7:59 p.m. On the 500 block of W. Victory Way, officers with the Craig Police Department spoke to a person who had lost a wallet. It had not been turned in.
12:04 p.m. At Loaf N'Jug, officers investigated a theft report. The incident is under investigation.
3:41 p.m. At Plan B Pawn Shop, a person was denied the purchase of a weapon in error. Officers spoke with both the person wanting to make the purchase and store staff to resolve the error.
3:48 p.m. On the 500 block of Ledford Street, officers arrested a 39-year-old Craig woman on a warrant for fraud.
12:49 a.m. On the 500 block of West Victory Way, officers made a traffic stop resulting in the arrest of a 24-year-old Craig woman, who was wanted on a warrant for failure to appear.
2:44 a.m. Near the intersection of Seventh and Breeze streets, officers investigated a possible burglary. A caller reported a man in a red hooded sweatshirt was possibly breaking into vehicles. The caller wasn't sure if anything was stolen.
2:26 p.m. On the 600 block of East Fourth Street, officers responded to a theft report. Items were taken and returned.
9:36 p.m. In Woodbury Park, officers responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle. A couple of people were hanging out.
11:09 p.m. On the 700 block of Columbine Street, officers were called to assist with a drunken pedestrian. Officers contacted a man who said he would "take control" of the situation.
10:58 a.m. On the 800 block of Yampa Avenue, officers responded to a single-vehicle crash resulting in property damage. A vehicle pulling a trailer hit a light pole with the trailer resulting in minor damage to the pole.
11:51 a.m On U.S. Highway 40 near the Department of Transportation, officers contacted a motorist pulled onto the side of the road. The person needed to put oil in the car was back on their way.
2:53 p.m. On the 1900 block of Crocket Drive, officers responded to a report of suspicious people. A caller said people were walking around houses for sale taking pictures of the property. Officers contacted the realtor, who said no one was supposed to be on the property. The people taking photos were contacted, and officers learned they had a work order to do maintenance on the property.
6:48 p.m. Near the intersection of Victory Way and U.S. Highway 40, officers responded to a crash between a black Nissan Pathfinder and a deer. The deer was alive but injured in the road. No one in the vehicle was injured, and the vehicle was OK to drive.
8:08 p.m. Near the intersection of Yampa Avenue and East 13th Street, officers received a report of a disabled vehicle. Upon investigation, they learned the driver was using the phone on the side of the road to get better reception.
10:18 p.m. In Craig, officers responded to a caller who reported possible domestic violence in progress. The caller said a woman was "coming down the stairs hard" and screaming with her boyfriend behind her. The man left on foot. The woman was contacted and declined assistance from victim's advocates.


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The fashion industry has signed the first pact for concrete commitment supporting climate change.
How the fashion industry signed the first charter for climate change
by Maria Cristina Pavarini — December 19, 2018
The fashion industry has signed the first pact for concrete commitment supporting climate change–the UN Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action–during the Climate Change Conference (COP24) recently held in Katowice, Poland.
The charter is a significant achievement considering that the textile industry is a huge polluter and is currently responsible for 8% of the world's CO2 emission according to the "Measuring Fashion" report by Quantis & Climate Works Foundation.
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Panel speakers at the Climate Change Conference (COP24) recently held in Katowice, Poland.
Under the auspices of UN Climate Change, 40 companies including leading fashion brands, retailers, supplier organizations and a shipping company have agreed to collectively address the climate impact of the fashion sector across its entire value chain.
These include, among others, Adidas, Arcteryx, Burberry, Esprit, Guess, Gap Inc. Hugo Boss, H&M Group, Inditex, Kering Group, Levi Strauss & Co., Puma, Schoeller Textiles, Otto Group, Pidigi Spa, Peak Performance, Stella McCartney, Sympatex Technology and Target; leading membership organizations, including Business for Social Responsibility, Sustainable Apparel Coalition, China National Textile and Apparel Council, Outdoor Industry Association, Textile Exchange and ZDHC (Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals); global logistics company Maersk; and global NGO WWF International.
Rüdiger Fox, CEO Sympatex Technologies, wears climate neutral bleed jacket
Together they have committed to implementing or supporting the 16 principles and targets that underpin the Fashion Climate Charter and agreed to a sector-wide plan of action that targets net-zero emissions by 2050 and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030.
In early 2018, fashion leaders volunteered to create a climate movement through discussions in working groups chaired by Puma and H&M Group.
"We are aware that more than 90% of Puma's carbon footprint is being generated in shared supply chains. If we want to reduce carbon emissions in our supply chains, we need to work together with our industry peers," said Bjørn Gulden, CEO, Puma. "The Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action provides a collective industry effort to support the goals of the Paris Agreement. We appreciate that UN Climate Change has set up a global platform and call upon our industry peers to join the initiative."
"This charter is about getting the fashion industry united in important climate work. Our industry has a global reach and only together can we create the change that is urgently needed," said Karl-Johan Persson, CEO, H&M group. "We are happy to be a signatory of this charter as part of our ambition to become climate positive in our value chain."
Like Persson, all other signatories expressed their satisfaction for joining the pact and commented:
Stella McCartney, designer: "Climate change is undoubtedly one of, if not, the biggest challenge of our lifetime. It is and will affect everyone on this planet and our future. I want to call on my peers in the business to sign up to this charter now and take the necessary actions to address the reality of the issue of climate change in their business and value chains. Collectively we have a voice and the capacity to make a difference."
Marco Gobbetti, CEO, Burberry: "Burberry is proud to be a signatory of the Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action. By working together with other signatories, we believe that we can achieve systemic change and build a more sustainable future."
Anders Kristiansen, CEO, Esprit Group: "Esprit has already taken important steps with an ambitious sustainability strategy and clear targets. We as an industry can now take a more holistic approach to the urgent challenge we face."
Rüdiger Fox, CEO, Sympatex Technologies: "The charter is obviously open to additional members. Commitments from additional industry participants increase our chances of making a mutual impact and reach the goal of driving down global warming to under 2 degrees, as outlined in the Paris Climate Accord."
He continued: "Katowice proves that our industry is ready to take significant steps. More and more brands are beginning to understand instead of viewing sustainability as a threat, or purely as a responsibility to society and the environment, it offers a new economic opportunity for the companies of tomorrow."

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Remembering Forster O. Ndubisi
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Forster Ndubisi was the editor of The Ecological Design and Planning Reader and will be remembered as a kind, unique leader in landscape architecture....
Plastic "Tox" EP 7: A Poison Like No Other: Microplastics Q&A with Matt Simon
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During our October 27 webinar, we discussed the new book A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies, as well as the harmful impact microplastics, have on our...
Understanding Disaster Finance: New Tools for a More Resilient Future
The frequency and intensity of natural disasters—such as hurricanes, floods, and storms—are on the rise, threatening our way of life and our livelihoods. Insurance, an often confusing and unpopular tool, is critical to recovery from these crises. Yet, as...
A Bold Vision for a Sustainable & Just Economy
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Ian Was a Warning to Make Flood Insurance Accessible to All
Understanding Disaster Insurance author Carolyn Kousky writes that by expanding access to flood insurance, we can protect more Americans and improve their financial resilience in the face of escalating climate disasters.
Thicker than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis
A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies
Matt Simon, science journalist at Wired magazine, has published the first book to fully explore the threat of microplastics. Publishers Weekly describes the book as a "lucid, distressing look at a growing...
"An urgent call to action" — Kirkus Reviews
Remembering Herman Daly
Herman Daly, the author of many books including the foremost textbook on ecological economics, died on Friday, October 28th, 2022. Grounding economics within the boundaries of physical limits, he gained fame and followers worldwide. Dr. Daly was...
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Bhubaneswar: The Government of Odisha today approved fiveinvestment proposals worth Rs 1508crorewhich will help create employment opportunities for 2,155people.
The government's nod to the projects came during the 78thmeeting of the State Level Single Window Clearance Authority (SLSWCA) held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Sri Aditya Prasad Padhi.
The SLSWCA accorded approval to IOCL to set up a polyester products manufacturing unit of 324KTPA capacity at the textiles park in Bhadrak district with a total investment of Rs. 975.10 crorein joint venture with Haldia-based MCPI Private Limited. The project will create direct and indirect employment for 185 people.The project will act as an anchor and help in supplying feedstock or raw material to the downstream technical textile industries which will come up in the textiles park. It will reportedly provide employment to more than 100,000 persons in the long run.
One of the leading manufacturers of aluminium extrusions had submitted a proposal to set up a greenfield manufacturing unit at the Angul Aluminium Parkwith a capacity of 40,000 metric tonnes (MT) per annum. The investment outlay was Rs. 200 crores with employment potential for 500 persons. The proposal was approved at the meeting. The Aluminium Park at Angul is being developed as an exclusive state-of-the-art industrial park for ancillary and downstream industries for alumina and aluminium. The park is the first-of-its-kind in the Indian sub-continent with facility for directly obtaining molten aluminium from the smelter.
A Gujarat-based edible oil manufacturing company's proposal to set up a 750,000 tonnes per annum vegetable oil manufacturing unit at Paradeep at an investment of Rs. 200 crore was also approved at the meeting. The unit will create employment opportunities for 920 people directly and indirectly.
The SLSWCA also approved the proposal of an Andhra Pradesh-based company which will invest Rs 71 crore to manufacture Instant Pasta and Vermicelli and Sweet Potato flour. Odisha is one of the largest producers of Sweet Potato. As per the information available, Odisha produced 16.38 lakh ton of Sweet potato in 2016-17. Sweet Potato flour finds its use in Food Processing Industries. The proposed unit will be first of its kind in the state.
The fifth investment proposal approved by the SLSWCA was that of a Kolkata-based company which will invest Rs 62.1 crore to establish an integrated cold chain service unit at the seafood park at Deras in Khordha district. The project will have employment potential for 250 people.


Sound Librarian has developed an extensive series of resources to support our training and educational material. This is part of offering a total solution to educational institutes and ensuring students have the best possible environment in which to be inspired and to learn. These resources cover a wide range of materials to suit the broad range of skills that modern creative professionals need to develop.
Sound Librarian can also offer these resources independent to our training courses to supplement existing educational curriculums.
101 Video Games is a series of videos that analyze the audio content from various games. Selected across the entire history of game development from any of the available platforms this series looks at significant examples of game audio, explores aspects of the game design, the narrative and how the audio integrates with these aspects.
101 Video Games also discusses the growth and development of game audio production over the history of the industry and encourages listeners to think beyond the usual perceptions of audio for games. A small selection of these videos are publicly available on YouTube for previewing.
Sound Librarian runs annual workshops on sound recording and audio production. From these workshops we are able to produce a series of videos that present some of the highlights from the workshop event. This video series will be a constantly growing resource over the years as new workshops are run.
Stephan Schütze has been a sound designer and composer in the video games industry for over thirteen years and in that time has written musical scores for a wide range of game genres and musical styles.
Stephan was the first person to compose a fully orchestral score in Australia and worked on three projects with Melbourne Symphony. Sound Librarian has access to over two hours of full orchestral scores from Stephan's projects that provide an excellent insight into the world of video game composing.
Our resource collection contains over 50 pieces scored for full orchestra across a wide variety of styles. Each piece includes a video preview or the score synced to the music for quick reference as well as a complete version of the score in PDF format and a recording of the final piece to enable thorough study of the works.
Sound Librarian developed and produced the FMOD TV video tutorials for FMOD Designer and FMOD Studio. These are a free resource available on YouTube and help to further support the knowledge base for FMOD products. This series is regularly updated and will continue to expand as FMOD Studio continues to develop.
Sound Map projects have been created in several countries around the world, they are an interesting form of exploration and discovery. The Sound Librarian Sound Map is designed to inspire students to explore and discover.
The map logs sites around the world that have been discovered as part of the travels of the Sound Librarian team. Each site provides an image, some basic information and a sound recording. The Sound Map will continue to expand with eventual plans to open it up to students around the world to add their own discoveries to share with their global neighbors.


All the stone surfaces of the external facade of the Basilica of San Petronio were restored, as well as the sculptural decoration (pinnacles, statues, cornices, tiles, seats, trabeations) of the lower part. In the chapels, on the other hand, besides the restoration of the stone surfaces (sculptural furnishings, columns, roses, tiles) a making safe operation was carried out, dismounting and remounting an entire window (5.75 metres wide, 11.5 metres high) and, as a result, creating a restoration site of its own for the elements that were removed, before they were returned to their original location.
The restoration intervention was carried out by employing innovative technologies and following the protocol RESTAURO VERDE®(GREEN RESTORATION): this is a restoration process introduced by LEONARDO SRL (applying the LEED principles of protocol to the restoration, as directed by the Green Building Council with which it is associated) and it is applied to its own building sites with the objective of containing the environmental impact of the work and making energy saving choices.
For the cleaning processes, for example, alternative products to chemical substances were used, among which was AGAR GEL which, using the 'molecular sponge' action of the gels that absorb the soluble substances from the surfaces of the materials, allow for the effective surface cleaning and removal/swelling up again of hydrous substances; in some cases the gels were added to chelate substances (tetrasodium EDTA). A further methodology was performed by CLEANING WITH SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIA. This involves using micro-organisms for the selective removal of chemical alterations particularly effective in the removal of black crusts and so they constitute a valid alternative to the use of chemical substances, whether for their non-toxicity or for their eco-friendliness. The cleaning of the sculptural furnishings was also carried out by a LASER SYSTEM: three laser sites were set up, working on the different areas with the objective of removing badly-adhering deposits without calling for mechanical assistance and thereby safeguarding the original stone slab sections.


February 18, 2009 - InSite One Inc. said today that the InDex Archive has reached a new milestone with over 31 million studies in this single object repository representing approximately 4.5 percent of the U.S. diagnostic imaging patient population in 2008.
This active repository of cardiology, radiology, mammography and other non-X-ray images represents a perspective of data generated from multiple vendors across the imaging marketplace and includes tremendous variation in imaging utilization. Created and consumed as an on-demand storage model in a growing number of clinical sites, the InDex service provides protection from the variation in exam sizes by a predictable fee-per-study cost model. This consumption model aims to allow healthcare institutions the freedom to preserve cash and to spend capital dollars on programs that can create new sources of revenue.
Newly contracted institutions added to InSite One's over 500 client sites include Vanguard Health Systems in Nashville, TN; Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, CA; and Physicians Hospital in El Paso, TX. A total of 23 imaging center and hospital contracts have been received in the last 90 days.


Multimedia: the packaging of still images, video, sound and graphic elements. In the past it was presented in 35mm slide format, but now distribution is mainly in the form of video.
This page provides examples of filmmaking, archival and video documentation, but the possibilities are endless. Call today to discuss your next video project.
Write a story and tell it with video and sound. We begin with a story board, are you interested? Join me.
Successful business demands clear communications with customers. A Video documentation is the answer.
You've shot the video now what? Putting scenes together in a logical order, editing the raw footage and adding titles is required to condense it into a finished product that looks professional.
Add old family photos, documents and memorable film and video that can be shared with family members or uploaded to a family tree website.
A simple but effective way to display a series of photographs with titles in a video format.


World's first UN recognised Local Hub!
We are the world's first UN recognised Local Hub - We are translating the United Nations Global Goals into Scouse to accelerate the impact on Liverpool's furthest behind by supporting all local stakeholders and connecting to a international network of expertise.
What prompted you to develop it?
The concept came from a request to develop an entrepreneurial hub at the same time this 15 year UN programme was kicking off, and we saw Liverpool could offer a truly unique innovative project to show cities and their communities could become global leaders.
Is it in production or use?
Yes! Our doors opened (3 mins from Liverpool ONE) nearly two years ago and we've had over 2000 people through the 2030hub in addition to multiple projects delivered and supported at home and abroad.
Elon Musk, Melala Yousafzai, Yvon Chouinard (Founder of Patagonia), Paul Polman (ex-Unilever CEO), Rachel Carson (author Silent Spring), Ellen MacArthur, Jurgen Klopp.
What do you hope to achieve in developing this innovation?
Our aspirational aim is to eliminate poverty, protect the environment and position Liverpool as THE global centre of excellence for the Sustainable Development Goals, and all by 2030.


MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is a bacterial infection that resists treatment by commonly-used antibiotics. Usually occurring in hospital or healthcare settings, MRSA has more recently begun to appear in the community as well.
MRSA remains an important public health concern. Most cases of invasive MRSA are healthcare-associated. However, studies indicate that the rates of invasive MRSA are falling.
Community-associated MRSA typically shows up as a skin infection. Rates of these infections have risen rapidly over the last 10 years and there is no indication that risk of community-associated MRSA infection is decreasing. Therefore MSDH is working to prevent MRSA by providing the public and healthcare providers with educational and prevention information.
MRSA infection is resistant to the most commonly-used antibiotics. Infection can be successfully treated with alternate antibiotics, however.
Cases of MRSA are usually mild, involving skin infections such as abscesses or boils.
Almost all serious MRSA infections – 85% – are encountered in hospital settings. Serious cases in the community are rare.
MRSA is spread by direct contact with contaminated skin or, less often, a contaminated surface. It does not spread through the air.
Students being treated for MRSA can attend school safely. They do not present a risk to others.
Hygiene is the best prevention against MRSA infection.
Keep your hands clean by washing thoroughly with soap and water, or using an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
Care for wounds properly. Keep cuts and scrapes clean and covered with a bandage until healed.
If you are involved in sports, be especially aware of scrapes or broken skin.
Keep surfaces and equipment clean. Disinfect with a solution of 1 part bleach to 9 parts water (1 1/2 cups bleach in 1 gallon of water).
If you have a skin infection that is slow to heal, or has spreading redness or swelling, see a doctor.


News and Headlines – News and Headlines: RoboeAmerican,Keeping you informed.
First up got some ICYMI if you don't follow me on social media. Scroll down for News, Headlines and some pretty good commentary for today 4/25/2017.
National Day of Prayer and Protest against Planned Parenthood On April 28 and 29.
"President Trump vowed to stamp out anti-Semitism Tuesday in remarks at the Capitol commemorating the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's National Days of Remembrance.
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg attacked sanctuary cities on MSNBC Tuesday morning, denouncing the idea of cities effectively nullifying federal law.


Professional cutting boards made of quartzite. Size 300 * 600 * 10 mm. The best gift for a professional pastry chef and cook!
To temper chocolate often use a cold surface of the stone. Only tempering on the smooth cold surface of quartzite makes chocolate so unique shiny and dense! Board of quartzite is simply indispensable for confectioners working with marzipan mass and putty!
Also, this stone is great for food use. Also in quartzite has several advantages over similar boards made of marble, it is much more durable, which means that the cutting board is lighter and durable. You can easily move it or take care of the cutting board. Quartzite contains small pores that fall in balances of nutrients and stained with time, so the surface of the stone, unlike marble, you can carve, fish, meat, cut greens, use products with food dyes and so on. Absolutely not afraid to spoil the surface. Quartzite can withstand high temperatures and it does not matter if you put on the surface of the heated container.
In addition to working with this chocolate to the same beautiful thing will come in handy for rolling sand, puff and puff pastry on the wrong side.
Rectangular or square cutting board made of black, chocolate or red quartzite, it will become an indispensable attribute of cooking. Board is resistant to damage and does not absorb odors, perfect for cutting meat, fish, dough and cutting of any products.
Size: 60cm x 30cm x 1cm.
The best gift for a professional pastry chef and cook!


Well, don't this turn our libs arguements on thier ears!
The two mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae — seized by the government September 7 before they went completely bankrupt, at a potential cost to taxpayers of more than $25 billion — have been in obvious trouble for much of the past five years — with criminal investigations, accounting scandals, firings, resignations, huge losses and warnings from the Federal Reserve that their huge portfolio of mortgage securities posed a risk to the overall financial system.
In 2005, the Senate Banking Committee, then under Republican control, adopted a strong reform bill, introduced by Republican Sens. Elizabeth Dole, John Sununu and Chuck Hagel, and supported by then chairman Richard Shelby. The bill prohibited the GSEs from holding portfolios, and gave their regulator prudential authority (such as setting capital requirements) roughly equivalent to a bank regulator. In light of the current financial crisis, this bill was probably the most important piece of financial regulation before Congress in 2005 and 2006. All the Republicans on the Committee supported the bill, and all the Democrats voted against it. Mr. McCain endorsed the legislation in a speech on the Senate floor. Mr. Obama, like all other Democrats, remained silent.
If the Democrats had let the 2005 legislation come to a vote, the huge growth in the subprime and Alt-A loan portfolios of Fannie and Freddie could not have occurred, and the scale of the financial meltdown would have been substantially less. The same politicians who today decry the lack of intervention to stop excess risk taking in 2005-2006 were the ones who blocked the only legislative effort that could have stopped it.


First, let me start off with an awesome lineup of the Star Guardians!!
Cody Blunt created this awesome skin for Poppy! You can see more of this artwork here and more of Cody's work on his Artstation.
Duy Khanh Nguyen was the artist of this sweet skin for Jinx! You can see more of her with some really nice prop callouts here and more of Duy's work on his Artstation or on the extra links that he provided on the left here.
Maddy Taylor Kenyon has created many beautiful skins for League of Legends, and this time shes made the amazing skins for SG Lux and SG Lulu!
See more of Lux here and more of Lulu here. You can find more of her work on Artstation or on the many social networks she has listed on the left side of the site here.
See more of Daniel's work on Artstation or at the other places hes listed on the left of here.
Blizzard recently mentioned the Sketchfab "Legion" Fanart Contest that ended a while back. It's nice to see all these amazing entries again!
And since we're on the topic of the Legion Contest, special shoutout to Michael Barrington who is a member of the Handpainter's Guild and created an amazing entry that deserves an encore aswell!
See this image as a Sketchfab here with texture and design callouts included. And view his work on Artstation!
Note: Handpainter's Guild did not help him in creating this, we were just so happy to see him work so hard and make something cool!
Anatoly Dragunov has posted A TON of new work on his contribution to Allods! Please…go to his Artstation and view them all!


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New Sanctuary Movement written testimony for 3/3/14 City Council hearing on ICE holds
To: Chairman of City Council's Public Safety Committee, Councilman Curtis Jones
CC: Philadelphia City Council, Mayor Michael Nutter
Dear Councilman Jones,
New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia writes in support of the March 3, 2014 City Council public hearing on the collaboration between the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and urges the City of Philadelphia to stop honoring all ICE hold requests. As an interfaith, multicultural immigrant justice organization, New Sanctuary Movement builds community across faith, ethnicity, and class in our work to end injustices against immigrants regardless of immigration status, express radical welcome for all, and ensure that values of dignity, justice, hospitality are lived out in practice and upheld in policy.
As a grassroots organization of immigrants and their allies, we see the effects of deportation via compliance with non-mandatory ICE holds every day. Our community has been ripped apart by the collaboration between the PPD and ICE. Compliance with ICE holds results in children who may never see their parents again, spouses left without partners, and our members deported to countries they fled because of death threats, violence, and deep, systemic poverty. This comes at the expense of Philadelphia taxpayers. By using local tax dollars to deport immigrants out of Philadelphia, the City of Philadelphia prioritizes deportation and family separation while cutting the real essential services that all Philadelphians need to survive.
Our undocumented members, including children, routinely witness and/or are victims of crimes and do not call the police, knowing that any interaction with law enforcement can result in deportation. As such, ICE holds threaten public safety for all Philadelphia residents. Non-citizens who commit crimes and serve jail time are doubly punished by being deported immediately after completing their sentences. As people of faith, we believe in second chances and rehabilitation – not serving double punishments, which further traumatizes family members who are left behind.
As a faith-based organization working with religious congregations throughout Philadelphia, we have organized faith communities to end PPD cooperation with ICE holds since their implementation in 2008. We are encouraged that Mayor Nutter is taking our grave concerns on currently local immigration policy into consideration, but we urge the Mayor and his administration to end ICE holds for all of our community members, regardless of history with the criminal system. Ending ICE holds will not interfere with the criminal justice system. Only by ending all ICE holds can we honor the dignity of all of our immigrant family, friends, and community members.
The City of Philadelphia now has the historic opportunity to end compliance with ICE holds, strengthening our multicultural communities and honoring the foundation of our city. We urge City Council and the Mayor's Administration to support immigrants and their allies by ending all compliance with ICE holds. We invite Mayor Nutter to work with us to achieve this goal. We will continue to organize immigrants and their allies until Philadelphia becomes a welcoming city for all, regardless of immigration status.
Peter Pedemonti, Blanca Pacheco, and Nicole Kligerman
Staff, New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia
In Against ICE Holds, Blog Posts
Philadelphia City Council hearing on ICE HoldsPress Conference with City Council, Citywide Coalition to Demand End to All ICE Holds


Hey all! I've been a big fan of this site for years. I have played probably upwards of 50 video game pieces, many of which came from here. I thought I'd share some videos. Here is a video I just put up yesterday: Dire Dire Docks (Super Mario 64). I hope you enjoy!
Another video: Overworld Theme from Super Mario World!
Deku Palace Theme from Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
Here's the Battle Theme from Super Mario RPG. If I recall, the sheet music was replaced, so this isn't the most current version of it. I still think it works, and it's really easy to play.
Flowey's Theme from Undertale, AKA "Your Best Friend"
Hey, I just wanted to pop in and say I really enjoy these! You're a skilled pianist! Keep it up!
Hey man, I really appreciate it. I always like playing for an audience!
The House Theme from Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Seasons.
Wow, these are great! I particularly enjoyed your performance of the Store Theme from Earthbound, you made it look so fun to play (yet I know I would probably struggle with it). Please keep sharing!
Hey thanks, I always like when people can appreciate this stuff, a lot of these tunes are my favorite things to play on piano.


Completely remodeled 4 bedroom, 2 bath home on a third of an acre lot! This home has fresh paint inside and out, new flooring, new bathrooms, newer windows, and large front and back patios. Kitchen, living room, and bedrooms are all large and bright! The master has a big walk in closet. There is a huge laundry/storage room as well! All of this on over third of an acre lot with RV parking on both sides of the house. Move in ready! This is one you have to see! More photos to be provided on Saturday once home is ready.


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United States Mikaela Shiffrin celebrates winning an alpine ski, womens World Cup slalom, in Levi, Finland, on Sunday. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)
SKI LINES As the ski season rolls out these days, there has been a lot of talk lately about G.O.A.T.s: The Greatest of All Time Michael Jordan? Wayne Gretzky? Tiger Woods? Muhammed Ali? You can still see 45-year-old Tom Brady play in Tampa Bay next week, if you are willing to shell out $250 for an end-zone seat at Raymond James Stadium.
But hold on. For a $5 admission fee this weekend, you can watch ski phenom Mikaela Shiffrin compete in World Cup slalom and giant slalom events in person at nearby Killington, Vermont, as she continues her remarkable career that, barring injury, could have her become the most successful alpine racer ever by the end of winter.
Shiffrin, who wont turn 28 until February, already has 77 World Cup wins after adding two more in Finland last weekend. The most career victories ever is 87 by Swedish racer Ingmar Stenmark, who competed in the 1980s. The most by a woman is 82 by Lindsey Vonn, who was 34 when she retired in 2019.
Shiffrin is one of those rare athletes whose achievements are being cheered from all corners. She was a prodigy, earning her first World Cup start at 15, her first top-three finish at 16 and her first victory the next winter. At 18, she became the youngest alpine skier ever to earn an Olympic gold medal when she won the slalom event at Sochi in 2014, Her 49 World Cup wins in the slalom event is the most every by any skier. Her 17 victories in 2019 is a record for wins in a single season, and she is the first athlete ever to win a World Cup victory in all six race disciplines.
And that success has always come with grace and dignity.
The path hasnt always been a smooth one for Shiffrin, who missed a part of the 2016 season with a knee injury and has battled ongoing back issues. Her family has always played a large role in her racing career, and it was a stunner when her father died suddenly in an accident two winters ago. Then she suffered uncharacteristic falls in her Olympic slalom races last year. A four-time Olympic medalist in prior years, she was shut out at the Bejiing Games last winter in events where she was favored to win medals.
A meltdown? Shiffrin came back to win her fourth overall season World Cup title last March.
In the past couple of years, there has been considerable attention given to the mental stress that successful young athletes can encounter in meeting expectations. Shiffrin has faced those same disappointments, yet has shown exceptional fortitude and resilience while remaining in the spotlight and achieving success.
After a slow start to the World Cup season due to unseasonable weather in the Alps, Shiffrin won both slalom events last week in Levi, Finland. With wins in every one of the five previous World Cup slalom events at Killington, she is a strong favorite in that competition and the giant slalom race this weekend. Although she lives in Colorado, she is almost a hometown hero, too, having graduated from Burke Academy in Northern Vermont and having relatives in the Berkshires.
While Shiffrin will certainly be the crowd favorite, the races will be no walkovers. This is a World Cup field with some 100 racers from 22 countries entered, including defending overall World Cup slalom and Olympic champion Petra Vlhova from Slovenia. University of Vermont graduate Paula Moltzan and up-and-comer Ava Sunshine, also a Burke Mountain Academy grad, will share in home crowd affection.
After training sessions on Killingtons Superstar trail on Friday, the racing will kick off Saturday with the first run of the giant slalom set for 10 a.m. The second of the two runs will start at 1 p.m.
The slalom competition is Sunday, with the first racer out of the gate at 10:15 a.m. The second run will start at 1 p.m.
General admission tickets can be purchased online for $5, and there is free parking available, Spectators will be screened at the entry point by the new K-1 base lodge area, and bags will be checked. No chairs or glass containers are allowed. There is a World Cup festival village set up at the base area, and food and beverages are available. There is a full schedule of musical entertainment on site, too.
While just the lower part of the race courses will be easily visible to spectators in the base area, two jumbo television screens will be there to show racers on the entire course.
The Killington event has in the past drawn more than 30,000 spectators, making it by far the most highly attended ski race in North America.
The Northeast was more green than white just two weeks ago, when unseasonable area temperatures approaching 70 degrees raised questions about whether the World Cup races could be held. But there will be world class skiing on Thanksgiving weekend due to a remarkable commitment in recent years by Killington to host World Cup racing in our region, and a great effort by its mountain crew to prepare race courses that meet international standards. Consistent evening temperatures at mountain elevations didnt start to drop below freezing until Nov. 8, but that gave snowmakers the edge they needed to lay down sufficient snow depths on the Superstar Trail. Killington has long been known for its snow making capabilities, and this time it deployed 120 snow guns manned by 60 snowmakers over a two week period to get the job done.
The Willard Mountain ski area in Greenwich will be changing hands soon.
Owners Chic and Kris Wilson have a buyer and details are expected to be announced in the next two weeks. Willard first opened in the 1950s and Wilson, who grew up working at the family owned Labrador ski hill in Central New York, took over from the founding Vanderzee family in 1994.
Willard, with a 505-foot vertical, 16 trails and night skiing, has long been known for its learn-to-ski programs and has been popular with school groups and families. For a small area, it also has a strong ski competition tradition that produced former nationally ranked alpine racer Patti Piper and prominent freestyle competitors Bruce Bolesky and John Witt.
Willard will continue operations as in past years this winter. The new owners reportedly are from the local area and have had connections with the ski hill over the years.
SALT LAKE CITY OLYMPIC BID MOVES FORWARD
With strong local support and a shrinking field of hosting candidates, Salt Lake City is in a strong position to win the bid for the Winter Olympics, perhaps as soon as 2030. The next Winter Games are set for 2026 in Milan/Cortina Italy, with the decision on 2030 scheduled to be made next year. With Vancouver, British Columbia, dropping its bid over the summer, Salt Lake and Sapporo, Japan, host of the 1972 Winter Games, remain the only cities currently expressing interest.
Sapporo has recently indicated new concerns over projected costs that would include hefty price tags for new or updated sports facilities. Salt Lakes facilities from when it hosted the games in 2002 have been maintained and would require far less investment to upgrade.
A remaining issue seems to be timing. Los Angeles will host the summer Olympics in 2028, and some of the organizers there fear that games scheduled for 2030 in Salt Lake might make sponsorships dollars more difficult for both to raise.
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Granddad's heartbreak: Abused by the girl I raised
27th May 2016 7:42 PM | Updated: 30th May 2016 6:44 AM
THIS man - whose name we have not used - shares his experiences of domestic and family violence:
I TOOK over care of my granddaughter on her fifth birthday. I drove down to Brisbane, we had a birthday party with her mother and then I drove home with her.
She really didn't know what was happening. She said later she thought she was going on a holiday.
But her mother never came back for her.
Her mother gave me a handwritten note addressed to Centrelink, saying I had "control" of her now. That seemed to work. They gave me a carer's pension.
Her mother was using drugs when my granddaughter was conceived.
Her mother used drugs all the time. Her drug habit was more important to her than looking after her daughter, even as a baby.
Before my granddaughter came into my care, her mother and father had gone to live on a bush block and were arrested by the police for dealing marijuana.
My daughter had no interest in caring for my granddaughter.
She would drop her off at day care and then go and do whatever it was she did.
I have another daughter who was caring for my granddaughter for some time.
But she was in an abusive relationship and didn't want to keep her. I was the only person left who could do it.
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It wasn't easy for me.
I was a grandfather looking after a little girl and I did not have a partner so I was really a sole parent/grandparent.
There was no support system for me and I had no people of my own age who could help me; who could tell me what to do when my granddaughter was sick or look after her if I wanted a break. I didn't have a break and I was very lonely.
Eventually, my granddaughter went to preschool and she started forming friendships of her own.
I made friends with her friends' parents and I felt more like a proper parent instead of a pretend one.
My granddaughter had a lot of friends who would play at our house and I loved it. I thought I was doing a really good thing.
I would make pancakes for all the kids, getting them to help me out.
Her best friend often had sleepovers at our house.
That friend is still around, although things are a lot different now.
I was trying to be a mother and a father but I didn't realise I couldn't be either of these things. I was only a grandfather.
Even so, I tried to do my best for her. I took her to all sorts of extracurricular classes and even coached some classes for a time.
It was very difficult for me financially.
The carer's pension was very welcome, of course, but the cost of uniforms stretched the budget.
Her real parents were meant to pay maintenance but her father was on the dole and paid something like $30 a month, about enough to buy a Big Mac meal every week. Her mother had a verbal agreement to pay maintenance but she never did. Never.
For a while I had a small, part-time business.
It provided me about $150 a week and I could do that job when my granddaughter was at school.
It helped with the bills at the time, but I had to borrow money to set it up. When I sold the business its worth had depreciated so much I ended up losing money.
When my granddaughter was a little bit older I was offered a job making up training material and then doing the technical training.
Then, not long after, I was in a bad accident and was badly injured with a broken ankle and elbow.
When I was finally well enough to go back to work the job was no longer available to me.
I took my other daughter and my granddaughter to a festival.
My granddaughter was 14, and she went in to see a psychic who gave her advice.
That was okay with me, but, after that, she said she wanted to find her parents; she wanted to get stuck into them for not raising her.
She also wanted to tell me that she didn't want to live with me anymore and wanted to live with a proper family, one with a father and a mother and possibly some sisters and a brother.
I was flabbergasted and felt deeply hurt because I truly thought I was doing a good job in raising her.
I left the festival early and asked my other daughter to take my granddaughter home with her. I felt broken hearted.
As I was driving home I made up a poem describing the feelings I had when my granddaughter was growing up. My granddaughter didn't finish school.
She went to an out-of-school course but didn't seem to be progressing well. It turned out that she and her best friend had been sneaking off at lunch times to smoke pot at their friend's place.
She had a predisposition to drugs and she got hooked right from the start.
After two attempts at the course, she still hadn't passed. I couldn't afford for her to try a third time.
After a while, my mother came to live with us. She was in her nineties and couldn't look after herself any more.
She couldn't cook and was in terrible pain from lung cancer.
That didn't stop her smoking, though, and I hated having to go out to buy her cigarettes.
My mother and my granddaughter didn't like each other so, if I went out in the car, I could only take one or the other.
I cared for my mother for four years until she got too sick. She was vomiting uncontrollably the night before she was due to go into a nursing home.
Mum lasted for nine weeks in the nursing home before she died.
My granddaughter left home when she was in her teens and moved in with her boyfriend.
The relationship didn't last. They couldn't stay in any one place.
They came to stay with me but the boyfriend ended up losing his job. He couldn't pay rent so he went home and my granddaughter stayed with me.
Then there was a boom in labour in the town we lived in and I took in some boarders. They lived downstairs in my house.
My granddaughter was becoming increasingly angry.
I think she was using ice and not just marijuana.
She was becoming erratic and was physically violent.
There were some occasions when my granddaughter would get so out of control the boarders would come upstairs to try to keep the peace.
I was ashamed at being physically confronted by my granddaughter.
There were times I had to lock my door to prevent her assaulting me.
After the work stopped, and the boarders went away, she wanted to live downstairs. I let her. Then her boyfriend started coming back, sneaking in at all times of the night.
I am a light sleeper so I always heard him come in.
I confronted him one morning and that nearly provoked a fight so I backed off. I asked why they didn't find somewhere of their own to rent. Between them they could afford it.
The boyfriend said he didn't want to live with my granddaughter.
Well, why should he when he could come and go as he pleased, get his washing done, watch TV, and have his meals cooked for him, all for nothing!
I felt powerless. I wanted to protect my granddaughter and provide a home for her. I asked for police intervention but they said they couldn't act unless I got a repossession order from the court.
I went to the court. The magistrate advised me to give the matter more thought and adjourned the proceedings for a month.
On the day of the adjourned case I went downstairs to remind my granddaughter she had a meeting with her employment provider to which I had agreed to take her.
She said she wasn't going.
As an adult she could decide not to go. Okay, that was her choice.
Ten minutes later, I heard an almighty scream coming from her room. I thought she must be having a fight with her boyfriend so I went downstairs to break it up. When I went in she started screaming at me and then she punched me in the face.
She tried again but I stopped her and wrapped her up in my arms. I then left her to go to court.
On the day of the adjourned court case a different magistrate instructed the prosecuting police sergeant to talk to me and I decided to take out a domestic violence protection order against my granddaughter, instead of filing an assault charge.
A young policeman made out the application and served it to my granddaughter that afternoon.
I haven't heard from my granddaughter since that day. She has not tried to contact me.
My feelings now are a great sense of relief at no longer having the burden of caring for her, but there's also a huge pain in my heart for not being able to save her from herself.
One day my granddaughter will have a child of her own who she will need to take care of.
I love my granddaughter more than anything.
But those 15 years spent raising her were the loneliest of my life and I will never get them back.
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Heart This Place – My Seattle
Heart This Place
To celebrate historic preservation from home, we have launched Heart This Place – a new blog series from Historic Seattle staff. Each post will feature a different place that is significant to a member of our staff. For our final installment, Director of Preservation Services Eugenia Woo shows us her favorite views in Seattle:
My first time in Seattle was in 1991 as a visitor; I fell in love with the city and its environs instantly. On this visit, I went full-on tourist. Space Needle! Underground Tour! Pike Place Market! Mount Rainier! I loved it and wanted more. The unbeatable natural setting combined with its urban, yet still small town feel, and quirkiness called out to me. I knew I needed to come back and experience the Pacific Northwest more fully.
So, in September 1993, I drove my 1980 beige Volvo DL (aka "The Tank"), the family car that I learned how to drive in, from my hometown of Los Angeles to Seattle. After spending a hot and humid summer in Washington, DC as an intern, I was ready for Seattle weather. I'm one of those freaks of nature who loves rain. What brought me to the Pacific Northwest was graduate school in urban planning (with a focus on preservation planning) at UW. I remember learning about urban villages (so quaint sounding, right?), density, and growth management. Seattle was an ideal living laboratory for urban planning students to study. So many great neighborhoods and communities, each having its own history, culture, and character. Why would anyone want to destroy that? Little did I know then that I would spend such a large part of my professional life helping to fight save meaningful places that matter in this city.
It has now been 27(!) years since I first moved to Seattle (with a two-year stint back in L.A. in the late 1990s when I learned to love the City of Angels—I had to move away to really appreciate it). Over the years, my fondness for Seattle grew to encompass a great appreciation for the entire state, from small towns and rural areas to the mid-sized cities of Tacoma and Spokane. I have had the pleasure of traveling to and through all 39 counties in Washington State (logging A LOT of miles on my MINI Cooper). Whenever travel goes back to pre-COVID ease, I highly recommend exploring this amazing state. All of it. You might even see my husband and me on the backroads! Closer to home, I look forward to resuming my urban sleuthing of Seattle neighborhoods (documenting with photographs along the way), something I have done since my first visit in the early '90s.
This brings me to my photo essay of some select favorite views in Seattle. No matter how long I've lived here or how cynical or jaded I may get lamenting my "lost" Seattle, nothing makes me happier than seeing the Space Needle, the Public Market neon sign, Smith Tower, or Mount Rainier. The Space Needle and Mount Rainier in particular just pop up out of nowhere at times—there's always a new view of each that is unexpected. Fortunately, these icons are here to stay because they are landmarks or part of a historic district (well, Mother Nature will decide the mountain's fate, but it won't disappear entirely).
All photos courtesy of Eugenia Woo. Click to enlarge:
View of Belltown and downtown from the Space Needle, 2010. (I've been taking views of the city from the top of the Space Needle since 1991.)
Same view looking south in 2019. Only the top of one of the Westin Hotel round towers is visible.
View of Pioneer Square in 2014 from the rooftop of the 619 Western Avenue building.
Pike Place Market and the iconic neon sign, Spring 2018.
Seneca Street looking west from First Avenue, a reopened view after the removal of the Alaskan Way Viaduct and the Seneca Street offramp, Summer 2019.
Seattle's maritime heritage is on display on Lake Union in this spectacularly beautiful summer day in 2019.
This view of the Camlin from the Paramount Theatre (December 2019) will no longer be visible once the Washington State Convention Center expansion is completed.
View of Mount Rainier from a plane. I choose my seat for maximum view opportunities of the Cascades when I fly.
One of those unexpected views of the Space Needle that pop up out of nowhere. This one is on Capitol Hill near the Roundcliffe Apartments and the Lookout Bar (aptly named) on the corner of Bellevue Pl E / Bellevue Ave E / Bellevue Ct E.
View of Smith Tower, Elliott Bay, and the Olympic Mountains from Yesler Way.
That's me at Archie McPhee!
Heart This Place – Columbia City Library
To celebrate historic preservation from home, we have launched Heart This Place – a new blog series from Historic Seattle staff. Each post will feature a different place that is significant to a member of our staff. Here, Asset & Property Manager David McClain touches on the importance of the Columbia City Library:
The Columbia City Library features two of my favorite things: historic buildings and books. To me, there are few better examples of meaningful places fostering lively communities. The library serves as a linchpin of the neighborhood, nestled within the Columbia City Landmark District just south of the Rainier Playfield and Community Center.
The original building was funded by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and designed by W. Marbury Somervell and Harlan Thomas. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The library was expanded with an addition in 2004, designed by Cardwell Architects to preserve the look and complement the style of the original building.
Heart This Place – KEXP
To celebrate Preservation Month from home, we have launched Heart This Place – a new blog series from Historic Seattle staff. Each post will feature a different place that is significant to a member of our staff. Up next, Philanthropy & Communications Manager Bailey Hess tells the story of how she came to love 90.3 KEXP and the work the radio station does to bring people together:
Heart This Place: My End of Queen Anne Boulevard
By Cindy Hughes
To celebrate Preservation Month from home, we have launched Heart This Place – a new blog series from Historic Seattle staff. Each post will feature a different place that is significant to a member of our staff. In this installment, Council Assistant & GSC Rental Coordinator Cindy Hughes takes us on a tour of Queen Anne Boulevard:
30 years ago this month, my husband, infant daughter, and I moved to a shingled 1910 house located in the northern reaches of the historic Queen Anne Boulevard on Queen Anne Hill. I don't think we realized at the time that we would be living on such a storied route – our actual new address was on 8th Ave. W. (no addresses are actually labeled "Queen Anne Boulevard," they all correspond with the existing streets and the term is applied to the scenic route as a whole) and the area didn't seem to have much in common with the celebrated Boulevard on the south slope of the hill.
Everyone knows that route for its expansive views and mansions built by timber barons and real estate magnates, but the Boulevard is more than the south brow of the hill – it reaches democratically north to encompass more modest blocks of builder's bungalows and several small neighborhood business districts.
The little commercial district at 7th Ave. W. and W. McGraw St. with the Boulevard's tree canopy embracing it from the south.
Over the years I have spent many hours venturing both north and south on the Boulevard from my house – walking, driving, bicycling, pushing strollers, waiting for school buses, walking dogs, and navigating its twists and turns as it stitches its way around the crest of the hill. Many of our visitors from out of town have experienced the walk with us south along the Wilcox Wall, past the Marshall Park Viewpoint and the grand estates along West Highland Drive, and ending at the iconic city and mountain viewpoint at Kerry Park. Less often I have headed north and then east along leafy streets with territorial views and sections where it would seem ironic to apply the designation of Boulevard at all.
But in the end it is the quieter north end of things that I am ending up appreciating, especially now that the Boulevard serves as my sanctioned close-to-home quarantine walk route during the COVID-19 pandemic. The rest of the city seems to have discovered the pieces to the south, but the crowds tend not to cluster north of West McGraw Street. These blocks represent recreation to me in a way they never did before, a way to get out of the house that now serves as a cramped workplace for three adults.
Montpelier Maples are a rare species of street tree lining this block of 8th Ave. W.
The legal description of Queen Anne Boulevard takes up two pages and gathers up 23 separate stretches of road ranging in length from one to eight blocks. The fact that the Boulevard runs along narrow, already-platted streets made it unique; it differed greatly from the other broad roadways in the Olmsted plan. The design that was worked out by the Parks Board, the City Engineering Office, and neighborhood residents called for six phases of development that took place between 1911 and 1916. The tree planting plan was not particularly well coordinated between phases, resulting in a charming variety of tree species – consistent on each individual block but different from one block to the next.
Some additional highlights of the Boulevard north of McGraw:
The 1910 Prairie-style Handschy/Kistler House at 9th Ave. W. & W. Wheeler St. – the only City of Seattle Landmark home located on the Boulevard on this side of the hill. The architect was Andrew Willatsen, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright.
This house at 9th Ave. W. & W. Fulton St. was featured in Jud Yoho's 1916 pattern book, "The Bungalow Craftsman."
Peeking into Mt. Pleasant Cemetery as we round the curve back onto 8th Ave. W.
The venerable Arthur Wright Mortuary/Butterworth Funeral Home on W. Raye St.
As W. McGraw Pl. emerges at a 5-way intersection onto W. McGraw St., we can see the 5 Corners Hardware Store. It's been open and heavily frequented during the pandemic.
As the Boulevard snakes through the Seattle street grid, it creates a number of small triangles at various intersections. This one at W. Smith St. and First Ave. W. is heavily landscaped by Seattle Parks and Recreation and features a prominent identification sign.
Foursquares were a popular architectural style on Queen Anne during the early years of the last century – this one is located at W. Smith St. and First Ave. W.
There are a number of stretches where the Boulevard doesn't include sidewalks, especially along Wheeler and Bigelow Streets. Pedestrians are forced to walk in the street, which we are all doing anyway right now in order to socially distance ourselves. There is talk of closing at least part of the Boulevard to car traffic, under Seattle's Stay Healthy Streets campaign begun during the pandemic.
An acknowledgement of the Boulevard's status along the McGraw Street Bridge.
This triangle displays the brown directional street signs that were installed just a few years ago to guide Boulevard travelers along its non-intuitive twists and turns.
And one last look at yet another triangle created by the Boulevard's energetic swoop along McGraw St. to Nob Hill Ave. N.
I am grateful to the community members of Queen Anne in the early part of the last century for bringing this remarkable streetscape to life, and to later historic preservation efforts to protect it and make it accessible to all. When this pandemic is all over it will continue to enrich our experience of the city, as it has done so well over the last 110 years.
Heart This Place: Hash Browns & History
By Naomi West
To celebrate Preservation Month from home, we have launched Heart This Place – a new blog series from Historic Seattle staff. Each post will feature a different place that is significant to a member of our staff. Up next, Director of Philanthropy & Engagement Naomi West serves up her favorite diners. Click below to enlarge:
Heart This Place – Tractor Tavern
By Jane Davies
To celebrate Preservation Month from home, we have launched Heart This Place – a new blog series from Historic Seattle staff. Each post will feature a different place that is significant to a member of our staff. Next up, Director of Finance & Administration Jane Davies' poem for the Tractor Tavern in Ballard:
The Tractor Tavern
Built in nineteen hundred and two
On the historic street, Ballard Avenue
At a time when shingles were the jam
And Ballard's population was about 10 grand.
New Melody Tavern came before,
From the 40s until around '94,
The Tractor Tavern then took the stage
And today it is still all the rage.
When again it opens up its door
Let's meet at the Tractor Tavern once more
Rich in history, music and booze
With a night at the Tractor, you just can't lose.
Above photo: Jane Davies
Featured photo: A historic image of the Tractor Tavern building, courtesy of the Puget Sound Regional Branch of the Washington State Archives (via the Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Heart This Place – Madison Park Beach
By Brady Begin
To celebrate Preservation Month from home, we have launched Heart This Place – a new blog series from Historic Seattle staff. Each post will feature a different place that is significant to a member of our staff. In this installment, Engagement & Administration Coordinator Brady Begin celebrates Madison Park Beach.
I first visited Madison Park during the summer after I graduated from UW. I said the neighborhood was "honestly too cute for words," but that didn't stop me from coming up with cheesy Instagram captions like "city beach vibes" and nailing far too many hashtags to my posts like some sort of millenial Martin Luther.
I had taken a photo of a trio of surfboards near the bathhouse, which, in retrospect, cracks me up. Who surfs on Lake Washington? They were more for decoration than anything, an escapist aesthetic that inspired the collages you see below. Look, I'm no artist, but I wanted to do something creative for my contribution to Heart This Place.
While I'm lucky enough to actually live in Madison Park now, I'm quarantined at my family's home in the suburbs because my apartment doesn't get enough natural light to work from home (if the neighborhood is one big beach, then my apartment is a sea cave). I cut out images and text from old magazines that my parents were throwing out and mashed them up with two different photos of the shoreline.
A collage based on a recent photo of the beach. The historic structure on the right is a boathouse that connected to the boardwalk, with one of the boardwalk's swings also in view (courtesy of UW Libraries). The canoes are from another historic image of the shoreline (courtesy of MOHAI). Click to enlarge.
The first is a recent photo of me walking along the beach, backed by a waterfront condo building. The second is a historic photo of the boardwalk and pavilions that once adorned the shore, before development of the Lake Washington Ship Canal lowered the lake's water level and before a 1914 fire burned down the main structure – Beede's Madison Street Pavilion. The historic images came from Pavilion days on Lake Washington, a post from the now-defunct Madison Park Blogger, which details the structures' centrality to the burgeoning beachfront community between the late 1800s and early 1900s.
I'll admit that I'm torn as to whether or not I think the beach would be better with the boardwalk and pavilions that once lined the shore. On the one hand, there's obviously a lot of recreational and amusement value there. On the other, the beach we have know is more laid-back and its modesty generally reflects the slower, quieter character of the neighborhood. Regardless, Madison Park Beach is still a great in-city retreat for Seattleites in search of their own Margaritaville or Kokomo.
A collage based on a historic photo of the Madison Park boardwalk and pavilions (courtesy of UW Libraries). Click to enlarge.
In a few months I'll be leaving Seattle to attend graduate school at the University of Georgia. I'll miss a lot of things, including this little slice of paradise here in Madison Park. I'm holding out hope that we'll be able to gather safely before then so we can go out and enjoy Seattle's many public shores.
Cheers to you, little beach village!
Heart This Place – Tramp Harbor and KVI Beach
Written by Kate Kelly, 12th Grade, Vashon High School
Photos by Davis Kelly, 10th Grade, Vashon High School
To celebrate Preservation Month from home, we have launched Heart This Place – a new blog series from Historic Seattle staff. Each post will feature a different place that is significant to a member of our staff. Next up, Executive Director Kji Kelly's children Kate and Davis do some research into Tramp Harbor and KVI Beach:
Point Heyer, known as KVI Beach to residents of Vashon, was unofficially named after KVI Radio purchased the spit of sand and built a 431-foot radio tower in 1936. KVI Beach is the northern boundary of Tramp Harbor, located on the east side of Vashon Island. Now owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, KVI Beach surrounds tidal salt marshes, which are an essential ecosystem to migrating birds, specific types of grasses, and numerous species of crabs, shellfish, and fish that find shelter in the marsh. This natural barrier lagoon is the largest in King County. In an attempt to preserve and protect the lagoon and habitat, the County has been proactively acquiring waterfront land to the north of the beach for many years.
Tramp Harbor has played an important role in the development of the Island. Vashon's first automobile ferry dock was built on Tramp Harbor soon after a new highway was built connecting Seattle and Des Moines in 1916. This new car dock was located between two existing passenger docks at Portage and Ellisport that served the "Mosquito Fleet." In 1922, instead of sending cars from Tramp Harbor to Des Moines, then driving north to Seattle, traffic was directed straight downtown to Colman Dock from a newly constructed dock on the north end of Vashon. (My parents will beg and plead with anyone who cares to listen, now that the West Seattle Bridge is closed, to once again re-direct cars to Colman Dock!) After cars began to leave the island from the north end, the Tramp Harbor dock was leased by the Standard Oil Company and was repurposed to bring gasoline, kerosene, oil, and diesel fuel to Vashon Island. The dock was used for this industrial purpose until the mid-1980s, when the dock was once again re-purposed and opened as a public fishing pier.
We, and so many other Islanders, spend many summer days at KVI Beach and on the protected waters of Tramp Harbor. Since our house faces the beach, it is the first thing we see when we get up and the last thing we see when we go to bed. With dogs playing fetch, the inlet off the south side of the beach being the perfect place to paddleboard, and an endless amount of beach glass you can find amongst the rocks, KVI is one of the most popular beaches on Vashon Island. With the beach and harbor being just a short walk from our home, we feel lucky to get to grow up in this magical place.
Kate, Kji, and Davis Kelly
Heart This Place: Union Stables
By Jeff Murdock
To celebrate Preservation Month from home, we have launched Heart This Place – a new blog series from Historic Seattle staff. Each post will feature a different place that is significant to a member of our staff. First up is Advocacy & Education Manager Jeff Murdock:
The Union Stables building as it appeared in 2011
After working for several years in my hometown in suburban Los Angeles, I made my way back to Seattle in 2007. We moved into to a fixer-upper apartment just up Western Avenue from Pike Place Market, situated diagonally across the street from the Union Stables building. At that time, these two buildings anchored a difficult block of Western Avenue. Surrounded by nefarious parking lots, with the viaduct walling off Western a half block north and the Battery Street tunnel ushering traffic north, it was easy to miss the historic building. It didn't help that the mostly vacant property had been boarded up with plywood decorated with painted-on window details and garish multi-story banners advertising the property owner's furniture business.
An interior view of the Union Stables building, 2011
But the intriguing urban stables did invite further investigation. I have always felt that there are a few old buildings in any neighborhood which, even after being ignored for decades and falling into the background of the city, can still convey a sense of memory and history – even as they wait precariously for a new life. To the casual observer, this was clearly once a working building – with its massive red brick masonry structure expressed in piers, large Roman arches, and expansive window openings. A curiously large pedimented parapet on Western is detailed with a telltale horse's head, in terracotta. I had the opportunity to tour the ghostly interior of the building a couple years after we moved to the neighborhood. Walking through the massive horse-gnawed timber structure, it was easy to understand the layout of the stables, how horses moved through the building, and where they would spend their days waiting to convey their empty wagons home to the farms that supplied the public markets. You could imagine the heavy clip-clop of hoofs striking the substantial decking and alfalfa bales being lifted to the rooftop barn. But I don't think it was my imagination bringing about the sensation of an odor of "agriculture," that is, horse urine.
The terracotta horse's head, 2011
In earlier-developed eastern cities, urban stables are a more common component of the built environment – reflecting the era when horsepower meant "powered by a horse." Before the automobile's transformative impact on urban design, cities developed with fashionable shopping streets offset by gritty working streets, which included urban stables as a building type. These working streets with their adapted stables would later provide the artist lofts and warehouse offices which contribute to many of our richest historic urban neighborhoods.
The Union Stables building was designed by George Dietrich and was constructed in 1910, not long after the Pike Place Market was founded. Accommodating over 300 horses, it was the largest of several stables constructed on Western Avenue (another one across the street from us is now occupied by Cloudburst Brewing, indicative of our changing neighborhood). A Seattle Daily Times article called it "the most modern stable west of the Mississippi." However, it was built toward the end of the era of horse-drawn transportation in Seattle. By the early 1920s, the automobile had largely replaced equestrian transport in Seattle. The Union Stables' robust construction and interior ramps allowed the building to be converted for various automotive uses. Over the years, the building intermittently served as a towing garage, furniture warehouse, and was even the location of an illicit cache of prohibition-era bootleg liquor, "the largest stock ever unearthed by police." But its occupancy and uses dwindled over the years, and by the time we moved to the neighborhood the building was long empty.
The Union Stables building as it appears today
Today, our neighborhood is almost unrecognizable from when we moved here. The viaduct has disappeared, creating views that draw pedestrians north from Pike Place Market. Parking lots once noteworthy for being locations of illegal drug trade and nighttime gunfire are gradually becoming sites for high-end apartment development. Still, the Union Stables building holds court on our block. In 2013, the property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and also became a City of Seattle designated landmark. Skillfully rehabilitated in recent years, the building is still occupied by stalls of daily workers – in architecture, construction, and technology.
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Babur was the founder of Mughal Dynasty
Mughal Emperor Babur, was the founder of Mughal Dynasty (Mughal Empire) in India. He was born in 1488 in a family of the Chaghtai Turks. On his father's side he was connected with Tamerlane and on his mother's side he could trace his origin from Chinghiz Khan. He lost his father when he was only eleven years old. From his father he inherited Farghana, a small principality of Turkestan.
In 1497, he conquered Samarkand, but he was unable to retain his kingdom for long. He, however, would not give it up as lost forever. He reconquered it only to lose it again. Baffled in his attempt to recover it, he turned his attention eastward and made himself king of Kabul in 1504. In 1522, he added Kandahar to his newly won kingdom.
He thereupon led several expeditions against the neighboring posts on Indian frontier. Soon after he received an invitation from Daulat Khan Lodi and Rana Sangram Singh to come and help them in a war against Ibrahim Lodi, the reigning Sultan of Delhi. To the adventurous nature of Babur, no invitation could be more tempting. He responded at once and came at the head of a well-equipped army. In the battle of Panipat (1526 A.D.) he defeated the last of the Delhi Sultans. He followed up his success by occupying Delhi and Agra.
But Babur now stood face to face with Rana Sanga. The Rana invited Babur in the hope that like Tamerlane his successor would retire after collecting spoils. But Babar had no intention of leaving India. Thus Sanga's dream of founding a neo-Hindu Empire on the ruins of Sultanate had little chance, of being fulfilled. A trial of strength between Babur and Sanga thus became inevitable. The encounter took place on the field of Khanua where Babur's military superiority won the day. On the field of Khanua was decided the fate of India. Babur occupied Chanderi and strengthened his position further by defeating his Afghan rivals in the Battle of Ghagra. In 1530, the founder of the Mughal Empire died.
Babur was an interesting and colourful personality. Beginning life as a soldier of fortune, he ended as the founder of one of the greatest empires of the cast. He was a tactful general, shrewd judge of man, and an enterprising and bold personality. To his military talents he combined the polished manners of a cultured gentleman. He possessed a fine literary taste and composed exquisite poems in Persian language. He was also conversant with a very elegant prose style, as revealed in his memoirs.


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What is domestic abuse and family violence?
Family Violence is when someone behaves abusively towards a family member. It is a pattern of behaviour that controls or dominates a person and causes them to fear for their own or others' safety.
Types of Abuse and Violence: violent and abusive behaviour can include physical and sexual violence and financial, emotional and psychological abuse. Slapping, hitting, rape, verbal threats, harassment, stalking, withholding money and deliberately isolating someone from their friends and family are some examples of the types of behaviour that occur in family violence.
Emma House:
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Emma House Domestic Violence Services is a specialist family violence service which supports women and children from the Warrnambool and surrounding region that are currently experiencing or have experienced family violence.
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CASA provides services across the South West region to victim/survivors of sexual assault, their non-offending family members, partners and friends.
Safe Steps:
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Kids HelpLine:
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Free phone and online counselling service for young people aged 5 to 25. Available 24/7.
Men's Referral Service:
https://ntv.org.au/
For men concerned about the impact of their behaviour on their relationships or family. Trained counsellors are available 24/7 and men can speak anonymously if preferred.
Another Closet:
http://www.anothercloset.com.au/
A web-based resource for people in LGBTIQ relationships who are, or may be, experiencing domestic and family violence
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With Respect provides resources, tips and advice for LGBTIQ+ people on having and maintaining healthy relationships. They provide support for LGBTIQ+ people of all ages and their families experiencing difficulty in their relationships, including family violence.
Parent Line:
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Parentline is a phone service for parents and carers of children from birth to 18 years old. Confidential and anonymous counselling and support on parenting issues. Available 8.00am – midnight, seven days a week including public holidays.
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Provides all Australians access to crisis support and suicide prevention services.
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Mensline Australia is a telephone and online counselling service for men with individual, family and relationship concerns. Available 24/7.
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Djirra is a place where culture is shared and celebrated, and where practical support is available to all Aboriginal women and particularly Aboriginal people who are currently experiencing family violence or have in the past. The Aboriginal Family Violence Legal Service is free and available to all Aboriginal people experiencing or have experienced family violence (women and men), including non-Aboriginal people experiencing family violence who are parents of Aboriginal children.
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Poll finds mass opposition in Europe to war drive vs. Russia over Ukraine
By Alex Lantier
The findings of a poll published yesterday by the Washington, DC-based Pew Research Center, showing broad opposition in Europe to a NATO war with Russia, underscore the anti-democratic character of the US-led war drive against Russia over Ukraine.
The poll was formulated to elicit answers as favorable as possible to US and NATO policy, particularly in regard to a possible war with Russia. The poll questionnaire did not once raise that Russia and NATO both have nuclear weapons, or inquire about the respondents' willingness to risk nuclear war. As a result, the poll vastly underestimates public opposition to war.
The main question on war was whether NATO member states should fight a defensive war against Russia, if Russia "got into a serious military conflict with one of its neighboring countries that is our NATO ally." In such a situation, Article 5 of the NATO Charter on collective self-defense would require all NATO member states to declare war on Russia.
Despite having framed the question in a manner intended to elicit support for such a supposedly defensive war, the Pew poll found broad opposition among Europeans. Fifty-eight percent of Germans, 53 percent of the French population and 51 percent of Italians opposed fighting even a defensive war with Russia to protect a NATO member.
This is not, however, the character of the war that now threatens to erupt. NATO is not playing a defensive role in Ukraine, which is not a NATO member state. The Ukrainian crisis erupted after the US and the European powers backed a fascist-led putsch against a pro-Russian government in Kiev in February 2014, bringing to power an ultra-right regime that launched a civil war against pro-Russian areas of eastern Ukraine. With US and Russian missile forces on heightened alert and NATO land, air and naval forces engaged in continuous exercises on Russia's borders, the world stands on the verge of a catastrophic war provoked by Washington and its European allies.
Popular sentiment emerged most clearly when the Pew poll inquired about initiatives NATO is threatening to pursue in Ukraine. Asked about NATO arming the Kiev regime against Russia, a policy being pushed by the Obama administration, majorities or pluralities opposed the measure in every European country surveyed except Poland, where 50 percent supported arming Kiev.
Fully 77 percent of Germans opposed NATO arming Kiev, versus only 19 percent who supported it. The poll found 65 percent opposition versus 22 percent support in Italy, 66 versus 25 percent in Spain, 59 versus 40 percent in France, and 45 versus 42 percent in Britain.
Opposition within Germany, where the government, the media and sections of academia have been waging a relentless propaganda campaign in support of militarism, was particularly strong. A mere 38 percent of Germans said Russia was a danger to NATO member states on its borders, and only 29 percent blamed Moscow for the violence in Ukraine.
These findings constitute a devastating indictment of last year's Kiev putsch and the ensuing US-led war drive against Russia, which have been backed by governments across Europe. While workers are kept in the dark about the true dangers of a war that they do not want, NATO is pressing ahead with reckless policies overwhelmingly rejected by the European population.
The findings of the Pew poll among Ukrainians expose the claims of Washington and the European imperialist powers that they are supporting Ukraine against Russia in order to defend a nascent democratic regime threatened by Russian aggression. The Kiev regime is imposing brutal austerity measures demanded by the Western banks and using increasingly authoritarian and violent means to suppress internal opposition among Ukraine workers.
Kiev's war against Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, fought with the aid of the CIA and various fascistic militias, is being carried out in flagrant disregard of the wishes of the Ukrainian people. According to the Pew poll, more than twice as many Ukrainians want to settle the conflict with the separatists through negotiations (47 percent) than with force (23 percent).
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's policies on these issues are widely unpopular, with 57 percent of the population opposing both his handling of the eastern Ukraine conflict and his posture toward Russia.
The domestic policies of the Kiev regime are no less unpopular. Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's disapproval rating is 60 percent.
With the Ukrainian currency in a state of collapse, waves of mass layoffs taking place, and the government hiking the prices of key utilities, the Pew poll shows 94 percent of the people viewing Ukraine's economic situation as "bad." Fifty-five percent of Ukrainians have concluded that the Kiev regime does not respect personal freedoms.
The Pew poll also interviewed Russian respondents, finding a surge in distrust towards NATO, seen as a threat by 81 percent of Russians, as well as general hostility towards Obama (86 percent negative) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (66 percent). While Putin's opposition to NATO's intervention in Ukraine has boosted his approval ratings to 88 percent, there is broad distrust of the oligarchic regime he leads, which emerged from the restoration of capitalism in the USSR. Some 69 percent of Russians and 34 percent of Ukrainians said in the poll that the dissolution of the USSR was bad for their country.
The results of the Pew poll underscore the disastrous political implications of the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, nearly a quarter century ago. Combined with the collapse and plundering of Soviet industry, the dissolution of the USSR geo-strategically crippled Russia, throwing open vast areas of the former Soviet Union to NATO's reactionary intrigues. Above all, the emergence of a criminal oligarchy ruling Russia weakened the opposition that had existed in the international and particularly the European working class to imperialist threats against the USSR.
The preparation of the NATO powers for an all-out war with Russia that could incinerate the planet is colliding with deeply rooted anti-war sentiment in Europe, the United States and worldwide. The very fact that the Pew poll was commissioned is itself a sign of mounting concern in ruling circles internationally over mass opposition to war.
The ruling elites of the imperialist countries have made clear, however, that they intend to ignore popular sentiment and proceed with their campaign against Russia. The New York Times, in its report on the Pew poll, presented the mass opposition to war as a "challenge" to US and NATO war plans that needs to be overcome.
It cited former US Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder, who called for continued propaganda in support of military action against Russia, saying that, "it will take a serious effort by the alliance to convince its public of the need to prepare for, deter, and, if necessary, respond to a Russian attack."
The Times added that, "public opinion is not always decisive in shaping NATO policy." It continued: "President Ronald Reagan managed to win sufficient European backing to deploy Pershing II and ground-launched cruise missiles on the [European] Continent despite a substantial peace movement."
The Times' reference to the US deployment of Pershing II missiles in Europe during the 1980s is particularly significant. US officials are now discussing escalated missile deployments in Europe and the possibility of launching pre-emptive missile strikes against targets inside Russia.
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