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My Favourite Five
Where are the sonnets devoted to hands? Perhaps they're just too ordinary. But maybe, that's what makes them so special after all.
My youngest, little Holly, turns five this year.
I feel like we're only just getting to know each other but school beckons - a new world of friends and lessons and classrooms that I will only ever visit.
It's a special time when we will both navigate some unfamiliar and slightly unnerving territory - hand in hand.
So much of parenting, and life for that matter, comes down to hands. Yet no one ever seems to talk about them or even look at them, except when you get engaged, let alone write about them.
Where are the sonnets devoted to fingers? And the romantic lexicon is virtually silent when it comes to our hard-working hands.
Perhaps they're just too ordinary, too plain. But that's what makes them so special to me.
Counters, clickers, caressers and sadly on occasion violent abusers. We use our hands to write, cook, throw, tear and to lift, touch or smooth.
Time is measured in increments of five, reflecting the vital role of finger counting on the development of the contemporary concept of time.
We clap with them when we're happy, we wring them when we're worried, sit on them when we can't keep still and rub them together when we're cold.
The same fingers that sign peace treaties and end wars can just as simply pull a trigger on a gun or detonate a missile.
Delicate enough to detect a single strand of hair or a grain of sand those same fingers can haul suitcases or swing a sledgehammer through its destructive arc.
I loved watching all my children discover their fingers. Their amazement at how these funny five digits could be opened and shut with nothing more than a thought.
My Dad had huge, sausage-like fingers.
Hands one patient told him looked more suited to boxing than surgery. But my memory of them is that they were always warm and kind.
They enveloped my hand when I was little and I never, ever remember them being raised in anger.
He used to practice writing with his left hand just in case he ever lost the use of his right-hand side.
In the end, the cancer that took him so swiftly paid no heed to his big hands or his even bigger heart.
Holly is left handed. Something of a rarity in our family.
Sometimes, as I watch her battle with scissors or get cross at her smudged colouring-in, I wonder if my Dad didn't play some small role in sending her to us – even though he never met her.
He never stroked her impossibly soft skin or walked hand in hand with her through the park, following her insistent lead to inspect insects and flowers or just marvel at the world.
I know the day will come when she won't slip her little fingers into mine as we walk into school.
When our farewells will be shouted through car windows or across slamming doors. But I'll still wave and maybe even blow a kiss and I hope she'll manage some brief gesture. A slightly raised hand and the ever so subtle wiggle of fingers that I see the other teens do.
My own hands seem unimaginably old to me. They seem to have aged faster than the rest of me but I feel like they've worked harder too.
I wonder where Holly's busy little fingers will take her.
I wonder who she'll hold hands with and whether somewhere off in an only imagined future someone small will someday slip their soft, little fingers into her hand as they walk side by side into the first day of school.
By Catherine Low.
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Plan you seminars in Etretat
Seminars and meetings
Give your employees an extraordinary working environment in the middle of the countryside. To host your seminars and work meetings at Etretat in Normandy, the Le Donjon Domaine Saint Clair à Étretat offers three comfortable, fully equipped lounges with sea views, and a library.
- Intimate and cosy, the Créateurs lounge overlooks Etretat, its cliffs and the sea.
- More spacious, the Monet lounge opens onto the village, sea and patio.
- The Ivoire lounge offers untrammelled views of the sea and valley.
- Plush atmosphere and fireplace in the library lounge.
Around the Domaine, we offer a wide range of activities to motivate your teams and promote bonding, such as oenology workshops, cookery lessons, a guided tour of Etretat or sports activities such as an adventure trail, introduction to golf, a horse ride or a game of tennis…
The Le Donjon Domaine Saint Clair à Étretat offers packages including:
- Hire of plenary rooms and breakout rooms
- Meals
- Coffee breaks
- Tailor-made incentives
- Accommodation
Please contact us - we will be delighted to respond to any requests and offer you a complete, tailor-made package.
Our lounges also have the following facilities:
- Flipchart
- Screen
- Video projector
- Internet access
- Direct telephone
- Other equipment can be hired on request
- DVD player
- Free Wi-Fi
- On request: photocopies, fax and other equipment
Restaurant Etretat
Discover delicious flavours at a table in our gourmet restaurant in Etretat, rated "3 forks in the Michelin Guide", a leading establishment in the region. Lunch or dine with family or friends in a cosy atmosphere with a wonderful sea view. On the menu: local cuisine, traditional dishes revisited, and a menu that changes with the seasons. According to what produce is available at the market, our chef gives free rein to his inspiration, to transform the ingredients into sublime dishes and awaken your taste buds, with special emphasis on seafood. Between March and October, our chef works with fruit, vegetables and herbs from our vegetable garden of 350 m2: a real privilege and a guarantee of sublime, authentic taste in your plates.
Receptions and weddings
Weddings, birthdays, communion meals, cocktail parties… the Le Donjon Domaine Saint Clair à Étretat in Etretat, Normandy opens its doors to you, to ensure your private events are a special time full of magic moments to share with your family or friends.
At the heart of the estate, the patio has old-style paving and is decorated in keeping with 19th-century tradition, making it the ideal place for your cocktails parties. One of the restaurant rooms can also be hired privately for meals. For events of over 80 people, the Domaine can be yours for a day - in this small Anglo-Norman style castle, welcome your family, friends and loved ones as if you were at home.
Enjoyment and socialising with your guests are an essential part of a successful wedding. Our team will bring you the benefit of all its experience, to offer you a sophisticated event and an upmarket service to meet your every desire - for unforgettable moments in a unique, timeless place.
A turnkey solution including everything from advice through wedding planning to the choice of service providers, with whom the Domaine has been working for many years.
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Today's free and discounted apps bring some great deals, including up to $20 off on top SLP therapy apps! There are 13 free apps on today's list, too. It's definitely one to share with your friends, so everyone can save $123!
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Leo's Pad Enrichment Program for Preschoolers
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The Leo's Pad Enrichment Program for Preschoolers is an award-winning adaptive-learning series in which your child will join a young Leonardo da Vinci and his friends on big adventures filled with exciting games woven into the stories. For the best experience, pair Leo's Pad Enrichment Program with Learner Mosaic, our free parenting app for the iPhone.
Prepositions by Teach Speech Apps
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Prepositions by Teach Speech Apps helps develop the skills needed to understand the relationship between other words in a sentence. Create grammatically correct sentences by working with positional / directional concepts and locators in time and place.
Bedtime Defenders Interactive Storybook HD
iPad/iPhone - $1.99 to FREE
In the darkness, something stirs beneath Simon's bed. Who will protect him but the Bedtime Defenders, a motley crew of unlikely heroes called from the ranks of Simon's favorite toys. With their help, Simon summons the strength to conquer whatever may be lurking in the shadows.
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Explore countries around the world, and see famous places with Bubbles and friends! Complete each level with correct answers to earn a reward.
Nico Explore your Bathroom - Potty Time
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Now you have a great ally to teach your kids to take their first steps in self-care activities and help them create healthy hygiene habits. Feel confident while your child is learning in a friendly environment imagined and designed with love to improve their personal development.
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In playing Table Talk, players are given an opportunity to explore some of life's big and not-so-big questions, articulate their views, and to engage with the opinions of others. Table Talk for Students explores the following issues: Relationships, Identity, Injustice, Purpose, Wellbeing and Choices.
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In playing Table Talk, players are given an opportunity to explore some of life's big and not-so-big questions, articulate their views, and to engage with the opinions of others. Over six sessions Table Talk for Christmas encourages players to mull over the themes and spirit of Christmas.
iPad/iPhone - $6.99 to FREE
Our applications are designed with the individual and their unique needs in mind. urTalker comes with default categories and images and provides the ability to create any number of additional categories, load any type of image and most importantly record your voice for use with those images and words.
iPad/iPhone - $24.99 to $9.99
urTalker Pro is a fully featured communication app for individuals with speech and communication disabilities. This communication app comes with fully customizable grid or "board" style views for categories and words allowing the user to grow with the app with their own pictures.
iPad/iPhone - $3.99 to $1.99
Your children learn by interacting with the world. Chili Fish gives them the opportunity to experiment, create, and discover new possibilities, all while having fun. Children who play Chili Fish feel empowered to imagine, create, and learn. Your child will be amazed at the huge variety of interactive possibilities!
Four little corners - An interactive storybook app about friendship
iPad/iPhone - $2.99 to $.99
An interactive story that teaches values such as friendship, integration and equality through geometric forms that arouse sympathy and emotion. Ideal to start a conversation about equality with children.
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"Petites Choses" is a game for 2 year old kids. They explore a poetic world with original mini-games, searching for keys that will release a small bird from its cage. With "Petites Choses" your children enjoy the mini games, they discover surprises scattered throughout the scene, are captivated by the ambient poetry, while pursuing the main goal: see the little bird fly happily through the landscape.
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Explore planets, stars, and galaxies with Bubbles and friends! Complete each level with correct answers to earn a reward.
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Learn about ocean animals, and find hidden pirate treasure with Bubbles and friends! Complete each level with correct answers to earn a reward.
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Kido Magic Finger is an exciting and fun app exclusively developed for kids. By making full use of the fingerprints that children left on the screen, children can interact with fingerprint creatures, at the same time, learn useful words. This game can promote the language development and hand-eye coordination of children, inspiring them to explore the real world in an innovative and entertaining way.
Sports Reading Comprehension for Boys and Girls Age 9-11
iPad/iPhone - $2.99 to FREE
Sports Reading Comprehension is the most advanced reading comprehension tool in the App Store. Designed for students looking for an advantage in solidifying their reading and understanding skills:
• This collection of 10 original sports stories was written specifically for this app • Read and test your comprehension with a variety of questions about the selected passages
Paul Rabbit and the Painting Contest - Easter Story with Coloring Tool
iPad/iPhone - $1.99 to FREE
In this charming and easy-to-follow Easter story (54 pages), your child will help out Paul Rabbit, a furry farmer who needs lots of eggs for the egg painting contest. Designed with very young readers in mind, this seasonal treat will help your child become a better reader in no time.
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Make My Family is an exciting and powerful Tablet App. It allows users to create beautiful, personalised cartoon versions of themselves and their family and friends. Make My Family's creations can be used on social media profiles or printed out to create fun personalised greetings cards and posters.
iPad only - $19.99 to $12.99
The Auditory Memory Ride app is a comprehensive and fun app for students aged six to 13 with central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) or other related disorders (e.g., receptive language disorder or autism). The Auditory Memory Ride app includes over 1000 stimuli with pre-recorded audio and the ability to introduce background noise. The app includes both recognition and recall tasks with the ability to delay the presentation of the stimuli.
iPad only - $29.99 to $19.99
The Real Vocabulary app includes over 1500 pictures and over 5000 pre-recorded audio. The pro version of the app and the All Words in - app program allow the users to add their own words, pictures and audio recordings, making therapy more individualized and allowing school speech therapists to add their own curriculum based vocabulary.
iPad only - $36.99 to $24.99
The Articulation Carnival app is a comprehensive and flexible articulation program to practice pronunciation of ALL English phonemes at the word, phrase, and sentence levels. The app includes thousands of photos and prerecorded audio stimuli. It allows speech therapists to edit targeted words and to add their own photos and audio recordings.
iPad only - $26.99 to $19.99
The Apraxia RainbowBee app is a multi-step, multi-modality program with colorful graphic, photo, audio, and video targets and fun engaging games. The program is designed to help enhance motor planning for children with an apraxic component that impacts their speech production.
iPad/iPhone - $29.99 to $9.99
The Comprehension Aphasia app was created by a certified speech and language pathologist for adults and children, and it focuses on auditory comprehension of increasingly longer and complex yes-no- questions and directions with the ability to turn on background noise.
iPad only - $29.99 to $19.99
Auditory Processing Studio was created by a certified speech and language pathologist for adults and children ages 7 and up who exhibit Central Auditory Processing Disorder or other auditory processing disorders. This research-based app implements the bottom-top approach to treatment of auditory processing disorders
Exploring Braille with Madilyn and Ruff
iPad only - $3.99 to FREE
The Exploring Braille App was created to introduce young children with visual impairments to the Braille alphabet through a fun interactive, multi-sensory approach. The multi-sensory Braille/Print approach also allows users of all sight levels to learn together, providing opportunities for socialization through learning.
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Jail awaits fire glass faker
Fire-safe glass is typically rated in minutes, and describes the amount of time the glass can withstand fire and heat damage before failing. The purpose of fire-rated glass is not to prevent fire from spreading, but rather to increase the amount of time available for building occupants to make a safe escape. In addition, fire-rated safety glass uses special framing that is matched to the fire resistance of the glazing.
The fake fire glass is actually ordinary laminated glass, which can be purchased for around $1-$2 per square foot. After re-labeling it as fire-related glass, the company resold it for $18 – $33 per square foot. Prosecutors are not aware of any injuries that could be attributed to the phony glass.
The company sold the glass for about two years, and prosecutors claim that owner Seamus Laverty made about $175,000 in profits on the fraud. The judge noted that while his profits were not outrageous, the potential danger he created and the environments in which he placed the inadequate glass demanded a sentence that included jail time.
The investigation conducted by the Police Service of Northern Ireland relied on dozens of building contractors who assisted in identifying the affected glass. To date, the agency has identified nearly 100 sites where the glass was installed. Police estimate that the final cost of the fraud, which has yet to be confirmed, exceeds $600,000. The company has already begun replacing the laminated glass with genuine fire-rated safety glass.
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Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Therapy is a current skin rejuvenating treatment sometimes known as the Vampire Facial. PRP earned the informal nickname "Vampire Facial" as the treatment itself uses the patient's own blood, therefore making the treatment 100% safe and natural! This treatment has gained a lot of media attention because of its popularity amongst celebrities and its sensational nickname. Many clients who come into our clinic do not know much about the power of PRP but have heard of its daring nickname and age rewinding qualities in the media and magazines. This blog is aimed at supplying you with all the facts about PRP and explaining the many ways in which it can be used!
PRP therapy was first developed, used and validated for orthopedic surgery with a body of clinical literature accumulated over more than thirty years.
Originally PRP was first formulated and authenticated for orthopedic surgery and has over 30 years worth of studies and clinical literature supporting the effectiveness of PRP. However, PRP treatments have now been adopted into the cosmetic surgery industry to treat a wide variety of concern areas, ranging from a client's face, neck, décolletage, hands, breasts, nipples and even sexual organs and hair loss! Yes, you heard it- PRP is used to help enhance sexual function and much more!
PRP works by extracting patients own the healing platelets from their blood plasma and re-injecting it into their body to enhance healing. Platelets are tiny blood cells that are important in the clotting process. As the clot is produced, the platelets releases enzymes, which stimulates healing that plays a major a role in tissue regeneration by attracting stem cells at aid in the repair of a damaged area. Much like the medical purpose and procedure, this the same process used in the vampire facials and other PRP aesthetic treatments. The patient's own blood is drawn, treated and then the platelet-rich plasma is injected into their face and or other treated area. Injections are made into strategic areas to encourage skin healing and renewal through new collagen production and fresh skin cells full of human growth factors. This increase in collagen and growth factors creates a more youthful, plumper, and firmer appearing skin and to increase sensitivity to sexual organs.
As PRP is all natural and gathered from within our bodies, most individuals are ideal candidates for this treatment. One important thing all patients must note is that the healthier the patient is, the better the treatment will work. PRP is not recommended for smokers due to their decreased platelet activity. However, PRP is a great and successful treatment for anyone with the following concerns…
PRP treatments require little recovery time. There may be redness and some tenderness on the first day that appears and some occasional bruising. However, the initial redness will subside by the second day or third day. Some patients can experience some swelling and craping of the skin by the second day, however, this should diminish within twenty-four to forty-eight hours.
Although this treatment can have slight side effects post-treatment, most of the time these symptoms are minor and require no significant downtime. Most of our patients are able to go back to their regular daily activities after their treatment.
After initial treatments, 1 to 2 treatments will be required annually for maintenance
Treatments vary from $399 to $1199 depending on what area is treated and other treatments are used in conjunction with PRP. You can click the button below for see our list of PRP treatments available at Chique.
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Atiim Home > News Room > Atiim Launches Pulse OKR ™ Industry's First Enterprise Goals Management SaaS Platform Which Unifies a 2-in-1 Ongoing Performance Management with Enterprise OKR Goals
Atiim Launches Pulse OKR ™ Industry's First Enterprise Goals Management SaaS Platform Which Unifies a 2-in-1 Ongoing Performance Management with Enterprise OKR Goals
Atiim provides a platform for CEOs, managers at all levels, and employees, to align efforts to the top corporate objectives that matter most; and to track progress and manage goals on an ongoing basis through lite Pulse check-ins. This allows for two-way closed-loop feedback, effectively integrating goals metrics and qualitative pulse questions to add greater depth and context to the overall progress made by the employee.
Atiim Inc. (pronounced: "A-team"), the innovative enterprise goals and performance management SaaS solution, today has released Pulse OKR, it's latest innovation, and another industry-first, integrating enterprise goals management with ongoing performance management in a single, unified platform.
"Atiim is a great product that helps me and our executives clearly understand what goals we all need to focus on and stay aligned. This helps us execute more effectively and efficiently as a team," said Michael Monteiro, CEO at Buildium, a provider of property management software.
The new innovative Pulse OKR product is based on Atiim's True Goal Hierarchy TM technology architecture that allows not only every employee but also departments and teams to be assigned shared goals. Individuals can align their goals with these shared or top organizational goals so that everyone can see how their work is connected to, and impacting, team, department and company progress.
According to research published in Harvard Business Review (HBR) by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of, or do not understand, its strategy. And other studies recently published in HBR found that nearly 70% of managers are uncomfortable communicating with employees in general while approximately 57% of employees complain that their managers don't give clear directions.
By uniquely addressing these key challenges simultaneously, Atiim has created a breakthrough SaaS solution that improves company-wide alignment. Pulse OKR brings clarity to the objectives everyone must focus on, improves internal communication, enables data-driven management of employees, and therefore improves performance and results.
"Setting OKR goals is easy, but attaining then company-wide is very hard. With Pulse OKR, Atiim reinvents modern performance management by unifying and integrating a 2-in-1 solution that combines goals with ongoing feedback, which better aligns everyone at the company to drive far better results", said Zorian Rotenberg, Founder and CEO at Atiim. "In doing so, we provide companies with a new technology for managing their people, making it easy to drive better progress and also to intercept issues before they turn into roadblocks. We help keep everyone executing effectively and efficiently towards the company's top goals."
Atiim's solution makes managers at all levels more effective. The solution also measures individual engagement anonymously so that managers have insight into team and overall organizational engagement.
For a live demo and more information about Atiim, visit here.
About Atiim Software Atiim is an innovative 2-in-1 unified and integrated ongoing performance management and OKR (Objectives and Key Results) goals management platform. To address today's challenges that organizations of all sizes face with setting clear goals, aligning teams, and improving performance and results, Atiim is pioneering a new level of Performance Acceleration. Atiim's breakthrough SaaS solution enables growing companies to maximize performance and business results – it is an innovative and integrated solution for setting business objectives, aligning teams to corporate goals, having regular two-way employee feedback, measuring employee engagement, and tracking people analytics. Learn more about Atiim OKR Software at www.atiim.com.
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Richard Anderson, Actor on 'The Six M
The Hollywood Reporter
By Mike Barnes
August 31, 2017
He played Oscar Goldman on 'The Bionic Woman' spinoff as well after working in such films as 'Paths of Glory,' 'Seven Days in May' and 'Seconds.'
Richard Anderson, who portrayed Oscar Goldman, the head of a secret scientific government organization, on the 1970s series The Six Million Dollar Man and its spinoff, The Bionic Woman, died Thursday. He was 91.
Anderson, who was mentored by nice guy Cary Grant and received a huge career boost when he was cast in Stanley Kubrick's anti-war classic Paths of Glory (1957), died at his home in Beverly Hills, publicist Jonathan Taylor announced.
A frequent authority figure onscreen, Anderson also portrayed a colonel in another notable war film, the Rod Serling-scripted Seven Days in May (1964), and he operated on Rock Hudson, the second time much to Hudson's dismay, in another John Frankenheimer film, the sci-fi thriller Seconds (1966).
As an MGM contract player who started out in the mailroom, Anderson appeared early in his career in such films for the studio as The Magnificent Yankee (1950), Scaramouche (1952), Escape From Fort Bravo (1953) and Forbidden Planet (1956).
He then moved to Fox and played Joanne Woodward's mama's-boy boyfriend in The Long, Hot Summer (1958).
In the highly rated, two-part episode that brought a thrilling end to the 1960s ABC series The Fugitive, Anderson portrayed the brother-in-law of Richard Kimble (David Janssen). He also was Police Lt. Steve Drumm on the final season of CBS' Perry Mason and Santa Luisa Police Chief George Untermeyer on ABC's Dan August, starring Burt Reynolds.
After three popular Six Million Dollar Man telefilms in 1973, the Universal TV property was given steady life as an ABC series in January 1974. On the show, Anderson played the chief of the fictional Office of Scientific Intelligence and the boss of Steve Austin (Lee Majors), a NASA astronaut who is injured in a crash and "rebuilt" (at a cost of about $29 million in today's dollars), becoming a secret agent.
Anderson also is heard in the show's action-packed introduction: "Gentlemen, we can rebuild him, we have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man."
The series then spawned The Bionic Woman — starring Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers, a tennis player who's infused with machinery and brought back to life after a parachuting accident, and Anderson played Goldman on that show (which went from ABC to NBC) as well.
He was the first actor to portray the same character on two TV series running concurrently on two networks.
Both shows ended in 1978, but Universal, prodded by Anderson, made three more bionic telefilms through 1994. As an executive producer, he was instrumental in the casting of Sandra Bullock as a supercharged woman in 1989's Bionic Showdown.
Years later, Andy Stitzer (Steve Carell) had an action figure of Oscar Goldman in The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
In a statement, Majors said that he first met Anderson in 1966 when he guest-starred on one of Majors' earlier shows, The Big Valley.
"Richard became a dear and loyal friend, and I have never met a man like him," he recalled. "I called him 'Old Money.' His always stylish attire, his class, calmness and knowledge never faltered in his 91 years. He loved his daughters, tennis and his work as an actor. He was still the sweet, charming man when I spoke to him a few weeks ago."
Added Wagner: "I can't begin to say how much I have always admired and have been grateful for the elegance and loving friendship I was blessed to have with Richard Anderson."
His first wife was Carol Lee Ladd, the step-daughter of actor Alan Ladd; his second was Katharine Thalberg, the daughter of Oscar-winning actress Norma Shearer and famed MGM producer Irving Thalberg. Both marriages ended in divorce.
Born on Aug. 8, 1926, in Long Branch, N.J., Anderson and his family moved to Los Angeles when he was 10. After graduating from University High School and serving a 17-month stint in the Army during World War II, he studied at the Actors Laboratory in L.A.
Anderson was working on an NBC show called Lights, Camera, Action in 1949 when, out of the blue, he received a phone call from Grant. "My wife [Betsy Drake] and I saw you on television. We think you're pretty good, particularly in comedy. Why don't you come to the studio for lunch?" he said of the invitation in the 1991 book, Evenings With Cary Grant.
"I met him on the set of Crisis. I'll never forget it. He said, 'I'd like to help you. You're a very good actor.'"
That led to a screen test and a contract at MGM, where Anderson stayed for six years and made nearly 30 films. He then appeared on a loan-out to United Artists for Paths of Glory, playing Major Saint-Auban, the heartless prosecuting attorney who wants three soldiers court-martialed for cowardice, in the acclaimed World War I drama.
"That film changed my whole career," he said.
Anderson later portrayed a district attorney on the 1961-62 ABC adaptation of Bus Stop, a brigadier general on Twelve O'Clock High, another government guy opposite Jennifer O'Neill on Cover Up, Sen. Buckley Fallmont on Dynasty and the narrator on Kung Fu: The Legend Continues.
The career-long supporting player was once a leading man — portraying a doctor in Curse of the Faceless Man, a forgettable 1958 film that took six whole days to make.
"It was a low-budget remake of The Mummy two decades earlier, featuring a stone monster rather than one wrapped in bandages," Anderson recalled in a 2015 interview. "We spent a week filming in a big old house on the way up to Malibu — the house is still there. I really just learned my lines and tried not to bump into the furniture. The only movie poster I have hanging in my home is from that film."
A collector of vintage cars — he had a 1936 Ford Phaeton and a 1957 Bentley Continental Flying Spur — Anderson also was dedicated to philanthropic causes like the Veterans Park Conservancy, an organization that honors military veterans by preserving, protecting and enhancing the West Los Angeles VA property, and the California Indian Manpower Consortium, which provides employment, training and other services to Native Americans across California, Illinois and Iowa.
Survivors include his daughters Ashley, Brooke and Deva, a music supervisor for film and TV at Playtone in Los Angeles.
"Our dad was always there for us and showed us by loving example how to live a full and rich life with gratitude, grace, humor and fun," Ashley said.
ANDERSON, Richard
Born: 8/2/1926, Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Died: 8/31/2017, Beverly Hills, California, U.S.A
Richard Anderson's westerns – actor:
The Vanishing Westerner – 1950 (Deputy Sheriff)
Across the Wide Missouri – 1951 (Dick Richardson)
Zane Grey Theater (TV) – 1957, 1958 (Sheriff John Bates, Adam Stuart)
Zorro (TV) – 1958-1959 (Ricardo del Amo)
The Gunfight at Dodge City – 1959 (Dave Rudabaugh)
Wagon Train (TV) – 1959 (Matthew Lowry)
Law of the Plainsman (TV) – 1960 (Leo Talent)
The Rifleman (TV) – 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963 (Lariat Jones, Duke Jennings, Jason Gowdy, Harry
Chase, Griff)
Wanted: Dead or Alive (TV) – 1961 (Tom, Jim Kramer)
Redigo (TV) – 1963 (Tom Walker)
The Virginian (TV) – 1963 (Harry Clark)
Gunsmoke (TV) – 1964, 1970, 1974 (Samuel, Gregorio, Caoltrain
Death Valley Days (TV) – 1965 (Judge Lander)
The Big Valley (TV) – 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 (Travers, Mel Trevor, Nathan Springer, Hen
Matson, Warden Garreck
Ride to Hangmans Tree – 1967 (Steve Carlson)
Bonanza (TV) 1967 Jamison Fillmore
Cimarron Strip (TV) 1967 (Captain Bragg)
Stranger on My Land (TV) – 1968 (Major Walters)
The Wild Wild West (TV) (Commander James Jeffers)
Daniel Boone (TV) – 1969 (Sergeant Rafferty)
Macho Callahan – 1970 (officer)
Menace on the Mountain – 1970 (Major Galt)
Alias Smith and Jones (TV) – 1971 (James Quirt)
The Honkers – 1972 (Royce Owens)
Gettysburg – 1993 (Major General George G. Meade)


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Busy Kids Daytrip: Chicago – Downtown & Suburbs
There are so many interesting and beautiful places to explore that are just a short drive from Washington County. In our Busy Kids Daytrip series, we'll highlight some of the fun events and activities for kids at these destinations.
Pack a bag and head 2 hours south to visit the beautiful and historic Windy City! There are so many fun activities for kids in downtown Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. In this post, we've highlighted some of the most memorable places to eat, play and make memories. Late Spring, Summer, and early Fall in Chicago are bustling with a variety of festivals and fun activities — start planning your trip today!
Chicago Children's Museum
Navy Pier – Chicago, IL
This giant children's museum features three vibrant floors of exhibits and sensory activities for you and your little ones! Kids will enjoy interactive exhibits, including a dinosaur excavation, a waterways pulleys and pump exhibit, kids town, and more!
Admission: Children & Adults $14 | Seniors $13
*The museum offers free admission to all children 15 & under on the first Sunday of each month
Field Museum
Lakefront – Chicago, IL
Travel around the world, go back in time, and discover things you never knew at The Field Museum! The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago is one of the largest of it's type in the world. You can definitely spend an entire day getting lost in the amazing collections at this museum.
Admission: Starting at Adult $22 | Children $15 | Seniors & Students $19
Museum of Science and Industry
Hyde Park / Lakefront – Chicago, IL
One of the largest science museums in the world—home to more than 400,000 square feet of hands-on exhibits designed to spark scientific inquiry and creativity.
Admission: Adult $18 | Child (ages 3-11) $11
*Save $2/person if you book your tickets online
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Lakefront – Chicago, IL
One of Chicago's most family-friendly science museums. This museum offers a wide variety of indoor and outdoor exhibits that bring nature and science alive to both young and old.
Admission: Adults $9 | Students & Seniors $7 | Ages 3 – 12 $6 | Under 3 FREE
SciTech Hands On Museum
Aurora, IL
Come and explore over 200 interactive STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) exhibits. Experience a day full of fun that will inspire education and imagination in your children!
Admission: Children & Adults $8 | Military & Seniors 60+ $6 | 3 & Under FREE
Navy Pier
Lakefront – Chicago, IL
Chicago's lakefront treasure, offering access to extraordinary views of the lake, land and city skyline. Shop, play, eat, or take a cruise – there's so much to do and see at Navy Pier. It's a great summertime excursion!
Admission: Varies per attraction
Willis Tower / Chicago Skydeck
Downtown – Chicago, IL
This is a tourist "must-do" while visiting Chicago. Visitors can step out onto a glass box that extends 4.3 feet out from the skydeck of Willis Tower, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. At 1,353 feet in the air, the Ledge offers fantastic views of the city and unforgettable photo opportunities!
Admission: Adult $23 | Youth $15
Amazing Chicago's Funhouse Maze
Navy Pier – Chicago, IL
Chicago's only self-paced, full sensory maze experience where you navigate your way through 4,000 square feet of tunnels, mazes and fun.
Admission: Starting at Children & Adults $10 | 4 & Under FREE
Skokie, IL
A place where children and adults can come and explore together through interactive play. Make-believe in the costumed dress-up area; run your fingers through the water play area; make music, climb a wall, play with trains, experience new heights in the two-and-a half-story tubes and tunnels, and much more. Named Chicagoland's "Best Rainy Day Activity Site" by Chicago Magazine.
Admission: Non Resident $5 | Kids under 1 FREE
Schaumburg, IL
A firehouse experience for kids, providing an imaginatively fun look into the world of firefighting. The FireZone provides a safe, clean, fun, and engaging environment for children to play in and explore
Admission: Children (Ages 1-9) $10 | Under 1 FREE | Adult FREE (w/ paid child)
Schaumburg, IL
A Lego-lover's Dreamland with 2 rides, 10 LEGO build & play zones, a 4D cinema, lego build outs of popular Chicago landmarks & much more!
Admission: Starting at $16.15 per person
Santa's Village Azoosment Park
East Dundee, IL
Santa's Village Azoosment Park is Chicagoland's best place for families to have fun! Plan your adventure with rides for kids and families, a petting zoo loaded with animals, and "edu-tainment" with featured shows about animals, exploration, and more!
Admission: Children & Adults $24.95 | Seniors (65+) $16.75 | 2 and under FREE
Six Flags Great America
Gurnee, IL
Find endless adventures for the entire family at this popular theme park with 14 heart-pounding roller coasters, a 20-acre water park, spectacular shows, and four children's themed areas with more than 30 rides.
Admission: Purchase in advance online – Starting at $46.99/person | 2 and under FREE
Lincoln Park Zoo
Lakefront – Chicago, IL
A totally free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of Chicago. You'll find all of your favorite animals within this 35 acre oasis. Check the Zoo's event calendar before you go – there are lots of fun activities planned throughout the year.
Admission: FREE!
Shedd Aquarium
Lakeshore – Chicago, IL
Shedd Aquarium offers you connections to the whole aquatic world. With 32,000 animals to meet (and dozens to touch!), award-winning exhibits to explore and in-depth, hands-on activities to try, the possibilities are almost endless.
Admission: Starting at Adult $30.95 | Child $21.95
American Girl Place
Downtown – Chicago, IL
Filled with fun activities for girls and their dolls, this place is a dreamland for American Girl doll lovers! Pamper your doll at the hair salon, design your own doll outfits, enjoy brunch or afternoon tea, or treat your little one to a very memorable birthday celebration! There are lots of fun weekly activities, so be sure to check the event calendar before planning your visit!
Gurnee Mills Mall
Gurnee, IL
The largest outlet and value shopping destination in Illinois with over 200 stores, entertainment venues, and popular restaurants.
Admission: FREE
Schaumburg, IL
Although Wisconsin will be getting it's own Ikea store very soon (Oak Creek – Summer 2018), visiting Ikea is an experience within itself. Have lunch in the cafe, dream up some new re-decorating ideas, and find new furnishings for your kids' rooms. The maze-like structure of the Ikea shopping aisles will be amazement and wonder to kids of all ages.
Admission: FREE (Although don't be surprised if you leave the place with $100+ in new merchandise!)
Gino's East
10 locations throughout Downtown and Suburban Chicago
Gino's East is Chicago's legendary deep dish pizza spot – serving visitors from all over the world since 1966. They're world-famous for the tradition of letting all of customers leave their mark on our restaurant. Stop by, enjoy great pizza, and leave a special note on the wall!
Rainforest Cafe
Chicago, Schaumburg, & Gurnee, IL
Part adventure, part restaurant and wholly entertaining for the whole family, the Rainforest Cafe re-creates a tropical rainforest with waterfalls, lush vegetation, and indigenous creatures. This is a dining experience your kids won't soon forget!
Pilot Pete's
Schaumburg, IL
This restaurant is an aviator lovers dream, with fun decor, great food, and a fantastic view! Two glass walls offer a beautiful panoramic view of the Schaumburg Airport runway where you will see all types of private and corporate aircraft departing and landing, helicopters, and even some old military aircraft!
Spending a few days in downtown Chicago? Consider purchasing a CityPASS.
CityPASS includes admission to Chicago's top attractions, hand-picked and packaged into one convenient booklet.
1 – Shedd Aquarium
2 – Skydeck Chicago
3 – The Field Museum
4 – Museum of Science and Industry
or 360 CHICAGO
5 – Adler Planetarium
or Art Institute of Chicago
Cost: Adult $99.75 | Child $84.75
Take the train!
If you're heading to downtown Chicago, consider making it a travel experience and take the Amtrak Hiawatha from Milwaukee to Chicago. It's a 90 minute ride from Milwaukee's Intermodel Station to Union Station in Chicago. Amtrak runs 7 round trips a day (6 on Sunday), and it's sure to be a memorable experience for your little ones. Learn more here.
Consider driving to Kenosha and boarding the Metra into Chicago. You can purchase a weekend pass for $8, which allows unlimited rides on both Saturday and Sunday. Learn more here.
What are your favorite things to do in the greater Chicago area? Let us know in the comments below!


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New platform allows customers to connect and manage billions of devices, powering applications that process, analyze, and act on IoT data on global scale
Today, many of the world's leading manufacturers, developers, enterprises, and smart cities use AWS services to power a wide range IoT applications that span everything from energy metering and oil and gas production to fleet management and smart homes. However, operating highly available and reliable systems that connect and gather data from large fleets of "things" – sensors embedded in everything from manufacturing equipment and vehicle fleets, to fitness devices and homes – involves a significant amount of development and infrastructure effort. To manage this complexity, customers have had to build custom middleware that can translate device protocols (so that applications can interact with these devices) and provision infrastructure that can scale to support a high volume of simultaneous connections between cloud services, mobile apps, and an array of devices which may connect only intermittently and have limited compute, storage, or battery life. With AWS IoT, customers have a pay-as-you-go service that handles the heavy lifting involved in connecting any number of disparate devices, allowing them to securely interact with each other, cloud services, and applications while keeping them up-to-date, and collecting, analyzing, and taking action on the continuous streams of data they generate.
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Alexis Sanchez 4 10 as Man United stumble to draw vs Wolves
Manchester United are enduring a worryingly stop-start season, with their dismissal of Young Boys in midweek followed by a very disappointing 1-1 home draw against Wolverhampton Wanderers. Of greatest concern was how little creativity United could offer; there was plenty of industry but precious little end product, and Fred's delightful opener ended up looking like an anomaly.
Marouane Fellaini and Chris Smalling were industrious and effective, Paul Pogba shone for long periods and Fred had, by far, his best game for United yet. David de Gea also made his customary brace of crucial saves.
Antonio Valencia, Jesse Lingard and particularly Alexis Sanchez toiled hard to little effect, while Pogba was also wasteful in possession at crucial points.
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5 — Jose Mourinho's team did not seem to have a coherent plan in attack or much idea how to control the game once they had gone ahead. The manager's decision to rest Diogo Dalot for Valencia looked like a grave mistake as the game went on.
Player ratings (1-10; 10 = best. Players introduced after 70 minutes get no rating)
GK David de Gea, 8 — Made two crucial saves at either end of the game — especially impressive since they came during long periods of inaction. Indispensable.
DF Antonio Valencia, 5 — High on effort but low on ideas, he failed to make the play on the flank, meaning that Romelu Lukaku found himself out there for long periods when he should have been central.
DF Victor Lindelof, 7 — A good performance. His passing and positioning were sound, while he showed a notably physical streak to ward off some substantial challenges.
DF Chris Smalling, 8 — A strong showing, both literally and figuratively. Showed impressive brawn to muscle forwards out of possession, showed striking confidence when playing the ball forwards, and even pulled off a stylish back-heel late in the game to retain possession.
DF Luke Shaw, 7 — Has emerged as United's Mr. Consistent this season. A good, industrious performance with fine use of width, but a shame that there was not much invention ahead of him.
MF Marouane Fellaini, 8 — Confident and progressive with his passing and movement, disciplined enough to protect his back four, but also adventurous enough to get forward into the final third and almost set up the match-winner. If only everyone else played as close to their potential as he did.
MF Fred, 7 — Scored a fine goal, pressed well in defence and drove forward well in attack, with the only criticism being that he lost control of the midfield a little before he was withdrawn. A good game overall, though, easily his best for United so far.
MF Paul Pogba, 7 — This was a game reminiscent of his showing against Watford. At times he was peerless, and his assist for Fred's goal, a cushioned lay-off, was magnificent. However, he did also lose possession and match control toward the end of the game.
FW Alexis Sanchez, 4 — Extremely disappointing — he worked very hard, but his passing was loose and his movement was out of sync with his fellow attackers. He also failed to get himself into too many dangerous attacking positions. His failure to produce is becoming a substantial problem.
FW Jesse Lingard, 5 — Pressed with great intensity but lacked the invention to match his work-rate.
FW Romelu Lukaku, 6 — Found himself isolated for much of the match, dropping wide and deep to little effect while cutting a frustrated figure by the end. This team must work out how to use his gifts much better.
FW Anthony Martial, 7 (for Sanchez, 65 mins) — Sharp movement and passing, and made a good argument for more involvement in games to come.
MF Juan Mata, 6 (for Fred, 65 mins) — Took up good positions, but his delivery did not match the intelligence of his movement.
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A fun road rally will be held on May 27, 2017. It will start in Mesquite, and end in McKinney, TX. We will present our annual Tulip Time Rally, named for the spring flower and the "Tulip" instructions that we will be using.
Most of the rally will be on roads we have not used in years, if at all. Some of them are scenic and/or curvy, and some of them have plenty of bluebonnets along the way, at least they do at the moment.
Online registration is open. Go to msreg.com/TTR17msr for more detailed information on the event. To reserve a spot, page down and click on "Continue", and follow the instructions. Any 4-wheel, street-legal car is welcome. There must be two people old enough to read, as driver and navigator; other passengers are allowed.
Your score will come mainly from answers to questions about signs you see along the route. As they say, the questions are easy, but the answers, not so much!
Marques already represented are Lincoln, Jaguar, Mini, Mitsubishi, Mustang, Scion, and Chevrolet (Silverado and Corvette).
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Take a look at the following window that popped up in front of me today. It is cleverly disguised as a prompt to update Adobe Flash, including a foreground window suggesting the update is a critical security patch, and a backdrop using the Flash logo.
So, how can you tell that this is bogus? Easy. Look at the URL (web address) shown at the top of the window. It is not from adobe.com, but rather premiumvideoupdates.com. I don't know who premiumvideoupdates.com is, but I can guarantee you it is not something worthwhile.
Speaking of worthless, don't make the mistake of downloading any tool that purports to improve your computer performance (including tools that will give you a tune up, fix your registry, speed your memory, or update your drivers). There are no magic bullet add-on tools that will make your computer perform better. The essential tasks required to make your computer perform better involve (1) removal of software and (2) repair or upgrade of hardware. Adding more software will never, ever make your computer work faster.
And, it should go without saying that very few things in life are free. There are some genuinely useful and genuinely free tools available for download, however one thing is for sure: if someone is paying to advertise a free tool, then there is a catch where they getting money from somewhere. Either it is not really free (e.g. a temporary trial), or they are trying to promote some other product or service, or (this is the bad one) junkware / malware / infections will piggyback along with the "free" tool. Follow the money. Nobody spends money to advertise something where they will make no money, and the bad guys don't do what they do to be mean. There is always money somewhere in the equation, probably in multiple places.


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Could play an impact on relays and in individual events once again, per the staff … Has the versatility to help the team out in almost every event, per the staff.
2017-18: Earned all-conference honors as part of Wooster's third-place 200 medley relay (1:48.47) at the NCAC Championships … Relay was the first women's one to earn all-conference honors since 2012 … Individually, logged a pair of championship-heat qualifying swims … Placed ninth in the 100 individual medley at 1:01.96, after breaking the program record in prelims (1:01.61) … Added a ninth-place showing in the 100 breaststroke (1:08.57) … Part of Wooster's sixth-place 200 freestyle (1:38.69) and 400 medley (4:00.01) relays at NCACs … Qualified for the consolation final of the 200 IM at NCACs, and settled for 15th-place at 2:15.75.
Prior to Wooster: High school All-American while prepping for Dan Peterkoski at Upper Arlington High School … Earned all-state honors as a senior and three all-Ohio certificates in water polo … Lettered four times in swimming, three times in water polo, and twice in track & field.
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I have had lower back pain myself and found ways to get better. Just because I'm a chiropractor myself doesn't mean that I'm immune to the human condition.
I've been a chiropractor in Camarillo, CA for over 20 years, so you can say that I've seen a thing or two. The most common misconception about back pain is that back pain is a disease. It's not and not all back pain can be treated the same. Back pain can be caused from facet impingement, ligament damage, muscle spasms, disc herniations, internal disc derangements, disc degeneration and sacroiliac joint dysfunctions. That's the short list by the way.
How I helped myself is by doing two things. The first is that I get adjusted about once a month. I find that a specific adjustment at L5 with Gonstead methods works best for me. I have found that the Gonstead adjustment is the best adjustment for me at that level. My body does not respond well to generalized manipulations that some people do. Interestingly, physical therapists are trying to learn how to do this and I find their generalized manipulations don't work for me.
The Gonstead adjustments create motion in the joints that allows me to benefit from the second procedure.
The second procedure is a series of exercises. These are the abdominal stabilization, side plank, front plank and bird dog exercise. It takes me less than 10 minutes per day and I try to do it everyday (6 days per week realistically).
These two things have kept me going. I'm happy to be a chiropractor in Camarillo that helps people with back pain.


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The caliber of a treatment center's therapists is of utter importance when it comes to the effectiveness of their program. The patient's probability of finishing a program and sustaining recovery relies on a number of variables, but the direct influence of highly educated and qualified mental health professionals makes a huge difference. Each person in treatment has a unique background and set of needs that should be addressed individually so that care can be customized.
Addiction is usually founded upon underlying issues of mental illness, past trauma, or environmental circumstances. People who develop substance use disorder often have co-occurring disorders, such as depression or PTSD, and both disorders must be treated simultaneously for a full recovery. This is why it is paramount to have staff with advanced education in counseling-related fields.
Master level therapists have specific knowledge of psychology and of different theoretical approaches to mental health and substance abuse treatment. This knowledge is key to the unique service they provide to each of their patients. Therapists must have a thorough and reliable understanding of various psychological conditions. They need to know the researched techniques of counseling that have proven successful in treating individuals with a wide array of disorders and backgrounds.
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AWriter's NotebookNo.52, November 2014
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Social media: Does it warrant the fuss?
Poems: February by Alison Prince
EditorialWhat used to be a monthly blog has suffered slippage. This comes about by considering oneself superman rather than an ageing scribbler, saying Yes instead of No and then being lumbered with two mightyish revisions of books it might have been better to leave behind. Both are academic, of long standing, their subject-matter the media. Both will be reissued in 2015, the 4th edition of Media Communication: An Introduction to Theory and Process from Palgrave/Macmillan; the second, written with Anne Hill, the 9th edition of The Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies, from Bloomsbury.
The work, in each case, has turned out something more than a touch-up. Reading what had been written for the last editions confirms the experience of slippage, in terms of time but also with regard to content. Retirement from teaching begins to show itself within days rather than weeks: you discover you are out of touch, and this is especially true of the fields of media: new terminology, new developments, more recent events clamour for mention and analysis, for adjustment or even deletion.
Three editions ago the Dictionary had no entry on social media, yet in the past three years it has become the headline-scooping attraction of the digital age. What follows is a modified entry for the 9th edition of the Bloomsbury book. It is a definition and a comment in time which might in turn be on its way to obsolescence before it appears in print.
Thanks to Alison Prince whose poems continue to enrich The Writer's Notebook.
Social media: Does it warrant the fuss?The Internet rapidly fulfilled the prophecy of media guru Marshal McLuhan that electronic communication would turn the world into a global village; indeed it can be said that, with the growth of social networking, it has become a global backyard. Basically, social media is hundreds and thousands of people e-chatting and message-exchanging via the Net and sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Foursquare, Tumbir, Flickr and Twitter, not, that is, people actually meeting face to face; more likely squaring up to their own isolation.
In the opinion of MIT professor Sherry Turkle in her book Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (Basic Books, 2011), summarising years of research findings among young people, relying on the mobile phone, texting, exchanging messages on Facebook substitutes machine communication for the real thing; we are connected but alone. 'We would rather text than talk,' and in doing so we 'sacrifice conversion for connection'.
Pressures to conform
We might nod in appreciation of such possibilities but we continue, in the words of Jill Walker Rettberg in Blogging (Polity Press, 2010), to submit to 'our instinct for collecting'. Rettberg says, 'Once enough of your friends have joined a social network site, social pressure can make it very difficult not to participate'.
Social network analysis has become a rapidly expanding field of study, producing a new generation of commentators and gurus matching optimistic with pessimistic visions of the impact of social networking on users. The optimism of American writer Clay Shirky shines through the title of his book published by Allen Lane in 2010, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. In an interview with the UK Guardian's Decca Aitkenhead ('If there's a screen to worry about in your house, it's not the one with the mouse attached', 5 July 2010), Shirky says the popularity of online social media proves that 'people are more creative and generous than we have ever imagined, and would rather use their free time participating in amateur online activities such as Wikipedia – for no financial reward – because they satisfy the primal human urge for creativity and connectedness … Instead of lamenting the silliness of a lot of social online media, we should be thrilled by the social activism also emerging'.
Net delusion?For every Shirky there is a worried pessimist (or cyber skeptic) who has a basketful of concerns about the impact of social media representing as it often does unbridled freedom of expression and consequently its subversive potential, for good or ill. One of the skeptics is Evgeny Morozov. His book The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World (Penguin, 2011) sees network communication as a whole as being under the threat of, on the one hand, censorship (chiefly by governments), on the other, appropriation by big business.
Morozov comes down heavily against optimistic claims that the Net is too big to be censored, for the very act of online social intercommunication is subject to surveillance that tracks who we are, what we are doing, where we've been, what sentiments we've been exchanging. In short, once we step into forums of social media, once we give information about ourselves, we have taken a decision to deliver up our privacy.
Democracy or surveillance?While Morozov focuses chiefly on the threat of authority to the freedom currently experienced by online communicators, Robert McChesney fears for democracy itself, seeing corporate power, often in partnership with government, as encroaching on, indeed appropriating the Internet for commercial purposes in the same way that public services (such as broadcasting) are privatized. In Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy (New Press, 2013), McChesney acknowledges that in the early days of the Net, grasping it – exercising control over it – 'was like trying to shoot a moving target in a windstorm'.
Today sophisticated technology tracks Internet activity as never before, and it does so in the interests of control (the perspective of those in authority) and monopoly (corporate ambition); in each case, McChesney argues, the path to equality, the foundation stone of democracy, becomes increasingly difficult to negotiate. He writes, 'What seemed to be an increasingly open public sphere, removed from the world of commodity exchange, seems to be morphing into a private sphere of increasingly closed, proprietary, even monopolistic markets'.
Capitalism of the neoliberalist sort, he believes, has 'conquered the Internet'; it 'has been converted into an advertising-based medium'. In addition, McChesney looks with concern at an Internet that is 'swarming with mostly anonymous and unaccountable companies tracking anything that moves'.
Power of the collectiveIn contrast to this bleak picture, evidence of Net citizens, in small action groups or in the mass, has demonstrated empowerment with regard to social, political and economic issues. Public opinion remains a key factor for both governments and commerce and where the publics use their collective power via the Net to bring about change much can be achieved, in democracies and even authoritarian states. The danger remains, that those who take action, who surrender their anonymity for a public cause, have been noted, their personal details classified in the massive databanks of the state.
Further, the current 'openness' of the Net permits more than government agencies to pursue questionable agendas: industrial espionage, cyberwarfare, hacking, DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service), pornography, identity theft, malicious impersonation, trolling, rape videos, falsification of information, online fraud, paedophile rings, spam emails, stalking and bullying in their many forms, render the Internet 'backyard' a place of danger with potentially destructive powers.
Women as targetsMost worryingly is the cyberwar on women (see @StopWebBullying).A June 2014 report by the think-tank Demos, Misogyny on Twitter found more than 6 million references to the word 'slut' or 'whore' used in English between 16 December 2013 and 9 February 2014. In conversation with Time online (7 October 2014), Danielle Keats Citron, author of Hate Crime in Cyberspace (Harvard University Press, 2014), argued that 'Getting us to see online abuse as the new frontier for civil rights activism will help point society in the right direction'. However, a number of social media platforms have been reluctant to take down expressions of cyber abuse, apparently on grounds of freedom of speech and expression. Such libertarian arguments prove difficult to sustain in face of the personal suffering that hate crime causes its victims, this, in a period when the number of suicides resulting from cyberbullying is on the increase.
For some commentators, idealism prevails. In Cognitive Surplus, Clay Shirky talks of the 'civic value' of Network activism, seeing it as potentially revolutionary. He predicts a time when 'we are slowly going to set up islands of civil discourse' in which norms are established that encourage people to use their real names or some well-known handle. The challenge for social networking is how 'to maximize' the Internet's 'civic value'.
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FebruaryAlison Prince
Lower the gangplank, lad – maybe the dovemeant business with that twig. Go steady, now,
it's treacherous. Dad, look! Dear God, a tree!
Unbolt the hatches, Missus! We'll release
the armadillos, peccaries and bears,
parrots and accountants, mountain goats,
architects and bees and three-toed sloths,
yes, free the whole complaining lot. There'll be
no biscuit ration handed out tonight,
no brackish water lapped, no whinnying,
no roars, no yelps, no threats that they will sue
on Health and Safety grounds. We got them through,
we kept the ark afloat, we have endured
storms and seasickness, we even hung
tinsel in the holds for Christmas cheer.
It's February. It's done. Until next year.


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Hated watching 2 groups I love (comedians and feminists) viciously attack each other this week. Next week it's game designers vs my parents! Adam Conover(@adamconover) July 14, 2012
They don't call it "nihilism" for nothing! Oh wait. Shit. Andrew Bridgman (@AndyBridgman) July 15, 2012
WEIRD BUT TRUE: The average human swallows up to 9 dogs per year, mostly during sleeping hours. H. Caldwell Tanner (@caldy) July 16, 2012
I feel such a strong connection to my ancestors when I use Irish Spring in the shower. It's like I can almost hear them asking what soap is. Alex Watt (@AlexanderWatt) July 19, 2012
I'm a lady on the street but a freak in most social situations Hallie Cantor (@halliecantor) July 19, 2012
For sale: baby shoes, never worn. Idiot diva baby wants "better" ones. Tom Philip (@tommphilip) July 16, 2012
My phone's autocorrect is working too well. Every text I send after 2AM is corrected to "somebody please love me." Ben Kling (@benkling) March 27, 2012
Every time I accidentally type ".vom" instead of ".com" I imagine I'm a sassy teen girl. "Uh, Gmail? Yah Tiffany, more like gmail dot vom." Dan Gurewitch (@DanGurewitch) July 15, 2012
I've never played spin the bottle, but I've played "low self esteem at closing time" so I think I get the jist. mah ree nah (@marinarachael) July 13, 2012
"Baby got back" spoiler ending of "Baby's Day Out" Will Stephen (@will_stephen) July 15, 2012
anyone's final words "adieu, adieu" and then checking the 'remember me' box on twitter? anyone? Julie Shain (@julieshain) July 19, 2012
Live your life so that yourself age 15 wants to grow up to be you. Jenny Jaffe (@jennyjaffe) July 19, 2012
Congrats to Breaking Bad for beating out the major competitors in its timeslot: Drinking To Fall Asleep and a rerun of Masturbation. Jesse Eisemann (@eisemann) July 19, 2012
"'Quirky hats and tiny backpacks? Whoa!' Mr. Darcy said, tightening the leather jacket around his waist." Pride and Prejudice and Blossom Saj Pothiawala (@sajpo) July 12, 2012
Guys, I barricaded the door with barbells. We're safe in here unless any of these zombies can squat a mean five-hundo- oh OH NOOOO! Owen Parsons (@owenBparsons) July 19, 2012
Why is it OK to read 50 Shades of Grey on the subway but NOT OK to read Hustler while rubbin' at your junk? Brian Murphy (@chmurph) July 19, 2012
Breaking: #BritishOpen tournament thrown off schedule when British players confuse Tee Time with Tea Time. Hesley Harps (@HesleyHarps) July 18, 2012
The Gremlins were just like The Muppets except they replaced every good feeling with a bad one. Kelly Hudson (@citizenhudson) July 19, 2012
Spoiler Alert! Batman turns his mom into a bear. Dan Siegel (@dssiegel) July 18, 2012
Life is what happens when you're busy thinking of witty things to tweet Streeter Seidell (@streetseidell) July 16, 2012


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board of directors
Executive Board
Kristopher is Founder and President of Toth Painting Solutions Inc. He started the company in 2000 after graduating from Kent State and working for Sherwin Williams and MBNA bank. His passion for integrity and building a professional painting company shows through his company's strong reputation in our community. Along with Kris's service to our chamber, he serves as secretary of the Cleveland BBB, President of NARI Greater Cleveland, and Vice Chairman of the NARI National Bylaws and Ethics Committee. Kris is a proud member of the Brecksville Kiwanis and resides in Brecksville with his wife Caroline and his three daughters.
Matt is active member of the Brecksville business community. He is the owner of Creekside Restaurant & Bar which has been in business for over 25 years. Matt has been involved with the Brecksville Chamber of Commerce for almost 20 years. Matt is a graduate of Kent State University and lives in Brecksville with his wife Shirley.
Jana has 25+ years experience in business, graphic design and branding strategies. Serving as creative director in an advertising agency for 10 years, Jana's newest venture is JV Vision Creative. She produces and completes corporate brand identity programs, print collateral and digital presentations. Jana enjoys being involved in her community, where she volunteers her time and expertise. She lives in Brecksville with her husband and their three sons and enjoys watching them excel in sports and other activities.
Don serves as Treasurer for the Brecksville Chamber of Commerce. He is the owner of The Lloyd Insurance Agency of Brecksville-Broadview Heights, an Aflac agency. He also serves on the Board of Directors for The Brecksville Theatre. He lives in Brecksville with his wife Jennifer, and their four sons.
Sheila serves as Chamber Secretary. She is a Realtor/Manager with RE/MAX Trinity in Brecksville since 2009. She is past Co-Owner of Jerry's Wine Center in Broadview Hts. Sheila is actively involved in Prayer Blanket Ministry St. Bartholomew. Married to Jerry Stupka, she enjoys collecting wine and loves fine dining.
Jon is the Founder of Jon Thomas Consulting, specializing in bi-partisan government affairs and grant strategy solutions. Jon worked in the Ohio Statehouse, and later in the office of U.S. Congressman Steven LaTourette, as well as then-United States Senator, and former Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Jon's true passion has always been in helping other entrepreneurs by ensuring they have the knowledge and resources necessary for success in today's changing business climate. Before entering politics, Jon was a firefighter and a Lake Erie water rescue diver. In addition to serving as Executive Director of the Chamber of Commerce, Jon is Executive Director of The Littlest Heroes Pediatric Cancer Foundation, as well as Executive Director of the JD Breast Cancer Foundation.
Board Members
Rita is the Director of Communications for the MetroHealth System in Cleveland, Ohio. She joined MetroHealth in August 2014 and oversees external communications, media relations and community engagement. Rita is very active in her community serving on a number of non-profit boards including, Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland, College Now, The Cleveland Rape Crisis Center, Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging (WRAAA), The Karen Nakon Breast Cancer Foundation and Prayers from Maria. Rita lives in Rocky River, Ohio and has two adult children, one who attends Ohio University and the other who lives and works in Chicago.
Allison is the Branch Manager of the Brecksville office Dollar Bank and has worked there since 2011. She prides herself on providing outstanding customer service to her customers and loves making a difference in people's finances. Her focus at the bank is personal banking, business banking, and home equity loans. She is happy to work for a bank that is mutually held, so there is no pressure to push products or services.
Although Allison does not reside in Brecksville, she is involved in many of the community events through the Chamber and invests her time within the city.
Sally is a board member and is active on the Events Committee. She helps organize Buy Brecksville, the Memorial Day Parade, our fundraising events, and more. If you have ideas for presenters at our luncheons, or want to volunteer at events you can call, text or email Sally at email@example.com or 330-999-9234. Sally is also a local real estate agent with Keller Williams Greater Cleveland.
Kathy has been with Westfield Bank since 2004. She is a Team Lead 2, focusing on new accounts, HELOC and auto loans. She manages her branch in Brecksville and concentrates on excellent customer service. Westfield also focuses on Business and Private banking needs. Westfield Bank is your local community bank that believes you should expect more from your bank. We are your trusted partner dedicated to meeting you financial goals. Kathy went to Brecksville schools from K-12 and has been involved in the community for many years. Kathy lives in Brecksville with her husband Rick where they have raised three children. Kathy and Rick also own R & K Sheet Metal Inc. in Cleveland.
Cory has been with CrossCountry Mortgage, Inc since 2009. Currently she is a Branch Operations Manager who provides management and support to ensure the success of the 150 + branches nationwide. Cory earned a Bachelor's degree in political science from Niagara University in 2007. She is active in the community through volunteer work and coaching CYO volleyball and basketball. Cory competes in triathlons and enjoys skiing and spending time with her family and friends.
Patricia is the owner of Brecksville Florist & Gifts located at Millside Centre in Brecksville. She is a Kent State University graduate with a major in Fashion Merchandising and a Business minor. Throughout her career Pat has worked as a Sales Executive for several different technology companies in the greater Cleveland area. She has been an active Brecksville Chamber Board member since 2010. In June, 2015 Pat and Paul Oleksa got married and they now live in Broadview Heights. She has one daughter and two grandchildren who live in Alaska.
David owns The Framer's Gallery, our community's local picture framing and art gallery. A Brecksville resident since 2008, he has served as a Board Member for several local organizations throughout that time, including Brecksville Kiwanis, Chamber of Commerce, and the Center for the Arts. Dave earned his Bachelor of Arts from Kent State University in 2001. He is passionate about family and customer experience in his gallery which was Voted #1 in Cleveland for Best Custom Framing. In his free time, Dave loves to spend time camping with his family or catch an Indians game.
Sean has a natural passion for connecting people and businesses. He owns Fitness Together in Brecksville where they've offered private personal training and nutrition since 2007 – winning the franchise's Greatest Contributor Award in 2016. Sean also serves on the board of the Cleveland BBB and has been the president of Brecksville BNI for 2 separate terms. Sean remains heavily involved in countless community events. He and his wife Marion have a baby on the way, and live here in Brecksville. They enjoy the trails in the Brecksville Metroparks with their 3 dogs.


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My dad is climbing to the top of a 40-foot pine tree beside our house.
But there's no reason to worry.
He has emphysema, a bad heart, 40 years' worth of very hard living, an unfiltered cigarette addiction, and clearly a lack of trust in others.
It's all good.
The pine tree is close enough to the house that you could climb onto the roof and then simply step onto the tree halfway up.
The roof will save you a lot of pine tar grief.
And here's the thing, anyone of us could have done it.
My brother, a few other guys working for my dad, or even I could have accomplished this difficult, but doable task.
But at approximately 51 years of age with the aforementioned maladies, he was clearly the right one for the job of installing a new 20-foot CB/short wave antenna on the top of the aforementioned 40-foot pine tree.
CB radios were a big thing then. Once he installed it, he could talk to new friends as far away as New Zealand.
He'd sit in his room with a large radio shouting: "Skip land, skip land, skip land."
A few seconds later, you'd hear the reply from the other side of the world:
"Go ahead skip land" in a cool Kiwi accent.
And so it went four months.
It was cool having a short-wave base station. I still remember our FCC license, which we were required to get to operate a CB radio.
One of my friends made his license into a sign-song every time he signed in to talk.
The K da Q da K … Something like that. I don't remember the whole thing. (To be honest, I never completely understood his call sign.)
As a teenager, I became proficient at CB lingo.
Once, I carried on a conversation with a guy while riding west on Highway 84 towards Monroeville. Dad was driving and mom was in the passenger seat. I had control of the CB radio with the mic in my hand. I think a sister or two may have been with us. I asked the voice about the possibility of "Smokey" being in the vicinity. I suppose this would have allowed dad to speed even more than he normally went. After a few minutes, the voice decided to tell me exactly where Smokey was. Right behind us. I threw the mic down and crawled under the back seat. Everyone else got a good laugh.
The CB also became a way to meet other people – besides the police that is.
So, my friend and I were talking to anyone who'd listen one day after school. To our surprise, a lovely female voice echoed back to us through the CB radio speakers. And we spent the next 30 minutes or so flirting with this lovely voice, whoever she was. Turns out she sat right across from me in one of my classes at school. But I never had the intellectual capacity to actually talk to her in person. Maybe this explains why some disc jockeys or talk show host sound so bold on the air, but not so much in person.
Anonymity allows for a certain level of bravery/arrogance/stupidity.
And instead of merely acknowledging her the next day at school we probably just hurt her feelings. I don't remember, but I am pretty sure that I said something stupid. Or failed to say anything.
I've remained surprisingly competent at saying the wrong thing through the years.
Dad finished his precarious high wire act to the relief of my mother and all of the other able-bodied men who should have been up there in the first place.
Did we really need a high-powered shortwave antenna?
With only three TV channels, it was unlikely I'd get a real life Kiwi accent piped into the room talking specifically to us.
As he eventually weakened from the reduced lung capacity and other maladies, my dad continued to talk to people all over the world.
That is, until September 1979 when Hurricane Frederick came ashore and had the audacity to uproot all of our 13 majestic 40 foot plus pine trees.
And although they all scattered like tooth picks poured from a jar onto a table top, none of them touch the house.
After that, the shortwave and CB experience stopped. Well, except for the small unit in the Pontiac Bonneville. But it wasn't near as strong as that antenna on the top of that pine tree next to the house above the wisteria vine that dad put up on a hot summer afternoon so he could talk to people from New Zealand.
"Skip land. Skip land. Skip land. Come in Skip land."
"Go ahead Skip land."


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The Kardashians aren't shy—if you've ever watched any episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians ever, you know that. But the sisters Kardashian (and Jenner) take their usual frankness to the next level when Cosmopolitan asks them to share their most embarrassing moments. Kendall can't stop laughing, Kylie drops a shame bomb, and even momager Kris gets in on the overshare action:
Makes your most cringey moments seem pretty tame, huh?


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We went up to Union Square today to try newcomer Num Pang's Cambodian sandwiches, but found a note on the door saying that the restaurant was closed today and would re-open tomorrow.
So we stopped into nearby Wok to Walk instead, a sleek, Amsterdam-based noodle franchise with other branches in London, Belgrade, Lithuania and Barcelona. The one on University Place is the only one in the US, and has been open for a year. It's like a noodle version of those generic, ubiquitous salad bars: Choose your noodle, your protein, vegetables, and sauce. A hard-working guy noisily mans one giant wok, where he sizzles up your choices within minutes.
We weren't expecting much, and maybe that's key. Still, it's pretty decent, if way overpriced–the base price is $5.90, and each topping choice adds to the price: $2.50 for shrimp, $1.50 for edamame, and so on. Sauce is free. It's what Yourasian (if anyone remembers that train wreck) would have been like had it been any good.
The bowl we liked best involved "whole wheat noodles" (which turn out to be soba noodles), honey BBQ pork loin (surprisingly good) and the "hot Asia" sauce, which turns out to be really tasty and impressively hot–studded with fresh red birds' eye chiles.
Wok to Walk
106 University Place


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Wall, John / Mark Durgan
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After their 2012 album "139", the duo of UK electroacoustic experimenters John Wall and Mark Durgan return for a second album of unusual sound composed from improvisations between the two recorded in Wall's Utterpsalm Studio in London between 2012-15, restructuring their recordings into fascinating ecosystems of sound.
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Recorded at Utterpsalm Studios, in the United Kingdom, between 2012 and 2015, by John Wall.
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Moody Gardens
Moody Gardens Corpse Flower
|Galveston, Texas, United States
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|Annual visitors
2 million per year
(open 365 days)
|Association of Zoos and Aquariums[1]
City of Galveston,
run by Moody Foundation
Moody Gardens is an educational tourist destination, with a golf course and hotel in Galveston, Texas which opened in 1986. The non-profit destination uses nature to educate and excite visitors about conservation and wildlife.
Moody Gardens features three main pyramid attractions: the Aquarium Pyramid, which is one of the largest in the region and holds many species of fish and other marine animals; the Rainforest Pyramid, which contains tropical plants, animals, birds, butterflies, reptiles, and a variety of other rainforest animals including free-roaming monkeys and two-toed sloths; and the Discovery Pyramid, which focuses on science-oriented exhibits and activities.
Another major attraction is Palm Beach, a landscaped white sand beach with freshwater lagoons, a lazy river, tower slides, and splash pad play area for children. Moody Gardens also has a RideFilm Theater with motion-based pod seating, the MG 3D Theater features the largest screen in the state of Texas, 4D Special FX Theater, paddlewheel cruise boat, a hotel, golf course and a convention center.
The complex attracts many local tourists from the city of Houston and its outlying suburbs. The owners commissioned a landscape design from Geoffrey Jellicoe. It is described in Gardens of the Mind: the Genius of Geoffrey Jellicoe by Michael Spens (Antique Collectors Club, 1992).
Aquarium Pyramid
This blue pyramid is approximately 12 stories high. The massive pools that are contained in this pyramid contain approximately 10,000 marine animals from fish, sharks, seals and penguins. Each representing different regions of the sea: North Pacific, South Pacific, South Atlantic and Caribbean.
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|entire interior
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|trees, bushes, flowers
1,000 plant species
plus animals
|exotic plants, plus otters, monkeys, alligators, bats, ocelots and birds
This clear pyramid reaches the height of 10 stories. After Hurricane Ike, a $25 million enhancement project brought nature closer to visitors. The multi-level Rainforests of the World project focuses on education, conservation and possible future breeding with new rare and endangered animals. Giant Amazon river otters, saki monkeys, ocelots, and a wide range of other animals, birds, reptiles make up more than 1,000 species of exotic plants showcased the diversity of the rainforest environment.
The rainforests of Asia, Africa, and the Americas are featured through the popular bat caves, crashing waterfalls, and Mayan Ruins. The warm, humid interior simulates the climate of rainforests on warm days.
Discovery Pyramid
The Discovery Pyramid features traveling exhibits and the ride film (motion simulator). The huge deep pink colored pyramid is currently featuring the SPEED: Science in motion. This exhibit features how speed is presented in the real world.
Palm Beach
Palm Beach features an artificial white sand beach and a full use water park. The water park features Aquarium Adventure, a group of slides with a dump bucket, a wave pool, a lazy river, Tower Slides (two water slides), and Splashpad, the toddler section of the water park. The artificial beach is made with white sand and is situated in the Galveston Bay.
Moody Gardens Zip Line and Ropes Course
In May 2014, Moody Gardens opened the tallest steel ropes course on the Gulf Coast. The five-tier Sky Trail® Ropes Course (or "challenge course") is five stories tall - standing at 81 feet tall - and features 48 obstacles (or "elements") with the obstacles gradually getting harder as your go up. The Moody Gardens Zip Line is 500 feet long and is connected to another steel tower located at the far end of Palm Beach next to the wave pool - suspending you 60 feet above Palm Beach allowing you to get a bird's eye view of the Moody Gardens pyramids and tropical gardens. The ropes course and zip line was manufactured, installed, and is serviced by Ropes Courses Inc.. The ropes course and zip line is open year-round during the weekend and the weekdays during school holidays and the weekday evening during Festival of Lights.
Moody Gardens also features the Sky Tykes™ Ropes Course for those under 48 inches (122 cm) tall. It has 9 obstacles (or "elements") and is situated on one level. The open course design allows for easy parent participation for any level of assistance needed. Parents can also walk alongside their child.
Each participant (adult and child) is outfitted with a full body harness and a safety lanyard or sling line. This unique system also allows participants to choose their path through the course while going at their own pace with the ability to pass other participants at each platform.
Moody Gardens Golf Course
In 2007, the Moody Foundation signed an agreement with the City of Galveston to completely rebuild the city's municipal golf course. The course reopened in June 2008 under the moniker Moody Gardens Golf Course. The $17 million comprehensive renovation, included the addition of new turf grass, green complexes, elevations, irrigation, drainage, cart paths, greens and a full clubhouse renovation.[2]
The new course was designed by Peter Jacobsen of Jacobsen Hardy Golf Course Design and was constructed to keep historical features of the course while improving certain holes and course flow. The par 72 course measures 6,900 yards from the back tees, with 5 sets of tees to accommodate all playing abilities.[2]
Festival of Lights
Each November and December Moody Gardens hosts the Festival of Lights. A mile long trail features one million lights themed to holiday music with live entertainment and an outdoor ice rink. Additional attractions include holiday films at the MG3D Theater, 4D Special FX Theater and Ridefilm Theater. A holiday buffet is featured in the Garden Restaurant and the Colonel Paddlewheel Boat offers evening cruises.
- ↑ "List of Accredited Zoos and Aquariums". aza.org. AZA. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Galveston Daily News: Redesigned golf course targets summer opening
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