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April Verch
- Glen Allen, VA
- 02/09/2019
Fiddler, singer, and stepdancer April Verch knows how relevant an old tune can be. She was raised surrounded by living, breathing roots music—her father's country band rehearsing; the lively music at church and at community dances; the tunes she rocked out to win fiddle competitions. She thought every little girl learned to stepdance at the age of three and fiddle at the age of six. She knew nothing else and decided early on that she wanted to be a professional musician.
She took that leap, and for over two decades has been recording and captivating audiences worldwide, exploring new and nuanced places each step of the way. On April 12, 2019, Verch released her twelfth recording, Once A Day, via Slab Town Records. A followup to her 2017 career-spanning release The April Verch Anthology, this new album is a celebration of classic country music of the 50's and 60's. Recorded in Nashville by Bil VornDick and produced by Doug Cox, Once A Day presents Verch with a full country band, featuring a cast of legendary musicians who helped shape this influential era of music (Redd Volkaert, Al Perkins, The Time Jumpers fiddlers, among others).
While Verch is perhaps best known for playing traditional fiddle styles from her native Ottawa Valley, Canada, her performances extend into old-time American and Appalachian styles and far beyond, for a well-rounded tour-de-force of North Americana sounds. Verch and her fellow trio members pare down their arrangements, highlighting the simple pleasures of upright bass, guitar, clawhammer banjo, voices, fiddle, and stepping in intimate conversation. At the heart lie Verch's delicate voice, energetic footwork, and stunning playing. Sometimes she sings, steps and fiddles all at once, with apparent ease and precision. Verch is - as they say - a triple threat in performance, her live show a beautiful companion to her music: versatile, robust, and masterfully executed.
Verch began her full time touring career in 2000 and has performed around the world, including festival, theatre and performing arts centre appearances in Canada, USA, China, Australia, United Kingdom, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Spain, Czech Republic and the United Arab Emirates. She also presents workshops, master classes, and lectures as part of her tours and at selected music camps.
Verch won't be the one to tell you about her championship titles, nominations, and awards, or the fact that she was one of 6 fiddlers who represented the Canadian fiddle tradition to the world at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, as part of a segment called "Fiddle Nation". Instead, in speaking with her, you'll hear about how passionate she is about sharing her music; in small gatherings in remote communities in Iqaluit, to large prestigious concert halls like Mozartsal in Vienna.
Even as she plays with the tradition she inherited, Verch keeps the community-fired celebratory side of her music at the forefront, honing a keen awareness of how to engage contemporary listeners. It's why Rolling Stone cited her "One of the 12 best things we saw at MerleFest in 2016."
"Just as contemporary bluegrass has Alison Krauss as an ambassador, the Ottawa Valley has April Verch," said NPR's Marco Werman on "The World." And Verch never forgets the roots of her music, that connection to the people out there in the audience, on the dance floor, to the community sparked by a good song. "It's about joining together to celebrate everyday life, through music. We're all in this together."
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Fiddler, step dancer & singer April Verch brings her fresh and feisty approach on North American traditions to Shady Grove Coffeehouse on Feb 9
Fiddler, singer, and stepdancer April Verch has never been content to stand still. One of the most esteemed fiddlers of her generation, Verch has been immersed in a deeply explorative musical journey since the age of three, with new chapters unfolding each step of the way. On February 17, 2017, Verch released The April Verch Anthology (Slab Town Records), an 18-track collection celebrating her life's work.
The April Verch Anthology offers an enchanting mix of regional Canadian, American old-time, bluegrass, country and Americana tracks, including songs dear to April as well as a healthy dose of fan favorites. In addition to featuring tracks spanning Verch's 1998-2015 recordings, the collection includes two newly recorded, never-before-released tracks. While Verch's silver-voiced singing, virtuosic stepdancing and fiddling remain front and center, the record also features the talents of legendary bluegrass greats Mac Wiseman and Bobby Hicks, Newgrass pioneer Sam Bush, old-time master Dirk Powell, and Travis Book of Infamous Stringdusters, among others.
The April Verch Anthology is not only a testament to Verch's musical versatility, but also illustrates her deep understanding of traditional music and songcraft from the broad North American tradition. There are exuberant fiddle reels, contemplative Canadiana originals, old-time tunes rife with clawhammer banjo, and the list goes on. The result is a collection that feels deeply personal, exploratory, and celebratory, much like Verch's career itself.
Verch says, "As I reflected on the releases that had come before, I realized that those albums and tracks represented snapshots of my life, past and present, and that together they make a mosaic of glimpses into the full picture of who I am. That's when I decided that an anthology would be the perfect way to celebrate it all."
Verch began her full-time touring career in 2000, and has since performed at elite festivals and performing arts centers worldwide. One might suspect a performer with as many talents as Verch would pause to take a breath, or need to somewhat compartmentalize her skills during a live performance. But on stage, Verch is almost superhuman, flawlessly intertwining and overlapping different performative elements. She stepdances while fiddling. She sings while stepdancing. Sometimes she sings, steps and fiddles all at once, with apparent ease and precision. Verch is - as they say - a triple threat in performance, her live show a beautiful companion to her music: versatile, robust, and masterfully executed.
With eleven albums and years of touring under her belt, Verch has moved from upstart prodigy to mature and reflective songwriter, interpreter, and storyteller. The April Verch Anthology is a stunning collection of this lifetime of songs and experiences. The story is in these tracks, and together they bring joy, enlightenment, and proof of just how relevant an old tune can be.
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Editor's Note: Television viewing on platforms such as DVR, Video-on-Demand and online streaming continues to grow at a fast pace. In an effort to quantify how much non-linear viewing adds to the live plus same day audience, CBS Research will periodically provide updates on audience trends across these multiple platforms.
Live Plus Same Day Viewership Jumps from 13.53 Million Viewers to Nearly 20 Million with DVR Playback, VOD and Online Streaming
The series premiere of UNDER THE DOME, which averaged a live plus same day audience of 13.53 million viewers, has jumped to nearly 20 million viewers (19.86m) with inclusion of 7-Day DVR Playback, Video-on-Demand and online streaming.
Live + 7 DVR playback for the June 24 premiere of UNDER THE DOME added +4.23m viewers (17.76m from 13.53m), +1.6 rating points in adults 25-54 (6.1 from 4.5) and +1.3 rating points in adults 18-49 (4.6 from 3.3) from live plus same day.
Video-on-Demand transactions through the first 22 days delivered an additional 1,605,513 viewers, while 22 days of viewership from online streaming on CBS.com and its multi-channel video partners added 491,448 more viewers.
The nearly 20 million-viewer total does not include viewership from Amazon's Prime Instant Video, which provides exclusive online subscription access to all episodes of UNDER THE DOME four days after the broadcast on CBS. While not reporting specific streaming figures, Amazon says the first episode of UNDER THE DOME was the most-watched TV premiere in the history of the service, and UNDER THE DOME continues to be watched by more customers than any other series on Prime Instant Video.
"Under The Dome" Premiere Episode Cross-Platform Viewing
Live + Same Day 13,530,000
Live+7 Day Lift 4,230,000
VOD 22 Days 1,605,513
Streaming 22 Days 491,448*
Total 19,856,961
Source: TV=Nielsen NPM, VOD=Rentrak, Streaming=CBS Interactive Internal Data
*Does not include Amazon Prime streaming figures

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10 Great Imperial Stouts To Try Right Now
Beer and food are better together.
For the past two years, I've trekked out to Southampton, Long Island on the last Friday of January so the next morning I could stand in line for a few predawn hours in the freezing cold. That Saturday is the one day of the year year that brewmaster Phil Markowski and his crew at the Southampton Publick House release their decadent Russian imperial stout. This year they released a total of 650 bottles of beautiful beer, and a horde of beer geeks were ready outside to snap up every last bottle.
Southampton is far from alone in this. If you want to try Black Tuesday, Kate the Great, Sexual Chocolate, Dark Lord, Surly Darkness, or a number of other great "cult" imperial stouts, you should probably prepare yourself for the possibility of standing in line on release day, trolling Internet forums looking for trades, buying lottery tickets in hopes of winning a chance to buy a bottle, or paying incredibly inflated prices on eBay.
And don't get me wrong—release days are a great time. There are usually other rarities available and plenty of good folks to hang out with and share beers. But what if you prefer to sleep in and pick up a six-pack or bomber at a grocery store or bottle shop without any hassle or fuss? Rest assured, there are plenty of top-tier imperial stouts available that require a lot less hoop-jumping to snag a bottle. Here are 10 solid choices that you can find on your own schedule. Some are seasonal, some are limited, but most of them see a fairly wide distribution—you should be able to track down these delicious imperial stouts without too much trouble.
Note: I skipped stouts with coffee, chocolate, vanilla beans, for this roundup—we can get into those later.
Brooklyn Brewery Black Chocolate Stout
This winter seasonal is big on chocolate syrup in the aroma, along with bready malts and a moderate roast. Black Chocolate Stout (10.0% ABV) is a real mouthful, chewy and rich with loads of roasted malt flavor, dark chocolate, char, and some blackstrap molasses. It's great with a stinky blue cheese or for making beer ice cream.
Great Divide Brewing Co. Yeti Imperial Stout
Great Divide has a number of variations on the Yeti (9.5% ABV), but I'm a sucker for the original. Powerful roasty aromas lead chocolate and caramel malt in this thick, deep brown brew. The chocolate and roast intensify in the flavor along with some toffee and the hops' grapefruit and pine. It's not the bitterest of the bunch, but it's one of the hoppiest.
Victory Brewing Co. Storm King Imperial Stout
A big blast of citrusy and spicy hops open to dark espresso roast with a milder aroma of cocoa. The color is a deep, opaque coffee with a thin but persistent light tan head. The first sip of Storm King (9.1% ABV) is a bitter, unrelenting hop rush that runs long into the finish. Substantial roasted grain add to the bitterness and molasses follows. There's a bit of warming alcohol on the end. This is a bitter, bitter beer.
Two Brothers Brewing Co. Northwind Imperial Stout
Northwind's rich, dark chocolate aroma is complemented by raisins, dark fruit, and a touch of smoke. The first sip brings big, dark malts, and more smokiness. Sweet, creamy chocolate emerges midpalate before a comparatively restrained hop character, roasted grain and burnt sugar come in the finish. Full-bodied and slightly oily, Northwind (9.1% ABV) is a flavorful but comparatively mellow imperial stout. Check it out if bitter isn't your thing.
Goose Island Beer Co. Bourbon County Stout 2011
Just because BCS isn't a "release day only" beer doesn't mean it'll be easy to get your hands on a bottle. It'll barely get warm on the shelves, let alone have a chance to gather dust. This year's batch (14.5% ABV) smells of toasted oak, cocoa powder, vanilla, and whiskey. It's velvety and heavy on the tongue. The flavor is intense with chocolate, barrel, maple, a bit of soy sauce and a rush of alcohol. There's no doubt about the beer's strength, but it wears it well. Lay some down if you can find it, this will get better for some time.
Boulevard Brewing Co. Dark Truth Stout
A Belgian yeast strain takes Dark Truth (9.7% ABV) in a somewhat different direction, at times almost more like a Belgian dark strong ale with a bit of roasted grain and more pronounced bitterness. No complaints here. There's a lot of plum in the aroma, along with fig, dark sugar, cocoa, and a mild smokiness. The dark fruit carries over in flavor, accompanied by sweet milk chocolate, spicy rye, and warming alcohol. It's very creamy, with a fairly dry finish.
Stone Brewing Co. Imperial Russian Stout 2011
Moderate roasted grain and coffee aromas mix with bready malts and faint hops. Stone's Imperial Russian Stout (10.5% ABV) is thick and tastes of chocolate and burnt sugar, complemented by dark fruit with a little licorice and citrus hops. This bottle, tasted almost nine months after its release, has smoothed out and shows refinement through its tingling endnote of bitterness and alcohol.
Schlafly Bourbon-Barrel Aged Imperial Stout 2011
This is a stout for whiskey lovers, with silky malt awash in bourbon. Schlafly Imperial Stout (10.5% ABV) is seriously boozy, but not hot. Hop character and roast really don't have much of a place here, but there's enough bitterness to balance even the sweeter malt midway through. Cinnamon and clove provide a spicy note to close. This is my wife's key ingredient for a stellar vanilla ice cream stout float.
North Coast Brewing Co. Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout
Aromas of milk chocolate and char are accented by bread crust and dulce de leche. Espresso and licorice meld with more chocolate at first sip. Rich and delicious, Old Rasputin (9.0% ABV) starts off deceptively, almost too easy-drinking despite its complexity and heft, before revealing its warming alcohol and bitter roast, which ripple on in the finish.
Oskar Blues Brewery Ten Fidy Imperial Stout
The look and feel of motor oil are the first clues that Ten Fidy (10.5% ABV) isn't a beer to be taken lightly. Chocolate, caramel, and dark roast coffee aromas rise from the glass in waves. Mouthcoating chocolate, caramel and creamy oats provide a solid foundation underneath a substantial load of dark char, roasted grain, and hop bitterness. There's a second wave of alcohol-tinged dark fruit before returning to the roast in a seemingly endless finish. This one's heavy duty.
Are you game for beer release days? Or do you buy the best imperial stout your local bottle shop stocks? What are your favorite imperial stouts?
Goose Island, Great Divide, Stone, Boulevard, Schlafly, and North Coast provided samples for review.
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Back to the USSR: Soviet tourism posters on show
A holiday? In the Soviet Union?
A healthy spell wielding a plow on a collective farm, perhaps?
Or maybe a not-so-short stay in a gulag?
All vicious propaganda if you believed tourism chiefs in the 1930s Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
A fascinating exhibition in London of early Soviet tourism posters -- the inaugural show at the Gallery for Russian Arts and Design (GRAD) -- reveals a land apparently close to the earthly paradise promised by communism's pioneers.
Bold, bright art deco designs by some of the most talented Soviet artists and designers show off health resorts, romantic forests, soaring mountain drives and golden beaches -- complete with gushing oil pylons off-shore -- within Russia and her loyal socialist republics.
The exhibition startlingly refutes any lingering impression you might have had that Russia under Stalin, in the early decades at least, was a forbidding place that sought to keep away foreigners' prying eyes.
On the contrary: through Intourist, the Soviet tourism agency, communist propagandists sought to promote the USSR as a superior civilization -- or getting there, anyway -- to which other countries might aspire.
Foreigners on a recce -- presumably as long as they avoided those gulags -- were more than welcome.
More prosaically, in those post-revolutionary years, the Soviet Union desperately needed hard foreign cash for industrialization.
Then, as now, in developing countries, tourism could help pave the way to a better future.
Through tourism, too, these often beautiful posters paint a picture of an optimistic age (assuredly this wasn't the case for the early victims of Stalin's repression) that would soon come crashing to an end.
Such bustling, cheerful, often paradisiacal scenes would have been far harder to conjure after the horrors of World War II.
The task of representing Russia as a tourism destination now, with its flashy billionaire class on the one hand and political crackdowns on the other, surely remains a work in progress.
"See USSR" is on display at the Grad Gallery (3-4a Little Portland St., London; +44 (0)20 7693 1000) until the end of August.


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Guess who remembered her wallet today?
This girl! 🙂
I had a lovely Summer Breeze Iced Tea while soaking in the free wifi and working the afternoon away. Sorry about the minor blog melt down earlier today. The server was down for a minute which caused some really funky hiccups with the blog. Everything should be fixed now. *fingers crossed*
Once my computer ran out of of juice (that's how I gage when I've been at a coffee shop way too long), I nibbled on a serving of trail mix…
and headed to Rolin' Oats.
As much as I love Whole Foods, there's something to be said about local health food stores. Usually they have a heavier emphasis on local products, a hot bar and deli that seems a tad fresher, a personal approach to marketing, and they really care about their customers. It just seems more personal and approachable.
I had a ball exploring Rollin' Oats! They had some fun items I've never seen before and couldn't wait to try. I had no problem leaving with a bag full of goodies.
Maybe, remembering my wallet wasn't such a good thing after all. 😉
After surveying the abundance of choices I now had, I decided to try out the Sami's Bakery Millet & Flax Pizza Crust for dinner.
Sami's Bakery is a local bakery that specializes in gluten-free and low carb bread. I've only seen their stuff in local health stores, but I know it's good! I made sure to stock up on a few items, including the crust. 🙂
I also bought some meatballs that I knew would make a delicious, protein packed pizza topping.
The flax pizza crust was for me, but the meatballs were for Derek.
Other toppings:
- Pizza Sauce
- Okra
- Mozzarella
- Parmesan
- Onion
- Mushrooms
In the oven at 375 for 20 minutes
Check out that bubbly cheese
I had 1/4 of the pizza with a beer
This wasn't any ole beer. This was THE Chocolate Stout I fell in love with at Foozbuzz Festival this year. I nearly jumped for joy when I saw it at Rollin Oats.
The pizza was great. The crust has a nice crispiness to it and the toppings exploded with flavor.
Nothing better than pizza and beer. 🙂
Then a sour mood moved in. Darn you sour mood!
I ate a cookie.
More beer would have been better. :/
Oh well.
I need to find someplace to board Maddie in Tampa for the weekend, any suggestions?


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|Your future workspace could be one of these cozy little rounded rectangles.
BTW, that's the Museum of the Future in the background.
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|We're not sure what the honeycomb design does,
but it's probably something cool and futuristic.
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H.E. Mohammed Al Gergawi, UAE Minister Of Cabinet Affairs, stated in a press release, "This building will be a testimony to the efficiency and creativity of 3D printing technology, which we believe will play a major role in reshaping construction and design sectors...We aim to take advantage of this growth by becoming a global hub for innovation and 3D printing. This is the first step of many more to come."
With 3D-printed housing becoming an option (in various forms of efficacy) from Sardinia to Singapore, this trend could be a major boon to future architecture and construction. The engineers speculate that the 3D-printing process could offer an impressive 50 to 80 percent reduced labor costs, 50 to 70 percent reduced production times, and 30 to 60 per cent reduced construction waste.
|Of course it's cheaper...3D printers can't slack off, or be drunk on the job.
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No completion date has yet been set, but it will be interesting to watch the project develop and possibly pioneer all sorts of new ideas for future 3D construction.
As the UAE Prime Minister (and Ruler of Dubai) Sheikh Mohammed heralds, "The future belongs to those who can imagine it, design it, and execute it. Here in the UAE, we think differently. While others try to predict the future, we create it."
|That's no joke. Thirty years ago, all this was sand dunes.
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Dec-21-2009 DCA Helps Break Ground on Renovation of Historic Zurbrugg Mansion
DCA Helps Break Ground on Renovation of Historic Zurbrugg Mansion
DELANCO TWP. - New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) Acting Commissioner Charles A. Richman today joined local and county elected officials and representatives of Zurbrugg Partnership, LLC to break ground on the conversion of Zurbrugg Mansion on Delaware Avenue in Delanco into 25 affordable apartments for senior citizens. The DCA has approved $2.05 million in funding for the project.
"Zurbrugg Mansion is a wonderful example of how the worthwhile goals of providing affordable housing and renovating a distinguished property can unite in one exciting project," said Acting Commissioner Richman. "Low and moderate-income seniors who have had a difficult time finding housing they can afford will now have an opportunity to live in a historic, waterfront property. At the same time, a magnificent building that's been vacant for several years will be restored to its past grandeur and contribute to the local community's sense of pride."
The Georgian-style mansion was built in 1910 on the Delaware River by Theophilus Zurbrugg, who owned the Philadelphia Watch Case Company, for his family. Designed by the respected Philadelphia architect Frank Furness, the mansion was used as a nursing home from 1949 to 2002 when it closed. Delanco Township acquired the building and surrounding land in 2005 and sold it to Zurbrugg Partnership, LLC, a Moorestown development company, in 2008.
The company will convert the mansion into senior independent apartments. There will be 3 studio, 19 one-bedroom, and 3 two-bedroom units. All of the rents will be restricted under the state's affordable housing program. Residents will also have access to common areas, including the library, a large sun porch, meeting rooms, and a laundry facility. Zurbrugg Partnership has contracted with Lutheran Social Ministries of New Jersey to provide leasing and property management services.
The DCA has approved $2,049,399 in Neighborhood Preservation Balanced Housing funding for the project. The Balanced Housing program is aimed at creating housing opportunities in viable neighborhoods for households of low and moderate income and is funded by the New Jersey Realty Transfer Tax.
In addition to converting the mansion into affordable senior apartments, Zurbrugg Partnership also plans to build 8 market rate townhouses on the property and restore the existing carriage house into a market rate single-family home. Balanced Housing funding will not be used for this portion of the project.
For more information on the Balanced Housing program, log on to http://www.state.nj.us/dca/divisions/dhcr/offices/bh.html on the DCA's website.


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Teenpower Personal Safety Skills Empower and Protect Young People
Personal safety skills prepare teens and pre-teens to navigate their world with safety and confidence. Because of their increasing independence, teens and preteens face an especially high risk of violence and assault that can often be prevented through awareness, action, and skills.
- What skills do teens learn?
- How does Teenpower motivate and prepare teens?
- What educational resources are available?
- What workshops are offered for teens?
What skills do teens learn?
Teens practice a broad spectrum of People Safety skills including:
- Dealing with bullying and peer pressure
- Learning how to say "no" effectively
- Managing emotional triggers
- Preventing violence before it escalates
- Setting boundaries and dealing with conflict
- Getting help
- Physical self-defense to escape from a violent assault
Our goal in teaching physical self-defense is to equip young people with skills to escape from emergencies if they are in danger and cannot just leave. In our Full Force workshops, students practice physical self-defense skills with a head-to-toe padded instructor.
How do we teach these skills?
- We use role-play, "learning by doing," interesting activities, and plenty of laughter.
- We focus on the positive and on the power that teens have to avoid harassment and avert violence.
- We use upbeat language that is not fear-based.
- Our materials capture the lessons with positive, everyday language that is relevant to teens.
Library and Store Resources Specific to Teaching Teens
Here are free articles in our Library for adults to use to teach teens and for teens to use to build their knowledge and skills.
- Teenpower Boundaries with People We Know
- Substance Abuse Prevention
- People Safety for New Teen Drivers and their Passengers
- People Safety Tools for Protecting Sexual Safety for Teens and Adults
- Stopping Sexual Harassment in Schools
- Make Safety and Respect "The Way it Is"
- CollegePower for Parents – Promoting Your College Student's Independence, Safety, and Wisdom
- Boundary-Lowering Tactics to Understand
The following publications in our Store provide extensive information about how to teach teens as well as younger children.
- The Kidpower Book for Caring Adults: Personal Safety, Self-Protection, Confidence, and Advocacy for Young People provides extensive information on how to prepare teens to take charge of their emotional and physical safety, develop healthy relationships, and increase their confidence.
- Fullpower Safety Comics and Teaching Kits give cartoon-illustrated tools for teaching and practicing "People Safety" skills that can stop most abuse by preparing teens to set boundaries and get help.
- The Relationship Safety Handbook is for adult and teen victims and potential victims of relationship violence, as well as the support people in their lives.
What workshops are offered for teens?
Teenpower workshops have been taught in a wide variety of settings ranging from 2 hour one-time programs to school assemblies to longer-term programs for physical education classes or youth group.
Teenpower Full Force Self-Defense Workshops
In this upbeat, five-hour program, students learn and practice skills for dealing with verbal attack, peer pressure, and harassment as well as assaults from strangers and acquaintance. Students also practice Full Force self-defense with the head-to-toe padded instructor. For students under 18, parental permission is required.
This workshop can accommodate up to 15 teens ages 13 to 18.
California Workshop Schedule. More information on organizing a workshop for your group
Teenpower Personal Safety Workshops – 2 hours
This engaging, active program gives teens the opportunity to learn and practice using boundary-setting, advocacy, awareness, and de-escalation skills that can prevent and stop most violence and abuse. Most often, these workshops are offered through youth groups and high schools. No physical self-defense is included in this workshop unless otherwise specified.
California Workshop Schedule. More information on organizing a workshop for your group
What if we can't get to a workshop?
Our library offers a wealth of free resources, including articles, videos, audio, our e-newsletter, and our blog, which provide tools for understanding and using the skills we teach.
Our store has publications for sale including our Safety Comics, our Kidpower Book for Caring Adults, our cartoon-illustrated Curriculum Teaching Books, our Relationship Safety Book, and our Comprehensive Program Manuals. These materials show how to teach People Safety skills and concepts to the important children, teens, and adults in your life.
If you don't have a Kidpower center close to your community, consider setting up a new one and training as an instructor.
We also train teachers and other professionals to include Kidpower in their lessons and programs so that young people everywhere can learn Kidpower!
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Wake-up call: Deacs dominate Maryland
Terps fall to 5-2 on season
Quarterback Tanner Price had touchdowns rushing, receiving and passing in Wake Forest's 34-10 victory over Maryland on Saturday.
Price was 26 of 36 through the air for 231 yards, scored on a 4-yard run and caught a 4-yard TD pass from receiver Michael Campanaro -- the trick-play master's fourth career touchdown throw.
Price hit Campanaro with a 10-yard touchdown pass to become the first player in school history and the fourth Bowl Subdivision player this season to hit the touchdown trifecta. He joined Clemson's C.J. Spiller as the only ACC players since 2000 to do it.
Josh Harris' 1-yard touchdown run on the opening series put the Demon Deacons (4-3, 2-2) on their way to their fourth straight home victory over the Terrapins (5-2, 1-2).
Backup Caleb Rowe threw a 56-yard touchdown pass to Levern Jacobs to briefly pull Maryland to 24-10 midway through the third quarter.


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Saturday, December 20, 2008
Hi, Jack Shit? I'm Mrs. Mullet
She wanted to know if that's normal and when it will stop. I told her yes, it's normal, and that she'll probably start feeling better when her baby is six months old and starts sleeping through the night.
To which she texted back: "I hate you!"
That went well.
I thought about telling Jen that she is going to hate a lot of people in the next nine months: the nurses who weigh her, strangers who touch her belly and tell her she's "huge!", non-pregnant friends who can drink and stay up past 7:30 p.m., the postman, her fiancé, Kathy Lee Gifford (for the mere fact that she's so fucking annoying), and yes, probably me.
But that was way too much to text. I had no choice; I had to write this: "It'll be fine."
You might think, so what? People say that all the time. But you don't understand. I was going to be different!
The whole entire solar systemic reason I started this blog was to share honest observations about pregnancy and childbirth. I fancied myself a kind of resource, if you will; a no-holds-barred, give-it-to-me-straight source of expert advice. (Are you rolling on the floor laughing? Cause I sure am.) I mean, one of my very first posts was this.
When I was pregnant, I loathed mothers who patted me on the shoulder and told me everything would be fine. I knew they were lying because I knew I wouldn't be fine. I had to expel another being from my body and then I had to care for that being.
No one can be fine.
I promised myself that I was going to be different. No lies, no sugar coating. I was going to be the woman who told THE TRUTH.
Here! Here!
But it's not that easy is it? A friend who is freaking out because she cried about being out of dog food doesn't necessarily need to know that this is just the beginning and that nine months from now she'll wish an empty dog bowl was her biggest concern. She doesn't need to know that she is an ant standing before that Empire State Building known as motherhood and that she will never, ever be the same.
After Jen texted back "thanks" I opened up wide and swallowed my blog in one entire bite.
11 comments:
- Michelle said...
Gosh, this is all so true. Life changes completely when you become a mommy. My pregnancy was not fun and I totally hated when a stranger would try and rub my belly. Uggg!! Thanks for sharing. This was a fun read.
- December 20, 2008 at 9:12 PM
- Keely said...
Yeah, well...isn't motherhood all about admitting you know jack shit? I was totally the same way - wasn't going to tell my birth horror story to pregnant women, wasn't going to lie and say I was 'fine' (I do that daily), etc., etc. I still try to be honest with my friends that have brand new babies, but who wants to hear that? I sure didn't.
And for the record, not one stranger tried to rub my pregnant belly. I must just be THAT intimidating.
- December 20, 2008 at 9:16 PM
- Nicole said...
Everything you say is so true! And your friend will see it all in her rear view mirror just the same as we did and do... I think part of the blessing of parenthood is surviving and then looking back! She is lucky to have you for a friend...
I love your blog--you're absolutely in touch with the human condition! :)
Happy holidays!
- December 20, 2008 at 9:37 PM
- Mary Anna said...
Great post.
I once touched the belly of a man at the grocery store. He asked why I did it, and I told him, "Well, you assumed it was OK to touch mine."
Also, a coworker (also male), made a crack about me getting bigger - and I stood next to him and pointed out that a) he was larger and b) mine would go away in a few months.
Finally, I'm not allowed to talk about my labors and deliveries - my OB warned that other mothers might bitch slap me.
- December 20, 2008 at 10:06 PM
- Lisa C. said...
lol... Throughout the first trimester of my pregnancy I have to admit, I was pretty pissed... Everyone claims it's so wonderful, you glow, etc... I didn't glow, I was miserable, alone, scared and I felt cheated...lol.. NOONE tells you the truth... lol...
So, I ALWAYS told it like it was...lol.. probably didn't help I was carrying two, who weighed 8lbs each at birth...
- December 20, 2008 at 10:37 PM
- Mary said...
I just had a baby, so I can totally relate to this post! And I have a little friend who is going to have her first baby any day... I can't bear to tell her anything except "it'll be great"... and I know the truth is it'll hurt like no other! I can't tell my birth story to pg women; I did post it though, left out some of the gory details. Still, don't let your friend read it.
- December 21, 2008 at 12:49 AM
- JenEverAfter said...
I think we survive through lies. Our brains would explode if it was ALL honesty ALL the time!
- December 21, 2008 at 2:18 AM
- Frogs in my formula said...
Nicole, I totally agree that part of the blessing of parenthood is surviving and then looking back.
Mary Anna, I loved that grabbed a man's pooch!
- December 21, 2008 at 10:23 AM
- Leanne said...
We ALL start off wanting to be cool and being different. HA!
I have turned into such a stereotypical Mom that I annoy the crap out of myself most days.
I always wanted to reach out and grab the penis' of men who touched my bump. What the heck, if they didn't ask to touch me why couldn't I touch them where ever I wanted?
I never had the guts though. Sigh.
- December 21, 2008 at 10:24 AM
- Julia said...
And sharing what jack shit you know is often futile since after all it is just that...shit. No one really wants to hear about it. They all have to learn about jack shit (and baby shit) by themselves. Being brutally honest is awesome but not everybody wants it. They like their high-fructose corn syrup, thank you!
- December 21, 2008 at 12:10 PM
- Unknown said...
I LOVE your blog!!!!
- December 22, 2008 at 10:39 AM
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i agree with you wholeheartedly on the meadow scene stuff.Dovrebanen wrote:Well...It wasn't totally left out..Just butchered. The meadow. Total lack of the development of the relationship and the understanding that evolved between them. All the confessions and the meanings behind them and the consequences of having all the walls fall down. And this includes the fact that the meadow was actually planned (Edward's special place). And not to mention the kiss after running from the meadow.
Other than that I'm sad that they didnt include Jasper's talent, and how he actually was closer to Bella in the hotel room than he ever was in the whole saga.
i was so sad with how they put that scene together.
for me, its my favorite scene in the book, and in the movie its got to be my least favorite scene.


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My archaeological career began as a high school student participating in a field school at the Center for American Archeology in Kampsville, Illinois. Although my job responsibilities have changed over the years, my research interest still focuses on bioarchaeology and learning how people lived and died in the past. I have been working for almost 20 years at the Illinois State Archaeological Survey/Prairie Research Program at the University of Illinois. Our organization has a long history with the Illinois Department of Transportation where we are responsible for conducting archaeological investigations prior to any type of road construction. During this time, I have had the opportunity to work with an amazing group of archaeologists who are dedicated to Illinois archaeology and site preservation.
In recent years I have become more involved in outreach and public engagement. This is a very broad field and includes being involved with events such as 'Archaeology Days' at day camps, formal presentations to community groups, presenting research at professional conferences, and helping to organize events where we are able to share our knowledge with school groups and families as well as professional conferences. In addition, we have recently made a push to disseminate information about Illinois archaeology through social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, and our website. Fortunately, I work with three other amazing people (Mike Lewis, Angie Patton, and Linda Alexander) and we are each able to focus on one aspect of the process (selecting images, posting in Facebook or Twitter) so that the task doesn't become overwhelming. My days often consist of lots of emails, attending meetings, giving presentations, assisting researchers gather information, entering Facebook posts, as well as – occasionally- my own research projects in bioarchaeology.
I feel strongly that one of our responsibilities as archaeologists is to give back to communities and teach them about archaeology and the importance of preserving the past- whether it is preserving the site materials or the site itself. One area of my job that I particularly enjoy is when I can interact with children and teach them about archaeology. Earlier this week, a coworker of mine (Alli Huber) and I assisted the staff at the McClean County Museum of History for their Archaeology Day – part of their week-long History Careers Day Camp. This is a wonderful program where the campers (grades 4-6) learn about the importance of history and the different types of careers. On Archaeology Day, Alli and I met the counselors and campers at the David Davis Mansion in Bloomington, Illinois, where the day started with the campers learning about the history of the David Davis family and the mansion, discussing the close relationship between history and archaeology, and what we can learn from each area of study. The days' activities included a tour of the historic Mansion with some inside activities as well as a mock dig outside where fragmentary historic material similar to the time period the Davis Mansion was occupied were buried in sand. In addition to teaching them the basics on how archaeologists excavate using maps, trowels, measuring tapes, collecting and sorting materials, they learned how artifacts can tell us important information about who lived at a site and what their life was like. The last part of the day each of the groups sort through the material they discovered in their excavations and answered questions about what the artifacts tell us about the people who used them. Inevitably, all the campers are excited about what they learn on this day and several tell me that they want to be an archaeologist when they grow up. When I hear those words, I feel that I have succeeded in my goal to pass on my curiosity and appreciation of the past to the next generation.


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Published by Rand McNally over three decades, the Windermere series featured classic stories combined with beautiful colour plate illustrations. Launched in the wake of advances in printing technology, Rand McNally created a series boasting high quality colour illustrations at prices that were affordable to young and old.
The first Windermere volume issued was Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. It was published in December 1912 and retailed for about 75 pence - less than half the price of its main competitor, Scribner's Illustrated Classics. The Windermere edition was a success and Rand McNally continued to issue further volumes over the next three decades. The backbone of the publications were the illustrations and there were a number of artists who contributed, including Hope Dunlap, Paul Bransom and Frank Lloyd Wright's sister Maginel Wright Enright. However, the majority of the books featured artwork by noted children's artist Milo Winter.
When collecting the Windermere series, it should be noted that the earliest volumes have the largest number of colour plates and are the most treasured. This is because as the series progressed, and volumes were reprinted, Rand McNally needed to reduce costs in order to maintain their price advantage over Scribner's. The easiest method was to reduce the number of illustrations.
There were three main variations of the Windermere series. The first, and most collectable, theme includes the 11 titles published between 1912 and 1918. These were issued with a green or gold coarse cloth, had gold lettering, and included a colour label glued on the front. These early editions usually contained between 10 and 16 colour plates. By the 1920s, the series cut back to only including eight colour plates, and these copies can usually be identified by the use of blue cloth with the gold lettering along with the traditional colour pictorial label. This style was used for six new stories that were added to the series as well as any reprints of the previous 11 titles that were made in this timeframe.
The third variation of the Windermere Illustrated series saw a further reduction in the number of illustrations to five for new releases, and reprints of the back catalogue also contained fewer colour plates than the original edition. These books can be identified by their black cloth with silver lettering. While this marked the end of new Windermere titles, it should be noted that in the 1950s Rand McNally reissued 10 Windermere titles in a ultra cheap format aimed for sale at grocery shops. These volumes had no dust jacket and just a single illustration facing the title page.


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There used to be an aphorism in British Columbia that the obnoxious smell of a pulp mill should be tolerated because it is the smell of money.
That was when even forest companies considered anything that wasn't used for lumber or pulp was a waste product.
Today, at Cariboo Pulp & Paper, a northern bleached softwood kraft mill operated by West Fraser at Quesnel, manager Bruce Eby sees things differently.
"If you can smell something, that means I am wasting chemicals," he says. "Sure, it's the smell of money. It's the smell of money being wasted."
Environmental and economic pressures have led to pulp mills installing recovery systems that capture most of those odour-producing chemicals. They are filtered out and recycled. What comes out of the stacks is mostly steam.
The drive to maximize value from wood permeates the industrial complex, an Empire of Wood, that West Fraser operates at Quesnel. Lumber is the primary product from our log, but every piece, right down to the last scrap of bark, is converted into something. It could be pulp bound for China or power to light your home.
The pulp mill does not utilize the white wood chips from the Quesnel sawmill, which are directed instead to a second West Fraser pulp mill, Quesnel River Pulp, which is adjacent to the sawmill. But it does use the bark stripped off the logs waste wood swept from the sawmill floor that cannot be diverted into more valuable product lines.
The sawmill consumes two million cubic metres of logs a year and that means Eby has a mountain of bark, called hog fuel, that he can burn for energy.
"We burn about 600 tonnes a day of hog fuel."
The pulp mill completed a green energy project in 2012 to produce electricity to power the mill. Excess energy is sold to the BC Hydro grid. Funded by the federal government's Green Transformation Program, BC Hydro, and West Fraser, Cariboo Pulp and Paper upgraded its boiler and added a new 30-megawatt turbo generator to produce power from steam. The steam is created by burning hog fuel to heat the mill's massive boiler. In the past, bark was disposed of in beehive burners. It was a major source of air pollution in Interior mill towns.
Before the new generator was installed, the mill had a 32-megawatt generator for its own use. But it requires 37 megawatts, meaning it was buying five megawatts from BC Hydro. It now has excess capacity, producing a total of 50 megawatts of power from generators that could, if needed, supply 62 megawatts. The mill sells 12 to 15 megawatts to BC Hydro. Eby says.
"We are basically taking waste wood and generating clean power from it. That's what the whole energy side is all about. When you burn wood to create electricity, that's all part of the carbon cycle. The wood creates the CO2, it gets absorbed in making new trees, and it is all part of the carbon loop. So it is considered to be green energy because it is not based on fossil fuels."
Across the Quesnel River from the kraft pulp mill, at the second pulp operation, general manager Keith Carter explains what happens to the white wood from our log that cannot be turned into lumber at West Fraser's Quesnel sawmill. About 40 per cent of every log is chipped for pulp.
The mill makes a specialty pulp by breaking the wood fibre to a fluffy consistency, rather than treating it with chemicals, as is the case at the kraft mill.
"It's a fluff-like product," he says of the bleached chemi-thermomechanical pulp produced at the mill.
The mill consumes all of the wood produced as a byproduct of taking a round log and squaring its sides. That's about 40 per cent of the average log — once cracked and split boards, or boards with too much pine beetle damage are diverted from the lumber line. They are chipped at the sawmill and transported to the pulp mill, where they sit in mountain-high piles.
Quesnel River Pulp has a capacity of 400,000 tonnes of pulp a year, making it the largest bleached chemi-thermomechanical pulp mill in the world. The fluffy pulp can be used in making paperboard products like coffee cups, tetra packs and paper towels.
The pulp is pressed by machines into bales, wrapped and loaded in rail cars for transit to Vancouver, where it is loaded aboard ships. Ninety five per cent of the market is overseas, Carter explained.
Because our log is a Douglas fir, with a 32-inch diameter, several log-length sections of the trunk will be directed to West Fraser's plywood plant, on the banks of the Fraser River six kilometres south of Quesnel.
There, mill manager Chris Finch explains how a fir log can be converted to a thin sheet of veneer more than 100 feet long and exactly .127 inches thick in less than five seconds.
After soaking the log to soften the fibre, it is loaded into a high-speed lathe with laser-guided accuracy, where knives set at a specific angle sheer off a continuous sheet. The sheet is later cut into veneer pieces slightly larger than the four-by-eight finished size. They are coated in resin, laid down and pressed together and trimmed to the right size. Finch points out that the wood grain alternates sheet by sheet to create a structurally strong product.
Although oriented strand board has taken over much of the market for panels in the U.S., Finch said the Canadian market remains strong.
"Most of our market is Canadian, it goes to Ontario and Quebec, a little bit into the Maritimes as well. Very little goes into the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S."
Plywood, he says, is simply a better product.
"We have long-standing customers who like the performance quality of plywood; that's really what it is," Finch said. "That's a personal opinion, but I think it is a far superior product. I bought a house here that has OSB all over it. I wish I could do it over."
Residual wood that is not used for plywood is chipped and shipped to Quesnel River pulp.
The final product to come from our log is made from sawdust, which is shipped to West Fraser's WestPine medium density fibreboard plant at the north end of Quesnel.
"This sawdust used to go straight into the beehive burners and up into the air," says manager Jim Scott.
Now sawdust and planer-mill shavings are ground in a process similar to that at Quesnel River Pulp, creating a fluffy fibre that, when sprayed with resin, can be laid down in an air-filled mat that looks much like a giant foam mattress. At that point, Finch says, the product is 90 per cent air, which is pressed out as the mat moves through the manufacturing process. It is all done by machine.
"This is an example of using all the byproducts," Scott says. "We grind it much like the pulp mill does to a fine fibre, add some glue to it and make a salable board that goes all over North America. Most of it, about 70 per cent of it, goes straight down the I-5 corridor, primarily for cabinetry, between Seattle and San Diego."
WestPine's business is picking up as the U.S. housing market recovers, he says. In fact, the plant is running flat out."When people build new homes, they like to put new furniture in it, new panel and new mouldings. That's why we are tied really strongly to the new home market."


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It only grows bigger the further away it moves; object in rearview mirror may be smaller than it appears. After all, it was only one album, one small collection of songs -- many of which have been officially released over the years. Who's to say how the world might have changed had it appeared in record stores when it was supposed to? Perhaps it would have ushered in revolution, led those who heard it to embark upon journeys previously unimagined, opened up doors no one ever even knew existed. So many maybes, but only one certainty: There has never been an official release of the Beach Boys' 1966 album Smile. And, for the time being, there never will be.
There have existed myriad bootlegs of the album, most of which are so abbreviated that they're nearly emasculated, unlistenable -- so much promise, cut and pasted into tiny little nothings. But that has never stopped Smile from reaching mythic proportions; indeed, it has only added to its lore. Even now, so many young bands ape the echoes, or at least try to wrest them from thin air. The Olivia Tremor Control's Black Foliage: Animation Music, released earlier this year, sounds like something Brian Wilson left in the tape machine in 1966, its blips and beeps merging perfectly with sublime melodies and massed harmonies that sound like made-for-radio hymns. (OTC also appears, alongside the likes of Thurston Moore and Jim O'Rourke, on a Japanese-only tribute to both Pet Sounds and Smile, released on Sony Music last year.) Each generation has its devotees who sing the praises of a record they have never even heard, from Paul McCartney to Billy Corgan, Frank Zappa to Peter Buck. They propagate the myth by celebrating that which does not exist.
The Internet overflows with essays devoted to this one lost album, the most famous unreleased record ever made -- or not made. Books have been written about the subject; in his 1993 novel Glimpses, author Lewis Shiner imagined going back in time and helping Brian finish Smile. And Domenic Priore's 1997 scrapbook-plus Look! Listen! Vibrate! Smile! offers every single word ever printed on the subject, in addition to the author's own rambling essay on the birth and death of Smile. Priore, like his fellow travelers, tells the story of how Brian Wilson set out to make the perfect record -- his "teenage symphony to God," as he once said -- only to have his bandmates tell him they did not want it released. Too fucking weird, they told him. Brian, forget it.
It is, essentially, as simple as that. For a moment, Brian Wilson had the chance to change the pop scene; his was to be an album of music and noise, absolute beauty and absolute chaos, that no one before him had ever imagined. Smile, with its a cappella harmonies and burning-house sound effects and off-kilter violins and plucked banjos and penny whistles and God knows what else (okay, everything else) piled up to the heavens, could well have been the most influential pop album of the 1960s. But Brian Wilson never had a chance: The Boys didn't want it out, Capitol Records didn't want it out . . . and soon enough, there would be no need for its release, as far as Brian was concerned. The Beatles, high on Brian's own Pet Sounds, struck back with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967, and the rest would be history -- theirs, not Brian's.
For years, stories had circulated that the album had been destroyed -- burned by Brian in a fire, reduced to ashes when he began fearing the album was unleashing a psychotic bad vibe. That is hardly the case, as the bootleggers have proven, releasing their abbreviated versions that are sketches at best, consisting of loony tunes and other errata so disjointed that it makes you wonder why anyone would crave such a thing. Six years ago, Capitol Records did include several Smile songs on its multidisc Good Vibrations box -- among them "Heroes and Villains" in two versions, "Wonderful," "Wind Chimes," "Do You Like Worms," "Vegetables," "I Love to Say Da Da" and "Surf's Up" -- but it was hardly enough to satisfy the casual fan, not to mention the completist. The songs were more like a tease, an appetizer offered to the hunger-striker. After all, Smile was a concept album -- Brian imagined it as a "psychedelicate" humor album made up of fragments of every kind of American folk music that had ever existed -- and to hear it only in fragments was to stumble across more questions than answers.
But last month, an astonishing new bootleg surfaced -- and, thus far, it appears to be the most complete document, containing three discs of Smile sessions and another disc that purports to offer the album in its "completed" 43-minutes-plus entirety (though, in truth, no such thing could ever exist). Packaged not unlike Capitol Records' The Pet Sounds Sessions, released in November 1997 after years of delays and containing every thought Brian Wilson put to tape during the making of that album, the newly available Smile boxed set is the combination of several previously known boots.
About six months ago, the European-based Sea of Tunes label -- a bootleg company devoted entirely to Beach Boys rarities, and a subsidiary of a label named Midnight Beat -- released three discs of Smile sessions. (The collection followed closely after the label's "Good Vibrations" three-disc box, which consists of nothing but rehearsals and demos . . . for a single song!) The Smile box, subtitled Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 16 (1966-1967), featured more than three hours' worth of outtakes, including nearly 20 different "versions" of "Heroes and Villains" and "Vegetables" -- and snippets of Wilson and musicians in the studio. Around the same time, Sea of Tunes, which is named after the Beach Boys' publishing company, also issued a single disc of Smile, which begins with the stunning "Our Prayer" (which consists solely of the Boys singing a wordless hymn composed by Brian) and ends with a thrilling, epic rendition of the symphonic "Surf's Up" suite, penned by Brian and Van Dyke Parks, who wrote the poetic lyrics for the entirety of Smile.
When Midnight Beat was raided two months ago by European authorities, the label's back catalogue was seized -- a total of nearly 10,000 discs, including Smile. (The label is currently in litigation overseas, where the penalties for bootlegging are relatively minor -- maybe a fine, and not a large one.) When word spread through the bootlegging community that the Smile discs were about to disappear, someone kindly packaged all four CDs in one box -- thus creating the most complete account of that album to date. Such handiwork has resulted in the re-creation of a long-gone yesterday still relevant today.
Of course, the question remains: Where did these tapes come from? The quality of the recordings is immaculate, so pristine it's nearly obscene; to own them is to feel as though you've confiscated a piece of history, stolen it out of Brian Wilson's back pocket (and, in truth, you have). To listen to these discs is to stand next to Wilson at the recording console as he dons his fireman's hat and whirls his way through these magnificent, otherworldly songs. Not a pop, not a scratch exists. Put them in the CD player, and mainline magic in its purest form -- get high on what was, what remains, and what still sounds like echoes from the future.
Capitol Records' vice president of catalogue A&R Paul Atkinson (himself a '60s pop player as a guitarist for the Zombies) says he knows precisely where the tapes came from -- but he will not say, citing an ongoing criminal investigation by the label, Beach Boys management, the Recording Industry Association of America, and the International Federation of Phonographic Industry.
"I know where they came from, but until they are arrested, I can't talk about it," Atkinson says. "We're working closely with the Beach Boys and their management and the anti-piracy people to put an end to it as much as possible. But these bootleggers are like cockroaches -- you exterminate them, and they come back. It's a constant problem, and with the Beach Boys, it's an especially virulent problem."
According to one source, Brian had agreed in 1995 to a five-year plan that would have, eventually, allowed for the release of Smile in some form. But a holdup over the release of The Pet Sounds Sessions essentially killed that: The boxed set was supposed to come out in the spring of 1996, but the remaining members of the band took issue with the original liner notes' celebration of Brian. They wanted their share of credit, even though they had little to do with Pet Sounds. Such infighting, so many years after the fact, ruined the chances of a Smile box.
After all, Mike Love and the rest of the Boys quite literally killed the record -- aborted it just as Brian was ready to usher it into this world and forever change it. Worse, the band -- which exists as a shadow of a vestige, its legacy long reduced to parody and punch line -- has spent three decades pretending Pet Sounds and Smile never existed. When the Boys toured, without Brian, for all those years, they never once performed songs from those albums, leaning instead on war-horse oldies -- "Fun, Fun, Fun," "Surfin' U.S.A." and all those other teen-beat anthems Brian wanted no part of by 1966. They dismissed Brian's experiments -- and, by doing so, they dismissed Brian. Once his bandmates -- his brothers, his cousins, his friends -- killed Smile, they killed a little part of him as well. He would never be the same.
For Smile to finally come out after all these years would make fools of Mike Love, Bruce Johnston and Brian's own flesh and blood. It's like getting away with murder, only to have the corpse reappear 33 years later, pointing fingers at the guilty parties.
Paul Atkinson hints that perhaps an official Smile release is not too far off in the future -- but he speaks in the record executive's bland, teasing generalities. He says that next year, Capitol will restore the entirety of the Beach Boys' back catalogue, including the post-Capitol albums released on the band's own Brother Records label (Sunflower, Surf's Up and Love You, among many others). He also insists that he has done his best to delete so many of the best-ofs that have clogged the market -- even though the label has released three such discs within the past two years.
"Starting next year, we will release all of the albums in their original form," Atkinson insists. "There will also be a number of other releases I can't talk about."
When asked whether Smile is among those other releases, Atkinson chuckles and says only this: "Obviously, Smile is a famous album, and it's true to say we would love to release it. But it's up to Brian Wilson. Let me correct that. It's up to Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys."
If that is the case, then the future is not so promising. In 1995, Brian told Mojo magazine he wants nothing more to do with the aborted project; he considers the music too "passé," better left to the past. In 1988, it was reported in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and USA Today that Brian had booked time at Capitol Records to finish the disc for a summer 1988 release. Nothing, of course, came of it.
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Brian's publicist, Jean Sievers, says he does not even want to talk about Smile -- not now, at least.
"He doesn't get why people want anything to do with Smile," she says. "I'm not going to say someday he won't do anything with it, but he doesn't want anything to do with it right now."
So, for a little while longer, the record will remain unfinished and unreleased -- and in the hands of only the fetishists who are willing to pay nearly $100 for the pleasure of discovering the unheard music.
"Smile is like the girl who got away," says one friend of Brian's. "He had already made the best pop album with Pet Sounds and made the best pop single with 'Good Vibrations.' He was growing exponentially, and Smile was going to be the next step in his evolution. But it was the last time he was Brian Wilson; it was the last time he was in control of his art. There are a million reasons to long for Smile, not the least of which is because it's brilliant."
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Sarasota daredevil says he was struggling with acute respiratory infection
With no more than three hours' sleep, Nik Wallenda was on the road by 3 a.m. Monday for the one-hour drive to the scene of his landmark Grand Canyon wirewalk. He paused for a "Today" show interview with NBC, which produced the Discovery Channel's Sunday night "Skywire Live" telecast, then headed back to the Flagstaff airport to catch a flight to New York, where he will appear on "The View" today.
The dispersal of the massive network infrastructure that enabled the nail-biting spectacle would begin immediately thereafter. All traces of his own equipment would be dismantled as well. And true to his word, even before Wallenda crossed the Little Colorado River's 1,300-foot wide chasm, his crew had already eradicated all evidence of Philippe Petit, the French funambulist who performed an illegal cable walk at the World Trade Center in 1974.
Petit — a strident Wallenda critic — rigged Hellhole Bend for a 1988 wirewalk but failed to deliver, though his gear remained in place ever since.
But in the wake of his triumph at a news conference on Navajo land Sunday evening, someone asked if it was worth the toll it took on his family, particularly wife Erendira, whom at least 13 million American viewers saw weeping during his 22-minute, 54-second adventure.
"It's a serious talk that we'll have, but absolutely, it weighs heavy on me," Nik Wallenda said. "I thought, if my wife ever came up to me, or my kids, and said 'Ya know, I don't want you to do this anymore,' I'd probably have to give it up. And that's my passion, that's what I love. But I love my family more than anything."
Later, back at the Little America Hotel ballroom in Flagstaff, where friends and family gathered for a dinner party, there was already a buzz on the future; after all, Sarasota's most famous face had told the media he wanted to wirewalk from the Empire State Building to the Chrysler Building. And one of his new best friends, New York state Sen. George Maziarz, was already planting the seeds. He had phoned New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo from Hellhole Bend and said, "Wait 'til the mayor hears this."
Maziarz, who helped facilitate Wallenda's Niagara Falls cable walk in 2012, made pointed reference to the historical marker being laid at the site of that success. And he offered a reminder to skeptics: "Nobody thought he could get permission from two countries to do Niagara Falls, either."
Conflicting emotions
Resistance will also have to reckon with some formidable public interest in play. Discovery announced "Skywire Live" generated 40,000 Tweets per minute — 700,000 total — and 1.5 million streams on Discovery.com's interactive video site.
But as casually as addressing the erratic winds that buffeted him on the wire, Wallenda dropped a bomb in the ballroom. He had been recovering from an acute respiratory infection as he made history Sunday night.
"I didn't want to tell Discovery," said Wallenda, who had been on antibiotics since Friday evening. "I didn't even want to tell my parents, but my doctor let it slip. I was feeling pretty bad."
It was this behind-the-scenes secret that made the crossing even more agonizing for his wife of 13 years.
"It was a nasal thing and we were afraid it would go to his ears," Erendira Wallenda said. "For Nik to complain about something like that, I knew it was serious. But I also knew he wouldn't do anything stupid."
For this eighth-generation circus aerialist with equally stunning high-wire abilities, Nik's canyon walk punctured a well of conflicting emotions within her.
"I started crying the moment he took off in the helicopter" for his departure at the butte, she said. "I didn't manage it well this time. I thought, 'What is wrong with me? I feel like I'm falling.'
"I told him you're totally crazy to do this. Which sounds odd, doesn't it? Because I know you can die from 30 feet up just as easily as 1,500 feet."
And maybe it was something else.
"I could imagine saying not to do skywalks anymore," Erendira Wallenda said. "There are lots of things you can do up there. Walking the wire is the most dangerous."
In the meantime, Nik Wallenda contemplates the Manhattan skyline the way other people figure out how to arrange the next family reunion.


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AccuRev has announced release 4.7 of its process-centric software change and configuration management (SCCM) toolset, with new scalability and personalized process visualization capabilities. AccuRev provides SCCM tools for managing the software release process together with code assets using any preferred development process model (e.g., Scrum, Waterfall, Lean, XP, RUP, etc.).
AccuRev 4.7 lets development teams utilize multiple commodity hardware servers for any combination of local and remote teams to scale efficiently to thousands of users. This flexible model for partitioning and distributing software development teams, build servers, and continuous integration environments lets teams implement their optimal distributed development process on-the-fly without requiring time-consuming pre-planning, or requiring larger hardware as team size and/or software assets grow. AccuRev 4.7 supports the ability to efficiently manage hundreds of thousands of files in a single workspace, enabling growth as software development projects increase in scope
AccuRev 4.7 also introduces, what the company claims, a "breakthrough" in visual scalability and usability by letting development teams instantly filter very large, concurrent process structures that may contain thousands of unique projects, teams, and developers. Additionally, with a single click, managers can see all the development activity related to the work being done by their team, or under active development.
According to Michael Madden, vice president of engineering at Avid Technology, "We are using AccuRev to support Agile and non-Agile development processes, as well as streamline code sharing between different geographically distributed teams for hundreds of users. AccuRev 4.7 provides more flexibility and enables our teams to have higher performance than under our previous mastership-based SCCM solution."


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Captivate 6 has arrived. It promises a lot of new features – but does it deliver?
Paul Johns, known in these parts for his long love of Captivate, tests his new toy...
I've been using Captivate since version 2, so over the years I've seen a lot of changes. Some updates/new versions have had a couple of nice new features, but the core functionality of Captivate seems to stay the same.
So, another version; more of the same? Not at all. I must admit I'm very impressed with Captivate 6. A LOT of new features have been added and I personally think it's the best version I've seen so far.
Let's look at what's new – there's lots...
New look and feel
It was quite a big change from Captivate 4 to 5 and now there's been more of a revamp. The Object Toolbar has changed again but not drastically; elements on the timeline now appear differently as do the main options along the top. Quite a nice lick of paint.
Themes – this is different
Themes to me are exciting (I may get excited by different things from most people, I admit). In the past you might create your own bespoke buttons or captions, but themes allow you to create a whole set of slides with various page templates. Think of it as a much easier way to create quick templates. You get some out-of-the-box Themes, but it's also very easy to create your own.
My favourite! Captivate can do so much more than just general 'systems training' - you can create some great soft-skills training with it too (and we did this for Adobe to prove the point). But over the years I've always been jealous of the interactions you can easily create with Articulate and always wanted something similar with Captivate.
I think with Interactions we finally have it. There are 9 interactions supplied with Captivate 6: Accordion, Tabs, Process Circle, Pyramid, Timeline, Circle Matrix, Glossary, Certificate and Word Search. Articulate Engage users will be able to see the benefits right away. They're easy to use - just select one, select the colours you want, add the text and click OK and the Interaction is automatically created. It helps to make it more obvious that Captivate can do more than just replicate your systems.
You now get a suite of characters to use (sadly not animated), so you can easily add these to your courses. A nice touch; once you select this option you have a whole host of different expressions and poses to add. There are currently 12 different characters to use and about 50 different graphics for each. This is similar territory to Articulate Storyline – interesting to see these two powerful tool players going more directly at each other through these enhancements.
Export to HTML5
Everyone's talking about HTML5, and how Flash will disappear in the future. It might. It might take a while. But whatever happens, don't worry; you can now export your courses to either Flash .swf format or HTML5. I've done a few tests and it works very well. If there are potentially any issues you can run the HTML5 tracker which will highlight any slides or objects that may be unsupported – very useful. For those of us who need an HTML5 version of a module, this provides a very good option.
Video Demo
You can now record high quality screen-casts, which will be good for any system demonstrations you may have. What is also exciting is that you can add a video demo to your existing course and then edit this and add pan and zoom to your video. Finally, you can zoom into an area of the screen, add a highlight or two and then zoom out. I've tested this and it looks great, a really good feature.
Some of the extra features might not be obvious but are very useful, e.g. there is now an option to add hyperlinks to text, which makes it much easier than having to add a hotspot.
Quizzes are now more powerful; you can create pre-tests, so depending on how a user does they will jump to different sections of your course (branch aware). I must admit it is the same type of questions you've seen for a while. I would love Captivate to have its own drag and drop question, but thankfully there is a third party widget, which does this very well. You can also now add partial and negative scores to questions.
...and even more!
There are a lot of other features – in the last version of Captivate you could add shadows to objects, and you can now add reflections. Another feature is the ability to quickly create your own buttons. Once you've added a transparent button you can change the fill of it, add a solid line around it, change the corner radius and now you've got a great looking button, perhaps you may want to add a shadow or reflection – and it looks far more exciting than the default style. You can also group objects, which is very useful when moving items on a page. One of the new features, which I will find really useful, is the variety of bullets (and easy to amend margins), which I used to find frustrating in past versions.
In summary: Highly Recommended
Well there you have it; some of the best features and useful extras I've been using so far in Captivate 6. It's a real step forward for Captivate. Past versions have been good but not ground breaking nor had the huge changes I've wanted to see in a new version, but I have been very impressed with Captivate 6.
They've taken some of the features that were strong in competing tools and worked them in well. Pan and zoom works really well; this was one feature I loved in Camtasia and really wanted in Captivate: it's now there. Easy to use interactions, which I loved in Articulate, are finally now there in Captivate. Adding a whole library of characters to use is again another great thing to have in Captivate, also in Articulate Storyline.
Overall I think Captivate 6 is excellent. It has a LOT of new features improved from the previous version. It feels like Adobe have really listened to their customer base. It's never the cheapest tool in the market – but it is a very powerful one.
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We see a lot of questions about how to wrap text around a picture or a shape in PowerPoint. And it isn't easy (though we do have articles for PowerPoint 2010 and PowerPoint 2007 that discuss admittedly complicated workarounds to achieve the wrapping effect).
Since it's hard and awkward to do, we see more comments from people who are unhappy about it than from people who say they find it helpful.
But PowerPoint works best when it has less text. A few keywords. Not enough to wrap. This is an issue that we here at the PowerPoint Blog feel passionately about.
If you want to communicate a lot of words, Word is a better bet. So is Publisher. You can create files that people can read at their leisure.
If you want to create a presentation, especially if you're the person presenting it, then fewer words will work so much harder for you, especially if you add a picture, too.
You don't need to put everything on one slide, because people will read the slide and won't be listening to you. (If you want all the information available when you post the deck or send it in email afterward, add it to the Notes section.)
Putting less on a slide and changing slides more often helps keep the audience engaged. Having one or two keywords and a compelling image gets the audience's attention — they want to find out how those elements relate. So they listen to you. In a presentation, that's a good thing.
I know that no one likes to be told how to use their software. But following a few simple guidelines — such as those entertainingly illustrated by Doug Thomas in his Office Casual about how to create better presentations, or Microsoft MVP Stephanie Krieger's 12 tips for creating better presentations — can help you create high-impact presentations without ever wrapping text in PowerPoint again.
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July 24, 1917 - September 12, 2013
New Windsor, NY
Mary A. Mussari of New Windsor entered into eternal rest on Thursday, September 12, 2013 at Elant at Fishkill. She was 96 years old.
The daughter of the late Alexander and Adeline (Bucci) Ortenzo, she was born July 24, 1917 in Springfield, PA. She was married to Joseph Mussari who predeceased her in 2000.
Mary is survived by her sons: John Mussari of San Diego, CA and Joe Mussari of New Windsor, NY; her sister, Lucy Grassi of North Carolina; her grandson, John Mussari of San Diego, CA; several nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends. In addition to her parents and husband, Mary was predeceased by her brothersz: Joseph and Alfred Ortenzo and her sisters: Josephine Saltalamachi and Margaret Del Pup.
Visitation will be held on Sunday, September 15th from 2 to 5 p.m. at Brooks Funeral Home, 481 Gidney Ave., Newburgh. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Monday, September 16th at 10:30 a.m. at St. Francis Church in Newburgh. Burial will follow in Calvary Cemetery New Windsor.
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The Piano Bar opens at about 10 PM, and generally gets busier right around midnight. Youll find mainly locals there and the crowd tends to be primarily gay and lesbian on the weekends. However, the Piano Bar is better known on the island and to frequent visitors for their loyal clientele known as mahu or rae rae (visit FAQs for more information).
Although there is not much nightlife on the outer islands, these islands do offer a wonderful vacation experience for couples. Tahiti offers a low-key, tranquil vacation experience; its truly best experienced with your lover or some great friends.
That being said it is also true that this vacation paradise is exactly what you make of it. Many of the resorts, restaurants, and small bar on the outer islands can be quite a bit of fun. Although none of the bars are specifically for the lesbian and gay community, they are very gay friendly. You may find while visiting the islands of Tahiti that, as a couple, youre more relaxed and comfortable than you are compared to your own neighborhood back home.
There are plenty of activities to keep you busy during the day, most of which are concentrated in or around the lagoons: wake boarding, jet skiing, parasailing, shark and ray feeding, helicopter tours, windsurfing, scuba diving, snorkeling. However, everything tends to close up pretty early in the evening, and youll find that you and your lover will retire to your overwater bungalow early. The only exception to this is the island of Tahiti itself.
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Quadriplegia and Paraplegia
Pronounced: KWOD-ra-plee-gia, PA-ra-plee-gia
Injury or disease to the nervous system can affect the ability to move a part of the body. This reduced motor ability is called paralysis.
- Paraplegia—paralysis of both legs
- Quadriplegia, sometimes called tetraplegia—paralysis of both legs and both arms
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Quadriplegia and paraplegia are most often caused by spinal cord injuries. But, they can also be caused by diseases, such as:
- Multiple sclerosis
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig disease
Most spinal cord injuries are caused by accidents, such as car crashes, falls, and sports injuries.
Whether it is paraplegia or quadriplegia depends on the location along the spine where the injury occurs:
- Paraplegia—damage below the neck
- Quadriplegia—damage to the spinal cord at the base of the skull or neck
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Risk Factors
Factors that may increase your chance of quadriplegia and paraplegia include:
- Jobs or sports activities that increase your chances of spinal injury—high-risk sports such as football, rugby, wrestling, gymnastics, diving, surfing, ice hockey, and downhill skiing
- Family history of certain inherited nerve diseases
- History of cancer—can cause compression of the spinal cord
Paralysis due to spinal cord injuries may be total or partial. This depends on how much of the spinal cord is damaged. In addition to paralysis of the arms and/or legs, you may also suffer from:
- Incontinence —bladder or bowel
- Sexual dysfunction— male or female
- Trouble breathing
- Difficulty sitting upright depending on the level of the damage
Inactivity due to paraplegia and quadriplegia can cause additional problems, like:
- Bed sores
- Spastic limbs
- Pneumonia
- Urinary tract infection
- Weakened bones
- Chronic pain
People with paraplegia and quadriplegia may also become depressed because of:
- Social isolation
- Lack of emotional support
- Increased dependence on others
Diagnosis involves finding out where and how badly the brain and spinal cord are damaged. To do this, doctors will likely do the following tests:
Imaging tests evaluate the spine and other structures. These may include:
Your nerve function may be tested with:
- Nerve conduction study
- Somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs) (rarely used)
Your bodily fluids may be tested. This can be done with a lumbar puncture if some specific neurologic diseases are suspected.
Immediate treatment of spinal cord injuries includes bracing the bony spine to keep it from moving and further injuring the spinal cord. Steroids and other medications may be used to lessen damage to nerves and nearby tissue.
Recovery and rehabilitation usually begins in the acute care hospital setting. Depending on the cause and extent of the condition, this involves:
- Medications
- Surgery
- Intensive physical therapy
- Counseling
During this time, patients are fitted for mobility aids, including wheelchairs. For most people, the majority of recovery happens within the first year.
The following measures are advised to reduce your chance of getting a spinal cord injury:
- Drive safely. Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of spinal cord injuries. Wear a seat belt every time you drive. Make sure your children wear seat belts or are in child safety seats. Don't drive if you have been drinking or using drugs.
- Be safe with firearms. Lock guns and ammunition in a safe place. Store them separately in locked containers.
- Take measures to avoid falls. Use a stool or stepladder to reach high places. Add handrails along stairways. Place nonslip mats in your bathroom, shower, and under carpets. To keep children safe, use safety gates to block stairs. Install window guards.
Always wear safety gear when playing sports. Avoid head-first moves, such as:
- Diving into shallow water
- Spear tackling in football
- Sliding headfirst in baseball
- Skating headfirst into the boards in ice hockey
- Use a spotter in gymnastics. Do not jump from very high places.
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Spinal cord injury—acute management. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at:http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T114275/Spinal-cord-injury-acute-management. Updated June 15, 2017. Accessed November 8, 2017.
Spinal cord injury—chronic management. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at:http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T566521/Spinal-cord-injury-chronic-management. Updated September 7, 2017. Accessed November 8, 2017.
Last reviewed November 2018 by EBSCO Medical Review Board Rimas Lukas, MD Last Updated: 12/20/2014