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Fund That Flip Raises $20M Series B to Expand Offering for Local Real Estate Entrepreneurs
Fund That Flip
November 16, 2021, 8:00 AM ·4 min read
Rapidly-growing fintech company's award-winning end-to-end investment platform empowers real estate entrepreneurs to create wealth and value in their communities
NEW YORK, Nov. 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fund That Flip, the New York City- and Cleveland, OH-based real estate-focused fintech platform, today announced the first close of its $20 million Series B funding round. The financing was led by GPO Fund of New York, with participation from MassMutual Ventures and Tribeca Early Stage Partners. More than 50 Fund That Flip clients also participated in the capital raise via an AngelList syndicate led by proptech investor, Jonathan Wasserstrum. Earlier investors included Edison Partners and SoundBoard Venture Fund. The investment will help further the expansion of the firm's proprietary technology platform that provides investors access to scalable capital and passive investment opportunities. The raise will also accelerate the company's national expansion, development of technological innovations for an underserved industry, and exploration of global opportunities.
"Real estate investors play an integral part of the economy in building homes, creating jobs, and growing businesses and communities," said Matt Rodak, founder and CEO of Fund That Flip. "Since our inception, we have been dedicated to solving the problem so many entrepreneurs face: access to capital and technology to grow their businesses. This round of funding accelerates our mission to deliver technology-first solutions that create even more value for the local entrepreneurs who are themselves creating value in their own communities."
With an aging housing stock and 72 million millennials seeking to transition from apartment living to single-family homes, Fund That Flip is uniquely positioned to expand its technology and track record of enabling local real estate entrepreneurs to scale their businesses with reliable access to financial services and technology. The company plans to continue to broaden its platform into an end-to-end real estate investment operating system designed to support the information and capital needs of the local real estate entrepreneur.
"With this raise, we plan to create even more innovative solutions for real estate entrepreneurs, bring them additional value through optimizing the real estate investing ecosystem with data and technology, and continue to provide unparalleled customer service to help real estate professionals drive their businesses forward. We're thrilled to partner with GPO Fund because they have a proven model of helping companies disrupt analog markets through the creation of data-driven solutions and platforms," Rodak said.
As part of the round, Jeff Stewart, partner and managing director at GPO Fund, will join the Fund That Flip board of directors. "I'm really excited by the way Fund That Flip is leveraging data and technology to empower a huge and underserved market. While they have grown tremendously fast over the past twelve months, we believe the opportunity in front of them is enormous," said Stewart. "Fintech companies are transforming entire industries through vertically integrated technology solutions, and the team at Fund That Flip has an impressive track record of leading that innovation within the real estate space."
Fund That Flip is one of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S., on pace to grow its revenue by 300% year-over-year and doubling its customer base since 2020. Their technology platform has facilitated over $1 billion in real estate investments, with 99.1% return of principal, and has achieved profitability since the close of their Series A in August 2019. Shulman Rogers Gandal Pordy & Ecker, P.A., acted as legal counsel for Fund That Flip.
About Fund That Flip
Fund That Flip is the leading end-to-end platform for local real estate entrepreneurs. The company's technology platform focuses on providing solutions for the entire residential real estate market and passive wealth generation for both individual and institutional investors. With offices in New York City and Cleveland, Ohio, Fund That Flip helps restore communities across the United States through its network of experienced, dedicated real estate entrepreneurs, backed by a diverse base of investors. Additional information can be found at www.fundthatflip.com.
About GPO Fund
GPO Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in technology enabled businesses seeking to disrupt and dominate the industries in which they operate. We believe the best founders want to accelerate international expansion and entry into the public market. Based in New York City and working with co-investors globally, GPO Fund leverages its extensive cross-border, operational and technical expertise to help companies scale and create enterprises of lasting value. For more information, visit www.gpofund.com.
About MassMutual Ventures
MassMutual Ventures (MMV) is a multistage global venture capital firm investing in enterprise software, cybersecurity, financial technology, and digital health companies. With our deep expertise and extensive Fortune 500 network, MMV helps entrepreneurs build compelling and scalable companies of value. MMV has offices in Boston and Singapore, with $450 million under management across five funds. The US-based team invests across North America, Europe, and Israel, while the Singapore-based team invests across Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, India, Australia, and New Zealand. For more information, visit www.massmutualventures.com.
Kendall Bazan
SVP, Marketing
info@fundthatflip.com


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KOLODZIEJSKI, ARTUR
Telekom Bonn 11 Guard
Height: 1.95 Born: 18 September, 1979 Nationality: Germany
EuroCup 2009-10 STATISTICS
Totals 6 0 84:34 9 2/4 1/7 2/2 1 4 5 5 2 6 0 0 11 2 -2
Averages 6 0 14:05 1.5 50% 14.3% 100% 0.2 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.3 1 0 0 1.8 0.3 -0.3
1 vs DKV Joventut 17:39 1 1 2 3 -4
2 at Besiktas ColaTurka 11:10 0/2 1 1 1 1 1
3 at Unics 11:08 2 1/2 0/1 1 1 1 2 -2
4 vs Unics 10:39 0/1 1 2 2 -4
5 at DKV Joventut 14:57 0/1 2 2 2 3 2 2
6 vs Besiktas ColaTurka 19:01 7 1/2 1/2 2/2 1 1 1 6
6 Totals 84:34 9 2/4 1/7 2/2 1 4 5 5 2 6 0 0 11 2 -2
Average 14:05 1.5 50% 14.3% 100% 0.2 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.3 1 0 0 1.8 0.3 -0.3
EuroCup 2009-10 individual rankings
Index rating 6 Telekom Baskets Bonn vs. Besiktas JK Istanbul 1/12/2010
Points 7 Telekom Baskets Bonn vs. Besiktas JK Istanbul 1/12/2010
Offensive rebounds 1 Besiktas JK Istanbul vs. Telekom Baskets Bonn 12/1/2009
Defensive rebounds 2 Joventut Badalona vs. Telekom Baskets Bonn 1/5/2010
Total rebounds 2 Joventut Badalona vs. Telekom Baskets Bonn 1/5/2010
Assists 2 Joventut Badalona vs. Telekom Baskets Bonn 1/5/2010
Steals 1 Telekom Baskets Bonn vs. Besiktas JK Istanbul 1/12/2010
Blocks 0 Telekom Baskets Bonn vs. Besiktas JK Istanbul 1/12/2010
Minutes 19 Telekom Baskets Bonn vs. Besiktas JK Istanbul 1/12/2010
Grew up with Telekom Baskets Bonn (Germany) juniors.
Signed by Rhondorf for the 1999-00 season.
Played there also the 2000-01 championship.
Signed for the 2001-02 season by Mitteldeutscher BC.
Signed for the 2002-03 season by Ratiopharm Ulm.
Signed for the 2003-04 season by Giants Leverkusen.
Signed for the 2005-06 season by Telekom Baskets Bonn.
He's still playing there.
Played the 2002 All Star Game.
Has been member of the German University National Team.
Played at the 2001 World University Games.
2009-10 Telekom Bonn 6 9 1.5 2/4 50 1/7 14.3 2/2 100 5 2 5 0
Totals 6 9 1.5 2/4 50 1/7 14.3 2/2 100 5 2 5 0
Averages 6 9 1.5 2/4 50 1/7 14.3 2/2 100 0.8 0.3 0.8 0
Other Competition
Season Team G Pts Avg 2FG
M-A % 3FG
M-A % FT
M-A % Reb St As Bl
2002/03 Ulm 29 416 14.3 90/131 68.7 42/116 36.2 110/135 81.5 108 56 110 9
2003/04 Leverkusen 31 124 4 19/35 54.3 21/45 46.7 23/35 65.7 40 21 42 1
2004/05 Leverkusen 11 34 3.1 6/12 50 6/14 42.9 4/6 66.7 12 3 13 0
2005/06 Bonn 33 121 3.7 20/28 71.4 20/65 30.8 21/29 72.4 40 16 26 4
2006/07 Bonn 39 170 4.4 16/31 51.6 32/97 33 42/48 87.5 58 29 45 2
2007/08 Bonn 46 231 5 25/37 67.6 51/130 39.2 28/38 73.7 43 37 55 0

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package org.apache.tomcat.util.net;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
import java.security.KeyStore;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;

import javax.net.ssl.KeyManager;
import javax.net.ssl.KeyManagerFactory;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocket;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory;
import javax.net.ssl.TrustManager;
import javax.net.ssl.TrustManagerFactory;
import javax.net.ssl.X509TrustManager;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.apache.catalina.Context;
import org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SSLAuthenticator;
import org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector;
import org.apache.catalina.startup.TesterMapRealm;
import org.apache.catalina.startup.Tomcat;
import org.apache.tomcat.util.descriptor.web.LoginConfig;
import org.apache.tomcat.util.descriptor.web.SecurityCollection;
import org.apache.tomcat.util.descriptor.web.SecurityConstraint;

public final class TesterSupport {

    public static final String ROLE = "testrole";

    public static void initSsl(Tomcat tomcat) {
        initSsl(tomcat, "localhost.jks", null, null);
    }

    protected static void initSsl(Tomcat tomcat, String keystore,
            String keystorePass, String keyPass) {

        String protocol = tomcat.getConnector().getProtocolHandlerClassName();
        if (protocol.indexOf("Apr") == -1) {
            Connector connector = tomcat.getConnector();
            connector.setProperty("sslProtocol", "tls");
            File keystoreFile =
                new File("test/org/apache/tomcat/util/net/" + keystore);
            connector.setAttribute("keystoreFile",
                    keystoreFile.getAbsolutePath());
            File truststoreFile = new File(
                    "test/org/apache/tomcat/util/net/ca.jks");
            connector.setAttribute("truststoreFile",
                    truststoreFile.getAbsolutePath());
            if (keystorePass != null) {
                connector.setAttribute("keystorePass", keystorePass);
            }
            if (keyPass != null) {
                connector.setAttribute("keyPass", keyPass);
            }
        } else {
            File keystoreFile = new File(
                    "test/org/apache/tomcat/util/net/localhost-cert.pem");
            tomcat.getConnector().setAttribute("SSLCertificateFile",
                    keystoreFile.getAbsolutePath());
            keystoreFile = new File(
                    "test/org/apache/tomcat/util/net/localhost-key.pem");
            tomcat.getConnector().setAttribute("SSLCertificateKeyFile",
                    keystoreFile.getAbsolutePath());
        }
        tomcat.getConnector().setSecure(true);
        tomcat.getConnector().setProperty("SSLEnabled", "true");
    }

    protected static KeyManager[] getUser1KeyManagers() throws Exception {
        KeyManagerFactory kmf = KeyManagerFactory.getInstance(
                KeyManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm());
        kmf.init(getKeyStore("test/org/apache/tomcat/util/net/user1.jks"),
                "changeit".toCharArray());
        return kmf.getKeyManagers();
    }

    protected static TrustManager[] getTrustManagers() throws Exception {
        TrustManagerFactory tmf = TrustManagerFactory.getInstance(
                TrustManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm());
        tmf.init(getKeyStore("test/org/apache/tomcat/util/net/ca.jks"));
        return tmf.getTrustManagers();
    }

    protected static void configureClientSsl() {
        try {
            SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
            sc.init(TesterSupport.getUser1KeyManagers(),
                    TesterSupport.getTrustManagers(),
                    null);
            javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(
                    new TesterSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory()));
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    private static KeyStore getKeyStore(String keystore) throws Exception {
        File keystoreFile = new File(keystore);
        KeyStore ks = KeyStore.getInstance("JKS");
        try (InputStream is = new FileInputStream(keystoreFile)) {
            ks.load(is, "changeit".toCharArray());
        }
        return ks;
    }

    protected static boolean isMacOs() {
        return System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase().startsWith("mac os x");
    }

    protected static boolean isRenegotiationSupported(Tomcat tomcat) {
        String protocol = tomcat.getConnector().getProtocolHandlerClassName();
        if (protocol.contains("Apr")) {
            // Disabled by default in 1.1.20 windows binary (2010-07-27)
            return false;
        }
        if (protocol.contains("NioProtocol") || (protocol.contains("Nio2Protocol") && isMacOs())) {
            // Doesn't work on all platforms - see BZ 56448.
            return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

    protected static void configureClientCertContext(Tomcat tomcat) {
        TesterSupport.initSsl(tomcat);

        // Need a web application with a protected and unprotected URL
        // Must have a real docBase - just use temp
        Context ctx =
            tomcat.addContext("", System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir"));

        Tomcat.addServlet(ctx, "simple", new SimpleServlet());
        ctx.addServletMapping("/unprotected", "simple");
        ctx.addServletMapping("/protected", "simple");

        // Security constraints
        SecurityCollection collection = new SecurityCollection();
        collection.addPattern("/protected");
        SecurityConstraint sc = new SecurityConstraint();
        sc.addAuthRole(ROLE);
        sc.addCollection(collection);
        ctx.addConstraint(sc);

        // Configure the Realm
        TesterMapRealm realm = new TesterMapRealm();
        realm.addUser("CN=user1, C=US", "not used");
        realm.addUserRole("CN=user1, C=US", ROLE);
        ctx.setRealm(realm);

        // Configure the authenticator
        LoginConfig lc = new LoginConfig();
        lc.setAuthMethod("CLIENT-CERT");
        ctx.setLoginConfig(lc);
        ctx.getPipeline().addValve(new SSLAuthenticator());
    }

    public static final byte DATA = (byte)33;

    public static class SimpleServlet extends HttpServlet {

        private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

        @Override
        protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
                throws ServletException, IOException {
            resp.setContentType("text/plain");
            resp.getWriter().print("OK");
            if (req.isUserInRole(ROLE)) {
                resp.getWriter().print("-" + ROLE);
            }
        }

        @Override
        protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
                throws ServletException, IOException {
            // Swallow any request body
            int read = 0;
            int len = 0;
            byte[] buffer = new byte[4096];
            InputStream is = req.getInputStream();
            boolean contentOK = true;
            while (len > -1) {
                len = is.read(buffer);
                read = read + len;
                for (int i=0; i<len && contentOK; i++) {
                    contentOK = (buffer[i] == DATA);
                }
            }
            // len will have been -1 on last iteration
            read++;

            // Report the number of bytes read
            resp.setContentType("text/plain");
            if (contentOK)
                resp.getWriter().print("OK-" + read);
            else
                resp.getWriter().print("CONTENT-MISMATCH-" + read);
        }
    }

    public static class TrustAllCerts implements X509TrustManager {

        @Override
        public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
            return new X509Certificate[0];
        }

        @Override
        public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs,
                String authType) {
            // NOOP - Trust everything
        }

        @Override
        public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs,
                String authType) {
            // NOOP - Trust everything
        }
    }

    private static class TesterSSLSocketFactory
            extends SSLSocketFactory {

        private SSLSocketFactory factory;

        public TesterSSLSocketFactory(SSLSocketFactory factory) {
            this.factory = factory;
        }

        @Override
        public String[] getDefaultCipherSuites() {
            return factory.getDefaultCipherSuites();
        }

        @Override
        public String[] getSupportedCipherSuites() {
            return factory.getSupportedCipherSuites();
        }

        @Override
        public Socket createSocket(Socket socket, String s, int i, boolean flag)
                throws IOException {
            SSLSocket result =
                (SSLSocket) factory.createSocket(socket, s, i, flag);
            result.setEnabledProtocols(new String[] { "SSLv3" } );
            return result;
        }

        @Override
        public Socket createSocket(String s, int i) throws IOException,
                UnknownHostException {
            SSLSocket result = (SSLSocket) factory.createSocket(s, i);
            result.setEnabledProtocols(new String[] { "SSLv3" } );
            return result;
        }

        @Override
        public Socket createSocket(String s, int i, InetAddress inetaddress,
                int j) throws IOException, UnknownHostException {
            SSLSocket result =
                (SSLSocket) factory.createSocket(s, i, inetaddress, j);
            result.setEnabledProtocols(new String[] { "SSLv3" } );
            return result;
        }

        @Override
        public Socket createSocket(InetAddress inetaddress, int i)
                throws IOException {
            SSLSocket result = (SSLSocket) factory.createSocket(inetaddress, i);
            result.setEnabledProtocols(new String[] { "SSLv3" } );
            return result;
        }

        @Override
        public Socket createSocket(InetAddress inetaddress, int i,
                InetAddress inetaddress1, int j) throws IOException {
            SSLSocket result = (SSLSocket) factory.createSocket(
                    inetaddress, i, inetaddress1, j);
            result.setEnabledProtocols(new String[] { "SSLv3" } );
            return result;
        }
    }
}

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Nice bracelet but just hope you guys planted my trees
Samuel G.
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La ogma de la pulsera es de plástico? IS pudieses hablar con los fabricantes para que usasen otro material seria lo ideal. Entiendo que se busca un matenrial elástico para que se adapte a diferentes muñecas.
Miquel M.
Made with plastic !
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This is one of the most common questions asked by parents in our FBT programs. As we often discuss there is no easy answer to this question. However a recent article by the group from the University of Chicago Eating Disorders Team starts to give us some information. Article here.
The group looked at return of menses as a marker of physical health in anorexia nervosa in 225 patients in their FBT program. On average patients needed to get to 95% expected body weight before menstruation resumed. Interestingly this is almost exactly the same number as indicated by pelvic ultrasound to demonstrate that ovarian and uterine maturity in adolescent AN occur at 96.5% EBW which was found by Brian Lask's group (Brian being somewhat critical of a reliance on resumption of menses as a marker of health - preferring data from pelvic ultrasound.
The group also note that "individual differences in weight trajectories should be taken into account, as many patients may have higher individual "setpoint" weights than the average EBW calculations provide. These discrepancies, however, may also be related to weight maintenance necessary to restore menstrual function in adolescent AN as some patients will only resume menses at weights >2 kg's above the level that supported menses prior to the onset of amenorrhea". SOme patients will lose menstruation at higher body weights than others and are likely to need to get back to higher weights to resume menstruation. All of which means don.t rely on any number on a chart to work out what weight is the right weight. Use your experience of your child when she was healthy (I can safely say she here), think about when periods were lost (and maybe go up 2 kilograms).
Of course target weight should be thought about in terms of ranges and are moving targets as we are expecting growth in many cases.
ROM occurred after an average of 13 sessions of FBT (although there was a large standard deviation). What I read from that is that there is a need to push very hard for weight gain to 95-100% of weight in as few sessions as possible in FBT to ensure a rapid return to physical health.
What if you have never menstruated as you developed anorexia before puberty, how do you know what weight will bring it on?


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Domesday Book
This year marks the 800th anniversary of the Charter of the Forest, first issued in 1217 as a companion document to the better-known Magna Carta. For ordinary folk, the Charter of the Forest was a far more significant document than the Magna Carta because it aimed to stop royal encroachment of common land and protect the rights of commoners to gain their livelihood from commons resources.
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Regular A and B covers for Cars: The Rookie #4 – art by Allen Gladfelter
My fourth issue of The World of CARS: The Rookie was designed to complete the story of why the newly nicknamed "Lightning" McQueen was considered to be the "rookie sensation of the year." I once again kept the interview framing device at the start and end of the story, and returned to McQueen narrating what happened from his somewhat exaggerated perspective, which meant I could again use visuals to contrast between his narrative and what actually happened. As the story opens McQueen is seen is his now familiar Rust-Eze paint scheme for the first time, and having established his speed on ovals is about to tackle a road course for the first time.
If I recall correctly I wrote this issue after watching a pretty thrilling NASCAR race on TV that had been held at the classic Watkins Glen circuit in upstate New York, one of the few road races on the NASCAR schedule; so I decided to model my story on that.
Watkins Glen was renamed "Bowling Lake" and we were off to the races. But not before McQueen has a nap on the grid, a character trait I added that was borrowed from several top line drivers who have been known to nod off while waiting in their cars for a race to start.
In the race itself I focused on a particular tight corner for all the action to happen with the ever eager McQueen learning an early lesson about the differences between ovals and road circuits that don't have banking. He was quick on the straights but just couldn't figure out how to get around the corners quickly. As the race progresses the young hot shot learned about the apex of a corner, and thanks to, Strip "The King" Weathers, that the key to speed on road courses is not how quickly you enter a corner, but how quickly you exit it.
I had some fun along the way having the Hummer crew chief throw in a few quotes from racing movies like Grand Prix, and Days of Thunder.
The story ends with Lightning being true to character and ignoring his crew chief's advice (again) and staying out too long on worn tires. But thanks to some defensive driving by The King to keep the charging Chick Hicks behind, the struggling McQueen just crosses the line as his tire blows, but it's enough for the rookie to score his first win.
I'd had a blast writing this "prequel" series for the CARS movie building the backstory of Lightning McQueen, and was pretty proud of the miniseries – which would eventually be collected in both paperback, and a special limited edition hardback editions.
Now we just had to wait and hope that we had also scored a win and that the sales numbers would be good enough for the planned return to Radiator Springs.
Unused connecting covers for Cars: The Rookie #4 – art by Allen Gladfelter


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Q: Unable to parse data larger than 305kB sent from web service to J2ME device I am having a big problem where the following error is thrown when my application receives a SOAP message larger than 305kb, from a WCF web service.

java.rmi.MarshalException: SAXParseException in the return SOAP message from the server.

I have done a lot of testing to identify that this error only occurs when the return SOAP message is larger than 305kb (roughly around 320,000 characters).
Is there such a limitation? and if so, is there a method to increase the number of characters or size that can be supported?
Any suggestions / insight will be highly appreciated.

A: assuming its because you run out of memory because of building up a DOM model for the response... it would be good to check that...I would just make a plain vanilla http request to the remote service. forget all the soap libraries. then use a pull parser to read the response. you then can parse as you stream the response back meaning low footprint.

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The NFL will break with tradition in its 100th year following the announcement that the reigning Super Bowl champions will not host the opening game of the new season.
The league has confirmed that the two teams with the oldest rivalry – the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers – will face each other for the 199th time on Thursday, September 5, at Soldier Field in Chicago.
The New England Patriots' opening game will take place three days later as the first Sunday Night Football primetime fixture of the new campaign. Their opponents will be confirmed at a later date.
There will be plenty of punters visiting the fastest payout sportsbook to wager on the Bears versus Packers game, with both sides boasting a storied history in the NFL.
The two sides enjoyed differing fortunes in NFC North last season, with the Bears performing best of the pair by a clear margin.
A 12-4 regular season record took the Bears through to the play-offs, but they were edged out 16-15 in the first round by Philadelphia Eagles.
Green Bay won just six of their 16 games last term to finish third behind the Bears and Minnesota Vikings in NFC North and they will hope for better fortunes in the league's centenary year.
The 100-year anniversary is a hugely important one for the NFL and is one which will be marked in numerous ways throughout the upcoming campaign.
The Bears were the first team to announce that they are going to have an alternate uniform for the occasion and many more are expected to follow suit in the coming weeks.
The NFL has said it plans to honour the 13 communities that were home to the 14 teams of its inaugural season, with Chicago included in that number.
Celebrations in these markets will showcase each town or city's history alongside fans, NFL legends, celebrities and elected officials.
The NFL Draft in April will also be used to mark the anniversary, with eight "original towns" outside of the 32 current NFL markets scheduled to host live telecasts to announce picks on the third day of the draft.
The NFL Foundation has also got in on the act by agreeing to fund the installment of a new artificial turf field in the city of Dayton, Ohio.
The field will commemorate the first game, played in Triangle Park between the Dayton Triangles and Columbus Panhandles back in 1920.
Originally known as the American Professional Football Association, the league was rebranded as the National Football League for the 1922 season.


When a man who recently had taken out a million dollar insurance policy is found dead in the car of a "House of Horrors" ride with a bagful of money, an insurance investigator is sent out to find the truth of the matter.
Stupid title for a forgettable giallo. Two main locations: an amusement park and a mansion. By the way, there's a park in front of the mansion and a girl is found dead and naked lying in that park at one point in the film. Hence, the title of the movie I suppose. Stupid because if the killer by any chance had dressed his victim before abandoning her, the director would've had a serious problem. Already forgotten.
La sceneggiatura è adeguatamente intricata e le scene cult non mancano (comprese nel pacchetto anche un paio di sequenze softcore), ma buona parte del - comunque modesto - fascino di questo thriller risiedono nelle trovate visive di Alfonso Brescia, nella composizione certosina delle inquadrature e in certe intriganti soluzioni di montaggio. Niente di trascendentale, in ogni caso.


Signs suspicious packages sent to Clinton, Obama, Soros sent by single person?
Former FBI Joint Terror Task Force Officer Steve Rogers on the investigation into suspicious packages sent to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and George Soros.
A day after a bomb was found in billionaire philanthropist George Soros' mailbox, "potential explosive devices" were sent to the Clintons' and Obamas' residences.
The Secret Service said on Wednesday it "intercepted" two "suspicious packages" sent to former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
According to Rogers, it could be "a terrorist attack" or someone that is "unstable" within the United States.
The devices found were similar to one found on Monday at the home of Soros in Bedford Hills, New York.
"Regardless of what you say," he said, "it's a terrorist act — it's causing terror in the minds of these people," and he added that there may be more packages sent to other people.
CNN's New York Offices were also evacuated after reports of a suspicious device.


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In an unexpected but not uncharacteristic move by Trump, Rex Tillerson was sacked as the secretary of state and Mike Pompeo, the former director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has been named as his replacement. Gina Haspel will replace Mike Pompeo at the CIA, she was previously serving as the CIA deputy director.
Trump tweeted in the early hours of Tuesday, announcing his replacements and thanking Rex Tillerson for his service. He also mentioned the fact that Gina Haspel is the first woman to head the CIA and congratulated all. Tillerson had been on a tour of African countries and had just come back to the US. Apparently, he was not aware of Trump's decision and the president had not spoken to him. He was fired via tweet. An undersecretary of state, Steven Goldstein, was also fired from the White House for defending Tillerson.
According to Micheal Kugelman, an expert on South Asia at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Mike Pompeo is not so different from Rex Tillerson on Pakistan. Pompeo also wants to 'change Pakistan's behavior' in the interest of the US vis a vis Afghanistan.
Goldstein said that the secretary of state had every intention of staying on the job and had good relationships with his counterparts. Pompeo enjoys a close relationship with the president. He has given many presentations to the president in person and makes sure that the presentations rely on colorful and illustrative infographics, considering Trump's aversion to detailed reports. He has served in the US military but never having been in combat zones. He then went on to attend Harvard Law School, eventually running successfully for Congress in 2010.
He has previously been on the House Intelligence Committee, where he privy to the nation's best kept secrets. He is considered to be more hawkish than Tillerson on key foreign policy issues for the US, such as Iran and North Korea, having once joked about assassinating Kim Jong Un. Gina Haspel is a career intelligence officer and joined the CIA in 1985 and has a 30-year long career in the CIA, where she enjoys a good reputation.
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She has had overseas experience, had been the Chief of station a number of times and has held several other senior leadership positions within the CIA. In February 2017, she was appointed deputy director at the CIA by Trump. She also ran a blacksite-or hidden location operated by the CIA-in Thailand where suspected Al-Qaeda members were tortured by water boarding. Even more controversially, she is said to have played a role in destroying the tapes that provided evidence for the torture.
This is not the first time that Trump had made sudden announcements like these. A total of 25 senior and junior members of the Trump administration have come and gone ever since he took office, either by resignation or by getting fired. Trump has only been in office for about 14 months. That's almost a couple of replacements each month. Gary Cohen, a senior advisor to Trump on the economy, resigned recently in protest against Trump's decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.
Rex Tillerson's firing comes at a critical time for American foreign policy. President Trump is going to meet the leader of North Korea in a historic meeting in May. The Afghan Taliban has recently been on the offensive against Afghan security forces.
White house communications director Hope Hicks had resigned prior to that. So far, the only people he hasn't replaced are his own family members, although there have been speculations that Trump may have considered the possibility that Jared and Ivanka might be better off in New York than in Washington. In a press conference, Trump explained his decision to replace Tillerson. He said that he differed with Tillerson on a number of issues, most significantly, perhaps, the Iran Nuclear Deal.
He also said that he has great respect for Tillerson and hopes that Pompeo and Haspel will do a 'fantastic job', adding that he valued Tillerson's commitment to public service, wished him well and that the relationship with him had been great. Reportedly, Tillerson had called Trump a 'moron' on one occasion, to which Trump responded by saying, "I guess we'll have to compare IQ tests and I can tell you who is going to win." Several other senior Trump advisors refer to him as an 'idiot' or 'dope', according to revelation by Micheal Wolf's book, Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House.
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Tillerson had previously been the CEO of ExxonMobil, since 2006. ExxonMobil is the 10th largest company in the world by revenue, earning over $218.6 billion in 2016. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and joined ExxonMobil in 1975 as a production engineer. He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering in the US. In 2017, he left to join the Trump white house.
Tillerson held a press conference afterwards and explained that his commission as secretary of state will formally end at midnight, March the 31st. In a somewhat exasperated tone, he said, "Between now and then, I will address a few administrative matters related to my departure and works towards a smooth and orderly transition for secretary of state designate Mike Pompeo." His own office will be assumed by deputy secretary of state for the time being.
From the background of Mike Pompeo and Gina Haspel, it can be concluded that Trump has surrounded himself with a secretary of state and a CIA director that are more hawkish than Tillerson was. It was assumed that Tillerson was the anchor that helped steer the ship in the Trump White House, to prevent it from becoming completely unhinged. He was also in favor of the Iran Nuclear Deal, something which Trump has criticized innumerable times, and diplomacy with North Korea.
This is not the first time that Trump had made sudden announcements like these. A total of 25 senior and junior members of the Trump administration have come and gone ever since he took office, either by resignation or by getting fired.
Pompeo once said that the CIA needs to be more 'aggressive' and Haspel ran torture sites. These attitudes seem to be much more in line with Trump's 'America First' mantra. In other words, Pompeo and Haspel are Trump loyalists and Tillerson probably wasn't. We can expect an aggressive shift in US foreign policy in what remains of Trump's tenure as president, provided he doesn't make sudden changes in these positions again anytime soon.
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Rex Tillerson's firing comes at a critical time for American foreign policy. President Trump is going to meet the leader of North Korea in a historic meeting in May. The Afghan Taliban has recently been on the offensive against Afghan security forces. The Syrian quagmire appears to be very difficult, if not impossible to resolve. Tensions with Russia continue and a trade war with China might be in the making.
This shifting in Trump's cabinet can have implications for Pakistan as well. Under Haspel, the CIA may look towards expanding operations within Pakistan. According to Micheal Kugelman, an expert on South Asia at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Mike Pompeo is not so different from Rex Tillerson on Pakistan. Pompeo also wants to 'change Pakistan's behavior' in the interest of the US vis a vis Afghanistan.
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The state of Nevada assessed the maximum possible fine on a clinic that engaged in dangerous injection practices that put 40,000 people at risk of hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV -- $3,000.
The fine is a pittance for Endoscopy Center of Nevada, which conducted about 60 endoscopic procedures a day. It is owned by Dr. Dipak Desai, one of the state's most powerful physicians. But the fine is the largest allowed under state law, said Lisa Jones, chief of the Nevada State Health Division's bureau of licensure and certification. The Bureau licenses the clinic, which is the source of a hepatitis C outbreak, according to health officials.
A health investigation showed that nurses at Endoscopy Center used a syringe twice to draw anesthetics from a vial for any given patient. If that patient was carrying hepatitis or HIV, the infected blood could contaminate the vial which was used for other patients, passing along the infection.
The state found three total violations at Endoscopy Center, including the injection problems and the failure to use new cleaning solution with every washing of endoscopic equipment. The clinic, which is now closed, will have to be monitored by the state if it reopens.


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Founding Member of The Moonmaids Now Shares Her Voice With Residents at Mustang Creek Estates of Ke
Lauren Witt
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It's been 73 year since The Moonmaids first took the stage with famed baritone singer Vaughn Monroe in Washington D.C. Today, one of the founding members, Hilda "Tinker" Rautenberg, continues to sing and enjoy her fellow residents at Mustang Creek Estates of Keller.
The North Texas native got her start on the stage at North Texas State Teachers College (now The University of North Texas), where she met fellow members of the original quartet back in 1943. At that time, they were known as the North Texas Swingtet. Their big break came in Dallas when they tied for first place at a talent competition at the Majestic Theatre, sponsored by the Interstate Theaters of Dallas. This got the attention of tour organizers, and in September of 1944 they set off for Jacksonville, Fla. The teens toured hospitals across the country, singing for many veterans returning from World War II.
"While we girls were individually shy, we were collectively confident. We always dreamed of being in a group with a big band," said Rautenberg. "It was amazing to see so many parts of the country at such a young age. We even got the chance to tour in Texas and my mother came to a show."
The group made sure to attend every show with a big band. One night they went to hear Stan Kenton, a famous jazz-musician, and got the courage to ask him to listen to them sing. A writer for Band Leaders magazine was there as well, and after hearing them asked for their picture and demo reel. He passed names along to Vaughn Monroe was looking for a vocal group for his big band. Soon, the Texas beauties were flown to New York City for a whirlwind week in 1946. It was Monroe who renamed the girls The Moonmaids.
"We were ready to go – hats, gloves, and dresses – the whole nine yards. In one week, we learned 22 different arrangements, got fitted for suits to match the band and had a photoshoot for the promotional materials. We had no idea our boss was so popular," said Rautenberg. "We also meet Vaughn and his family for the first time. To this day, I email with his daughter Candace."
Touring with Monroe, The Moonmaids were constantly on the move. They performed across the country and frequently at The Meadows, Monroe's dinner club in Massachusetts. They were also on the radio. The Camel Caravan, a radio show sponsored by Camel Cigarettes, would air each Saturday night featuring Vaughn Monroe and The Moonmaids. The first year with the band, the women were also included in the movie Carnegie Hall. Rautenberg and her fellow Moonmaids were so busy that their first Christmas after joining the big band was spent away from home.
"We were very busy. Typically, we didn't even have time to see the cities we visited, but I wouldn't change it for the world. I loved the opportunity to be independent and make my own money," said the 91-year-old Rautenberg. "We had no time, but it taught us all a new level of maturity at a young age."
By 1950, Rautenberg says the constant touring was growing tiresome, and it was time to return to Texas. She went back to school and soon fell in love. The famed singer met her husband Bill on a blind date. While telling his parents about the new woman in his life, a commercial featuring The Moonmaids came on TV, impressing his mother. Rautenberg says after meeting his amazing mom, she was sold too. The pair got married in 1951, and she continued to sing jingles for local companies and radio stations in Dallas and in cities across the country. Her husband would often jokingly remark that he couldn't get away from her.
Today, Rautenberg is still in touch with two of her fellow Moonmaids who are also in their 90s, Mary Jo Grogan and June Bratone. She's also blessed with a daughter who recently visited Texas from Washington state. Living at Mustang Creek Estates of Keller, Rautenberg is still drawing a crowd. It's not uncommon to see her surrounded by fellow residents singing big band tunes.
"Tinker radiates happiness everywhere she goes. It's a joy to hear her sweet songs fill up our neighborhood," said Candy Jiwa, executive director at Mustang Creek Estates of Keller. "We love how residents like Tinker bring our community together."
Mustang Creek Estates – whose mission is to provide seniors with high-quality residential-style assisted living and memory care at an affordable price – has additional locations in Allen, Burleson, Frisco and Sachse.
Spring is Here: Keller Man Uses the Power of the Sun to Create Art
A resident at Mustang Creek Estates of Keller is harnessing the power of the sun to create art. March marks the beginning of spring, and Jerome Fuhrmann is looking forward to long days of sunshine, which is the key to his passion. For the past nine years, this 74-year-old has created more than 1,000 cherished pieces of art with just a magnifying glass and a bright sunny day. Known as pyrography, or woodburning, the tradition dates back to the 17th century.
Fuhrmann even credits his art with giving his life purpose. In November 2009, he suffered a stroke. With his left side often numb, he turned to woodburning to pass the time. At first, doctors told him he wouldn't walk or talk again, but he proved them wrong. Today, he continues to drive and make his art, although he's found it easier to use a wheelchair over the past year.
"It really saved my life. It gave me something to do instead of just sitting there," said Fuhrmann. "I'm 74, but I don't feel it because I stay so active," said Fuhrmann.
For decades, this Vietnam War Veteran worked on farms and ranches in North Texas, often taking care of cattle and welding. He couldn't imagine not working with his hands, so even without formal training, woodburning came naturally. Fuhrmann always saw himself as artistic, but he became an artist when he picked up a magnifying glass.
While others use a heated metallic point pen for woodburning, Fuhrmann prefers the magnifying glass he picked up 30 years ago at a flea market. He sketches out his designs freehand, not using any stencils. After that, it's all about the angle he holds the magnifying glass to the wood. And he says to beware, it can burn if you're not careful. His other two tips: wear protective eyewear and use soft wood like cedar or pine.
Nine months ago, Fuhrmann moved to Mustang Creek Estates of Keller. Living at the community allows him to remain independent and have peace of mind knowing that a caring staff is nearby. He's also not far from his niece who lives nearby. His art became an instant hit among residents.
"It's clear moving to an assisted-living community is not slowing this working artist down. His attitude is an inspiration to all our residents," said Candy Jiwa, acting executive director at Mustang Creek Estates of Keller. "Jerome didn't start woodburning until his 60s, and it's a reminder to all of us at Mustang Creek Estates of Keller that you can always learn something new."
On a sunny day, you can often find people gathered around Fuhrmann's home at Mustang Creek. He's also very generous with his craft, often taking requests and making things for fellow neighbors.
"It's amazing how Jerome can bring together our community. If the sun is out, Jerome is likely out too, working away on a project," said Jiwa.
Over the past nine years, Fuhrmann's art has been commissioned by Texans, sold by art dealers and often donated to local churches in North Texas. One of his proudest projects was making wooden signs for the State Champion Muenster High Hornets in 2017. That year the students took state in basketball, baseball and football. Today you can find some of Fuhrmann's pieces at a gift shop in Argyle, Texas, called The Gypsy Caravan.
"I love sharing what I do with others. It's even better when young people come to Mustang Creek. They're always fascinated with what's happening when I'm creating my art," said Fuhrmann.
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Humans are born time travelers. We may not be able to send our bodies into the past or the future, at least not yet, but we can send our minds. We can relive events that happened long ago or envision ourselves in the future.
New studies suggest that the two directions of temporal travel are intimately entwined in the human brain. A number of psychologists argue that re-experiencing the past evolved in our ancestors as a way to plan for the future and that the rise of mental time travel was crucial to our species' success. But some experts on animal behavior do not think we are unique in this respect. They point to several recent experiments suggesting that animals can visit the past and future as well.
The first clues about the twists and turns of mental time travel came from people with certain brain injuries that caused them to forget autobiographical details without forgetting the information they had picked up along the way. A man known in the scientific literature as K.C., for instance, could play chess with no memory of having ever played it. K.C. could remember sentences psychologists taught him without any memory of the lessons.
K.C. had lost what psychologists now call episodic memory. Endel Tulving, a Canadian psychologist, defined episodic memory as the ability to recall the details of personal experiences: what happened, where it happened, when it happened and so on.
Dr. Tulving argued that episodic memory was distinct from other kinds of memory that did not involve personal experience. People can remember how to get to a subway stop, for example, without recalling the first time they were there.
Episodic memory was also unique to our species, Dr. Tulving maintained. For one thing, he argued that episodic memory required self-awareness. You can't remember yourself if you don't know you exist. He also argued that there was no evidence animals could recollect experiences, even if those experiences left an impression on them.
Dr. Clayton began to test western scrub jays to see if they met any of the criteria for episodic memory. The jays can hide several thousand pieces of food each year and remember the location of each one. Dr. Clayton wondered if scrub jays simply remembered locations, or if they remembered the experience of hiding the food.
She ran an experiment using two kinds of food: moth larvae and peanuts. Scrub jays prefer larvae to peanuts while the larvae are still fresh. When the larvae are dead for a few hours, the jays prefer peanuts. Dr. Clayton gave the birds a chance to hide both kinds of food and then put them in another cage. She later returned the birds to their caches, in some cases after four hours and in other cases after five days.
In 1998, Dr. Clayton and her colleagues published the results of their experiment, declaring that scrub jays met the standards for "episodic-like" memory. Ever since, Dr. Clayton has been investigating the memories of scrub jays more deeply. Last year, for example, her team discovered that scrub jays not only remember when and where they hide food, but also whether they are being watched at the time. If one scrub jay notices another one watching it hide food, it tends to dig up the cache later and hide it somewhere else. Other scientists have followed Dr. Clayton's lead and have searched for signs of episodic-like memory in other animals. When rats are exploring a maze, for example, they seem to be able to recall which kinds of food they encountered along the way. Hummingbirds seem to remember where and when they visited individual flowers for nectar. Rhesus monkeys can remember where they put food, but not how long ago they put it there.
Some researchers have not been persuaded by these studies, however.
"Animals seem to be living very much in the present," said Thomas Suddendorf, a comparative psychologist at the University of Queensland in Australia.
Episodic memory also depends on many other faculties that have only been clearly documented in the human mind, Dr. Suddendorf argues. He said he believes it evolved after our ancestors branched off from other apes. The advantage lay not in knowing the past, however, but in providing "an advantage for predicting the future," he said.
Recent brain scanning studies support Dr. Suddendorf's link between the past and future. Daniel Schacter, a psychologist, and his colleagues at Harvard University recently studied how brains function as people think about past experiences and imagine future ones. Constructing an episodic memory causes a distinctive network of brain regions to become active. As a person then adds details to the memory, the network changes, as some regions quiet down and others fire up.
The researchers then had their subjects think about themselves in the future. Many parts of the episodic memory network became active again.
Dr. Suddendorf argues that these overlapping networks for mental time travel evolved at least 1.6 million years ago. He points to stone tools hominids made at that time. Paleoanthropologists have determined that the tools were moved many miles from where they were made.
"If you've just eaten, the only reason you're going to take a tool with you is if you anticipate using it in the future," he said.
Dr. Suddendorf has roused comparative psychologists to action — "like a red rag to a bull," as one comparative psychologist, Sara Shettleworth of the University of Toronto, put it. They have been looking for evidence that animals can also plan for the future.
Some studies suggest not. Cebus monkeys, for example, will eat until they are stuffed and throw the rest of the food out of their cage, despite the fact that they will not have food the next morning.
But in other studies, animals show more promise. "We tested squirrel monkeys to see if they could anticipate the future, and to our surprise it looks like they could," said Dr. William Roberts, a comparative psychologist at the University of Western Ontario. He and his colleagues ran a test in which they offered squirrel monkeys a choice between one piece of date or four. Not surprisingly, the monkeys took four.
Dr. Clayton recently tested her scrub jays for foresight. She and her colleagues put the birds in three adjoining compartments for six days. Each morning the birds were shut for two hours in one of two rooms. In one room they got nothing to eat. In the other room, they got powdered pine nuts (the scrub jays can eat the powder, but they cannot cache it). For the rest of the day, each bird could move around all three rooms and enjoy more powdered nuts.
Dr. Clayton found that the birds put over three times more pine nuts in the no-breakfast room than in the breakfast room. She argues that the results mean that birds can take action for their future needs, knowing what they'll need and where they'll need it.
Pictures with an article in Science Times on Tuesday about how animals experience time were published in error. The photographs were of the Florida scrub jay — not the western scrub jay, which was used in the research described in the article.


Mushroom Observer: Observation 15799: Russula amoenolens Romagn.
Observation 15799: Russula amoenolens Romagn.
Recognized by sight: striate, tuberculate margin, sticky brownish cap, darker in center, brown stains on gillls, reddish stains at stipe base. pale yellow spores.


Nelly Sachs wrote a short time after the Shoa: "You who have not raised a murderers hand, but who did not shake off the dust from your yearning, who stood still, right where dust is turned into light." But when do we take this necessary step in Germany? In the spirit of this sentence by Nelly Sachs, the Jerusalem Friedensmal emerged as a creation in the material world, for even the good and true thoughts must become comprehensible. If you like this practical implementation of what is also special about the perspective of Nelly Sachs, then please help with the realization by sharing the Internet address: www.freedom.garden or share a post on Facebook.
"The study deals with the possibilities of poetry after Auschwitz and the drafting of a new language in the life-enhancing power of poetic expression founded in the knowledge of a "general world solidarity" (Sachs). Central to the analysis is the enactment of a productive living with alterity which, fed from the traditions of Jewish and Christian mysticism, in remembrance of the victims creates space for perceptions that oppose the cycle of violence. The theoretical horizon is developed in the confrontation with the Jewish religious philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, who reflected the concept of alterity and its philosophical relevance within the contemporary discourse most emphatically. The poetry of Nelly Sachs, which can be understood as a guide to the unsecured is on the road to a language of love that explores new worlds and opens a gentle access to the inalienable own of the others person."
I feel very touched and full of energy: what a coincidence! Is this kind of a message? I feel, that i want to take a closer look. These words on the back of the book express exactly what is the content of my work and what my asoziation concerns. Isn't it true, that the language of the Garden of freedom is "a new language in the life-enhancing power of poetic expression founded in the knowledge of a general world solidarity"? Isn't it true, that the expression in the design is "fed from the traditions of Jewish and Christian mysticism, which creates in remembrance of the victims a space for perceptions that oppose the cycle of violence"? And can not also this "poetry" in form of a material monument be well understood for all parties as a "Guide to the unsecured" and as being "on the way to a language of love that explore new worlds and opens a gentle access to the inalienable own of the other person"? I am so excited now about what I am going to find out soon. Next to this book there is another book in the shelf, which is about the work of Nelly Sachs: "Gesture of reconciliation", a study. How could it become clearer?
The work of Nelly Sachs was like no other shaped by the experience of Nazi atrocities. The tragic fate was the source of her works.
1908 letters to her inspiring examples Hermann Hesse and Selma Lagerlöf. First poem in the Impressionist style.
1911 first legends and stories.
1912 Beginning of her friendship with Dora Horwitz.
1930 death of her father, she also wrote several poems about it.
1933 start of intensive study of her Jewishness.
1939 She had to assume the name 'Sara', like all Jewish women.
1940 loss of her voice after being interrogated by the Gestapo; Escape with her mother to Sweden; Translator of Swedish authors; the horrors of persecution and the horror of the Holocaust appeared in the style of her writing. She had a personal relationship with Paul Celan. (note: "Death Fugue" by Paul Celan was the theme of my German-Baccalaureate).
1950 her mother dies. She wrote several poems about it.
1952 She adopts the Swedish citizenship.
1965 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade; Poetry book based on Novalis and Hölderlin.
1966 Nobel Prize for Literature together with the Israeli writer Samuel Josef Agnon for "works, that interpret the fate of israel in poignantly strength".
These words of Nelly Sachs, which I found in the first book, touched me very much: "All the longing that like in the time of Chasidim made the Jewish people come back to their God again, has become newly alive at the few who perhaps may survive this horror."
We who are rescued, from their hollow bones, death has already cut flutes, at their sinews, death has already drawn his bows - Our bodies still mourn for with their mutilated music.
We who are rescued, still loops hanging twiddled for our necks in front of us in the blue air - still the hourglasses are filling with our dripping blood. We who are rescued, still they eat of us; the worms of fear. Our heavenly body is buried in the dust.
We ask that of you: don't show us a biting dog yet - it could be, it could be that we crumble into dust - before your eyes crumble into dust. What's there that keeps our weaving together? We who lost the breath of life, who's soul fled to Him from the midnight long before they saved our body in the Ark of the moment.
We who are rescued, we squeez your hand, we recognize your eye - But only farewell holds us together, the farewell in the dust holds us together with you.
"We ask that of you: Don't show us a biting dog yet, it could be, it could be that we crumble into dust - before your eyes crumble into dust. What's there that keeps our weaving together? " And before the request: "Let us quietly learn to live again.".
What's the deal with the Circle of Peace? "Lead us from star to star in footstep. Let us quietly learn to live again. This could cause 'the song of a bird, the filling of the bucket at the well, to make breaking open our bad sealed pain and foam us away - ".
It is time to make a step: This serious sign of a Circle of Peace is a quiet song, that may touch people - being aware of their own inner essence. It is a touch which is gentle and not urgent. So it is not a falling into a new star, never there is created an urge to displace, but it means to go steps. - "Lead us from star to star in footstep." This are steps of peace in acknowledging the past. The answer to abuse is love, in which also the full extent of the abuse is clear and should be clear. It is then that "a song of a bird" does not make "breaking open our bad sealed pain", because it was turned into love, but it will honestly rejoice the heart again. But unlike "a song of a bird" this song of silence in the Garden of Freedom does not bring a beauty that is again carried away with the wind in its ease, but it remains as a voice in the consciousness, that man is never alone.
We " who are rescued, we squeez your hand, we recognize your eye - "!
What apart from "the farewell in the dust holds us together with you."?
It must be something holy.
I would like to present two quotes that I found in the book "What is the other, on that you throw stones?" by Johanna Kuric. Followed by two excerpts from poems by Nelly Sachs.
"There is no great feat of Judaism in exile, which would not be in the core a theodicy. Hasidism, this great flame from the heart of the ghetto, that gathers all its murkiness and darkness and burns it to light, is the last great explicitly religious, meaning connected to the revealed G*d, theodicy of Judaism" (Margarete Susman from "The Job problem with Kafka").
Nations of the earth, do not destroy the universe of words, do not cut with blades of hatred the sound that was born with breath the same time.
You who are watching, there was killing under their eyes. How one also feels a glimpse in the rear, so you feel in your body the glances of the dead.
in looped branches of martyrs manner of the old oak trees?
How much memory is growing in the blood of the evening sun? O the unsung lullabies in the turtledove night call - many a man could have brought down stars, now it needs to do the old well for him!
You who are watching, who did not raise a murderer hand, but who did not shake off the dust from your yearning, who stood still, right there, where it is turned into light.
Are there situations where you have to fight against "evil" for love? Yes, those situations certainly exist, because love does not mean that you had to accept the disregard of your boundaries in the encounter with others. A healthy love is always associated with justice and the protection of one's own being. So what means should be used for a better, a more just world with more love? Following my involvement with Nelly Sachs this important issue cleared up for me. As we often think we had to fight against an enemy outside of us, instead of allowing us to be loving in our inside, our power drains - and "evil" is growing. But the opposit is also true. Because of fear of the violence of the struggle in the world we remain outsiders and look away: but with that we also do not follow our yearning for the light, where there isn't any fight - and so "evil" is growing. What a lie is that struggle, that keeps us from building a more peaceful world by being in our love.
It may be a good point of view, not to see good and evil as a polarity, but evil (darkness) as the absence of love (light). Perhaps in that perspective really the only thing to do on this earth is to strive for love and more love (and therefor light). The problem of evil can only be solved in a contribution of oneself in an attitude of love; if living love would become the core of our culture. The fight or the impression of a need to fight only shows that we failed previously in our love. And "evil" will come back and ask us again with the challenge to become love. So also "the struggle against fascism or anti-Semitism ..." isn't always a good answer. Hitler: "Mein Kampf!", meaning "My Struggle" - that is reason enough to stop right on this issue with the fighting. We think too much about fighting and too little about loving.
For me this work is a continuous effort and it is a reaching out beyond of what I know and believe to be able to master. It therefore isn't possible without a courage to make mistakes. The integration of the newly experienced causes the growth necessary for the further work. To become timid for the fear of making mistakes would be tantamount to a standstill and the give-up of vitality. The particular problem in the Holocaust issue is the still present intensity of the perceived pain; the still open wound that does not easily tolerate errors.
"As the logos is representative for Greek thought, so Shalom is for the Jewish" Derrida wrote in his book "Violence and Metaphysics" - so we understand, how deep the Nazi madness hurt the Jewish soul.
And the soul of humanity! Through this insight the previously mentioned phrase of Gershom Scholem about the mission of Israel in the Diaspora "Collecting and uplifting through prayer and pious act the sparks of holy souls and G*d's light" becomes even a far deeper meaning.
When you raise up your walls again - your stove, sleeping place, table and chair - don't hang your tears around those, who passed away, which are no longer living with you on the stone, not on the wood - it cries else into your sleep, the short one, you still need to do.
Sight not, if you bed your sheets, else your dreams mix up with the sweat of the dead.
Oh, there are the walls and equipment receptive like the wind harps and like a field therein your sorrow grows, and feel the dust-related in you.
Build, when the hourglass trickles, but do not weep away the minutes together with the dust, which covers the light.
How can the pain of loss are processed? The survivors who endure it must supplant it to sleep again. How else could they turn to life again? And yet the walls and the equipment are receptive like wind harps and forgetting does not work. The reason to endure it and to rebuild the new, can only be the knowledge of the light. This shows a deep longing for God.
From this yearning, the bridges of love can be built. Such is the Rose of Shalom in the Circle of Peace. Because the energy of light will cause the stone to break into music. From urge, repression, not being able to process and wanting to forget a pain, which is to deep - like a stone in the heart - it becomes its transformation into love. Therein the Circle of Peace shows in its confrontation with the incomprehensible a path to God, and is thus a sign of hope for the suffering.


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Questa voce raccoglie le informazioni riguardanti il Giannino Pieralisi Volley nelle competizioni ufficiali della stagione 2001-2002.

Stagione

Organigramma societario

Area direttiva
Presidente:

Area tecnica
Allenatore: Giovanni Volpicella
Allenatore in seconda: Gabriele Vasconi

Area sanitaria
Medico: Daniele Lenti
Fisioterapista: Gianni Serrani

Rosa

Mercato

Risultati

Statistiche

Note

Collegamenti esterni

2001-2002
Giannino Pieralisi

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Geocaching Maine > Geocaching > Maine Geocaching Milestones > Personal Milestones > it's hollora's birthday!
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Happy Birthday you! It's your birthday and you go and put new caches out for us! How sweet! Hope you have an awesome day!
Happy 29th Birthday! Now go out and enjoy this day.
I hope you have a very happy birthday...and thanks to you for your new caches...and your thoughtful notes about accessability!
if wyrdvans was just 2 years younger....wouldn't that be odd?
It shows the diversity in ages of members here at geocachingmaine.org.
Hope you all had a great birthday!
Getting older does have it's disadvantages (knees hurt, need new glasses, spicy foods off the menu), but think of all that experience and knowledge we have!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Lois!!!! and Happy Caching!!!!


A consignment is a agreement to pay a supplier of goods after the goods are sold. It is very important the supplier of goods and LEC has a honest and good working relationship in order to reach the common goal of selling the equipment or attachment. It works best when common goals are discussed and a plan is made to sell the unit.
What is the advantage for the seller? The goal should be to maximize the value of your "good" and return the seller a larger return than if he or she was selling it themselves. Below are some of the advantages LEC can offer.
What is the advantage for LEC? The biggest advantage is LEC is not carrying the cost of the asset. There is no large cash outlay or interest cost for carrying the asset. Other adavatages are the cost of repair or clean up is usually passed on. Other cost like insurance are not incurred.
Their are two types of consignment contracts. One, is a Percentage of sale contract. The second is a fixed cost contract. I will give a basic description below.
PERCENTAGE OF SALE. The basic idea is when the asset is sold the seller pays LEC a agreed upon percentage amount of the total sale. Typically the lager the value of the equipment the lower the percentage. The lower the value the high the rate. This type of contract works best on item where the transaction will most likely will be simple. An item that will be a cash and carry sale works good with this contract.
FIXED COST SALE. The basic idea is the seller and LEC agree on an amount the seller wants to clear for the sale. LEC will then add there desired profit on top of the agreed upon contract number. Other cost occurred is the responsibility of LEC to account for. Knowing a fixed number helps when a transaction is complex and has multiple layers of cost. This type of contract also works best when the end user makes offers and LEC and the seller need to make a quick reaction to close the deal.
Consignment sales need to be discussed. Both parties need to feel comfortable with the partnership they are entering into. We have sold large equipment fleets over multiple years in phases, retirement liquidations, fleet upgrades, bank liquidations or single item sales. Every deal is different and we just need to work through the details. Please give Dave Langefels a call to discuss these contracts (513)276-5500.


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Publication proposal
Remit:
Write and send to your tutor a comprehensive proposal showing in detail how you intend to resolve and deliver or disseminate your major project. Refer to the brief for Assignment Five for more detail about what is expected of you for the resolution of your major project.
Your proposal should include:
a timeline for the development of your project, your marketing strategy and the resolution of your work, including installation if appropriate.
a description of your work. Use the work you did for Contextual Studies to help you position your work in its critical and/or commercial context. Briefly explain your motivations and how the project fits within your practice more broadly.
a budget, detailing the costs associated with the resolution of your project and identifying any payment in kind.
a description of how you intend to maximise the presence of your work and engage with your audience, such as your plans for a private view, screening event or artist's talk.
The whole document should not exceed 2000 words. If you'd like to explore a more experimental approach to the proposal, send any ideas to your tutor.
Check the work against the assessment criteria listed in the introduction to the course guide.
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I propose to hold an exhibition which will comprise the following:
A physical exhibition in a space called "The Cells" which is in the original Devonport Guild Hall in Plymouth. It has that name because it has 3 prisoner cells and is adjacent to and in the same building which housed the magistrates court in Devonport. The space, with its obvious connections, makes it an ideal place to hold the exhibition. As a 'white' body of work, the exhibition seeks to dispel the ubiquitous violent, drugged-up, anarchic view of prisoners invariably portrayed in the mass media.
In the space, I plan to exhibit 12, A3 images attached to the hanging system with bulldog clips. Four of the images, one for each season, will be covered by an image on an A3 sheet of tracing paper of a photograph of a print made by plant and mineral material found outside or in the vicinity of HMP Dartmoor where the author of the letters in my project spent a year. The idea is that these seasonal images of the prints will give a sense of place over time. The viewers are encouraged to lift the tracing paper to see and, if necessary, to touch and feel the images underneath. Viewers can also touch the other free-standing images. By touching, the viewers become part of the experience: it is hoped that, by no longer being passive but leaving their mark, the viewers will become more involved in this different interactive form of exhibiting different images. In other words, by doing what is not normally done in exhibitions, it is hoped that One Year is remembered as one which presented prisons and prisoners differently.
The colours of the image on the tracing paper (Figures 1 & 6), being those of the print made of the plant and mineral material found in the vicinity of HMP Dartmoor, are strongly related visually and contextually to the colours on the HMP Dartmoor image (Figures 5 & 7)
On the wall next to each image will be a QR code and /or an app reference which will enable those visitors with smart phones to access the recordings of the relevant parts of the letters pertaining to each image. Those without smartphones will be able to pick up a laminated transcript of the recordings from the entrance. I would like to investigate developing an app with a student from the University of Plymouth, so that people can use their own phones and earphones.
A 10 minute piece of music commissioned by me and composed by an OCA music student as a response to the work will be accessible via the QR code. The idea of including another art form in the exhibition was inspired by my recent trip to see PhotoIreland where several of the exhibitions curators had applied to Arts Council Ireland for funding to promote other forms of art.
One of the cells in the complex will contain the quilt I will have made by cyanotype prints from the plant photos taken at LandWorks, Dartington, an organisation which uses prisoners on day release, newly released prisoners and those in danger of committing crimes, to grow food and flowers, to develop their skills in pottery, masonry and other pursuits.
The other cell will have a looped projection of general images taken of the work being done at LandWorks, Dartington over the course of three seasons.
I plan to make 20 books of the work to sell at £20 each and cards at £2 each on sale throughout the exhibition.
I propose to do a leaf installation, after the work of Rebecca Louise Law, which will hang in the recessed closed doorway at the end of the corridor because there is a void there at the focal point of the space. As an ephemeral piece, it will not impede the emergency exit.
I am hoping that by having different elements, including an interactive one, the exhibition and its portrayal of a different prison and prisoner perspective, will linger in the minds of those who attend.
Set in a Victorian building, One Year is a very human story which highlights isolation, vulnerability, resilience and a determination to 'keep busy', an expression used in several of Ian's letters. The use of the plant material marks the passage of time and the inescapable change it brings, as well as a sense of place, in and out of prison.
The project is the outcome of a correspondence initiated with a friend and local preacher who was arrested on his fiftieth birthday for a crime he had committed in his mid-teens. The resulting project documents a year spent in prison in Britain in 2016.
Instead of focusing on the violence, drug abuse and overcrowding in British prisons which dominate our biased documentaries and mediated images, this project explores the accounts of the opportunities prisoners take to improve their skills sets.
During 2016, those life-affirming experiences described in the letters, were also starting to emerge in the work of practising photographic artists like Edmund Clark and Jennifer Wicks.
In an increasing number of prisons, gardening is being considered a form of therapy for the inmates' wellbeing. The Royal Horticultural Society, for example, awards the Windlesham Trophy annually to the best prison garden in England and Wales. As is the case with developing prisoners' skills sets, you will not see this in the mass media because it is not a sensational topic.
White dominates in this project because the correspondence shows that there is a metaphorical light in prison in the form of opportunities offered to inmates to progress in their life's journey, and that there is goodness in their being. More and more writers, artists, criminologists and prison governors realise that the answer to society's ills is not to build bigger and bigger prisons, and fill them, like warehouses, with all the worst parts of us.
Exhibition budget:
Music and creative writing commissions: £2000
Marketing: £150
Opening event reception: £50
Image printing: £50
Bulldog clips: 24 x £10 £25
Hiring projector for 2 weeks: (Discounted?)£200
Book: 20 x Self made, 20 page books £400
Quilt material: Textile £20
Cyanotype chemicals £30
Total outlay: £2925
Time and services in kind:
My stewarding 10days x 6hrs x £20/hr £1200
My administration 10 days x 6hrs £1200
Development of an audio app. free.
Outreach: * Meet the artist where I will talk
about my correspondence with a prisoner
in HMP Dartmoor. 2 hours x £20/hr £40
Both these last 'expenses' are held in
what used to be a culturally deprived
area of Plymouth. This exhibition
is making people aware of prison images
not normally in the headlines. (6 hours) £120
Gallery hire: Free in exchange for outreach
University of Plymouth app development.
Total cost in kind: £2360
* A day's awareness of prison life.
Exhibition timeline:
2019: July 12th: Exhibition closes with the auction of the quilt.
July 11th: Workshop at "The Cells" on a topic related to prisoner rehabilitation:possibly making a quilt like those made by OCA tutor Michele Whiting, involving the local community.
July 4th: Artist's talk at "The Cells".
July 1st: Exhibition opening event 6 – 8pm in "The Cells" Devonport, Plymouth. All the invited guests will have been involved with the project, the prison, the local community, local galleries, news outlets and arts centres, as well as OCA students and tutors interested in the project.
June 30th: Set up the exhibition.
June 26th: Test audio & visual equipment in situ.
June 11th: Final leaf collection & complete the plant material installation (after Rebecca Louise Law)
June: early: make the last cyanotype for the quilt & stitch it into the quilt.
April: Start assembling the installation of leaves.
April 25th: Final material collection for the Spring paste & prints.
March: Hand in Assignment 4
February: Apply for funding: Arts Council England et al.
January: Start putting the quilt cyanotype squares together.
December: The Photographers' Gallery: Folio Fridays. TBA
December 10th: Hand in assignment 3
December: Make quilt cyanotypes from LandWorks images on white cotton.
November: Test the BoW at the OCA SW exhibition in Bristol (20th- 25th).
November: Portfolio reviews: Look out for TPG Dec. date.
October 4th: Hand in Assignment 2
September: Contact T.Clarke at 1000 Words Magazine for the £45 portfolio review.
" Contact inthein-between.com for portfolio review $50
(1466 words)
Reflection on the work:
I am not sure how to resolve the body of work for 3 main reasons:
Because I want to realise a conceptual documentary, using the actual prison images is for me too literal. In a recent talk at her exhibition venue, Helen Sear said her work cannot be seen as documentary because she has edited it all.
Because of the conclusion to my CS essay deals with the idea that prisons are filled with all the worst parts of each one of us, my fault line images become significant in what I want to say through the work on prisons.
Because the place and time are significant factors in One Year, my prints made of local organic and mineral matter and the leaves become significant benchmarks.
I want to retain the following aspects:
the audio aspect of the work as it is using QR codes / an app referencing my 'official / professional website which I still need to create.
the quilt & the plant material references in it.
the use of tracing paper for its ephemeral / brittle qualities reflecting the passage of time.
the creation of a piece of commissioned music for the exhibition.
7 thoughts on "Assignment 2"
An intricate piece of work overall – rather like the making of a quilt I think.
I am quite looking forward to doing the cyanotype prints on cotton. I wander if there is a special cotton that needs to be used?
Is this useful: http://www.alternativephotography.com/cyanotypes-on-fabric-preparing-the-fabric/
That's brilliant! Thank you! It covers all possibilities. There is so much to do!!!
You're very welcome and will certainly never be bored!
sueparr says:
This sounds fantastic Anna. Well done for resolving the disparate images – the layering idea really works to make them cohesive- a very clever idea.
Thanks, Sue. I have had a very comprehensive tutorial on this & will have to do a write-up on it as well as change many elements in it. Welcome to my blog!
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