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4.3 Business and enlightenment: Manchester 1789–99 Manchester's dynamic business environment, particularly that of the new cotton industry, presented many opportunities for enterprise, even to those with modest capital. By 1790 Owen had joined John Jones, probably another Welshman, making spinning machinery. The next logical move was into cotton spinning itself, and very quickly Owen had established a reputation as a manufacturer of fine yarn, selling as far afield as London and Scotland. When in 1792 one of the town's leading merchant capita
4.11.1 Debating and negotiating meaning The two briefings in Boxes 4.10 and 4.11 illustrate other technological approaches to supporting socially based forms of knowledge generation, with the common theme of facilitating negotiation and debate among stakeholders. These are examples of tools which can assist communication between communities of practice as they seek to understand each other's perspectives. Activity 10: Critical reflections on Hofstede Allow 60 minutes for this activity. You have spent most of this unit working with Hofstede's ideas. He is one of the pioneers of the study of national culture and its impact on organisations, and his work has been very influential. My aim so far has been to help you understand Hofstede's cultural dimensions and to become familiar with how they can be used to analyse one of the main environments within which organisations operate. National culture is also one of the factors 2.7 Tracking progress Gantt charts and critical path diagrams are useful for tracking project activity and for making necessary changes to the project plan. Project-planning software may also be used; the original chart is kept as the standard and any modifications are superimposed. The example of the joint strategy for commissioning training services demonstrates how tracking produced information that led to a change of plan. 1.5.1 The co-production of meaning The third sense in which discourse is a social action refers to the origins of meanings. Meaning emerges from complex social and historical processes. It is conventional and normative. We have some idea what it signifies to say Prince Charles is a proud man because we are members of a speaking community and culture which has agreed associations for 'proud man'. We draw on those to make sense. Meaning is also relational. Proud signifies as it does because of the existence of other t 9 Conclusion In this unit we have explored the mutual constitution of personal lives and social policy through an analysis of the implications of different aspects of citizenship on the lives of refugees and asylum seekers. We have seen that legislation, social policy and practice concerned with asylum have profound effects on personal lives. Crucially, we saw that the very words used to describe people, their access to welfare, rights to work, legal status and the procedures for becoming a British citize 4.1.3 No dynamic web pages Another example of a problem with web servers which arises from their original functionality is the fact that web pages were designed to be static: they were files which were stored on a computer and delivered in their stored form to anyone using a browser to access them. Many e-commerce and e-business applications require something much more dynamic, for example there are a number of financial service sites on the web which provide customers with up-to-date stock and share prices. These pric Learning and practice: Agency and identities 4.1 Preparing In the preparation phase you should pause before starting a new section of work and think about it as a whole. What needs to be covered? What are the various components of this block of work? What are the learning objectives or outcomes? What will you need to know and be able to do at the end of it? What is required in the assignment? There are two main activities during this phase, both directly related to your course work and assignment: Acknowledgements Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence courtesy of For Inspiration Only at Flickr 1. Join the 200,000 students 10.1 Further reading There are many relevant books available from libraries and bookshops. Here are some suggestions to start you off. de Bono's Thinking Course by Edward de Bono, published by BBC Books, 1999 An interesting general consideration of thinking skills with tools and techniques for developing thinking in a general way. Use Your Head by Tony Buzan, published by BBC Books, 1995 Lots of useful information on how to mak 1.1.4 Simple arithmetic operations To perform a simple arithmetic calculation: Enter the first number in the calculation (for example '123') using one of the following methods: Using your computer keyboard's numeric keypad, which (if you have one) is on the right of your computer keyboard. Check to see whether the Num Lock indicator light is on and if it is not press the NUM LOCK key. Using your computer keyboard' 5.1.11 Religious Studies
Hinnells, J. R. (ed.) (1995) A New Dictionary of Religions, Oxford, Blackwell. 6 Correlation This activity demonstrates how a simple correlation analysis can be carried out. Correlations tell us about the relationship between pairs of variables. For example:< 3.2 Adviser time The governing body is allowed up to eight hours of external adviser time. These are split roughly: three hours for preparation before the meeting; one hour for writing/checking the review statement; four hours in school. The time allows for both the headteacher and the appointed governors to meet the adviser separately to discuss issues and, in the case of the governors, to seek advice. To do this, th Learning outcomes After studying this unit you will: be able to state your own motivation for producing self-study Open Educational Resources (OERs); have investigated and analysed some of the research into online learning; have evaluated some examples of educational resources for active open learning; be able to plan a structured learning experience using a range of resources; be able to construct an OpenLearn-style unit by remixing res Acknowledgements Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence Sue Platt has been a school governor for 21 years, at both primary and sec 4 Evaluating success Understanding the reasons for a school's success may require special expertise, but the fact of that success should be clear….. Martin & Holt, 2002. Take another look at the cycle for improvement (below). Introduction Museums give children experiences above and beyond the everyday – experiences that enrich and build upon classroom teaching and learning. Taking pupils to a museum, or bringing museum artefacts into school, instantly changes the dynamics of the usual learning environment. It gives you as a teacher the opportunity to start afresh with each child, to reach and engage with pupils in new and different ways. This unit explores practical ways in which you can make the most of the UK's extraordina Learning outcomes After studying this unit you will: have developed a systematic understanding of knowledge and a critical awareness of issues in inclusive education; be able to reflect critically upon and analyse your own perspective, and that of others, regarding inclusion; be able to analyse and develop successful inclusive learning practices; be able to identify conceptual frameworks appropriate for investigating inclusion issues, examining the inc
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On 30 November 2004 the Council of Ministers adopted a pension increase for the year 2005. Pensions up to the median threshold of 686.70 euro laid down in the General Law on Social Insurance (ASVG) will be raised by 1.5%. For pensions exceeding this limit a fixed amount of 10.30 euro will be granted. Calculations were based on the consumer price index, growing by 1.5% from July 2003 to August 2004."An automatic mechanism ensures that smaller pensions are always adjusted for the inflation rate", Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel informed the press. In terms of the budget, this corresponds to an additional expenditure of a total of 300 million euro. Since 1999 the expenditure for pensions had risen by more than 4 billion euro, said Schüssel.The stability programme for the period 2004 to 2008 was another item on the Council of Ministers' agenda. A significant decrease of the overall tax ratio of currently 42.7% to 40% in 2008 has been envisaged. According to the Chancellor, the government deficit is expected to amount to 1.3% in 2004, 1.9% in 2005 and 1.7% in 2006. In 2007 the deficit would drop to 0.8%. A zero-deficit would again be reached in 2008. ■
On 10 December 2004 Minister of the Interior Ernst Strasser, a member of the People's Party (ÖVP), announced that he would resign and work for the private sector. Just one day later Minister of Defence Günther Platter (ÖVP) was sworn in as temporary Minister of the Interior by Federal President Heinz Fischer. Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel stressed that this was a transitional solution. ■
For the first time since 2001 the labour market statistics have shown "a real decline" in unemployment, emphasised Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel after the Council of Ministers' session on 7 December 2004. Highly favourable trends were the exponential decrease of young jobless and the sharp decline in older unemployed. The number of dependent employees reached an all-time high of 3.204 million and was a sign of "a real economic upswing", stated the Federal Chancellor.With regard to the latest PISA study showing mediocre results for Austria's pupils, Schüssel requested an educational "discussion without taboos". According to him, the planned reform dialogue would lead to concrete proposals for improving the school system. ■
Numerous bills have been on the agenda of the last two plenary sessions of Nationalrat (Lower House of Parliament) before year-end (9/10 December 2004), e.g. the merger of urban and rural police forces, protected zones around schools (Security Police Act), financial equalisation, the health reform, the structural reform of the health system and the reorganisation of the Main Association of Social Insurance Institutions.The approved financing programme for the health sector provides for an annual budget of about 300 million euro, which is shared in equal parts between the provincial governments and the social insurance institutions. ■
In the 10th representation elections for federal administration staff on 1/2 December 2004 the Group of Christian Unionists (FCG) was able to maintain its absolute majority (50.16%). Substantial gains were made by the Group of Social Democratic Unionists (FSG) and the Independent Unionists (UG). AUF (Alliance of Independents and Freedomites) with links to the Freedom Party (FPÖ) suffered heavy losses.The final result of the elections was as follows: Qualified voters: 232,970 (1999: 262,574)Votes cast: 194,402 (219,143)Valid votes: 185,799 (210,681)ÖAAB/FCG: 93,189/50.16%/178 seats (-24)FSG: 64,431/34.68%/115 (+16)UG: 17,437/9.38%/19 (+3)AUF: 6.998/3.77%/5 (-7)Others: 3,744/2.02%/25 (-1). ■
On 10 December 2004 Federal President Heinz Fischer travelled for a one-day official visit to Poland. He met with his Polish counterpart Aleksander Kwasniewski and Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz in Warsaw.Their talks focused on EU issues, e.g. the forthcoming decision on accession negotiations with Turkey and the ratification of the EU Constitution. Another subject ranking high on the agenda was the political crisis in Ukraine. The most important bilateral issue discussed was the intensification of the economic and cultural exchange between Poland and Austria.Trade relations between the two countries have developed very dynamically over the past few years. In 2003 Austria's direct investments in Poland reached 1.05 billion euro – and is thus higher than in any other Member State of the European Union. ■
Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel participated in a meeting of heads of government of the Regional Partnership in Warsaw on 8 December 2004. The talks with his counter-parts from Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia concentrated on EU issues and the election crises in Ukraine.The heads of government tried to reach common positions regarding the EU budgets 2007 to 2013, with Austria – as a net contributor – pleading for a freeze at the current level. Other items brought up for discussion were the future EU enlargement rounds (Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Turkey) and joint initiatives in the framework of the "Lisbon process" to stimulate Europe's economic competitiveness. Austria championed above all research programmes and efforts to remove bureaucratic obstacles for entrepreneurs, as Schüssel's spokeswoman Verena Nowotny informed Austria Presse Agentur (APA).The meeting of the Regional Partnership –originally based on an initiative of Austria – was held in Warsaw since Poland is currently chairing the group. ■
Greek Foreign Minister Petros G. Molyviatis met with Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik for official talks in Vienna on 3 December 2004. European issues were on top of their agenda. In the preliminaries of the European Council meeting on 17 December 2004, the two Foreign Ministers discussed above all the subject of EU enlargement. "In view of the upcoming decision by the heads of state and government about a possible opening of negotiations with Turkey, I have been highly interested in the position of a direct neighbour of Turkey", said Plassnik. "Austria and Greece wished for a stable Turkey oriented towards Europe", explained the Austrian Foreign Minister. She also stated that the European Commission had come to the conclusion that Turkey was making considerable progress towards European standards but had also listed a number of still unsolved problems, e.g. in the area of human rights.With regard to Cyprus, Plassnik emphasised: "I am confident that the rapprochement between Greece and Turkey will have positive effects on the Cyprus issue". ■
In her address to the 12th OSCE Ministerial Council in Sofia on 6 December 2004, Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik underlined the significant role the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) played in safeguarding democratic basic values and human rights. This was ever so important in times of political upheaval. On the occasion of the elections in Ukraine, the OSCE had for example "clearly demonstrated that in spite of the difficult local situation it had been able to accurately assess the election process and to point out major irregularities", said Plassnik.Besides unsettled conflicts in the OSCE region (Moldova-Trasdniestria, Nagorno-Karabakh and Georgia), the "combat against new threats such as terrorism, organised crime and an extremely repugnant form of it, i.e. trafficking in human beings, had to remain a key task of the OSCE". ■
On 29 November 2004, European Central Bank (ECB) President Jean-Claude Trichet arrived in Vienna, where he held official talks with Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel. After that he participated in the "Conference on European Integration" (the former "East-West Conference") of Austria's National Bank (OeNB). In his statement Trichet once more expressed his concern about the trend of the euro/US dollar exchange rate.The ECB chief also reminded of the fact that it was indispensable to comply with the respective criteria before joining the European Monetary Union.At this meeting OeNB Governor Klaus Liebscher also stressed that the rules of the stability and growth pact had to be adhered to so as not to threaten the stability of the European currency. "For the stability of the euro and the credibility of the European Economic and Monetary Union it is indispensable to observe the fiscal rules of the stability and growth pact, which offer a clear and transparent framework", said Liebscher. ■
Switzerland was still richer than Austria but Austria's economy had been benefiting from EU accession, the expert on European integration of the Austrian National Bank (OeNB), Franz Nauschnigg, told journalists in Vienna on 7 December 2004. Since the first signs of a "no" to joining the European Economic Area (EEA) in the early 1990s, Switzerland had recorded a sharp decline in growth. A comparative study of the Economic Research Institute (Wirtschaftsfor¬schungsinstitut/Wifo) showed that between 1990 and 2004 Austria had registered an economic growth exceeding that of Switzerland by 25.3 percentage points, stated the expert. Based on the Wifo data, Austria's economy had benefited from EU accession with a growth of 2.9% of its gross domestic product (GDP). Austria's economy had received more than 45 billion euro compared to Switzerland since 1990, although as a net contributor to the EU budget Austria paid more to the EU than it received (Austria's net contribution amounted to about 336.2 million euro or 0.15% of the GDP last year). The increase in budgetary revenues had "more than compensated" for this gap, assured Nauschnigg. Direct investments by foreign investors had increased from 0.85 billion euro to 46.7 billion euro from 1990 to 2003. According to studies conducted by Wifo, the Austrians had reaped benefits between 700 and 5,000 euro per capita from joining the EU. Besides the welfare effects, consumers had also profited from more inexpensive products, explained Nauschnigg. ■
In only four hours the Austrian state holding company ÖIAG completed the largest transaction in the history of the Austrian capital market on 2 December 2004, selling another 17% (85 million shares) of its holding of Telekom Austria (TA) through the Stock Exchange to domestic and international investors. At a price of 13.05 euro per share, the revenue totalled 1.1 billion euro. This allows ÖIAG to cover the major part of its debt amounting to 1.8 billion euro in late September.ÖIAG still holds about 30% (including a 5% convertible bond) of TA and may sell further TA shares in June 2005 at the earliest since a 180-day blocking period is applicable. A new resolution by the Supervisory Board is necessary to implement the next TA privatisation step. According to the government's mandate, TA has to be fully privatised by 2006. ■
The German electrical group Siemens has recently officially submitted the announced bid for the take-over of the listed Linz-based technology group VA Tech: an unchanged price of 55 euro per share is offered. The shareholders are granted a period for acceptance of 40 trading days ending on 9 February 2005.The aim of the voluntary public take-over bid – submitted by Siemens Austria – is the acquisition of about 12.8 million ordinary shares corresponding to 83.55% of the capital stock. 16.45% are already held by Siemens. ■
In 2003 the prize acknowledging and promoting artistic and cultural projects on the integration of people with disabilities had been offered for the first time. On 7 December Secretary of State for the Arts Franz Morak awarded the 2004 prize "aiming at the active involvement of people with disabilities in artistic processes". The prize of acknowledgement went to the Salzburg-based "Theater Ecce", which has impacted the dance and theatre scene for ten years and has integrated disabled actors in several productions. The prize promoting topical artistic and cultural projects was conferred on the artists' collective "sinnlos" from Styria, that had developed a programme defining "difference as a quality but not a stigma" in Graz in 2003. The recently issued publication "sinnlos, wider die methoden der be- und verhinderung" (Springer, Vienna/New York), documenting this work of 2003 was also given a special mention. ■
On the occasion of the 80th birthday of Friederike Mayröcker, Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel invited the great author – State Prize and Büchner Prize winner – to a ceremony (that was still going on at the editorial close) in the Federal Chancellery. The festive event was opened by Secretary of State for the Arts Morak. The Küchl-Quartett presenting works by Haydn and Schubert was responsible for the musical programme. For over 60 years Mayröcker, "soul mate" of her deceased colleague Ernst Jandl, has ventured into the still unexplored territories of expression with linguistic virtuosity. Among her enchanting texts are "Ausgewählte Gedichte", "Magische Blätter" and the love story "Brütt oder Die seufzenden Gärten". ■
On 1 December 2004 at Vienna's Palais Porcia Secretary of State for the Arts Morak awarded the cultural association "Kulturbrücke Fratres" (Lower Austria) the "prize of acknowledgement for cross-border cultural work" initiated by Morak in 2001. The festive speech was delivered by the author Lotte Ingrisch, widow of composer Gottfried von Einem. Since 1995 the association "Kulturbrücke Fratres" from the small village Fratres with 28 inhabitants in Northern Waldviertel (Lower Austria) has sought to intensify relations with the neighbouring village Slavonice (Czech Republic) by engaging in joint cultural work, e.g. in the field of visual arts, with music and dance, literature and architecture.The prize was founded to pay tribute to those cultural initiatives and artists' associations launching exemplary projects of cooperation with neighbouring countries – including sustainable cultural work – in Austria's border regions. ■
On 10 December 2004 Elfriede Jelinek was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature in Stockholm. Tribute was paid to the absent author in her "home" city, Vienna, which she despises and appreciates at the same time. At Burgtheater friends like Gert Jonke, Christoph Schlingensief, Olga Neuwirth as well as actresses like Kirsten Dene and Maria Happel celebrated the poet. Akademietheater performed the play "Das Werk" about the Kaprun tunnel. Jelinek dramas were presented also at other European theatres, e.g. in Stockholm and Munich. In front of the Burgtheater the about 50-minute Nobel Lecture ("Sidelined") was transmitted. The author read from her manuscript placed on a music stand. She addressed for example the writer's role as an outsider as well as the difficulty and fleetingness of linguistic expression. The audience, among them numerous tourists, also enjoyed the culinary pleasures of the party: mulled wine, sausages and goulash soup.At Literaturhaus (Vienna) the expert in German philology Pia Janke and eight co-workers presented the "Werkverzeichnis Elfriede Jelinek", offering on 650 pages a meticulous philological compilation of Jelinek's entire oeuvre and reflecting the various forms of public reception. Jelinek's work – from her first publication in 1967 to the present – comprises not only the prose and theatre texts for which she became famous but also poetry, librettos (for the music of Olga Neuwirth), radio plays, scripts, projections and installations. The new media play a decisive role in some of these projects. The author has written about 400 essays for newspapers and magazines. This documentation can be considered a standard work and the starting point for future research on Jelinek.Literaturhaus Vienna presents a highly interesting Elfriede Jelinek exhibition (ending on 22 December 2004) with controversial newspaper articles about the Nobel Prize, all her books and photos (e.g. by Sepp Dreissinger). ■
The 2004 Erich Fried Prize of Internationale Erich Fried Gesellschaft für Literatur und Sprache offered by the Republic of Austria and conferred by Secretary of State for the Arts Franz Morak went to lyricist and essayist Brigitte Oleschinski, 49, born in Cologne. In her words of thanks she referred to poetry as "the most important form of thought still to be discovered in the present". Oleschinski, who studied political science, now works in Berlin as a contemporary historian investigating the political repression in the 20th century. Among her most acclaimed poetry volumes are "Mental Heat Control" and "Geisterströmung". The sole prize juror was Büchner Prize winner 2004 Wilhelm Genazino ("Abschaffel"). In his laudatio he said that the author transformed "the unreasonable demands of modern life with almost scientific precision (...) into lyric images". ■
The acquisitions made by the art library "Artothek" of the Republic of Austria during 2003/2004 can now be viewed on the Internet. At the opening of the exhibition running until 14 January 2005 at Palais Porcia in Vienna, Secretary of State for the Arts Franz Morak presented the "virtual museum" as a new platform for the digital presentation of Artothek. According to Morak, the library comprised more than 30,100 objects, the majority of which had already been recorded digitally. The photo documentation as well as the databases of the e-museum were updated on an ongoing basis. Hence, the Artothek was the most comprehensive documentation of contemporary art from Austria. ■
Federal President Heinz Fischer acknowledged the work of UN special envoy Waris Dirie from Somalia by awarding her the Romero Prize of the Catholic Men's Movement at Vienna's Museumsquartier on 25 November 2004. With her "Desert Flower" Foundation, named after her famous autobiography, the former nomad girl Waris Dirie combats female genital mutilation. Heinz Fischer praised Dirie's humanitarian commitment. ■
Until 23 January 2005 the Austrian National Library (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek /ÖNB) shows the exhibition "Looted Books". The ÖNB confronts its Nazi past". The show documents the Library's unlawful acquisition policy during the NS regime, the history of restitution from the after-war period to the contemporary research on the origin of the books. Eight exemplary cases of confiscation benefiting Austria's National Library are spotlighted, e.g. that of the sisters Elise and Helene Richter, two scientists killed in Theresienstadt, or of Heinrich Schnitzler, Arthur Schnitzler's son, who had emigrated to the USA. Today it is impossible to determine the precise number of objects improperly acquired by the ÖNB between 1938 and 1945. The report on the origin of the looted books finalised in 2003 lists more than 25,000 works acquired unlawfully. Some of them have already been restituted pursuant to the 1998 Act on Art Restitution. As the legitimate owners or heirs of a major part cannot be identified, these works will be transferred to the National Fund for the Victims of National Socialism. ■
Vienna's Central Library shows 160 typographically exemplary books (e.g. art and children's books, novels) from Germany, Switzerland and Austria (until 28 January 2005) – among them Josef Hoflehner's "Frozen History" awarded the Austrian State Prize in 2003. ■
The oil paintings and studies of the cycle "Myths from the Bible" by the Russian-French painter Marc Chagall are presented at Vienna's Albertina until 28 March 2005. The works are loans from the Chagall Museum in Nice, currently closed for renovation. More than 150 paintings, pastels and gouaches provide insight into Chagall's imaginative, magical interpretation of the Holy Script. It was inter alia with this series that the painter, child of a poor Jewish family from Belarus, won renown as one of the most important pioneers of modernism. ■
A male hand grasps the buttocks of a woman. This scene is depicted on the poster "Rubens in Wien" put up all round the city, advertising for "3 Museums. 100 Paintings". Until 27 February 2005 three museums – Lichtenstein Museum, Museum of Art History and the Gallery of the Vienna Academy of Visual Arts – present their common treasure. The "world's largest Rubens show" offers a superb overview of the ouevre by Peter Paul Rubens. The new Liechtenstein Museum wants to draw public attention to the masterworks, which after the return of the Princely Collections have been reunited in Vienna for the first time since 1938. With about 40 paintings, the Museum of Art History (KHM) hosts one of the most important Rubens collections outside the artist's native Antwerp. It does not only show works from all creative periods of the Flemish baroque painter but also highlights the diversity of paintings from altarpieces, portraits (e.g. "The Little Fur") to landscapes. The KHM's exhibition is rounded off by loans from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. The Rubens show of the Academy's Gallery at Schillerplatz in Vienna focuses on the small-size oil sketches the master executed with swift brushstrokes for his compositions in colour (often of huge dimensions). The erotic highlight is "Boreas Abducting Oreithyia" (around 1615) – a detail of which can be admired on the poster. ■
With the exhibition "Franz Schreker. Border Crossings, Sound Frontiers" open until 24 April 2005, the Jewish Museum Vienna continues its series of exhibitions under the motto "revolution in music" launched with a show featuring Hans Gál and Egon Wellesz. Works like "Der ferne Klang", "Die Gezeichneten", "Der Schatzgräber" and "Irrelohe" made Franz Schreker (1878-1934) one of the most important opera composers of his generation. His entrancing soundscape opened up new perspectives, which were further developed only some decades later, e.g. in the music by Witold Lutosławski or György Ligeti. His daring opera dramaturgy anticipated the visual language of the film. He wrote his own librettos exploring a world in transition. The exhibition offers a unique overview of the music and opera history at a crossroads between romanticism and modernism. Moreover, it highlights the situation of the Jews striving for emancipation and assimilation based on the example of Schreker's parents – his father was a Jewish court photographer, his mother came from an Austrian aristocratic family. Numerous pieces of his estate (scores, manuscripts, photos) are shown for the first time. ■
Anna Netrebko, the sensual Russian singer, recently received the "Amadeus Classic Award" at the headquarters of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) in Vienna for her debut –"Opera Arias" with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. The charming laudatory speech was surprisingly held by the confessed opera and Netrebko fan Markus Rogan, Austria's star swimmer of the Olympic Games in Athens, who has recently won several gold medals at the European Short Course Championship in Vienna. He explained that athletes and singers had a lot in common as they were going beyond limits, overcoming defeats and were committed to great goals. Listening to Netrebko as Donna Anna in Mozart's "Don Giovanni", he knew that she would be "the new soprano star". Donna Anna blushed when she heard this. ■
On 7 December 2004 Secretary of State for Sports Karl Schweitzer opened the touring photo exhibition "Sport, Tolerance and Fair Play" of the Council of Europe at Vienna's Museums-quartier. The principle of fairness was an important foundation of sport. Observance of the rules, equality of opportunities and mutual respect of the competitors were indispensable prerequisites, stated Schweitzer. "Competitions are a form collaborating – and that is the fascinating thing about sport." Sport was the best school of life teaching how to win but necessarily also how to lose, to accept rules and to integrate in a team. "We do not have to reflect on the principle of fairness for ourselves but should make those starting sport now familiar with it. It is vital to teach our children and youngsters all those values that count in sport for their every day-lives." The exhibition, which may be visited at Freiraum / transeuropa of Museumsquartier in Vienna until 30 December 2004, is based on an idea of the Council of Europe to promote fairness as an important basic principle of sport. The exhibition was premiered in Budapest from 13 to 15 October 2004 and is likely to be shown in another 13 countries by summer 2005. In 50 moving images from 18 European countries renowned photographers visualise the ideal of fair play. The photos are grouped by themes: care, joy, friendship, team spirit, equality, respect and integration. ■
In the framework of the "Roadshow of the World University Winter Games 2005" (Innsbruck/Seefeld from 12 to 22 January 2005), a discussion on "the situation of top-level athletes studying at Austrian universities" was held at the restaurant of the Austrian Parliament on 1 December 2004. Karl Schweitzer, Liese Prokop (Vice-President of the Federal Sport Organisation), Wolf Frühauf (Head of Department, Ministry of Education, Science and Culture), Michael Bielowski (Chairman of ISOC 2005 and deputy mayor of Innsbruck), Joachim Roland (Managing Coordinator of the General German University Sport Association) as well as the athletes Marco Falchetto and Karin Huttary discussed the problems of coordinating the time schedules of university studies and professional sport training, the lack of reconciliation models and the consequential danger of dropping out. The discussants arrived at the conclusion that it was necessary to introduce forms of organisation at universities showing understanding for parallel sport and university careers, supporting them and facilitating their co-existence. "The main objective is to implement structural changes at universities and to give positive impetus to athletes. By taking into account the sport background and responding to individual needs athletes would certainly be supported greatly and major progress would be made", said Schweitzer. Top-level athletes should be granted incentives to study at university, e.g. longer duration of studies without paying additional tuition fees, established posts for targeted student tuition (employing mentors, career counsellors or career planners) and special schemes with greater flexibility regarding exam dates and submission deadlines (offering adjusted study plans).■
Markus Rogan (2 x gold, 2 x silver), Mirna Jukic (2 x silver) and Fabienne Nadarajah (1 x bronze) won seven medals at the European Short Course Swimming Championship in Vienna. Upon conclusion of her career Judith Draxler was awarded by Secretary of State Schweitzer the Golden Badge of Meritorious Service to the Republic of Austria granted by the Austrian Federal President. ■


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Wunderle Still Alive in Individual Competition; Johnson, Ellison Eliminated
U.S. archer Vic Wunderle (Mason City, Ill.) is among the final 16 competitors in the men's Individual Round after winning two elimination matches at the Beijing Olympic Green Archery Field on Wednesday.
Wunderle will face Dong-Hyun Im of Korea in the round of eight at 11:48 Friday morning.
Wunderle's teammates Brady Ellison (Glendale, Ariz. / Chula Vista, Calif.) and Butch Johnson (Woodstock, Conn.) were eliminated in the second round Wednesday after posting first round wins earlier in the day.
The 41st seed, Wunderle beat #24 seed Eduardo Velez of Mexico 106-102 in the first round and then upset #9 seed Ilario Di Buo' of Italy in a one arrow shootout. The score in the second match was tied at 108 after 12 arrows, but after Di Buo' hit an eight on his first extra shot, Wunderle closed the match with a 10.
"Ilario is a great competitor, a world champion, a great archer," said Wunderle, the individual silver medalist at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. "He's also a good friend of mine. I wished we both could have advanced, but in the end we come here to win and I'm very pleased that I finished up with a good arrow that was enough to get me the victory."
Despite moving on, Wunderle wasn't pleased with his performance. "I shot about half the arrows in the match good. I didn't shoot as well as I would have liked to, but it's a stressful environment," he said. "It's nice to make it past each round as you go. Today I gave a good performance. I don't think I gave my best performance. I think I'll need to do a little bit better in the next round to continue advancing. This sport comes down to who's shooting hot on given day, and I know if I have a good day, I'm capable of winning. I just have to try to make Friday a good day."
While Wunderle was competing on Court B, Johnson was involved in his own drama on Court A. In the first round he outlasted Andrey Abramov of Russia in a three arrow shootout. With the score tied at 109 after 12 arrows, Abramov and Johnson tied again on each of their first two shots, before the American registered a nine to Abramov's eight to seal the win. Johnson then was eliminated by Dong-Hyun Im in the second round match, 115-106, just moments later.
It was a disappointing end for the five-time Olympian and two-time medalist. "It's about making good shots and having fun. You do your best; that's all you can do. It wasn't very good today," said Johnson. "They just didn't want to go in today."
"I knew he was good and I knew I had to shoot well," Johnson said of his opponent, who hit six 10s in a row at one point. "I went up there and I only made a couple shots that I felt were a little rough, weren't hitting the middle. Several of them I was very surprised on. Once you fall way behind, there's no way he's going to lose. He's too experienced of an archer. You just enjoy the moment."
Ellison entered the elimination round as the 15th seed and easily moved past 50th seed John David Burnes of Canada, 111-89, earlier in the day, but just couldn't get on track in his second-round 113-107 loss to Canadian Jay Lyon.
"I shot well, actually," Ellison said. "Every one of those shots in that last round felt good. I shot 11 nines and an eight. It's really hard to shoot that many nines."
The nerves didn't affect the 19-year-old's performance in the second match. He said it's the first match that's the toughest. "The first one is your hardest match. It's the first time you're in the stadium; it's what you've been waiting for. You don't know what's going to happen. The nerves are higher. You just go in there and shoot. After you get past the first one, you kind of settle down a little bit."
All in all, Ellison was happy with his Beijing experience and he has his sights set on the next one four years down the line. "The Olympics is exciting, being around the other Americans, being around that team. It's a lot of fun to walk around the Village and experience being a part of the Games. I'll start training tomorrow for London. The Olympics is like nothing else. I have four years to the next one, so I'd better get ready."
Remaining event schedule for the U.S. Team:
Thursday, August 14 at 10:56
Women's Individual Round of Eight - Khatuna Lorig (USA) vs. Ana Maria Rendon (COL)
(Followed by Quarters, Semis, Bronze Medal and Gold Medal Matches)
Friday, August 15 at 11:48
Men's Individual Round of Eight - Vic Wunderle (USA) vs. Dong-Hyun Im (KOR)
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Buckhannon, West Virginia: The Perfect Birthplace
A community in the Allegheny foothills nurtured novelist Jayne Anne Phillips' talent for storytelling
- By Jayne Anne Phillips
- Photographs by Jeff Swensen
- Smithsonian magazine, January 2010, Subscribe
I grew up in the dense, verdant Appalachia of the '50s and '60s. For me, "hometown" refers to a small town, home to generations of family, a place whose history is interspersed with family stories and myths. Buckhannon was a town of 6,500 or so then, nestled in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains of north-central West Virginia.
I left for college, but went "home" for years to see my divorced parents, and then to visit their graves in the rolling cemetery that splays its green acreage on either side of the winding road where my father taught me to drive. I know now that I loved Buckhannon, that its long history and layers of stories made it the perfect birthplace for a writer. My mother had grown up there, as had most of her friends, and their mothers before them. People stayed in Buckhannon all their lives. Despite the sometimes doubtful economy, no one wanted to leave, or so it seemed to me as a child.
Buckhannon was beautiful, the county seat, home to West Virginia Wesleyan, a Methodist college whose football field on College Avenue served both the college and high-school teams. Main Street was thriving. Local people owned the stores and restaurants. We lived out on a rural road in a ranch-style brick house my father had built. Two local newspapers, The Buckhannon Record and The Republican Delta, were delivered weekdays, thrust into the round receptacle next to our mailbox at the end of the driveway. My father went to town early on Sundays to buy the Charleston Gazette at the Acme Bookstore on Main Street. The Acme smelled of sawdust and sold newspapers, magazines, school supplies and comic books. Comic books were Sunday treats. I think of my father, vital and healthy, younger than I am now, perusing the racks, choosing a 15-cent Superman or Archie for my brothers, Millie the Model or a Classics Illustrated for me. An addicted reader early on, I first read R. D. Blackmore's Lorna Doone and George Eliot's Silas Marner as comics, before finding the original versions in the library, where I'd replenish armloads of borrowed books under my mother's watchful eye. She'd finished college, studying at night while her children slept, and taught first grade in the same school her children attended.
I looked out the windows of Academy Primary School and saw, across South Kanawha Street, the large house in which my mother had lived until she married my father. My mother had graduated from high school in 1943, and my father, nearly a generation earlier, in 1928, but he wasn't a true native. Born in neighboring Randolph County, he was raised by three doting paternal aunts. Each took him into their families for a few years, and he'd moved to Buckhannon for high school, winning the elocution contest and giving a speech at graduation. This fact always amazed me. My father, masculine in bearing and gesture, was not a talker. Women in Buckhannon told stories, and men were defined by their jobs. He attended the local college for a semester, then went to work, building roads, learning construction. His first name was Russell; for years, he owned a concrete company: Russ Concrete. My brothers and I rode to school past bus shelters emblazoned with the name. We seemed to have lived in Buckhannon forever.
In a sense, we had. Both sides of the family had helped settle western Virginia when the land was still a territory. My mother traced her people back to a Revolutionary War Indian scout; a great-aunt had spoken of the "bad old days" of the Civil War. Her people had fought for the Union, but the Phillips men, a county south, were Confederates. The family donated the land for the Phillips Cemetery in the early 1870s, when the new state lay devastated in the wake of the war. Buckhannon families still told stories of those years. The past and the present were endlessly intermingled, and West Virginia history was an eighth-grade tradition. Every kid in town knew that English brothers John and Samuel Pringle had turned their backs on the English crown during the French and Indian War, deserting their posts at Fort Pitt in 1761 and traveling south on foot. They lived off the land for three years until they arrived at the mouth of what became the Buckhannon River, following it to find shelter in the vast cavity of a sycamore. The unmolested forests were full of gigantic trees 40 or 50 feet in circumference, and the 11-foot-deep cavity would have provided living space of about 100 square feet, the equivalent of a 10-by-10 room. The brothers survived the frigid winters on plentiful game, waiting out the war until they ran out of gunpowder. John Pringle traveled 200 miles for supplies and returned with news that amnesty was declared. The brothers moved to settlements farther south, but Samuel returned with a wife and other settlers whose names are common in Buckhannon today: Cutright, Jackson, Hughes.
Buckhannon adolescents still visit a third-generation descendant of the original sycamore on field trips. In 1964, my eighth-grade class drove to the meadow along Turkey Run Creek. The buses bounced and groaned, and we all lined up to walk into the tepee-size opening of what is still officially designated the Pringle Tree. I remember the loamy smell rising from the earth, damp, fertile and hidden. Somehow the version of the Pringle brothers' story that we learned didn't emphasize that they left a war to found a settlement in country so virgin and wild they had only to enter it to escape the bonds of military servitude. Wilderness was freedom.
The town was truly a rural paradise; even into the 1920s, some 2,000 farms, averaging 87 acres each, surrounded Buckhannon. Such small, nearly self-sufficient farms survived through the Depression and two world wars. Miners and farmers kept Main Street alive, and the town rituals, seasonal and dependable, provided a world. Everyone knew everyone, and everyone's story was known. There were churches of every Protestant denomination and one Catholic parish. Parades were held on Veterans Day, Memorial Day and the Fourth of July. A week in the middle of May is still devoted to the Strawberry Festival. The populace lines up on the main thoroughfare to watch hours of marching bands, homemade floats and home-crowned royalty. The year my cousin was queen, I was 6 and one of the girls in her court. We wore white organdy dresses and waved regally from the queen's frothy float. The parade wound its way through town, slowly, for hours, as though populating a collective dream. Though the queen wore her tiara all summer, the town's everyday royalty were its doctors and dentists, the professors at the college, and the football coaches who'd taken the high-school team to the state championships three times in a decade. Doctors, especially respected and revered, made house calls.
The long dark hallway to our doctor's office on Main Street led steeply upstairs and the black rubber treads on the steps absorbed all sound. Even the kids called him Jake. He was tall and bald and sardonic, and he could produce dimes from behind the necks and ears of his young patients, unfurling his closed hand to reveal the sparkle of the coin. The waiting room was always full and the office smelled strongly of rubbing alcohol. The walls were hung with framed collages of the hundreds of babies he'd delivered. My mother insisted on flu shots every year, and we kids dreaded them, but Jake was a master of distraction, bantering and performing while the nurse prepared slender hypodermics. After our shots, we picked cellophane-wrapped suckers from the candy jar, sauntered into the dim stairwell and floated straight down. The rectangular transom above the door to the street shone a dazzling white light. Out there, the three traffic lights on Main Street were changing with little clicks. We'd drive the two miles or so home, past the fairgrounds and fields, in my mother's two-tone Mercury sedan. The car was aqua and white, big and flat as a boat. My father would be cooking fried potatoes in the kitchen, "starting supper," the only domestic chore he ever performed. I knew he'd learned to peel potatoes in the Army, cutting their peels in one continuous spiral motion.
My dad, who was past 30 when he enlisted, served as an Army engineer and built airstrips in New Guinea throughout World War II, foreman to crews of G.I.'s and Papuan natives. He came back to Buckhannon after the war and met my mother at a Veterans of Foreign Wars dance in 1948. During the war she'd trained as a nurse in Washington, D.C. The big city was exciting, she told me, but the food was so bad all the girls took up smoking to cut their appetites. A family illness forced her return; she came home to nurse her mother. My grandmother was still well enough that my mother went out Saturday nights; she wore red lipstick and her dark hair in a chignon. My father looked at her across the dance floor of the VFW hall and told a friend, "I'm going to marry that girl." He was 38; she, 23. He was handsome, a man about town; he had a job and a car, and his family owned a local hospital. They married three weeks later. In the winter of '53, when my mother had three young children under the age of 5, Dr. Jake made a house call. She was undernourished, he told her. Though she'd quit during her pregnancies, she was smoking again and down to 100 pounds. She told me how Jake sat beside her bed, his black medical bag on the floor. "Now," he said, lighting two cigarettes, "we're going to smoke this last one together."
Hometowns are full of stories and memories rinsed with color. The dome of the courthouse in Buckhannon glowed gold, and Kanawha Hill was lined with tall trees whose dense, leafy branches met over the street. The branches lifted as cars passed, dappling sunlight or showering snow. Open fields bordered our house. Tasseled corn filled them in summer, and thick stalks of Queen Anne's lace broke like fuzzy limbs. Cows grazing the high-banked meadow across the road gazed over at us placidly. They sometimes spooked and took off like clumsy girls, rolling their eyes and lolloping out of sight. Telephone numbers were three digits; ours was 788. The fields are gone now, but the number stays in my mind. Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them. Later, they appear, brilliant with sounds and smells, intense, suspended images moving in time. We close our eyes and make them real.
Jayne Anne Phillips was a 2009 National Book Award finalist in fiction for her latest novel, Lark and Termite.
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Comments (97) |
I'm a Buckhannon girl; born and raised. I went away to college and it didn't take me long to realize that home really is where the heart is. This article makes me feel so much pride in my hometown. I feel lucky and blessed to have grown up in such a wonderful little community. A lot has changed in the last 50 or do years, but the hospitality of this little town has remained constant. In a world that sometimes seems a little crazy, it's great to have such a wonderful place to call home.
Posted by Kelley Buckman on October 26,2013 | 09:30 PM
Jayne, that is a beautiful discription of life growing up in Buckhannon. I lived on Hickory Flat and went to the one room school house just one house up from where we lived with my grandparents, Rev. Lee and Alice Westfall. We moved to Tennerton in 1940. I have traveled throughout the U.S., all States except three, and, I have not found anyplace like Buckhannon. To me, Buckhannon is one of a kind. I like to go back there as often as we can and to Audry and Hollyriver State Park. I often retrace my growing up years there because the place and people relationships were so awsome. As I remember it though, us kids worked and sometimes played. We had assigned chores, and mine began with a 4 o'clock wake up to head for the barn with my father to milk 35 cows. Those years were so so good and will remain as such in my memory forever.
Posted by James (Calvin} Westfall on December 2,2012 | 07:49 PM
I myself was born and raised in buckhannon, born august 27, 1961, have always loved my home town, always has been and always will be a beautiful place to live and raise family.
Posted by james allen kahlbaugh on December 9,2011 | 09:11 PM
I am doing some research on the Upshur County Poor Farm/Lewis home. I noticed it mentioned and would like to elicit any further information anyone may have on its history. A photo would be a wonderful addition to my research.
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Posted by Laura on October 16,2011 | 02:09 PM
I grew up in Upshur County (Buckhannon - county seat) during the 1970s, close to the area which was my father's home. But I remember his stories of town and my visits to Buckhannon outside the school setting. As I read Jayne's article, I started replacing the current real estate with that from her description and could feel the warm feeling with which Dad had described receiving from the people and the town - also the same warm feeling I felt from my visits.
Jayne, thanks for a trip to a time before me.
Posted by Crystal LoudinJones on October 2,2010 | 12:00 PM
Oh the memories. I did not grew up in Buckhannon unless you count the month we spent every year at my grandparents home, the old poor farm where 8 Lewis girls were raised. My mom was the youngest Nina Lewis. She went to a one room school then onto BUHS and worked in the dairy store where she met my dad Robert Gainor of Elkins who was attending WVWC. Our memories were the same as your great article. We still have our family reunions every few years at my cousin camp near the boy scout camp. Baisden cousin still live there with a few in Texas. One year all the cousins that were in town we took over the movie theatre all night watching Edgar Allan Poe movies.. Even cousin Karen Viola from Philadelphia who must have only been 7. The best chilly hotdog ever at Pat's because it was close and then on to tennerton when the older cousin would take us to the pool hall.. I saw Dale Brooks message, my grandparents bought his place in the legget edition when he left town. I bought my first peace of jewelry from Shaffer in 1964 from babysitting money. We older we hung out at the Hinkle pool and party. I learned to swim in WVWC pool while my aunt was working at the their. I must share this article with my other cousins. My dad family is the Heavner family. thanks so much Jayne
Posted by Kathryn Gainor Ventura on September 6,2010 | 02:49 AM
I was born in Buckhannon, and like my Father, have many fond memories of the town and the people. My Dad loved the internet. His comments on this article were some of the only ones I know that he wrote, and so I felt I must share this story to show the power of our words…and why we should always express ourselves when we can.
Dad recently became seriously ill, and passed away on 8/13. Coincidentally the 1st day of his 55th Class Reunion. We tried hard to get him better so he could attend.
Cards and phone calls from his Classmates, both from that year and others during his illness were appreciated. Your words offered comfort, but mostly confirmed insight into the man we knew our Dad was.
One of his classmates who joined him in the Navy in 1955, (Don, Denzil or Earl) was reunited with another friend, because of Dad's comments on this article. When I read the card I couldn't believe it!
Buckhannon may be a small dot on the map to a lot of people, but the people that come from and stay in it are powerful. I count myself proudly as one of those. I know my Dad was one too!
Posted by Missi Pappas Powell on September 2,2010 | 04:05 PM
This all takes me back to my memories of growing up in Buckhannon. Was born in Grafton,W.Va. 1927 but came to Buckhannon when I was 3 years old and the depression to live with my Mother& Father. We moved in with my Grandmaother, Grandpa, also my Aunt& 2 Uncles. My Grandma Had a very large house and we were the last house on Boggess St. and not even a sidewalk and still no sidewalk. We had 6 acres of land and still right there on the lower part of Mt. Hibbs. Went to all the schools from the Academy right down the street to the old High school and then the beautiful Wesleyan but only for 1 year and also worked for Dr.Farnsworth as his dental assistant. So many memories but too much to write at this time. Everyone knew all their neighbors back then and always willing to help one another and believe it is still that way.
Posted by C. Jane Martin Cantler on August 20,2010 | 10:51 AM
It was a complete accident that I found this wonderful article by Ms.Jayne Anne. I have read your books and poetry and have lived in many places in my life.... but "there's no place like home."
I'll be 70 this coming September, seems like only 60 years ago Oh it was), I and my childhood friends were doing all the same things you wrote about. I have said many times in my life that my name should have been Richie Cunningham, simply because growing up in Buckhannon in my era, the 50's, was certainly Happy Days.
I recognize many of you folks that commented on here as I was raised by my Grandparents on my mothers side, DL & Stella Mae Haymond. Across the street from Babe Lewis' store on South Florida St. Now the RolStar. Our class of 1958 was the last in the old High School. This article refreshed my thoughts of my hometown and my happy days. Thank you and I need more books by you Jayne Anne. By the way I had to give a black Lab away do to health, the lucky ones were Roger & Betty Phillips both from Buckhannon, now in Clarksburg!
Posted by Darrell Lantz on May 18,2010 | 04:54 PM
What a terrific journey down memory lane! My mother's family (McCauley) lived in Buckhannon in the early 1900's; she was born there. Her family later moved to Rock Cave. My cousin, Ural Kellison, still lives there. Most every weekend, we journeyed from our home in Clarksburg through Buckhannon enroute to Rock Cave. We often detoured to visit their friends the Johnsons, who owned a furntiure store on Main Street in those days. Their son, French Earl, was near my age, and we often played together. (Wonder where he is now?) And of those annual trips to the Strawberry Festival, and the family reunions at the fairgrounds. Thanks for capturing and conveying such fond memories for so many readers about a jewel of an Amrican town.
Posted by John W Murphy on April 3,2010 | 06:25 PM
I am interested in what year that picture was taken. I can't tell by looking at the cars. What a lovely nostalgic story. The girl in the picture looks like my identical twin sister and I am very curious if my mom gave away my twin for adoption. I had a prom dress just like that also.
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Posted by Kathleen Bourinot on February 11,2010 | 05:53 PM
Thank you Jayne Anne how wonderful to walk down memory lane by reading your article about Buckhannon. I was born at St. Joseph's hospital on August 28, 1969, the fourth of seven kids to Don and Margaret Bailey. I remember as well going to East Main Street school as well as graduating from High School in 1987 and loving the town and all the people. I had and still have some wonderful friends and still come back to the town as often as possible bringing my 3 kids who love coming to the Strawberry Festival! They got to ride on a float 2 years ago and I was so proud to see them and cousins on the float waving to the people of my hometown Buckhannon. I was in the Band with Mr Kennedy and loved my experience and marching in the parades and band camp. Dr Almond delivered me and it was great to see a comment by his son Greenbriar, my mom still talks about Dr Almond and I bought a book the last time I was there about Dr. Almond and I love the book! I live with my husband and family in Delaware now but really miss Buckhannon and living on King School Road and going for the walks and picking strawberries on the side of the road. I remember going to Pringle tree as well and still have a lot of family still in WV. I remember our neighbors the Oldakers, Hinkles, & Roy Warner. My Grandmother lived in Buckhannon as well and loved taking us to the Baxa Hotel with Sammy to spend the night, the small things meant a lot back then, thank you again for the walk down memory lane loved it!
Posted by Billie Dawn (Bailey) Cain on February 9,2010 | 10:31 AM
I was born at St. Joseph, the fifth child of seven to Don and Margaret Bailey.
I remember going to East Main Street school. I have very fond memories of good friends that I started school with and also graduated together. On the weekends we loved going to Skateland and going to town for suppies. As I grow older I joined the band and which changed my life. In 9th grade at BUHS I had Mr. Kennedy as a band teacher. My older sisters Ann and Billie Dawn had told many stories about band camp and running laps when they made a mistake. I was a little scared my first year but, I will never forget the fun and memories we made together. Don't get me wrong we also had lots of work to do for Mr. Kennedy. After graduation we moved to Delaware where I met my husband Ted. We now have three perfect little girls that I enjoy taking back to the Strawberry festival in May. Thank you for writing this article and helping me walk down memory lane.
Posted by Peggy Wiley (Bailey) on February 9,2010 | 08:47 AM
Jayne Anne, thanks for sharing your story. I was born at St. Joseph in Buckhannon in 1966. Dr. Almond delivered me, a name I am sure many will remember. The little brick building just up from the Kanawha theater was his place of practice for years. I have a flood of memories to tell. Some already mentioned, others not. I remember a teacher named Phillips. I struggled in the beginning and switched teachers a lot but recall a Ms Thorn as my teacher. I am from the Tenney family. Well known in Upshur county. My grandparents operated the Kanawha theater for years however were not the owners. My mother was born there and will die there. My father was from Washington DC. Came to Buckhannon and NEVER left. He is buried there today. We were not "city" people and I recall many Saturday mornings "going to town" with my grandfather because that is what everyone did. On Saturday mornings Main street would be lined with people under the awnings just talking! Buckhannon will always be home whether I ever live there again or not. I was just there about a week ago visiting Mom and Sis. Buckhannon, WV is a special place in the hearts of many! I am glad and proud to say that I am one of them. I wish Buckhannon supported a larger employment base. May GOD bless the wonderful people of Buckhannon..past, present, and future. Jeff
Posted by Jeff Andrus on January 27,2010 | 02:08 AM


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Introduction If you're like most adults, caffeine is a part of your daily routine. But do you know the caffeine content of your favorite drink? You may want to take a look at just how much caffeine you get in a typical day, especially if you're bothered by headaches, restlessness or anxiety. If your caffeine habit totals more than 500 milligrams (mg) a day, you may want to consider cutting back. With the growing popularity of energy drinks, many parents have become concerned about how much caffeine their kids are getting. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that adolescents get no more than 100 mg of caffeine a day. Younger children shouldn't drink caffeinated beverages on a regular basis. Click the tabs to the left to see the caffeine content in popular drinks, sweets and medications. One note about the numbers: Use them as a guide. The actual caffeine content of the same coffee drink can vary from day to day — even at the same coffee shop — because of various factors, such as roasting and grinding, as well as brewing time. The caffeine content of tea also is affected by how long it's brewed. |
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why our "growth" dropped ? It seems that we're loosing clients as it was around 35% before... or am I wrong ? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...jctandWTmNuSkhrSVFSZVFxOWc&toomany=true#gid=6
Sorry guys but had to shutdown one of my 6970's due to it causing a BSOD after several hours of folding(Rebooted @ 10PM last night and system BSOD'd around 8AM). I should have a E5300 Core 2 system w/ 5450 up and folding this evening and getting my new i3 HTPC system setup right now but waiting on 6570 2gb to show up.
Someone, Folding only with an ATI/AMD video card is using a miss spelled ChimPowerUp. You're using ChimPowerUp_ . Notice the space at the end. Please check your client if this sounds like you. Thanks!
Do you have more then the 4P and and 2P X5670 folding? If those two drop at the same time it would be around 0.5 M.
They're doing well so far, though Blue wasn't kidding when he said I'd notice a hit in PPD from what I was used to. It makes me wonder if my SR-2 won't be obsolete by the time I get around to building it.
firstly i dont think it was me but their was a space at the end of my Chimpowerup ,i mean a copied ,single space, not line, but ill smash my shit up if its only done 1000 in the last few days so surely it read it right at their end as its not a character. might be worth checkin though,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, i better check me shitter too. eagle hammer thrust pc
if it was me i think i accidentally changed it last night , not the whole time ,im fairly sure , my ppd main rig is 20000 avg , shitter 3-4000ppd
I'm not helping in that regard. I've been having issues, smp core was crashing on me f*ck knows why. will keep trying, or may revert to GPU only. the 580 is punishing the PPD tho
OCCT Linpack (and therefore also F@H SMP I suppose) runs more stable on my system if the enabled CPU power saving methods are only Speedstep (EIST) and C-State technology, without ASRock Intelligent Energy Saver enabled. I do not know why, nor do I know whether it helps you but still I wished you to know.
Sorry people 2 night consecutive gpu error they are to 560ti from zotac standard no oc with one 120mm cm Excalibur on their side temp 70° i don't know why they stop the cpu ok keep going all night now i slow the gpu from 820 to 700 to see what is going wrong Any advice? Good crunch day
I have to use the 285.62 drivers when both my GTX 460s are in one machine. Every newer driver crashes on those dumb 7xxx WUs, so try that driver.
Oka thanks for your replay!! I'll try version 301.24 if it doesn't work, i now know that 285.62 works.
=/ I may have to forget about this year's CC. So far in the past 2 weeks I have reinstalled windows 5 times.
the i3 2120 stock is a hoss, almost 6k with no GPU. Working on fixing the 6970 LCS cooling issue and hopefully get it back up this afternoon.
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