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Behind the Scenes of Shipping Container Architecture
Ever wonder how container architecture works? Where do the containers come from, how are they modified and exactly how much do they cost? Well, we're hoping to do a container house at our architecture firm, so earlier this week we headed to the south side of Chicago to Vaccaro Trucking, Inc., a container shipping, storage and modification company.
The company I visited, Vaccaro Trucking, Inc. is an ISO shipping container shipping, storage and modification company. They have tons of shipping containers stored on site: all sizes, new, used and some with minor modifications (e.g. construction site offices). His company was a great resource to gain a better understanding of what options are available, how modification works and generally how much it costs (not very much). At the warehouse Vaccaro can do all raw cuts, metal work and window and door installation and they currently modifying a container to use as demonstration and marketing for container architecture (also known as containerization).
Shipping containers are designed to withstand some of the most extreme conditions and carry large loads and as such are some of the most durable structures. They are manufactured to international standards and modular sizes; can be moved across water, rail and highways; and can even be stacked inside one another. However good this may be, because the cost of shipping empty containers is so high, they are collecting and sitting unused all over the world, particularly in the US and China. All of these things make containers ideal for a second life as housing, offices, dorm rooms, and disaster shelters – pretty much any type of structure you can think of. And for cheap.
Shipping Container Specifications:
- The common ISO Shipping container is 20'0" or 40'0" long; 8'0" wide and 8'6" tall. A taller version is available at 9'6" tall and is known as a 'High-Cube'(HQ) container. Long containers are also available in 45'0, 48'0" and 53'0" lengths and are HQ standard.
- The containers are manufactured using a steel tube frame and corrugated Corten steel skin, which makes them not only very strong but also holds up very well to the elements.
- The floors are made of a very strong and durable 1 1/8" thick plywood. Some older models even have a finished quality wood plank flooring that most people would pay lots of money to have in their house.
- The nature of the shipping container materials and construction makes the units essentially weather tight, immune to mold, rodents, bugs and vandals
- Some units are refrigerated (or heated), and theoretically may not need any additional insulation.
- A typical shipping container costs around $1500; a 45'0" long used container is about $1800; 48'0"-53'0" long container is about $2400.
Containerization & Construction Methods:
At a plant such as Vaccaro's, all rough modifications are made at the warehouse, including cleaning, prep work, any cuts and welding for doors and windows, actual door and window insulation and any necessary wall or ceiling openings.
- The openings are reinforced with 3x3x1/8" steel tubing, and larger members may be needed when cutting entire sides off containers and when merging two containers together. Windows and doors can be inserted very similar to standard door and window installation. Doors can be maintained as-is, insulated or welded shut. Additionally the handles can be shifted for easier handling at grade.
- Entire sides and tops can be removed, containers can be cut down to size, and can conversely the can be attached together for additional length. For residential use it would be ideal to use a 40'0" long (or longer) HQ container for the higher interior ceiling height. The containers are so strong that they can also be stacked vertically up to 9-12 units high.
- Basic modification takes about two weeks, but the time frame depends on the complexity of the design.
- Once the rough modifications have been made the container is shipped to it's home site and place on any necessary foundations.
- The level of finish is up to the owner, however a general technique would be frame out the interior sides of the corrugated walls with either wood or steel members at 16" on-center, insulate the interior with closed cell spray foam insulation (or your choice of eco-friendly insulation) and then finish with a layer of drywall. The exterior can be left as is if you are going for the industrial look, or it too can be framed, insulated and sheathed, though this would require addition costs, energy and material. Framing, insulation and drywall will reduce the interior width by approximately 6" overall and 3" in height.
- Installation of all electrical and mechanical work also occurs at the property site.
Containerization Cons:
As with all new and 'radical' construction techniques, one of the biggest barriers is getting not only contractors and builders on board with construction methods, but also even convincing city officials that shipping containers are a good idea. The hurdle we are currently facing in Chicago, a city that burnt to the ground, is getting the proper fire rating for container homes. Even though shipping containers have demonstrated high durability and fire resistant materials, because there is no technical UL listing for this specific type of construction, they will not allow it for residential use within city limits.
One or more of these containers would make a super inexpensive, durable and modular housing unit. Because of the modularity they could be easily modified to grow or change form as a family's needs evolve. While many of the impressive container projects we've seen so far are for a normal family residence, we see good prospects for these to be used as artist studios, backyard sheds, vacation homes, low-income housing and temporary and permanent disaster relief housing. Even China is currently fabricating ready-to-live containers with all the plumbing fixtures, furniture, etc. already to use in the container – how great would it be to have these in Haiti right now?
Hopefully we'll be able actually get one of these built, Chicago or elsewhere, and we'll let you know how it goes in one of our next installments!
Related Containerization Posts:
• Green Style: Adam Kalkin's Shipping Container Home
• Green Style: Shipping Container Homes by Infiniski
• A Warm Shipping Container House
• Recycled Container Community
• Container House by Leger Wanaselja Architecture
• Hot or Not? Shipping Container Getaway
(Images: Top:Shipping Container Homes by Infiniski; All others by Rachel Wray)


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Hershey Should Increase Funding of Programs to Address Child Labor and Improve Conditions for West African Cocoa Farmers
Submitted by: Green America
Categories: Corporate Social Responsibility, Activism
Posted: Mar 25, 2013 – 01:12 PM EST
WASHINGTON, Mar. 25 /CSRwire/ - The "Raise the Bar, Hershey!" coalition (www.raisethebarhershey.org) welcomed last week's announcement from the Hershey Co. (HSY) that it has set deadlines to achieve its 100% certification goals and will be working with three independent, third-party certification firms to verify its cocoa is made in a responsible manner.
"We are pleased by this news, especially the fact that Hershey has revealed the third-party certifiers it will be working with and a more detailed timeline for when it plans to transition its cocoa to responsible sources," said Elizabeth O'Connell, campaign director for Green America, "We welcome further details about the additional "well-established certification organizations" Hershey states it plans to work with and how the Hershey Company will specifically prevent child exploitation from happening on the farms from which Hershey sources its cocoa."
Hershey's announcement came after years of pressure on the chocolate industry, and Hershey in particular, to address the problems of forced child labor on the farms from where they source their cocoa in West Africa. Since 2001 instances of forced child labor and human trafficking have been documented on cocoa farms in Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, and other West African countries. According to the Payson Center for International Development at Tulane University, An estimated 1.8 million children, aged 5 to 17, work on cocoa production in Côte D'Ivoire and Ghana. In Côte D'Ivoire alone, there are an estimated 109,000 children engaged in the worst forms of child labor on cocoa farms and some 10,000 are victims of human trafficking or enslavement.
The "Raise the Bar, Hershey!" coalition urges Hershey to report publicly and regularly on its progress toward meeting its certification goals. Additionally, the coalition urges Hershey to invest greater financial resources in programs that specifically address child labor on the cocoa farms from where it sources. Mars, Hershey's main competitor in the United States, has committed $300 million to sustainable cocoa initiatives by 2021, or .1% of 2012 sales. Hershey, on the other hand, has committed only $10 million by 2017, or .03% of its 2012 sales.
To read more about Hershey's and other industry commitments to preventing child labor in Ghana and Cote D'Ivoire, see the coalition's March 14, 2013 Press Release and Confectionary News' March 20, 2013 article.
About the "Raise the Bar, Hershey!" Coalition:
GREEN AMERICA is the nation's leading green economy organization. Founded in 1982, Green America (formerly Co-op America) provides the economic strategies, organizing power and practical tools for businesses and individuals to solve today's social and environmental problems. www.GreenAmerica.org
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In explaining Google's plan for a stock split, Chief Executive Larry Page told shareholders in a 2012 letter, "there's no particular urgency to make these changes now."
"We don't have an unusually big acquisition planned, in case you were wondering," the Google co-founder added.
Investors and analysts are bound to start wondering more now that the stock split has been completed.
Creating two new classes of share, including one with no voting rights , was widely seen as a way to make it easier for Google to gobble up companies without weakening the control of the company\'s founders, Page and Sergey Brin.
In fact, Page explained the dilemma to shareholders in his letter, saying that while Google has "a structure that prevents outside parties from taking over or unduly influencing our management decisions … day-to-day dilution from routine equity-based employee compensation and other possible dilution, such as stock-based acquisitions, will likely undermine this dual-class structure and our aspirations for Google over the very long term."
Well, that's no longer a major problem. With the split completed, Google doesn\'t have to worry too much about ceding control as it pursues its M&A game plan.
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In fact, despite Page's statement that Google had no "unusually big acquisition planned," the company surprised analysts and investors with last year's $3.2 billion deal to acquire Nest Labs, the maker of high-tech, connected home thermostats and smoke alarms.
That was seen as Google's bid to strengthen its position in the trend toward connected devices also referred to as the "Internet of Everything."
It also underscored Google's reputation as a tech behemoth with a long-term vision, eyeing markets that are still emerging, and coming up with ideas that sometimes come across as wild, from Google Glass to self-driving cars to connected appliances.
"They\'re certainly working on robotics," Roger Kay of Endpoint Technologies Associates told MarketWatch. "Then, there\'s the fight for the living room. Automotive is another promising sector. A further build-out of home automation based on the Nest acquisition. Those are the areas where I\'d expect Google to be shopping for technology and intellectual property."
There are more traditional tech arenas where Google may be looking to get stronger.
One is cloud computing and services and applications geared to businesses. Crawford Del Prete of IDC pointed specifically to the fast-growing software-as-a-service space, in which business software companies offer applications as Web-based services.
"I think when you look across all of the areas where Google has invested in developing offerings for the cloud, the software-as-a-service layer is there they need more," he told MarketWatch. "This could lead them to look at SAAS companies that they could rapidly scale."
A possible candidate, he says, is NetSuite , a software-as-a-service company that offers a range of business applications.
"They have scale and would be a nice piece of technology to help customers manage the cloud," he added.
E-commerce is another possible area of focus. In fact, an intriguing idea came up last month: What if Google buys eBay?
That thought came from Baird analyst Colin Sebastian who argued that such a deal would be a "home run," for Google. He says it would solve what he called Google's Achilles Heel, it's so-far-unimpressive initiatives in e-commerce and online payments. Gobbling up eBay would also give Google more muscle in taking on two increasingly aggressive rivals, Apple Inc. and Amazon.com.
"In commerce and payments, we believe that Google requires not only greater scale, but also the technology building blocks for an e-commerce marketplace to compete long-term with companies such as Amazon and Apple," Sebastian wrote.
Needham analyst Kerry Rice also pointed to two Internet companies as possible Google targets.
"While we believe Google is typically a build-it ourselves company," he told MarketWatch. But he added, "I would highlight two companies as potential take-out candidates – Yelp and Trulia ."
Gartner analyst Brian Blau also mentioned Yelp, as he shared with MarketWatch his shopping list of "companies that I think are acquisition targets, by Google or others."
They include companies in a range of areas where Google could be eyeing to expand or get stronger: online payment firm, Square; wearable tech firm, Jawbone; location-based social networking site Foursquare, Internet radio company, Pandora , cloud data storage firms Box and DropBox.
Google could not immediately be reached for comment.
– Ben Pimentel
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Chairman Joseph T. Kelliher's statement on open access transmission tariff planning
"Today, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission considers a package of orders designed to improve regional transmission planning.
The principal objective of the transmission access reform rule, Order No. 890, was to prevent undue discrimination and preference, to prevent vertical market power exercise. We accomplished that through a series of reforms.
One of the most important reforms we adopted was in the area of transmission planning. The power grid is regional in nature, and transmission planning should reflect that reality. The requirement that transmission owners engage in regional transmission planning consistent with principles in Order No. 890 was a significant policy change. The compliance orders continue the steady progress towards improved regional transmission planning in various areas of the country.
There is a need to improve regional transmission planning in all regions of the country, regardless of wholesale market structure. As we discussed earlier in the month, there has been a lot of progress in improving regional transmission planning by regional transmission organizations. The package we approve today should improve transmission planning in other regions of the country. The package strengthens regional planning and establishes greater consistency in planning, by upholding the planning principles in Order No. 890 and requiring certain modifications to conform to those principles.
Just as regions of the country with regional transmission organizations have taken steps to improve their existing transmission planning processes in response to the requirements of Order No. 890, so too have entities in the West. The four orders we are considering today represent the collective efforts of 16 different entities - both jurisdictional and non-jurisdictional -- working together to build upon and augment their existing sub-regional planning processes in the West. The spirit of cooperation and coordination are remarkable. It is my sincere hope that the hard work underlying these planning efforts will deliver results - a stronger grid that will not only improve reliability and support competitive markets but also enable the addition of new generation resources, including renewable resources, to meet the energy needs of the entire Western Interconnect.
It is not enough to have nondiscriminatory access to the power grid. The grid itself must be robust enough to operate reliably and support competitive markets. We have taken a number of steps to strengthen the grid, by encouraging greater investment, making regional cost allocation determinations, and issuing rules governing limited federal transmission siting authority. Improved regional planning will play an increasingly important role in strengthening the power grid."
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text: Procurement Pulse - October 2016 Procurement Pulse Series Procurement Update Share this 18 OCT 2016 By: Dr Sharon Fitzgerald Gavin Deeprose Louise Huson The new regime based on the 2014 procurement directives continues to evolve. In September, Crown Commercial Service (CCS) issued guidance on its new Selection Questionnaire, replacing the standard PQQ, and considered to be an appropriate alternative to the European Single Procurement Document. CCS has also issued a reminder to contracting authorities of the obligation to advertise on Contracts Finder. This triggers a broader reflection of the different levels at which procurement obligations apply - above the financial thresholds in the directives, below those thresholds where there is cross border interest and below the thresholds set out in UK implementing legislation. We look at this in more detail in the context of the Tecnoedi case on abnormally low tenders below. We also look at the Politano case on discretions around selection criteria, in the context of public service concessions. Finally, for utilities sectors seeking full exemption from the procurement rules, new guidance issued by the EU Commission, sets out the information required in any application for exemption. Below threshold contracts attracting abnormally low tenders Pursuant to Italian law if a public works contract (valued at EUR 1 million or less - a threshold specific to Italian legislation) is to be awarded on the basis of lowest price, then a contracting authority may provide in the contract notice for automatic exclusion of tenders which demonstrate a percentage discount equal to or greater than a statutorily determined threshold - if the number of tenders admitted to the process is more than ten. In the Italian court's view, the contract was likely to attract cross border interest, and it asked whether automatic exclusion of ALTs breached the freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services principles set out in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). This case reflects the different layers of analysis in procurement law. There are the "strict" or "special" procedures, (for example, the ALT rules at regulation 69 of the Public Contracts Regulations, 2015 (PCR'15)) which apply where the value of a contract is equal to or greater than the de minimis threshold set out in the procurement directives. Those rules do not apply where a contract is below the de minimis threshold. Where a contract is below threshold, but deemed to have cross border interest, the broad TFEU principles apply. Because the Italian court had not carried out a specific assessment as to whether or not there was cross border interest, the European Court dismissed the application. However an almost identical scenario was referred to the European Court in combined cases Secap and Santorso C-147/06 and C-148/06, and the court held that automatic exclusion of ALTs does breach general TFEU principles. The only caveat would be where, as an administrative measure (to take into account unduly large tender responses), the contracting authority sets a threshold above which automatic exclusion could take place. In Secap, a threshold of five tenders was not deemed reasonable/sufficiently high. In Tecnoedi, legislation allowed automatic exclusion where more than ten bidders had been admitted to the process, but the court did not pronounce on its validity. From a practical point of view, contracting authorities must ensure that procurement documents for the below threshold process set out in clear, precise and unequivocal terms, the criteria for excluding ALTs, and determine a proportionate threshold above which the rules apply if they expect a large number of bidders to respond. C-318/15 Tecnoedi v Commune di Fossano Public service concessions - proportionate selection criteria Pursuant to Italian law, collecting and managing of bets are licensed activities. The licence must have been granted pursuant to a public tendering procedure, and is subject to police authorisation. Mr Politano managed a betting agency, but had been excluded from the tender process pursuant to which he could have obtained the necessary licence. Italian administrative police sought to seize the assets associated with the business. By way of defence, Mr Politano argued that obliging tenderers to produce certificates from two different banks was onerous, and may dissuade them from participating in a procurement procedure. This breached the restriction on freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services set out in articles 43 and 49 of TFEU - having agreed that directive 2004/18 did not apply. Case law also indictes that a contracting authority cannot impose criminal penalties in connection with a non-compliant procurement process. The court decided that the requirement to provide certificates from two separate banks was not a disproportionate measure, when looked at in the context of the overriding public interests of having a healthy regulated betting market, and protecting consumers. The case casts light on the EU concessions directive (2014/23/EU), implemented in the UK through the Concessions Contracts Regulations, 2016 (CCR'16) and the Concessions Contracts (Scotland) Regulations, 2016. In terms of scoping financial and economic standing selection criteria, regulation 38(2) of CCR'16 (regulation 41(2) of the Scottish regulations) provides no guidance on specific information which must be requested from bidders, but simply states that information required should be "non-discriminatory and proportionate to the subject matter of the concession contract". This shows that in procuring a concession, the contracting authority has more discretion in evolving its process, than in procuring a public contract. The judge's reasoning in Politano on proportionality in the context of broad Treaty principles would, therefore, be apposite when justifying CCR'16 selection criteria. C-225/15 Re Politano Contracts Finder transparency obligations PPN 07/16 reminds contracting authorities that part 4 of PCR'15 requires: Any contract notice or contract award notice published in the Official Journal or other procurement portal, to be published on Contracts Finder within 24 hours of notification of publication (or 48 hours where no notification is given). Any advertisement for a public contract or the award of a public contract to be published on Contracts Finder, within 24 hours of its original publication in any other media, unless: It would not have been subject to PCR'15 - even if its value was above the EU financial thresholds. In the case of central government contracts, it has an estimated value (net of VAT) less than £10,000. In the case of NHS Trust (subject to certain exemptions) and local government contracts, it has an estimated value (net of VAT) less than £25,000. PPN 07/16 is to be read in conjunction with CCS guidance on transparency requirements for publishing on Contracts Finder. SQ replaces PQQ and ESPD We reported on the EU Commission's template for the European Single Procurement Document in our March Procurement Pulse. We indicated then that, as the UK has a well developed pre-qualification process, it seemed likely that, rather than having one comprehensive document, we would now have the ESPD and a separate "amending schedule" in the procurement documents, setting out which ESPD questions must be answered, and where further information will be required. This, in effect, is what has now happened. PPN 08/16 includes a template for the standard Selection Questionnaire (SQ), and recommends that it be used either on its own, or in conjunction with the ESPD - using parts I-III of the ESPD on mandatory and discretionary exclusion grounds, and part 3 of the SQ, which sets out selection criteria questions. The PPN confirms that the SQ "is compliant with the requirements of the ESPD", but makes it clear that contracting authorities are obliged to accept self-certification of the exclusion grounds through an ESPD if a potential supplier uses the ESPD in the selection process. The SQ has been designed for use on PCR'15 supplies and services procurements; for works procurements PPN 08/16 requires contracting authorities to use the PAS91 PQQ. In the UK, there are now four different approaches to pre-qualification : SQuID in Wales, SQ in England, modified SQ in Northern Ireland and ESPD (Scotland) in Scotland. Utilities - activities directly exposed to competition Where a utilities sector is considered to be subject to the checks and balances of a competitive market, it may obtain exemption from application of the procurement rules. For example, in England, Scotland and Wales, purchasers within the electricity generation and the electricity supply markets do not have to comply with the procurement rules. Requests for exemption must provide the EU Commission with adequate information on the relevant market to enable it to assess whether activities are sufficiently exposed to competition. Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1804 sets out new guidance on details required and the process to be followed. Contact us If you have any comments, or would like to find out more about any of the topics covered in this newsletter, please send an email to Procurement Pulse.


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21.2 Policies on Using Church Buildings and Other Property
Church buildings and other property are to be used for worship, religious instruction, and other Church-related activities. Church property should not be used for commercial or political purposes, which would violate laws that permit its tax exemption. Nor may property be used for other purposes that would violate these laws. The following list provides examples of uses that are not approved:
The use of Church property should not pose a significant risk of harm to participants or to the property. Nor should it unduly expose the Church to liability or disturb surrounding neighbors.
For more detailed instructions on using and caring for Church buildings and other property, see Facilities Management Guidelines for Meetinghouses and Other Church Property or contact Church headquarters or the assigned administrative office.
Church-approved artwork for meetinghouses is obtained through the facilities manager using the Church Facilities Artwork catalog. The facilities manager may also obtain artwork that is appropriate for meetinghouses through Church Distribution Services.
Pictures and other artwork may be placed in appropriate locations in the meetinghouse. However, they may not be placed in the chapel or near the baptismal font. Statues, murals, and mosaics are not authorized. This policy may not apply to works of art that have been on display for many years in the chapels of existing meetinghouses.
Artwork in meetinghouses should be properly framed.
Decorations for Christmas, other holidays, and other similar occasions may be placed temporarily in the foyer or cultural hall of a meetinghouse, as approved under the direction of the stake presidency. With the exception of flowers, decorations may not be placed in the chapel area of the meetinghouse. Nor should the exterior of the meetinghouse or the grounds be decorated.
Decorations should be modest and inexpensive and must not be a fire hazard. Hay, straw, palm fronds, other dehydrated materials, and lighted candles may not be used. If Christmas trees are used, they should be artificial or properly fireproofed and displayed without electric lights or candles. Local fire and safety codes and ordinances should be observed.
During an emergency, the stake presidency determines whether or not to hold regular ward meetings.
In a community-wide emergency or disaster, the stake president may assist legitimate disaster relief agencies by allowing meetinghouses to be used as emergency shelters. The Church retains control. Stake and ward leaders ensure that people who use the buildings observe Church standards of conduct, including the Word of Wisdom, while they are in the buildings.
Churches are dedicated for the worship of God and as havens from the cares and concerns of the world. The carrying of lethal weapons, concealed or otherwise, within their walls is inappropriate except as required by officers of the law.
Fires and Candles
Open flames and lighted candles may not be used in Church buildings.
The national flag may be flown on the grounds of Church property at any time as long as it conforms to local custom and convention. The national flag may be displayed inside Church buildings on special occasions, such as patriotic programs. Genuine patriotism does not require displaying the national flag continuously at places of worship.
Monday Nights
See 13.6.10.
Overnight Lodging or Camping
Church meetinghouse properties may not be used for overnight lodging, camping, or slumber parties.
Parking Lots
Use of Church parking lots should comply with the guidelines at the beginning of section 21.2. In addition, Church parking lots should not be used for commuter parking without permission from the director for temporal affairs.
Photographs, Video Recordings, and Broadcasts in Chapels
Taking photographs or making video recordings in chapels is not permitted. Meetings and other events that are held in the chapel may not be broadcast over the Internet or by any other means (see 18.3.1 for an exception).
Serving Areas
The serving area in Church meetinghouses is not intended for food preparation or cooking unless it is part of a lesson, demonstration, or other instruction. When food is to be served in the building or on the grounds, it should be prepared elsewhere and brought to the meetinghouse, where it may be kept warm or cold until it is served.
The only storage allowed in meetinghouses is for maintenance items and other approved supplies and equipment. Welfare commodities and other such items may not be stored in meetinghouses.
Materials such as gasoline, propane, matches, and camping gear should be stored in buildings that are separate from the meetinghouse.
Cars, recreational vehicles, and other personal equipment may not be stored on Church property.
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Exhibition Submissions Guidelines – Varley Art Gallery of Markham
Exhibitions at the Varley Art Gallery of Markham are organized by the curator and are confirmed approximately two years in advance.
While the Varley's exhibition program is invitational, we accept proposals on an ongoing basis from professional artists and curators. In this context, a professional curator is an individual with relevant academic credentials and/or professional experience, who selects artworks for display in order to situate them within specific formal, social, or historical contexts or through theoretical frameworks. A professional curator writes texts to animate the exhibition as required, and is also familiar with how public galleries in Canada operate (loan, shipping and insurance protocols, environmental controls, installation methods, etc.) A professional artist is an individual with relevant academic credentials and/or a compelling exhibition record, who is regarded by his/her peers (artists, academics, critics, curators, gallery professionals, etc.) as making an important contribution to the practice of art in Canada.
All submissions are considered, however due to high volume, not everyone may receive a personal reply. This review process provides a valuable resource for program development and acts as a means of keeping in touch with the work of contemporary artists throughout the country.
Submission requirements
In a concise manner, submissions should provide an overview of the artist's practice and provide visual documentations of their work. Please submit the following documents:
- Cover letter
- A curator thesis or artist statement.
- A current curriculum vitae listing your complete contact information and relevant artistic experience including education, exhibitions, publications, etc.
- Up to 10 digital images of recent and relevant work with accompanying image list detailing titles, dates, medium and dimensions of each work.
- Any additional relevant material such as publications and critical reviews
We accept submissions by mail or by email (up to 2MB only.)
Send submissions to:
Anik Glaude, Curator
Varley Art Gallery of Markham
216 Main Street Unionville
Markham, ON L3R 2H1
If your submission exceeds the message size limit, send it via an email transfer program such as www.HighTail.com or www.dropbox.com.
Please note that although all submissions will be treated with care the Varley Art Gallery assumes no responsibility for loss or damage to submission material. Please do not send original artwork.
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grants
The Varley Art Gallery is a third party recommender for the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) Exhibitions Assistance Grants. There are limited funds available and eligible applications are reviewed twice per year or until the funds are depleted. Please visit the OAC website for submission guidelines and to download the application. http://www.arts.on.ca/page122.aspx.
Deadline and process:
- July 15, 2017
- December 15, 2017
We continue to accept applications between March and May; they will be assessed after the July deadline.
In addition to the OAC program priorities and criteria, we consider the following in our grant decision-making:
- Artists from York Region (however all submissions received from Zone 3 applications will be considered).
- Cultural diversity
- Artistic merit
- Professional context
We accept the following formats of audio-visual support material:
- digital images on a CD


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JavaScript Class[edit]
Teacher: Garrett Smith @xkit (follow & mention). LinkedIn: Garrett Smith (endorsements welcome) Web: http://dhtmlkitchen.com/ email: dhtmlkitchen at gmail.com
When: Friday: 7-9pm, Sunday: 10-11:30 AM
Where: Noisebridge, 2169 Mission St, San Francisco
Course Overview[edit]
This course covers the fundamentals of the EcmaScript programming language (ECMAScript spec), the DOM (DOM 3 spec), and object-oriented design. It is intended for experienced web developers and programmers of other languages, however all are welcome.
List of Classes
Please read the list of classes and each lesson's linked notes to decide what you want to study.
Reference specifications are used extensively. These are linked from the JavaScript resources page. Read them daily.
Ask Questions. Interact.
Read the individual classes. Each class lesson is chosen by students at the start of class and will adjusted to meet the students' needs. Get involved! Noisebridge is a Do-ocracy.
While there might be many reasons to come to JavaScript class, the most common reason is to learn. And generally, that driven by the potential to increase earning potential.
Programming is neither healthy nor enjoyable. So students of casual interest will probably not see much advancement is this class. However students who direct sufficient anger to the task of learning JavaScript may excel enough to attain an increase in professional level of skill.
Front End Engineering is not difficult, but it is hard.
We learn by doing. Get involved!
- Porting the FAQ to Github Get involved!


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College: In 2008 Lucos placed 5th in the 200-yard buterfly at Ivys, 9th in the 200-yard freestyle, and 17th in the 200-yard IM. High school: Lucos lettered in all four years of swimming at Cypress Bay High School. In 2007, she was captain of her high school team. She placed top 8 in the 100-yard butterfly, 200-yard IM, and the 200-yard freestyle, as well as in the relays. Personal: Lucos is in Jonathon Edwards College. She plans to major in Political Science. Her dad George Lucos runs a construction business and her mom Sherrie is an English teacher at Cypress Bay, and she has one younger sister Marisa who is a sophomore at Cypress Bay. Why I chose Yale: "I chose Yale because I clicked with the team, I loved the environment of the school, and really enjoyed the personalities of the residential colleges."


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Shopping for dad
From neck ties to electronics, people are out shopping for the perfect gift for their father for Father's Day, but local children have something different in mind.
"I'm making him a bunch of cards," six-year-old Natalie Hefner said. "Me and my brother (Jon) are hiding the cards in his bedroom."
Natalie said she plans to spend Father's Day with her dad, Jason, and take him somewhere special.
"My dad really likes basketball and golfing," Natalie said. "We like to play basketball on the Wii, and I always win. My dad watches me play (basketball) sometimes."
When Natalie was asked what was special about her father, she replied instantly.
"He loves me," Natalie said with a smile.
Hand-made gifts are becoming popular amongst local youth, as sisters Hanna and Audrey Sparks said they made a present for their father in school.
"I made him a present at school," six-year-old Audrey said. "We made stuff for Mother's Day and Father's Day."
The gift she made for her father, Mike, is handmade with a special note inside.
Audrey said her favorite thing to do with her father is to play basketball outside on the court at her house.
Another activity that Audrey likes to do with her father is help him with a specific type of yard work activity.
"He lets us take rides on the mower when he mows grass," Audrey said with excitement.
Eight-year-old Hanna said she likes doing something else.
"I like to play tickle monster with him," Hanna said.
Hanna said that she and her father, who are avid Ohio State Buckeye fans, have the same favorite colors — red and grey.
Hanna said that she wants to take her father out to eat to celebrate Father's Day on Sunday.
Both of the girls said that their father is very special to them.
"He's special because of all the kind things he does for us," Audrey said.
Third-grader Ryan Kinstle said he is not for sure what he will be getting his father yet.
"I want to get him a card and something else, but I am not sure what," Ryan said. "I'm going to go out and buy it with my mom."
For Father's Day, Ryan said his family might go out to eat at a restaurant.
Ryan and his father, Mike, enjoy playing basketball at the Wapakoneta Family YMCA together.
When asked what Ryan's favorite thing about his father was, he, too, said, "He loves me."
"He does a lot for me," Ryan said of the importance of Father's Day. "It's important to recognize that."
Five-year-old Collin Dyrness said he and his father, Mark, like to play basketball and go swimming.
"One time, my brother hit him in the head, really hard, with a basketball," Collin said. "It was bleeding and he had to put a Band-Aid on it."
Collin said that when he and his father go swimming, they either go to the Wapakoneta WaterPark or the YMCA, and they like going down the "big, red slide" and splash water at each other in the pool.
Collin said that his father does a lot for him, and they spend a lot of time together.
"Sometimes we eat snacks at the YMCA, and sometimes we go to Chuck-E-Cheese's, and we play games," Collin said.
For Father's Day, Collin said he is going to help his father plant trees.
"We are going to help daddy plant a tree at the house and at the YMCA," Collin said, of his father, who is an employee at the Wapakoneta Family YMCA. "That's what we will do."


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Bobcats beat Litchfield in rain shortened game
Burr Oak's baseball team picked up their first win of the season Tuesday.
The Bobcats traveled east to take on Litchfield and were able to get one game in before the weather took control.
They won the game, 10-8, in five innings.
"It's really exciting that we won, it's always nice to get that first win of the year," Bobcat coach Wendell Hughes said. "Unfortunately we didn't get to play the second game, but to win the opener was nice."
The win marks only the second time Burr Oak has been able to get a game in this season because of weather.
Their record now stands at 1-2 on the young season.
Wendell Hughes picked up the win on the mound for the Bobcats, throwing the first 4 1/3 innings and striking out nine.
He allowed two walks as well.
At the plate Hughes added a triple and three stolen bases, including home.
Jeffrey Anthony clubbed three singles and drove in a run while stealing two bases for Burr Oak.
Kenny Trouten added three base hits and drove in two runs as well.
Adding singles in the game were Austin Haley and Brian Saylor.
Landen Mount drove in a run with a base hit while James Saylor added a single and stole three bases.
Alex Munoz had a 2-run single for the Bobcats and had a sac fly to score a run. Stealing two bases for Burr Oak was Brandon Hernandez.
Notching the save in the game was Anthony.
"This season has been crazy so far, but it was great to see the guys come together for this win today," Hughes said.
NECC game called
Lakeland's baseball team was scheduled to play the opening round of the NECC Tournament on Tuesday against Fairfield.
Due to inclement weather that game was postponed.
It will be played today at Fairfield with a start time of 5:00 p.m.


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Transparency and a New Paradigm of Governance in India
The recently-concluded state-level elections in India's capital city-state, Delhi, yielded a remarkable outcome. The country's newest political party, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), literally "Common Man" Party, formed only a year ago by civil society activists affiliated to the landmark 2010 anti-corruption movement, routed the country's oldest political party, the Congress, which has governed the country through most of its post-Independence years. The fledgling party's performance and subsequent formation of the state government (ironically with the backing in the state legislature of the same party it had demolished), is being hailed as the beginning of something like a peaceful democratic revolution. It has galvanized political participation in a fairly unprecedented way as hundreds of thousands of "common people" across the country have rushed to join the ranks of a political force they hope will deliver better governance. And it had sowed the seeds of fresh optimism in the possibility of an ethical and accountable governance system.
This euphoria might be somewhat premature in the absence of any track record of AAP's performance in government. But the party's ascent undoubtedly represents a distinct break from traditional politics and suggests a new paradigm in at least two ways. First, AAP transcends the politics of identity and sectarian interests and practices instead what has been called the "politics of citizenship." While other political parties have emerged from the grassroots in post-independence India and gone on to become potent regional forces, they have typically had their moorings in identity politics of one sort or another – caste, religion, ethnicity – that gave them dedicated support bases. In contrast, the AAP's primary plank is good governance. Although it has been criticized for espousing untenable populist economic policies – such as subsidized water and electricity, its economic ideology and policies are very much at a formative stage. Its largest selling point has been its promise to fight corruption and bring probity to governance. Its success has catapulted the problem of corruption center-stage as the defining issue in the upcoming national elections.
Second, the AAP has been formed, not by career politicians riding on name recognition, political lineage and corporate connections, but by actors outside the political system – "common" men and women. Its entire leadership comprises of activists barely known till about three years ago, when the anti-corruption movement caught the country's imagination. Most of its funding comes from small donations– according to an analysis of the contributions posted on the party's website, more than 80,000 people from across the country and overseas had donated to the party before the state-level elections. The model of governance it espouses is a deeply participatory one - inspired by the successes of the participatory governance experiments such as that in Brazil's Porto Alegre. It holds regular mohalla sabhas or neighborhood meetings on all kinds of governance issues and has solicited popular feedback on key issues through technologies such as SMS.
What led to this meteoric ascent of such a radically different paradigm of governance? One explanation is that this might be seen as a domino effect of the transparency movement that has been in process for a number of years. In 2005, when India passed the Right to Information Act, it was hailed as "a great and revolutionary law," one with the potential of "fundamentally altering the balance of power between the government and citizens." Eight years later, the rise of the AAP seems to suggest that such a rebalancing of power is underway. Civil society groups across the country have leveraged the RTI law to unearth and expose both grand corruption at the highest levels of political power, and corruption, inefficiency, and poor service delivery across the state apparatus –from waste in local municipal administration, to misallocations and leakages in government development programs, to high level scams in telecom, sports, and housing development. These exposes, further fueled by India's burgeoning and increasingly activist news media outlets, have been instrumental in creating popular outrage making AAP an easy choice for an electorate eager for more honest governance. And initiatives such as "I Paid a Bribe" have further precipitated popular mobilization against corruption.
At the same time, the emergence of AAP as a political entity also highlights the limitations of transparency. The anti-corruption movement from which AAP emerged – India Against Corruption (IAC) - was formed by civil society groups which had been very active in using RTI as a tool to extract information and unmask corruption, but realized that successive exposes of corruption or inefficiency had little meaning without strong independent investigative and prosecuting agencies, and a credible threat of sanctions. One central demand of the movement, therefore, was the passage of an anti-corruption law that would set up a to investigate and prosecute corruption cutting into the "culture of impunity." The foot-dragging by political parties over the Ombudsman Bill further underscored that transparency was also futile in the absence of a credible political alternative. The formation of the AAP was an effort to provide the electorate an alternative founded on integrity, an attempt to try and reform governance from within, although many in the movement have steadfastly stuck to the view that civil society should provide a demand-side pressure for accountability, not attempt to take over governance itself.
Whether this experiment in the institution of a new governance system will succeed, whether the new government in Delhi will succeed in establishing a transformative model of governance, or fail under the pressure of expectations, and whether political pragmatism will replace unrelenting principle – all remain to be seen. The effectiveness and performance of the party is yet to be demonstrated and judged, its strategies to resist the corrupting influence of power to be fleshed out, and the effect of its populist policies such as water and electricity subsidies still to be gauged. But the AAP has demonstrated that the availability of information can become a tool for popular mobilization and create the space and the possibility for deeper governance reform. This lesson might well persist beyond the success or failure of any one political entity or person.
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Samsung's in-house Exynos line of processors have been absolutely fantastic. While many can't see the difference between current Exynos processors and Snapdragon processors, there are some important differentiators. (The biggest one to me is sound quality, as most Exynos devices have wonderful Wolfson Micro amps). Plus, back in the day of poor-performing Tegra 2 and Snapdragon S3 processors, Exynos was king of performance.
Samsung already has an octacore processor (technically two sets of quadcores, but still all kinds of awesome), and it looks like the company is going to make it even better. The Samsung Exynos Twitter account posted this image, saying that a new version of the Exynos 5 Octa is coming next week. It'll be enhanced but will share the same name.
Looking at history, Samsung has always created an Exynos processor and improved it in some way soon after. Whether it be double the cores (in the case of the Exynos 4) or LTE capabilities, Samsung always steps up its game with the second version of its processors. Uusually it's the second iteration that comes to the US, due to the inclusion of LTE. Is this part of the "enhancement" Samsung is teasing?
Luckily, it seems that there will also be improvements to the performance. Samsung states that this new version will be more powerful than the previous one, so we can expect it to blow the competition out of the water in benchmarks. Samsung really knows how to make a processor.
With great audio, blistering fast performance, the possibility of LTE and a US launch, are you excited for this next Exynos processor? Will this new octacore processor influence your purchase of the Galaxy Note III?


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A Spartanburg man was arrested Friday after three small children in his care tested positive for illegal drugs.
A Spartanburg man was arrested Friday after three small children in his care tested positive for illegal drugs.
Brandon Scott Harris, 21, of 3325 Robin Hood Drive, Apt. B, was charged with three counts of neglecting a child, according to an arrest warrant.
Harris's charges stem from a March 29 visit by the Spartanburg Department of Social Services, which found the home in "deplorable conditions," according to a report.
Harris, who lived at the home along with two other adults and four small children, was charged by deputies after drug tests on the residents of the home came back positive for an unspecified illegal substance. Harris was guardian of three of the children, who range in age from 11 months to 3 years old.
The children have since been placed into the custody of relatives.
Police investigating carjacking
Police are investigating a carjacking that took place early Saturday in Spartanburg.
A 29-year-old Spartanburg man was ordered out of his truck at gunpoint just after midnight, according to a report from the Spartanburg Public Safety Department.
The man said he was at a stop sign at the corner of Barksdale Boulevard and Caulder Avenue when five to six men standing on the curb pulled out guns and told him to put the vehicle in park.
The men then pulled the victim from the truck, put him on the ground and began kicking his head, the report said. The suspects then stole the man's phone, cash and wallet before speeding off toward Duncan Street.
The victim's truck was later found on Jackson Street, but his other belongings were not recovered.
Women reports man tried to pull her into car
A 57-year-old woman reported that someone tried to pull her into a car at the corner of Beacon Street and Bunker Avenue.
The woman said she was walking to a convenience store to buy lottery tickets just after 2 a.m. Thursday when a man between the ages of 30 and 35 pulled over in a gray or beige sedan to ask her for directions to a convenience store, according to a report from the Spartanburg Public Safety Department.
The woman told investigators that the man grabbed her and tried to drag her into his car, but she fought him off.
The man let her go when a police officer was seen driving down John B. White Sr. Boulevard, according to the report, and he drove off toward Interstate 26.
The woman did not suffer any injuries and refused medical treatment. The man was described as being about 5-feet, 4-inches tall and weighing about 150 pounds. He was wearing a white shirt and blue jeans.
Theft at church building reported
Someone crawled under a Spartanburg church building to cut copper gas and water lines, according to the Spartanburg Public Safety Department.
The theft was first noticed Friday, when someone at Greater Trinity Church at 331 E. Cleveland St. reported a strong odor of gas in the fellowship hall, according to a report. A Piedmont Natural Gas technician responded and discovered the lines were cut and removed.
The theft is expected to have occurred between Wednesday and Friday morning.


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University of Maryland's application to join the Big 10 was approved today, ending its ACC tradition. Explaining the decision at a press conference Mon. afternoon was U. of Md president Wallace Loh, standing at left, and seated from left, chancellor William "Brit" Kirwan, Big 10 commissioner Jim Delany, and Md. Director of Athletics Kevin Anderson.
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THE GILMER BUCKEYES celebrated Thanksgiving a day late at Lobo Stadium in Longview last Friday night by making turkey out of the Atlanta Rabbits in a 57-13 blowout victory. The win moves the Bucks to 11-1 on the season, while Atlanta drops to 5-7 on the season and heads to the basketball court.
The game was especially sweet for this sportswriter as the Buckeyes honored my 57th birthday by ringing up 57 points on the scoreboard. It is a victory I won't soon forget.
Though the game turned into a complete blowout, it was a very tight game until early in the third quarter. Gilmer won the coin toss and elected to receive and sent the message to the Rabbs very early they were going to hit on all cylinders.
DeVondrick Dixon returned Chris Ibarra's kick from his 14 out to his 42. From there it took the Buckeyes on 2:11 and five plays to move the 58 yards for their first score of the evening. The first four plays gained 24 yards on runs by Dixon and Tanner Barr and passes from Barr to Chase Tate. On the fifth play of the drive Kris Boyd kicked it into overdrive and ran in from 34 yards out for the first score of the game. Pablin Olivares added the PAT and Gilmer led 7-0 with 9:49 left in the opening period.
Not to be outdone, the Rabbs came back with their most impressive drive of the night. Damien Lawson took Olivares' kick at his 21 and returned it to the 35. From that point Atlanta held on to the ball for 6:53 and drove the 65 yards into the end zone in 11 plays, scoring with just 2:56 left in the first quarter. Ruben Duran added the PAT and the game was tied at 7-7.
Dixon returned the ensuing kick from the Gilmer 12 out to the 43 and the Bucks were in business again. They ran seven plays and moved the ball down the field, ending the first quarter. On the eighth play of the drive, Barr's pass was intercepted at the Atlanta 16 by Everett Dickerson and he returned the pick out the 38.
The Black Flag Defense shut the Atlanta offense down, forcing a three-and-out. Quaid Taylor hit a 31-yard punt down to the Gilmer 31, and Barry and his offensive teammates took the field again. Just five plays and 1:19 later, they had moved the ball the 69 yards into the end zone. On the first play of the drive Barr hit Jaidon Parrish for a gain of 25. Jamel Jackson followed that up with a run of 10 yards and then Boyd rushed for gains of three and 27 before Josh Walker came in to close the drive with a 3-yard TD run with 8:17 left in the first half. Olivares kicked the extra point and the Buckeyes were back in the lead, 14-7.
After a 7-yard return on the next kick by Randel Clark, Atlanta set up on their 35. The drive was short-lived, as the Black Flag gave up 14 on a run by Corion Webster on the first play, but then forced a punt on the next offensive series. Taylor punted away again and Dylan Bowman returned the kick nine yards up to the Gilmer 32.
The offense took only 2:01 and five plays to move the 68 yards and get into the end zone for the third time of the first half. Chase Tate gained 15 on the first play, Barr ran for 12 on the next play Dixon picked up five on a reverse before Boyd finished things off with rushes of 12 and then 24 yards into the end zone with 3:33 left in the half. Olivares split the uprights and Gilmer's lead advanced to 21-7.
Lawson returned the kick from Olivares from his 19 to his 36 where the Rabbs went back to work on offense. Quarterback Chase Musgrove hit Nick Stiger for a gain of 18 on first down, but Webster lost five on the next play and was stopped for no gain on the next play. Third down picked up six on a pass from Musgrove to Dickerson, but the Black Flag forced a punt and Gilmer took over at their 24 with 31 seconds left in the first half. Barr took a knee and the teams headed to the locker room with the Buckeyes up by 14.
Olivares kicked away to begin the third quarter. The kick was fumbled by Terry Dickerson at the Atlanta 15, but he recovered and his offensive teammates were set up for what would be their second and final score of the night.
It took only five plays for the Rabbits move the 85 yards for a score. On the first play from scrimmage Musgrove broke up the middle for 54 yards. Trey Washington made a touchdown-saving tackle on the play. Webster was stopped for no gain on the next play, but Musgrove hit Stiger on a pass that picked up 27 yards, setting Atlanta up with a first-and-goal at the Gilmer 4. Webster was dropped for a loss of 1 on first down, but Everett Dickerson ran in from 5 yards out on the next play, and with 9:50 left in the third quarter the Rabbs trailed 21-13. The PAT by Duran hit the left upright and bounced in front of the goal post, keeping the Gilmer lead at eight points.
The score put fire in the eyes of the Buckeye special team on the next Taylor kick. DeVondrick Dixon took possession of the ball at his 19 and didn't stop until he reached the end zone 81 yards and 14 seconds later, pushing the Gilmer advantage to 27-13. The Rabbs were called for an illegal substitution on the extra point attempt, and as has been the case all season, the offense returned to the field after the half the distance to the goal from the 3 was marked off. Walker scampered into the end zone for the 2-point conversion and the lead advanced to 29-13 with 9:36 left in the third quarter.
The Black Flag was fired up by the quick score and they forced a quick three-and-out on the next Atlanta possession. Taylor booted a 28-yard punt that wasn't returned, and the Buckeyes took back over on offense at their 38. It took only 1:55 and eight plays for Barr and company to find the end zone again. Walker raced in from one yard out with 6:32 left in the third, and after Olivares' kick the lead advanced to 36-13. Key plays in the drive were runs of 12 and 18 by Boyd on the first two plays of the drive, and runs of 14 and nine by Walker.
Everett Dickerson took the ensuing kickoff from Olivares at his 23 and returned it to the 43, but the frustration of one of his teammates cost the Rabbs a 15-yard mark off for a personal foul, moving the ball back to the Atlanta 29. Lawson picked up 18 on the first play of the possession before Musgrove threw incomplete. The next play basically drove the final nail in the coffin on any hope that Atlanta had of staging a comeback. Musgrove lost the handle on a bad snap from center and Josh Walker was in the right place at the right time, picking up the pigskin and racing untouched 24 yards into the end zone for yet another Gilmer TD. Olivares was true on the extra point, and Gilmer led 43-13 with 5:38 left in the quarter. The score was Gilmer's third TD in just 3:58 of playing time.
After a touchback to the 25 on the next kick, Atlanta set back up on their 25. They picked up one first down on a 25-yard run, but the Black Flag stiffened and a Musgrove pass on fourth down from the Gilmer 37 fell incomplete and the ball went over on downs to Gilmer. Unfortunately, the Bucks couldn't pick up a first down, and Barr boomed a 60-yard punt into the end zone on fourth down, setting the Rabbits back up on their 20.
Musgrove and his offensive partners picked up only four yards in three plays as the third quarter came to a close. Taylor punted away on fourth down and after a 35-yard punt the Bucks took over at their 40. This time they took 3:20 and six plays to move the 60 yards to pay dirt. The score came on a 14 yard run by Kris Boyd with 8:32 left in the game. Olivares split the uprights again and Gilmer led 50-13. Key plays on the drive were a 16-yard pass from Barr to Tate on the first play of the drive and a 21-yard run by Walker.
The next Rabbit possession began on the Atlanta 35. Once again the Black Flag forced a three-and-out and Taylor punted down to the Gilmer 36 where the second unit took over on offense. After a solid performance, the starting offensive team had a chance to rest on the sideline and enjoy the remainder of the game.
McLane Carter led the team on a 6-play, 64-yard drive and connected with Desmond Pollard for what would be the final score of the game on the fourth down scoring pass of 31 yards with 2:23 left in the contest. After the Olivares kick, Gilmer led 57-13.
A pooch kick by Olivares on the kickoff was recovered by DeMarco Boyd. Carter came in and utilized the victory formation for three plays and the game was over.
Coach Traylor was very pleased with the performance of his team after the big win. "For them to score on the opening drive (of the second half) was a killer, but DeVondrick (Dixon) responded (with the kickoff return), then our defense got one too, and we just kinda busted it open and it was just fantastic for our kids. They played really well. They played well in the kicking game, defense and offense, and our crowd was fantastic. It was just what I wanted it to be. Everyone was excited to be here, our crowd was into it, our band, cheerleaders; it was just a good night."
As Buckeye fans will remember, the Black Flag didn't have the best of nights a week earlier in the 51-36 win over Canton, but they were lights out against the Rabbits. We asked the coach HOW the unit could make such a dramatic turnaround in such a short period of time with the Thanksgiving holiday.
"It was focus. Our kids were embarrassed with their performance (against Canton). They practiced well, and when you practice well, you play well. It's just focus. I mean that's just what it is. We didn't focus very well last week. We were distracted the whole night and we didn't play well."
When asked if the Rabbits did anything in the game he wasn't expecting, he replied, "That opening play of the third quarter they ran a little "mo-mo" where they had our back side four technique and we weren't ready for that, but we got it coached up on the sideline. You know, we've played them four times over the last 15 months, so there's not a lot of surprises. We just played real well."
The Buckeyes will now move on to the third round of the Division II playoffs Friday night at another venue that has been good to the team. They will take on the Argyle Eagles, the team that has eliminated Gilmer in the third round the last two years at Mesquite Memorial Stadium in a 7 p.m. tilt. We asked the coach his early thoughts on making the third time the charm against the Eagles.
"We're young and we probably don't even know where Mesquite is and we don't even know where Argyle is, so we'll go over there and get after them."
Buckeye fans showed up in Longview last Friday better than at any other game this season. We all know just HOW IMPORTANT this upcoming game is. Help the Buckeyes dish out a little revenge on Argyle Friday night. Whatever you have to do to get off work early, make sure you get it done and be in your place at Mesquite Memorial Stadium. This team needs you to be loud, rowdy and proud!


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DailyDirt: Minimizing Pointy-Haired Bosses
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
- Zappos issued a kind of ultimatum to its employees -- accept its experimental new management system or take a severance package. Over 200 employees (about 14% of the workforce) chose to leave the company, which doesn't necessarily mean that all of these former employees didn't like "Holacracy" -- but it suggests that self-management policies aren't for everyone, either. [url]
- Google experimented with a flat organization circa 2002, but it ended after a few months when a flood of mundane managerial details overwhelmed the few people with obvious authority at the company. Since then, Google has continued with a data-driven culture to help develop its management techniques and policies -- finding that engineers hate technical micromanagement, but really like to be closely managed when it comes to career guidance. [url]
- If a company's org chart is flat, there's presumably no promotions for many employees, so how can flat organizations keep employees happy? Okay, a growing company can still offer expanded roles with more responsibilities, but a large, stable company may need to design stock option plans and bonuses to keep people around. But if money isn't a great motivator.... [url]


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Meet your new friend, the finance minister
King James had it right early on. "All Treasurers, if they do good service to their masters, must be generally hated", he remarked after he couldn't protect his own treasurer Lionel Cranfield from being thrown into the Tower of London in chains. Cranfield had made too many powerful enemies by opposing an expensive war the treasury couldn't afford. His many successors through the ages can probably relate without too much difficulty.


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TOWN OF WALLKILL — Black Friday isn't for everyone.
TOWN OF WALLKILL — Black Friday isn't for everyone.
It's possible to score deep discounts before the holiday shopping frenzy, according to some shoppers trolling the Galleria at Crystal Run last week.
"It's all a come-on," said Catherine DeFrancesco of Middletown of the post-Thanksgiving deals. "I've tried Black Friday twice."
All she got out of those shopping expeditions was a "big headache."
The grandmother started her holiday shopping Wednesday at Target. She also was buying toys to donate to underprivileged children. DeFrancesco usually has crossed off the items on her gift list by October, in part because she doesn't want to fight crowds.
DeFrancesco is in the minority when it comes to shopping plans.
About one-fifth of consumers expect to complete their holiday shopping by the end of November — with many who do relying on Black Friday to get the job done, according to a survey by the International Council of Shopping Centers and Goldman Sachs.
Tim Whalen of Cold Spring hasn't started shopping yet. He takes one holiday at a time, not thinking about Thanksgiving until Halloween is past.
Christmas doesn't cross his mind until his turkey is digested. "The stores rush you," he said.
Shops traditionally have saved some of their best bargains for Black Friday. This year, many are offering holiday promotions early to attract more traffic, according to the National Retail Federation's study, "Effective Crowd Management."
Target executive team leader Ralph Chiumento said Veterans' Day sales now serve as the unofficial kick-off for holiday season.
He said he's seen Christmas trees, toys and small appliances, like toasters, fly off the shelves over the past week.
Sheila McManus of Warwick wasn't perusing the home goods aisles at Sears for her five children and 12 grandchildren. She was shopping for herself.
Deals mean little to McManus because her family gets what some say is the best gift of all.
"They all get money," she said.


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Saturday, September 24, 2011
Cadet Memorial Field, New London, Conn.
1 2 3 4 Total
Massachusetts Maritime (2-1, 0-1 NEFC) 6 0 16 8 - 30
Coast Guard (1-2, 1-0 NEFC) 14 21 10 16 - 61
MAM: Barry Reopell 2 yd run (kick failed) 9:28 1st
CGA: Tyler Hames 10 yd run (Jacob Shackelford kick) 6:04 1st
CGA: Hames 30 yd run (Shackelford kick) 3:42 1st
CGA: Hames 23 yd run (Shackelford kick) 13:37 2nd
CGA: Jarrod Owens 6 yd run (Shackelford kick) 8:51 2nd
CGA: Hames 19 yd pass from Jon Resch (Shackelford kick) 2:35 2nd
MAM: Chris Robery 9 yd pass from Mike Stanton (Jake Bickley kick) 13:39 3rd
MAM: Bickley 26 yd FG 11:16 3rd
CGA: Eric Gerken 37 yd pass from Owens (Shackelford kick) 8:52 3rd
CGA: Shackelford 26 yd FG 0:46 3rd
CGA: Robery 57 yd pass from Stanton (pass failed) 0:31 3rd
CGA: Hames 15 yd run (kick blocked) 12:29 4th
MAM: Keith Caruso 41 yd pass from John Trudel (Trudel rush) 6:55 4th
CGA: Shackelford 39 yd FG 3:42 4th
CGA: Nick Peters 29 yd interception return (Shackelford kick) 2:16 4th
Attendance: 3,300
NEW LONDON, Conn. -- Sophomore Tyler Hames (Milford, Conn.) rushed for 122 yards and amassed five total touchdowns to lead Coast Guard to a 61-30 victory over Massachusetts Maritime in the New England Football Conference Bogan Division opener for both teams Saturday afternoon at Cadet Memorial Field.
The host Bears (1-2, 1-0 NEFC Bogan) overcame an early 6-0 deficit by scoring five unanswered first half touchdowns, as Hames scampered in from 10 yards out with 6:04 to play in the first quarter to give Coast Guard the lead for good at 7-6. An interception by senior Nick Peters (Floyds Knobs, Ind.) at the visiting Buccaneers' (2-1, 0-1 NEFC Bogan) 30-yard line set up Hames's second visit to the end zone from 30 yards out to extend the hosts' edge to 14-6 after the first 15 minutes of play, and after the Bears held on downs at their own 24-yard line, Hames capped a 76-yard drive in just three plays with a 23-yard scoring scamper and a 21-6 Coast Guard lead.
Massachusetts Maritime's second turnover of the half, a fumble on its own 37 yard line, set up senior quarterback Jarrod Owens's (Monroe, Ga.) six-yard touchdown midway through the second stanza, and Hames capped off a four-touchdown first half when he hauled in a 19-yard scoring strike from junior Jon Resch (Lititz, Pa.) with 2:35 to play in the half after the Buccaneers' third turnover and second fumble of the game for a 35-6 Bear advantage at the break.
Massachusetts Maritime took the opening second half kickoff and drove 63 yards in four plays, as sophomore quarterback Mike Stanton (Quincy, Mass.) connected with fellow sophomore Chris Robery (Plainville, Mass.) on a nine-yard touchdown pass, and the Buccaneers regained possession just three plays later when junior Evan Sheridan (Chelmsford, Mass.) recovered an Owens fumble at the Bear 5 yard line. Senior Jake Bickley (Wilbraham, Mass.) connected on a 26-yard field goal that enabled the visitors to slice their deficit to 35-16 with 10 points in a 2:23 span, but Owens answered back for Coast Guard with a seven play, 62-yard drive that ended when he connected with junior Eric Gerken (Tampa, Fla.) on a 37-yard touchdown pass and a 42-16 Bear lead.
Following a Massachusetts Maritime punt midway through the third quarter, Owens directed the hosts' on a 15-play, 67-yard drive that consumed six minutes and resulted in senior Jacob Shackelford's (Richardson, Tex.) 26-yard field goal, but the Buccaneers responded in quick fashion once again with a score just 15 seconds later, as Stanton hit Robery on a 59-yard touchdown pass to slice the visitors' deficit to 45-22 after three quarters of play. Hames added his fourth rushing touchdown and final visit to the end zone of the day just 2:31 into the fourth stanza, as his 15-yard run capped another long Coast Guard drive of 62 yards in eight plays. Sophomore Keith Caruso (Hingham, Mass.) accounted for the final Massachusetts Maritime points of the day with 6:55 to play in the contest by hauling in a 41-yard touchdown pass from freshman John Trudel (Niantic, Conn.), and the Bears capped their scoring with 10 points over the final 3:42 of action, as Shackelford hit from 39 yards out for his second field goal of the day and Peters returned his second interception of the afternoon 29 yards for the final touchdown.
Owens completed 17-of-24 passes for 177 yards in the win for Coast Guard, as Gerken hauled in 10 receptions for 131 yards to go with his score for the Bears. Stanton completed 11-of-19 passes for 165 yards and two scores in the setback for Massachusetts Maritime, which received 80 rushing yards from senior Matt White (Westwood, Mass.) and 66 rushing yards that included a two-yard touchdown run to open the game's scoring by junior Barry Reopell (South Dennis, Mass.). Caruso hauled in six receptions for a career-high 122 yards for the Buccaneers, as the two schools combined for 840 yards of total offense on the day.
Junior Dante Adams (Chesapeake, Va.) accounted for nine total tackles to pace Coast Guard defensively, as Peters added five tackles to go with his two interceptions for the Bears, who converted all four of their turnovers forced into touchdowns on the day. Sophomore Stefan Gustafson (Plymouth, Mass.) led the way defensively with a career-high 12 total tackles, including nine solo stops, in the setback for Massachusetts Maritime, which also received eight total tackles from senior James Hutchinson (Pembroke, Mass.).
Massachusetts Maritime hosts Framingham State in a New England Football Conference Bogan Division outing next Saturday afternoon at Clean Harbors Stadium beginning at Noon, while Coast Guard heads to Fitchburg, Mass. next Saturday afternoon to take on Fitchburg State in a New England Football Conference Bogan Division clash that kicks off at 1:30 p.m.


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The April 19 UFC on FOX event in Orlando just got a dose of explosive lightweight action, as Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone has verbally agreed to face Muay Thai master Edson Barboza in what promises to be a Fight of the Year candidate.
Cerrone recently set a Zuffa record with his first round knockout of Adriano Martins on January 25 that marked his 13th UFC / WEC fight night bonus. Brazil's Barboza has bolstered his bank account with his performances as well, picking up five UFC bonuses in his eight Octagon bouts.
Cowboy and Barboza Clash in Orlando
UFC on FOX 11 gets an explosive lightweight matchup...
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The hope and prayer of anyone's life is good health. Now and again, those hopes and prayers are dashed by sickness and disease. Tanner Creed is a living example of a warrior against cancer, which been tamed twice in his short life. In the 7th grade, Tanner was diagnosed with Willms Disease. The cancer attacked his kidneys. A disease that normally afflicts a person before the age of 5, the older they are when it does hit, the harder it is to eradicate.
By Karl Younkman
The Wellington Daily News
The hope and prayer of anyone's life is good health. Now and again, those hopes and prayers are dashed by sickness and disease.
When a person's health is threatened twice inside of 18 years it takes a strong individual to stand and fight against that sickness.
Tanner Creed is a living example of a warrior against cancer, which been tamed twice in his short life. In the 7th grade, Tanner was diagnosed with Willms Disease. The cancer attacked his kidneys. A disease that normally afflicts a person before the age of 5, the older they are when it does hit, the harder it is to eradicate.
The doctors went after the sickness with chemotherapy, and at last had to remove one of Tanner's kidneys. With that procedure, it seemed Tanner had licked the sickness. It was time for him to realize a dream and start concentrating on the sport he loves: football.
South Haven High School, which Tanner attends, is a school that believes in football. Tanner wanted to be a part of that tradition in the worst way, and Tanner's teammates wanted him to be a part of it too.
"When I was a freshman, some of the seniors gave up their starting position so I could play in the game," said Tanner. "They were really supportive and pushed me in practice as much as they could."
Tanner's coach, David Hughes, was a part of the support staff that helped him along.
"We saw that Tanner had a passion for the sport and we were going to get a 99% great attitude from him," Hughes said of his player. "In practice, every down and every drill he gave us 100% effort."
Tanner's mother, Elisa, speaks highly of Hughes and the way he approached her son and his sickness. "Coach Hughes supported him, but never really babied him when he was on the field," Elisa said. "And later on, when he was in the hospital, he would be sure to check on him."
Tanner was forced back to the hospital in 2009.
"One day in practice I started to get chest pains," said Tanner. "Coach told me to take off practice and see the school nurse." From there, he went to Dr. Steve Scheufler, who after more tests and x-rays found a small spot on one of his lungs.
"I had a bad feeling it may have been cancer," says Elisa. "It was a spot on his lung that was 1 centimeter in size. And that is the size that determines if surgery is necessary."
So back to the operating table it was for Tanner; this time, to remove that spot on his lung.
Only months later, Elisa started to feel sick. "In December of 2009, I was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer," Elisa said.
Doctors performed a double masectomy on Elisa. They told her that if she made it three years, she may have it beat. It's been four years now.
The mutual support that mother and son have for each other is evident.
That support did not entirely manifest itself at the high school. "Tanner was held back because of the time he was in the hospital," said Elisa. "When he was a junior, he had to lunch with the sophomores and so forth. He did finally catch up on his school work, but with really no help from the administration."
After Tanner's relapse and surgery, and subsequent recovery, he was not allowed by the school to play football his sophomore year. "He lacked a half credit to become eligible to play," explains Elisa. " I contacted the Kansas High School Association of Athletics to see if there was some leeway to work with us, but they never really followed up on it."
And so, Tanner set his sights on his remaining two years of eligibility.
"With all the pain and hard work in recovery from both surgeries, I didn't want anything to stop me from playing my last two years," Tanner says. "My teammates were all very supportive and they pushed me in practice. And so did coach Hughes."
Hughes remembers fondly the gentle ribbings he used on Tanner. "After a particularly hard day in practice, we would sort of tease him, like, 'oh, you never really had to do anything has hard as this', you know, just to lighten the mood," said Hughes. "He always responded very positively and played with a lot of passion. Years ago, someone told me the naturals are not really the ones to spend time with, it's the kids that show that greater desire. Tanner was certainly one with desire."
That desire led Tanner to a second team all-South Border League selection as an offensive lineman after the past season concluded. This was no small feat for a player that stands 5'9" and weighs in at 150 pounds.
Elisa says she was at first reluctant to see him work so hard. "Tanner would always seem to do more sprints and burpees at practice," said Elisa. "When I wondered if the coaches should take it easy on him, he would say, 'Mom it's my choice."
Another great support arm was the summer job at the farm of Kevin and Kalen Fitch.
"Kalen is such a big motivator, and he's really helped me in my recovery and my sports," said Tanner.
Fitch will be helping Tanner on the basketball floor this winter as he takes the reigns of the Cardinal basketball team this year. Tanner's uncle, Mark Creed, will serve as assistant.
"Tanner really considers Kalen a brother," said Elisa. In a family with four sisters, a guy can use a brother to be around.
Tanner's experience on the farm has led to his decision to enroll in the John Deere school of mechanics.
"I haven't decided on Garden City or Fort Scott yet, but it's really what I want to do after working with the Fitch's John Deeres'," said Tanner.
Things are looking up for Elisa, as well. "I've been going to school to become a nurse," said Elisa. "I've been attending Wichita Area Technical and I'm ready to take the test. Next year, I should be in nursing."
With the practical education out of the way, and the experience of both Tanner and herself to draw from, success in the nursing field- as well as the football field- seems assured.


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Penn State (8-4)
The season-ending Achilles' tendon injury to point guard Tim Frazier ended any hope the Nittany Lions had of pulling off some surprises. He was by far Penn State's best player. The offensive impotency is obvious as the Nittany Lions shoot just 40.7 percent, worst among Big Ten teams. Key player: Sophomore guard D.J. Newbill is having a solid season with 15.8 points, 6.2 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game. Key stat: The Nittany Lions allow opponents to shoot 36.1 percent on 3-pointers. Big Ten opener: Thursday at Wisconsin.
Abby Drey, McClatchy-Tribune
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Limited Edition Strawberried Peanut Butter M&Ms
For the past few years M&Ms has linked up with blockbuster movies to make Limited Edition M&Ms. Shrek (Mega M&Ms), Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull (Mint Crisp M&Ms), Pirates of the Caribbean (White Chocolate M&Ms) and Star Wars (Dark Chocolate M&Ms). This summer is no different with the release of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
To tie into the movie about aliens that are two kinds of robots in one (more than meets the eye) Mars is introducing Limited Edition Strawberried Peanut Butter M&Ms.
Not only are the candies inside of the "you've never tasted this before" variety, they've also made seven different versions of the wrapper. Pictured above is The Twins - Pack 7 of 7.
What is a strawberried peanut butter M&M?
They're pretty much the same as the regular Peanut Butter M&Ms: a peanut butter center covered in milk chocolate and a hard candy shell ... except here the milk chocolate is strawberry flavored.
I admit at first I squintched up my nose at the idea. Then I thought about PB&J (which is ideal with concord grape and white bread on one side, but also fabulous with sunflower wheat bread and raspberry jam) and it kind of made sense.
The colors are red, brown and yellow.
There were no clever motifs on the printing, just the regular M imprint. Except the yellow ones had some red splatter on them (I'm guessing that's red transformer motor oil).
The strawberry flavor is just that, a flavoring applied on top of the inherent flavors in the peanut butter and the chocolate. The chocolate flavor is pretty much overwhelmed by the floral and sweet berry essences. The peanut butter grounds it pretty well, it's mostly smooth, rather soft and has a good salty pop towards the end.
They're not my favorite M&Ms ever, but I had no problem eating the whole bag. They feel about as relevant to the movie as last year's mint crisp was to Indiana Jones.
I'll leave you with a photo of the Bumblebee Transformer. Because I had it (hey, I work in Hollywood, I see a lotta stuff):
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