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The workshops you see below are from the 2019 agenda. They will remain on this page until the 2020 agenda is released (early to mid June).
Workshop Session 1
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
9:30 to 10:45 a.m.
1.1 Practical Ways to Start the Board Conversation about Advocacy
Description: Sometimes, in our efforts to uncover root causes of the problems our nonprofit seeks to address, we learn that there are existing laws, regulations or public and corporate policies that hurt the people we serve. We can then take action through advocacy to change or eliminate such laws, regulations and policies. But . . . . One of the biggest mistakes nonprofit board members make is deciding not to engage in advocacy because they believe they're prohibited by law from doing so. This is simply not true. Advocacy is one of the most effective tools nonprofits and foundations can use to advance their mission and serve their communities. The term "advocacy" includes broader advocacy efforts, legislative lobbying and non-partisan, election-related activities. And the combination of advocacy and direct services can dramatically increase the mission impact of any nonprofit. Advocacy is all about your organization's work and what it will take to advance it.
Frank Martinelli
President/Senior Consultant
Frank Martinelli has over 35 years of work, training, consulting, and organizing experience with a variety of nonprofit and public sector organizations. He is president of the Center for Public Skills Training where he specializes in strategic planning, governing board development and community partnership and alliance building.
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2.1 Should 'Housing First' Always be First?
Description:Although dating it origins to the early 1990s, Housing First has become an increasingly common approach since the Bush Administration adopted the model, in 2002, as part of its plan to "end chronic homelessness in 10 years." The 2009 HEARTH Act further directed CoCs to utilize Housing First, and HUD has since used its rule making authority to impose related requirements. HUD Secretary Ben Carson recently stated that "the evidence then and now supports Housing First." But what is this model? The basic premise of housing first is to provide housing with no or few conditions and voluntary support services. Proponents of this approach argue that securing permanent housing without prerequisites or conditions is the necessary first step out of homelessness That is, supportive services are more effective when a person chooses to engage. But there are also service providers, researchers, and advocates who are now questioning the efficacy of this model and asking whether its application is suitable for all homeless populations and all programs. This session will examine whether housing first is more a slogan or a compelling strategy, and whether it is an effective tool to "end" homelessness for all populations.
Mark Angelini
President, Mercy Housing Lakefront
Alexia Wood
Executive Director, St. John's Shelter
Joe Volk
Executive Director, Wisconsin Coalition Against Homelessness
Ruth White
Executive Director, National Center for Housing & Child Welfare
Ruth White is one of the nation's leading experts on the nexus between housing policy and child welfare. She is co-founder and Executive Director of the National Center for Housing and Child Welfare and former director of Housing and Homelessness for the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA). At the Child Welfare League, she co-edited the landmark issue of the League's journal, Child Welfare, documenting the extent to which children are needlessly held in foster care because their parents lack decent housing.
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3.1 Creating Opportunity through Strong Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Description: The topics covered in this presentation will be focused on small business development, using entrepreneurship as a means of eradicating poverty, and supporting local entrepreneurial ecosystems. We will explore different methods of outreach, grass roots economic development initiatives, and the benefits of forming partnerships with local government, main street organizations, chambers of commerce, and other local economic development groups. We'll highlight Couleecap's use of the CO.STARTERS Nine-Week Entrepreneurial Training Program, and Couleecap's Co-Working Space to show how both can be used to help allow low-income individuals to create their own jobs, and make their own way in the market. We'll also discuss the benefits of the relationships we've made with local partners in developing new programs that help increase access to entrepreneurship, and how these practices can be replicated and scaled in other communities. In a time where wages are stagnant, and where growth is especially stagnant in Wisconsin, entrepreneurship can help low-wage earners secure more prosperous means of income. In addition, local businesses recirculate almost half of every dollar made locally, which contributes to more opportunity in central commercial districts, and stronger neighborhoods. Finally, most of Wisconsin is facing a labor shortage as a result of an inability to attract young professionals and their families. Research continues to show that a key factor in being able to do so is a vibrant central commercial district. We'll be able to use these practices and concepts to show how small business development can benefit communities on both micro and macro levels of development.
Aaron Reimler
Business & Income Developer, Couleecap
Aaron Reimler serves as the Business & Income Developer for Couleecap, Inc. In that role, he helps create local solutions to local challenges, following the model that has made Community Action a success for the past 50 years. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and Public Administration from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, and worked as an intern with the City of La Crosse Planning and Economic Development Department, and local economic development organization, The 7 Rivers Alliance, while in college.
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Brian Fukuda
Community Development Specialist, La Crosse County
Brian was born and raised in La Crosse, WI, and is proud to now be raising his children in beautiful La Crosse. As the Community Development Specialist for La Crosse County, Brian enjoys spending his days working on a broad spectrum of projects – all with the end goal of creating a better community. Brian received both a BS and MS from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. His MS in Real Estate and Urban Economics from the Graaskamp Center in the Wisconsin School of Business has provided him with a unique perspective in his work in local government.
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Nora Roughen-Schmidt
Executive Director, Viroqua Chamber Main Street
Nora Roughen-Schmidt is an Economic Development and Community Development consultant and Executive Director at the Viroqua Chamber Main Street. Her creative approach to community development, specifically the Pop-Up Shop initiative and the 54665 podcast has given the organization awards, visibility and recognition throughout the state and nation. With a background in marketing and public relations and a BA from the University of Wisconsin Madison, she has developed strategies to make the efforts of the Viroqua Chamber Main Street visible, accessible and collaborative. When Nora isn't wearing her Executive Director hat, she enjoys organic farming, being a wife and mother, and exploring the outdoors with her dog.
Robin Moses
Executive Director, Downtown Mainstreet La Crosse
Robin Moses has been the Executive Director of Downtown Mainstreet, La Crosse since 2013. Downtown La Crosse is currently experiencing a transformation with over 400 million being invested in office spaces, retail, restaurants, educational facilities, convention space and hotel rooms. Robin also previously worked for more than 20 years as a marketing and design professional working in Eau Claire with businesses, downtown organizations, and public agencies to enhance public image through graphic design, event planning, public relations, project coordination, and marketing strategies.
4.1 Black Lifelines: The Impact of Inter-Generational Inequities in Public Health
Description: We will delve into historical traumas and the ways in which they manifest in socio-economic systems today. Additionally, we will examine not only the oppressive systems that impact community outcomes, but also the ways in which resulting implicit biases perpetuate adverse outcomes in targeted communities. This highly interactive, workshop offers attendees the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of systemically oppressive systems, their origins and how to navigate them for the benefit of the families that they serve. Content includes academic research as well as a practical, real-life scenarios to apply and analyze, respectively. Attendees will explore poverty not as a individual problem, but instead as a symptom of a much larger issue, thus creating opportunity for more impactful resolution within marginalized communities.
Kisha Shanks
President, Infinite Family Solutions
Kisha Shanks is the CEO of Infinite Family Solutions LLC, a community-based advocacy agency dedicated to trauma prevention and minimizing its effects during early childhood. Through education, outreach and advocacy, her agency focuses on building healthy relationships during pregnancy, infancy and early childhood. She encourages a healthy lifestyle, family cohesiveness and socio-economic progression of the families that she works with through home visiting and family support programming. In addition to providing direct services to families, Ms. Shanks also offers professional consultation services in the areas of Infant, Early Childhood and Family Mental Health, program/policy development and racial equity.
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5.1 Literacy & Poverty
Description: How is literacy linked to poverty? How can we improve adult literacy in our communities, and what impact will that have on employment, health, incarceration rates, and children's success in school? Presentation and handouts will cover:
- State and federal statistics that link low literacy with poverty, poor health, incarceration, and weak economies.
- 1.5 million adults in Wisconsin are low-literate. Why? How does this happen?
- How to further your agency's mission and effectiveness by taking into account the literacy needs of your clients –and helping them improve their literacy.
- How to harness the power of volunteers to support adults who are low-literate.
Shawn Steen
Director of Volunteer Services, Literacy Network of Dane County
6.1 Defining a Veteran
Description: What makes someone a veteran? Can someone be a veteran if they never saw combat? Are National Guard members veterans? Do all veterans get all of the same benefits? There are multiple definitions of a veteran but the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs will help you better understand the complicated identifier that is "veteran" and provide information about different benefits and services available including our Veteran Outreach and Recovery Program as well as a focus on assisting tribal veterans. There will also be a crash course in military cultural competency to help attendees understand and empathize with veterans in a more meaningful way.
Shaun Stoeger
Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs Tribal Liaison
Gerald Sieren
Veteran Outreach & Recovery Regional Coordinator, Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs
Workshop Session 2
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
1.2 Using ALICE: A Study of Financial Hardship in Wisconsin to Improve Outcomes
Description:United Way of Wisconsin first released ALICE: A Study of Financial Hardship in Wisconsin in the Summer of 2016. An update was released in the Fall of 2018 that sheds even more light on the struggles households face when their budgets are stretched thin. ALICE is an acronym that stands for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed. ALICE represents the households with income above the Federal Poverty Level but below the basic cost of living. The ALICE Report provides current research‐based data that quantifies who in Wisconsin is living on the edge of financial insecurity. Learn how United Ways and others are using the ALICE study which contains state, county and municipal level data to improve lives and strengthen local communities. This information is helping community stakeholders engage in productive dialogue to improve outcomes.
Charlene Mouille
Executive Director, United Way of Wisconsin
Charlene Mouille is the Executive Director of United Way of Wisconsin, which is dedicated to support and enrich a strong statewide United Way network that maximizes the capacity of local United Ways to address human needs and improve lives across Wisconsin. United Way goes beyond temporary fixes to create lasting change in communities throughout Wisconsin. By bringing people and organizations together around innovative solutions United Ways across Wisconsin fight for the health, education and financial stability of all people. In 2015, Charlene was asked to also lead 2-1-1 Wisconsin which coordinates the eight Wisconsin contact centers that provide call, text and web services to connect people to community health and human services and operates the Wisconsin Addiction Recovery Helpline.
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2.2 Transportation Solutions
Description:This transportation workshop will be presented by a panel of Mobility Managers from both urban and rural areas. We will present information on a variety of successful existing and pilot transportation programs that provide opportunity for economic growth. We will also discuss implementation of programs as well as available funding sources. There will be opportunity for open discussion and idea sharing throughout the session.
Lori Jacobson
Assistant Transportation Director, Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program (SWCAP)
Lori graduated in 1983 with a degree in Early Childhood and Special Education. Lori has a Adminastrators Credetial though UW Platteville and holds Certifications in Mobility Managment, Community Transit Supervision, and in Community Leadership. Lori is on the board of the Wisconsin Association of Mobility Managers and serve as the representative for WAMM on the Wisconsin Volunteer Coordinators Association board. She is a member of the Iowa County Homeless Coalition, Wisconsin Public Transit Association, and the Southwest WisconsinTransit Team. Lori supervises the LIFT program which is a transportation referral agency that also provides door through door transportation using volunteer drivers and specialized medical vehicles. LIFT offers transportation for medical, nutritional, social, work, school, and personal needs. Serving Iowa, Grant, Green, Richland, Lafayette and surrounding counties.
Jeff Segebrecht
Transportation Director, Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program (SWCAP)
Jeff Segebrecht was a former small business owner. For 18 years, he owned and operated Segebrecht Milk Service. He came to work in his current position by accident (ran over by a semi-tractor). Jeff was successful in getting grants to start the Work-n-Wheels car loan program, as well as the implementation and development of this program. He also worked with the Southwest Transit Team on the Grant Application to start the Lift Program and is currently the Director of both programs. Jeff was the first certified Mobility Manager in Wisconsin. He was involved in the start-up and incorporation of WAMM and is currently on the Board of Directors and serves as the Treasurer of WAMM.
Nick Musson
Associate Transportation Planner, East Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission
Nick is a graduate of University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, in which he earned his Bachelor of Science in Philosophy, Geography and Public Administration with an emphasis in Urban Planning and GIS. He began his career in 2008 with Southwest Michigan Regional Planning Commission as a transportation planner in which he worked directly with the Niles, Cass, Buchanan Area Transportation Study and Twin Cities Area Transportation Study developing and managing their Long Range Transportation Plans, Transportation Improvement Programs and Unified Work Programs.
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Holly Keenan
Mobility Manager, Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin
Holly is a certified Mobility Manager and has been with Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan since May 2004 since the inception of the program called Make The Ride Happen. Holly has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Health Care Administration from UW-Eau Claire. She began her career with in Skilled Nursing Facilities as a Nursing Home Administrator in several facilities in Wisconsin. She knew then that she had a desire to work with older adults and individual with disabilities. Holly is married (30 +years) and has 2 adult sons who live and work in the Fox Cities.
3.2 Introduction to Wisconsin Works (W-2) Emergency Assistance
Description: Wisconsin Works (W-2) Emergency Assistance is a one-time payment that can help low-income parents pay an emergency housing or utility-related expense. The introductory course is intended to provide a basic outline of the Emergency Assistance application process and eligibility criteria. The workshop will address how to apply, who can receive Emergency Assistance, and what the Emergency Assistance payment can be used for. Participants will learn the basic eligibility and application rules and leave with a thorough understanding of how to connect individuals who are experiencing housing instability to this state funded resource.
Samantha Wendt
Leadership & Development Consultant, Parallel Services, LLC.
Serving those who serve, Samantha is a consultant to nonprofits, businesses and government agencies. Prior to founding Parallel Services, LLC in 2015 she was a leader for private non-profit and for-profit workforce development agencies, for Dodge County Human Services & Health Department and for the State of WI Department of Children and Families. She possesses a thorough statewide perspective on workforce development, public policy and welfare reform.
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4.2 A State of Play: Update on Medicaid Expansion & Health Care: Opportunities in the Biennial Budget
Description: The Affordable Care Act brought insurance coverage to many. While the uninsured rates for both adults and children have decreased significantly over the past decade, there are still wide disparities among whites and Black, Latinx, and Native American residents. For Latinx and Native American Wisconsinites, the uninsured rate is more than three times the rate for white people. There's still a lot of work to do ensure access to quality, affordable health care and coverage for all. For the first time in many years, Wisconsin has a realistic opportunity to significantly reduce that problem and save hundreds of millions of state dollars by fully expanding Medicaid through BadgerCare, which would extend access to about 80,000 low-wage workers in Wisconsin. Governor Evers has proposed a robust health care budget that fully expands Medicaid and invests in increased provider rates, maternal and infant health (with a specific emphasis on decreasing racial disparities), access to dental services, a community health initiative, and more funding for behavioral health providers. However, opponents of Medicaid expansion have control over both houses of the Wisconsin legislature. Join William Parke-Sutherland, health policy engagement coordinator for Kids Forward, to get an update on the status of the 2019-2021 budget for health care, including the prospects for Medicaid expansion and other investments in health care and coverage for kids and families.
William Parke-Sutherland
Health Policy Engagement Coordinator
William Parke-Sutherland is the health policy engagement coordinator for Kids Forward. William facilitates the WI Health Matters coalition and leads in Medicaid expansion, ACA defense, and Medicaid's diagnostic and treatment benefit for kids (known as HealthCheck in WI). He serves on the board of Health Watch Wisconsin, the steering committee for the Dane County Health Watch, Access workgroup for the Office of Children's Mental Health, and WI American Academy of Pediatrics Public Policy Council.
5.2 Project Recovery
Description: In the summer of 2018, many parts of Wisconsin were devastated by severe storms, flooding, landslides, straight-line winds, and tornadoes. In response to this devastation and through resources available to the state through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Project Recovery was brought to Wisconsin. This community-based program provides outreach, crisis counseling and support for flood and severe storm victims. Due to the devastation spanning nine counties (Crawford, Dane, Juneau, La Crosse, Marquette, Monroe, Richland, Sauk, and Vernon) the network of community action was uniquely positioned to host Project Recovery and address this widespread need. In this session, you'll learn how an effective partnership between federal and state assistance with regional and community coordination, provided flood affected areas with high-quality, accessible, and well-managed support services and strategies in the wake of the crisis.
Amanda Warthesen
Project Recovery Director, Couleecap
Kim Sines
Project Recovery Team Lead West, Couleecap
6.2 A Realistic Look at Veteran Mental Health
Description:Veterans face mental health challenges such as PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and military sexual trauma, among others. Understanding and helping veterans to address those challenges takes a team effort. What can we do to ensure that veterans suffering from homelessness, mental health, and substance use challenges receive the care they may need? Hear one veteran's story about his struggles with mental health and how he is now helping his fellow veterans. Learn how the Motivational Interviewing Method within a Trauma Informed framework can assist and support veterans in a recovery lifestyle. Join us for this open discussion about mental health, behavioral health, and ways we can join together to help veterans get on a path to continual growth and improvement in one's health and wellness.
Gina Patovisti
Veteran Outreach & Recovery Program Clinician, Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs
Gerald Sieren
Veteran Outreach & Recovery Regional Coordinator, Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs
Workshop Session 3
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
1:45 to 3:00 p.m.
1.3 Predatory Lending & Financial Practices: How to Protect Yourself
Description: This presentation will give an overview of predatory financial practices that put many Wisconsinites at risk, including payday and car title lending, predatory debt collection, and financial scams. Participants will learn what makes these practices predatory, how they can identify more responsible alternatives, and where to turn for help if they or someone they know have been impacted. The presentation will also cover policy solutions and advocacy opportunities to strengthen consumer protections.
Peter Skopec
Director, Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group (WISPIRG)
Peter Skopec has been WISPIRG's director since February of 2015. WISPIRG, the Wisconsin Public Interest Research group, is a nonpartisan, grassroots-based nonprofit that organizes and advocates for public health, a fair economy, and the well-being of all Wisconsinites. Peter came to Wisconsin after two years with New Jersey PIRG, where he campaigned with community and student leaders to get Big Money out of politics. Peter previously held Associate Researcher positions at the Fondation Robert Schuman and at the Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l'Ecole Militaire, both in Paris, France. He studied Political Science, International Studies and French at Northwestern University, where he also got his start in organizing and advocacy, working on an environmental justice effort in Chicago.
2.3 Federal Policy Update
Description:This session will provide information on a range of federal programs of interest to community action agencies and other anti-poverty organizations. We will discuss a range of policy, program, and funding issues, primarily within HHS and HUD's portfolio. The session will include an update on the proposed Community Services Block Grant reauthorization, the Homeless Children and Youth Act, and the Fostering Stable Housing Opportunities Act. Session participants will be provided with concrete action steps to help advocate for increased funding and improved program design.
Brad Paul
Executive Director, WISCAP
Ruth White
Executive Director, National Center for Housing & Child Welfare
Ruth White is one of the nation's leading experts on the nexus between housing policy and child welfare. She is co-founder and Executive Director of the National Center for Housing and Child Welfare and former director of Housing and Homelessness for the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA). At the Child Welfare League, she co-edited the landmark issue of the League's journal, Child Welfare, documenting the extent to which children are needlessly held in foster care because their parents lack decent housing.
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3.3 Healthy Housing Initiative
Presenters: Mike Bare, Research & Program Coordinator, Community Advocates Public Policy Institute
Description: Participants will better understand the acute and direct connection between housing and health, and will be briefed on potential public policy solutions to improve housing affordability, quality and stability. This presentation will help shape norms and narratives around housing policy, and how collective action can solve problems related to housing affordability, quality and stability.
Mike Bare
Research & Program Coordinator, Community Advocates Public Policy Institute
4.3 Overcoming Barriers to Mammogram: Persistence Pays Off
Description: Since 2016, Family Health Center of Marshfield and American Cancer Society have offered a rural mammogram outreach project for vulnerable populations. Assistance is provided in overcoming the social, financial or emotional barriers to getting a mammogram. Components include: an introductory mailing, follow-up phone calls, assistance with barriers, making the appointment, follow-up to assure person went to appointment and if not outreach begins again, documentation of mammogram results, and if patient refuses or is unable to reach they are contacted again in 6 months.
Eva Scheppa
Director of Health Services, Family Health Center of Marshfield
Eva is a Bachelor's prepared nurse who has spent her career caring and advocating for the underserved. Satisfying her social justice passion, Eva started as a nurse in public health and now works in Family Health Center, Inc. a federally qualified health center. Serving at local, state and national levels, Eva advocates for health care for all with legislators, and presents on the topic of poverty to high schoolers as well as professionals. Eva feels it is a privilege to contribute towards a world that has a kinder understanding of the underserved.
5.3 2‐1‐1: A Partner to Improve Connection to Services in Wisconsin
Description: United Way of Wisconsin, the managing partner of 2‐1‐1 Wisconsin will share how 2‐1‐1 is being used through call, chat, text and a searchable data base throughout Wisconsin to improve health, education and financial stability outcomes. Each year more than 200,000 contacts are handled by 2‐1‐1 centers in Wisconsin, the needs of these callers help us understand community challenges. 2‐1‐1 also powers the Wisconsin Addiction Recovery Helpline. Participants will be engaged in a conversation that will explore how 2‐1‐1 can be used to improve access to services.
By the conclusion of this session, attendees will be able to:
1. Use 2‐1‐1 data to understand the needs of their community
2. Understand how 2‐1‐1 can help nonprofit and community programs reach their intended audience
3. Share examples of how communities are partnering with 2‐1‐1 and the Wisconsin Addiction Recovery Helpline.
4. Understand how to access 2‐1‐1 services through multiple communication channels.
Charlene Mouille
Executive Director, United Way of Wisconsin
Charlene Mouille is the Executive Director of United Way of Wisconsin, which is dedicated to support and enrich a strong statewide United Way network that maximizes the capacity of local United Ways to address human needs and improve lives across Wisconsin. United Way goes beyond temporary fixes to create lasting change in communities throughout Wisconsin. By bringing people and organizations together around innovative solutions United Ways across Wisconsin fight for the health, education and financial stability of all people. In 2015, Charlene was asked to also lead 2-1-1 Wisconsin which coordinates the eight Wisconsin contact centers that provide call, text and web services to connect people to community health and human services and operates the Wisconsin Addiction Recovery Helpline.
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6.3: Path to Apprenticeship
Description: In today's competitive economy, highly trained workers are in demand. Highly skilled workers command higher pay and better benefits than unskilled workers. Highly skilled workers are safer on the job and have fewer job-related accidents than do unskilled workers. IUPAT is committed to meeting the demands of employers for a productive, skilled workforce by providing unsurpassed training and education opportunities for all of our members. IUPAT DC 7 offers education and training programs that make our members the most knowledgeable and accomplished craft workers in North America. This presentation will talk about career opportunities within our apprenticeship programs, how they work, and how they provide family supporting jobs within our communities.
Adam Holmes
Director of Training, IUPAT District 7
Mr. Holmes is the Director of Training for the Painters union representing Wisconsin and the U.P of Michigan. He has served in that capacity for the last 14 years and has been a proud member of IUPAT Local 781 for over 27 years. Adam completed his apprenticeship as a painter/decorator in 1996 and received that years Apprentice of the Year Award from the Milwaukee Area Painters and Drywall Finishers JAC.
In his current job, he is responsible for overseeing the apprenticeship programs for the Painters, Drywall Finishers and Glaziers. In addition to the work he does with the JAC's and apprentices, Mr. Holmes is also in charge of the safety training and journeymen upgrading classes for IUPAT DC 7. In 2014, Mr. Holmes received his B.A. from the National Labor College with a double major in Labor Studies and Labor Safety and Health.
Jeff Mehrhoff
Business Manager/Secretary Treasurer, IUPAT District 7
Workshop Session 4
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
3:15 to 4:30 p.m.
1.4 When Good is not Good Enough: Why We Need to Reposition the Community-based Nonprofit Sector as a Powerful Force for Deep Systems Change
Description: In spite of the valiant efforts of many caring people and organizations over many years, life has not improved for countless Wisconsinites. If things are going to really change, we need to shift attention from modest service goals that provide temporary relief for some, to courageous actions that challenge and change the economic, social and political systems that are the root cause of the many problems we face. For this shift to occur, we must reassess our work in the nonprofit sector — especially those nonprofits working in low-income communities. Nonprofits need to direct more efforts at actually changing the underlying systems. Good is not good enough: While we continue to provide services to individuals in desperate need, we must now reposition the community-based nonprofit sector as a powerful force for social change at the underlying systems level.
Frank Martinelli
President/Senior Consultant
Frank Martinelli has over 35 years of work, training, consulting, and organizing experience with a variety of nonprofit and public sector organizations. He is president of the Center for Public Skills Training where he specializes in strategic planning, governing board development and community partnership and alliance building.
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2.4 Keeping Housing is Often Harder than Getting Housing: Maintaining Gains & Moving Forward
Description: For individuals experiencing homelessness or with housing fragility, a worker can often assist with a goal-centered process that leads to the individual securing housing. However, in the case management process, there is often little attention paid to the work needed for the individual/family to hold on to the housing in the long term, and many families have trouble holding on to their housing for a year or longer. In this workshop, participants will learn about the factors that get in the way of longer-term stability and discuss the options for helping individuals meet these challenges. Approaches for helping individuals reframe their current situation and for anticipating common roadblocks to housing permanence will be presented and discussed. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to apply learning from this workshop to their own organization.
Jim Winship
Owner, Beechwood True LLC
A long-time social work educator, Jim Winship has worked with families experiencing homelessness in Southeastern Wisconsin and has provided training in case management in Wisconsin and Georgia. Currently, he is consulting with The Salvation Army in this eleven-state area in developing and implementing an online case management certification program.
3.4 Self-Employment: Pathway to Self-Sufficiency
Description:Learn about key business development resources available for women, minorities and low-income entrepreneurs to start or expand small businesses in Wisconsin. This workshop will include interesting presentations from staff and business owners who are successfully self-employed. This includes WISCAP's unique Job & Business Development Program (JBD), operated by 8 Community Action Agencies, that has helped low-income entrepreneurs start over 2,200 small businesses & create over 6,000 jobs since it began.
Jonathan Bader
Director of Programs & Public Policy
Description:The goal of the S.A.V.E training is to provide education on how to identify the warning signs of suicide and ways to intervene and help someone in crisis. We recognize that many of the clients WISCAP members and allies serve, experience a variety of life stressors, some could even cause him/her to consider suicide. While the information provided will focus on unique risk factors in the Veteran community (many that may be accessing your services), the information will be applicable to all individuals and families enrolled in your programs. We will cover: Veterans and the VA, facts about suicide, myths & realities about suicide, how to identify and help a veteran at risk for suicide, how to address a crisis situation, the steps of S.A.V.E., and other resources and references.
Darlene Ezman
Suicide Prevention Coordinator, Wm. S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital
Darlene Ezman, LCSW, CEAP, is a Suicide Prevention Coordinator, at the Wm. S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital and has been with the VA for more than 11 years. Darlene has over 20 years of clinical experience working with individuals, families, and businesses to address mental health issues. In addition, she has worked in the field of communications including as Communications Director at CAP Services Inc. There is a need for suicide prevention efforts in economically disadvantaged communities. Everyone needs to know how to identify the warning signs of suicide and ways to intervene and help someone in crisis.
5.4 Dismantling the Minority Myth: Investing the Success of Hmong Families
Description: This workshop will provide an insight to the root causes of why some minority groups, particularly the Hmong community, struggle to become successful. The workshop will provide a brief history of the Hmong journey, look at research data on the minority myth and how the Hmong UPLIFT Program has lifted this community. Hmong UPLIFT is a multi-generational approach for strengthening families by bridging the gaps to improve their lives. UPLIFT assists Hmong parents in setting goals and gaining the skills and knowledge to advance while modeling the importance of education to their children. The program embraces parenting education, adult education, and early childhood education, as well as inter-generational activities.
Phong Vang
Hmong UPLIFT Coordinator
Nyob Zoo or hi, my name is Phong Vang and I work for CAP Services as the Hmong UPLIFT Program Coordinator and Interpreter Coordinator. I was born in the Refugee Camps in Thailand because of the Secret War in Vietnam. My family and I came to the United States in 1980 when I was only 3 years old. Growing up my passion has always been helping my family and people who are underserved. I have worked with the Hmong Community for over 20 years.
Jim Vang
UPLIFT Family Development Manager
6.4 Veteran Benefits Forum
Description: TBD
John Grennan
Workshop Session 5
Thursday, September 12, 2019
9:30 to 10:45 a.m.
1.5 2019 Wisconsin Poverty Report
Description: The Wisconsin Poverty Project came into being in late 2008, when a group of researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) sought to gain a more accurate and timely assessment of poverty throughout the state as the worst recession in the postwar era was gripping the nation. The researchers' efforts, which align with broader efforts including federal development of the Supplemental Poverty Measure, sought to inform policy with up-to-date and place-specific data that go beyond the official statistics for Wisconsin. The project, which each year produces a Wisconsin Poverty Report joins other endeavors by University of Wisconsin System faculty and staff to improve the lives of people throughout the state in the spirit of the Wisconsin Idea. Simply put, the Wisconsin Poverty Project model reflects IRP's commitment to informing public policy with research findings and, consistent with this idea, one of our main goals in developing the Wisconsin Poverty Measure is to serve as a model for other states and localities seeking to craft their own more meaningful measures of poverty. In this session, the findings of the 2019 Wisconsin Poverty Report will be presented.
Tim Smeeding
Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics, LaFollette School of Public Affairs
2.5: Changing the Culture of Construction
Description:Working in the building and construction trades is a challenging career. There are high productivity demands on the workforce to meet deadlines, as well as working conditions that can often be an extreme danger if strict safety guidelines aren't followed. Yet, there are other risks construction workers face in the industry that many don't want to talk about – Substance Use Disorder and Suicide Prevention. This presentation will try to give the attendees the understanding and knowledge they need to deal with family and friends who are suffering with these issues.
Adam Holmes
Director of Training, IUPAT District 7
Mr. Holmes is the Director of Training for the Painters union representing Wisconsin and the U.P of Michigan. He has served in that capacity for the last 14 years and has been a proud member of IUPAT Local 781 for over 27 years. Adam completed his apprenticeship as a painter/decorator in 1996 and received that years Apprentice of the Year Award from the Milwaukee Area Painters and Drywall Finishers JAC.
In his current job, he is responsible for overseeing the apprenticeship programs for the Painters, Drywall Finishers and Glaziers. In addition to the work he does with the JAC's and apprentices, Mr. Holmes is also in charge of the safety training and journeymen upgrading classes for IUPAT DC 7. In 2014, Mr. Holmes received his B.A. from the National Labor College with a double major in Labor Studies and Labor Safety and Health.
Jeff Mehrhoff
Business Manager/Secretary Treasurer, IUPAT District 7
3.5 Private Transportation Providers' Role in Fighting Poverty
Description: This session will explore the private transportation provider network in Wisconsin and its role in fighting poverty. How shared ride systems, NEMT, paratransit and workforce development contacts are a factor in helping improve the economic strength of Wisconsin's citizens.
4.5 The Skills Enhancement Program–Opening Doors to Opportunity
Description: In this workshop we will share information on this dynamic, community based program that provides opportunity for low income individuals to access education and training. Through financial assistance and case management support many barriers can be overcome, allowing low wage workers to access training and gain skills they need to qualify for higher paying jobs, access to benefits and better opportunities for their future. We will share our 28 years of experiences, challenges and successes with this program. We will talk about some common barriers our participants face. We will discuss strategies for funding, marketing and creating community connections, as well as current program trends and adaptations we are implementing to address the needs of specific populations within our program. This workshop will address a solution to poverty through education which leads to increased wages, greater economic opportunity, and more financial security.
Kim Calmes
Skills Enhancement Program Coordinator, CAP Services
Nicole Harrison
CAP Services
5.5 Toxic Stress of Homelessness: Unraveling the Impact from Infancy throughout the Lifespan
Description: Individuals and families experiencing homelessness are often invisible to us, even though we may encounter them every day. The rate of homelessness is on a steady rise and its impact hits all ages of the lifespan. The life expectancy of an individual experiencing homelessness is 44, compared to 77 years of age for the remainder of the population. Participants in this interactive workshop will gain an understanding of the toxic stress of homelessness and how it affects the individual's physical, emotional and mental health and how that stress may manifest itself through the various stages of life. The barriers created by homelessness, on all ages, will be addressed, with an interactive discussion on how programming may reduce those barriers. The participant will learn how behavioral and verbal responses may be triggered by stressors which may have been experienced daily and learn practical approaches that will improve interactions.
Jeanne Erickson
Program Assistant, Coaltion of Wisconsin Aging & Health Groups (CWAG)
Jeanne F. Erickson is the Program Assistant with The Coalition of Wisconsin Aging & Health Groups,
Elder Financial Empowerment Project. Jeanne brings to this position a varied background in working with
and for the elderly, in numerous life situations. Employed as a licensed nurse in the state of Wisconsin from 1976 to 2001, primarily in geriatric nursing. Ms. Erickson worked as head charge nurse in a skilled nursing facility for the bulk of her 25 years in active nursing.
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6.5 Reforming the Child Support Program for Those who get Behind
Description:The National Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration (CSPED), launched by the Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) within the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and including two sites in Wisconsin, was designed to test the effectiveness of a child support-led program combining case management, enhanced child support, employment, and parenting services for noncustodial parents. CSPED's goal was to increase the reliable payment of child support by noncustodial parents with barriers to payment, in order to improve child well-being and avoid public costs. In this session we will discuss the results of CSPED, what the results suggest, and challenges and opportunities moving forward.
Daniel Meyer
Professor, Institute for Research on Poverty, UW-Madison
Workshop Session 6
Thursday, September 12, 2019
11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
1.6: Halving Child Poverty in 10 Years: The 2019 National Academy of Sciences Report
Description:We all know that millions of American children live in families with incomes below the poverty line. Most Poverty Matters! Conference participants work with the poor on a daily basis. Could legislation at the federal level make all of our work easier? Recognizing the poverty challenge to America's future, congress asked the National Academies of Sciences to conduct a comprehensive study of the cost of child poverty in the United States, and to identify evidence-based programs and policies for reducing the number of children living in poverty by half within 10 years. The National Academies appointed a committee with expertise in economics, psychology, cognitive science, public policy, education, sociology, and pediatrics to conduct the study and issue a report. The committee's report, A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty, identifies packages of policies and programs that could reduce child poverty in the United States by half within 10 years, at a cost far lower than the costs the nation currently bears as the result of child poverty.
Tim Smeeding
Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics, LaFollette School of Public Affairs
2.6: Eviction Defense Project
Description:This presentation will provide attendees with information about Legal Action of Wisconsin's Eviction Defense Project (EDP) and the services that EDP provides. We will detail the Project's history and the various community partners that helped make the Project possible and successful. From a practical perspective, we will discuss common strategies to help tenants avoid eviction and how to defend against eviction. We will also address laws and recent legislative updates that advocates and social services providers should know when advising tenants in eviction prevention.
Sofia Ascorbe
Attorney, Legal Action of Wisconsin
Sofia Ascorbe is a public interest attorney at Legal Action of Wisconsin, where she creates and facilitates pro bono programming as a member of the Volunteer Lawyers Project. Sofia joined the Eviction Defense Project, a courthouse based project that provides same-day representation of low-income tenants facing eviction court, last September. She trains students, attorneys, and community partners on housing law and eviction defense, and provides legal guidance to volunteer attorneys on select project days. Sofia is an active community member, serving on two Milwaukee area nonprofit boards, and serving as a mentor to youth in the community. Prior to joining Legal Action, Sofia attended the University of Wisconsin Law School and Marquette University after a long and sunny upbringing in Miami, Florida.
3.6 Utilizing Stories for Awareness & Advocacy — A Strategic Approach
Description: A long-time social work educator, Jim Winship has designed and produced digital stories for awareness around family homelessness. He currently writes on how to effectively use stories for advocacy, awareness, and to generate support and works with human service organizations in designing strategic story communication.
Jim Winship
Owner, Beechwood True LLC
4.6 Taking on the Child Care Crisis through Innovation –Wisconsin Early Education Shared Services Network Launches
Description:We've launched the Wisconsin Shared Services Network (WEESSN)! Come learn how it can help stabilize child care businesses, keeping providers' doors open to serve their communities and increase revenues to address low wages in early care and education. Participants will understand how Shared Services works, and how WEESSN is using Shared Services strategies to support child care businesses. Lack of child care creates a significant barrier to employment. Increasing high quality, stable child care provides many benefits to a community. Also, providing a service like WEESSN which removes barriers to providing care can increase the number of providers, which also increases employment and the tax base for a community. Stories of our WEESSN work spans both urban and rural settings.
Kelly Matthews
Shared Services Coordinator, Wisconsin Early Childhood Association
Kelly Matthews is the Shared Services Coordinator with WECA. She presents on child care business practices, pedagogical leadership, and reflective practices through her consulting business, A Place For You Consulting, and also adjuncts with the Wisconsin Technical College System. She recently created an inspired and aligned curriculum for the Family Child Care Credential in Wisconsin. She earned her M.A. (Human Development) from Pacific Oaks College, with dual specializations in Leadership in Education and Human Services [sub-specialization: Teaching Adults] and Early Childhood Education. She is exceptionally proud of this learning, grounded in social justice and meaningful, contextualized practice.
5.6 School Lunch Shaming: Ensuring Equity in School Meals for Kids
Description: Annually, over 100 million school meals are served in Wisconsin. Students either pay full price, a reduced price or receive a free meal depending on their family's income. Parents typically load money onto a card that the student swipes to purchase their meal. Often, the money runs out. School Nutrition Association estimates that 75% of school districts are dealing with unpaid student meal debt. Figuring out how to fix unpaid debt has been a challenge for years. Recently, this issue made national headlines as reports surfaced of schools instituting student-shaming policies like throwing out meals or stamping a child's hand. In Wisconsin, school policies vary but some include: requiring the child to call parents and ask them to pay lunch bill; providing bill to student in the lunch line, restricting graduation for students with lunch debt and providing an alternate meal to students without funds. The alternate meal often consists of a cheese sandwich or cheese crackers instead of a hot lunch. Some states have begun to take legislative steps to prohibit shaming practices. This presentation provides a review on state-based legislation to prevent future lunch shaming and common-sense policy solutions that school administrators may use to eliminate all meal debt, removing the need to chase down parents who are past due. Broad peer-reviewed research demonstrates children have better outcomes when they eat school meals. Singling out or withholding food from children with insufficient funds does not help school staff or students. Wisconsin can learn from other state-based policies to craft a better solution for our schools and our students.
Matt Stienstra
Advocacy Campaign Manager, Hunger Task Force
As Hunger Task Force's Advocacy Campaign Manager, Matt Stienstra creates and implements local and statewide campaigns to strengthen nutrition policy. In 2016 these campaigns connected nearly 4,000 more children from low-income families to a daily school breakfast. Matt has built a career around connecting citizens and stakeholders to policy solutions at the local, state and federal level. He uses both online and offline strategies to elevate citizen voices to elected officials and the media. Matt resides in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin with his wife, 3 year old and 6 month old daughters, and two dogs.
Leen Bnyat
Child Nutrition Program Organizer, Hunger Task Force
As the Child Nutrition Program Organizer, Leen Bnyat helps connect schools, community organizations, and families to vital nutrition programs that impact childhood hunger in Wisconsin. Since joining Hunger Task Force in January of 2019, Leen Bnyat has helped introduce new summer and afterschool meals sites throughout Wisconsin and produced the annual Wisconsin School Breakfast Report. Additionally, with a strong background in youth organizing, Leen works with various student groups to mobilize around improving school meals in Milwaukee County. Having a passion for social justice, Leen also works to incorporate equity into her professional and personal life. In her free time, Leen enjoys cooking dishes from her birth place of Damascus, Syria.
6.6 The Curse and The Opportunity of Poverty & Climate Change
Description: This workshop illustrates the existence and direct relationship of poverty and climate change. It is a what, how, who, and when of turning CAP programs into 'voluntary carbon offsets,' their value in the market, and potential for significant new external revenue. Market research already indicates significant investor interest for thousands of metric tons of CAP related offsets that provide 'socially equitable, deep decarbonization'.
Take-aways include:
1) Latest analysis of correlations between poverty, social equity & climate change impact;
2) Understanding of fundamentals of carbon offsets, additionality, and market conditions;
3) Familiarization with the only WZN carbon offset protocol currently in use in the USA; &
4) Ideas on how to leverage WZN offsets to the benefit of one's own local economy.
Peter Kilde
Executive Director, West CAP
Peter Kilde has been executive director of the West Central Wisconsin Community Action Agency, Inc, (West CAP), since 1995. West CAP has developed and manages multiple low-income housing projects, and operates homelessness intervention programs, weatherization, food security, the JumpStart car ownership program and various sustainable community initiatives. He serves on the national Community Action Partnership Board of Directors, where he co-chairs the Strategic Visions Committee which focuses on how poverty can be most effectively addressed in 21st Century America.
Recipient of the 2013 Charles M. Hill Sr. Award for Housing Excellence, Mr. Kilde is widely recognized for his leadership in affordable housing innovation and energy conservation.
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Kelly Cain
Founder/CEO, St. Croix Institute
Dr. Cain is Emeritus Professor in Environmental Science / Management & Land Use Planning at UW-River Falls. Kelly joined the faculty in 1986, with responsibility for undergraduate and graduate curriculum development and teaching across a wide variety of sustainability-based courses. He also served as the first Director of Campus Sustainability, and founding Director of the St. Croix Institute for Sustainable Community Development, both from 2007 to 2014.
Kelly's community outreach on behalf of UWRF ranged from multiple projects for the Aspen Institute's Community Strategies Group in DC, to primary partnership and conceptual design of the St. Croix Valley Habitat for Humanity EcoVillage in River Falls, WI, to multiple National Wildlife Refuge projects in Hawaii, Oregon, and elsewhere for the US Fish & Wildlife Service, to ecotourism development for the China Exploration & Research Society on the Tibetan Plateau.


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SAN DIEGO, Feb. 1, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Harbor BioSciences, Inc. (OTCBB:HRBR), a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, metabolic and inflammatory diseases, today announced publication of newly discovered anti-inflammatory steroids naturally present in humans. The paper, "Novel components of the human metabolome: the identification, characterization and anti-inflammatory activity of two 5-androstene tetrols," was published in the journal, "Steroids" [January, Vol.76(1-2)]. Scientists from Harbor BioSciences first identified these tetrols as natural steroids and pre-clinical studies indicate the usefulness of these compounds in treating inflammation-driven diseases including arthritis, type 2 diabetes, and COPD.
The paper describes 5-androstene tetrols metabolites of DHEA that have anti-inflammatory activity and are found naturally at very low concentrations in humans. Unlike most natural steroids, the tetrols are orally bioavailable and do not undergo extensive metabolism. Tests in animal models show that they have anti-inflammatory activity similar to the commonly prescribed glucocorticoid steroids, but do not appear to have any of the deleterious side effects that frequently accompany glucocorticoid use such as bone loss, immunosuppression, hyperglycemia, glaucoma, cataracts and cognitive disorders. Most importantly, these molecules do not appear to cause anabolic or estrogenic effects and are not toxic in studies to date.
Harbor BioSciences has been issued several patents in the U.S. and Australia covering these compounds with additional patents pending in Europe and Canada. The patents cover formulations, methods of use and solid-state forms of the tetrols.
James M. Frincke, Ph.D., Harbor BioSciences Chief Executive Officer, remarked, "The discoveries reported by company scientists are representative of the untapped wealth of pharmaceutical compounds in Harbor BioSciences' proprietary steroid platform. Because these molecules occur naturally in humans, they have the potential for development as either pharmaceuticals or nutritional supplements. We believe that the profiles of these steroids in combination with their natural oral bioavailability make them ideal candidates to treat inflammation in a broad spectrum of diseases such arthritis, COPD, and type 2 diabetes."
About Harbor BioSciences, Inc.
Harbor BioSciences is a development-stage company with two product candidates recently in clinical trials: Apoptone ® (HE3235) in the cohort expansion portion of a Phase I/IIa trial of patients with late-stage prostate cancer, and Triolex® (HE3286), has completed Phase IIa trials in obese type 2 diabetes mellitus patients. Apoptone and Triolex represent two of the lead candidates from Harbor BioSciences' small molecule platform based on metabolites or synthetic analogs of endogenous human steroids. For more information on Harbor BioSciences please visit www.harborbiosciences.com .
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws concerning, among other things, the development of human steroids to treat inflammation in arthritis, type 2 diabetes, COPD and other common diseases, tetrols maintaining their structure in the blood stream when administered orally, the value of pharmaceutical entities in Harbor BioSciences' proprietary steroid platform, the potential for development of the steroids as either pharmaceuticals or nutritional supplements and the steroids ability to treat inflammation in a broad spectrum of diseases. Any statements included in this press release that are not a description of historical facts are forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors which, if they do not materialize or prove correct, could cause Harbor BioSciences' actual results to differ materially from historical results or those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties inherent in the Company's business, including, but not limited to: the Company's capital needs; the Company's ability to obtain additional funding; the ability to complete pre-clinical and clinical trials successfully and within specified timelines, if at all; the Company's ability to obtain regulatory approval for Apoptone, Triolex, or any other investigational drug candidate; and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Existing and prospective investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. Except as required by law, Harbor BioSciences undertakes no obligation to update or revise the information contained in this press release as a result of new information, future events or circumstances arising after the date of this press release.
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10704 Hay Creek Road
Belle Fourche, South Dakota 57717 MLS#: 63852
- Farm & Ranch
- 2 beds
- 1.00 baths
Description for 10704 Hay Creek Road Belle Fourche, South Dakota 57717This unique collection of 514 spectacular acres holds a rich pioneer history dating back to 1886. Later named Hay Creek Ranch it is now available for your acquisition. Over the last 20 years extensive efforts were made to replenish the riparian areas with 11 ponds and larger reservoirs combined with over 3/4 of a mile of Hay Creek which runs year round. Multiple functional ranch buildings including the original cabin are built on the property. The private nature of this ranch for simple living combined with the sub-irrigated hay ground teamed up with multiple options for lower and higher elevation grazing really make this place a one of a kind find for alternative income sources. There are no covenants, its' use is scheduled as AG-A for tax purposes (no zoning in Butte County), reservoir water rights transfer, there are 3 wells, electric power surrounds, and 70 Sandstone Water Co. water taps all come with sale of this hidden jewel. See associated documents for detail.
Property Details
Beds: 2
Baths: 1.00
Lot Acres: 514.00
Lot Type: Farm Land,Meadow,Part Wooded,Pasture,Prairie
Year Built: 1879
Listed by Phil Olsen - Olsen Real Estate on Thursday, 22 August 2019 [For Sale]


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Sometimes it's those everyday items that pack the most punch. These tiny treasures are a multi-use must have. Here's our top 5 binder clip hacks:
1. Linen & Napkin sorting: Start clipping them by color, type, or numbers and always keep these guys together. Napkins are like socks, easily lost in the laundry underworld. Keep binder clips anywhere you wash and fold napkins and you won't regret it. image via Better Homes and Gardens
Bonus Points: Label your linens by drawer and you will always know where to find them!
2. Binder Clip storage: Genius! Follow this DIY and think outside the box. image via Remodelista
3. Desktop Cord Clip: We love this vamped up edition of an old hack. The washi tape used here spruces up old clips and adds a touch of glam to the desktop. image via Little White Whale
4. DIY Gold + Acrylic Clipboard: One of the most fun ideas for creating a useful tool for the office. Create a display like this or a one off for personal use. image via Design Sponge
5. Tube Tamer: I don't know about you, but I bought some of those pro squeezers that do this job, but it was so much work to get the tube through the slot. Oh, and my husband threw away the ones I did use along with the empty tube. This low-tech solution will keep all your pastes tidy, and prevent waste. No brainer. image via wikihow
What are our favorite clips you ask? We love them in all shapes and sized, but here's a few pretty ones we think you'll love:
Above: 1. XXL Binder Clips 2. Gold Binder Clips 3. Task Clips 4. Silver Metal Binder Clips


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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Phillimore, John (1781-1840)
PHILLIMORE, Sir JOHN (1781–1840), captain in the navy, third son of Joseph Phillimore, vicar of Orton-on-the-Hill in Leicestershire, and brother of Joseph Phillimore [q. v.], was born on 18 Jan. 1781. He entered the navy in the spring of 1795, on board the Nymphe frigate, with Captain George Murray (1759–1819) [q. v.], and was present in the action off Lorient on 23 June 1795. In 1796 he followed Murray to the Colossus, and was in her in the battle of Cape St. Vincent, and when she was wrecked among the Scilly Islands in December 1798. He was again with Murray in the Edgar in the Baltic, but having been sent to the London, Sir Hyde Parker's flagship, to pass his examination, was in her when the battle of Copenhagen was fought. He was then acting as signal-midshipman, and made the celebrated signal to Nelson to discontinue the action. The first lieutenant of the Edgar having been killed in the battle, Phillimore was promoted to the vacancy; he was afterwards in the London, the Spartiate, and the Gannet sloop, and was made commander on 10 May 1804. In October 1805 he was appointed to the Cormorant armed ship in the North Sea, and in September 1806 was moved to the Belette, a fine 18-gun brig, on the Downs station and off Boulogne under Commodore Owen. In the spring of 1807 he convoyed three storeships to the Baltic for the relief of Colberg, then besieged by the French under Augereau. The Belette afterwards joined the fleet under Admiral Gambier at Copenhagen, and, as a mark of the admiral's approval of Phillimore's services, was sent to England with the despatches. Accordingly Phillimore was advanced to post rank on 13 Oct. 1807, but remained in command of the Belette, which returned to the Baltic, and in February 1808 brought Lord Hutchinson to England from Gothenburg. For some months in 1809 Phillimore commanded the Marlborough in the Scheldt, and in June 1810 was appointed to the Diadem, a 64-gun ship, employed as a trooper with a reduced armament. The navy board therefore gave orders for her to be on the establishment of a 32-gun frigate, with a ludicrously insufficient supply of stores. Phillimore's protests were in vain, until, after pointing out that the paint was barely half of what was required, he begged to be informed which side they would like to have painted, the starboard or larboard. It was in the course of this correspondence that Phillimore, noticing that the commissioners signed themselves—as used to be the custom for a superior office—his 'affectionate friends,' signed himself in his reply as their 'affectionate friend,' for which he was promptly reprimanded. Phillimore acknowledged the letter, and signed himself 'no longer your affectionate friend.' For the next three years the Diadem was engaged in carrying troops or prisoners to or from the peninsula, and in May 1813 Phillimore was appointed to the Eurotas, a 46-gun frigate carrying light 24-pounders on the main deck. During the year she was attached to the fleet off Brest; in January 1814 she was sent off Lorient to watch three frigates reported as ready for sea. On a dark night, with a strong easterly wind, they ran out and away to the westward. Phillimore had anticipated their sailing, and the next morning had them still in sight. After chasing them for three days he lost them in a fog, and, being short of provisions and water, returned to England with the news of their escape. By the beginning of February the Eurotas was again at sea, and on the 25th fell in with the French frigate Clorinde of nominally equal force. The Clorinde had more men, and it was a question whether her heavy 18-pounders were not more efficient than the Eurotas's light 24-pounders. The action which followed was one of the most equal and stubborn during the war. By nightfall the Eurotas was completely dismasted; the Clorinde had part of her foremast standing and drifted away. She was not, however, lost sight of. Phillimore had been most dangerously wounded and was below, but by the exertions of the first lieutenant, when morning came the Eurotas was jury-rigged and going five knots and a half towards the enemy, which was still in the same state as on the previous evening. It was a remarkable bit of seamanship, and must have led to a brilliant success; but, unfortunately for Phillimore, the English frigate Dryad and the Achates sloop came in sight, and on their closing the Clorinde she struck to an evident superiority of force. On 4 June 1815 Phillimore was nominated a C.B., but his wounds rendered him for some years incapable of active service. In April 1820 he accepted the command of the William and Mary yacht, at the disposal of the lord lieutenant of Ireland, Earl Talbot, by whom he was knighted. In March 1823 he was appointed to the Thetis frigate, on a roving commission to Mexico and the West Indies, coast of Africa, South America, and the Mediterranean.
On one of Phillimore's short visits to England during this time his attention was called to the account given in James's 'Naval History'—then newly published—of the action between the Eurotas and Clorinde, which he conceived reflected injuriously on the discipline of the Eurotas. The statement was, in effect, that the 24-pounders did not do as much execution as had been done in other actions by 18-pounders, and that the ship had been long enough in commission for her men 'to have been taught a few practical rules of gunnery.' Phillimore got forty-eight hours' leave, went up to London, and, armed with a stout cane, called on James and administered a sound thrashing, in compensation for which he afterwards paid 100l. [see James, William (d. 1827)]. A better known incident, still often told, occurred on the homeward voyage of the Thetis from Cape Coast Castle, where she had taken an effective part against the Ashantees. In August 1824 she put into St. Michael's for supplies for the sick, when the English residents requested Phillimore to have the English burial-ground consecrated. Phillimore at once consented, and sending for the chaplain gave him an order to consecrate it the next day at noon. The chaplain demurred, and explained that only a bishop could consecrate. Thereupon Phillimore gave him an acting order as bishop of St. Michael's, and the ground was consecrated. In the following year the Thetis went up the Mediterranean, carrying the English ambassador to Naples, and on the homeward voyage put into Gibraltar, just in time to establish a claim to the jurisdiction of the port, in its widest sense. Seventeen English merchant ships, blown from their anchors in a violent gale, had been driven on shore at the head of the bay, on Spanish territory, and were claimed by the Spanish commandant at Algeziras as coming under his authority. This claim Phillimore refused to allow, and leading in the Thetis's boats, manned and armed, drove off the Spanish troops who had fired on the salving party. For this service in salving the cargoes Phillimore received a letter of thanks from the merchants of Gibraltar, and afterwards from Lloyd's; but its principal importance is as a precedent, which has been recorded for the guidance of the senior officer at Gibraltar. It was during this commission of the Thetis that Phillimore, with the consent of the admiralty, tentatively reduced the ration of rum from half a pint to one gill, paying the men savings-price for the other gill. The good effects of this reduction, which was, in the first instance, perfectly voluntary on the part of the men, were so evident that it was permanently adopted by the admiralty in July 1824. To Phillimore were also due other changes for the comfort and improvement of the seamen, among which may be counted the payment of a monthly advance, actually adopted on board the Thetis. Captain Drew, who served with him in every ship he commanded, has recorded that 'his mind was constantly employed in endeavouring to ameliorate the condition of his fellow-creatures, but particularly British seamen;' that he was 'a kind protector to those over whom he was placed in authority … but less agreeable to those under whom he served.' The Thetis was paid off in November 1826, and Phillimore had no further service.
He settled in a cottage on the Thames near Maidenhead. The wound which he had received in the action with the Clorinde had never ceased to cause him uneasiness, and of the effects of it he eventually died on 21 March 1840. He was buried in Bray churchyard.In 1830 he married Catherine Harriet, daughter of Rear-admiral Raigersfeld. She survived him a few months, and was buried beside him. He left issue, besides four daughters, two sons, of whom the younger, Henry Bouchier, died an admiral and C.B. in 1893. [Memoir by Captain Andrew Drew, R.N., in the United Service Magazine, June 1850; Marshall's Roy. Nav. Biogr. v. (Suppl. pt. i.) 242; Gent. Mag. 1840, i. 652; information from Admiral Sir Augustus Phillimore, Sir John's nephew.]


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More and more research is being done these days about the powerful effects of human touch, with study subjects ranging from newborns to NBA basketball players to sexually dysfunctional couples. And what researchers are finding is that touch is such a basic human need it should not be neglected. One scientist, Tiffany Field, PhD, director of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine, goes so far as to recommend getting some sort of touch experience for at least 10 to 15 minutes every day!
Whether by hug, massage, or a pat on the back, connecting physically with another person signals safety and trust; it's so soothing that it can actually reduce stress and anxiety and lower blood pressure. That's because touching releases two powerful natural hormones, oxytocin and serotonin. Known as the "love hormone" oxytocin (not to be confused with the pain-killer oxycontin) is thought to be connected to compassion, while serotonin increases feelings of pleasure or rewards.
Needless to say, intimate touching can also enhance your sex life. But it's like everything else in our busy lives; if it's not on our minds, we probably aren't doing it as much as we should. Well, maybe it's time to start.
Here are some suggestions:
The more you start doing things like this, the more natural it will feel. And before you know it, that hug will lead to a caress… and the caress will lead to a kiss… and the kiss will lead to who knows what!
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Dallas police sent out a bare-bones press release this morning announcing that officer Matthew Gaines, who has been with the department for two years, is on administrative leave after being arrested at about 5:30 a.m. It didn't give any additional details like where he was arrested. I had no luck finding an incident report in DPD's clunky public access system, and the charges haven't showed up in the county's system either. I called DPD's media relations office, coming away with the impression that they were busy with other things. Finally, they gave me the number for the arrest report, from which I learned that his middle name is Lynn.
Never mind, because Fox 4 has the details. Gaines, the TV station reported, had been drinking at a friend's house in Balch Springs and was driving home to Forney. He thought he was still in Balch Springs where he nearly struck a marked DPD squad car parked at Dixon and 2nd Avenue, a few hundred feet from where James Harper was shot last night, nearly drove off the road twice, then narrowly missed hitting a Dallas County sheriff's vehicle. He was arrested and booked into jail, charged with driving while intoxicated.
Gaines will remain on administrative leave pending completion of criminal and internal affairs proceedings. He's out of jail on a $500 bond.
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I tried to keep this short and sweet but 20 singles plus 4 'Honourable Mentions' is the best I could do okay?
2015's Honourable Mentions
Britney Spears ft Iggy Azalea 'Pretty Girls'
Britney should never have been made to work with Iggy. EVER.
But the music video saw Britney give us a dance break which hasn't been seen in pop music videos since the great days of The Pussycat Dolls (sigh) but the most memorable thing about this song was the aftermath of its underperformance on the charts.
Iggy's scheduled summer tour was cancelled because
people realised they value their hearing too much to pollute their ears with such garbage from Crocodile Dundee with a 'blackcent' of poor ticket sales and with that she felt the need to claim Britney should have promoted 'Pretty Girls' more in order for it to be a success.
Britney being the unproblematic Queen we all know and should love took to twitter to comment.
Shade-ney Spears.
Karen Harding 'Say Something'
Now, I didn't even know this lady was from The X Factor until recently. Karen was booted off from TXF a few years back at the Boot Camp stages but none of that makes any difference because this song is a B O P. I haven't heard much from her since then but if this is all she has to offer then I am more than happy with that.
Miley Cyrus -'Dooo It'
I'll tell you whats good- good is when you tell everyone you have a new album available for free AND include a download function so people like myself can listen to said new album on the tube, at the gym, or just out and about and not force me to have to sit at a computer connected to WiFi to listen to your album.
Anyways, Miley released her free "album" called 'Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz' on Soundcloud and it was fronted by 'Dooo It'. Production above anything else is why this song is on my list.
Lets not talk about the video.
Tinashe Ft Chris Brown -Player'
She hasn't quite released anything on the same level of greatness as '2 On' but there is still time! 'Player' was a nice introduction to her second album titled 'Joyride' out in 2016 and illustrates what an excellent dancer Tinashe is.
Just hurry up and become the pop megastar you are destined to be.
20. Fetty Wap- '679'
Its not all about pop you know, I can be #Urban too.
2015 has been a great year for Fetty, he dominated the summer with 'Trap Queen' and proved with follow up singles 'My Way' and '679' that he isn't just a novelty artist and shows no signs of fading into obscurity just yet.
19.Fleur East 'Sax'
Contrary to popular belief there is some saxophone in this song and it isn't just all trumpets I can assure you. Also that X Factor performance of this song is possibly one of the best things I've seen on TV in 2015.
18. Rita Ora Ft. Chris Brown- 'Body On Me'
2015 was the year I finally embraced Rita Ora into my life and just how people find religion and feel a sense of peace and tranquility- I feel much better for it.
Calvin Harris has restricted Rita from releasing any of the music they recorded together resulting in her original second album being scrapped but she didn't let that stop her from releasing bonafide BOPS. She also secured a role on The X Factor as a judge where every week she blessed us with her impeccable collection of wigs during the live shows and last week went on to have the winning act of the series.
17. MNEK & Zara Larsson 'Never Forget You'
MNEK has been on my radar for a while now and it was great to see him and Zara Larsson, who I'm a little less familiar with, score such a big hit with this song. Its rare to find a song that combines elements of dance, deep house and pop so perfectly but here we are!
16. Nick Jonas Ft. Tinashe -'Jealous'
I am still having sleepless nights trying to figure out what is meant by 'chin music' but aside from my personal #FirstWorldProblem Nick-Jay and Tee-Nah-Shay made what was already a good solo song into an incredible duet. See, this is what I'm talking about when I say Tinashe needs to stop messing around and accept her calling as pop's next superstar.
15. Pia Mia Ft. Tyga & Chris Brown- 'Do It Again'
If this is the closest we will ever get to a Kylie Jenner pop career then so be it. Guam native and, more importantly, friend of Kylie Jenner, Pia Mia finally made her leap into the mainstream by sampling J-Boog's 'Lets Do It Again' who is also a Guam native who Pia saw perform in Guam when she was a kid so she wanted to pay homage to him with her debut single. Its all just a massive Pia and J-Boog love-fest isn't it?
14. JoJo- The Tringle
The Emancipation Of JoJo came full circle this summer when she FINALLY released not one, not two but THREE singles on the same day in August which she aptly called her 'Tringle'. Compromised of the Benny Blanco assisted dance pop single 'When Love Hurts', power ballad 'Say Love' and my personal favourite 'Save My Soul' JoJo made a welcome return to the pop forefront after an eternity in music label purgatory.
All three singles showcase JoJo's diverse range and capabilities as a singer and bode very well for her inevitable 3rd studio album earmarked for an early 2016 release.
13. Adele 'Hello'
Adele is better known being seen at the top of any chart she is placed in but in mine she makes it to number 13. Hurricane Adele came in with no warning, she teased a snippet of her first single 'Hello' during a commercial break of The X Factor (which was G E N I U S by the way) and sent the whole of the UK and then the rest of the world into a frenzy. And nothing was the same since.
12. Rihanna- 'Bitch Better Have My Money'
Just hurry up and release ANTI.
11. Charlie XCX & Rita Ora -'Doing It'
Rita makes her second appearance on my list because #PROTECTRITAORA and this time its with Charli XCX with her single 'Doing It'. The solo version of this song never quite clicked with me but low and behold a feature by Rita Ora is all this song needed to make it work.
10. Years & Years 'King'
This was good…
9. Selena Gomez 'Good For You'
Selena done grown up y'all!
Its just a shame the iTunes version I purchased had to include ASAP Rocky and his gross line 'rubbin' on my miniature'
Not cool.
8. The Weeknd 'Can't Feel My Face'
I'm one of those insufferable people that likes to tell everyone that I've been listening to The Weeknd since 2010/2011 when he was delivering stellar mix tapes and being lauded as the saviour of RnB on forums and blogs. Fast forward to 2015 and you can now see The Weeknd performing alongside Victoria Secret Models and nabbing 7 Grammy nominations for his album 'Beauty Behind The Madness'.
All I ask is everyone to stop with the Michael Jackson comparisons.
Its not cute.
7. Hilary Duff 'Sparks'
After multiple false starts in the form of 'Chasing the sun' and absolute CHOOOOON 'All about you' it looked like we were never going to get a new Hilary Duff album. But then fast forward to spring and out Hilary Duff came once again to rise from the ashes with rainbow coloured hair and a pop banger in her arsenal in the form of 'Sparks'. The original music video was one big Tinder advert but then fans wanted more (MOAR) so Hilary released a 'Fan Demanded' version equipped with dancing and no awkward Tinder chatter.
She then went on to release 'Breathe In. Breathe Out' which is in my top 3 pop albums of 2015 but then didn't promote it at all and went back to working on her TV show 'Younger'.
Why you gotta be like that Hilary?!
6. Justin Bieber 'Sorry'
2015 was the year everyone finally released they were a Belieber all along and its hard not to when the Biebs is releasing bangers like 'Sorry'. No one else seems to have noticed or commented on how heavily influenced this song is by the signature sounds of Trinidad and Tobago better known as soca and calypso.
And I would not be at all surprised if in 2016 we see more pop singers adopt soca and calypso into their music because, if 'Sorry' is anything to go by, it works pretty damn well.
5. Taylor Swift 'Style'©
This was,still is and forever will be the best song on 1989.
I just wish the video wasn't so horrid. She could have done so much with this music video,
like cast a male lead that actually looked like Harry Styles especially as so much effort was put into 'Blank Space' and 'Bad Blood'. Why drop the ball at the most crucial point Taylor??!?!
4. Years & Years 'Shine'
…But this was a million times better.
3. Demi Lovato 'Cool for the summer'
People spent too much time questioning why Demi all of a sudden started singing songs Ke$ha (#FreeKe$ha) would sing and missed the entire point that Demi released a BEAST of a song in the form of 'Cool for the summer'.
Demi also shot herself in the foot by debuting the single online in July (you know, peak of summer) and then deciding it should be released in September (you know, THE END OF SUMMER).
And then there was good old Poot Lovato…
2. Carly Rae Jepsen 'Run away with me'
Let me start off by saying Carly Rae Jepsen released THE greatest album of 2015 with 'E•MO•TION' and this is not up for any type of debate.
It is just unfortunate that the album hasn't made the impact it should have and there are hundreds of poor souls walking the streets not even aware that such pop brilliance like 'Boy Problems', 'Warm Blood' and 'Run away with me' even exist.
If you want to let your nearest and dearest know they are loved and cherished in your life this holiday season then purchase a copy of 'E•MO•TION' for them today and see their lives dramatically improve. And just know you did something great today ❤
And if when you listen to 'Run away with me' it doesn't cause you to feel ANY sort of euphoric wave of emotion then you're dead inside. #KThxBye
1.Little Mix 'Black Magic'
If someone told me that I would have become such a huge fan of Little Mix in 2015 I would have paused my mp3 of Fifth Harmony 'Boss', stopped swiping my card and doing the Nae /Nae just for a moment to tell them they are wrong.
Its funny how things work out isn't it?
Little Mix have gone from strength to strength this year and I think its time we crown them the true successors to Girls Aloud in terms of UK Girlbands because no other band is as exciting or consistent in releasing excellently crafted pop songs as Little Mix.
AND they actually do dance breaks in their performances.
We are not worthy.


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A humorous discovery: as it turns out, some of those hyper-literal descriptions of objectionable content that the ESRB publishes about the games it's rating are ridiculous. Logan's tweet yesterday sparked a minor meme in the office, during which we compiled a list of the oddest blurbs-about-bad-stuff penned by the ESRB. If you've found any others, do share.
Don't get me wrong--we're glad to have an independent, non-tyrannical body rating our games--it's just silly to read someone describe your outfit in Mass Effect 2 as a "future-blouse" when the lore-nerd in us wants to utter the word "Clearly..." while re-centering our glasses on our nose and correcting them for using a non-canonical term.
"In one scene, Nancy Drew is threatened at gunpoint and pistol whipped by a man."
"Story elements are told through video clips that can include women in outfits exposing their cleavage. Dialogue contains mild profanity (e.g., "hell" and "bastards" ) as well as derogatory remarks towards Russian troops."
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
"Players engage in quests to gain experience and skills, and use axes, swords, guns to battle enemies in frenetic hand-to-hand combat. Characters grunt or cry out in pain when hit, and collapse to the ground when defeated. Some missions require villains to fight police officers to advance the storyline."
"Some characters are depicted in a suggestive manner: a reptilian female with four breasts exposes deep cleavage; a humanoid with black squares running across her chest is strewn on the ground; and a hermaphrodite character nurses an eager baby by squeezing a breast-shaped pouch."
"In some scenes, the agent draws his gun and fires at some gnomes; however, the gnomes are magical and are not harmed."
"…The central characters also beat up elves off screen amid the sound of screaming. In a couple of scenes, blood is briefly depicted: characters find a note written in blood; an elf-vampire hiccups as a drop of blood falls from its mouth."
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse - Episode 2: The Tomb of Sammun-Mak
"Certain species occasionally throw-up food."
"Players' soldiers use machine guns, grenades, mobile tanks, lasers, and aircraft to kill enemy units. Artillery fire is depicted with realistic sound effects, including battle cries and yells from injured characters; explosions occur frequently, and can be large and detailed. Aliens and soldiers are sometimes depicted bursting into small splashes of blood; gibbing effects and small body parts can also be seen strewn on battlefields; and a few cutscenes may depict small pools of blood around characters, or alien blood spurting across the screen."
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
"One mission requires players to steal a bag of weed from a specific location and give it to a character who replies, 'you high as a kite or what?'"
"The dialogue contains numerous jokes and comments that reference sexual acts, venereal diseases, and having sex with one's mother."
"Dialogue between various characters references suicidal houseplants, bed-wetting, nose-picking, and current affairs in 'Poopslavkia.'"
Strong Bad Episode 2: Strong Badia the Free
"As players groom, play with, and ride their horses, they can progress through a storyline that contains speculation about a secret romance."
"Players can also choose to have 'romantic encounters' with the alien/human henchmen characters; this involves watching a guided cutscene in which two characters flirt, kiss, and/or embrace: clothed alien/human characters may prop a partner on top of a space console, clear away the clutter from a bed-slab, unzip a future-blouse, or just talk it out."
"The game includes several references to alcohol and sexual behavior; for example, 'This man's appetite for wine, women and song know few bounds,' 'If a man wakes up with a hangover and the memory of a warm woman, it may ease the shock of joining the army,' and 'Sodomy: never, Sir, and damn your eyes!' Other text-based references include 'Pickled in Rum,' 'Gin-soaked Reprobate,' and 'I am drunk.' The game contains several references to 'whores' and 'harlots,' and includes a soldier's remark about 'a man who knows how to shoot his load' on the battlefield."
"One cutscene depicts a man and a woman wearing translucent, flesh-toned bodysuits as they flee from danger. The digitized lighting effects, the glow from their futuristic suits, obscure most of the details, though outlines of breasts and buttocks are partially discernable (i.e., not definitively nudity)."
"During the course of the game, players will encounter male and female prostitutes: the screen fades to black as suggestive dialogue is heard in the background (e.g., 'Nice charlies, too! Give them a shake for the Ben-man, will ya?'); there is also an extended sequence suggesting (no depiction) sexual activity with a robot.'"
"A girl stomps and dances on a character named Dr. Fetus, causing puffs of blood to appear. The game also contains an instance of bathroom humor: after a toilet gets flushed, a brown character, Brownie, emerges and emits flatulence."
"The sound of laser gunfire is prominent; characters stagger back when hit, then lie face down when defeated (though some characters get right back up and others disappear after a short period)…players are able to adjust the bust size of certain female characters to exaggerated proportions. Dialogue/text may also contain mildy suggestive phrases such as 'I'll be your guide to . . . pleasures of the body' and "the pleasure goddess of Rixx.'"
"Character dialogue covers a wide range of topics and can include references to suggestive behavior (e.g., '[S]he beds her stable boys and anyone else she can lay hands on while her husband is away,' 'leaving a string of love-sick women and cuckolded husbands in my wake,' and 'my prowess in the art of the bedchamber, in which I must confess a modest degree of skill.')."
"Players are occasionally required to identify and track traces of whiskey/tobacco."
"…During one lengthy scene, Wallace's tea bag accidentally lands on his female neighbor's chest, resulting in an awkward exchange about where the tea bag is…"
Wallace & Gromit Episode 1: Fright of the Bumble Bees (Thanks, Capt`n Gin-o-Cola.)


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Location: Downstairs behind the stairs
For those who like to read more on the topics related to WE ARE THE TIME the library sets up a reading corner each day near the gym next to the staircase. Quick snappers will get an overview of the relevant publications the library holds, slow flowers will have an opportunity to sit down and read.
Book of the day
East art map: contemporary art and Eastern Europe
In the West, virtually every move of the artist, the art market, and the art public is documented. But in Eastern Europe, no such system of documentation or communication exists. Instead, we encounter systems that are not only inaccessible to the West, but incongruous from one country to the next. Beside the official art histories there is often a whole series of stories and legends about "unofficial," unapproved art and artists. East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe is an ambitious attempt to reconstruct the missing histories of contemporary art in Eastern Europe from an East European and artistic perspective. It is perhaps the widest ranging art documentation project ever undertaken by the East on the East, involving a large network of artists, scholars, curators and critics coordinated by the IRWIN group.


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Reality Check
Serious skiers talk a lot about "soul." This mountain has it, that
one doesn't. And though soul is admittedly a nebulous concept-and highly subjective at best-other skiers usually understand what they mean. A mountain's generally accepted soul index tends to be the function of any number of factors, from attitude (typically serious) to terrain (typically challenging) to clientele (typically expert) to history (typically long) to amenities (typically minimal).
But, in every case, there are exceptions. There are glitzy mountains with soul-Sun Valley, Idaho, comes to mind-just as there are simpler, less developed ski areas without it. Trying to pin down soul is like climbing an icy slope in your ski boots-as soon as you think you've found purchase, you're sliding backward again. That's because, in the end, soul is not a discrete quality, something that can be measured like so many vertical feet, but a feeling. And feelings emanate from people, not ski resorts. All of which is to say that soul is where you find it-and you might find it anywhere.
For this issue, we've conducted our own search, unearthing a few places-and a few people-that remind us why we fell in love with skiing. Nathaniel Reade finds his muse on the old-school slopes of Mad River Glen, Vt., a mountain that has steadfastly refused to join the 21st century-and is thriving all the same ("True Believers," page 72). Jackson Hogen hooks up with Dave "the Guru" Powers, one of skidom's genuine characters and a man who knows all there is to know about Snowbird, Utah-as well as a little something about a whole lot of other things ("Guru Dave and the Tao of Snowbird," page 80). Jim Neff, our Senior Midwest Contributor, scales the modest heights of Mount Bohemia, Michigan's experts-only hill, and meets a plucky breed of skiers for whom size doesn't matter ("Small but Mighty," page 88). And finally, Alex Wells sets out on the trail of some of America's lost ski areas, tromping through snow and mud with Jeremy Davis, a 28-year-old meteorologist dedicated to documenting skiing's lively history, one weathered old lift shack at a time ("Lost in the Woods," page 94).
The truth is, we could easily have published six more stories in this issue. Or 60. There's no shortage of soul to be found in the mountains.So do yourself a favor-do the sport a favor-and get out there this weekend and find whatever it is that makes you feel great about skiing. We know we will.
Enjoy the issue.
Closer to God The mountains are inherently soulful.


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H.R.1183 - Acupuncture for Heroes and Seniors Act of 2019116th Congress (2019-2020) |
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|Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-27] (Introduced 02/13/2019)
|House - Energy and Commerce; Armed Services; Veterans' Affairs; Ways and Means
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|House - 03/01/2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. (All Actions)
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Man, revisiting this game is an excellent reminder of what god tier tower defense is all about. You can grind until you max everything out and get 3 stars easily, but the best players will min max their way to a brilliant end as they go.
Memorize the summoning order, know when to conserve mana, and don't be afraid to reset your skills (at no cost, remember it's not a freemium game).