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Freshman Simone Pelish of Our Lady of Lourdes High School (NY) and AAU Hoopers NY 17U squad has picked up another college basketball offer, this time from Manhattan College, yesterday Hoopers NY Coach Dan Melious Tweeted.
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"We are seeing global hunger once again on the rise as a result of climate change. We've seen our whole country hurting from another summer of extreme weather. And right now communities across Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi are recovering from Cyclone Idai – one of the worst extreme weather disasters ever to hit the southern hemisphere.
"Every small increase in warming means greater hunger, more people forced from their land and homes, and going backwards in hard-won battles against poverty and inequality.
"While clearly a marked improvement on the Coalition's approach and a solid foundation to build on, Labor must recognise that far more is needed if we're to play our part in limiting warming to 1.5C – a matter of survival for some of our Pacific neighbours.
"We are encouraged to see Labor firmly rule out using Kyoto carry-over units to meet its 2030 emissions reduction target, and commit to putting in place a raft of measures across different sectors to drive the transition towards zero carbon pollution.
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People around the world, including Harris County residents are experiencing the biggest changes in their whole life, due to the incredible spread of the Coronavirus known as COVID-19.
School closings, businesses and restaurants closed due to the public orders to "Stay Home Work Safe," financial markets in turmoil, and medical facilities overwhelmed with patients that are sick and dying are the signs of the path of destruction that this virus has wrought.
Starting in Wuhan, China, it seemed that the problems were far away, but modern lifestyles including worldwide travel, brought the deadly virus into hundreds of countries in just a few short weeks. Every country has fought the epidemic on their own terms, but with thousands sick and hundreds dying, the World Health Organization soon labelled this disease a Pandemic.
In this country, federal officials and the President at first tried to minimize the threat and say that they had control of the disease, but eventually had to admit that there was a lack of medicines and medical supplies to properly deal with the problem.
In only a short time, since last February, Houston has seen a total of 1995 confirmed positive cases and 14 deaths. Harris County outside Houston has recorded 1052 cases and 20 deaths. Although the common flu is more prevalent each year than Covid-19, the new virus spreads faster and is more virulent, therefore more dangerous, say the medical experts. The U.S. has experienced 475,485 cases of the virus, with 17,925 deaths. Experts at the Center for Disease Control in Washington have predicted that the toll might rise above 1,000,000 deaths, and the president conjectured that it might be 2,000,000. But in a strange viewpoint, he said that would be a victory, since the toll could be higher.
Without a vaccine to defeat the virus, medical professionals are telling the public that the only way to control the spread is to stay 6 feet away from others, wash hands thoroughly and often, clean surfaces and don't touch them unless necessary, and control your cough and cover it with a clean tissue.
Since the development of an effective vaccine may be months or years away, hospitals are trying to ease the severity of the disease in those affected with ventilators for their lungs, and medicines made for other purposes but showing some success in treating this virus.
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Angel was reported to have gotten married to his Canadian girlfriend today in Port Harcourt.
Also Read: [Photos]: BBNaija's Angel marries his Canadian girlfriend in Port-Harcourt
Nina revealed that she knew about Angel's plans to get married because he told her about it during the Big Brother 'Double Wahala' reunion but she thought it was a joke so she decided to keep it a secret.
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A fetus was found aboard an American Airlines plane at New York's LaGuardia Airport on Tuesday morning, according to news reports.
WNBC New York reported that a cleaning crew found the 5- or 6-month-old fetus in the toilet of one of the plane's bathrooms. The American Airlines' jet had originated in Charlotte and had been parked in a hangar when the fetus was discovered early Tuesday morning, the station said.
Officials at American Airlines said they were cooperating with the authorities. The Queens County District Attorney is looking into the matter.
"As we continue to learn more about this tragic and sensitive situation, we are actively cooperating with law enforcement about this situation," an airline spokesman said.
Officials with the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, which manages the airport, did not return calls for comment.
Airport officials this morning tweeted about possible delays, but did not make mention of the reason.
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The Traverse Theatre sadly need to offer more than a bacon roll to make
Filling the 9am slot with this monologue style of performance seems like an odd decision.
The inescapable problem with this format is that we are watching Breakfast Readings rather than Breakfast Plays. Script in-hand readings still have the potential to be lively and entertaining, but the uninspired staging of the production means that this opportunity is missed. Actress Tessa Parr stands at a lectern reading her third-person narrative off the pages in front of her, as if the audience is being lectured. She briefly gestures to two chairs on the stage as symbols for characters, but this is not developed and drops off the radar after the opening. Interjections are frequently made into a microphone in the form of conversations or private thoughts, but without variation in voice or performance, it fails to add much. Overall, the story is told rather than performed and a sleepy early morning audience needs more than this to hold their attention.
Stacey's writing is somewhat emotive and thought-provoking. However, it loses its impact because she tries to incorporate too many themes surrounding birth into one script. Abortion in both England and Northern Ireland, miscarriage, birth control and problems conceiving are all addressed in a mere 45 minutes. The result is an over-complicated story that becomes difficult to follow when read aloud. The different characters floating in and out sometimes seems to border on chaos.
Stacey is clearly a talented writer. She has a warm sense of humour and her brief 'meta-narrational' asides into the process of writing feel insightful as well as original. However, an early audience needs something more interactive and engaging to stop them drifting off. Filling the 9am slot with this monologue style of performance seems like an odd decision.


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ORLANDO – It was officially called the 2011 Cut-A-Thon, but unlike the average marathon, this event had nothing to do with speed.
Nube Nove, the hair salon at 717 E. Washington St. in Thornton Park, has been hosting this special event for the past four years, but the hair stylists who take part in it are not in a race to see who can clip their clients' hair at the fastest pace. The customers who came in on Tuesday night for the 2011 Cut-a-Thon got the same relaxed, friendly treatment they usually get from their hair stylist, who were in no rush to get them out the door. It was not, said Austin Scott, the salon's director of reservations, that kind of cut-a-thon.
Instead, it was a charitable event being host by the salon, with all of the proceeds from Tuesday night's benefit being donated entirely to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
"One of our stylists, Jennifer Ramos, has a son who is 11, and he has juvenile diabetes," Scott said. "And each year we do an event for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation."
As part of that, the customers who dropped by the Thornton Park salon got to take advantage of discounted hair cuts and style services, along with complimentary beverages, door prizes and raffle items – all for a good cause.
"We're giving out $20 haircuts," Scott said. "Normally for a lady's cut, it would be $40. They're getting it for $20. The men's normally are $32, and tonight they are $20 as well, and all of that goes to the JDRF."
In addition, the mood inside the salon was decidedly festive — and celebratory.
"We have drinks and beverages," Scott said. "For the raffles, we have people that work at Busche Gardens that donated tickets. None of the stylists gets paid tonight. Everyone here that is on staff is donating their time."
Nube Nove started doing this charitable benefit from the very beginning. The salon just celebrated its four-year anniversary, and as word has gotten out about the discounts and the cause it goes to help, Scott said the Cut-a-Thon has been a strong draw, bringing in more people each year.
"Last year, it was really, really busy, busier than the year before," he said. "Last year, we closed off the parking lot to have a lounge out there."
The salon opted not to do that this year, in part because they dealt with some weather challenges in November 2010.
"Last year, it rained on the party," Scott said. And with meteorologists predicting a cold front coming in this week, and temperatures falling into the 50s by sundown, Scott said they decided an outdoor event wouldn't work.
As it turns out, it didn't much matter. By 5:30 p.m., a half hour after the salon opened, the staff was already busy, with customers ready to get serviced.
Scott said the salon does well for one very basic reason: strong customer service from the staff.
"It's just a fun atmosphere," he said. "We like to treat our customers right."
Unlike some other hair salons, Scott said, this one gladly welcomes in children.
"We're also very child friendly," he said. "We have a lot of people who bring their kids in here. Our philosophy is if we're going to cut your parents' hair, we'll cut your kids' hair, too. We're patient. Our stylists are kid-friendly."
As part of the benefit, local artist Parker Sketch donated some paintings to be sold at the salon on Tuesday night, and guests were encouraged to bring an unwrapped toy for the Toys for Tots campaign.
"It is going to be a busy night," Scott said. "We try to donate money and services and whatever we can do for the community."
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George Strait has released "I Believe" as the new single from
his current album Love Is Everything and the follow-up to his 60th No.
1 "Give It All We Got Tonight" which named Strait the first musician in music
history to achieve the milestone. The May 2013 release is his 40th studio album,
produced by Strait and Tony Brown.
co-wrote the new single with his son, Bubba Strait, and
legendary songwriter Dean Dillon after watching the news
coverage of the tragic school massacre in Newtown, Conn. last December. Having
lost his daughter at a young age, George felt as if it was a song he needed to
write. Yet, when he was working on the album, he didn't initially record the
song. After listening to the playback of the album, Strait's wife Norma
insisted that he record the song so at the end of the session he asked the band
to record one more.
everybody, I was watching the coverage on TV," said Strait in an interview that
can be viewed HERE. "I know what these parents are going through. It's the
worst thing that can happen to you in your life. To lose a child….there's
nothing worse than that. So I started thinking about saying something about it."
He continues, "It's a statement of faith, is really what it is. It turned out
critics agree:
rendered and unabashed in optimism, 'I Believe' is as personal as anything
Strait has ever recorded." Los Angeles Times
Believe'…puts his faith on display as never before. On this album, Strait shows
a few different moods, and it's kind of rare to hear him at such a despondent
place. At the same time, that fear is lifted by his faith in a higher power –
which helps get him through the rough waters." – Billboard
a strong ballad about faith – a rare moment of variety – and the message will
leave many with goosebumps." - Taste of Country
Strait kicked off in high gear during the first leg of his The Cowboy Rides
Away Tour. The tour earned Strait the title as the highest ranked country
act on Pollstar's 2013 Worldwide Tickets Chart, and he is expected to
announce details and dates for the 2014 leg of his tour, kicking off early next
year, later this fall.
more information on Strait, Love Is Everything, The Cowboy Rides
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My hokkori and uchiki kuri pumpkins are planted out now.
And it looks like some timely rain is on its way.
My hokkori and uchiki kuri pumpkins are planted out now.
And it looks like some timely rain is on its way.
It looks like it's going to be pumpkin and roots for dinner. Slices of uchiki kuri pumpkin, potatoes, parsnips, carrots, beets and onions baked until soft, along with fried fish and cucumber pickles.
The pumpkin patch is in!
The pumpkin plants (kabocha, uchiki kuri, acorn, sweet potato pumpkin, and jackolantern-type and more) have been planted in a spiral, from the center outwards, with sunflowers interspersed and sweet corn planted in raised beds around the perimeter.
Now for some mulching, weeding and perhaps a bit of watering. Soon this will become a sea of green, billowing in the wind. A calming attraction for meditation and rest in the bus stop.
This morning we looked out upon more frost.
Notice this stone buddha has frost on the top, but around the base the grass is frost free.
Hopefully the tomatoes were well enough protected.
Under the tarp is an unripe prize uchiki kuri.
Predictions say the frost is over, and we'll have warmer nights for the next 2 weeks.
All the pumpkins are planted out into this years pumpkin patch, except for some acorn squash that didn't germinate earlier, so I had to resow them. I've also started to put out the sweet corn around the edges. And a few sunflowers are scattered here and there.
Everything is standing quite perky, because the weather has been cooperating better this year. I've also started a new labeling system. Long laths that stick up about 80 cm. so that they will remain above the sea of leaves when the pumpkins get growing. The birds and animals won't be able to pick and toss them around either.
I've never been able to understand the difference between pumpkins and winter squash. Whatever they are, these are excellent for storage and cooking. They are also called red kuri and are considered a baby hubbard with a sweet nutty flavor.
These, along with the rest of the pumpkins, are mainly stored in the cool food storage room in the basement.
Others are stored with the rest of the stuff where ever there is extra space in the house. Here they make a colorful addition to the 'interior design' and are available to the kitchen.
We use uchiki kuri pumpkins in many ways. The easiest is baking. Just cut into slices, brush with oil and bake until soft (the skin is delicious too). They also make great sauces, pure'e, casseroles, soups and pumpkin pie. Deep frying cubes in a japanese tempura batter is my favorite. These cooking ideas go for all the different kinds of pumpkins we grow.
The most frequent favorite is pumpkin miso soup.
– pumpkin
– onion
– roasted sesame oil (or other oil)
– water
– miso
Do it:
– clean pumpkin and cut off skin
– cut into cubes
– cut onion into slices
– warm oil in soup pot
– saute' onions first
– add cubes and saute' slightly
– add water
– boil until cubes soft
– take off burner
– add miso
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Day's log for Tuesday, August 14th, 2001 - Stuart, FL
I borrowed a ladder to free my NSS banner. It had gotten stuck high under the spreader in a storm a while back. The lesson learned here is to not put burgees directly under the spreader. Allow them to be down at least 18 inches below the spreader, or they get caught on shackles and cotter pins.
I went on my bike again to RAPCO, picked up the alternator, then went to Sewells hardware store to pick up metal strapping and rope. I secured the alternator and the strapping in a cardboard box and tied it to the handlebars on the bike with the rope, then I rode back to Northside Marina.
Then, back to the boat to put everything back together. I unbundled and traced the battery isolator wires properly, and put various colors of tape on to distinguish them in the future. Then, I put the alternator on, and give it the smoke test. The meters work fine and indicate 14 volts and 3.5 amps. This is what it is supposed to indicate, if the batteries are to be properly charged.
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1500 - passed through Roosevelt bridge
1506 - alternator output 14v 1A.
1508 - engine temp - entire "T" showing
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1552 - alternator output 14v 0.7A - looks like the batteries are nearly finished charging.
1605 - engine just slightly warmer
1615 - arrived St. Lucie lock
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Young adults can get Crohn's
Dear Dr. Donohue: I am a 28-year-old, single woman who has just been told that I have Crohn's disease.
For the past year or so I had constant diarrhea, but no doctor could figure out why. Then I began to lose a great deal of weight and have awful stomach pain. A gastroenterologist finally made the diagnosis. I'm on medicine, which has helped. Could I become immune to this medicine? Am I able to have children? I want to raise a family. -- K.J.
Dear K.J.: Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are the two major inflammatory bowel diseases. Crohn's frequently appears in late adolescence and early adulthood (15 to 30) or later in life, 60 to 80. Ulcerative colitis affects only the colon. Crohn's can strike any part of the digestive tract, from mouth to rectum, but most frequently it's found in the small intestine.
With ulcerative colitis, the inflammation results in shallow surface ulcers in the colon. With Crohn's, it disrupts the entire digestive tract wall, from the surface through its muscle layer. That, in turn, leads to fistula formation -- tunnels that connect the intestine to other structures like the bladder, vagina and skin.
Diarrhea is a feature of both illnesses. With ulcerative colitis, the diarrhea often is bloody. Crampy abdominal pain and weight loss are common to both.
Crohn's and ulcerative colitis share some medicines. You don't have to worry that the medicine you're taking will lose its potency. There are many others to choose from, should that happen.
The first medicine chosen for treatment usually is sulfasalazine or closely related drugs like Asacol, Pentasa or Dipentum. For more severe illness, cortisone drugs such as prednisone or budesonide come into play.
A new treatment has been most effective in instances where the older medicines are not controlling symptoms. It is infliximab (Remicade), a drug that inactivates the inflammatory body chemicals responsible for changes of intestinal inflammation.
If the disease can be controlled -- and it usually can be, -- fertility is not affected.
Dear Dr. Donohue: Does ulcerative colitis always lead to colon cancer? I have a young adult nephew who has it. -- M.J.
Dear M.J.: People with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease have a higher incidence of colon cancer than does the general population. The cancer risk is greatest 8 to 10 years after the diagnosis has been made. At that time, the doctor gives the patient a schedule for colonoscopies so that any suspicious changes can be detected early.
The answer to your question is: no, not every person with ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease comes down with colon cancer.
Dear Dr. Donohue: My husband claims he cannot eat turkey because it makes him groggy. Our entire family eats turkey at Thanksgiving and Christmas, but no one else complains of feeling groggy.
I know he heard this on the radio because I heard the same thing. I can't shake this out of his head. Can you? -- R.D.
Dear R.D.: Turkey has a good supply of the amino acid tryptophan. It's a precursor of serotonin and melatonin. Serotonin is used in the treatment of depression. Melatonin is used for insomnia. That's how this connection was made.
Only a very few people are affected this way by turkey.
If your husband never suffered from turkey-related grogginess before he heard the radio information, then I would think his newfound grogginess is more the result of a powerful suggestion than an actual reaction to turkey.
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Actor Colin Hanks has paid $1,025,000 to buy a modest, two-bedroom house in the Beachwood Canyon area of Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills.
Alright, all, we're going to go a shade back in time and catch up on an item (and eventually, some others as well) that we haven't written about up until now. Our friends over at the Real Estalker did a fine job back in October of breaking the news of Hanks' purchase -- *and*, of sussing out the fact that Hanks was the person behind the trust that purchased this 1,560-square-foot house. Indeed, records show that Hanks' Two Monks Trust (through Hanks' money manager Steven Campeas) bought the house way back on September 1, with the deal being recorded on October 7.
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Built in 1926 and designed by noted architect Paul Williams, Hanks' new, Spanish-style house has one full bath, one three-quarter bath, and a large open living room with a barrel ceiling, a fireplace with Batchelder tile and banks of windows, according to public records and listing information. Other features include a formal dining room, a sunny kitchen, a library/den that opens outside. The house sits on a cozy and gated, 0.19-acre (8,477-square-foot) lot that has a studio on it that can be used for a home office or gym, according to public records. Also on the property are grassy gardens, tranquil patio spaces and canyon views, according to listing information.
The house had been on the market for $1,135,000.
Hanks (pictured here with his publicist fiancee Samantha Bryant), 32, appears to us to be a first-time homebuyer.
As the Real Estalker correctly noted, actor Danny Masterson and actress/singer Bijou Phillips are indeed across-the-street neighbors, on the perfectly circular parcel on which their 4,323-square-foot house -- which musician Chuck Berry once owned -- sits. As we exclusively reported in 2007, Masterson and Phillips purchased that property at that time for $2,995,000.
What's more, scads of other celebs' houses dot the area, including:
--Beefcake actor Grant Show's 3,483-square-foot house -- which we wrote about when it was on the market in February 2008 (and no, Show's house never sold -- adjoins Hanks' neighbor's property. Show purchased it for $560,000 in 1997, according to public records;
--Soap opera actress Victoria Rowell owns the 4,354-square-foot house two doors west of Show's house. She purchased it for $825,000 in December 1996 (recorded January 1997);
--And actress Eva Mendes (name spelled Mendez in public records!) lives up the street in a 1,732-square-foot house that she and her boyfriend George Gargurevich purchased in 2002 for $584,000, according to public records.
Separately, other celebs that Steven Campeas has represented over the years in their real-estate dealings have included Rebecca DeMornay, John Stamos and Matt LeBlanc, according to public records.


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Since the blaze at Grenfell Tower in June 2017 that left 71 dead, mainstream coverage of the story has dwindled. A lack of new information and accountability means the tragedy has slipped further and further out of the public eye, while no arrests have been made, and survivors have lacked support. Understandably, family members and the local community are growing impatient. Borrowing tactics from the Oscar-nominated Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Justice4Grenfell are signposting the inaction of the authorities with their latest protest.
In the film, a mother takes out a series of ads to ask her local police chief why no arrests had been made in the case of her daughter's rape and murder. Similarly, the ads that appeared on trucks, which drove near the charred remains of Grenfell Tower and around the city, read: "71 DEAD", "AND STILL NO ARRESTS?", "HOW COME?" The style of each echoed the striking imagery of the film. Photographs of the stunt have been shared widely on Twitter.
It has been eight months since the Grenfell tower inferno and campaigners have been disappointed in the response.
Update: Dazed has received a recent statement from Justice4Grenfell that outlined their frustrations: "We feel the campaign was a great success yesterday. We set out intending to have our voices heard, and we believe that our call for justice is loud and clear. We won't be giving up this fight," said Tasha Brade, spokesperson for the group. "We have been unsettled by the progress of rehousing the survivors, which Theresa May originally promised would be done within 3 weeks – 8 months later, and we still have hundreds homeless. We wanted to raise awareness that there are still another 297 flammable clad towers in the UK. Do we really have to wait for another Grenfell to happen? Doesn't every resident in this country deserve somewhere safe to live and raise their families?"
Brade continued: "Justice4Grenfell are equally concerned with the Inquiry, as there is no decision making, diversely experienced panel, as requested by the Survivors and Bereaved. We will not be ignored anymore. We will keep Grenfell in the news for as long as we have to."
Find out more about the Justice4Grenfell campaign here, and donate to them here.


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Has anyone purchased/used the Ignitor brand ignition conversion kit for their C3 sold by Zip Products online? How much better is it than the stock points/condensor? Did you also by the Ignitor coil to go with it or will a standard Accel work just as well?:confused


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Check out the super simple pizza party we threw and the BEST Ideas for a Pizza Party - from pizza themed activities and crafts, pizza themed desserts, pizza food and even pizza themed decorat
When Kaleb was 10 - way back in 2012 - I, I mean he wanted a pizza themed party. 😉 I was only too happy to agree and we set out to plan the cutest pizza party at the Bassett Pizza Parlor's grand opening!
I set up a sign made with cardstock and letter stickers, plates, napkins and drinks on our old gossip bench to welcome our guests. (This was before I gave that gossip bench a bold red makeover!) I went with red for the napkins, plates and table cloths. I served snacks and desserts on round disposable pizza pans I snagged at the local dollar store.
Lunch was a no brainer and no-fuss for sure: pizza, breadsticks and pizza flavored chips/snacks!
Once everyone had eaten, we headed outside to try their hand at pizza dough stretching and twirling! I purchased pizza dough from my grocery store and split each ball of dough between two kiddos.
They weren't going to be hired at a pizza joint anytime soon, but they sure had fun!!
Once we were back inside, the kids got to make no bake Sugar Cookie Pizza Cookies! This was SO fun and each guest took home a mini pizza box with a pizza cookie tucked inside as a favor.
After Kaleb opened his gifts, it was time for dessert! Everyone nibbled Krispie Treat Pops and cupcakes with Mini Pizza Cupcake Toppers on them!
Now, I've rounded up some of my very favorite food, desserts, activities and decorations so you can throw your own pizza party! Take a peek at the BEST Ideas for a Pizza Party!!
Food for a Pizza Party
- Easy Biscuit Pizzas - The Casual Crafthlete (pictured in collage)
- Pizza Dippers Bar
- Easy Pizza Bagels - Fantabulosity
- Sloppy Joe Muffin Pizzas
- Wasa Crispbread Pizza Appetizers - More With Less Today
- Creamy Pizza Dip
- How to Make Grilled Pizza - Tried & True
- Pressed Pizza Paninis (pictured in collage)
Pizza Party Desserts
- Sugar Cookie Pizza Cookies (pictured in collage)
- Mini Pizza Cupcake Toppers for Pizza Party Cupcakes (pictured in collage)
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Pizza - Happy Go Lucky Blog (pictured in collage)
- Cherry Chocolate Cheesecake Dessert Pizza (pictured in collage)
- Snickerdoodle Caramel Apple Dessert Pizza
- Deep Dish German Chocolate Cookie Pizza
Pizza Party Activities / Party Favors
- Make Mini Felt Pizzas - Crafting Chicks
- Felt Pizza Bookmarks - DIY Inspired
- Paper Plate Pizza Craft - All Because She Saved (pictured in collage)
- Make Pizza Magnets - One Artsy Mama (pictured in collage)
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- Pizza Party Printables - Ginger Snap Crafts
- Pizza Party Printable Signs - Living Lucurto
- Free Pizza Party Printables - Catch My Party / Printabelle


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Iran Human Rights, July 22: Iranian authorities amputated the hands of five people inside a prison in the western city of Hamedan today July 22., reported the state run Iranian news agency Fars.
They were all convicted of robbery according to the report.
The local judiciary official Akbar Biglari said to the news agencies: "The average age of the five thieves on whom the hand amputation verdict was carried out was over 25 and they had committed major thefts".
Biglari added "normally the amputations are supposed to take place in public, but since the enemies of islam take advantage of this kind of (punishments) to present islam as a violator of the human rights amputations are not carried out in public".
Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the spokesperson of Iran Human Rights condemned todays amputations and said:" We strongly condemn today's barbaric amputations by the Iranian regime in Hamedan, and we ask the world community to condemn these crimes".None


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After a slow start, a few more moths are coming to the light, including this one, called Red Chestnut. This is the first I've caught, but there have been at least three others trapped in the last few years.
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Red Chestnut
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Under the agreement, Mirror Image, a subsidiary of Xcelera that invests in Internet companies, will use HP servers and storage systems on its network, the companies said in a statement.
In turn, HP said it intends to use Mirror Image's services within the company.
Mirror Image, which competes against Akamai Technologies, provides high-bandwidth caching capabilities to customers to hurry the transmission of Web applications and Internet content delivery.
The announcement comes amid a flurry of partnership agreements recently made in the market for Net content delivery services. Akamai today announced an alliance with cable online service provider Road Runner to improve Internet content delivery to Road Runner broadband subscribers.
Last week, Akamai announced a similar partnership with Internet venture firm CMGI to jointly develop and sell applications to speed Internet content delivery services. Several CMGI companies are working with Akamai to develop these applications.
Under today's deal, Mirror Image said it also plans to integrate HP's e-speak software technology into its network products, exploring ways to make content delivery part of a broader services plan. HP's e-speak is a way of automating business transactions on the Internet and is part of HP's "e-services" initiative.


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Work has started on Dunwoody's intersection improvements at Mount Vernon Road at Vermack Road and Manhasset Drive with lane closures taking place weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
After public schools open on Monday, Aug. 6, lane closures will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The project includes improved traffic signal timing, new sidewalks and crosswalks and new turn lanes on Mount Vernon and Vermack.
Dozens of trees were cut down at the intersection in February as the work on the intersection project began with utility relocation and construction work.
The project dates back to 2013 and was identified as a "high priority" project in the city's Comprehensive Transportation Plan. Mount Vernon Road is one of the primary east-west corridors in the city and Vermack Road provides access to Dunwoody High School and Vanderlyn Elementary School.


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The 'Rafter' Dempsey's is a charming Olde Worlde Bar and Lounge in the Centre of Irelands Medieval Capital. It is renowned for its cheerful greeting as much as its warm Log Fire and delicious home-cooked foods. Private parties and popular sports are all catered for.
The 'Rafter' Dempsey's, 4 Friary Street, Kilkenny is a charming Olde Worlde Pub with a lovely warm fire burning to make all welcome once they step inside. Along with a big smile and a Céad Míle Fáilte, you are greeted with lots of timber and soft colours as well as old memorabilia and bric-a-brac.
The 'Rafter' Dempsey's specialises in local and craft beers, stout, lagers and ciders, as well as the more conventional ones. Great food is a very large part of the offering being served and customers can get food from 8am to 7pm daily in the winter season, and from 8am to 9pm in the summer season. Sunday's from 8am to 5pm.
Live music is very popular in this city centre location every Saturday night with local bands playing great music from the 60's right through to today's chart's. The 'Rafter' Dempsey's pride themselves in catering for private parties and will organise everything required for any party, from D.J, live band, decorations and food including the cake ... the Lot! Just book your party and let us do all the worrying for you.
Our private lounge can cater for groups of up to 100 persons. This include catering for Bus Tours as well as all types of private groups. We at the 'Rafter' Dempsey's will also cater for groups that need outside entertaining and can organise for any group requiring golf, horse riding, karting, outdoor pursuits , and much more! We also provide Cocktail Training courses which are catered for in-house by our expert bar staff.
The 'Rafter' Dempsey's has a city centre location in Ireland's Medieval Capital, and is right in the middle of the tourist and shopping areas, just one minutes walk from the famous Kilkenny Castle. Enjoy yourself on the tourist trail or a shopping spree and pop in for a drink, a bite to eat or just relax beside our log fire! We cater for all sporting enthusiasts and all popular sports are shown on our big screens, including the one in our rooftop Beer Garden....open to the heavens in the summer and heated to comfort in the colder months.
Opening hours at The 'Rafter' Dempsey's are:
8am to 11.30pm Monday - Thursday
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text: Roanoke native Macklyn Mosely is the Community Services Assistant of Roanoke Public Libraries, as well as a graphic designer and music artist. He is most passionate about community engagement and celebrating multiculturalism, whether at work, his church, through his friendships, or in his neighborhood. He is also a member of the Roanoke Arts Commission, and he joined the Board in 2021.


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Aubrey Beardsley, H.G. Wells, Holbrook Jackson, Max Beerbohm, Penn and Teller, Russell Hoban, Walter Sickert, Will Rothenstein, William Nicholson
My column on "Enoch Soames" by Max Beerbohm first appeared in Vector 281, Winter 2015.
In the early afternoon of 3rd June 1997, a small crowd of people gathered in the Reading Room of the British Museum. The Reading Room had been due to close for some time, but owing to a series of delays it was still open on this date. According to the American magician Teller, of Penn and Teller, at around 2.10 in the afternoon a nondescript man appeared and began searching through the various catalogues before disappearing into the stacks. Most accounts of that afternoon, however, report no sightings, and when the crowd dispersed, Enoch Soames returned to fiction.
The central events in the story "Enoch Soames" include a pact with the devil and a visit to the distant future, so it is remarkable that over 80 years after it was first published there were still people willing, indeed eager, to believe in the truth of the story. But then, "Enoch Soames" is a quite remarkable story.
There is a portrait of the author, Max Beerbohm, painted by William Nicholson in 1905, just over ten years before he wrote "Enoch Soames". It shows an elegantly dressed man with thinning, slicked-down hair wearing a stylish black coat with a cane in one hand and a glossy top hat in the other. Just the image, one might imagine, of a confident member of upper-class Edwardian society. Except that he stands sideways to the artist, an awkward, slightly hunched posture. His face is not quite turned towards the artist, there is something in the attitude that suggests he would be happiest to turn his back completely. His eyes are downcast, the mouth thin and pursed. There is something stiff and uncomfortable about him, a retreat from attention, and it is no surprise to learn that in 1910 he and his new wife withdrew to Rapallo, Italy, where he would live in semi-retirement for the better part of 44 years. It was here that he was most productive as a writer, and it was in this period, in 1916, that he wrote "Enoch Soames". Beerbohm himself appears in the story, which is presented as a memoir, but a lot of Beerbohm's own character is so effectively transferred onto the failed poet, Enoch Soames, that I think it helps to explain why the fiction has been so readily and consistently believed as truth.
The story first appeared in the May 1916 edition of The Century Magazine, and there was nothing in its publication to suggest it was not fiction, except the tone of voice and the verisimilitude with which Beerbohm told it.
It begins as a memoir prompted by the publication of "a book about the literature of the eighteen-nineties" (425). This is a genuine book: The Eighteen Nineties: A Review of Art and Ideas at the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Holbrook Jackson, one of the leading literary journalists of the day, was published in 1913. In the index of this book, Beerbohm fails to find an entry for Enoch Soames, and it is this absence, which he feels sure no one else would have noticed, that prompts him to write the memoir. However, there is a caveat whose import will become clear only later in the story: "Not my compassion, however, impels me to write of him. For his sake, poor fellow, I should be inclined to keep my pen out of the ink" (425). Beerbohm is not writing this for Soames's sake, in that respect it would be better if he did not write, but because he is in some way compelled to do so: "sooner or later, write about him I must" (425). The inevitability with which he writes is the point of the story, but Beerbohm passes this over so lightly that we barely notice, but rather concentrate on the seeming reality of a poet omitted from the standard reference work on the period. And a man, moreover, that Beerbohm admits "WAS ridiculous" (425).
One of the things that is particularly interesting about this story is how closely Beerbohm sticks to fact; wherever possible, every name or location within the story is verifiable. So much so, indeed, that his original readers might well have assumed it was down to their ignorance that they had not encountered poor Enoch Soames. Thus he begins with the arrival of the artist Will Rothenstein in Oxford in 1893, who was there to produce a series of portraits of university figures to be published by the Bodley Head. Rothenstein really did know Whistler and Daudet and the Goncourts, and he really did produce a portrait of the young Enoch Soames (though this was produced later, to coincide with the publication of the story). The story goes on to record the young Beerbohm's arrival in London (and so far this is a genuine memoir), and it really was Rothenstein who introduced Beerbohm to Walter Sickert and the drawings of Aubrey Beardsley and "another haunt of intellect and daring, the domino-room of the Café Royal" (426).
It was here, in the Café Royal, that Beerbohm introduces Soames into this portrait of sophisticated fin-de-siecle London artistic society. Beerbohm immediately identifies Soames as odd, then steps back from that oddity:
He was a stooping, shambling person, rather tall, very pale, with longish and brownish hair. He had a thin, vague beard, or, rather, he had a chin on which a large number of hairs weakly curled and clustered to cover its retreat. He was an odd-looking person; but in the nineties odd apparitions were more frequent, I think, than they are now. (426)
"Longish," "brownish," "vague," Soames isn't just odd, he is ill-formed, he has not come into focus. The fictional Beerbohm is here confident and comfortable in this high social circle; upon Soames is loaded all of the awkwardness and unease that presumably led the real Beerbohm to later withdraw from that society. Soames's undefined character is highlighted in his first exchange with Rothenstein: Rothenstein vaguely recalls meeting him in Paris, and when Soames says he visited the studio, Rothenstein apologises for being out. "But you were in," (427) Soames replies, and we see immediately that he is someone impossible to pin in the memory. As Rothenstein says later: "How can one draw a man who does not exist?" (428) And when Beerbohm next runs into Soames, he has "a vague sense that I ought to have recognized him" (429).
When this imprecise being joins the group in the Café Royal, Soames makes a series of gestures, flinging his cape back, ordering absinthe, speaking awkwardly and pretentiously in French. But they are no more than gestures, the man is all pretence. Though Beerbohm notes that they did not identify him as a fool because "he had written a book. It was wonderful to have written a book" (427). And all of Beerbohm's ambition is alive in that last sentence. When he acquires the book, however, he finds it impenetrable, all carefully wrought, but "Was there, I wondered, any substance at all?" (429) And while the young Beerbohm continues to respect Soames as someone who has been published, we readers get a less positive perspective on him. He talks slightingly of Shelley and Keats, he insists his work owes nothing to contemporary French decadents such as Baudelaire and Verlaine despite the fact that Beerbohm recognises their influence, and he publishes a slim volume of poetry called Fungoids which sinks without trace, deservedly so given the two examples that Beerbohm quotes.
Aside from his being a mediocre poet, the other thing we learn about Soames, ominously given what is to follow, is that he calls himself a "Catholic diabolist" (430), and indeed "Diabolism seemed to be a cheerful, even a wholesome influence in his life" (431).
Meanwhile the relationship between the two is starting to change. By now (another accurate memoir) Beerbohm had sold an essay to Aubrey Beardsley's "The Yellow Book"; consequently he feels more firmly entrenched in the society within which he moves. Soames, "that absurd creature" (432), remains outside the charmed circle. His poems are rejected by "The Yellow Book", and thereafter "for the poets and prosaists of 'The Yellow Book' and later of 'The Savoy' he had never a word but of scorn" (433). Though Beerbohm has a grudging admiration for the way Soames "kept his dingy little flag flying" (433), by the time Soames brings out, at his own expense, his third and final book, Beerbohm forgets to buy it and cannot even remember what it was called. Though Soames is, I believe, Beerbohm's portrait of himself if he had not made it, a creature shunned and resentful, surviving on a minute inheritance and continuing to believe absolutely in his own literary genius, because Beerbohm had in fact made it – "John Lane had published, by this time, two little books of mine, and they had had a pleasant little success of esteem" (433) – he could afford now to regard Soames with pity for the tragedy of the man. Rothenstein does indeed paint a portrait of Soames – "it 'existed' so much more than he; it was bound to" (433) – which gives Soames a brief, belated taste of fame, but its withdrawal breaks him.
It is now, in the summer of 1897, that what has seemed like a memoir, an account of a deservedly-forgotten writer, suddenly lurches into the fantastic. Beerbohm dines at a short-lived café in Greek Street called Restaurant du Vingtieme Siecle, a name which signals that a tale about the past has become a journey into the future. He finds Soames at the café, who treats him to a long diatribe about being neglected, then, still convinced that fame will come his way eventually, he declares that he would sell his soul for the chance to go to the Reading Room of the British Museum one hundred years hence and see the "endless editions, commentaries, prolegomena, biographies" (436) devoted to him and his work. Whereupon a "Mephistophelian" (434) man at the next table joins them and introduces himself as the Devil. He is not as either man imagine the Devil to be, Beerbohm later describes him as "the sort of man who hangs about the corridors of trains going to the Riviera and steals ladies' jewel-cases" (439). Later still, he says that "Dread was indeed rather blunted in me by his looking so absurdly like a villain in a melodrama" (442). Beerbohm's understandable response, therefore, is to burst into laughter: "I tried not to, I knew there was nothing to laugh at, my rudeness shamed me; but – I laughed with increasing volume" (436). This disdain between Beerbohm and the Devil is echoed at the very end of the story when, years later, Beerbohm passes the Devil in Paris and "he, if you please, stared straight at me with the utmost haughtiness" (444). Beerbohm is so assured of his own position that he expects even the Devil to treat him with proper civility; confirmation in its way that Beerbohm's own social standing is the central issue of the story.
Soames, already a diabolist and anxious to discover his own renown, is less dismissive. He quickly agrees to the deal which will transport him to the Museum exactly one hundred years hence. The Devil checks his watch, ten past two, with closing time at seven, at which point, as the Devil puts it: "pouf! – you find yourself again here, sitting at this table" (437). For Soames, the scene switches to where Teller and his companions are waiting. Left behind, Beerbohm says dryly to the Devil: "'The Time Machine' is a delightful book, don't you think? So entirely original" to which the Devil replies: "it is one thing to write about an impossible machine; it is quite another to be a supernatural power" (437). Even now, Beerbohm and the Devil are jockeying for position.
Beerbohm returns early to the café, and exactly on time Soames reappears. Beerbohm tries to persuade him to renege on the deal, to flee from the Devil, but Soames is fatalistic: "'It's like my luck,' he said, 'to spend my last hours on earth with an ass.' But I was not offended. 'And a treacherous ass'" (438). This last is explained by a passage Soames copied from a book he found in 1997:
Fr egzarmpl, a riter ov th time, naimed Max Beerbohm, hoo woz stil alive in th twentieth senchri, rote a stauri in wich e pautraid an immajnari karrakter kauld 'Enoch Soames' – a thurd-rait poit hoo beleevz imself a grate jeneus an maix a bargin with th Devvl in auder ter no wot posterriti thinx ov im! It iz a sumwot labud sattire, but not without vallu az showing hou seriusli the yung men ov th aiteen-ninetiz took themselvz. (441)
The debased language, a distant ancestor, perhaps, of the language in Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker, and used here to the same end to illustrate how far the future has fallen, is the most startling and inventive aspect of the story. Though H.G. Wells in The Time Machine, the novel to which Beerbohm has already made specific allusion, has his time traveller unable to communicate with the Eloi of the distant future, he had not attempted to present the language of that distant time. This is, I suspect, the first time that a fragmented language of the future is presented in fiction, and that such broken and distorted prose stands as a representation of the times.
There is also a deliciously inverted self reference in the passage. The story we are reading was written in 1916, is itself a reference point in a book read in 1997, yet all of this relates to events in 1897. In 1916 and 1997 the story is fiction, yet its very fictionality is a bone of contention in the "reality" of 1897 of which this is a memoir, and a time in which Beerbohm himself did not write any fiction. Soames spells it out when he attacks Beerbohm: "you're so hopelessly not an artist that, so far from being able to imagine a thing and make it seem true, you're going to make even a true thing seem as if you'd made it up" (442). In other words, Beerbohm is so poor a writer that he'll make a true story seem as if it is fiction, which is how it will be recorded in the reference book of 1997; but this in turn means that the fiction we think we are reading is in fact a true story, and hence Teller and his companions waiting at the British Museum in 1997. And they are there in the story, the people in the Reading Room: "They will have been awfully waiting to see whether he really would come. And when he does come the effect will of course be – awful" (444). Teller and co must be there, just as Beerbohm must write the story, and still we wonder if, perhaps, that nondescript man really was …
It is an infinite regress: if we read "Enoch Soames" as fiction then it is a true story, but if we recognise it as a true story then it is fiction. Which is one of the cleverest and most satisfying aspects of this most intricate of works.
Quotations taken from "Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties" by Max Beerbohm in The Time Traveler's Almanac edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, New York, Tor, 2014, pp425-444.


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The Gordon School Showcases Dancing Classrooms
Fifth graders at the Gordon School in East Providence will be showing off their ballroom dancing skills with a presentation for friends and family today.
Fifth graders at the Gordon School in East Providence will be showing off their ballroom dancing skills with a presentation for friends and family today. The students have been practicing the polka, the waltz, the merengue and the foxtrot as a part of the curriculum for dancing classrooms, a non-profit arts education program.
Founded in 1994 by ballroom legend Pierre Dulaine, Dancing Classrooms is a ten-week, twenty session program for children at transition points in school, mainly in the fifth and sixth grades. Brought to Rhode Island by Rodney Lopez, the current executive director of the program, Dancing Classrooms cultivates life skills, including respect, teamwork, confidence, joy and accomplishment through the practice of social dance. At the Gordon School, all three sections of the fifth grade come together for dance class first thing in the morning. Students enter the ballroom, a makeshift dance floor in the school's theater, with a partner in escort position. They form a large circle and begin to stretch.
Before the dancing begins, Lopez instructs the students to have 'crispy chicken wing elbows' and 'peanut butter and jelly sandwich arms.' Immediately they stiffen up. "I noticed when he says the term it spurs a wheel for them," says Greg Carson, one of the fifth-grade teachers. "But he always makes us hungry," adds Ren Cristohall, a Gordon School student. Lopez introduces between fifty and sixty different words and phrases throughout the dancing classrooms curriculum. Students often recognize that these terms, albeit rather funny, make the dances easier to remember. Other teachers have even begun to use Lopez's terms in their classrooms. The Gordon School is using dancing classrooms to model homework assignments, too, whether it's interviewing a family member about their own experience with dance or creating a math problem using the number of different steps in the polka. Students will show off their dances, along with this supplemental work at their presentation and Lopez suspects there will be some tears from parents.
"They've seen their children on the basketball court, they've seen them in the school play, they've seen them on the lacrosse field, they've seen them in science fairs and maybe they've even seen them doing ballet or tap dancing," he says. "But what they haven't seen in all likelihood is their child dancing elegantly with another child. And what they are seeing is a glimpse into the future of that child."
Students are expected to dress elegantly, in something they wouldn't normally wear to school, because dancing classrooms isn't a normal school experience. In typical subjects, like reading, writing and math, fifth graders are already learning at a variety of different levels. With ballroom dance, each individua student in the class begins at the same starting point, which makes it easier for students to participate without that level of embarrassment that comes with being new to something. "Everybody looks foolish when they do the foxtrot or the polka," explains the Gordon School's Communication Director Geoff Griffin. Instilling a sense of confidence even when trying something new, is one of the main goals of Dancing Classrooms. While children dancing with one another might look cute, there is much more going on beneath the surface. "Any adult who's taken ballroom dancing lessons, whether it's for their wedding or just for fun or for exercise, they'll tell you that something really special happens inside, as their confidence grows and their competency grows as well in the dance," says Lopez. "There's a real feeling of achievement." In addition, fifth graders at the Gordon School are beginning to recognize the values that they have been learning through the class's curriculum, including Respecting each other and working as a team.
"It helps us come together. Sometimes people at recess are doing things in different groups because people have different interests and that's fine, but then at Dancing cCassrooms we're all in this together," says student Alejandro Quintero Cashore. Although the experience isn't optional, it is something the students have enjoyed doing. They often treat it as a type of recess or a way to exert energy. Many have even brought the dances home to teach their families and friends outside of the Gordon School, spreading the values inspired by Dancing Classrooms.
"I taught my cat how to do the merengue," says student Zoey Frank, demonstrating the fact that kids will still be kids, despite knowing how to ballroom dance. "He didn't like it."


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Strength and Resistance Training
General guidelines for strength training individuals with Down syndrome include: (a) constant supervision; (b) labeling machines with pictures and providing verbal encouragement; (c) providing more visual instruction than verbal instruction (Le Clair and Elliott, 1995); and (d) teaching clients to record their own information to improve long-term adherence and empowerment. The goal should be to maximize strength in the large muscle groups. Training intensity should be 70-80% 1-RM for 3 sets of 8-12 repetitions. A training effect is typically seen 10-12 weeks into the program. Circuit training is appropriate for individuals with Down syndrome. A sample program can include 2-minute stations with 30-60 second rest intervals between each station.


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The cupressocyparis hybrid originates from western North America and was originally planted and named after CJ Leyland of Haggerston Hall. This tree is 80cm tall and comes presented in a 12 litre pot.
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One Grade 3 girl donated $32 from her piggy bank to Robert Little Public School. The local fire department is loaning the Acton elementary computer monitors. One man brought in a bag of brand new books. Cleanup offers came by the dozens.
And several people offered replacement fish tanks for the ones that were damaged by vandals who trashed 11 of 19 classrooms at the elementary school a week ago.
In short, principal Bob Tadman says the support and phone calls, emails and faxes from the community — as well as the wider Greater Toronto area, Niagara, Guelph and Cambridge — have been overwhelming.
"The spirit of it all is so lovely," he said in an interview Tuesday after releasing a public letter of thanks. "It more than makes up (for what happened). Bad stuff happens – it just happens. But the measure of a community and the kind of connections you have with folks comes afterwards. It has far outstripped" the damage done.
Of particular concern to the public was the death of 10 school fish after the vandals smashed their tanks.
"A nerve seems to have been hit around the fish," he said. In fact, one man who graduated from the school in the 1960s has even offered his 6-ft., 100-gallon fish tank, which Tadman wants to set up in the foyer.
"We'll let it be a sign and symbol of the kindness of the community," he said.
With that donation, Tadman says he can now go back to the numerous pet stores and donors who have offered help to let them know what fish and equipment are needed, "and if they can help out with any of that, we're happy to take them up on the offer," he said.
"My final line," says Tadman with a laugh, "is going to be 'tanks a lot.' "
In last week's break-in, computers were thrown to the floor, tables overturned, windows broken, and one classroom was sprayed with a fire extinguisher. That room alone took a five-person crew 18 hours to clean up.
Damage to the school has been estimated in the tens of thousands.
Robert Little has more than 400 students from kindergarten to Grade 5, and this year is celebrating 150 years at the Acton site.
"Some things were lost that Tuesday morning," Tadman wrote in his Tuesday letter. "But what we found was how much this school means to this community and that we have new friends from our larger community.
"Some resources were damaged. But other resources, the strength of a small community, the people who stopped whatever they would have done that day to offer a helping hand, the folks who offered their resources to renew and refurbish our school, were strengthened."
Two local 19-year-olds have been charged with break and enter, mischief and cruelty to animals.


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Mecca is the most important city to Muslims, and they are required to face it when they Pray. It is important because Muslims believe that the Patriarch Abraham personally built the Kaaba (cube-shaped building), using the Black Stone in its construction. Abraham's son Ishmael assisted in that construction, according to Islamic beliefs. Because Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son because the Lord asked him to do so, clearly indicated that Abraham was the first truly Devout believer in the One God (Allah). This makes Abraham the central human figure in Muslim beliefs, the first of the Patriarchs. (This is the very same Abraham that Christians and Jews similarly revere as Patriarch.) The fact that Muslims face Mecca is really them facing the Kaaba, in honor to Abraham.
Mecca (Arabic: Makkah), the birthplace of Muhammad, is the holiest city of the Islamic faith. Capital of the Hejaz province of Saudi Arabia, Mecca is located 72 km (45 mi) east of Jidda, its port on the Red Sea, and about 485 km (300 mi) south of Medina. Mecca's population is 367,000 (1976 est.). The city is located on the sandy, narrow valley of the Wadi Ibrahim and is surrounded by hills from 60 to 150 m (200 to 500 ft) high. The 914-m-high (3,000-ft) Jabal Khandama is located nearby.
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The main economic activity in Mecca is the provision of services to pilgrims. Merchants in particular benefit from the trade of travelers, as huge fairs are held during the month of the pilgrimage. Because of the yearly influx of visitors, the city's transportation network is well developed. Mecca is connected to Jidda and Riyadh by road, and the airport at Jidda serves Mecca.
Even before Muhammad's birth (570), the city was an important commercial and religious center (the Black Stone was sacred in early Arabic religions). Muhammad began to preach in the city c.613 but was forced to flee to Medina in 622 (the Hegira). In 630 he returned with 10,000 men to conquer the city and establish it as the center of the Islamic world. The city was ruled by the Carmathians from 930 until 1269, when the Egyptian Mamelukes gained control.
The Ottoman Turks ruled from 1517 until 1916, when the Hejaz region became independent, with Mecca as its capital. Mecca fell to Ibn Saud in 1924, and in 1932 Hejaz became a province of Saudi Arabia. In November 1979 a group of 200 Muslim zealots seized Mecca's Great Mosque; they were driven out by Saudi troops after 10 days, and many were executed. In 1987, Iranian pilgrims staged violent demonstrations in the city.
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Gaury, Gerald de, Rulers of Mecca (1951; repr. 1982); 1982); Hirashima, H. Y., The Road to Holy Mecca (1972); Hitti, Philip K., History of the Arabs, 10th ed. (1970); Steward, D., Mecca (1980).
Mecca, also Makkah (ancient Macoraba), is a city in western Saudi Arabia, located in Al Hijâz (Hejaz) Province, near Jiddah. Mecca is the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad, founder of Islam, and the most sacred of the Muslim holy cities. According to Islamic tradition, Muslims around the world must face Mecca during their daily prayers. Every year, during the last month of the Islamic calendar, more than 1 million Muslims make a pilgrimage, or hajj, to Mecca. The city's location on several trade routes has made it commercially important since ancient times. Mecca was a religious center before the time of Muhammad, and several holy sites within the sacred precincts of the great mosque, called al-Haram, had religious significance in pre-Islamic times.
The Kaaba (or Caaba), a windowless cube-shaped building in the courtyard of the mosque, is believed to have been built by the Hebrew patriarch Abraham. In the southeastern corner of the Kaaba is the Black Stone, supposedly given to Abraham by the angel Gabriel. Also within the precincts of the mosque is the sacred well, called the Zamzam (Zemzem), which was reputedly used by Hagar, mother of Abraham's son Ishmael. The city is first mentioned by the Alexandrian geographer Ptolemy, who in the 2nd century AD called it Macoraba.
From the time of Muhammad, Mecca was besieged on various occasions. It was taken by the Egyptians in the 13th century. In the 16th century control passed to Turkey. From 1517 the sharifs, or descendants of Muhammad through Hasan, son of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali, governed Mecca for the Turks. The latter were driven from the city in 1916 by Grand Sharif Husein ibn Ali, later first king of Al Hijâz. In 1924 the city was occupied by Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, then sultan of Najd (Nejd), who made Mecca the religious capital of Saudi Arabia. Population (1994 estimate) 1,500,000.
Mecca, the capital of Arabia and the sacred city of the Mohammedans, is situated in the district of Hijaz about 21°30' N. latitude and 40°20' E. longitude, some seventy miles east of the Red Sea. It lies in a sandy valley surrounded by rocky hills from two hundred to five hundred feet in height, barren and destitute of vegetation.
The birthplace of Mohammed and the seat of the famous Kaaba, it was celebrated even in pre-Islamic times as the chief sanctuary of the Arabs, and visited by numerous pilgrims and devotees. The city presents an aspect more pleasing than that of the ordinary Eastern town, with comparatively wide streets and stone houses, usually of three stories, and well aired and lighted. The inhabitants, numbering about 60,000, are with few exceptions Arabians whose chief employment consists in lodging the pilgrims and serving the temple, although no inconsiderable amount of trade is carried on with the Bedouins of the surrounding desert. Mecca, the seat of government during the reign of the first five Khalifs, is now governed by a Sharif, chosen by the people from the Sayyids or the descendants of Mohammed, but under the immediate authority of the Sultan of Turkey (Hughes, "Dictionary of Islam", q.v.). Mecca is annually visited by some 80,000 pilgrims from all over the Mohammedan world. On their way the pilgrims pass through Medina, the second sacred town of Arabia, and on approaching Mecca they undress, laying aside even their headgear, and put on aprons and a piece of cloth over the left shoulder. Then they perform the circuit of the Kaaba, kiss the Black Stone, hear the sermon on Mount Arafât, pelt Satan with stones in the valley of Mina, and conclude their pilgrimage with a great sacrificial feast. In a year or two Mecca will be reached by the Hijaz Railway already completed as far as Medina (about eight hundred and fifty miles from Damascus). From Medina to Mecca the distance is two hundred and eighty miles, and from Mecca to Damascus about one thousand one hundred and ten miles. The railway passes through the old caravan route, Damascus, Mezarib, Maan, Medawara, Tebuk, Madain Saleh, El-Ula, Medina, and Mecca. The early history of Mecca is shrouded in obscurity, although Mohammedan writers have preserved an abundance of legendary lore according to which the city dates back to Abraham who is said to have there worshipped the true God. It is also stated that after the death of Abraham, the inhabitants of Mecca, owing to the evil influence of the heathen Amalekites, fell into idolatry and paganism, and the Kaaba itself became surrounded with their idols. Hundreds of these idols were destroyed by Mohammed on his entrance into the city at the head of a Moslem army in the eighth year of the Hejira, or A.D. 629. During the century before Mohammed, we find the tribe of Quraish in undisputed possession of the city and the acknowledged guardians of the Kaaba. The leading events in Mecca at that period, such as the Abyssinian expedition against Yemen and the utter defeat of Arabia's army at the hand of the Meccans, have been already discussed in the article CHRISTIANITY IN ARABIA.
Publication information Written by Gabriel Oussani. Transcribed by WGKofron. With thanks to Fr. John Hilkert and St. Mary's Church, Akron, Ohio The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume X. Published 1911. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Nihil Obstat, October 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
See the bibliography appended to the articles ARABIA, MOHAMMED AND MOHAMMEDANISM; BURKHARDT, Travels in Arabia (London, 1830); BURTON, Personal narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medina and Mecca (London, 1857); HURGRONJE, SNOUCK, Mecca, mit Bilder Atlas, II (The Hague, 1888); IDEM, Het Mekkanische Feest (Leyden, 1888).
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Potting away
The last three weeks of lab work have been quite intense and we are now starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel (or I should say, the table tops underneath the boxes). We have washed and cleaned well over a thousand sherds and added over 800 new entries to the artefact catalogue. Thanks to the contribution of many of our undergraduate students (thank you!) and, crucially, to the long hours of hard work that Claire and Sandra, our postgraduate and undergraduate lab interns, have been putting in during the Easter break. And all this work is starting to pay off: we are beginning to see how the pottery was distributed across the site and to recognise differences in the size and appearance of the vessels. As it was expected given what happens at other sites from the same period, much of the pottery is plain or decorated with a horizontal ridge placed either below the rim or halfway down the body of the vessel, but other kinds of decoration do also occur, and we have found some beautiful pieces – to the delight of whoever was washing that particular bag of apparently unexciting sherds.
Emma found the thinner-walled decorated sherd on the right last week, on her first day at the lab. You can image her excitement (and everybody else's as we gathered to admire it).
In addition to the ceramic vessels, the Nunalleq assemblage includes several clay lamps. In fact, their number seems to multiply every week. Although we have recovered mostly fragments, there are a couple of almost complete small, shallow lamps in the collection as well. They are all in a very poor state of preservation, much worse than that of the vessels, so the plan is to select one or two of the best, more complete examples for conservation. So far, we have not found a single decorated clay lamp, which are common in other regions of Alaska, and we have only identified one stone lamp, which Rick had been 'hiding' in one of the fridges.
Clay lamp (before conservation) and stone lamp from Nunalleq
The fridges are wonderful and apparently endless worlds of their own – somehow we keep finding more and more of whatever we are studying each time we open them. For example, last Friday we were about to celebrate having almost finished the washing of the pottery when a last look through the fridges 'just to make sure' produced not one but five boxes full of sherds and a very substantial part of a vessel, still carefully wrapped in film. It is a great piece, which Sandra and our conservator will be dedicating special attention to in the next few weeks. We will let you know how their work progresses.


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The Pastoral Council provides pastoral planning for the faith community it serves. Through extensive prayer, listening, and learning the council assists the pastor in identifying and assessing the gifts and needs of the faith community; to clarify the parish's mission: and to develop and initiate pastoral plans to serve this mission for the kingdom of God.
Pastoral Council Members:
- Jane Soyer
- Katera Nowasell
- Barbara Bellizzi
- Tom Smolen
- Tim Schulte
- Brent DeRocher


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When you're providing customer service over the phone, without face-to-face interaction, it can be challenging to establish the right customer relationships. There are many techniques that can help you consistently deliver service excellence over the telephone. In this course, you'll learn basic etiquette tips for answering, managing, and ending client service (CS) calls. You'll also learn how to make a good impression by listening, using questions to probe for more information, minding your tone, and empathizing with the customer. Finally, you'll learn ways of reflecting or adapting to your customer's style.
Learning Objectives
Customer Service over the Phone
- recall guidelines for answering calls and putting customers on hold
- list techniques for transferring and closing customer service calls
- recall techniques for maintaining a positive tone of voice on customer service calls
- identify examples of active listening techniques
- recognize examples of customer-focused language
- identify approaches to helping resolve customer problems
- recall techniques for mirroring a customer's language
- use proper etiquette and techniques when providing customer service via telephone


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How Does Twitter Work?
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If you have been using Twitter actively as a part of your marketing strategy you likely know that Twitter has recently come up with some significant algorithm changes. Therefore, you may want to do things a little differently, including how often you should be posting on your account.
Let's cut right to the chase and discuss the factors worth considering when figuring out an ideal posting frequency.
Twitter's Algorithm
The primary area of Twitter's algorithm is called the "Top Tweets" feed. Top Tweets are chosen according to Twitter "based on accounts you interact with most, Tweets you engage with, and much more."
Users are only able to speculate what "much more" means. Every algorithm has its secret formula. Here is what we do know about Twitter sharing its ranking signals:
- How recently the tweet was published.
- How many Retweets, clicks, favorites, and impressions a tweet has received.
- The tweet's engagement is relative to other tweets from the same user.
- How often people engage with the tweet's author, through active engagements and impressions.
- Posting at the correct times will help you get more real twitter followers
Rich Media
- The type of media the tweet includes (image, video, GIF) – and even polls.
- The type of media users tends to engage with. For example, a user that often engages with video is probably more likely to see more tweets with videos.
Other factors
- How long a user has been away from the site.
- How many followers an account has.
- The account's location relative to users.
Focus on Your Audience
We know it might not sound anything groundbreaking that you might have expected after our in-depth insight on the algorithm changes above, but your audience is always going to be the cornerstone of your Twitter marketing strategy.
Users in some niches can digest a lot more content than the others. If you're in one of such niches, you may want to start posting more often and see where that gets you. You will obviously have to find this out for yourself by analyzing your competitors' posting frequency and engagement as well as your experience.
However, if you have noticed a drop in the overall engagement every time you tried to post more often than a limit, you may want to stay under that limit.
Consistency Over Frequency
If there's one thing we can tell for sure with respect to the ideal posting frequency, then it would be that you shouldn't post more often than what you can consistently maintain. If you start posting three to four times a day, only to end up posting only a few days a week shortly after, it may affect your overall engagement more negatively than you may think.
That said, there can be some exceptions to this rule. One of the common exceptions is when you're running a major promotion or have launched a new product. During such times, you can post more often than usual and then go back to your normal posting frequency once the promotion has ended.
However, the catch here is that the increase in frequency must be coupled with a healthy engagement. If you're having a much lower engagement on the "extra" posts you make during this period, you may want to reconsider your content strategy or post less often.
Want A Clear Number?
If you came here looking for a number that you can use for references or as a guide, then you will not be leaving disappointed. Union Metrics did a detailed study on the posting frequency of Twitter brands, and determined that on an average, brands post 1.5 times a day.
This may not only turn out to be a good posting frequency for most businesses or brands, but also something that will be easy to maintain over a long period of time. Hence, you would be able to be consistent with your posting schedule, something that's crucial for your overall engagement as we discussed above.


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Memorial to Henry Hudson: The Arrival of the Halve Maen, 1609
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Leaded glass
Overall (window bay): 164 1/2 x 84 1/2 in. (417.8 x 214.6 cm)
The window depicts Henry Hudson's discovery of the island of Manhattan in 1609. Hudson can be seen standing on the high poopdeck of his ship, the Halve Maen ("half Moon"). The Arms of the Netherlands, the country for whom he was sailing, can be seen in the border of the central upper section. On either side, fruits and flowers represent autumn and the land of plenty. In the upper corners are the arms of Old and New Amsterdam. The drops of oak leaves symbolize Hudson's strength and integrity. In the lower left-hand corner is the insignia of the Dutch East India Company, which financed the voyage. The lower border contains the Seal of the Daughters of Holland Dames, and in the lower right hand corner are the arms of New Netherlands.
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Gift of the Society of the Daughters of Holland Dames of New York
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.


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