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Novel Thriller Airport Chapter Eight
Arthur Hailey
LESS THAN a lustrum ago, the airport was considered among the world's finest and most modern. Delegations inspected it admiringly. Civic politicians were given to pointing with pride and would huff and puff about "air leadership" and "a symbol of the jet age." Nowadays the politicians still huffed and puffed, but with less reason. What most failed to realize was that Lincoln International, like a surprising number of other major airports, was close to becoming a whited sepulcher.
Mel Bakersfeld pondered the phrase whited sepulcher while riding in darkness down runway one seven, left. It was an apt definition, he thought. The airport's deficiencies were serious and basic, yet, since they were mostly out of public view, only insiders were aware of them.
Travelers and visitors at Lincoln International saw principally the main passenger terminal---a brightly lighted, air-conditioned Taj Mahal. Of gleaming glass and chrome, the terminal was impressively spacious, its thronged concourses adjoining elegant waiting areas. Opulent service facilities ringed the passenger area. Six specialty restaurants ranged from a gourmet dining room, with gold-edged china and matching prices, to a grab-it-and-run hot dog counter. Bars, cozily darkened or stand-up and neon lit, were plentiful as toilets. While waiting for a flight, and without ever leaving the terminal, a visitor could shop, rent a room and bed, and take a steam bath with massage, have his hair cut, suit pressed, shoes shined, or even die and have his burial arranged by Holy Ghost Memorial Gardens which maintained a sales office on the lower concourse.
Judged by its terminal alone, the airport was still spectacular. Where its deficiencies lay were in operating areas, notably runways and taxiways.
Few of the eighty thousand passengers who flew in and out each day were aware of how inadequate---and therefore hazardous---the runway system had become. Even a year previously, runways and taxiways were barely sufficient; now, they were dangerously over-taxed. In normally busy periods, on two main runways, a takeoff or landing occurred every thirty seconds. The Meadowood situation, and the consideration the airport showed to community residents, made it necessary, at peak periods, to use an alternative runway which bisected one of the other two. As a result, aircraft took off and landed on converging courses, and there were moments when air traffic controllers held their breath and prayed. Only last week Keith Bakersfeld, Mel's brother, had predicted grimly, "Okay, so we stay on our toes in the tower, and we cope with the hairy ones, and we haven't brought two airplanes together at that intersection yet. But someday there'll be a second's inattention or misjudgment, and one of us will. I hope to God it isn't me because when it happens it'll be the Grand Canyon all over again."
The intersection Keith had spoken of was the one which the Conga Line had just passed over. In the cab of the Snowblast, Mel glanced to the rear. The Conga Line was well clear of the intersection now, and, through a momentary gap in the snow, airplane navigation lights were visible on the other runway, moving swiftly as a flight took off. Then, incredibly, there were more lights only a few yards behind as another flight landed, it seemed at the same instant.
The Snowblast driver had turned his head also. He whistled. "Those two were pretty close."
Mel nodded. They had been close, exceptionally so, and for an instant his flesh had prickled with alarm. Obviously, what had happened was that an air traffic controller, instructing the pilots of both airplanes by radio, had cut tolerances exceedingly fine. As usual, the controller's skilled judgment had proven right, though only just. The two flights were safe---one now in the air, the other on the ground. But it was the need for a multiplicity of such hairbreadth judgments which created an unceasing hazard.
Mel had pointed out the hazard frequently to the Board of Airport Commissioners and to members of City Council, who controlled airport financing, As well as immediate construction of more runways and taxiways, Mel had urged purchase of additional land around the airport for long term development. There had been plenty of discussion, and sometimes angry argument, as a result. A few Board and Council members saw things the way Mel did, but others took a strongly counter view. It was hard to convince people that a modern jetport, built in the late 1950s, could so quickly have become inadequate to the point of danger. It made no difference that the same was true of other centers---New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and elsewhere; there were certain things which politicians simply did not want to see.
Mel thought: maybe Keith was right. Perhaps it would take another big disaster to arouse public awareness, just as the 1956 Grand Canyon disaster had spurred President Eisenhower and the Eighty-fourth Congress to revamp the airways. Yet, ironically, there was seldom any difficulty in getting money for non-operational improvements. A proposal to triple-deck all parking lots had won city approval without dissent. But that was something which the public---including those who had votes---could see and touch. Runways and taxiways were different. A single new runway cost several million dollars and took two years to build, yet few people other than pilots, air traffic controllers, and airport management, ever knew how good or bad a runway system was.
But at Lincoln International a showdown was coming soon. It had to. In recent weeks, Mel had sensed the signs, and when it happened the choice would be clear---between advancement on the ground, matching new achievements in the air, or impotently drifting backward. In aviation, there was never a status quo.
There was another factor.
As well as the airport's future, Mel's personal future was at stake. Whichever way airport policies veered, so would his own prestige advance or lessen in places where it counted most.
Only a short time ago, Mel Bakersfeld had been a national spokesman for ground logistics of aviation, had been touted as the rising young genius in aviation management. Then, abruptly, a single, calamitous event had wrought a change. Now, four years later, the future was no longer clear, and there were doubts and questioning about Mel Bakersfeld, in others' minds as well as in his own.
The event which caused the change was the John F. Kennedy assassination.
"Here's the end of the runway, Mr. Bakersfeld. You riding back with us, or what?" The voice of the Snowblast driver broke in on Mel's reverie.
"Hm?"
The man repeated his question. Ahead of them, once more, warning lights were flashing on, the Conga Line showing. Half the width of a runway was cleared at one time. Now, the Line would reverse itself and go back the way it had come, clearing the remaining portion. Allowing for stops and starts, it took forty-five minutes to an hour to plow and sand a single runway.
"No," Mel said. "I'll get off here."
"Right, sir." The driver directed a signal light at the assistant foreman's car which promptly swung out of line. A few moments later, as Mel clambered down, his own car was waiting. From other plows and trucks, crews were descending and hurrying to the coffee wagon.
Driving back toward the terminal, Mel radioed the Snow Desk, confirming to Danny Farrow that runway one seven, left, would be usable shortly. Then, switching to ATC ground control, he turned the volume low, the subdued, level voices a background to his thoughts.
In the Snowblast cab he had been reminded of the event which, of all others he remembered, had struck with greatest impact.
It had been four years ago.
He thought, startled, was it really that long ago?---four years since the gray November afternoon when, dazedly, he had pulled the p.a. microphone across his desk toward him---the microphone, rarely used, which overrode all others in the terminal---and cutting in on a flight arrival bulletin, had announced to concourses which swiftly hushed, the shattering news which seconds earlier had flashed from Dallas.
His eyes, as he spoke then, had been on the photograph on the facing wall across his office, the photograph whose inscription read: To my friend Mel Bakersfeld, concerned, as I am, with attenuating the surly bonds of earth---John F. Kennedy.
The photograph still remained, as did many memories.
The memories began, for Mel, with a speech he had made in Washington, D.C.
At the time, as well as airport general manager, he had been president of the Airport Operators Council---the youngest leader, ever, of that small but influential body linking major airports of the world. AOC headquarters was in Washington, and Mel flew there frequently.
His speech was to a national planning congress.
Aviation, Mel Bakersfeld had pointed out, was the only truly successful international undertaking. It transcended ideological boundaries as well as the merely geographic. Because it was a means of intermingling diverse populations at ever-diminishing cost, it offered the most practical means to world understanding yet devised by man.
Even more significant was aerial commerce. Movement of freight by air, already mammoth in extent, was destined to be greater still. The new, giant jet airplanes, to be in service by the early 1970s, would be the fastest and cheapest cargo carriers in human history; within a decade, oceangoing ships might be dry-dock museum pieces, pushed out of business in the same way that passenger airplanes had clobbered the Queen Mary and Elizabeth. The effect could be a new, world-wide argosy of trade, with prosperity for now impoverished nations. Technologically, Mel reminded his audience, the airborne segment of aviation offered these things, and more, within the lifetimes of today's middle-aged people.
Yet, he had continued, while airplane designers wove the stuff of dreams into fabrics of reality, facilities on the ground remained, for the most part, products of shortsightedness or misguided haste. Airports, runway systems, terminals, were geared to yesterday, with scant---if any---provision for tomorrow; what was lost sight of, or ignored, was the juggernaut speed of aviation's progress. Airports were set up piecemeal, as individually as city halls, and often with as small imagination. Usually, too much was spent on showplace terminals, too little on operating areas. Coordinated, high-level planning, either national or international, was non-existent.
At local levels, where politicians were apathetic about problems of ground access to airports, the situation was as bad, or worse.
"We have broken the sound barrier," Mel declared, "but not the ground barrier."
He listed specific areas for study and urged intemational planning---U.S. led and presidentially inspired---for aviation on the ground.
The speech was accorded a standing ovation and was widely reported. It produced approving nods from such diverse sources as The Times of London, Pravda, and The Wall Street Journal.
The day after the speech, Mel was invited to the White House.
The meeting with the President had gone well. It had been a relaxed, good-humored session in the private study on the White House second floor. J.F.K., Mel found, shared many of his own ideas.
Subsequently, there were other sessions, some of them "brain trust" affairs involving Kennedy aides, usually when the Administration was considering aviation matters. After several such occasions, with informal aftermaths, Mel was at home in the White House, and less surprised than he had been at first to find himself there at all. As time went on, he drifted into one of those easygoing relationships which J.F.K. encouraged among those with expertise to offer him.
It was a year or so after their first encounter that the President sounded Mel out about heading the Federal Aviation Agency. (It was an Agency then, an Administration later.) Sometime during the Kennedy second term, which everyone assumed would be automatic, the incumbent FAA Administrator, Halaby, would move on to other things. How did Mel feel about implementing, from within, some of the measures he had advocated from without? Mel had replied that he was very interested indeed. He made it clear that if an offer were made, his answer would be yes.
Word filtered out, not from Mel, but through others who had had it from the top. Met was "in"---a dues-paid member of the inner circle. His prestige, high before, went higher still. The Airport Operators Council re-elected him president. His own airport commissioners voted him a handsome raise. Barely in his late thirties, he was considered the Childe Roland of aviation management.
Six months later, John F. Kennedy made his fateful Texas journey.
Like others, Mel was first stunned, then later wept. Only later still, did it dawn on him that the assassin's bullets had ricocheted onto the lives of others, his own among them. He discovered he was no longer "in" in Washington. Najeeb Halaby did, in fact, move on from FAA---to a senior vice-presidency of Pan American---but Mel did not succeed him. By then, power had shifted, influences waned. Mel's name, he later learned, was not even on President Johnson's short list for the FAA appointment.
Mel's second tenure as AOC president ran out uneventfully and another bright young man succeeded him. Mel's trips to Washington ceased. His public appearances became limited to local ones, and, in a way, he found the change to be a relief. His own responsibilities at Lincoln International had already increased as air traffic proliferated beyond most expectations. He became intensely occupied with planning, coupled with efforts to persuade the Board of Airport Commissioners to his own viewpoints. There was plenty to think about, including troubles at home. His days and weeks and months were full.
And yet, there was a sense that time and opportunity had passed him by. Others were aware of it. Unless something dramatic occurred, Mel surmised, his career might continue, and eventually end, precisely where he was.
"Tower to mobile one---what is your position?" The radio enjoinder broke through Mel's thoughts, returning him abruptly to the present.
He turned up the radio volume and reported. By now, he was nearing the main passenger terminal, its lights becoming clearer, despite the still heavily falling snow. The aircraft parking areas, he observed, were as fully occupied as when he left, and there was still a line of arriving aircraft waiting for gate positions to be vacated.
"Mobile one, hold until the Lake Central Nord crosses ahead of you, then follow it in."
"This is mobile one. Roger."
A few minutes later, Mel eased his car into the terminal basement parking area.
Near his parking stall was a locked box with an airport telephone. He used one of his passkeys to open the box, and dialed the Snow Desk. Danny Farrow answered. Was there any fresh news, Mel inquired, about the mired Aereo-Mexican jet?
"Negative," Danny said. "And the tower chief said to tell you that not being able to use runway three zero is still slowing traffic fifty percent. Also, he's getting more phone complaints from Meadowood every time there's a takeoff over there."
Mel said grimly, "Meadowood will have to suffer." Community meeting or not, there was nothing he could do to eliminate overhead noise for the time being. The most important thing at the moment was to reduce the lag in operations. "Where's Joe Patroni now?"
"Same place. Still held up."
"Can he make it for sure?"
"TWA says so. He has a phone in his car, and they've been in touch."
"As soon as Joe gets here," Mel instructed, "I want to be notified. Wherever I am."
"That'll be downtown, I guess."
Mel hesitated. There was no reason, he supposed, why he need remain at the airport any longer tonight. Yet again, unaccountably, he had the same sense of foreboding which had disturbed him on the airfield. He remembered his conversation earlier with the tower watch chief, the line of waiting aircraft on the ramp apron outside. He made a spontaneous decision.
"No, I won't be downtown. We need that runway badly, and I'm not leaving until I know positively that Patroni is out there on the field, in charge."
"In that case," Danny said, "I suggest you call your wife right now. Here's the number she's at."
Mel wrote it down, then depressed the receiver rest and dialed the downtown number. He asked for Cindy, and after a brief wait, heard her voice say sharply, "Mel, why aren't you here?"
"I'm sorry, I was held up. There've been problems at the airport. It's a pretty big storm..."
"Damn you, get down here fast!"
From the fact that his wife's voice was low, Mel deduced there were others within hearing. Just the same, she managed to convey a surprising amount of venom.
Mel sometimes tried to associate the voice of Cindy nowadays with the Cindy he remembered before their marriage fifteen years ago. She had been a gentler person then, it seemed to him. In fact, her gentleness had been one of the things which appealed to Mel when they first met in San Francisco, he on leave from the Navy and Korea. Cindy had been an actress at the time, though in a minor way because the career she had hoped for had not worked out, and clearly wasn't going to. She had had a succession of diminishingly small parts in summer stock and television, and afterward, in a moment of frankness, admitted that marriage had been a welcome release from the whole thing.
Years later, that story changed a little, and it became a favorite gambit of Cindy's to declare that she had sacrificed her career and probable stardom because of Mel. More recently, though, Cindy didn't like her past as an actress being mentioned at all. That was because she had read in Town and Country that actresses were seldom, if ever, included in The Social Register, and addition of her own name to the Register was something Cindy wanted very much indeed.
"I'm coming downtown to join you just as soon as I can," Mel said.
Cindy snapped, "That isn't good enough. You should be here already. You knew perfectly well that tonight was important to me, and a week ago you made a definite promise."
"A week ago I didn't know we were going to have the biggest storm in six years. Right now we've a runway out of use, there's a question of airport safety..."
"You've people working for you, haven't you? Or are the ones you've chosen so incompetent they can't be left alone?"
Mel said irritably, "They're highly competent. But I get paid to take some responsibility, too."
"It's a pity you can't act responsibly to me. Time and again I make important social arrangements which you enjoy demolishing."
Listening, as the words continued, Mel sensed that Cindy was getting close to boiling point. Without any effort, he could visualize her now, five feet six of imperious energy in her highest heels, clear blue eyes flashing, and her blonde coiffed head tilted back in that damnably attractive way she had when she was angry. That was one reason, Mel supposed, why, in their early years of marriage, his wife's temper outbursts seldom dismayed him. The more heated she became, it always seemed, the more desirable she grew. At such moments, he had invariably let his eyes rove upward, beginning at her ankles---not hurriedly, because Cindy possessed extraordinarily attractive ankles and legs; in fact, better than those of most other women Mel knew---to the rest of her which was just as proportionate and physically appealing.
In the past, when his eyes had made their appreciative assessment, some two-way physical communion sprang into being, prompting each to reach out, to touch one another, impulsively, hungrily. The result was predictable. Invariably, the origin of Cindy's anger was forgotten in a wave of sensuality which engulfed them. Cindy had an exciting, insistent savagery, and in their lovemaking would demand, "Hurt me, goddam you, hurt me!" At the end, they would be spent and drained, so that picking up the skein of a quarrel was more than either had the wish or energy to do.
It was, of course, a way of shelving, rather than resolving, differences which---Mel realized, even early on---were fundamental. As the years passed, and passion lessened, accumulated differences became more sharply accented.
Eventually, they ceased entirely to use sex as a panacea and, in the past year or so, physical intimacy of any kind had become more and more occasional. Cindy, in fact, whose bodily appetites had always needed satisfying whatever the state of mind between them, appeared in recent months to have become indifferent altogether. Mel had wondered about that. Had his wife taken a lover? It was possible, and Mel supposed he ought to care. The sad thing was, it seemed easier not to be concerned.
Yet there were still moments when the sight or sound of Cindy in her willful anger could stir him physically, arousing old desires. He had that feeling now as he listened to her excoriating voice on the telephone.
When he was able to cut in, he said, "It isn't true that I enjoy demolishing your arrangements. Most of the time I go along with what you want, even though I don't think the things we go to are all that important. What I would enjoy are a few more evenings at home with the children."
"That's a lot of crap," Cindy said, "and you know it."
He felt himself tense, gripping the telephone more tightly. Then he conceded to himself: perhaps the last remark was true, to an extent. Earlier this evening he had been reminded of the times he had stayed at the airport when he could have gone home---merely because he wanted to avoid another fight with Cindy. Roberta and Libby had got left out of the reckoning then, as children did, he supposed, when marriages went sour. He should not have mentioned them.
But apart from that, tonight was different. He ought to stay on at the airport, at least until it became known for sure what was happening about the blocked runway.
"Look," Mel said, "let's make one thing clear. I haven't told you this before, but last year I kept some notes. You wanted me to come to fifty-seven of your charitable whingdings. Out of that I managed forty-five, which is a whole lot more than I'd attend from choice, but it isn't a bad score."
"You bastard! I'm not a ball game where you keep a scorecard. I'm your wife."
Mel said sharply, "Take it easy!" He was becoming angry, himself. "Also, in case you don't know it, you're raising your voice. Do you want all those nice people around to know what kind of a heel you have for a husband?"
"I don't give a goddam!" But she said it softly, just the same.
"I do know you're my wife, which is why I intend to get down there just as soon as I can." What would happen, Mel wondered, if he could reach out and touch Cindy now? Would the old magic work? He decided not. "So save me a place, and tell the waiter to keep my soup warm. Also, apologize and explain why I'm late. I presume some of the people there have heard there is an airport." A thought struck him. "Incidentally, what's the occasion tonight?"
"I explained last week."
"Tell me again."
"It's a publicity party---cocktails and dinner---to promote the costume ball which is being given next month for the Archidona Children's Relief Fund. The press is here. They'll be taking photographs."
Now Mel knew why Cindy wanted him to hurry. With him there, she stood a better chance of being in the photographs---and on tomorrow's newspaper social pages.
"Most other committee members," Cindy insisted, "have their husbands here already."
"But not all?"
"I said most."
"And you did say the Archidona Relief Fund?"
"Which Arcbidona? There are two. One's in Ecuador, the other in Spain." At college, maps and geography had fascinated Mel, and he had a retentive memory.
For the first time, Cindy hesitated. Then she said testily, "What does it matter? This isn't the time for stupid questions."
Mel wanted to laugh out loud. Cindy didn't know. As usual, she had chosen to work for a charity because of who was involved, rather than what.
He said maticiously, "How many letters do you expect to get from this one?"
"I don't know what you mean."
"Oh, yes, you do."
To be considered for listing in The Social Register, a new aspirant needed eight sponsoring letters from people whose names already appeared there. At the last count Mel had heard, Cindy had collected four.
"By God, Mel, if you say anything---tonight or any other time..."
"Will the letters be free ones, or do you expect to pay for them like those other two?" He was aware of having an advantage now. It happened very rarely.
Cindy said indignantly, "That's a filthy allegation. It's impossible to buy your way in..."
"Nuts!" Mel said. "I get the canceled checks from our joint account. Remember?"
There was a silence. Then Cindy asserted, low-voiced and savagely, "Listen to me! You'd better get here tonight, and soon. If you don't come, or if you do come and embarass me by saying anything of what you did just now, it'll be the end. Do you understand?"
"I'm not sure that I do." Mel spoke quietly. Instinct cautioned him that this was an important moment for them both. "Perhaps you'd better tell me exactly what you mean."
Cindy countered, "You figure it out."
She hung up.
ON HIS WAY from the parking area to his office, Mel's fury seethed and grew. Anger had always come to him less quickly than to Cindy. He was the slow-burn type. But he was burning now.
He was not entirely sure of the focus of his anger. A good deal was directed at Cindy, but there were other factors, too: His professional failure, as he saw it, to prepare effectually for a new era of aviation; a seeming inability to infuse others any longer with his own convictions; high hopes, unfulfilled. Somehow, between them all, Mel thought, his personal and professional lives had become twin testaments to inadequacy. His marriage was on the rocks, or apparently about to go there; if and when it did, he would have failed his children, also. At the same time, at the airport, where he was trustee for thousands who passed through daily in good faith, all his efforts and persuasion had failed to halt deterioration. There, the high standards he had worked to build were eroding steadily.
En route to the executive mezzanine, he encountered no one he knew. It was just as well. If he had been spoken to, whatever question had been put, be would have snarled a heated answer. In his office, he peeled off the heavy outdoor clothing and let it stay on the floor where it fell. He lit a cigarette. It had an acrid taste, and he stubbed it out. As he crossed to his desk, he was aware that the pain in his foot had returned, increasingly.
There was a time---it seemed long ago---when on nights like this, if his wounded foot pained him, he would have gone home, where Cindy would have insisted he relax. He would have a hot bath first, then after, while he lay face downward on their bed, she would massage his back and neck with cool, firm fingers until pain ebbed out of him. It was unthinkable, of course, that Cindy would ever do the same thing again; but even if she did, he doubted that it would work. You could lose communication in other ways besides the spoken word.
Seated at his desk, Mel put his head in his hands.
As he had done on the airfield earlier, he shivered. Then, abruptly in the silent office, a telephone bell jangled. For a moment he ignored it. It rang again, and he realized it was the red alarm system telephone on a stand beside the desk. In two swift strides he reached it.
"Bakersfeld here."
He heard clicks and more acknowledgments as others came on the line.
"This is Air Traffic Control," the tower chief's voice announced. "We have an airborne emergency, category three.


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After our perusal of a since-demolished pub called The Junction, I thought we could stop by this street corner, where Bright Street meets Salisbury Terrace, another junction, not far away.
A long walk across York on this day ten years ago took us through this part of the Leeman road area, where there's a shop on the corner. I'd been struck by the interesting-looking building opposite — St Barnabas Church Hall. The photo above was included on that old page, but only in a very small version. Because back then most people didn't have fast broadband connections and so photos on web pages were smaller.
A lot has changed since then, and not just in terms of assembling web pages for you, dear readers. Some Googling for information on the church hall pictured tells me that it's now called the Barnabas Centre and is run by a church group, but not the established church (which is represented locally by St Barnabas's church, not far away).
As far as I know the corner shop, Leeman Stores, is still there, or was last year when the Google Street View cameras captured it. Presumably it's well-used and profitable, as it has survived when so many other corner shops haven't. The fact that there isn't a Tesco Express or Sainsbury's Local in the area might also have something to do with it.
The other thing I notice about the photo above is the A-board advertising the local Press, with that day's headline. I took a closer photo of it too, zooming in. This was presumably because it mentioned something of significance and interest at the time, a long-running controversy.
Our local press was still at that point called the Evening Press, though the A-board poster emphasised that it was the 'compact' version of it, reduced from its earlier broadsheet size (and its previous title of the Yorkshire Evening Press). I wonder how many daily copies were sold in 2006. I wonder how many daily copies are sold now. Not many, probably.
On that day ten years ago it proclaimed 'GALLOWAY PLEDGE ON ARC LIGHT' — referring to council leader Steve Galloway and the highly controversial issue at that time, where the new Arc Light Centre would be built.
At a full council meeting last week, leader Steve Galloway, pictured, pledged to defend "minorities" from the "forces of the Right" and continue the consultation process.
The Press archives include many stories on this issue (see 'More information', below) – a reminder of how difficult it was to find a site for the new Arc Light centre.
At the time of the above photo the Arc Light occupied the Bullnose building at the end of Leeman Road, near the NRM, opening there in 1999. In 2004 it celebrated its 5th anniversary with a get-together in the Junction pub further down Leeman Road (demolished).
I'm not sure if anyone's occupying the Bullnose building since the Arc Light left and moved into its premises on Clarence Street. According to press reports back then it too would be demolished, when the work on York Central got underway.
Since then the Bullnose building has been recognised as having heritage value. Will that protect it from being demolished? Perhaps not, as this area doesn't have a good track record.
So many other things in the Leeman Road area have been demolished, including the old foundry buildings in the industrial area, the old school building in the residential area, and the Junction pub.
But, thankfully, not the old church hall, pictured above.
Reading about that has sparked further thought, more connections. (It's all connected.) I was completely unaware of the plans to convert it to residential accommodation, but today found an article from June 2008: Community hope for church hall. It made me think of the current debate and discord over Groves Chapel. Both cases involve a church group wanting to keep a building for community use. Clearly the Youth With A Mission (YWAM) group succeeded in their negotiations with the parochial church council of St Barnabas Church, and now own and occupy the building.
The Hope Church haven't given up their campaign for Groves Chapel. The difference there is that Groves Chapel has been in the ownership of the NHS Trust, which has different priorities. Mainly a duty to get as much money as possible from the sale of any assets. And whereas the St Barnabas Church Hall was well-used by the local community, it has been decades since Groves Chapel was used by anyone other than the NHS.
The self-contained nature of this area almost effortlessly creates a sense of identity – the name Leeman Road is used locally to describe the whole residential area, not just one street.
… Salisbury Road, Salisbury Terrace and Kingsland Terrace, to me were 'Leeman Road'. I suspect it has something to do with the one-way system, and the fact that I knew this area from childhood, going through it as a passenger in the family car, from the Water End junction, through the fairly wide Salisbury Road and then into the much narrower terraced Salisbury Terrace, then turning right towards Leeman Road, going under the railway bridge, then turning a sharp left towards town. It felt like one road. But it isn't.
Roads often travelled, many years ago, as a child, as a passenger in a car, but only a few times on foot as an adult, in the 21st century.
It's an interesting area, which I might write about again. For now, this page is long enough.
Just some thoughts prompted by one ten year old photo of a street corner.


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Agamben's view of what happens when 'life' is placed at the centre of politics.
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Sistemes estel·lars binaris
Un sistema estel·lar de dues estrelles és conegut com a estrella binària, o estrella doble. Si no hi ha forces de marea, ni pertorbacions per altres forces, ni transferències de massa d'una estrella a l'altra, es tracta d'un sistema estable, i les dues estrelles tracen una òrbita el·líptica entorn del centre de massa del sistema de forma indefinida. Vegeu: el problema dels dos cossos.

Exemples de sistemes binaris poden ser: Sírius, Proció i Cygnus X-1, aquest darrer possiblement un forat negre.

Sistema estel·lar triple
Un sistema estel·lar triple està constituït per tres estrelles que apareixen, des de la Terra, l'una a la vora de les altres.
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En un sistema d'estrelles triple, cada estrella orbita entorn del centre de massa del sistema, normalment de manera que dues de les estrelles formen un parell, estrella binària, i el tercer és un estel més llunyà situat fora de la parella. Aquesta configuració s'anomena sovint un sistema jeràrquic triple .

Els sistemes d'estrelles que contenen més de tres estrelles es poden descompondre normalment en estrelles binàries i estrelles que estan lligades jeràrquicament al conjunt binari formant un sistema.

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"How do you know what you're looking at?" I asked.
He then started hacking branches left, right and center, which confused me. Didn't he just say my grapevine was alive and well? If so, why was he cutting so much off?
"Don't worry," he said, as if reading my mind, "the vine is great, but you have a few rogue branches. Once I prune them, the remaining branches will get more nutrients and your grapes will be bigger.
Naturally the story of the vine and the branches played over in my mind as I thought of this life and our Christian journeys.
It has now been a year since we've moved in. I've witnessed two seasons from the grapevine in my backyard. One year without a pruning and one year with, and I gotta tell ya…. never has this passage of scripture come more alive.
Without Doug's intervention – a.k.a last summer – the grapes from my vine were small, bitter, dry and barely edible. But WITH a little TLC from his pruning process – a.k.a THIS summer – the grapes are big, crisp, tasty and oh so delicious – a night and day difference! It was as if God spoke to my own heart to say, see what kind of fruit your life can produce when you allow me to snip away the rogue branches?
I say the same thing to you.
We all have rogue branches in our lives that steal nutrients from the branches God has called us to be. Culture tells us we need to do, be, move and live in a million different directions, which cause us to constantly pull away from our connection to the vine. With every yes we say to the world, we inch further and further away from producing the kind of fruit Christ desires us to produce.
But if and when we're willing to assess our lives and seek His wisdom about the state of our health, God will pull a "Doug" and prune away the rogue branches while reminding us that, yes, indeed, we are alive and well, but with a little help from His pruning process, we will produce an amazing harvest.
Isn't that a *grape* promise?


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## Requirements

## Installation

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## Author

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## License

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1989 Buick Reatta
Tad Burness
Established in 1903, Buick was guided to success by Billy Durant, who founded General Motors in 1908 with Buick as its first product. Soon Oldsmobile, Cadillac, Oakland and Chevrolet would become a part of the giant GM empire.
Buick has always maintained an excellent standard of quality and durability. It's a conservative brand favored by doctors, teachers, realtors and other professional people.
Because Buick seldom built anything resembling a sports car (save for the Skylark convertibles of the mid-1950s or the 1963-1973 Rivieras), it was a surprise when Buick introduced its sizzling compact Reatta sports coupe in 1988. But those who wanted a true sports car opted for Chevrolet's fiberglass-bodied Corvette, extremely popular since its introduction back in 1953.
Reatta coupes were displayed at many Buick dealerships, and attracted attention, but not as many buyers as hoped for. So, the Reatta was finally pulled early in 1991, with little notice.
It may become a minor classic. In late 2004, it was listed as being worth $15,000 in top condition. Once its value surpasses the original $27,250 price, it will achieve the status of a sought-after collectible, maybe sooner.
You'll notice that the interior of the Reatta was designed for only two, with individual bucket seats. The curved-end rear compartment was designed mainly for luggage or packages (supplementing the trunk), but a small mattress could be laid down for the comfort of any children riding along. Of course, there should be seat belts.
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Cars We Remember
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Mark C. Bach
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Readers' Rides
The Bortz Report
The Stars In Our Cars
Top Collector Car Searches
Truckin' with Mark C. Bach
Zyla's Pickup Report
1969 Monteverdi
1938 Triumph Dolomite
1933 Beacon By Continental
1938 Horch Convertible
1928 Hudson Essex
1917 Ben-Hur Six
1914 F.A.L. Greyhound
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Q: How can we use variables in wxl file I have a "wxi" file that has all my variables defined. I include this file in my "wxs" to incorporate the variables.
As per requirement I used the variables in my localization file "wxl". Tried using $(var.var_name). But that fails to render the variable's value.
Also tried to define property in my wxs file and use the same in "wxl" using [PROPERTY_NAME]. But I see that the installer renders '[PROPERTY_NAME]' as a text and not its value that is defined in my "wxs".
Is there any other way to use variable in "wxl" file?

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Czech Republic: Three bodies are in Prague Park – police are investigating
Passers-by found three bodies near a bike path in a park on the northern outskirts of Prague.
27 November 2022 Sunday 04:56
Passers-by found three bodies near a bike path in a park on the northern outskirts of Prague. The police announced on Saturday evening that they assume a violent crime. Due to ongoing investigations, she did not want to give any information on the age and gender of the dead on Sunday. Results of the autopsy of all three dead are expected next week. One of the assumptions of the investigation was that it was a double murder followed by suicide.
The district mayor of Prague-Cakovice, Jiri Vintiska, reassured the population on Facebook: "There is currently no further danger." A police spokesman told the CTK news agency that none of the dead had been reported missing.
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Did you ever wonder how your electric bill compares to people that live in other parts of the country? The average U.S. home uses 908 Kwh (kilowatt-hours) per month at a cost of 12 cents each, or, $108.96 but that can vary greatly depending upon your exact location and of course, your local climate.
Idaho is the least expensive state with a cost of about 8 cents per kWh while Hawaii is the most expensive at a whopping 33 cents per kWh. Compared to the monthly U.S. average of only $108 a month, the average Hawaiian resident would pay approximately $300 for the same amount of usage while residents of Idaho would be paying only $73. That equates to a difference of $2,724 a year between the 2 states.


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America's largest chicken producer will follow McDonald's in eliminating human antibiotics
Less antibiotics in more chicken.
Image: AP/April Brown
Max Nisen
PublishedApril 28, 2015
In March, the fast food giant McDonald's announced that it would work with suppliers to stop using antibiotics important to humans in its chicken. Now Tyson Foods, a top supplier to McDonald's for decades and the largest meat processor in the United States, has announced that it is planning to wholly eliminate the use of human antibiotics in its chickens in the US by September 2017.
Tyson says it is looking into reducing antibiotic use in other animals this summer, and plans to eventually take similar measures internationally.
The move speaks to American consumers' increasing concerns about what they eat, and the overwhelming medical consensus that overuse of antibiotics in meat production is helping to create dangerous drug-resistant bacterias.
But it also speaks to the sheer weight that McDonald's wields as a company, even as it struggles.
Tyson's move may have been in the works for some time. The company says that it has been working to reduce antibiotic use since 2011, though a recent Reuters investigation found the practice was still widespread over the past two years. In any case, an enormous and powerful customer such as McDonald's insisting that it make these changes in a relatively short time period likely spurred things along.
Asked why this decision was made now, a Tyson spokesman said "We're doing this now because it's the most responsible approach to balance a global health concern and animal well-being."
He added that the company stopped using antibiotics in its 35 hatcheries last year, has substantially reduced the medicines' use over the past several years (by 80%), and is continually testing alternatives to antibiotics.
Another fast food chain, Chipotle, is taking a more aggressive approach in eliminating genetically modified and artificial foods, and in that sense could help change the way that food is produced in the country.
But the McDonald's stance—and Tyson's move following it—is going to change the chicken that millions and millions of Americans eat every day.


Be a True Carolina Tar Heel in Chapel Hill, NC!
Get away and have fun being Carolina Blue for a day! During your visit at The Carolina Inn located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, spend time exploring this bustling college town, like you've always wished you had. This Inn is centrally located from historic Franklin Street featuring charming shops, boutiques and museums. Let us help you get acquainted with Chapel Hill, NC!
Booking: Book online or call 800.962.8519.


Missy Lilje, CEO, Happendance, and Devon Price, CCEPA Student, talk about their new CCEPA program and how it helps further dancers in their career. For more information, please visit www.happendance.org or by calling 517-333-3528.
WSYM —Missy Lilje, CEO, Happendance, and Devon Price, CCEPA Student, talk about their new CCEPA program and how it helps further dancers in their career. For more information, please visit www.happendance.org or by calling 517-333-3528.


Kylie is a hot blonde with 32EE breasts that really compliment the rest of her perfectly curved body. A former student, Kylie dabbled in exotic dancing, in order to feed her adventurous lifestyle. She loves to unwind and listen to hip hop and she confesses that she can twerk very well!
Now living in LA, Kylie enjoys the amazing food variety she finds there. She has a great future ahead of her and we can't wait to see what's in store for us.


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Born in 1967, Canadian ice hockey players, Fredericton Express players,
Frölunda HC players
Quebec Nordiques draft picks
Quebec Nordiques players
Quebec Remparts alumni
Halifax Citadels players
Laval Titan alumni
AS Asiago Hockey players
HC Milano players
Eisbären Berlin players
ERC Ingolstadt players
Retired in 2003
Mario Brunetta
Position Goalie
Shot Right
Weight 6 ft 03 in (1.91 m)
Teams Quebec Nordiques
Nationality Canadian
Born January 25 1967 (1967-01-25) (age 52),
Quebec, QC, CAN
NHL Draft Rnd 8, 162nd overall, 1985
Pro Career 1987 – 2002
Mario Brunetta (b. January 25, 1967 in Quebec) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender.
Playing career Edit
Brunetta was drafted 162nd overall by the Quebec Nordiques during the 1985 NHL Entry Draft. Following three years in the QMJHL he was promoted to the Fredericton Express of the AHL. He had a 4-1 start with the Express and was promoted to the Nordiques where he played 29 games that season. During the next two seasons he spent the majority of his time in the AHL and was eventually released. He pursued a career in Europe, playing for teams in Italy, Germany and Sweden.
He retired in 2003.
Mario Brunetta's biography at Legends of Hockey
Mario Brunetta's career stats at The Internet Hockey Database
Retrieved from "https://icehockey.fandom.com/wiki/Mario_Brunetta?oldid=262414"
Canadian ice hockey players
Fredericton Express players


Both Action Duckpin Bowl and Atomic Bowl Duckpin can be booked for private party rentals or as smaller lane only reservations, some seasonal restrictions may apply. Whether you are entertaining a few friends or family, a large number of clients or wondering where to have your next office party, duckpin bowling is an unique location for food, fun and entertainment.
It is always best to make a reservation, we take walk ins if there are lanes available, but at times we may be booked or have a private event.
PLEASE CALL TO MAKE A BOWLING RESERVATION, WE DO NOT TAKE ONLINE RESERVATIONS! 317-686-6006 or 317-685-1955. Bowling reservations can be made during business hours by calling the above phone number. EMAIL Inquiries for bowling information or reservations are answered by the SALES OFFICE MONDAY - FRIDAY between 10am - 4pm.
Duckpin Bowling lanes are rented by the hour, open bowling lane rental is $40 per hour**, per lane and bowling shoes are provided for FREE. We book reservations in 1/2 hour increments, as a guideline, two people on one lane can bowl one game in 30 minutes, five people on a lane can bowl one game in hour. One lane can accommodate up to a group of six people, and seating is limited to six people on each lane area, so please account for all guests in your group whether they plan to bowl or not. If you have the maximum of six guests on one lane, you will need to book 1 1/2 hours to complete a full game. Please note, because we have a limited number of lanes to offer for reservations, we require a 6 hour notice for cancellation of open bowling reservations, or you will be charged a cancellation fee. You will also be committed to paying for the entire bowling reservation if you do not make changes 6 hours prior to arriving for your reserved lanes. Please call to make a reservation, we require a credit card to confirm and hold a bowling reservation. PLEASE CALL TO MAKE A BOWLING RESERVATION, WE DO NOT TAKE ONLINE RESERVATIONS! 317-686-6006 or 317-685-1955. Bowling reservations can be made anytime by calling the above phone number. EMAIL Inquiries for bowling information or reservations are answered by the SALES OFFICE MONDAY – FRIDAY between 10am – 4pm.


Weekly summer visits to Cole's Mobile Home Court provide reading enrichment, creative activities, and fresh snacks for elementary-aged residents.
Registration is now open for all Summer 2018 programming! This page belongs to the Summer Camps available this season! For Weekly Sites or Special Programs, please navigate down the Summer Activities tab!
Do you love Harry Potter or wish you could be a wizard? Then sign up for our magic-filled summer camp, Word Wizardry! We'll make our own wands, write spells, create potion recipes, and even have a Horcrux scavenger hunt. Find out if you belong in Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin through our Sorting Ceremony, and then work hard to earn the House Cup for your house! Prepare your witch hats and brooms because we are going to turn words into magic!
Do you love asking questions? What about listening to stories? Join us for this camp on the art of oral history and you can do both! Together we will learn about how to prepare for an interview – what questions to ask, how to ask them, and why. Once you have a series of questions developed and a person to interview– we'll send you out with a recorder to conduct your own oral history interview! After the interview is done you will learn how to transcribe the interview and craft it into a story of your experience. Afterward you will decide whether it should be published or archived. What story will you uncover?
It's summer! Let's go outside and… write poetry?!! That's right--this week, we will go on a writing expedition to the natural world! Activities will include: rhyming freeze tag, writing an ode to a frog, writing poems on leaves, the metaphor olympics, and cloudbursting.
No poetry writing experience necessary. Come ready to play outside and write some cool poems!
If you love stories of fantasy, folklore, and mythology, come join a week of worldbuilding and creativity! We'll make maps of new lands, write spells, discuss the finer points of magical creatures, dream up characters emerging into wild and mysterious predicaments, and turn the everyday scenes of Iowa City into enchanting and unfamiliar settings. Register now and get ready for writing, drawing, and plenty of magic!
Are you a writer with an interest in exploring theatre and performance? In this two-day workshop, we'll explore new ways to tell our own stories through a fusion of poetry, music, and movement. Following in the tradition of Ntozake Shange's "for colored girls...", we'll work together as an ensemble to chart the path of a choreopoem from inspiration and ideas to the page and from the page to the stage.
Do you love history, historical fiction, or just plain storytelling? Then join us for an an exciting week of delving into Iowa's history! We'll learn about forgotten Iowans, write stories imagining life in the past, and take plenty of field trips. One day we'll be opening "discovery trunks" at the Old Capitol Museum to get a rare peek at artifacts and treasures from the past. Another day we'll head to the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History to get a first hand look at long-lost animals. Get ready for some serious time travel, fun, and of course, writing!
Calling all fantasy enthusiasts, sci fi buffs, and those who simply want to play God! In World Building 101, you'll get the chance to build your own world from scratch, delving into all the inner bones of what makes a world tick. We'll explore politics, religion, magic, geography and more throughout the week as we write stories, draw maps and magical creatures, and go wherever else our imagination takes us.
Do you enjoy making up stories with words and pictures? Ever tried making your own book and filling it with poems? What can you create by cutting up newspapers and magazines and gluing the letters and pictures together again? Come and work with local artists and writers as we explore poetry, easy book arts, verbal and visual collage, monoprinting, and other techniques for blending words and images together in unexpected ways.
The Imaged Word is a special partnership between the Iowa City Press Coop and the IYWP.
The writer Patrick Ness has described Young Adult fiction as finding boundaries and crossing them, as figuring out, when you end, "who you are and what shape you are." As young adults yourselves, what better time to explore writing about young adult lives and concerns, and who—at this point in your life—you are?
We'll delve into YA writing, looking at what it is and how it works from diverse perspectives. We'll explore teen lives in television and movies and discuss patterns such as coming-of-age, dystopia, romance, and identity. We'll play improv games, and mine our own high school experiences in conversations and writing activities. We'll eavesdrop in coffee shops and head outdoors to imagine action scenes at the end of the world. By the end of the week, you'll leave with the first chapter and outline for your own YA novel.
Do you wish you could draw a poem using cartoon characters? What about writing a haiku using emojis? What kind of poem could you write in sharpie on a leaf or a frisbee? This week we will explore the strange and wonderful world of poetry comics--poems that incorporate visual elements. In the process, we will think about what an image can do to text, and what text can do to an image. At the end of the week, each participant will make their very own poetry comic zine!
No experience is necessary in poetry or comic-making. Come ready to write, draw, and think outside the box.
Nora Claire Miller is an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poems have appeared in DMQ Review, DecomP, Sidekick Lit, H.O.W. Journal, and elsewhere. Nora is originally from New York City.
Create a life mission statement. We'll write about what brings us alive as learners on this planet and create a personal statement that can help to guide us through decisions about what classes to take, where and how we want to learn, what to do after high school, and how to organize a college experience. Once we have honed our statements, we'll print them on posters, tshirts, and maybe even some public walls!
Author Jennifer New leads the written inquiry + local artist and teacher Dan Peterson leads the print making. This class is a combined effort of Iowa Youth Writing Project and PS1.
because we are going to turn words into magic!
Learn about the field of journalism from the staff of Little Village, the Iowa City & Cedar Rapids area's news & culture magazine. Campers will get to meet the LV staff, learn how to spot a great story, gather information, and put it all together in their own 'zine.
Do you love stories about strange monsters and brave heroes? About dangerous quests and magical treasure? Then join this fun week-long camp where we'll read myths from all over the world, create our own heroes, and discover legends in our own backyards. Campers will be introduced to traditional stories from every continent and learn a little bit about the different cultures they belong to. Activities will include following the classic "Hero's Journey," making our own monsters, heroes, and treasure, and then writing adventures that combine them all. This would be a great camp for anyone who loves Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson Series.
Erin McInerney is a senior English major at the University of Iowa. She has studied creative writing and literary analysis, as well as book design and the fundamentals of editing and publishing. She has been a volunteer with the IYWP since the summer of 2017, is an IYWP administrative Intern for the 2017-2018 academic year, and has a lot of experience working with kids.
Have you always wanted to write a play or a short sketch? Would you like to teach a robot how to be your actor? In this camp you'll create a short sketch or scene and work with others to make it come to life. Our "actors" will be Sphero robots, which can move, light up, and even talk. You will learn how to program your actors to put on a show for you and your friends!
What is it you love about Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who? Is it space travel, time travel, aliens? The fate of entire planets played out on the screen or page? Sci-fi writing opens up portals to all of this and more, stretching the imagination to explore far beyond what we know.
Have you ever written something down and felt the need to shout it from the mountaintop? Have you heard people perform spoken word and wondered how they do it? In this week long camp we will become slam poets by studying common inspiration tools, writing several slam poems, and performing our work for our peers. This is a camp designed for you to grow your thoughts, find your voice, and speak out for everyone to hear. You've got something to say and it's your time to take the stage!
Final performance will be held on Friday, July 20, 3-4pm, and will be open to family and friends.
Here's one for visual artists who write short stories, poets who paint, or any teen who's into combining words and visual elements. We'll find inspiration for writing by looking at artwork and make visual art inspired by literature. We will collaborate with local writers and artists to explore poetry, verbal and visual collage, monoprints, poetry broadsides, and whatever synthesis of images and words you find interesting.
Do you pine over Mr. Darcy? Do you love the sweeping moors of Wuthering Heights or the uncanny horror of Frankenstein's monster? While great, these books and many others pose problems due to the time and place in which they were written. Maybe you don't like the classics at all, and just wish that they could be more exciting. Whether you love them or hate them, this is a camp for those who desire to rewrite the classics! We'll be looking at a few of the English language's most enduring titles, at the context within which they were written, and how they could be shaped to fit the context of today. What if Elizabeth Bennet fell in love with a dark, brooding Miss Darcy? What if Wuthering Heights was a manor in modern Jamaica rather than 1800s England? Maybe Frankenstein could use some lasers. It's up to you!
Welcome to the wonderful world of comics! Want to write comic books or superheroes? How about graphic novels? Manga? Zines? Political cartoons? The comic medium has it all. Here, you'll learn all about the medium and how to write your very own stories within the medium. Artists are welcome, too!
We'll discuss and explore all the different elements of the medium, such as style, panel placement, speech bubbles and font, color/shading, ect, and how to combine and balance these elements, with you, the author or artist, using these elements in your own stories and creations.
In this workshop we will look at language as a physical and visual force. Through short urban explorations in the downtown area, we will collectively create a repository of graphics, fonts, and language and build poetry and visual art from this database. We will map and reflect on the language that guides us through space and see the city not only as a collection of buildings but the building blocks of creative play and personal meaning. Students will create both writing and art over the course of the week, and participate in collaboratively producing a small, public mural.
Break up with writer's block for good using a tried-and-tested approach of language games, constructive constraints, and unusual writing prompts. Drawing from the techniques dreamed up by the Surrealists and the Oulipo movement, students will reconnect with their own creativity and draw on the wellspring of their peers via different forms of collaborative writing. Additionally, students will engage with and write about a selection of curated art, music, and objects with the hope of making the familiar strange—and the strange familiar. Later in the week, students will also engage in a "guerrilla writing" component where poems will be disseminated into the world through a variety of non-traditional mediums.
This workshop serves as an introduction to digital storytelling and will teach you how to edit audio and video to create your very own digital story. Throughout the workshop we will be writing, recording, and editing stories about education. As students in Iowa City schools, your voices are central to a new citywide project, Reimagine Iowa City Public Education (RIPE), that is re-thinking learning in school. Join us for a week of storytelling and project creation where we tell stories about learning that inspire reflection and change in our schools. The digital stories you create will be published and shared online to encourage other students to raise their voices!


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La stazione di Mercenasco è una fermata ferroviaria posta sulla linea Chivasso-Aosta, è al servizio del comune di Mercenasco.

Storia

Strutture e impianti
Il fabbricato viaggiatori si sviluppa su due piani.

Movimento
La stazione è servita da treni regionali effettuati da Trenitalia nell'ambito del contratto di servizio stipulato con la Regione Piemonte.

Servizi
La stazione dispone di:
  Biglietteria automatica

Interscambi
  Fermata autobus

Note

Voci correlate
 Mercenasco
 Ferrovia Chivasso-Aosta

Altri progetti

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The high THC content of the strain gives it an extremely high psychedelic effect. Ther high you get is long lasting, thick and stimulating. The effects could be a bit over whelming for a first time user. We recommend this fierce Sativa strain for only seasoned Sativa growers and users. Buy the Golden Tiger Seeds and rainbow kush seeds only at Cannabis owl.