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Council OKs townhouses without park space
Original post made on Sep 12, 2012
Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 1:06 PM
a resident of North Whisman
on Sep 12, 2012 at 2:46 pm
Why is everyone so concerned with adding a park or minipark here? This development is like 1/2 mile from Sylvan Park.
a resident of another community
on Sep 12, 2012 at 3:29 pm
Mountain View has many nice parks. As our population grows, park space should grow proportionally; unfortunately, developers maximize their profits by squeezing in as many apartments or homes a possible,
Bob Dylan said it best:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot,
With a pink hotel, a boutique,
And a swinging hot spot.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.
And they charged all the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
a resident of Blossom Valley
on Sep 12, 2012 at 3:35 pm
Actually, Konrad, that was written by Joni Mitchell, not Bob Dylan.
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Sep 12, 2012 at 7:10 pm
Developers short-sited "it's all about my bottomoline" views of the world are silly and costly in the longrun.
The main thought for me vav this news story is the city staff remark: "we can't force them to add a park" which tells me we need laws which could "force them to add a park".
That's what needs to change... and if the developers don't like it then let them go to some other careless city and build their condos there.
a resident of Monta Loma
on Sep 12, 2012 at 8:46 pm
Developers own this town. City council only has to ask "how high?"
a resident of another community
on Sep 12, 2012 at 9:54 pm
John, you are correct. They should change the name from Mountain View to Developerville.
a resident of Willowgate
on Sep 13, 2012 at 9:08 am
This is something I was just wondering as I passed the two new developments on Evelyn across from the train station. How much park/nature area is required for developments.
There is such a thing as Nature Deficit Disorder. Kids and adults are spending less time in nature and obesity levels are rising. When there is a disconnect between people and nature, there is an apathy for nature.
The city needs to address this problem now before it gets out of hand. All developments should be required to have some kind of park space and low water plants. Our parks system will be stretched to the brink if each development is allowed to just build and not provide park space.
a resident of Monta Loma
on Sep 13, 2012 at 7:13 pm
Unfortunately there is nothing we can do about the developers owning the town.
Same old same old get reelected, staff doesn't care, just more money for their bloated pensions.
a resident of another community
on Sep 14, 2012 at 10:11 am
They got more guest parking, 17 more spaces which who knows in the owners might want to reduce and put in more open space
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Sep 15, 2012 at 6:06 pm
"Same old same old get reelected, staff doesn't care, just more money for their bloated pensions."
That's true but it goes further. The city staff are looking at their careers in city government. They encourage high density building. Buildings built right to the road, high as possible and no open space.
More people, means more tax revenue, higher budgets, job security. Even worse, the senior staff want to move up the governmental chain, so they need to show that they are following state recommendations regarding 'smart growth'. ("Smart Growth" are a set of development requirements that are *supposed* to be nicer to the environment (carbon emissions) at the expense of the quality of life of all city residents.)
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Sep 15, 2012 at 6:11 pm
"The main thought for me vav this news story is the city staff remark: "we can't force them to add a park" which tells me we need laws which could "force them to add a park"."
Maybe you couldn't have required them to have a public park, but you certainly could have denied them a build permit unless they had some openspace (not just a parking lot) within their development that could be used to hang out in. It doesn't even have to be very big. Most of Mountain View's many "city parks" are nothing more than a bench with some landscaping...and that counts as a 'park'. Don't see why a developer couldn't do something similar.
Or, you could have said..you know..this is an industrial area near some major streets and we should not allow large high-density residential units to be built until *after* a local park is built. If the developer doesn't want to pay for it--fine. Mountain View will...someday...when the funding can be allocated. Until then, no building!
It will be interesting to see if any children are run over playing on Evelyn, since there is no other place to play within walking distance. Who gets blamed then? City Staff won't for sure..but they are the obstacle!
a resident of Monta Loma
on Sep 15, 2012 at 8:34 pm
It's a fact tired. No accountability to the citizens who are the city.
Greedy developers own the politicians. Can anyone see the gridlock coming/ if not already here.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Sep 15, 2012 at 8:59 pm
"No accountability to the citizens who are the city."
I guess the only 'power' that the citizens have is to elect City Council members who truly believe in preserving the (fading) character of this city...but let's say we do? I wonder if they can really effect change?
I think if the City Staff wants something against Council wishes, all they have to do to keep council in line is talk about a lawsuit. ("Well, if we don't allow this developer to build a 'maximize revenue' high density, concrete and virtually tree-less project, then they will sue us and we will have to spend money we don't have fighting a lawsuit.") They can recommend studies, planning sessions, etc... and make it so brutal to the people that want to keep Mtn View beautiful, that they give up...
a resident of Monta Loma
on Sep 16, 2012 at 3:06 pm
Sad but so true
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Sep 17, 2012 at 8:53 am
This has nothing to do about park space. The issue is a public versus private park space. There is plenty of park/recreation space on the development. The reporter just doesn't understand the difference.
I talked with some staff members and they feel this was just Siegels way of grandstanding by bringing up the issue at the last minute. He knows the idea wont fly by bringing it up at the last minute. The developer was willing to negotiate if this idea had been brought up when he first proposed the project. Notice how some members want to pile on and extract more concessions from the developer at the last minute. The appropriate time to offer suggestions is at the beginning of the project. Expect to see more of this type of crass behavior from the short-timers on the council.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Sep 17, 2012 at 6:49 pm
"There is plenty of park/recreation space on the development."
Political Insider's statement is incorrect. The non-concrete areas that you can walk on are quite small.
"I talked with some staff members and they feel this was just Siegels way of grandstanding by bringing up the issue at the last minute."
Right--so the city employees have no respect for the city council and are badmouthing them. That proves the point I was making earlier that the city employees have a lock on this town at the expense of the residents.


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How about a moment of silence for the roughly 500 people who die every year because they chose to drive in order to avoid airport security?
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How do you persuade yourself that a statement is true or an answer is correct? How do you persuade someone else? Various subcultures have evolved strategies and devices for dealing with these issues—scientific experiment, mathematical proof, trial by jury, consulting holy writ or the Guinness Book of Records. The trouble is, these methods are not perfectly reliable. Sometimes they convince people of a falsehood or fail to convince them of a truth.
In the July-August issue of American Scientist I reviewed Paul J. Nahin's Digital Dice: Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems, which advocates computer simulation as an additional way of establishing truth in at least one domain, that of probability calculations. To introduce the theme, I revisited the famous Monty Hall affair of 1990, in which a number of mathematicians and other smart people took opposite sides in a dispute over probabilities in the television game show Let's Make a Deal. (The game-show situation is explained at the end of this essay.) When I chose this example, I thought the controversy had faded away years ago, and that I could focus on methodology rather than outcome. Adopting Nahin's approach, I wrote a simple computer simulation and got the results I expected, supporting the view that switching doors in the game yields a two-thirds chance of winning.
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The initial statement of the problem as three doors with a prize randomly placed behind them does have a 1/3 probability of being the right choice prior to the opening of a door that doesn't contain a prize. Once a door is opened without the prize, the problem changes to two doors, each of which is equally likely to have the prize behind it. There is no advantage to switching doors.
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So, it doesn't really matter that Mr. Hayes has written a program showing that you should switch doors after one has been eliminated, because it is based on the notion that one cannot reselect the original door, leaving arbitrary assumptions, word games and personal opinions. I would be happy to provide a similar computer program showing that the world is flat.
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Differences in the interpretation of the problem statement doubtless account for many of the continuing disputes over the Monty Hall puzzle. But there is a residuum of disagreement that is not so easily explained away. In another letter, David Lippmann of Austin, Texas, offers this analysis:
If Monty Hall always opens a door that does not conceal the prize and that the contestant has not chosen, there are only eight possible outcomes. Suppose that the doors are A, B and C and that the prize is behind C. The possible pairs of guesses are A followed by A, A followed by C, B followed by B, B followed by C, C followed by B, C followed by C, C followed by A, and C followed by C. Four of the second guesses are C, independent of what the first guess was. The probability that the contestant will win the prize is 1/2.
Lippmann and I apparently share the same assumptions about the game-show rules, and I even agree with his conclusion, in a limited sense: If the player chooses randomly whether to stay or switch, then the probability of winning is indeed 1/2. Nevertheless, I believe that Lippmann's analysis is incorrect, and a player who always switches doors has a two-thirds chance of winning. (The source of the error is that the eight cases do not all have the same probability. Monty Hall sometimes has two choices about which door to open, sometimes only one.)
The issue that concerns me here is not who is right and who is wrong about the odds of winning on Let's Make a Deal. The issue is how I can persuade anyone that my answer—or any particular answer—is correct. I have been stewing about this for several weeks, frustrated that I am powerless to communicate what I take to be a simple truth. But I've finally decided that what the episode demonstrates is the vigorous good health of the scientific enterprise.
Making progress in the sciences requires that we reach agreement about answers to questions, and then move on. Endless debate (think of global warming) is fruitless debate. In the Monty Hall case, this social process has actually worked quite well. A consensus has indeed been reached; the mathematical community at large has made up its mind and considers the matter settled. But consensus is not the same as unanimity, and dissenters should not be stifled. The fact is, when it comes to matters like Monty Hall, I'm not sufficiently skeptical. I know what answer I'm supposed to get, and I allow that to bias my thinking. It should be welcome news that a few others are willing to think for themselves and challenge the received doctrine. Even though they're wrong.
All the same, in the future I think I'll find some other example when I need to illustrate probability calculations.
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The puzzle that has entered the lore of mathematics is not exactly the same as the game played on television. The situation in the mathematical puzzle is this: You are shown three doors and told that exactly one of them has a prize behind it. After you choose a door, Monty Hall (who knows where the prize is) opens one of the two unchosen doors, showing that the prize is not there. You are then offered a choice: Stick with your original door or switch to the remaining unopened door.
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Just downtown tonight ... noticed lots of scratched plate glass ?
Original post made by Anon., Crescent Park, on Nov 29, 2012
There is an absolute epidemic of this kind of scratch-fitti and it really makes me mad. I know that these plate glass windows are not cheap, maybe $1000 per window with safety glass and glazing ... perhaps more.
When some idiot scratches all into these windows it ruins them. Maybe someone can tell me different, but as far as I know there is no good way to get those scratches out, the whole window is garbage. In one night one vandal can destroy almost a million dollars of property, or just make everyone on Palo Alto feel crappy because their city has been attacked by low-life scum who do not understand the basic idea of civilization.
I see this scratching all over the place. In mirrors and all over the area in public restrooms and any other place these jerks can hide while they poison and kill everything they touch. There ought to be a shoot on sight order for people like this.
Has anyone else noticed this as much as I have, and what do you think? I think we need cameras in this city and we need to find and make an example of the good for nothing creeps that do this kind of stuff.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 30, 2012 at 1:36 am
Wow, evolutionized graffiti. What a shame. My guess is they are not Palo Alto residents. Extremely frustrating. Perhaps happens in the wee hours.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 30, 2012 at 8:29 am
Is this some sort of gang initiation activity? I agree, extensive camera surveillance is called for, and active police attempts to catch these idiotic vandals.
a resident of College Terrace
on Nov 30, 2012 at 1:35 pm
From the looks of it, either it is a gang thing, or someone is raving mad at those businesses. This will not be a cheap, easy cleanup. The perps need to be found and prosecuted. It is surprising that there is not more video surveillance downtown in the first place.
a resident of Midtown
on Nov 30, 2012 at 3:35 pm
There are so many bums Downtown. Why is this a surprise?


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Out of a pool of 120 aspiring opera singers from across the country, eight were selected to compete at Centre Stage: Ensemble Studio Competition on November 3, 2015, our annual celebration of the next generation of opera stars selected from nationwide auditions for the COC Ensemble Studio—Canada's premier training program for young opera professionals. The competition features the young singers vying for cash prizes ranging in value from $1,500 to $5,000. We interviewed our eight young finalists to learn more—check out all of the interviews, linked by name as they become available, here (or here if on a mobile device).
Halifax native and baritone Zachary Read is currently a member of Vancouver Opera's Yulanda M. Faris Young Artist Program, and he studied opera at the University of Toronto (UofT) and Western University. His credits include Marullo in Rigoletto, Jonas Fogg in Sweeney Todd, Le Podestat in Le Docteur Miracle, Ivan in Die Fledermaus, and Morales in Carmen (Vancouver Opera); Sid in Albert Herring and Malatesta in Don Pasquale (UofT Opera); and Guglielmo in Così fan tutte (Accademia Europea dell'Opera). Mr. Read was a Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions regional finalist and won the District People's Choice Award. He was also a semi-finalist in the 2015 Lotte Lenya Competition. Upcoming roles include Prince Yamadori and Imperial Commissioner in Vancouver Opera's Madama Butterfly.
I grew up playing and singing Scottish, Irish, and folk music. I had not been exposed much to opera before going to university, but knew that I wanted to improve my singing and songwriting. I decided to pursue a vocal performance degree at the University of Western Ontario, where I learned a lot about the operatic repertoire and was very intrigued by how a human voice could make such a glorious sound. Once I learned more about the French, German, and Italian languages, I was able to appreciate the poetry and storytelling that inspires these great works.
There are many reasons why I think this art form is so intriguing: how composers marry text to music and the way both of those elements influence one another, the sound and colours possible in the voice and orchestra, and the immediacy of creating live theatre in front of an audience, to name a few.
Another passion I have in my life is playing the Scottish Highland Bagpipes. I am currently a member of the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band (six-time world champions) and will be traveling with the band to compete at the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow this summer.
I also love entertaining and cooking for friends and family, single-malt whisky, and University of Michigan football.
There are so many roles I would love to perform. It would be hard to pick one. The Verdi baritone roles are ones I would dearly love to grow into someday, but for the nearer future, I would say my top "dream" roles would be Valentin in Gounod's Faust, Figaro in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, and Marcello in Puccini's La Bohème.
Follow Zachary on Twitter at @ZakRead
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit COCCentreStage.ca, call COC Ticket Services at 416-363-8231 or visit the Four Seasons Centre Box Office (145 Queen St. W.).
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Clermont, Quebec-born mezzo-soprano Marjorie Maltais recently completed her master of music performance and literature at Western University, where she also earned a bachelor of music in voice performance. Her operatic credits include Rosina in The Barber of Seville (Montefeltro Festival); Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Angelina in La Cenerentola, and Concepcion in L'heure espagnole (Western University Opera); the title role in Carmen (Windsor Symphony Orchestra); and Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Opera on the Avalon). She also recently performed at Music Academy of the West. Upcoming performances include concert appearances with the Guelph and Windsor symphony orchestras, Boise Philharmonic and Sweetwater Music Festival.
I started singing in a choir at age 12 and this is where I discovered my voice. Opera was not a passion at first, but I learned to love it. At a young age, I remember finding the actual mechanics of singing fascinating. I wanted to be able to project my voice like an opera singer. Then I fell in love with the music, the stories, the costumes, the sets. Opera is all of my passions combined into one art form.
I love visual arts, comedies, documentaries, hiking, and good meals in good company!
My dream role is the feisty Isabella from Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri who must rescue her love. I can't get enough of Rossini!
Follow Marjorie on Twitter at @MezzoMarjo
Out of a pool of 120 aspiring opera singers from across the country, eight were selected to compete at Centre Stage: Ensemble Studio Competition on November 3, 2015, our annual celebration of the next generation of opera stars selected from nationwide auditions for the COC Ensemble Studio—Canada's premier training program for young opera professionals. The competition features the young singers vying for cash prizes ranging in value from $1,500 to $5,000. We interviewed our eight young finalists to learn more—check out all of the interviews, linked by name as they become available, here (or here if on a mobile device).
Mezzo-soprano Emily D'Angelo grew up in Toronto and is in her final year of the bachelor of music in voice at the University of Toronto where she was the 2015 recipient of the Jim and Charlotte Norcop Prize in Song. Operatic credits include Sesto in Giulio Cesare (Halifax Summer Opera Festival); Nerone in L'incoronazione di Poppea; Annio in La clemenza di Tito (Centre for Opera Studies in Italy); Berta in The Barber of Seville (Opera York); and Cherubino in scenes from The Marriage of Figaro (UofT Opera). Ms. D'Angelo has participated in young artists programs at the Ravinia Festival, SongFest at Colburn, and Boston University Tanglewood Institute. She made her solo debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 2011.
My dad would often listen to CDs of Cecilia Bartoli and Pavarotti, and my Nonno was always singing along to opera in the car, but I never in my wildest dreams thought that I would end up pursuing opera as my career.
For nine years I sang in the Toronto Children's Chorus, and I also played cello throughout high school where I thoroughly enjoyed playing in various orchestras. When I was 15, I began to study voice privately. After having so much experience singing and playing in an ensemble setting, I found solo singing to be a completely new challenge. This is the point at which I caught what people so often refer to as "the Opera Bug."
I would spend hours on YouTube listening to various singers and began to discover the vast repertoire for the voice. The combination of orchestral music, vocal music, and drama is a truly amazing thing – the result is much greater than the sum of its parts. Singing is so innately human, and can have a hugely profound effect on an audience. I am so grateful to play a small part in this amazingly complex and diverse community of music and art.
I have always enjoyed science and problem solving, and from a young age I had thought that I would become a doctor. I suppose I had never even really considered becoming a musician to be a real career option; it was something that I enjoyed so much that it seemed too good to be true that I could actually make music every day of my life, and one day (hopefully) get paid to do it.
If I had to do something else, then maybe I would pursue medicine after all. But after all of the fulfillment and the rich experiences I have had making music, I really cannot imagine doing anything else.
I am an extremely active person and love to run and bike. I love to be outside, and my friends often make fun of my ardent refusal to take the TTC. If I have the time, I'd much rather walk.
At the moment I am on crutches with a broken foot, so not much running (or walking) has been happening over the past six weeks… but my arms are becoming very strong!
Apart from opera, I have a great love for art song, and much of my spare time goes into learning song cycles. I am planning several recitals throughout the year, and love to collaborate with pianists.
Learn more about Emily at emilydangelo.com and follow her on Twitter at @emilymezzo
To buy competition tickets, click here.
To buy Under 30 competition tickets sponsored by TD, click here.
For more information about the the Centre Stage Dinner event and how to purchase tickets, please contact the PC Office at 416-363-5801
Photo Credit: Daniel Alexander Denino
Sara Fulgoni in the COC production of Bluebeard's Castle. Photo: Michael Cooper © 2001


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It's been wonderful from start to finish. Good access to the beach, not too far from the nearby supermarket, and most import_antly of all, welcoming hosts. The apartament was unexpectedly spacious, gave everyone room to breathe. Worth every penny we paid for the stay.
gorgeous house in a very quiet and relaxing with views of the pool.
We loved !!!! thank you to the owners
sublime maison dans un endroit très calme et reposant avec vue sur une piscine.
Nous avons adoré !!!! merci aux propriétaires
Apartment very very nice, friendly, quiet area and close to a beautiful beach. The owner is very helpful. I highly recommend.
Appartamento molto molto carino, accogliente, zona tranquilla e vicina ad un bel mare.
La proprietaria è molto disponibile.
Consiglio vivamente.
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Very friendly welcome and enjoyable stay. The apartment was absolutely spotless and clean. A wonderful and spacious balcony with an ocean view. Location perfect with a walking distance to city center and a couple of beaches nearby. Beautiful and peaceful surroundings. Highly recommendable fo families and small groups. A very good value for moneys.
We were very happy with our stay in Split. Clean, bright, quiet and very cozy apartment with great sea views. 20 minute walk to the Old Town, 5 minutes to the beach. Parking directly outside the house. The hosts were very nice and helpful.
Wir waren sehr zufrieden mit unserem Aufenthalt in Split. Saubere, helle, ruhige und sehr gemütliche Wohnung mit tollem Blick aufs Meer. 20 Minuten zu Fuß in die Altstadt, 5 Minuten zum Strand. Parkmöglichkeit direkt vorm Haus. Die Gastgeber waren sehr nett und hilfsbereit.
The flat was nice and clean, calm, very close to the beach by foot.
Center of old town easy to reach.
Everything went Ok during our stay. I recommend this flat.
We had a warm welcome by Paola and her family. The appartment was perfect , nice and clean. And in walking distance of the city centre. The pool is a nice bonus to cool off on hot days. We had everything to Enjoy our holiday in Split ! Tanks Paola!
Really happy with our stay at the apartment of Paola.
It is very clean, very bright, in a very quiet and relaxing, with a beautiful sea view and a garden where the scent of flowers and lemon are very nice! 20 minutes walk to shops and boats!
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Ce dernier est très propre, très lumineux, dans un endroit très calme et très reposant, avec une belle vue sur la mer et un jardin où les parfums des fleurs et du citronnier sont très agréable! A 20 minutes a pieds des commerces et des bateaux!
Paola est une hôte vraiment gentille et attentionnée.
Nous vous conseillons cette location!
Wir hatten eine sehr schöne großzügige Unterkunft mit allem Komfort.
Paola ist eine sehr gute Gastgeberin.
Wir kommen gerne wieder.
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Summer squash and orange pepper give this herby side dish fantastic color. Remember this recipe—it complements almost any main dish. —Shirley Warren, Thiensville, WI
Recommended: 84 Lemon Recipes from Tart to Sweet
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- 2 yellow summer squash, halved lengthwise and cut into 1/4-inch slices
- 1 medium sweet orange pepper, cut into thin strips
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 3 green onions, chopped
- 2 teaspoons brown sugar
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- Saute squash and orange pepper in butter in a large skillet until crisp-tender. Add remaining ingredients; cook 4-5 minutes longer or until sugar is dissolved and vegetables are tender. Yield: 4 servings.
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Just Jousting – Experience the Thrills and Spills of the Queen's Golden Jubilee Challenge - Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Cheer on some of the world's top jousters as they clash head to head for HM The Queen's Golden Jubilee Trophy at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds this Bank Holiday (August 28 to 30).
Watch the drama build through the heats, reaching a climax on Bank Holiday Monday when "Henry VIII" will present the overall champion with a trophy following the spectacular finale.
There will be two smashing heats on Saturday and Sunday at 12.15pm and 2.45pm – with a nail biting semi-final and final concluding the excitement on Monday. One of the Royal Armouries professional actors – in full Henry VIII regalia – will do the honours at the awards ceremony.
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- Human Statues – Daily – Street and Arena
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- Castles in the Clouds – Daily, Stilt walking show – Street and Arena
- Medieval Musicians – Daily 10.30am and 4pm, listen to traditional medieval music. – Street
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- Path to Victory Parade – Monday 2pm, cheer on the knights as they lead their teams to victory. – Boulevard/Royal Armouries Square
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A few years ago, I was fortunate enough to meet a descendant of one of the slave-owning YARBOROUGHs of Franklin County, NC, where my paternal ancestors are from. As it happened, I was in the FC Courthouse doing some research one summer day, and in discussing my plight in trying to validate my theory on how my gg-grandfather, Calvin, came to be a Yarborough, a very helpful young lady shared with me that a semi-retired lawyer in town was a YARBOROUGH, and had an office in the very next block. Several of the other courthouse workers chimed in, saying that this person was an avid family historian, and that they believed him to have access to his ancestors' records. Of course, I made my way over to the law office, only to find a note on the door saying that the person I sought was only in on Tuesdays and Thurdays. This was not one of those days.
This is Richard Fenner Yarborough, Sr., a son of one of the first "brothers of Yarboroughs" who came to Franklin County (then Bute), NC from Virginia. (Photo taken by Renate Sanders of original picture (in frame) held by C.H. Yarborough, Jr.)
I took down the phone number for the law office, and continued on to the next planned stop on my trip, which was a visit to the Oakwood Cemetery, where most of the slave-owning Yarboroughs are buried. This was more out of curiosity than anything else, but as always, the Ancestors were at work. As I stood amid the immaculately-kept graves in the YARBOROUGH CIRCLE (which was located right in the center of Oakwood), another vehicle pulled up. A white-haired lady got out and headed directly towards me. "Oh, no", I thought. I guess she's wondering why I (a black woman) am out here in the middle of her family plot. I put on my best smile and greeted her, excited on the inside thinking that I might be about to meet one of the descendants of my gg-grandfather's owners, but nervous about how I was about to be received. The woman also smiled, perhaps a bit nervously too, but - she-smiled. :) We got all of the pleasantries out of the way, and got to talking. As it turned out, the woman, Nancy, was the widow of a deceased YARBOROUGH, and was out to visit her husband's grave. She knew and shared quite a bit of history with me, and we completed our visit to the cemetery together. She also knows, and considers as a friend, my aunt, Sue, who still lives in Louisburg. Before we parted, Nancy, too, shared the name and the home phone number of her husband's nephew - the same lawyer whom I'd just attempted to visit.
Nancy Yarborough, widow of Edward Yarborough
(Photo property of Renate Y Sanders)
Long story short, I ended up contacting Charles Yarborough, who was quite gracious and receptive to meeting and talking with me about the possibility of our shared family history. I met with him on my next trip to Louisburg, and we had a high time getting to know each other, and chatting about our families. As it turned out, my own grandmother, Anna Green YARBOROUGH, actually worked for Charles' family when he was a boy. And get this - she was his nanny! Charles remembered my grandmother's sweetness, and he remembered being very sad when she had to stop working for his family, abruptly, due to the illness of a family member. (I'll write about that in another post.) He thought he might have a picture someplace of her holding him (oh - wouldn't that be a treasure for me!), but hasn't been able to find it to date. Anyway, I've had the opportunity since then to meet Charles' son, Hill, who is just as gracious, accepting, and generous as his father. Together, the three of us have visited, "The Hill", which is the burial ground for most of my African-American YARBOROUGH ancestors, including many who were formerly enslaved. In particular, Charles wanted to pay his respects to his "Nanny", which he was able to do on that day.
Charles and Hill have continued to open their hearts to me in my quest to find any documentation that further supports my finding that my gg-grandfather was owned by their ancestor's cousin, James H. YARBOROUGH. We know that we are not blood relatives, thanks to DNA testing, but I never thought we were, since my gg-grandfather was acquired by James H. via his marriage to Elizabeth T. Neal, who owned him first.
This is me with Charles on "The Hill". Here we stand touching the headstone of my grandmother (his "Nanny") and grandfather.
Soon, I'll be heading back to Louisburg, where Hill (pictured left) and I together will search through some of the boxes and boxes of family documents which he now has in his care. Charles, Nancy, and Hill Yarborough have indeed proven themselves not only to be wonderful "friends of friends", but as we like to call ourselves, "almost-cousins", or "cousins-anyway".
PS... This post, as well as the pictures included were shared with the permission and well wishes of my almost cousin, Charles "Hill" Yarborough. :) Thanks, Hill! Renate


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some new hyundai news.my dad went to a hyundai convention and he was told quite a few things. first off we have an elantra coupe on the way, secondly he was shon the new azera and he informs me it was quite sporty.i have some insider information that i am abolsutely DYING to share but cant because he made me swear on my life but just note hyundai has a very good marketing ploy coming out in early may late april and just so you all know NBG knew about it first= )... now we can dedicate this thread to that idea when it is unvieled feel free to guess for now. what do you guys think is some good marketing?would you buy an elantra coupe?post edit: an updated elantra touring is on the way as well.is the azera on your shoppin g list 2?hyundai has started doing gauranteed trade in value!
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You swore on your life for a tidbit of Hyundai information? SELL IT TO THE TABLOIDS! I wouldn't buy an Elantra coupe because i'm not a fan of coupes or compact cars, and I wouldn't buy the Azera either.
I absolutely love Hyundai's new design. An Elantra coupe? Definitely I want one! But it has to look better than my Genesis Coupe I really want to know what their new marketing strategies are! Can't wait! But I know it will be a good one
____________________________________________________________I drive what I like, and I like what I drive
Hyundai is junk
szaboo:Hyundai is junkUm when their sub-compact is smoother, quieter, better handling, and better equipped than a compact produced by one of the world's largest and oldest automakers I can't say I'd agree with you. Right now I'd be happier with an Accent than I would this pos I bought a month ago. Hyundai is doing what GM and Chrysler SHOULD have been doing 15 years ago. And now they're paying the price of producing inferior products. I'm speaking from experience- the Elantra rode like a Lexus next to my Cobalt.
I'd rather see an Elantra Touring with the updated body style rather than a coupe. If I want a two-door Hyundai, I'd buy a Genesis. Or the Kia Forte Koupe, which I think is nice looking.
szaboo:Hyundai is junkNope, Chevy holds that title.
szaboo:Hyundai is junkThanks for being stuck in the 80s, your Yugo is still running btw.I do like the Hyundai is at least will to try a 2 door here, HEY FORD LISTEN UP! Seriously the only thing I would love more then a Focus ST 2 door hatch is um.... I don't know they haven't invented it yet!As far as the mystery annoucment I wouldn't mind hearing some updates to the Genesis Coupe, I have grown to like that car.
senor I sorry I make yu angrey. I just tell what I see. the Hyundai that come to the shop for work are vary not good. on the lift yu can see vary bad spot welds and hangers to hold up pipes ar cheep and break muffler and struts do not last for vary long and sseats tair and door handels and mirrors fall off. bolts in front suspension are vary small and we see Hyundai Accent with bolts mising and nothing lines up. Chevy more better not
I meen Chevy is more beter sorry I try to write beter.
I think there was a time that you can fairly say Hyundai's were not built very well. I am not so sure you can say that anymore, at least since the mid 2000s. Thank you for expanding on why you said that it makes more sense then just a random comment.
wtf is going on with new Hyundai hater??
that is vary funny. I never hav work on Yugo but I have old man at the shop tel mi that Yugo no good for 10,000 miles. I wonder that is why the yugo go away.
The new Azera is sportier than the current one, but I wouldn't exactly say that it is sporty; maybe along the lines of the Taurus, but likely not as much as the Maxima (the upcoming Kia Cadenza will be the sportier of the 2).
szaboo:Hyundai is junkWho care's what your peon mind thinks?JD Power, Consumer Reports and AutoBild all say different.And Hyundai's reliability stunk when they were using junky Mitsu components.


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A bed of blooms give kids' rooms the cheeriness of a spring garden. Our Maya bedding is made by hand using multicolored embroidery stitches and textural appliqués.
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- Quilt and sham reverse to solid white percale.
- Pre-washed for added softness.
- Quilted shams have tie closures.
- Quilt, sham and insert sold separately.
- Machine wash.
- Imported.
- Dimensions & Care
- Made of 100% cotton.
- 270-gram-weight cotton batting.
- Shams have a quilted front and a tie closure. Insert sold separately; down blend or synthetic.
- Twin: 68 x 86"
- Full/Queen: 86" square
- Standard: 20 x 26"
- Euro: 26" square
- Machine wash in warm water; gentle cycle.
- Use only nonchlorine bleach, if needed.
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Avion Noir II Media Center
designed by BDI Studio
This TV stand includes a concealed compartment designed for use with a center channel speaker. The compartment features a speaker-fabric panel front, allowing your speaker's sound to come through crystal-clear.
This TV stand features the finest quality materials and finishes. Sturdy construction and steel or interlocking-panel supports provide a strong foundation for your home theater. Additionally, BDI specifies only the finest European-style hardware. Door handles and other metal details are beautifully finished. The unique soft-close hinges on most door assemblies are fully adjustable to ensure that doors hang evenly, swing smoothly and close gently.
This home theater cabinet is innovatively engineered in a unique way so that the back can be removed effortlessly for easy access to components and connections. Need to accommodate a very deep component? The back panel can be left off the cabinet without sacrificing any structural rigidity, allowing the component to extend from the back as needed.
Concealed wheels are built into this unit's leg assemblies. This means the TV stand can be moved (even if fully loaded) away from the wall by one person for easy access to cables and connections. Levelers allow the unit to be raised off of its wheels to secure it in place.
BDI home theater furniture is engineered to keep the usual tangle of cables and connections neatly under control. This cabinet features removable back panels for easy access to the rear of components. Integrated routing channels provide space for speaker and TV cables to be neatly concealed. You'll be able to gather and secure all cables out of sight by using the supplied Velcro® closures.
Floors can be quite uneven and your home theater needs to be level for optimum performance. This BDI TV stand includes easily adjustable levelers to compensate for minor leveling issues in flooring or to correct minor panel-alignment issues. This home theater cabinet includes integrated levelers that are readily accessible from inside the cabinet, allowing it to be lifted up off of its wheels to secure it in place if desired.
Because components come in many shapes and sizes, This TV stand features shelves that can be adjusted to accommodate a wide range of systems. Shelves rest on unique steel shelf pins, which are rubber-padded to minimize vibration of components, and high-quality threaded inserts allow you to readjust shelf positioning in 1.25-inch (32 mm) increments as needed.
In order to perform at peak levels, your components not only need to look cool, they have to stay cool. This cabinet facilitates airflow through generous ventilation slots integrated into the bottom panel, wood shelves and removable back panels. Cooler air is drawn in from the bottom of the cabinet, while hot air is naturally expelled out the back.
Practically all of the glass used by BDI is tempered glass. Tempered glass is virtually shatterproof and four to five times stronger than standard glass. When used for shelves, tempered glass is strong enough to support the heaviest components and provides a high degree of durability.
All of BDI's furniture is designed with ease of use in mind. Grey tinted glass doors and windows keep components out of sight yet are compatible with the Infrared (IR) signals used by many remote controls.
At A Glance:
Shown above with the optional Arena TV Mount (see below).
Avion Noir II is complete with all of the features you would expect from a cabinet bearing the Avion name. Grey tinted glass doors span the front of the cabinet to conceal and protect a complete home theater system while allowing remote-control access. The top center drawer's glass panel can be replaced with the supplied fabric insert, enabling use with a center channel speaker.
Recommended for up to 73" flatscreen televisions.
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What's To Like:
BDI packs so many great features into the Avion Noir that it's hard to know where to start. The cabinet is supremely well-ventilated, has a great cable-management system to clean up the mess, and infrared glass door panels let you keep your expensive consoles hidden away yet still usable. Oh, and you know how hard it is to move heavy entertainment centers? The Avion Noir II's a snap to move away from the wall with built-in, hidden wheels that don't detract from the look.
What's Not to Like:
It may not be possible to dislike any of the functionality of this media console. That leaves its price, which isn't cheap. But, while the price is high, it's certainly no higher than it should be for a well-designed entertainment center with so many features.
The Bottom Line:
Avion II is the perfect example of what engineers and home theater aficionados talk about around the water cooler. It's BDI's premier enclosed cabinet system - the culmination of years of studying the most demanding home theater systems. The keys to Avion II? It's beautiful, it's roomy, it has a place for everything. And, most importantly, it has a multitude of features built in. The BDI Avion Noir II 8937 TV stand is an open and shut case of media console superiority.
Overall: 22.5" h x 65" w x 22" d
|TV Mount Option
This BDI entertainment center accommodates the optional Arena TV Mount. With simple hardware, the Arena TV Mount securely fastens your flatscreen TV to your entertainment center. Arena is the perfect alternative to wall mounting your television and features a swiveling mounting bracket.
The BDI Avion Noir II TV Stand is also known by the following manufacturer Item Number: 8937.
Materials & Measurements
| Materials:
Natural wood veneer with satin stainless steel base. Cabinet fronts contain IR friendly tempered glass.
Overall: 22.5" h x 65" w x 22" d
Drawer shelf (A): 8.25" h x 25" w x 16.5" d
Interior shelf (B): 16" h x 18.5" w x 20.5" d
Interior shelf (C): 7.25" h x 25" w x 16.5" d
Weight: 167 pounds
Weight capacity:
Top shelf: 200 pounds
Shelf A: 40 pounds
Shelf B (top): 50 pounds
Shelf B (bottom): 75 pounds
Shelf C: 75 pounds
Assembly Instructions
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About The Manufacturer
Thoughtful design; sleek lines; material quality that is without peer. Becker Designed Inc. was founded in 1984 by Bill Becker with the goal of making top-notch modern furniture design accessible to the public. They've succeeded. With the most functional, well-engineered, and attractively designed TV stands on the market, BDI has raised the bar to an impressive height. Features like flow-through ventilation, IR-friendly glass, integrated wheels, and removable back panels are just a few of the innovative ways BDI has discovered to make the TV stand that much better. Today, BDI is best know for its home entertainment systems, but it has also applied its vision and craftsmanship in its lines of tables, shelving, and mirrors. BDI is located in Chantilly, Virginia.
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Room of Choice Delivery
If you don't like carrying furniture, this is a great option. The shipper will schedule an appointment with you prior to delivery and bring the furniture into your home for you. This service does not include unpackaging or assembly.
- Typical transit time is 4-7 business days. Some larger and specialty items may take a bit longer.
- Shipper will arrange a four hour window for delivery at least 24 hours in advance.
- Your driver or delivery team will bring the furniture inside your home and into your room of choice (Up to two flights of stairs).
- Delivery folks will not unpack or assemble your furniture.
- You must inspect the purchase at the time of delivery and sign for any damages.
- We'll be sure to assist with any damage that may occur. Please call Smart Furniture right away if any issues arise.
- If you're ordering multiple items from the same manufacturer, we might be able to bundle your shipping upgrade costs! Give us a call and we'll make sure you're getting the best shipping price possible!
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Package Information:
Dimensions: 69" x 25" x 21"
Weight: 172 lb
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Product Q&A
What sized TVs can I use with the Avion Noir?
This BDI model fits up to a 60" flat panel or rear projection TV
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Q:What's the difference between the Noir II and the Avion II Triple-Wide (model 8927)? The Noir is ~10 lbs heavier, and $100 more expensive.Asked on 1/28/2014 by Alexander from United States
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A:Essentially the difference is in the doors on either side of the unit. The Noir has a single large piece of glass on each side in the door frame whereas the other Avion has two separate pieces of glass inside the wooden frame on each end. Aside from different finish options, thats really it.Answered on 1/29/2014 by Melanie from SmartFurniture.com
Q:How much does the Avion Noir weigh?Asked on 1/26/2011 by Anonymous
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A:This model weighs 167 lbs.Answered on 1/27/2011 by Mark from Smartfurniture.com
Q:What sized TVs can I use with the Avion Noir?Asked on 1/26/2011 by Anonymous
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A:This BDI model fits up to a 60" flat panel or rear projection TVAnswered on 1/27/2011 by Mark from Smartfurniture.com
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Compare these two statements. "If the foreign forces are ready to leave our country ... then we can help them. But if they insist on continuing the war, we don't have any other way than fighting." An Afghan warlord, speaking in 2009.
"You have brought an army into the country ... but how do you propose to take it out again?" An Afghan warlord, addressing a British official in 1839, quoted in historian William Dalrymple's accomplished, quite brilliant account of the first British invasion of Afghanistan, a disastrous, humiliating enterprise that ended in mass slaughter in 1842.
Many books have been written about the first "Retreat from Kabul" but Dalrymple, first inspired in 2006 "just as the latest Western adventure in Afghanistan was beginning to turn sour ... history was beginning to repeat itself", has completely refreshed and balanced the narrative by visiting as many key sites as safely possible; by accessing records of the occupation held in the Indian National Archives, which included army and court records, private letters and diaries; the Punjab Archives in Lahore, the Afghan National Archives in Kabul and, via a second-hand book dealer in Kabul, a goldmine: the private libraries and memoirs of Afghan noble families who were players in the conflict.
Those treasures included two epic poems recording the events from an Afghan perspective but, as Dalrymple notes, "not one of these accounts ever seems to have been used in any English-language history of the war".
The saga begins in 1809 with Shah Shuja ul-Mulk, 24-year-old ruler of the Durrani Empire, a collapsing and fractious region otherwise known as Afghanistan, populated by tribal and clan rivals embroiled in blood feuds that ran for generations. Shah Shuja's unpopular rule was suddenly boosted by the arrival of a British convoy from the East India Company seeking to "woo" the Afghans. They came bearing gifts: elephants, guns, pistols, clocks, even an organ. The alliance, Dalrymple writes, "would change the course of [Shah Shuja's] own life, and that of Afghanistan, forever".
The British were not interested in Afghanistan for its own sake, but were frantic that its neighbours, Russia and Persia, had their own plans for invasion, thereby threatening Britain's trade interests in India. Yet as the Brits and Shah Shuja negotiated, the country was beset by rebel uprisings seeking to overthrow him, which they succeeded in doing within a few weeks. The king was left, "a lone fugitive, cantering blindly through the darker provinces of the Afghan night", carrying a massive diamond, "the single most valuable jewel in the world". He was soon captured and imprisoned in Lahore, where he was held in exile.
He would wait around 30 years before the British reinstated him as a puppet on the throne, outraging his opponents and sparking the flame that would soon blow the Westerners down through the Khyber Pass to death.
The politics of mid-19th century Afghanistan and British colonial aspirations, explored clearly in Return of a King, are far too convoluted to cover in this review, but the book is also particularly remarkable for the characters brought to life by Dalrymple's meticulous research.
Among the many memorable figures are the lady who travelled to Kabul with her soldier husband and her Persian cat, and the wily British "spy" Alexander Burnes, remembered in an Afghan poem as the incarnation of deceit: "This sedition-sowing Burnes - he is your enemy. On the outside he seems a man, but inside he is the very devil."
In 1841, Burnes was murdered by a Kabul mob. According to an Afghan witness they "killed him, hacked his body to pieces, shaved off his beard and exhibited his head through the streets of the city".
At least Burnes did not have to endure the terrifying retreat through the Khyber Pass. The details are excruciating, with more than 18,000 troops, family members, Indian sepoys, cooks and servants marching through the snow, picked off by snipers, weakened by lack of food and water, freezing to death at night.
"The whole road for a distance of five miles was covered with dead and dying," wrote one soldier. The British women had to be handed over into the care of Afghan leader, Akbar Khan (the man who was co-ordinating the slaughter), who protected them but held them hostage, and the march proceeded until just one man - Dr William Brydon - made it through after clambering over a huge man-made holly barrier.
That wasn't the end of Britain's efforts in the region. Later in 1842 they sent in an "Army of Retribution", and set about a path of wild destruction, burning towns and gardens, raping and killing - but they were quickly and bloodily booted out again. Those deeds still live on in the collective Afghan memory.
Dalrymple draws his book to a conclusion in the present day, where he travels through the route of the 1842 retreat, a region that is now the Taliban's main recruiting ground, in the company of a tribal leader whose ancestors took part in that very attack. Dalrymple listens to their tales of present-day corruption, on both the Allied and Afghan government sides, echoing the debacle from 170 years before in so many respects, then gives the last words to a tribal elder.
"These are the last days of the Americans ... Next it will be China."
Like previous Dalrymple histories, this is a towering achievement, beautifully written and compulsively readable, augmented by an indispensible list of "dramatis personae", bibiliography and index as well as a fine range of illustrations.


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A few months ago, I purchased a budget Boba bucket from Asok and have since shelved it due to lack of time to work on it. I just picked it up to discover it has warped considerably.
It's been stored in the house at room temperature for the past two months. Is there anything I can do to try and fix it or am I out of luck?
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Earth Day
We are an earth-loving bunch at Coffee Bean International! We celebrated Earth Day for an entire week, which culminated in an energetic celebration today. Our "Conservation Tree" was a challenge to all employees on all three shifts to perform and log Eco-Deeds. Read more »
Coffee Bean International Receives BEST Award
This morning, Mayor Sam Adams presented the 19th annual BEST Awards, with Coffee Bean International named winner in the medium-sized business category. Read more »
Introducing START
Coffee has historically been a crop grown to satisfy the demand of the developed world at the cost of a lower quality of life for producing communities. Now, the coffee industry has the tools, the energy, and the momentum to create a paradigm shift and redefine coffee as we know it. But, before we can change the coffee world, we have to measure our current baseline and concrete steps already taken, so we can design our intentions around real information. We need a measurement tool. And, now we have one: START.
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Sustainability Council Winter 2011 Meeting
It is a force to be reckoned with when a group of dedicated representatives from all aspects of coffee—growers, certifiers, importers, social programs, roasters, and retailers—rendezvous to discuss how to move the dial on our industry's sustainability meter. The winter '11 Sustainability Council Retreat over the past weekend was a productive and fulfilling meeting of the minds. Read more »
2011 Sustainability Report
The Coffee Bean International 2011 Sustainability Report is now live. This year, we made huge strides toward shifting our waste ratio, with the ultimate goal of hauling zero waste to the landfill. We also dramatically reduced our travel miles, which will impact our overall carbon footprint. Additionally, we grew our direct trade portfolio and off-commodity-market purchases, which isolate farmers from the coffee price volatility that is driven now primarily from investors/speculators. Through these direct relationships we can address coffee's biggest sustainability issues. Read more »
Organic Coffee: Past-Present-Future
Organic food was once the only choice consumers had. Before synthetic fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides were invented, that was it.
It was reported this month that the organic coffee market has topped $1.3 billion, securing its place as the most valuable organic product imported into the US. This is surprising. Most of what you read about organics pertains to produce, meat, dairy, eggs, and baby food. That's because there is a clear and direct perceived health benefit. For example, when your customers stand in the produce aisle and pick up a piece of fruit, they understand what the organic apple offers. So why is organic so important to coffee drinkers? Read more »


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Between the three of them, the sisters Rosensweig cover quite a range of the Meyers-Briggs psychological types: Sara (Amy McDonald), director of the Bank of Hong Kong and living a gentile atheist's life in London, is an introvert and a textbook "T" — a thinker — while her little sister Gorgeous (Carole Healey) is an emotionally out-there housewife, self-help radio personality, and observant Jew living in Newton, Massachusetts. The youngest, Pfeni (D'Arcy Dersham), a travel writer and reporter, is adventurous, intuitive, and open, but commitment-shy. When all three women come together under one roof, in the late Wendy Wasserstein's The Sisters Rosensweig, all manner of sororal fireworks are poised to go off, as they battle it out over men, careers, religion, and identity. Wasserstein's comedic drama receives a vibrant production at Portland Stage Company, under the direction of Chris Grabowski.
It's 1991, the USSR is crumbling, and the sisters are gathering to celebrate Sara's birthday at her opulent Queen Anne's Gate home, with lofty ceilings and windows, high pillars and fireplace of ivory molding, and luxurious dark wood furniture (rendered in Anita Stewart's typically gorgeous set design). Here, Sara will serve dinner for Pfeni, Gorgeous, Sara's Lithuanian Resistance-sympathizing daughter Tess (Megan Dorn), and a smattering of their men: Sara's upper-crust British lothario Nicholas (Ron Botting), Pfeni's world-renowned bisexual theater director Geoffrey (William Zielinski), and Sara's working-class punk revolutionary-of-Lithuanian-extraction Tom (Michael Dix Thomas). They're also joined by an unexpected interloper: Geoffrey's widowed, Jewish-American furrier Mervyn (John Plumpis), a good talker in a pink shirt and seersucker suit who, as soon as he meets the witty but restrained Sara, promptly insinuates himself into staying for cassoulet — and perhaps something more — in her beautiful home.
Each of the three actresses inhabits the space distinctly. McDonald's trim Sara, carefully tailored, perches primly on sofas, while Dersham's Pfeni, in loose and vaguely tribal clothing, sprawls and curls up on all available surfaces, and Healey's Gorgeous, buxom, brassy, and accessorized to the max, fairly bursts into every space she enters. These actresses convincingly convey the fraught dynamics of the sisters' affections, how just the right wrong word can send them all careening into old and new grievances about their so-different lifestyles. Scenes, suffice it to say, are made. Dersham's Pfeni, psychologically constellated somewhere in between the extremes of restrained Sara and the near-burlesque of Gorgeous, has the most realistic nuances of the three, but generally, these are characters written as modern comedic archetypes — bigger and more distilled than life — and so are the performances of these actresses very brightly amplified.
That brightness and hyperbole is also true of the supporting characters — Botting's stuffy aristocrat; Zielinski's sonorously flamboyant, Temptations-loving bisexual; and Thomas's chipper, mohawk-ed Cockney are broadly and colorfully drawn. Dorn's Tess wages a liberal elite's teenage rebellion — strident and self-righteous, but with self-awareness and familial respect never far from the surface. As the newcomer into the family chaos, Plumpis's Merv, though he's got a lot of stock schmoozing to deliver to skeptical Sara, has the most arc of the men on stage; he does an intelligent job of conveying a confident man's range of responses to Sara's hard instincts.
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Alumni Association
Umpqua Community College has touched thousands of lives for the past 50 years providing a bridge to four-year college experiences and beyond, preparing students for entry level employment, and retraining workers for new jobs. UCC has laid an important foundation for its many graduates, enabling them to become community leaders and successful professionals in their chosen field.
With a purpose to reunite former students with the College and with one another, to provide alumni services, and to involve them with the institution's future in teaching, lifelong learning and service to the community, the UCC Alumni Association was established during UCC's 40th anniversary year. During this significant milestone year, the Association began recruiting membership and providing social activities for its members while working with the College and current students on a variety of activities that include fundraising, scholarships, athletics, special events, and more.
We invite you to become an active member of the Alumni Association. It will be both rewarding and enjoyable to have you involved once again as we plan and develop new endeavors for our future in continued support of the role and mission of Umpqua Community College.
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Construction started on new Crosslake tennis courts
Construction has started on the new tennis court facility at the Crosslake Community Center.
Anderson Brothers was awarded the contract for the construction of four courts. Completion is scheduled for mid-July, and the public is invited to celebrate at a future dedication ceremony.
Fundraising for this endeavor has covered a nine-year period and could not have been accomplished without the help of many volunteers, donors and strong community support, including Raise the Nets Committee, The Northern Section and National office of the United States Tennis Association (USTA), PAL Foundation of Crosslake and the Tennis Angels group.


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Positive about Disabled People - Monday, 21 May 2012
The Royal Armouries Museum has been awarded Disability Symbol accreditation in national recognition of its positive attitude towards employing disabled people.
JobCentre Plus made the award after the Royal Armouries demonstrated the necessary five commitments to recruitment, training, retention, consultation and disability awareness.
The symbol – comprising two ticks and the words "positive about disabled people" – will now be displayed on job adverts and application forms for the Royal Armouries' three museums in Leeds, the Tower of London, and Fort Nelson in Hampshire.
HR manager Corina Burnett said, "The Royal Armouries is proud to have secured the symbol as it confirms our long-standing commitment to employ, retain and develop the abilities of our staff with disabilities, and to ensure everybody is treated fairly and as individuals. Where we can, we offer flexible working and do our best to adapt to people's changing circumstances."
The five commitments are:
- To interview all disabled applicants, who meet the minimum criteria for job vacancies and to consider them on their abilities.
- To carry out regular discussions with disabled employees to ensure they can develop and use their abilities fully.
- To make every effort when employees become disabled to help them stay in employment.
- To ensure that all employees develop their disability awareness to make these commitments work.
- To review commitments annually and to assess achievements, plus areas for improvement. To then inform colleagues and JobCentre Plus about progress and future plans.
The Royal Armouries is Britain's oldest public museum.
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- Royal Armouries is the national museum of arms and armour and has sites in Leeds, HM Tower of London, Fort Nelson and Louisville, Kentucky. It is the first British national museum to open a permanent presence in another country
- Admission to the museum is free. However, there may be a small charge for some special events.
- Open all year daily, 10am-5pm. Closed 24-25 December
- Information Line: 0113 220 1999
- Website: www.royalarmouries.org
- The Royal Armouries Museum should not be confused with Royal Armouries International plc, the private sector corporate hospitality business.
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The plight of bees could have a hefty impact on the New Zealand economy, a University of Canterbury ecologist says.
Ecology professor Jason Tylianakis said New Zealand exported 80 per cent of its food production, and crops such as kiwifruit, clover, apples, canola and honey could suffer as the bee population decreased.
"An agricultural economy like ours depends strongly on pollination, and between 60 and 75 per cent of all food crops require animal pollination," Tylianakis said.
"Wild (feral) honey bees have basically all been eliminated by the varroa mite.
"Beekeepers are still able to keep hives alive by chemically eliminating varroa. But if it involves defence (which insects and mites tend to do when sprays impose a large selection pressure) then managed hives could be threatened.
"Wild native and exotic bees (apart from honeybees) are in decline worldwide, including New Zealand."
Tylianakis understood the real value of honey bees working about 430,000 hives was $5 billion a year to the economy.
"We need to manage our agriculture in a way that protects native bees and pollinating flies. We need to reduce the use of insecticides and provide some areas of unsprayed, uncultivated habitat with food and nesting sites in agricultural landscapes."
Australia was considered a major biosecurity threat for New Zealand beekeepers, largely because of the transport between both countries. However, in terms of countries with a similar climate, New Zealand could receive invasive species from a lot of places. Australia had the troublesome Asian honeybee.
"The Asian honeybee is a very aggressive invader and can no longer be feasibly eradicated there," he said. "Although it is named a honeybee, it is aggressive and almost unfarmable ... If it came here to New Zealand it would be an environmental catastrophe."
New Zealand was recently invaded by the wool carder bee but it didn't form large colonies. Tylianakis said it remained to be seen what impact it would have on native bees and plants.
"In contrast, the Asian honeybee forms colonies which can move up to 10km from their nest sites. They aggressively protect their nest sites, so could compete with bees. They're also a host of varroa, so they could serve as a vector for the mite."
However, it was a mainly tropical species, so hopefully it wouldn't do well here.


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