Our search for answers was complete when we met Ryan and Fringe. Ryan dug right into understanding our business, and in fact, we gave Ryan direct access to our clients–the end users. They were flattered to have us implement their feedback and recommendations. Since our new launch, the rave reviews are piling up fast, and we're seeing our profits do the same. We owe Fringe a debt of gratitude.
The ball exited the ballpark quickly for us in working with Ryan.
Early on I had two objections. One was that Fringe was a new company and that Ryan couldn't deliver all the needs we had. I've worked with young companies before and it's always been the same–over promise, under deliver–but that wasn't the case with Fringe. The ball exited the ballpark quickly for us in working with Ryan. We knew we were a perfect fit when he gave us a questionnaire to complete first. This told me he was serious about our needs and he was serious about understanding our business, which leads me to my next concern. My second concern was that this project would be a transaction for Fringe, and we'd be forgotten as soon as our check was cashed. Again, my worry was squelched quickly with the continuous follow up and even post project services offered by Fringe.
Working with Fringe was a superb experience, honestly, I learned a ton.
Fully explain your fears to Ryan about web design. The thing that impressed me was if he didn't immediately know the answer, he wasn't afraid to say so and then go find it. I would tell any friend to call Ryan and have a candid conversation about your needs.
Working with Fringe was a superb experience, honestly, I learned a ton. I learned about SEO, web presence compared to my competition, and how my marketing efforts were to dovetail with my online message. The communication with Fringe was excellent. Nothing fell off the table, so to speak, throughout the project, and Ryan was about as genuine as they come. We could tell that he truly cared about us and our business. I've been a part of many business projects, but working with Fringe ranks as my best experience.
We could tell that he truly cared about us and our business.
The only delay in the project was due to me holding up the timeline, but Ryan forgives me!
Ryan gave us new life and helped us boost our relationships with our clients! In a tough year with not much to differentiate one company to the next, we desperately needed an edge over the competition. For us it meant one thing, we needed to capture our client's attention online (our point of sale) and deliver a 'Wow' experience.
Our search for answers was complete when we met Ryan and Fringe.
We needed an SEO strategy, a new web presence to match our marketing efforts, easier navigation, and most of all we needed someone we could trust. Our search for answers was complete when we met Ryan and Fringe. Ryan dug right into understanding our business, and in fact, we gave Ryan direct access to our clients–the end users. They were flattered to have us implement their feedback and recommendations. Since our new launch, the rave reviews are piling up fast, and we're seeing our profits do the same. We owe Fringe a debt of gratitude.
It is difficult to find a good developer to work with, and working with Ryan was like having another member of the team, during the duration of this project. I appreciate that he made himself accessible in case I had any questions (which I frequently did) about the technical details regarding how the design and functionality could be most effective and what options we had for certain features.
In the past, the web developers I worked with took a more hands-off approach. While in the end, they delivered what was expected, there was very little communication throughout the process. Even if the developer allowed the marketing and design departments to develop concept and content with minimal limitations, effective communication was not present which lead to hiccups in the project that could have been prevented. I appreciated the weekly meetings, and even more frequent updates with what was going on. As I tend to take a hands-on approach to everything that I do, Fringe was a good fit for us.
Initially, I was concerned about finding a developer who would be a good fit for Pinnacle and who could produce the specific results we were looking for. Our company, and our marketing department in particular, often knows exactly what it is that we want, and it is sometimes hard to find someone who is willing to be flexible to fit our needs. From the outset, Ryan was willing to work with all of our requirements for our website, and continued to be flexible with us as the project, and our needs, evolved.
It is difficult to find a good developer to work with, and working with Ryan was like having another member of the team, during the duration of this project. I appreciate that he made himself accessible in case I had any questions (which I frequently did) about the technical details regarding how the design and functionality could be most effective, what options we had for certain features, etc.
The decision to choose Fringe for our website development needs was a favorable one. At the outset of the project, Ryan took care in understanding our company, our target markets, and our objectives for the site before developing the project plan. Taking the time to do this research at the beginning was critical to the success and effectiveness of our project.
I was happy to see that Ryan's hands-on approach was carried on for the duration of the project, showing a real commitment to providing our company with the best result possible. Ryan demonstrated a real commitment to us as a client by providing frequent updates and meeting deadlines as scheduled. In addition, Ryan made himself very available if at any point we had any questions or concerns.
I feel that we achieved a better end result than we would have with another company. Ryan was very knowledgeable and was able to recommend effective solutions for our unique challenges that we never would have thought of. Overall, we were pleased with the results at the end of the project, and I would refer Ryan to others who are looking for help with their website design needs in the future.
Ryan made himself very available if at any point we had any questions or concerns.
Overall, our experience was an extremely positive one. We made a very effective team and I enjoyed learning a little bit about WordPress and web development with Ryan. He has a lot to offer, and I wish him the very best!
If you're trying to run a small business and you're on the fence about whether you need a website in this day and age, there's nothing I can say to help you. But if you have a website, and if you want to maximize its value, you need a professional like Ryan. You're just not going to get the results you want playing around with GoDaddy templates in your free time.
Ryan was referred to me by one of my closest friends, so I really didn't have any reservations about working with him.
In a smaller law firm like mine, I wear a lot of hats besides being a lawyer to keep the practice running at top level. It's easy to back-burner creative projects like a website redesign. Ryan broke my project down into manageable pieces, assigned me those items that needed my personal involvement, and checked in regularly to show how we were making constant progress.
I would highly recommend Fringe as a way to establish some clear direction, strategically as well as functionally. Ryan was very attentive, clearly customer oriented, and delivered on time with precisely the product as envisioned. Even this early, we anticipate an increased web presence and ability to better brand and market our service offerings.
Prior to Fringe helping us with our design we had a fragmented strategy of how we were going to revamp our web presence. There was really no clear direction. We were also initially concerned since Fringe had physically relocated away from our location and that we were one of his early clients. I was reassured because I knew of Mr. Urban's professionalism due to previous relationships through our Aggies in Business venture and because Mr. Urban was a student in one of my classes at Texas A&M University.
If we ever need assistance in this regard again we will surely give him a call.
I am pleased to recommend Fringe and Mr. Ryan Urban for web development projects. His professionalism, timeliness, and client budget awareness was superb and if we ever need assistance in this regard again we will surely give him a call.
Ryan is professional, prompt, and courteous. He is eager to work quickly and well, and to impress. He has your best interest in mind with whatever he produces for you. Thanks for everything, I really appreciate your work and the product!
He was professional, timely and knowledgeable, and he provided a fantastic product that addressed our goals and concerns. His completed analysis, which included a new site structure and information architecture, provided for a seamless transition and we couldn't be happier.
Ryan performed a website redesign and strategic analysis for us as we prepared to redesign and relocate our website. He was professional, timely and knowledgeable, and he provided a fantastic product that addressed our goals and concerns. His completed analysis, which included a new site structure and information architecture, provided for a seamless transition and we couldn't be happier.


Membership growth as stagnant as a pond? This case study will show you how one organization achieved a near-impossible level of growth in only 3 short years.
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Apple Inc. has introduced a new Smartphone called the iPhone 5. This phone allows you to do just about anything a computer or laptop would allow you to do, as well as text and make telephone calls. However, like many mobile devices, the iPhone 5 uses wireless networks that are not secured. If anyone want to access the data you send over the worldwide web or break into your personal information you keep on your iPhone 5, they can do it by using one of the many free hacking programs available over the Internet.
Because getting on the worldwide web with your iPhone 5 is so unprotected is why so many people are turning to Virtual Private Networks, VPN. These services use a technology that will encrypt you Internet line, even when you use a wireless connection that is unsecured.
The VPN encrypts, or scrambles, your Internet data and prevents anyone from hacking into your wireless connection. The provider does this by using security protocols, exactly like most secured website do to ensure that anything you send over the Internet, such as your banking information, is not open to unscrupulous hackers.
One problem with VPN providers is they are not all the same. Some VPNs do not have the capabilities of connecting to an iPhone 5. This is why you need to find the best VPN for iPhone 5.
In order to set up a VPN connection for the iPhone 5, you must follow some simple instructions. Without following these instructions, your will not be able to use a VPN to secure your Internet connection.
Enter all the information provided by the VPN service, including the password, your user name, account ID and IP address. Select Encryption Level to Auto and turn the Send All Traffic to On.
Make sure that the VPN service offers PPTP, L2TP of IPSec protocols because the iPhone 5 does not support the OpenVPN protocol.
While following the simple set up instructions is not difficult, finding a VPN that offers all the features you need can be. You have to make sure that the VPN has everything you need to secure your iPhone 5 Smartphone's wireless network. Because this is so hard, we decided to look at all the VPNs that will connect to your iPhone 5. Our worldwide experts connected to all the available VPN services through different devices, including the iPhone 5, and rated each one for quality. After all of this research, our worldwide experts made up a like of the best VPN providers for iPhone 5. Here is the list they came up with to recommend to our readers.


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Thoughts on Kabwe Medium Prison: Fallon Seitz
Kabwe Medium Prison facility: an oasis south of the Sahara, where justice is relatively enjoyable. Compared to the congested—and downright inhumane—prisons of the city, Kabwe Medium was a model of responsible imprisonment. The children were very polite and took pride in keeping their quarters clean. They also took pride in playing chess, which was the ostensible reason for UP Zambia's visit. Apparently, the juveniles play chess every night. Some had been at Kabwe Medium for four years, so they had become pretty good. The interns lost every time.
So the chess was a smashing success, and the prison conditions were reasonable: a bed for every kid, no contagious skin infections, a teacher who cared about mentoring his pupils, a garden the prisoners could actually eat from, and enough space to play football. Unfortunately, the interminable detainments were familiar. Some juveniles who couldn't afford bail informed us that they had been on remand for over three years; they might receive a reform school sentence and not have their time-served recognized. But that's not a strike against the prison facility, it's a failure stemming from the backlogged judiciary.
America has a legal doctrine called eminent domain, where the government requires citizens to sell their property to the government at market value. This practice creates the space to build necessary roads and structures.
It seems Lusaka Central Prison could benefit from a small eminent domain expansion to provide more space for the prisoners and a bigger buffer between the community and the prisoners. As it stands today, the community is in the backyard, close enough for a prison guard to do business with the citizens. Lusaka Central Prison could also benefit from a larger garden. The Kabwe kids regularly nibbled the leafy greens, while the Lusaka kids have a strict diet of cornmeal.
Lastly, the Kabwe kids had a clear leader, their disciplined teacher. The kids didn't litter or else they would hear an earful from their teacher. Good men need to step up and provide the juveniles of Zambia a father figure. Of course, when so many basic necessities are absent, it may seem impossible to impart good habits in a place so void of order.
As the Kabwe community choir was singing under a tree in the distance, I felt something that I hadn't often felt when visiting other prisons—hope. When all of the basic needs are met the imagination can wander. In that regard, the rehabilitative potential of Kabwe Medium rivals the best prisons in the world. Spacious, green and humble.
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Feb 28 2011Shuttle Launch As Seen On Passenger Flight
MORE: airplane, amazing, beautiful, flying, houston we have a bunch of rubber-neckers, i believe i can fly i believe i can touch the -- i can go higher just sayin', i'm still not cinvinced these "shuttle" launches aren't all faked, nasa, shuttle, space travel, spaceship, the moon landing is a conspiracy!, video
This is a video of last week's Discovery shuttle launch as seen from a commercial flight departing Orlando, FL. It's pretty amazing to see. Like being duct-taped to a computer chair so you can't move and then having your eyes taped open while coworkers take turns throwing things directly at your face. Yeah, just like that. But with less cutting their brake-lines afterward. Haha, who's got the big cubicle now?! Beats me, I'm too busy getting pounded in the slammer. C'MON -- IT WAS PRACTICALLY SELF DEFENSE!
Hit the jump for 2:00 of oohs and aaahs BUT NO SEX.
Discovery launch as viewed from a passenger flight [geek]
Thanks to Peter, who doesn't eat as much pumpkin as the nursery rhyme would lead you to believe. MARY ISN'T EVEN CONTRARY!
25 Years Ago Today: The Challenger Disaster (01/28/2011)
Time Lapse Of Last Night's Lunar Eclipse (12/21/2010)
Wait For Me!: UFO Spotted Above Australia (06/07/2010)
Eye Candy: Time-Lapse Of Shuttle Launch (05/24/2010)
AWESOME: Atlas V Rocket Sonic Shockwave (02/18/2010)
1. She - February 28, 2011 7:05 PM
First!!!
2. nemo - February 28, 2011 7:10 PM
1st you blow goats
3. Kuma - February 28, 2011 7:18 PM
Pilot: "Those of you on the right side of the aircraft can see the spaceship, those of you on the left side will probably see people on the right side looking out the window"
Sucks to be on the left side...
4. Shelbon - February 28, 2011 7:22 PM
Sky rockets in flight...time for some afternoon delight
5. Your Acquaintance - February 28, 2011 7:24 PM
that video made my scrotum tingle for some reason
6. Grace - February 28, 2011 7:52 PM
God damn that is incredible
7. woowoo - February 28, 2011 7:57 PM
obviously photoshopped we all know that you cant break through the earths atmosphere
8. Brett - February 28, 2011 8:09 PM
That would be pretty epic. I've always wanted to see a shuttle launch.
9. Bi-polar Maniac - February 28, 2011 8:24 PM
Dumbassses!
10. Bugs Bunny San - February 28, 2011 8:33 PM
Fitting Filk Song of the Day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ryd_p20XEU
"Fire in the Sky"
11. naas - February 28, 2011 9:21 PM
#4 those aren't really the words are th... I was just signing that in my head. Come over tonight & sing me to sleep now pls
12. pirhan - February 28, 2011 10:59 PM
Awesome! Thank you GW for the FB post on the shuttle - I've always wanted to see a shuttle launch. <3
13. lol - March 1, 2011 2:20 AM
For all the shit we talk about ourselves, it's moments like these where we all need to admit that we're proud to be humans.
14. Mr Spacer - March 1, 2011 2:55 AM
Not many more of these. I think this is the last year. With nothing else on the horizon either.
15. Danny - March 1, 2011 4:06 AM
@13 word.
16. Taylored - March 1, 2011 8:22 AM
I don't know. That was pretty slow. Looked like my grandmother was driving that rocket.
17. Mih0 - March 1, 2011 8:55 AM
Oh man - if you haven't seen a shuttle launch, call in an extra long lunch break and get down to Kennedy Space Center for the next launch. It is seriously awesome - and I don't mean "omg like your new shoes", I mean like 'scrape your jaw off the sidewalk' awesome.
18. willybilliams - March 1, 2011 9:12 AM
That wasn't really a shuttle launch. It was actually just some redneck in the middle of Florida that built a "super bottlerocket" out of fireworks left over from Independence day. And now all the other Hicks in the deep South think they saw themselves a gawl darned UFO.
19. jhger - March 1, 2011 9:39 AM
frist.
20. naas - March 1, 2011 10:23 AM
lots of ooohs and aaahhhs but no sex..? After watching that launch I disagree
21. susangrejo - March 1, 2011 10:27 AM
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22. Buddy Wheeler - March 1, 2011 11:25 AM
#17 Agree, agree, agree. Went to a night launch in 2008, Finally went up around 2 in the am. There was a low cloud cover so we got to see about 8 seconds of the launch but it looked like the sun was coming up early! Shuttle launch is a must see!
23. Obama Mama - March 1, 2011 12:20 PM
Soooo.......the rocket...I mean plane that was recorded off the California coast not to long ago (and looks just like this) was a rocket launch after all?
Or has enough time passed that nobody remembers or gives a shit anymore. Yeah for the American people. Attention span and complacency of a turnip.
I fucking hate this country. Lie to us some more. It's a guarantee that the people will never question or if they do will give up in a couple of days. Can't waste our time question the corrupt government when a new Houswives season is on.
Fuck all of you
One thing a third world county has over us is that they will take to the streets and die if they have to. They will get angry and physically do something about it. What do we do here???? Stuff another quarterpounder in our fatass piehole and watch tv.
"Don't bother me....I'm 'baiten" +1 for anyone who understands that.
24. Dawson - March 1, 2011 2:40 PM
Is that David Duchovny's voice at the end? "I'm still in awe"


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James Tiffin Hall
Tiffin was raised in Altoona, Iowa and earned his Bachelor's degree in Political Science and Environmental Studies from Iowa State University in 1982. Tiffin moved west and graduated from the University of Montana School of Law in Missoula in 1990.
After Law School Tiffin practiced law for two years with his Father, Robert D. Hall in Des Moines, Iowa in a firm started by his Grandfather in 1923.
Tiffin moved back to Montana and practiced with firms in Great Falls and Missoula before moving to Eureka to join his wife Sandi in February of 2007. Tiffin is active in the Eureka community and serves on the board of directors for Recycle Eureka and for North Lincoln County Can Do (a non-profit underage substance abuse prevention coalition).
Tiffin's Grandfather, James W. Hall, was admitted to the Iowa Bar in 1923. His Father, Robert D. Hall, was admitted to the Iowa Bar in 1965.
The picture in Tiffin's office is of his Grandfather and Father when his Dad graduated from Drake Law School. Tiffin's sister, Rebecca, is also an attorney in Phoenix, AZ.


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Waterproofing Whyalla
24 Sep 2013 questionsarchive
I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking the Minister for Water and the River Murray questions regarding Waterproofing Whyalla.
The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: The Whyalla City Council has been working on a project to reduce their reliance on the River Murray, known as Waterproofing Whyalla, which kicked off in 2011 with a goal to provide 100 per cent of recycled water to sporting ovals, schools and the council's own land, including median strips, the Bradford Street Reserve, Memorial Oval, Jubilee Park and other areas.
The project, it was anticipated, would save at least 265 million litres of potable water sourced from the River Murray each year, reduce pollutant discharge into Spencer Gulf, and provide the community with green streetscapes, community spaces, parks and ovals. The $5.7 million project was funded by the federal government to the tune of $2.7 million, our state government, $50,000, and the remainder by council. The project was completed in 2012 and is ready for use.
However, the council has not been able to commission its project because SA Water is supplying only 20 per cent of the volume originally agreed to, which doesn't allow the system to function, the quality of water is not suitable to run the system efficiently due to turbidity and algae in the water, which is clogging pumps and filters. This has resulted in cancellation or rescheduling of a number of events, including Monster Trucks, the Whyalla Gift, Relay for Life, SA Cricket Academy for primary students, SA Rugby and Women's Football First.
I am advised that there have been numerous conversations with SA Water, which has said that it will take two to three years to rectify the plant. So, the plant is not being used, even though it cost considerable sums. My questions are:
1.Is the minister aware of this issue?
2.Can the minister explain why the council needs to wait another two to three years to receive a response and a solution from SA Water?
3.Will the minister commit to an investigation into why this system is not working?
The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation) (15:18): I thank the honourable member for her most important questions. My answer to those three questions is: no, no and yes.
The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (15:18): I have a supplementary question. I am wondering whether the minister might further expand on that or whether he will bring some more detail back to us.
The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation) (15:18): My answer is yes.


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Senate moves to block financial leakages
The Senate has vowed to block revenue leakages in public finance as a way of consolidating funds for needed social and infrastructure development.
Chairman Senate Committee on Finance, Senator Solomon Adeola gave the indication at the weekend during the inaugural meeting of the committee.
Adeola, according to a statement by his Media Adviser, Kayode Odunaro, in Abuja, said the move would also help in reducing annual budget deficits in the country.
He insisted that frequent lamentation of "no fund, no fund" for crucial capital projects in budget would be minimised if the Committee carries out proper oversight work on all revenues generating agencies excluding the crude oil sales.
Adeola said: "As the nation approaches its 59th Independence Anniversary, we as a committee of the Senate are challenged to do the right thing to ensure that the government gets all its revenue for needed capital projects.
"We want to move away from the frequent complaints of "no fund, no fund"
"The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and many other government agencies generate huge sums of money but in most cases the funds are not applied according to the Constitution and the Fiscal Responsibility Act," he said.
Adeola urged the committee to brace up for the task ahead, which would require the invitation of all revenue generating agencies to ascertain trends in their efforts over the years as a way of charting a new course and correcting anomalies where necessary.
He added that there is need to look into such revenue heads as the pre-shipment inspection and how it is applied among other revenue sources of government, beyond crude oil and taxes.
The Senator representing Lagos West said the finances of the country would improve significantly through blocking of leakages and seeking new revenues sources.
He said that the Committee would explore the possibility of an annual international finance lecture on current trends to be addressed by successful Ministers of Finance – both at home and abroad and other financial experts – as a way of addressing financial challenges in Nigeria.
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He however told his members that the first task of the committee in the 9th National Assembly is to "quickly work on the Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper(2020-2023) referred to it by the Senate with a deadline preparatory to the presentation of the 2020 Appropriation Bill by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly."
Members of the 17-man committee in their contribution lauded the choice of Adeola as the chairman of the important committee of "baking the national cake'' based on his cognate experience in similar positions at the Lagos State House of Assembly for 8 years and later as chairman of the House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee with oversight on all Federal Government agencies.
Members of the committee present at the meeting included Senator Teslim Folarin (APC, Oyo Central), Senator James Manager (PDP, Delta South), Senator Uche Ekwunife (PDP, Anambra Central), Senator Nicholas Tofowomo (PDP, Ondo South), Senator Ayo Akinyelure (PDP, Ondo Central) and Senator Abubakar Danladi Sankara (APC, Jigawa North West) among others.
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In six international concert tours in the last ten years, the singers of the AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER CHOIR have given 110 concerts in eight countries, winning unqualified praise in the mainstream press for their "exciting sound", "as pure as crystal", with "absolute stylistic perfection". Music created by the human voice – the oldest instrument on the planet – has a primal power to move people and the ACC's listeners often speak of being transported: '"Magnificent! Transporting! Phenomenal!" The many listeners … were totally captivated by the marvellous sounds conjured by the Australian Chamber Choir' (Schwäbische Zeitung, 17 July 2015). Founding director, Douglas Lawrence OAM designs captivating programs that tell a story and lead the audience on a journey from the Renaissance to the present.
The AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER CHOIR was founded in 2007 by its current director, Douglas Lawrence OAM, founder and for 24 years, director of the Choir of Ormond College, University of Melbourne. Lawrence's first venture with the Australian Chamber Choir was an acclaimed 20-concert tour of Europe,: "There are days when something of heaven seems to touch the earth. Thank you for giving us just one of those days" (Stefen Wegener, Presenter, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnisskirche Series, Berlin, July 14, 2007) "The Australian Chamber Choir inspired the audience with the finest choral music" (Ostfriesischer Kurier, July 19, 2007).
In its first ten years, The ACC has toured Europe six times, giving some hundred concerts . With a reputation for its "lucidly articulated" performances of Bach's Motets, the choir has performed several times in St Thomas', Leipzig, including in the Bach Organ Festival. Current Thomas-Organist, Ullrich Böhme said "of the many choirs visiting Leipzig, not many come up to our standard. The Australian Chamber Choir did".
The performance of Australian compositions in Europe and Australia has become a hallmark. Douglas Lawrence commissions new works from his country's most talented young composers and showcases them in the choir's international touring programs, winning the outspoken praise of critics in the mainstream press: "In Australia, as in Europe, refugees are an important topic … Uncertain Journeys (Tom Henry, 2017) … illuminates the acuteness of this problem … Henry has created a richly evocative work in which the sounds of a surging sea form a backdrop … choral sound overlaps sprechstimme, resolving into wordless vocalises that seem to symbolise speechlessness in the face of overwhelming emotion. The choir delivered this harmonically demanding work … with the greatest security" (Echo, Darmstadt, July 2017), "Magnificent! Transporting!" (Schwäbische Zeiting), "Simply phenomenal" (General Anzeiger, Bonn).
Australia's foremost historian, Geoffrey Blainey wrote of the "tyranny of distance", a geographical remoteness that has shaped the country's cultural identity. The ACC, based in Melbourne, is committed to sharing fine music with those who live outside the capital cities. Every program performed in Melbourne is also presented in at least two rural centres.
Many of the choir's concert programs have been recorded. The ACC is regularly broadcast on ABC Classic FM and can be heard in five commercial recordings.


Following decades of mathematical, theoretical, and experimental research on antimatter, recent results have announced the apparent detection of antimatter galaxies, antimatter asteroids and antimatter cosmic rays via the use of a new telescope with concave lenses known as the Santilli telescope. This article presents results providing additional confirmations that Santilli has indeed achieved the first known detection of antimatter in the large scale structure of the universe, and identifies the main implications.
A view in the left of a streak of light from a distant matter-galaxy FROM a Galileo Refractive Telescope with conventional convex lenses in the Vega region of the night sky under a 15 second exposure, and a view in the right of one of numerous streaks of darkness detected via the associated Santilli Refractive Telescope with concave lenses expected to be due to an antimatter-galaxy (see the above quoted paper for details).
The only possibility for a telescope with concave lenses to focus images is that the antimatter-light has an index of refraction opposite that of matter-light (left view). In turn, a negative index of refraction can only occur if antimatter-light is repelled by matter, namely, matter and antimatter repel each other (right view).
Santilli's mathematical, theoretical and experimental studies on antimatter are simply fascinating and attract the attention of the most callous physicist, if nothing else, for the long list of intriguing open problems. Questions should be addressed directly to Santilli at his email research(at)i-b-r(dot)org. Having been born and educated in a high level Italian family Santilli knows good manners better than most of us, and and he has the friendly personality of all Italian personality when addressed with respect.
The first Announcement of the R. M. Santilli Foundation on September 9, 2009, indicated the availability of research funds for innovative studies on antimatter http://www.santilli-foundation.org/Announcment-1.php The call was answered by scientists from fourteen developed countries and the results are quite visible today. The RMS Foundation confirms the continued availability of research grants in antimatter. Inquiries should be addressed to Richard Anderson, Trustee, at the email: board(at)santilli-foundation(dot)org.
(1) p+ + p— → shower of particles.
under which reaction matter-antimatter annihilation is known lo be impossible; the above "annihilation"` of protons and the claimed anti-protons clearly violates the PCT theorem; et al.
(2) p+ + e— → n + ?
See the latest experimental confirmation with large preceding literature http://www.thunder-energies.com/docs/neutron-synthesis-2014.pdf, the 12 minute DVD on the prototype reactor http://www.world-lecture-series.org/newtron-synthesis-08-14, and Level VII of the World Lecture Series http://www.world-lecture-series.org/invited-2014-keynote-lectures.
Pseudo-protons can evidently capture positrons, leading to pseudo-Hydrogen atoms which are mostly made up of matter (since the antimatter component, the positron, would be 1/1800 times lighter than the matter component), in which case any test of the gravity of antimatter could be fundamentally flawed.
Santilli's call for scientific caution in such a fundamental aspect of our knowledge has been answered by numerous scientists. For instance, the experimentalist Victor de Haan stressed in his recent paper http://www.santilli-foundation.org/docs/Pseudo-proton-deHaan.pdf the need for CERN to be absolutely certain that their anti-protons are indeed antiparticles, which can be only achieved via new particle-antiparticle annihilation tests.
In any case, according to the view of various experimentalists in the field, Santilli's 1994 comparative measure of the gravity of electrons and positrons in a horizontal supercooled and supervacuum tube is immensely more resolutory and definitely less controversial than the extremely accurate test of the gravity of claimed anti-hydrogen atoms http://www.santilli-foundation.org/docs/Santilli-gravity-experiment.pdf.
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Contributions in favor or against the matter or antimatter character of Santilli pseudo-proton and CERN anti-protons are solicited. Research grants are available for theoretical or experimental works.
We solicit contributions by serious scientists on how to detect antimatter-asteroids, by keeping in mind that we do not know for sure at this writing whether matter-light, such as light from our Sun or our lasers, is reflected by antimatter-asteroids. Interested participants should contact Richard Anderson at board(at)santilli-foundation(dot)org.
I announced Santilli's historical first detection of antimatter galaxies via the protection of a national law firm under the backing of an investigative agency (still in alert) because of the excessively arrogant and offensive treatment of Santilli's discoveries by the scientific community for the evident reason of opposing the surpassing of the now old Einstein theories http://www.santilli-foundation.org/Detect-Ant-Galaxies.html.
As a test to ascertain whether proper language is appropriate for the contemporary scientific community, I elected to release this Announcement in respectful scientific language . The hope is that the scientific community finally comes to its sense and implements a respectful scientific process on fundamental issues, by remembering that, as stated by Pope Francis in a recent interview, according to the Bible, the Torah, and the Koran, arrogance and offensive conduct mandate a response.
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Bridge construction, Wildfire fight, Viral photo; KCRA Today Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Updated: 7:17 AM PDT Jul 11, 2017
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Good morning, Northern California. Here's what you need to know about Tuesday, July 11, 2017.Caltrans plans to spend $25 million to resurface the stretch of roadway on the Pioneer Bridge on Highway 50 -- again.Caltrans initially spent $26 million to put a concrete-like layer, made up of resin, sand and bits of gravel, down on the road. But, it didn't stick. Crews then went back to the bridge to repair it, but the road was still falling apart.Now crews are back at the bridge, working to repair the crumbling road.CLICK HERE for the complete story.WATCH OUT FOR ...++ Sexual assault survivors will be at the Capitol Tuesday to push multiple bills that would to help victims get justice. Assembly Bill 41 aims to keep track of the backlog of untested rape kits in the state, and Assembly Bill 280 would provide grants to reduce that backlog.++ West Sacramento will test a driverless shuttle Tuesday from Raley Field to the American River Parkway. It's one option to transport visitors along the riverfront.++ Elk Grove Unified will open its newest school Tuesday. Robert J. McGarvey Elementary will serve the Anatolia Village community in Rancho Cordova.BIG STORIES++ A wildfire in Butte County has burned at least 5,800 acres and destroyed 37 structures. As of Monday night, crews have contained 40 percent of the blaze and hope to get evacuees home soon. Mike Luery has the story. ++ Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders released a plan Monday to extend through 2030 California's cap-and-trade program, a key piece of the state's quest to fight climate change by drastically reducing emissions from greenhouse gases. Get the full story here.++ New numbers released Monday show that the homeless population increased by 30 percent in Sacramento County since 2015. Kathy Park has the full story.WEATHER SNAPSHOTTuesday is expected to be sunny with highs in the 90s. Another stretch of hot temperatures is expected this weekend.
Good morning, Northern California. Here's what you need to know about Tuesday, July 11, 2017.
Caltrans plans to spend $25 million to resurface the stretch of roadway on the Pioneer Bridge on Highway 50 -- again.
Caltrans initially spent $26 million to put a concrete-like layer, made up of resin, sand and bits of gravel, down on the road. But, it didn't stick. Crews then went back to the bridge to repair it, but the road was still falling apart.
Now crews are back at the bridge, working to repair the crumbling road.CLICK HERE for the complete story.
++ Sexual assault survivors will be at the Capitol Tuesday to push multiple bills that would to help victims get justice. Assembly Bill 41 aims to keep track of the backlog of untested rape kits in the state, and Assembly Bill 280 would provide grants to reduce that backlog.
++ West Sacramento will test a driverless shuttle Tuesday from Raley Field to the American River Parkway. It's one option to transport visitors along the riverfront.
++ Elk Grove Unified will open its newest school Tuesday. Robert J. McGarvey Elementary will serve the Anatolia Village community in Rancho Cordova.
++ A wildfire in Butte County has burned at least 5,800 acres and destroyed 37 structures. As of Monday night, crews have contained 40 percent of the blaze and hope to get evacuees home soon. Mike Luery has the story.
++ Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders released a plan Monday to extend through 2030 California's cap-and-trade program, a key piece of the state's quest to fight climate change by drastically reducing emissions from greenhouse gases. Get the full story here.
++ New numbers released Monday show that the homeless population increased by 30 percent in Sacramento County since 2015. Kathy Park has the full story.
Tuesday is expected to be sunny with highs in the 90s. Another stretch of hot temperatures is expected this weekend.


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Christ Church is a historic Episcopal church in Lancaster County, Virginia, north of Irvington.  Built in 1732-35, it is notable for its unique Georgian design, and is one of the best-preserved colonial churches in the southern United States.  The church is the only colonial Virginia church that still has its original high-backed pews and one of two that has maintained its original three-tiered pulpit.

History
The first church erected at the site was a wooden building, the construction of which was funded by powerful landowner John Carter in 1670.  Carter died before the construction was completed, but was buried on the church grounds alongside four of his five wives.
John Carter's son Robert, a wealthy vestryman and planter, decided that the parish deserved a more substantial place of worship and, in 1730, funded and supervised the construction of a brick building on the approximate foundations of the old wooden church.  Christ Church was connected to Robert Carter's Corotoman mansion by way of a cedar-lined road, in order to emphasize the importance of the benefactor and his family.

The church thrived until the disestablishment of the Anglican church in Virginia in 1786.  This event, coupled with the Glebe Act of 1802, which authorized the state to seize church property, crippled the Anglican (now Episcopal) church in the state, and Christ Church lost both money and parishioners.  Operating only intermittently in the 19th century, the church fell into disrepair; the Carter family tombs in the yard were subject to weathering and neglect, and vandals stole bricks from the exterior.  Still, the church fared better than many other colonial churches, and in 1927 the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities began work on restoration of the site.

Architecture
The unknown original architect endowed the structure with many of the hallmarks of the Georgian style, including a formal, symmetrical layout, pedimented facades, and classical detail.

Among the more noted features of the church's interior are its high-backed box pews, which held entire families at service. Its unique wineglass pulpit reflected contemporary —it is located in the building's center and the three levels of lecterns were intended to show the relative importance of the readings delivered there. The bottom tier was for community announcements, the middle for the gospel, and the top tier was reserved for the delivery of the sermon.

Current use
Today, Christ Church is owned and operated as a museum by the non-profit Foundation for Historic Christ Church, which has almost completely restored its 18th-century appearance. The church was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961. Religious services are still held at 8:00 a.m on Sundays in the summer months in cooperation with nearby Grace Church.

Gallery

See also
List of National Historic Landmarks in Virginia
National Register of Historic Places listings in Lancaster County, Virginia

References

External links

 Church website run by Historic Christ Church Foundation
 Church at Virginia.org
 "Christ Church, Lancaster Co., Virginia" at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Christ Church, State Route 3, Kilmarnock, Lancaster County, VA: 16 photos, 28 measured drawings, and 3 data pages at Historic American Buildings Survey

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National Historic Landmarks in Virginia
Georgian architecture in Virginia
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Episcopal churches in Virginia
Museums in Lancaster County, Virginia
Churches completed in 1712
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Trump supporter returning from DC: 'I would do it again'
By: Mark Stevens Twitter
NOW: Trump supporter returning from DC: 'I would do it again'
Trump supporter returning from DC: 'I would do it again'
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Barbara Dower from Kenosha decided to go to Washington D.C. three weeks ago, after the president told his supporters to come.
"I was waiting for him to tell us to come," said Dower.
She went to raise her voice with her daughter.
"That's our house definitely, when I hear Congress talk about the people's house, hello people," said Dower.
She said Congress was not listening.
"There's five states that broke their own election laws, that can't be tolerated, that tainted the electoral period," said Dower.
She was part of a group that pushed past the barricades and crowded the Capitol doors after she said police backed off.
"My intent was to get to the doors open and make sure that our voices were heard, everybody I spoke to had no intent of going in," said Dower.
People surrounding her began to get more aggressive, chants of "let us in" can be heard on her cellphone video.
Dower said rioters should not have broken into the building, but she believed, without evidence, many were Antifa members infiltrating the Trump protest.
"You can throw a Trump hat on or a Trump T-shirt on, but you can't change your demeanor when you've got that much hate in you," said Dower.
She is proud to have been there.
"I think its a historical moment," said Dower.
And said she would gladly go back.
"I had a -- I loved it, I would do it again, yes, I would absolutely 100 (percent)," said Dower.
Dower said rioters who damaged the Capitol should be arrested and charged, but she said Congress should not have certified Joe Biden's electoral victory.


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Buddhist monk Wirathu, pictured at Tamwe on Friday, 16 January 2015. (PHOTO: DVB)
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( January 19, 2015,Naypyidaw, Sri Lanka Guardian) Controversial nationalist monk Wirathu lambasted the UN's special rapporteur for human rights in Burma, Yanghee Lee, in a speech on Friday at the Kyeikkasan Grounds in Rangoon's Tamwe Township. He called her a "whore" for her alleged bias towards the country's Rohingya Muslim minority.
"We have already made public our Race Protection Law, but without even studying it, this bitch [Burmese: kaungma] keeps on complaining about how it is against human rights!" he shouted to hundreds of supporters on Friday afternoon.
"Can this whore really be from a respectable family background?" he thundered, to which the audience responded, "No!"
"Don't assume you are a respectable person, just because you have a position in the UN," he continued. "In our country, you are just a whore.
"If you are so willing, you may offer your arse to the kalar [racist term meaning 'blacks']. But you will never sell off our Arakan State!"
The UN had not responded to the insult at the time of press.
On Friday morning, a group of some 500 monks and lay supporters, led by hardliners Wirathu and Parmaukkha, marched from Kyay Thon Pagoda, near Shwedagon Pagoda, to Tamwe Township east of the city centre, holding placards reading "UN decisions cause problems in Burma – we don't want that!"
Among the marchers were members of the Arakan National Network, which has condemned the UN's call for Burma to grant citizenship to members of the Rohingya community who were born in the country.
Wirathu's speech coincided with Yanghee Lee's press conference in Rangoon on Friday when she concluded a 10-day trip to Burma, her second official visit to the country.
"Fundamental rights are not hierarchical – they aren't conditional upon one another. They're inalienable," said Lee on Friday. "You can be assured that in all my meetings with government interlocutors, I use the word 'Rohingya'. The rights of Rohingya people must be protected, promoted and upheld."
In December, the UN General Assembly approved a non-binding resolution, drafted by the European Union, that called on Naypyidaw to extend citizenship rights to the Rohingya and remove the mobility restrictions placed on them. The resolution also urged an investigation into rights abuses in Arakan State, equal access to essential services, and reconciliation between Buddhist and Muslim communities in the region.
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Self-Segregated college dorms: the wrong step back
After Americans have struggled for decades to bring us all together, universities across the country are acquiescing in, even heartily endorsing, racial and ethnic separateness.
When the University of Oregon recruited Bobbie Robinson and Charles Williams as its first black athletes in 1926, they weren't allowed to live in university dormitories. All students of color were required to rent housing off campus.
Charles Williams at the University of Oregon
It was a long struggle, but universities across the country eventually opened their dormitories to residents of all colors and cultures. How ironic that many universities have now turned back the clock by establishing separate housing by race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and more.
It's all being done under the guise of building cultural bonds, uniting people with shared values and strengthening identities. Separate but equal, say proponents.
Schools call the segregate spaces theme houses, program dorms or some other innocuous sounding name, but what they really are is a contrivance that do damage to all students, their schools and American ideals.
Much of today's self-segregation had its origins in the turmoil of the 1960s.
In 1969, for example, at a meeting called by the Beloit College Afro-American Union, thirty-five black students presented 12 demands, including that sections of dorms be reserved for black students. Within days, a spineless administration acquiesced.
That same year, armed members of Cornell University's Afro-American Society (AAS) occupied Willard Straight Hall to protest the school's perceived racism. Following negotiations with Cornell officials, the AAS students emerged from the building carrying rifles and wearing bandoleers with cartridges. A picture of the armed students leaving the building ran on the cover of Newsweek magazine.
May 5, 1969 Newsweek cover
That led to the opening of Cornell's Ujamaa Residential College in 1972, which "…celebrates the rich and diverse heritage of Black people…" Not stopping there, Cornell now has eight Program Houses, or "themed" residence halls, including a Latino Living Center and Akwe:kon, an American Indian house.
The spread of these self-segregated residential housing facilities has been explosive. U.C. Berkeley has self-segregated housing "Theme Programs" available for African-Americans, Asian Pacific Americans, Native Americans and Mexican Americans.
MIT has a community within a dorm called Chocolate City, "…a brotherhood of MIT students and alumni who identify with urban culture and share common backgrounds, interests, ethnicities, and/or experiences."
At Brown University in Rhode Island there's Hispanic House and Harambee House, which is "…focused on perpetuating a sense of community, academic excellence, and leadership for all people of African descent."
Harambee is Swahili for " pulling or working together." But self-segregation isn't pulling people together; it's pushing them apart, capitulating to pressure and reinforcing separatism.
Some academics, perhaps eager for student approval, argue that faculty support for self-segregation is a good thing because it stimulates bonding. "We teachers have an opportunity to stand in solidarity with our students who call for programmed houses on the basis of politicized racial identities," wrote Amie A. Macdonald, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY.
"…anyone concerned with the long-range goal of securing broad-based freedom and autonomy should be committed to the continued existence of racially defined communities on the grounds that different racial identities provide people with different experiences of the world," Macdonald said. "The preservation of racially defined communities of meaning secures the continued diversity of interpretations of the social world, thereby providing a richer array of know/edges from which to construct social, political, aesthetic, spiritual, and scientific accounts of our experience."
Except for the fact this is very professorial, it sounds suspiciously like something Alabama Governor George C. Wallace would have said in less flowery language to affirm "segregation today . . . segregation tomorrow . . . segregation forever."
Governor George Wallace giving his defiant inaugural address on Jan. 14, 1963
That's why many thoughtful people condemn the spread of self-segregation practices.
Even 20 years ago, Claire Fagin, then President of the University of Pennsylvania, expressed deep concern. "In general, what we are seeing is a much more divided population on our college campuses," she said. "We are moving into a very, very hyphenated world: It's Asian-American, African-American . . . it's so contrary to everything I grew up with . . . when everyone fought to just be American. For many of us who stress pluralism, these are not easy times."
Tamar Lewin, a New York Times reporter, has written about how a purposeful blending of interracial roommates can reduce prejudice. Studies at Ohio State and elsewhere have found that having a roommate of a different race can reduce prejudice, diversify friendships and even boost black students' academic performance, he reported.
"Just having diversity in classrooms doesn't do anything to increase interracial friendships," said Claudia Buchmann, an associate professor of sociology at Ohio State and an author of a study at Duke University. "But the intimacy of living together in residence halls, with no roommate, or a different-race roommate, does lead to more interracial friendships."
Lawrence H. Summers when he was President of Harvard University, expressed identical sentiments.
"…the success of our alumni is critically dependent on the environment that we create for them while they are students," Summers said. "Whether we are inclusive and welcoming – whether we create an environment that encourages students to learn not just from casebooks and in classrooms, but from other students who have had very different experiences than themselves – all of this plays a vital role in determining whether our students will have the skills and experiences needed to be effective leaders."
Dividing everybody into categories and subcategories is not the way forward.
As John Lewis, a leader of the civil rights movement, said, "Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family."
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Deutsche Bank's front office redundancies are – theoretically – over. This isn't preventing the German bank from losing staff who choose to go of their own accords, while those who were ejected involuntarily are turning up at rival banks.
Deutsche Bank insiders say at least two fixed income salespeople have left for rival banks in recent weeks. They are Ishaan Sethi, a vice president on the hedge fund rates sales desk, and Jack Cunningham, an associate in G10 rates sales.
Unconfirmed reports suggest that Sethi, who worked for Deutsche Bank for over eight years, is joining Goldman Sachs. Cunningham, who joined Deutsche in 2015 after an internship, is going to Barclays.
DB insiders say there's been an increase in staff quitting voluntarily for rival banks. This includes exits previously reported here, like Dennis Cheng and Christopher Gau, who've both gone to Goldman Sachs.
While other banks are poaching the staff Deutsche wants to keep, they're also hiring the staff Deutsche let go. Barclays announced today that it's hired Darren Campili, Deutsche's former global head of healthcare, who left the bank in June. Mark Sooby, a former MD at Deutsche's now-closed Houston office recently turned up at Lazard's Houston business.
Headhunters say Deutsche Bank has been offering generous buy-backs to staff who try to leave. The bank didn't respond to a request to comment on the departures of Sethi and Cunningham. The departures follow a programme of layoffs at Deutsche Bank which resulted in 1,700 jobs being eliminated in the second quarter of this year following the arrival of new CEO Christian Sewing. Most of those let go have yet to find new jobs: people like Sumit Chaudhary, Deutsche's former co-head of CEEMEA structured credit are still out of the market.


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Unitarian Church, Springfield, Mass
December 4, 2018 by Derek Strahan
The Unitarian church at the corner of State and Willow Streets in Springfield, probably sometime in the 1860s. Image from Picturesque Hampden (1892).
For nearly 200 years, the Congregational Church was essentially the only church in Springfield. Aside from small groups of religious minorities such as Baptists and Methodists, who arrived at the turn of the 19th century, nearly all of Springfield's residents were affiliated with the First Church. However, this hegemony began to break apart in the early 19th century, when the New England Congregationalists saw a schism between the traditional Trinitarians and the newer, theologically-liberal Unitarians.
Here in Springfield, the First Church had two fairly liberal pastors throughout much of the 18th century, beginning with Robert Breck, who served from 1736 to 1784. Breck's ordination had been highly controversial, due to the perceived unorthodox beliefs of the young clergyman. He was popular among the Springfield congregants, but many of the pastors of surrounding towns – including Jonathan Edwards of Northampton – had advised against him, and some of his opponents had Breck arrested for heresy on the day of his scheduled ordination.
The charges against Breck were ultimately dropped, and he was duly ordained, serving the church for nearly 50 years. After his death, he was replaced by another young liberal pastor, Bezaleel Howard, who served for 18 years before announcing his resignation in 1803, due to poor health. He agreed to remain with the church until his replacement was found, but this process likely took longer than Howard had anticipated. By this point, the Unitarian-Trinitarian controversy had become the dominant issue in New England churches, and it took six years – and 37 candidates – before Samuel Osgood was selected as pastor in 1809.
Osgood, a 24-year-old Dartmouth graduate, had been the unanimous choice of the congregation, who had viewed him as being theologically liberal. However, as the divide grew between the two factions, Osgood ultimately favored the orthodox Trinitarian theology, alienating some of the most influential citizens of Springfield in the process. The majority of the church sided with Osgood, but the Unitarians were both vocal and wealthy, and included prominent businessmen such as merchant Jonathan Dwight, Sr. As a result, around 117 Unitarians separated from the First Church in 1819, forming the Third Congregational Society of Springfield. This name came from the fact that Chicopee, home of the Second Congregational Church, was still a part of Springfield at the time.
Later in 1819, the Unitarians moved into this newly-completed church building at the corner of State and Willow Streets. Both the land and the building had been donated by Jonathan Dwight, and the building was designed by local architect Simon Sanborn. It bore a strong resemblance to the new First Church building, which had been completed several weeks earlier at Court Square, and it reflected the Greek Revival style of architecture, which was becoming popular for churches and other public buildings during this era.
The first pastor of the Unitarian church was William B. O. Peabody, who was just 21 years old when he was ordained in October 1820. He served the church for the next 27 years, until his death in 1847, and during this time he also had a successful career as an author. He wrote several books, plus a number of poems and hymns, and he was also a regular contributor to the North American Review literary magazine. None of Peabody's 19th century successors were able to match his longevity with the congregation, but the second-longest pastorate here in this church building was that of Francis Tiffany, who served from 1852 until 1864, when he left to accept a position as professor of English and rhetoric at Antioch College in Ohio. Like Peabody, he also became a published author, writing a biography of social reformer Dorothea Dix in 1890.
The Unitarians worshiped here in this building for nearby 50 years, but by the 1860s they had begun planning the construction of a new building further up the hill, opposite where the Springfield City Library now stands. In the process, they helped to start the career of Henry H. Richardson, who would become one of the most influential architects in American history. Although he did not have any major commissions at the time, Richardson was allowed to enter the design competition thanks to Chester W. Chapin, a railroad and bank executive who was a prominent member of the Unitarian church. Chapin's son-in-law had attended college with Richardson, and this connection enabled the young architect to submit his plans for a new church, which were ultimately the ones chosen in the competition. The new building, known as the Church of the Unity, was completed in 1869, and Richardson's work helped to establish his reputation as an architect.
The other building in the first photo, just to the right of the church, is the Springfield Bank. This brick, two-story Greek Revival structure was built around in 1814, the same year that the Springfield Bank was established as the first bank here in Springfield. It was one of the many business interests of Jonathan Dwight, who was one of its founders and its first president, serving from 1814 to 1817. The building was also the first home of the Springfield Institution for Savings, which was established in 1827. It was the first savings bank in Springfield, and it shared this building with the Springfield Bank until 1849, when it moved into the newly-completed Foot Block at the corner of Main and State Streets. In the meantime, the Springfield Bank remained here in this building until 1863, when it was reorganized as the Second National Bank. This new bank relocated three years later, and the old building later became a store owned by grain merchant John W. Wilder.
Only four years after the Unitarians moved up the hill to their new building, the old church burned down on the night of October 12, 1873. The site was later redeveloped with a large brick commercial building known as the Kirkham and Olmstead Block, which was in turn replaced by the two-story building that is now standing here. However, the old bank building survived well into the 20th century, despite being converted to other commercial use. The 1920 atlas shows it still standing, but it was demolished sometime before 1933, when the Art Deco-style Springfield Safe Deposit and Trust Company building was completed on the site. This building, now the Community Music School, is still here today, and is visible on the far right side of the 2017 photo.
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Cleveland man reunited with beloved schnauzer after carjacking over Thanksgiving holiday
Posted 8:38 pm, December 3, 2019, by Tribune Media Wire
CLEVELAND (WJW) -- A suburban Cleveland man has been reunited with his beloved dog after the pet was taken by a gunman during a carjacking.
"Hey you, there you are!" said Mike Reed, as his miniature schnauzer Franz sprinted toward him and jumped into his arms.
The friendly little dog was caught in the middle of a drama that played out over the Thanksgiving holiday. He was clearly relieved to be back in the protective arms of his owner, who says he feels like he has been reunited with his son.
"I almost want to cry because I never thought I would see my little guy again. He's everything to me," Reed said.
Franz was sitting in a car last Wednesday night, while Reed went inside the Cleveland Deli and Beverage Center at West 150th Street and Puritas Avenue. When Reed came outside, he was confronted by a gunman, who demanded his wallet and the keys to the car.
The suspect then fled with Franz still in the back seat. When Cleveland police arrived at the scene, the only thing Reed could think about was finding his dog.
"I was worried that he was dumped. We put flyers out everywhere, we got tons of people on social media helping us out," Reed said. "As cold as it was, it was like 20 degrees outside, the poor guy would have froze. All I could think about was him hiding under a porch or something like that, it was terrible."
Investigators said it was good police work that led to the recovery of Franz. Officers tracked a GPS inside the stolen car to East Cleveland, where the man behind the wheel was arrested.
He eventually admitted that he decided to keep the dog for himself and showed police where he had been hiding Franz.
Donte Thomas, 23, of Cleveland, is now facing charges of aggravated robbery and grand theft auto.
Reed credits police with making sure that Franz was safely returned home.
"They kept up the hard work, and East Cleveland working together with Cleveland together they made this happen. They really did and I'm so grateful for them," he said.
As Reed clung to Franz he told WJW that he plans to have a microchip implanted in the dog, so that he never loses track of him again.
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CES 2019 - NVIDIA has just made its new GeForce RTX gaming laptops official, with a record 40 new laptops with a mix of GeForce RTX 2080, RTX 2070, and the newly-announced RTX 2060 inside.
One of the new GeForce RTX 2080 powered gaming laptops will be the MSI GS65 Stealth, which is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 desktop graphics card, and NVIDIA compared it to having 2x the perofrmance of Sony's best PlayStation 4 Pro console. The new RTX 2080-powered MSI GS65 Stealth is capable of running Battlefield V at 60FPS+ with RTX on, and it can also handle some serious on-the-go video editing power with 6K RED video editing support.
The GeForce RTX 2060 powered Acer Predator Triton 500 is 1.6x the speed of a PS4 Pro, with faster-than GeForce GTX 1070 desktop graphics, and can also run Battlefield V with RTX on at over 60FPS. The GeForce RTX 2060 powered laptops are fine for 4K RED video editing, another big bonus.
We haven't got pricing yet, but these new GeForce RTX series gaming laptops will begin shipping on January 29.


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Sherlock Holmes may not be so elementary after all
Last week, CBS ordered a pilot for a new show tentatively dubbed Elementary, a crime procedural which places Sherlock Holmes in modern-day New York City.
At the time, I commented that the pilot seemed quite similar to the concept for a currently running (and very popular) BBC show known as Sherlock, a crime procedural which depicts the detective in modern-day London.
Apparently, Hartswood Films, the studio which makes Sherlock for the BBC, has also noted the similarity, and is taking issue.
Now, I was originally willing to write off the development of the new series as just a natural progression of the current fascination with Holmes, especially after the recent, incredible Holmes films with Robert Downey Jr.
Of course, since the character is long out of copyright, anyone is allowed to use Holmes without having to ask anyone's permission, but according to Sherlock producer Sue Vertue, Hartswood is prepared to take CBS to the courts over Elementary.
Because they allegedly approached the Sherlock show runners 'a while back' about creating an Americanized version of Sherlock, which Hartswood turned down, with the reasoning that the BBC show already has an American audience through iStore and DVD sales.
Meaning, if CBS wanted to buy and air Sherlock episodes from the BBC, they could, but the BBC did not want them to make a new Sherlock series which would compete with their own. CBS apparently accepted this and backed down, but then went ahead with their plan to create the new show anyway, without the assistance of the BBC.
Of course, as I mentioned, Holmes himself is in the public domain, so any attempt to create a new franchise based on the character is protected by fair use laws on both sides of the Atlantic. The issue is the idea of moving Sherlock into the modern era, and having the classic detective work in the world of cellular phones and laptop computers.
So is CBS's newly developing show close enough to the BBC series to be an infringement? That will be up to the courts to decide unless the two networks can negotiate some sort of agreement or settlement.
It should be noted that CBS has thus far only ordered a pilot for Elementary, which was penned by Robert Doherty who also exec produces with Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly. There is no cast, production or release details available yet.
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Our dedicated purchasing and design team have assembled an extensive list of options and upgrades that you may select from to customize your new home. The home customization/option selection process is broken down into three stages in order to make the process enjoyable while also ensuring the continued construction progress on your home. We've broken down the process in the next section for you, but before we get to that we want to point out a few things for you to keep in mind while you're customizing your new home.
Homebuilders are faced with the dilemma of balancing flexibility for the buyer with the need to maximize quality control and maintain construction schedules. With a policy that is fair to everyone, schedules can be met, construction errors reduced, and costs kept under control - which is pretty ideal, right? We believe we have achieved that balance with the following policies governing the quantity and type of options available.
Due to cost fluctuations, the prices of our options and upgrades are subject to change prior to placing your order. However, the prices will not be subject to change after you have signed your Options Addendum and your selections have been ordered. Please keep in mind that these prices may be higher if your home has already been started since additional work may be required. Be sure to ask your sales representative about the options available for your specific home just to be sure.
PLEASE NOTE: No changes can be made to the exterior of the home or the color scheme after we have received a building permit for the home.
DUE TO THE AVAILABILITY OF SUPPLIES AND CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULES, OUR CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT MAY DENY ANY REQUESTED CHANGE. PRICES FOR OUR OPTIONS MAY HAVE TO BE REVISED IF CONSTRUCTION ON YOUR HOME HAS ALREADY BEGUN.
In order to maintain quality, safety, and control, only those trade contractors specifically under contract with Ryder and covered by our insurance policy are allowed to participate in the construction of your new home. Buyers are not permitted to make any changes or add any wiring, insulation, materials, etc. prior to the close of escrow. In addition, no outside suppliers may be used for any item.
The above guidelines ensure that each buyer receives fair and equal treatment. It is also our way of assuring that the schedule is met so that your new home is started on time and has the best chance to be completed according to our estimates and, most importantly, so you can finally move into your brand new home!
The first option-selection stage will consist of any options that will affect the foundation of your new home. These selections are generally made with your Ryder Agent at the same time as your contract signing appointment or within a day or two thereafter.
The second stage will consist of any options that will have an impact on the framing of your new home. The timing to make your Stage 2 selections will depend on the construction progress of your new home. Generally, you will meet with your Ryder Agent within a week or two after you have signed your purchase contract to make these selections.
In the third and final stage, you will have the opportunity to put the finishing touches on your new home with the assistance of our talented Design Center Specialist at the design center. We recommend that have a solid idea of the style and design you want for your home before entering Stage 3 so you do not feel overwhelmed by all the styles, materials, and color options available at the design center meeting. We know it can be a lot to take in, but have fun with it!
If you have purchased a home that is already under construction, your sales team will review with you the options that have been selected to that point.
If the options have not yet been ordered or installed, you may have the opportunity to re-select new options without incurring a fee. Depending on the construction stage of the home you have decided to purchase, you may also be able to make selections in addition to what has already been selected. Talk to your sales team for more information.
In many cases our construction team is not able to make modifications after any stage's deadline date has passed, but in the event we are able to accommodate your late option selection, it will be subject to a non-refundable $250.00 Processing & Delay Fee, per option. If any homebuyer elects to cancel an option that was previously chosen and paid a deposit for, there will be a $150.00 Cancellation Fee and possibly a Restocking Fee (if applicable).
Selecting and customizing your new home is one of the most exciting and fun aspects of the new home purchase process, but it can also be difficult to make lasting decisions about home customizations. We recommend that you spend some time at the model homes and educate yourself on the options available in order to be prepared for your option selection and design center meetings. For instance, it is strongly suggested you plan your furniture placement and electrical needs before Stage 2.
A 50% deposit is required for each option selection, so please remember to bring your checkbook as your selections will not be processed until your deposit is received. All option deposits are paid directly to Ryder Homes and will be applied to the down payment of your home at the close of escrow. Please consult your lender for more information, and refer to your Purchase Agreement to review your cutoff dates for each selection stage.