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And yet the rewards of tracing the stories of the African-American community during such formative times are great. This has been my experience working on several books and various articles about the story of Athens' African-American community and its interactions with the white citizenry of our town and county, Clarke County, Georgia.
Many present-day African-Americans are faced with a lack of tools or knowledge in studying their own history in a local setting.
"How can I tell what happened to my family just after they were freed," numerous African Americans here in Athens have asked me. "Where do I start?"
This blog deals with an underused source of historical data that can be extremely useful to historians and genealogists—the records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually called the Freedmen's Bureau. It was a controversial agency of the U. S. government as it faced aiding freed slaves and some whites hit hard after the Civil War ended. White Southerners generally disliked it strongly as a Yankee intrusion, but blacks looked to it for help and protection.
Feeding, clothing and transporting freed people, and some of the white population made destitute by the war was a daunting task. With much bickering and hesitation the federal government saw nobody else could do this and reluctantly entered its mission—but on a temporary basis. After Lincoln's assassination, President Andrew Johnson pretty much sided with the South and saw the Freedmen's Bureau as a detriment. Congress, however, made appropriations to set up the Bureau and ignored Johnson's objections. The Bureau had its roots during the Civil War as Union forces occupied areas of the South and slaves had to be supported. But the Bureau officially came into existence after the war ended.
In addition to furnishing food, clothing, and transportation for refugees, the Bureau also pioneered in setting up schools for ex-slaves throughout the South. Freed persons felt learning to read and write was a key to any success.
Another duty of the Bureau was to hear complaints lodged by both blacks and whites about racial relations and to work out labor contracts between white planters or farmers and African-Americans. It was very difficult to get a workable system that got the agricultural tasks done but paid African-Americans enough to keep body and soul together. Health care was also urgent for freed people, and the Bureau was active setting up hospitals throughout the South. Too, the Bureau dealt with what to do with abandoned plantations, and at one time parceled out some of these to blacks, especially in Georgia and South Carolina coastal areas.
Fortunately the Freedmen's Bureau kept quite thorough records on national, state and local levels involving all these major tasks. We are lucky that many of these records are readily available now online. Once it was necessary to go to the National Archives to research the Freedmen's Bureau activities. In Washington are the original records and thousands upon thousands of microfilm rolls there. Microfilm of Bureau Records is also available at some major libraries.
Within the last few years, however, many of the Freedmen's Bureau records have been digitized and placed online on the Web. The largest readily available collection online is at Ancestry.com. You can get a personal subscription to use the multiplicity of services of Ancestry, or most libraries can give you free computer access to these online records. Many other sites on the Web also have other free collections of the Bureau's records which can be helpful. Check Google or other search engines and you'll find many sites.
I am most familiar with Georgia records of the Bureau and have used microfilms in the Athens Regional Library and online access on my own subscription. Using these records have paid rich dividends. Parts of several of my books and articles would have been impossible to write without access to Bureau records.
The biggest problem you face using Freedmen's Bureau records is that they are not well indexed, or in some cases, not indexed at all. There may be only broad headings such as Letters Sent and Received in various Freedmen's Bureau offices records. For instance, Athens was the location of one of the Bureau's sub-districts with agents reporting to the Athens office for 10 counties. The communication system was very similar to the military system up the channels of command, where the communications made their way from many Georgia Bureau agents, on to the state, or to the national level of the Bureau.
You can find complaints files, files on the number of assaults and murders investigated by the Bureau, the rations lists showing who drew rations from the Bureau or who received clothing. Many refugees used Freedmen's Bureau funds to travel and re-unite themselves with their scattered families after the war. Names and details are available in all these files. Monthly reports of activities are available.
The local Athens Sub-District field office records are scarcely indexed. Much browsing will be required to find items of interest, but there are some rudimentary indices, mainly by names of persons involved and by broad subject headings. Patience will be required. The online digitization gives you excellent images of the microfilmed letters, reports, tables, orders to agents, appointments of employees, lists of expenses of each office, etc. Microfilm reels of specific field offices are available for a fee from the National Archives.
Some of the most fascinating records are those of the Bureau's mediation on labor contracts between whites and former slaves. Education files are very extensive, indicating the status of establishing schools throughout the Southern states. Athens files to the Bureau's Education superintendents from 1865 through about 1874 are voluminous, giving names of schools, attendance, names of teachers, critiques of performance and costs of education projects.
Separate from the Bureau Records, but online via Ancestry.com and on microfilm in the Athens library's Heritage Room are the records of the African Americans setting up savings accounts as depositors in the Registers of Signatures of Depositors in Branches of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, 1865-1874. As I recall, Augusta and Savannah also had branch banks in Georgia. The records of the Atlanta Branch are most fruitful for finding Athens area depositors. Many hundreds of blacks put their dollars into what they considered was a very safe bank. Tragically, however, many lost their savings when the bank later collapsed. The signature registers don't have the amounts of deposits. I haven't found any records of individual deposits.
What can you find?
• Number of application
• Name of depositor
• Date of application/deposit (with original signature if the applicant could write)
• Name of employer (not always)
• Name of plantation(sometimes, but other times a precise town address.
• Age
• Height (not always)
• Complexion (not always)
• Name of father and/or mother (sometimes their ages)
• Whether married (sometimes when)
• Place of birth
• Current Residence
• Occupation
• Names of children (sometimes ages)
• Names of brothers and sisters (sometimes ages)
As Ancestry.com says: "Freedman's Bank Records is a great source for genealogists researching their African American heritage because of the amount of personal information recorded for each individual in it. Be sure to view the corresponding image of the original document associated with your ancestor in order to obtain all possible information available for them."
The Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, which ran the bank, was incorporated in 1865 by an act signed by President Lincoln.
"The purpose of the company was to create an institution where former slaves and their dependents could place and save their money," Ancestry.com says. "The original bank was first headquartered in New York and later moved to Washington, D.C. Shortly thereafter branch offices opened in other cities, primarily in ones in the South where there was a larger population of African Americans. Eventually there were 37 branch offices in 17 states with approximately 70,000 depositors (over the bank's lifetime) and deposits of more than $57 million. In 1874, as a result of mismanagement, fraud, and other events and situations, Freedman's Bank closed."
Obviously African Americans with more money were likely to be depositors, but upon occasion I found black domestic servants with carefully saved up deposits. There are several hundred thousand names and information about depositors and their family members in these records.
An entire book could be easily written about Freedmen's Bureau and the Savings Bank records and their use for genealogists and historians. But be warned: Working with the records takes dogged work, The nuggets of information about relatives and persons of interest, however, may be more valuable to you than gold. You'll find your use of these records can become addictive.


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This is how Jessica reported the culmination of one of her assignments: "I recently received the final print of the External Civil Rights Brochure. I am now seeing the results of my hard work. When I am back at school my brochure will still be circulating throughout the Treasury. I am happy that my work is meaningful and leaving a lasting impression. At this upcoming staff meeting, my supervisor would like me to present the brochure to my colleagues. I am excited to demonstrate my hard work and discuss what I have learned about Civil Rights."
Beyond providing great access to the most powerful people and places in D.C., this internship has given Jessica the opportunity to make a few lasting relationships with working professionals whose input has already helped her tune her career path. The Washington Center has been operating for over three decades and serves a broad range of student interests and specialties with an internship experience that pays off big!

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I would like to record my thanks to the Observer for its support to the Pinner WEA (Workers' Educational Association) when two of our courses for adults were in danger of extinction earlier in the term.
Both these courses are now saved and will run their full quota of 20 classes each, ending in March of next year.
May I just remind readers that the WEA is Britain's major voluntary adult education organisation, and it exists to provide high quality learning opportunities for adults from all walks of life.
You don't usually need any previous knowledge or qualifications to join our courses, only a willingness to share with others your curiosity, ideas and experience.
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At the beginning of the year I set myself some blogging goals. I did the same last year and they really helped me focus on what I wanted to achieve over the following 12months with my blog and served as good motivation whenever I felt like I was loosing my love of blogging. We are now 6 months on from January 1st 2017 and I thought I would take the half way point in the year to reflect on this year's goals and see how I'm getting on.
My 2017 blogging goals – the half year review.
Grow social media following – I am aiming to reach 6k twitter followers and 5k Instagram followers before the year is out. Currently I have just over 4100 on Twitter so I think gaining another 2k over the next 6months is definitely possible with a bit of hard work. 5k Instagram is looking like a bit of a pipe dream if I'm honest. I have about 1500 followers on Instagram at the moment and no matter how much effort I put into it, my account is still only growing at a glacial pace. Any tips welcome and if you're not already following me, here's a link to my Twitter and Instagram accounts, in case you fancy it.
Buy a new theme– Done! I used some many I got from a sponsored post a few months a go and invested it straight back into my blog. I am using the Venture WordPress theme and I love it.
Start a Facebook page – Still working on this one. By that I mean I haven't even tried setting one up yet, with Twitter and Instagram already taking up so much of my time I'm not sure if I have it in me to be able to give my all to a Facebook account too.
Start a guest post series – Check! Last month I started a guest post series where I had my blog over to a new blogger every Wednesday so they can showcase so of their own content on Naptime Natter. The series is going really well and I am really enjoying finding new bloggers and helping to get their voices out there. If your blog is less than 12months old I would love for you to get involved with The Newbie Takeover, you can find all details here.
Work with more brands – I really enjoy working with brands, be it through product reviews or sponsored posts. While I have worked some amazing brands this year including Lansinoh and Lean Mums, I am still not earning a reliable income from my blog. This is the long term goal but I don't mind slowly working my way up. I am lucky enough to be in a situation where it's not essential for me to be contributing cash to the family pot so even though I'd love to make decent money from my blog, I don't mind that for now my earnings are a bit sporadic.
Be more social on social media – I am definitely chatting to other bloggers more than I was at the start of the year. I am more vocal on Twitter now and I am commenting lots of Instagram and trying to get to know my fellow bloggers more that way too. I actually met up with another local blogger not that long a go, she was lovely and the experience has spurred me on to try and make more friendships online.
Create a child free space for blogging – At the end of 2016 I wrote about creating my perfect blogging corner in my attic. After assessing the situation upstairs and realising it would take me about a year to sort out the mess, I have instead updated my original blogging space in the living room. So, it's not exactly child free but I'm trying to spend less time blogging while the kids are awake anyway, but it is a lot better than the corner table and dining room chair it used to be. I now have myself a proper desk and office chair and have dedicated the space as MINE, no toys or children's books allowed. I love having a proper work space and I feel like I am able to focus more and get a lot more work done while sat at a desk.
Wow! I'm feeling pretty pleased with myself right about now, we are just over half way through the year and I've managed to smash my way through most of my goals. Just need to figure out Facebook and grow my other social media accounts and I'll be laughing come January 1st. I thought before I go I'd write down some more achievements from this year so far, to help keep these good blogging vibes and motivation flowing.
1. I have been featured on Mumsnet bloggers homepage twice, first with this post about Leo's worry of growing up and then this very personal post about post natal depression.
2. I have written honestly and openly about my struggles with my mental health since giving birth to Alex last October. These posts were very difficult to write and even harder to publish but it has really helped in my healing process and I hope my words have been of comfort to other mums who are suffering.
3. I have started a linky! I never really envisaged a linky as part of my blogging life but I absolutely love hosting #BlogCrush with my lovely friend Lucy (Lucy at Home) and have got to know so many lovely bloggers that I had never heard of before.
4. I have been a featured blogger on almost every linky I join in with, this really means a lot as there are so many amazing bloggers out there and to be picked as someone's favourite, especially from link ups that have 50+ bloggers joining in, really means a lot (see bottom of this post for links to all my favourite linkys and I'd love for you to join Lucy and I for #BlogCrush every Friday if you don't already.
5. My confidence has grown – this year I have been up and down a bit with my blog, the strain of having 2 kids and trying to write regularly has taken its toll at times, but overall I can 100% say my confidence as a blogger has grown. I don't check my stats as often as I used to, I'm instead focusing on writing quality content and it seems to be paying off. I'm writing what I want to write about and if I get good page views then that's just a bonus.
I am excited to see how my blogs grows and develops over the next 6 months and I wonder what goals I will be setting myself in January 2018.
Do you blog? Have you set yourself any blog goals for the year, how are you getting on? I would love for you to share your proudest blogging achievement from the year so far in the comments. If you are a regular reader, thanks for being loyal and for reading my ramblings every week.
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Rossendale Council Leader Alyson Barnes has been talking about the cuts to Council budgets…………..
"Councils have been losing money since 2010. Historically they have been funded by council tax and RSG (Revenue Support Grant). Government has said that councils need to stand on their own two feet, and raise income by selling off land, growing the local economy and building houses. By 2019/20 RSG will no longer be paid to councils. This approach works in more affluent areas but places like Rossendale with limited potential for growth lose out.
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Rossendale Borough Councils net budget is just over £9m per annum. The council agreed a 4-year funding deal with government in November 2016, 4 weeks later government moved money earmarked for district councils to county councils in an effort to curb the mounting crisis with social care. Sadly this will reduce Rossendale Borough Council's budget by £3m over 5 years, and in Lancashire's case this move does very little to help the funding problems with social care.
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Reportedly, social game developer and publisher Zynga Inc. ( ZNGA) has closed down six games namely Petville, Mafia Wars, Fishville, Vampire Wars, Treasure Isle and Montopia. According to TechCrunch, Zynga has also withdrawn four games from app stores that include Mafia Wars Shakedown, Forestville, Mojitomo and World Scramble Challenge.
The move executes Zynga's reorganization plans, which the company announced on October 24, 2012 along with its third quarter earnings release. As per the plan, Zynga expects to generate fourth quarter pre-tax savings in the range of $15 to $20 million. The company also intends to lay off 150 employees, shut down 13 games and significantly lower investment in The Vile franchise.
Zynga has already shut down 10 of these games. The company has also stopped accepting new players for Indiana Jones Adventure World, which is scheduled to close down on January 14, 2013.
Zynga announced the reorganization after its share price plunged 75.0% in the trailing twelve months. Although the company has more than 292 million monthly average users, investors remain sceptical on the stock due to the company's inability to monetize this strong customer base. The other factor that hurt their sentiment was Zynga's overdependence on Facebook (FB) .
Zynga games are mostly free-to-play (i.e. they don't earn any money upfront), mostly generating revenue through the sale of virtual goods and advertisement. The partnership with Facebook enabled Zynga to reach a larger audience, which catapulted it from a small start-up to the biggest brand in social gaming.
However, post Facebook's IPO, the relationship between the two partners began to sour. Facebook's poor reach and inability to monetize the mobile segment had a significant negative impact on Zynga. On the other hand, Zynga was also criticized for the lack of new and diversified gaming content, which failed to attract new users.
Most recently, Zynga lost its exclusivity to Facebook, which is a serious setback for the company, considering the fact that the social networking platform has been its primary source of revenue over the last few years (currently 85.0% of Zynga"s traffic and 92.0% of its revenue). In this regard, we believe that the reorganization plan will help Zynga to boost its profitability over the long term.
Lately, Zynga has been looking for new avenues to boost its sagging revenues. The company has teamed up with a number of companies that include online gambling company bwin.party, credit card provider American Express, as well as game developers Majesco Entertainment ( COOL) and Atari. Zynga has also filed an application with the Nevada Gaming Control Board for an online gambling license in the state.
However, we note that growth from these partnerships will take some time to materialize. Similarly the procurement of the online gambling license is a time consuming process. In between, its games continue to lose popularity and money amid stiff competition from established players as well as new entrants. Further, the revised terms with Facebook (despite Zynga's initiatives to reduce exposure) will remain an overhang on the stock in the near term.
We remain Neutral on Zynga over the long term (6-12 months). Currently, Zynga has a Zacks #3 Rank (Hold).
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You can save and read files in the internal storage as private files which only your app can see except for other apps with root privileges. Continue reading "Saving and reading files in the internal storage"
The class LruCache to manage a cache of bitmap objects
The intensive use of many images in an app can create difficulties to the responsiveness and to memory, shown by warnings like ANR (Application Not Responding) or errors like OutOfMemoryError. Continue reading "The class LruCache to manage a cache of bitmap objects"
Avoiding too frequent updates to the views
In Android in order to avoid to do too work in the main thread, most of the operations should be carried out in a secondary thread or a class that extends AsyncTask; then the final results are reported in some view to be shown to the user using Activity.runOnUiThread(Runnable) or View.post(Runnable) (see Processes and Threads) or Handler.handleMessage() (see Communicating with the UI Thread). Continue reading "Avoiding too frequent updates to the views"
Golden Rolly
I published an app in Google Play Store named Golden Rolly, it is a game of the category puzzle and you can find a short video presentation here. Continue reading "Golden Rolly"
Resetting the preferences on first launch of an app
If you want to reset or change preferences of an app at the first start here is an example of code you can put in an event as onCreate of the main activity:
Continue reading "Resetting the preferences on first launch of an app"
Restoring complex objects at restart of an activity
In an android app an activity is created and then destroyed, for example when the user open another activity or when the user presses the back button, later the user opens again the same activity that is is recreated using the data saved before the earlier destruction of the activity.
The data are saved in an object Bundle in the onSaveInstanceState method and restored in the onRestoreInstanceState method (see Recreating an Activity).
The Bundle class provides several setter and getter methods to save and restore data such as getInt and setInt for the integers and similar methods for other types of primitives, strings and one dimensional array.
In this post I write some examples to save and restore more complex objects such as the following CustomObject: Continue reading "Restoring complex objects at restart of an activity"
List of the sensors in a device
In December 2012 I wrote a post about an app that displays the sensor list in an android device, now after about a year and a half the API 19 have new sensor types and methods and I thought to update the app.
Continue reading "List of the sensors in a device"
Implementing the double tap on an ImageView
In this post I explain a simple example of an implementation of a double tap event on an ImageView that can be adapted with some changes for a TextView or an Activity.
Continue reading "Implementing the double tap on an ImageView"
Padding and margin in DialogPreference
I implemented a Time Picker in the preference using the code found here where the class TimePreference extends the class DialogPreference but I found a lack of alignment with the other preference items because of a different setting of the margins and/or padding.
Continue reading "Padding and margin in DialogPreference"
Handling the multi-touch in a surface view
In the previous post Handling the multi-touch in a view I've used a class that extends a View to show the circles where the screen is touched, here I display the same example but using a SurfaceView.
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The New TV Spot for Sherlock
It's been nearly two years since we've gotten a new episode of the BBC crime drama, Sherlock, and it sounds like a lot has been going on. Sherlock Holmes (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) has returned to a very different London. A London that seems to be riddled with crime. John has moved on from the apartment in which they shared, and he is also sporting a sleek mustache. I want to talk about something, though, so if you have not watched this show, stop reading this, go watch the first two seasons on the Netflix, and come back, because there will be spoilers from here on out. You have been warned.
Still with me? Ok.
At the end of season 2, Sherlock jumped off of a flipp'n building! That was the season finale, and we haven't heard anything for 2 years! One might suspect that was the end to the Steven Moffat written television show, but some how, Steven "Heartless" Moffat found a way for Sherlock to survive. You watched the trailer already, yeah? He survived, if you haven't watched it or figured it out. I, much like everyone else, am baffled as to how Moffat is going to write Sherlock into existence again, especially when John watched him jump.
Here's my theory:
Sherlock is so clever that he knew the exact way to land on the concrete that would distribute the impact evenly across his body without killing him, but probably still rendering him unconscious. The only reason this might not work is because John is a doctor, so obviously he would have checked his vitals. Right? Surely watching his friend die wouldn't impede his training. If he was still alive after he jumped, I suppose his time of death could have been called while he was in the ambulance or in the hospital, in which case he could have paid off the nurses and doctors and switched his body with Moriarty so Sherlock's friends would have a body to put in the ground. Either way, we'll find out more at the beginning of 2014. Oh, and keep an eye out for the mini episode online on Christmas. Hopefully they'll…give us a clue. CCHHHEEEYYYEEEAAHHHH!!!! I'll see myself out.


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What a pain in the hindquarters… I lost about 2 hours of my life after I plugged in a Samsung 40″ monitor after having been using a Samsung 20″ Monitor. When I went back to my 20″ in my office, Ubuntu (I'm using Gnome currently until Unity8 is ready) my laptop continued to falsely detect the monitor as a 40″ still . The result was a bad display of the wrong size. I could not adjust the settings, nor save any changes, etc, etc.
Thankfully, a friend in the UBports community (awesome, awesome community and project by the way) just saved my day, and what was most nice (is that English?) is that it took less than 30 seconds to fix.
So, if you want to erase or delete or get rid of some false monitor detection in your ubuntu machine, this might also help you 🙂
Note before beginning: The monitor may/will still display as the wrong size/name but it will work as it should regardless of the name it has in the display settings.
- Open a Terminal
- Enter this command
rm .config/monitors.xml
- Press enter (of course)
- Reboot
- Enjoy your life again
PS – After searching for hours and blogging this someone did point out that there was an official page with this solution, but yeah. If you don't find it hopefully this blog will help solution be found.


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We assist you in getting as much compensation as possible
Getting injured in an accident is bad enough without learning that the person responsible for the accident does not have enough insurance to compensate you properly, or has no insurance at all. You may feel resigned to the fact that you might have to pay your bills yourself. Serving clients in Portland and Salem, Johnson & Taylor helps clients collect from their own insurance company if the other party was uninsured or underinsured.
Protecting yourself against uninsured motorists
Oregon law currently requires motorists to carry insurance of $25,000 per person and $50,000 per auto accident to cover bodily injury to others. Not surprisingly, there are many uninsured drivers on the road and many who carry the bare minimum, which may not be enough to cover your losses.
Even though Oregon requires drivers to carry at least $25,000 of uninsured motorist (UM) coverage and underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage, if you are seriously injured and can't work, this may not be sufficient to properly compensate you. A good defense to this is to carry sufficient UM coverage to cover your potential losses because going after the uninsured or underinsured motorist would usually result in very little recovery or none at all.
If you are properly insured by UM/UIM coverage, your insurance provider should compensate you properly but often insurance companies try to pay victims as little as possible. Our personal injury lawyers know how to stand up to them and get them to take your claim seriously, and we do everything we can to help you get the compensation you deserve.
Paying your bills if an uninsured motorist injures you
Depending on your level of UM/UIM and PIP coverage, you could be stuck with unpaid medical bills, unpaid wage loss, and unfair compensation for your pain and suffering. For example, if a motorist with no insurance injures you, your insurance company could pay up to your coverage amount, which would be only $25,000 if you carry the minimum amount.
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Let Oregon injury lawyers work to lessen your financial burden when an uninsured motorist injures you
There are many uninsured motorists driving in Oregon, and one of them may injure you. Be prepared, and insure yourself for such an event. If you have good UM/UIM coverage, our lawyers let the insurance company know we won't back down and will do whatever we can to get you compensated quickly and fairly. We work on contingency, so if you don't get paid, we don't get paid. Contact us at 503-990-6641 or online.


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CHICAGO (CBS.MW) -- Gap investors had to pick between "love it" and "leave it" analyst recommendations Friday after the apparel giant reported strong results.
Most investors picked the latter, pushing shares down more than 4 percent to $16.50, off 70 cents.
Late Thursday, Gap reported a quarterly profit of $202 million, up nearly five-fold from $37million a year ago. See full story.
Though analysts applauded the results, some noted that Gap
Morrison slashed to "neutral" his rating, citing the rising valuation as the shares near a 52-week high.
Brian Tunick, J.P. Morgan's analyst on Gap, said that though "the company continues to blow away our estimate, we still remain somewhat cautious given that Gap is fighting an uphill battle in a deflationary apparel environment -- especially for basics and fashion basics." Jefferies analyst Donald Trott agreed and reiterated his "underperform" rating.
But RBC Capital Markets analyst Lauri Brunner, who has an "outperform" rating on the stock, noted that the "merchandise remains on target for summer. We expect the strong trends to continue in the second quarter."
U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray's Jeff Klinefelter agrees. "A potential catalyst for this stock will be continued improvement in same-store sales results stemming from an improved merchandise assortment coupled with market share gains against a backdrop of an almost-three-year trend of negative same-store sales," he wrote. He recommended that investors buy the stock.
Elsewhere, Aeropostale
Products ranging from home decor to textiles and dinnerware will be sold in Famous-Barr, Filene's, Foley's, Hecht's, Kaufmann's, L.S. Ayres, Meier & Frank, Robinsons-May, Strawbridge's and the Jones Store, the retailer said. May also owns David Bridal and intends on integrating the marketing with its bridal business and wedding registries too. The licensing agreement does not include May's upscale Lord & Taylor stores.
The Sports Authority
Earlier Friday, the company reported first-quarter earnings of $489,000, or 1 cent a share. That's substantially lower than last year's $1.7 million, or 5 cents a share, but better than the loss of a penny a share that Wall Street analysts were expecting. Like many other retailers this week, the sporting-goods company blamed severe weather and the war in Iraq for the sales hit.
Sports Authority shares vaulted 9 percent, but ended higher by 51 cents to $9.23. The stock's value has jumped 26 percent this week ahead of the results.
In other sporting news, Dick's Sporting Goods
Total sales raced ahead 10 percent to $304.7 million, but came in lower than expected because of harsh winter weather. Comparable-store sales slipped 0.9 percent. The Pittsburgh-based retailer that went public last year pegged second-quarter profits at 58 cents to 60 cents a share, in line with current Wall Street targets.
Dick's shares retreated by 38 cents after an earlier jump forward. They ended the session at $30.20.
With that kind of negative momentum, the S&P Retail Index $RLX fell to 301.99.


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I did elaborated with a little more
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I do think that the nature of Plot often seems
to be slightly mis-represented,
Tip 1: Select a Popular genre Simply, look what's popular now.
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with a series you can build up your success and create anticipation
and a reputation for being a 'Must Read'.
Tip 3: Use a Great Title Like for example
'A VISION for a Happy, Healthy & Rich LifeStyle'
(Actually that might be a little long for a title,
you might better call it
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for example use ......, for a pauze and 'Let me think' itatlics for thoughts
and use bold to give an accentuation
or else CAPITALS.
Tip 5: Use Sensational Settings Write about places people would love to go,
writing using multiple senses, writing about
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anywhere, if you want to create a great story plot, because as far as I understand the Essence
of PLOT simply is somewhat different.
PLOT seems to be more something
like a 'Guiding Force'that permates the entire story as a whole! This may sound a little 'Mystical' and hard to grasp, and
I do think that that's exactly what it is. It is not something
'Michanical' like a 'Thing' or 'Object' that's easy to grasp.
As I said before it's more like a 'Guiding Force' that has
to do with the story as a whole. A few examples of PLOT will show this:
For example the 'Quest Plot', 'Adventure Plot',
'Persuit - ' or the 'Rescue Plot' Those
are examples of PLOT's and if those examples don't seem to be really
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Industry Events Calendar
This page is presented as a service to the video networking industry to assist in the coordination of significant group meetings.
May 15 & 16, 2019, VSF Meeting Series will be held at PBS, 2100 Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 22202, USA
May 29 & 30, 2019, ATSC Next Gen TV Broadcast Conference held in Washington, DC 20004
September 13-17, 2019, IBC Show in Amsterdam, NL
October 14 & 15, 2019, VSF & SVG Meetings will be held at Microsoft Technology Center, 11 Times Square (between 41st & 42nd Streets on 8th Ave.) New York, NY 10036
February 25-27, 2020, VidTrans2020 Technical Conference & Exhibition at the Marina del Rey Marriott, Los Angeles, CA, USA (www.videoservicesforum.org)
September 22, 2020, VSF Fall Meeting Series will be held online. Register at vsf.tv.
September 22, 2020
How to get your event on this page:
To request addition of your organization's meetings to this list, or to advise corrections, please send email to Bob Ruhl.
The email should list each meeting block in a 1 or 2 line format. Please minimize the number of entries requested by submitting contiguous block dates whenever possible; your members can look at your website to see which meeting is on which date--this listing should be at the organizational level.
The page is restricted to the meetings related to video networking industry and important industry events significant to all.


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Leveraging over 35 years of expertise in medical guidance technology, the trakSTAR and driveBAY provide highly accurate, real-time 3D position and orientation tracking in six degrees of freedom (6DOF). Both systems can simultaneously track up to four (4) reusable 6DOF electromagnetic tools, in a ready-to-use configuration that supports interchangeable sensor sizes.
Each system works in conjunction with a Mid-Range Transmitter (MRT) or Short-Range Transmitter (SRT) that generates the optimal tracking volume required for a diverse range of 3D medical navigation applications: ultrasound image fusion, biopsy needle guidance, oncology, and neurosurgery. A clear line of sight between the sensor and transmitter is not required.
The trakSTAR and driveBAY share the same reliability, versatility, and ease of use. Both systems have a small hardware footprint, require minimal cabling, and operate without the need for intermediate equipment (e.g. pre-amplifier) between the sensor and electronics unit. In terms of size, the trakSTAR is a desktop unit that connects directly into a main power source, while the driveBAY is designed to fit into a drive bay of your computer, using the computer's power supply.
|1.4 mm RMS, 0.5 degrees RMS
Number of Sensors
|Four (4) 6DOF
Measurement Rate
|80 Hz default, user-configurable from 20-255 Hz
Maximum Tracking Distance
|MRT: 660 mm (Model 800 sensor: on positive X-axis)
SRT: 410 mm (Model 800 sensor: on positive X-axis)
|USB on trakSTAR and driveBAY; RS-232 on trakSTAR only
|trakSTAR: 100-240 VAC, 50/60 Hz
driveBAY: Molex Power Connector; +12 V: 1.6 A nominal, 2.9 A maximum; +5V: 600 mA nominal
Mid-Range Transmitter
|96 mm x 96 mm x 96 mm, 2.3 kg
3.3 m cable length
Short-Range Transmitter
|64 mm x 46 mm x 52 mm, 0.29 kg
3.3 m cable length
trakSTAR Electronics Unit
|290 mm x 184 mm x 64 mm, 1.31 kg
driveBAY Electronics Unit
|180 mm x 147 mm x 41 mm, 0.84 kg (Fits a 5.25-inch PC drive bay)
Available Sensors
Model 55: 0.56 mm diameter, 80-300 mm length, 230 mm cable (needle biopsy cable configuration only)
Software support
|Windows: DLL API: Low-level RS-232 interface
Approvals and Classifications
|Class I Device with Type B Applied Part (Sensors), EN60601-1, 2nd edition Compliant, RoHS and WEEE Compliant
Refer to the user guide for a complete listing of approvals and classifications.
A desktop electronics unit with integrated power supply which can track up to four 6DOF sensors simultaneously.
The tracking electronics fit into the drive bay of a PC chassis and tracks up to four 6DOF sensors simultaneously. The unit uses the power provided by the PC power supply and no additional power supply is required.
Emits a low-intensity magnetic field and establishes the coordinate frame and tracking volume. The transmitters come in two different sizes.
Mid-range Transmitters
The Mid-Range Transmitter (MRT) offers a flexible set-up that can be integrated into most applications where the tracking volume needs to cover a larger anatomical region. The MRT can be placed close to the patient without obstructing the surgeon's or IR's access.
Short-range Transmitters
The Short-Range Transmitter (SRT) provides a solution for the smaller difficult to access regions. The SRT may be mounted on imaging devices for a dynamic tracking solution.
The 6DOF sensors come in a variety of sizes including the general-purpose reference sensor that consists of an 8 mm square cross-section down to 0.56 mm diameter cylindrical sensor for use in the smallest tools.


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| 9.7°C Belfast
David Gandy has said he'd never heard of Celebrity Big Brother star Bobby Sabel - but hopes the housemate can change stereotypes about male models.
And the 31-year-old, who is dating The Saturdays singer Mollie King, 24, vowed never to go on the Channel 5 reality show himself.
"I don't know the guy but I really hope he puts a better light on what the male modelling crowd sometimes get. They are misrepresented," David said.
"You think male model, you think (Ben Stiller comedy) Zoolander, so I hope he does well and I hope he changes views."
David - who was spotted at V Festival's Virgin Media Louder Lounge catching up with his old flame, MTV presenter Laura Whitmore - ruled out a stay in the Big Brother house.
"It's not something you would do. It's really not. I think you've got to look at the people on Big Brother, you don't really want to be associated with those people. I've never watched Big Brother."


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Due to the global warming and the El Niño phenomenon there is a mass coral bleaching in Australia that was recorded by the professionals at James Cook University. Changes have occurred in the Northern part of the famous Great Barrier Reef.
Scientists watching the reef under water and conducting aerial photography over several months, say that the mass death of corals over the last 18 years occurs for the third time, but now the scale of the phenomenon is truly catastrophic. The reason is that the water in the ocean became much warmer. The temperature increase puts a huge reef stress, and eventually the corals turn lifeless white.


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One of the more interesting parts of the raw video of the Houston Police Chief, Charles McClelland, hitting a pedestrian is the fellow who keeps walking to the corner, where he lingers for a while. The bus and continual traffic past the scene until the fire trucks arrive six minutes later are also of note.
McClelland has been suspended from his job for one day without pay. He also says that he takes full responsibility and will voluntarily take a defensive driving course.
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"Now we have to wait to see what kind of momentum it starts gaining in an economic recovery," said Loree Levy, spokesperson for the /*California Employment Development Dept*/.
The momentum appears to be there. In each of the first four months of this year, the state has gained an average of 14,100 jobs.
While that may seem small, compare that to the same period last year, when California lost an average of 106,000 jobs a month.
Though the signs are encouraging, unemployment remains high at 12.6 percent, because discouraged workers who quit looking for a job a while back have begun applying again.
Regina Vasquez recently restarted her job search and is still frustrated.
"Well, they're saying there are more jobs, but I don't see any difference," said Vasquez.
Still unclear is how the public sector will affect unemployment numbers in the coming months.
Just a week ago, Governor Schwarzenegger proposed eliminating or paring back numerous social services that employ thousands.
Democratic leaders say the state should postpone more than $2 billion in corporate tax breaks.
"Better to delay corporate tax breaks for a couple of years, at least until times get better than to completely decimate the public sector," said state Sen. Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento).
But Schwarzenegger argues corporate tax breaks and other incentives help create private sector jobs.
"This is about specific tax credits to help them grow, help them buy more equipment, therefore hire, create jobs. When you do that you have more people paying taxes and more money to pay for those programs that we don't want to make cuts to," said Aaron McLear, press secretary to the governor.


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Aviation Signature Academy
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Career & Technical Education (CTE) is designed to offer a rigorous curriculum to assist students in becoming college and career ready.
All of the Career and Technical programs are designed to prepare the students for a lifetime of success. Every student can benefit from one or more of the many opportunities available through the 15 Career Clusters which are offered through Irving ISD's CTE programs.
Irving High School campus offers the Aviation Signature Academy as part of these career clusters.
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Ormond on Irish Vets tennis team for Flordia event
Congratulations to Hillview Sports Club's Martin Ormond who has been selected to play on the Irish Vets Tennis Team in an International Tournament scheduled for Florida in 2014. This is in recognition of his great year in winning most of the Vets tournaments in the Southern area. Martin also represented Munster in the Inter provincial championships held in Belfast.
Evan Fitzgerald at National Championships
Evan Fitzgerald competed well at the National Indoor Tennis Championship in Dublin over the Christmas period. Evan was ranked 6th in the under 14 section and won a few rounds before losing at the quarter final stage.
New Years Eve Tournament
We had a good competitive tournament on New Year's Eve evening, and welcomed back Ulrik Nyberg from Sweden. The winners were Paul Foley and Cora Morrissey.


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Sen. Green meets with Houston County Republicans
CLARKVILLE, Tenn. – Presidential candidate Donald Trump won a straw poll Saturday night of about 100 Houston County Republicans but the guest speaker at the group's annual Lincoln-Reagan Dinner thinks billionaire will be the party's 2016 presidential nominee.
"I think Republicans, when they sit around and look at who is the best guy, they will want the guy with consistent conservative values, that has executed them in an executive position, and who is presidential," said state Sen. Mark Green following his dinner remarks. It'll be somebody other than Trump. I really think it will be Scott Walker."
Walker polled at 16 percent among the Republicans at the dinner, while Ben Carson garnered 19 percent of their support. Trump received 28 percent of their votes.
Green is squarely in the Wisconsin governor's camp.
"The great thing about Scott Walker is he has conservative principles (and) conservative ideas but he's actually executed them in a blue state," Green said. "He reduced their budget and reduced their taxes and increased their employment. He's done all those things.
"The other guys that are in the race, a lot of them have the right ideas. You take Rand Paul, Ted Cruze or Marco Rubio, all those guys, but they haven't been in a position where they can execute those ideas. Scott Walker has done that."
He said Trump has tapped into the disgruntled frustrated and angry American.
"He's tapped into this angst, this anger, this frustration, and it's raw. It's raw, and it's coming out. And people are glad somebody is saying it," Green said.
While it remains to be seen if Trump with be the nominee, Green thinks it will ultimately be Walker, who he said took Wisconsin's $3.6 billion budget deficit and flipped it into a $300 million surplus.
"That's the kind of leadership we need in Washington," he said.
During his dinner speech, Green had plenty to say about President Obama and his administration's policies. He pulled one parable from his conversation with Saddam Hussen while he was an Army doctor in Iraq.
While interviewing the Iraqi dictator, Green asked why he invaded Kuwait. After talking about jurisdictions and oil field ownership, one answer was "insightly incredible into the mind of a tyrant."
"Saddam held up his hand, he said all human civilization came from the Tigris and Euphrates river region. 'Every person on this planet is an Iraqi, and I'm the president of them all.' Essentially, what Saddam was saying was 'I'm the president of the world and I can do whatever I want,'" Green said.
The statement left him with an observation that "absolute power corrupts absolutely."
"When there is no checks and balances system, that's where the human heart can go," he said, moving on to talk about checks and balances in the U.S. Constitution.
"What scares me to death, is that our executive branch seems to think with a stroke of a pen and an executive order, they can just legislate and undo our system; the brilliance of our system," Green said. "Hopefully, that's not a road to absolute power."
Green drew from a military motto to say Obama has left millions of Americans behind, citing that more Americans than every are on food stamps and precentage-wise there are fewer people in the work force than in the last 36 years. And while unemployment rates are falling, it is only because people are falling out of the accounting system for the unemployed.
"Unemployment among African-American teens, the very people this man said he wants to help is 36 percent." Green said. "A black kid in America has a better chance of getting a job in Jordan than he does in the United States."
He said America is "in a desperate place, and 2016 is so very important. We have to do everything we can to win. We have to win. And we can win."
Green said while Democrats talk about supporting struggling Americans, the reverse is true.
"You look at the last six years, there has been no help for people who are struggling in this country," he said. "In fact, they (Democrats) are even apologizing, saying that the American Dream is impossible. Well, I will tell you that as Republicans, we're the folks who are out there for those that are struggling. ... It's us that is fighting for that opportunity for those individuals to make of themselves whatever God designed them to be."
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Letter: Speed limits in Gladstone don't make sense
Letter to the editor from Herb Linwood, Gladstone
SPEED limits in town are a joke. You have the likes of Auckland St bought down to 50kmh, why?
So far as I know it has had very few accidents.
A lot of people call it speed-camera alley.
>> Deputy mayor calls for review of speed limits
You have other streets that have had a fatality and up to between five to seven accidents a year (lots are not recorded by police).
Rafferty's rules apply like telling some mob they can unload heavy equipment on the road at an intersection and stop sign with no traffic control.
By the way, there was a head-on at this intersection while this was going on and it was reported to the authorities.
No report in the local about this.
I say get into it (deputy mayor) Matty - your ideas about speed changes are great.
Also, when permits are handed out for the likes of the job above, don't forget about it.
Check that all conditions are carried out.


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Wedding Keepsakes
This collection of wedding keepsakes, is just the beginning of the options available to you at A Soul to Heart.com. We create keepsakes from our patented large heart and medium and large round containers. They are made with a sturdy crystal glass side to show the things that made your day special. Available in 925 Sterling Silver and 10 or 14 karat white or yellow gold.
Therefore touching your heart everyday with the love and happiness of your union. Enclosed with sentimental items from your special day. Such as a piece of your wedding dress, tux, dirt or sand and flowers. Designed and shown to you before completion. Thus providing you the perfect gallery to remember the love you shared that day. Engraved on the other side, with your new last initial larger in center and a smaller first initial of you and your groom. Beginning the new stage of your life as husband and wife.
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Peter Lynch wants you to know that his ideas are being misquoted widely.
"I've never said, 'If you go to a mall, see a Starbucks and say it's good coffee, you should call Fidelity brokerage and buy the stock,'" Lynch says, some 25 years after his retirement from running Magellan Fund was front-page news.
Following the market still at age 71, he instead explains his philosophy this way: Use your specialized knowledge to home in on stocks you can analyze, study them and then decide if they're worth owning. The best way to invest is to look at companies competing in the field where you work. Someone with deep restaurant-industry experience would have predicted the success of Panera Bread Co. and Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc., he says: "If you're in the steel industry and it ever turns around, you'll see it before I do."
What's wrong with the popular-wisdom version of his ideology, which is usually cited as "invest in what you know"? It leaves out the role of serious fundamental stock research. "People buy a stock and they know nothing about it," he says. "That's gambling and it's not good."
Lynch was a mutual-fund rock star. When he ran Magellan, he says, one of every 100 Americans was invested in it. Though he is on boards at Fidelity Investments in Boston, since leaving fund management he has kept to philanthropy. With his late wife, Carolyn, who died in October, he ran a foundation that funded mainly educational and health-related nonprofits in Massachusetts and beyond, such as Teach for America, Partners in Health and the Posse Foundation. He managed the money and Mrs. Lynch chose the recipients.
The market is different than in 1990. One of the biggest changes: exchange-traded funds. Lynch credits their rise with a distrust of mutual-fund managers, which he says is unwarranted. "People accept that active managers can't beat the market and it's just not true," he says. (A Fidelity spokesman says about three-quarters of its 49 equity funds managed by the same portfolio manager for at least five years were beating their benchmark over the manager's tenure as of Sept. 30.) Lynch's advice for small investors: Picking individual stocks is hard even for the professionals. So "if you can't understand the balance sheet, you probably shouldn't own it."
Even stars have bad calls. Lynch is known for a 13-year run of successes, but he quickly points out his missteps. When his daughters bought him an iPod, "I should have done the math" and figured out how much Apple Inc. was earning on the devices. He also missed out on, yes, Starbucks Corp. as well as Netflix Inc., even though he subscribes to the streaming-movie service.
Aside from physical therapy for his wrist and seeing his six grandchildren, Lynch spends time calling companies, listening to earnings calls and reading transcripts. He rarely travels to companies anymore, though he recently took a granddaughter to the Tootsie Roll plant in Chicago.
People still stop him in airports for a selfie. Strangers used to ask for stock advice ("That's symptomatic of a bull market," he says, "when the cabdriver gives you an idea and it goes up"). But on his past two trips, admirers didn't ask, which could mean the bubble is ending, he says.
Lynch says he has no plans to abandon the stock market for other leisure pursuits. "It's a fun exercise," he says. "Beats the hell out of golf."
Chana Schoenberger is a writer in New York. She can be reached at email@example.com.
The story "Peter Lynch, 25 years later: it's not just 'invest in what you know'" first appeared on WSJ.com.


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Museums and libraries can best serve the public by making their programs, collections, and facilities as widely accessible as possible.
Full participation in American society requires the ability to access and use digital content and technologies. IMLS supports a number of initiatives to expand broadband access to marginalized groups, thereby increasing digital inclusion.
Libraries and museums are trusted stewards of the objects and information that represent the artistic, cultural, historical, and scientific foundations of our nation's shared heritage.
Museums and libraries play a key role in providing and preserving access to digital information.
Libraries and museums reach millions of children every year. As institutions that encourage curiosity and exploration, they can play a powerful role in shaping children's early cognitive development.
IMLS invests in making by supporting learning spaces in libraries and museums that foster innovation and experimentation through design thinking and project-based learning for people of all ages.
IMLS funds programs that invest in recruitment, education, and professional development opportunities for museum and library professionals.
Libraries and museums are making great strides in improving learning in science, technology, engineering and math.
Community Salute is an IMLS initiative aimed at strengthening the ability of libraries, archives, and museums to respond to the needs of the nation's 22 million veterans and military families.
Libraries provide an essential resource to job seekers. Through libraries, job seekers can access employment services and training, which can lead to better jobs and improved career pathways.


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Zaha Hadid
May 27 – November 27, 2016
Exhibition partners Fondazione Berengo | Zaha Hadid Architects | Zaha Hadid Design
Curated by Woody Yao
Palazzo Franchetti | San Marco 2847, Venice
In celebration of Zaha Hadid's career in architecture and design that spans four decades, Fondazione Berengo hosted an abridged retrospective exhibition of her work at the 16th century Palazzo Franchetti.
The exhibition, coinciding with the 2016 Venice Architectural Biennale, showcased many of the seminal paintings, drawings and models of Hadid's repertoire, conveying the ingenuity and dynamism of her architectural projects in a variety of media including photography and film.
Through Hadid's designs – built, under-construction, in development and unrealized – the exhibition displayed the pioneering research and investigation that instigates and defines Zaha Hadid Architects' work.
Hadid directly engaged with the experimentation of the Russian Avant-garde early in her career, exploring the compositional techniques of fragmentation, layering and porosity that transcend all her projects. Her early works displayed include Malevich's Tektonic (1976-77), Hadid's fourth-year project at the Architectural Association School in London that bridged the River Thames. Also showcased are the competition winning Peak Club, Hong Kong (1982-83, unrealized); Hafenstrasse, Hamburg (1989, unrealized); Grand Buildings, Trafalgar Square, London (1985, unrealized); Victoria City master-plan for Berlin (1988, unrealized) and the Cardiff Bay Opera House (1994-95, unrealized).
Hadid described her process, "My paintings really evolved thirty years ago because I thought the architectural drawings required a much greater degree of distortion and fragmentation to assist our research – but eventually it affected the work of course. In the early days of our office the method we used to construct a drawing or painting or model led to new, exciting discoveries. We sometimes did not know what the research would lead to – but we knew there would be something, and that all the experiments had to lead to perfecting the project. It might take ten years for a 2D sketch to evolve into a workable space, and then into a realized building. And these are the journeys that I think are very exciting, as they are not predictable. For example, I used to produce hatched lines on my drawings. These became striated models, which eventually became the diagram for MAXXI Museum. So a simple idea like that would take quite a long journey."
The leads and connections between all of Zaha Hadid Architects' projects is evident in the exhibition's juxtaposition of these early designs with projects such as the BMW Central Building in Leipzig (completed 2005) within a landscape of models that integrates project typologies, formal composition, geography and chronology.
Three projects representing milestones in Zaha Hadid's career were presented in their own room. Beginning with the Vitra Fire Station (completed 1993) in Weil am Rhein, Germany, Zaha Hadid Architects' first completed project and followed by the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati (completed 2003), which contributed to Zaha Hadid being awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004. Concluding the room's projects is the MAXXI Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome (completed 2009) which transcends the periods in which the practice implemented and developed its wide-ranging experimentation with the rapid advancements in computer-aided design.
Helene Binet's photographs, capturing the integrity and materiality of Hadid's projects, were also showcased in their own room. Binet began her relationship with the practice photographing the Vitra Fire Station in 1992 and has continued to the present day with powerful images of many of the firm's works including the Salerno Maritime Terminal in Italy which was inaugurated in April 2016.
All of Zaha Hadid Architects works in progress will be exhibited, including projects that were completed in the coming year. The Port House in Antwerp was inaugurated on 22 September. Its design preserves and repurposes an abandoned 95-year-old fire station into a new headquarters for the port. The King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Centre (KAPSARC) in Riyadh is a non-profit institution that brings together people from around the world to research and tackle energy challenges for the benefit of society and the environment. KAPSARC is built with sustainable construction methods and materials to LEED Platinum certification, and designed to work with its natural environment to ensure comfort for employees alongside minimizing energy and resource consumption. The Mathematics Gallery at London's Science Museum opened in December 2016. A pioneering new gallery that explores how mathematicians, their tools and ideas have helped to shape the modern world, its design and layout is defined by mathematical equations that are used to create the 3D curved surfaces representing the airflow patterns that would have streamed around the historic 1929 aircraft at the center of the exhibition. Also included in the exhibition were models, relief studies and visualizations of a residential building on the High Line in New York.
Adriano Berengo, president of Fondazione Berengo said, "Visitors to the exhibition will have a greater understanding of Zaha Hadid's pioneering vision that redefined architecture and design for the 21st century and captured imaginations across the globe. Although I work in the art world and Dame Zaha Hadid's excellence was architecture, her work is also imbued with art, that patina that makes everything eternal, including the creator herself."
Falconeri continued its partnership with Fondazione Berengo supporting creativity and innovation in the arts as the major sponsor of the exhibition and hosted a performance in tribute to Zaha Hadid at Palazzo Franchetti by soloist Anna Tikhomirova of the Bolshoi Ballet. Falconeri said, "We maintain our commitment to the arts and Zaha Hadid's work is fantastically inventive in her search for new and unexpected solutions."
In her 2011 conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, co-director of the Serpentine Galleries, Zaha Hadid stated, "I know from my experience that without research and experimentation not much can be discovered. With experimentation, you think you're going to find out one thing, but you actually discover something else. That's what I think is really exciting. You discover much more than you bargain for. I think there should be no end to experimentation."
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Top Spartanburg Community Colleges
- For the 2020-21 school year, there are 2 top community colleges in Spartanburg, South Carolina, serving 6,288 students.
- The average community college acceptance rate in South Carolina is 62% (view national acceptance rates).
- Minority enrollment is 61% of the student body (majority Hispanic), and the student:teacher ratio is 36:1.
Top Spartanburg, SC Community Colleges (2020-21)
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- 107 Community College Drive
Spartanburg,  SC 29303
(864) 592-4600
5,495 students
- 1000 Powell Mill Road
Spartanburg,  SC 29301
(864) 587-4000
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To accommodate students' schedules, along with growing enrollment rates, community colleges are offering classes in the late evening. Learn more about why you may be taking midnight classes at a campus near you.
An interesting case arose this week over a community college student in North Carolina that posted a rant about a new campus policy on his Facebook page. The student was suspended for two semesters, but quickly reinstated amid a flurry of protests over his free speech rights.
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I was just thinking about "The Cincinnati Kid". It occurred to me that one of my favorite moments I've ever seen any actor deliver was Edward G. Robinson at the end of the movie, when he lights a match and says to Steve McQueen, "You're good, kid, but as long as I'm around, you're second best. You might as well learn to live with it." The match is burning down to his fingers as he says this, but he doesn't care. He's the MAN. It's a perfect take, and whenever anyone mentions Robinson, I think of that moment.
What are your favorite acting moments?