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Roberts Creek has once again sprouted another group of local musicians in the form of Robotic Horse Mechanical Sun.
Their sound is groovy, fuzz folk, laid back, styly-retro roots-oriented, original material. From instrumentals like Dwizzlin' and Attack of the Jelly Fish to full throttle cuts like Hay is for Horses and Klezmer Love Ballad, the band has assembled an evening's worth of material worthy of a listen and a good toe tap. The band is Brenny Fitsimmons, Jeff Doran, Andrew Bate, Jamie Swann and Jason Lambing.
They look forward to entertaining all who attend this Saturday, Jan. 19, at 8 p.m. at the Gumboot Café. Spend a few bucks on the horse.
Dance In
Join Verna Chan for a night of dance fitness with great dance tunes and tasty mocktails at the Eric Cardinall Hall in Gibsons this Friday, Jan. 18, from 7 to 9 p.m.
Wear what you want and bring your friends for a workout with no choreography - a night of dancing without cheesy pick-up lines and drinking. This is a joint production of The Garage and Nirma Yoga who would like to make this an occasional or monthly event. There is a $5 drop-in fee.
Baby Harry
Antoine Baby Harry brings his rock and soul show to the Lighthouse Pub in Sechelt this Friday and Saturday. Baby Harry acted in his first movie role in 2007 and you might see him on TV with actors such as William Shatner and Reese Witherspoon. But music is still number one with him.
All are invited to an open jam at the Gibsons Legion this Saturday, Jan. 19, at 7 p.m. Your hosts are Dr. Underpants and Lightning Lou. Bring your own instruments. No cover.
Songs at Show
Mezzo soprano Patricia Hammond will perform a few songs with Ken Dalgleish on piano at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery (431 Marine Dr.) this Sunday, Jan. 20, at 2 p.m. Hammond is visiting her family on the Sunshine Coast while doing a series of mini concerts in B.C. in care homes and other centres. As a friend of the late Eve Smart, she will sing in honour of the Eve Smart Retrospective show currently at the gallery. All are welcome and refreshments will be offered.
The SC Film Society presents Liverpool, a Canadian comedy/thriller by director Manon Briand, in French with English subtitles, at the Heritage Playhouse on Monday, Jan. 21 at 7:30 p.m.
When Emilie, a shy, waif-like coat-check attendant in a Montreal bar ("Liverpool") decides to take an unclaimed coat back to its owner, she is drawn into a criminal, comedic and romantic intrigue. A new and refreshing take on traditional movie genres, Liverpool extols the virtues of love, loyalty, the pursuit of truth and justice - to say nothing of the power of social media. Doors open at 7 p.m. Single event costs $8 and members pay $5.
Annie Lou
Annie Lou Genest's band, Annie Lou, is playing at the Gumboot Café on Monday, Jan. 21, at 8 p.m. The Juno-nominated musician plays banjo and fiddle in a folk/roots act. Tickets are $20 at the door.
Harbour painting
A group of artists that includes Ann Willsie, Nancy Hache and Donna Swain will beoffering a variety ofpainting workshops in acrylics and oils, from beginners tointermediate, week-long and weekend courses, to help you get your paint brushes out and paint with bravado. They begin on Jan. 22. The Harbour painting workshops will be held at Zocalo in Gibsons. For registrations and questions, call Donna at 604-885-5047.
Java Jazz
A newly-formed vocal jazz sextet, Java Jazz, under the able direction of Karen Edgar, will be performing at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre on Saturday, Jan. 26, at 7 p.m. This group has a repertoire of easy-listening jazz and show tunes. They will be accompanied by Walter Martella on piano and Ron Thompson on guitar. Special guests will be vocalists Jacquie Allen, Robyn Edgar and Jim Edgar.Also featured will be the Sha-Boomers with their close vocal harmonies and zany antics. Tickets are $15 available at the Seaside Centre in Sechelt, or call Karen at 604-885-4342. Refreshments will be available by donation.
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"Top priority," Dotson said.
With the state's top-rated system losing its superintendent, Dotson hopes whoever the board selects as Warren Drake's replacement is able to keep up the good work.
"The education here is excellent and my children do very well in this system," Dotson said.
But during those long summer months, keeping the kids occupied -- and educated -- is a responsibility partially picked up by BREC summer camps.
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Doubling as an LSU education major, Allen knows the importance of keeping up the children's skill levels on their break from instruction. Every Tuesday and Thursday, the group heads on field trips to combine fun with learning.
"We usually incorporate something educational," said Allen. "Went to the state museum, science museum."
The effort is appreciated by parent's like Dotson, who was dropping her children off Friday morning. When her children leave the camps and the school year does start in Zachary, she suggests the new person in charge to demand the same status of excellence from faculty, students, and parents.
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His hand trembles, fingertips buzzing, as he reaches for a pencil. She is still freshly pressed into his mind and he must write her.
"Make me into art," she had said, stripping and then lying stretched long and naked on his bed. The blue light from the security pole outside shining through the dorm window made her breasts glow sky.
He sputtered and coughed up his tongue, which he had swallowed when she had dropped her shirt on top of her discarded jacket, hat, and shoes. First her bra, then her belt, jeans and panties, then her sock, and then her other sock had each dropped, fabric thud after fabric thud, to the carpet. He was still fully clothed. His eyelashes quaked as his eyes tried to settle comfortably. He tried to find a way to swallow this almost-stranger whole and ensure that he could remember this the next day in more than just fragmented pieces because this was the First Naked Woman He Had Ever Seen. This was important: he had to name the shade of dirty milky brown she wore slicked over her muscles, against which the blue light deepened haunting shadows and grooves. Deep camel? Strong olive? Light, slippery cacao? No, not details. Details were negligible-- he could fill them in later. Feelings. He needed to remember feelings, capture feelings. This was something he could write poems about; his scenes could possess a greater depth of emotion when he tapped this experience; he could spout songs about this, his First Time. God, he wished he could just take a picture of this pierced-tongued and dreaded figure! If only he could capture the image, preserve it forever, pin it down on his cork board.
She breathed out thickly, "Paint me. Draw me. Sculpt me. Play me like a saxophone, hum against my neck bone, build up a buzz or a brightening." As she said this she posed, slightly bending her right knee, and slowly traced her bone white-painted fingernails up and down her left arm, making the little hairs on her forearm dance.
"What do you mean?"
She sat up, breaking the delicate grace of light harmoniously casting shadow on flesh, folded her legs, and draped her hands over her stacked shins. He kept his eyes as best he could on her eyes, her nose, her ears, her anythingbuttheres. She looked at the various photos, playbills, and news clippings pinned onto his cork board in a bizarre collage of his outer inner life, searching for a clue as to how she might inspire him into creation. He had spoken of little else when they had met that night.
There was a picture of his high school graduation and another with his first car. Another showed him on his first day of school. There were printed images of famous authors. Joyce. Chaucer. There was a picture of Jack Kerouac, cigarette dangling as he had dangled so many cigarettes from the corner of his mouth. She cocked her head in such a way that she knew her dread locks would drip artfully down her back and scratch the tops of her dimples. Her fingers ran across a crinkled paper print-out of a clip art image of classically shaded dramatic masks. Her tooth-like white nails traced the curves of the theatre masks' frown and smile.
She cast her voice over her shoulder, eyes still fixed on the cork board. "You know those lists that people make of things they want to do before they die?" Nod. "Well, I'm in the market to inspire somebody. And in the cafe you talked about how you wanted to be an artist. So it's perfect."
"But I don't really draw or anything." She threw the glow of her pale green eyes back toward him; his breath bent under the pressure of her look. Our actor shook his head. "I'm not a very visual person."
She suddenly leaned to him and grasped his hands and said, "You mentioned that you were an English major in college. Know what you could do?"
"What?" His nervous hands pressed back, thumbs bumping across and re-across the ridges of her knuckles. He wanted to be good at this; he wanted to keep her hands right where they were.
She grinned and her bright white teeth glistened slick in the blue glow. The bright silver barbell in her tongue jumped excitedly when she said, "Write me. No, just speak me. Speak me a poem. Make it up as you go, just anything."
He opened his mouth and waited for a word to fly from the tip of his tongue and catch her hungry, waiting ear like a fish hook. He was a writer; he'd analyzed Marquez, Maupassant, Milton, Murakami. He was an actor in the community theatre; his delivery was reputable among his fellow playwrights. His tongue was the organ that was most himself; a word would come that sang and rippled and held her tight and pulled her in, but he had to cast it right.
"Really, just anything," she urged, leaning toward him.
He blushed; he was taking too long! And he was supposed to be an Artist! He tried details, images. Her eyes, no, he couldn't even really see them in this lighting; they were glinting in shadow. Wrists? It had been done before. How did authors do it? Real authors, or at least not fumbling beginners writing comfortably in dorms. How did all those real authors, the tight collared garden strolling poets and the stream-of-consciousness novelists that tripped through Mexico on nothing but herbs and pheromones, take minute details and turn them into snapshots that translated into intoxicating literary multitudes? He cast wildly: perhaps he could speak of the light that played across her curves, so deftly sculpted by shadow in the blue light. He yearned for such effortless grace but all he could think of under this pressure were unsatisfactory clich�s. Think man, think! Improvise, for god's sake! She fidgeted impatiently and pulled her tongue barbell back and forth with her teeth.
"Honestly, I... It's hard to write on command like this." She shifted her weight, drawing her legs back together. "When I write I usually draft and plan and rewrite... and..."
"Oh. Well, that's alright." She leaned back, pushed her hair roughly back behind her ears, and crossed her arms over her stomach, hands resting slack by her sides.
"So I found out that I'll be directing some Shakespeare next season." He cast out a line trying to recover comfortable conversation that had sparked between them at the caf� that night when they had met, but he missed. Her drifting gaze passed his mouth, which had so failed him, passed the worn knees of his corduroys, passed the fragility of his ankles, and settled instead on fixedly looking at the dainty blue light beyond the window. Her pupils reflected doubled burning blue pinpoints. "It's a pretty extraordinary opportunity," he continued. "I'm thinking of aiming for the moon and taking on one of the tragedies. I'm so looking forward to it. He's just brilliant, particularly with the way he plays with words and puns."
Idea! "You know, when I saw you I thought you'd make a great Cleopatra."
There! She blushed. It was almost indetectible, but he could swear that he saw it: a very faint rose creeping into her cheeks, a blooded, humanly red tinge shining under the blue light, and she was letting her dreads drape over her face like a heavy theatre curtain as she smiled, blushing!, and her eyes sparked at him.
"Really. I mean, you're tanned and tall, you're gorgeous and commanding."
She looked straight at him. "So direct me," she urged. She pulled the heavy burgundy complete works of Shakespeare off of his bookshelf and hefted it onto her outstretched legs, crossed at the ankle, letting the binding rest over her justthere. The crackly pages snapped at her as she flipped them and he pointed with a shaking hand to the monologue he had in mind.
"You've been shaking a lot." She smiled, wanted to soothe him so that he might...
He clenched his hand and pulled it back to rest on the bed covers. "Oh, it's, it's nothing. I always shake."
Then he gulped and he directed her.
She was alright. Not what she might have been, but not awful. It wasn't that she didn't listen, but he hadn't been able to really convey what he was envisioning. Our actor couldn't find the right way to layer his old concept of Cleopatra over this woman before him. At first she'd tried to meet him on his theatrical level, but she started to seem uninterested because his vision wasn't something she innately fit into and it wasn't something he could explain. When his direction had failed to shape her performance into what he envisioned for the last three reads of the monologue she began instead to look at his mouth and at his shaking hand's gesticulations, watching the slender points of his thin artistic fingers. She was trying to think of something that would better engage him and better flatter herself. She wanted creation. She could give him a first line? An image? She shifted so that the light would play more attractively upon her. This was absurd, she thought. Here she was, here she was, naked on the bed of this man who claimed he wanted to be an artist, and nothing was being made. Nothing. She shifted so that the light would fall more inspirationally across her body. How did he see her? Why didn't he take her, shape her, want her? He noticed her eyes drifting away and around the room and he panicked; he was losing her!
But then. Her hand. Onhisthigh! And then it was movinguptoward: There. He closed his eyes and tried to still the tremors that raked through him.
Her icy eyes lit up and she moved over him, shutting the Shakespeare with her thighs and letting it fall to the bed then nudging it with her knee off onto ground. He thought fleetingly of the damage to the book, but what did it matter when here was this Woman, this Character, this Fleshy Light with Ideas that Listened and thought that he could make her into Art and she was Touching Him There! She glided over him like a new moon eclipsing a white hot sun.
Though the moon passed over the sun again and again, butting against him and moaning harder each time, pulling and tugging, beckoning, his tongue still failed him. His tongue faltered and he slung out sighs and gasps to punctuate moments that begged for intoxicant, climactic words that somehow seemed that night so starkly unreachable. The more tightly he held her, the further she felt.
She pushed her white tipped fingernails through his thin hair and pressed her fingertips hard against his skull, trying to pull something out of him.
They spent well over two hours fumbling with each other, throwing aside pillows and sheets and unsettling the mattress, upturning the bed in a desperate effort to find his expression, but it didn't come. Though she twisted around him, slipping over him and bumping against him, and groaned loud enough for the neighbors in the next dorm to hear and arched hard like the proudest Egyptian cat and thrust back up and lavished the light with rich caramel exclamations, it didn't come.
He shakes his head and refocuses on the paper in front of him.
He must find a way to write this, to make art. He has to find a way to elicit a return but he is fishing in the dark.
He begins, "My tongue, the organ which is most myself, was at a loss." He admonishes this phrase but sighs that it will have to do and fumbles on, pleading for his pen to form some kind of climactic effect from the jumble of blue breasts, white-nailed fingers pushing against the curve of his pale thigh, her hand grasping at his hands which shook too hard, and the sight of Shakespeare crumpled on the ground.


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The Spring Spectacle is a twelve-week collaboration between Shakespeare & Company, DePauw University, and all eight Putnam County middle and high schools. In part, this Spring Spectacle is inspired by and created in collaboration with our friends and colleagues at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA.
Shakespeare's plays provide a unique opportunity for artistic exploration and expression. No other material offers the wealth of powerful, beautiful, playful and expressive language that Shakespeare does. And it's a lot of fun!
The Spring Spectacle of Shakespeare is About Collaboration. University theater artists from DePauw work in collaboration with students and school personnel to create a 90-minute production of a Shakespeare play.
The Spring Spectacle of Shakespeare is About Language. Language is at the heart of Shakespeare & Company's approach to performing Shakespeare. Shakespeare's language is the ideal script to place in the hands of young people. It gives them words, which powerfully and accurately articulate their own experience, while giving them the means to explore and reveal what it means to be human.
The Spring Spectacle of Shakespeare is about Student Achievement. Under the direction of DePauw University student directors and production staff, students are the actors, stage managers, technical crews and publicity crews – the "Company" – for their productions.
The Spring Spectacle of Shakespeare is about Celebration. After a ten-week rehearsal process, students will perform their play at their school, for their family, friends and the school community. Then they will join the other Spectacle schools for a full day Spectacle at DePauw on the Moore Theatre Main Stage at DePauw.
The Spring Spectacle of Shakespeare is not about Competition. Students from all of the participating schools come together to share their plays with each another. There is no judging or awards. It is about young artists celebrating each other's work.
The Spring Spectacle of Shakespeare is about Inter-scholastic Community. Students rarely have the opportunity to meet students from different schools without the context of competition. The Spring Spectacle gives students the opportunity to gather and share their creative work, meet new people and make new friends.
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"The moments that are most meaningful to me are the ones that prove how much we as a group trust each other. The bond we grow with new students, directors and other schools helps show how incredible we can be."--Madeline, 8th grade, Greencastle Middle School
"I found it meaningful that the directors said they would find a spot for anyone who wanted to participate because that made me feel like they were excited and thrilled for all of us to join the play no matter what."--Wednesday, 11th grade, North Putnam High School
"I was delighted to see that children are still curious about literature. As a future educator, it makes me happy to see students having fun reading and interpreting Shakespeare for themselves, and not just being given all the answers."--Shavon Mathus, DePauw Class of 2014
Part of the DePauw Curriculum
Based on the educational wing of Shakespeare & Company's nationally renowned and recommended high school Shakespeare program, the course (COMM 291/402 and UNIV 390B) prepares DePauw students to do Shakespeare with local high school and middle school students. Part classroom activity and part in-school practicum, the course stresses the visceral, emotional and intellectual power of experiencing Shakespeare's language physically and vocally. It culminates in a festival of Shakespeare's plays performed by local students at DePauw at the end of the semester.
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Fall 2013
The 2013 Fall Festival of Shakespeare at DePauw featured students from Cloverdale High School performing Taming of the Shrew, students from Greencastle Middle School and High School performing Romeo and Juliet, students from North Putnam Middle School and High School performing Merchant of Venice and South Putnam Middle School and High School students performing As You Like It.
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As You Like It dress rehearsal
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The 2012 Spring Festival of Shakespeare at DePauw featured students from Greencastle Middle School and High School performing Macbeth, Cloverdale High School students performing Comedy of Errors, and North Putnam Middle School and High School students performing A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Ten Reasons Rolling Stone's "25 DJs That Rule the Earth" Is Total Bullshit
Porter Robinson Makes the Cut at All?
Right after Daft Punk -- who actually bridged the gap between kids into guitars and kids into four-on-the-floor, making this whole American EDM explosion possible -- comes Porter Robinson. Who is Porter Robinson? Some kid Skrillex signed that will cease to have mattered five years from now. None of this makes sense, no explanation is given.
Carl Cox at No. 22?
In line with shitting on legends, Rolling Stone places the hefty-in-more-ways-than-one Carl Cox in the less-than-stellar 22 spot. Because we live in Miami, we realize that Carl Cox rules over Ultra, and ruling over Ultra alone gets you into the Top Ten. Plus, bro has mad swag all over Ibiza and satellite radio. How are some of these underground names ruling harder than the man? Oh, sorry, Rolling Stone doesn't have to explain anything. < Previous>
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The District Serves the Best Lechón in Buena Vista
For Miami, Nuevo Latino cuisine is a comfort food of sorts. Chefs take the ingredients we know -- the stuff we grew up on -- and cook them in ways that would make our mamas proud. Once mashed into our baby food, malanga is now deep-fried, shaped into shells, and piled with togarashi and raw tuna. Yuca swims in truffle honey, ceviche is cooled by citrus sorbet, and black trumpet mushrooms are made into chimichurri. What's worn becomes new again, like a re-framed family photograph.billwisserphoto.com Caribbean jerk cobia
The District is the latest Miami restaurant to peddle these dishes, though it also identifies with contemporary pan-American cuisine. And indeed, at this Buena Vista newcomer, you can taste a bit of California. Brussels sprouts are shredded, glazed with a fig balsamic vinegar, and finished with dried cranberries and toasted pinenuts. It is lovely, balanced with a sweet-and-sour smack that tickles the tongue.
But more memorable is the escabeche that tops other dishes. Sliced tomatoes and onions brighten thick slabs of pan-seared fish and slow-roasted pork. It's like a home cook's signature mojo -- only fancier and crowning a $20 plate.
Horacio Rivadero is the man behind this fusion. He once split his time between two kitchens -- working as the executive chef for the Dining Room and OLA at the Sanctuary Hotel. At the latter, he served under Doug Rodriguez, who's known as the father of Nuevo Latino cuisine. Then, last summer, the Dining Room closed and, shortly thereafter, Rivadero left OLA. He resurfaced at this new restaurant in October.
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This Monday I found out that my older brother passed away. I've cried a total of, well, I don't even know how many times this week. I'm crying now. I just feel like shit. The whole thing was completely unexpected. We waited days to find out why he died only to be told that they can't conclusively say why he died, but they think it was heart failure. He was dead for at least 10 days before someone finally found him. What kind of a way is that to go out? We probably won't even get to do an open coffin; which is what I wanted. I wanted to see him one last time.
He was so young. No one deserved the bullshity life that he had.
RIP Brother. I hope you're somewhere safe and happy and without the shit that made your so life hard. No more struggling. I'll see you again someday.
My sympathy goes out to you and your family for the loss of your loved one. Live gives us kicks sometimes and we don't know why. To loose a loved one like that for an unknown reason makes it all the harder on us.
Remember that no one is truly gone for they live forever in our memories of them. They live forever in our love for them. Remember the good times with your brother and he will live in you forever.
Blessed be. My sympathy to you and yours.
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that of common sense. Humor is the best pain pill.
I'm definitely thinking of him. I just wish that life was better for him while he was here.
That sounds really terrible.
I hope that your family and everyone at Oasis could help make you feel a little better!
"No inappropriate behavior. Inappropriate like cursing? No, inappropriate like fucking." - But I'm a Cheerleader :-)
Sorry to hear it. ;-(
"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are." - Kurt Cobain
RIP.. and I'm sure he is doing just that. -hug-
RIP...that's horrible that you and your family have lost him. I can't imagine what you're going through, if I lost my little brother I don't know what I'd do.
You have my sympathies and I hope that your brother is somewhere safe and happy as well.
Just don't let yourself go through this alone. I imagine that this is when family comes together the most. I'm sure you have people around you who will help you however they can. And you'll honor your brother through your memories of him, just hold on to that.
I'm so sorry that this happened to you and your family.
Though, I'm really bad at the "letting people help". I'm the type of person who doesn't really like to show emotion, especially crying. I prefer to deal with stuff alone. But, my family is around if I need them. Thanks again for your thoughts.
That is so terrible. I really can't think of what else to say; just remember that you have everyone here on Oasis.
We're all be here for you.
for your kind words. I really do appreciate them all.
...I wish I could have known your brother. I'm confident that just knowing him would have made us all better members of humanity!


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This is in my area. 64yo Anne Stroll of Libertyville, IL, went missing yesterday, 12/2, around 1pm. She left a note for her husband saying she was going on a short bike ride (neighbors saw her leave on her bike) before taking their dog to the dog park. He reported her missing at 3:30pm.
Her phone pinged to an area within the Independence Grove Forest Preserve area (which includes the dog park, but I think the area her phone pinged in was not the dog park area). Searchers have found no trace of Anne Stroll, her bike, or her phone. I've not come across any information on her dog's whereabouts.
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She must be a pretty punctual person for her husband to report her missing so quickly. I'm glad he had that intuition because clearly something seems wrong now. He didn't waste any time.
Please be found alive and okay. Please.
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This states they also searched this morning (Tuesday) and still found nothing.
her husband had been home an hour and 45 minutes when he reported her missing. I think that is a pretty appropriate amount of time to allow her to return before making a report. personally, I would have tried the cell phone multiple times and would have been frantic by 3:30.
"Her husband says he hasnt slept, as the search for his wife enters a second day.
Shes just the most wonderful person Ive ever met in my life, Michael Stroll said."
I can see that, but what I mean is she must not be the type to explore or change plans. I act spur of the moment so if my husband were to panic in an hour and 45 minutes (or even 2 hours) it would possibly be premature, depending on the situation. I also forget to turn on my ringer on my cell and misplace it or forget to check it.
But yes, and hour and 45 minutes isn't UNUSUAL by any means. A lot of people wait so long to report loved ones missing that it's refreshing to see a husband trust his instinct.
It really paints a picture of a closeknit and responsible couple. That's important to know.
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He wasn't home when his wife left, but he found a note stating that she was going out on her bike ride. The note indicated that she had "decided to take a short bike ride" before taking the couple's dog to a dog park at Fairfield and Route 176.
"When 2:15 came around and she wasn't home, I became concerned and started calling her," said Michael. "When I couldn't reach her, I got in my car and went over the streets that are her normal bike ride. When she wasn't there, I came back and called 911 immediately."
The post said police, fire, a K9 unit and a helicopter were involved in the search.
So she never came back to get the dog, but may have ridden her bike to the dog park? Or did she take the dog with her bike?
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I don't have Facebook so I don't know if it's private or just I can't see it since I'm not logged in. Sounds like he has used it to update on the search, based on an article.
Her husbands FB you can see. He is asking for help in finding her.
IMOO, I think she had some kind of accident, or medical emergency on the bike. Perhaps she didn't take her usual route.
I do hope they find her and she is OK. There are way too many women going missing without a trace.
I don't think she took her dog.
Pets not permitted
With the exception of service animals, dogs, horses and other pets are not permitted in this preserve.
ETA: I'm only talking about the preserve where she would've rode. Not the dog park.
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Maybe someone good with maps can pinpoint where she supposedly was based on the cell ping. The first post explains it.
I'm on my iPhone so not gonna attempt to make anything for y'all.
From the first article also:
In October, the couple discovered a very hidden, unofficial entrance that leads onto the trail, her husband said, and Stroll, an avid biker and runner, was eager to try it out.
------do you think they mean an unmarked trail?
This article says he didn't call til 5:30. Would've been getting fairly dark by then.
Commander William Meyer says police were able to ping her cell-phone till it died to the general area of the Des Plaines River trail.
So here's that trail
Nugget, pets are permitted in the dog exercise area of the preserve. Well, dogs are, anyway. Only service dogs are permitted in the entirety of the preserve. I take my dogs to that dog park all the time.
The media reporting is vague on whether she rode her bike to the preserve alone or with her dog in tow, prepared to enter the dog exercise area. The way I read it is that she went alone to ride her bike in the non-dog park preserve area & disappeared at that point. The note to her husband indicated that she planned to bring their dog to the dog area of the preserve, so I assume her plan was to ride home after her bike ride, get her dog, & ride to the dog park at that point. ???
The searchers have had bloodhounds out searching for her, too. I haven't heard of any positive results from any of the searches, though.
If anyone wants to make a map, her phone pinged along the edge of the preserve that borders Route 137. I don't know how to make maps, especially on my phone.
I haven't heard of any requests for public searches. I've only heard and read about the professionals conducting searches.
Where could she be? It makes me so upset to think of her out there somewhere.
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Quick food for thought: if the trails are so close to their home, why sit at home for almost two hours calling? Why not drive down there and start asking people if they saw her or take off onto the "secret trail" (paraphrase because I don't remember his wording)? If I got worried I would grab a whistle and my dog and my cell phone and head straight there. I would assume my husband fell and hit his head.
Hindsight and all that, but geeze! Maybe he's not physically able to, I don't know. I do feel bad for him. Just had to vent. Maybe by the time he REALLY starting worrying wasn't til he called the police. Maybe a short ride could've meant a couple hours. He said she's physically fit so maybe that's nothing for her to ride.
Sorry I'm rambling.
ETA - found out he DID go look for her before calling 911. Bless his heart.
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In looking at the map....the areas by 137 and the dog park are by a lake? How big is the lake? How deep is the water? Is it swampy? It says boating so it must be somewhat deep. Larkbunting would you know?
The dog exercise area was closed through November. I wonder if it has reopened?
The lake is 115 acres. With 400 feet of sand at the beach area.
From that website (doesn't necessarily address your questions, but interesting - 75 feet deep):
When this land was purchased in 1978, an idea evolved that an old gravel quarry, 3,500 feet across and 75 feet deep, could be recycled and reclaimed. By the late 1980s, it was evident that something bigger could happen here. In the early 1990s, a community advisory committee helped brainstorm ideas and created a master plan that became the blueprint of what Independence Grove is today. The preserve opened to the public in 2001 and has become one of Lake County's most popular recreation destinations.
To create the lake, the quarry was mined of any remaining resources. Large pieces of equipment crushed the gravel, rock and concrete. Miles of conveyor belts throughout the bottom of the pit moved materials from one area to another. Mining royalties were put in a special fund to help pay for reclaiming the site for public use. Later, millions of cubic yards of clean fill were brought in to create about 60 acres of land. Since the walls of the old quarry were straight and steep, shelves were made along the edge to create a safer shoreline for wildlife habitat, and deter erosion. Thousands of trees and shrubs were planted.
One of the biggest challenges was creating a habitat for fish out of a sterile lake with no vegetation. Trees, fish cribs and concrete pipes were placed along the lake bottom before the water was allowed to rise.
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Third Crusade
From 1188 to 1192. After Saladin's army invaded the Kingdom of Jerusalem and captured the Holy City, 1187, the Third Crusade was organized. Under Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who started 1189, and Philip Augustus of France and Richard Creur de Lion of England, who left the following year, the armies finally won Saint Jean d'Acre in 1191, and Richard concluded a truce with Saladin in 1192.
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On an island with little internet, more Cubans are turning to cell phones — using them not to talk but to text and page.
HAVANA, Cuba — A cell phone is a handy device on this under-wired island. Just not for making phone calls.
Cuba's state-run wireless monopoly, Cubacel, has some of the steepest rates in the world, charging the equivalent of 50 cents per minute for outgoing and incoming calls. In a country where the average salary is less than $20 a month, half a day's wages can disappear with the first "Hola."
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Opponents of the Castro government sense an opportunity in this trend. The U.S. government, Cuban exile groups and dissidents on the island say cell phones can be a conduit of unfiltered information to ordinary Cubans. And the role of cell phone communication via Twitter in organizing protests in Iran and elsewhere has not gone unnoticed.
Only the Cuban government is not clamping down its network, but opening it up. Since Raul Castro lifted a ban on Cubans owning cell phones in 2008, the number of wireless accounts in the country has soared by 600,000 to more than 838,000 today, according to Cuban telecom officials.
Activation fees have been slashed from $150 two years ago to roughly $25. International calling rates are also being cut, and the number of wireless users in the country (pop. 11 million) is expected to grow to 2.4 million by 2015. The island's GSM network already covers 70 percent of Cuba's territory and further expansions are planned.
"We're going to keep working to provide the benefits of telecommunications to a greater number of Cubans," said Cuban telecom official Maximo Lafuente at a recent press conference in Havana. "There's no doubt that cell phones are an important foundation to the country's development."
The U.S. government wouldn't disagree, even if it has a differing type of "development" in mind. It views cell phones as direct channels of information to an island where the media is almost entirely state-controlled and less than 2 percent of Cuban households have an internet connection. Popular voice-over-internet-protocol services like Skype are also blocked by the Cuban government.
Last year, the Obama administration exempted U.S. wireless providers from longstanding trade sanctions against Cuba, calling increased communications with Cuba "our best tool for helping to foster the beginnings of grassroots democracy on the island."
"This will increase the means through which Cubans on the island can communicate with each other and with persons outside of Cuba," the administration said.


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PUBLISHED: 20 Mar 2012 00:05:00 | UPDATED: 20 Mar 2012 05:25:59PUBLISHED: 20 Mar 2012 PRINT EDITION: 20 Mar 2012John McDuling
Optus is planning large-scale redundancies after a strategic review of its operations.
The nation's second-largest telecommunications company confirmed redundancies would soon follow from a review spearheaded by recently appointed chief operating officer and head of Australian consumer operations Kevin Russell.
It comes less than two weeks after its owner, Singapore Telecommunications, announced sweeping changes to its organisation, effectively ending Optus's status as a separate business unit within the company.
SingTel announced its operations would be restructured into three divisions along customer lines rather than the geographic split it previously used. The three lines comprise a global consumer business headed by Optus boss Paul O'Sullivan, an ICT division focused on corporate customers and a digital division charged with creating applications and content.
It is believed the redundancies will fall mostly in the consumer business, headed by Mr Russell.
Optus has 9500 employees.
"Over the past few months, we have been undertaking a review of our local operations aimed at creating a stronger organisation with a clearer focus on the customer," a company statement said yesterday.
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The Focus of Future PCAOB Auditor Inspections
By James J. Farrell and Houman B. Shadab
Going forward, the impact of the PCAOB inspections cannot be underestimated. As the limited 2003 inspections showed, the PCAOB may extensively examine many GAAP principles, ranging from minutiae to material events. Indeed, as public comments by PCAOB officers indicate, "high-risk" clients and fraud detection are likely to be the focus of future inspections. In an August 2004 interview with CFO.com, PCAOB Chairman William McDonough stated that inspections "will be slanted heavily toward high-risk engagements." PCAOB member Daniel L. Goelzer, in a May 2005 interview with BNA, said that he hoped that auditors would learn to apply a more risk-based approach to auditing corporate controls during the give-and-take of the inspection process itself.
Fraud detection by auditors might also be reviewed, as McDonough reiterated that auditors have the duty to detect fraud and will be held accountable for failing to do so. PCAOB Chief Auditor and Director of Professional Standards Douglas Carmichael likewise underscored, in "ACFE Conference Highlight: PCAOB's Director Urges Auditors to Do More to Find Fraud" (Business Wire, July 14, 2004) and in "PCAOB: 2004 Inspections to Focus on Fraud, Documentation" (WebCPA, September 16, 2004), that "the real focus [of audits] should be on detecting fraud."
Independence issues are also likely to be the focus of future inspections. In a July 2004 WebCPA article, SEC Chief Accountant Donald T. Nicolaisen encouraged the PCAOB to take the lead on auditor independence issues by "expanding its role and becoming the primary standard-setter and the primary source of advice and guidance" on independence issues. Of particular concern to the PCAOB is the mass-marketing of certain tax shelters where the auditor takes a percentage of the tax savings as its fee: The PCAOB proposed an auditing standard specifically dealing with such issues on December 14, 2004. Additional issues likely to be the focus of inspections are documentation and high-profile deficiencies such as off–balance sheet entities (including special purpose entities) that significantly affect investors. PCAOB Director of Registration and Inspections George Diacont also stated that the new section 404 internal control standards for public companies will be the subject of inspections. This should come as no surprise in view of the provisions of PCAOB Auditing Standard 2, An Audit of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting Performed in Conjunction with an Audit of Financial Statements, issued in September 2004. The PCOAB's plan to issue new standards, including those relating to auditing third-party transactions, fair value measurements and disclosures, communications with audit committees, and the confirmation process, suggests likely areas of concern for future inspections. PCAOB Deputy Director for Inspections Chris Mandaleris recently stated that quality-control assessments and engagement review would be the primary focus of his inspectors, with an audit firm's "tone at the top" and culture under scrutiny.
PCAOB Enforcement for Failing to Remedy Deficiencies
The PCAOB has a separate investigation and enforcement process that includes sanctions ranging from civil penalties to a permanent revocation of a firm's ability to audit public companies. The potential impact of inspections on enforcement actions was noted by former SEC Chief Accountant Lynn Turner, who told Securities Law Daily (August 27, 2004) that "the PCAOB has to use these inspections to drive changes in the [auditing] rules and, quite frankly, get tough on enforcement." Looking high and low for any "hot tip," the PCAOB has even established online and telephone systems for anonymous tips and complaints.
The Increasing Importance of the PCAOB
The public accounting profession has shifted from self-regulatory mechanisms (such as peer review and AICPA Quality Control Inquiry Committee investigations) to extensive government oversight through the PCAOB. Over time, the importance of the PCAOB will only increase. In October 2004, McDonough stated that more issuer restatements should be expected as the result of the 2004 inspections. Inspections and investigations and enforcement actions are here and are likely to grow in number and significance. The manner in which audit firms respond to PCAOB enforcement measures will significantly impact their exposure to regulatory action and liability down the road, including the potential for plaintiffs to seize upon negative findings by the PCAOB as evidence of wrongdoing. As the first round of inspections has proved, no issue is too small to be the subject of PCAOB scrutiny. After several years of annual inspections, significant portions of an auditor's practice will be reviewed, and auditing firms must therefore be prepared to respond to a wide variety of issues. Effective understanding of all facets of the PCAOB inspection and enforcement regime is absolutely essential.
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Applying Analysis Methods in your Harness Design Process
There are currently no dates scheduled for this event.
OEMs are constantly looking for ways to reduce the costs of their harness design process. This can be achieved by lowering the risk of electrical components faling earlier in the design process, which ultimately leads to reducing the risk of company liability on the one hand and increasing customer satisfaction on the other hand.
This workshop will show how problems can be uncovered and solved early in the Harness design process in order to address cost, risk and liability issues. The workshop includes a hands-on part where you get the chance to use Capital Analysis in short and easy to understand labs.
At the end of the day the technology will be used in a demonstration to assess the impact of introducing a 48V system into your vehicle architecture as well as replacing some copper conductors with aluminum.
The presentation sessions are approximately 1.5 hours in duration and the labs will take approximately 2 hours to complete followed by 30 minutes of demos.
Please note that this workshop has a hands-on part where you get to use Capital Analysis, so the number of seats is limited!
What You Will Learn
- Understand the benefit of early verification.
- Get illustrated which questions could be answered with different analysis methods
- Learn how analysis tools could fit into your environment
- Get knowledge on correct modeling of electrical device
- Gain inspiration and knowledge by connecting with peers
About the Presenter
Oliver Neumann
Oliver Neumann has more than 20 years' experience in simulation and verification. 15 of those years he spent as an Application Engineer of Mentor Graphics working with many different industries, but keeping a strong focus on automotive and aerospace. Right now Oliver is engaging with transportation customers across Europe on how Mentor Graphics Capital Analysis tools can help to uncover problems early in the Harness design process and address cost, risk and liability issues.
Who Should Attend
- Engineers and manager who want to lower the risk of electrical components failing in complex harnesses.
- This workshop is intended for a broad audience ranging from the non-technical to highly experienced one.
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09:00 – 09:15 Registration
09:15 – 09:30 Introduction
09:30 – 09:45 Reasons for using analysis methods
09:45 – 10:15 How analysis methods could help you to save costs?
10:15 – 10:45 Exercise 1
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Introduction to the Capital Analysis tools suit
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 14:30 Exercises 2-5
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Inaction's a big deal sometimes
PUBLISHED: 08 Mar 2011 00:34:00 | UPDATED: 08 Mar 2011 08:21:53PUBLISHED: 08 Mar 2011 PRINT EDITION: 08 Mar 2011
Like a shark that needs to keep moving, Computershare needs to keep finding things to buy to keep its earnings up.
Yet things have been quiet on the acquisition front for the Melbourne-based global giant of share registry services. The last meaningful deal was the acquisition of HBOS's employee share registry business in January 2010. There has been a full year with no buys – and this for a company which has averaged between five and six significant deals every year over the past decade.
Chief executive officer Stuart Crosby and the regional heads of Computershare are due to front an annual strategy presentation for analysts on Wednesday next week. If Crosby wants to turn the weight of "sell" orders around to a few more "buys" he'll need to address the perception that his company has no strategy for dealing with the current slump in corporate activity, aside from waiting it out.
The current difficulty in which Computershare finds itself is particularly sharp because it has been such a stellar performer. Since 2003 it has had an unbroken record of growing its earnings per share. This has chiefly been done through acquisitions: more than 60 of them, totalling $US1.5 billion in the past decade, according to Dealogic.
But not much was bought in 2010; the company picked up HBOS's employee share scheme business, a tiny class action firm in the US, and it lifted its stake in a Russian transfer agency called Nikoil. All up these deals were only worth $70 million.
With the impact of recent acquisitions waning, Computershare last year warned 2011 was likely to be the first year when earnings went down. The guidance of a 5 to 10 per cent drop in earnings per share was reiterated during the recent half year results and most analysts have sell recommendations on fears that the company's high price to earnings multiple will rebase to a lower level. Earnings per share were US58¢ in 2010 and consensus estimates for 2011 are for US54¢.
That profits would be down was fairly predictable. Computershare makes money when companies come to market and raise capital, or take each other. Such activity is tracking at the lowest levels in a generation. Profit in the corporate actions part of the business, where this sort of activity gets booked, fell 15 per cent to $99.1 million
The biggest part of the business, registry maintenance, grew profits by 4 per cent to $325.8 million. But as Macquarie Equities Research noted revenues over the past three years revenues are not growing with inflation in Australia, the UK, US or Canada.
The problem here is competitors such as Wells Fargo are basically giving away free registry services when large companies take a loan –a reflection of the grim credit demand in the US. Hewlett-Packard and Comcast have both recently defected to Wells.
Computershare is already one of the largest share registry providers in many of the markets where it operates, so competition rules are forcing it to buy business in kindred industries rather than its core business. But its record has been rocky; US bankruptcy administration has worked well but the UK childcare voucher administrator, Busy Bees, has disappointed. As it turns out, Computershare's model of buying things and ripping out costs does not work as well in a business related to childcare.
As the company awaits the rebound in corporate activity there are some trends in its favour.
Share registry services are becoming more consolidated as Link Market Services, owned by Pacific Equity Partners, buys up assets in US and Canada. That could make for more rational pricing.
Corporate governance reforms aimed at increasing the power of shareholders are underway in the US, giving companies a greater need to find out exactly who their shareholders are. Most shareholders are hidden within brokers' nominee accounts. This means share registry operators like Computershare have much less work to do. But the Securities and Exchange Commission is looking at measures to lift transparency and is expected to make its finding this year.
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State and local government employer costs for employee compensation, September 2011
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State and local government employers spent an average of $40.76 per hour worked for employee compensation in September 2011. Wages and salaries averaged $26.57 per hour and 65.2 percent of compensation costs, while benefits averaged $14.19 per hour worked and accounted for the remaining 34.8 percent.
Total compensation for management, professional, and related occupations, which represent approximately half of all state and local government employment, averaged $49.37 per hour worked. Average hourly compensation costs were $30.86 for service occupations and $28.49 for sales and office occupations.
For state and local government employees, employer costs for insurance benefits were $4.89 per hour, or 12.0 percent of total compensation. The largest component of insurance costs was health insurance, which averaged $4.74, or 11.6 percent of total compensation.
In September 2011, the average cost for retirement and savings benefits was $3.42 per hour worked in state and local government (8.4 percent of total compensation).
These data are from the BLS Employment Cost Trends program and are for private industry and state and local government employers. To learn more, see "Employer Costs for Employee Compensation — September 2011" (HTML) (PDF), news release USDL-11-1718.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, State and local government employer costs for employee compensation, September 2011 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2011/ted_20111209.htm (visited March 05, 2015).
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And they need to collaborate….
So they need a way of collaborating efficiently and effectively….
The challenge of effective and efficient ECAD/MCAD collaboration is nothing new. This has been a challenge for some time that has been compounded over the past few years due to accelerated time to market drivers and global competition.
Over the past couple years the topic of "mechatronics", of which ECAD/MCAD collaboration is a subset, has been one of the hotter discussions in product development. In short – products are no longer just geometries but their electronics and software composition is increasing. I read somewhere that the typical automobile today is about 50% mechanical and the rest is electronics, software, and other non-traditional components.
Recognizing the need for better and more effective ECAD/MCAD collaboration, the ProSTEP iVIP Association formed a working group of industry players including academic members, industrial members, as well as solution providers of which Mentor Graphics was the only ECAD vendor involved. The challenge of this group was to form a better way of collaborating.
The basic challenge is that most changes tend to be incremental, yet the data transfer to communicate these changes tends to be massive exhanges. Visualization itself is insufficient since it is open to interpretation where data exchange is incomplete nor is the data consumed by each designers' system.
So – the working group, over many meetings and with leadership by Mentor Graphics arrived at a standard and communications protocol called EDMD. This standard allows both sides of the product design, electronic and mechanical, to communicate incremental changes, like outline changes, within their own native environments and without the need to pass over massive amounts of data nor go through other types of data conversions. You can learn more about this standard by visiting the ProSTEP iVIP website.
Mentor Graphics has adopted this methodology in its Expedition Enterprise(2007) and Board Station (XE) flows. You can learn more about this standard via an on demand webinar. PTC partnered with us on this web event and are a member of the ProSTEP iVIP committee. Take some time and review the webinar. We do believe that there is a fundamental difference in the ways and methodologies that EDMD enables collaboration. I hope you take the time to review for yourself.


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Bentley and Autodesk Soon to be Compatible?
In a surprise joint announcement, the two leading—and rival—vendors of design and analysis software say they have agreed to exchange their software libraries and support each other's application programming interface tools to improve interoperability between their products.
The day of the announcement, July 8, may go down as a historic great leap forward, creating a link between the two most widely used suites of architectural, engineering and construction tools.
The design tools of Autodesk, San Rafael, Calif., and Bentley Systems, Exton, P.A., are often used by project collaborators who have long complained of limited compatibility when exchanging designs between the platforms. Now the companies pledge to share with each other the information needed to improve each company's ability to read, write and submit in the file format of its competitor. There are many technical issues and questions to be resolved, but they say the cooperation has begun.
"By virtue of this agreement, and the interoperable offerings that it will enable, AEC firms will be free to employ software tools of choice from either Autodesk or Bentley to accept or submit either DWG or DGN files," the companies' joint statement declares. "By improving fidelity of work shared between the two file formats, users will be able to focus on being creative and getting work done, rather than being constrained by file compatibility considerations."
"It just made all the sense in the world," says Amar Hanspal, Autodesk's senior vice president, platform solutions and emerging business, responding to questions about the timing of the decision during a press conference after the announcement. Jay Bhatt, senior vice president of Autodesk AEC Solutions, says that the rapid globalization of the industry and users' need to work in distributed locations with many tools and bring data together in collaboration, particularly through building Information modeling, is the driver. "Teams are working differently than they were. BIM has become a true driver in the industry," Bhatt says.
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"This agreement should be regarded as a sudden huge leap forward," says Greg Bentley, CEO of Bentley Systems. He says the companies and their customers will benefit; users by being able to work more efficiently, and vendors through increased demand for their products. "This is a significant investment on both of our parts, but the return is very significant as well," Bentley says.
The interoperability problem has become a drag on the development and use of building information modeling, where 3-D design models are used as the common framework for organizing more and more associated project information.
Patrick MacLeamy, a founder and current chair of the International Alliance for Interoperability and CEO of the global architectural firm HOK, also welcoms the move and calls it "an important step toward enabling AEC Information to be more broadly shared, increasing the value of BIM to our clients."
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