text:
Chocolate Mousse Fudge
The yummiest chocolate fudge you'll ever have! Simply silky and delicious. Mmm.
Each piece is hand cut by our remarkable staff. Remains in "Delicious Condition" for 10 weeks.
Chocolate Mousse (51%) (Sugar, Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil (with Soy Lecithin), Water, Choc Chips (2.9%) (Sugar, Vegetable Oil, Cocoa Powder, Milk Solids, Emulsifier (Soy Lecithin, 492), Salt, Flavour), Butter (Cream, Salt), Whipping Agent (Corn Syrup, Sugar, Water, Egg Whites, Flavour, Xanthan Gum, Lactic Acid, Salt), Corn Syrup Solids, Chocolate Liquor, Milk Solids, Cocoa, Sorbitol, Salt, Cocoa Butter, Flavour, Soy Lecithin), Chocolate Fudge (Sugar, Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil (with Soy Lecithin), Water, Butter (Cream, Salt), Corn Syrup Solids, Milk Solids, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa, Chocolate Liquor, Sorbitol, Salt, Soy Lecithin, Flavour), Contains Soy and Milk Products and Egg. Manufactured on the same equipment that processes Wheat, Peanuts and Tree Nuts. Made in New Zealand from imported and local ingredients. Do not refrigerate.<br>


text:
UWNYC Director of Communications Named a 40 Under 40 Rising Star by NYN Media
NEW YORK, NY—Alex Rodriguez, Director, Communications at United Way of New York City (UWNYC), has been named one of New York Nonprofit Media's 2016 40 Under 40 2016 Rising Stars. The prestigious Rising Star award recognizes exemplary individuals under the age of 40 for their accomplishments and excellence in the nonprofit world. The winners were honored at a celebratory breakfast this morning at Capital Grille in New York City.
"I am humbled by this recognition. Congratulations to the other honorees and thank you to New York Nonprofit Media, and especially to my team. I may be the one accepting the award but it's my team's determination and commitment to our work that has allowed for my successes. I'm proud to work at United Way of New York City and I'm very proud of the work we do—what can I say, my team is amazing!" said Alex Rodriguez, Director, Communications, United Way of New York City.
As Director of Communications at UWNYC, Rodriguez leads communications strategy and implementation across all sectors and drives innovation, compelling storytelling and strategy to maximize engagement, ultimately enriching the organization's bottom-line. Prior to joining UWNYC, Rodriguez served as Manager, Stakeholder Communications at United Way Worldwide, supporting nearly 1,800 United Ways across the globe and managing major partnerships like Red Ned Nose Day with Comic Relief and NBC.
"Alex's joining of United Way of New York City has created organization-wide change in how we communicate with our multiple audiences. Through his bold approach to communications and storytelling, Alex enhances how we share the story of our impact on the Greater New York City community," said Lesleigh Irish-Underwood, Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, United Way of New York City. "We are thrilled to have Alex as an integral part of our team and can think of no one more fitting for the honor of being named a New York Nonprofit Media 40 Under 40 Rising Star."
For media inquiries, contact Rida Bint Fozi at 212-337-8870 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
About United Way of New York City
United Way of New York City (UWNYC) has been a trusted partner to government, corporations, and community-based organizations for nearly 80 years. Serving low-income New Yorkers, UWNYC's collective impact approach enables the diagnosis of neighborhood challenges and the design of solutions to expand education, financial stability, and health opportunities. UWNYC then deploys resources and volunteers while also driving policy change that is guided by measured results. UWNYC envisions caring communities where all individuals and families have access to quality education and the opportunity to lead healthy and financially secure lives. Learn more at www.unitedwaynyc.org.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Wendy La Croix
If I could paint the sky it would be pale pink. I love the feeling of making people happy. I'd like to think I could erase poverty and hunger. I love to meander in my garden. See's Candy? Yes Please. I don't need my arm twisted to shop. I'm pretty sure I'm my mother's favorite. I love kisses.. but only from the man I love…my husband Kenny. My 3 children will tell you I was the crazy mom who went on midnight adventures with them. I'm a native Southern California Bad Ass. I love antique shopping…surprised???? And I am pretty darn sure that when God created me He made me an Artist… placed glitter in my veins, crystals in my eyes, and creativity in my heart and soul. Life is good and I'm ready to be BAD!!!
Nicole Martel
I am a wife and a mom of a 7 year old boy. I live in Maryland with my son, husband, Pete, 2 kitties (Jessica and Toby) and Potbelly pig named Hamlet.
Currently, I work for a credit union, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. When I'm not working, I am at home playing with my son and at night, when he's asleep, I scrap! I'd like to say I am more of a simple/journalist scrapper, but I tend to do a little of everything! I love creating layouts which includes stamping and mixed media, mini albums, pocket pages and even planners.
Irina Volzhina
I am Irina from Saint Peterburg in Russia. I'm 47 years old. I'm married and have a grown-up daughter and a cat called Marusya. I am a teacher of art history. I worked in schools and universities and I am currently the specialist in school administration. In my life I love to do many things. I discovered scrapbooking more than 6 years ago after receiving some supplies as a gift and immediately fell in love with this hobby as a creative outlet and a way to document life's fun, interesting moments. I really like different tech stuff in scrapping and continuously experiment with various materials and styles to develop new techniques, tools and devices. I like to do layouts, albums, art-objects, and home decor! I love to create layout sketches and create layouts in Silhouette Studio program.
Michelle Rossibell
My name is Michelle and I live in Chino, California. I have been with my husband for 25 years, and am a Mom to 4 wonderful boys (men). And we have a Hollandlop bunny called Sebastian.
I manage a couple of major retail store accounts in sales and development for Prima Marketing in the crafting industry. I have been crafting for 20 years now. I love everything from scrapbooking, mini albums, planners, travel notebooks, Watercoloring, and mixed media.
I have been on several design teams, and love to teach when time allows me to. Crafting is very therapeutic and now that my boys are older I find that I have more time to create.
It's been over 5 years since I have been on a design team, and I missed it a lot. The company I work for shares my projects from time to time and I love that.
I am very excited to be a Bad Girl!
Michelle Sanders
Bios are so hard. How can I explain all that I am in one little statement? Well I'll make it as short and to the point as I can. I'm a smalltown girl from South Louisiana and still live in my sleepy little home town. Married for 15 years to the sweetest man to walk the earth and blessed with two wild and crazy boys ages 6 and 11. I've been attracted to all things paper crafts from a very young age...back when scratch and sniff stickers, peel and stick photo albums & scotch tape were acceptable. Although I love making scrapbook layouts of our family memories, I also love working in my planner, making mini albums and lately I've been finding a lot of joy in art and Bible journaling. I hate my handwriting but force myself to use it more and more...maybe the kids will appreciate that later. Doubt it...but maybe. I am a very sentimental person and I save everything. I have a funky, gritty but graphic style and love all things vintage...so needless to say, this kit will be right up my alley! I love to distress things and don't feel a page is complete without inking it up a bit. It is a huge honor to be among such a talented group of ladies on this design team!


text:
I am not going in order with the MWMs for now, just because I am so new to this. I am picking the ones that I think I can do, and do a good job of! I want to start doing them in order, and hopefully that isn't too far off!
Here's the sketch
Here's the sketch
It's hard to tell from this picture, but the swirls are kraft paper that I sprayed with Glimmer Mist to give them some shimmer. And the photo on the page really is good quality, I just couldn't get a good picture of it on this rainy day!


text:
Mostly the 365 Photo Challenge for 2011, all photos can be enlarged by clicking on them
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Shapes in Nature
8 comments:
- Steven said...
Those are shapes I never want to see until I retire from driving for a living. I guess I could appreciate them then, or perhaps if I was traveling, but here? No way! Are you having a so called "normal" winter in Sweden, or are you getting hammered with more extreme weather, like the rest of the world?
- January 16, 2011 at 9:07 PM
Short term Stakegmites Cool - COLD!
- January 16, 2011 at 11:38 PM
- Rachel said...
I love the close-up, but it definitely looks cold. I can't wait to get rid of all my snow!
- January 17, 2011 at 2:30 AM
That closer shot is beautiful! The shadows too add to the shapes. I'm cold now....
- January 17, 2011 at 3:25 AM
Beautiful to look at from afar.
- January 17, 2011 at 5:39 AM
Beautiful images of winter. Especially like seeing the ice formations. We have lots of snow but not many ice "sculptures".
- January 17, 2011 at 7:21 AM
- lisaschaos said...
Oh nice! I love snow and ice - it creates so many fun designs. :)
- January 17, 2011 at 6:35 PM
- Clara said...
OMG! It looks so cold and miserable. 5 inches of snow nearly drove us crazy.
- January 20, 2011 at 3:55 AM


text:
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Episode 272 with Andre-Guy Landry
Listen to episode 272 now!
This week on your favourite LIVE comics radio program, we welcome web cartoonist Andre-Guy Landry to the Monster Cave. Andre-Guy has been hard at work on his Brainslug webcomic and he is in the final days of his Kickstarter campaign, which if successful will see his first collection of strips printed. He joins us to chat about all this and more so, if you have a question for Andre-Guy Landry, feel free to post it on our Facebook wall or give us a call at 506-453-4949.
Where Monsters Dwell is brought to you by Strange Adventures and Club Fred Grafx.
WMD gets it's pop culture news from SciFi Mafia.
Help Support the Monsters by purchasing some of our swag: WEAR Monsters Dwell
Posted by Where Monsters Dwell at 9:31 PM
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
Chamonix French Alps Trip
August 13-20. 1825 Euro.
Geared to active adults of all ages, with moderate and challenging hiking options.
Most participants come from North America and Israel, but the trip is open to all countries.
Chamonix-Mont Blanc attracts tourists from around the world, mountaineers, hikers or just families. It is the third most visited natural site in the world. The Mont-Blanc chain is 30 km long by 10 km wide, 28 summits of more than 4,000 m, the rooftop of Europe (4,810 m), set on the French, Italian and Swiss borders. Thanks to the ski lifts and gondolas, the capital of mountaineering allows to reduce the time of approach and to reach the high-mountain and its glaciers.
Trip Activities
These are the main activities for the Chamonix Adventurers Hiking Trip. The hikes are geared to healthy adults aged 18 to 65. Most days there will be a moderate group hike in the morning with a picnic lunch, followed by afternoon options including a more challenging group hike, sports activities, shopping in town, jacuzzi at the chalet, and free time. The exact schedule of hikes and activities will depend on the weather.
Aiguille Du Midi
Cable Car to Summit (3842 meters)
Peak Terraces Overlooking the Alps of France, Italy and Switzerland
Optional "Step into the Void" Glass Observatory
Glacier View from Panoramic Terraces
Cable Car down to Midpoint – Plan De l'Aiguille)
Walk to Lac Bleu & Picnic at Lake
Down to Chamonix on Plan De Aiguille cablecar
Le Tour
Ascend Caramillon and Les Autannes Cablecars to Col De Balme
Enter Switzerland
Croix De Fer Ridge Walk
Aiguille des Posettes
Cross Col De Balme Plateau back To Caramillon
La Flegere
Cable Car in Les Praz
Index Chair to Top
Grand Balcon Sud: Hike to Lac Blanc
Descend Index and Flegere Lifts to Les Praz
Climb to Cascade de la Berard
Cross Valley to Refuge de la Berard
Le Brevent
Cable Car to PlanPraz
Gondola to Le Brevent Summit Outlook opposite Mont Blanc
Walk down to PlanPraz
Watch ParaGliders
Grand Balcon Sud Balcony Walk across to top of La Flegere
Index Lift to Peak and Crest Walk 1
Descent on Index Lift and Flegere cable car
Mer De Glace and Ice Caves
Via Cog Railway
Glacier des Bossons
Chairlift and short walk to a Chalet overlooking the glacier, where you see calving – large chunks of ice breaking off from the glacier.
Optional hike to the second chalet
Les Gorges de la Diosaz at Servoz
Scenic gorge and waterfall walk
Lac Des Gaillands
Optional Activities
White Water Rafting on L'Arve River
Argentiere Grands Montets
Bicycling Trails – Downhill or Electric Bike
Horseback Riding through forests and valleys
Early morning runs
Swimming at the Sports Centre with indoor and outdoor swimming pools, sauna and hammam
Ice Skating
Alpine Museum


text:
The health benefits of Grapes and how you can grow them at home! Lately Iâve been going crazy over Grapes. Iâve recently discovered that Grapes have many health benefits that will help me stay young and active and can help me live longer. Widely popular, grapes are regarded in many cultures as âthe queen of fruits". These tiny berries are the storehouse of numerous health promoting phyto-nutrients such as poly-phenolic antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. => Grow AMAZING grapes like these with ease During my research hereâs some interesting facts Iâve un-covered: - Grapes are rich in Resveratrol. Resveratrol is one of the powerful anti-oxidant, which has been found to play a protective role against cancers of colon and prostate, coronary heart disease (CHD), degenerative nerve disease, Alzheimer's disease and viral/ fungal infections. - Resveratrol reduces stroke risk by altering the molecular mechanisms in the blood vessels. - They are an also good source of vitamin-C, vitamin A, vitamin K, carotenes, B-complex vitamins such as pyridoxine, riboflavin, and thiamin. - In addition, the berries are very low in calories. 100 g fresh grapes just provide 69 calories but zero cholesterol levels. => Grow AMAZING grapes like these with ease Look at the link above and see what Danieâs offering. Danie is a professional grape grower and has put together a course to help the âaverage Joeâ grow grapes at home. His course also includes a video series that shows professional tips all recorded on his own farm. If you want to grow grapes at home this is the course you need. He shows you how to grow grape up a fence, a patio or if you want to grow grapes on a large scale vineyard he also covers this in great detail. Danieâs a great bloke and has put his heart and sole into his course. He also provides amazing support. I give Danies course 2 thumbs up! âGrapes are an amazing fruit with many health benefits, I love emâ â" Danie Wium => Look at Danies Grape farm
Oriflame cosmetics is the best MLM company in India. You can buy Oriflame cosmetics and beauty products from Oriflame consultant in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Pune, Kolkata, Hyderabad. You can join Oriflame cosmetics and become a member. Membership is 299. Once you register you can buy Oriflame online and recruit consultants under you and earn more money.
Thursday, 19 December 2013
The health benefits of Grapes and how you can grow them at home!
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
The Beehive – 9/22/17
Summer Renovations Realized – Part One
This past summer, Molloy performed an abundance of capital projects focused on modernizing our 6 acre campus. These projects and campus-wide upgrades are made possible thanks to the generosity of our community toward our annual Fund For Molloy campaign, as well as to our Walkathon in fall 2016. The kindness of Stanners everywhere continues to make it possible for Molloy to feature state-of-the-art facilities and create a safe and ever-evolving learning environment for all. Since there were so many upgrades this summer, we will break up our reporting into two Beehive articles. This week in part one, we highlight a few key improvements that, while not massive overhauls, are critical to maintaining an efficient campus. (Pictured above: renovated Capt. Anthony Marsloe Gymnasium)
First, as was highlighted in June, the Main Street entry walkway, which we are now referring to affectionately as the "Main Street Mews", was ripped up and replaced with freshly paved concrete (pictured above). The pathway is now wider, is lined with new landscaping and shrubbery, and extends into a portion of the front lawn. The newly expanded section features two benches and is surrounded by a memorial garden. One of the benches, as well as the garden's butterfly bushes, were dedicated to the late Karina Vetrano '04 during our Walk/Run event on June 24th. These upgrades were in part cosmetic, but more importantly the memorial garden and benches are now fixtures on our campus and free for students, faculty, and visitors to use and enjoy. The garden also prominently features the existing statue of St. Marcellin Champagnat, keeping Molloy's Catholic Marist identity visible.
Elsewhere, Molloy's main elevator, located in the center of the building, has been completely replaced. This was a necessary upgrade in order to keep our commitment to a safe, efficient, and modernized campus. The new elevator features an updated mechanism, new paneling, lighting, and flooring, and is more responsive than the original model. This improvement will make accessing Molloy easier for faculty, students with mobility issues, and the Marist Brothers who live on the fourth floor. Another important installation came in Molloy's kitchen, where a new freezer was installed to replace the previous aging model. The new freezer is expected to function more efficiently and reliably for the Culinart Food Services staff.
When refurbishing a space, a fresh coat of paint often goes a long way. In addition to the annual painting of door frames and ceilings, both locker rooms and the Capt. Anthony Marsloe Gymnasium were all completely repainted. The Marsloe Gym had accumulated hundreds of scuff marks on its walls as a result of years of use by Stanner athletes, but now the room is brighter and more inviting. Scaffolding on the ceiling was also painted a new shade of blue to further improve the space. The Marsloe Gym also saw its court refinished for the first time in many years, with brand new graphics providing the finishing touch.
(Pictured above left: Stanners sitting at Molloy's new lunch tables in 2017 | Right: Stanners standing for lunch circa 1980s) Many old-school Stanners will recall standing up to eat their lunch during every lunch period. This tradition of course ended in the early 1990s (to the dismay of many traditionalists). For decades, students stood for lunch because the Marist Brothers believed excluding chairs was a more efficient way to conduct the lunch period; less objects to move around makes a room easier to maintain. When Molloy first introduced its lunch tables, these ideals were still honored. The tables featured built-in communal benches to avoid using hundreds of individual chairs, and each table folded up and rolled on wheels for quick and easy storage. After nearly 25 years, all lunch tables have now been replaced with new models. While the new tables (38 in use, 2 extra) look nearly identical to the originals, their finish is a slightly brighter shade and they weigh less, the latter making moving and storing them much easier. The original tables have since been donated to another local school.
Look out for Part 2 of the Summer Renovations article in our October 6th issue of The Beehive!
Gift Challenge – The Lou Santos Scholarship
As you may have heard earlier this year, or read in our recent Stanner Life publication, Archbishop Molloy High School has announced the establishment of The Lou Santos Scholarship. Mr. Santos, who was inducted into the Stanner Hall of Fame in March 2017, has impacted countless lives during his over 40 year career at Molloy. His legacy as a teacher, coach, mentor, friend, volunteer, and philanthropist have been well documented. He has lived the Marist Charism throughout his life and career, always putting the needs of others before his own, and selflessly giving of his time and energy to ensure that those less fortunate can be cared for. Mr. Santos is a truly inspirational figure in the history of St. Ann's / Molloy, and a scholarship in his name is well deserved. The Lou Santos Scholarship will benefit deserving Catholic students with economic hardships in New York City.
Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous benefactor, new gifts made to The Lou Santos Scholarship will be matched 1:1, dollar for dollar, up to $50,000! This means that your generous gift will not only honor Mr. Santos, but it will go even further toward helping young students in need. Visit www.molloyhs.org/donate/ to make a gift, or contact the Stanner Alumni Center at 718.441.9210 or email@example.com for more info.
Alum Sponsors Award at Brooklyn Elementary School
At the graduation ceremony for Queen of the Rosary Catholic Academy (Williamsburg, Brooklyn) on June 16, 2017, Robert Dittus '81 and family presented the St. Marcellin Champagnat Award to two outstanding graduates who are now currently enrolled at Archbishop Molloy High School as freshmen. This year's $100 award was presented to Neyde Estrada and Anthony Montano. In Bob's words, "This award is especially meaningful to our family, as three family members graduated from Molloy and went to Catholic grammar school in the Williamsburg area including myself, my daughter Sharon Dittus AMHS '10, who is currently a staff member at Queen of the Rosary, and my son Robert Dittus AMHS '15, who is part of the first official Q of R graduating Class in 2011." (Pictured left to right: 8th grade Q of R teacher Mary Gering, Sharon Dittus '10, Neyde Estrada '21, Anthony Montano '21 & Robert Dittus '81)
A description of the award states candidates should possess a propensity for lifelong learning, hard work, tolerance and integrity, hold a sense of community, and actively help those most in need. The St. Marcellin Champagnat Award will be presented by the Dittus family to any member of the Queen of the Rosary graduating class who will be attending Archbishop Molloy High School.
Neyde Estrada served as student council president, a classroom monitor, and was also a member of the Aquinas Society while maintaining honor roll status. She attends ballet school and enjoys traveling. Anthony Montano is an honor roll student with a particular interest in Math. He served as a classroom monitor and was always willing to assist when needed. Anthony enjoys sports and plays baseball and basketball. The first Champagnat award was presented in 2015 to Luigi Albano '19, currently enjoying his junior year at Stanner High.
Around the School
Molloy Open House – Volunteers Needed!
- When: Sunday, October 15th, 11:00AM-4:00PM
- Who: Our community + Alumni Volunteers
- Contact: email@example.com
Archbishop Molloy High School's annual fall Open House is set for Sunday, October 15th from 11:00AM to 4:00PM. Open House is a wonderful opportunity for elementary school students and their families to visit Molloy, tour our campus, and learn about our Catholic Marist tradition. Guests will have the opportunity to meet students, administrators, teachers and coaches, receive information about Molloy's competitive curriculum, enjoy musical and dance performances by talented Stanner club and band members, and see why Molloy has built a reputation as a top-tier learning environment.
ATTENTION ALUMNI! Volunteers are needed at Open House! Alumni volunteers will fill several different roles during the day, including greeting and directing prospective students and their families, and speaking with visitors about their own unique Molloy experiences. Please contact the above email if interested. A reminder to all alumni who attend Open House: remember to stop by room 124 and say hello to the staff at the Stanner Alumni Center!
AP Scholars Announced (Class of 2017 Included!)
It was recently announced that 80 students at Archbishop Molloy High School have earned AP Scholar Awards in recognition of their exceptional achievement on AP exams during the 2016-2017 school year. 49 students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP exams and by receiving scores of 3 or higher. 15 students qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average score of at least 3.25 on all AP exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams. 16 students qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Award by earning an average score of at least 3.5 on all AP exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams. The total 80 students receiving awards for the 2016-2017 school year includes seniors who graduated in June of 2017 as well as current seniors who will be graduating in June of 2018. Current seniors have an opportunity to complete more AP courses and earn a higher level AP Scholar Award. Molloy's administration and faculty extend their sincerest congratulations to all of our AP Scholars.
Recognized as AP Scholars among our current seniors (Class of 2018) are: Jessica Antal, Sonalia Balli, Maeve Boyle, Carl Ferreri, Sven Larsen, Gianna Lavacca, Fiona McCaul, Uma Mohan, Natalie Ortof, Tyler Pearce, Michael Perkins, Anthony Pizzulli, Vassilia Plakas, Sarah Rodriguez, Andrew Soltesz, Mary Sullivan, Andrew Vascellaro, and Razzaan Zia.
Recognized as AP Scholars with Honor among our current seniors (Class of 2018) are: Sally Kremer, Colleen Sledge, and Joanna Wong.
Recognized as AP Scholars among our Class of 2017 graduates are: Karen Baldonado, Lauren Barbera, Brendan Barberides, Steven Bongiovanni, Austin Budhram, Vincent Ciulla, Maria DePalma, Erika Dioquino, Emma Dowhie, Evelin Fajardo, Jacqueline Girardin, Catherine Gleason, Clarissa Gosine, Margaret Grigg, Steven Honovic, Enrique Javier, Emily Johnson, Donna Kim, Hobie Legaspi, Kayla Lewis, Robby Mendoza, Lucas Morales, Jacob Musovic, Zachary Parial, Joseph Quispe, Cassandra Renart, Annaliese Roller, Alyson Szeto, Dorothy Watters, Julian West, and Cierra Word.
Recognized as AP Scholars with Honor among our Class of 2017 graduates are: Paul Arango, Michael Avaricio, Patricia Cerri-Droz, Nicole Chresomales, Sandra Ilkkan, Christina Jordan, David Kemp, Esmeralda Montas, Eric Mun, Andria Padilla, Angelo Tsoulos, and James Tsoulos.
Recognized as AP Scholars with Distinction among our Class of 2017 graduates are: Andrew Arceo, Vivian Chen, Liam Coen, Lilibeth Delassalas, Kyle Hoosein, Jillian Hubert, Caroline Jaipaul, Francesca LaPinta, Stephanie Lechki, Freddy Murgida, Pooja Patel, Calista Requijo, Anne-Marie Romain, Elena Rossi, Kelly Santiago, and Katherine VanRiper.
Tennis Player Records "Perfect Game"
The girls varsity tennis team saw a historic performance in its first game action of the year, as junior Kristina Pali '19 recorded a "perfect game" against St. Savior on September 11th. Kristina won every point of her 8 game pro-set without losing any points. Each game was won 4-0. In other words, Kristina scored 32 straight points without losing any. Kristina's teammates also played well in their singles and doubles matches, resulting in a perfect 5-0 score for Molloy on the day. The team followed up its dominant performance with another strong outing on September 12th, as Molloy won all five of its matches against St. Edmund's for its second straight 5-0 day. The team is back at it today (9/20) versus Xaverian.
Upcoming Events
Stanner Alumni Reunion – 6 WEEKS AWAY!
- When: Saturday, November 4, 2017
- Where: Archbishop Molloy High School
- Class Years: '47, '52, '57, '62, '67, '72, '77, '82, '87, '92, '97, '02, '07 & '12
- Contact: Matt Rizzotti '04 | 718.441.9210
- Ticket Prices: See registration link
We've seen a great response since online registration opened for our upcoming Stanner Alumni reunion. Let's keep it going! If you graduated from Molloy in a year ending in 2 or 7 (not including 2017), you are invited to join us on Saturday, November 4th for a night of cocktails, dinner, dancing, nostalgia, and more. We are honored to welcome you back to high school. Here are few logistical notes as we move closer to the big night:
- 4:30pm – Early check-in begins
- 5:00pm – Mass of Remembrance (celebrated in the Ralph DeChiaro Theater)
- 6:15pm – Cocktail receptions for each class (see staff upon arrival)
- 7:15pm – Dinner, Dessert, Class Photos, Dancing, and more!
- Valet parking will be available. Discounted hotel rates are available upon request.
- We are seeking individuals who would be interested in acting as Class Officers. This role involves volunteering to call/email classmates to inform them about the upcoming reunion and possibly update their contact information.
We are expecting a large crowd, so we encourage you to reserve your spot as soon as possible. Click the button above to register online. A postcard invitation should also arrive in your home mailbox in the coming days (if you do not receive the postcard, please contact us to update your address). Please help us spread the word to your classmates. For more information please contact event organizer Matt Rizzotti '04 at firstname.lastname@example.com or 718.441.9210.
FINAL Andrew Harvey Memorial 5K Fun Run – 1 WEEK AWAY
- When: Sunday, October 1, 2017 | 9:00AM Race Start
- Where: Archbishop Molloy High School
- Who: All members of our community
- Contact: Frank Gambino '74
As you may have heard in our last Beehive, the upcoming Andrew Harvey Memorial 5K Fun Run on Sunday, October 1st, will be the very last time Molloy hosts this special event. The Fun Run has been a fixture at Molloy every fall since the 1980s, and in that time we've seen thousands of students, faculty, parents, alumni, and friends participate. Although there is sadness that this will be our last Fun Run, longtime event organizer Frank Gambino '74 has said he would like to see it end as a "big celebration." Please join us on October 1st and help us give Molloy's beloved Fun Run the sendoff it deserves.
To build up a little more anticipation for the race, we dug deep to bring you some nostalgia. Check out the recently digitized videos below, which feature vintage Fun Runs from the 1990s (1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1997, and 1998). You may see some familiar faces, or even yourself crossing the finish line! You may also recognize the voice of Mr. Jim Kinnier: teacher, camera operator, and narrator. Click full screen on the video player to enhance the experience.
A Memorial Mass in honor of Andrew Harvey will be held at 8:00AM, followed by the start of the 5K at 9:00am. Coffee, juice, cake and rolls will be served to participants and their families following the conclusion of all races. Medals will be awarded to top finishers overall and in several categories. All runners will receive a t-shirt commemorating the race. To register, click the button above and fill out the online form. A PDF invite is also included on our website, which can be downloaded, printed, completed and mailed to: Archbishop Molloy High School, ATTN: Frank Gambino, 85-53 Manton St, Briarwood, NY 11435.
Alumni New England Chapter Event – REGISTER ONLINE
- When: Wednesday, November 15, 2017
- Where: Two Roads Brewery (Stratford, CT)
- Who: Our New England Alumni (Ages 21+)
- Admission: $25 per person
- Contact: Matt Rizzotti '04 | 718.441.9210
Alumni living in and around New England are invited to join members of the Stanner Alumni Center at Two Roads Brewery in Stratford, Connecticut, for a special alumni event on Wednesday, November 15th. Dinner and drinks will be part of the fun as we catch up with our many friends north of NYC. Register online using the button above or contact Matt Rizzotti '04 for more information.
Alumni Baseball Reunion – POSTPONED
Dear Stanners,
It is with great regret that we announce that this year's Baseball Reunion has been postponed. Unfortunately, many alumni had conflicting schedules, which resulted in a lower turnout than required. The Stanner Alumni Center apologizes for this inconvenience, but we plan to host another Baseball Reunion in the future. Please read The Beehive, the Baseball Alumni Facebook group, and other publications for announcements about this and other events. Thank you and we apologize again.
— Matt Rizzotti '04
Alumni Development Officer
Mike Mayer '03 was married to Jackie Glick on Saturday, August 26th at Paradise Springs in Monroe, Oregon (near Jackie's hometown). The beautiful ceremony was witnessed by many delighted friends and family, including three fellow Stanners: John Martorella '97, classmate Joe Sommo '03, and family friend Wayne Arzberger '70. Congratulations, Mike and Jackie! (L-R: John, Wayne, Mike and Joe)
Eric Van Zanten '98 was on the job down at Engine Co. 215 in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn when an emergency call came in – in person. Anxious family members of a local woman had come to the station house to alert firefighters that their loved one had suddenly gone into labor in a nearby apartment. Eric joined three of his fellow firefighters en route to the apartment, where they worked together to deliver a healthy baby girl. The full story with quotes and Eric's photo was published in the NY Post on September 15th, which you can read here.
Rosalyn Gold-Onwude '05 recently made headlines when it was announced that she would be leaving her role as the Golden State Warrior's TV sideline reporter. Rosalyn will take her talents to Atlanta where she will fill a similar role with Turner Sports, specifically as part of TNT's NBA coverage. Rosalyn rose to stardom in the world of sports journalism in recent years thanks in part to her tenure in California perfectly aligning with Golden State's dominant three-year run (which includes two NBA championships). More crucial to her success has been her raw talent as an on-air personality. Her background as a collegiate basketball player (Stanford) only adds to her credibility, and her skillset is in high demand within the industry. Rosalyn previously worked on Pac-12 Network covering New York Liberty games, and she has also previously appeared on TNT as well as NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament coverage. (Photo courtesy of Rosalyn Gold-Onwude)
Congratulations to Ivan Pereira '03 and Theresa Basile (pictured right), who announced their engagement on September 7th. A wedding date has yet to be announced. The Beehive extends its sincerest congratulations to the happy couple! Ivan is a reporter for the free daily newspaper amNewYork, a role in which he has served in since 2012. He covers general news, City Hall, and enterprise stories. Pick up amNewYork on your morning commute and read Ivan's work, or follow him on Twitter @IvanPer4 for the latest news from around NYC.
Joe Corello '52 shares that although he cannot attend the upcoming Stanner Alumni Reunion on November 4th, he will be there in spirit. Joe also shares that he and his wife recently celebrated their 60th anniversary with a family cruise to Alaska.
Pictured below on a summer trip to Ireland: Kevin Eardley '85, Damian Sciano '85, Joe Phelan '85, Br. Dan O'Riordan '85, Marty Wingert '85, Michael Wohlfahrt '85, and Matt Abrusci '85.
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Paul Grabowski '83. Over the years, Paul had established himself as a talented and passionate musician while playing in rock/metal bands with several of his Stanner classmates. He is survived by many loving family and friends. Please remember Paul in your prayers this week.
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Michael Primozic '06.
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Jeanclaude F. Dugue '81.
Please pray for the repose of the soul of William Datthyn '89, who passed away September 5, 2017.
We are saddened to share the passing of Spence Frank Burton '65 on June 22, 2017. He is survived by his adoring wife Cathy; brothers Ralph Burton (wife Renee) and Otto Joseph Samek, Jr, and many other family members and friends. Spence worked for the US Postal Service for over 35 years, and was an avid volunteer in his local community and parish (both in NY and California). For more on Spence's life or to share condolences, visit his memorial page online. Please keep Spence and his family in your prayers.
We were recently informed of the passing of Jacques Mazoureix '50 on March 25, 2017. He is survived by his wife, Marie, and his son Paul, to whom he was devoted. Jacques loved basketball, which he started playing at St. Ann's Academy. His skills on the court won him a full athletic scholarship to Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland, where he graduated with a BA in accounting. He served in the US Army, where in addition to his regular duties, he proudly played basketball for the US Army team. More recently, he was a dedicated and loyal employee of the Great Escape (theme park), where he worked for many summers in the retail shop. He loved interacting with people and formed many friendships while there. For more on Jacques life please visit this memorial article online. Please remember Jacques and his family in your prayers this week.
We are saddened to share the passing of Mr. Frank J. McGuire, husband of Maureen and father to Frank '83, Patrick, Michael '86, Christopher '89, and Brian '97. According to a family friend, Mr. McGuire was a proud Irishman and a loyal NY Giants and Notre Dame fan, but most importantly, he and Maureen "raised a great group of men." Please keep the McGuire family in your prayers.
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Bruna Rizzi, mother of Dan Rizzi '74.
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Yvonne DeNoto, Sister-In-Law of faculty member Dorothy DeNoto.
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Rita Friend, mother of Michael Friend '68.
We are saddened to share the passing of James P. Delaney, father of Gerard Delaney '71. Mr. Delaney entered Eternal Life on July 22, 2017. According to Gerard, "my father was a retired Lieutenant with the NYC Housing Authoerity Police. He was a father of nine, including myself, Jim, Susan, Francis, Patrick, Maryanne, Helen, John, and JoAnne. He was also a grandfather of 12 and a great-grandfather of 4. He was married to Patricia McNamara from 1949 until her passing in 1997. He was also a US Navy veteran of World War II and the Korean War." Please keep Mr. Delaney and his family in your prayers.


text:
Clatsop Community College is proud to host the first Coastal FiberArts Exhibit in the CCC Art Center Gallery.
The exhibit is a partnership between Astoria Visual Arts and CCC, and was conceived and coordinated by AVA board member Cheryl Silverblatt.
Coastal Fiber Arts 2011 brings together fifty-one artists from across the United States and presents a variety of media including contemporary weaving, quilts, baskets, wearable art and more. The exhibit, juried by noted fiber artist Barbara Setsu Pickett, uniquely illustrates a range of forms that break traditional barriers in fiber arts.
"We have an amazing array of styles and techniques that will inspire artists across many media," says exhibit organizer Silverblatt.
An Opening Reception will be held on Thursday, July 14, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at which Pickett will comment on the jury process and announce the exhibit's awards. The exhibit continues through August 18, 2011.
Exhibit hours are from 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and select Saturdays (7/16, 7/23 and 8/6) from 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. The CCC Art Center Gallery is located at 1799 Lexington Avenue in Astoria and is ADA accessible.
Special thanks to the Cannery Pier Hotel, Drew Herzig and Charles Schweigert for their support in producing this special exhibit.
For more information, please contact Patricia Warren.
Clatsop Community College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.


text:
Space touches on just about all the tension points within universities. Offices and working environments are crucial measures of status, but they also have a much more tangible impact on quality of life. If individual academics feel uncomfortable about the partnerships their university enters into, they can ignore them most of the time. In so far as buildings express corporate values, they are inescapable.
So who gets the most floor space and the most comfortable chairs? Do the sciences and the arts and humanities get equal treatment - and has the scientific model of a "good working space" sometimes been applied to disciplines where it is far less relevant? Do the departments that bring in the most funding get rewarded with extra cubic feet to stretch out in?
The great divisions within the sector - between "old" and "new" universities, rich and poor universities, public and private universities, the British and American academies - are also played out in terms of space.
Some of this can be seen in the comments of Bernard Wasserstein, Harriet & Ulrich E. Meyer professor in modern European Jewish history at the University of Chicago, who has also worked at Glasgow and Oxford universities, as well as a number of other American institutions. "One great difference between Britain (and much of Europe) and America", he argues, "is in the relative openness of academic spaces.
"The American university campus is, in general, a much more welcoming space than the British. The closing-off of most Oxbridge colleges to all but paying visitors, a product partly of security concerns, but more of genuflection before the gods of the enterprise culture and the heritage industry, is an instance of this.
"Another example is the different attitudes to visitors to be found in the great national libraries. The British Library, like the Bibliotheque nationale de France in Paris, erects various barriers, both physical and bureaucratic, to the visitor. By contrast, the Library of Congress remains gloriously open to all, not just certified scholars."
The same applies in the virtual realm, where most US university libraries don't operate closed networks with user passwords, but allow instant internet access to all.
"The difference is subtle but important," Wasserstein suggests. "In America, openness is the default; in Europe, it is a privilege, not a right."
In institutions that can afford it, however, such openness is the "flip side" rather than the "antithesis of privacy". Wasserstein claims that he has been "fortunate during most of (his) career in enjoying exceptionally spacious and often outstandingly beautiful office space in British and American universities, affording the privacy, peace and quiet, and book and document storage space, that were essential conditions for efficient scholarly productivity. Even as a graduate student at Nuffield College, Oxford in the early 1970s, I was allocated rooms that today would be the envy of many senior professors."
Yet in many British universities, Wasserstein suggests, "the rot set in early. I recall that my father, a professor, head of department and dean at the University of Leicester in the 1960s, was housed in a rectangular box, converted from what had been a padded cell in the former county asylum. He didn't complain: it was the norm.
"Today, many British universities squeeze academic staff into ever-smaller utility spaces barely conducive to any form of contemplative thought ... When I greet foreign visitors in my rooms high in the Harper Library Tower in the University of Chicago, I feel embarrassed, almost ashamed, not just at the majesty of the view, but also at the luxury of space and the enormous length of bookshelving that a private university, unbound by levelling-down norms, can afford to provide for its faculty."
Wasserstein's model of "efficient scholarly productivity" remains both a reality, however threatened, and a haunting ideal.
One familiar and much imitated model is the traditional Oxbridge college, which tends to feel like an inward-looking (as well as a literally gated) community. A Fellow of one Cambridge college notes that "there is a lot of financial pressure for departments to move much of the emphasis to collaborative, externally funded research projects, and that in turn, in some cases, involves building appropriate new collaborative research space.
"But colleges aren't under that same kind of pressure, since they don't normally depend on funding from the research councils and their equivalents," he adds.
Moves towards open-plan offices and away from solitary research "would scarcely be practicable in a small but multidisciplinary community". Although he disputes the notion that colleges such as his are "intrinsically inward-looking", they clearly offer environments that seem an unimaginable luxury compared with much of the sector.
Jeremy Till, dean of the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster, acknowledges that "there will always be good reasons for people working in their solitary cell - the last refuge of the medieval scholar - but sticking to that as the sole model is outdated. The indications seem to show that when people are taken out of their offices, more interactions take place and they become more productive."
Rachel Hurdley, a postdoctoral Fellow in Cardiff University's School of Social Sciences, has carried out research into "the power of corridors".
"Passions do run high when moves are made to open-plan offices," she says, "and not just in universities. This is because the move is not seen as (apparently) intended to encourage communication and collaboration, but as the removal of privacy and autonomy.
"For academics, there are worries about the confidentiality of research projects, including issues such as the secure storage of documents and the privacy of phone interviews. Also, much of academic life centres around writing and reading, which can be difficult in a busy office - though even in conventional cubicular offices, the frequency of people popping their heads round the door means that some prefer to do the real work at home, coming in to show their faces, attend meetings and teach.
"If academics want to know the unintended consequences of open-plan offices, look to the research staff (who usually have to share large offices), especially the utter disruption of the loud phone call or visitor. It's all very well to try to work with each other's work patterns and styles, but it is very difficult to negotiate in practice - however many 'break-out' spaces there are for lengthy conversations."
When Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam university professor of history at Princeton University, launched his recent attack on British higher education, "The disgrace of the universities", in The New York Review of Books, he used strikingly spatial terms.
Speaking as "an 'occasional student' at University College London in the early 1970s and a regular visitor to the Warburg Institute, Oxford and Cambridge after that", he recalls how he, "like many American humanists, envied colleagues who taught in British universities. We had offices with linoleum; they had rooms with carpets. We worked at desks; they sat with their students on comfy chairs and gave them glasses of sherry.
"Universities become great by investing for the long term," adds Grafton. Where the UK has gone wrong is by "turning the university into The Office".
This is presumably a not very flattering reference to what is usually known as "managerialism". And it is here that space clashes with some of the deepest and most intractable questions about the purpose of universities.
Such questions have come to the fore precisely because we have just lived through a golden age (presumably coming to an end) of architectural innovation within British higher education. Since academics are working and sometimes living in different kinds of space, they naturally have strong views about this - often in tension with the perspective of their employing institutions.
What is not in question is the sheer scale of the architectural revolution we have witnessed. There are great examples everywhere, from the University of Lincoln to the London School of Economics, but here we can focus briefly on just two.
One is the University of Nottingham's Jubilee Campus. "From the outset," says the vice-chancellor, David Greenaway, who was serving as pro vice-chancellor for infrastructure and the environment during the design and construction process, "we had an ambition to drive the university back into the city and, in the process, help regenerate an ailing part of Nottingham. It was tremendously exciting to (quite literally) start with a blank sheet of paper and some derelict factories.
"Working with the Hopkins Architects Partnership, we created green spaces and water features that echoed University Park, alongside modern energy-efficient buildings that offered a striking visual contrast to the adjacent hard industrial landscape.
"I think the Jubilee Campus says something powerful to our students and staff (as well as the many visitors it attracts) about our values and commitment to sustainability. It also provides enjoyable working and living spaces. I am very proud of it."
Philip Ogden, senior vice-principal at Queen Mary, University of London, faced other challenges on an inner-city site.
"The symbolism of impressive new buildings makes universities much more visible, attractive and open places for widening participation," he says. "Space matters a lot in influencing people's behaviour, although there is no single model."
Ogden gives the example of the Blizard Building, opened in 2005, which was specifically designed "to change the ways researchers worked, by bringing small groups of medical researchers together in one big open-plan environment for 300 people, although with individual, more private spaces on a raised ground floor and more discrete seminar rooms in the centre.
"People had not thought about how they worked before, so it led to an intellectual engagement in what could be. It is both architecturally innovative and allows people to work in more flexible ways and to reform into different teams as new research grants come in."
Many such new and redeveloped buildings are very exciting and, of course, a vast improvement on what went before. So where is the problem?
Till is sceptical about claims that architecture can enable universities to integrate with the cities around them.
"The general public don't really wander into universities as great learning spaces," he argues. "They don't feel part of the living city - there are always gates and some kind of barrier. Universities are very significant to their cities in terms of employment, but not spatially.
"How can we help students to see their universities as more than just a coffee bar they pass through on the way to a lecture or the library? If there's no sense of other spaces where they can interact, you lose an important aspect of what a university is. It's much easier on a campus and very hard in London - why should anyone use a student bar when there are so many other choices?"
Yet the real point is that changes to people's space are rarely, if ever, completely uncontested. This is partly because change always makes people uncomfortable, but it also goes deeper than that. Something of what is at stake emerges from the material issued by Nottingham: new spaces are always likely to mean - and are often intended to encourage - different styles of working.
In many of the new buildings, we read, "adaptability of use was a key requirement of the brief and all internal spaces have been designed to offer the maximum flexibility ... simple, efficient floor plates allow entire floors to be swiftly reconfigured to a cellular or an open-plan layout and then back again, according to the university's particular needs".
Both "flexibility" and "efficiency" may be desirable and generally welcomed. But there is also something about those words that can ring alarm bells for some academics by evoking the spectre of "managerialism".
Whether or not the David Brents and Jamie Targetts have taken over the academy, space is one of those issues where the view from above often looks quite different from the one from below, and many worry that corporate goals and corporate jargon sound much better in theory than practice.
One person's "rational use of space" is perceived by someone else as a more or less conscious plan to discourage or even eliminate traditional book-lined studies, solitary scholarship and office-based research. Talk about buildings needing to make "that vital first impression" can sound inspiring or like a bad cosmetics advertisement, a victory for marketing style over solid academic substance. And cynics can get tired of being told that they are lucky to be working in places that are "thrusting", "dynamic", "cutting edge" and "world class".
Take the case of the University of Liverpool. Guy Denton, managing director of Whitelaw Turkington, a landscape-architecture and urban-design practice, describes how it "worked closely with the university" on its campus-enhancement project "to identify how its core values and traditions, such as the advancement of learning and 'enablement of life', could be best manifested through the creation of a new high-quality academic environment".
"The proposals reinforced the university's image as a high-quality learning environment, as well as creating a subtle yet distinct identity within the city," he adds. "Overall, it has significantly improved the environmental quality of the campus for working, learning and relaxation. The success of the scheme can be measured in the improved vibrancy and enhanced sense of ownership adopted by the students and staff."
The story is taken up by Steve Dickson, Liverpool's director of facilities management, who sees a move towards more open-plan accommodation and "probably towards working from home, although we have to go forward on this in a planned way, so offices are not used just one day a week".
"We want to make space more productive in terms of output from research and teaching," he says. "We want networking space, rather than relying on chance meetings in corridors. And we're also keen to encourage the involvement of external partners.
"Widening participation is part of our strategic plan, from an estates point of view as well as others, whether we are talking about music venues or the exchange of knowledge. It's about putting something back. We aim to have an open campus, which is at the heart of the city and a destination. The environment has to lend itself to that."
Asked about whether he had encountered resistance to some of these plans from academics, Dickson says he is "pushing at a half-open door. There can be some initial reluctance, but we can work through it in an iterative process. Lack of communication engenders suspicion, but we engage. It's very much project-driven, with much input from internal clients. With close participation, we can meet the goals of an efficient design alongside academic goals."
Yet a half-open door, from another perspective, is always half closed. One Liverpool academic fears that such developments are "part of the inexorable process moving us away from being independent, autonomous academics, with our own space and something approaching control over our own lives, to being something much closer to regular employees.
"It's a huge luxury having our own rooms to use (or not) as we see fit. That is very costly for an institution. Gradually, inexorably, it will be phased out. Much more work will be done at home (see box, page 38); research, too, will be done at home, using online resources. But for those whose home circumstances don't make it easy to maintain a good working space, that represents a deterioration in working conditions. Worse for students, too, who inevitably would see less of their tutors.
"Cheaper transport, relatively speaking, has accelerated this process. Lots of people now commute long distances to their academic jobs because they can afford to, and can keep in touch electronically when they are not in the office. This means that their rooms stand empty for long stretches in the week. All the more tempting for the institution to remove them ... In that way, we have contributed to the process ourselves."
Others report similar anxieties about changing spaces. Mary Evans, visiting Fellow at the LSE's Gender Institute, remembers moving into a new building at the University of Kent where "all of the offices had internal glass walls and so everyone was visible the whole time". The only result was "much sticking up of posters, old newspapers and so on to blot out the public view. I was totally sympathetic to this ... I really didn't care about the size of the office (which was by previous standards tiny), but I did mind about this erosion of privacy."
Whatever the merits of glass partitions, there is little point in introducing them if their main rationale is immediately sabotaged by staff.
Another of Evans' concerns is "the increasing policing of entry to buildings, something I first saw in the new social sciences building at the University of Manchester, where you could not get past the gate without a pass. I was told by a colleague there that this was greatly disliked by students, who felt barred from staff, and that this had quite important consequences for a sense of access and so on."
Taken together, these two factors changed Evans' working habits - "after decades of writing and working at work, I changed to working at home. At least I had a door that I could shut."
While this is obviously a good solution for some, commuting times, domestic circumstances and the sheer cost of accommodation - many academics based in cities such as London cannot afford a separate study at home - make it quite unsuitable for others. Yet Evans is far from the only academic who feels that she has been pushed in this direction.
Another issue is perceived nannying. An academic at the University of Birmingham is irritated by the way that "recent refurbishment of offices has led to automatic light monitors being installed, which means that academics can no longer decide when to switch off and on the main light (very bright strip lighting). Apparently, health and safety know exactly what kind of lighting level is good for us, while we presumably don't."
The same academic also complains about a lack of consultation and an environment where "the science model is applied to all. Any objection that needs differ is put down to fustiness or conservatism.
"Shared space is invaluable for morale, quality of the workspace and academic exchange," she points out, "but all this has gone. We no longer have a staff kitchen or common room dedicated to academic staff and postgraduate students. Our staff canteen has been closed with no mention of a replacement. To ease room pressures, the PhD study has now been upgraded but also expanded in the sense that master's and PhD students can use it. This means that the arrangement has become less personalised and more akin to hot-desking - perhaps an indication of how things are going generally."
Although the move away from "spaces that contribute to informal communal engagement" can be justified in practical terms, she believes it also has wider significance, "reflecting a greater emphasis on atomisation and top-down management".
Furthermore, attempts to "sustain the research culture" by organising conferences or inviting visiting speakers are made far more difficult by "having to pay for rooms", porters and often technicians after 5pm. Although academic hosts give their time for free, and speakers generally expect just a meal and the cost of their fares, when it comes to university space, "we are treated as customers by our own institutions - and charged accordingly".
Such changes to working environments, suggests Cardiff's Hurdley, cause even more irritation when they are imposed from above, leading to "suspicions of increased surveillance and resentment about lack of consultation". But perhaps most important of all is what she calls the "relations between space and organisational culture - it's useless to introduce an architecture of openness while the organisation remains 'closed' (or is perceived as closed and undemocratic by workers)".
Right across British higher education in recent years, we have seen a range of powerful new buildings and imaginative refurbishment of existing accommodation. Much of the architecture is arresting, urgently modern and environmentally friendly. Some of it is stunning and destined to become iconic. All this is to be celebrated. What is less clear is whether it can always live up to its declared aims (or hype), notably in "influencing people's behaviour", and what kind of resistance this is likely to encounter. When it comes to changing people's working spaces, they are always going to respond in highly individual and often unpredictable ways.
A fusty old academic; a dusty study lined with well-thumbed books; piles of papers, essays and journals everywhere - on the desk, the coffee table and the old leather settee.
The dust motes floating as the sunlight streams through the small distorted panes. Across the river, the clang of an old bell marks the quarter hour and the imminent arrival of an undergrad due for a tutorial; "promising student, fine mind, could get a first; a little early for sherry; must ring down for some tea, biscuits, perhaps".
It could be the stuff of lush and reassuring Sunday evening TV murder mysteries, but the caricature works because, in the back of one's mind, academia should be like that; it should be far removed from the hurly-burly of takeovers, bonuses, sales pitches and deals, territorial squabbles and the cut and thrust of everyday life. The academic's study should be a sanctuary of learning for learning's sake, where students and academics can meet to share knowledge. Academia isn't just a job, it's a place; its sleepy, shabby exterior is matched by a rich inner life of the ruthless pursuit of the truth, one chain of thought taking hours, days, weeks.
The reality, however, just wouldn't make good TV - and not just because of the unreliability of the murder rate. For a start, there's simply no room for a TV crew in my six by six foot portion (including two shelves and half a cupboard) of our communal office, and even if there were, the disturbance to the 11 other academics would be unpardonable. Each of them is silently and grimly wrestling with five impossible deadlines and recalcitrant IT systems. The atmosphere is, well, non-existent - everyone is working on their own, very different, problems. The silence is punctuated only by the odd gritted-teeth expletive as another document disappears or the connection with the server is lost.
And the telephones. Twelve occupants means 12 desk phones and 12 more mobiles. The unanswered phone rings longest and loudest. If anyone is out teaching or at a meeting, there will be a steady stream of phone calls and students looking for them. Whoever is most approachable will have to explain their absence and listen to the problem to see who else may be able to deal with it.
At peak times, the interruptions come every three to five minutes. Many colleagues wear earphones; communication across the room is by email. If something requires discussion, nipping out to the landing for a quick meeting is de rigueur.
There is something isolating about forced togetherness. In lifts, trains and buses, people don't communicate, they strive to avoid it. The great 1960s dream of tower-block "cities in the sky" was about as successful as Stalin's agricultural policies. People form communities when they are able to choose to do so, not when they have "communal engagement" forced upon them.
And where, in all this, is that crucial relationship between enquiring mind and mentor? Where is the core activity of the pursuit of knowledge supposed to take place? If the office is just the office, where is academia? Some other place, some other time. Academics' days are increasingly taken up with "housekeeping" tasks, with the result that knowledge, scholarship and personalisation of the learning experience are driven to "accidental spaces". Tutorials happen while standing outside because of the fire alarm, or on the bus or the train home, via email and Facebook. Most of my one-to-one contact takes place when I'm 50 miles away, at home after dinner. At crucial times, I've juggled several students in ongoing online conversations at midnight and from the cc'd messages I get, so have my colleagues.
The advantages of shared-office policies are illusory. Productivity (in academic terms) goes down. The depersonalised experience, for staff and students alike, is not something we should promote. Furthermore, if we all (staff and students) charged properly for our home facilities, the economic advantage would be diminished.
I can't help feeling there's a deeper message in all this. Inexorably, the place that is academia is disappearing. Perhaps, like monasteries, the time has passed.
Peter Lennox is senior lecturer in spatial perception in artificial environments and director of the Signal Processing and Applications Group, University of Derby.
When people visit the British Library, they find that the main humanities reading room - Humanities One - is one of the busiest.
"When I show people around, I always take them to Humanities One to show them what a classic reading room is like," says Gill Webber, the library's head of communications.
"It's full of people sitting quietly at tables with a book or manuscript and a pencil. But when you come out into the cafe area, you emerge into a very different type of space. It's not just people sitting having a coffee: it's a space where people are working, too, using wi-fi or sharing ideas with other researchers.
"Although there will always be a place for the work that goes on in Humanities One - we have to be clear about that - it's also very apparent that over the years the number of people choosing to work in the space where they can collaborate and access resources using technology has grown steadily."
This small example offers some insight into the changing styles of research, and the evolving demands of the people doing it.
Now, the British Library is aiming to lead the world in testing and developing tools that could mould the future of the research library.
It is not doing it alone: its partners include technology companies such as Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, and institutions such as Brown University in the US. Input will also be sought from other leading libraries, such as the New York Public Library and Columbia University's library, with content provided by the BBC, The National Archives, King's College London and University College London.
For nine months from October 2010, the British Library will feature a host of what it believes could become the key research tools of the future in an exhibition that will evolve as researchers tell them what works and what else they want.
As well as showcasing and road-testing technology, the exhibition will include seminars and debates, a researcher-in-residence and teaching guides to help researchers get to grips with the possibilities.
Clive Izard, head of creative services at the institution, says: "The great thing about the British Library is that we can have an exhibition with input from companies such as Microsoft, but, because we're the British Library, we present a balanced view."
The technology will be exhibited in a space that will also allow researchers to road-test physical apparatus, such as the furniture and screens they may use while employing the new tools.
"Those are things that have to be tested, because we need to know what the optimum size for a screen is - you don't want too much in front of you at any one time because you simply wouldn't be able to take it all in," Mr Izard says.
He is also clear that, while the future of research may be technologically driven, this does not mean that libraries are being made redundant.
"Google provides access to content; it doesn't provide the expertise that goes alongside it - that's what we, the British Library, provide," he says.
The exhibition, Growing Knowledge, the Evolution of Research, will run for nine months from 14 October 2010 to 16 July 2011, and is being held in partnership with Times Higher Education.


text:
The Perfect Album
I'm a huge Billy Murray fan, and when Lost in Translation came out in the theaters last year, I knew I had to see it. Little did I know that it would turn out to be arguably my personal favorite movie...perhaps ever. Its story of a new friendship and deep romantic connection mixed with a sexual tension that shouldn't and isn't crossed along with disillusionment with one's life is something I can understand completely, and I wish I wrote the script. I'm simultaneously envious of Sofia Coppola and a great admirer of hers. I get the same feelings watching this movie as I do listening to Cat Power.
Okay, enough of this touchy-feely shit. The reason I bring up Lost in Translation is that I just saw it again on DVD, which my sister bought for me for my birthday last month. Kevin Shields (of My Bloody Valentine fame) contributes four new songs and his first real material since the days of MBV. Also on the soundtrack is MBV's "Sometimes" from Loveless. So this past week I've been getting back into My Bloody Valentine, listening to Loveless nonstop in my car to and from work all week, including today. As I listened today to the whole thing, I started thinking of perfect albums, albums that have absolutely no weak tracks or songs I (almost) always skip over when listening to them, are in perfect order, and starting from the first track, I don't want to stop until the album is done. In that sense, Loveless is perfect.
I started thinking of other "perfect" albums, not including "Best of's", compilations, and live albums. And I had a lot of trouble thinking of them...which was surprising because I could name hundreds of albums at the top of my head that I absolutely love, but most have one or more songs I almost always skip over. (Another thing, I believe you *cannot* or *should not* use the same criteria for different genres of music. For example, in my opinion you can't use the same criteria to judge a hip hop album that you do for a rock album. That's why I think that a person who's exclusively into rock music or whatever has a difficult time appreciating the absolute brilliance of someone like Jay-Z, and conversely, someone who's exclusively into hip hop may have a difficult time appreciating the beautiful noise of Wolf Eyes. But all this is another story.)
Anyway, here's a short and incomplete list of "perfect" albums to me: obviously Loveless, the first two Velvet Underground records, Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy, Dr. Dré's The Chronic, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, Gilberto Gil's 1969 self-titled album, Gang Starr's Daily Operation, John Coltrane's Giant Steps, Beefheart's Lick My Decals Off, Baby, numerous Bob Dylan albums, Can's Tago Mago, PiL's Second Album/Metal Box, Nas' Illmatic, and many more...I'm getting tired of thinking about this shit. There are albums that I don't consider "perfect" that I probably enjoy listening to as much as, if not more than some of those listed above...but if not for those songs I don't care for...
Okay, I promise I won't write about music next time, unless it's putting up a playlist from my radio show.


text:
How To Organise The World's Best Hen Party (Or Wedding, Or Honeymoon) Stress-Free
If you're tasked with organising a hen party, we salute you. Although it's loads of fun that we wouldn't miss for the world, it's bloomin' hard work too. Behind the sashes and instagrams and cocktails and glitter is an operation that requires indepth cross-country logistics to get everyone in the same place, earnest time management to get everyone there at the same time, budgeting skills to make sure everyone can join in the fun, and people skills to keep everyone sweet. On top of that, hen parties have taken on a whole new character nowadays, with everyone striving for a more unique, inimitable experience for their celebration, so you've got to don a creative thinking cap too.
When laid out like this, it can seem über daunting, but DO NOT FRET. We're so ecstatic (genuinely, that is not hyperbole) to say we've discovered the solution to all your hen-party-planning problems and more. We've got a way to make it easy, efficient, and even enjoyable (shocking, I know!). Let us present to you: Patchwork.
Patchwork have taken a simple idea, and made it huge. Essentially, Patchwork is an online platform where you can collect money, time, and skills, to a specific project – aka, a hen party—and make something amazing happen. It's the classic idea of a whip-round, but all in one safe and efficient place, meaning you don't need to keep track of anything as it's all kept track of for you. It also means no dodgy money dealings in brown paper envelopes, because it's all online. It's super user-friendly too, so no matter who your hens are, they'll be able to collaborate and join in. Your hen party has it's own specific patchwork with a shareable URL, where you can input everything that's needed: whether this is items or experiences that need to be bought at a specific price, or goals that need to be actioned. Then, your fellow hens can log onto that specific patchwork, and set about ticking the items off! There are loads of example patchworks on the website to give you ideas about the kind of things you can weave into yours too – we especially love the Dirty Dancing Themed Hen Do, where you can pledge everything from 'making' the welcome sign to 'doing' the act of carrying a watermelon. It's a perfect way to keep everyone on track and up to date with plans and to keep everything in one place so there's no confusion. This means it's the perfect way to organise a hen party with no stress. You. Are. Welcome.
It's not just hen parties, either. Liv & Laurie set Patchwork up to act as their wedding gift list – as they had been together for ten years with two children by the time they got married, the usual gravy boats weren't quite going to cut the mustard (or the gravy). Instead, they were asking for people to put towards their dream holiday in Cuba. Patchwork presents 'honeymoon fund' patchworks, tailored towards honeymoons in all sorts of places – from Cuba to Croatia with a stop off at Cornwall in between. Everything from contributions to flights to the pennies for a pastry break in a quaint coffee house can be factored into your patchwork: the world literally is your oyster. Or, if you don't want gravyboats but you don't fancy a trip either, why not use your Patchwork to invite contributions to a particular project? A new kitchen, maybe, with a perfect black glitter splashback, or the start of your own allotment. As long as it's legal, you can patchwork it.
We could extol the virtues of Patchwork all day, we really could. It caters for secret collections, as the patchwork doesn't appear in google searches and won't be shared by Patchwork unless you explicitly authorise it first. There's no limit on make and do patchworks—if you're not collecting any money, then there is no limit and no charge for your patchwork, simple as. It all works through Paypal, minimising difficulties and meaning global friends can get in on the fun too. On top of that, we got the chance to chat to the team when they exhibited at the Most Curious Wedding Fair in London too, and we can definitely confirm that they're uber nice people who genuinely care about your event. Their passion was infectious, so your event is definitely in the right hands.
So, get those hands on your keyboard and get setting up your Patchwork. We can't wait to see what you decide to do with it and how you decide to use it!
Written by Ellie Kime, featuring Patchwork


text:
Staycation at Park Hotel Clarke Quay
HAPPY SUNDAY PEOPLE! Planning for a short getaway with your loved one on Valentine's Day? Park Hotel Clarke Quay is a good choice for a tropical retreat in the heart of the cosmopolitan city! It offers a sweeping views of the city skyline with a beautiful outdoor pool, cabana style spa and two restaurants offering tempting servings of seafood, local delights and enticing aroma of BBQ by the pool!
This is my room! I love its rich colours and well designed space. I jumped onto the bed immediately after we were done taking photos. It is so comfortable that I don't want to get up.
The folks from Park Hotel prepared a STAY TAMCHIAK posters specially for me! Oh my gawd, I love it so much, thank you for the lovely surprise. The pillow is so huge and comfortable. Plus got my name and a drumstick there. Every night I am sleeping with it! Hoho!
If you book your staycation from now till 28 February 2014, you can create your personal meme-poster on Park Hotel Group's Facebook and they will print the personalised meme-poster for you during your stay so that you can bring them home. I told the boyf to hold the poster like a couplet! HAHA! If only he wears red, confirm have the CNY feel!
When I think of staycation, this sentence "PUT THE WORLD ON HOLD" comes to my mind. This is what I created, because I feel staycation has the power to put everything behind, at least for 2 days! We are often so stressed up with our work that we forgot to spend time for ourselves and for our loved one. So I love to staycation very much as it eliminates reminders of time and let me spend more time with my loved one while we unwind on the comfortable bed.
Staycate Plus Package lets you enjoy a complimentary room upgrade! For Park Hotel Clarke Quay, there is complimentary room upgrade from superior to deluxe room, and crystal club superior to crystal club deluxe room.
We have the privilege to use the Crystal Club which has personalized check-in and check-out at the lounge, buffet breakfast served at the club lounge, complimentary Hors d'oeuvres at the lounge, light refreshments and non-alcoholic beverages throughout the day, daily extensive selection of local newspaper, magazines and books, complimentary unlimited broadband, late check out at 3pm etc etc.
My view of Clarke Quay and Singapore River from the Crystal Club lounge.
We went out for high tea and shopping after nua-ing and came back to the hotel for a romantic weekend BBQ seafood dinner at COCOBOLO under the enchanting night sky. Set against the backdrop of the outdoor pool, green foliage and Cabana-style pavilions, the BBQ dinner feast is available on Fridays and Saturdays, with a repertoire of appetisers, soups, breads, salads and accompanying condiments.
Carnivores will love the sizzling selection of delish meats including Angus Strip Loin Beef with Dijon and Thyme, French Cut Lamb Rack, Spring Chicken marinated with Rosemary, Baby Pork Ribs, Assorted Fourmet Sausages and more. We enjoyed the meats here especially the baby pork ribs. These are tender and the meat falls right off the bone.
Aromatic herbs, spices and seasoning are delicately administered before grilling to retain the original tastes as well as its succulent and juicy textures. If you are craving for seafood, there is grilled fresh prawns marinated with cajun spice, arrow squid marinated with tumeric and chilli, sambal balacan fish fillet etc.
Lamb rack is another favourite of mine! Complement your dining experience with one-for-one specials off wines and beers all night long, live football matches every Saturday and soothing music playing in the background. They also have desserts and fresh fruits to promote a sweet finale to the experience such as creme brulee, apple crumble, sago gula melaka and assorted french pastries.
Weekend BBQ dinner costs $52++ (adult) and $26++ (child). Call 6593 8855 to book.
The next morning, we woke up early to chill out by the pool side. I cannot swim lah but it is definitely nice to sit on one of the benches on a cooling Sunday morning and let time pass by.
Even though we can have our exclusive breakfast at Crystal Club, we chose to visit the all-day dining restaurant Brizo Restaurant & Bar because we wanted a bigger variety of dishes.
Oh by the way, Brizo is offering Valentine's Day buffet featuring specially-made appetizers, premium cheese, gourmet breads and a live cooking station featuring pan-seared foie gras with madeira wine sauce & caramelised pear. You can also enjoy the freshest catch of the sea including canadian oysters, boston lobsters, tiger prawns, green lip mussels, chilean scallops, cold flower crabs etc.
Plus, you enjoy a complimentary glass of red or white wine while having a main course of your choice – pan fried red garoupa fillet, grilled black angus striploin or oven baked spring chicken! Each couple only costs $168++ which is super worth it. And you can get door gifts including a complimentary stalk of rose, a box of pralines and a bottle of Moscato. Call 6593 8855 to book.
We also went to tour around the hotel and saw the gorgeous park suite which is dressed in a rich palette of burgundy with dark lacquered wood furnishings, illuminated by a spiralling crystal chandelier that cascades from the elevated ceiling. It has a separate, spacious living room with 2 LCD flat screen TVs. Super good for families!
And since we are getting married next year, we also went to take a look at the function rooms. The largest function room overlooks the stunning pool.
Ok one more shot of the lovely pool. I really love it. It feels like the Baalbek in Lebanon! Thank you Park Hotel for the hospitality and special thanks to the friendly restaurant manager who served us during our dinner at CocoBolo!
Want to spend quality time with your friends or the other half without having to pay expensive airfares, or simply wanting to have a quick escapade to recharge without having to apply leave? Staycate. Stay with Park Hotel Group and enjoy a short getaway in Singapore without all the hassle.
From now till 28 February 2014, visit http://staycate.sg and enjoy attractive room rates in addition to a host of benefits including:-
a) complimentary room upgrade
b) free broadband internet
c) late check-out till 2pm
d) complimentary parking
e) 20% off your food & beverage bill
f) 20% off ala carte Spa treatments
IN ADDITION, you can create your personal meme-poster on Park Hotel Group's Facebook and you are able to bring your professional printed personalised meme-poster home. Just have to indicate your reservations confirmation number at least 3 days before your stay to get your poster. Don't copy mine ah! LOLOL
"Staycate. Stay Park" is available in Grand Park Orchard, Grand Park City Hall and Park Hotel Clarke Quay.
One Comment Hide Comments
The poster is a very nice touch. Keep calm and staycate. Ho ho ho.


text:
*The fields below are optional and may help to refine your search !! Review the Search Tips Tab for more information
*If you enter a value for Spouse's Last Name, you must select a Gender.
Show death/burial information
Show spouse (will show duplicates if individual has more than one spouse)
This site powered by The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding ©, v. 11.1.2, written by Darrin Lythgoe 2001-2018.


text:
Recognition Awards
Recognition Awards
Zoetis Award for Research Excellence
The Zoetis Animal Health Award for Research Excellence, established in 1985 is given to those faculty members who, through their dedication and investigation in research, are chosen from among their peers as an outstanding researcher in the field of veterinary medicine.
Zoetis Award for Research Excellence 2013
Dr. Doug Call
Dean Slinker presented the 2013 Zoetis Award for Research to Doug Call, a professor of molecular epidemiology in the Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health. Dr. Call is a nationally recognized, award-winning scholar who has an active research program in food and water-borne diseases and salmonid aquaculture.


text:
Overview: Loose parts are amazing additions to your home preschool or Tot School. There is no limit to the use of loose parts.
Welcome to our Starting Tot School series. Be sure to check out all the other posts in this series to learn my step by step process to getting started with tot school.
1. What is Tot School?
2. Planning the Perfect Tot School Schedule
3. Toddler Learning: What Do Toddlers Really Need to Know
4. How to Plan for a Child-Led Tot School
5. Loose Parts for Toddlers: How to Use Them Effectively
6. Toddler Curriculum: Hands-On, Child-Led, Process-Based
*This post contains affiliate links.*
When Sicily was very little, I would lay out discovery baskets with objects from around the house. One basket, I set up for her was full of kitchen utensils. She spent a good amount of time exploring spoons, whisks, and pots.
I thought I was just doing something random until I ran across the book Loose Parts 2: Inspiring Play with Infants and Toddlers by Lisa Daly and Miriam Beloglovsky, which has taught me a lot about loose parts for toddlers.
I was inspired to keep introducing loose parts as Sicily continued to grow, learn, and explore her world. Today I wanted to give you a quick overview of loose parts for toddlers, but I highly recommend that you purchase this book for a deep understanding and tons of ideas for loose parts play.
What are Loose Parts for Toddlers?
Basically, loose parts are any open-ended objects that your toddler can explore. You know how a toddler would rather play with your pots and pans instead of that fancy singing dog you bought them?
Toddlers are interested in learning about the world around them and using all of their senses. Loose parts are perfect for this, and they don't have to be expensive.
Loose parts for toddlers provide unlimited play opportunities. Once a toddler figures out one way to use the loose part, you can set up the environment or invitation in a different way to encourage them to figure out a new way to use the same loose parts.
They also have infinite possibilities. There is no right or wrong way to use loose parts. Yes, you may have an intention when you set up an invitation to explore these loose parts, but your toddler may have another idea.
Why are Loose Parts for Toddlers Important?
Like I said, toddlers are curious beings. They want to explore their world instead of being entertained with toys. Loose parts provide exploration opportunities. Exploring loose parts with your toddler helps them make sense of their world, develop their imaginations, and figure out how things work.
Related: The Toddler Experience: A Hands-On Toddler Curriculum
These explorations allow for deep problem solving and critical thinking skills to evolve. Toddlers are learning through trial/error and cause/effect. Being able to freely explore loose parts gives toddlers a chance to be creative and express their own wants and needs for learning.
Using Loose Parts the Right Way
When I left out that kitchen discovery basket for Sicily, I really had no idea what I was doing. I just wanted her to explore some things and to give me a few minutes of peace to make dinner. At that time, just exploring was all Sicily needed to do.
But at times, we can use loose parts with toddlers to channel unwanted behaviors and foster learning schemas. An example that was used in the book was a little boy who liked to throw toys. Instead of constantly telling the child no, the teacher took it as an opportunity to introduce loose parts. She put soft balls and stuffed animals that were okay for throwing inside and placed them in a basket on top of the loft. The little boy immediately noticed this new addition and threw the objects off the loft which was okay for that teacher.
Examples of schemas are filling/dumping, transferring, pushing/pulling, and trajectory. We can provide loose parts so toddlers can safely and freely explore these needs without getting into trouble.
But presenting loose parts is more than just throwing things in a basket and calling it a day, like I did with the kitchen discovery basket. You have to be intentional. Think about what you want them to do with these loose parts and how they might interact with them.
You might set up funnels and napkin rings outside for a tossing game to meet the trajectory need of your toddler. You could also set up pots with spoons in your kitchen when your toddler is into exploring different sounds.
Ideas on Loose Parts for Toddlers
One IMPORTANT thing to consider with loose parts for toddlers is safety. I allow Sicily to use small loose parts, such as glass gems, as long as I am sitting right there next to her and watching her intently. Please consider each loose parts on this list, or any others that you can think of, for possible safety risks.
-Pots and Pans
-Glass gems
-Napkin rings
-Kitchen utensils
-Sensory bottles
-Wood cookies
-Color plastic cups
-Rope lights
-Christmas lights
-Dog toy pull ropes
-Bean bags
-Tin cans
-Clothes pins
-Things from nature (leaves, acorns, flowers)
-Pot holders
-Toilet paper rolls
-Pipe cleaners
-Nuts and Bolts
The list is really endless. You can use anything that is open-ended and part of the real world for your toddler to explore.
Please check out Loose Parts 2: Inspiring Play with Infants and Toddlers. Lisa Daly and Miriam Beloglovsky do a wonderful job explaining the value in loose parts for toddlers. The majority of their book is ideas for different loose parts play for different schemas.
Happy Playing!


text:
I Mexico Padilla Sea Los Cabos Jump Peace Sloop
The image was shooting by Apple iPhone 4 camera gives a picture excellent quality. largest resolution is 2592×1936 pixels, you can download it to JPEG format. We were tagged: Los Cabos, Peace, Padilla, I, Mexico, Sloop, Jump, Sea.
If it is helpful to you, please share with your friends. Our team was selected carefully before show at here. In addition, you can also thank for them by inviting them one cup of Coffee.
The pictures on Max Pixel be freely distributed with a Creative Commons Zero - CC0.
Our AI system selective and propose some photos the same category. Hope it will help to you.
|Image type
CC0 Public Domain
Free for commercial use
Link referral required
Link referral required


text:
- Free delivery
- For iPads, phones and makeup
- Zip closure
- 2 interior side pockets
- Netted zipped pocket
- Clear plastic zipped pocket
- Removable pouch
- Kindly note that this is a gift with cosmetic purchase
- Limited Groupons available
[Grab it now with S$19.90 @ GroupOn]
Normal Price : S$74.90
What You Get
- Option 1 – For $19.90, you get an Anna Sui 3-in-1 Embroidery Pouch (worth $74.90).
SMS Mail by SingPost
- Option 2 – For $19.90, you get an Anna Sui 3-in-1 Embroidery Pouch (worth $74.90).
- Material: Nylon and polyester
- Colour: Black and purple
- Dimensions:
- Case: 27 x 21cm
- Removable pouch: 20 x 13.5cm
How To Get Your Goods
Step 1
Purchase your Groupon using the 'Buy' button on this page.
Step 2
Self-collection option(s): Redeem your item(s) at Groupon Redemption Centre: 100 Tras Street next to Amara Hotel, 100AM unit 04-16A (Mon to Sun 10am-8pm; Last redemption at 7.30pm). Photo identification and proof of your purchase (Groupon printout, mobile verification of purchase OR Groupon voucher code and security code) MUST be presented at the point of collection.
Delivery option(s): By purchasing your Groupon and providing your name, email address and mailing address at the payment page, you have already ordered your item(s). Self-collection not allowed if you select the Delivery option.
Step 3
For delivery: products are assumed to be in good working condition upon shipment. Couriers are not liable for quality and functional checks of the product.


text:
This evening Sunshine and I tried a 2009 Allagash Fluxus. This beer stands out, for reasons other than it is a limited release from Allagash, for being brewed with sweet potatoes and black pepper. It got me thinking about other beers that have unique ingredients such as Rogue's Chipotle Ale & Juniper Ale, Sprecher's Mbege(bananas) & Shakparo (sorghum and millet), and The Bruery's Autumn Maple (which is brewed with 17 lbs of yams per barrel).
I am curious about what the attendance would be for a beer festival that featured beers that were made with unique ingredients such as the ones mentioned above. It would be for professional brewers and homebrewers alike. There would be a pre-festival judging to filter out the stuff that may be brewed with unique stuff, but possesses a taste that is not palatable. It would be great if the beers that passed the pre-fest judging found a new way to use everyday foods/things that we may take for granted. Say, acorns in a bock beer. It would be mighty nifty to have a bock beer (or a brown ale) that had the nuttiness of acorns.
I figure the beer fest could be called Beers from Beyond the Brink. Yeah, that name caters to the 'extreme' end of the beer spectrum but it does get your attention (especially if the banners for it had fire, skulls, or a cornucopia from which some demon emerged).
Anyway, it's just a thought but i think it would be a lot of fun and would be a fantastic opportunity to see how creative your neighbors could get.
UPDATE (3-28-2010): Found this article via thefullpint.com. It's focus is on the Twisted Pine Brewing Company and their plan release a beer that uses ghost chilies. The article also mentions two other beers from the Twisted Pine Brewing Company called "Poison Fish" (a beer laced with ginger, wasabi, horseradish and mustard) and Billy's Chilies (a beer that uses anaheim, fresno, serrano, jalapeno and habanero peppers). I am curious if any of these beers are any good. Has anyone in Boulder tried any of these offerings from the Twisted Pine Brewing Company (or anything from them)?


text:
Steel detailers inside our business provide absolute best benefit any kind of Professions like houses, rental Residences, structures, towers, bridges etc. We at DJ Steel Engineering Consultant, enable you to in each private means to provide amazing techniques at inexpensive rates.Export architectural steel clients from the Revit style to Advancemen… Read More
Our solutions provide initial top priority for exceptional hence you could constantly think trustworthy as well as on-time and also appropriate composing solutionsTrusses generally are used in large-span frameworks, where It may be expensive making use great light beams.DJ Steel Engineering Consultant provides its beneficial buyers/ consumers with … Read More
Changes produced to your 3D design are routinely updated in the drawings. Easily deal with modifications and revisions to your product with automated flags on drawings that should be reissued. Deliver structural style and design documentation Produce structural design and style paperwork including needed ideas and elevations which have been used to… Read More


text:
The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis has inspired a beautifully-animated film soon-to-be released to theaters. Both highlight a role in the world today not often discussed: children of war who must take on the role of provider or "breadwinner" for themselves and/or their family. This role is further complicated in the setting of Afghanistan, where tightly-controlled gender expectations limit what women or girls can do.
Is literature one of your entry points for talking about challenging issues in the world today? Join Facing History and other educators for a unique event series which bridges literature and non-fiction to open new discussions on critical current issues.
Topics: Literature
William Hastie, the first African American to serve as a federal judge, asserted, "Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can easily be lost, but never is fully won. Its essence is eternal struggle."
Topics: Democracy
On social media and in previous posts on this blog, a number of teachers have identified a video, "The Legacies of Reconstruction" as providing a helpful voice this week. In addition to the opportunity to explore the history that is relevant for understanding today's world, there is a message of hope. For those not as familiar with the history of Reconstruction or this video in particular, we wanted to share an excerpt. We hope it is encouragement through tough conversations, whether at school or in our communities.
Topics: Reconstruction, hope, current events
Earlier this week, we shared how three teachers interwove setting up their classes during the first days of school with creating space to grapple with current events. (Click here for that initial post.) We've continued to hear from teachers, including one who said poignantly, "basically, we need to teach Reconstruction as thoroughly/often as we teach the Bill of Rights, the writing of the Constitution."
Here are two more examples, one for a student classroom and one for bringing adults into conversation before they create discussion spaces with young people.
Topics: Back-To-School, current events
We've been hearing from a number of teachers that one of the key challenges in trying to facilitate conversation about the events in Charlottesville is determining what language to use, particularly in relation to groups and people.
Here are a few recommendations from our conversations:
- Let's directly engage and confront the issue of white supremacy.
Topics: current events, race
When significant current events occur right as students come back to school, teachers' jobs get even trickier. Any first days back include getting to know students' names, setting up class structures, and laying a foundation for the community and learning that will happen all year long. Add on top of that an immediate need to address heightened emotional levels and critical understanding of complicated events, and it can feel overwhelming.
Topics: Back-To-School, current events
This week, many schools in the Southern California area are welcoming students back for the school year. So, the news from Charlottesville this weekend, the imagery and violence which students may have seen, will likely be weighing heavily on the hearts and minds of educators. It is weighing on our hearts and minds as well.
What happens when you give space over to questions and dialogue? How do you make sure that space is constructive for learning, and one in which multiple perspectives can be heard and understood?
Topics: Back-To-School, Classrooms, Events
Topics: Holocaust and Human Behavior, Literature