"Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed."
soy isoflavones (commonly referred to as phytoestrogen).
without concern of breast and uterine cancer and thyroid function.
non-organic, and genetically engineered soybeans.
"Do you believe GMO soybeans are dangerous for humans to consume?"
non-GMO soybeans for human consumption."
accepting FDA representation that there is no difference."
with such an eloquently-stated professional opinion.
to see that the agency representing the soy industry is not one of the bad guys.
while offering patients incorrect and dangerous advice.


Must-see pics: Queen Bey's just updated her website with some fresh new pics of her growing bump and they could not have come soon enough for die-hard Beyoncé fans!
Beyoncé, 5-year-old Blue Ivy and Jay Z are obviously super excited about the twins they're expecting, and we're not going to lie, we're pretty gosh-darned stoked too.
Excitingly, the singer uploaded a swathe of new post-Oscars, Bey-bump shots to her website yesterday, and the internet is already going a little bit nuts for them. The images are part-styled, part-candid and all completely fabulous.
There's no word on who the photographer is, but you can find out all the things about what she's wearing (including sparkles) over on her site.
Music's power couple, Beyoncé and Jay-Z married back in 2008. After sadly suffering a miscarriage in 2010, they became proud parents to Blue Ivy in 2012. In early February, 2017, the couple announced that they were expecting twins.
They began sharing photos of an expectant Beyoncé almost immediately, and have been updating Beyonce's website with pregnancy progress shots, much to the delight of Beyoncé fans!
We're looking forward to the next instalment of the Bey-baby Files some time very soon.
Scroll down for a dose of bump.


European Champions Saracens have revealed their brand new 2017/18 home shirt, which the back to back Champions Cup winners will wear as they mount an assault of a third successive title, and a return to the top of the Aviva Premiership.
The home shirt is typically black, but the top features thinning red stripes across the top half of the jersey, and dark grey stripes meeting them from the other side on the bottom.
The shirt also features two stars above the club badge for the first time, representing the two European Champions Cups that the club has won.
The jersey also features gel lightning bolts embossed onto the top half of the jerseys and also all over the sleeves.
The new Saracens home shirt will be available on the 29 July 2017, and we'll have the full review of the shirt coming soon.


Weaving a thread between contemporary drawing and nineteenth-century Company paintings, Drawing Space: Contemporary Indian Drawings maps the intimate historical connection between Britain and India. In the early nineteenth-century, Company paintings forged a new relationship between Indian artists and their colonial patrons, the East India Company.
The drawn line was traditionally used as a means of defining social and physical space; this publication explores how it has become a device for negotiating space in ways that are self-empowering.
Bringing together three of India's most innovative contemporary artists – Sheela Gowda, N.S. Harsha and Nasreen Mohamedi – Drawing Space contains specially commissioned essays, interviews and diary extracts, providing not only an art-historical background of the work, but also personal insights into the creative processes of the three artists.
Published on occasion of the exhibition Drawing Space, co-produced by Iniva and Beaconsfield in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum.


SAN ANGELO, TX -- Three Concho Valley teams can clinch a playoff spot this Friday.
Eden, Irion County and no. 11-ranked Wall are all near a playoff berth. They have to handle business this Friday in order to book their spot in the playoffs.
Euless Trinity (15-9, 6-1): Beat Bell 76-74. Next vs Central, Jan. 25, 6:30 p.m.
Fort Worth Haltom (12-11, 5-1): Idle. Next @ Weatherford, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Hurst Bell (13-7, 4-3): Lost to Trinity 76-74. Next @ Abilene, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Central (15-10, 4-3): Beat Weatherford 74-36. Next @ Trinity, Jan. 25, 6:30 p.m.
Fort Worth Richland (8-16, 3-4): Lost to Abilene 66-60. Idle.
Abilene (10-16, 2-5): Beat Richland 66-60. Next vs Bell, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Weatherford (0-21, 0-7): Lost to Central 74-36. Next vs Haltom, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Snyder (22-6, 4-0): Beat Big Spring 66-48. Idle.
Midland Greenwood (21-8, 2-1): Idle. Next @ Sweetwater, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Big Spring (14-9, 1-2): Lost to #20 Snyder 66-48. Next @ Lake View, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Lake View (12-16, 1-2): Beat Sweetwater 61-44. Next vs Big Spring, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Sweetwater (2-18, 0-3): Lost to Lake View 61-44. Next vs Greenwood, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Wall (23-3, 7-0): Beat Sonora 62-28. Next vs Grape Creek, Jan. 25, 8:00 p.m.
TLCA (18-4, 6-1): Beat Reagan County 77-39. Idle.
Ballinger (16-11, 5-2): Beat Grape Creek 39-26. Next vs Brady, Jan. 25, 8:00 p.m.
Brady (7-16, 3-3): Idle. Next @ Ballinger, Jan. 25, 8:00 p.m.
Sonora (10-12, 2-5): Lost to #11 Wall 62-28. Next @ Reagan County, Jan. 25, 8:00 p.m.
Reagan County (8-14, 1-6): Lost to TLCA 77-39. Next vs Sonora, Jan. 25, 8:00 p.m.
Grape Creek (3-18, 0-8): Lost to Ballinger 39-26. Next @ #11 Wall, Jan. 25, 8:00 p.m.
Eldorado (4-0): Beat Ozona 55-46. Next @ Forsan, Jan. 25, 8:00 p.m.
Forsan (4-0): Beat Miles 60-56. Next vs Eldorado, Jan. 25, 8:00 p.m.
Christoval (1-3): Lost to Winters 46-42. Next vs Ozona, Jan. 25, 8:00 p.m.
Miles (1-3): Lost to Forsan 60-56. Next @ Winters, Jan. 25, 8:00 p.m.
Ozona (1-3): Lost to Eldorado 55-46. Next @ Christoval, Jan. 25, 8:00 p.m.
Winters (1-3): Beat Christoval 46-42. Next vs Miles, Jan. 25, 8:00 p.m.
Mason (3-1): Beat San Saba 57-42. Idle.
San Saba (2-1): Lost to Mason 57-42. Next vs Harper, Jan. 25, 8:00 p.m.
Junction (2-1): Idle. Next @ Center Point, Jan. 25, 8:00 p.m.
Center Point (1-2): Beat Harper 40-36. Next vs Junction, Jan. 25, 8:00 p.m.
Harper (0-3): Lost to Center Point 40-36. Next @ San Saba, Jan. 25, 8:00 p.m.
Grady (3-0): Idle. Next vs Sands, Jan. 25, 8:00 p.m.
Borden County (3-1): Beat Garden City 51-34. Idle.
Garden City (1-2): Lost to #19 Borden County 51-34. Next vs Klondike, Jan. 25, 8:00 p.m.
Sands (1-2): Beat Klondike 48-47. Next @ #18 Grady, Jan. 25, 8:00 p.m.
Klondike (0-3): Lost to Sands 48-47. Next @ Garden City, Jan. 25, 8:00 p.m.
Irion County (7-0): Beat Water Valley 62-45. Next @ Blackwell, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Robert Lee (6-1): Beat Veribest 52-48. Next @ Water Valley, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Veribest (4-3): Lost to Robert Lee 52-48. Next vs Bronte, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Blackwell (4-3): Beat Sterling City 59-47. Next vs Irion County, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Sterling City (2-5): Lost to Blackwell 59-47. Idle.
Bronte (1-5): Idle. Next @ Veribest, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Water Valley (0-7): Lost to Irion County 62-45. Next vs Robert Lee, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Eden (7-0): Beat Paint Rock 70-38. Next vs Lohn, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Menard (6-1): Beat Lohn 58-25. Next vs Rochelle, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Panther Creek (5-2): Beat Rochelle 58-53. Next vs Santa Anna, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Rochelle (3-4): Lost to Panther Creek 58-53. Next @ Menard, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Paint Rock (2-5): Lost to Eden 70-38. Idle.
Santa Anna (1-5): Idle. Next @ Panther Creek, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Lohn (0-7): Lost to Menard 58-25. Next @ Eden, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.


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For those aged 2-15, you can choose your designer and also choose to have the hair dampened down or washed.
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All prices are calculated based on time booked/taken for the service. You can also choose to have your child's hair washed and dried or just damped down.You can use our menus to bespoke your service.
Childrens haircutting prices with the Salons creative Directors from £26.00 ranging down to £10.00 with our Graduate stylists – we offer many price levels in-between. Please call our reservation team to get more information and a full price quote on 01323411852.


With Gita Gopinath having been appointed International Monetary Fund's Chief Economist and Indra Nooyi being considered to lead World Bank as its president, more and more Indian Americans are emerging as policymakers and leaders in key areas from US politics to administration to judiciary. The recent appointment of few Indian Americans as county judges, and President Trump's latest nomination of three Indian Americans to the Senate validate the fact that the Indian American community is collectively exerting 'colossal' power on US economy, politics and administration. On top of that, Hindu-American Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and Indian-American Senator Kamala Devi Harris are all set to enter the 2020 Democratic Presidential primary contest.
We at Travel Beats, an Indian American community portal by Indian Eagle took a sneak peek into the profiles and agendas of the newly appointed and emerging Indian American policymakers and leaders.
The US President Donald Trump's latest nominations to the Senate for key positions include three Indian Americans: Rita Baranwal, Bimal Patel and Aditya Bamzai. A member of the American Nuclear Society, Dr. Rita Baranwal from Pittsburgh is a nominee for the post of assistant secretary of Nuclear Energy. If the Senate approves her nomination, she will be helming the office of Nuclear Energy in the United States, with a special focus on the department's nuclear technology research and development. An MIT alumnus having a PhD degree in materials science and engineering from the University of Michigan, Dr. Rita Baranwal is the Director for the Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) initiative.
Nominated to the Senate for the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Aditya Bamzai from Virginia is a Professor at the University of Virginia's School of Law. A Yale graduate, he teaches and writes about cybercrimes, national security law, civil procedure and federal courts at the University of Virginia's School of Law. Earlier, he was appointed a law clerk to Judge Jeffrey Sutton at the US Court of Appeals and to Justice Antonin Scalia at the US Supreme Court. Indian American Aditya Bamzai has also worked in the Office of legal counsel and the National Security Division of the US Department of Justice. If confirmed by the Senate, he will serve the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board until January 29, 2020.
President Trump has nominated Indian American Bimal Patel from Georgia for the post of assistant secretary in the US Department of Treasury. An alumnus of Stanford University, Harvard University and Georgetown University Law Center, Bimal Patel currently serves as the deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for the Financial Stability Oversight Council. Earlier, he worked as an adjunct associate professor at Stanford University and taught a banking regulation course to undergraduate students. He was also a senior advisor to Director Jeremiah O Norton at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Indian American Ram Villivalam, a Democrat from Chicago has recently been sworn in as a member of the Illinois General Assembly in the state's 8th district. He took his oath on the Bhagavad Gita, and so did other Indian American legislators including Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi. As per the priorities on his agenda for Illinois' 8th congressional district, Ram Villivalam is hell-bent on bringing legislation for gun violence prevention, women's rights, progressive income tax, LGBTQ rights, and hike in minimum wage. Notably, he is looking forward to bringing progressive perspectives to the process of making decisions in the Illinois Senate for the 8th district covering 21 neighborhoods in Chicago City.
India-born Mona Das from the US state of Washington joined the league of Indian American female politicians by taking oath as a senator of the 47th legislative district in the state. Mona Das whose ancestral home is in a suburban village at a short distance from Kolkata came to the US along with her parents just after eight months of her birth in Munger district of Bihar. A psychology graduate from the University of Cincinnati, Indian American Senator Mona Das will on the Senate Housing Stability and Affordability Committee, the Senate Transportation Committee, the Senate Financial Institutions, Economic Development and Trade Committee, and the Senate Environment, Energy and Technology Committee.
In her capacity as a Washington State Senator, Mona Das will be advocating the causes related to gender equality for women, environment and minority communities. Her speech on the oath-taking day was eloquent with her love for India and its cultural heritage. She concluded her speech with 'Jai Hind' and 'Bharat Mata ki Jai.' Like most of Indian American female politicians, Mona Das believes that education is the key to girls' success and bright future.
Vedica Puri from San Francisco is among the few new Indian American faces in the administrative power of the USA. A native of Mumbai, 47-year-old Vedica Puri has been appointed a judge to the San Francisco County Superior Court. A graduate from Santa Clara University School of Law, Vedica Puri is the first Indian American judge in the San Francisco County Superior Court. Her areas of practice include dealing with emerging technology risks to universities and businesses in Silicon Valley. Indian American Vedica Puri is one of the partners at Pillsbury & Coleman LLP.
Of the new Indian Americans in administrative power, K. P. George has been sworn in to the judgeship of Fort Bend County in Texas. He succeeded Republican Robert Hebert, who designated the position for the past 15 years, and described his eventful journey from a South Indian farmhouse to Fort Bend County Judgeship an inspiring story of perseverance. 'Never Give up' was Indian American K. P. George's message to those in attendance during his oath-taking ceremony.
The chief executive of Fort Bend County Texas, K. P. George promises an effective, efficient and engaging administration to involve youngsters and community members in various nation-building and development projects. He does also guarantee a revision of the emergency management policy as the destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 still sticks to the public memory.
Better county government transparency, higher levels of community engagement, more youth empowerment, the making of a flood control district, and meticulous emergency-handling plans are what he zeroed in on while campaigning for the judgeship of Fort Bend, the most diverse and 10th most populous county in Texas. The Fort Bend County Judge is said to exert more power than Indian American mayors of cities in California and New Jersey.
Indian-origin judges in America include attorney Manjari Chawla from Jaipur, Rajasthan. She was the first Indian American to be appointed a hearing judge by the California Supreme Court in San Francisco, in October 2018. As a hearing judge of the State Bar Court, Majari Chawla presides over cases of violation of the State Bar Act and the Rules of Professional Conduct, involving attorneys in California. A member of the San Francisco Court Bar Association, Indian American Manjari Chawla is known for her expertise in fighting for justice to the Asian-origin people in the USA. An alumnus of Yale University, she will be serving the State Bar Court through October 2024.


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Egypt: Qaradawi, World's Leading Islamist Tries to Take Charge of the Revolution
Let history show that neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post reported on the return of the world's single most important Islamic cleric to Cairo to begin what he hopes to be the transformation of Egypt into a revolutionary anti-American state.
Yusuf al-Qaradawi spoke to a giant cheering crowd in Tahrir Square. He praised the army--to ward off it's repression and encourage it to support a thoroughgoing transformation of the country. He preached caution and patience, working with the army.
And he also lavished praise on the pro-Islamist chairman of the committee to write the new Constitution, which may not be a good sign at all.
There is one easily missed word in his speech that is the most significant. That word is "hypocrites." In the Islamist lexicon, hypocrites means Muslims who do not practice "true" Islam according to the radicals. To take Egypt out of the hands of hypocrites is to put it onto the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood--or at least similarly minded people--which, contrary to the best and the brightest policymakers, intelligence analysts, experts, and journalists is not a moderate organization.
History may show that while President Jimmy Carter may have "lost" Iran, one of his successors may have helped give away Egypt. Is that alarmist? I hope so. Watch and see.
As so often happens, Israel will be left to pay the bill. Qaradawi said he looked forward to a similar ceremony in Jerusalem, and he did not mean after a two-state negotiated solution. One of Qaradawi's main points is--sorry, I must say it to show my credibility--precisely as I predicted from the first days of the revolution, the total opening of the Egypt-Gaza border. This would mean an Egypt-Hamas alliance and a huge flow of arms into Gaza.
The army will not let this happen for now. But what might happen after elections?
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Q: Computing the maximum salary To motivate my question, I will describe a related problem and then give a solution to it. My question will then be a variant of this problem.
N individuals sit around a table and want to compute the average of their salaries. They wish to do this in a manner such that no private information is leaked. This is to say no one obtains any information (regarding the other's salaries) that he couldn't deduce from the public information.
More formally we assume: (1) all of the salaries are non-negative integers bounded by B (2) everyone behaves honestly and doesn't attempt to halt the process (3) no subset of individuals will collude (4) there are secure private lines of communications between all participants (5) all of this information is well known (6) there is no outside trusted party.
Question 1: Is it possible for the N individuals to collectively compute the average without leaking any information? We say information is leaked if any individual has any information at the end of the process regarding anyone else's salary that he couldn't have deduced from knowing his own salary and the average.
The answer is Yes. It suffices to compute the sum of the salaries.  Set S = 10*N*B. Now the first individual (Alice) chooses a uniformly random number between 0 and S-1 and adds this to her salary mod S. She then passes the sum to her neighbor, Bob, who adds his salary. This continues around the table until Zoey (the last participant) passes the number back at Alice. Alice subtracts off the random number and announces the sum to the group.
Here are two related questions:
Question 2: Is it possible for the group to compute the maximum salary (subject to the constraints above) without leaking any information?
Question 3: Can we remove the assumption that a bound on the size of the salaries are known in advance from the algorithm given above.
Additional Note: In Question 2 we want to compute only the maximum without providing any other information. One can note that, say, the entire distribution of salaries could be computed and communicated to the group by computing moments of the sequence via the method above. This would give the maximum (however a lot of other information as well).

A: These questions (and many others) are studied in the literature under the heading of secret-sharing or common-knowledge protocols. A nice but short review appears in chapter 4 of David Gale's "Tracking the Automatic Ant".
The "sum protocol" you presented can be modified to determine how many people have salary x (without revealing their identity). Just have each participant communicate 0 or 1 according to whether or not she has salary x, and by scanning all x's in the (presumably known) range of salaries you can learn the distribution, as well as the maximum (by scanning down from some upper bound). However, this protocol reveals not only the max salary, but also how many people earn that max.
Such protocols are called $t$-private if they do not reveal any additional information unless $t$ people 'collude' and discuss their knowledge with each other. The protocol you mentioned is, in fact, $n$-private - unless everyone cooperates, they are all in the dark (EDIT: this is false, of course, as pointed out in the comments. The correct $n$-private protocol is described below). The sum is, essentially, the only function that can be computed $n$-privately. The maximum (without the extra knowledge of how many people earn it), the product etc. can all be computed $t$-privately for $t < n/2$, but not for $t \geq n/2$. The existence is proved by Ben-Or, Goldwasser and Wigderson in STOC 1988; the non-existence by Chor and Kushilevitz (STOC 1989) for Boolean functions and by Beaver for general integer-valued functions. This is all extracted from Gale's book.
How to compute the sum $n$-privately: Each person breaks up their salary into a sum of $n$ numbers, chosen at random except for the constraint that their sum is $n$. Each person now communicates the $j$th part to the $j$ person (including "communicating" one of the parts to herself). They then all announce the sums of all the pieces that were communicated to them. It's a fun exercise to show that no $k$ people can figure anything out other than whatever can be derived from their own salaries, for any $k < n$.

A: For question 3, it seems to me that the algorithm described in the question can be modified so as not to require knowing a bound on salaries to start with: instead of working modulo 10*N*B, just do everything over Z.
Now Alice needs to choose a random number from Z.  Of course, she cannot use the uniform distribution, but all that is necessary is that she not publicize any information about the distribution she uses.  If that information is not public, I don't see how anyone could deduce anything from the one number which they see in the course of implementing the algorithm.

A: "This continues around the table until Zoey (the last participant) passes the number back at Alice. Alice subtracts off the random number and announces the sum to the group."
Zoey then takes the sum and subtracts it from the number she gave to Alice, thus revealing Alice's random number.  She then gives that to Bob who can now calculate Alice's salary and so on.
No?

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Running vast distances, some of the biggest trucks in the world operate like city couriers in the Pilbara.
If you want to move a 25 tonne excavator you would use a float, what about a 200 tonne excavator?
The Gorgon project built on Barrow Island is one of the world's largest natural gas projects and the largest single resource development in Australia's history.
The first Floating Liquid Natural Gas project, the biggest man made vessel or floating object in the world!
Renowned for being the biggest wheel loaders in the world, the LeTourneau L-2350 with an in cab and walk-around view.
The P&H Electric Shovel is one of the most common ultra class digging machines around, check out this walk through.
Footage of some of the biggest kaboooms taking place in mines and quarries.
The new Prelude Floating LNG refinery is now floating and at this time is the largest floating facility in the world.
Anyone that regularly travels the Peak Downs Highway would of seen sights like these.


This approach for modelling objects has gained a great popularity around the world in a very short time. That is absolutely deserved as it serves for the creation of models with very high detailing that makes it one of the most advanced methods of the realistic scenes and models creation. The graphic designers from Scythgames concentrate on the accuracy of reproduction the concept or reference in projects in order to achieve the best result. At the same time they always search for new, better ways of high polygonal models creation.


Little more than a fortnight after a Massachusetts Institute of Technology proposal to store wind energy in a form of underwater pumped hydro comes news of a Norwegian company with a similar idea, according to Gigaom. The system proposed by Subhydro would consist of concrete tanks sited on the seabed at depths of between 400 and 800m.
'Discharging' the battery would consist of opening a port to allow seawater to rush into these empty tanks at many times atmospheric pressure, driving a turbine and generating electricity. Recharging is simply a matter of reversing the process, using cheaper non-peak or surplus energy to pump the water out of the containers. The company is claiming an 80% efficiency for the system, which they say is comparable to efficiencies achieved at conventional plants.
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This panel discussion will provide a current market update and share with participants how these market developments may impact every day job duties. Topics will include interest rates as they relate to STAR Ohio, STAR Plus, and general deposits. Additional discussion will cover world news and events, various federal data points, preparing for regulatory reform, and asset allocation tips.
Zach Amendolea joined the office of Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel in March of 2015. Mr. Amendolea oversees daily operations of the Liquidity Fund of the Ohio Regular Account and assists with the management of STAR Ohio. Prior to arriving at the Treasurer's office, Zach worked as a taxable fixed income trader at Huntington National Bank. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance from Kent State University and a Master of Business Administration from Ohio University. In addition, Mr. Amendolea is a CFA charterholder.
Jason Headings holds a B.S. in Marketing and a B.S. in Finance from Miami University, Richard T. Farmer School of Business and is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). He has over 12 years of investment experience. As Portfolio Manager of the Meeder Money Market Fund, he has been recognized with the Money Fund Intelligence Award by Crane Data in 2012 and 2013 and the "Top Manager Award" from iMoneyNet in 2011 and 2014. Each of those years the Fund ranked highest in the United States amongst all prime retail money market funds. He is an instructor at various educational seminars.
Ted has over 18 year experience working with government investors. Ted joined Huntington Capital Markets in December of 2013 as Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Institutional Investments for Ohio, West Virginia and Indiana markets. Prior to joining Huntington, Ted spent fourteen years with Fifth Third's Institutional Investments Group. Ted specializes in fixed income investments for national and local institutions, including money managers, mutual funds, hedge funds, financial institutions, insurance companies, governments, schools, corporations and not-for-profit entities.
Ted has been certified as a speaker for the Center for Public Investment Management and is a volunteer in the local American Heart Association, Starfire Council and United Way. Ted received a B.S. in Business from Miami University (1992) and a J.D. from Loyola University at Chicago (1996). Ted also graduated from Culver Military Academy's summer program (1986). Ted is Series 7 and 63 licensed and retired status as an attorney.
This course includes the basics of internal controls: an overview, objectives, types of internal controls, management responsibilities, examples, benefits of implementation and consequences for lack of implementation. It also discusses other types of fraud that can occur from the inside that can result in the loss of public funds.
Angela Gillis, Senior Manager, Risk Advisory Services, Schneider Downs & Co., Inc.
Angela is a member of Schneider Downs' Risk Advisory Services practice. She has 20 years of experience in accounting, auditing and consulting services.
Additionally, Angela has conducted training seminars on: identity theft; forensic accounting, prevention, detection and investigation, enterprise risk management and proactive fraud prevention and controls.
Angela is committed to providing the highest level of risk and control consulting, auditing and accounting services to a broad array of businesses in a multitude of industries.
B.B.A. – Business Administration with a concentration in Accountancy – The University of Notre Dame.
Graduate of the Ohio Bankers League Bank Management School.
Graduate of the ABA National Compliance School.
This course is Part 1 of an introduction to public finance. We will discuss reasons for debt issuance, tax exemption, authority to issue, debt limits, types of debt, Notes vs. Bonds, GO/Revs/COPs, and refundings (current vs. advance). An optional Part 2 to this course will be taught in the subsequent CPIM Academy session. Participants may choose to attend Part 2 instead of the following CPIM Boot Camp session, if they choose.
With experience in many aspects of public finance law, Jennifer Blaser serves as bond and underwriters counsel in numerous traditional governmental financing transactions. Specifically, her focus includes working with cities, counties, townships and school districts throughout the State of Ohio to finance their capital projects. As bond counsel, Jennifer has facilitated bond and note issues for traditional governmental projects such as primary and secondary education, fire and public safety buildings and equipment, building improvements and libraries. Jennifer also serves as special counsel in connection with lease and lease-purchase financings. Jennifer also assists a majority of the Columbus office's municipal clients with their SEC annual disclosure requirements. Ms. Blaser is a frequent speaker at firm-sponsored client seminars, as well as for the Buckeye Association of School Administrators, the County Auditor's Association of Ohio, the Ohio Association of School Business Officials and the Ohio School Boards Association.
Marc Kamer handles a wide variety of project financings for traditional governmental purposes, like roads and bridges, and tax-exempt financings for 501(c)(3) organizations such as healthcare providers, institutions of higher education and public and private K-12 schools.
Marc's experience also includes authoring legislation relating to finance and construction initiatives and amendments to modernize existing finance and construction programs. He also devotes a substantial amount of his time to economic development (tax incentives, tax abatements and tax increment financing), as well as energy-related transactions. He has represented parties on P3 transactions including design-build-finance-operate-maintain agreements and related alternative project delivery/finance models for infrastructure projects.
This course will provide you with the foundation to develop a proper investment program. Ohio investment law is very specific as to what you can and cannot do. Topics to be discussed will include a history of Ohio investment law, developing an investment policy, eligible investments and the role of vendors.
Jennifer is a Managing Principle and Portfolio Manager at RedTree Investment Group. She has been in the investment industry for over 17 years with a primary focus on the fixed income markets. For over 10 years her experience has centered on developing fixed income investment strategies for public entities and other agencies. At RedTree, she is responsible for the implementation of each client's specific investment strategy and portfolio risk management.
Jennifer earned her undergraduate and MBA degrees in finance from Xavier University. She has received the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
This panel discussion will provide an overview of the Ohio Pooled Collateral System. The discussion will include an update on the changes made to Ohio Revised Code and the benefits of the program.
Jeremy Rzepka joined the Ohio Treasurer's office in September 2016 as Deputy Legal Counsel. As Deputy Legal Counsel, Mr. Rzepka focuses on financial institutions, public finance, and public law. Prior to joining the Treasurer's office, he worked in public accounting as a financial institutions auditor and he is a Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Rzepka received his Juris Doctor from the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University and his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from The Ohio State University.
Mrs. Lewis oversees the Legislative, Policy and Constituent Affairs Department which serves as the liaison between the Treasurer's office and the General Assembly. The department also identifies, researches, and develops policy positions and initiatives affecting the Treasurer's office. Prior to arriving at the Treasurer's office, Lizz worked as a Policy Advisor for former Speaker of the House, William G. Batchelder. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Kent State University.
This will be an open forum for fiscal officers of similar government subdivisions to ask questions of their peers, share best practices, and trade ideas as they relate to investing, finance, budgeting, or other relevant financial topics.


(1) They run the neighborhood restaurants, bicycle stores, and flower shops you patronize .(2) ÔÇÿSuch food festivals are popular because those who regularly patronize the restaurant, appreciate a change in the menu,ÔÇÖ he added.(3) Nobody is forcing shoppers to patronize grocery stores that offer discount cards.(4) Members create, finance and patronize the cooperative.(5) Some customers patronize the store every two or three months; some of the very top spenders come in three to five times a week.(6) If employees don't patronize the stores, then it's difficult to see how they can expect customers to do so.(7) People who do not travel into cities to work are much less likely to patronize restaurants, theatres and shops.(8) This is a great time to patronize your local shops, too, they'll be liquidating as well.(9) Do locals not have rights to patronize establishments in their own country?(10) Sponsorships like these keep the store's name firmly in the minds of local bowhunters and motivate them to patronize the store.(11) He said two types of consumers patronize dollar stores.(12) In the ad, a father tries to explain to his son why no customers patronize the family restaurant, which mainly sells pork meat-ball soup.(13) They also proved quite cultured, patronising art and architecture and encouraging literary pursuits.(14) And, of course, avoid anyone who is patronizing or condescending.(15) They falsely pretend to be impartial and independent, or patronisingly portray themselves to be the same as ordinary people.(16) All are born aristocrats, and their bearing is dignified, even though at times it is also a tiny bit arrogant and patronizing .
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Bills to aid children, families advance in state Senate
LEGISLATURE 2021
Carolina Puga Mendoza
TheStatehouseFile.com
INDIANAPOLIS — As Indiana recovers from the financial toll of COVID-19, bills to support children and their families passed the Indiana Senate's Family and Children Services Committee unanimously on Monday.
The committee presented the meeting as a "DeVon-Day" as three out of the four bills presented on Monday were authored by state Rep. Dale DeVon, R-Granger. The bills focus on improving the foster care system and helping youths in the pandemic as well as expanding qualifications for families to apply for financial help programs.
DeVon's interest has centered on affordable housing and improving the foster care system in Indiana. He has worked in the children services sector for more than 25 years.
"When we deal with kids and broken families, you know, that affects everybody. It's not just a Democrat/Republican thing," DeVon said. "My dream someday would be to put the DCS out of business, not because we won't fund that (but) because there won't be a need for it."
As the unemployment rate increased in Indiana due to COVID-19, it forced families into poverty, according to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. In 2020, around 715 million families were living in poverty, compared to the average of 38.4 million, UNICEF reports.
These four bills passed the committee with an 8-0 vote:
HB 1532 — Department of Child Services reporting
Authored by DeVon, HB 1532 would help with the flow of information between the Department of Child Services and the General Assembly. As the DCS received millions of dollars in extra funding in 2019, the Assembly wants to request the organization to submit annual reports about child-caring institutions, child-placing agencies and more.
HB 1536 — Dept. of Child Services
HB 1536, authored by DeVon, will help young adults who are in the foster care system if the governor declares a state of emergency. Typically, once an individual turns 18, they can leave the foster care system; however, if they still want assistance, they can apply for extended foster care through Indiana's Collaborative Care Services. The bill would allow individuals who are already part of the program to remain in it during the state of emergency.
Organizations such as Foster Success, an organization to support foster kids in Indiana, and the Indiana Association of Resources and Child Advocacy testified in support of the bill.
"We still saw that many of these young adults struggled to figure out how to maintain housing, access food resources and navigate the unemployment benefits for the first time without the help of family or another support system," said Maggie Stevens, CEO of Foster Success.
Additionally, before being placed into a foster home, children have to go to a physician, and during the pandemic, that had to happen within 10 days. The bill would give the director of the DCS the power to waive the requirement during COVID-19.
HB 1537 — Commission on Improving the Status of Children
In Indiana, there's a three-branch statewide Commission on Improving the Status of Children. This group analyzes and reviews issues concerning children and youth and makes suggestions for legislation to help improve children's quality of life.
HB 1537, authored by DeVon, modifies the requirements for membership in the commission in order to include two young adults who have been in the foster care system.
HB 1009 — TANF program
Authored by state Rep. Chuck Goodrich, R-Noblesville, HB 1009 modifies the already existing Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. The program helps families financially and offers other services such as child care, work training and assistance. The bill will make individuals of a household who are part of a post-secondary degree, apprenticeship or workforce certificate eligible for the TANF program.
According to the Division of Family Resources, as of Feb. 28, 2021, there were 7,868 one-parent families that were receiving grants from the TANF program and 800 families of a two-parent household who were also receiving grants. The same report showed that recipients of the TANF grants grew in number since February 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic took its toll.
The Family and Children's Services Committee will reconvene on at 10 a.m. March 29. All of the mentioned bills will head to the Senate floor.


kickstarting a campaign for Sense about Science because patients suffer when trials are withheld.
Half of all clinical trials have never been published. Researchers, patients and doctors need to know what was done and what they found, to make decisions about which treatment is best.
Regulations are supposed to fix the problem of missing trials: they have been ignored. Voluntary "codes of conduct" are full of holes. So research institutions and companies continue to withhold important information about treatments.
Sense About Science have agreed to taken this on as a campaign, after their excellent work on libel reform. Everything donated here will go to support the AllTrials campaign. We will run a public campaign, build an informative website, press pharmaceutical companies, lobby politicians and stakeholders, brief journalists and make it news.
Nobody profits from secrecy, least of all industry. The one thing that has perpetuated the current situation is a lack of public awareness. A public campaign will push this over, and together we can make clinical trials the contribution to understanding that they should be.


Here's a picture of SEA student Brian and his family at our new student orientation last month. He loves to play soccer, and he's excited to improve his science, math, and social studies skills. So far, he's doing well at achieving his goals!


openlog opens or reopens a connection to Syslog in preparation for submitting messages.
ident is an arbitrary identification string which future syslog invocations will prefix to each message. This is intended to identify the source of the message, and people conventionally set it to the name of the program that will submit the messages.
If ident is NULL, or if openlog is not called, the default identification string used in Syslog messages will be the program name, taken from argv.
Please note that the string pointer ident will be retained internally by the Syslog routines. You must not free the memory that ident points to. It is also dangerous to pass a reference to an automatic variable since leaving the scope would mean ending the lifetime of the variable. If you want to change the ident string, you must call openlog again; overwriting the string pointed to by ident is not thread-safe.
You can cause the Syslog routines to drop the reference to ident and go back to the default string (the program name taken from argv), by calling closelog: See section 18.2.3 closelog.
Without the call to closelog, future invocations of syslog by the program using the shared library may crash, if the library gets unloaded and the memory containing the string "mylibrary" becomes unmapped. This is a limitation of the BSD syslog interface.
openlog may or may not open the `/dev/log' socket, depending on option. If it does, it tries to open it and connect it as a stream socket. If that doesn't work, it tries to open it and connect it as a datagram socket. The socket has the "Close on Exec" attribute, so the kernel will close it if the process performs an exec.
You don't have to use openlog. If you call syslog without having called openlog, syslog just opens the connection implicitly and uses defaults for the information in ident and options.
If on, openlog sets up the connection so that any syslog on this connection writes its message to the calling process' Standard Error stream in addition to submitting it to Syslog. If off, syslog does not write the message to Standard Error.
If on, openlog sets up the connection so that a syslog on this connection that fails to submit a message to Syslog writes the message instead to system console. If off, syslog does not write to the system console (but of course Syslog may write messages it receives to the console).
When on, openlog sets up the connection so that a syslog on this connection inserts the calling process' Process ID (PID) into the message. When off, openlog does not insert the PID.
When on, openlog opens and connects the `/dev/log' socket. When off, a future syslog call must open and connect the socket.
Portability note: In early systems, the sense of this bit was exactly the opposite.
This bit does nothing. It exists for backward compatibility.
If any other bit in options is on, the result is undefined.
facility is the default facility code for this connection. A syslog on this connection that specifies default facility causes this facility to be associated with the message. See syslog for possible values. A value of zero means the default default, which is LOG_USER.
If a Syslog connection is already open when you call openlog, openlog "reopens" the connection. Reopening is like opening except that if you specify zero for the default facility code, the default facility code simply remains unchanged and if you specify LOG_NDELAY and the socket is already open and connected, openlog just leaves it that way.


We are a team that has been increasingly specialized in platforms for the floral industry during the last 13 years +. Our main product is Komet Sales, a system offered as a SaaS (Software as a Service) mainly in USA and Canada.
In Komet, we are also very invested in helping the team achieve personal and professional growth in a work environment that is healthy, fun and innovating. Meet your future co-workers here: www.kometsales.com/team.
We are looking for someone to join our AAA team. You must be a Java Web developer full stack, have a conviction for always doing the best of the best, be proactive, and able to manage your time responsibly.
Actively participate in the definition of a technological solution for a new business idea. Dreaming and putting your imagination to fly to solve an idea has no price.
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Become a ghostbuster! In the software world, we continuously find issues with unknown sources and only a real ghostbuster can solve a problem like that.
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With Bitcoin currently sitting around the USD 4,000 mark, early 2019 sentiment has a bullish feel to it with analysts hopeful for a surge after spending too long a time in bear terrain in 2018.
Around the exchanges, the feeling is largely upbeat with one expert claiming that it has been a lack of understanding that has held cryptocurrencies back, and now that the public sees they that are here for the long haul, digital currencies will be able to find more stability as more knowledge is disseminated regarding their use.
Frank sees this auguring well for Bitcoin, given what he describes as the "historic correlation between Bitcoin sentiment and price", arguing that cryptocurrency gains should follow. Another crypto watcher, Jon Pearlstone, publisher of the newsletter CryptoPatterns, is equally upbeat about Bitcoin's new year prospects, suggesting that the hallmark digital currency is "showing multiple bullish signs" which should test the USD 4,500 level.
The post Market Humming with Bullish Sentiment for 2019 and Beyond appeared first on BitcoinNews.com.
This entry was posted in Altcoins, bitcoin, Bitcoin News, Blockchain, Bull Market, Cryptocurrency, CryptoPatterns, Joshua Frank, News, TheTIE.io, virtual currency on January 9, 2019 by adminbtc.


It's good to see production cars in the Airfix range, and here's one of the best Euro-hatchbacks around, the Ford Fiesta RS, here produced in its hot WRC version.
Canada's headline space involvement is in supplying the Canadarm 2 robotic arm system presently used on the International Space Station (ISS). But here's another, smaller, Canadian space product in the form of a sleek 1:72 scale resin kit of the Silver Dart hypersonic re-entry glider from Dave Guerin's Blap! Models of Ontario.
The Scale ModelWorld just passed provided a galaxy of excellent modelling. Here's another roundup of goodies on show.
The annual show of the UK International Plastic Modellers Society (IPMS) was held over last weekend, November 10-11, at the massive Telford International Conference Centre, now made even larger by the addition of a fourth hall.
Here's proof that model making needn't involve plastic components or a boxed kit. US miniaturist William Robertson spent some 1000 hours making this hand-crafted 1:12 scale replica of an 18th century Colonial-style tool chest.
Fans of classic British cars will love this Mini Cooper Mk I from Revell, a neatly produced 126-part kit.
Automotive model fans prepare to open your wallets for this 1:20 scale 1979 Ferrari 312T4. Produced by the excellent Japanese Model Factory Hiro, and due in December, the kit is proclaimed as 'a hybrid injection' kit. MFH reckons this is a new term to cover the massively multimedia nature of the production, containing components produced in white metal, photo-etch, spun-aluminium, and plastic injection. Sounds great to us, and as the pictures show, the results ought to be spectacular in the hands of a reasonably skilled model maker.
On August 14, 2010, SMN featured a 1:32 scale kit of the Aoshima Japanese Hayabusa asteroid sample-return mission space probe, originally known as MUSES-C. Since then, Aoshima has issued two variations of this model.
Having reviewed the excellent 2001: The Lost Science, we thought you'd like a look at the model kits AJA Models has on offer. If you have the slightest interest in the classic movie, then AJA could be the place to source your next kit.
Ask any film enthusiast, and probably many non-enthusiasts, to name the best science-fiction movie of all time, and you will probably get 9 out of 10 voting for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. For all those fans - and for space modellers too - comes the new book, 2001: The Lost Science by Adam K. Johnson.
On November 6, Vectis Auctions, the world's largest toy auction house, will hold an auction featuring an impressive collection of Airfix kits. And that's not all, for the sale includes the magnificent Roy Cross box art 'Bomb the Tirpitz' shown here, reckoned to be in with a chance to fetch between £9500-£15,000 GBP ($15-24,000 USD).
Well, it just had to happen - a LEGO replay of Felix Baumgartner's supersonic high jump.
We're not quite sure what scale this model is, as estimates of LEGO's manikins range from around 1:30 to 1:40. Whatever, this is a fun piece of video making to promote the Austrian Model Maker's Fair.
1:25 SCALE AMT PHANTOM VAN KIT - OR IS IT A VANTOM?
If any decade turned the van from commercial vehicle to a statement of cool, it was the 1970s. Until then, the humble panel truck was most likely seen carrying building materials, making store deliveries, or toting tools-of-the-trade. But in the 1970s, vans were tricked out with custom paint jobs, sound systems, maybe a kitchenette, even - if you were lucky - a double bed. And now in 2012, comes a Round 2 Models reissue of such a custom creation, the AMT 1:25 scale Ford Econoline Phantom van.
Italeri is a kit company that besides making a wide variety of cars, trucks, ships, aircraft and military, also produces many accessory and diorama kits.
One brand-new release is this 1:24 scale 'Guard rail and road section for display', a diorama base intended for trucks or other road vehicles.
Talking of airliner models, this delightful old ad for Frog airliners turned up recently. For some reason I thought all Frog airliners were made to the same 1:96 scale - but no, there's variety there, though nowhere near the profusion of fit-the-box scales (more like non-scales) that were popular at the time with makers such as Revell, Lindberg and others.
For lovers of exotic and complex markings, this one's a winner, and ought to be the subject for a garage-kit decal job... please! Last week, a 41-tonne king salmon landed in Anchorage, Alaska, to a rousing welcome from crowds of workers with Alaska Airlines and the state seafood industry.
Cast your mind back to my May 2012 review of the 1:12 scale Airfix Doctor Who 'Welcome Aboard' kit. It was the one I hadn't completed, as I was trying to summon up energy to finish the complex paint job. One thing on the waiting list was the intricate pattern on Martha's fashionable pink top, mainly as it was, well, intricate! I'm pleased to report that a quick solution has arrived.
Who would have thought that there would be resurgence of interest in 1950s-era model kits? Even more so, with kits that are not existing-tool reissues, but are brand-new.
Here's a really useful set of 1:72 scale figures, featuring modern NATO combat pilots (men and women!) from the air forces of three countries: Germany, United Kingdom and United States.
Sad to say, the pretty little 1:72 scale de Havilland Heron airliner depicted on this old Airfix box-top wasn't at the 2012 Jersey Air Show, either in model form or the real thing. But there were plenty of elderly aircraft flying at the display held a couple of weeks ago.
I can remember my very first airliner kit, a 1:96 scale Frog de Havilland Comet IV. The kit came with minimal detail, but did have looong decal strips for the fuselage sides, and a daunting amount of white paint was needed to cover the upper surface. After much careful application of tape, on went the paint and, well, to my chagrin much of it seeped underneath, and the kit was never the same again. I soon learned to mask with the best of them, but somehow never really returned to airliners with any degree of enthusiasm!
How I wish I'd had the facilities shown here for a Thomson Airways revamp from old insignia to swoopy new markings. I wish!


Christina Steiner is an award-winning writer of two illustrated children's books The Sad Tree and Pronuba and The Fantastic Travels of William and the Monarch Butterfly (Outskirts Press 2013, 2015). As a nature enthusiast, she likes to introduce children to the wonders of the living world around them. Steiner writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
Other accomplishments include being featured in the Moorpark Review 2013, the West Winds Centennial, California Writers Club 100 year anthology in 2010, and an honorable mentioning in the 77th Annual Writer's Digest Competition 2008.
Born and raised in Switzerland, Christina made Southern California her home and raised two daughters. When not writing or reading, she hikes with her dogs, rides her horse, makes wine with her partner and enjoys the beauty that nature offers.
It's wonderful to have Christina Steiner with us today. I've fallen in love with both of her children's books (outstanding children's literature inspired by nature) and can't wait to send copies to my youngest grandson to read and enjoy. Now it's time to meet the author. Tell us more about yourself, Christina.
If I can be outdoors, I usually am. I prefer mountains to the ocean but living in California offers both. Nature in its bounty always amazes and enthralls me. A bad day gets whisked away after a walk on the beach or in the local hills.
My roots are in Switzerland. Growing up as the youngest of five, I learned from my siblings what was accepted and what not. Small town living has advantages and perils. Any misbehaving in the town usually reached my parent's ear before I could make it home.
Living in America and raising my two daughters was different, everything seemed larger than life. I had the big advantage to live in a semi-rural area of Los Angeles at the time so I could instill the wonders of nature by exposing my children to the local wildlife and our domestic animals which included horses, sheep, goats, dogs, cats and even a llama. Now I live with my partner and four dogs in Ventura, California.
I always loved to write. My earliest competition was an essay for a newspaper in third grade. I did win second place. Later I wrote journals all through my teenage years which included poetry, at that time in German. My dream of writing my own book didn't happen until much later when my children were grown. English became the language of choice as a writer. I joined local writing communities and profited a lot through critique groups and encouragements of follow writers. The dream became a passion.
The Sad Tree and Pronuba tells the story of the symbiotic relationship between the Joshua tree and the Pronuba moth.
I visited the Mojave Desert and climbed Malapai Hill in Joshua Tree National Park. Fascinated by one of these strange Joshua trees, I wanted to know everything about them. The relationship of two different species, The Joshua tree and the Pronuba moth, show how exquisite and unique nature presents itself.
Favorite character: Pronuba moth, she's so upbeat and joyful.
The Fantastic Travels of William and the Monarch Butterfly was prompted by a suggestion from my partner. We live close to a grove that western Monarch butterflies choose for their winter quarters. Sadly the population of butterflies greatly diminished. After extensive research I decided to set the story for an eastern Monarch butterfly. For a small creature to fly the distance to the Oyamel fir forest and survive the winter in this unique environment to assure the continuation of the species is another example of the incredible natural world.
Favorite character: Anka, the Monarch butterfly. As she matures, she becomes incredibly sage.
What was the hardest part of writing your children's books?
To write the stories so the readers, young or old, can see the grandeur of nature and be entertained while adhering to the facts.
Do you do anything in addition to writing books?
I assist my partner in making wine, two to four varietal per year. Together we take care of our dogs. In our household we have four large dogs, three champion Chesapeake Bay Retrievers, Betsy, Harvard Girl and Boomer and Sentry, a 180 lbs. Hungarian Kuvasz. Every morning we take them to a leash-free park close by for training and exercise. Several times a week I ride my horse Xena, stabled in Moorpark. These outdoor activities balance out the time spent on the computer.
My two grandchildren, twins—a boy and a girl, spent most Sundays with me while my daughter is at work.
I attend a tutor-training workshop at the local library to become a volunteer tutor and help adults to achieve better reading and life skills.
My books are available at amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, outskirtspress.com and some local independent book stores.
What's next for author Christina Steiner?
I finished a series of articles called Predators in the Backyard. Each talks about the intricate lives of insects or spiders commonly found in the backyard and the significance they have in mythology.
The first draft of a new novel is nearly completed. Untitled as of now. The middle-grade fiction deals with coming of age, loss, adjustment to inner city life and forming new friendships.
It's been wonderful to have you with us today, Christina. I highly recommend both of your beautifully written and illustrated children's books to our readers.
Thanks for the great interview, Bette and Christina, and the intro to some new books. I love the covers, so adorable. Good for a 3 year old?
Thanks so much for introducing Christina. I love the sound of her books and have already placed an order for the first one.
Thank you, you made my day. I truly appreciate you order. I hope you'll love it and share it with as many children as possible. Have a wonderful evening.
Thanks. I hope your's is equally so.
Bette, thank you for introducing us to Christina. What a bubbly, vibrant, friendly person. I like that – coming second on the first competition entered as young. Great way to start! The books look adorable and I love Anka's line – we all have to figure out our reason for being.
Hello Annika. Thank you for reading Bette's post about me and my writing. I hope you have a chance to read the book, Anka, the Monarch butterfly is a very smart butterfly. Have a great evening.
How nice to meet you, Christina! You've led an exciting and wonderful life which I'm sure will be fodder for more books. These two sound like winners.
Hello Micki, yes, I lived a good life, an interesting life with ups and downs. Thank you for your response. I hope you will check out the books and have as much fun reading them as I had writing them.
Very thorough presentation of the author and her books. You inspire me – as you might be able to tell, I'm trying to carve time each day for a bit of blogging and promoting our local authors. Fingers crossed, I'm looking to re-invigorate our writing groups. Always nice to read your work!
So interesting Bette! you always bring so much talent here! Thanks for sharing this wonderful author!
Hello Lynz, thank you for reading Bette's post. Please spread the word, so many children can learn about nature. Have a wonderful day.


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Sarah teaches our Friday afternoon Community Healing Flow donation-based classes every other week. She is an RYT-200 yoga instructor with a passion for supporting her students to find joy and balance.
Sarah loves the quiet of yoga. She believes that In the stillness we reflect, find direction, and just be. We hear our breath, the shuffling of feet, and connect with our body, mind, and heart.
She thinks of yoga classes as sacred ceremonies, a space for celebration, silliness, love, and healing. In her classes we explore chanting, mudras, chakras, and guided meditations.
Outside of the yoga studio, Sarah loves sharing hot beverages, trading plants with neighbors for their gardens, and the magic of singing harmonies. She grew up on the coast of Virginia and couldn't be happier to have landed in the warm community of Bend.


Once you've created an app workspace, there are two ways in which others can view it: directly, or by getting an app that you've published. The two ways are shown under separate headings below.
I even made him (or was it her? I can never remember) an administrator.
It's within touching distance ... !
You need Power BI Pro to view an app workspace, sadly.
So you can create reports easily enough, but to share them you need to fork out for a Power BI Pro licence.
The workspace includes 2 reports, 2 datasets and a dashboard.
To publish an app, click on this icon at the top right of Power BI Service while editing it.
I've decided that people should see the management summary first.
You can choose individual people, or (as here) let anyone get your app.
I like the little icons showing me that (in this case) I have 1 dashboard, 2 reports, no workbooks and 2 datasets!
Surely this is the whole idea of publishing?
You can copy the app's URL and email it to someone, or they can get the app as shown below.
Anyone in your organisation can choose to get your app like this.
You'll need at least a trial version of Power BI Pro to continue!
There's more about using apps to share reports and dashboards in my separate blog on sharing in Power BI Service.


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Beef in a decadent (and telegenic) appetizer of mountain yam and sea urchin beef roll (currently $15.75 for three) at the newly open Bozu Japanese Restaurant at McCully Shopping Center was rather chewy, but if you're the type who swallows your sushi in one gulp, this should pose no problem. The leaf is shiso. The dab of green on top is wasabi.
Hoshi Katsu has stepped out of the kitchen of other Japanese restaurants around town, most notably Imanas Tei, to open Bozu Japanese Restaurant on the second floor at McCully Shopping Center, and there are a lot of foodies around town who are going to be happy that he did.
His izakaya is a joy, with many a jewel of a dish leaving me with a hunger to try what's next, and next. Portions are small, but mostly reasonable when shared. It's best to try it with at least three friends in tow so you can explore the range of hot-cold, seafood-meat, grill-saute, raw-cooked specialties.
Then there are the things that can't be shared, like chilled chawanmushi or crab miso soup. Get your own.
And, my best piece of advice is, keep your eyes open for what's going out to other tables. It's a little bit like "When Harry Met Sally." "I want what she's having," without the moaning. Chances are you'll see lots you want to try, even if you'd already filled your belly and it means booking your next reservation before walking out the door.
Chilled chawanmushi is a refreshing summer treat, with the flavors of the ocean, including bursts of salt from fresh ikura pearls. Currently $7.50 per glass, roughly about twice the size of a shot glass.
Slices of juicy, grilled black pork tontoro. You may need more than one of these $8 servings. Portions tend to be small here, which works for those who want to cover as much of the varied menu as possible.
Chicken liver mousse had us clamoring for more bread to scoop up every delicious bite.
Tsukune, tare style, was tasty on the outside, but lacked flavor on the inside, though I appreciated the attempt to make it more interesting with a crunchy mince of lotus root inside.
A special of crab miso soup looked divine but the crab required too much hard work without enough of a payoff.
A crab mayo whitefish roll with avocado seemed promising but it was rather dry and fell apart. It was incongruously paired with tomato sauce.
I have often mentioned how little I care for rice. What I do love are potatoes, and Bozu's tangy potato salad.
What's better than french fries? Fries sprinkled with garlic and housemade anchovy sauce. Not everyone will appreciate the fishiness, but I do. I wish someone here would make fish paste fried chicken the way it's done in Singapore. Yummers!
For others who don't care for rice, Bozu has a cucumber wrap, riceless "sushi" with a center of ahi, yellowtail, salmon, whitefish, cab and avocado. I loved the combination with crunch, but didn't photograph it. This is the house Bozu Roll with rice, and all of the above plus shrimp.
Chef/owner Hoshi Katsu at work, plating the masterpiece below. Sorry, I don't know what it was. A lot of things were going out to other tables after I ordered, on every occasion. Which is what I mean about wanting more every time you see a dish go by.
Can anybody ever go wrong with hamachi kama?
A dish of fried chicken and eggplant is Bozu's nod to Chinese cuisine. The sauce was rather heavy and I liked the dish's crunchy zucchini best. It was unscathed by the sauce.
Someone once told me they missed aku poke. So I decided to see what I was missing and try the aku tataki. Now I know why ahi is the fish of choice. The texture is better.
Mirugai kushiyaki was one of about 20 daily seafood specials. This was $5.75 per skewer.
Tea Drops provide a convenient, portable way for tea lovers to enjoy a their favorite beverage whereever they go. In the cup is a tumeric tea drop. They come in a variety of shapes and flavors.
I love tea, but I'm also lazy, and that's a problem. Because, good tea requires a lot of implements, whether it's a bamboo whisk for your matcha powder or infuser for leaf teas. Then there's cleanup. There are a lot of times I'll pass in favor of an easy sugar-saturated juice instead.
Sashee Chandran also found it difficult to enjoy a fresh pot of tea while working in an office. But, unlike me, she was determined to do something about it, because tea is in her blood. She grew up steeped in tea culture east and west. Her mother is Chinese, and her father is Sri Lankan, raised in the British tea tradition.
"I realized how difficult it is for people to make tea, but there are a lot of people who would drink tea if the process could be simplified, so I spent 2-1/2 years experimenting in my kitchen," said Chandran, who was in town to share her creation at the Hawaii Lodging, Hospitality & Food Service Expo that took place July 13 and 14 at the Blaisdell Center.
Sashee Chandran spent two-and-a-half years perfecting her recipes in her kitchen.
I have to say I was confused when someone gave me a couple of drops with no instructions. I placed it in my cup, expecting it to dissolve into loose leaves. When it just disappeared, I was like, "What is this?" It all came clear when I was able to sit down with Chandran—how else?—Over cups of tea.
Although tea fanatics in Hawaii prefer their teas sugar-free, Chandran said she loves chai and the British tradition of adding milk to any tea, so her first impulse was to recreate that combination of sweetened milk tea spiced with cardamom, cinnamon and cloves.
"I'm the last person who should have been experimenting in the kitchen. I have no chemistry background, no food service background, but I did know how to make a good cup of tea because I've been drinking it all my life. The hardest part was finding the right proportion of tea vs. spices and organic cane sugar to make it balanced."
Tea Drops come in paper or reusable and gift ready wood boxes. When done, the boxes can be upcycled in myriad ways, including finding a second life as a desktop or windowsill planter for your cacti garden.
She made the first batches just for herself, which she dropped into cups of hot water while working at eBay. Co-workers who witnessed it started asking, "What's that?" Pretty soon, they wanted them for themselves and Chandran was in business. With her background in ecommerce, she launched an online shop and within a couple of months was able to leave her full-time job.
Tea has now become part of her philosophy toward promoting a happy, healthy and sustainable lifestyle. Tea Drops all-in-one recipes eliminate the need for teabags and sweetener packets. The boxes are 100 percent biodegradable and compostable. Paulownia wood boxes can be repurposed for storage or used as planters.
She has also been experimenting with adding tea drops to cookies, soups, and making tea-infused soaps.
"I feel like this is the right time for it. People are into organic, they're into tumeric and matcha. There's something for everyone. Each tea has its own medicinal properties."
Turmeric, for example, has been used for centuries to treat wounds and infections. Modern science has shown that its main ingredient, curcumin, has antibiotic and antioxidant properties. According to WebMD, other chemicals in turmeric are anti-inflammatory, considered beneficial for overall health.
Her teas are now available in 200 small boutiques across the nation, including Nic's Island Cafe in Kukui Plaza. They are offered in single-flavor boxes at $16.50 for 10 drops, or a giftable wood box that can be customized with eight drops, for $18. It has been a popular seller during holidays, for both individuals and corporate gift givers looking for something new that also happens to be thoughtful, healthful, time-saving and beautiful.
Look for Tea Drops at Nic's Island Cafe at 50 S. Beretania St. Call 200-7416. Or visit myteadrop.com.
Ground tea leaves are compressed into different shapes, in just the right amount to create an 8-ounce cup of tea when water is added. The heart shape represents Sweet Peppermint.
Macarons have arrived at Pierre Marcolini Haute Chocolaterie at Ala Moana Center.
If you have not yet experienced Pierre Marcolini Haute Chocolaterie on the third floor of Ala Moana Center's Ewa Wing, now is a good time. In addition to the chocolatier's fine Belgium chocolates, the boutique has welcomed some delicious new arrivals.
Although chocolate is at the heart of the company's business, after tasting their macarons, it's hard to go back to any other. These shimmer in beautiful pastels, some with a mica-like shine, and come in 10 intense flavors ranging from dark chocolate to salted butter caramel to rose water buttercream.
The meringue shells are so delicate, it feels like a bite of air. The cost is $3.80 per piece, $17 for a box of four, and $32 for a box of eight.
Marcolini's signature Les Coeurs (hearts) are now available in six flavors—passionfruit, lime, matcha, nougat, pistachio and salted buttter caramel—beyond his signature framboise, or raspberry, flavor. A four-piece boxed assortment is $17, the eight-piece box is $28.
Pierre Marcolini's beautiful chocolate les couers, or hearts, now come in signature framboise, or raspberry, flavor, plus passionfruit, lime, matcha, pistachio, nougat and salted butter-caramel flavors.
Macarons in rosewater, dark chocolate, dark chocolate caramel, lemon tea, cassis, coffee, vanilla, pistachio, and salted butter caramel.
Natural almond and butter, chocolate chip and raspberry Financiers are also new, sold in a six-piece box for $27.
A macaron tree in the store's window on the third floor of the center, outside Bloomingdale's.
Wagyu striploin, pictured, and ribeye are among the best offerings at Wagyu Plaza, at a cost of $35/$20 for ribeye, and $32/$19 for striploin. This is the $19 portion. You can guestimate the size by the size of the lemon round and pat of butter. (It's smaller than you'd imagine from the photo.) I asked for medium rare but got well done because it continues to cook on the sizzling platter. It doesn't help much if you order rare. A friend ordered that on another occasion and it turned out well-done.
The idea of $45 steak in a food court setting was so audacious, it had to be good, real good to appeal to people more accustomed to paying closer to $10 or max $15 to eat in such an environment.
So, I had some hope that Vintage Cave's Wagyu Plaza and Seafood Plaza at the new Shirokiya Japan Village Walk would be able to bring some of the mystique and extravagance of the original, exclusive Vintage Cave restaurant to this high-concept food court.
Unfortunately, it doesn't. The only thing high-end about the plazas are their prices, starting at about $19 and running up to $45 in the center of a mass feeding frenzy.
Ugh, for what amounts to about $50 to $100 for two, there are a lot more pleasant places I would rather be, with a lot better food.
Food is one thing; untrained staff and lack of customer service is another. They did not consider that people might not finish and want a to-go container. They did not consider people might not be willing to hunt down drinks then bring them back to be rung up, and many other basics better executed by other outlets offering $8 food service.
My full review is in this week's Crave section. This is just a brief sampling.
Shirokiya Japan Village Walk Wagyu and Seafood Plazas are open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
Wagyu katsu is $19 for 100 grams or 3-1/2 ounces, $32 for 200 grams). Even considering the smaller portion, it doesn't look as delicious as in the menu photo below, and is a big meh, not nearly as marbled and juicy as wagyu at other restaurants in town.
Wafu burger was plain and undistinctive.
I was satisfied with a $22 tempura bowl with white rice (there's no other starch option). For the price, it included one piece of shrimp, white fish, a mixed fritter of scallops and chopped shrimp, and eel with the muddy taste of lake fish and catfish.
The saffron rice in a dish of paella from Seafood Plaza was delicious, but the shrimp was bland. Mussels and clams were decent. The dish did draw a lot of stares and comments of , "That looks so good," while I was eating. That's how close everyone passes by while you're dining.
Berkley Spivey, left, and Eddie Lopez, were in the kitchen at Avenue's Bar + Eatery for a one-night only Chef's Pop-up.
The restaurant pop-up invigorated the food scene beginning around five years ago, but as some of the more successful young chefpreneurs have moved into permanent spaces, it's been a little quiet on the pop-up scene.
So Avenue's Bar + Eatery shook things up a bit with the reunion of its executive chef Robert Paik, and his fellow Vintage Cave teammates and alum, Berkley Spivey and pastry chef Eddie Lopez.
Now in between gigs while waiting for Senia to open, pastry chef Eddie Lopez shared some of the beautiful tarts he's been baking on the side, during a preview event.
Lopez said it takes him only 15 minutes to layer the apples in his caramel apple tart, down from one hour when he started making them. He sells them through social media.
Now in between gigs, Spivey and Lopez said they missed the liveliness and "what will they do next?" excitement that marked the pop-up scene, and wanted to bring back some of that energy.
They were right about bringing the excitement because there were 200 on the wait list for their July 11 Chef's Pop-up event, hoping for a last-minute cancellation.
Spivey and Lopez presented four courses featuring ingredients and recipes that showcase their skill as chefs as well as a bit of personal inspiration, based on their roots.
Spivey grew up in the South, while Lopez grew up in Chicago, mindful of his Mexican heritage, and for guests, it was a treat to discover Lopez's work beyond pastry, as he presented a complex 32-ingredient mole served with grilled tako.
Snacks included zucchini sable and delicious smoked celery root macaron.
The first course was Spivey's Maui Cattle Co. cured beef ribeye carpaccio with buttery squid ink crumbled brioche, micro greens, horseradish, lime and mustard seeds.
Then Lopez presented octopus with burnt onion, black mole and cilantro like a work of abstract art. I could eat a tub of that mole!
Spivey's second dish was pork with variations of cabbage, including cabbage sauce, with white beans and brown butter.
Lopez's dessert comprised butter popcorn ice cream with dehydrated chocolate mousse and peanuts.
The presentation ended with mignardises of a pineapple gummy and strawberry-thyme shortbread cookie. I loved the combination of fruit and herb.


The British tend to use paed- while those in the United States tend to use ped-. Remember that the Greek ped- means "child" while the Latin ped- means "foot". Don't confuse this Greek element with another Greek pedo- which means "ground, soil, earth".
1. The branch of medicine concerned with the nature and correction of disorders of the bones, joints, ligaments, or muscles.
2. One who cures deformities; an orthopedic surgeon.
Originally from Greek paideia, "child rearing"; applied specifically to childhood bone disorders.
The curing or correcting of deformities in children, or in persons generally, as with orthopedic surgery.
Pertaining to the whole circle of science.
The character, spirit, or mannerof a teacher; the system of teaching.
Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.
1. Originally, a man having the oversight of a child or youth; an attendant (or slave) who led a boy to school; now obsolete, once used exclusively in reference to ancient times.
2. A teacher of children.
3. Someone whose occupation is the instruction of children or youths; a schoolmaster, teacher.
Being a pedagogue was and still should be considered an honorable profession!
A pedagogue is now defined as a "schoolteacher, an educator". Originally, it came from Latin paedagogus, a slave who supervised a boy, or boys, including some degree of education. Girls were not a part of the educational system in classical times.
Apparently, the girls were "home-taught" by their mothers or female slaves to be prepared for restricted careers as wives and not for intellectual pursuits as in our modern times.
In wealthier Grecian families, there was at least one slave; especially, selected for learning, whose duty it was to take care of the sons of the family during boyhood. One of these duties was to accompany his assigned boys, when they went on the public roads, to and from the gymnasium, or to other places.
Due to the nature of his duties, such a slave was known, in Greek, as a paidagogos; literally, a "leader of boys", from pais, "boy", and agogos, "leader".
Sometimes the pedagog was himself a man of high learning, unfortunate enough to have been captured in warfare and subsequently sold as a slave; especially, after the Romans defeated the Greeks. In some instances, he also served as a tutor to the boys of the family.
It should be kept in mind that in its original sense, pedagogue did not mean a teacher, but described as the servant who led the well-to-do Greek boy to the gymnasium (school) and then later the "better educated" and captured Greek slave was responsible for the wealthy Roman boys.
Despite the current pejorative senses that have been attached mostly by Americans to pedagogue, pedant, pedantic, and pedantry; such derogatory applications still have not included pedagogik, "of the art of teaching".
Despite the pejorative meaning now applied to pedophilia, etymologically, it has had a moral and fully acceptable and positive reference to anyone who loved and cared for children; such as, parents, grandparents, teachers, etc.
The more appropriate term for child molesters is paraphilia which is used in psychiatry to mean "sexual deviation" and "sexual perversion"; two major groups of sexual disorders.
The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder.
A school mistress or female teacher.
1. The function, profession, or practice of a school instructor; the work or occupation of teaching; the art or science of teaching.
2. Instruction, discipline, training; a means or system of introductory training in teaching methods.
Too often, education is the period during which some are being instructed by those they do not know, about something they do not want to know.
1. Formerly, a schoolmaster; a tutor.
2. One who makes a display of learning, especially with books; also, an erudite person who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the use or presentation of his knowledge; a formalist or precisionist in teaching or scholarship.
3. Someone who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning.
4. A person who over emphasizes rules or minor details and who adheres rigidly to book knowledge without regard to common sense.
A woman who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning.
1. Characteristic of someone who is excessively concerned with minor and trivial details and rules; especially, when displaying academic learning: When anyone asks Frank's professor a question about the sources of words, the student usually gets pedantic responses that include meanings and the origins of the vocabulary expressions.
2. Etymology: from Middle French pedant, pedante, from Italian pedante "a teacher, a schoolmaster", of uncertain origin, traced by some sources to Latin paedagogans, present participle of paedagogare, "to teach", from Greek paedagogein, "to instruct children". © ALL rights are reserved.
A condition of being too concerned with what are thought to be the correct rules and details of something; such as, with language or the meanings of words.
An excessive concern with minor details and rules or the display of academic learning.
The government that requires full details when administering issues in the laws that have been passed.
Someone in government who is too concerned with unimportant details or the rules of procedural correctness at the expense of people's needs.
1. An ostentatious or inappropriate display of learning that indicates someone who parades his or her academic knowledge: Pedantry is often expressed by a teacher or scholar and involves a presentation of success that is designed to impress people.
2. Etymology: from Middle French pedante, from Italian pedante, "a teacher, a schoolmaster", of uncertain origin, traced by some sources to Latin paedagogans, present participle of paedagogare, "to teach"; from Greek paedagogein "to instruct children."
Pedantry started out as a derivative of pedant, a noun that started out meaning "teacher" but then it indicated "someone who tends to brag about his or her scholarly achievements."
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The Journey of a Lifetime
By Jill Duff-Hoppes
On the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the Seminole High School Band traveled to Normandy to remember and celebrate those who risked everything to save the world Jake Burkhart's great-grandfather was among the thousands of valiant American soldiers who stormed Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, on D-Day. The young Army soldier, Daniel Wojciek, earned a Purple Heart for leg and back injuries he sustained in the battles that followed, but he survived the carnage of World War II and made it back home.
On the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the Seminole High School Band traveled to Normandy to remember and celebrate those who risked everything to save the world
Jake Burkhart's great-grandfather was among the thousands of valiant American soldiers who stormed Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, on D-Day. The young Army soldier, Daniel Wojciek, earned a Purple Heart for leg and back injuries he sustained in the battles that followed, but he survived the carnage of World War II and made it back home.
This summer – to mark the 75th anniversary of the Normandy landings of June 6, 1944 – Jake had the humbling opportunity to walk on the same ground where his great-grandfather so bravely fought. He was one of nearly 100 Seminole High School marching band students who traveled to France in June to perform at the 75th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day invasion.
"It was pretty emotional really, seeing how big the beach is and just trying to imagine the experiences that everyone had there," says Jake, a junior and a trombone player.
Seminole High's band, The Pride of the Tribe, was invited to perform in France by Historic Programs, a nonprofit organization that produces events to commemorate historically significant moments around the world. Cheyne LaBonte and P.L. Malcolm, the school's associate band directors, couldn't turn down an invitation to play at an event of this magnitude.
"D-Day was such a big, historic event, a turning point of the 20th century," says Cheyne, a Seminole High graduate and Pride of the Tribe alumnus. "A different outcome could have meant very different lives for everybody."
Planning for the band's week-long excursion to France began in the fall of 2017. The trip was open to any Seminole High student who was a band member during the 2018-19 school year. Of the band's 225 instrumentalists, Cheyne says, 97 kids opted to go.
Logistically, planning an overseas trip for that many students was a huge undertaking. Fortunately, Seminole High's Band Parent Association pitched in, helping out as organizers at home and chaperones abroad.
"We had superstar parents who pulled us through the mud on this thing and kept up with all the deadlines," Cheyne says. "They were boots on the ground."
The students' time in France was filled with concert performances, a parade, and plenty of sightseeing in Paris. The Pride of the Tribe, along with several other musical groups, performed at American military cemeteries in Normandy and Brittany. The reverent tributes included speeches by United States veterans who gave moving firsthand accounts of their World War II experiences.
The ceremony's musical highlight was the beautiful "Hymn to the Fallen," composed by John Williams for the award-winning movie, Saving Private Ryan.
Students also visited Omaha Beach, D-Day's bloodiest battleground, which the Normandy American Cemetery overlooks. Listening to the soldiers' remarks and walking along the beach made a strong impression on Sebastian Clark, a sophomore and a trumpet player.
"Seeing movies like Saving Private Ryan, and then hearing veterans describe things exactly like that, and seeing the location where it happened was crazy," he says.
At Omaha Beach, Sebastian collected a small vial of sand as a souvenir for someone special – his great-grandfather, Albert Clark. Now in his 90s, Albert desperately wanted to serve his country during World War II, but a medical condition prevented him from doing so.
To add another layer to the epic trip, P.L. and Cheyne gave each band student the name of a Florida soldier who was killed in action on D-Day or in the battles immediately after. The kids also received directions to their soldier's burial plot at the Normandy cemetery so they could find the grave marker. Row after seemingly endless row of white headstones dotted the landscape. Some of the students were quiet and contemplative; others were moved to tears.
"Seeing emotional students walking out of those cemeteries made me emotional," Cheyne says. "I think the kids came back from this trip different than when they left."
Later in the journey, the mood lightened considerably when the students participated in a D-Day memorial parade in Sainte-Mere-Eglise, France, the first village in Normandy to be liberated by American paratroopers. The Pride of the Tribe also played a solo concert in the town, entertaining the audience with music they perform at home, including the school alma mater and fight songs.
"The first couple of days at the cemeteries were very solemn," says P.L., a history buff who strongly believes in the importance of learning from the past. "But the parade was a celebration – a D-Day festival. It was just so exciting and fun."
French locals turned out in droves to cheer on the Seminole High students and other parade participants. The band's rendition of "The Colonel Bogey March," with its infectious whistling segments, was a big hit with the crowd.
"The streets in that town were just packed," Cheyne says. "The people were hanging out the windows, blowing kisses to our kids, waving, and clapping along to our music. They were totally into it."
Toward the end of their trip, the students toured major landmarks in Paris including the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre Museum. They also cruised along the picturesque Seine River on their final night in France.
Brianna Tremblay, a junior who plays the clarinet, had never traveled outside the United States before and enjoyed immersing herself in another country's culture. Her mother, Suzanne, came along as a parent chaperone.
"I really liked the environment – It was a nice experience," Brianna says. "It was so cool to be able to see sculptures and paintings like the Venus de Milo and the Mona Lisa at the Louvre. And at the Eiffel Tower, you could see the entire city of Paris from the second floor."
For Jake, the best part of the journey was establishing a stronger personal connection to the past and to his family's history. Jake's great-grandfather lived a long life, well into his 80s, and was buried with full military honors including a 21-gun salute.
When Jake packed his bags for France, he brought along a sentimental treasure – the American flag that his family received at Daniel's funeral. At Omaha Beach, Jake took a moment to pose for a special photo, holding his great-grandfather's folded flag in his arms.
"It was really a once-in-a-lifetime experience to go there and think about the past events that happened," Jake says.
The trip to France wasn't the band's first major excursion outside the continental United States. Over the past decade, SHS band students have performed in London, Japan, and Hawaii – the latter to commemorate the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
"Travel is very important, just to broaden the students' perspectives," Cheyne says. "Too often, we can get complacent with our lives here and not think outside our bubble."
And, P.L. adds, personal experiences – such as hearing humble veterans talk about World War II and the ones who didn't make it home – are so much more meaningful than watching a movie or reading a book about the subject.
"That's something these kids will never forget," P.L. says.
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