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The College of Engineering plans within the University of Saskatchewan's planning framework. The College will participate in and contribute to the University's Third Integrated Plan, Promise and Potential.
Key dates in our history
FORMATIVE YEARS
The "School of Engineering" at the University of Saskatchewan was founded in 1912 when the current administration decided to gather closely related courses under one title. The first courses offered at the School were in Civil Engineering and were taught to six students by C.J. Mackenzie.
Chalmers Jack MacKenzie was appointed the first Dean of the College in 1921. C.J. Mackenzie is well known for designing and building Saskatoon's unique Broadway Bridge, a project intended to help the unemployed during the depression. He also took a lead role in developing nuclear research in Canada, joining the National Research Council (NRC) in 1939 and becoming its president in 1944. In 1984 the College adopted the Mackenzie dress tartan tie as their own, in honour of C.J. Mackenzie who died that same year. In January, a distinguished alumnus is invited to speak at the C.J. Mackenzie Gala of Engineering Excellence, the College's annual flagship event honouring the achievements of students, faculty, staff and alumni.
On April 26th, 1916 the first Bachelors of Engineering degrees in Civil Engineering were awarded at the first graduation ceremony to three students - Spencer Ball, George Oliver Thorn and Rueben John Hanley. October 28, 1920 marked the opening of the new engineering building with a dance in the first year drafting room. Now with a formal place of their own, this spirited group of students produced their own chant:
Levels, transits, calculus
Spiral curves and the rhombus
Offsets, tangents, hemispheres
Who are we? The Engineers!
The 1920's saw the formation of an ethical base that set engineers and engineering apart from other professional groups as they developed a set of principles to guide them in their work and service to the community. These principles culminated in the passing of the Professional Engineers Act in 1930.
THE DEPRESSION AND WWII
Through the Great Depression, engineers persisted in seeking their education. Tuition fees were raised, the Broadway Bridge was constructed, and the College adopted a coat of arms. As well, Chemical Engineering was added to the curriculum in 1931, and Geological and Engineering Physics in 1937.
The 40's brought about major change due to the Second World War. Because of the demonstrated importance of engineers to the war effort, the College of Engineering became the largest College on campus for the first time. As well, the College saw its first female graduate, and Electrical Engineering was introduced.
Petroleum Engineering was instituted in 1952-53, and Ceramics was removed around that same time. It was also in the fifties that the engineering students were at war with the law students, bringing about such events as the abduction of the Legal Eagle and the Derby Squash Episode.
HALF A CENTURY
In 1962 the College celebrated its 50th anniversary. Mining Engineering began in 1963, along with Engineering Sciences. Grants for research passed the million-dollar mark, and the College was able to purchase more sophisticated equipment. In 1972 the Space Engineering Division broke away from the University to become SED Systems, the first such commercial move of its kind. The late seventies saw the change from a thesis to a design project in most disciplines. The 70s also saw the advancement of the SAE super-mileage vehicles, which would ultimately set world records in fuel efficiency.
By the summer of 1980, the College had a new modern building, being the last Campus building constructed using the English system of measurement. A redeveloped curriculum greeted the students of the eighties and that decade marked the end of the famous "Godiva Ride. The nineties saw the rise of the double degree program in engineering due to the ongoing technological advantage gained by the wide-spread implementation of computers. The College's longest serving Dean, Peter Nikiforuk, retired in 1997.
Within the last eight years the College has seen the establishment of several research and teaching related Chairs, including the Listwin Family Chair in Innovative Teaching (renamed the Jerry G. Huff Chair in 2007) and the La Borde Chair in Engineering Entrepreneurship, the first of its kind in Canada. And in 2007 the University of Saskatchewan Space Design Team took first place in NASA's 2007 Space Elevator Competition for the third year in a row.
Plans are underway to celebrate the achievements of the first 100 years at the College of Engineering in September 2012, and one can only imagine what Engineering graduates will achieve in the next century and beyond. The people of the College of Engineering - students, alumni, faculty and staff – and their gifts of time, talent and treasure, are what will continue to create the long-standing tradition and history of this distinguished institution.
Source: Thorough, An illustrated history by R.H. Macdonald
1907 – University of Saskatchewan officially created
1909 – Professor A. R. Greig, a mechanical engineer, becomes Superintendent of Buildings and oversees construction of several key buildings on campus
1912 – Agricultural Engineering Building opens its doors to students; engineering classes begin
1922 – A separate College of Engineering is established; C. J. Mackenzie is first dean
1925 – The Engineering Building is gutted by fire; reconstruction takes less than a year; Professor Greig supervises the project
1931-32 – Dean Mackenzie takes a leave of absence from the College to supervise building of Saskatoon's Broadway Bridge, assisted by recent Engineering grads
1934 – College coat of arms created
1945 –C. J. Mackenzie officially ends term as dean; had started a leave of absence in 1939 to become acting president of the National Research Council.
1946 – Isobel (Izzy) Beatrice Daw (Mechanical) is first woman to graduate from the College
1948 – Official opening of new Engineering wing
1957 – U of S one of first universities in Canada to obtain a computer
1961 – Construction of major addition to Engineering Building, first since the 1940s
1965 – Engineering attracts more than $1 million in research grants for first time
1974 – Master of Engineering program introduced
1976 – Student-run Engineering Show is renamed Spectrum
1982 – New Engineering Building opens
1989 – Engineering students launch Sci-Fi Science Camps
1996 – Peter Nikiforuk, College's longest-serving dean, retires
2002 – New addition allows Chemical Engineering to move from Thorvaldson Building to Engineering
2004 – Canadian Light Source officially opens
2008 – Ron and Jane Graham Centre for the Study of Communication opens; later becomes School of Professional Development
2012 – College celebrates 100th anniversary
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Fargo Eating the Blame: Clearing Things Up (Recap/Review)
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Last night's episode of Fargo: Eating the Blame does a lot of clearing up with some of the more esoteric things in the show. For one, the meaning behind that framed and mounted windshield snow scraper is finally explained. For another, viewers now know what Malvo was referring to when he took over blackmailing supermarket king Stavros. The meaning of last week's blood shower also becomes very clear. On top of that viewers also learn that Stavros believes that "God is real."
The opening of last night's show has a young Stavros, his wife and toddler son driving in the snow with all their worldly possessions packed in a station wagon and trailer. The couple are running to Fargo because Stavros is broke and he "knows a man in the town." Their desperate pilgrimage is interrupted when the car runs out of gas in the middle of the snowy landscape.
Stavros gets out of the car and tries to flag down a trucker driving towards the stranded vehicle. As the truck speeds past him he loses his balance and falls face down on the frozen road. Praying to God for deliverance from his predicament, he glances to a fence running parallel to the road and sees a bit of reddish orange sticking up through the snow.
Going over, he finds it is a snow scraper and he uses it to dig at the frozen stuff. He finds a large case full of money. Murmuring that "God is real," he heads back to and enters the car with his small family. The rest of the show follows Stavros eating his Malvo provided speed like tic tacs and having his plumbing inspected to find out where all that blood came from last week while he was having his shower.
Gus Grimly stumbles over Malvo again and arrests him after letting him go in the first episode. He feels as though he's made up for his earlier gaff until the master manipulator Lorne gets released. Molly is still in the doghouse with the new chief and it is Oswalt's questioning of Malvo that instigates his being let go. Molly and Gus are attempting to join forces to find out who really committed the triple murder that she suspects Lester Nygaard of being involved in.
The two hitmen are still trying to get Lester to confess to killing Sam Hess so they can murder him. Lester, after getting put in their car's trunk and taken to the lake to be killed and have his body disposed of, escapes by taking the taser he pocketed at his brother's house and zapping the one hitman who can hear. He then runs to the main road and punches a policeman to get arrested.
Stavros has his supermarket infested with crickets and the reference to Moses, which Malvo quoted from the bible in last week's show, means that he is being visited with the 10 plagues of Egypt. As Stavros stands in his store with pandemonium breaking out all around him, he gets a call demanding $1 million and the voice reminds him that "God is watching."
At the end of the show Lester, who thought he was safe behind bars, is trapped in the jail's drunk tank with the two hitmen who staged a bar fight to get themselves arrested as well. Fargo: Eating the Blame not only cleared things up, it allowed the actors the chance to really invest their characters with increasing depth.
Billy Bob Thornton continues to portray Malvo with just the right amount of quirky menace. Martin Freeman plays Lester Nygaard with the perfect mix of confusion and stupid cunning. The two hitmen are becoming firm favorites and they continue to hint at a long backstory together. Bob Odenkirk is brilliantly annoying as the anally challenged police chief who refuses to consider anything that Molly comes up with as evidence in the triple murder.
Colin Hanks and Allison Tolman look to be the beginning of a great double act. Both actors have a lovable awkward chemistry that seems to signpost them not only becoming an investigative team but a love match as well. Oliver Platt plays the "hard-ass" supermarket king with the right amount of religious superstition and increasing mental issues.
Fargo: Eating the Blame is moving along at an excellent pace, clearing some things up and leaving just enough questions to keep viewers returning each week to see where the show is going. This quirky small screen version of the cult classic film, is addictive fare which delivers a great off-beat and odd cast of characters who, with twisted plot lines, entertain on par with the Coen bros big screen hit.
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As the UK Government lifted the vast majority of remaining COVID-19 restrictions last month, there has been widespread criticism for the approach, given the emergence of the highly-transmissible delta variant, and the subsequent sharp rise in cases.
The government's argument is that any potential 'third wave' during summer months would be less impactful than an autumn / winter wave compounded by seasonal flu. Modeling a summer wave, experts estimate 100 – 200 fatalities per day, of which half are likely to be fully vaccinated.
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Elementary Introduction to the Langlands Program, by Edward Frenkel
"Do we discover mathematics or do we invent it?"
One of the most fascinating and important developments in mathematics in the last 50 years is the Langlands Program, a collection of ideas that provides a grand unification of many areas of mathematics.
Edward Frenkel is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, which he joined in 1997 after being on the faculty at Harvard University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow and a member of the Council of the American Mathematical Society, and the winner of the Hermann Weyl Prize in mathematical physics. Frenkel has authored three books and over eighty scholarly articles in academic journals, and he has lectured on his work around the world. His YouTube videos have garnered over 4 million views combined. Frenkel's book Love and Math was a New York Times bestseller, has been named one of the Best Books of the year by both Amazon and iBooks, and won the Euler Book Prize from the Mathematical Association of America. As of February 2016, it has been published in 16 languages.
In September 2015, Edward Frenkel gave a series of four lectures at MSRI, "Elementary Introduction to the Langlands Program". The videos of the lectures, linked below, give a wonderful opportunity to hear the story of these ideas from a great expositor, covering topics from the basic ideas of symmetries and Fermat's last theorem to the recent works connecting the Langlands Program to dualities in quantum physics. The lectures were recorded and broadcast on the Japanese TV channel NHK in November-December 2015 in the "Luminous Classroom" series. The unedited videos below are of the lectures as presented at MSRI.
The archived Japanese TV channel NHK webpage dedicated to the lectures is here.
The original page for the workshop series can be viewed here.
View the NHK Program
Part 1 is available free of charge via YouTube. (Note that while the introduction is in Japanese, the lecture is in English.) Additional segments will be added as they become available.
View the Original Lectures
These lectures are filmed in MSRI's Simons Auditorium, without the additional editing of the television broadcast. To clearly view the slides referenced in each lecture, download the accompanying PDF slide decks.
Part 1 (75 minutes, 2.2 GB, 1080p) - download slides (PDF, 19 MB)
Part 2 (75 minutes, 2.28 GB, 1080p) - download slides (PDF, 10 MB)


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Thetford's Salls powering down from athletic director job
Bridget Dugan-Sullivan, Thetford Academy's assistant director of development, announces 1962 graduate Rita Brown DeGoosh's induction into the school's 1,000-point club during a school assembly in Thetford, Vt., on May 16, 2018. At left is Athletic Director Blendon Salls. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. valley news file — Jennifer Hauck '; }
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Blendon Salls was a familiar sight at Thetford Academy athletic events for the last six years. At baseball and softball games in particular, the athletic director would man the snack shack and hang number tiles on the manual scoreboard, among other tasks.
Such actions demonstrated Salls's commitment to the student-athlete experience at Thetford, to be sure, but Salls viewed it mostly as an excuse to keep moving around.
"If there's anything I can do during the games, I try to do it, partially because I'm a super-nervous person about athletics and competition," Salls said.
"I usually am trying to pace or move around. I fool all of you by making it seem like I'm actually working. Really, I'm just pacing nervously around the fields, hoping everything's going smoothly."
In late June, Salls announced that he would be stepping down as Thetford's AD, effective at the end of July, citing his desire to watch more of his three kids' sporting events in Lebanon. A 2001 Lebanon High graduate, Salls played basketball for the Raiders under Kieth Matte, then attended the New Hampshire Technical Institute in Concord. He returned to his alma mater as the junior varsity boys basketball coach before taking the varsity job at Thetford in 2013.
After just one year in that position, Salls stepped back to spend more time caring for his baby daughter, but two years after that, he returned as the Panthers' athletic director.
"It was really eye-opening," Salls said. "I usually would sit with my coaches for 30 minutes or so after games and just shoot the breeze about the game. It was really nice to hear what they saw and why they were making the adjustments they made, and I was learning on the fly from them.
"The hard part for me was realizing teams were in good hands, and I could take a step back."
Thetford's teams won 15 state championships during Salls's tenure. The girls soccer team, under co-head coaches Dave Williams and Jolene Cadwell, won three straight titles from 2017 to 2019 after losing in the championship game the year prior. Jason Gray's boys basketball team went back-to-back in 2019 and 2020, while girls basketball, under the late legendary coach Eric Ward, took home the championship trophies in 2017 and 2019, sandwiched around a runner-up finish in 2018.
Each cross country team won a title, with the Panther boys coming out on top in 2018 and the girls doing so in 2021. But track and field is Thetford's most dominant program right now, with both teams winning their third consecutive VPA Division III championship this spring.
Salls also helped expand the school's athletic offerings, adding programs in golf and bass fishing, and hired new head coaches Ray Thorburn for boys soccer and Michelle Morgan for softball.
"Blendon has really led through the pandemic and leaned into those challenges," Thetford head of school Carrie Brennan said. "In the summer of 2020, our summer athletics was a beta test for the start of the school year and coming back in person. It was really important leadership that he took."
Last fall and winter, Salls took some time away from the job to take care of some family business, and dean of students Siobhan Lopez assumed the role of acting athletic director. Lopez said Salls made sure everything was set up for her during the transition period between seasons, and Salls returned to Thetford in January.
The school is currently in the midst of the search process for the new athletic director, whom Brennan said is expected to take over in mid-August. Salls, meanwhile, is still looking for his next job but plans to be more involved in the Lebanon community, where his kids, now ages 13, 8 and 6, are growing up.
"We're looking for someone who can recognize that the main focus is athletics and activities but also can look at being an administrator and helping pay attention to the bigger picture and how things run," Lopez said. "From hiring coaches, keeping track of uniforms and all the equipment, to getting transportation lined up, keeping parents informed, there's a lot of details involved, so (we need) someone who can juggle a lot of balls at the same time."
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Adolf von Roxendorff (tidigare Roxendorff), född 19 oktober 1743 på Kolja gård i Älvestads församling, Östergötlands län, död 27 juni 1810 på Ottenby kungsgård, var en svensk friherre och militär.

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Adolf von Roxendorff var son till generallöjtnanten friherre Carl Gustaf Roxendorff. Han blev kadett vid artilleriet 1758, styckjunkare 1759, underlöjtnant 1760, sekundadjutant 1761 och premiäradjutant 1764. Han blev premiärlöjtnant vid Artilleriregementets stockholmsbrigad 1772, kapten vid Södermanlands regemente 1773, major 1780 och premiärmajor 1781. Han utnämndes till överstelöjtnant 1788, blev överste i armén 1792, fick avsked 1793 och erhöll generalmajors karaktär 1800. Roxendorff deltog 1759–1762 i Pommerska kriget, varvid han tillhörde Wrangels frikår och svenska grenadjärbataljonen. Därunder bevistade han bland annat intagandet av Swinemünde och striderna Pasewalk, Jägersbrück, Ziethen och Anklam. Efter hemkomsten tjänstgjorde han en tid vid artilleriet i Kalmar, var 1768–1769 kommenderad på krutprobering vid Fliseryds krutbruk och användes 1772 som adjutant vid hertig Karls stab i Kristianstad. Under Gustav III:s ryska krig förde von Roxendorff tidvis befälet över Södermanlands regemente. Som sådan deltog han i landstigningen vid Fredrikshamn i augusti 1788 samt i reträtten från Liikala och striden vid Memälä by 1789. Samma år blev han sårad under sitt försvar av Anjala bro. 1808 tjänstgjorde von Roxendorfff som generalmajor och fördelningschef på Öland.

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On late Friday night, Morry Matson, a manager of a CVS drugstore in Chicago, called police on a black woman named Camilla Hudson for trying to use an unfamiliar manufacturer's coupon at his store. Matson believed Hudson was trying to to use a counterfeit coupon and summoned the cops. Hudson says three policemen showed up before she left the store. CVS has since apologized to her and said that they're investigation what happened.
In the one-minute eight-second video which Hudson posted on Facebook (below), Matson visibly shakes while on the phone with police.
We sincerely apologize to Ms. Hudson for her experience in one of our stores. Our Region Director in Chicago contacted Ms. Hudson as soon as we were made aware of this incident. CVS has begun an investigation and we will take any corrective action that is warranted to prevent it from happening again," CVS spokesperson Mike DeAngelis said in a statement. "CVS Pharmacy does not tolerate any practices that discriminate against any customer and we are committed to maintaining a welcoming and diverse environment in our stores. We have firm non-discrimination policies in place to help ensure that all customers are treated with respect and dignity. Profiling or any other type of discriminatory behavior is strictly prohibited.
In addition to being president of the Log Cabin Republicans, a political group for LGBTQ conservatives, Morry Matson is also running as the alderman of Chicago's 48th Ward and says he was a state delegate for Trump during the last election.
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115th Congress. Likewise, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) advocacy efforts have been a bit out of the ordinary. While the attention of the media and the American public have been focused largely on the efforts by Republican lawmakers to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA), other important legislative initiatives and regulatory changes have been moving under the radar of public scrutiny. Two of these issues are of interest to rural surgeons and showcase the efforts of the ACS Division of Advocacy and Health Policy (DAHP) in this unusual political environment.
The College has had a longstanding interest in workforce issues. Since 2008, the Health Policy Research Institute (HPRI), a collaborative effort between the College and the Cecil Sheps Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has gathered data related to the surgical workforce.
In 2011 and 2012, the HPRI produced a series of maps that illustrated the concentration of surgeons (the number of surgeons per 100,000 population) in metropolitan areas on the East and West Coasts. A total of 841 counties, largely in the rural Midwest, had no surgeons, according to this data.
The College called for the ACA to include language that provided a 10 percent Medicare incentive payment to general surgeons when they perform procedures in Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) from 2011 to 2016.
However, because this law applied the incentive payment to HPSAs designated for primary care, it had a negligible effect on the general surgery workforce.
The ACS supports the Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act, which would direct the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA), to conduct a study on general surgery workforce shortage areas. Additionally, it would grant the HHS Secretary the authority to provide a general surgery shortage area designation.


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What the L Is Staples Thinking?
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Staples needs refreshing. No longer is it enough to be the destination for paper, pens, and ink toner; the office supplies leader wants you to know it's really more like a maintenance, repair, and operations specialist, providing everything from hard hats and goggles to tools and cleaning products. And, yeah, you can still get rubber bands if you need them.
To drive home the message that it's no longer just a stodgy pencil pusher, Staples is launching a major advertising campaign, dubbed "What the L is going on at Staples?", to highlight just how much you don't know about its products. Along with changing the corporate tagline from "That was easy" to "Make more happen," the office supply leader will also change its corporate logo by removing the paper clip that appeared as the letter "L" in the word "Staples" to a rotating collection of products, including a hand truck, paint brush, chair, and a boot.
As the ad above shows, Staples isn't completely shedding the popular "easy" button, but it is expanding its product lineup to enter a space normally occupied by MRO specialists like Grainger and MSC Industrial Direct. With a fragmented market in which even top dog Grainger admits it has just 6% of the $118 billion market, and the top 50 companies control less than a 30% share, it's possible for Staples to carve out a niche for itself.
Since the recession, at least, facility and breakroom supplies have been what's driving Staples' growth. Total revenues rose 1% last quarter to $2.1 billion despite the decline in sales of traditional office supplies, paper, ink, and toner. Staples notes that it's because of these adjacent categories that it's been able to expand into new segments such as technology products, medical and safety supplies, packaging and shipping, and office decor.
Yet because it's still primarily thought of as the go-to place for office supplies, it's not widely recognized that Staples has the second-biggest Internet presence behind Amazon.com in terms of SKUs offered. Even though it already features hundreds of thousands of items, it's adding thousands more every day as it continues to focus more on the online aspects of its business and less on the brick-and-mortar portion.
Staples is in the midst of cutting the size of its physical footprint while pushing for greater availability on its website. The new omnichannel stores sport fewer SKUs in a smaller format, while putting kiosks on the sales floor to help customers order from its website. At the same time, its sales associates provide customers with more product information and stocking data through use of tablets.
Still, the elbows are getting sharper in the online arena. Amazon is now a recognized competitor in the MRO space through its aptly named Amazon Supply business, while MSC Industrial launched major e-commerce system upgrades to facilitate its customers' ordering capabilities. Staples may not be stocking heavy equipment just yet, but by going well beyond just breakroom supplies and office furniture, it's venturing further outside its core competency where others already dominate.
Like its ill-timed acquisition of Corporate Express that had it wandering in the wilderness for several years trying to get its bearings, this new path being blazed in the broad maintenance, repair, and operations field is likely to have investors once more wondering what the heck Staples is thinking.
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The Phillis Wheatley Community Library is an ultra-modern building designed by architect James H. Johnson. It was built in 1971 and is handicapped accessible.
The library is named for Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753 – December 5, 1784). She was the first published African-American woman and first published African-American poet. The library services a predominantly African-American population and the multicultural historic Cornhill neighborhood bordering the library.
Closed 4/18/19, 5/17/19, 9/27/19 and 10/18/19 for staff development.
"Safe to Be Smart" Program – Activities and services geared toward youth from 3 – 6 pm, or after school.
Storywalk – Read and play on playful sidewalks along the way to the library entrance. Our story walk story is changed on a monthly basis with award winning stories and stories written by local school children. Storywalk is accessible even when the library is closed.
Public Food Forest Garden – The garden landscape of the library building is comprised of local edible plants and 12 raised bed giving gardens. The community is welcome to help out in the garden on Wednesdays during the growing season and to harvest what grows in the garden. For more information and events check out the Phillis Wheatley Library Public Food Forest Garden group on Facebook.
Digital Literacy – Free computer support and computer-related assistance. Learn basic computer skills and how to use Microsoft or Google products. Get assistance creating or updating your resume, applying for jobs or benefits online and much more. This service is provided by Literacy Volunteers of Rochester, Inc.
After school tutoring for children, 1st through 6th grade, is offered 2 days a week, September – June. TASC tutoring is available. Please call the library for dates and times.
The Nancy Evelyn Brandon meeting room seats 110 and is frequently used by community groups and other non-profit organizations, who may book the room for free. The room is also available to for-profit organizations, for whom a $30 fee applies. Call staff at (585) 428-8212 for additional details.
The Phillis Wheatley Community Library maintains 34 computers with Internet access for adults, young adults, and children. Printing is available from all computers, with color prints at $.50/page, and black and white at $.25 cents/page.


If you think the Disney Fox deal — which has overcome obstacles like competing bidders and the federal government — has felt like it's been in limbo too long, look to the state of 20th Century Fox. By this time next year, the movie studio may not even exist.
Potential job losses and the questionable futures of movie projects in development have caused operations at Fox to slow down, as employees and executives alike question whether the Walt Disney Company's family-friendly brand could put a stop to the majority of Fox's more mature fare.
We thought the Disney/Fox deal was done at the end of last year, but Comcast wasn't ready to go quietly into the night. It stormed back into the fray with one final charge, topping Disney's initial offer for 21st Century Fox's media assets in the hopes of adding them to its own empire, which already includes companies like NBC and Universal. But now the boardroom battle is over, and as the metaphorical smoke clears, Comcast is walking away and paving the way for a Disney acquisition. The idea of a Comcast Fox deal is officially dead.
Update 6/20/2018: Bloomberg reports that Fox has accepted a $71.3 billion bid from Disney, which tops Comcast's previous offer of $65 billion. Disney's new offer "gives Fox shareholders the option to take their payment in the form of cash or stock, up to a 50-50 level", and the company will also "take on about $13.8 billion of Fox's net debt", which brings the total value of the deal to north of $85 billion.
Update 6/19/2018: According to CNBC, Fox's board meets tomorrow to discuss Comcast's bid, and if Fox decides they prefer Comcast's offer to Disney's offer, Disney has five days to match. The Mouse House "is expected to add cash to its bid" in addition to the stock-based offer it currently has in place. Our original article follows.
Things just got slightly more complicated in the ongoing saga of 21st Century Fox. Many of the company's assets were long thought to be acquired by Disney, but as promised, Comcast has now officially swooped in with a superior offer to acquire Fox's film studio, most of its TV channels, and more. And it looks like they're coming out swinging: a Comcast Fox deal would mean that Comcast would buy the Fox assets for a hefty $65 billion, far surpassing Disney's offer of $52 billion.
Early Thursday morning, the Walt Disney Company announced that it was buying 21st Century Fox in a historic $52.4 billion deal that has shaken the media and entertainment industries. As part of the deal — valued at over $60 billion including debt — Disney will acquire Fox's film studio 20th Century Fox along with all its movie franchises, select TV networks like FX and National Geographic, and more.
We break down the full extent of the Disney-Fox deal, and what it means for the future of the movie industry, streaming, and Rupert Murdoch.