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Aug. 26 webcast will focus on funding still available
On Wednesday, Aug. 26, the American Water Works Association (AWWA) will host the Stimulus Package II webcast. This webcast will focus on the stimulus funds still available, projects already funded and how the government intends to distribute funds nationwide. Attendees will learn how their city, state or utility may take advantage of this opportunity to improve their water infrastructure.
City planners, utility management, city, state, or utility financial management and mayors are encouraged to attend this highlight-focused and informational webcast.
Webcast presenters include:
• David F. Waldo, chief, Public Water Supply Section, Bureau of Water, Kansas Dept of Health & Environment;
• Peter E. Shanaghan, team leader, Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, Team Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water United States, Environmental Protection Agency; and
• Tom Curtis, deputy executive director, American Water Works Association, Government Affairs, Washington DC (Moderator).
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I understand the public relations reasons for throwing the title "Dream" onto legislation to protect and give benefits to undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children.
But I also wonder if it obscures tougher, more hard-headed arguments for such laws.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed one such dream act on Monday -- state legislation to permit undocumented California students to receive financial aid from private sources -- and indicated he'd support a related bill to make such students eligible for public financial aid.
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The arguments for doing this are often about the details of immigration; the students in question were brought here by their parents, and thus shouldn't be punished for the acts of their parents.
The better arguments for doing this are practical and economic.
By the time a student, undocumented or not, graduates high school, taxpayers have spent tens of thousands of dollars on that person's education.
With so much already invested, it's smart to go the rest of the way and help students get college degrees.
It would be even better if federal law could be altered so that such students could remain legally in the country -- so we all get the economic and human payoff of such students' work and family, which is in fact the payoff of our public investment in such students.
There's an educational goal here too.
California badly needs to increase its rate of college graduates -- a number that's been falling in the last decade.
An oft-cited study from the Public Policy Institute of California found that the state is on target to produce one million fewer college graduates than it will need by 2025 to fill its jobs.
In that context, it's counterproductive to deny access to a college degree to anyone, documented or undocumented, who is willing to work to get one.
Those critics of college aid (and college access) for the undocumented say the state is cutting support to its public universities and can't afford to educate undocumented students.
The answer to that is: yes, the state is making cutbacks, but those cuts aren't driven by immigration. They're driven by the state's broken governing system, which makes higher education the easiest piece of the budget to cut.
The existence of so many undocumented students -- and the strong economic self-interest Californians have in seeing them educated -- is an argument for fixing the governing system and reversing those higher education cuts.

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Kolo Toure has been suspended by Manchester City after testing positive for a specified substance.
"Manchester City confirm that the FA has informed Kolo Toure that an 'A-sample' provided by him has tested positive for a specified substance," said a club statement. "As result of this, he has been suspended from participating in all first team and non-first team matches pending the outcome of the legal process."
No additional information is available as of press time, and Manchester City has said it will provide no further comment at this stage. Toure, who was the former captain of Manchester City before manager Roberto Mancini handed the captain's armband to Carlos Tevez, has been an important part of Manchester City's 2010-11 season.
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For better or worse, John Carter will go down as one of the most talked-about films of 2012. The sci-fi epic was an ambitious undertaking in its conceit—a feature film adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1912 novel has eluded a multitude of filmmakers over the years—but the $250 million film served as the live-action directorial debut of Pixar's Andrew Stanton. The co-writer/director had plenty of clout in the animation world with smashing box office and critical successes like Finding Nemo and Wall-E under his belt, but John Carter was an absolutely massive live-action undertaking to cut his teeth on.
As we well know, the film was not the franchise-starter that Disney was hoping for. Reviews were mixed, but the pic opened to a dismal $30 million and went on to nab a domestic total of just $73 million through its entire U.S. run. With some distance from the pic's opening and reception, Stanton recently sat down to candidly reflect on the experience and talk about returning to Pixar for a Finding Nemo sequel. Hit the jump to see what he had to say.
Though John Carter's opening weekend was indeed bad, many had written the film off before seeing even a second of footage. Stanton was given an immense amount of creative freedom for his first live-action feature, and he came from the Pixar school of thought where the instinct is to rewrite, redo, and rework the film until it's exactly right. Stanton requested multiple reshoots for the pic early on, but when word got out that John Carter was going through "extensive reshoots," many assumed there was something seriously wrong (per the LA Times):
"There was this weird air the summer before of schadenfreude, of doomed to fail. It isn't a nice atmosphere to be in, but what can you do about it?"
More problems arose with the film's abysmal marketing campaign. Stanton wrote and shot the film under the title John Carter of Mars, but Disney decided to drop the "of Mars" in order to bring in a wider audience, even though the movie takes place on Mars. The result was a batch of confusing trailers and TV spots that didn't really tell the audience anything about the film. Stanton seems to have kept a cool head throughout, though, as he says he never got into any major arguments with the marketing department:
"We didn't always agree on which direction to take every step of the way, but there was never serious contention. The truth was everyone tried their very best to crack how to sell what we had, but the answer proved elusive."
The plan with John Carter all along was to set up the first film in a trilogy, with Stanton already outlining the other two sequels before the first film hit theaters. Sadly, the pic's box office performance has pretty much killed any prospect of seeing further films in the series. It was recently announced that Stanton will be directing a Finding Nemo sequel at Pixar as his next project, but some felt that the decision was a "let's go back to the well" reaction to John Carter's performance:
"What was immediately on the list was writing a second Carter movie. When that went away, everything slid up. I know I'll be accused by more sarcastic people that [Finding Nemo 2 is] a reaction to Carter not doing well, but only in its timing, but not in its conceit."
Though the film didn't take off as he had hoped, Stanton says that the same "empty nest" ennui that surfaces when a film does well hit him in the wake of John Carter's failure.
Personally, I thought John Carter was a damn swell adventure film and I was sad to see it not catch on with audiences. Stanton transported viewers to a completely different world with lush visuals and rich characters, and I would've loved to see him expand the universe in the subsequent sequels. He's an immensely talented guy and when he returns to the live-action world, I've no doubt that we'll be in for another treat.
Head on over to the LA Times to read the full interview, which includes thoughts from Stanton's Pixar colleagues John Lasseter and Lee Unkrich.


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Alexander Werbickas Reveals The Smart Media System Media System
Alexander Werbickas, the author of the displayed design Award Winning Smart Media System Media System explains, Wirelessly streaming any media to any device that is connected to the network is unique in today's market. The Hub acts as a central gate and also has the ability to send a split data signal to the TV and the Smart Controller. Mandatory advertisements are sent to the Smart Controller periodically while your media continues on the TV. This allows the user to gain metadata from the advertisements creating a one of a kind interaction. The transforming Smart Controller is also unique in its ability to give the user multiple options for interaction along with the Camera and Charging Dock..
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We are in full pre-Holiday mode at Chez Melvin. This primarily consists of my wife running around decorating everything that moves, so I move around a lot lest I become light-adorned. Meanwhile, I caught up with friends around the country and had one conversation with a reader who mentioned one of my favorite undiscovered growth stocks, C&J Energy Services (CJES). It is not often, he pointed out, that you find a stock with a return on equity north of 40% trading at a single-digit earnings multiple.
I took that as a challenge. Return on equity has been shown by many investors form Phil Fischer to Aswath Damodaran to be one of the more important metrics of corporate valuation. If we can buy high ROEs on sale, we should have a good chance to earn outsized profits. I sat down this morning and ran a simple high ROE, low price-to-earnings ratio screen to see what I could find.
The first thing I noticed is that this can be a dangerous model to use blindly. Many of the not-for-profit education stocks are on the list and, at first glance, qualify for a purchase. But a little additional research shows that the ROE for most of the companies has been dropping steadily. The ROE for Apollo Group (APOL), for example, peaked in 2006 and has been lower every year since. I really do not want to buy into a company where returns are declining. When looking at these types of companies, take the time to determine the trend of the return on equity. Stable works well and rising is best, but declining is to be avoided at all costs.
Back to C&J Energy Services, 80% of this company's revenues are derived from its fracking-services business, and that has kept a lid on the stock price. All of the chatter about the dangers of fracking and political posturing about green energy leads many to avoid the stock. Here is the simple truth: We may see some politicking around fracking and the environmentalists may make noise, but fracking is here to stay. It is simply too important to the economy. Cheap natural gas is now critical to the U.S. economy. Drilling in natural gas fields will begin to increase once again and C&J will see more than its share of the resulting business. This has the potential to be one of the great growth stocks of the next five years.
Another intriguing company on the list of high-earning cheap stocks is Coleman Cable (CCIX). This company doesn't make any sexy or exciting products, but its products are used every day by industry, consumers and just about every person in the country. Coleman makes cables for industrial uses, extension cords, holiday displays, light timers, and a host of other wire and cable products. The company is highly levered but generates more than enough cash flow to cover interest payments and to meet capex and production needs. It has made several smart acquisitions over the past fewer years that has expanded its product lines and offered entry into new markets. With a debt-to-equity ratio above 7, this is basically a stub stock with the potential to act like a highly profitable leveraged buyout with huge returns over the next decade.
ACCO Brands (ACCO) is another company whose product offerings are not particularly exciting but they are necessary. The company makes basic office supplies likes staplers, document shredders, accounting tools, planners and computer accessories. The company recently completed the purchase of the office products division of MeadWestvaco (MWV) and this has strengthened its market presence. The company is using cash flow to pay down debt, and it recently released expectations above analyst estimates. The basic business may not be exciting but the combination of low valuations and high returns on equity capital could lead to stunning long-term returns for patient investors.
This is a simple but potentially effective screen for growth and value investors alike. Be careful to do the homework after you run the screen and avoid those companies with declining returns. Focus on those where sustained high returns can lead to a return of multiples, not percentages.


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Ok so instead of us being able to harvest trees when we have rayman equipped they just disable it, same with plow. This is such a lazy and bad fix by the devs. Seriously, if they didnt fix onehit with this patch these devs need to be fired.
There goes 7dls worth of my slime farms . Would also not be surprised if raptor legs and speed medallion drop a ton now.


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The internet is ablaze this morning over the new Nivea total body products ad. The re-civilize ad states "Look Like You Give A Damn", showcasing a groomed African American male grasping a beheaded African American man with a full fro and facial hair. WOW.
I can see what they were trying to acheive BUT…yeah…simply ill-executed.
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a different way to read and write beauty product reviews about Teint Idole Ultra Longwear Stick by Lancôme. blushgarden provides a ratings scale for distinct criteria (based on the product's category) along with traditional comments. the scale allows reviewers to provide an in-depth review of specific aspects of a product, making writing reviews easy, fast, detailed, and fun!
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an added benefit to the scales is quickly seeing how a product might perform. you can identify that a product is rated highly for formula thickness without reading walls of text. compare and evaluate similar products based on the exact same criteria. apples to apples, if you will.
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With boffins predicting another bumper e-Xmas, officials in the UK are advising shoppers that they face import taxes and VAT if they buy pressies from overseas.
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has rather thoughtfully warned e-shoppers that buying goods that originate from outside the EU could land them with more than they'd bargained for.
That's because goods purchased over the net from countries such as the US are liable for Customs import duty (if the amount of duty is £7 and over) and VAT (if the value of the goods is £18 and over).
And it doesn't matter whether the goods are received as a gift, are new or used, or are part of a private sale. If the tax is payable then HM Customs will be after their slice.
Customs Anti-Smuggling bod Phil Colclough said the warning was meant to help e-shoppers "avoid any confusion about what tax they need to pay".
"Many people often don't realise that they have to pay charges on purchases delivered from overseas. We don't want to put people off internet shopping, where there are undoubtedly bargains to be found.
"However, we do want to make sure that online shoppers are quite clear about the full costs involved, and that there are no unpleasant surprises when the postman knocks at the door," he said Which is why HMRC added: "Don't let parcels cost you a packet." Geddit? Don't let parcels cost you a packet? Parcels. Packet. Oh, please yourself. ®


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Blackboard on Your iPhone
Did you know that you can now access your Blackboard account using your iPhone or iPod touch? Just yesterday the Blackboard Learn app became available at the app store.
Just download the app (its free), enter in the url for loyola's blackboard server (loyno.blackboard.com) and your username and password, and you are well on your way to seeing what's new, viewing class readings and keeping up with your classes even when you are away from the computer.
Don't have an iPhone? Look for the Blackboard Sync app on Facebook and stay connected that way too.


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A JAZZY MOUNTAIN STANDARD: Many a concerned eye turned to the mountain villages of San Jacinto during the fast-moving Mountain Fire in July. Idyllwild, like its neighboring communities, was evacuated July 18, which prompted many low-landers to check in on friends, businesses, and the fate of the summertime celebrations the area is known for. One event that received a number of "you doing okay?" calls was Idyllwild Jazz in the Pines, a late-summer sound fest that, yep, puts the emphasis on smooth grooves of a sax-sweet, rhythm-happy sort. Dine in the Pines and an arts and crafts fair round out the weekend.
GOOD NEWS: Jazz in the Pines reported during the fires that the festival would move forward, as planned on Saturday, Aug. 17 and Sunday, Aug. 18. In fact, this year, which is the 20th anniversary for the music party, is set to be extra sweet: Firefighters and EMTs will receive a thank you from organizers in the form of free admission. And that's all firefighters and EMTs, not just those men and women who set out to strike down the Mountain Fire.
ON THE SCHEDULE: Tunes, tunes, tunes, eating, and more tunes. Jazz legend Diane Schuur, Harvey Mason's Chameleon Project, and the Euphoria Brass Band'll play the main stage over the weekender, but there are several more outfits on the line-up. Oh, and let's mention that you'll be outside, among the cedars and pines; "Jazz in the Pines" isn't simply a cute name for the poster. A one-day ticket is $65. You'll get a lot of music for that, but, better yet, you'll get to enjoy a community that came through an intense time, with the proverbial flying colors. The sense of joy and relief, and the desire to raise the roof, will be palpable.


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Sunday, September 20, 2009
Back to Hyland's Ski Hills
I decided to head for the hills. Javelina is 6 weeks out and I haven't been to the hill since I ran Lean Horse 4 weeks ago. Time to get back at it!
I reached Hyland in the early dark morning. I strapped on my headlamp and looked for the hill I wanted. I actually saw another headlamp in the dark. I found an open gate and headed for the ski hill. Cooler with three gallons of heed, my iPod, iPhone a few gels and I was all set.
Warmed up running the hilly path for a few miles and then planted myself at the hill. My plan was to run 20 hill repeats, run a few miles on the hilly path, repeat, repeat again. I was looking for at least 18 miles.
Eventually the sun came up, a spectacular sunrise and I took off my headlamp and replaced it with my sunglasses. It was going to be a beautiful, warm day. We've had a stretch of 80's for the past two weeks. Amazing.
After 20 repeats I ran a few miles on the path to stretch my legs and noticed a half dozen of other runners out on the hills.
As I continued my repeats I noticed a man coming toward me and flailing his arms back and forth. I took out an ear but and listened to him. "BE SURE YOU DON'T RUN THE WORN PATH, THEY WON'T LET US OUT HERE IF WE ERODE IT" I explained that I had in fact read the sign that stated just what he said and showed him that I was not running on the worn path. Hello. I continued on.
He continued to let everyone know upon the hill that they should not run on the worn path..as though they could not read the sign that said exactly that. About an hour later he came up to me AGAIN, flailing arms in the air and told me again "YOU BETTER STAY OFF THE WORN PATH OR THEY WON'T LET US USE IT ANYMORE" I looked at him and nodded. Yeah, whatever. See, I'm on the grass, dude.
Finally, the third time that he approached me I took out my ear buds and said DUDE. I GET IT. YOU'VE TOLD ME THREE TIMES. HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT? I AM WEARING THE SAME CLOTHES, I'VE BEEN HERE FOR 4 HOURS SO FAR AND YOU TELL ME EVERY HOUR" Oh, he said..and walked off..
Pretty soon I notice the man with the flailing arms and loud yelling voice with a group of 30 people with poles. He is instructing them, guiding them up a less steep hill, over and over again. I don't think he needs to worry about the single runners out there eroding the path..he needs to worry about his own class and the fact that IT may be cancelled if they continue to erode the path. Sheesh.
By the time I finished all my repeats and hilly runs in between I had 25 miles in. I ran a 2 mile cool down, finished the last of my three gallons of heed and called it a day.
Until I arrived home and saw it was 75 degrees, cool enough to take Topaz for a short run! We went out for 8 miles and my calves let me know that they had enough of this business.
I returned home, showered, took the boys to play miniature golf..I won..and cooked up the roof crew a nice dinner.
Today Topaz and I ran 15 miles on the trail and by mile 11 my calves were again letting me know that they were just about finished. We walked over to the river so a good soak and jogged back to the car.
Today the guys are getting a less fussy meal..sloppy joes that I just placed into the crock pot.
Now I need to get off to the grocery store to restock my kitchen.
4 comments:
- SteveQ said...
The eight miles with the dog was more than I did, much less 25 miles of hills beforehand!
- Steve said...
Haha, gotta love hypocrites like that.
How was the construction out there. Last I was out there a month or so ago they had the top part all torn up. I know I need to hit the hills hard again after Sawtooth. I really want that red jacket. Good luck at Javelina!
- Shelly said...
I am a stay at home mom training for a marathon and I am wondering how you get everything done. I am really struggling with time and balancing life, family, sleep, running, etc. Any helpful tips would be appreciated! I really admire you for all that you have accomplished!
- Helen said...
Hilarious Julie! Though I would have run out of patience on round #2 :)
Nice work on the hills - you will be in great shape for Javelina. I have a feeling we might be hearing about another PR!!


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Cultural properties
Archaeological Heritage of the Lenggong Valley
Criteria: (iii)(iv)
Situated in the lush Lenggong Valley, the property includes four archaeological sites in two clusters which span close to 2 million years, one of the longest records of early man in a single locality, and the oldest outside the African continent. It features open-air and cave sites with Palaeolithic tool workshops, evidence of early technology. The number of sites found in the relatively contained area suggests the presence of a fairly large, semi-sedentary population with cultural remains from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Metal ages.
Bassari Country: Bassari, Fula and Bedik Cultural Landscapes
Criteria: (iii)(v)(vi)
The site, located in south-east Senegal, includes three geographical areas: the Bassari–Salémata area, the Bedik–Bandafassi area and the Fula–Dindéfello area, each with its specific morphological traits. The Bassari, Fula and Bedik peoples settled from the 11th to the 19th centuries and developed specific cultures and habitats symbiotic with their surrounding natural environment. The Bassari landscape is marked by terraces and rice paddies, interspersed with villages, hamlets and archaeological sites. The Bedik villages are formed by dense groups of huts with steep thatched roofs. Their inhabitants' cultural expressions are characterized by original traits of agro-pastoral, social, ritual and spiritual practices, which represent an original response to environmental constraints and human pressures. The site is a well-preserved multicultural landscape housing original and still vibrant local cultures.
Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem
Criteria: (iv)(vi)
The inscribed property is situated 10 km south of Jerusalem on the site identified by Christian tradition as the birthplace of Jesus since the 2nd century. A church was first completed there in ad 339 and the edifice that replaced it after a fire in the 6th century retains elaborate floor mosaics from the original building. The site also includes Latin, Greek Orthodox, Franciscan and Armenian convents and churches, as well as bell towers, terraced gardens and a pilgrimage route.
Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the Subak System as a Manifestation of the Tri Hita Karana Philosophy
Criteria: (ii)(iii)(v)(vi)
The cultural landscape of Bali consists of five rice terraces and their water temples that cover 19,500 ha. The temples are the focus of a cooperative water management system of canals and weirs, known as subak, that dates back to the 9th century. Included in the landscape is the 18th-century Royal Water Temple of Pura Taman Ayun, the largest and most impressive architectural edifice of its type on the island. The subak reflects the philosophical concept of Tri Hita Karana, which brings together the realms of the spirit, the human world and nature. This philosophy was born of the cultural exchange between Bali and India over the past 2,000 years and has shaped the landscape of Bali. The subak system of democratic and egalitarian farming practices has enabled the Balinese to become the most prolific rice growers in the archipelago despite the challenge of supporting a dense population.
Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
Criteria: (v)
Seven timber houses are listed in this site located in the east of Sweden, representing the zenith of a regional timber building tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages. They reflect the prosperity of independent farmers who in the 19th century used their wealth to build substantial new homes with elaborately decorated ancillary houses or suites of rooms reserved for festivities. The paintings represent a fusion of folk art with the styles favoured by the landed gentry of the time, including Baroque and Rococo. Decorated by painters, including known and unknown itinerant artists, the listed properties represent the final flowering of a long cultural tradition.
Gonbad-e Qābus
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Criteria: (i)(ii)(iii)(iv)
The 53 m high tomb built in ad 1006 for Qābus Ibn Voshmgir, Ziyarid ruler and literati, near the ruins of the ancient city of Jorjan in north-east Iran, bears testimony to the cultural exchange between Central Asian nomads and the ancient civilization of Iran. The tower is the only remaining evidence of Jorjan, a former centre of arts and science that was destroyed during the Mongols' invasion in the 14th and 15th centuries. It is an outstanding and technologically innovative example of Islamic architecture that influenced sacral building in Iran, Anatolia and Central Asia. Built of unglazed fired bricks, the monument's intricate geometric forms constitute a tapering cylinder with a diameter of 17–15.5 m, topped by a conical brick roof. It illustrates the development of mathematics and science in the Muslim world at the turn of the first millennium AD.
Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija
, Spain
Criteria: (ii)(iv)
The property includes the mining sites of Almadén (Spain), where mercury (quicksilver) has been extracted since antiquity, and Idrija (Slovenia), where mercury was first found in AD1490. The Spanish property includes buildings relating to its mining history, including Retamar Castle, religious buildings and traditional dwellings. The site in Idrija notably features mercury stores and infrastructure, as well as miners' living quarters, and a miners' theatre. The sites bear testimony to the intercontinental trade in mercury which generated important exchanges between Europe and America over the centuries. Together they represent the two largest mercury mines in the world, operational until recent times.
Historic Town of Grand-Bassam
Côte d'Ivoire
Criteria: (iii)(iv)
The first capital of Côte d'Ivoire, the Historic Town of Grand-Bassam, is an example of a late 19th- and early 20th-century colonial town planned with quarters specializing in commerce, administration, housing for Europeans and for Africans. The site includes the N'zima African fishing village alongside colonial architecture marked by functional houses with galleries, verandas and gardens. Grand-Bassam was the most important port, economic and judicial centre of Côte d'Ivoire. It bears witness to the complex social relations between Europeans and Africans, and to the subsequent independence movement. As a vibrant centre of the territory of French trading posts in the Gulf of Guinea, which preceded modern Côte d'Ivoire, it attracted populations from all parts of Africa, Europe and the Mediterranean Levant.
Landscape of Grand Pré
Criteria: (v)(vi)
Situated in the southern Minas Basin of Nova Scotia, the Grand Pré marshland and archaeological sites constitute a cultural landscape bearing testimony to the development of agricultural farmland using dykes and the aboiteau wooden sluice system, started by the Acadians in the 17th century and further developed and maintained by the Planters and present-day inhabitants. Over 1,300 ha, the cultural landscape encompasses a large expanse of polder farmland and archaeological elements of the towns of Grand Pré and Hortonville, which were built by the Acadians and their successors. The landscape is an exceptional example of the adaptation of the first European settlers to the conditions of the North American Atlantic coast. The site – marked by one of the most extreme tidal ranges in the world, averaging 11.6 m – is also inscribed as a memorial to Acadian way of life and deportation, which started in 1755, known as the Grand Dérangement.
Major Mining Sites of Wallonia
Criteria: (ii)(iv)
The four sites of the property form a strip 170 km long by 3–15 km wide, crossing Belgium from east to west, consisting of the best-preserved 19th- and 20th-century coal-mining sites of the country. It features examples of the utopian architecture from the early periods of the industrial era in Europe within a highly integrated, industrial and urban ensemble, notably the Grand-Hornu colliery and workers' city designed by Bruno Renard in the first half of the 19th century. Bois-du-Luc includes numerous buildings erected from 1838 to 1909 and one of Europe's oldest collieries dating back to the late 17th century. While Wallonia had hundreds of collieries, most have lost their infrastructure, while the four components of the listed site retain a high measure of integrity.
Margravial Opera House Bayreuth
Criteria: (i)(iv)
A masterpiece of Baroque theatre architecture, built between 1745 and 1750, the Opera House is the only entirely preserved example of its type where an audience of 500 can experience Baroque court opera culture and acoustics authentically, as its auditorium retains its original materials, i.e. wood and canvas. Commissioned by Margravine Wilhelmine, wife of Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg–Bayreuth, it was designed by the renowned theatre architect Giuseppe Galli Bibiena. As a court opera house in a public space, it foreshadowed the large public theatres of the 19th century. The highly decorated theatre's tiered loge structure of wood with illusionistic painted canvas represents the ephemeral ceremonial architectural tradition that was employed in pageants and celebrations for princely self-representation.
Masjed-e Jāmé of Isfahan
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Criteria: (ii)
Located in the historic centre of Isfahan, the Masjed-e Jāmé ('Friday mosque') can be seen as a stunning illustration of the evolution of mosque architecture over twelve centuries, starting in ad 841. It is the oldest preserved edifice of its type in Iran and a prototype for later mosque designs throughout Central Asia. The complex, covering more than 20,000 m2, is also the first Islamic building that adapted the four-courtyard layout of Sassanid palaces to Islamic religious architecture. Its double-shelled ribbed domes represent an architectural innovation that inspired builders throughout the region. The site also features remarkable decorative details representative of stylistic developments over more than a thousand years of Islamic art.
Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük
Criteria: (iii)(iv)
Two hills form the 37 ha site on the Southern Anatolian Plateau. The taller eastern mound contains eighteen levels of Neolithic occupation between 7400 bc and 6200 bc, including wall paintings, reliefs, sculptures and other symbolic and artistic features. Together they testify to the evolution of social organization and cultural practices as humans adapted to a sedentary life. The western mound shows the evolution of cultural practices in the Chalcolithic period, from 6200 bc to 5200 bc. Çatalhöyük provides important evidence of the transition from settled villages to urban agglomeration, which was maintained in the same location for over 2,000 years. It features a unique streetless settlement of houses clustered back to back with roof access into the buildings.
Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
Criteria: (ii)(iv)(vi)
Remarkable as a landscape shaped over three centuries of coal extraction from the 1700s to the 1900s, the site consists of 109 separate components over 120,000 ha. It features mining pits (the oldest of which dates from 1850) and lift infrastructure, slag heaps (some of which cover 90 ha and exceed 140 m in height), coal transport infrastructure, railway stations, workers' estates and mining villages including social habitat, schools, religious buildings, health and community facilities, company premises, owners and managers' houses, town halls and more. The site bears testimony to the quest to create model workers' cities from the mid 19th century to the 1960s and further illustrates a significant period in the history of industrial Europe. It documents the living conditions of workers and the solidarity to which it gave rise.
Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy
Criteria: (iii)
The site consists of seventeen buildings in Muharraq City, three offshore oyster beds, part of the seashore and the Qal'at Bu Mahir fortress on the southern tip of Muharraq Island, from where boats used to set off for the oyster beds. The listed buildings include residences of wealthy merchants, shops, storehouses and a mosque. The site is the last remaining complete example of the cultural tradition of pearling and the wealth it generated at a time when the trade dominated the Gulf economy (2nd century to the 1930s, when Japan developed cultured pearls). It also constitutes an outstanding example of traditional utilization of the sea's resources and human interaction with the environment, which shaped both the economy and the cultural identity of the island's society.
Rabat, Modern Capital and Historic City: a Shared Heritage
Criteria: (ii)(iv)
Located on the Atlantic coast in the north-west of Morocco, the site is the product of a fertile exchange between the Arabo-Muslim past and Western modernism. The inscribed city encompasses the new town conceived and built under the French Protectorate from 1912 to the 1930s, including royal and administrative areas, residential and commercial developments and the Jardins d'Essais botanical and pleasure gardens. It also encompasses older parts of the city dating back to the 12thcentury. The new town is one of the largest and most ambitious modern urban projects built in Africa in the 20th century and probably the most complete. The older parts include Hassan Mosque (begun in 1184) and the Almohad ramparts and gates, the only surviving parts of the project for a great capital city of the Almohad caliphate as well as remains from the Moorish, or Andalusian, principality of the 17thcentury.
Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea
Criteria: (v)(vi)
The site consists of an exceptional urban setting encompassing the key natural elements that have shaped and inspired the development of the city: from the highest points of the Tijuca National Park's mountains down to the sea. They also include the Botanical Gardens, established in 1808, Corcovado Mountain with its celebrated statue of Christ, and the hills around Guanabara Bay, including the extensive designed landscapes along Copacabana Bay which have contributed to the outdoor living culture of this spectacular city. Rio de Janeiro is also recognized for the artistic inspiration it has provided to musicians, landscapers and urbanists.
Site of Xanadu
Criteria: (ii)(iii)(iv)(vi)
North of the Great Wall, the Site of Xanadu encompasses the remains of Kublai Khan's legendary capital city, designed by the Mongol ruler's Chinese advisor Liu Bingzhdong in 1256. Over a surface area of 25,000 ha, the site was a unique attempt to assimilate the nomadic Mongolian and Han Chinese cultures. From this base, Kublai Khan established the Yuan dynasty that ruled China over a century, extending its boundaries across Asia. The religious debate that took place here resulted in the dissemination of Tibetan Buddhism over north-east Asia, a cultural and religious tradition still practised in many areas today. The site was planned according to traditional Chinese feng shui in relation to the nearby mountains and river. It features the remains of the city, including temples, palaces, tombs, nomadic encampments and the Tiefan'gang Canal, along with other waterworks.
Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: The Nahal Me'arot / Wadi el-Mughara Caves
Criteria: (iii)(v)
Situated on the western slopes of the Mount Carmel range, the site includes the caves of Tabun, Jamal, el-Wad and Skhul. Ninety years of archaeological research have revealed a cultural sequence of unparalleled duration, providing an archive of early human life in south-west Asia. This 54 ha property contains cultural deposits representing at least 500,000 years of human evolution demonstrating the unique existence of both Neanderthals andEarly Anatomically Modern Humans within the same Middle Palaeolithic cultural framework, the Mousterian. Evidence from numerous Natufian burials and early stone architecture represents the transition from a hunter-gathering lifestyle to agriculture and animal husbandry. As a result, the caves have become a key site of the chrono-stratigraphic framework for human evolution in general, and the prehistory of the Levant in particular.
New Inscribed Properties
Natural properties
Chengjiang Fossil Site
Criteria: (viii)
A hilly 512 ha site in Yunnan province, Chengjiang's fossils present the most complete record of an early Cambrian marine community with exceptionally preserved biota, displaying the anatomy of hard and soft tissues in a very wide variety of organisms, invertebrate and vertebrate. They record the early establishment of a complex marine ecosystem. The site documents at least sixteen phyla and a variety of enigmatic groups as well as about 196 species, presenting exceptional testimony to the rapid diversification of life on Earth 530 million years ago, when almost all of today's major animal groups emerged. It opens a palaeobiological window of great significance to scholarship.
Lakes of Ounianga
Criteria: (vii)
The site includes eighteen interconnected lakes in the hyper arid Ennedi region of the Sahara desert covering an area of 62,808 ha. It constitutes an exceptional natural landscape of great beauty with striking colours and shapes. The saline, hyper saline and freshwater lakes are supplied by groundwater and are found in two groups 40 km apart. Ounianga Kebir comprises four lakes, the largest of which, Yoan, covers an area of 358 ha and is 27 m deep. Its highly saline waters only sustain algae and some microorganisms. The second group, Ounianga Serir, comprises fourteen lakes separated by sand dunes. Floating reeds cover almost half the surface of these lakes reducing evaporation. At 436 ha, Lake Teli has the largest surface area but is less than 10 m deep. With their high quality freshwater, some of these lakes are home to aquatic fauna, particularly fish.
Sangha Trinational
, Central African Republic
, Congo
Criteria: (ix)(x)
Situated in the north-western Congo Basin, where Cameroon, Central African Republic and Congo meet, the site encompasses three contiguous national parks totalling around 750,000 ha. Much of the site is unaffected by human activity and features a wide range of humid tropical forest ecosystems with rich flora and fauna, including Nile crocodiles and goliath tigerfish, a large predator. Forest clearings support herbaceous species and Sangha is home to considerable populations of forest elephants, critically endangered western lowland gorilla, and endangered chimpanzee. The site's environment has preserved the continuation of ecological and evolutionary processes on a huge scale and great biodiversity, including many endangered animal species.
Western Ghats
Criteria: (ix)(x)
Older than the Himalaya mountains, the mountain chain of the Western Ghats represents geomorphic features of immense importance with unique biophysical and ecological processes. The site's high montane forest ecosystems influence the Indian monsoon weather pattern. Moderating the tropical climate of the region, the site presents one of the best examples of the monsoon system on the planet. It also has an exceptionally high level of biological diversity and endemism and is recognized as one of the world's eight 'hottest hotspots' of biological diversity. The forests of the site include some of the best representatives of non-equatorial tropical evergreen forests anywhere and are home to at least 325 globally threatened flora, fauna, bird, amphibian, reptile and fish species.
New Inscribed Properties
Mixed property
Rock Islands Southern Lagoon
Criteria: (iii)(v)(vii)(ix)(x)
Rock Islands Southern Lagoon covers 100,200 ha and includes 445 uninhabited limestone islands of volcanic origin. Many of them display unique mushroom-like shapes in turquoise lagoons surrounded by coral reefs. The aesthetic beauty of the site is heightened by a complex reef system featuring over 385 coral species and different types of habitat. They sustain a large diversity of plants, birds and marine life including dugong and at least thirteen shark species. The site harbours the highest concentration of marine lakes anywhere, isolated bodies of seawater separated from the ocean by land barriers. They are among the islands' distinctive features and sustain high endemism of populations which continue to yield new species discoveries. The remains of stonework villages, as well as burial sites and rock art, bear testimony to the organization of small island communities over some three millennia. The abandonment of the villages in the 17th and 18th centuries illustrates the consequences of climate change, population growth and subsistence behaviour on a society living in a marginal marine environment.
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- Two cultural sites added to UNESCO's World Heritage List 07-Jul-2019
- Six cultural sites added to UNESCO's World Heritage List 07-Jul-2019
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- Five sites inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List 05-Jul-2019
- World Heritage Committee to meet in Baku (Azerbaijan) to examine inscription of new sites on World Heritage List 21-Jun-2019


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Hedge funds get much of their alpha from small-cap stocks, which makes sense as these names tend to be less widely followed, and as a result, given a certain amount of in-depth research, it is easier to spot an undervalued company.
Investing in the most popular small-cap stock picks among hedge funds has generated an alpha of about 120 basis points per month according to our analysis. Retail investors generally aren't as familiar with these companies either, so the input from notable investors may be particularly welcome, though as with any investment-screen type of strategy, it's important to take at least a brief look at each company before deciding whether or not it is worth further research.
We have gone through the most recent 13F filing from Farallon Capital (see the full list of stocks the fund reported owning) and here are five of its largest holdings with market capitalizations between $250 million and $2 billion:
Farallon owned over 12 million shares of Hudson Pacific Properties
Town Sports International Holdings
The stock carries trailing and forward P/E multiples of 16 and 13, respectively; while earnings were up strongly in its most recent quarterly report compared to the same period in the previous year, revenue growth was much more modest. We recommended this stock based on strong insider sentiment a couple of years ago when it was trading at $3.
The fund also liked scientific and electronics instrument company FEI Company US:FEIC, reporting a position of about 600,000 shares. FEI's earnings were up 11% in the third quarter of 2012 vs. a year earlier, but the market appears to be expecting stronger growth than that as the stock trades at 21 times trailing earnings. A number of traders seem to think the company is overvalued, with 10% of the outstanding shares held short. Fisher Asset Management, managed by billionaire Ken Fisher, owned 1.2 million shares at the end of September (check out Fisher's stock picks).
VCA Antech US:WOOF, an animal health-care and hospital company, was another small-cap stock which Farallon owned. VCA Antech was one of P2 Capital Partners' top stock picks at the end of the third quarter of 2012; the fund is managed by Claus Molle. Revenue and earnings were up at double-digit rates in the third quarter of 2012 vs. a year earlier, though, again the trailing P/E of 19 may have captured much of the company's upside already.
Farallon initiated a position in Halcon Resources US:HK, which is an oil and gas exploration and production company. The company is currently struggling with profitability, though Wall Street analysts expect the bottom line to improve substantially in 2013, yielding a forward P/E of 15. Billionaire Ken Griffin's Citadel Investment Group was buying Halcon in the last couple months; in early December, the fund had owned over 11 million shares. Production, and therefore revenue, have been up though underperformance has led the stock down 22% in the last year.
This article is written by Matt Doiron and edited by Meena Krishnamsetty.


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[Click for a larger view.]
See? Little ladies and gentlemen, every one of us. Still our teacher is not satisfied. She turns to principal I.O. Gimprich. Why me? she asks. Just because, says Dr. Gimprich, climbing a wall, just out of the picture.
The above photograph shows Mrs. Roslyn Vistreich's third-grade class, P.S. 131, Boro Park, Brooklyn, New York, 1964–1965. Mrs. Vistreich was not my favorite teacher, nor I her favorite pupil. She called me a clock-watcher — at 2:58 or 2:59, if you can believe it, which you should, because it's true, I think. She called me Mr. Dooley, perhaps a diss of my Irish-American ancestry. She didn't like my habit of whistling (melodies, not wolf calls). She charged me — on my report card — with being a danger to myself and my classmates: "Must try to walk up & down stairs more carefully to avoid accidents to self and others." Yet she sent me off during class time to travel from floor to floor delivering notes to other teachers. I read the notes and found out her first name.
I once told a joke about Schaefer beer in Mrs. Vistreich's class. Surely it confirmed whatever she already thought of me. But still, I "did good." Under the words "Our Best Work" is my report "Building Materials." It's the one in the middle, the work of a tileman's kid.
Do click for a larger view and enjoy the props on the desks, which I don't think were standard in class pictures. Look at the MacBook on Barry's desk. How'd that get there?
[I'm uneasy about identifying fellow third-graders by last name without permission, so I haven't. These photographs have faded and remain so here, as unimproved scans. I'm the kid with the blue shirt and necktie.]
More from the P.S. 131 collection
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
A P.S. 131 class picture, 1964–1965
By Michael Leddy at 6:22 AM
comments: 7
- Slywy said...
I'm impressed that these are in black and white. My kindergarten class photo, rows of our head shots, is in black and white. Still well preserved.
- January 27, 2010 9:25 AM
- Michael Leddy said...
I know you mean color. : )
- January 27, 2010 9:36 AM
- Andy said...
Yeah, what was the story with the props? I've never seen or heard of that before. Were they things that were around the classroom or were they things that the students brought in for picture day? I especially like the kid with the Lionel boxcar.
Something that strikes me as I look at these pictures: grade school kids must come from a very limited number of molds, because I would swear that some of these kids were in my class too about ten years later.
- January 27, 2010 3:49 PM
- Genevieve said...
I am surprised at the old-time front-to-back desks in your classroom. (I suppose that style of desk did use space efficiently, though.) Did they have inkwells in them?
- January 30, 2010 10:10 PM
- Michael Leddy said...
Andy, I have no idea where the props came from, but I know what you mean about the limited number of molds.
Genevieve, yes, there were inkwells, or what remained of them. Nothing to hold ink, but the metal lids were still attached (and fun to play with).
- January 30, 2010 11:53 PM
- Ed Weinberg said...
hey Michael.....George Berelson posted this link so you know I had to check it out! This is Eddie Weinberg from your class...lol....Glad to see you are doing well after all these years.....
A few of us classmates are contemplating a 6th grade reunion of sorts....what do u think?
I'm on Facebook.....look me up!
all my best
- February 20, 2010 12:53 PM
- Michael Leddy said...
Eddie, Ed, hello! I'm glad that you got to see the pictures, esp. fourth grade.
Alas, I don't do Facebook. But if a reunion is in the works, please keep me posted. If my schedule will allow it, I'd like to be there.
- February 20, 2010 1:47 PM


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Participants and organizers at this past weekend's event Steampunk: Visions of Futures Past say they saw strong interest in a thriving subculture that mixes history with a strong dose of science-fiction fantasy.
"It was very well received," said Seamus McGrann, promotions director for the Hampton History Museum, which hosted the miniature, first-time festival. "We had people from near and far. Probably, over the course of the weekend, about 1,200 people came to see the displays and event."
Seven artists or inventors displayed or demonstrated their wares. Steampunk enthusiasts traveled from Richmond, Fredericksburg and North Carolina to be part of the festivities, which lasted through Sunday.
Local bands Uglyography and The Framers played the event's opening ceremony on Friday.
What is steampunk? I talked to several of the artists who displayed their work in Hampton for a story published on Friday.
"Everybody was thrilled that there was something like that in Hampton," said Matt Thomas, who leads the band Uglyography. "I had a lot of fun performing and watching everyone's reactions to what they were seeing, these displays with huge inventions. People walked in there having no idea what to expect. People were saying, 'Wow that was really cool, I'm glad we came in.'"
McGrann said folks who wandered in from the concurrent Hampton Blackbeard Pirate Festival were pleasantly surprised.
"I overhearded people saying, 'Oh, this is great. Now, I know what steampunk is.' The public had an opportunity to see some great work and it definitely energized the local steampunk community."
McGrann said he foresees the Hampton History Museum serving as a hub for local steampunk activities, including model airship races.


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Who had a good weekend? I did! It wasn't the best ever, but no weekend is a "bad" weekend. Clemson sure could have played better, but let's not get into that…
I had a relatively healthy Friday, but that went right out the window on Saturday. It could have been much worse, and I don't feel guilty at all. Kev and I split quesadillas for snack/dinner while watching football, and we split this frozen pizza for a late dinner after the GA vs. USC game.
I don't generally like thin pizzas or white pizzas, and this was both. However, we agreed that it was pretty darn good for the price.
Pizza may not be the healthiest option, but you know what is healthy? Iron. (Sweet transition, right?) I purchased lots of spinach, sprouts, salmon, and beef at the store Sunday, so it got me thinking about this vital nutrient.
Women's Health Magazine said that iron eliminates free radicals from the body "and helps protect against heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer." Iron also strengthens your immune system and keeps your thyroid running smoothly.
Stella Lucia Volpe, PhD, RD, an associate professor of nutrition at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, told Fitness Magazine, "Only heme iron — found in animal foods like beef, lamb, or poultry — is directly absorbed into the body… Vegetable iron isn't absorbed as efficiently."
No matter your diet (carnivore, flexitarian, or vegetarian/vegan), you can boost absorption by consuming iron-rich foods along with Vitamin C. According to Fitness Magazine, calcium interferes with iron absorption. I guess fortified cereal doesn't help so much with milk!
We should get 18 milligrams of iron per day, but that can be difficult – especially on a plant based diet. Up to 62 percent of women fail to meet the recommended minimum.
To check the iron levels in common foods, check out these handy lists from FitSugar and WebMD. A few of the listed entries are:
- Half a cup of cooked chickpeas = 3.4 mg
- Half a cup of steamed kale = 2 mg
- 3 oz of steak = 4 mg


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UPDATE: 6 p.m.
Deputies and investigators with the Walton County Sheriff�s Office responded quickly today when they were dispatched to South Walton High School in reference to a possible bomb on campus.
At approximately 1 p.m., a white male entered South Walton High School and informed staff members there was possibly a bomb somewhere at the school. The suspect then ran out of the school as staff attempted to stop him. Students were immediately evacuated and the school was placed on lockdown.
Eglin EOD was contacted and responded to the scene. The school was cleared and nothing suspicious was discovered.
The suspect was located a short time later by deputies, and witnesses were able to identify him. The suspect, Edwin Donald Campbell, 18, of Santa Rosa Beach, was detained and questioned by investigators. Campbell reportedly admitted to making a false bomb threat, a second degree felony. He will be transported and booked into the Walton County Department of Corrections.
UPDATE 2:15 p.m.
At around 1 pm this afternoon, WCSO received a call from staff at South Walton High School stating that a male subject had made a statement to them that he heard there was a bomb that was going to go off at the school. He then ran off.
Deputies arrived in the area and began the search for the subject. They located him and he was detained for questioning. He is still being questioned at this time. In the meantime, the school was evacuated and placed on lock down. Parents are picking up students now. For those who are wanting to pick up their children they will need to use entrance off of JD Miller Road.
School buses will not leave until they are all checked. The subject was not a current student at the school. Deputies on scene are waiting for bomb squad from Bay County to arrive.
Eglin has been called to assist as well.
The Walton County Sheriff's Office sent out this email at 1:50 p.m. Nov. 8, almost a half hour after an automated telephone call went out to parents.
Bomb threat South Walton High School. Students evacuated. Arriving on scene now. Standby for more info.
We will update The Walton Sun's website as information becomes available.


text: 2014 Florida Bee College and Master Beekeeper Program St. Augustine Florida Whitney Lab Bee College the most extensive educational honey bee event in the state of Florida. Everyone is welcome to attend Bee College: beekeepers, naturalists, farmers, gardeners, county agents, and anyone interested in honey bees! This two-day event offers lectures in the morning and hands-on workshops in the afternoon. There are llive honey bee colonies on site for open hive demonstrations and protective gear for everyone. This event won't leave you hungry either, we serve morning and afternoon snacks, lunch both days, a full banquet dinner on Friday evening and an ice cream social following the Awards Ceremony. At the Awards Ceremony we announce students who have entered or advanced in the Master Beekeeper Program, Welsh Honey Judges, and the place winners and Best of Show in the UF Bee College Honey Show, as well as give out door prizes. 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By Emily Carson '14
Core Ensemble, producers of chamber music theatre, will perform its program "Ain't I a Woman!" at St. Bonaventure University at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11, in the Rigas Family Theater of the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.
The program is free and open to the public.
Chamber music theatre is a unique performance format developed by the Core Ensemble that features a marriage of theatrical narrative to chamber music performance. Actress Christy Hall will portray multiple characters while interacting with the onstage musical trio of cello, piano and percussion.
"Ain't I a Woman!" celebrates the stories of four significant African American women, including ex-slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth, novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, folk artist Clementine Hunter, and civil rights worker Fannie Lou Hamer. The musical score is drawn from the heartfelt spirituals and blues of the Deep South, the urban vitality of the Jazz Age and contemporary concert music by African Americans.
"It's important for people of any race, gender or major to come to this program just to enhance perspectives," Dr. Alva Cellini, director of the university's Women's Studies Program, said. "It is universal and unique."
The actors will also be available after the performance to answer the audience's questions, Cellini said.
"'Ain't I A Woman!'" is about our history as Americans," said Dr. Bob Amico, chair of the university's Diversity Action Committee. "Hence, it is relevant to us all. Theater, history, music and culture will be woven into an entertaining evening."
Since 1993, the Core Ensemble has toured in every region of the United States and internationally to Australia, England, Russia, Ukraine and the British Virgin Islands. The Core Ensemble has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, The Palm Beach County Cultural Council and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music.
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In the two and a half weeks since Israel's settlement freeze expired, there's been a surge in construction on new West Bank homes, dimming prospect the Palestinians will agree to resume peace talks.
"The resumption at this scale makes it more complicated to make arrangement that will allow a resumption of talks," says Palestinian government spokesman Ghassan Khatib. "They are putting more sticks in the wheels.''
In Beitar Illit, one of the biggest and fastest growing settlements, construction crews have started working on 100 new units previously stifled by the moratorium. As iron rods sprout up amid newly poured cement foundations, bulldozers are carving an entry road to an empty hill slated as a new housing development.
Monitors who toured dozens of building sites throughout the West Bank over the past week estimate work has begun on about 500 housing units – one-fourth the number of housing starts for all of 2008.
"A few hundred in two weeks is a lot," says Dror Etkes, a housing monitor who opposes expanded building, as he navigates from memory the construction sites at the perimeter of settlements. "Obviously [the settlers] felt that they had to start fast to have facts on the ground again in case there will be a new freeze so they'll have enough construction. This is the game."
The pace of the new building significantly dilutes the impact of a US proposal to defuse tensions over settlement expansion and get peace talks moving again. The US and Israel have discussed a two- to three-month extension of the moratorium on housing starts that expired on Sept. 26. But a new freeze will have no significance for the Palestinians if the hundreds of new units begun in the last two weeks aren't stopped as well.
"This 60-day extension is basically nonsense," says Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli Consul General to New York, who sees little prospect of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reaching common ground on a peace deal. "Logic dictates if you are going to delineate a border, you stop building now, or at an early stage in the negotiations, you agree on a border'' – and thus agree on where it is permissible to build.
Ideological settlements see surge in construction
The freeze is also having an unintended consequence: building in the West Bank is slowly shifting from large settlements near Israel's border to smaller far-flung settlements that Israel is expected to evacuate if a peace deal is reached.
In the rush to build both before and after the 10-month moratorium, settler construction has surged on medium- and small-sized projects overseen by ideologically driven builders. Those require less bureaucracy than large-scale building.
Palestinians argue that construction erodes the contours of their future state in the West Bank, and that Israel must cease building as a goodwill sign before talks begin in earnest.
On Friday, Palestinians denounced the Israeli publication of building tenders for 238 new homes in East Jerusalem, where they envision a capital of their future state.
REPORT: How Israeli-Palestinian battle for Jerusalem plays out in one neighborhood
Though the city wasn't included in the freeze, Israeli officials had refrained from commissioning new building there since announcing 1,600 new units in the middle of a March visit by Vice President Joe Biden.
Palestinians see a 'lack of seriousness'
In the weeks before the end of the freeze, Palestinian officials said they would judge Israel on action on the ground rather than the declarations of its leaders, leaving open the possibility that they would rejoin if building activity was minor.
"We noticed that [settlement building] is getting significantly faster after the Israelis refused to renew the freeze," says Mr. Khatib, the Palestinian spokesman. "That's the main indicator to the Palestinian public and to the Palestinian politicians about the lack of seriousness.''
Prime Minister Netanyahu, who faces pressure from his pro-settler coalition partners, argues he has already made an unprecedented concession to restart talks with the freeze. On Monday, he said he would consider a new temporary moratorium in return for Palestinian recognition of Israel's Jewish character.
Settler spokesman: A dash to make up for 10-month freeze
Despite defiant foundation ceremonies marking the end of the freeze, the settler leaders have sought to keep a low profile on new building at the behest of Netanyahu.
Naftali Bennett, the director general of the umbrella settler leadership, the Yesha Council, initially predicted a "slow ramp-up." When asked about the pace of building during the first two weeks of the freeze, he declined to comment.
Mr. Bennett complains that the pool of projects is drying up because the government hasn't approved new tenders for large-scale building in West Bank settlements.
Hagit Ofran, the building monitor for the leftist group Peace Now, confirmed there have been no building tenders in the West Bank in over a year. The absence of projects in the big cities will also encourage more building in isolated settlements.
Hagit Ofran: Why a young Israeli woman spies on Israeli settlements in West Bank
David Haivri, a settler spokesman affiliated with the regional council representing Israeli communities in the northern West Bank, confirmed there is a dash to make up for a 10-month delay in housing starts created by the freeze.
"I expect that in the few months left till the end of the year 2010, we will compensate for our downtime and begin building at least as many homes as we did in 2008," he said in an e-mail.
Scoping out new settlement building
Etkes, formerly of the left-wing groups Peace Now and Yesh Din, became the first person outside the Israeli government to systematically track settlement growth. In the role, he has spent most of the last decade traversing the West Bank by car and by plane.
Officials from the US consulate in Jerusalem regularly seek him out on settlement activity, but settlers like Haivri see him as bent on smearing their image. Over the course of the days since the end of freeze, Etkes has taken to the roads again to assess the pace of renewed building.
Standing on a hilltop overlooking a construction site at the western edge of Beitar Illit, Etkes explains the different between post- and pre-expiration construction. Because the temporary freeze covered just housing starts – not projects already under way – actual Israeli building in the West Bank during the moratorium slowed by only 16 percent.
There are homes with nearly completed frames built during the freeze because they were started prior to the moratorium. Across a planned road, Etkes points to plots with fresh foundation work.
"This kind of construction is not older than a week,'' he says, before continuing on to tour nearly a dozen other settlement building sites. "The cement base, the iron rods and wood planks mean the construction is at a very beginning stage.''
Salah Issa, a Palestinian construction foreman nearby, confirms Etkes' rough estimate of the number of new units going up since Sept. 26. Then he points out an access road leading to an empty ridge where a new development is planned. "Do you think they listen when Obama says stop? They don't listen to anyone."


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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Treasure Chest Thursday ~ Mother's Day Bracelet
The last time I was back home in Idaho I hunted around mom's house to take photos of things that meant something to me. I was hoping that she still had a bracelet that I made for her when I was a child. I was happy when I found it in her jewelry box.
This bracelet was a second grade Mother's Day art project. I glued each of the pretty polished stones in place. To wrap them we stuffed pieces of cotton inside an empty toilet paper roll and then put the bracelet inside. Then we wrapped a couple of layers of tissue paper around the the roll and tied the ends with ribbon.
I remember that day well because it was also the last day that our teacher, Mrs. Jones, was going to be our teacher. She was moving away and I was really sad. I know I cried that day. She did too. Boy, did I miss her after she left! I did not care for the replacement teacher at all!
Mom used to wear the bracelet often. She even had to glue a couple of stones back on. Come to think of it, I glued a couple of the stones back on before I took the picture.
Leslie Ann
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Liebster Blog Award
Sunday I was awarded the Liebster Blog Award by Diane from Nuts From the Family Tree. So what's this award all about? I will get to that in a minute.
I was doing a little genealogy blog hopping and I landed on this post from Caroline (one of my favorite genealogy peeps). It was loaded with a bunch of techno mumbo-jumbo about the downfalls of participating in blog awards. I'm not going to go into it, but you might want to check it out => Blog Awards & SEO.
Now, about this award, Liebster means dearest in German. I was curious so I did some googling around trying to find the origins of this award. I found a couple of bloggers who had done a more indepth search and if you are curious, go check them out:
Looking at different types of blogs that have received this award, the rules change from blog to blog. Did you ever play that game where you sit in a circle and whisper something into someone's ear and when the last person whispers it back into your ear it's totally not what you said? Same concept.
Here are the rules from Diane:
The premise behind this award is that when you are nominated, you are supposed to answer 11 questions about yourself (chosen by the person who nominated you), and then nominate 5 bloggers with less than 200 readers and provide 11 questions for them to answer.I refuse to be threatened by Google (read Caroline's post) so I am going to participate because I think it is a fun way to get to know your genealogy peers, especially those who are just beginning to blog.
Here are the questions that Diane has asked:
- 1 - 5: Tell us five important things about how you got interested in genealogy and why you blog? I became interested in genealogy from my grandma Smedley. She had two genealogy books that I looked through every time I went to visit her. One was for her ancestors and one was for her descendants. She gave each of her grandchildren their own books. I used to hand copy pedigree sheets and family group sheets from her to put in my book.
- I blog because I want to share what family information I have found or inherited with others who may desire the same information. I can't deny that I also blog in hopes of attracting distant cousins to share with me.
- Do you watch TV and if so what are your favorite shows/ types of shows? My tv goes on at 2 p.m. every week day for General Hospital. I like all the CSI shows, NCIS, Bones, Criminal Minds, Warehouse 13, and American Idol. I absolutely HATE all other reality shows!
- Please tell us about your journey of genealogy education? I learned the basics from grandma and field trips to the Family History Center. From there it's just hands on experience. I have often thought about taking classes to become certified. But then if I started doing other peoples research for a living, my own would suffer. Besides that, I can't afford to pay for schooling.
- When you're not doing genealogy, what's your favorite thing to do? I'm an outdoorsy kind of girl. I love fishing, camping and hiking. I also love to go antiquing. Never know what you'll find.
- Please share your pain: tell us about one of your brick walls and how long you've been working on it. I will refer you to this post => The Mysterious Alderman Pickett. Family tradition tells us that my 4th great-grandfather George Piggot was the son of Lord Mayor William Pickett. It's very hard to prove parentage of someone who claims to be disowned!
- Has there been one person, web site, or class that was the most beneficial to you? I have to say no. Nothing stands out as being more beneficial.
- What's the funniest story you can tell us about your interest in genealogy? I wish I had a funny story to tell, but alas, I don't.
The five I am choosing are among the newest genealogy blogs. My way of saying "welcome to the community." and "I look forward to getting to know you".
- My Family Tree & Other Stuff
- Journey to His Past
- Fascinated by the Dead: A Genealogy Blog
- The Enrichment Tree
- Filiopietism Prism
Now, my 11 questions for the five of you, if you choose to play along:
- What is the most unique occupation you have run across in researching your family history?
- If you could follow one ancestor's footsteps, who would it be and where would you go to see where they lived and worked?
- Which institution or facility do you want to go to over any other to rifle through their archives?
- Do you subscribe to any genealogy magazines, and if so are they helpful?
- Do you blog as you go, or schedule ahead?
- What's your favorite historical time period?
- What kind of books do you like to read?
- Any black sheep in your family tree?
- Are you lucky enough to have any genealogy libraries in your neck of the woods?
- Have you been cemetery hopping?
- Do you dream about genealogy?
I look forward to you answers.
Leslie Ann
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Treasure Chest Thursday ~ Grandma's Sewing Box
This Tupperware sewing box belonged to my maternal grandmother. It's one of the few things I got of hers when she passed. Strangely I had never seen it before my mom gave it to me.
These things were tucked inside:
- a thimble
- a little pair of scissors
- a tube with needles inside and one with straight pins inside
- a little spool of white tatting crochet thread
- Three pencils - two of them with those little metal clips on them so you can hang them in your pocket. (What the heck do you call those things?)
- Two needles in red foil
- an Acme Zip-Strip
- a needle gripper (boy does that come in handy)
I keep those things in there, well because they were hers. But I also put some of my stuff in there - buttons and beads and crafty things.
Leslie Ann
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Wordless Wednesday ~ Madsen Cousins
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Tuesday's Tip ~ Is Your Information More Public Than You Want it To Be?
Where do I begin? Something happened this week that I felt I should share with you. This tip isn't necessarily just for genealogy, but anyone who has a social presence online.
We as genealogists love to get emails from potential cousins, right. That's why my email address is located on my blogs. As much as I love sharing research and getting to know cousins, I still expect a certain amount of privacy. You too, right?
For instance, I don't want my phone number or home address available online just for anyone (especially these days). That is to be given out at my discretion. Am I right?
I received an email from someone and before I had a chance to respond, I got a letter from this person in the mail (talk about impatient!). It wasn't genealogy related. Needless to say I was not too happy. Hubby wasn't too happy either! Imagine getting a letter from some guy we don't know.
He said he found my information on Whitepages.com. Well that got me fuming because our number is unlisted! So I checked and my number isn't listed, but the address was.
Some of you may be alright with your information out there, but for those who aren't you may want to go to the following sites and get yourself unlisted.
- AnyWho.com - You will want to run a search for yourself. Click on your name to see the full listing and it will ask if that is you. Click on "remove listing" and follow the directions. The bummer is that you will have to register to remove your listing.
- White pages - Same principle here. Once you find yourself and open the full listing click on the button that says "claim & edit". You will also have to register for this one.
- Spokeo - I hadn't looked at this site for a while, but when I did it shocked me. When I searched for my name, it showed the satellite image of my house! It does hide parts of your phone number and address, but there are options to purchase the info. To remove yourself from here, just go to the bottom of the page and click on privacy and follow the directions.
Granted our public information is out there, but it shouldn't be that easy to get at right? (Unless of course you run a business and want to be found.) After all, I share this household with someone and I need to be respectful of their privacy as well.
If you can think of any other sites I need to remove myself from, please let me know.
Leslie Ann
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Rockbridge County vs. Harrisonburg – Week 10
Rockbridge County defeated Harrisonburg, 34-29, Saturday at JMU's Bridgeforth Stadium as part of the Shenandoah Valley Football Classic.
With a cold night ahead and playoffs at stake for many teams, high school players across our area are hoping to both stay warm and keep their season burning.
Just like every week of the 2019 season, you'll see WHSV's EndZone crew right there along the sidelines in the Shenandoah Valley and eastern West Virginia to capture all the action.
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Rockbridge County will be facing off against Harrisonburg on Saturday, Nov. 2.
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After the show, you'll be able to find highlights for the game right here.
You can also follow @WHSVScoreZone on Twitter and track #WHSVEndzone for the latest updates from around our area on Friday nights! Use the hashtag to let us see your great photos and videos from the game!