The Academy's Spring Break will take place April 15-21.
Adult Open Division classes will be held as scheduled, with the exception of Isadora Duncan Modern which will be held earlier at 10:00 AM on Saturday, April 20.
Join us for an Advanced Ballet Class over Spring Break! These classes are best suited for upper level Pre-Professional students and Professional adults. Regular drop-in rates apply.
An introduction to ballet technique. Students should consider joining this class at the beginning of a semester and attend consistently as the class progresses from week to week.
Appropriate for students with basic understanding and knowledge of ballet technique and that have taken basic ballet.
Keep Fit is a one hour class for dancers familiar with ballet technique. Strength and stretching exercises are infused in the traditional ballet class to improve flexibility, condition the muscles, and aid in balance and stability while experiencing the joy and beauty of ballet.
For the experienced beginner, an introduction to new material and preparation for intermediate ballet.
Technical proficiency and sufficient knowledge of ballet terminology required.
Technical proficiency required, a professional level class.
This series guides students through pre-pointe preparation and basic beginning pointe work. For the safety of the students, it is mandatory that they take two ballet technique classes a week, including the Intermediate Ballet class immediately preceding Pointe. The instructor will need to approve student's enrollment in pointe during their ballet technique class. Please pick up an approval form from Reception.
Dancers will explore the origins of modern dance through the technique of Isadora Duncan, which focuses on freedom, flow, and spontaneity, fosters creativity and connection with others and the self, and emphasizes musicality. Appropriate for students with prior dance / movement experience and new to Isadora Duncan technique.
Dancers will explore the origins of modern dance through the technique of Isadora Duncan, which focuses on freedom, flow, and spontaneity, fosters creativity and connection with others and the self, and emphasizes musicality. Appropriate for students with previous experience in Isadora Duncan technique.
BeMoved® is a new dance fitness experience designed by Sherry Zunker. Classes begin with easy‐to‐follow therapeutic movements that integrate the upper and lower body. The warm up flows into dance styles inspired by a wide variety of musical genres. Each week focuses on a different musical and dance style such as Bollywood, jazz, Latin and disco. BeMoved is designed to inspire participants to embrace dance as a lifelong means to health, joy and fulfillment.
A high energy class with fun and challenging combinations to upbeat rhythms that will build core strength and endurance.
An upbeat class that will develop your musicality, creativity, endurance, and coordination.
This is a core strengthening class with an emphasis on improving strength and flexibility, as well as awareness, efficiency, flow and stamina.
Yoga presents a series of poses that will move you through the power of inhaling and exhaling, all the while bringing the physical body to optimum health.


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Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit the masterful chamber-pop of XTC's 1986 album Skylarking and the fraught story behind the bucolic songs.
Late one morning in 1986, Todd Rundgren awoke at the Sunset Marquis hotel in West Hollywood to ominous news: A space shuttle had disintegrated in the stratosphere, killing the entire crew on live TV. The same morning, he received a message from the British wing of Virgin Records, concerning a wily pop band from rural England. In the label's view, XTC were in dire need of a no-nonsense producer, arranger, and authority figure, preferably all in one—somebody with an American touch and a hint of the madcap and... well, how did his schedule look?
Rundgren's appointment secured the savvy pairing of two brilliant and doomed minds. Between the anglophile producer and songsmith Andy Partridge were a thousand common interests and one great chasm that would subsume egos and tear up the studio floorboards. The rift did not concern taste or etiquette so much as—how else to put it—vibe: In one corner, the shaggy-haired, acid-frazzled Philadelphian whose passive-aggression belies a loose, honky-tonk approach to life; in the other, a three-piece reputed for 1) turning down their record label's cocaine and 2) crafting technically brilliant pop. It was a match made in some 5-star hotel-lobby hell, and the calamity of it all enriches every second of Skylarking.
Rundgren was optimistic about working with XTC. A few years earlier, he had caught the Swindon group in their element, twisting from off-brand punk toward whip-smart new wave. Soon after, in 1982, Partridge suddenly quit touring, suffering from valium withdrawal and on-stage panic attacks. He announced XTC would join the ranks of Steely Dan and late-phase Beatles as a studio outfit—a commercial disaster, to nobody's surprise. Singles flopped, fans lost faith, and before the year was up, the group shrank to a trio when drummer Terry Chambers stormed out for good during a rehearsal.
But by 1985, Partridge, at least, believed XTC were in the form of their lives. Though recent LPs Mummer and The Big Express lacked a hit to follow 1982's "Senses Working Overtime," the frontman's studio indulgence (and bossiness) finally had free rein, even as the band entered free-fall. A parachute opened when the Dukes of Stratosphear, their cartoonish side project, released a period-psychedelia EP that briskly outsold the previous XTC record.
Virgin hoped an American producer would collar the firebrand and hammer the new album into the transatlantic mold of U2 and Simple Minds—a notion that, like almost everything involving the label, Partridge found laughable. Consider the demos: Back-garden symphonies like "Summer's Cauldron" and "Season Cycle," among his ripest compositions to date. Fellow songwriter Colin Moulding, inspired by his move to the ancient Celtic settlement of Marlborough Downs, was clomping down the same path, composing pastorals like "Grass" and "The Meeting Place" from sampled lathes and thrums of pagan folk. If anything, Partridge reasoned, the album would be their most English ever.
Caught between a quixotic artiste and a label tapping its watch, Rundgren was diplomatic. Who was he, a producer extraordinaire whose second home was a spacecraft-style recording bunker, to mock a studio fiend like Partridge? Hatching a plan, he accepted Virgin's $150,000 fee and quickly discarded dozens of the band's demos, assembling a tracklist around a concept of his own. The song cycle would plot a lifetime over the course of a day: daybreak in "Summer's Cauldron," then a suite of infatuation, heartbreak, marriage, temptation, and existential reckoning that concludes—on "Dying" and "Sacrificial Bonfire"—in the dead of night.
All this was news to the band. To Partridge, it was virtually treasonous. The 32-year-old was still on the mend from a 14-year addiction to valium prescribed for erratic school behavior, and had landed in an enlightenment phase, philosophizing over nature and "questioning things deeper: God, existence—the chewier questions," he later said. The transformation in his lyrics was undeniable; and his voice, once a rabid yelp, had softened into serene hysteria, like a rescue puppy outgrowing its trauma. Despite their media portrayal as backwater bumpkins, XTC were brewing a new identity—something a star producer would surely dilute.
Partridge's bandmates felt differently. Guitarist Dave Gregory, a Rundgren superfan, was thrilled, and the docile Moulding—by now immune to Partridge's arm-twisting—sided with Virgin, reasoning they all had mouths to feed. If only to humor them, Partridge held his nose and acquiesced.
At his Utopia studio in the Catskills, Rundgren insisted on recording the songs in order, so sessions commenced with "Summer's Cauldron." His fingerprints are instantly visible: Skylarking opens in the nervous charge of dawn amid dog barks and crickets. As Rundgren's melodica smears sunlight across the horizon, Partridge swans in from the wings and belts out a Broadway-sized croon, duetting with the lazy arc of a Moulding bassline. Just as the song builds to fever pitch, the producer plays his ace, scooping you out of "Summer's Cauldron" with the summer's-breeze strings of "Grass," Moulding's ode to al-fresco romance. A dreamy riff plays off his West Country burr, fizzles and dies like something unsaid.
Beneath Skylarking's twin sunrise, optimism was dimming. It's hard to pinpoint when hell broke loose, but within a few days the studio had descended into extravagant pettiness. Partridge says Rundgren had sarcasm down to "an extremely cruel art," mocking everything from his lyrics to his trousers; when the singer flubbed a vocal take, he impatiently offered to record him a guide track. Partridge, in turn, deemed Rundgren's keyboard skills "incredibly primitive," nicknaming him Old Banana Fingers. Whenever the producer hulked toward the studio, weary and long-faced, the band had taken to jamming the "Munsters" theme tune.
One flustered night, Partridge gathered his bandmates. "I'm thinking of knocking the album on the head," he confessed. "It's like having two Hitlers in the same bunker."
As war raged, the sessions remained a spring of wonder. Moulding, a psych-pop reformist, came into his own with songs like "The Meeting Place," reflecting Swindon's rituals and industry in gorgeous stained glass. Partridge specialized in the melodic trapdoor, establishing awkward patterns and flooding your serotonin receptors at unexpected moments. The lyrics are just chewy enough to distract from each incoming sugar rush, creating endless replay value. ("Who's pushing the pedals on the season cycle?" he quips wonderfully in "Season Cycle.") Themes and images trespass between songs, from the vaudevillian pomp of "Ballet for a Rainy Day" into the melodramatic "1000 Umbrellas," whose Dave Gregory string arrangement makes heartbreak seem an ancient, noble fate.
In all this, Skylarking expresses a comic, cosmic apprehension of the natural world—not the banal site of ready-made tranquility but the arena of psychedelia, godliness, and permanence. Partridge and Moulding grew up on the border between urban and rural Swindon, ever ready to abandon the cinema of smalltown life, hop a fence, and explore a fantasyland of wildlife. Their formative years account for two XTC archetypes: the put-upon breadwinner and the serene observer of nature. That contrast—as much as Partridge and Moulding's divergence—is a crux of the band's character.
Part of the tension with Rundgren was that his pastoral concept snubbed Partridge's trademark social commentaries. Though his politics were fuzzy, the songwriter took pride in penning morality plays that skewered Middle England's delusions of grandeur, sending up the bootlicking class that was then rallied behind Margaret Thatcher.
Before parlaying that skill into songs like the anti-fascist operetta "No Thugs in Our House," young Partridge had been famed for caricaturing schoolteachers, and it was this hobby that established creativity as his lifeline: initially to distract bullies, then simply to show off, drumming up attention he lacked at home. Though Partridge's father played in a Navy skiffle band, his periods of absence and violence afforded little investment in his son's artistic pursuits; his mother, whose mental health struggles led to electro-shock therapy, dished out verbal abuse and often sent Partridge to stay with other families, giving him "no sense of permanence about anything," he explained in the book Complicated Game. Music and satire were pillars of Partridge's identity that Rundgren would threaten to demolish.
The songwriter's roots in social antagonism deepened in his teens, which he spent pottering between oddball bands in a tasseled suede jacket, observing Swindon's social and cultural trends from afar. XTC missed the 1976 punk rush because he had a job as a window dresser in a Victorian emporium. While the band had contemporaries in Elvis Costello and Robyn Hitchcock, the late-'70s new wave stopped short of welcoming Leonard Bernstein nostalgists.
Assembling the Skylarking tracklist, Rundgren had shot down all but one addition to the band's catalog of smalltown vignettes. To his credit, it may be their very best. Grounded by a snare that sounds airlifted in from a quarry, "Earn Enough for Us" spins a power-pop yarn pitting love against the material restrictions of poverty: "So you're saying that we're gonna be three/Now, a father's what I'll be," Partridge sings between snakes-and-ladders hooks. "Don't get me wrong, I'm so proud, but the belt's already tight/I'll get another job at night..."
Despite rankling Partridge, Skylarking's departure from sociology frees space for wildcards like "That's Really Super, Supergirl," a reject that Rundgren rescued, sped up, and made garish. His funhouse keys and a helter-skelter bassline lean into the lyrics' comics-nerd pathos, Partridge sarcastically commending a girlfriend who presumes to ditch him for his own good. On tape, it came out as a burbling blast of Disneyfied pop. Partridge was horrified.
"Could you play it a bit tighter?" he yelled, exasperated, as Rundgren perched behind the keyboard.
"That was good enough!" the producer replied.
Rundgren was gallivanting about like a ludicrous child savant—one moment darkly inscrutable, the next digging out cobwebbed keyboards and swaggering into the light. While Partridge fumed, Moulding and Gregory wrestled with their own frustrations. A month into recording, relocating to San Francisco for overdubs failed to heal rifts cleaved between the trio years earlier. During bass sessions for "Earn Enough for Us," Moulding briefly quit the band, collateral damage in a Rundgren-Partridge power struggle that was now crescendoing. At one point, says the producer, Partridge fantasized aloud about plunging an axe into his head.
Occasional stabs at communication worked miracles. Rundgren's ability to brandish spectacular arrangements from his back pocket freed the band to reinvent songs on the spot. On a whim, he flipped a dirge called "The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul" into something fancy and louche; the recorded version saunters like a Scott Walker Bond theme. Partridge was justifiably wary of Rundgren's exhibitionism, but in the wonderland of Skylarking, where Moulding's bucolic songs are right at home, it is Partridge's—bedecked in half-drunk keys and Vegas suave—that astonish.
For a while, Partridge feared the completed album was ruined. He lambasted "Herr Rundgren" in the press and, as usual, fought bitterly with the label—but this time, with roles reversed, it was Virgin selling him on his music's merit. As Skylarking awaited its fate, he and Moulding sulked in his Swindon loft and, on a giant board spread across the floor, set about re-enacting the great battles of 18th Century Europe.
Lead single "Grass" bombed in the UK, and the album stalled at No. 90—a death sentence even by their commercial standards, albeit grim vindication for Partridge. But in America, a one-time single contender demoted to a B-side was making hay. On college radio, "Dear God" had sparked a moral panic: its narrator, griping with an absent god, appalled Bible Belt Christians and prompted a bomb threat to a Florida radio station. Everyone else seemed to love it. In a sheepish U-turn, the band's American label, Geffen, smuggled the track onto the U.S. release of Skylarking. Over six months, the album outsold XTC's entire prior catalog three times over.
For all "Dear God"'s histrionic conviction, Partridge remains skeptical of his biggest hit, a pedantic screed that itches with a trite, secular holiness of its own. As a college-rock time capsule, it's delightful; as for its moral import, Partridge was spitballing more soulful takes with interviewers. "If you can create Heaven for yourself without creating Hell for somebody else, fine," he told the fanzine Limelight. "Try and create Heaven for somebody else as well, but don't create Hell for anyone, 'cos that's less than animal."
Partridge had finally earned the cachet to pursue a better contract with Virgin. But negotiations faltered and, after two more albums, the band went on strike, eventually winning the right to release elsewhere in 1997. Partridge never lost his air of thwarted ambition, drifting into the future for which he seemed destined: tinkering away in his home studio, mostly free of expectations and interlopers. (That includes Moulding, who stepped back from XTC in 2006, effectively ending the group.) Among his arsenal of guitars, Partridge now keeps company with a legion of toy soldiers, battle-prepped and awaiting its master's command.
In Skylarking's immanent grace, you sense the perverse chemistry of warmongers relishing a battlefield bloodbath. A sweet photo from the sessions catches their repressed innocence: Gregory, Rundgren, and Partridge in fleeting unity, mouths agape, serenely piping out vowel sounds. Here you have Skylarking's ideal form: three adult boys accidentally in their thirties, pooling harmonies for Partridge to plunge into, like something beautiful shot from the sky.

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The growing tea party trend meets the Vintage culture in a perfect combination of recipes and lifestyle tips. Angel Adoree's fame from Dragon's Den has continued through to her ever-popular tea party events, serving a huge demand for hen parties and birthdays to corporate clients such as Paul Smith, Oasis and Agent Provocateur. She will be opening a London shop later in the year.
Angel Adoree cordially invites you to accompany her on a journey to create your perfect vintage tea party!
The Vintage Patisserie is a haven of all things glamour, vintage and retro. Run by Angel Adoree, the outstanding character you may have seen on Dragon's Den, the Vintage Patisserie is a vintage hosting company offering bespoke tea parties from a bygone era. For that reason, there's nowhere better to get simple, elegant advice for hosting your very own Vintage Tea Party at home than from Angel and The Vintage Tea Party Book.
Angel Adoree was the outstanding character of this year s Dragon s Den. She received £100k investment from Deborah Meaden and Theo Paphitis for developing her website and for buying a shop/property in Soho for her business - Vintage Patisserie.
Vintage Patisserie is a vintage hosting company that provide tea parties which are fabulously retro, delivering everything from music, makeovers and - of course - a customised menu of tea party treats that elevate any function into a swanky soiree. The Vintage Tea Party Book embraces the style and class of the trendy London Vintage scene and illustrates how to beautifully recreate the tasty treats and classic styles at home. With a unique mixture of recipes and feature spreads with accessible tips on hairstyling, makeup methods and where to collect vintage china -- The Vintage Tea Party Book has it all!
Angel Adoree is the founder of The Vintage Patisserie, a popular vintage hosting company offering bespoke tea parties from a bygone era. Delivering music, makeovers and - of course - a customised menu of tea party treats that elevate any function into a swanky soiree. It has created unforgettable tea parties for famous clients including Paul Smith CBE, Myleene Klass, and Kim Jones to name but a few!
Angel was the outstanding character on BBC Two's series 'Dragons' Den'. She has grown up with great determination, a skill for creativity and has taught herself strong business acumen - she ticked all the boxes with the dragons and became the face of the series.
Angel's eye for beautiful things started at a young age, and by the age of thirteen she was buying vintage clothes and gems. A market stall followed and when the stall couldn't quell the tide of treasure, Angel moved to a big converted school house in Bethnal Green. It was here in 2001 that the launch of 'The Vintage Experience' took place, where Angel opened her doors to her devotees and revealed rail upon rail of vintage delights, and offered advice and hand-picked gems that were just right for her clients - as well as providing them with delicious cakes! The Vintage Experience lasted for seven years and when this brand could grow no more, the Vintage Patisserie was born! Angel's business has grown from strength to strength and this year saw the opening for her new East London event space, Vintage Hair Academy and Vintage Hospitality school.
Angel's first book The Vintage Tea Party Book was shortlisted for the Galaxy National Book Awards 2011 for Food Book of the Year.


Our list made only by Brazilian Street Artists.
2015 it was a good year for Street Art in Brazil. We had so many good festivals, events and projects just like "O.bra festival", "Art Rua 2015", " X Semana Fernando Furlanetto", "Festival Concreto", "Goiás em Cores", "Além da Rua" and "Telas Urbanas". All these festivals and projects left us big beautiful buildings covered with colors and amazing murals in many different locations at Brazil. We hope 2016 can be good as 2015 or even better.
Because Street Art ignites changes. We believe Street Art can transform places, individuals, communities and institutions. It stimulates dialogue about critical issues, and builds bridges of connection and understanding. That's all about giving back to a community or to the city through creativity and art.
The criteria we used for choose these 30 murals its simple, any mural is related to commercial works or brands. The thing that stands out in all of the "best murals" that went up is the concept, the size, the placement and the original style.
Most artists can paint a beautiful and colorful mural, but what makes an astounding street artist and mural is the ability to create a unique vision, to transform the landscape, not only by colors but as well with message, ideas and concept. That makes people change they daily life thought the murals that can be seen at the public space.
We don't want to say who is "best or better" by this list. Numbers have no influence as well. We only want to promote "Street Art" made by brazilian artists. As we can see there is not many website and blogs that promote or focus more on Street Art from Brazil. But there is many artists working hard on the streets right here.
OBS: We didn't choose any mural of individuals or label then as a "street artists" for those who are self proclaim to be "Graffiti Writers" saying that what they do is Graffiti and not Street Art. Because there are a few names who are very active on the streets, and have a respected name and style that we would make they art to be included on our list.
So if your favorite "street artist" who is really famous has no mural included on this list. Before you criticize this list make sure to know the difference between Graffiti and Street Art . Also if your favorite "street artist" is not just painting at vila madalena, doing commercial work, painting only for events, brands, indoor and commission walls .


Demonstrated reserve base (coal): A collective term for the sum of coal in both measured and indicated resource categories of reliability, representing 100 percent of the in-place coal in those categories as of a certain date that meet specific minability criteria. Includes beds of bituminous coal and anthracite 28 or more inches thick and beds of subbituminuous coal 60 or more inches thick that can occur at depths of up to 1,000 feet. Includes beds of lignite 60 or more inches thick that can be surface mined. Includes also thinner and/or deeper beds that presently are being mined or for which there is evidence that they could be mined commercially at a given time. Represents that portion of the identified coal resource from which reserves are calculated.


A new test program for the K190 on Android is available here.
K190TCstd software now works with the K190E firmware chip from Ozitronics. New TMstd ("Temperature Monitor") software works with both K145 and VK011 boards (replaces the old K145TMstd and VK011TMLite softwares). MinTermLite has been updated.
The VBox helpers were outdated, and have been removed.
Updates to the K145TMLite, K145TMPro, and K190TCLite softwares.
The K145TMLite software has been updated with diagramming capabilities. This version now becomes shareware. The previous version of K145TMLite is now available as K145TMStd ("Standard"). This version remains freeware.
Bug fixes and minor revisions to the K190TCLite software. Minor bug fixes to the Diagram Editor software. A brief note about musical light control has been added to the write your own software page. A note has been added to the OpTips page about setting up a remote disconnect alarm for the K190.
The Diagram Editor software has been updated. The Troubleshooting article has been updated.
The K145TMLite and K190TCLite softwares have been updated. Both now have the option to add a calibration value to sensor readings.
The K190TCLite software has been revised to include a diagram interface.
A new article with troubleshooting tips has been posted. Also a new article about defective temperature sensors.
The VBox Ez-Clone software has been discontinued. See here for more info.
New control software with a diagram interface is in development. Currently, the Diagram Editor and the K108CtrlLite software have been completed and uploaded.
The general plan is to next do a diagram interface for the K190, then the K145. After this, diagram interfaces for hardware combinations (eg: K145 with K190, K108 with K145, etc) will be developed.
A second article about putting the K145 into a case has been added.
A 14-day plot screenshot has been added on the K145TMPro page.
Minor update to the K190TCLite software.
The K108PCLite software has been updated. A new note has been added in the writing software section about debouncing the K108 inputs.
New software (K108PCLite) for the K108, for pulse counting.
Added temperature plotting function to the K190TCLite software.
Updates to the K145TMPro and K190TCLite softwares have been posted. A brief note has been added to the OpTips page about using the K190 as a temperature alarm system. A new note about enhancing the functionality of existing kits has been added in the writing software section. The cabling page has been updated with a comment about hooking up a capacitor at the temperature sensor.
Minor updates to the K108CtrlPro and K145NTMLite softwares.
A bug (where hitting the Spacebar could cause unwanted action) in K145TMLite and K190TCLite software has been fixed.
K145TMPro software has completed public testing. The full version has been released for download. Another note has been added to the Setup and Operating Tips page.
New remote-viewing software for the K145 has been uploaded.
Fixed a logging issue in the K145TMLite software. A preview of an advanced version of the K145 software has been posted. The cabling article has been revised. Another note has been added to the Setup and Operating Tips page. Added a new article on starting a program at system bootup.
An advanced version of the K190 software has been published. A couple of notes have been added to the Setup and Operating Tips page. Also a couple of additions on the write your own software page.
Fixed Min/Max reset issue in K145TMLite software. New articles, one for those wanting to write their own software, and another for kit builders. The cabling article has been updated. Updated EzClone info on the VBox page.
Fixed issue with auto-saving the log to file in K145TMLite software.
K190TC Standard minor update. A site map has been added to the website. New article with operating and setup tips. The cabling article has been updated.
A donation link has been added to the website. An enhanced version of the K190 software is in testing. In the meantime, a K190 software feature comparison page has been put up. Added a page for the K190 standard software included with the kit. The K145/VK011 comparison page has been updated to include the new K190 board.
New software: MinTermLite a simple terminal-like program for testing connections to serial hardware. Negative temperature display problem fixed in the K145TMLite software.
Major update to the K145TMLite software. Added an "Acknowledgements" page. New article on cabling for 1-wire sensors. Revised linkage to the Articles and Resources pages.
Kitsrus (DIY Electronics, Hong Kong) have announced the K190 Temperature Monitor and Controller kit. This unit provides 4 channels of pc-controlled temperature monitoring and relay control, using the same sensors as the K145. Availability at distributors is estimated to be January/09.
Minor updates to the VK011TMLite and K145TMLite softwares, and their respective web pages. Updates also to the K108CtrlLite software. VBoxInfo and EZ-Clone have been confirmed useable in VBox 2.x.
Added a page for an experimental software that displays K108 relays and inputs in a Process Diagram. Minor updates to the VBoxInfo software.
Updates to the VBoxInfo software.
Configuration settings for the VK011TMLite and K145TMLite softwares are now saved to file. Updates to the K145CtrlTest software.
Major revisions to the K145 Temperature Controller. Minor updates to the K145TMLite and VK011TMLite software.
New article about building an add-on board for the K145, for temperature control. Added software for this new K145 Temperature Controller. Minor updates to the K145TMLite software.
Updates to the VK011TMLite software. A K145 user has reported being able to run the K145 software in Wine. Both the K108 and K145 software have been successfully used in a Win2K guest in VirtualBox. Branching out: you'll find a couple of VirtualBox helper utilities here.
Minor updates to the MyLogins program. K108ControllerPro released as freeware.
108Relays is now acting as an affiliate of Carl's Electronics. This applies to the K108 and K145 only. See the Kit Suppliers page for more info. Added new MyLogins software.
Updates to the K145TMLite program. Added a Kit Suppliers page. Added a K145 and VK011 feature comparison page. Some revisions to text on the VK011TMLite page. All Resource pages have been updated.
Added a new monitoring program for the QKits VK011 Serial Temperature Sensor Interface (VK011TMLite). Added this news archive page.
Updates to: K145TMLite, K145Tester, and VK011Tester. These programs now use the computer's local settings (configured under "Regional Options") to display data and dates and times.
Added a new test utility for the QKits VK011 Serial Temperature Sensor Interface. Minor fixes to the K145 Temperature Monitor Lite software. Some revisions to the K145 Test utility. Added more screenshots on the K108 Controller Pro page.
A new version of K145 Temperature Monitor Lite has been uploaded. Added a new test utility for the K145. Information on the K108 Controller Pro software has been updated. Both the K108 and K145 software have been successfully tested on Windows Vista. A brief note about remote access has been posted in the Articles section.
Uploaded a new version of K108 Controller Lite. Updated the information on the K108 Controller Pro software.
Uploaded a revised version of K108 Controller Lite. Removed the Derby Controller pages and associated download files -- Windows timing issues make this software not suitable for race timing.
Fixed download link for the K108 Controller Lite. Updated/added links on the Elex resource pages.
Revised version of the K145 Temperature Monitor uploaded. Added some 1-Wire links in the Resource pages. Added "News" section to home page.


I am completely in love with the banner I made for this blog. Completely. I have to thank LibraryThing for the ability to do this with relative ease. They were nice enough to put all my book covers together on a single page where I could easily save some of them to my computer and edit them together. So thank you, LibraryThing, for my oh-so-pretty banner!


This Valentine's Day, extend the LOVE by extending an arm! The Red Cross coordinator for the local area has advised officials that the need for blood has dropped to a 3-day supply, which makes the call out an "Emergency Appeal." A 5-day supply is required to meet the needs of patients, but recent storms and the government shutdown has depleted supplies. The Red Cross requires 13,000 units of blood every day to meet the need of the hospitals.
In order to help, you're invited to join the City of Monroe's Blood Drive on Friday, February 15, 2019, from 10 am- 3 pm at the Monroe Community Center, 602 E Church Street.
While supplies last, each donor will receive a bag of chocolate and a coupon for a free cup of hot cocoa courtesy of The Cotton Café.
To schedule an appointment, visit https://rcblood.org/2DRsK9U and enter sponsor code: cityofmonroe. Or call 1-800-RED-CROSS. Walk-ins are welcome, but registration is encouraged.
Remember to Eat, DRINK plenty of water and Sleep well before donating!


Is there a highlight for you during your time at the Youth Symphony? If so, what was it?
Hands down, my favorite experience was playing at the open house for the brand new Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in 2011. It was a very fun way to kick off my last season with Youth Symphony before going to college!
What have you been up to since graduating from Youth Symphony?
After graduating from Olathe Northwest High School in 2012, I went to college in Indianapolis at Butler University. I received my bachelor's in arts administration and had a concentration in music. I wanted to continue playing my horn, so I studied privately and played in multiple ensembles at Butler. Currently, I'm in my first full-time job out of college at Music for All, a music education and advocacy nonprofit in Indianapolis that creates positively life-changing experiences for students and educators around the country!
How did your time with the Youth Symphony influence what you do today?
Youth Symphony definitely fueled my passion for orchestral music when I was younger, and it gave me an added challenge outside of my high school band room. I didn't realize it at the time, but it also helped me realize that being involved with and supportive of arts-based nonprofits is important to me, especially ones that serve students.
How did you end up at Music for All and describe what you do with the organization?
I started as an intern in the Participant Relations department at Music for All in August 2016 after graduating from Butler. Essentially, our organization is event-driven. From our Bands of America marching band championships in the fall to our week-long camp in the summer, our primary duties revolve around implementing large events. I like to describe Participant Relations as the "people side" of event planning. My responsibilities involve communicating with our participants, collecting information from them, and processing that information so that we are ready to welcome them to our events. In addition, traveling to cities and towns across the country to put on these events has been a fun responsibility!
Are you still musically active?
My job keeps me in the music community, but I'm still looking for opportunities to play my horn more frequently!
Stay involved in music as long as you are able. Regardless of your career path, if you attend a college that has performance opportunities for all students, get involved. You've worked hard on your musical skills thus far, so put them to good use!


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Welding Together a Better Future: A National Farmworker Jobs Program Success Story
The National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) is a valuable program from the U.S. Department of Labor that's empowering farmworkers across the country to take control of their financial futures and improve their lives.
Here's the story of one of those farmworkers, Francisco Rodriguez Rodriguez.
Francisco came to the US when he was just 15 years old. At that time, he didn't have a visa and, like many other immigrant teens, he wasn't able to complete high school or learn English because he was busy working long hours to help his parents who were still in Mexico.
All together, Francisco spent 18 years working in the agriculture fields. He eventually advanced all the way up to Crew Lead but he was still making only $15.50 per hour. When you take the cost of living on the Central Coast into consideration, that might as well be pennies. Plus, Francisco was married with three kids (aged 18, 13, and 2) at the time which only added to his financial and familial responsibilities.
When Francisco eventually enrolled in the Welding Fabrication job training program at CET Watsonville, he had very little computer literacy and basic skills. Those would have been big enough obstacles already but the pandemic and COVID-related regulations just made everything more difficult for Francisco as CET and other schools had to shift to online and hybrid instruction.
Recalling his initial barriers, he recently told his Admissions Advisor, Ana Maria Hernandez, "Do you remember how afraid I was when I came to enroll? I did not believe I could learn, but my wife, you, and the instructor, Angel, all believed in me. And when I almost quit, my wife's support and the patience of my teacher kept me going."
He was immensely grateful to find that his many years laboring in the fields would pay for his Welding Fabrication training program tuition as a recipient of the National Farmworker Jobs Program and Dislocated Agricultural Worker Program grant funds.
With those grant funds, a whole lot of determination, and some help from his teachers and the support staff at CET, Francisco was able to graduate from the Welding Fabrication training program.
From there, Francisco went on to start his own business, charging $25.00 per hour and working full time. That's a particularly incredible accomplishment considering that he did it while several hundred thousand small businesses were going bankrupt during the pandemic.
While he remained self-employed from November of 2020 until May 2021, Francisco's determination to provide his family with the security of homeownership led him to pursue more stable employment. He was promptly hired by Cypress Coast Fence. Within just two months of employment as a welder, Francisco was able to gain a $2 raise through his commitment and hard work. We're sure his success will continue!
Francisco is passionate about welding and is grateful to have gained the skills he has from his training at Watsonville CET and the support he received through the National Farmworker Jobs Program in funding his dreams.
You, too, can change your life with a job training program at CET. If you qualify under the NFJP, you may not even need to pay out of pocket for your training. Visit the Farmworker Admissions page to learn more about the specifics for NFJP.
Reach out today to learn more about the variety of job training programs available at CET and how they can change your future. You never know what a difference it could make!
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