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by Sid Kirchheimer, AARP Bulletin, June 30, 2008
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The e-mails are startling. In some of them, the "hit man" claims your relatives put out a contract on your life. In others, he says he was hired by your co-workers to kill you. In still others, he explains that "one of your friends" paid for his services.
These grisly hit man e-mails do have one thing in common: They are a hoax aimed at "hitting" your bank account. In each version, the sender says that for a price, he will spare your life … or he'll sell you an audiotape that reveals who your "enemy" is. All you need to do is provide your bank account number, or reply to get further instructions.
The hit man extortion scheme was first reported by the FBI in December 2006 and quickly ruled a hoax after flooding thousands of e-mail accounts across the country. It died down in 2007 but has re-emerged with a vengeance in recent months.
The latest wave of hit man e-mails has generated about 1,000 complaints to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), says FBI spokesman Paul Bresson.
The scammers—most likely based outside the , judging from the spelling and grammatical errors riddling their e-mails, says Bresson—buy e-mail addresses in bulk and send their generic threats to thousands of accounts at a time.
The aim is to get a response from you. Even if your reply says that you intend to notify authorities about the threat, the scammers at least know they have reached a live account. The FBI says they could then contact you again, intensifying their scare tactics by divulging more of your personal information, such as your employer or home address, which has been gleaned from your response or purchased from personal information brokers.
"The important thing to keep in mind here is not so much the individual scam, but the awareness of variations of scams designed to make the recipient take action that will usually result in the loss of money," says Bresson. "Providing any personal information in response to an unsolicited e-mail can compromise your identity and open you to identity theft."
Never reply to a hit man. Instead, notify the IC3 at www.ic3.gov.
For more information on preventing e-mail or other information-seeking scams, visit www.lookstoogoodtobetrue.com, a site run by the FBI with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and other business partners.
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Seven Students Receive Legal Education Awards
Conyers Dill & Pearman has rewarded seven Bermudian students with their annual legal education award, saying that "given the calibre of applications received, the Firm was delighted to increase the number of recipients, which typically includes between two to four students."
"We congratulate this year's recipients", said David Astwood, Director. "It is gratifying to increase the number of awardees and to contribute to the success of a growing number of Bermudians studying law overseas".
This year's bursary winners included:
- Hailey Edwards
- Rachel Tucker
- Amber Farrington
- Mathew Nester
- Ashley Bento
- Ligaya Sanchez-Wilson
- Robyn Meredith
"Investing in future talent resides at the core of Conyers' vision. In addition to the Legal Education Award, we provide leading work placement programmes for students and graduates," the company said.
"This year, 15 Bermudians were enrolled in the Firm's summer law programme.
"Our programmes are designed to support the personal and professional development of law students and remain unmatched in Bermuda. We go beyond to design an experience that offers practical training, where participants work on real client projects, are mentored by our lawyers and are included in everyday life at the Firm.
"We are proud to continue to recognise such exceptional talent", said Lisa Spencer-Arscott, Head of Human Resources. "Conyers is committed to enriching the legal community in Bermuda in the long-term and recognises the importance of creating hands-on experiences for students that will have a direct impact on their future".
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The title of Philip Pardi's stunning first collection of poems, "Meditations on Rising and Falling," bears close reading. The work's "meditative" quality recalls such contemporary poets as Robert Hass or Charles Wright. And yet Pardi's particular meditation does not involve a Zenlike retreat from worldly concerns such as economics or politics, but a deeper attention to them. His eye moves gracefully from the lovers in a corner of a bar playing tic-tac-toe on a windowpane to the "bare backs" of roofers "glistening like stones."
Pardi writes from—as well as beyond—William Wordsworth's famous call to present "ordinary things" in an "unusual way." And while Pardi seems as comfortable as Wordsworth naming and noticing the flowers and fauna of the natural world, Pardi also reminds us that it is not just the bird in flight that rises and falls, but economic fortunes. Wordsworth worried that news of the "great national events" of his day would produce a "thirst after outrageous stimulation," and saw poetry as a salve against such agitation. Having worked as both a human rights activist in Central America as well as a labor organizer in upstate New York, Pardi uses his poems to present the "subtleties," even beauty, of such events, whether they be issues of labor or immigration, politics or law.
Pardi reminds us not only of the sweetness of peaches in our "watery mouths" but of "those hands that can toss one hunch/ after another into baskets."
Our conversation took place over two days via e-mail and telephone from his home near Woodstock, NY, and mine in Dallas, TX.
Susan Briante: The poems in your first collection remind me of Robert Hass's work—if Hass spent his time hanging around construction sites or with field hands. Many of the poems in your book "Meditations on Rising and Falling" seem to come from personal labor experiences and your work with immigrant communities. Can you say something about the experiences that have had the greatest influence on your work? What led you to become a poet in the first place?
Philip Pardi: Before I turned my attention fully to writing poems, I spent maybe fifteen years working as an activist, partly in the field of human rights and partly in the field of labor organizing.
I spent several years in El Salvador, during the last years of the civil war, in the early 1990s, working with a group called Peace Brigades International. Our work was to accompany Salvadoran activists; we were "armed" with cameras to provide an international presence or accompaniment for them in their work, the idea being that our very presence gave them some measure of safety. The last thing the military governments wanted was for an American (or European) to be witness to any repression, because they relied heavily on foreign aid and arms.
When I returned, I was interested in working in Spanish on some issue related to organizing, and that's when I got involved working with migrant farm workers in the Hudson Valley of New York. Looking back on those years, I find it interesting that I was writing the whole time. Writing sustained me, in many ways. But it wasn't until later that writing became the center of my day, the primary way I chose to engage with the world and with myself. In a real sense, my heroes in the world are all political activists, people who live their lives in the service of others, fighting the good fight
I continue to think that that kind of work is essential, sacred even. Personally, I burned out, couldn't keep up with the need—real human need—that filled my days. Partly it was exhaustion, but it was also something else. In political work, you really need to keep things simple, keep the message clear. If you're suing a farm owner for mistreating his workers, there isn't much room for understanding the owner's plight—you owe it to the workers to pursue justice on their behalf. That, at least, was my experience of it. So when I burned out and returned to writing poetry, it was partly a desire to honor the subtleties of the world. But I'm not sure I've quite forgiven myself for ceasing to be an activist.
SB: Do you think that there's a kind of activism that's present or intrinsic to the act of making poetry? Is it possible in some kinds of poetry and maybe not others? Or do you think that poets like to pretend that there is an "activism" to deal with their own guilt for writing poetry in the midst of war, injustice, etc.
PP: I think activists are the heart and soul of a free society, and by activists I mean the people who have their hands on the tools needed to keep the people in power honest. The only rule I've seen fulfilled pretty much everywhere is that power corrupts. I'm skeptical about political poetry in our current atmosphere. I mean if you are writing in Stalinist Russia or McCarthy America, sure, the power of speaking out—and thus the responsibility to speak out—are great. It's not that I'm against poems that engage politically, but that I think it's not enough. Being a political poet isn't about writing poems against Bush and Cheney, it's about living a political life in big and small ways— walking picket lines, boycotting Styrofoam, supporting labor struggles wherever you can, confronting racism, not letting anyone think it's okay to mistreat the planet. Poems can be a part of that, but only a part. We need to engage.
Of course, right now there is a great poverty of compassion, so even a love poem might be worth its weight in gold. And some politically engaged poems are transformative. When I heard Naomi Shihab Nye read last month, I felt chills, we all did. I'm sure that I left the room a better person, more likely to rush into a burning building to save someone, less likely to let someone nearby mistreat another person or nature. Maybe I even felt more hopeful from the camaraderie I felt. That is Naomi's particular genius.
SB: You write: "We watch as if watching could save us, but we ought to fear being a witness. We ought to know what a witness must do." (79) What should be the relationship between poetry and witness? What is that relationship in your work or the work of poets whom you admire?
PP: I suppose I think that witnessing is vital—it's better than closing our eyes or pretending not to see what we see. But at the same time, ideally, witnessing is a first step, a seed. Witnessing can lead to understanding, to action, to compassion, to many things. It can work "against forgetting," as [Carolyn] Forche's anthology is titled.
Now, poetry is just one medium through which we can witness. When I read, say, [Czeslaw] Milosz, I experience not just a glimpse of what he saw but also a profound call to be human, to act humanly, in response to what he saw. He works with what he saw—otherwise, witnessing can lead to detachment, too, can't it?
SB: Yes, I think you hit on a very important point here: witnessing is not enough. In her book, Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag really investigates the limits of witnessing. She's particularly focused on the photographic medium and our sense that when we "see" an atrocity we are apt to react to it. Yet despite the many photographs we can conjure up as images that changed policy, she also highlights the many examples of knowledge, of witnessing, that did not change our policies.
She also works through all of the nuances of that response. For me, I think one of the most devastating lines of that book is: "As far as we feel sympathy, we are not accomplices."
All of this, I think, goes back to what you were saying earlier about the relationship between art and activism, and the importance of realizing that they are not the same.
PP: I'm glad you mentioned Sontag, as her work and her example are important to me. There's also a story about how some war movies— supposedly "anti-war movies," like Apocalypse Now—are used to get US troops psyched up before going into combat in Iraq. Image isn't enough. To me, what's important is the call to be engaged and to be human, and to be the best that a human can be. The poems that nurture us in this way, to me, are essential. But they can't simplify the world in the process. We can't, for example, just be anti-war, period.We need to understand the part of us that goes off to war so easily, so compliantly. When I was in El Salvador, there were times I was so angry I wanted to pick up a gun—it sounds silly now, all these years later. But I've never forgotten that feeling, how there was, at that moment, no sense of "the other" within me. Poetry can do many things, and I don't want to sound like I think poetry must do this or that, but one thing it can do is help us to understand what it means to be human.
SB: There's an interesting element in your work in regards to the use of the lyric "I". It is the voice of a "traditional" poet-speaker (if that term even makes sense at this moment), one that's not unfamiliar to readers of poetry in the twentieth century. Yet it is a speaker who works to draw attention to himself as author/poet. I'm thinking here of the moment in your poem "Three Meditations" when, after describing a storm that blew the laundry from the line, you write: "No let's not kid ourselves—// the line came first. Sitting at my desk, I thought: after a storm, stars appear. There were no socks, no wet commas."
In other words, while the lyric "I" speaks from a central, witnessing subjectivity, he's always reminding us of the "man behind the curtain," highlighting the fact that the poemis an artifice.Why choose such a strategy?
PP: I'm uneasy when I think I feel or sound certain. That poem comes close to laying down some truths, it seems to me. Calling attention to the "I" behind the poem is one way of saying, you know, this is just one man's truth—it's a created truth. It veers toward saying "this is what I think is true" rather than toward "this is true."
SB: You are also a translator. Tell us about that work and about the relationship between translation and poetry.
PP: I'm translating the work of two poets from Spanish into English. One is the Mexican poet Jaime Sabines, whose work has already been translated by the likes of Philip Levine and W.S. Merwin. But they pretty much ignored, or excerpted, Sabines's longer poems, and so I am translating all of his longer poems in their entirety—I have a great fondness for long poems in general, and his in particular. Along the way I've translated some shorter ones, too, just for fun or to share with friends. He's a great poetic soul.
The other poet is Claudia Lars from El Salvador, probably their most beloved poet but virtually unknown outside of El Salvador. She wrote 14 books of poems in her lifetime, plus a wonderful book of short stories about growing up in rural El Salvador. She's a unique occurrence in that, while she was raised in the Salvadoran countryside and lived in El Salvador most of her life, she was also raised bilingual (her father was Irish American) and was reading Whitman and Dickinson before they were readily available in Spanish. Apparently, she translated some poems by Dickinson into Spanish, but I haven't found her translations yet. Like Sabines, she was passionately engaged with the world and committed to reckoning with it in her poetry.
I agree with David Ferry when he says that translation is the closest act of reading. To translate, you have to sit with a piece of writing until you have essentially crawled inside it. You inch your way closer, sharpening one aspect of the meaning even as you feel another aspect falling out of focus. It's a bit like learning a piece of music on the guitar—first you get one finger working in isolation, then another in isolation, and slowly you assemble the full piece by putting them all together. Translating has made me a better, closer, more respectful reader, even when I'm reading in English.
Another thing it's taught me is patience. It takes me endless drafts to feel satisfied with a translation. It's interesting to me that, if I spend the morning working on my own poems and engaged in writing a first draft, I can easily spend the afternoon translating. But if I spend my morning revising, I can't translate in the afternoon. I think that's because, in my mind at least, translation taxes the same muscles as revision -- basically, you're revising a poem where someone else did the first draft. I love revising, the endless fiddling, tweaking, scrapping, adding, abandoning, and resurrecting. So I guess it's natural that I should love translation, too. But early on I realized that if a translation takes so many drafts, then why shouldn't my own poems?
SB: I also feel that translation taught me much more than I'd ever known about English. It forces you into the language. Into the mechanics of the language in a way that nothing else does.
PP: Yes, and it forces you to make choices about those mechanics. In your own poem, you can always run from a difficult decision. But in translation, you have to make a choice.
SB: To which poets or poetics movement of the twentieth century (or even prior to) do you feel most indebted in terms of your own poetics?
PP: When I was a kid, my plan was to be a rock star, and I'd practice answering this question: "Who were your influences?" I think I used to answer in a British accent. I'm indebted to Blake. When I first read him in high school, and later in college, he helped me understand that poetry could be big. Here he was, redefining the very meanings of words like angel, God, soul, devil -- the nerve! It was affirming to see someone wrestling with the world in his poems, and that was important ballast for me somehow.
Another important presence for me was Oppen. I grew to admire his restraint, his use of what wasn't said in order to say what needed to be said, the ample white space around the jagged black of text. And also the way he evolved froma poet so attuned to perception to a poet attuned to consciousness itself. I learned something about how a poem accumulates meaning rather than merely saying what it means. The patient unfolding of a mind at work in the world.
SB: If you had to write your own poetics statement or your own manifesto, what five words do you know you would include?
PP: Yes, heart, breath, scythe, us
SB: If you had to write your own poetics statement or your own manifesto, what five words do you know you would NOT include?
PP: This question is harder. I feel comfortable with most words. But I would begin to feel nervous around a manifesto that felt too certain, too sure of itself. I'd be worried if someone started talking about truth, as in The Truth with a capital T, or Beauty with a capital B. I'm all for seeking them out—we should aim for our poems to be true—but as soon as someone says they have found them, as soon as someone starts legislating them one way or the other, I start looking for a window to sneak out of.
I'm probably naturally suspicious of manifestos, in as much as they claim to have found an answer that works for all, or that there is one way to make art or write poems, like, it should be narrative, shouldn't be narrative, should be difficult, should be accessible, should be metrical, should be free. Even where I'm tempted to agree—poetry should oppose injustice—I find myself asking, "should"? Surely the house of poetry is big enough for everyone, even those I fervently disagree with. If fascists want to write fascist poems, or Republicans want to write Republican poems, let them. Then let's argue with them over ideas, let's convince them and anyone who will listen that we are capable of so much more than the dreary roles they would cast us in.
Again, I've slipped into writing about politics. You'll have to trust me when I say that I don't think all poems should be political. It's just where my mind is at these days.
SB: Actually, I do think all poems are political in the sense that there's something "political"—or perhaps "resistant" is the better word—in the act of making a poem. I mean, writing a poem is not necessarily going to gain you anything in terms of the larger market economy. And in fact it will force you to pay a kind of attention that so much in our market-driven society works against. The average commercial isn't telling you to "stop and smell the roses" but rather to "stop in and buy our roses which will make everything smell better." So I like the resistance that comes in the act of making poetry.
I also think that every poem contains a worldview or an ideology. But maybe that's not the same as being political poetry. I guess I want to stress that I think the term "political poetry" gets a kind of bad rap. I don't want to apologize because I have "political" thoughts, as if there's this "pure poetry" that exists untainted by our political opinions. It seems to me that worrying about the war or the economy and letting those realities be part of our poetry goes back to what you named as that profound call to be human.
PP: Absolutely. I think the term political poetry is used for too many different things at this point. But there is no reason why the war, the market, or anything else can't be a part of the world we excavate in our poems, and we shouldn't be on the defensive there.
You use the word "resistant," and it reminds me of another poet I admire a great deal, Hayden Carruth. He writes in one of his essays something to the effect that we resist by way of the poem, and that unlike our other ways of resisting (by acting in the world) which are essentially negative and reactive, in poetry we create, we affirm. I think he calls it a "positive resistance."And in one of his letters to Jane Kenyon, he writes that one thing they share is having put down in their poems, so much love in the midst of so much hate and killing. That seemed good enough for him, and most days it seems good enough to me, too.
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Before I went to Rome, I knew comparatively little about Baroque sculpture and architecture. I knew the Trevi Fountain was Baroque, but if you asked me to name a single Baroque sculptor, well, I couldn't.
And then I met the work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the guy who is widely thought to have invented Baroque sculpture.
After Rome fell in the 5th century AD, Rome was a dump for the better part of a thousand years. Sure, the Pope lived there (and even so, for a while, even the Pope decided to live elsewhere, in France!), but otherwise, Rome was a nothing place. In the height of the Roman Empire, a million people lived in Rome. In the depths of the Dark Ages, maybe 10,000 people, tops.
In the 16th and 17th century, though, the Renaissance brought money and power to the Popes, and Rome again. Art and architecture started to flourish once more. Popes thought big and dreamed big and started building projects and restoration projects. Bernini, who lived in the 17th century, helped steer the course of that restoration with his style.
You've already seen the work of Bernini in this space. Remember David?
My connection to Bernini on this trip, though, started at the beginning. The Hotel I stayed at was called the Hotel Bernini.
The reason for this turns out to be because of the Piazza in front of the Hotel. The Piazza Barberini has a fountain designed by Bernini, the Fontana del Tritone.
Back to the Villa Borghese, where you saw the David. Scipio Borghese was a nephew of a Pope, and that gave him a lot of power to get what he wanted. He got to be a cardinal, for example. What Scipio really loved and wanted was art, and he collected it like crazy. He has a few pieces by Bernini, including a bust he commissioned Bernini to do of himself.
This is Pluto and Prosperina, a classic story of Greek myth. Look at the delicacy of the image, with the tear, and Pluto's fingers digging into her flesh.
This is Apollo and Daphne, the nymph who turned into a tree to avoid Apollo's amorous advances. You can see in this image that she's in the moment of transformation (look at her legs)
But like the fountain before, Bernini liked to do bigger projects. The fountains of the Piazza Navona, one of the biggest and most famous squares in Rome, are his work:
He also had a hand in the design in and around St. Peter's square.
Still, even as I was wandering around museums of Rome, I randomly came across his work.
The face of that Medusa by the way, was of his mistress. He was fighting with her at the time.
Finally, Bernini died, and was buried in one of the big churches of Rome, Santa Maria Maggiore. I didn't find his tomb, there was a church service going on at the time. Next time.


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Port St. LucieHome Menu
Becker Road Projects
With input from residents and other community stakeholders, the City of Port St. Lucie is working to define the future of the Becker Road corridor, the section between Interstate 95 and Florida's Turnpike.
Applications that affect the Becker Road Corridor:
- Large-scale comprehensive plan amendment:
- Council approved the property owner's recommendation of amending the land-use designations along the corridor as part of the Neighborhood Action Plan.
- The Comprehensive Plan Amendment was discussed with stakeholders as part of the Becker Road Overlay District which was included in section 5 of the Neighborhood Action Plan for Planning Area 4 South.
- City Council approved adopting the large-scale comprehensive plan on November 13, 2018. After which, the application was transmitted to the Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) for the final step according to state statutes.
- On December 24, 2018, the City received confirmation that the DEO received the adoption package and confirmed its compliance with state statutes. Since there were no challenges to the comprehensive plan, the application is officially approved.
- Please Note: This comprehensive plan amendment application does not change the existing zoning. This only will affect the future land use designations of the lots identified on the Proposed Becker Road Overlay of Future Land Use map.
- Becker Road Overlay District:
- The City of Port St. Lucie has been fortunate to receive a $40,000 Community Planning Technical Assistance grant from the Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO). All of this grant money was used to hire a consultant to create the Becker Road Overlay District for the City. This Overlay District is intended to support and advance the City's strategic goals of improving aesthetics and function within the Becker Road Corridor.
Staff is working on two additional applications concerning Becker Road. Both these applications are being worked on in-house and are expected to be submitted to the Planning and Zoning Board no later than April 2019. These applications are independent of each other, so they can proceed separately or together.
- Becker Road Design Standards Amendment
- With the help of a grant from DEO, the Becker Road Overlay District Design Standards (Project Number P17-178) was submitted and approved by City Council on May 14, 2018. Due to the time restraints placed on the application by the grant, staff anticipated making changes to this document to create a more comprehensive, user-friendly document. Staff is currently working on these changes. Once the Becker Road Design Standards are approved, a link will be provided to the updated design standards.
- Becker Road inclusion into Conversion Manual
- The City's intention is to include Becker Road into the conversion manual, however, this was not practicable until a comprehensive plan amendment was approved. The City adopted the land use conversion manual in 1983 to promote the assembly of small single family lots along major thoroughfares. It also promotes the development of multiple family residential housing as well as additional commercial and institutional activities on strategically located sites along major transportation corridors. The conversion manual explains the land use conversion process, available conversion options, and implementation policies. The conversion manual addresses requirements for land assembly, rezoning requirements, and related site plan and design considerations. Once the conversion manual has been adopted, a link will be provided to the updated with the conversion manual.
The City would like to thank residents and property owners who participated in the Becker Road process. The feedback from residents helped create a better plan for the City's future.
Becker Road Project Documents
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Jack Bauer Can Handle It
Posted by Ryan on January 19, 2007
CAIR (Council of American-Islamic Relations) is after the hit Fox TV series "24" after the first few episodes show what might happen if Muslim extremists got hold of a nuclear weapon and got it here to America– they'd use it! So, even in real life Jack Bauer is still being chased by Muslims bent on destroying him. Did you pick up on that? Real Life. "24" is not, but it is a damned good show that strikes a chord with many people in these times. Where were all the groups picking on the show's depiction of the Chinese or Russian bad-guys in the last few seasons?
I know CAIR thinks it's their job to make a stink about this stuff, but instead of throwing insults and potential lawsuits, why not use the show as a starting point for a dialogue about how moderate Islam is NOT reflected in the show's bad-guys? Why not use this opportunity to talk about why the fear of Muslim extremists bothers so many Americans and what we can all to to assuage those fears? Rather, they throw barbs and lawyers at a very popular show. I think CAIR's is the wrong approach, especially if they successfully lobby Fox to ultimately cancel/severely edit the show next season. Until then, I can't wait until next Monday at 9pm! Also, it's still not too late to get caught up with the show either!


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What Works News Round-Up – February 3, 2016
In the News
Here is some of the latest poverty and community development news from this past week.
Citylab (2/2/16) Are Poor Neighborhoods Worse for Boys Than Girls?
How adults in the U.S. fare economically depends, to a large extent, on the quality of the neighborhoods they grew up in. But boys and girls who live right down the street from each other don't always end up, economically speaking, in the same place.
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Sabine has been studying classical Chinese writings on medicine ever since her PhD education in Asian Studies and medical Anthropology. With a strong academic background in early Chinese philosophy, science, cosmology, and language and therefore in a historically and culturally sensitive approach to classical Chinese medicine, she now enjoys studying and teaching Chinese medicine as a living, effective, ever-changing, and much needed response to the issues of our modern times. Some of her favorite topics are gynecology and reproduction, pediatrics, medical ethics, and "nurturing life," as envisioned by the great medieval "King of Medicinals" Sun Simiao. Sabine is happiest when engaging in a dialogue with practitioners and students of Chinese medicine on how to bring this ancient wisdom to life in our modern times. Besides teaching at the School of Classical Chinese Medicine at the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon, and producing books on Chinese medicine through her publishing company, Happy Goat Productions, she is busy raising a daughter and varying numbers of dogs, chickens, goats, fruits, and vegetables.
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Our 2019 corn maze theme is Alice in Wonderland! As always, our corn maze is family-friendly.
9am-6pm SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS ONLY (including Columbus Day) at our Oswego farm, September 7th – October 27, 2019
ADMISSION for activities is a $10 wristband per person. Children 4 years and under are free. Children 12 and under MUST be accompanied by an adult.
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- 10-acre corn maze with 3 observation decks
- pedal tractors & adult pedal bikes
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- We are open rain or shine! If there is lightning, we will close outdoor activities until it passes.
- Please be respectful of our corn maze. Stay on paths and leave the corn on the stalks. Our dad will be harvesting the corn once the maze closes at the end of the season. Thanks!
- Dress for the weather! If there is recent rain, wear old shoes or boots.
- Typically our corn maze takes about an hour to complete. Kindly begin your corn maze adventure no later than 5:00pm since we close at 6:00pm.
*If you get hungry while you are visiting us, we offer many concession stand items to choose from — APPLE CIDER DONUTS, gourmet popcorn, brats, hot dogs, chips, hot pretzels, nachos, hot & cold drinks, and fudge! NO OUTSIDE FOOD, DRINKS, OR COOLERS ALLOWED.
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Goldman Sachs is abandoning on-campus interviews for undergraduates at elite schools and will now ask students to use pre-recorded interviews to pitch for a job at the bank.
The Wall Street bank announced the new initiative last Thursday along with a range of other innovations it says will make its recruitment more consistent and rigorous, the Financial Times reported.
Under the new approach, candidates from any school will use a video platform interview programme called HireVue, to make their first impression with the bank.
Goldman recruits from 400 schools globally, of which 225 are in the United States. But more than half of the undergraduates it traditionally hires comes from a group of less than 50 "target" schools, including prestigious Ivy League colleges.
Russell Horwitz, co-chief operating officer of the securities division at Goldman pointed out top executives at the bank who have succeeded despite not graduating from the Ivy League.
Chief financial officer Harvey Schwartz attended Rutgers University, while chief operating officer Gary Cohn attended American University, he said.
The bank has lately found that students from places like Harvard and Yale might be less likely to stick with the firm over the long term, with many bolting to other jobs after just two years, Horwitz told The Wall Street Journal.
If recruiters are "going to invest the time to attract people, they want to make sure they're getting a higher likelihood of people being here longer and having a strong career," he said. "Having access to a broader funnel of candidates, and thinking differently about experience and background, is just a better investment."
Mike Desmarais, global head of recruiting, said the bank is also changing the interview protocol and will use standardised questions that will allow for better comparisons among the candidates.
As for resumes, he said, the firm is using technology to scan them for certain words and experiences that it has found are good barometers of a person's success at Goldman and is exploring using a personality questionnaire as part of the recruiting process, CNBC reported.
The bank insisted the new approach was not being taken in response to difficulties it faced in hiring and retaining talent.
The new strategy also does not mean Goldman will abandon its relationship with elite schools. The firm will still have an on-campus presence at these schools, but technology will allow it to reach a much bigger pool of people who are interested in working at the firm.
JP Morgan uses the similar programme for its retail bank hiring.
After passing the video screening, second-round candidates are invited to a 'structured interview' where questions will be more prescriptive to allow for candidates responses to be more easily benchmarked against each other. The changes will go into effect in July when undergraduate recruiting kicks off.
"The number one priority is how do we find more terrific people that are potential candidates for the firm," said Edith Cooper, global head of human capital management at the bank.
"Leveraging technology will help you get to more places."
Cooper insisted that the new system would not be something candidates could learn to game. "If you go in there with a script because that's what everyone says you're supposed to say it doesn't take long for people to figure out what it is."
Darren Tay, Director, BTI Consultants thinks it is a smart move by the bank to open up the hiring pool to people from different backgrounds. "Today's companies want to be see as an equal opportunity employer. They don't want to be seen as focusing only on the elite schools. It enhances the employers brand by giving everyone a chance," he said.
He noted Google also made a similar change to their hiring strategies two years ago by opening up to candidates that do not have an Ivy League background.
An advantage of opening job application is that the high-achievers from famous schools tend to lack intellectual humility- the willingness to learn.
"Smart people tend to think they know it all and that prevent them from learning. People who are not from elite background tend to be more adaptive to learning that is important for the company to grow," said Tay.
Nick Lambe, managing director of Links International pointed out a number of the bank's senior management did not attend Ivy League universities. Therefore there is a strong belief that people with such background might not necessarily always be the best people to run a bank.
"I don't think we should read too much into this (the new hiring process) with respect to Goldman's talent pool. They will still only accept the best of the best, but this talent pool will have a more diverse background and therefore this may challenge the status quo within the bank and potentially produce better results.," he said.
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Eskisehir has become one of the most popular cities of our country in recent years with its rich options for sightseeing.
Eskisehir can be reached by high speed train or highway in important cities such as Bursa, Ankara and Istanbul. This is one of the important factors that make the city moving day and night.
In this article, I will explain all the places that should be visited in our country's popular, beautiful city.
What to do in Eskisehir?
Eskisehir Places to Visit & Important Tips
- Historic Odunpazarı Area
- Odunpazarı Houses
- Porsuk Stream and Islands Region
- Sazova Science Art and Culture Park
- Kursunlu Mosque and Complex
- Eskişehir Zoo & ETİ Underwater World
- Atlıhan Handicrafts Bazaar
- Eskisehir Wax Sculptures Museum
- Kentpark
- Eti Archeology Museum
- Waterfall Park
- Tasbasi Bazaar
- Two September Street
- Doctors Street
- Esminyatürk Masterpieces of the Turkish World
- Haller Youth Center
- Turkish World Science Culture Art Center
- Aladdin Mosque
- Museum of Contemporary Glass Arts
- Revolutionary Car
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Although I have the chance to visit many parts of the world, I am extremely happy to live in this beautiful city.
Touristic, extremely safe, quiet but 2-3 days is more than enough for me to visit this beautiful city where you can find most things you need. I will share various information, advice and photos about the most important places to visit in the city during the Eskişehir Attractions article but pay attention to these beforehand;
Where to stay? The historical Odunpazarı area, the Adalar area around the Porsuk Stream and the lively Bağlar area are the most popular places to stay. Details Where to stay in Eskisehir You can read my article.
Hotel recommendations: Some of the most popular hotels in Eskisehir: 3 ★ Hilton Garden Inn, 4 ★ Divan Express Eskisehir Hotel and 5 ★ Tasigo Hotels Eskisehir Bademlik Termal
Note: I generally make my hotel reservations from Booking.com, but as you know, reservations cannot be made from hotels in Turkey.
The most striking part of the Odunpazari area is undoubtedly the Historical Odunpazari Houses. These buildings, which were shown among the oldest houses of the city until recently, are good examples of traditional Ottoman civil architecture.
After the restoration works in the region recently, the houses gained a completely different face. Although most of the houses are still used for accommodation, some of the houses now serve as boutique hotels, cafes, restaurants, museums and souvenir shops.
Obviously, this is one of the places that I enjoy visiting in Eskişehir. Wandering between historic houses takes you on a journey in time.
The longest tributary of the Sakarya River, Porsuk Stream passes through Eskişehir. As you can see on the map, Porsuk passes through many points of the city. The most famous of these is the region called "Islands tarafından by the locals. This map is located in the northern part. Parallel to Doctors Street.
There are many cafes and restaurants around Porsuk Stream. Gondola and boat tours organized in the spring and summer months, where the weather is nice, adds a special beauty to the region.
Although many parks have been built in Eskişehir in recent years, Sazova Park is undoubtedly the most famous one. Science, Art and Culture Park is located on the Eskişehir-Kütahya road. Especially for families with children can have a very enjoyable time in the park is really big and there are many sections that may interest you.
Fairy Tale Castle, Pirate Ship, Eskişehir Zoo, ETİ Underwater World, Japanese Garden, Sabancı Space House, Science Culture Center, Esminyatürk, Eskişehir Culture Center such as Turkish World Culture Center are among the most important places in our park.
If you want to explore the points of interest in the park in detail, you can spend your day in the park without exaggeration.
The Kurşunlu Mosque, located in the Odunpazarı region, is one of the historical and important religious buildings of Eskişehir. The mosque part of the complex, which was built by Shepherd Mustafa Pasha in 1525, is still one of the important religious buildings of the city.
Other parts of the complex; Meerschaum Museum, Handicrafts Bazaar, Osman Yaşar Tanaçan Photography Museum and Hot Glass Blowing Workshop.


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Migration is "an expression of the human aspiration for safety, dignity, and a better future" but also "source of divisions within and between States and societies." Migration and displacement can affect education, requiring systems to accommodate those who move and those left behind—but also those with migrant backgrounds who do not speak the language of instruction at home. Education can also affect migration and displacement. It is a major driver in the decision to migrate. It is also key to providing citizens with critical understanding; promoting cohesive societies; and fighting prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination. To address the challenges of migration and displacement, all 193 UN member states signed the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants in September 2016 to strengthen and refine responsibility-sharing mechanisms. This 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report reviews global evidence on migration, displacement, and looks at migration and displacement through the eyes of teachers and education administrators faced with the reality of diverse classrooms, schoolyards, communities, labour markets, and societies. It aims to answer two questions:
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BUDAPEST -- Mercedes' plant in Kecskemet, Hungary, was hit by a two-hour strike on Wednesday involving 80 workers demanding higher wages and threatening a further walk-out if a deal is not agreed.
The automaker said production was going on as scheduled despite the disruption.
Mercedes builds its B class and CLA compact cars in Hungary, according to the Automotive News Europe plant assembly map.
Bela Balogh, president of the Vasas trade union said the workers went on strike in the assembly hall, delaying the shipment of 50 cars.
"We also want the [production] targets to be met as we trust that we can agree on the wage increase," he told Reuters.
"[But] the strike committee continues to work and we are ready to go on strike again if needed," he added.
Vasas, the biggest trade union at the plant and in the Hungarian automotive industry, wants a 15 percent wage increase for 2017 and rejected a wage deal reached by the company with a smaller union, Balogh said.
"That agreement was premature," he said, adding that a national deal on wages struck by the government and employers on Tuesday opened further room for Mercedes, on top of its earnings and business outlook, to increase wages.
The deal includes cuts in corporate and payroll taxes and the government said employers should boost wages in return, to help reverse a flight of labor into richer EU members. "We are likely to see wage hike claims across the entire automotive sector," Balogh said.
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Mercedes employs about 4,000 people in the country and produced 180,000 cars last year, making it the country's fourth-biggest exporter. The unit posted 66 million euros in after-tax profits in 2015.
Other companies in Hungary's automotive industry include Audi and Suzuki.
The sector accounted for more than a quarter of Hungary's total industrial output last year. The production and exports of cars, run by foreign owners, is a key driver of economic growth in the eastern European Union member where wages for skilled workers are well below Western European levels.


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Robert Bahns appointed Chief Financial Officer, WaveOptics
London, 25 March 2019 – WaveOptics, the leading designer and manufacturer of diffractive waveguides, has appointed Robert Bahns as Chief Financial Officer. He joins the business' executive team.
Robert has over 20 years experience in venture capital, focusing on investments in hardware and electronics.
Most recently Robert was a Technology Partner at IP Group plc, the London-listed developer of IP-based businesses, which is a significant shareholder in WaveOptics, where he was a board director. From 2005 to 2017 he was the Director of Technology Ventures at Touchstone Innovations (acquired by IP Group), where he led the A round investment in WaveOptics in 2015.
Prior to this, Robert spent five years in the Technology Investment team at Nomura International plc, where he led investments in the communications technology and electronics sectors.
Robert trained as an electronics engineer and worked in Japan for Pioneer Electronics Corporation, establishing the company's first manufacturing facility in the UK.
David Hayes, CEO WaveOptics, commented;
"Robert brings a wealth of financial management experience, an investor perspective, as well as in-depth knowledge of the business, having been involved in WaveOptics since our first funding round. His appointment further increases the depth and expertise of our senior management team.
"Robert will be a key member of the executive team as we continue to diversify and position our business internationally to take advantage of the opportunities in the growing AR market."
Robert Bahns, CFO commented on his appointment:
"I have seen WaveOptics make remarkable commercial and technical progress since the investment round in October 2015, and become a leading player in the AR market.
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Art Inspiration: meow or woof?
Growing up, my artist mom taught me to notice design in the unlikeliest of places. Odd places like the marks grass makes on a bare knee; the stretched shadow of a chain link fence; or the intricate pattern that traces the rind of any melon. The idea was inspiration is everywhere. All you had to do was look.
Toilet paper rolls by Studio Zerbey Architecture + Design Image via Houzz
So I started looking and, over the years, I developed a thing for off-beat art.
This painting of doughnuts hangs, in all its gilded frame glory, in our kitchen. Unconventional subject matter for an oil painting to be sure; but to me, that's its appeal.
I gravitated towards quirky art.
40″ x 50″ (in other words, very big) abstract acrylic of a paper bag. It was given to me by a generous friend and now hangs center stage in our living room.
And irreverent art–and, apparently, art with food as its subject–gets me every time.
Large acrylic bacon painting in our living room by the talented Lyn Gianni (but I call her Mom").
I think one of the most important things about a piece of art is it should speak to you.
Eclectic Bedroom by Los Angeles Photographers Alex Amend Photography Image via Houzz
And the other day, I thought perhaps it should say, "Meow."
Here's the part where I need to tell you I'm nearing the finish line on the living room design for a client who adores her cat. That this client thinks her cat is wonderful and I think my client is wonderful and I need to find her art that is as neat as she is. Ho-hum won't cut it. And that the other day, while I was brainstorming what piece we should hang over her sofa, I had an idea.
Brace yourself. It's a wild one.
We could take a photo of her cat in black and white, enlarge the image until it was huge (as in ginormously, jaw-droppingly large), frame it and hang it above said sofa.
I know. Weird right? Crazy? Maybe. Admittedly, I wasn't entirely sold on the idea myself until a few days later my mom and I happened to be strolling down Main street in Ventura and we spotted this window display outside a thrift store that raises money for pets in need.
It was my wacky idea come to life.
And I loved it! Unfortunately, the owners of the thrift store felt the exact same way so they weren't willing to part with any of the photographs but they did tell me a local artist took them and that the images were processed locally. And that's where the information stopped. Neither owner could remember the who or the where. But that's what the internet is for. If my client decides she likes this idea, I'll let my fingers do the…typing.
Note: Costco will enlarge a photo of your choice and print it on stretched canvas for a nominal charge so there's always that option. (See below.)
But back to that black and white photography.
This is a case of "You had to be there" because no matter how I tried to position my body or angle my lens, I could not capture the scale of these pet photos. This is frustrating because it's their overblown–well beyond life-size–largesse that took them from ordinary pet portraits to something so fun it verged on pop art.
Later the same day, we ate at a Thai food restaurant that featured this large design on one wall.
I think this ideas has some major potential. I'm not saying it's perfect–far from. The scale of the fake flowers is off and the faux flora is beyond dreadful and someone should tell them to put the Christmas balls away in May–and possibly until the end of time. But, what if, for example, they used some realistic looking faux succulents at the top? I think whoever created this brilliantly devised an inexpensive way to give a large wall some major impact and I'm filing this idea under, "Maybe–with some tweaking."
Don't worry, I'm not even close to considering painting large bottles on my client's wall. Or incorporating a Cat-zilla sized image as shown below. But notice how the scale is what takes this image from cute to imposing. For better or worse, in this example.
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If my client does decide to go in this direction, I'm proposing a scale similar to this…
Modern Dining Room by San Francisco Interior Designers & Decorators Jennifer Kesteloot Image via Houzz
Minus the lime green. I prefer a white wall as a backdrop for art.
Contemporary Home Office by New York Interior Designers & Decorators Duane Kaschak, ID Image via Houzz
Definitely not purple. 🙂
How about you? Are you willing to call out, "Say Tuna!" or "Say beef bone!" to get Whiskers or Fido to pose for a larger-than-life-sized portrait? If so, do share the results!
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Buddy DesktopMic 7G Push to Talk (for Motorola MIP-5000 System) with FilteredAudio Technology
Designed especially with Motorola MIP-5000 Dispatch Console users in mind, the red button in the base has been modified to act as a Push-To-Talk button. Hardware modifications include a bright red light on the right side of the push button that illuminates when the button is down and the Push-To-Talk function has been activated. Plug & Play design means there or no additional drivers or software necessary. The base includes a one-touch toggle Press-to-Talk switch with easy-to-see indicator lights turns on when the PTT push button is down. The microphone is a beautiful matte-black with a solid metal construction, built for both appearance and durability. The especially designed stylish heavy metal base is stable enough to keep the gooseneck from tipping over even at full extension, while light enough for effortless maneuvering and portability. The Gooseneck is 18 inches long and flexible enough to retain its shape in almost any reasonable position. This provides the user an amazing amount of flexibility to position the microphone at virtually any angle with ease.
Designed specifically for Motorola Dispatch Consoles such as MIP 5000
Push to Talk functionality, Plug & Play means no need for additional drivers or software
FilteredAudio technology for industry leading embedded noise cancellation
Rugged, durable design with Push to Talk functionality
Made from high-quality materials with durable, heavy-duty and adjustable 18″ (45 cm) gooseneck (overall height 20″)
Plug & Play
High quailty unidirectional microphone element
Crystal clear voice capture
DIMENSIONS: 6 × 6 × 10 in
WEIGHT: 1.5 lb
BDK: Yes
Customizable: Yes
Desktop: Yes
Detachable: Yes
Cable Height: 18"
Cable Length: 8'
Microphone: Yes
MyBuddyMic: Yes
Speaker: No
Type: Desktop
USB: Yes


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10 Terrifying Seconds Show Why All Police Need Body Cams (VIDEO)
IJReview is reporting on a piece published in Live Leak, and if you've been on the fence on body cams, this is guaranteed to convince you of their value:
"Officer Lou Golson pulled over Christopher Cook at around 2:30 AM Saturday morning (Jan 3 2015) for suspected drunk driving. Officer Golson, an Ex-Marine [Note: correct term is "former Marine"], walked up to the vehicle and Christopher Cook opened his door and started firing. The officer shot back, but missed. The Suspect then fled as Officer Golson calmly radio'd for help despite his broken femur from a gunshot wound."
Thirteen shots were fired during this encounter, eight of them by Officer Golson, after he had already been shot by the driver of the car.
There has been considerable debate within the police community as well as civilians as to whether every police officer should be equipped with a body cam. Some police see the cameras as an intrusion and indicative of a lack of trust. Some civilians feel the idea smacks of "Big Brother." But according to a recent study, wearing cameras resulted in an 88 percent decline in complaints against police, and a reduction of 60 percent in use of force by officers.
That is a clear win/win for police departments, and or citizens on the street. By the way, all respect to Officer Golson, who showed incredible presence of mind despite being injured and in pain.


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Peterborough Regional Health Centre's new learning centre has room for 100 doctors, nurses and staff and features state-of-the-art training tools and equipment.
The centre is named after Martin and Denise Pick, who donated most of the $3.1 million needed for the project.
The couple has had ties with the PRHC Hospital Foundation for more than 10 years and wanted to give back to their health care community.
"My father Otto died from his first heart attack in 1959 at the age of 54," said Martin on Tuesday during the official opening.
Nancy Martin-Ronson, PRHC's vice-president and chief nursing executive, say the centre is a major step for the hospital.
"The opening of the learning centre is a key milestone in our evolution as a regional hospital and as a learning organization," she said in her remarks to an invited crowd of hospital staff.
PRHC President and CEO Dr. Peter McLaughlin echoed that sentiment.
"When you work in health care, continuous learning is a priority, not a luxury," he said.
The 4,300-square-foot learning centre is the largest place for training clinical and support staff.
It has been in the works since 2014.
WATCH: Peterborough Public Health cracking down on vaping and e-cigarettes


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Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell is in the process of fully declassifying some of the call transcripts involving former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
"The [intelligence community] doesn't have all the transcripts/summaries….it wasn't our product," Grenell wrote on Twitter. "But I already started the declassification for the few we received. They should be released in full, though. The public deserves to see it."
Flynn recently withdrew his guilty plea, in which he admitted to lying to the FBI about the contents of his calls with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, including whether the two men discussed sanctions. Only select portions of his the transcripts have been released as part of the court proceedings in Flynn's case.
Flynn's defense attorney, Sidney Powell, on May 20 joined the call for the release of the full transcripts.
"I think the reason we haven't seen [the transcripts] is because the word 'sanctions' doesn't even appear in them," Powell told SiriusXM's "The Dan Abrams Show". "I would love to see the release of that transcript."
Flynn pleaded guilty to a list of false statements in late 2017, including ones saying that he and Kislyak discussed sanctions.
Notably, Grenell pointed out that the U.S. intelligence community is not in possession of all of the transcripts and summaries of Flynn's calls, which suggests that some of the information was collected by a foreign intelligence service.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on May 7 moved to dismiss the charges against Flynn, arguing that the FBI had no basis to conduct the interview during which he allegedly lied. The department's motion was accompanied by a trove of documents which extensively substantiate the allegation that Flynn was set up by senior Obama administration holdovers.
The judge in Flynn's case, Emmet Sullivan, has not ruled on the DOJ's motion to dismiss the case and has instead appointed an amicus curiae (Friend of Court), former federal Judge John Gleeson, to argue the case against dismissal and whether Flynn should be charged with perjury. Flynn's attorneys appealed for intervention from a circuit court, which in turn issued a rare order calling on Sullivan to explain his actions.
The release of the transcripts would be the latest in a wave of declassifications related to Flynn's case. Grenell authorized the release of a list of unmasking requests related to Flynn that included the who's-who from the top echelons of the Obama administration, including Vice President Joe Biden. Grenell also declassified a portion of an email sent by National Security Advisor Susan Rice which showed that President Barack Obama personally discussed Flynn with FBI Director James Comey and DOJ Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates at the White House on Jan. 5, 2017.
On the day prior to the White House meeting, the FBI scrambled to keep Flynn's case open even though Comey had already approved the case to be closed days earlier after the investigation yielded no evidence of alleged collusion.
Special counsel Robert Mueller, who indicted Flynn, concluded his 22-month investigation having found no evidence to establish that anyone on Trump's campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election.


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An empathetic look at a historic figure generally seen as symbolic of callous aristocracy, Rodolphe along with Annie Goetzinger's Marie Antoinette, Phantom Queen (NBM) is a period ghost story completed with stylish panache. As the artist in charge of a GN grasp of Christian Dior (), Annie Goetzinger has demonstrated an affinity for blending historic detail with much more fanciful modern stories. At Marie Antoinette, we are taken to the 1930's where Maud, a female and also moneyed widow whose stepson has been directing to take over her fortune, makes a connection in the gardens of Trianon using the restless ghost of Marie Antoinette.
Maud begins to dream that she's being directed to the guillotine, while a séance attracts the queen's apparition up for of the participants to watch after this psychic connection has been made. While her stepson works to receive her committed shortly our heroine is communicating with the phantom of this queen.
In case the contrast between also our artist and the slandered queen doesn't entirely function, it will provide scripter artist and Rodolphe Goetzinger area to examine the privileged milieu of every woman. (We even receive a brief sympathetic glance of Louis the Sixteenth.) Even more powerful are the scenes constituting death and Marie's imprisonment.
Though the lately deceased Goetzinger (she passed out in December) had a long and successful career in French comics, in America she is comparatively vague. (At this point, the only other work of hers in English is Dior, though a GN dedicated to the writer Colette is set for summer release through NBM.) That's unfortunate, because the girl was a remarkable and stylish artist. After poring over the richly left panels of Marie Antoinette, I can only hope the Colette biography is the start of a flood.
The article Book Review: "Marie Antoinette, Phantom Queen," A Graphic Novel by Rodolphe along with Annie Goetzinger appeared on Blogcritics.


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During the very energetic performance by the Ukrainian artist, Ruslana, the glass floor on which the artists perform on was damaged, and it was a case of send for the cleaners as the smashed glass was vacuumed and swept up. As a consequence their final run through was cancelled.
It was in a way fortunate for the organisers, that this "accident" occured during the final rehearsals of the day, as there will have to be a repair job done overnight! It must also raise a few questions as to what would happen if this was repeated on the live transmission of the qualifying round.
The Ukrainian performance in rehearsals has included items like whips, and is visually quite spectacular, but whether the Wild dances of Ruslana will have to be tamed reamins to be seen!


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Your 2008 Catania Elephants
American Football Team
6 Wins - 4 Losses
Well, our off the field luck continues!
In Italian Football League action last night, the Bolzano Giants completed their perfect 10-0 regular season by beating the Bologna Doves 40-13.
Additional results of Saturday night gave the Bergamo Lions an 8-2 record by beating the Ancona Dolphins 49-7 and the Parma Panthers improved to 7-2 after edging the Palermo Corsari 28-13. The Milan Rhinos and the Palermo Sharks play today in a game with no playoff implications.
Saturday's results actually put 6-4 Catania back into fourth place a half game ahead of 5-4 Bologna.
The playoff situation has now become crystal clear.
Obviously, the Bolzano Giants at 10-0 are the #1 seed and will host the #4 seed, either the 6-4 Catania or the currently 5-4 Bologna Doves on Sunday, July 6th at 8:30 p.m.
The #2 seed will be the 8-2 Bergamo Lions who will host the #3 seed Parma Panthers, currently 7-2 on Saturday, July 5th at 8:30 p.m.
Our playoff situation is simple, their will only be one game left on the IFL regular season schedule after today's Rhinos vs. Sharks game. That game will be played next Saturday, June 28, at Parma. The host 7-2 Panthers take on the 5-4 Bologna Doves. The Panthers will retain the #3 seed whether or not they win this game, a definite psychological edge to the Doves.
If the Doves win and finish with a 6-4 record identical to Catania's, they will be the #4 seed by virtue of beating us in the head-to-head meeting in our 9th game.
If the Panthers win, then the Doves finish with a 5-5 record and the Elephants would travel to beautiful Bolzano as the #4 seed. This scenario would afford my bride, Laurie, the chance to finally see us play a game as she is scheduled to arrive in Catania on July 3rd.
One more week of waiting...


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with Juraj Bulajko, Bartender of Bar and Books
Tasting of 3 SUPER-PREMIUM ABSINTHS with special ''Absinthe Fountain Service''
( St.Antoine Žufánek - 70%, Mansinthe - 66,6%, Pernod Absinthe - 68%)
History and the Beginnings of Absinthe. Differencies in taste and style of making
Classic cocktails made out of Absinthe
Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Émile Zola, Alfred Jarry, Oscar Wilde they all drunk Absinthe.
Why not you?
545 CZK per person. Event will be in English and Czech. Limited capacity, 8 seats only


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Our Middle School youth will collect the Souper Bowl Offering on Sunday, February 3. The offering was started by a youth worker in South Carolina about 30 years ago on Super Bowl Sunday as a response to a question about the money spent on the Super Bowl and hunger. The offering has grown each year with youth from different denominations receiving it in soup pots. Service projects for hunger have also become part of the tradition. Our youth ask for the generous support of the congregation for this offering to assist in paying for each of the 20,000 meals we will pack for Rise Against Hunger.
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Souper Bowl Offering
By CJ Forsing on January 30, 2019
Posted in Announcements


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With the exit of short favourite, Serena Williams it was always going to be a "long shot" that won Wimbledon on the WTA side this year, the question was how high?
In the end, Marion Bartoli completely took Sabine Lisicki apart in the Final and was the victor, having been matched as high as 810 in the markets at the start of the tournament. I am not quite sure how anyone could have had the foresight to have backed her at any odds at the start of the tournament but those who were laying her must not be feeling great about it today.
The final itself was a bit disappointing with Lisicki not putting up much of a fight, despite being 1.50 favourite. It is obviously easier to say in hindsight but I did feel the prices were a bit wrong and that, perhaps, Bartoli should have been favourite in this match since she has a bit more experience on her side. That being said, I never backed up my opinion before the match by backing her and I certainly did not expect it to be as easy as it was for her in the end.
Lisicki broke in just the first game of the match and immediately traded as low as 1.28. This is a nailed on lay at that point since with the best part of at least 2 sets still to play there is a very strong possibility the price will trade higher before the end. In the end it was proved to be a huge over reaction to a single break point but that is how the tennis markets work and long may they carry on like that!
Not sure I remember a bigger priced Wimbledon winner in recent years so this is a bit of a collectors item!
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Ryzen 7 3700X Eight Core 4.4GHz (Socket AM4) Processor 3rd Gen CPU - Retail
Upgrade your desktop to Ryzen⢠3000 Series processorsEngineered to inspire and empower gamers, streamers, and creators. AMDâs Ryzen⢠3000 Series processors, the most advanced1 desktop processors in the world, donât just perform, they are designed to ..
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The New AMD 3rd Generation Ryzen CPU Lineup
The new AMD Ryzen 3rd Gen CPUs have arrived boasting higher performance gains over its predecessor lineup. With higher speeds, more memory and wider bandwidth the new Ryzen CPUs look to improve on and upgrade the way you relax, work and play. The AMD Ryzen 7 3700X processor includes 8 CPU Cores with 16 threads and a base clock of 3.6GHz that can be boosted to 4.4GHz. The new CPU\'s are backwards compatible with older motherboards thanks to the same AM4 slot socket however with the newly released chipset of X570 motherboards you can maximize the power the Ryzen CPUs have to offer. Support for DDR4 Memory continues but with the new Ryzen CPUs comes the new PCIe 4.0 Version which has improved the speeds of which your PCIe components such as graphics cards and some storage solutions communicate with the motherboard. Blur the line between elite gaming performance and workstation-class content creation with the most advanced desktop processors in the world.
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3.6GHz Base Clock
4.4GHz Boost Clock
8/16 Cores/Threads
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CPU Model 3700X
Socket AM4
Architecture Zen 2
Manufacturing Process 7 nm
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No. of Threads 16
Clock Speed 3.6 GHz
Turbo Speed 4.4 GHz
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Bus Speeds
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Max. Memory Speed DDR4 - 3200
Max. Memory Channels Dual (2)
ECC Memory Support No
Lanes & Scalability
Scalability 1 Socket/Processor ONLY
PCIe Lanes Supported 16 (PCIe 4.0)
Integrated Graphics
Features Integrated Graphics No
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iGPU Compute Units N/A
iGPU Cores/Streams N/A
iGPU Clock N/A
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L1 Cache Â
L2 Cache 4MB
L3 Cache 32MB
Smart Prefetch Cache Â
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Beijing and Shanghai, China's two biggest cities, have received a huge number of tourists during the National Day holiday, local tourism authorities said Thursday.
A total of 15 million tourists have visited Beijing during the eight-day holiday, up 59 percent from the same period last year.
Tourism revenue in Beijing rose 3.1 percent year-on-year to a record high of 5.4 billion yuan (790 million U.S. dollars).
The grand celebration to mark the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic sparked the tourism boom as 8.2 million tourists visited the Tian'anmen Square area in the center of the Chinese capital where a massive military parade was held on Oct. 1.
In addition, China's National Stadium, also known as the "Bird's Nest", received over 220,000 domestic and overseas tourists.
Shanghai received 5.8 million tourists during the eight-day period, up 17.3 percent from last year's National Day golden week.
The Chinese financial and business center earned 4.6 billion yuan (673 million U.S. dollars) in tourism revenue, up 21 percent from the National Day holiday last year.
The holiday is usually a week-long golden week. But this year it is extended to eight days as the Mid-Autumn Festival, also a public holiday, fell on Oct. 3.


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Little to no maintenance required in this four years young beauty in centrally-located swim community, Towns Walk. The main floor is open concept, while still keeping designated areas for living. In the kitchen you'll find an upgraded backsplash and stainless appliances. Sleek, modern, dark-stained hardwoods throughout the main floor and master bedroom with custom cabinetry in kitchen and baths perfect this stunner. Up the stairs is a second living room for work or play, the sizable master en suite with a double vanity and large walk in closet, a full bathroom, and two spacious bedrooms. You'll find plenty of closet space throughout and creative garage storage. Live practically maintenance free about six miles to both downtown and Normaltown, four miles to Epps Bridge shopping, and less than three miles to award winning Timothy Road Elementary or Athens Academy. 3D tour available!
Clubhouse, Pool, Sidewalks, Street Lights
2 Car, Attached, Auto Garage Door, Garage
Cable TV Connections, Ceilings - Vaulted, Ceilings 9 Ft Plus, Double Vanity, Foyer - Entrance, Garden Tub, Hardwood Floors, Separate Shower, Tile Floors, Walk-in Closet, Carpet
Dishwasher, Microwave - Built In, Range/Oven, Stainless Steel Appliance
Central, Forced Air, Heat Pump, Electric, Gas
Electric, Ceiling Fan, Central, Heat Pump
Deck/Patio, Other (See Remarks), Porch
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Appetizer Recipes
Do you love to entertain or just love to snack on something before you get to the main course? Then get the party started with these appetizers.
From Sweet Potato Rounds with Goat Cheese to Rosemary Hummus to Baked Brie in Puff Pastry with Fig Jam, you will find the perfect appetizer recipe to satisfy your hunger.