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There is no feeling quite like building something with your own two hands although repair is not strictly limited to fixing what is physically broken, but also filling in gaps where something is missing. In Elizabeth Spelman's Repair: The Impulse to Restore, she provides many excellent examples and anecdotes of the different forms of repair. As a college student, I realize that throughout my lifetime I've done a decent amount of repairs from mending damaged friendships to even have changed a flat tire or two. On the first page of the book, Spelman says "our bodies and souls are also by their very nature subject to fracture and fissure" (Spelman 1). With this in mind, I am certain that my biggest repairs are still ahead of me, which is why I must first repair myself in order to face the trials waiting for me down the road of my life.
Growing up as the younger sibling, I have had my fair share of feeling like second best. From losing in races we would run around the house, to each year having my teachers asking if I was Alex's, their favorite student's sister, my ego was in a state of disrepair. This feeling of never quite being as successful as him manifested itself in me physically. I ate away my feelings of resentment. It was not until the summer before I began middle school that my new reality caught up with me. Although often times we wish to repair something the instant it is broken, I did not fully realize my state of disrepair until I noticed my brother's disrepair. His perfect facade was crumbling, and with it came diagnoses. As I watched my seemingly perfect older brother struggle and start the slow process of his own repair, I found my drive. Although this repair was not out of necessity, it was fueled by my natural instinct as an H. Reparan to make a change for the better. As Spelman says in the book, "to repair is to acknowledge and respond to the fracturability of the world in which we live" (Spelman 5). That summer I made my first major self repair.
My first major self repair both served as a moment of restoring my personal health in addition to inhibiting me to be able to make further repairs in the future. Each repair is like mending a crack in the wall of a house. Sometimes, only a little bit of plaster is needed, while in other instances a section of the wall may need more extensive fixes. By putting forth the effort to repair the wall rather than allow it to come crashing down, we set ourselves up for an easier, more manageable fix in the future. Growing and personally improving ourselves rather than melting under the pressure not only improves our current situations, but also further down the roads of our life.


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Laowa Magic Shift Converter for Sony FE mount cameras
Venus Optics Laowa Magic Shift Converter (MSC) for Sony FE mount cameras
Adapter turns wide angle lens into shift lens
Venus Lens have announced their new shift adapter for using wide lenses as shift lenses.
This version (initially Canon EF mount to Sony E) acts as a teleconverter which increases focal length, but expands image circle. Making the lens movable gives a shift capability.
If you're unsure about shift lenses, Keith has lots of articles about why they are such a key part of his professional work – check the tilt and shift category of articles in the drop down list at the right.
We also have Keith's detailed review of the Laowa 12mm f2.8 'Zero-D' lens
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Anhui China, Jul 10, 2017 – Venus Optics, the camera lenses manufacturer who had previously launched a number of unique Laowa camera lenses, unveil the Laowa Magic Shift Converter (MSC) for Sony Full Frame E-mount cameras. It can convert your ultra-wide angle lens into a Shift lens and with no vignetting observed.
Laowa Magic Shift Converter (MSC) is a lens adapter built with a patented optics system, which expands the image circle of the ultra-wide angle lenses. The shift mechanism on the adapter takes advantage of the enlarged image circle and shift the camera sensor along the axis. The MSC is specially designed for the Laowa 12mm f/2.8 Zero-D lens and it will convert the lens into a 17mm f/4 Zero-D lens with +/- 10mm shift capability. There is no vignetting observed even at the maximum shift and we have successfully controlled the image performance impact to the minimal. The close-to-zero distortion feature of this lens can also be retained. Additionally, the MSC comes with a 360° rotation structure which allows photographers to shoot in both horizontal and portrait orientation.
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Shift lens is extremely beneficial for architecture photographers to capture the skyscrapers and real estate photos because the converged lines arisen from perspective distortion can be easily eliminated. When using a standard lens angled upwards to shoot a building, the bottom of the building will appear wider and bigger than the top. Shift can be used to keep the image plane parallel to the subject so that the sides of the tall building can stay parallel.
[For more see Keith's article – Why I use shift]
The Laowa Magic Shift Converter (MSC) Canon variant is currently available to pre-order in the official website of Venus Optics (http://www.venuslens.net/) and their authorised resellers. Shipping is expected to start in late July/early Aug. For Nikon variant, please reserve around 2 months more for shipment.
Magic Converters Line-up
The MSC is the first member of the Laowa Magic Converters line-up. Venus Optics has previously announced the Laowa Magic Format Converter (MFC) which adopts the same patented optics system and it can fit a full frame lens into a GFX medium format body without vignetting. The MFC is due to ship later this year.
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Today's post will show you how to weave in the ends of yarn for your Knitting Project.
If you don't have your copy of My Magic Scarf Pattern, then please visit this post to get yours! I have written a beautiful beginner pattern with big, full-color pictures, and instructions. There is also a shopping list so you will know exactly what to pick up at the store when you go to get your supplies.
This post is the sixth in a series of eight that is written to get you knitting. I'm sharing a couple of free patterns, shopping lists and video tutorials to get you going.
You need to know four basic techniques to get started in knitting. All beginners need to know these four things to get going, and they are things you will need to know how to do no matter what project you're working on.
But don't worry, because we are going to go step-by-step through each technique. By the end of this series, you'll be ready to conquer the Scarf Knitting World!
What are the four foundational knitting techniques?
Today we are on lesson five. We are going to learn how to weave in your ends. Why is this important?
"Um, ok," I bet you're saying. "You've been saying we only need four things to knit and now you're throwing this new thing at us that's not even on the list?"
Yes. Yes I am.
Because technically, you don't have to weave in the ends to make a finished project.
Technically. Weaving in ends and blocking and stuff like that are actually finishing techniques, not actual knitting techniques. Some people get really avant-garde and never weave their ends. They use the loose ends as a design element. That designer probably knows the one who sent the model down the runway still wearing the knitting attached to the needles we talked about in the last email. Yeah. You don't really want to be that person. (what? you don't know what I'm talking about? Then you should definitely subscribe to my email list, which is a fun email you will look forward to receiving. Pop your info into the box at the end of this post.)
"So, how do we get rid of those ends?"
I'm so glad you asked! I have a video for you that walks us through the process. You will need a tapestry needle, which is an oversized needle used to basically sew with yarn. These are readily available in any craft store or yarn shop.
Here's how we weave in the ends of our knitting at the very end of the project. Click the picture to see the full video!
So here's a little truth for you. Most knitters despise this step. I mean you can find oodles of Ravelry posts over flowing with disdain for weaving in ends. I don't really understand feeling that way. I actually find weaving in the ends a relaxing part of this and look forward to this finishing step.
So just know that if you don't enjoy this bit, you are not alone. Honestly it can be a nightmare on a project with a ton of ends. Like a big striped scarf or sweater. I do have a trick for making this easier, and I'll share that sometime in the few posts. It doesn't work for all patterns, but it works for a lot of them.
In case you think I was born being able to do this, let me set you straight right here and now! My first project was kind of a disaster. I was going to throw it away, but my knitting teacher told me it's very important to always save your first project. You will pull it out years later and marvel at how far you've come. I can attest this is absolutely true. I fumbled through the first one, but the second one is so beautiful I still wear it!
My hope is that by giving you these small chunks of information and techniques, I can save you from that complete disaster of a first scarf! If you have been practicing all along, you should be quite comfortable with the stitches and techniques by now. By now, you should be progressing through the Magic Scarf Pattern like a hot knife through butter. I just know you can do it, but if you get stuck, drop a note on the Facebook Page, and I'll help you get going.


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Beauty Melbourne, the Victorian industry's dedicated professional event, is now just weeks away, and this year's event will be introducing some all-new features to their regular roster. This includes the launch of the new All-Access Education Pass, which covers 18 Look 'n' Learn-style Anti-Ageing/Dermal, Business and Professional Skills sessions. To celebrate, we're giving you a sneak preview into just one of many industry experts and their topics.
Nutritional Medicine Practitioner, Dermal Clinician, health coach, educator and founder of Nutritional Skin Care Academy Chiza Westcarr will be leading two sessions across the expo weekend, including 'The Gut and its Influence on Skin Conditions' and 'Understanding Acne with Nutritional Support', both ideal for practitioners that wish to delve deeper into the impact internal health has on skin.
S+C had a Q&A session with Chiza to bring you an exclusive peak into her upcoming seminar on acne and diet, and discuss how practitioners can incorporate this link into their services.
Is there a strong correlation between diet and acne?
Absolutely! Like with any inflammatory skin condition that skin therapists are faced with, topical preparations and in-clinic treatments are typically not enough to successfully manage acne vulgaris.
How do skin therapists recognise when external-only skincare is not enough?
The skin is the body's largest organ and it is not an island. It is impacted by so many factors such as environmental exposure, lifestyle, medication, hormonal flux, and diet. External-only skincare is never enough. A holistic, inside-out approach is always the best approach. A diet that drives inflammation is one that is highly processed and once this is addressed, it is quite incredible how much quicker the skin responds to topical skincare.
How should therapists approach their clients' home care recommendations when it comes to diet?
Therapists are in charge of the largest organ of the body. In Beauty Therapy Colleges, entire body systems are learnt about along with factors that impact them. Despite the very real link between nutrition and optimal skin health, this is not something that is widely taught and so is an area that therapists typically aren't comfortable discussing with the client because of a lack of confidence.
Some simple diet-related questions should be added to the consultation form so that, along with enquiring about what medication the client is on and what treatments he or she has had recently, etc; finding out what is typically consumed for breakfast, lunch and dinner along with snacks and beverages will provide greater insight into possible acne triggers.
Are there additional practitioners that therapists should recommend to clients alongside their own skin services?
Most definitely. Therapists come across clients who have conditions outside of their scope of practice all the time and most know to refer them on to the relevant specialist. Naturopaths, Nutritionists, Integrative Practitioners, GPs for Endocrinologist referral are just some examples.
Chiza Westcarr will delve into these topics in two educational seminars at Beauty Melbourne, the professional beauty event for Victoria, taking place 23-24 March 2019 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC). Both seminars are included in the event's All-Access Education Pass, offering 18 sessions over the two days and entry for $189. See more at www.beautymelbourne.com.au
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When a pupil is at risk of permanent exclusion, schools are encouraged to work collaboratively with the Local Authority (LA) and alternative providers to explore a more positive outcome such as a positive referral or alternative education.
A positive referral is a non-statutory agreement between a school and a pupil referral unit (PRU) where a pupil is placed on a fixed term or permanent placement at a PRU.
Parents/ carers have to consent to a positive referral. In instances where parents/ carers refuse, it is for the school to explore an alternative option.
It is anticipated that a positive referral would be appropriate for the majority of circumstances in which a Headteacher would normally permanently exclude a pupil.
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- An Amazon Prime subscription isn't required to take advantage of either deal, but if you love music or books, I recommend taking a good look at both.
The biggest shopping holiday of the year is behind us, but two of Amazon's best promotions are still on the table. For a limited time, you can save on both an Amazon Music Unlimited and Kindle Unlimited subscription. We've covered both of these deals on their own in the past, but here's a refresher if you're unfamiliar with these services:
Kindle Unlimited is like Netflix for book lovers. Instead of buying individual titles, a subscription gives you instant access to over one million books and thousands of Audible audiobooks. This access isn't restricted to Kindle hardware, or a single device; as long as you're reading through the Kindle app or listening through the Audible app, you're set.
Your progress will also sync between your devices, so you can start reading a book on a Kindle, listen to some of the audiobook on your phone, and resume reading on the book on your tablet without losing your place.
A 1-year subscription to Kindle Unlimited usually costs $119.88, but you can currently get it for $88.32. If you're a very avid reader, or want to become better read on a budget, you can get a 2-year subscription for $143.86 instead of $239.76.
Amazon Music Unlimited is Amazon's answer to Apple Music and Spotify. A subscription lets you access a library of over 10 million songs, which you can listen to on-demand without commercials. You can also download the songs you like for offline play — or to save data in general — and create curated playlists to share with other subscribers.
There are also a handful of pre-made playlists if you're looking for something to set the right mood without having to play DJ. If you're familiar with other music streaming services, you'll be right at home with Amazon's, although there are a handful of subtle differences between them.
Although it usually costs $9.99 a month (or $7.99 if you're an Amazon Prime member), new subscribers can currently get three months of Amazon Music Unlimited for $0.99. It's one of the best music streaming deals out there, and whether you're comfortable with the service you're using or haven't tried one before, it's one to be aware of.
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For a long time now, it has been clear that criminalizing drug addicts for their problems is not something that truly creates reform. When the United States Government first declared war on the drug epidemic in our country, the hope was that the threat of jail time would dissuade people from abusing drugs. Several decades later it still doesn't work.
There are more drug addicts now than there ever has been in our history and the amount of people trying illicit drugs continues to grow as new trends emerge. Policy makers in California are looking to change the way they deal with drug addicts by making drug use a misdemeanor, instead of a felony. This action would allow drug addicts to receive treatment instead of jail time. The initial campaign was successful with the voter approval of Proposition 47 back on November 4th.
In addition to looking out for the people suffering from a substance abuse problem, the change in policy is designed to benefit the prison system. The overcrowding of the California prison system has long been a problem the state government has been looking to correct. By allowing drug offenders to enroll in long-term treatment, instead of spending their time in prison, the jail system gets a much needed reprieve from the growing drug population.
"We can divert the money we save and redirect that money into mental health systems, rehabilitation, and restorative services," explained Sonya Shah, an associate professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Imprisoning those who are struggling with an addiction problem is not effective. Funneling money and resources towards treatment seems to give a better chance to addicts. While some people are concerned that this change would illicit more crime, supporters of the bill disagree. By treating those with addiction problems and giving them the attention they need, the crime that is generated by drug use should decline as well.


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Speaking at a conference in London, Uber's product designer Femke van Schoonhoven unveiled the ride-hailing app's strategy to expand its cash acceptance programme as a means to respond to customer needs and increase profits.
In fact, the California-based start-up already deployed its cash-acceptance policy in 51 countries and is planning on adding more to the list in the future, India being n°1 for cash payments (accounting for 65% of all rides). Brazil also turns out to be a heavy cash user, with 25% of the company's passengers choosing to pay in cash.
Speaking at the conference, Ms van Schoonhoven said "We realised there was a whole segment of people who didn't use Uber because they didn't have digital payment methods, so we knew that we had to consider those who don't have access to a bank account and rely on cash as a daily method of payment to pay for their goods and services."
Before diving into the cash option, Uber wanted to understand cash usage across the globe. After doing some research, it came to the conclusion that it was one of the most popular payment methods: "in the last year alone, 15.1% of the global population had used a credit card and 23.2% used a debit card – which meant that 61.7% had used cash as a payment method at least once" concluded Ms van Schoonhoven.
One of Uber's main concerns when accepting cash was driver security. Indeed, when an app user pays with a card, the person's identity can be verified and the payment secured. With cash, this can be more difficult. This explains why Uber asks cash payers a number of security questions, including to connect via their Facebook account to verify their identity and reassure the driver. Furthermore, in case of an issue with a payment – for example if the ride results to be longer and the rider doesn't have enough change or vice-versa – Uber will either cover the outstanding cost for the first scenario, or simply add credit to the rider's account for the second.


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Have tendon injury? Acupuncture can help
A healthy tendon is up to twice as strong as the muscle, making the body of the tendon unlikely to tear before the muscle unless the tendon has already been weakened by degenerative changes. The effects of ageing, wear and tear, genetic pre-disposition and inflammation are known factors contributing to tendon injuries. Tendons consist of collagens, proteoglycans, glycoproteins, water and cells. In case of injury, repair will take place only through scar tissue. This leads to decreased functional properties of these injured regions and to a greater risk of recurrent injury. Injured tendon can cause pain, loss of limb function and prevent exercise and activities of daily living.
There are ∼2 million Achilles tendon sports-related injuries each year worldwide. Of these, over 250 000 require surgical intervention and prolonged rehabilitation. However, patients with these injuries seldom regain full pre-injury function. These ailments are difficult to manage, frequently resulting in long-term pain and discomfort. The poor repair of tendons is a direct consequence of their limited vascularity and relatively acellular nature. Most frequently injured are the rotator cuff, the patellar and the Achilles tendons, with pathology ranging from tendinopathy and calcific tendinopathy, to partial tears, to complete ruptures. The poor tendon self-repair makes recovery difficult.
Calcification is the accumulation of calcium salt in the tissue. Bone is the common place to occur, but calcification can happen in the soft tissue, such as fascia and tendon causing hardening of the tissue. Soft tissue calcifications happens anytime and any location of the body. The most common place is in the damaged tissue, such as injured tendon causing calcific tendinitis. Calcium phosphate is accumulated in the tendon causing pain and inflammation. Chronic pain is the most common symptom of tendon calcification. Other symptoms include stiffness, snapping, catching or weakness on related tendon and joints. It is involved in abnormal repairment of damaged tissue. Acupuncture can help to reduce the pain, improve stiffness and improve circulation to help reabsorbing the calcium.
Pain and burning in the affected area, decreased strength and flexibility, and pain caused by everyday activities are very common. This is often caused by tendinopathy-tendon injury.
The healing time for injured tendon varies depending on whether treatment starts with early presentation or chronic presentation. Healing time for acute injury can be a few days to 6 weeks. Treatment at an early stage can be as brief as 6–10 weeks. Once it becomes chronic the treatment can take 3–6 months. The effective treatment might take up to 9 months to 36 months when it is chronic. Knowing these timelines is part of creating an effective treatment plan.
Acupuncture helps with tendon injury
Acupuncture is used to treat tendon injury and it improves pain and functional activity in patients with tendinopathy. This is suggested that acupuncture can modulate both anti-inflammatory and mechanotransduction molecular pathways which can increase type I collagen synthesis. Collagen synthesis is the main factor that influences tendon biomechanical properties. Therefore one reason of acupuncture for tendon healing is that acupuncture increases synthesis and subsequent reorganisation of type I collagen during tendon healing process.
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Hatten Square Suites & Shoppes is one of a kind, shopping mall in Melaka. It has become a hot favourite spot for tourists, looking to do some shopping in Melaka. The mall is so huge that you wouldn't know where to begin! It is interconnected to its neighbouring malls-Mahkota Parade and Dataran Pahlawan shopping malls, where you can shop even more at all 3 shopping malls!
The fashion in Hatten Square Suites & Shoppes speaks loud, fashionable clothes, which ladies will surely adore. You can find funky, stylish t-shirts, smart pants and beautiful accessories to pair up with your everyday clothes or workwear. This shopping mall is a heaven for shopaholics! If you love flamboyant outfits, you will love Anna house and Hello fashion. Their unique fashion style will make you stand out in the crowd and be the envy of others!
If you are wondering whether this shopping mall has technology-related gadgets, they do. You can find them on the ground floor of the mall. From phone accessories, to handphones and other gadgets, there are many shops selling them!
If your feet are getting tired from all the shopping, there are reflexology centers like Zuo Zu Kung Fu and Suksabai Thai Massage available on the 2nd level of Hatten Square Suites. The professional masseuses there can help you soothe your tensed muscles.
Hatten Square Suites & Shoppes is a one stop shopping centre- selling technology, fashion and massages at very affordable prices! You definitely will want to visit this mall when you are in Melaka!
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A conflicting topic in the nursing home realm is whether or not cameras should be permitted in residents' rooms. Supporters of cameras believe nursing homes should allow the use of cameras in patients' rooms and argues they are a necessary item for nursing homes if abuse, theft, and negligence is to be stopped. One woman says she witnessed her loved one being neglected on a hidden camera she placed in the resident's room. When notifying the nursing home administrator they informed her that cameras were absolutely prohibited from resident's room.
After these incidents the woman was ready to take her loved one out of the nursing home facility when they informed her they were no longer equipped to take care of her. The woman is an advocate for allowing family members to put cameras in rooms of loved ones in order to protect and prevent abuse. She has been working and helping to make regulations on having resident's consent to have cameras and signs where cameras would be. However, she is still working to get more regulations passed, because many nursing homes still refuse to allow cameras. For more, read the story.
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"Since completing my PhD in Cancer Biology, I have been working for a couple of different companies in the biotechnology field. I transitioned from a development scientist role into the commercial side during this time. I have been in my current role in the marketing department at BioReliance for just under 2 years, and I am really enjoying how I am both being challenged as well as being allowed to challenge assumptions within the organisation.
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Whew! I am just back from a whirlwind trip to California for the Craft Brewers Conference, the World Beer Cup awards, a visit to far away family, of course – a ton of great beer! Lawson's has great news to share with you all.
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Lawson's Finest is honored to be recognized among the world's best beers and breweries! The Maple Tripple is a unique strong ale (11% abv) brewed only once per year in the spring with 100% concentrated maple sap, then aged for a full year before bottling, lending a rich, complex and distinctly Vermont character to this beer.
Congratulations as well to our friends and second Vermont winner – The Alchemist, with a Silver Medal in the British Style Imperial Stout with "Luscious" an amazing beer that survived the flooding of Irene. The World Beer Cup is recognized as "The Olympics of Beer!" The ninth bi-annual competition boasted the strongest field of entrants on record, with 799 breweries from 54 countries and 45 U.S. states entering 3,921 beers in 95 beer style categories, making this the largest and most prestigious commercial beer competition in existence.


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Exposure key to building women's basketball in Canada
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Thomas Matthew Edgar
Melbourne, Australia
In 1956, or so, or round about that time
A girl who worked in Glasgow
She was very good at mime
Resembling Connie Francis
Except for Connie's hair
She took some drastic measures
To give her extra flair.
She bought the usual products to shape and tease her mane
Into something close to Connie's
Allow me to explain….
She teased and tortured sprayed and waxed
The beehive look she sought
It would not stay in place though
No matter what she bought!
She decided then to make her own,
her own concoction new.
With sugar, honey, glue and soap..
a drop of grannie's stew
The towering beehive then took shape
And stayed where it was put.
"Success at last!" she then exclaimed!
She'd grown at least a foot.
Her happiness was short lived though
As I will now reveal
To keep the hive she never washed
Nor combed nor brushed …I feel,
This was the start of her demise
her end was now in sight
Her skull went first and then her brain
to a voracious carnivorous mite.
To look like Connie Francis she'd sacrificed her brain
Though she hadn't much to start with
She'd do the same again
An urban myth I hear you say,
still it's strange what pride will do
More myth than hit I will agree
I think it was the stew..


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Strengthening Neighborhoods through their Schools: Lessons Learned from DC for Urban School Revitalization Programs
Ann Neeriemer
Perkins Eastman DC
Peter James
Perkins Eastman DC
1 Learning Units (LU)
How applies to HSW:
Throughout the past decade, the District of Columbia has invested over $250 million each year in school modernization and replacement projects. These investments have supported and contributed to population growth and vibrant renewal of neighborhoods throughout the city, contributing to a more resilient DC. This interactive, collaborative workshop session will present the overarching themes and lessons of the DC school renewal program, through the lens of the resilience framework created by 100 Resilient Cities. Through public engagement in the process, communities become more deeply invested in the outcomes and can transform neighborhoods. The session will kick off with an in-depth look at two projects to analyze the design processes and strategies that engaged citizens, increased community pride, and created sustainable projects for the future. Attendees will then break into small workgroups to evaluate resilience strategies and explore how their own current and future projects can contribute in the areas of Leadership & Strategy, Health & Wellbeing, Infrastructure & Environment, and Economy & Society. The workgroups will synthesize their findings and report back to the larger group. Attendees will leave this session not only inspired to make a difference in their school communities but also empowered with specific, actionable strategies for community engagement and resilient school design.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the DC school renewal program.;
- Analyze how the process and design of school facilities and campuses can impact community involvement and educational outcomes.
- Apply concepts of essential systems of resilience to future projects.;
- Summarize design and program concepts of sustainable education facilities that build community resiliency.
Primary Competency:
Community Engagement: Leads the internal and external communities through a discovery process that articulates and communicates a community-based foundational vision, forming the basis of a plan for the design of the learning environment. The vision is achieved through a combination of rigorous research, group facilitation, strategic conversations, qualitative and quantitative surveys and workshops. Demonstrates the skill to resolve stakeholder issues while embedding a community's unique vision into the vision for its schools.
Primary Domain:
Process: Content of this session/workshop will focus on the importance of quality processes and practices implemented by the project team when creating learning environments. The who, what, when and how of various disciplines and applications.
Secondary Domain:
Context: Content of this session/workshop will focus on the circumstances that form the setting for the design and construction of specific learning environments and characteristics that distinguishes the project from other applications.


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Instead of framing space as a relationship between objects and walls, the Japanese concept of space is about the relationships among people. By shifting this view, we can discover an interesting way of thinking about the spaces we make and use in everyday life—and the relationships that they create.
Source: The Japanese words for "space" could change your view of the world — Quartz
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What really worries me is the globalization of our nature literacy. Thanks to cable TV, coverage of international conservation issues and the internet, my neighbours and their kids know a lot about pandas, sharks and tigers. Don't get me wrong — pandas, sharks and tigers are really important, and I'm glad that my neighbours and their kids know about them. However, with the globalization of our knowledge on plants and animals comes a failure to recognize the species that share our local environment. A rich and locally unique palette of plants and animals becomes a faceless and nameless blend of green.
– Dan Kraus, "Why Kids Today Need Nature Literacy," Huff Post Impact (Canada), November 22, 2014


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I can't be the only one who sees it: The return of Fleet Foxes and the return of Twin Peaks have too much in common to overlook. Falling two days apart on a sun-washed weekend in May, their commingled arrival in the Pacific Northwest was surely pure dumb coincidence. But the more I consider them side by side, the more these revived institutions — both long-beloved and obsessed-over, both born of the elements of this very elemental place — inform and reinforce each other. And besides, like Agent Cooper said to Sheriff Truman and Deputy Andy back in 1991, "Fellas, coincidence and fate figure largely in our lives."
No surprise that Fleet Foxes began their new chapter close to home — or that they sold out their first Seattle show since September 2011 a month in advance. Hype springs eternal, even though we live in a different world now. Back then there was no Black Lives Matter, there was no #Resistance to America's progressive mascot of a President, there were no metal detectors on the way into the show. Back then Fleet Foxes, in all their gorgeous, pastoral glory, were at the height of their global influence and most music geeks still side-eyed any mumblings of "poptimism."
Initial indications leading up to FF2.0 were dubious. Released in early March, "Third Of May/Ōdaigahara," the band's first new song in years, is a multi-movement meander almost nine minutes long. It boasts the band's familiar, stupendously beautiful vocal arrangements but never coalesces into any of conventional composition and avoids anything so pedestrian as a memorable hook or chorus. And that title: esoteric/unpronounceable. The song spoke only to the band's most dedicated diehards. No appealing to new listeners, no recognition of this weird unprecedented time we live in.
To be an artist in 2017 and not grapple with America's fraught reality is a right — and a privilege. What could a bashful musical savant who'd years ago retreated from the public eye say about the exhaustingly convoluted present? How can a band built on hermetic virtuosity and communal harmonies function in a musical moment powered by defiant individualism, multi-media dilettantism and the disruption of convention? (Spoon and Dirty Projectors, fellow indie-rock alphas of the late '00s, already released albums this year to little of the fanfare they once enjoyed.) Pecknold and Fleet Foxes — they're an anachronism, a time capsule. Great when they needed to be, attuned to their age. Then they bowed out and relegated themselves to a heyday in the not-so-distant past that nonetheless feels like ancient history. Helplessness Blues was the most articulate expression of post-9/11 disillusionment to emerge from the pop-music landscape. Expecting the new album, Crack-Up, to be as illuminating is asking a lot.
Here's the most telling comparison between then and now: Last time around, Josh Tillman was a supporting member of Fleet Foxes, Pecknold's cynical foil quipping from behind the drum kit. Not long after Helplessness Blues, Tillman shamanized himself into Father John Misty, his louche, arch provocateur the diametric opposite of Pecknold's earnest frontman. In a few short years, Tillman has become the hip-swiveling embodiment of indie rock's id and in the process its most visible — if not most listenable — star. Misty, apparently, is what the world wants.
But Tillman is playing a role, and like any role, it comes with a built-in conclusion, after which he's just Tillman again. It's hard to know where one begins and the other ends (which is why, even as Tillman directly addresses 21st-century tension in his music, I find it hard to swallow, while I fawn over his interviews). Pecknold, on the other hand, can be nobody but himself — smaller in artistic scope but more open-ended.
The thematic span between Helplessness Blues and Crack-Up is wide; it requires a leap. The latter is noticeably absent the sanguine curiosity of "Blue Spotted Tail" or the undiluted joy of "Grown Ocean" or the soul-searching immediacy of "Helplessness Blues." The compositions are knotty, almost operatic, ecstatic crescendos suddenly giving way to hushed reflection with zero consideration for accessibility or momentum. The lyrics — and jfc those song titles! — are puzzling, rife with symbolism, self-reference and literary allusion. They say little about the outside world and much about the fertile inner landscape of Pecknold's psyche. If nothing else, he seems secure in his insecure genius.
It's a complicated record. Convoluted, even. It plunges further into Pecknold's restless soul and Fleet Foxes' arcane musicality than anything they've done before. More than a few former fans will probably choose not to follow, and as for new ones, I'm not sure the band cares.
So we find ourselves back at Twin Peaks. "Convoluted" barely begins to describe the world David Lynch's evokes in this ongoing third season. A third of the way through its protracted 18-hour span and he's already exponentially expanded the show's universe — the settings, the characters, the music, the entire cosmology, really, take on a tone much more daunting and discomforting than the original series. Even lifelong fans are resistant. But Lynch would never spoonfeed or wallow in nostalgia. It's been 11 years since his last film, which was by far his most fucked-up. This new incarnation of Twin Peaks is more unyielding than the first time around. Lynch only gets more defiant with age.
Crack-Up is equally expansive, adding additional wrinkles to the band's underlying fabric, unfolding under its own bizarre internal logic. Pecknold, like Lynch, is an auteur, attuned to the dark workings of the unconscious, interested in exploring more than illuminating. They're both exploring previous territory with inscrutable intentions and daunting attention to detail. Their diffidence is as frustrating as it is magnetic. It's entrenched in Lynch, the septuagenarian iconoclast. Pecknold is still in the process of becoming himself.
This might be Lynch's last hurrah; he's hinted that he won't make another film, though as usual he's simply following his intuition. Crack-Up is a bridge to whatever Pecknold does next, wherever he may do it. In the meantime, the Pacific Northwest continues to exude its strange influence. We're caught in the overlap of these two stubborn visionaries, being pushed and pulled and purged of expectations.


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Our chats with the fishmonger in Port Isaac took us over to Port Quin for snorkelling escapades where Adam lost his wedding ring out at sea but found it with one blind dive. A hearty lobster bap and Monmouth coffee from Fiona's tin van cafe relieved the wetsuit dramas and she sent us in the direction of the pointy witch's hat – a church on a golf course on the beach, no less.
A handy car park by the sea (with an even handier bap wagon in the form of Fiona's Tin Van Cafe) allows you to be subtle with your ungainly attempts at putting on a wetsuit. And on that note, here are some wet suit do's and don'ts:
Wetsuit etiquette
Put carrier bags on your feet to help them slide through too-tight neoprene leg holes (although there's a rumour that it's vitally important they're the correct brand for the beach...).
Keep said carrier bags for standing on in a muddy car park, post-dip.
Don't put your flippers on until you reach the water, thereby avoiding walking like a penguin.
When you put your flippers on, enter the water backwards. Trust us.
Don't try to walk whilst wearing flippers. In or out of water.
Believe in your wetsuit. There's no need to be scared of seaweed. Or jellyfish.
Be wary of sliding on rocks in your wetsuit. They tend to rip.
Helpful snorkelling tips
Spit in your goggles to stop them steaming up. Yes, really.
Clip your snorkel to your mask to help prevent a salt water swallow.
Check out the way a wave bends the light in the moment of breaking from below or watch the refractive patterns scan across the sand.
Don't wear your wedding ring in the sea. Adam still hears that sickening 'plop' in his sleep, that heart-stopping moment when, mid-snorkelling, he lost his 10 month old wedding ring out at sea. Luckily for Adam, he did not need to face the wrath of his new wife, for one blind dive saw it shining 6ft under, perched on the only submerged rock in a ten metre radius. Lucky, lucky Adam.
Relief in a burger bap
Putting the moment's horror behind us and leaving wet wetsuits to winter sun-dry on the car bonnet, we indulged in some car park snacks. That doesn't sound too appetising until you realise that Fiona is serving the best baps from her Tin Van Cafe on the grassy verge, where a conveniently placed picnic bench let us rest our jelly-legs while Fiona sizzled fresh lobster for our baps and recounted tales of womad days. She was the one who pointed us in the direction of the pointy church on a golf course on a beach...
Fiona's Café
An ex-womad in a fetching straw hat making halloumi burgers and crab and mango rolls to order from her vintage Citroen van. Good coffee too.
Cornish Coast Adventures
Sam and Mark's family have been farming Scarrabine Farm for four generations, giving them access to the best push off points in the area.


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Archive for January, 2019
Are You Ready to See the New Toyota Supra?Thursday, January 31st, 2019
The Legend Returns – Introducing the 2020 Supra Video
Lots of talk has been going on about the Toyota Supra for a while now. During its previous production stint, the Toyota Supra was the ultimate choice for drivers looking for a fun and sporty ride. The Toyota Supra will soon be available and we are so excited to get behind the wheel! The Supra recently made its debut at the Detroit Auto Show and we are excited to share this video with you – enjoy! (more…)
How Much Does the 2019 Toyota RAV4 Cost?Thursday, January 31st, 2019
2019 Toyota RAV4 Trim Options and Pricing
From its very early years, Toyota has been lauded for its affordability. Today, that affordability is still very present – especially for the 2019 Toyota RAV4. Despite the full makeover that the Toyota RAV4 received for 2019, the compact crossover is still easy on the budget. (more…)
What are Allan Nott's Favorite Podcasts?Tuesday, January 29th, 2019
Best Podcasts to Listen to While Driving
We recently published a blog post on our specialty Toyota site about the new Toyota Untold podcast and how awesome it is. In addition to Toyota Untold, there are many awesome podcasts out there to listen to. We even mentioned in the blog post that right now is the golden age of the podcast thanks to all the options. To be more inclusive for all our brands, we thought that we would share our favorite podcasts on our Allan Nott portal blog! (more…)
New Year, New You, New Car!Tuesday, January 29th, 2019
New Cars for Sale in Lima, OH at Allan Nott
We are now a few weeks in 2019, and while we are still struggling to remember to write 2019 rather than 2018, we are still feeling that "new year, new you" craze that we experience every year. This year, we have made some goals for ourselves. While we may have jumped on the "lose 20 pounds" and the a-la Marie Kondo "declutter the home" bandwagon, we have also resolved to be more adventurous and to enjoy having nice things. (more…)


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- Huntsville Abortion Clinic Targets Middle School
- AARP Bars Right-to-Die Group from Annual Exposition in San Diego
- Planned Parenthood sex ed website redirects teens to porn site
- Seattle mayor officiates same-sex 'wedding'
- Ohio teen with Down syndrome on journey to serve at Mass in 50 states
- 'Transgendered' teen sues DMV for right to take ID photo in drag
A major battle is underway in Huntsville, Alabama as pro-lifers continue to appeal a recent decision from the city allowing an abortion facility to open directly across from a middle school.
AARP announced yesterday that it would not allow the right-to-die group Final Exit Network to have a booth at its Ideas@50+ exposition in San Diego.
The main web site behind Planned Parenthood's attempt to lure students with a sex educational campaign that leads to abortion now points those teenagers to a web site promoting pornography.
Seattle businesses rolled out the red carpet for a same-sex couple Wednesday night, part of an effort to make western Washington a "wedding" destination for gays and lesbians across the country.
Kara's endeavor is a journey of faith that began in 2013. She has traveled with her family to serve at Masses in states as far west as Nevada, as far south as Georgia and as far east as Maine.
A 16-year-old boy in South Carolina sued the state's Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday because the agency won't allow the teen to take a driver's license photo wearing makeup.


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Maple Leafs & Auston Matthews Have Goal Called Back After Elliott Knocks Net Loose
- The Toronto Maple Leafs and Auston Matthews think they have a goal but after a review the referees determined the net was already off its moorings.
- On the bright side, Leafs looking good in the St. Pats gear.
- Philly alternate jerseys aren't too bad either.
- Anyways… back to the main subject…
- Regardless if the net was on or off … this would have been a goal
- Their own goalie knocked it off
- Calling it no goal makes zero sense
- Doesn't matter, Auston got his revenge right here
Number 34 for @AM34 and two big points at home.#LeafsForever #LeafsgoBrách☘ pic.twitter.com/WYAbQH92w7
— Toronto St. Pats (@MapleLeafs) March 16, 2019
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Saudi Arabia's Shuqaiq IWP gets six bids
The IWP will have a capacity of 450,000 cubic metres a day (cm/d)
Saudi Arabia's Water & Electricity Company (WEC) has received six proposals for the planned
Six proposals have been submitted for Saudi Arabia's Shuqaiq independent water project (IWP), according to the Water & Electricity Company (WEC), which received the bids.
An assortment of international consortiums submitted the bids on 3 September, reported MEED.
The IWP will have a capacity of 450,000 cubic metres a day (cm/d).
The groups that submitted proposals are: Veolia (France) / Marafiq (local) / Alamwal al-Khaleejiah al-thaniya (local), FCC Aqualia (Spain) / Nesma (local) / Haaco (local), and Marubeni Corporation (Japan) / Acciona Agua (Spain) / Abdul Latif Jameel (local) / Bahr Rawafid (local).
Others are Engie (France) / Mitsubishi Corporation (Japan) / SSEM (local) / Metito (local)Acwa Power (local) / Al-Babtain Contracting (local) and Cobra (Spain) / Orascom (Egypt) / Al-Blagha Investment (local)
The plant will use membrane reverse osmosis (RO) technology, and will be developed in the town of Shuqaiq, located on the Red Sea coast about 137 kilometres north of Jizan.
The Shuqaiq project will be developed under a build, own and operate model (BOO), with a project company to be formed and 100 per cent owned by the successful bidder.
The selected bidder will sign a 25-year water purchase agreement (WPA) with WEC, which will be the offtaker for the produced water, reported MEED.
The client is aiming to select the preferred bidder by 1 November, and hopes to sign the WPA with the successful bidder on 13 December.


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Needham beat Wellesley 12-7 Thursday at Fenway Park in the 128th renewal of America's oldest public school rivalry. Joe Gowetski was the star of the game with a 97-yard Pick 6 that gave the Rockets the 12-7 lead at half.
The Gorman Trophy is coming home to Needham!! pic.twitter.com/fEDx8FgWmq
— Needham HS Athletics (@NHSRockets) November 26, 2015
— Needham HS Athletics (@NHSRockets) November 26, 2015
Needham now is one win away from tying the series, which Wellesley still leads 60-59 with ties.


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New things are coming!
By guest, Mar 31 2016 11:47AM
Welcome to our vastly improved website! If you visited our old one you'll notice the changes immediately. If you're new here we're glad to have you. Please be lenient with us as this is a learning process. It's a new system that's completely unfamiliar and I'm trying to figure everything out! We're hoping to use this as a way to keep everyone informed of new things at the shop, upcoming events, general information and the like. You can use the form to contact us directly with any questions. We're really excited about this new venture and hope you are as well!
Please check back often, as we will keep it updated with new content regularly.
So, what's new at the shop? If you drive by, you'll notice the HUGE construction project that's currently underway in the field adjacent to the parking lot. When finished, the new casting pond will be amazing! It's going to be plently big enough to accomodate several casters at the same time. And here's the more impressive part....switch and spey rods. Those are the giant, two-handed rods you'll notice in the shop. If you've never seen it done it's quite the show. It's completely different than any other way of fishing and opens up a world of possibilities for those anglers wanting to change things up!
We're also in talks with an architect and construction crew to finalize plans for a building expansion. When complete this will allow us to expand our current product inventory and give us the space we desperately need to host regular classes. We're looking to start holding fly tying classes, fly fishing basics classes, advanced casting lessons, and anything else you might be interested in. All of these on a larger scale than we've been able to host in the past, because we honestly just don't have the room!
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07 June, 2012
'At work I'm like a leper. I didn't feel even a grain of solidarity from my fellow workers and this ruined me' – said Nino Kavtaradze, Parliament staff member who attended the May 27 action and wrote on the face book – what will happen if I go to the Parliament dressed in a 'Georgian Dream' T-shirt?
Nino Kavtaradze: - In 'Georgian Dream' I head the thematic group working on the conception of the system of administration. At the same time I'm a leading specialist of regional policy, self-governance and highland regions' committee of the Parliament. For years I was observing what criteria and plan Bidzina Ivanishvili used in 'injecting' of virtue.
at the same time, I felt uneasy because I was collaborating with the organization, whose name I was not allowed to pronounce at the Parliament. It was unimaginably depressing that I had to hide my connection with the 'Georgian Dream'.
Q. – Why did you hide it?
N.K. –Now I can't tell you much. This will pose a lot of threat to my family members – my nephew is a prisoner and today he's like a hostage. Up till now I never had partisan obligations but I didn't like plenty of things and I expressed my protest. Today the President is authorized to sell self-governance property through direct selling. You will be amazed to learn that decisions in Borjomi and Gudauri are made by Tbilisi Mayor's Office. This is nothing compared to 'Lazika' that at present is a 'City-Idea' but it already enjoys Constitutional guarantees. Today it's a rule for a state functionary not to offend the political force in power…Public work must be liberated from pressure. Despite the fact that political reproaches in my address became permanent, I decided not to quit the job. I'm depressed by reproaches that I received in Parliament.
Q. – What are they telling you?
N.K. – I joked on 'face-book': What would happen if I went to Parliament with a 'Georgian Dream' T-shirt on. When Gigi Tsereteli declared that state functionaries shouldn't attend the opposition actions, I wrote on 'face-book': 'just sack us till October as if we are on leave without pay. By the way at the action there were many colleagues of mine, employees of Parliament.
Q. – Did you go to work with the 'Georgian Dream' T-shirt on?
N.K – No, because it would be a rude infringement of the public law. They could accuse me for this – advertizing of a political power is not allowed in a state institution.
Eldar Kvernadze summoned me and declared in a very insulting manner – keep your political views for yourself. It's a pity that I didn't feel even a grain of solidarity from my fellow workers. Nobody supports me in Parliament and I take it very close to my heart.


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Editor's note: Go here to read our most recent interview with Johnny Smith
An avowed and consummate homebody, Johnny Smith takes happy refuge in a life of neighborly anonymity.
Supremely unpretentious and low-key, this jazz legend has lived in the same modest house in the same nondescript, working-class neighborhood since 1958. He places a lot of value, he says, in "staying out of everybody's way" and in enjoying the company of his wife of 41 years, Sandy, his three children, John, Dave and Kim, his three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Nothing in Smith's public bearing or conversational manner hints at his status as a music legend -- that he was a featured soloist with the Count Basie and Stan Kenton bands, that Charlie Parker was one of his biggest fans, that his 1952 recording of "Moonlight in Vermont" was one of the top-selling jazz records of all time, or that he was one of the top draws at Birdland back in its storied heyday as the mecca of jazz.
We're talking here about Ivywild resident and jazz genius Johnny Smith -- the guy hailed by critics, fellow musicians and aficionados as the foremost jazz guitarist since Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian.
The meteoric parabola of Smith's career -- from a hillbilly band in Maine to the upper echelons of the ultra-sophisticated Manhattan jazz world and subsequent anonymity in jazz nowheresville, Colorado Springs -- is as improbable as it is fascinating.
Having played with, arranged for and socialized with giants Lester Young, Benny Goodman, Stan Getz, Count Basie, Kenny Clarke, Arturo Toscanini, Eugene Ormandy, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Sarah Vaughn, Zoot Sims, Art Tatum, Stan Kenton and Bing Crosby, Smith is a library of insider anecdotes and celebrity reminiscence.
He was the man. He was there.
From small beginnings
Johnny Smith was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1922. Music was part of his life from his earliest years, but there was nothing to suggest future greatness.
His father was a blue-collar foundry worker and a fair-to-middlin' five-string banjo player. Whenever Dad's musical buddies dropped by to "do some music," Johnny got a chance to "plunk around a bit."
He was seven years old when the Depression shut down the Birmingham foundries and left his family destitute. In search of work, the Smiths migrated to New Orleans and then Chattanooga, Tenn., finally ending up in Portland, Maine.
"Moving from the Deep South to Maine was a wrenching culture shock," Smith remembers. "A Southern accent wasn't exactly an asset in Depression-era Maine."
Though "dirt poor," Smith nurtured his love for the guitar and taught himself to play via an arrangement he finagled with the Portland pawnshops. "In return for keeping their guitars in tune, they let me hang around and play some," he recalls.
Entirely self-taught, Smith practiced, persevered and progressed to the point where, by age 13, he had a coterie of adults studying under him -- even though he had no guitar of his own.
"I got my first guitar during my sophomore year of high school," he remembers. "A man I was teaching gave me his old guitar after he bought a new one."
Smith put his guitar to use playing six nights a week in a hillbilly band called Uncle Lem and the Mountain Boys -- "the sole working band in the area at that time."
"We dressed up like hillbillies and traveled all over Maine doing pop tunes, polkas, folk songs and so forth at country dances, square dances, fairs, schools and the like," Smith said.
The Depression was still in high gear, but Smith was raking in $4 a night -- "Big money in those days," he says, still impressed and pleased these 65 years later. He dropped out of high school to concentrate on music and those nightly $4 jackpots.
Even then, though, Smith aspired higher. His ear was cocked to the siren call of jazz.
"I loved jazz for its freedom, spontaneity and creativity, and I profoundly appreciated the musicianship and improvisational skill it demands," he said. "I spent hour after hour listening to the big bands on the radio and on records -- playing along, emulating, discovering. That was my music school."
Smith ate, drank and breathed the guitar. He even dreamed it. "I'd dream chords in my sleep," he remembers. "In the morning, I'd find them on the guitar and try them out. Some were pretty interesting."
He left the Mountain Boys at age 18 to form The Airport Boys, a jazz trio consisting of two guitars and a stand-up bass for whom he fashioned arrangements in the style of his guitar heroes -- Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt and Les Paul.
About this time, though, World War II thunderheads were darkening the horizon, forcing every male 18 and older to edit his life around that reality. Smith prepared for the inevitable by taking up what would become another of his lifelong passions -- flying.
Fascinated by aviation from an early age (hence the moniker, "Airport Boys"), Smith spent a large chunk of his adolescence frequenting the Portland airport, making friends with pilots, picking up pointers here and lessons there.
In 1942, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps -- the precursor to the Air Force -- hoping to contribute to the war. To his huge disappointment, however, he got 86'd from flight school because he had less than 20/20 vision in his left eye. As is so often the case with life, that disappointment, a bitter pill at the time, would prove a lucky break in the larger scheme and longer run.
Sousa to swing
With flight school nixed, Smith was re-routed into the Air Corps band to do the Sousa schtick for the war cause.
This posed a small problem, however. Military bands don't have guitars.
"They handed me a cornet and an Arban's instructional book (the Bible of trumpet playing) and ordered me to sequester myself in the latrine for two weeks of nonstop practice," Smith said.
"I was really up against it. I couldn't play the cornet and I couldn't read music, and if in two weeks I couldn't play to Air Corps band standards, it was off to mechanics school for me. I practiced like a son of a gun and managed to show enough promise that they kept me on -- which proves you can accomplish anything if you're desperate enough," he laughed.
Smith quickly advanced to first chair in the 364th Air Corps Band out of Macon, Ga., doing the patriotic oompah for bond drives, recruiting drives and various wave-the-flag fetes.
The following year he was reassigned to the 8th Air Corps in Montgomery, Ala. and ordered to assemble a jazz combo for Air Corps musical tours of the Southeast. Drawing on the best of whatever talent was available, Smith formed a quartet composed of the unlikely (for jazz) combination of two guitars, a mandolin and a stand-up bass.
Glenn Miller -- at the time a major in the Air Corps, at the pinnacle of his musical fame and director of the "American Band of the Allied Expeditionary Forces" -- showed up in the audience at one of Smith's performances. Miller was so impressed by Smith's virtuosity that he tried to "requisition" him for his own band -- which, it goes without saying, would have been a huge boost to Smith's musical career.
The Air Corps, though, said no, and the question was made forever moot when, not long after, Miller mysteriously disappeared. His military transport took off for Paris from a rainy, fog-enshrouded RAF airfield in England and was never seen, found or heard from again.
At war's end, Smith returned to Portland to work as a staff musician at that city's NBC radio affiliate. In addition to his "day job," he played guitar at the local nightclubs and trumpet in the pit band of a Portland vaudeville theater.
The sheer range of Smith's musical versatility is suggested by the fact that at the same time (1946) he was doing the gutbucket schtick in a vaudeville pit band, he was extended an invitation by Eugene Ormandy to be the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra guitarist.
It was also in this interim that his boss at the Portland radio station sent a demo tape of Smith's playing to Roy Shields, music director of NBC headquarters in New York. Shields was so impressed that he offered Smith a position as staff musician and arranger for NBC headquarters in New York.
Big time in the Big Apple
"Back then," Smith recalls, "radio music was entirely live, right on down to the commercials. NBC, CBS and ABC each carried a staff of over a hundred musicians who were expected to play on sight anything thrown at them -- classical, popular, jazz, polkas, theater scores, you name it. It could be nerve-wracking, but it was a dream come true to be in the company of the best musicians in the world, which is what they were."
The new job occasioned another huge change in lifestyle -- "The joint was jumpin'!" he says of post-war New York -- and an awesome increase in income -- "$278 a week!" -- but Smith persisted in his typical seven-days-a-week workaholism.
In addition to playing in as many as 35 radio (and later television) shows a week for NBC -- including Highways in Melody, The Arthur Godfrey Ford Road Show, Star Time with Benny Goodman and Frances Langsford, The Patrice Munsel Show, The Dave Garroway Show, The Ed Sullivan Show and NBC Fireside Theater -- Smith played engagements with the New York Philharmonic under Dimitri Mitropoulos, with the Philadelphia Symphony under Ormandy and with the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini, and did increasing numbers of gigs on the side in Manhattan's world-class nightclubs.
Smith says one of his highest-stress performing experiences came playing under Toscanini.
"Toscanini was a genius, but he was a tyrant with a nasty temper," Smith recalls. "He'd fly into towering rages. One time in rehearsal he jerked his beautiful gold watch from out of his vest pocket and slammed it down on the podium, sending parts spraying all over the stage. I walked on eggshells playing under his direction. I was very, very careful not to set him off."
The pay was right, the prestige was gratifying and Smith was in the vortex of American popular music, but jazz remained his overriding passion. After recording with Benny Goodman in 1951, he formed his own combo. One of his recruits was saxophonist Stan Getz, also an NBC staff musician.
Smith's reputation on the jazz scene took off. Hugely in demand as a sessions man and a top draw at the clubs, his band became a regular at Birdland, situated on Seventh Avenue between 52nd and 53rd streets. On nights Smith played -- he had as many as 22 week-long engagements a year at Birdland -- the line would sometimes stretch all the way around Seventh Avenue, up 52nd Street and around the corner onto Sixth Avenue.
"That was a frantic, happy scene," he recalls of his Birdland days. "We shared the bill with greats like Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Erroll Garner and Charles Mingus. It was the realization of a lifelong ambition to play jazz to appreciative crowds among the foremost jazz musicians of the era."
A frequent visitor to Birdland on nights Smith played was Charlie Parker, generally considered the greatest saxophonist of all time. "He'd sit up front at the table closest to me and listen closely," Smith says. "Up until he self-destructed on booze and heroin -- he died at the age of 34 -- Charlie was one of the nicest, most gracious people you could ever know."
Besides Smith on guitar, the lineup of the original Johnny Smith Quintet included Stan Getz (and sometimes Zoot Sims) on sax, Sanford Gold on piano, Eddie Safranski on bass and Don Lamond on drums.
In 1952, Roost Records invited Smith to record -- a session that resulted in "Moonlight in Vermont," which became one of the best-selling jazz singles of all time and was named Jazz Record of the Year by Down Beat magazine. A half-century later, the record is still hailed by critics and musicians as one of the all-time greatest jazz recordings.
It was with "Moonlight in Vermont" that Smith established his trademark style of tasteful, clean sound and complex chordal voicing, interspersed with incredibly fast runs.
The song opens with a virtuosic six-chord sequence that has become the stuff of legend and lore in guitarist circles. In it, Smith voices chord and melody off the same string -- a technique that came to him while listening to someone play the Hammond organ.
"The hardest thing to do on the guitar," he explains, "is to play a melodic chord progression in smooth, even fashion without leaving space between chords. Then one day I noticed how an organist managed to keep a tone going between chords by holding down one of the notes of the chord while he pivoted to the next chord. I picked up on that and applied it to chord progressions on the guitar."
Smith was winner during these years of several of the Metronome and Down Beat polls that were a popular staple of '40s and '50s culture.
His best known composition is the early '60s monster hit of the Ventures, "Walk, Don't Run." Smith wrote that song for a 1955 recording session by devising a counter-melody to the chord changes of the old, treacly pop standard, "Softly, As in the Morning Sunrise."
Chet Atkins later covered the song on one of his albums, and it was Atkins' rendition that the Ventures stumbled on, tweaked in surfer/rock fashion and rode to over-the-top fame, fortune and top-10 status on the teen charts.
A few years back, the music company, BMI, awarded Smith a certificate declaring that "Walk, Don't Run" has had over 2 million known broadcast performances.
All that glitters
Though Smith was riding high and sitting tall in the saddle, the workaholic whirlwind of radio and TV work, studio work and nightclub appearances began exacting a toll.
Living the jazz life to the hilt, Smith pared down his employment with NBC from full-time staffer to freelancer and went on tour as a featured artist with Stan Kenton's band and then with Count Basie's band.
"We'd travel from gig to gig in buses," Smith recalls. "Every night was wonderful music-wise, but there's really not a whole lot that's glamorous about that lifestyle. We'd play every night -- a typical night would run from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. -- get on the bus and travel all night and next morning (and sometimes all day) to the next gig, do another show that night, get back on the bus and head for the next stop, over and over and over. There was a stretch in there where we did 71 one-nighters in a row."
As the biographies of hundreds of jazzmen attest, it's nearly impossible to live that life and have any kind of family life at the same time.
It was no different for Smith. In 1958, his second wife died, leaving him the sole caretaker of their four-year-old daughter, Kim.
"There was no way I could properly care for Kim while working 'round-the-clock like that," Smith said. "I asked a pediatrician if she'd stand a chance of growing up happy and well-adjusted under the care of a nursemaid, and he told me that chances were slim."
Despite his coveted pre-eminence at the high-rolling pinnacle of the jazz world, Smith chose family over career.
"In the end, everything came down to the fact that I loved my daughter too much to let my career put her at risk," he said. "But there were other factors, too. I loved New York musically, but I hated living there. You couldn't be a human being. It was all push and shove, and if you stopped to say 'Excuse me,' God forbid, you'd probably get hauled off to Bellevue as a fullblown loony-tune."
At that juncture, happenstances of military service and marriage had landed two of Smith's brothers and his mother in Colorado Springs. Casting his fate to the wind, Smith loaded up his car, quit New York cold turkey and headed west with Kim, despite having "hardly even heard of Colorado Springs."
He blew into town in February of 1958. Within three weeks, he'd moved into the Ivywild home that he's lived in ever since.
Ask Smith if he ever regrets how things turned out and he'll look you squarely in the eye and reply, "Not ... one ... minute," giving each word emphasis and weight.
"The greatest view I ever had of New York City," he says with audible satisfaction, "was when I emerged from the Lincoln Tunnel on the New Jersey side and watched the Manhattan skyline recede in my rearview mirror."
Happy homebody
For a while, Smith kept his foot in the jazz door, making periodic returns to New York to record and to play Birdland.
The longer he was in Colorado Springs, though, the more he yearned to stay home -- especially after marrying his present wife, Sandy, in 1960. He increasingly limited his engagements to the club circuit (such as it is) in Denver and Colorado Springs. Locally, most of his gigs were at Eddie's Sky Room (above Long's Drug on the corner of Pikes Peak and Tejon), the Alamo Hotel and The Broadmoor.
These days, Smith is emphatically and 100 percent retired -- by choice. He hasn't performed in eight years. "I miss playing for people," he admits, "but I don't miss the music business, and above all, I don't miss the travel."
What's astonishing is that Smith, one the 20th century's greatest guitar virtuosos, no longer plays at all -- not in public, not in private for friends, not even for his own amusement alone at home. The consummate perfectionist, Smith can't bear to play unless his chops are at their virtuosic peak.
"It's discouraging to sit around and plunk," he explains. "It takes constant public performing to keep up to speed, and that means travel. To me, there's no in-between, so I don't play any more, period -- not even by myself in my own home."
Ever the homebody, Smith says he's happier these days than ever.
"I count my blessings," he says. "I have no pressures. It's the complete opposite of my younger days. I suspect you have to experience that kind of pressure firsthand before you can fully appreciate life without it.
"I've traveled a lot of the world -- New Zealand, much of Europe, Canada, Mexico, all over -- and of all the places I've been, there's no place I'd rather permanently live than right here," he said. "I have wonderful neighbors. I have all I need.
"One of the best things about Colorado Springs," he adds with a level stare and nuanced hint of a grin, "is that it locates you as far away from New York as you can be without getting too close to L.A."
The legacy
Smith's performing days may be passed, but acclaim continues. His legacy grows.
In June 1998, Smith was awarded the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal, an honor bestowed annually by The Smithsonian Institute to an individual or organization that has made distinguished cultural contributions in the area of public service, the arts, science or history.
The award reads: "In grateful recognition of his contributions to American music, the Smithsonian awards the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal to Johnny Smith. His genesis of 'Walk, Don't Run,' his performance of 'Moonlight in Vermont,' his manifold accomplishments as a performer, recording artist and teacher have had a profound and pervasive influence on the role of the guitar in contemporary popular culture."
The award puts Smith in some august company. Previous Smithson recipients have included Helen Hayes, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Richard Leakey, Walter Cronkite, Jacques Cousteau, Pete Seeger, Sir Edmund Hillary, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, The Emerson String Quartet and others.
In 1999, a gala Johnny Smith Tribute was held at Hunter College in New York, where Smith was feted and paid homage by an array of old-timer greats, contemporary virtuosi and rising stars. All of them told of being profoundly influenced as youngsters by Smith's records -- much as Smith was inspired as a kid by the recordings of Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt.
Critics are equally lavish with praise in assessing Smith's career.
Jazz critic Jim Ferguson writes that Smith is "recognized as one of the [guitar's] most influential players, virtually peerless in terms of his musicianship, pristine execution of single-note lines, and closely-voiced harmonies."
Norman Morgan hails Smith in The History of the Guitar in Jazz as "the first of the modern guitarists to treat the guitar almost as a piano and thus re-popularize the accompaniment function of the instrument, abandoned since Charlie Christian's concern with linearity. Johnny's impeccable artistry has become a reference point for guitarists concerned with technique and precision."
Fellow guitarists are equally laudatory. Barney Kessel praises Smith as "an extraordinary virtuoso. As far as I'm concerned, no one in the world plays the guitar better than he. They might play it differently, but nobody plays better. Johnny could easily overplay because he's got chops unlimited, but his musical taste would not allow him to make an overstatement. As a result, he makes beautiful music."
Longtime pal and fellow guitar great Tony Mottola met Smith when both were on staff at NBC in the late '40s.
"I'm not in Johnny Smith's league," Mottola said in a telephone interview from his New Jersey home. "Johnny has an incredible range of musicianship. You need only hear a bar or two of Johnny Smith playing, and you know instantly without the slightest doubt who it is. He's a giant -- the first truly major jazz guitarist since Charlie Christian."
The "incredible range of musicianship" to which Mattola alludes is not fanzine hyperbole. From gin joint gutbucket to symphony hall swank, Smith has seen it all, done it all, played it all.
What he cites as "possibly the most memorable moment of my career," in fact, transpired in a limousines-and-black-tie affair of highest-brow high-modernism -- a performance of Arnold Schoenberg's "Serenade for Seven Musicians" under the direction of Dimitri Mitropoulos at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1949.
Composed in 1922 and "horrendously difficult," the piece had never been performed in public. The Museum of Modern Art scheduled a performance in honor of Shoenberg's 75th birthday.
"It was an unbelievably complicated thing," Smith recalls. "The original guitarist, a classically trained guy from a symphony orchestra, just wasn't able to cut it and they were about to scrap the whole thing. In a last-ditch effort to save it, they asked me to give it a shot.
"This was late on the Friday before the scheduled Wednesday performance," Smith recalled, "and they said there wouldn't be a rehearsal until Monday, so I went out on the town that night to blow off some steam. I made the rounds and really got myself good and juiced up and didn't make it home until 5 o'clock Saturday morning. At 6 o'clock, the phone rang. The conductor, Dimitri Mitropoulos, had called a mandatory 7 a.m. rehearsal in his hotel suite. I was dead on my feet, I was red-eyed and hung-over, and I hadn't so much as glanced at the score yet, but I crawled out of bed and dug in with everybody else."
Pulling off a near miracle, Smith mastered the piece in the allotted five days. The Wednesday night performance was flawless. The audience, which included composers flown in from all over the world for the occasion, demanded an encore performance of all seven movements.
In that incident you have Johnny Smith personified -- a musician as formidable in the Museum of Modern Art as on the bandstand in Birdland.
That assessment is reinforced in a 1976 article in Guitar Magazine, where interviewers George Clinton and Lance Bosman tell of being left open-mouthed in the wake of a private, tour-de-force demonstration by Smith of his stylistic range and technical prowess.
"After a few standards, including a marvelous arrangement of Jerome Kern's 'I'm Old Fashioned,'" they report, Smith played "Sevilla" by Isaac Abniz, "Waltz" by Manuel Ponce, Mussorgsky's "The Old Castle," and his own arrangement and transcription of Claude Debussy's "The Girl With the Flaxen Hair."
"We were amazed at the power of his inventiveness and control over his instrument," they marveled. "There seemed to be no musical idea that was impossible for him to express."
Smith downplays the praise, insisting that it's commonplace for jazz and classical musicians to be in awe of each other -- an observation that triggered yet another anecdote, this one about Vladimir Horowitz, the great classical pianist, and Art Tatum, the great jazz pianist.
"Horowitz used to come down to Birdland to hear Tatum play," Smith recalled. "He just couldn't believe his technique. He'd always sit way in the back, wearing this big black hat and trench coat -- I think it was supposed to be a disguise. To my knowledge, he never met or talked to Tatum. He'd just sit in the back with his big hat and trench coat and slip away the second the set ended. We got to calling him Lamont Cranston."
Smith and his band recorded 18 albums with Roost, Roulette, Columbia, Verve and Prestige. Asked which is his best, Smith replied: "The best one hasn't been done yet."
An out-and-out legend, Smith won't toot his own horn. As Barney Kessel puts it, "Smith never overplays or overstates."
As Smith puts it: "I try to be as low-key as possible."