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When Candiani Denim opened their new Los Angeles Design Center, they did it to innovate and educate. Not only will their center help create a deeper understanding of the denims Candiani offers and their "less is more" versatility but it also plans to give back to the denim community with seminars, panel discussions and student/industry/press events. The first in what will eventually grow into a series of educational offerings happened this past Friday in the form of the Kingpins sponsored "Transformers" panel discussion.
Kingpins Transformers was designed to bring a greater understanding of sustainable methods to the jeans industry. The Candiani Design Center hosted a panel that included: Alberto Candiani himself, Mark Werts of American Rag, Mattia Donadi of R13 Denim, Paul Cowell of Archroma and Sheila Foreman formerly of Garment Industrial Laundry. Amid the futuristically cool machines surrounding the Design Center and a generous supply of refreshments, the panel and the industry audience were able to dissect issues of drought, consumer knowledge, sourcing, sustainability and the future of the industry.
Some choice quotes heard during the presentation included:
"We will have transparency in this industry and the driving force will be social media."
Adrew Olah, Kingpins
"We had so many hurdles with the drought and the city of Los Angeles just didn't care."
"How do we get better and stay premium? We have to turn to ozone and laser technology!"
--Sheila Foreman, formerly of Garment Industrial Laundry.
"The end consumer either takes a sustainable approach to life or they don't. We just develop a product with beauty in mind."
"Sourcing is the first step in the right direction for a brand."
"Education changes culture."
--Mattia Donadi of R13
On the state of retail: "Generally, it sucks. You can read about it in my book. But if you do something good, it's always going to be good."
--Mark Werts, American Rag
"Making a tee shirt and using 100 liters of water is just wrong!"
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Carson Carr Graduate Diversity Fellowship
The University at Albany offers the competitive, merit-based, Carson Carr Graduate Diversity Fellowship Program to full-time graduate students who will contribute to the diversity of the student body in the graduate or professional program in which they will be enrolled. The award is named for Dr. Carson Carr, former director of UAlbany's Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), in recognition of his stellar achievements in support of the recruitment, retention, and graduation of underrepresented students.
Eligibility Criteria:
A. To be eligible, applicants must:
- Be U.S. citizens or have permanent resident status, and
- Demonstrate how they will contribute to the diversity of the student body in the program for which they are applying, including having overcome a disadvantage or other impediment to success in higher education. Economic disadvantage, although not a requirement, may be the basis for eligibility under this category.
Membership in a racial/ethnic group that is underrepresented in the graduate or professional program involved may serve as a plus factor in making awards, but may not form the sole basis of such an award and every student applicant shall be evaluated on his or her own merits.
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- New graduate students who are being recruited but who have not yet accepted admission to a University graduate program. This first priority aims to recruit students who will contribute to the diversity of the student body and who otherwise would not come to the University, especially New York State residents.
- Graduate Opportunity Program students who can be awarded a stipend to supplement their waiver to tuition.
- Currently enrolled doctoral candidates who have completed all degree requirements but the dissertation ("ABD").
- Graduate Assistants and Teaching Assistants who can receive a supplement to their current stipends to enhance their retention in graduate studies.
Apply: Applicants submit (via the Graduate Education Application portal for new students or email for current students [with Albany ID number]) an essay (maximum of 500 words) stating how they will:
- Contribute to the diversity of the student body in their graduate or professional program,
- Commit/are committed to increasing opportunities for underrepresented populations, and
- Participate fully in all aspects of the fellowship program, including acting as a mentor and teacher for a wide variety of students.
Applicants who are historically underrepresented minorities (American Indian or Alaskan Native, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, and/or Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander), first-generation college students and/or have a history of overcoming disadvantage are strongly encouraged to apply.
Carr Fellows receive a tuition scholarship, an academic-year stipend, and a Teaching or Research Assistantship. All awards are subject to University-wide policies concerning the limitation on state-allocated funding.
Deadline: January 15th for Summer/Fall and October 15th for Spring.
Questions: Please email all questions to email@example.com.

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The Townhouses at Norfolk Town Center is a 44 unit condominium complex in Norfolk, MA. The complex is comprised of two and three bedroom townhouse style units. In terms of condos in Norfolk, The Townhouses at Norfolk Town Center offer two level townhouse style condos with an average size of around ~2000 square feet. The units are generally all two plus bedroom units with at least one and half baths.
If you're looking for a spacious two+ bedroom condo at a good price, then you should look at The Townhouses at Norfolk Town Center Condominiums. These units are multi level units however many have bedrooms and bathrooms on the first floor which would offer single level living.
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The units have laundry hookups on the 1st floor.
These units were built in 2010.
If you are considering something brand new instead, you may want to check out Boyde's Crossing
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These condos have many of the the benefits of living in a single family home in Norfolk without all of the burden of exterior maintenance and upkeep. If you are tired of the lawn tractor or mower and your snow shovel, then it may be time to look a condo at The Townhouse at Norfolk Town Center Condominiums.
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Search for available Norfolk Town Center Condominium Townhouses
The Townhouse at Norfolk Town Center Condos
These Are the Condos You Have Been Looking For in Norfolk
- Prices are Really Affordable Considering the Overall Size and Quality
- The complex is a close to the Commuter Rail to Boston
- Location is Awesome Located near Downtown Norfolk – you can grab coffee at Cillas and hop on the Boston Train in 5 minutes from the front door of your Norfolk Town Center Condominium unit.
The The Townhouse at Norfolk Town Center Condominiums are located at Meetinghouse Road which is near Downtown Norfolk. This is in the the USPS zip code of 02056. This complex offers a great commuter location with major highways within minutes (route 1,295,1a, 95 and 495). If you take a left out of the complex, you can be onto Route 1 in less than 10 minutes.
Can you bring the Pets to The Townhouse at Norfolk Town Center Condominiums?
At this time, pets are allowed with restrictions. Pet owners will need to check with The Norfolk Town Center Townhouse Condominium Association to see if they are pet friendly at their time of purchase.
Call to schedule a tour @ 617.615.9435
Norfolk Town Center Condominiums in Norfolk Are Not Fully Age Restricted
It's Not a 55+ Plus Community, However There are Some Around
These condos are not entirely part of 55+ plus community. There are units within the complex which are age restricted but there are also units which are open to people of all ages. If you are considering a 55+ community, then there are some 55+ communities in the area. There are some of the buildings that do have age restrictions. You will need to confirm these details at the showing.
If you are looking for a tru 55+ community you should check out The Village at River's Edge which is also a 55+ Community or perhaps The Village at Oak Hill in Plainville. Please call for more 55+ complexes. There are lots of choices in the area. You can reach us @ 617-615-9435.
Price Range and Condo Fees at The Townhouse at Norfolk Town Center Condominiums
Generally speaking, these units sell around $400,000 and up. At the time of writing the condo fees range up to just around $450 per month.
Here is a list of some recent sales at the Norfolk Town Center Condos
The condo fee currently includes:
- Sewer
- Master Insurance
- Road Maintenance
- Landscaping
- Snow Removal
- Exterior Maintenance
Recently Sold in the Condo Complex
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The Official Name of the Condo Complex is….
The official name of the condominium is The Townhouse at Norfolk Town Center Condominiums. There are 44 units in complex. At the time of writing, these condos are managed professionally by an off site management company.
Mortgage Partner in Norfolk MA
Don Carey: Guaranteed Rate – Don is a local resident and long time mortgage originator in the Norfolk area. If you are looking for a lender who can help you in Norfolk then you should give Don a call.
Here are Some Condos at and Near The Norfolk Town Center Condos
$499,000 : 27 Valley St, Unit 27, Norfolk2 beds, 2 full, 1 half bathsListed with Keller Williams Realty Boston South West
$539,900 : 132 Winterberry Way, Unit 132, Norfolk2 beds, 2 full, 1 half bathsListed with Better Living Real Estate, LLC
$574,900 : 15 Cleary Circle, Unit 17, Norfolk2 beds, 2 full, 1 half bathsListed with RE/MAX Real Estate Center
$449,000 : 97 Meetinghouse Road, Unit 97, Norfolk3 beds, 2 full, 1 half bathsListed with William Raveis R.E. & Home Services
$579,000 : 23 Lois Ln, Unit 23, Norfolk2 beds, 2 full, 1 half bathsListed with Coldwell Banker Realty - Franklin
See all Century 21 Realtor in city of Norfolk - 617-615-9435.
(all data current as of 10/29/2020)
Listing information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Read full disclaimer.
Condos in the Nearby Town of Plainville
The Village at Oak Hill in Plaiville
Residences at Eagle's Landing in Plainville
Summit Townhouse on Sunnyside Drive: Condos in Plainville Elizabeth Court: Condos in Plainville
Living in Norfolk
Entertainment and Dining in and Around Norfolk
This area of Norfolk has some pretty decent places for entertainment nearby. There are tons of restaurants, lot's of natural areas for outdoor recreation.
An active night life scene can be found at Patriot Place. Patriot Place is shopping and entertainment destination adjacent to the Gillette Stadium – the home of The New England Patriots..
Adjacent to Gillette Stadium, Patriot Place features more than 1.3 million square feet of shopping, dining, and entertainment. You will find major fashion retailers, live and interactive entertainment, eateries, a four-star hotel, state of the art theatre and much, much more. There is something for everyone at Patriot Place… a once in a lifetime experience, every day!
Some of the venues at Patriot Place include:
- Rennaisance Hotel
- Hilton Garden Inn
- Tavolino
- Scorpion Bar
- Bar Louie
- Davios
- CBS Scene
- Skipjacks
- Splitsville
A recent addition to the Norfolk area is the Plainridge Park Casino which is just down Route 1. This is the State of Massachusett's first electronic slots parlor.
Looking for a local cup of jo' and fresh pastries and sandwiches, you should check out one of my favorite places for a cup of jo and a light bite is Cilla's Coffeehouse
The Local Flavor in Norfolk
Just over on 1A are a couple of staple restaurants that many of the locals frequent. The Horse and Carriage is a long time local favorite for people in Norfolk. The Horse and Carriage sells American style food. The Carriage House Novatos is a new local favorite for people in Norfolk. Novatos serves a varied menue. It does have a lot of American style food, but also has a Portugese influenced menu items. Novatos Bar and Grill in Norfolk
Another local favorite of many locals is The Eaglebrook Saloon in Norfolk on 1A in Norfolk.
Looking for a local cup of jo' and fresh pastries and sandwiches, you should check out one of my favorite places for a cup of jo and a light bite is Cilla's Coffeehouse
Outdoor Recreation in and around Norfolk
If you are an outdoor enthusiast, the Town of Norfolk has so much to offer. There is so much that Norfolk County has to offer.
In Norfolk you have the Bristol Blake State Reservation. The reservation offers 140 acres in the town of Norfolk. The reservation was once home to a commercial sawmill operation. A large, open field welcomes visitors and an old stone lined cow path leads to Stony Brook Pond and Teal Marsh where turtles and great blue herons are easy to spy. A boardwalk leads over Kingfisher Pond to a stand of beech trees, which is a popular spot for a wide variety of wildlife viewing. It is adjacent to the Massachusetts Audubon's 116 acre Stony Brook Wildlife Sanctuary and is managed collaboratively with them.
Another local gem is Lake Pearl. Lake Pearl is quiet picturesque pond located mid way between Boston and Providence. Its one of Wrenthams three sizable lakes, rich with conservation lands and open spaces. Originally known as Whitings' Pond, its history as a thriving dance hall and park soon gave way to its current use as a residential and recreational gem. Funded by the Sweatt Foundation and maintained by many local organizations like the Local Scout Group, Sweatt beach has that small town lakefront beach charm that is enjoyed by many of the surrounding towns.
If you enjoy fishing, you have fishing at the canoe launch on The Charles River on Route 115 or if you prefer fresh still water fishing you could try Bush Pond on Mill Street. Another cool thing you can try is standup paddleboarding AKA supping. You can rent kayaks, canoes, and paddle boards from EMS at Lake Pearl.
The Norfolk Town Center Condominiums are a great place to call home. You will not be disappointed if you end up living here. You can find condos for sale in Norfolk and the surrounding towns (if there are any available today) as well as all available Norfolk and and the surrounding towns for sale on my website.
The Norfolk Public Library is a GEM…the library offers tons of media (CDs, Audio,Video, Online Book Rentals) as well as being a host for a ton of local events.
Another gem of the town is The Norfolk Community League which is a local organization who runs a ton of events for the citizens of Norfolk. Events included the annual Halloween and Christmas runs the Norfolk Day. You can see all of their work at The Norfolk Community League
Reasons people choose to look at condos and homes in Norfolk is that it is an ideal location situated between Providence,Boston, Worcester and Cape Cod. The town property is just a short drive to the Emerald Square Mall Patriot Place, The Wrentham outlets.
Most people in the area relish the fact that they are near Route 1 and Route 495
A Community that cares…There is a food pantry which is very active here in Norfolk as well.
How Much Is My Norfolk Home or Condo is Worth?
If you have been looking for a Realtor who sells The Norfolk Town Center Condominiums then you have come to the right place. Michael Mahoney is a full time Realtor with Keller Williams in Norfolk who has experience selling homes and condos in Norfolk and the surrounding towns of Medfield, Wrentham, Franklin,Walpole,Millis, Medfield and Medway
There are a number of sites on the internet that will give you 'estimates' for what your Norfolk home will sell for. These sites use public records and usually some kind of algorithm to try to produce a value for your home. These sites also publicly state their 'error rates'. That means they aren't correct, they are simply an estimate based on incomplete date. We would love to do a free comparative market analysis of your home or condo in the Norfolk area and let you know what could expect to get in today's market if you are considering selling. Our valuation is based on up to the day data for homes that have recently sold in the area. Our valuation is not based on a formula that relies on public records which can take months to update. Please visit my website in order to get your free property evaluation for your Greater Boston area home or condo.
Get Detailed Reports about Norfolk
If you would like detailed demographic information about Norfolk as well as school reports or market trends and statistics (including recent sales in the area) please visit my website.
Thinking of Selling Your Home or Condo
If you are thinking about selling your property, I would welcome you to evaluate my professional services page dedicated to helping Greater Boston home and condo owners sell their properties here
Michael Mahoney is a full time Realtor with Keller Williams Realty. If you need any help, please feel free to reach out to Michael Mahoney at 617-615-9435. If you are looking for a Keller Williams Realtor in Norfolk then you should reach out to Michael Mahoney. Michael is a Realtor who sells condos in Norfolk, MA.


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It consist of a twin shaft mixer with a build in High Pressure cleaning system. The electromechanical weights ensure total accuracy during the batch process. Aggregates are fed from the bins on a weighted conveyor adding speed to the whole process.
State of the art technology has been used in the manufacture of this plant ensuring that a Quality product can be produced.
The plant is capable of producing 100m3 of concrete per hour. The relative small footprint of the plant ensures that site space required is minimised.
The unit is self contained and the services such as water and electricity is connected at one point. The term "Plug and Play" comes to mind when the plant is set up.
With this acquisition 3Q will be able to offer on site wet batching solutions to their valued clients.


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When people ask me why I chose to practice family law is that it allows me to help families through very difficult times. Another reason is that family law deals with a wide range of issues that have impacts which extend beyond my particular client.
One such issue was recently addressed for the first time in a New Jersey court. The controversy centered around whether a parent would be able to implement a name change for a transgendered child. The child was given a name at birth that corresponded with their physical sexual identity. Later on, as it became apparent the child was transgendered, a request was made to allow the child to adopt a name that corresponded with their true sexual identity. In determining how to make such a decision, the court determined that the "best interests of the child" standard should apply.
For a summary of this case, see the following summary from the NJ Law Journal.
20-3-3621 Sacklow v. Betts, N.J. Super. Ch. Div. (Silva, J.S.C.) (17 pp.) This opinion addresses an issue of first impression before the court; the standard to apply to a transgender minor child's name change application. The court finds that the best interest of the child standard should govern the court's decision and that the following factors should be considered when determining whether a name change is in the minor child's best interest, where the minor child is transgender and wishes to assume a name they believe corresponds to the gender they identify with: (1) the age of the child; (2) the length of time the child has used the preferred name; (3) any potential anxiety, embarrassment or discomfort that may result from the child having a name he or she believes does not match his or her outward appearance and gender identity; (4) the history of any medical or mental health counseling the child has received; (5) the name the child is known by in his or her family, school and community; (6) the child's preference and motivations for seeking the name change; and (7) whether both parents consent to the name change, and if consent is not given, the reason for withholding consent. After analyzing these factors in light of the testimony and facts presented in the case before the court, plaintiff's motion to legally change Veronica's name to Trevor was granted. (Approved for Publication)


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The PA-5000 Male Chastity Belt Requires A Prince Albert Piercing
The PA-5000 Male Chastity Belt is designed for the man with a Prince Albert Piercing. Using the piercing eliminates the need for rings to attach the cage to the body. This attractive device is the state of the art in male chastity for men with the Prince Albert Piercing. We have now included more gauges of hooks for added customizing.
The cage includes a built in cam lock that makes the PA-5000 comfortable and discreet. It looks like body jewelry and acts as a chastity device. The PA-5000 offers absolute comfort and absolute chastity. An included extension ring and three gauges of hooks (4, 6 & 8) allow you to customize your fit.
How To Measure:
While in a completely relaxed state, hold the penis as far away from the body as possible and measure the diameter of the shaft, you should allow 1/8" clearance for hygiene purposes. Then measure the full of the penis. A combination of pins, rings and spacers will help you create the perfect fit.
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Assembly: Attach the leather guide thru your existing PA ring. Drop it thru the cage portion and guide the penis thru while holding onto the cage. Make sure the head of the penis clears the end of the cage. Smooth any loose skin at the bottom of the penis back towards the body.
Remove your PA ring and replace it with one of the hooks provided with the package. Line up the hook with the locking slot in the cage.Push key into the cam lock and gently turn to lock in place.
Cage extender: One cage extender is enclosed for extending the length of the cage if necessary. It is recommended that you use 2 pieces of 1/2" long waterproof tape on each side to hold the extender in place and wear it for one week. If you want to permanently use the extender, put a drop of superglue on each side and allow it to completely dry prior to wearing.
Cleaning/Hygiene: Lather head and shaft of penis with a natural soap. Using the right thumb slide the head of the penis forward and up inserting the small finger on the left hand in order to clean around the piercing pin and inside of the cage. Repeat the steps with the left thumb and right small finger to clean the right side. Rinse thoroughly with water. Hold the penis head and back of cage at the same time. Allow the water to freely run thru the cage removing all soap residue.


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We are making the jelly cake today! Care to join us?
Easy to set up using things we all have in the kitchen, this play activity will surely be loved by kids. There is something about cake decoration, don't you think? Even kids who have sensory issues love to pretend playmaking cakes and cookies!
Somehow we end up quite often in our play with cooking and making cakes! Sounds familiar? Your kids love to play in the kitchen too?
We have started our play today with this lovely tray! Doesn't it look inviting? Wouldn't you want to play with it? So, we had 4 little pudding cups filled with jelly, whipping cream, a little plate with candies and another with sprinkles aside, along with spoons and forks. I used 3 bags of red gelatine with only half litre of water to get jelly to be really hard.
There was a bit of trouble to get the jelly out of the plastic pudding cups. One of them bounced out and almost off the table. We had to chase it! Next one we were more careful! My girls didn't have any previous experience with jelly and all the contact I managed to get from them was as soon as it was out of the cup. It was only time they wanted to either touch it or taste it. Every other part of this play was with either spoon or later on, plastic knife. Guess they didn't like the feel of jelly on their hands!
First girls played decorating the jelly cake with whipped cream using spoons, followed by adding sprinkles and candies by hand. Since they decided not to touch it with their hands at this point, I decided to bring in some fine motor practice with the knife. Cutting through jelly is an awesome way to practice since jelly is really soft and doesn't need extra force. It was easy to cut through with the plastic knife. My toddler girl enjoyed this part a lot. I corrected the way she grabs the knife few times to teach her how to do it properly.
When she cut all 4 jelly cakes to small pieces, we placed them all in a plastic container, added remaining sprinkles and candies, wooden spoon and she made some jelly-o soup with candies! For the end of the play, she used the spoon to scoop the soup into pudding cups for serving to her mom!
This activity is a great example of how play can turn into totally different direction than parent anticipated! It is always a good thing not to stress too much and let the toddler guide the play in the way they like. At the end, it was great play day with many new textures and learning!
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Last December's fire at a Geylang house which killed four foreign workers is a stark reminder that one must immediately leave the scene as soon as a fire is suspected or an alarm sounded.
In his findings yesterday, State Coroner Marvin Bay said the four Malaysian cleaners who died had decided to stay on in the room, despite a fire raging in the building, and wait for help to arrive.
They were rapidly overcome by the toxic smoke and died from inhaling it on Dec 6 last year.
He said it is extremely hazardous to remain indoors to "wait out" a fire. "In a closed space, the build-up of toxic fumes from combustion can quickly reach lethal levels, and overwhelm any person remaining in the premises, well before help can arrive," he said.
Upon suspicion of a fire, everyone within should evacuate without any delay, as the window of opportunity for escape, as can be seen in this case, can be extremely narrow. He noted that two other cleaners - Mr Sapawi Ahet and Mr Peter Awat, both 48 - who fled promptly, emerged unscathed.
Another survivor - Mr Muslin Musundo, 41, who is the younger brother of one of the four who died - tarried only a few moments more and sustained significant burns as he belatedly negotiated the burning passageway.
Mr Jubitol Rumanjing, 37; Mr Ramu Kotiah, 50; Mr Yusoff Masrong, 49; and Mr Maslan Musundo, 43, paid the "ultimate price for their decision to stay and 'wait out' the fire", said Coroner Bay. "This case is a timely reminder, where premises are intended to house a large number of people, of the need to always ensure that passageways of these properties remain uncluttered of combustible materials, and be able to facilitate an expeditious and complete mass evacuation, in the event of any emergency."
All four were found in a room on the first floor of the three-storey Lorong 4 structure. The first three died at the scene between 2.33am and 2.37am while Mr Maslan, who was found sitting in the corner of the room with a blanket over his head, died about 30 minutes later in hospital.
Investigators found that the most likely source of ignition was the heat from the wiring or connections of the fluorescent lighting at the common area outside Room 10, which was across the passageway from the room where the four men were found. The items near Room 10 included a wooden sliding cabinet, styrofoam boxes, long pieces of wood, big plastic boxes and a four-plug extension cable.
Coroner Bay, who ruled out foul play, found the four deaths to be the result of a tragic misadventure.


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Expect the unexpected at Cambridge Folk Festival. Probably the world's best Celtic musicians, McGoldrick, McCusker and Doyle, on uillean pipes, guitar, whistles and fiddle, treated us to a tune called Nando's Jig.
Expect the unexpected at Cambridge Folk Festival.
Top Celtic musicians, McGoldrick, McCusker and Doyle, on uillean pipes, guitar, whistles and fiddle, treated us to a tune called Nando's Jig.
We were told: "John went into Nando's for dinner. A guy came in and went down on one knee to propose to his girlfriend - in Nando's!
"She said: 'We have to talk'. So we wrote Nando's Jig.
Another of their pieces was called Will You Please Stop Playing the Trumpet.
Said McCusker: "We were playing and there was a squeaky noise at the back of the theatre. I thought I heard a trumpet at the back of the hall. I said can anyone hear a trumpet? And there was a guy playing the trumpet to music he had never heard before.
"I don't know about you but I don't think you should bring your trumpet to a gig."
Joyous reels and jigs were interspersed for the main tent's Sunday afternoon audience with songs to break your heart.
One was Memorial Song for people who tried to escape the Irish famine by going to Canada by ship, some 30,000 who never made it, they died of typhus or ship fever. Played on flute, guitar and fiddle, the gentle movement of sea is in the melody.
The chorus was Sailing to Liberty's Sweet Shore.
"The clothes on our backs are all we own. We've left all we've known. For this new life, we're going."
There were several references to the plight of refugees during the festival. The Cambridge audience does not leave its conscience at the gate, it is more likely to wear it on a t-shirt. And if they do forget, they will be reminded from the stage.
There was a lively song about the grave robbers Burke and Hare, two Irishmen who went to Edinburgh and began supplying medical students with bodies. They decided it was easier to kill people than to dig the graves up. They were informed on by one of their wives who thought she might be next. They had turned their attentions to friends and family.
But the most beautiful tune was a waltz written by one of the three when he was aged 18, a wistful melody about the sadness of leaving a harbour.
Next up on Stage One was something completely different. Imarhan are supreme rock guitarists from Southern Algeria. This is sheer rock guitar with African-style drumming - and stupendous. Long sequences of guitar, building and building. Magnificent. They sing in the Tamashek language, which is disappearing.
Then another complete change of style with The Unthanks.
Rachel and Becky, the two singing sisters from Gateshead, are now big favourites at the festival. On Saturday night in the smaller, Club Tent, they sang a cappella. On the main stage on Sunday, they were with a 10-piece band, including Rachel's husband, pianist Adrian McNally, trumpeter Liz Jones, plus drums, guitars, violins and cello.
It is a wonderful sound. Their stories and songs make people laugh and cry. Adrian had been asked by the Bronte Society in Haworth to put music to one of Emily Bronte's poems.
"The night is darkening around me. The loud winds coldy blow. But a tyrant's spell has bound me. And I cannot, cannot go."
The sisters' clear voices paused for some beautiful, unforgettable trumpet solos from Liz Jones which had the audience holding its breath. The moving finale was their lifting song about Charlie's pidgeons: "In the West End of Derby, there's a man. Who says, I can't fly but my pigeons can."
Other Sunday highlights were The Blind Boys of Alabama. These now veteran singers, winners of five Grammys, were only on for a couple of numbers, but one of them was Spirit in the Sky. They still have voices to blast the roof off.
With them were Amadou and Mariam getting the main tent dancing to the music of Mali with Afro-pop.
Meanwhile, over on stage two, the tent was overflowing for an evening session by The Fishermen's Friends.
The-one-who-did-the-talking said five of them were called John. He spoke about the film that has made them even more famous: "Yet another television crew arrived in Port Isaac for a documentary on inbreeding. Father's day is the most confusing day of the year."
The powerfully sung sea shanties delighted the audience with none of this old politically correct nonsense. If you want to haul up ropes, you need to get your spirits up with notions of friggin in the riggin.
The grand finale, closing the festival on the main stage, was Daoiri Farrell's All-Star Celtic Session: Farrell was with Michael McGoldrick, Donal Lunny, Niamh Dunne, Sean Og Graham, Donald Shaw and Robbie Walsh, so bodran, uillean pipes, accordion, fiddle, violin and guitar. Donal Lunny from Planxty sang The Galway Girl, Niahm Dunne on the fiddle also sang - wonderfully, a beautiful voice to stop you in your tracks.
But the rest was dancing and dancing to joyous playing, played with delight and heard with rapture, until we wandered out into the night and were wished a safe journey home. The day had been full of music that was a privilege to hear.


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Houston Ballet – The Letter V, Come In, Reflections – New York
★★★★★ Houston Ballet is a prime example of what a 21st century ballet company should look like: diverse, dynamic and accomplished.
American Ballet Theatre – Tharp Trio: Brahms-Haydn, Deuce Coupe, Upper Room – New York
★★★★✰ Thirty years after its creation, In the Upper Room is still the ultimate Twyla Tharp piece, an expression of American dynamism and New York style.
Interview: Mayara Magri, First Soloist, The Royal Ballet
Jann Parry talks to the recently promoted Mayara Magri at an important time – she is about to make her debut as Gamzatti in The Royal Ballet's production of La Bayadere – her first major and leading role in the company she joined 6 years ago…
Royal Ballet – The Illustrated 'Farewell', The Wind, Untouchable – London
★★★✰✰ Kevin O'Hare is commissioning choreographers who want to make use of what the Opera House can offer; he's not setting out to declare where ballet ought to be heading and he's not playing safe.
Rambert – The Creation – London
★★★★✰ This is the largest production yet mounted by Rambert – celebrating its 90th Anniversary, this year – accounting for over 110 performers, including 70 musicians and singers.
Mark Morris Dance Group – Cargo, A Forest, Foursome, The – New York
★★★✰✰ Every few years the Mark Morris Dance Group presents an evening of dances at the company's Brooklyn headquarters, a nondescript brick building across from BAM…
Pablo Bronstein: Historical Dances in an Antique Setting, Tate Britain
For the next six months, dancers (three at a time) will be performing daily at Tate Britain from 11am to 5pm.
Interview: Alexander Ekman, Director / Choreographer, on Cacti and other things
One of the go-to international choreographers, particularly if you want something arresting and unusual, is Alexander Ekman. His "Cacti", appropriately featuring a stage full of Cacti, is about to be presented by Royal New Zealand Ballet and Sydney Dance Company – Valerie Lawson catches up with a dance maverick…
American Ballet Theatre – 75th Anniversary Gala – New York
American Ballet Theatre know how to do a Gala and this was their 75th Anniversary as well – Everybody seemed to have a good time says Marina Harss…
Mark Morris Dance Group – Pacific, Words, Whelm, Grand Duo, Crosswalk, Jenn and Spencer, and Spring, Spring, Spring – New York
Morris seems particularly interested in deploying turning and spinning movements these days; turns appear again and again in different forms in many of the new works, especially fast chaînés or dizzying rotations in one spot.
Washington Ballet – Twyla Tharp: All American bill – Washington
With its new program titled Twyla Tharp: All American, the Washington Ballet paid homage to the high priestess of American dance…
Kings of the Dance / Ardani Artists Management – New York
…so I will just conclude with noting that another depressing thing about the evening's kitsch-ridden choreography was that it didn't quite obscure the occasional glimmers of brilliance that reminded us that these men are, indeed, among the world's best, despite this tawdry presentation.


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Sunday, Sept. 26
With regret, we leave Chama, (which means "group". It's 44* and gold leaves are all over the Coyote and truck. A flock of blackbirds with about four inches of white tipped wings and breasts and a white "V" at the shoulders flurry to get out of our path at the exit gate. Darrel says he remembers those from Alaska, but I of course, just fell off the turnip truck, and have no memory of them.
On to Pagosa Springs, Colorado--upward about 10,000 feet into the San Juan Mountains. After ten miles the temperature has dropped to 35*. We stopped to take pictures of the monument type mountains all around us. A real estate sign says we could buy 43 acres for $69,000. What a good idea! A Colorado horse ranch...I'm green with envy as we pass these farms. Aspens look like Eucalyptus trees except for the yellow leaves no self-respecting Eucalyptus would don.
Monster mountain views at Pagosa Springs with alluvial fans of black dirt below them. We pass the Red Rider Rodeo Fairgrounds. It's pretty steep this morning at 9:00 a.m. A plume of steam curls off the sulfur springs in the center of town. I bet that looks eerie at night. Hmmm. The huge lumber yard is empty and closed. I can't tell if that's due to the economy or EPA. Gas is $3.20 (diesel). The air is so still that several giant balloons are getting ready to take off. Pretty spectacular up close. Very user unfriendly for RVs.
The Albuquerque Balloon Festival starts next week. I guess these guys are just practicing, not wanting to waste a perfect day for ballooning. Thousands of people are in town.
Were looking for lunch in Durango, but can't take the Coyote down the narrow street to town. And we're really disgusted about that. The big mountains have huge patches of orange spread on them that have to be Aspen tree groves tucked amongst the evergreens. From our distance it looks like a random-patchwork quilt.
We're in the high desert again--scarce coniferous trees about 20 ft. high--all plains surrounded by Rocky Mountains a few hundred miles away. Highway 191 to Moab , Utah is a scenic Rd., so I'll be interested to see what it's about--dry land full of grasses and sagebrush. (Utah means "one that is higher up." Please remind me I don't want anything in Dove Creek County. Stark, brown, ugly treeless, junky. People must be tied to the land to stay. No farm animals even.
Utah's adjoining plains are planted in hay and sunflowers. Lots of clean sky and sideroads that go right over the horizon. Traveling through Arches National Park we see a distinct formation called Church Rock. It looks like a fat pile of dough with a couple of sporting horizontal colorful striations, some resembling geodesic buildings. Some look like a giant child dropped a top. Some look like castles. Just like Utah pictures with caves in their cliffs. We did take some pictures since there was a turnout available.
The land is adobe red now, sprinkled with brush. Freeway fenceposts are impaled in red stone. I feel pretty insignificant in relation to these formations. Not even a person pebble.
Just before Moab on 191 the ground looks like somebody overturned a rock truck for 20 miles before town with a ton of homeless people squatted on this land--like Tijuana, Mexico, in case you've see that mess. They're either desperately poor or desperately stupid, but the city is charming--same western town facades we've been seeing--so cute. But it's definitely an oasis on the desert. Not to mention a tourist trap. Even though the season is supposed to be over, the place is overrun with tourists. We tell ourselves we're not lowly tourists. I guess we're just trailer trash.
We've taken 191 to the I-70 and West. Moab is in a bowl with the Colorado River going through it. Now the cliffs are back. I wonder what mineral would cause that color. I-70 West turns totally desolate. We've planned to overnight in Green River--I hope it's green--everything here is moonscape bald.


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"You are as alive as anybody else"
If you've heard of The Fault in Our Stars, the recently released movie based on John Green's bestselling book, you've probably heard that it's about teenagers with cancer. And while this is true—the main characters, Gus and Hazel, meet in a teenage cancer support group—one of the movie's greatest triumphs is not letting the characters be defined by their cancer.
Green spent six months as a volunteer chaplain at a children's hospital after college, when he was considering becoming a priest. Although he claims to have been an awful chaplain, The Fault in Our Stars is in part a reflection of what he learned. The experience left him with the distinct impression that we misunderstand and therefore mistreat the terminally ill.
When I saw Green speak last fall, he said he was tired of books and movies about sickness in which "the sick people only exist to teach healthy people lessons." Sick people usually die in that type of book, he said, so that their friends and family cn learn to appreciate the everyday.
Green doesn't want people who read his book to learn to appreciate the everyday, he said. He wants them to appreciate the complexity of the lives of the people around them, even if (especially if) those people are sick. What surprised him most about his time as a chaplain was that the kids didn't want to talk about how sick they were or how much they'd miss their families. They wanted to talk about crushes and hobbies and their favorite bands.
There's a scene early in the movie, when Gus and Hazel have just met. He asks her, "So, what's your story?"
"I was diagnosed when I was 13," she begins.
He interrupts her: "No, no, no—your real story."
Gus and Hazel's love story is intertwined with the progression of their illness, but it's also distinct from this. Illness at a young age doesn't turn them into ethereal, precocious beings, like Beth March in Little Women. (Gus plays video games for hours a day; Hazel obsessively watches America's Next Top Model.) They're not suffering from cancer, they're living with it.
Green now spends time talking with young cancer patients a few times a month, either in person or in online video chats. In a recent New Yorker profile of Green, Margaret Talbot describes how in one of these meetings a 16-year-old boy asked Green what to do about "the distance that can arise between the healthy and the dying." Talbot writes:
Green said that people sometimes built a wall between themselves and those with chronic illnesses, because it was easier for them to think of sick people as "other." He continued, "But if you are alive you are as alive as anybody else. And the full breadth of human existence is available to you. The wall is a lie."


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Welsh national identity emerged among the Celtic Britons after the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the 5th century, and Wales is regarded as one of the modern Celtic nations.
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Jim Robinson, a co-founder and managing partner at RRE Ventures stated in an interview with Bloomberg his intention to bid on the next USMS auction. Tim Draper also confirmed his intention to bid via an email sent to Bloomberg News earlier today. Both men are investors in the exchange "Mirror" which recently re-branded from the name Vaurum.
Robinson told Bloomberg that because Draper won the last auction, it puts him in the "prime seat" for the next offering, confirming that the auction is nothing more than a charade.
"They were able to conclude the transaction, it went off without a hitch, the Marshals were happy, the buyers were happy, the markets were happy."
Asked what he thought of the recent price decline, Robinson told Bloomberg:
"We just don't yet know what the regulatory bodies, of which there are several, are going to do. We do know that they're all working very very hard to define parameters. Parameters around consumer protection, parameters around legality, around what we all AML/KYC, so that's all happening now.
What that means is that various aspects of the government have said OK, this is here, it's going to stay, how do we ensure basic protections? Because you don't have that defined today, I think there is some amount of downward pressure for that, there has been certain transactions on the market in recent months that have caused price declines, so called bear whales, folks selling big blocks.
My own speculation is that there is no real price discovery at the moment when you consider something like three trades out of four are OTC."
Robinson speculated that the price will rise and not drop as a result of the auction.


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Jurors hear last radio call from officer slain by snowplow
Accused has pleaded not guilty to 1st-degree murder in death of 11-year police veteran
Jurors heard the last words that Sgt. Ryan Russell said over a police radio and saw dashboard camera video of the oncoming snowplow that was moments away from taking his life, on Tuesday in a Toronto court.
Russell, 35, died in the line of duty on Jan. 12, 2011, when he was run down by a stolen snowplow near Avenue and Davenport roads.
The 11-year police veteran had been trying to stop the snowplow, after it was observed being driven erratically through Toronto streets.
The dashboard video includes the moments when Russell was in pursuit of the snowplow, as well as images of the vehicle reversing and coming straight at the officer.
The camera shows the cruiser getting hit. But what happens to Russell isn't seen.
Jurors also heard the final radio call that Russell made.
He could be heard telling a police dispatcher: "He's coming after me, hold on." Then there was silence.
The fallen officer's wife, Christine, broke into tears when she heard her late husband's voice Tuesday, as did many of the family members and friends who were there to support her in the courtroom.
Richard Kachkar, the man behind the wheel of the snowplow, is on trial for first-degree murder and dangerous driving. He has pleaded not guilty to those charges.
The judge has told the jury that there is no doubt that Kachkar drove the snowplow that killed the officer. But jurors will have to determine what the accused's state of mind was on the day that Russell died.
The Crown is trying to prove that Kachkar hit Russell deliberately, intending to kill him.
'Do you want to come for a ride?'
Earlier Tuesday, jurors heard that Kachkar rolled down the window on the snowplow that same morning and asked a man standing on a downtown street: "Do you want to come for a ride?"
Michael Hau was working as a concierge at a building at 99 Avenue Rd., on the snowy morning when the officer died. Hau saw the plow driving through the streets before Russell was struck and killed.
Hau, continuing his testimony from Monday, said the driver of the snowplow shouted the question as he drove past.
"I immediately thought he was drunk or under the influence ... of drugs," Hau told the Toronto court.
However, jurors have already been told by Crown attorney Christine McGoey, that testing did not find any traces of drugs or alcohol in Kachkar's system, other than a trace amount of cannabis.
Defence lawyer Bob Richardson asked Hau if it was clear there was "something wrong" with the snowplow driver. Hau replied yes.
Taxi driver Tamrat Beyene testified Tuesday that he saw the snowplow make a U-turn in front of the cab he was driving at the intersection of Davenport and Avenue roads.
Beyene said he saw the plow hitting cars, then turn to head south while driving in the northbound lane. Beyene told the court he followed the plow to get the licence plate number.
Beyene said the snowplow driver opened the driver-side door as he passed, asking him, "'Why are you following me?'" Beyene testified the plow driver then swore at him and drove off.
The court also saw photos documenting the damage to Beyene's cab.
Tesfaye Tefari, another cab driver, told the court he was at a taxi stand when the snowplow sideswiped him, damaging his car on the driver's side. Tefari says he called 911 after the snowplow hit his car a second time.
A video played to the jury showed the snowplow crashing into a luxury car dealership on Avenue Road.
The trial continues.
With files from CBC's Steven D'Souza and The Canadian Press


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"We are all one in Christ, race doesn't matter to God"
"God calls us all to be united, can't we focus on what we have in common? That's Jesus."
"We need to focus on saving souls, not this political stuff"
Sound familiar?
Most times that I have conversations about race in the Church, these are the most common responses. They make me want to run to a high place and yell "STOP HYPER SPIRITUALIZING AND AVOIDING THE SUFFERING OF HUMANS AROUND YOU!" But alas, in my day-to-day, I don't have space for that much dramatic activity, and it clearly wouldn't be helpful for moving the conversation forward (though cathartic as hell for me). This is because at our core as a religious community, we only associate racial oppression with a picture of White supremacy that looks like this…
With pictures of hooded figures and intentionally hateful people in mind, we divorce ourselves from our collective racial (Christian) history as well as our modern involvement in perpetuating racism. It is easy and natural for us to distance ourselves from the conversation because we never owned slaves or don't feel racist. The Church most often prefers focusing on good and spiritual intentions for unity over understanding our involvement in racism in the United States. It is this removal from our historical reality and our inability to look racism square in the face that causes the Church to fundamentally misunderstand what White Supremacy is (and by extension to do anything about it). We understand racism as individual racist moments instead of a historically entrenched system of oppression rooted in capitalism. So lets go back to basics:
White supremacy is the historically entrenched system of benefits and protections afforded to White society politically, economically, and culturally in such a way that provides White people overwhelming control over resources and power (physically and ideologically).
All of these powers and resources normalize Whiteness consciously and unconsciously in ways that produce phenomenons like mass incarceration, heightened mortality rates among People of Color, and everyday messages that People of Color are serviceable to White society. White supremacy in short, affords unearned privileges and benefits to White society while dehumanizing and perpetuating injustice against People of Color.
Christians must be clear: God hates injustice and thus hates White Supremacy. So, in order for Christians to fully embody the love of a God who hates evil, we must also hate what God does and be willing to take a look at the roots of our oppressive systems.
In the United States, one of the most wealthy and powerful nations in the world, our roots are clear and pervasive: We are a nation built on the well intentioned but unjust acquisition and multiplication of wealth. Particularly as Christians in the West, we don't get a pass when it comes to thinking critically about money, our text is actually quite clear about it.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains. 1 Timothy 6:9-10
1 Timothy 6:10 is not only true in theory but is the foundation on which the United States built the modern experience of racism that we have inherited today. Our story is one of well intentioned Christians motivated by the pursuit and love of money that inadvertently ensured that the U.S. became the first nation born simultaneously racist and capitalist.
In the case of the United States, the love of money is the root of White Supremacy
In other words, White supremacy and economic power through capitalism were established together In the United States like baking ingredients together -they started distinct, but when mixed together and "baked in" have created an entirely different reality- the White supremacist culture that we inherit today with the tagline "land of the free, home of the brave."
But how did this all come to be the foundation of the United States?
Let's do a quick history.
Genocide and Land Seizure
When earlier colonizers landed on the East Coast, they had one thing in mind- a new life of religious and economic freedom from the English government. They came under the notion of Manifest Destiny- that God, Glory, and Gold awaited them in the "New World." Obviously, the world wasn't new and over the space of ~400 years (prior to the Indian Removal Act of 1830), they took more than a billion acres of land from indigenous peoples through genocide.
This was not initially racially motivated…
The desire for land and a better life created the pretenses necessary to claim that Native people were "savage" (and thus unfit for their land) because their cultural values differed from White Europeans. So, in just over 100 years, European settlers intimidated, threatened, raped, and murdered millions of indigenous people while withholding vaccines and medicine for disease that they had brought such as cholera and smallpox.
The economic incentive here: land.
For people settling in the U.S. to create a capitalist economy, land was the first key component in an acquisition of wealth itself, but more so as the basis for generating income as an agricultural economy.
The love money is the root of all kinds of evils.
But what happens when you steal more land than you can till? What happens when your economy is starting to grow toward massive global imports and already is yielding significant financial income?
You need more laborers.
Not enough white workers and indentured servants came from Europe and the mass demand for labor created a market boom and need for supply. It was over 10 million enslaved people from Africa who filled this market void.
Notice here that no one had to say "hmmm, black people aren't really human, lets buy them." We would like to think of it that way because it is easier to distance ourselves from someone who is abjectly racist. But that is not the reality, they simply took the most cost effective route to building economic capital, much like we would think of buying a tractor or new tools.
Through their need to make their stolen land profitable, they increased demand for human capital, buying people as objects who would be trapped in intergenerational slavery…meaning that purchasing a female slave and raping her was incentivized because her child was born a slave and belonged to you. In this way, the early dehumanization and objectification of Women of Color is deeply embedded in the U.S. economy. Learn their names and histories. Say their names.
Increasingly, Black people became marketable objects under the guise of practicality and properly "stewarding" land that colonizers believed that God had intended them to have. The byproduct however, of buying and treating black people as property, is the elevation of Whiteness over anyone who was not White. The enslavement and high demand for cheap and forced labor was the single largest factor for moving the the United States from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy because of the exporting of cotton.
10 million enslaved African people purchased on blocks as objects as the backbone of our entire historic economy.
The love of money is the root of all kinds of evils
Divide and Conquer
European colonizers now had a different problem- they were outnumbered. Both European low wage laborers (soldiers, manual laborers, etc), indentured servants, poor whites, and tenant farmers joined the fight for greater freedom as enslaved Africans began to revolt. The U.S. colonizers, fearing the loss of their property, money, and general livelihood, responded with a tactic that, to this day, is employed to hinder racial and socio-economic justice: divide and conquer.
The White elite legally gave privileges to White indentured servants specifically but lower class white people in general including the right to carry weapons, to join localized militias, and to acquire land among other opportunities and protections not afforded enslaved people. They did this on the basis of skin color and continental origin, thus protecting their wealth through elevating Whiteness and instilling an explicit ideology that White people had greater inherent value than Black and Indigenous peoples.
They took this one step further by employing poor white people to work in slave patrols whose job was to protect and return human capital to their White owners. White people now had an incentive on the base of skin color to band with other White people instead of on the basis of their economic need. White privilege and power became the means through which the love of money was protected.
Anti-Blackness thus became and remains the most crucial component and the modern upholding of White supremacy, even at the economic detriment of impoverished White people.
The love money is the root of all kinds of evils.
Global Colonization
In the mid 1800's after the Indian Removal Act, the U.S. set its sights on the west coast and world as spaces of new economic possibility. The move west involved the seizure of half of Mexico for the sake of greater land and the production of resources. After taking half of Mexico, the U.S. violently forced Indigenous peoples to flee or to become tenant farmers on the land that was once theirs.
After taking so much of Mexico "successfully," they continued on to Guam, Puerto Rico, The Philippines, Hawaii and Cuba all along the way physically and economically exploiting nations while gaining the neo-colonial benefits of additional economic and military power.
The love money is the root of all kinds of evils.
Much of the "what happened" isn't new or profound, but in these major events: genocide and seizure of native lands, enslavement of African peoples, and the annexation of land from People of Color communities, it becomes clear that while the U.S. did not start with White supremacist or bad intentions, that the love, acquisition, and defense of monetary power created our modern racial landscape and the significant success of our capitalist and spiritual society.
The love of money created exploitative capitalism and thus, White supremacy.
This is sobering because historically, the absence of bad intentions does not produce good or neutral results. Even good intentions like fleeing religious oppression and seeking economic freedom, keeping your community safe through policing, doing missions to unreached peoples, and trying to help develop undeveloped nations have produced some of the greatest evils in the developed world.
And if these came from the love of money and the pursuit of being rich…then the very thing that created white supremacy and exploitative capitalism is inside of us and in our religious communities. We must take the love of money seriously and work actively to dismantle the embedded idea and practices in our society, churches, and communities that rely on oppression to uphold Whiteness as normal in our theology, politics, and interpersonal relationships.
Spiritualized capitalism and racism are not the way of Jesus and God is constantly working to rectify the evils of his people's historic and present suffering by helping them to see differently and more clearly. He is tearing down empires, flipping over tables, and judging nations because he is not ok with what the love of money has created.
So, as Christians (particularly in the U.S.), we have no excuse. Our history speaks of our corporate role in creating White supremacy…so what are we going to do to dismantle it in our relationships, ideologies, Churches and in our relationship with money?


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Happy Holiday's neighbors and friends. Hopefully you and yours will be able to join us this season for Winter in Willmore and the Annual Holiday Potluck. Included in this email are a listing of several events happening in and around the Willmore City Historic District of Downtown Long Beach.
Make sure to check to check out the latest WCHA Newsletter, the award winning Willmore Enterprise: https://willmorecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/December-2012.pdf. Send your address information to firstname.lastname@example.com and we will send you a copy of next months Willmore Enterprise in the mail.
Code Enforcement Meeting
This meeting gives neighbors a platform to report code violations they observe occurring in the Willmore City / Drake Park Historic District and the West End neighborhoods with a City of Long Beach Code Enforcement representative. To learn more about the City's Code Enforcement program, Neighborhood Services Bureau visit www.longbeach.gov/cd/neighborhood_services
NOTE: The Code Enforcement Meeting is now scheduled for every THREE MONTHS (March, June, September, and December), instead of monthly.
Winter in Willmore, Saturday December 15, 2-6pm at Drake Park
Second Annual Winter in Willmore Celebration at Drake Park. Enjoy holiday lights, treats, crafts and pictures with Santa for kids, music and general merriment. There will be the Tree of Lights lighting! We ask that all attendees bring a can food item which will be donated to Food Finders.
WCHA will have a bake sale booth to help with event expenses. Contact Kathleen to let her know what you would like to bring or if you would like to help with the booth at firstname.lastname@example.com or 818.470.0005.
For additional information visit: https://willmorecity.org/?page_id=1719
DRC Holiday Forum
Mix, Mingle, and share some Holiday Cheer with your Downtown friends and neighbors at the final Downtown Residential Council forum for 2012. Great food and drinks. Fun raffle prizes. And more! Join in our charity cause to support ORCA's sock drive. Bring a pair of socks or two to be donated to those in need this holiday season!
Annual WCHA Holiday Potluck
This year the event will take place at the incredible Sherron Leno's home. This meticulously restored Queen Anne cottage owes its charm to Sherron's loving attention to detail. Bring a dish, meet new friends and catch up with old ones, while admiring Sherron's hard work.
FREE Evening at the Aquarium
Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 6:30 PM
Aquarium of the Pacific
100 Aquarium Way
Vice Mayor Robert Garcia cordially invites you to kick off the new year with a FREE evening at the Aquarium.
RSVP is required at 562 570 6919 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Space is limited. Parking structure is $8.
Every Friday from 11 am – 2 pm
East Village Arts District
Please Join us for Lunch at the East Village Arts Park every Friday from 11:00AM -2PM.
For more info: http://www.facebook.com/
2nd Saturday Shop & Walk will start again in 2013
We're Back!… The 2nd Saturday Shop & Walk will start again in 2013 and run four times a year… Get ready to visit and learn about local Downtown Businesses with your awesome Downtown Neighbors!
Stay tuned for more: http://www.facebook.com/
Arts Council for Long Beach
Request for Qualifications (RFQ)
DEADLINE: Wednesday, January 9, 2013
The Arts Council for Long Beach is issuing this Request for Qualifications (RFQ) seeking performers, artists, artist groups and organizations able to engage City of Long Beach residents through participation in the A LOT Initiative, a program of the Arts Council for Long Beach supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Our Town grant.
This is a great opportunity for neighborhood groups, youth groups, churches, schools and various other organizations to partner with artists and performance groups throughout Long Beach. If you would like to produce more arts events in your neighborhood, the A LOT Initiative is a great way for you to connect with artists and collaborate with the community. We are asking for interested groups to partner with artists and submit an application to be involved in city-wide initiative.
For more info: http://artslb.org/lot-
DRC Discounted Day Passes for
WE Labs (Work Evolution Laboratories)
105 W. Broadway (near the corner of Pine)
Dear Downtown Resident,
Hope this email finds you well. I would like inform you that there is a creative cowork facility in the center of Downtown Long Beach. WE Labs (Work Evolution Laboratories) is located at 105 W. Broadway (near the corner of Pine). WE are a 5,500 square foot creative cowork space with over 20 desk space, highspeed wifi, members lounge, kitchen, conference room, project studio and many other amenities. WE are currently accepting both full time and part time members. WE offer day passes for people who would like to try out the space for a day and/or those that may want to occasionally drop in. We're offering residence that live within 90802, 90813 and 90806 a discounted day pass of $20 from our regular $35 and this does include free coffee :-). Residents interested in the discounted day passes just need to fill out our membership inquiry form at http://welabs.us/
Also, if you would like to come in for a tour you can contact me, Markus, at firstname.lastname@example.com or (562) 264-5883 to schedule a time.
Our goal is to build a creative hub of professionals that assist one another in success and WE look forward to building this strong network in our awesome city of Long Beach. Thank you for your support.
Markus D. Manley
Founder @ WE Labs
The DLBA is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:
Residential Coordinator– Click Here to View Job Posting
The Residential Coordinator is responsible for supporting the operations department by managing relations between the DLBA and its Property Based Improvement District (PBID) residential stakeholders, while developing and managing the residential outreach program. It is envisioned that this position will require work from both a top down and bottom up approach to coordinate with the residential stakeholders. This means that the Residential Coordinator will be expected to develop the outreach program or components of the program independently while also engaging the residential stakeholders for input and assistance in preparing and implementing the residential outreach program.
Communications Manager– Click Here to View Job Posting
The Downtown Long Beach Associates (DLBA) is seeking an experienced communications professional to serve as its Communications Manager. The Communications Manager will work with the DLBA's management team to develop and implement communications strategies to further DLBA's mission, goals and initiatives.
The Communications Manager will play an active and primary role to develop communications protocol and exercise best practices for DLBA to implement. The Communications Manager will work with DLBA President and CEO, senior staff, Board of Directors and outside consultants in coordinating communications across the various departments and activities of DLBA.
Saturday, December 15, 2012 from 8 am to 4:30 pm
Volunteers wanted for The Christmas Store
The volunteers have a great time helping the families and the kids shop. To put your name on the volunteer list, send an e-mail to BBLB.ChristmasStore@gmail.
address, and phone number. Our volunteer coordinator will contact you.
Saturday, December 15, 2012 from 12pm to 4pm
A Victorian Christmas, at The Bembridge House
Get in the holiday Spirit with a tour of the beautifully decorated Bembridge House.
Pine Avenue Street Improvement Project [see attached brochure]
Check out the plans for the Pine Avenue Street Improvement Project. Stay tuned for the start date.
For more info, please contact:
Long Beach Development Services, (562) 570-LBDS, www.lbds.info
Former American Hotel building (http://www.psychictemplelbc.
The iconic structure built in 1905 located just east of the Promenade on Broadway and now known as the Psychic Temple, produced the following press coverage:
LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/
LBPost.com: http://www.lbpost.
Stay connect to your downtown neighborhoods – http://www.facebook.com/
For more events visit: http://www.downtownlongbeach.


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We're so much more than a beautifully restored building. We're an incubator of the arts in Pittsburgh – and we're passionate about providing a space for creative minds to develop, collaborate, and grow. We provide artists with technical, moral, and financial support, so they can make their magic. Because making art requires both imagination and significant resources, please support us with a charitable contribution.
Your financial gift directly supports the work of the artists at the New Hazlett Theater by allowing us to keep their share of the facility costs rock-bottom affordable. With your help, we can remove barriers and our artists can create the work you enjoy so much.
The Richard King Mellon Foundation has made a generous offer: for every new donor we bring in, they will match the donation 100%. It's an amazing show of faith and support for the New Hazlett Theater. One that is only matched itself by the generosity of our local community.
Watch the video below to learn more about how your donation to the Theater is making a difference by supporting local artists.
The official registration and financial information of The New Hazlett Center for the Performing Arts may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll-free, within Pennsylvania, 1-800-732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement. All contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.


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Recalling the classic cruisers of the past but designed and engineered as a 21st-century expedition vessel for a European client using the latest CFD software, the 56m design by Hoek Design Naval Architects got under way in the third quarter of 2016 and is slated for delivery in February 2019.
Conceived for extended cruising in polar regions and the Northwest Passage, the Ice Class steel hull has been designed for optimal seakeeping and will be equipped with IMO Tier III diesel electric propulsion. She also has generous under-deck storage for two sizeable tenders, the latest satcom communications (housed in domes integrated into the composite funnel stack), and a large platform built into the hull structure with retractable stairs for easy boarding.
"The project began originally as a refit of a former buoy laying vessel built in Germany, keeping only the very seaworthy hull," explains Mehmet Karabeyoglu, CEO of Turquoise Yachts. "But it was then decided to rebuild the hull as well with further optimisation by André Hoek. She is effectively a completely new vessel."
The interior design, by the Hoek office with décor by Vickers Studio in the UK, will reflect the period styling of the exterior by subtly combining contemporary and classic motifs with teak detailing. There will be intimate and cosy indoor spaces as well as expansive open deck spaces for relaxation. Master Yachts Consultancy are acting as the owner's representative and project manager.
The update follows news this month that Turquoise Yachts has sold its 77m project Victory, a motoryacht that was being built on speculation. Also in build at the yard is 74m Barracuda and an 81m project, both of which are for sale, and 66m NB67 for a client.
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"Gothic style 14th century Palace fit for a king, in prime location with South facing unobstructed lagoon view. Amenities include the world's largest pillar less hall, secret court rooms, torture chamber and private jail."
Let your friends know
In this fake real estate listing a few important facts remained undisclosed: fire damaged multiple times, perpetually in the need of repair and a flood prone moldy basement. Luckily for the tens of thousands of tourists streaming through the doors of the Doges Palace or Palazzo Ducale in Italian or Pałaso Dogal if you are Venetian it was never up for sale.
Founded on a plot selected in the 9th it would take at least three fires, rebuilds and additions until the 16th century before the Palace got its current good looks. To get beyond the façade a walk along the covered walkway from St Mark's square and around the corner on the lagoons side leads to the entrance. There at the Porta del Frumento (Wheat gate in English) is the ticket office.
Behind the scenes
With a ticket to one of the worst kept secrets in Venice, the openly advertised "Secret itinerary tour" the group assemble under the loggia inside the gate. The tour is only offered with a guide (in Italian, English or French) to take visitors beyond the palatial rooms and into the inner workings and seedier side of the Venetian Republic. The guide meet up and point out the two wells in the center of the yard and the "Giants" staircase at the far end before heading for the door.
Bottoms up
First the (luckily) small group is taken through a narrow door and down a stairs into the "Wells" (Pozzi). The low point is a row of dark prison cells where canal water seep in at high tide and from which there was no escape. From then on it is up via stairs into the sparse office of the notary. Then follows the Office of the Great Chancellor an elected official once paid well enough to avoid temptations of bribery. Much of the secrets of the inner workings of the Republic were documented and stored in the Secret Chancelleries chamber lined with cabinets under lock and key.
Perhaps some of those entering the "Chamber of Torment" had disclosed just such secrets. From a group of cells lining the wall prisoners were forced to listen to the screams of the one of them being tortured by hanging by the arms from a rope suspended from the high ceiling. Death was not intentionally inflicted but the screams of pain were meant to incentivize other prisoners to spill the beans. From there the tour continues to the "Piombi" (lead in Italian) cells so named after the lead plate roofing material above. A collection of arms is on display in one room and in another the mechanism for the hanging ceiling of the Chamber of the Great Council can be seen from above.
Locked up lover
As interesting as this may seem the reasons we are here are neither armaments nor building mastery but the pursuit of love. Synonymous with it Giacomo Casanova was accused of an affront to religion and one too many amorous pursuits. However as he was of some wealth and had contacts he avoided the basement Pozzi and instead had to contend with "millions of fleas" and occasional cellmates in the Piombi under a roof where he could not stand straight. Sentenced to five years in prison he attempted his first flight. During an apparently poorly supervised exercise walk outside his cell he found a metal rod and a piece of marble which he used to sharpen the metal into a spike. With the spike he set out to carve a hole in the wooden floor under his cell bed. However just three days before his planned escape he was to his own dismay suddenly transferred to a bigger and brighter cell. This the luck for art lovers as otherwise the priceless Tintoretto canvas in the ceiling of the Inquisitors chamber would have been ripped to shreds as Casanova ascended straight through it.
The second time around he did succeed in cohorts with the rebel priest Balbi. The clergyman used the same metal spike, smuggled to him in a large plate of pasta, to carve a hole in the ceiling above his own cell to then crawl over to do the same in Casanova's. The two then climbed out on the Palace roof to hoist themselves down a few flights with a rope of tied together bedlinen. The climbed through another window and walked through the Palace and out through the door after convincing the guards thatthey had been left behind at the end of a party. At least this is how the story is told by Casanova himself thirty years later in "The Story of My Flight"
The secret tour ends in the Inquisitors chamber for a glimpse of the saved Tintoretto before coming out literally through the woodwork in the room of four doors. From then on it is one opulent reception and meeting room after another which are also a part of an ordinary museum visit.
Having a say
The Council chamber leads into the Senate where additional Tintorettos imply their higher powers of having the final say in the selection of a new Doge after initial votes by the Great Council. Other kinds of power can be seen in the Armory on the same floor. However it is one flight down via the Golden stairs that the largest body of Venice met.
Every man 25 or over from a patrician Venetian family had by default a seat on the Great Council. The number of council members varied from 1200-2000 and they needed the meeting room to match. Every Sunday when the bells of St Marks rang out they assembled in what is still one of the largest rooms in Europe the size of five tennis courts (53×25 meters) to council and keep other elected bodies in check. Surrounded by paintings of Venetian history and under the ceiling depicting heroism they voted in a lengthy and complicated procedure in the pre-stages of the selection of new Doges. It was also here the Venetian Republic came to an end in 1797 when the council even without the required quorum of 600 members voted to end of the republic as Napoleon Bonaparte's forces stood by the door.
Big sigh
The opulence and masterpieces of the upper floors stand in stark contrast to the cold and damp that met convicted Venetians. As there was a need for more modern cells beyond the Pozzi and Piombi a new prison was commissioned. However the only space available was across the canal. A covered bridge was needed and not just any bridge but the "Bridge of Sighs" named so after the sound many prisoners let out as they peaked through one of the small square windows overlooking the lagoon before being locked up down in the darkness and cold of the jail. Today the bridge is crossed at will by scores of tourists. With such an experience in mind it is liberating to walk out of the palace ready to take in more of "La Serenissima".
See more of Venice in pictures here and the Carnevale here
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