text: Latest news Iwi Development Officer, Gavin Reedy, and workshop presenters, Norm Heke and Vicki-Anne Heikell at a workshop.Keep up to date with the latest news, events, resources and initiatives.e-news archiveNew fundraising resources available onlineWe have two new resources available for free download on our website.Where to find funding - in a nutshell (PDF, 250kB)Collecting Fundraising Data - a simple example (PDF, 253kB)Update on National Services Te Paerangi grants programmeThe first half of our financial year (1 July 2013 - 30 June 2014) has been a great one for grants. We have supported 32 Helping Hands Grants, 20 Travel Subsidy Grants, 4 Professional Development Grants and 3 Strategic Project Grants. Many museums, galleries and iwi organisations have important projects underway and it has been exciting to be able to support them.Here's a snapshot:The Helping Hands Grant programme has been particularly active. This year we have helped museums purchase photo display panels, mannequins and lighting to improve displays, funded brochure printing and street signage, and supported applications for a multitude of storage solutions.Rakiura Heritage Trust and Mairangi Arts Centre both used the Helping Hands Grant to purchase archival storage materials to continue working on projects supported by National Services Te Paerangi's Expert Knowledge Exchange programme.North Otago Museum used a Professional Development Grant to send a staff member to the Australian Society of Archivists Conference in Canberra, while Whangarei Art Museum applied to send a staff member to the 15th Korea Foundation Workshop for Curators in Seoul.Whanganui Regional Museum and Corban Estate Arts Centre were two of our successful Strategic Project Grant applicants. WhanganuiRegionalMuseum completed a significant piece of work towards their World War I commemorations programme, whilst Corban Estate Arts Centre conducted a review of their trust board.A number of projects are in progress or will be delivered over the next few months. We look forward to bringing you an update on the progress of these projects too.Please note that we are not accepting any further grant applications this financial year. An exception to this is Travel Subsidy Grants for attendance at Museums Aotearoa 2014 only.We will accept applications again from 1 July 2014 for Helping Hands Grants, Travel Subsidy Grants and Professional Development Grants. An announcement of dates for the next contestable Strategic Project Grants round will be made soon after.In the meantime, have a think about your organisation's needs, and get ready to apply from July. Please feel free to contact us if you would like to discuss, or get some advice on, your future grant application. New resources available onlineWe have two new resources available for free download on our website.How to write an exhibition proposal (PDF, 316kB)Tips for making effective labels (PDF, 923kB)Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph CommunityAuckland War Memorial Museum would like all museums and heritage organisations to know about the Cenotaph Community Programme. Their message follows:Kia ora tatou,We would like to let you know about this project and we hope to hear from you if you think that your centenary activity could link at all with our Cenotaph project.Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Community – Supporting regional and national WWI community activitiesWe aim to maximise community engagement with Cenotaph by providing a readymade and flexible service to benefit our national and regional partners such as RSA, libraries, national war memorials, schools, local interest groups, and museums. Realising that resources and needs will vary, our offer will include portable resources, displays and versatile film promotional pieces.The Cenotaph Community Programme will: In collaboration with local partners, set up and host Cenotaph display stands complete with Auckland Museum WWI experts and Cenotaph access points (4–6 per annum over the four-year commemoration period). Visitors keen to share their family history and objects will be welcomed and encouraged to add content to Cenotaph.Provide online resources such as a short film which tells the story of Cenotaph while encouraging engagement. Ideal for partners who would like to share the opportunity via their own website or community programme.Develop a registry of interest – community interest in WWI and Cenotaph will be very high and we would like to ensure that people have a central area to register their interest in Cenotaph online, onsite or offline. This will enable us to keep people informed about upcoming Cenotaph events in their region and online.Cenotaph Community will take the form of a national campaign, online information and support, brochures on site and an expert team at selected events to promote long-term engagement with this vital resource.The local events will promote Cenotaph and encourage online access while also providing people an opportunity to register their interest in attending a future regional event where they can meet a WWI expert, discuss their stories and upload content to Cenotaph.The events are in conjunction with local partners and will respond to local needs. The offer of support may vary from online resources, small display stands or the larger event presence. In summary – we aim to support New Zealand communities and provide a selection of Cenotaph-based programmes to suit their needs.I want to learn more about my family history…I want to share my story...I trust this provides some clarity around Auckland War Memorial Museum WWI commemoration plans. The public will benefit from their connection to a well thought out and welcoming commemoration space, improved access to the wonderful Cenotaph Database and nationwide access via Cenotaph Community.Essential to our funding applications is the need to provide letters which demonstrate a community voice, backing and support. We would be most grateful if you could provide a letter of support, with particular reference to your relationship, experience and connection to WWI, Cenotaph and Auckland War Memorial Museum.If you would like to learn more about Auckland War Memorial Museum's plans please contact Toni Mackinnon, Manager Learning and Engagement, Auckland War Memorial Museum, on firstname.lastname@example.com collection recovery guidesThe Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, has produced All is not lost: the collection recovery book – a guide for disaster planning and recovery.This spiral bound flip-book provides quick, basic instructions on salvaging materials damaged by water, fire, earthquake, insect infestation, or chemicals.The materials covered include books, paper, framed works, photographs, electronic materials, furniture, musical instruments, ceramics, metal and stone, organic materials, plastics, and textiles.We have a number of copies of this excellent book, which we would like to donate as a resource to small museums. We are grateful to the Australian High Commission, whose generous support allows us to supply this resource free of charge.Copies of All is not lost are available on a first come, first served basis, one per museum.Contact us for your free copy of All is not lostPost-earthquake supportOur thoughts are with those affected by the Central New Zealand earthquakes which took place over the weekend. If you have any concerns about your museum or gallery following these earthquakes, we're here to help.If you need any assistance or advice please call freephone 0508 678 743 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Alternatively you can contact your regional Development Officer directly for support.New! He Rauemi Resource Guide 18: Caring for Māori TextilesWe've produced a new resource guide – an update of Caring for Māori Textiles. Our thanks go to Te Papa Conservator Rangi Te Kanawa, who wrote the text, and museum graduate intern Christen McAlpine who managed the project.One free copy of Caring for Māori Textiles has been mailed out to all museums – if you haven't received yours, let us know. Further copies are available for purchase. You can also download this resource guide, and all our others, from our website for free.Download Caring for Māori Textiles (PDF, 3.3MB).Surplus mannequins availableTe Papa has approximately 50 mannequins of various types that they need to remove from stock, and they are offering these to other museums.The mannequins are available on a first in, first served basis, and can be collected 12-28 June.Read the information sheet to find out more about the types of mannequin available.Interested, or want to know more? Contact Hayden Prujean on firstname.lastname@example.com's goodbye from ATTTO, and hello to ServiceIQOn 1 January 2013, the Aviation Tourism Travel Training Organisation (ATTTO), Hospitality Standard Institute (HSI) and Retail Institute joined forces to become ServiceIQ, the ITO for the aviation, hospitality, museum, tourism, travel, retail and wholesale industries. The combined industries provide a wide range of services to both international and domestic visitors, and enhance visitors' experience.Man holding newspaper circa 1935-1939, Kirker, Marion (1879–1971), United Kingdom. Gift of Anne Kirker, 1993. Te Papa There are almost 70,000 businesses in the sectors represented by ServiceIQ, many of them small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs), as well as large national organisations. In 2011, approximately 19 per cent of the New Zealand workforce -362,780 people - were employed fulltime in the service sector. ServiceIQ – 'shorthand' for service industry qualifications that develop smarter people for smarter businesses – aims to have a world class New Zealand service industry through qualified people. By helping to produce a workforce with nationally recognised qualifications who contribute to greater business productivity, and profitability, the ITO will help increase our sector's contribution to the national economy.The sectors ServiceIQ represents contributed approximately $27.4 million to the New Zealand economy in 2011. This is a sizeable contribution of approximately 14 per cent towards national GDP. In addition, the service sector supports one of New Zealand's largest export industries – tourism - which earned approximately $9.7 billion in the year to March 2011.The new organisation will cover the majority of service industries, providing core skills that are transferable across the service sector for all employees and businesses. This promises better outcomes for trainees, such as the ability to transfer their skills, and to receive the better quality training and assessment that a larger-scale organisation will bring. ServiceIQ will become the one central point of contact for service businesses and employees, reducing duplication, administrative and compliance costs for employers.In 2013, ServiceIQ will be looking at how it can better support the on-job delivery of qualifications to ensure they really do make a positive difference and reflect how learning and assessment actually occurs in the workplace. The ITO is making progress on what it will offer as online training– an e-learning package- and looks forward to bringing that into the mix soon.A key benefit of the new ITO is that it will be able to offer a wider range of qualifications, including the vital core skills that are transferrable across the service sector industries it covers. Skills specific to each industry will not be lost either, with the provision of specialist qualifications continuing under the one umbrella.If you are enroled in the National Certificate of Museum Practice, you may notice branding start to change from ATTTO to ServiceIQ, as ATTTO branding is phased out. Otherwise, business as usual.For more information, visit ServiceIQ.org.nzCanterbury Cultural Collections Recovery Centre intern opportunityAs a result of the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010-2011, a number of cultural collections in the region were left damaged and without homes.The Air Force Museum of New Zealand (Christchurch) has dedicated the use of most of a new building, completed in early 2013, to establish the Canterbury Cultural Collections Recovery Centre (CCCRC). The centre will be active for three years to assist organisations that have collections displaced and damaged as a result of the earthquakes with storage, conservation, re-housing, documentation, cataloguing, and training.Many of Canterbury's smaller museums, archives, and heritage groups have lost their premises and have no resources to fund storage. Even when they can find storage, they can't access their collections, records and files. Some don't yet even know what has in fact been salvaged. The CCCRC will provide a venue where they can bring their collections and people together with space and facilities for cataloguing and documentation, preventive conservation, including cleaning, boxing and display preparation. There will be no charge to museums using the space. National Services Te Paerangi (supported by funds from the Friends of Te Papa and OMV Limited) is seeking applications from recent Museum Studies graduates to intern at the CCCRC for a period of 12 months.The successful applicant will have the ability to work flexibly across a wide range of collection focused tasks. Although the position will have a dedicated supervisor, and conservation expertise will be available, the CCCRC intern must be able to work independently with confidence. The CCCRC intern must be prepared to work flexible hours with at least one day per weekend as part of their 5 day week (this is to ensure that volunteer based organisations are able to access and work on their collections).The CCCRC intern must also be able to relate to a wide range of people to ensure that those who are accessing their collections feel supported and respected. The intern will be required to write a monthly blog update for National Services Te Paerangi and must be prepared to speak to visiting interest groups from time to time.This is a fantastic opportunity for a graduate to put into practice a wide range of collection management skills with an enormously diverse range of objects, while developing their knowledge of the museum sector in a collaborative learning environment. The CCCRC internship is only open to graduates of New Zealand based museum studies programmes who have graduated within the last two years. The 12 month internship is expected to begin in April 2013, and has a total stipend of $35,360.00. The intern will be responsible for their own travel and accommodation.To apply please complete the application form and send to email@example.com before 5pm on Monday 25 March 2013. If you have any questions please contact National Services Te Paerangi:email@example.com | 0508 NSTP HELP (0508 678 743)Download the Museum Graduate Internship application form (DOC, 70.5kB)NEW! Video case studies - NSTP grantsWant to learn more about NSTP grants and get some tips from successful past applicants? Then take a look at our new video case studies, where you can learn more about applying for Strategic Project Grants, Helping Hands Grants, and the Expert Knowledge Exchange. We'll be adding more to our video case study collection in future, so stay tuned!Big thanks to our stars – Rowan Carroll of New Zealand Police Museum, Catherine Hammond of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, and Celia Walker of Devonport Museum.View the Expert Knowledge Exchange videoView the Strategic Project Grants videoView the Helping Hands Grants videoNEW! Disaster preparedness posterOur new disaster preparedness posters provide a quick reference guide to help your museum prepare for, respond to, and recover from the impact of a disaster. Your first copy is free – all you have to do is ask!View the disaster preparedness poster (PDF, 906kB) Email us to order your free copy. Remember to include a postal address. You can order additional copies of the poster for $15 each. Posters are A2 size.New resources availableWe've produced four great new resources which are available for free download:Condition Reporting Form template (PDF, 153kB) Nesting an object (PDF, 1.9MB) Applying an accession number (PDF, 540kB) Object entry flow chart (PDF, 163kB)Lighting books for saleFollowing on from our April workshop 'Lighting for the Future', we are pleased to let you know that presenter Kit Cuttle's books Light for Art's Sake and Lighting by Design are available for purchase online.Find out more and place an order. 30% off valuation services at Webb'sNeed a few objects or your whole collection valued? Look no further. We have brokered a deal with Webb's just for you. If you mention this deal when you enquire about valuation with Webb's, you'll receive 30 percent off the overall cost.If you need 15 or fewer items valued, you can send photos and descriptions to Webb's. This reduces the cost because no site visit is necessary. The valuation will be completed and supplied within 10 days. Discounted costs for valuations with no site visit are:1–5 items: $150 + GST6–15 items: $295 + GSTIf Webb's staff think that an item requires a site visit or further inspection, they'll discuss this with you and adapt the quote to suit. For more than 15 items, Webb's recommend a site visit. Visiting does increase the cost, but with 30 percent off, you'll still get a very good deal. For more information:email Brian Wood, Head of Valuations at Webb'sWebb's websitephone (09) 529 5609Powerhouse Museum object name thesaurusPowerhouse Museum in Sydney has developed an extensive object name thesaurus, and has agreed to share it with museums and galleries in New Zealand. This is a great tool for establishing standardised terms for cataloguing collections, and also makes searching a lot easier.Powerhouse Museum object name thesaurusWatch some how-to videos to help you use eHiveeHive have created some easy-to-follow how-to videos. 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Wonderful place for a family – My family stayed here the weekend before Christmas to get some shopping in at Great Lakes outlet mall. With a large suite with flat panel TV with games and movies, and the pool, my wife was able to distract the kids while I went santa shopping the first day. The staff was pleasent in all of our encounters with them, often taking the time to engage our 6 year old. The breakfast was good (however, the price was not McDonalds-ish) and our stay was relaxing. I undersand they are about to renovate so we will be back next year.
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Cellar/Tasting Notes The 2012 Sierra Mar is amazingly big and elegant at the same time. It shows herbal sagebrush and violet notes with deep undertones of molasses and lifted hints of graphite. On the palate, violets and black fruit are supported by a toasty-peppery structure. As the palate opens, brighter red fruit..
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While her classmates were relaxing this summer, Monticello senior Samantha Yarbrough was running every day. In all, she ran more than 300 miles in just a few months.
Her training has allowed her to jump from twentieth to second on the Monticello cross-country depth chart. "I was running every day over the summer, every day in the off-season, and just keeping it up and pushing myself every day," Yarbrough says of her summer training schedule.
The senior has also taken about six minutes off her 5K time in the last two years. Monticello cross-country coach Doug Bloor has seen the improvement firsthand. "I think it goes back to her maturity and her thought process in her being an athlete," says Bloor. "She knows, 'if I'm going to get better, I have to do X, Y, and Z.' She's done those things, and it's paid off."
After taking up the sport as a sophomore, Yarbrough says she hit a road block last year. "I was anemic, severely anemic, so I took iron pills and took care of myself first. I think that's really what's brought out my full potential. My anemia was holding me back, but now this year I feel like I have something to prove."
Yarbrough has already proven herself in the classroom. She's earned a 4.6 grade point average, and she's a member four different honors societies. She says her favorite is math, which isn't surprising for someone who enjoys the challenges of cross-country running.
"She is very serious internally, but she just has this great demeanor at practice that's fun and that is motivating," Bloor said. "It can make everyone, the kids and the coaches, laugh. She really can balance that out."
For college next year, Yarbrough is looking at UVa and also the University of Georgia. Wherever she ends up, she says she plans to keep running in college and after. "I've run a bunch of 5Ks, and there's 40-year-olds who are beating 20-year-olds, and I kind of want to be that person. I want to say, 'yeah, I beat someone less than half my age.'"
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Image and text © 1985-2002, Australian Astronomical Observatory, Photograph by David Malin.
Image is about 40 degrees wide.
This is a long exposure (about an hour) made with an ordinary camera and colour film. It shows a crowded and dusty stretch of the southern Milky Way, centred on Scorpius. The bright yellow star Antares, in the body of the scorpion is at upper right and its stinging tail extends to the two close blue stars at centre left.
The plane of our galaxy, the Milky Way, runs roughly NE to SW across the middle of the picture, which is about 40 degrees across. At the extreme centre-left (in Sagittarius) lies the direction of the nucleus of the Galaxy, unseen behind dense clouds of dust. Filling the middle of the picture is a large but indistinct dark, almost sperical structure, seen only because it hides stars beyond it. This structure suggests an irregular inflated bubble, as though dust had been sent billowing from some central point by a gigantic wind. Of course this may be the origin of what we see here, with a hot stars providing the wind but it may also be a chance alignment of shreds of dust that criss-cross this part of the sky and congregate along the line of sight.
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AAT 28. Wide angle view of The southern Milky Way
MISC 9. The southern Milky Way from Crux to Carina
MISC 21. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
MISC 20. Comet Halley hanging in the Milky Way in 1986
Constellation of Scorpius (external site)
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To be perfectly honest, I bought a new PC with the prospect of Final Fantasy XIV being on the horizon, the other PC games I've picked up until now have just been bonus. But to get to the main point, if I had known that Final Fantasy XIV was going to be this terrible at launch, I would have abstained from buying a PC in the first place, though I suppose that means I would have missed out on some great PC titles released recently like Starcraft 2. Now you might be thinking that I could have just waited for the PS3 version, but after seeing how Final Fantasy XI went down for PS2 users I figured I would rather play day one. Though that seems like a huge mistake, considering that state that Final Fantasy XIV has entered the market. There is plenty here not to like, and you've got to wonder what Square Enix was thinking in putting this title out there especially when you have a fan-base that is as dedicated and rabid as Final Fantasy. After a good month with the game, it'll be hard for Square Enix to undo the damage this shoddy launch has caused.
To get the good stuff out of the way, which is not how I want to discuss this review, we'll start with the visuals. This game has a lot of beautiful vistas, and the world of Eorzea is a fascinating place. The only problem is that it has a lot of areas that are recycled, and it's terribly obvious while running through the Black Shroud forests. There are many other areas where this is almost blatant, but lets just say that a lot of caves look the same. Perhaps for the starting areas this is the case while the higher level zones contain a greater variety on landscape. It seems like a little thing to pick on but when you're running from Gridania (the city of the forest) to either Limsa Lominsa or Ul'dah and you see the same cave/ramp structure at least 3 times it's hard not to notice.What is also surprising is how poorly this game can run at times. I'm able to get 30+ fps on a GTX 260, but that's with effects turned off. Granted this is a card that is slightly below recommended specs but on a quad core with plenty of RAM? While we're on the subject of hardware, why can I not play this game in full screen when I have two monitors? I have to either set this game to 1920 x 1080 to fill the screen within a window, or I play 1280 x 720 in windowed mode. Attempting to run the game in full screen at 1280 x 720 full screen doesn't even give me an error, it just fails to work, so I have to turn off my second monitor to get proper full screen. The audio works quite well, with some good voice acting and music that is sufficient. Though the soundtrack is kind of minimalistic with only a handful of tracks being used for a variety of events.
The story starts out as an interesting hook that will keep you wanting to slog through levels in order to unravel more of the game's tale. Starting in each town gives a different story where your character is in the midst of some strange happenings. I chose Gridania, where my presence has angered the spirits of the woods, and I must do my part, along with some curious visitors, to cleanse myself to prevent entities of the woods from attacking me again. I'm currently between story segments which currently unfold every five levels, and this latest grind to get me to level fifteen has been nothing short of agonizing. Even with a linkshell the leveling system makes it much more difficult to advance than Final Fantasy XI. The most common way to level up is through a series of jobs picked up at a guild, where these jobs are referred to as leves, why? I have no idea, why not just call them, missions, or jobs? Anyway to get back on point, you travel from camp to camp out in the wild and you sync up at the camp to perform the job, then you've got thirty minutes to finish the task. Sometimes you're hunting specific enemies, other times you are mining or fishing, or chopping at trees to gain materials. At the very least it is much easier to change jobs this time around, just put a piece of equipment in to your hand and the job switches. If you're an archer like me, then hitting enemies will level your character, or if you're a weaver or carpenter creating items will level you up. There is basic experience to determine your stats and job specific experience will determine the skills available to you. The flaw here is that you will not always get skill points when performing actions, unlike crafting classes which always provide experience. The other problem is that if you're in a party you only gain experience when your actions are successful. So if you're not doing much damage, or are missing you will not level up more frequently. This problem is only compounded by the uncanny abilities of mobs to avoid shots more than 50% of the time. While I will admit this number is unfounded, it certainly feels like that is the percentage, even with gear intended to increase my accuracy I still saw that enemies evaded or I missed more often than not. To really add insult to injury there is currently a bug that causes enemies to properly tag to your character, which will allow enemies to regenerate HP as if they were not fighting you. The game has been online for over a month and this issue has existed since beta, and it remains unfixed as of this writing.
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Le Creuset cookware is famous for its superb craftsmanship and inventive use of color. Its enamel-on-steel line heats up quickly for high performance. So whether you're boiling water for pasta, blanching vegetables, or preparing soups or stocks, this all-purpose lightweight stockpot makes marked contribution to your cookware collection.
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The housing recovery could be about to pay off in some new jobs.
Goldman Sachs economists, in a new report this week, forecast that residential investment-related employment growth should pick up this year and next, and could start to add jobs at a pace of 25,000 to 30,000 per month, compared to the average 14,000 per month of the last year.
"Even at this faster rate, it will take many years before housing-related employment attains its prior highs," they noted.
Layoffs in construction and other housing-related jobs were deeper than in other industries, and jobs have been slower to come back despite the improvement in housing activity, according to the report. "Although many indicators of housing activity improved during 2012, employment in the sector remains close to post-bubble lows," they added.
(Read More: Economy Adds Another 157,000 Jobs in January)
Residential construction lost 1.5 million jobs, or 42 percent from the 2006 peak to trough in early 2011. Since the trough, only 100,000 have been replaced.
When adding in housing-related employment in manufacturing, wholesale trade, retailing and finance and real estate, employment dropped by 2.8 million, or 31 percent. Only 300,000 of those jobs have been restored since the trough.
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"Labor hoarding" may also be a factor contributing tot he slow pace of hiring. That is a pattern of declining productivity during a downturn when employers are reluctant to fire workers at a pace equal to their decline in sales. The result is slower hiring when sales pick up.
This phenomena should be waning, they noted, and at the same time hours per worker in the construction industry now exceeds pre-crisis highs, signal of future hiring.
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WATERVILLE — Fire tore through the upper floors of a downtown building Friday, damaging two shops on the first floor and leaving three apartment tenants homeless.
A building in downtown Waterville burns Friday afternoon. The fire on the upper floors of the Main Street building between Silver and Spring streets was reported around 4 p.m.
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A building in downtown Waterville burns Friday afternoon. The fire on the upper floors of the Main Street building, between Silver and Spring streets, was reported around 4 p.m.
Photo by Robert Koenig
Firefighters from four departments raced to the scene, where flames were shooting out of third- and fourth-floor windows and fire was ravaging wooden porches and fire escapes on the back of the building.
The four-story brick building on lower Main Street houses the tattoo shop INK-4-LIFE as well as Top Dog Wireless.
INK-4-LIFE owners Bill and Mona Juliano, both 38, said they think the fire started on a third-floor porch at the rear of the building, where a tenant was cooking on a grill.
"Her propane tank blew up," Bill Juliano said. "It caught fire somehow," Mona Juliano added.
Fire Chief David LaFountain did not confirm that report, but he said all aspects were being investigated and the State Fire Marshal's Office was on the scene, helping to determine the cause of the fire.
John Weeks owns the building, which bears a brick saying it was built in 1924. Travis Corson, the building's fourth-floor tenant, was standing across Main Street, tears streaming down his cheeks as he watched the building burn. Friends were giving him hugs.
"All my dad's pictures, my grandfather's stuff is gone," he said. "All my clothes. I don't know what I'm going to do."
It was around 4 p.m. when firefighters, police and spectators converged on downtown, black smoke rolling out of windows on the burning building's upper floors.
More than 30 firefighters from Waterville, Winslow, Oakland and Fairfield fought the blaze from the roof, from inside the building, on the ground and perched atop ladder trucks all around the building, the back of which faces Spring Street Extension.
They even climbed to the fourth floor of a building across the alley that houses Silver Street Tavern and put a hose through a window to shoot water toward the burning building.
Earlier, fire had leapt across the alley and burned some wooden window frames on the Silver Street building, which is owned by Charlie Giguere, according to LaFountain.
Police closed Main, Temple and Silver streets to traffic and firefighters laid hose down all streets surrounding the fire. Authorities evacuated businesses along Silver Street, including the Silver Street Tavern, The Last Unicorn restaurant and Cancun Mexican Restaurant. Power was shut off to those buildings.
There were no reports of injuries.
The building is just north of, and connected to, the former Waterville Hardware building, which was the site of a fire in the 1980s and now is unoccupied and owned by Angelo Shanos.
Shanos, who has done renovations to the building, stood on the sidewalk, watching as firefighters worked. He said a thick brick wall separates his building from the one that was burning, so he did not think his building was damaged.
Mayor Karen Heck rode her bicycle downtown after hearing about the fire. She said she was relieved that nobody was hurt.
"I really appreciate the firefighters' ability to contain it to one building," she said. "I'm grateful that they got here so quickly."
She was talking to police Chief Joseph Massey, whose entire crew was downtown. The fire started when police were changing shifts, and they were all able to respond.
Police Detective David Caron was on scene, talking to people in the street. Fire Lt. Scott Holst said firefighters did a good job stopping the fire from spreading to other buildings.
"It was scary at first, though, because this is downtown and everything is so close," he said.
Firefighters emerging from the building, hot and covered with soot and fire debris, sat down on curbs along the street and drank water from bottles before returning to the building.
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Firefighters spray water on a building on fire in downtown Waterville on Friday afternoon. The block is between Spring and Silver streets.
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Main Street in Waterville is closed as firefighters work in an alley to extinguish fires in the facing building Friday afternoon.
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Crowds gather on Main Street in downtown Waterville on Friday afternoon as a building burns between Spring and Silver streets.
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On our third day in Cuba we took a trip organized by our hotel up into the Sierra Maestra mountains. There were a few different legs to the excursion, the first of which was a stop at around the halfway mark to get our bearings and snap a few photos of the view. It also served as a welcome break from the insane drive which involved our driver racing our van against another van, narrowly passing in some very extreme conditions and taking roller coaster turns on a road with almost nothing between our vehicle and a very long drop down the side of the mountain. Most of us hung onto our seats with our hearts in our mouths. Others felt sick but no one threw up. Did I mention there were no seat belts?
We stopped at a schoolhouse where a group of farmers were setup along a short wall selling fruit and handicrafts. I bought a red necklace made from seeds, 2 shell rings, and a fresh cacao pod. Cacao is the fruit that chocolate is made from. It grows on a tree but looks like a squash on the outside and is filled with beans on the inside that are transformed into delicious chocolate. I can't tell you how thrilled I was to see the cacao pod sitting among little bananas and green-skinned oranges. It was quite an unexpected surprise! Tasting fresh cacao directly from the pod is on a list of life experiences that I hope to have before I die. I have seen and held a dried, whole cacao on a few occasions and I have tasted whole, roasted cacao beans but I have never seen a fresh, recently picked cacao pod. And it only cost 25 cents!
I took it back into the van with me pleased that I was finally going to get the chance to scratch that item off my list. My fellow passengers were all curious about the strange squash-like fruit I had purchased. I was so distracted by the thrill of it all that I forget to take pictures. The photos you see here were taken later in the day only minutes before the sun went down.
Later that afternoon I took the pod with me to the hotel restaurant and cut it open with a bread knife. This is what I found inside.
I'm not sure why — perhaps it is due to my love of chocolate — but I had always imagined the insides soft, luscious, and fragrant. I imagined that opening a cacao pod would be sort of like opening up a passionfruit; dry on the outside but with a fragrant and unusually sensual inside. Perhaps other cacao pods are like that, but mine was quite dry, the pulp stringy and alien-like. It did not look appetizing. It did not smell like much at all.
I pulled out a bean and we all had a taste. Raw cacao tastes incredibly acrid, bitter and entirely unpleasant, akin to chewing on a pink eraser For Big Mistakes. Having eaten roasted beans I can see how that acrid, bitter taste would be transformed by the proper processing; this process involves fermenting, drying and roasting the beans. Unfortunately I would never get a chance to see my pod through those stages because I was not allowed to bring any natural materials (plant matter, shells, rocks, sand, fauna, etc) back from our trip. In the end, raw cacao was not what I expected but I could care less about the outcome. It was an exciting experience and something I can scratch off The List!


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Hi Guys,
perhaps somebody can help me with this question that is really hard to figure out.
I have a project made with director 11 that use some quick time videos(H264). Pubblishing the .app the project is ok. Instead if I export html and .dcr file, the .mov doesn't show up. I can hear audio, I can use interactive buttons, but the video is totally black.
To figure out I tried to put the URL in the internet button under the filename of the member tab. Also I tried to preload the movie using the following script but nothing.
Have you any ideas?
property pURLString -- the URL o the asset to preload
property pNetMember -- the cast member to assign the URL to
-- Attach this behavior to a frame script or sprite.
-- This behavior preloads a user-specified URL string and
-- stores a reference to it in a global variable.
-- The status of the global variable needs to be checked with
-- netDone(_global.netID)to be sure the asset is loaded.
-- Ken Loge - http://dreamsteep.com
on getPropertyDescriptionList me
list = [:]
addProp list, #pURLString, [#comment: "URL of asset to preload:", #format: #string, #default: "http://dreamsteep.com/dreamedia/mov/Expand-Colors-1.mov"]
addProp list, #pNetMember, [#comment: "Cast Member to assign the URL to:", #format: #member, #default: "Video1"]
return list
on exitFrame me
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Are you running the DCR locally or off a website? If local, then you should put all files into a folder called 'dswmedia'. When running Shockwave with external material, a dswmedia folder is required for security reasons.
If the file is running on the web, you could try link the video cast member to the URL.
Thank you very much, Dean , for your answer. I am running locally. Anyway I think there is some other bug, because it doesn't work creating the dswmedia. Before I post this question I searched a solution reading a lot of posts and there were people couldn't figure out with this problem. Perhaps is something in my project that doesn't like to shockwave. I really don't know. Thank you very much again and regards for you tutorial and your web site.
Elisabetta - have you tried the files on another computer?
Is this with Director 11 or 11.5?
It could be that the Xtra has not downloaded.
- Go to Modify > Movie > Xtras
- Click on the AQAsset
- Make sure the Download if Needed is checked. Perhaps uncheck it and then reselect it.
- Save and republish.
Hi Dean,
I work on Director 11. I've looked for the AQAsset but I haven't found it.
The xtra for quicktime in my MAC are:
QuickTime6 Asset ( even if I use quicktime 7)
QuickTimeAgent (i can't check Download if Needed)
Quicktime asset option (i can't check Download if Needed)
I have searched for AQAsset on web but I haven't found any information
What do you think?
Thank you very much,
Hi Elizabeth,
I meant QT6Asset not AQAsset which was a typo. Reason it is it is QT6 is because that's the last version of the QT Xtra developed. If you want to contact me direct, maybe I can look at your video and see what's happening. My contact is email@example.com


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In team competition, Memphis walked away with the win in both the air rifle and smallbore events. Columbus State took second and North Georgia took third, while staying very close in the air rifle event. Saints contributing to the team totals were freshmen Casadie Bragg, Cadet Kyle Bailey, Sara Howell, and sophomore team captain Cadet Luke Duncan.
In the individual standings, Bragg took third on a tie-breaker behind two Memphis shooters with an excellent 583/600 score, well above her average and only 6 points below her school record set a week earlier.
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After graduating from law school in 1993, where she was on the staff of the Cornell Law Review, Cynthia Bond worked as a research associate for a solo practitioner in Ithaca, New York, while also serving as a volunteer staff attorney for Neighborhood Legal Services, a public interest law office. From 1994-1995, she was a solo practitioner in Ithaca, focusing on family law for low-income clients. From 1995-1999, she was an associate with True, Walsh & Miller, where her practice areas included litigation, domestic relations, and real estate. From 1999-2004, Professor Bond was on the faculty of Cornell Law School, where she taught a first-year legal writing class, as well as a seminar on law and film.
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