toast, suggested that conditions were right to found a new Lodge in North West Wiltshire. He remarked that the population of the region had grown considerably and further housing developments, especially in Chippenham, were planned which suggested that such a new Lodge could be supported.
The seed fell upon fertile ground because four Masons left that meeting thinking about the possibility of founding a new Lodge. Those Freemasons were Bros Fred Hudson, Michael Glanz, Cliff Davies and Bill Harvey. These founding fathers gathered a number of suitable Founding Members and after just three weeks thirty-four Freemasons expressed an interest in the project. At their first meeting
twenty-six masons committed themselves to becoming Founders of the new Lodge. Unfortunately, of those original Masons, Bro Fred Hudson died and Bro Fred Marlow moved to Cyprus before the Lodge was consecrated and there were, consequently, just twenty-four petitioners.
Three general meetings of all the Founders were held during which the details of the founding of the Lodge were discussed and agreed. The main concern of the first meeting was to agree upon a name and crest for the new Lodge. Bro Marlow led the discussion and the Brethren finally agreed upon the name 'Vale of Avon'.
The design of the crest was the inspiration of Bro Cliff Davies and Bro Bill Harvey. The whole crest neatly encapsulates the idea of place and symbol. The trilithon alludes to the ancient monuments that are most closely associated with Wiltshire. The sun rising between the upright stones brings Avebury and Stonehenge to mind and it also refers to a symbol closely connected with Freemasonry. The river running through the green and pleasant land holds biblical and Freemasonic connotations and also refers to the River Avon, which flows through north and west Wiltshire. The Petition to apply for a warrant to hold a new Lodge was presented in late 1971. To the Petition was added the recommendations from the Lansdowne Lodge of Unity No. 626 and the Corsham Lodge No. 6616. Each recommendation having been signed in open Lodge by the Master and Wardens with the approval of a majority of the members. In the petition it was stated that the aim of the Lodge was to cater for members of the
Craft who were Masons and had come to settle in the area.
Early on it had been decided to base the Lodge in the newly built Masonic Hall in Chippenham. The Provincial Grand Master, R W Bro Reginald A C Forrester, laid the Foundation Stone with full Masonic Honours on the 8th June 1971. The Vale of Avon
Lodge No 8432 was consecrated on Saturday 30th September 1972.
The consecrating Officers were the Provincial Grand Master for Wiltshire RW Bro Reginald A C Forrester, assisted by W Bro Lt Col Revd. Giles R Brocklebank DSO MC MA, PDepGChap and Deputy Provincial Grand Master of Wiltshire. At the ceremony the Consecrating Officer entered in procession, took the Chair and appointed his Consecrating Officers. They included the Provincial Grand Director of Ceremonies W Bro A R Bartrop PAGDC, the Provincial Grand Secretary W Bro C R W Moore PAGDC and the Provincial Grand Chaplain Bro Herbert T Yeomans. The Oration was given by the Provincial Grand Chaplain who used the story of Samson as a moral lesson for the new Lodge to take to heart. The Provincial Grand Master, having consecrated the Lodge, then handed over to the Deputy Provincial Grand Master who installed the Worshipful Master W Bro Michael Glanz, who then
appointed and invested his Officers.
In its early years the Lodge flourished. Under the guidance of Michael Glanz, who became the Director of Ceremonies, the Lodge quickly developed a distinctive character of its own by adding certain touches to enhance the Emulation Ritual upon which the work of the Lodge was based. Cliff Davies, who was Secretary for the first thirteen years, ably conducted the administrative business of the lodge.
The original optimism and judgement of the Founders has proved correct as most of our members are men who have come into the area having no Masonic connections and who have found a welcome at the Vale of Avon Lodge No.8432.


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The Office of Student Involvement encourages students to gain valuable skills and experiences through participation in one or more of the many clubs and student organizations or co-curricular activities offered on campus. Student activities are planned and implemented through collaborative efforts of students and staff. In addition to working with registered student organizations, the Office of Student Involvement sponsors leadership programs (in conjunction with LEV), workshops and conferences.
Student Governing Association (SGA) — Students at North Central assist in the governance of the College community through elected representation to various committees within the governance structure. Through these elected officers and representatives, SGA shares student attitudes and opinions on issues that affect the quality of student life with faculty and administrators.
College Union Activities Board (CUAB) — CUAB is a student-directed organization which is responsible for meeting the programming needs of students by providing a variety of social, educational and cultural programs. Included among these programs are Homecoming, Springfest, various popular singers and comedians, dances and off-campus outings to sporting events and theatre performances.
Black Student Association (BSA), Raza Unida, Asian Student Konnection (ASK), and OUTreach (GLBTQIA and Allies) — These organizations provide support to students from underrepresented and/or ethnic minority backgrounds and opportunities for majority students to learn about other identities and cultures. Much of their work is accomplished through social events, guest speakers and student leadership conferences.
Publications — The North Central Chronicle (campus student newspaper), 30 N. (literary magazine) and The Kindling (humor magazine) are the major publications on campus. Students are encouraged to create pieces for inclusion in all student publications, and a full-time instructor is assigned to each as an advisor.
WONC-FM (89.1) — North Central's powerful, student-staffed radio station broadcasts to a potential audience of more than 3.5 million listeners. Formatted as an album-oriented rock station, WONC offers four state-of-the-art studios for on-air and audio production work. WONC has been honored with 20 Marconi Awards. No other college or university radio station in the country has won more. WONC has also been honored by the Collegiate Broadcasters Inc., the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Illinois Broadcasters Association. And in 2015, the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System named WONC The Best College Radio Station in the Country. More than 75 students who staff the station are supervised by a professional general manager.
Cultural Events — The mission of Cultural Events is to provide the campus community with a variety of speakers and programs that will enrich their academic experience and broaden their cultural outlook. The Cultural Events committee invites speakers like ethicist and novelist Lori Andrews, NBC journalist Ron Allen and Lincoln scholar Douglas Wilson. In addition, Cultural Events works with Anderson's Bookshop to bring authors to the North Central campus, and Pfeiffer Hall has seen journalists Tom Brokaw and Tim Russert, Life of Pi author Yann Martel, The View's Barbara Walters and former Happy Days star Henry Winkler, now a children's book author. Cultural Events also partners with Multicultural Affairs to sponsor the Martin Luther King Day speaker and International Programs to sponsor a Film Festival.
Some of the many other organizations which are active on campus are the American Marketing Association, Impressions (art club), International Club, Math Club, NAfME (student chapter of The National Association for Music Education), Residence Hall Association, Enactus, the United Methodist Student Organization and the Cardinal Cheerleading and Dance Team. In addition, many academic departments have active honor societies.
The Department of Music features several large and small, instrumental, jazz and choral performing ensembles. Choral ensembles include: Concert Choir, Cardinal Chorus, Women's Chorale, Chamber Singers, Opera Workshop, Naperville Chorus and various smaller chamber ensembles. Instrumental ensembles include: Concert Winds, Symphonic Band, Chamber Winds, Cardinal Athletic Band (marching and basketball band), Percussion Ensemble, Chamber String Ensemble, Flute Choir, Woodwind Quintet, Brass Quintet, Small Brass Ensemble and Saxophone Quartet. Jazz Ensembles include: Big Band, Vocal Jazz Ensemble and several combos. Ensembles perform regularly on and off campus and some tour regionally, nationally and internationally. Explore the Department of Music website (www.northcentralcollege.edu/music) for director names and contact information.
The North Central College theatre department presents numerous productions annually in various fine arts venues, giving students opportunities to gain valuable production experience on stage and off. A typical season will include: two to three musicals (one of which is student-directed), four plays and several student-directed plays. The student theatre organization, The Company, organizes trips to professional theatres in the Chicago area, produces sketch comedy shows and sponsors events throughout the year. Many students find work and internships at such prestigious theatres as the Goodman, Steppenwolf, American Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre on Navy Pier, Greenhouse Theatre Company and About Face Theatre.
Recent guest artists include: JC Clementz, Larry Yando, Caroline Neff, Leah Karpel, Jacob Harvey, Jason Gerace, Becca McCracken, Carrie Lee Patterson, Sheri Sanders, Kieran Campion, Noelle Humbert and Will Allan. Explore the Department of Theatre website (https://www.northcentralcollege.edu/college-arts-sciences/theatre) for more information.
Athletics play an important role in campus life at North Central College and in the personal development of the student-athletes who participate in the 26 intercollegiate sports offered by the College for men and women.
North Central women compete in basketball, bowling, cross-country, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field (indoor and outdoor), triathlon and volleyball. The men's athletic program includes baseball, basketball, cross-country, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and field (indoor and outdoor), volleyball and wrestling.
North Central athletic teams, known as the Cardinals, compete as members of Division III in the National Collegiate Athletic Association and as members of the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin, considered by many sportswriters to be the best small college conference in the country. The athletic teams have won 33 national championships including championships in men's track and field, men's cross country, women's basketball and men's swimming.
Individually, 127 North Central student-athletes have won national titles through the years along with 12 relay teams.
North Central students may participate in an active recreational sports program which includes flag football, basketball, badminton, soccer, softball and ultimate Frisbee as well as regular fitness classes. Special events such as golf tournaments, midnight bowling, super hoops and volleyball tournaments dot the busy annual schedule.


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Reading Patterns and Profiles of Adult Literacy Participants - Reading and Writing Skills - Discussion Lists
Reading Patterns and Profiles of Adult Literacy Participants
Description | Guest Discussion Leaders | Preparation and Suggested Readings | Discussion Summary
From June 21 -25, the National Institute for Literacy and World Education presented "Reading Patterns and Profiles of Adult Literacy Participants," the fourth and final special online discussion of the Assessment Strategies and Reading Profiles (ASRP).
The ASRP discussions are presented in cooperation with the Institute's LINCS Discussion Lists, and are led by prominent researchers in that field and by practitioners who are also content experts.
In July 2009, the Institute and a team from World Education that included John Strucker, Steve Quann, Sally Waldron, and consultant Rosalind Davidson completed extensive revisions and updates to its web-based ASRP. In addition to providing useful information and free resources on reading assessment and reading profiles, the ASRP site offers a unique interactive feature that allows teachers to match their adult learners' test scores to research-based adult reading profiles. It also provides teachers with additional instructional suggestions based on those matches.
In this discussion Daryl Mellard, Ph.D., Kansas University, and Daphne Greenberg, Ph.D., Georgia State University, will describe aspects of their research and work with adult learners to engage participants. Mellard will share his research findings on the reading practices of struggling adult readers. He surveyed 213 participants about their frequency of reading books, newspapers, magazines, and work documents. He also looked at characteristics such as age, gender, educational level, learning disability status, and employment status. Knowing adults' reading practices can help adult literacy practitioners to know which types of reading materials should be promoted and introduced into the classroom.
Greenberg will share results of a study where she implemented an "extensive reading program" with 43 struggling adult readers. Extensive reading is an instructional approach which encourages a significant amount of reading during class sessions. Her study focused on sustained silent reading, book talk, and reading aloud. To implement an approach like extensive reading, an adult literacy classroom needs access to a well-equipped library, and teachers need criteria for selecting books for the read-aloud activity. These aspects of extensive reading and criteria will be addressed during the discussion.
Guests Discussants:
Daryl Mellard, Ph.D. (Kansas University)
Daphne Greenberg, Ph.D. (Georgia State University)
Biographies of Guest Discussion Leaders
Daryl Mellard, Ph.D., carries out research on education and employment issues for adolescents and adults. Currently, Mellard serves as the Principal Investigator for an adolescent and adult literacy intervention study with Job Corps participants funded under the Institute of Education Sciences. He is a member of the National Academies of Sciences' Committee on Learning Sciences: Foundations and Applications to Adolescent and Adult Literacy. Mellard is also one of the principal investigators at the National Dissemination and Technical Assistance Center on Response to Intervention. With the National Research Center on Learning Disabilities, he coordinated the largest national study of local school districts' implementation of responsiveness to intervention involving 41 school settings.
Mellard is particularly interested in how to generate widespread support for evidence-based practices in secondary schools, adult education programs, community and technical colleges, and vocational rehabilitation agencies. To that end, Mellard has made numerous presentations at national conferences on state policies and evidence-based practices for learning disabilities identification, adolescent literacy, and adult education. He has published articles in the Journal of Learning Disabilities, Learning Disabilities Quarterly, Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, NAESP Leadership, Reading Research Quarterly, the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, and Adult Education and Literacy Journal. With Evelyn Johnson, he wrote RTI: The Practitioners Guide to Response to Intervention (Corwin Press, 2008). Mellard received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas.
Daphne Greenberg, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education at Georgia State University. She is also the Associate Director of Georgia State University's Coalition for the Study of Adult Literacy. Her research interests have focused on family literacy, health literacy, and word reading processes of children and adults. Two of her current research projects include the evaluation of various reading instructional approaches for adults with low literacy skills, and an investigation of the climate for lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) learners in adult literacy programs. Greenberg has received funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute for Literacy, the U.S. Department of Education, the Komen Foundation, and the U.s. Department of Defense.
She is a founding member of the Georgia Adult Literacy Advocacy group, and serves as the moderator of the National Institute for Literacy's Diversity and Literacy and the Reading and Writing Skills Discussion Lists. Greenberg has tutored native and non-native, English speaking, adult nonreaders and has helped organize and develop community-based adult literacy programs. She is the book review editor for the Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal and her articles have appeared in the Journal of Educational Psychology, Scientific Studies of Reading, the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, and Annals of Dyslexia. . Greenberg received her Ph.D. from the City University of New York.
Preparation and Suggested Readings for this discussion:
In preparation for the discussion, participants are encouraged to think about the following:
What do your students read inside the classroom?
What do your students read outside the classroom?
Have you tried to engage your students in sustained silent reading, or read-aloud activities? What were your success and/or challenges?
Suggested readings:
Rodrigo, V., Greenberg, D., Burke, V., Hall, R., Berry, A., Brinck, T., Joseph, H., & Oby, M. (2007). Implementing an extensive reading program and library for adult literacy learners., Reading in a Foreign Language, 19. http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/October2007/rodrigo/rodrigo.html
Mellard, D., Patterson, M., Prewett, S. (2007). Reading practices among
adult education participants. Reading Research Quarterly, 42, 188-203.
doi:10.1598/RRQ.42.2.1 can be found at: http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/ (type in Mellard)


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but i was just just wondering if there is a tutorial on how to install stukff like that or is it individual to each download.
If the tarball is compressed with gzip (tar.gz) or bzip (tar.bz or tar.bz2) you will need to add either the z or j switch to the tar statement.
OK I'm having difficulties installing wine from source code. I followed the instructions on unzipping that Jaguar posted above. I got to the "make" part and thats when troubles began. Since I can't explain what went wrong I'll post my termial.
I read the README file which was included and it told me to use the Wine installer. These are the results.
Seems like I need a C compiler.
yes, you need a C compiler. I cant beleive that distro's let you proceed with an install without a C compiler, it is the one thing every linux box needs (more than a GUI!!).
You could try to find an RPM of GCC and BinUtils, and install them, IIRC people have tried this in the past and came up with difficulties.
I cant beleive that distro's let you proceed with an install without a C compiler, it is the one thing every linux box needs (more than a GUI!!).
I found the C compiler on my CD. Then it wanted the 'bison' package. I installed that then it wanted the 'flex' package. It's now doing all sorts of crazy crap . Seems like its installing without trouble.
Update: It finished and said Wine build complete. But when I type wine <windows file> it says unknown command?
did you "make install" as well?
to find the location. The second locate command will give less output, but may not show you where the exe is.
Didnt it say in the documentation?


Heritage Officer, Bridget Loughlin; Mayor of Kildare, Sean Power; Naill Morrissey, Council Deputy Chief Executive, and Carol Forde, Heritage Officer, Kildare County Council launching Heritage Week.
During the course of Heritage Week the public will be invited to take part in numerous activities across County Kildare throughout the week of Saturday August 18 to Sunday, August 26.
These include taking a cruise on a canal barge from Sallins to the Leinster Aqueduct and see one of the best examples of 18th-century canal engineering or travel by barge along the Barrow navigation from Emily square in Athy.
Many of Kildare libraries will host a variety of talks. Join Kildare Historian James Durney for a talk about the end of the First World War "End of Days: 1918 in a number of libraries or Mario Corrigan will examine the tragedy of the sinking of the RMS Leinster 10 October 1918, the single largest loss of life in the Irish Sea, and explore the many Kildare Connections to the sinking.
The Irish Peatland Conservation Council is hosting a fun family event at the Bog of Allen Nature Centre. The day will include a walk to Lodge Bog to showcase the restoration work that has been done to enhance the habitat for the rare breeding Curlew, followed by a sensory earth walk. Josephine Hardiman, artist and calligrapher, will host a calligraphy workshop "Calligraphy Together" – A free workshop for children and their parents.
Castletown House will host many events including a musical recital by Patrick Rafter in the Long Gallery, a Country Market, a 'Below Stairs Tour' focusing on lives and roles of servants at Castletown House, tours of the house and parkland and a display of the history of beekeeping in Kildare in the last century.
A number of child friendly events are being held throughout the county including a series of fun events and activities aimed at primary school age, exploring Kildare's natural heritage, including child focused tours of Castletown House and Maynooth Castle.
The Kildare Branch of Birdwatch will host a child friendly introduction to bird watching in Donadea and Kildare Bat group are leading a number of bat walks in Newbridge, Maynooth and Kilcock.
Many properties in private ownership are open during Heritage Week such as Tea Lane Graveyard, St Mullin's Church Timolin and St James' Church Castledermot and the Landmark Trust will host an open day at the Round House and Batty Langley Lodge at Castletown, Celbridge.
Heritage Week is part of a European wide initiative with the express aim of fostering awareness of Ireland's built, natural and cultural heritage, thereby encouraging its conservation and preservation and increasing interest in our shared heritage.
Heritage Week presents an opportunity to take part in one of the numerous walks organised by community groups to present and explain local heritage and to discover the wealth of fascinating heritage within the county.
For a full list of everything that's going on during the week, go to the Kildare County Council website and click on Heritage Week.


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Diane W Lobkowicz moved to Delray Beach, FL, from Natick, Massachusetts with her husband and 2 children in 1994. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts. Before moving she was a dress buyer for a national chain called Hit or Miss.
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