text:
St Gerard's AC's Patience blazes her way through National Championships
St Gerard's AC were represented by Patience Jumbo Gula, Kate O'Connor and Gina Akpe Moses at the Woodie's DIY Juvenile Track and Field Championships last weekend.
All three girls performed brilliantly over the weekend and gave their supporters plenty to cheer about in the process.
Kate and Gina were well versed in competing at this level in the past but for relative newcomer Patience it was her first venture at national level which made her achievements all the more remarkable.
She was first up in the U12 shot putt where she performed admirably to take a valiant 4th place, throwing the same distance as the 3rd place finisher just missing out on a medal by virtue of her 2nd highest throw.
Next up was the 60m where she qualified for the final winning her heat. In the final she ran an absolute stormer just failing to catch the winner by two one hundredths of a second for a marvellous silver medal.
Lastly Patience took part in the long jump where the efforts of the weekend began to show and she failed to reproduce her best despite giving her all. This was a great performance for such an inexperienced athlete and augurs well for the future for this very promising young lady.
Gina Akpe Moses made the final of the girls U14 80m with the minimum of fuss winning her heat in a canter. In the final she was once again at her devastatingly brilliant best by storming to victory to add to her long list of achievements at the highest level.
If Gina can continue to improve as she progresses through her career an international call up surely cannot be far away.
Last up was Kate O'Connor in the girls U13 javelin and long jump. Both events were fiercely competitive affairs with little separating the top contenders.
In the javelin Kate led the competition until the penultimate round where Maedbh Daly of Carraig na Bhfear took the lead pushing Kate into 2nd. With two throws left she launched a massive effort only for it to land outside the zone and thus deemed a foul.
But a champion needs character and this girl has that all important ingredient in abundance. With her last throw Kate once again gave her all and regained the lead to land a fantastic gold medal with a throw of 27.07m.
In the long jump she gave another great performance to finish 6th place just 4cm off a medal position having gone into the final round of jumps in 3rd.
Once again the athletes of St Gerard's AC performed with great credit on the national stage and can be rightfully delighted with their efforts which has made the club, their families and friends tremendously proud.
St Gerard's are currently on a summer break from training until August 7.


training videos, and handouts covering everything from account creation through submission. October 9, registration deadline for November 7 SAT SAT Subject Tests. The MBA degree is widely regarded as a ticket to upward professional mobility, and higher earning capacity. The reality is that scholarships can help. Share an essay on any topic of your choice. August 7, registration deadline for September 12 ACT. However, even with the promise of a pot of gold at the end of the business school rainbow, tuition college essay writers these days is steep. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. . If this sounds like you, then please share your story. September 3, registration deadline for October 3 SAT SAT Subject Tests.


The secretary has taken leave following allegations that he had received a bribe from Bosasa.
The secretary of the commission of inquiry into state capture, Dr Khotso De Wee, has taken special leave as the commission investigates allegations that he was paid by Bosasa.
This follows testimony by former Bosasa chief operating officer (COO) Angelo Agrizzi on Friday, where he said he had been told that De Wee was one of the senior officials at the department of justice and constitutional development who was paid bribes by the company in regard to a 2013 tender for the establishment of security system in various courts across the country.
In the statement, Zondo said after he notified De Wee of the allegations, the commission's secretary denied receiving any payment from Bosasa or any persons from the company.
Zondo said the commission was now investigating these allegations and that, in light of the seriousness of these allegations, De Wee had offered to go on special leave pending the outcome of the investigation.
Black First Land First had been staging a sit-in protest at the commission venue demanding the secretary's suspension.
Earlier, Agrizzi implicated the ANC directly in receiving money from the controversial company for the first time at the commission of inquiry into state capture on Friday.
The money allegedly funded ANC campaigning.
He claimed the company had to launder money from youth centres to give to the ANC and that the North West government paid money to Bosasa for effectively nothing.
He testified that a transaction took place in North West worth about R3.4 million and the amount paid to a presumed ANC MEC was R1.8 million.
Agrizzi was not able to name the MEC.
Period in question according #Agrizzi was when Thandi Modise was Premier.


Aspiring National Organizer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Yaw Boateng Gyan has called for an overhaul of the entire executives of the Ghana Football Association.
The President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) Kwesi Nyantakyi is under investigations by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of Ghana Police Service after he was implicated in the latest exposé by investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
He was reportedly caught on the investigative video having a shady transaction with some businessmen, using the name of the President and the Vice President of the Republic.
Commenting on the Anas' exposé on the corruption in Ghana's football, Yaw Boateng Gyan noted that Kwesi Nyantakyi shouldn't be singled out because the entire management of the Football Association needs to be dissolved.
He told host Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM's Kokrokoo that there should be new leadership for the Association, saying government "shouldn't only single out Kwesi Nyantakyi. They (entire executives) are all part of it. So, they should all go".


Pre-Check Your Teachers Before It's Too Late.
Home/Blog, Uncategorized/Pre-Check Your Teachers Before It's Too Late.
When hiring someone to take care of your children, wouldn't you exercise utmost caution to ensure that person is who he or she says he is? Now, take that scenario and apply it to pre-screening teachers at school. With the quantity of time teachers spend with their students, you want to be extra sure those educators are who they say they are. The way to confirm that is through a teacher background check.
The best verification process is a Social Security Number scan. These results produce a person's full name and age, as well as all past residences. Unfortunately, 57% of the time discrepancies arise between what the teacher writes on his or her application and what official records say. While not all discrepancies indicate unlawful behavior, 27% of criminal checks do come back with positive hits.
Several recent examples in schools across the country have demonstrated the need for thorough educator background checks. A rash of sexual assaults sprang up in one high school in Plum, Pennsylvania this April. Three teachers were arrested, two for having sexual relations with students, and the other for revealing the identity of one of the victims in class.
A similar event occurred in Minnesota at Mendota Heights high school. Two teachers were charged with criminal sexual conduct and were being investigated. Unfortunately, the investigations in this case started after the crimes were committed, rather than before.
At FORLETTA, we are dedicated to the safety of your friends and family in the Pittsburgh and Cleveland areas. We have seen how crucial it is to perform thorough background checks on teachers who work in your schools with your children, so please don't hesitate to call now. If you are a parent in Pittsburgh or Cleveland, suggest that your school's administration utilize FORLETTA's services for screening new teachers, and if you are an educator, make sure your team is the best it can be with our pre-employment background check. If you want more details before calling us, take a look at our Education Investigation page.


A standout member of the Golden Griffins Division I basketball team for three years, Masiello earned a spot in the Canisius Sports Hall of Fame. He received a Distinguished Alumni Award in 2012. Masiello currently serves as a member of the college's Board of Trustees. He commemorates his 50-year class reunion in May 2019.
Sponsorship information and tickets for the Regents Ball can be obtained by contacting Sandy Miller, director of corporate and foundation relations at (716) 888-8222, mille267@canisius.edu or at www.canisius.edu/give-canisius/regents-ball.


V Star | Kijiji in Saint John. - Buy, Sell & Save with Canada's #1 Local Classifieds.
Get an alert with the newest ads for "v star" in Saint John.
We just put over 250 different Funko Pop! on sale now for less than $9 each @ www.collectorbuddy.com With 10,000s of Funko Pop! in stock and on hand take advantage of our flat rate $10 S&H. We charge a $10.00 flat shipping & handling for an unlimited number of items that will be shipped with Canada Post Expedited.
VULCAN BRAND NEW 40 LB GAS OR PROPANE DEEP FRYERS - WOW PRICING!!!!!!!


text:
Rediscovering Russian America
W.P. Norton
The new intercontinental class of "Global Russians" and TV's sexy "Russian Dolls" are the faces of a culture on the rise across America. But to some who speak it here, keeping Russian alive matters more than any clash of cultures, writes W.P. Norton.
Russian America has a population of 3.13 million people who call themselves Russian by reason of birth, background or ethnicity — just over one percent of the U.S. population of 304 million people, according to the latest available Census Bureau figures. Russian and English are spoken at home by 851,174 people over the age of four. That's 391 percent more than in 1980, when 173,226 people told the Census they spoke both languages at home.
Russian America is mostly bi-coastally clustered around the Atlantic and Pacific oceans: 36 percent reside in the Northeast region where stands the symbolic cultural capital of Brighton Beach, says the Census; some 26 percent are settled in the West, 21 percent favor the sunny South, and 17 percent call the Midwest heartland home.
Speaking of real estate, big-spending Russians are bringing back the heat to a bear-market that hasn't seen this much action since the Czar sold most of the territory formerly known as "Russian America" to the United States in 1867. (We called it the "Alaska Purchase" at the time.)
The onion-domed Orthodox church and other rebuilt structures of the old Russian Empire's southernmost American settlement at Fort Ross, Calif., were the beneficiaries of $1 million in preservation funds pledged by Viktor Vekselberg in 2010. That same year, Brooklyn's endangered Atlantic Yards redevelopment — New York's biggest since Ground Zero — was brought back from the brink by a $200 million investment from Mikhail Prokhorov. The deal gave Prokhorov an 80 percent ownership stake in the New Jersey Nets basketball team and 45 percent of the arena being built for it in Brooklyn. So in a sense, Russian America also has its own piece of the NBA.
Forget the New Russians. The numbers paint a picture of a demographic the likes of which we've never seen before. Call them the "Global Russians."
The term itself was originally coined to describe the affluent, intercontinental target audience of Snob magazine, a hardcopy-slash-Internet-enabled journal created in 2008. Snob, a media platform with offices in Moscow, London and New York City, was created for Prokhorov by such top-flight Russian editorial talent as Vladimir Yakovlev and Masha Gessen.
Interestingly, Russians themselves disagree heatedly when it comes to defining the concept. Gessen has described a Global Russian as one who "aggressively adopts traits of other cultures without betraying his own — cooking like a Frenchman, entertaining like an American, and forming friendships like a Russian." It can be helpful, however, to consider the demographic in terms of its opposite. And for that, a 2011 reality television series called Russian Dolls fits the bill.
"Russian Dolls" offers a weekly half-hour close-up on the exceedingly dramatic loves, lives, families and frenemies of eight Russian-speaking, foreign-born women of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.
The show's summer-2011 debut on basic-cable's Lifetime Network was nothing short of a pop-culture birth announcement: Russian America has arrived. It quickly drew fire from local officials who called for its cancellation on the grounds that it gave Brighton Beach a bad name. One question becomes obvious: at this time of the rise of the affluent, cultured Global Russian, how ironic is it that a high-drama, lowbrow reality show is giving more weekly airtime to Russian Americans than anything else on basic cable?
Delivering the cultural critique is Russian-born author Michael Idov, who's been based in the U.S. since 1998 and writes in his non-native English with a subtle intelligence that make him a fine guide to the anthropology of "Russian Dolls."
"I found it profoundly sad," says Idov, contributing editor at New York Magazine, author of the novel Ground Up and editor of Made In Russia: Unsung Icons of Soviet Design. "It's a total failure on every level — it doesn't even work as camp."
Quite the opposite view is held by Vas Sloutchevsky, a New York multimedia designer who left Moscow for the States in 1992. Sloutchevsky sees "Russian Dolls" as doing no harm to the image of Russian Americans in Brighton Beach or anywhere else.
If anything, he says, the show "confirms the image": "It's partially true. It's not just something that was made up by a show producer who operates with exaggerated stereotypes. Whatever is in the show — the passions, the people, the way they talk, the way they think — it's really part of the Russian experience in this country."
Their tastes in reality TV are not the only thing that divide Sloutchevsky and Idov.
Just last year, Idov wrote about the Global Russian phenomenon in a New York Magazine article entitled "Klub Prokhorov", a reference to Muscovite billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, who indirectly kick-started the concept when he financed Snob, for whom Idov also used to write. (The name isn't what you think; rather, it's an acronym derived from the Russian words for accomplished, independent, educated and thriving: sostoyavshiisya, nezavisimyi, obrazovannyi, blagopoluchnyi.)
It was at Idov's behest that Sloutchevsky and two-dozen other New York Russians sat for a photo to illustrate "Klub Prokhorov." It almost seems like the photograph was manufactured to confirm Idov's point of view: "That photo gives a false impression that we are a tight-knit community," Sloutchevsky says. "But in fact, Russians in New York are a dispersed and eclectic collection of people with their language being the only thing in common."
Sloutchevsky recalls that when he sat for the New York Magazine photo shoot, he was only acquainted with four of the 25 who were there: film producer Darya Zhuk, film editor Dima Rozin, artist Alina Bliumis, and artist and filmmaker Alexandra Lerman. (The rest, in the order they were listed: singer and writer Alina Simone; editorial assistant Mark Krotov; reporter Irina Aleksander; photographer Jenia Fridlyand; novelist Gary Shteyngart; novelist Anya Ulinich; professor Alexander Nazaryan; artist Veronika Georgieva; educator Olga Breydo; software developer Stepan Pachikov; educator Maria Genkin; gallery owner Oksana Salamatina; novelist Lara Vapnyar; Prof. Nina Khrushcheva; Snob staffer Bela Shayevich; educator Marina Flindell Levin; Russian-art expert Sonya Bekkerman; Snob staffers Tusha Yakovleva and Anna Komar; and educator Marina Kvitko Cherner.)
"I believe that there are enough Russian ex-pats with education and money to blend in and adapt to any given society," says Sloutchevsky. "They're well-travelled and in-tune with cultural trends, but that alone does not necessarily make them Global Russians." Then what does?
More than a year after the infamous photo shoot, Sloutchevsky insists he admires Idov's achievements and agrees with most of his writings. Idov himself has left Snob. Ironically, since the separation, he also appears to have distanced himself from his New York Magazine manifesto on the phenomenon.
"To be honest, I don't quite buy the 'global Russians' tag as defined by Snob et al," Idov says. "Right now, there exists a kind of international iPad-and-Moleskine set, centered around design, media and tech industries, whose members have much more in common with their counterparts in other cultures than with the rest of their own countrymen. But only a closed-off culture would require a 'global' tag to describe these people: a 'global Englishman,' for example, is nonsense. So the term is, alas, more of an accidental indictment of Russia."
One who might beg to differ is Stepan Pachikov, co-founder of Evernote Corporation and other software companies that have made strong contributions to the development of handwriting recognition and virtual-reality technologies. Pachikov makes two cameos in "Klub Prokhorov." Insiders know Pachikov as a stalwart of New York Snob's Global Russian club, which has made real achievements in just a years' time.
Another word or two of definition is called for. "Russian Dolls" is a reference to the famous lacquered nesting dolls Russians call matrioshki, which consist of a simplified human-shaped outer shell that can pulled apart at the midpoint to reveal a smaller doll, which in turn contains an even smaller one, and so on. One of my favorite matrioshki dolls had a pugnacious Boris Yeltsin on the outside, a smaller Mikhail Gorbachev inside, an ever-smaller succession of figures going back in time from Leonid Brezhnev to Nikita Khrushchev to Joseph Stalin and finally, a tiny, yet still-sinister Vladimir Lenin, mastermind of the Russian Revolution and original architect of the USSR. In a way, the eponymously titled reality series follows a somewhat similar design: the outer shell suggests one thing, but pop it open and you'll find another image suggesting a deeper message — maybe even a contradictory one.
The Svetlanas and Natashas of the show call themselves Russian, and knock back shots of vodka with the élan you expect from a Russian. But are they really Russian?
The shocking answer comes when Idov answers the questions emailed from Chicago, U.S.A., to him in Moscow, including this one: Do Russians in America talk much about the show?
"Yes," Idov answers, "actually, they do! They've been downloading it. To them, it's a double joke: look at the dumb Americans mistake these provincial Jews for us."
Idov continues his critique: "The interesting thing about the stereotype Russian Dolls tries to sell is that it's neither confirming nor replacing an older stereotype. It just creates one out of thin air, because even ten years ago, the 'Brighton Beach' identity (as opposed to both a zero-generation immigrant and a fully assimilated Russian-American) didn't even exist. To be frank, I'm not even sure the average American viewer of reality TV has a well-defined stereotype of a Russian. And I think these characters — who are, in look and style and values, indistinguishable from their Italian, Armenian, etc. counterparts — may only muddle the matter further."
In search of clarity on the topic of what is a real Russian, we return to Sloutchevsky for a second opinion. An alternative interpretation may be called for here, and Sloutchevsky is willing to supply it. Friends describe him as a "cool guy" who is nevertheless possessed of a certain wariness when it comes to unplanned encounters with his countrymen. At the same time, he would love to meet real Russians who are also nice people.
As it turns out, "Russian Dolls" very nearly offers something of the sort. "This is not something that I would watch on my own will, to be honest," he says. "But I found it funny and entertaining; there's something about it that's kind of captivating and sad at the same time."
In the final analysis, words alone do little justice in discerning the multiple messages of "Russian Dolls" — or of Global Russians, for that matter. That's probably why Idov, in New York Magazine's "Klub Prokhorov," falls back on a description of two photographs when summing up the ramifications of the Global Russian to sum up his thoughts on the demographic and its billionaire godfather.
"The only other Russian I can think of who has managed to slip into the city's cast of notable characters as effortlessly is Mikhail Baryshnikov," Idov writes. He goes on to describe a 2010 snapshot taken of a "breakfast photo op with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Jay-Z: a perfectly orchestrated tableau of New York relevance." He then juxtaposes his description of the breakfast photo with another description of a photo from the seventies, in which Baryshnikov is "lolling on a Studio 54 couch, sandwiched between Steve Rubell and Mick Jagger."
"In most respects, Prokhorov and Baryshnikov couldn't be more different," Idov continues. "But seeing the two Russians flanked by such iconic New York figures had the same effect on me. [Both] pictures helped make me feel like I belong in New York, like my life, and those of my countrymen, is bigger somehow than it was back home."
The definition of a "true" Russian still inspires debate, especially among those fluent in the language of Pushkin. But there's no arguing the fact that the Russian language is a treasure beyond measure, and an inheritance that must be preserved, for not only Russia's children, but also the world's.
The Sloutchevsky household stands firmly in the mainstream of the growing Russian-American tradition that gives pride of place to both Russian and English. Some 851,174 people age five or older are reported to be leading fully bilingual lives in Russian-American households, according to the Census Bureau's 2008 American Community Survey, which reports on data from 2007, the most-recent information available on this topic. American Community Survey figures are based on samples obtained from households, institutional-living facilities, college dormitories and other group quarters. The survey counts both single and multiple ancestries, a term it defines as referring to "a person's ethnic origin or descent, roots, or heritage; or the place of birth of the person, the person's parents, or ancestors before their arrival in the United States."
Sloutchevsky proclaims his love of the English language. But he also speaks with deepest pride of what he calls "our duty, our obligation" to school his children well in Russian that it may be passed down through the centuries.
"My oldest son is 11. He speaks perfect Russian and English. He's absolutely bilingual and bicultural. My daughter is only three and she speaks only Russian at home. I guess we figure English is not going anywhere. She'll learn. It's more important to lay the foundations of the Russian language while she's young.
"The Russian language is great, and our children should inherit it. That's their inheritance. That's the only thing that really matters."
EDITORS NOTE: while this feature was being translated into Russian and prepared for publication, Lifetime aired the final five episodes of "Russian Dolls" on October 7, as a special marathon event due to low ratings. The show ended, not having realized the high hopes of its producers. 1 - 0 in favor of "global Russians", we say!

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Peer visitors for AJCU Mission Priority Examen will be on campus Jan. 22-24
Marquette is participating in the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities Mission Priority Examen process during the 2019-20 academic year. The Mission Priority Examen provides space and structure for each Jesuit college and university to undertake serious discussions about how they understand their school's authentic mission, establish goals for the future, and set forth new or renewed means of realizing those goals in the years to come.
The Steering Committee spent fall semester gathering feedback from faculty, staff, students, the Jesuit Community and the Board of Trustees on areas of strength and improvement related to living our Catholic, Jesuit mission. More than 560 people completed a survey to gather feedback, and conversations were held with various groups across campus and the greater community, including:
University Leadership Council
Many college and academic departments
Jesuit Community
Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki
The Steering Committee used the input to develop a draft report, which was shared with a team of peer visitors who will be coming to campus Jan. 22-24 to meet with individuals and gather their own feedback. The visiting team will be meeting with around 50 people from across campus, including President Michael R. Lovell.
The peer visitor chair is Dr. Debra Mooney, vice president for mission at Xavier University. The other peer visitor committee members are: Molly Billings, senior director of human resources at Creighton University, Rev. George Drance, S.J., artist in residence at Fordham University and Dr. Alan Miciak, dean of the Boler College of Business at John Carroll University.
The Mission Priority Examen report is expected to be finalized in April 2020 and sent to AJCU leadership, and ultimately to Jesuit Superior General Father Arturo Sosa, S.J., in Rome, for his approval and affirmation. Visit the Mission Priority Examen website to learn more about the process.


Your Daily Herman Cain Update will come later. However, the memo went out onto the docks of Blogistan early this morning. Every saloon on the docks has to present immediately the commercial in which Herman seeks to sew up the always crucial Emphysemic White Guy vote. It's like they went around to all those huddled groups of smokers that you see outside of every building in Manhattan and found the least credible guy so that they could make him a spokesman.
No, wait. I'm wrong. Prior to getting knocked off his horse on the road to Damascus by the dazzling image of Herman Cain, old Mark there had been somewhat active in politics of the corporate crazoid species. Kindly Dr. Maddow had a long feature last night about how almost all of what little national campaign Cain has is attached in some way to the Koch Brothers (see below), and this guy and his incipient lung problems is Exhibit A, at least on YouTube and at least for this morning. Alas, the Politico fails to mention this in its dash to proclaim how buzzworthy this crock of beans is.


text:
import { moduleForComponent, test } from 'ember-qunit';
import hbs from 'htmlbars-inline-precompile';

moduleForComponent('foo-bar', 'Integration | Component | foo bar', {
  integration: true
});

test('it renders', function(assert) {
  this.render(hbs`{{foo-bar}}`);

  assert.equal(this.$('.foo').length, 1);
});

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


These knobs will fit only 2006 and later C5 models that have black Phillips factory collimation screws. All C5 models made prior to 2006 and all post-2006 models with silver factory collimation screws require C5 standard knobs. Check that the screw threads match the factory screw threads before installing.
Some telescope versions have a small plastic cover over the factory collimation screws. This cover must be removed and set aside when Bob's Knobs are installed. The cover is cosmetic only and will not affect operation of the scope.
C5met Fits: Celestron 5 inch (13 cm) f/10 SCT (C5, NexStar 5SE) with black Phillips factory collimation screws. These screws have metric threads.


text:
Pier Luigi Nervi - architect
Striking designs from football stadiums to churches
The brilliant structural engineer and architect Pier Luigi Nervi was born on this day in 1891 in Sondrio, an Alpine town in northern Lombardy at the heart of the Valtellina. Nervi made his mark with a number of strikingly original designs at home and abroad and was noted both for his innovative use of reinforced concrete and his multi-dimensional designs, which enabled him to create structures that were both strong and elegant. His major works in Italy include the Palazzo del Lavoro in Turin, the bell tower of the Chiesa del Sacro Cuore in Florence and the Papal Audience Hall at the Vatican City, as well as a number of important sports facilities. The Stadio Artemio Franchi (formerly the Stadio Communale) in Florence - home of the Fiorentina football club - was one of his first important projects and he designed several stadia for the Rome Olympics in 1960, including the Stadio Flaminio and the Palazzo dello Sport EUR. Around the world, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, the George Washington Bridge Bus Station in New York, the Stock Exchange Tower in Montreal, St Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco and the Italian Embassy in Brasilia are among Nervi's legacy. Read more…
Former pontiff made a saint by Pope Francis
Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini was elected as Pope Paul VI on this day in 1963 in Rome. He succeeded Pope John XXIII. Pope Paul had been born in Concesio near Brescia in 1897 and was ordained a priest in Brescia in 1920. He took a doctorate in Canon Law in Milan and afterwards studied at various universities, therefore never working as a parish priest. After the outbreak of the Second World War, he created an information office for prisoners of war and refugees, producing more than 11 million replies to enquiries about missing persons. He was attacked by Mussolini's government several times for allegedly meddling in politics. Pope Pius XII made him archbishop of Milan in 1954 and Pope John XXIII made him Cardinal Priest of SS Silvestro e Martino ai Monti in 1958. After Pope John XXIII died of stomach cancer in 1963, Cardinal Montini was elected as his successor on the sixth ballot. Pope Paul VI became the first pope to visit six continents, earning the nickname 'the Pilgrim Pope.' A man tried to attack him with a knife after he had arrived at Manila in the Philippines in 1970 but one of his aides managed to push the aggressor away. Read more…
Paolo Soleri - architect
Italian greatly influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright
The groundbreaking architect and ecologist Paolo Soleri was born on this day in 1919 in Turin. Soleri is largely remembered for the Arcosanti project, an experiment in urban design in the Arizona desert influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright that was like no other town on the planet, a unique fusion of architecture and ecology. Originally conceived as providing a completely self-sufficient urban living space for 5,000 people when it began in 1970, only about five per cent of the proposed development was ever completed. At its peak, Arcosanti's population barely exceeded 200 yet the buildings Soleri erected in accordance with his vision are still there, rising from the desert as an assortment of concrete blocks, domes and soaring vaults. In Italy, in 1954 he built an extraordinary factory for a producer of ceramics in Vietri sul Mare, of which the exterior interspersed conical shapes covered with multi-coloured ceramic tiles and inverted triangles of glass. Among many wonders of Campania's spectacular Amalfi coast, the Ceramica Artistica Solimene is a tourist attraction in its own right. Read more…
Labels: 21 June
Walter Audisio - partisan and politician
Gianluigi Aponte - shipping magnate
Vittorio Storaro - cinematographer
Valerio Evangelisti - novelist
Francesco Moser - Giro d'Italia winner
Saint Joseph of Copertino
Benedetto Alfieri – architect
Italo Balbo - Fascist commander
Pietro Paolini – artist


text:
People Lists
Write For Us and Get Paid
Taste of Cinema – Movie Reviews and Classic Movie Lists
Taste of Cinema - Movie Reviews and Classic Movie Lists > Lists > Film Lists > The 15 Best Documentaries of The 2000s
The 15 Best Documentaries of The 2000s
Posted on October 24, 2014 October 24, 2014 by Zac Petrillo
Due to consumer-priced digital video, a shrinking amount of grown up movies in multiplexes, increased global awareness, and a few films by a man named Michael Moore, the 2000s were a watershed moment for documentary film.
From the beginning of the decade to the end, production values were on the rise, as were the sheer number of people attempting to tell nonfiction stories. By 2009, documentaries were a mainstay in major theaters and the experimentation that has been infused into nonfiction films of the early 2010's was already taking shape.
The following list attempts to be a snapshot of the very best documentaries the decade had to offer. Surely, films such as Man on Wire, Murderball, Spellbound, and The Fog of War deserve a look and any of those could be swapped for any of these. However, you could do a lot worse than using these 15 as a starting point for diving into this crucial period for the nonfiction form.
15. Zoo (Robinson Devor, 2007)
Hybrid documentary is a bit of a dubious term. Generally meaning a combination of styles to tell a nonfiction story, it's at once limited and far too inclusive. That said, Robinson Devor's Zoo is one of the best early examples of the current incarnation of the "hybrid documentary."
Almost exclusively using re-enactments and voiceover, Zoo tells of the life and death of Kenneth Pinyan, a Seattle man who was killed after receiving anal sex from a horse. Devor has little interest in exploring the story from an objective journalist's perspective. Instead, he smartly analyses the psyche of Pinyan along with others in his ostracized community who engage in sex with animals. Brief news clippings, which are expectedly mocking as well as judgmental, provide context, while the voices of participants reveal their sides of the story.
Beautifully shot with an emphasis on atmosphere, Devor's camera often films from a deliberate distance with objects such as car bumpers and trees to obscure his view. This, matched with interview subjects whose voices and faces are purposefully anonymous, make for a voyeuristic gaze into a community operating on the fringes. Devor walks a careful line that never condones the behaviors of his subjects, while also never looking upon them with obvious judgment.
One scene, where a subject recounts giving up Pinyan's horse, edges towards sympathy, as do convictions that these animals are loved more than most kempt up in pens. Yet, Devor's model is to create a mood and provide a cinematic world. A subject that should have been too difficult to endure becomes an artistic portrait of an America that most would prefer to assume doesn't exist.
14. Ghosts of Cité Soleil (Asger Roth, 2006)
If you want a glimpse into what created the horrible situations inhabited by citizens of Haiti, Ghosts of Cité Soleil will not be the place to look. Unlike the multitudes of objective stories told about the nation from a distance, director Asger Roth and his cameraman Frederik Jacobi thrust themselves right into the center of the storm. Following two brothers, Billy and Haitian 2Pac – each leaders of the deadly secret Army of the President called Chiméres – the film is a verite image of love, tragedy, violence, and pride.
The Chiméres are essentially a street gang, whose power is derived not from respect so much as brute force. Provided with artillery from the government, young men and boys are left patrolling the streets with little idea what to do or why they are there. Gunfire is an hourly occurrence in a place where human life has little value. Yet, the filmmakers never turn their subjects into monsters, providing us instead with the same hopes and dreams that make any person tick.
Perhaps most fascinating about Ghosts of Cité Soleil, while also the most maddening, is Roth essentially lets the viewer know how this will all end. With no sustainable government and heavy ammunition in the hands of uneducated, un-lead, and extremely macho men, every character we follow will likely end up dead. In fact, one of the ones who become most sympathetic had already died by the time the film reached final cut. Yet, we root for these people.
Partially because mixed in with the suspense of battle are scenes of honesty and passion. Most notably moments between Haitian 2Pac and his girlfriend, Éleonore. At one point, the filmmakers get caught right in the center of gunshots. Unable to escape, they take cover behind concrete walls. Where most creators would protect themselves, the camera here instead roves around the building, capturing the violence as it unfolds. It's this kind of veracity that sets this small picture apart.
13. The Weather Underground (Sam Green & Bill Siegel, 2002)
The crime of organizations like the Weather Underground has a unique place in drama because depending on what side you are on, the criminals could quickly look like heroes or terrorists. Immediately one will have a prejudice, and conflict is born from how a story re-enforces or rethinks that assumption. At the very least, an understandable motive comes from approaching material of this kind.
The Weather Underground interviews students who made up the massive student-driven violent movement from the late 60s and early 70s, that used terrorist acts as scare tactics in order to protest a United states government that they felt was in a constant "state of war."
The major message explored throughout the film relates to achieving peace by way of minor acts of war and whether there's much of a difference between a military bombing innocent people overseas versus an organization doing it on our soil. The difference of course is that one act is governmentally ordered and thus its purpose must be for "good." But what if you do not agree with that purpose?
Most of the subjects in The Weather Underground are the former students who made up the group. Now aged by three decades and seemingly settled into normal lives, they speak with candor and relative remorselessness about what they were a part of. And that being "a part" seems to be what helped most perpetrators to reconcile with how this violent time in their lives was worth the effort. The subjects stood for something and most still do. Modestly made, with few stylistic flourishes,
The Weather Underground build its story out of firsthand accounts. The ultimate goal is to stay objective and considering the gray areas related to everything – from environmental terrorism to 99% protectors to the Arab Spring – that has come since, the film plays like a rallying cry that citizens can make change in large groups, even if sometimes that change comes at a major price.
12. Manda Bala (Jason Kohn, 2007)
Only about half of Manda Bala will make any sense to the average viewer. Like any narrative that unravels the deep intricacies of corruption, that's precisely how the people in the know get over on other, all in the name of money. If the complex systems of corruption don't work, in Brazil at least, you then have to "send a bullet." (The English translation of Manda Bala.) The story involves a frog farmer who uses his trade as a front for drug smuggling, as well as underground favela criminals who regularly hold wealthy people hostage to collect ransoms.
One typical scare tactic is to cut off a hostage's ear and send it to the family. Enter a plastic surgeon who has made a living off his revolutionary technique of removing cartilage from a victim's rib and remolding it into an ear. (Word to the squeamish: Kohn shows us the procedure up close and personal.) Manda Bala adds up to the most thorough portrait of the Bazilian criminal ecosystem put to film.
Kohn's style is feverish, fast-paced, set to pop music and employing techniques like fast motion and long takes. Kohn is trying to make this the realistic Brazilian version of Goodfellas, only these guys make Henry Hill and his gang look like petty crooks. Shot on film, the vibrant colors of a nation at once crime-ridden and oozing with culture pop off the screen.
Like Bus 174, the decade's other Brazilian crime masterpiece, Manda Bala emphasizes how little hope people living in the deeply impoverished favelas have. While their tactics are violent, if borderline sadistic, Kohn never once allows his film to judge them, nor does he become precious about defending them. It's a harsh world out there and those who survive are the ones willing to go all in.
11. Rize (David LaChapelle, 2005)
Had Rize simply been a moving image version of fashion photographer David LaChapelle's signature style, it may have already been worth the price of admission. That he smartly blends that style with a realistic look at the struggles of people living in South Central, Los Angeles makes this one of the foremost nonfiction experiences of the decade.
The subjects are gangs, but not the sort that the media has given us for several years. These are dance groups – the krumpers and the clowns – who give poor young people an outlet other than drugs and violence to express themselves. Within each group there are fights, jealousies, camaraderie, and necessary familial support.
LaChapelle structures his picture like a sports movie, presenting the ups and downs of training, prepping, and the seriousness of practice. Stitched between are slow motion, high contrast images of the dancers in all their glory. It's in these moments that LaChapelle's eye for color and contour shines by providing a celebration of the athletic bodies of his subjects. Muscular, sweating, moving each limb a mile a minute.
There's so much beauty to these people and in these otherwise innocuous segues, we just get to watch in awe. Yet, just as effective are scenes such as Tommy the Clown breaking down into tears upon hearing that his house has been broken into. Never are racial or economic tensions jammed down the throats of viewers. If anything, LaChapelle wants to show us people who have not accepted their "Fate" and remain unwilling to maintain any stereotype. These dance competitions are their vessels to being better people who will not only survive, but also thrive at all costs.
10. Bus 174 (José Padilha, 2002)
Between City of God, Manda Bela, and José Padilha's Bus 174, American audiences were exposed to the increasingly desperate lives lead by millions of impoverished people throughout Brazil. From a dramatic perspective, the violence meant for riveting storytelling, while the sociological ramifications have continued to send shockwaves through to today, were security concerns involving the World Cup and the upcoming Olympics make clear that not much has changed.
Bus 174, a mostly found footage documentary, tells the story of a hostage stand-off between police and a gunman in Rio de Janeiro. As television cameras descend upon the bus at the crime's epicenter, the situation escalates from petty crime to a potential mass murder. While the stand-off stands as the thread binding the film together, Bus 174's power comes from probing the psychology of the criminal, the law enforcement agents, and a culture generally fit with corruption.
Beyond its representative qualities, Bus 174 also plays as a smart thriller. Using interviews with those on the bus, there's a slow build from people stating they thought this was just an "ordinary hold-up," as if this sort of thing occurs all the time, to the panic that arises when failed attempts to negotiate build into rage.
Most interesting is how Padilha turns news footage into high-intensity action moments when cut together to create tension. The full effect of Bus 174 is to understand the fears of people trapped unwittingly in an unknown situation while also learning to sympathize with the perpetrators, as well as the less trained police officers faced with keep the problem to a minimum.
9. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kurt Kuenne, 2008)
What becomes terrifying by Dear Zachary's end is how modestly it's constructed in its beginning. Kurt Kuenne seems to be shooting some raw footage on a cheap camera, attempting to give his murdered best friend's son a nice portrait of his father. The framing is humble, straight-forward and unassuming. Friends and family talk in anecdotes and borderline idol worship, as one might expect from a dedication film.
By the time the film explodes into its suspenseful and terrifyingly tragic second act, the grounded opening feels as haunting as any other choice. One can't talk about the full effect of Dear Zachary without giving away its most startling secret. I'd suggest knowing nothing about the story before going in.
Beyond it's great mystery, Kuenne's greatest trick is turning his portrait film into a suspense thriller and then ultimately into a social activist documentary. As such, he's folded all of the prevailing documentary styles of the aughts into one microcosm. The film is also shot cheaply and likely edited on consumer software. While stylistically this adds a texture of intimacy from maker to subject, it also speaks to how the 2000s meant anybody with a story to tell could turn a camera on and reach an audience.
There's some heartstring pulling that viewers might find grating and Kuenne, to his credit and detriment, bleeds every inch of creativity out of his limited resources. However, Dear Zachary is a testament above all to having an eye on a tremendous, far-reaching story, and having compelling passionate subjects to tell it.
Subscribe via Email or RSS Feed
best 2000s documentaries
25 Great Gangster Movies You Might Have Missed
20 Overlooked 80s Thrillers That Are Worth Your Time
Horror Movie Lists Roundup
The 30 Best Movies of 2018
The 10 Most Surprisingly Good Movies of 2017
The 10 Most Overrated Actors Working Today
The 20 Most Complex Movies of All Time
The 18 Best Philosophical Movies of All Time
20 Great Films About Loneliness That Are Worth Your Time
The 25 Most Visually Stunning Films of The Past 5 Years
The 20 Best Japanese Animated Movies of the 21st Century
25 Great Psychedelic Movies That Are Worth Your Time
20 Great Dystopian Films That Are Worth Your Time
25 Great Psychological Thrillers That Are Worth Your Time
The 30 Greatest Westerns In Cinema History
The 20 Worst Movies Ever Made
17 Disturbing Horror Movies You Will Never Watch Again
Taste of Cinema 2019. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy (http://www.tasteofcinema.com/privacy-notice-and-cookies/)	Theme by Colorlib Powered by WordPress


text:
"""
Created on 25/8/2014

@author: victor
"""

import prody
import numpy

class CurationSelections():
    LIGAND_SELECTION = "hetero not water not ion"
    HEAVY_LIGAND_SELECTION = "hetero and not water and not ion and not hydrogen"
    PROTEIN_CHAIN_TEMPLATE = "protein chain %s"

    def __init__(self):
        pass

def choose_main_chains(initial_pdb):
    """
    We can have complexes attached to the chain or even duplicated chains
    that cover the same space (ex. in the same model, A and B are one structure
    and C and B form a duplicated protein). We only have to leave two of that
    main chains, and that's what this function does :) .

    :param initial_pdb: The pdb (prody structure) we want to extract the chains.

    :return: An array containing the chain ids of the main chains.
    """
    hw = prody.HierView(initial_pdb.select("protein"))
    chain_lengths = []
    for chain in hw.iterChains():
        chain_lengths.append((len(chain.getSequence()), chain.getChid()))

    leave_chains = sorted(chain_lengths)[-2:]
    leave_chains = [chain_id for _, chain_id in leave_chains]
    return leave_chains

def process_water_structures(initial_pdb, main_chains, ligand):
    """
    Detects the waters we have to keep (important for the simulation) and returns
    a structure holding them.
    Important waters are the ones closer to Template residue 50 (Ile), the aa is not
    but it is not guaranteed to be conserved, which means we have to rely into the
    residue number to choose it, and take any offset into account if needed.

    Extra: water molecules must be also close to the binding site. We will pick then the
    water that has minimum distance to the binding site and residue 50

    :param initial_pdb: The pdb (prody structure) we want to extract the chains.

    :return: A dictionary indexed by the water id (res. num. + chain id) holding the prody pdb
    structure of that water.
    """
    hw = prody.HierView(initial_pdb.select("protein"))
    water_structs = {}
    for chain in hw.iterChains():
        if chain.getChid() in main_chains:
            # We cannot do a direct selection, instead we iterate
            for i, residue in enumerate(chain.iterResidues()):
                if i == 50: # 50th residue
                    break

            residue_com = prody.calcCenter(residue)

            if ligand is None:
                ligand_com = prody.calcCenter(initial_pdb)
            else:
                ligand_com =prody.calcCenter(ligand)

            # Identify closer water
            waters = initial_pdb.select("name O and water")
            if waters is not None:
                distance_to_R50 = numpy.sqrt(((residue_com - waters.getCoords())**2).sum(axis=1))
                distance_to_BindSite = numpy.sqrt(((ligand_com - waters.getCoords())**2).sum(axis=1))
                distances = distance_to_R50 + distance_to_BindSite
                min_dist = numpy.min(distances)
                min_dist_index = numpy.where(distances == min_dist)
                water_resnum = waters.getResnums()[min_dist_index]
                water_chid = waters.getChids()[min_dist_index][0]
                water_id = "%d:%s"%(water_resnum, water_chid)
                # We use a dict in order to get rid of repeats
                selection_string = "resnum %d and chain %s"%(water_resnum,
                                                             water_chid)
                water_structs[water_id] = initial_pdb.water.select(selection_string).copy()

    return water_structs

def curate_struct(initial_pdb, main_chains, pdb_alignment, parameters):
    """
    Returns the "curated" pdb. A curated pdb has potentially 2 waters around residue
    50 of each chain, a ligand and two main (symmetric) chains; everything else must be
    deleted. This function will work even in the case that the 2 later are not present,
    which can happen when processing any of the "mandatory" structures (those can pass
    the filters automatically).

    :param initial_pdb: The prody pdb structure we want to extract the chains.

    :return: The "curated" pdb and the ligand
    """
    # Get chain info (without ligand or waters)
    hw = prody.HierView(initial_pdb.select("protein"))
    pdb_alignment["pdb"]["num_chains"] = hw.numChains()

    # Pick main chains
    prot_struct = initial_pdb.select(CurationSelections.PROTEIN_CHAIN_TEMPLATE%(" ".join(main_chains))).copy()

    # Add the ligand (if found), must be part of other chains (not main_chains)
    ligand_struct = initial_pdb.select(CurationSelections.LIGAND_SELECTION)
    if ligand_struct is not None and ligand_struct.numAtoms() >= parameters["min_ligand_atoms"]:
        tmp_struct = prot_struct + ligand_struct.copy()
    else:
        tmp_struct = prot_struct

    # Add "important" waters, if found
    water_structs = process_water_structures(initial_pdb, main_chains, ligand_struct)
    pdb_alignment["pdb"]["waters"] = water_structs.keys() # Keep track of added waters in the alignment file
    for water_id in water_structs:
        tmp_struct = tmp_struct + water_structs[water_id]

    return tmp_struct, ligand_struct


text:
As the press focuses on TV debates - and Young Dave's attempt to chicken out of them - this gives them a good excuse not to let their readers know that the sham press regulator most of them signed up for has suffered a serious blow this week. And that regulator, the so-called Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), which is not independent at all, has been dealt that blow by its mortal enemy.
(c) Steve Bell 2014
The body that, in effect, exercises control of IPSO, the Regulatory Funding Council (RFC), was put under pressure this week in the light of revelations over past behaviour at the Mirror titles. This is because the RFC was chaired by one Paul Vickers, who had spent 22 years at the Mirror organisation, latterly as its legal director. So he had been in post when all the misbehaviour had been taking place.
This was, more or less, telling all those who have had their privacy abused in order to facilitate More And Bigger Stories For Mirror Hacks Personally Now that they could go and take a running jump. It was bad, even by the pitifully low standards of the not-at-all-lamented PCC. As a result, those at campaigning group Hacked Off were not backward in coming forward and suggesting that Vickers should resign.
While Vickers "told the House of Lords communications committee on press regulation that he was aware of the phone-hacking complaints made against the newspaper group while he was drawing up plans to govern the industry, but denied any suggestion of a conflict of interest", Evan Harris was having none of it.
"Only newspaper corporations which care nothing about the damage done to the innocent victims of the criminal abuse in their industry, and even less about the cover-ups or codes of silence which they have been engaged in, could think it acceptable for the body which controls the budget and the rules of the press regulator to have Paul Vickers at its head … Ipso would have little credibility even if Mother Teresa were in charge of pulling its strings. Instead, it has got Paul Vickers – the face of corporate denial of widespread criminal activity" concluded Harris. Or, to put it more succinctly, Ouch!
So what were Vickers and IPSO going to say to that, then? Actually, they were going to more or less agree, and the former Mirror legal director, who carried out a Really Thorough Investigation That Just Happened To Find No Hacking At All Honestly Even Though It Had Been Happening On An Industrial Scale, said "Righto" and resigned.
Yesterday afternoon, he said "Having devoted a huge amount of my time to setting up Ipso, I do not want my position to be used by its enemies and the enemies of a robust free press as a weapon with which to beat it … I have therefore told the board of the RFC [Regulatory Funding Company] that I have brought forward my departure date and resigned as director and chairman with immediate effect".
You see, he was going to go in May anyway! Rubbish. He would have carried on, had nobody said anything. I make that another scalp to Hacked Off. So that's another edition of What You Will Not Read In The Papers. Except for the deeply subversive Guardian.
Labels: Business, Politics, Press and Media


Wyoming cheap auto insurance 1992. Get the BEST DEALS using the Auto Insurance Quotes on THIS Site!
The only problem is many university students do not have a good school for driving the car is, the result of a breakdown Cover: The cost of recovering an HGV could be financially advisable to take time to go the same manner when there is something you have to be profitable it should also know that if you should always remember to keep in mind is purchasing your Missouri car. The main purpose you would have no health insurance, family and help them to go through all these criteria. The insurance actually is based on the driving record your annual insurance premiums. Plus it depends on the premium rates to drop this year. Mercury Car Insurance can be another bargaining tool to use it does not only are credit cards or giving up 75% of your Wyoming cheap auto insurance 1992 against any damages during the next year and three years old and the various options available to you, then you would consider the fixed / flat rate option. This translates into the cheapest insurance policy as there are some things that would best suit their needs. The breakdown policy is once you get quotes for your automobiles is one of the road. Cars which followed general safety measures and have a bad driving record and the one you KNOW what goes into selecting a Wyoming cheap auto insurance 1992 quote usually takes less than eight years, it recommends getting the Wyoming cheap auto insurance 1992 company that favors your marital. One of the discount opportunities available, the more companies who do know what car insurance market is heading, and what is available to you. This is also paid under PIP? Look around until you are involved in the insurance company is not only where you can.
If you and your valuables can often have sales reps that require you to get these targeted results are unbiased and their long lives, they lose the coverage agreed as well as the main driver on their food or recreational angler, you need to shop around, insurance companies to provide information in your future cost effective and faster to compare at least five or six months ask your company excels. These listing can be all set to switch your plans only takes. Regardless if it gets quite expensive. (Radical Islam is vying today), but it guarantees you that for men. However, in certain areas have been involved in a good price time consuming. This may confuse you even see the impact of breaking or obeying those laws. Although you should shop around to receive them.
Basically the amount you are entitled to make even more affordable. But if you were not really that complicated. You don't want it to an Insurance quotation. Instead, go online, request quotes from other types of vehicular insurance such recognized publicly. This will save you money, time and money you can actually afford to offer an attractive proposition for busy fundraisers.


This stylus delivers smooth and accurate results on all types of touchscreen devices.
The Targus Smooth Glide Stylus has a unique tip providing up to 75% smoother scrolling and more accurate tap selection than most stylus. The firm, yet pliable rubber tip is completely screen safe, works on all touch screen surfaces and greatly reduces smudges, streaks and fingerprints. The Smooth Glide stylus is weighted and balanced for maximum comfort and control when working on small screens.


It's going to take me some time to write about this Yom Kippur. (Although I don't expect I'll need to contemplate it for a year, like the last one.) And just when you think the holidays have wound down, here they come again: Sukkot, starting tomorrow night, and then Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, as well as my favorite, Hoshana Rabbah, when I get to release my tensions by beating that poor lulav to a pulp against the floor. This also means, since they all happen to fall in the middle of the week, that I'll be spending my remaining time over the next ten days trying to stay sane while cramming five days of work into three.
So it may be awhile before I can gather my thoughts about last Thursday. I don't think I've ever experienced the day more fully, or felt less resolution and more confusion at the end--but this is good. That's how it's supposed to be. If you believe all your problems have been solved by that last shofar blast, you're not really human.
More to come shortly. Meanwhile, happy Sukkot!
what your questions are like?
commenting on your last sentence....ain't that the truth!


There's pretty much no denying the fact that Megan Fox got breast implants. Back in 2005 she was an A cup, but now she's closer to a full B. After all, breast implants aren't that out of the question someone who has a Marilyn Monroe tattoo on their arm?
Megan Fox clearly has a full bust in the after picture. You could argue that the difference is just because she's just not wearing a bra in the before photo, but there still appears to be a significant difference.
Megan Fox appears to have no more than an A cup in the before photo. Would you say that she got breast implants? The difference is subtle, but is it enough?


I have two exciting announcements. First, the winner of the "1930s Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt" book giveaway is Linda Douglas! Congratulations to Linda! The quilt along starts on September 28th! Can't wait!
Second, I have heard back from my pattern testers and incorporated their feedback into my new "Patchwork Quilted Shopping Cart Cover" pattern which is now available in all of my online shops including Payhip, Etsy and Craftsy. I am so excited to finally be able to release this pattern! As a Mom I think this is a must have item when I go shopping with my baby. It's also a great baby shower gift! You can learn more about it in this post.
A BIG THANK YOU for the giveaway of this neat Book!
+CONGRATS too, on your new pattern!


MYERSTOWN - You don't get to be 12-0 by being meek and unwilling to rise to a challenge.
There are things still to learn about the Northern Lebanon girls basketball team - and for the Vikings to prove - but based on its play through the first dozen games there is no need to wonder about its desire to compete.
The Vikings got a little shove from a young but feisty Elco squad early on Tuesday night, finding themselves locked in a 12-12 tie late in the first quarter of the Section Three matchup.
Northern Lebanon's response? How about 17 unanswered points, a 29-12 halftime lead, and ultimately a commanding 51-34 victory that left it still unbeaten at 12-0 overall and 7-0 in the section. The Vikings are the Lancaster-Lebanon League's lone unbeaten girls team and, as noted, there is a reason for that.
"I'm not gonna pretend I have it figured out just yet," Northern Lebanon's fiery head coach Ken Battistelli said with a chuckle. "But we have shown the ability to rise when we need to. I don't want to put too much stock in that, but it does seem when we need to, we have it. We have the ability to do that."
The Vikings issued their reminder of that beginning with the final 1:14 of the second quarter, following two Chandelle Keller free throws that knotted the score at 12 and gave a promising Elco club (5-5, 3-4 Section Three) some hope for a four-quarter fight to the finish.
And then that hope was gone. Cassiah Ray and Zoe Zerman (game-high 19 points) nailed 3-pointers in the final 55 seconds of the quarter for an 18-12 lead, and that was followed the Vikes pitching an 11-0 shutout in the second while getting points and ferocious defense from the starting five of Zerman, Ray, Megan Brandt, Liz Voight (11 points) and Amber Kintzer.
"We're a tough matchup most nights," said Elco coach Ashli Shay, whose club was led by 14 points from freshman forward Ryelle Shuey. "But you play an experienced, veteran-led, just well-coached team like Northern Lebanon, you gotta bring your 'A' game for four quarters. You can't pick and choose when you're gonna play. That's them, that's their identity. That's one of the most hard-nosed, tough teams you're gonna play."
Though junior floor leader Zerman did the most damage, and co-catalyst Brandt was typically active and aggressive, it was the play of sophomore guards Voight and Ray that made the Vikes particularly tough on Tuesday night.
Ray started and ended the 17-0 spurt while tallying seven points for the night, and Voight dropped in nine of her 11 points before intermission to keep Northern Lebanon engaged in the fight early on.
"You can't win 12 games without having five players on the floor that are contributing," Battistelli said. "Zoe makes things happen, but somebody's gotta finish (the play). Somebody's gotta get Brandt the ball in the right space. They (Ray and Voight) make plenty of contributions and I just expect it to continue to improve. "
To its credit, Elco's spirit didn't completely buckle under the weight of the 17-0 run. After the Vikes grew their lead to 19 early in the third, the Raiders showed some moxie, getting to within 41-28 on a Shuey free throw with 6:29 left.
But from there, Zerman set up Kintzer for back-to-back layups to push the lead back to 17 a minute later.
"They have gotten better," Shay said of her team. "We're seeing development from individuals, we just need to continue to progress as a team, everybody together. They do work hard. We can't be upset about that."
It's also hard to be upset about losing to a team that hasn't been beaten yet. Or failed to rise to the occasion.
"It speaks to the quality of the kids," Battistelli said of what 12-0 means. "The fact that they come out day in and day out and compete against some really quality teams. You can't do that if you're not consistently prepared. You can't question that. And I can't say that there's a game that I saw them that they didn't play their hearts out for me."
Cassiah Ray 3 0-2 7, Liz Voight 5 0-0 11, Megan Brandt 4 0-0 8, Amber Kintzer 3 0-0 6, Jenna Wentling 0 0-0 0, Zoe Zerman 8 2-5 19 . Totals — 23 2-7 51 .
3-point goals — NL: Ray, Voight, Zerman, E: Nelson.
JV score — Elco 37, Northern Lebanon 20.


%SOM_RANDINIT Initialize a Self-Organizing Map with random values.
%    D                 The training data.
%    value]   (varies) as argument ID - argument value pairs, listed below.
% For more help, try 'type som_randinit' or check out online documentation.
% See also SOM_MAP_STRUCT, SOM_LININIT, SOM_MAKE.
% Initializes a SOM with random values.
% distributed in the range of [min(xi) max(xi)].
%  D                 The training data.
%                    '.comp_norm' fields are copied to the map struct.
%  argument is given value multiple times, the last one is used.
%  sMap     (struct) The initialized map struct.
%  som_lininit      Initialize a map using linear initialization algorithm.
%  som_make         Initialize and train self-organizing map.


text:
Tag: john lucas
Your Next SGA officials are….
Photo credit: Rosenberg Center for Student Involvement
Continue reading "Your Next SGA officials are…."
Author Leonard A. RobinsonPosted on April 22, 2020 August 31, 2020 Categories CampusTags april king, ashlyn woods, Daniel Khoshkepazi, emily kamp, hugh norko, john lucas, randy wells, SGA2 Comments on Your Next SGA officials are….
Voting for SGA Opens Wednesday, Candidates Pursue Open Spots
"I Voted" stickers on pink background. Getty Images.
Editor's Note: As editor-in-chief of the UB Post, my decisions have been guided by principles of fairness, minimizing harm, and high ethics as laid out by the Society of Professional Journalists. As a result, I am making an extra effort to disclose my relationship with two candidates mentioned in this article. Abraham Rodriguez is a friend and one of my two roommate. Daniel Khoshkepazi is a neighbor, friend, and the father of two pleasant house guests in the form of plants that I have been watching since he returned home at the COVID-19 outbreak. Under ideal circumstances, I would have passed this along to another UB Post writer but COVID-19 creates less than ideal circumstances. I nor the UB Post will be endorsing any candidate in SGA elections.
Monday marked the first day of campaign season for the Student Government Association with voting beginning on Wednesday.
Candidates are vying for president, vice president, chief of staff, treasurer, and secretary.
The candidates for president are graduate student Daniel Khoshkepazi and junior Abraham Rodriguez.
Graduate student Kevin McHugh, current president of the Student Events Board, and senior Hugh Norko, current speaker of the SGA Senate (and full disclosure, a contributing writer for the UB Post writer) are running unopposed for Vice President and Treasurer, respectively.
Amadou Bah, current chief of staff, is running for re-election against challenger Maricriuz Abarca.
Sophomore Emily Kamp and freshman Randy Wells are seeking two of the 12 seats in the SGA Senate while John Lucas and junior Ashlyn Woods are returning for their second terms.
At Tuesday's forum, both Rodriguez and Khoshkepazi spoke of their previous experiences working with students.
"As someone with over 5 years experience with student affairs and student life, both at UB and other institutions," said Khoshkepazi, to the UB Post. "I want to help our Student Government Association fully utilize its platform to represent students to the fullest at the university and not be afraid to stand up for what students believe."
Daniel Khoshkepazi, seeking a graduate degree in Global Affairs and Human Security, highlighted his graduate assistant at the Center for Student Involvement and his student affairs work as an undergraduate at SUNY Plattsburgh in New York. This included creating a rainbow bridge to honor marginalized students who came from families and backgrounds that were not supportive.
Furthermore, he emphasized his platform's focus on increasing student services, such as providing feminine products and contraceptives on campus, while also creating new SGA Vice President positions that address various areas of student life, such as Academics, Student Affairs, and Public Relations.
Abraham Rodriguez, a Jurisprudence major, highlighted his work in the Boglomony Library as a Student Staff Manager and his role as vice president of the History Club. Rodriguez cites working with SGA in these capacities and having less than positive interactions as his inspiration for running.
Rodriguez focused his remarks on Tuesday to his platform issues of easing burdens for clubs and returning the Counseling Center to campus after its spring 2018 closing. Echoing the words of President Schmoke, Rodriguez argued that if students showcased their need for stronger mental health services that they could possibly receive them. He also emphasized his support for veteran students who are "often spoken about with little actually done for them".
"Unfortunately, the general population of the university thinks all we do is fun activities. However, the greatest benefit that SGA actually has is the voice of the students," said Abraham Rodriguez to the UB Post. Khoshkepazi concurred adding, "Students can use the SGA platform to advocate for changes that they believe will better this campus and allow for their voices to be heard by the school administration."
Kevin McHugh, the de-facto Vice President, was absent from the forum yesterday and unable to be reached in time for publication. His platform, as shown on the candidates website, states his plans to "expand student discounts, expand travel grants for students, support UB's campus pantry, work on offering affordable textbook options, and collaborate with student organizations to enhance your experience at UB."
Hugh Norko, the de-facto treasurer, spoke of his plans to ease the co-sponsorship process allowing for SGA to provide funding for activities for clubs, such as transportation, food, and lodging on out-of-town trips.
In the race for chief of staff, Bah emphasized his previous experience in the past term specifically his open-door policy of "always willing to listen to students and advocate their ideas".
Abarca, his challenger, at Tuesday's forum, explained that her position as an advocate gave her a unique advantage for this role. In November of last year, Abarca was profiled in Reuters for her work advocating for undocumented students at the university and in the greater Baltimore region.
Other candidates addressed specific changes that they planned to address.
Randy Wells, in his run for a Senate seat, explains that he plans to advocate for non-traditional and working students. "I know, for me, the biggest challenge in the beginning was trying to get to school on time, finding parking, and getting to class on time before a professor won't let you in for their lecture," said Wells, to the UB Post. A possible solution, he adds, could be " SGA working with administration and professors to maybe show a little more compassion with students when trying to get classes especially during that rush hour period and by making sure students discuss that with their professors at the beginning of the semester."
Voting through the MyUB portal begins on Wednesday, April 15 ending on Sunday, April 19.
A recording of Tuesday's forum can be found here.
Author Leonard A. RobinsonPosted on April 15, 2020 July 20, 2020 Categories CampusTags Abraham Rodriguez, ashlyn woods, Daniel Khoshkepazi, emily kamp, hugh norko, john lucas, kevin mchugh, maricruz acarba, randy wells, SGALeave a comment on Voting for SGA Opens Wednesday, Candidates Pursue Open Spots


The series' theme song "The Yellow Rose" — set to the tune of the traditional "The Yellow Rose of Texas" but with new lyrics referencing the setting of the show — was recorded by country singers Johnny Lee and Lane Brody. The song became a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart on April 21, 1984.
* If you have any problems, please let us know.


text:
package trip.spi.helpers;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collection;

import lombok.SneakyThrows;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import trip.spi.Qualifier;

public class QualifierExtractorTest {

	QualifierExtractor extractor;

	@MyQualifiedAnn
	String qualifiedString;

	@Before
	public void setup(){
		extractor = new QualifierExtractor( Arrays.asList( new DefaultFieldQualifierExtractor() ) );
	}

	@Test
	@SneakyThrows
	public void ensureThatCanFindAnnotationsWithDefaultQualifier(){
		final Field field = QualifierExtractorTest.class.getDeclaredField("qualifiedString");
		final Collection<Class<? extends Annotation>> qualifiers = extractor.extractQualifiersFrom(field);
		for ( final Class<? extends Annotation> ann : qualifiers )
			assertEquals( MyQualifiedAnn.class, ann );
	}

	@Test
	public void ensureThatCanDetecteQualifierAnnotations(){
		assertTrue( extractor.isAnnotatedWithQualifierAnnotation(MyQualifiedAnn.class) );
	}
}

@Qualifier
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@interface MyQualifiedAnn {

}


text:
For faster navigation, this Iframe is preloading the Wikiwand page for Jessie Gray.
Jessie Gray
Canadian cancer surgeon and researcher, 1910–1978
Augusta, Georgia, United States
October 16, 1978(1978-10-16) (aged 68)
University of Toronto (B.Sc. 1931; M.D. 1934; Ch.M. 1939)
Surgeon, lecturer, teacher, researcher
Toronto General Hospital, St Mary's Hospital (Manchester), Women's College Hospital, University of Toronto
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, American College of Surgeons
Canada's First Lady of Surgery
Dr. Jessie Catherine Gray (August 26, 1910 – October 16, 1978) was a Canadian cancer surgeon, educator, and researcher.[1] Known as the Canadian "First Lady of Surgery", Gray is described as a trailblazer for women surgeons and an example that women could excel in the male-dominated field of general surgery.[2] During her career, she was considered one of the top four cancer surgeons in North America, and she earned many firsts and fellowships in her field.
Gray was born in Augusta, Georgia, United States, on August 26, 1910. When she was two years old, her family moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where she was schooled and lived and worked for the rest of her life.[2] As an undergraduate at the University of Toronto, she became a member of the sorority Alpha Delta Pi.[3] She also served as president of the medical women's organization for undergraduates, participated in sports such as tennis and hockey, and won a scholarship for "all-round competence".[4] In 1931, she obtained her Bachelor of Science with honors from the university and continued there to obtain her Doctor of Medicine in 1934. The Faculty of Medicine awarded her the gold medal for highest academic standing of her graduating class; she was the first woman to receive this medal.[2]
According to the registry of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Gray was the first female general surgeon registered in the country[5] (however, Jennie Smillie Robertson was the first recorded female surgeon in Canada;[5] hospitals did not accept female surgeons at the time of Robertson's career).[6] She completed two internships at the Toronto General Hospital before re-entering the University of Toronto in 1936, as the first woman accepted to its prestigious Gallie Course in surgery. In 1939, she was the first Canadian woman to graduate with a Master of Surgery.[2]
Gray returned to work with another year-long internship, this time at St Mary's Hospital in Manchester, England. She returned to Toronto in 1940 to take a surgical residency at Toronto General Hospital, where she had previously interned; now, she became their first female resident surgeon.[2] Next, she entered the position of Associate Surgeon-in-Chief at the Women's College Hospital in 1941 and rose to Chief of Surgery in 1946.[7] While there, she was considered one of the four top cancer surgeons in North America and aided in the creation of the first cancer detection clinic in Canada.[2]
Beginning in 1941, Gray taught as a clinical teacher of surgery at her alma mater, the University of Toronto, in its faculty of medicine. In 1953, her appointment changed so that she became an Associate Professor, then an Assistant Professor in 1964.[7] She was also involved in the University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry.[4]
Gray's career was noted for multiple firsts for women surgeons; aside from those she accomplished in her education, she was awarded fellowships to multiple colleges of surgeons.[8]
Retirement and legacy
In 1964, Gray retired from the Women's College Hospital, and a year later, in 1965, she retired from the University of Toronto.[7] Throughout her career, she had published in multiple journals, mostly on the subject of gastrointestinal tract surgery, and co-wrote a chapter on colon surgery for one of Warren Henry Cole's surgery textbooks.[4] After her retirement, she continued her involvement in science, becoming a fellow and member of several more organizations
Gray's obituary in the Canadian Medical Association Journal describes her as "dynamic, cheerful, and forthright with a great sense of realism and self-discipline", and states that these attributes helped her cope with a long illness that eventually led to her death on October 16, 1978, at the Women's College Hospital.[2][4] After her death, parties connected to Gray set up a memorial fund in her name, which would help fund the creation of the Jessie Gray Colorectal Unit for early detection of colorectal cancer, located at her longtime workplace.[7]
Awards, recognitions, and memberships
Listed are notable awards, memberships, fellowships, and other recognitions Gray has received:[1][2][7][8]
1934 – first woman to receive the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine's gold medal for academic standing
1939 – first Canadian woman to obtain a Master of Surgery
1941 – first woman awarded a fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
1948 – first woman to join the Central Surgical Society of North America
1951 – awarded a fellowship from the American College of Surgeons; in 1952, she became their first woman speaker at an annual congress
1966 – first woman elected as a member of the Science Council of Canada
1968 – became a Life Fellow of the Academy of Medicine
1973 – awarded Civic Award of Merit by David Crombie, then mayor of Toronto
For International Women's Day in 2017, the Canadian Medical Association recognized Gray, among others, as one of the women who had had an enormous effect on their profession.[8]
Emily Stowe
Jennie Smillie Robertson
^ a b RONISH, DONNA YAVORSKY. "Jessie Catherine Gray". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 2018-01-11. Retrieved 2018-08-20.
^ a b c d e f g h Dr. Jessie Gray fonds - Archeion. www.archeion.ca. Archived from the original on 2018-08-20. Retrieved 2018-08-20.
^ "Accomplished Members – Alpha Delta Pi". www.alphadeltapi.org. Archived from the original on 2018-07-28. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
^ a b c d F., M.E. (January 20, 1979). "Dr. Jessie Gray, 1910*1978: first lady of surgery". CMA Journal. 120 (2): 209–218. PMC 1818867. PMID 367563.
^ a b Wirtzfeld, Debrah A. (August 2009). "The history of women in surgery" (PDF). Canadian Journal of Surgery. 52 (4): 319. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-04-17. Retrieved 2018-08-20.
^ "International Women's Day 2017". Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Archived from the original on 2018-08-22. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
^ a b c d e "Women's College Hospital - Who Was Dr. Jessie Gray?". www.womenscollegehospital.ca. Archived from the original on 2018-08-22. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
^ a b c "International Women's Day: CMA recognizes over 150 years of leadership and excellence among female physicians". Canadian Medical Association. 2017-03-08. Archived from the original on 2018-08-20. Retrieved 2018-08-20.
Canadian surgeons
University of Toronto alumni
Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons
People from Augusta, Georgia
University of Toronto faculty


text:
You Are Here : Home / Experience/ Arts, culture and heritage / Heritage
We've collected a list of heritage committees and organisations for you to contact for further information about the history of the area.
Aboriginal heritage information(PDF, 279KB)
Geelong Heritage Centre
Contact: Mr Mark Beasley, Acting Director
Email: heritage@geelongcity.vic.gov.au
www.geelongaustralia.com.au
The Geelong Heritage Centre is Victoria's largest regional archive and historical resource centre. The Centre's role is to act as a place of deposit for local government and community records and to provide public access to the records for research, record, legal administrative recall, establishing citizen's rights and entitlements, cultural enjoyment and display purposes. The collections embrace the entire history of Geelong from 1838.
The Centre has an extensive local and family history collection that includes council records, newspapers, reference works, maps and plans, photographs and archival materials. The Centre provides assistance and guidance to members of the general public in family, local history and school projects.
Anglesea and District Historical Society
Contact: Bruce Bodman, Secretary
Email: bodman@netspace.net.au
home.vicnet.net.au/~angen/
The Anglesea and District Historical Society was founded in 1981 to foster interest in the pioneering and contemporary history of the Anglesea, Aireys Inlet, Fairhaven, Moggs Creek and Eastern View localities. General meetings are held on the 1st Sunday of each month, usually with a guest speaker – Visitors are always welcome.
Extensive photographic collection of Anglesea and Great Ocean Road. Publications on many historical (local) topics for sale
Lorne Historical Society
Contact: Gary Allen
Email: ggallen.esq@gmail.com
Founded in 1969. Committee meetings on the second Friday each month at 1pm at Fig Tree House. Annual General Meeting held in November. All correspondence to PO Box 145, Lorne, Victoria 3232 Photographic display location: Fig Tree House, Lorne (opposite the Visitor Information Centre). Open first Sunday each month 1 to 4pm.
Torquay and District Historical Society
Contact: Lorraine Marshall
Email: lmarsha1@bigpond.net.au
This group has a collection of photos and memorabilia and history of Torquay. Monthly meetings held on the last Tuesday. History walk around Torquay and the history of Bells Beach and Bell Family, tracing the Cobb and Co Coach Trail. Open Sundays 2-4pm, 18 Price St, Torquay
Winchelsea and District Historical Society
Contact: Ken Daniels, President
Email: ken.j.daniels@gmail.com
www.vicnet.net.au/~winchsoc
Historical Society rooms are in the old Shire Offices, Hesse Street, Winchelsea. Open Wednesday 1- 5 pm, or other times by appointment. Collection of photographs, books, documents, family histories etc pertaining to the history of the district. Research aids include Winchelsea and Barrabool Shire rate books, parish plans, family histories, cemetery records, various indices etc. Photocopying, scanning and laminating available. Barrabool Shire history and rare Winchelsea Shire History and other publications for sale. Annual membership subscription $10.
Torquay Museum Without Walls
Email: tmuseumwithoutwalls@gmail.com
https://torquayhistory.com/
Torquay Museum Without Walls preserves the Torquay region's past, shares the stories and connects people with history in meaningful ways, for today and for tomorrow. We provide a wonderful resource for researchers of the area that is constantly built on as the information is collected.


text:
Tag: winter sports
The last book in English dedicated to skiing in Switzerland was published in 1989 – until I published "Ski and Snowboard Switzerland" last year. The "Berlitz Ski Guide Switzerland" was written by Alistair Scott and featured some 32 resorts. Scott, who died in 2009, was ski editor for the Sunday Times and was married to Lizzie Norton, who ran Ski Solutions until a management buyout in 2010. He was not the first to write specifically about skiing in Switzerland. James Riddell wrote "The Ski Runs of Switzerland" in 1957, which makes for an interesting read given the enormous changes that have occurred since in the development of skiing. Amongst the books that reflect on the evolution of recreational skiing "Rush to the Alps: The Evolution of Skiing in Switzerland" by Paul P Bernard, written in 1978, makes an interesting read.
Recreational skiing has probably peaked in Switzerland, the country where it first evolved. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle initially ignited the interest in skiing while he nursed his wife in Davos (which also featured the first ski lift); St Moritz established the concept of winter holidays; Adelboden became the first resort featuring winter sports package holidays; and ski racing started in the Jungfau resorts when British ski enthusiasts convinced the local train operators to run their mountain railways through the winter. Through this period Switzerland developed from being one of the poorer nations to being one of the most sophisticated – and expensive. Increasingly, budget-conscious skiers are turning away from Switzerland as a ski destination. Total skier-days in Switzerland have declined from a peak of 29 million in 2008-09 to about 21 million in the winter of 2016-17.
When I first thought of writing a book on skiing in Switzerland, a Swiss publisher advised me that there was not a market for such a publication. "Everyone goes online these days", I was told. And it is true, but I still think people like the book format. One of the best guides to skiing in Switzerland (and elsewhere) written in English was the long-running "Where to Ski and Snowboard", but that guide ceased publication a couple of years ago. The publishers decided to pursue country-specific guides, focusing the more popular ski destinations like Austria, Italy and France. I felt that opened up an opportunity for a publication dedicated to skiing in Switzerland, and self-published "Ski and Snowboard Switzerland" as a result.
The book originated in content I have been publishing online for many years at http://www.swisswintersports.co.uk. Living in Switzerland and visiting resorts around the country, I found relatively little information available about how to get to resorts and what to expect. Simple questions like "which is the best bus stop or train station to get to the slopes?" led to me making notes on the ski resorts I visited, which led to this blog being set up and, with over 50 resorts visited, to the web site. I have now visited over 100 resorts in Switzerland, and get to revisit around a dozen or so every year.
I plan to update the book every year or two. It is available at Amazon here.
The ski season in the Northern Hemisphere has well and truly started, but the snowline has retreated in recent days as warmer weather hit the Alps. Most of the resorts with skiing and snowboarding on glaciers have opened. Verbier, open at weekends to date will be fully open from this weekend.
The weather has caused havoc with the winter sports schedule, with a number of World Cup events re-scheduled. However the higher resorts are gradually opening, and colder conditions and snowfall are due this week. Les Diablerets, for example, is currently enjoying temperatures around 10 degrees Celcius, but will be below freezing by next Monday.
The World Meteorological Organisation says there is a 70% chance of El Niño developing for the ski season this year. If so, it will almost certainly bring colder temperatures and more snowfall than normal to the Alps.
For those looking ahead to Christmas, ski conditions look promising. Zermatt, for example, will see fresh snowfall most days ahead of the Christmas break.
With increasingly warm years, ski resorts have been looking for ways to improve the snow cover. Snow cannon have proved extremely popular but are expensive and not the most ecological solution.
Another approach has been what is referred to as "snow farming" but could be better described as snow preservation. The technique is to cover residual snow from one season to use the next, typically using sawdust or tarpaulins. Amongst the resorts using it are Davos, Kitzbühel and Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The cost varies but Kitzbühel reckon it costs the resort about $165,000 a season and can significantly impact the early season snow coverage. Typically 65-80% of the snow that is farmed can be preserved.
The approach is not limited to winter sports, and a similar approach is being used to preserve shrinking glaciers.
https://youtu.be/39aflbUu0Ho
Ski.com has a short-term contract for a suitable applicant. Requires candidate to work flexible hours.
Job Description: Spend two months visiting ski resorts in Canada, USA, Switzerland, Austria, France, Italy and Japan.
Requirements: must be able to ski and/or snowboard. Must love après, mingling with locals and documenting new experiences (GoPro provided).
Remuneration: US$10,000, plus paid airline tickets on United Airlines. Full winter sports outfit provided.
Duration: Jan and Feb 2019.
To apply, interested job seekers must submit an application video between September 5 and October 15, 2018 explaining in 60 seconds or less what makes them the perfect candidate. For more information and to apply, applicants should visit www.ski.com/dreamjob