 2011 he received a special award from the Project for his mentorship and activism work in the Latino LGBTQ community.
Activist, advocate, educator, volunteer, and mentor, José Gutierrez was named a Capital Pride Hero in 2005 and received the Community Award from the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club in 2007. He currently serves on the board of directors of Unid@s, the national Latin@ LGBT human rights organization.Some of the A.O.F.B. funds were used to provide hospital cots for Wee Waifs and each cot bore an bronze A.O.F.B. plaque. There was no UK National Health Service in the days of the A.O.F.B. - the provision and annual running costs of a single cot was around £500 per annum.
Over 54 cots were endowed in total in the U.K. but founder Bert Temple was keen to provide more and issued A.O.F.B. stamps ; to be used for sealing correspondence, and he hoped that all members on the Order would buy a booklet of stamps, if they did it would have raised enough funds to provide another 130 cots.
Overseas cots were also endowed although these were locally funded; cots being provided in India, New Zealand, Australia, Tasmania and seven cots in Durban, Natal.
Here is a list of UK hospitals known to have had A.O.F.B. a cot ( or several ).
One UK hospital still proudly displays a cot plaque. It has been moved from it's original location on a cot and is now on show in the entrance to Stamford Hospital along with other plaques on investitures.
In August 2017, news of a Cot Plaque reached the FOFB.
Leila and Marven Starbuck wrote to tell of a cot plaque that belonged to Leila's late father Robert Mason, and had been in storage since his passing in 1995. Robert was born and raised in Birmingham and went to France as a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War. Robert was involved in the evacuation of Dunkirk and later joined the 14th Army in Burma with the Chindits as a medic.
After the War Robert worked at Farnborough Hospital in Kent until his retirement some 40 years later. He took a keen interest in the history of the hospital and the old workhouse that was in the hospital grounds. When the workhouse was due to be demolished he saved many times that had been stored there such as iron lungs, electric shock treatment machines, straight jackets, wicker wheelchairs and antique medical equipment. He squirrelled the items away in the basement, unbeknownst to the hospital, where they lay until his retirement. When he retired he asked that the items be given to a London Medical museum who were highly delighted that he had saved so many rare things, and more than happy to receive them.
It is thought that the cot plaque may have come from either the old Farnborough Hospital or even the old workhouse, but never went to the London Medical museum with the other medical curiosities.
During A.O.F.B. times, Farnborough Hospital and Workhouse (although technically a hospital) only became recognised as such around 1927, which was the peak of A.O.F.B. activity and when the majority of the cots (and plaques) were being invested. Extensive research has been conducted, and as of yet, no documented evidence of Farnborough Hospital being the recipient of a cot and plaque has been found. Documentation linking the A.O.F.B. to Bromley Childrens Welfare has been found, Farnborough Hospital and Workhouse came under the care of Bromley Health Authority many years later.
An enquiry was made to see if the cot plaque was acquirable. The Starbuck's very generously donated the plaque declining to 'profit' from it, and a charitable donation was made In Memoriam of Robert Mason to Acorns Hospice; very fitting that a children's charity could benefit.
<jupyter_start><jupyter_text>This is an example project where I want to extract parameters from piece of spectrum data that I have. My gaussian function has the following form:$f(x) = a \mathrm{e}{\frac{-(x-c)^2}{2c^2}} + d$Where $a$ is a normalisation coefficient, $b$ is the center point, $c$ defines with the width of the curve and $d$ is the height above the x axis.First lets load and plot the data<jupyter_code>%pylab inline
%config InlineBackend.figure_format ='retina'
import numpy as np
x, y = np.loadtxt('./data/data.txt').T
plt.plot(x, y)

plt.xlabel('Wavelength [nm]')
plt.ylabel('Counts [a.u.]')<jupyter_output><empty_output><jupyter_text>Clearly the data is a nice gaussian, so lets fit the function to get the center point and full-width at half max, which is given by $FWHM = 2\sqrt{2 ln(2)}$First we import some code which contains the gauss equation, and the optimize function from scipy to do the curve fitting.<jupyter_code>from scipy.optimize import curve_fit

def gauss(t, a, b, c, d):
    return a*np.exp(-((t-b)**2)/(2*c**2)) + d
p0 = [700, 990, 2, 0]
params, cov = curve_fit(gauss, x, y, p0=p0)
err = np.sqrt(np.diag(cov))

print("a = %lf +- %lf" % (params[0], err[0]))
print("b = %lf +- %lf" % (params[1], err[1]))
print("c = %lf +- %lf" % (params[2], err[2]))
print("d = %lf +- %lf" % (params[3], err[3]))<jupyter_output>a = 9940.234967 +- 112.462988
b = 995.014369 +- 0.013048
c = 1.002707 +- 0.013202
d = 761.728754 +- 14.103390Robert "Bob" E. Kowalski, 83, of Marinette, passed away Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021 at Aurora Medical Center, Bay Area, surrounded by family.
Born Sept. 15, 1938, to the late Edward and Violet (Blair) Kowalski in Menominee, he graduated from Marinette High School in 1957 and studied for a year at NWTC. He then served in the United States Army. On June 24, 1961, he married Roberta Johnson at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Marinette. He earned a Master Plumber Certification in both Michigan and Wisconsin and worked for Peninsula Piping Inc. for over 35 years.
A member of Holy Family Parish and the Parish Council, he served on the Fiancé Committee and also belonged to the Marinette Elks Lodge, the Board of Trustees of BAMC and Board of Directors of Pineview Health Care. He enjoyed building and fixing trailers, working in his shop, camping and traveling.
Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Roberta; three sons, Troy (Tina) Kowalski of Marinette, Tim (Catherine) Kowalski of Brentwood, Tn. and Trent (Lisa) Kowalski of Delafield, Wi.; four grandchildren; two brothers, Tom (Jean) Kowalski and Ed Kowalski and a sister, Jean (Jim) Mooren.
Visitation was held at Holy Family Parish, Our Lady of Lourdes Church on Monday, Jan. 3 from 2 p.m. until time of a Funeral Mass at 4 p.m., with Rev. Celestine Byekwaso officiating. Thielen Funeral Home of Marinette assisted the family with arrangements.There.
Greek yogurt versus regular yogurt. I am not a lover of yogurt but I have tasted the grand difference between regular white yogurt against Greek yogurt. "Greek yogurt is incredibly good!" (words of my husband) and "I can barely taste the milk!" (my words). It is really that special because when we were in Greece once, my husband practically lived on their yogurt for breakfasts, snacks and more snacks.
Calcata. This town I am showing you is another one of those small ancient ones in Italy, built on tuffaceous rock, abandoned at some point in history then inhabited again. But this particular one has an interesting edge because it's different from the rest. It was ordered by the government to be abandoned in the 1930's because of fear that it will collapse. At the beginning of 1960, foreign hippies and artists started to squat in the town's empty buildings. When the state lifted the ban and declared it to be habitable again, the squatters eventually bought the houses that they were occupying. Because of the artistically-inclined residents, the town thrived into a special place of artistic community with English as one of the common languages. Information taken from Wikipedia.
It was described in New York Times once as "what may be the grooviest village in Italy, home