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Inside the DC Design House: $10M Mansion Before and After
Escape into this design masterpiece and get an inside look of the stunning renovations from an elegant and mysterious French boudoir to a bright jewel box sitting room. For the tenth year interior designers renovated and decorated in order to raise funds for the Children's National Health System. The estate that was chosen for this year's DC Design House is a magnificent nine-bedroom 28,000-square-foot mansion in desirable Potomac, Maryland, listed at $10.28M.
LIVING ROOM | MARGERY WEDDERBURN INTERIORS
The dated color scheme was changed to a soft white and the formal space was modernized by adding classical elements like cane chairs, an iron settee and silk window treatments. The elegant space is perfect for dramatic art and the pink Meltaway sculpture adds an unexpected pop of color to the room.
DINING ROOM | SUSAN JAMIESON | BRIDGET BEARI DESIGNS
The grand dining room with moldings and marble is transformed into a beautiful mix of Parisian elegance and mid-century modern with simplified paint on the walls, including coloring the ceiling, contemporary cabinetry, and midcentury blue velvet barrel chairs. The table is much more to scale than was there before, and the metallic grasscloth wallpaper adds bling to the walls.
THE COLLECTOR'S CABINET | JOSH HILDRETH INTERIORS
The room is inspired by Givenchy's Château du Jonchet and is meant to be both chic and relaxed with the abundance of custom or hand-made furnishings, rugs, curtain embroidery, and artwork. The faux-paint cypress ceiling was painted on adhesive material and than applied to the ceiling. What really makes the room is the mesmerizing photography of women wearing 19th-century Dutch bonnets.
LE BOUDOIR | ROMAIN BATY
According to Baty, Le boudoir is a distinctive room to cast a flavor of now-ness as a blend of modernity, classic taste, and mystery. The graphic and dramatic black-and-white walls are complemented by moody paintings and textures from feathers to metal.
A STUDY IN BLUE | KELLEY PROXIMIRE
The library was inspired by New York socialite Brook Astor’s iconic library that was designed by Albert Hadley. While mimicking the fabric from Hadley’s room, the updated design uses a blue color scheme. The bright window panels brighten the dark wood paneling and the books painted in shades of blue and the porcelain line the shelves of the two-story study.
THE STUDY ROYALE | LORNA GROSS
The study, tucked behind the estate's library, is a tranquil and sophisticated room and blends royal blues with airy neutrals. Influenced by Spanish and Italian country homes, the grand arched windows are emphasized with mocha casement and Italian parchment draperies. The two golden vintage Sgabello chairs add a regal touch to the room.
LADIES RETREAT | MARIKA MEYER
On the other side of the library is the ladies' study which provides a restful but glamorous oasis. The designer was inspired by Grace Kelley and created a space where one could display her life collections. The framed collection of Hermes scarves creates a beautiful and elegant backdrop to the Art Deco-inspired decor.
THE IDEALIZED FAMILY ROOM | TODD MARTZ | SUSAN NELSON
What makes a family room “idealized”? According to Martz and Nelson, it’s a family room where electronics are checked at the door, where family members can ftalk, play games, or read together. It is an energetic space with a bright yellow wallpaper and blue and white porcelain and chinoiserie pillows.
MASTER BEDROOM | DENNESE GUADELOUPE ROJAS
The master suite is all about glamour and luxury with its silver color scheme and sparkly walls and ceiling that illuminate the space. The plush fabrics create a sense of tranquility.
THE GUEST ROOM | CARYN KRAMER
The guest room makes a statement with color - bold orange, papaya and aqua paired with refined black accents. The textiles adorn the walls and upholstery and unexpected details like a horsehair stool and Icelandic sheepskin add texture.


What did the public chain experience in 2019? Of the 20,000 public chains, only 200 survived, with a 1% survival rate. From competing for millions of TPS, to competing with the DApp ecosystem, to the now-defensive Defi. In waves of torrents, launching the mainnet, building a developer community, and building DApps seem to have become a unified story template for the public chain. The old problem has always existed. The industry has a long history of declining public chains. How should the story of public chains be told in 2020?
With the continuous deepening of the market and the continuous exploration of technology, the concepts have gradually been enriched, but the public chain is still facing many tests. First and foremost is the dual protection of security and TPS. For blockchain assets to go online, performance and transaction rate are important, but how to ensure financial-level security is still an important problem. Second, scalability has always been an obstacle to large-scale commercial use of blockchains, which cannot meet the daily small amount of high Frequent payment scenarios. Although projects such as Zil, Ethereum 2.0, and NERA are using sharding to solve scalability issues, how to implement interoperability between cross-chains has become a major dilemma; finally, compatibility affects the public chain Sustainable development, however, development and migration costs, ease of use, and handling fees have become obstacles to the public chain's ecological development.
- Viewpoint | Is the exchange the only way out for the project?
- Interpretation: what is atomic swap "changing"
- Lava open source opens a new era of PoC ecological development
- Interpretation: The road to energy saving and emission reduction, from PoW to PoC
- The origin of the history of capacity certification (PoC): Burstcoin
- Analysis: What is "double digging"? Not as simple as you think
The public chain has always been regarded as the underlying support for the value of blockchain applications. Only with the efficient operation of the public chain can the development and implementation of commercial applications be possible. Since the public chain circuit broke out in 2016, it has always attracted much attention and there is no shortage of challengers. And some challengers such as Near Protocol, Solana, Lava, etc. are trying to solve the problems of the current public chain, but there are also many people who use this muddy water to find fish. We all know that blockchains like BTC or Ethereum are completely open source code, and everyone can become a download and run node. There are many projects in the name of the public chain, but in fact they are working on traditional cloud platforms clad in smart contracts. The open source code on GitHub cannot be compiled.
Blockchain has similarities with the Internet industry, whether it is a chaotic bubble or a fleeting concept. The Internet wave, such as big data, new retail, and AR / VR, has a short-term breaking point, but it has no persistence. But this does not prove that they have no value and meaning. Nowadays, such concepts as Defi, Web3.0, and Staking are all new attempts made by blockchain practitioners. Although there are not a few bad voices about the public chain in the industry, or the core members of the star public chain project leave, the public chain is turned into the alliance chain, or the public chain project team is turned to outsourcing, which is more fascinating for public business. No doubt, in the current technological development and market conditions, the bubble will always be squeezed out. Only in this way can the public chain be able to obtain sufficient funds and resources for development. After all, the current state of the market has only a limited number of investors and limited funds, but it is facing thousands of blockchain projects.
At the same time, major Internet companies have quietly entered the market, and Tencent, Ali, Baidu, and Xunlei have launched the blockchain BaaS platform. It is reported that Tencent's blockchain application has issued 14 million blockchain electronic invoices in 2019, while the 2.1 billion pieces of certificated data of the Internet Court in Hangzhou have been uploaded and are playing an important role.
In addition, on December 4, Bitfinex officially supported Lightning Network deposits and withdrawals; Cosmos has released large projects such as IRIS Betwork, Binance DEX, Kava, Aragon, etc .; Nervos released the benchmark Substrate blockchain development framework muta last month QuarkChain is trying to access old coins through the underlying structure of the root chain + shard chain; Lava is developing the atomic exchange technology with the PoC mechanism as the core to achieve the global storage consensus. Lava wants to integrate PoC into Lava's ecology by consolidating global consensus and value on the basis of the high-security and low-energy consensus mechanism. For the party that contributes capacity computing power, Lava uses two-way anchoring (2-way peg) cross-chain asset transactions, script-based cross-chain atomic exchanges, and off-chain expansion schemes, payment channels, and status channels through the binding of computing power. And other technologies to condense global storage and call it the "root of trust."
What is the story of the public chain in 2020? I think it may be the trend of Wanchain interoperability, and the Dapp ecosystem that depends on the public chain may gradually drift away. The development of the public chain is inseparable from the process of continuous trial and error and finding directions. In the future, through the combination of various industries, the development of technology, and the continuous expansion of the application layer, the public chain will eventually promote the further evolution and landing of the public chain. .


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A vandal wielding a baseball bat smashed up a phone-box in a leafy Scarborough village, it’s been claimed.
The incident, which is alleged to have happened at around 11.40pm on Thursday October 25, occurred in Scalby High Street, and has been described by one eye-witness as “the weirdest thing that I’ve ever seen”.
The witness, who wished to remain anonymous, said that they had been drawn to their window by the sound of a “boy racers’ exhaust.
The male driver of the small, dark vehicle, which was “idling” around, then allegedly strolled across to the phone box, shattering the glass with two blows of the bat.
He then briskly left the scene, before fleeing down Church Hill with his car lights turned off.
The witness added: “Who would drive up to a village with a baseball bat? It’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen.”
North Yorkshire Police say they are unable to find a record of the incident.


Gov. Jack Dalrymple today joined members of the state's agriculture and ethanol industries in announcing that E15 blended gasoline is now available in four of North Dakota's larger cities. North Dakota is the ninth state to offer the fuel blend containing 15 percent ethanol and 85 percent gasoline.
"Ethanol creates North Dakota jobs," Dalrymple said. "It's good for the environment, it's good for our farmers and it's good for the country.
"North Dakota has increased its production of renewable energy by 225 percent in just the last five years, and our ethanol industry is a major part of that success," Dalrymple said. "Through the North Dakota EmPower Commission and our comprehensive energy policy, we will continue to support the development of ethanol and all of our energy resources.
Motorists in North Dakota now have another option at the fuel pump. E15 is available at six Petro Serve USA locations in Bismarck, Mandan, West Fargo and Fargo. The high-performance fuel is approved by the EPA for all cars and light-duty vehicles with a model year of 2001 or newer, as well as flex-fuel vehicles.
Dalrymple and other ethanol backers announced the availability of E15 at the Petro Serve USA's Bismarck fueling and retail store on Divide Avenue. Those joining Dalrymple for the E15 kickoff included Jeff Zueger, chairman of the North Dakota Ethanol Council; Tom Lilja, executive director of the North Dakota Corn Growers Association and Kent Satrang, chief executive of Petro Serve USA. During the event, Dalrymple encouraged other commercial fuel providers throughout North Dakota to make room at their pump stations for E15.
The ethanol industry contributes more than $640 million annually to the state's economy and supports more than 10,000 jobs. The state's four ethanol plants directly employ 200 workers including chemists, engineers, accountants, managers and support staff.
Since 2005, North Dakota's ethanol production capacity has increased from about 30 million gallons per year to about 377.5 million gallons. North Dakota promotes the production and use of renewable fuels in several ways, including the Renewable Energy Research Program, the Biofuel Loan program as well as wage and salary tax credits related to the increased production capacity of farm-based fuels.


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Olstrup Church is a Romanesque church built around 1200. In the Middle Ages, the church was originally dedicated to St Lawrence. Built of red brick, the relatively small church first consisted of a Romanesque chancel and nave. It was later extended to the west in the Late Gothic period with a stepped gable. The chancel's cross-vaults and the round chancel arch may date from the church's original construction. The cross-vaults in the nave also seem to be older than the Gothic extension.
In 1936, Egmont Lind discovered frescos in the east vault of the nave which were dated to c. 1575. They present scenes of the Last Judgment. Christ is depicted sitting on a rainbow with his feet on the globe of the Earth, flanked by trumpet-playing angels and the 12 apostles. Some pre-Reformation features such as the lily and sword are included but there are no halos.
The carved pulpit from 1622 has figures of the apostles. The canopy is from c. 1675. On the north wall there is a figure of St Lawrence from c. 1300. There is a decorated font in Gotland limestone.References:
The Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius is a world famous spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church and a popular site of pilgrimage and tourism. It is the most important working Russian monastery and a residence of the Patriarch. This religious and military complex represents an epitome of the growth of Russian architecture and contains some of that architecture’s finest expressions. It exerted a profound influence on architecture in Russia and other parts of Eastern Europe.
The Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, was founded in 1337 by the monk Sergius of Radonezh. Sergius achieved great prestige as the spiritual adviser of Dmitri Donskoi, Great Prince of Moscow, who received his blessing to the battle of Kulikov of 1380. The monastery started as a little wooden church on Makovets Hill, and then developed and grew stronger through the ages.
Over the centuries a unique ensemble of more than 50 buildings and constructions of different dates were established. The whole complex was erected according to the architectural concept of the main church, the Trinity Cathedral (1422), where the relics of St. Sergius may be seen.
In 1476 Pskovian masters built a brick belfry east of the cathedral dedicated to the Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles. The church combines unique features of early Muscovite and Pskovian architecture. A remarkable feature of this church is a bell tower under its dome without internal interconnection between the belfry and the cathedral itself.
The Cathedral of the Assumption, echoing the Cathedral of the Assumption in the Moscow Kremlin, was erected between 1559 and 1585. The frescoes of the Assumption Cathedral were painted in 1684. At the north-western corner of the Cathedral, on the site of the western porch, in 1780 a vault containing burials of Tsar Boris Godunov and his family was built.
In the 16th century the monastery was surrounded by 6 meters high and 3,5 meters thick defensive walls, which proved their worth during the 16-month siege by Polish-Lithuanian invaders during the Time of Trouble. They were later strengthened and expanded.
After the Upheaval of the 17th century a large-scale building programme was launched. At this time new buildings were erected in the north-western part of the monastery, including infirmaries topped with a tented church dedicated to Saints Zosima and Sawatiy of Solovki (1635-1637). Few such churches are still preserved, so this tented church with a unique tiled roof is an important contribution to the Lavra.
In the late 17th century a number of new buildings in Naryshkin (Moscow) Baroque style were added to the monastery.
Following a devastating fire in 1746, when most of the wooden buildings and structures were destroyed, a major reconstruction campaign was launched, during which the appearance of many of the buildings was changed to a more monumental style. At this time one of the tallest Russian belfries (88 meters high) was built.
In the late 18th century, when many church lands were secularized, the chaotic planning of the settlements and suburbs around the monastery was replaced by a regular layout of the streets and quarters. The town of Sergiev Posad was surrounded by traditional ramparts and walls. In the vicinity of the monastery a number of buildings belonging to it were erected: a stable yard, hotels, a hospice, a poorhouse, as well as guest and merchant houses. Major highways leading to the monastery were straightened and marked by establishing entry squares, the overall urban development being oriented towards the centrepiece - the Ensemble of the Trinity Sergius Lavra.
In 1993, the Trinity Lavra was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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When I wrote about endings, I was thinking of the next generation, the upcoming one, who are no longer children. About the end of a chapter in their lives, and mine. In focusing on that bittersweet fact, I neglected to realize that this also means that the other generations are also changing.
In the span of three weeks, my three “chosen families” have experienced significant loss. The first was the family I have mentioned before, the family that has adopted and been adopted by my family. Three of my “cousins” lost a beloved father last month. Just a few days later was my own dear father-in-law, and just last week, the mother of my closest friend, one whom I consider in every way to be my sister from different parents.
As one could imagine, we are all reeling from these losses. I know they say that death comes in threes, but never before have I experienced three losses in so close a personal way. Three weeks, three parents gone, a dozen children and their families in mourning. It is all, quite simply, overwhelming.
It is an unfortunate fact that the older we get, the more people we lose. Generations slowly slip away, and before we realize it, WE are the older generation. This is a sobering thought. I have noticed my advice being sought out more often, and being told that it is valued, but does that make me what would have been referred to in older times, “one of the elders,” someone who is “older and wiser?” Honestly, I am not sure I like that idea.
Responsibilities are shifting. Where once I went to older family members for comfort and advice, they are now also seeking it from me. I find this a bit disconcerting. I am happy to help, but this doesn’t seem to be the way things should be. I am not ready for that role – that is much too “grown up.”
- And the Endings Begin
- There ARE “Do Overs” in Life

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In the Dungeons & Dragons world, no other creatures inspire as much awe and terror as dragons. Majestic to behold and formidable in combat, dragons lay waste to their enemies with deadly breath weapons of poison, lightning, fire, ice, and acid.
But that's not the whole story. Every dragon has its own legend, its own tale to tell. And we want to hear it, in the form of a short story. Write the top entry and you could win the brand-new Dungeons & Dragons Dragon Collector's Set!
The Dragon’s Tale contest begins at 12:01 AM (Pacific) on November 11, 2011 and ends at Midnight (Pacific) on November 21, 2011.

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Imagine finding a pair of jeans on a thrift store rack for eight bucks and later realizing they’re worth $300 — that was the case for one thrifter who is sharing the good news about their deal online.
“One of my fav things about thrifting is learning about different brands, products, etc … I never knew about this brand but the quality felt amazing so I looked them up. [Roughly] $300 Momotaro jeans, in my size, for $8. The bonus is getting a brief education into Japanese denim for free,” they said in a post on the Thrift Store Hauls subreddit.
Thrifting is a great way to save big bucks, and if you’re lucky, you might even stumble upon a new favorite brand.
Plus, it’s better for the environment than buying new. Only 15% of Americans’ textiles are recycled or reused, according to Planet Aid. Most of our clothing ends up in landfills, creating planet-warming pollution. By buying second hand, you’re helping to reduce landfill waste and save precious natural resources.
Clothing makers worldwide use 93 billion cubic meters of water (about 24.6 trillion gallons) annually, according to a United Nations (UN) report. This is contributing to water scarcity in some regions. The denim industry is particularly water intensive. According to the UN, it takes 2,000 gallons of water to produce just one pair of jeans — this is the same amount of water that the average person drinks over seven years, per Planet Aid.
Additionally, jeans production involves using chemicals — and some are even toxic. These chemicals are sometimes dumped into waterways in developing countries, threatening the health of local people, the CBC reported.
Other thrifters were wowed by the Momotaro find.
“Love this ❤😊❤,” one person commented. “I really love learning about new labels, brands, etc. … I have a closet full of high-quality designer clothes that I paid ‘next to nothing’ for at thrift stores. 😁”
“OMG that is an amazing find!!” another chimed in. “I always appreciate it when little-known brands slip through the pricer’s hands. Old Navy jeans, $11. Momotaro, $8.”
“I buy all my jeans used — and only a few U.S.-made brands, because they fit amazing and they [have] actual pockets (on female jeans?!),” someone added. “I’ll spend $30 on a pair of $200-$300 jeans any day!”
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In the fourth quarter of Apple, he is about to release new MacBook models, reporting to Taiwan's DigitalTimes resource, which he also reported last week that Apple contractors were preparing to supply some new products. Information about MacBook Pro's coming autumn annotation began to appear from a variety of sources in the summer.
Just a few days after the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro with the M2 processor, Bloomberg reported that at the end of the 2022 or early 2023, the 14th and 16th inch MacBook Pro versions would be released, which would not receive significant differences from the current model, with the exception of a more powerful M2 Max chip with a 12-nuclear central processor and a 38-nuclear graph. At the same time, it was reported that the 15-inch MacBook Air would be released no later than spring 2023, and by early 2024, the 12-inch version could be expected.
October annotations have already become a tradition for Apple, so next month another event should be expected, confident of The Verge's resource. According to him, the company could present this fall an updated iPad Pro; it should not also rule out fresh versions of iMac or Mac Pro. One analyst, Kuo, was sure that new laptops would use processors produced using the same technology as the last MacBook Air and MacBook Pro -- the 3-Nm solution was not yet ready for the series, and the debuter on iPhone 14 Pro chip A16 Bionic was done on 4 nm technology.


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R U OK Day was acknowledged through the homes with many fun activities, yellow cupcakes, cappuccinos, herbal teas & healthy lunches
Casey Manor residents and staff have been volunteering their time to prepare meals for those who have fallen on hard times
Thankyou to our outstanding teams across all our homes.
Across the MACG homes our residents and staff came together to make tributes, poppies,wreaths and ANZAC displays for our Services
Staff have been wearing their National dress and sharing their favorite cultural dishes and recipes
Residents across all homes had a fabulous time creating these unique little dolls
Residents, families & staff have donated toys, groceries, toiletries,Christmas treats, fundraising & baking to our 2022 Christmas Giving
Our Remembrance Day Services featured beautiful Poppy displays, Remembrance wreaths, and the sharing of tributes, stories and memories.
On RU OK Day, MACG residents & staff focussed on the importance of looking after our mental health & well-being
It takes a special someone to work in aged care, like you, MACG celebrate !
CEO Cameron McPherson hosted the Shadow Federal Aged Care Minister, Clare O’Neill at our home, Casey Manor.
BBQ's a plenty, sausage throwing competitions and John Farnham what a great day of celebrations across MACG homes.
A special thank you to MACG staff, residents and families for the generous donations
Residents across the MACG homes prepared for Remembrance Day by knitting or crafting poppies and wreaths and making lamingtons.
Dianne is a beautiful pianist who wanted to be able to continue her passion when she moved into Casey Manor.
Casey Manor residents proving it's never too late to learn !
I was fortunate to secure a position to complete my placement, which lead me to be offered a role in the Lifestyle Team
NAIDOC week, our residents experienced listening to Dreamtime stories and Dot Painting of Boomerangs
Mothers Day Celebrations
Easter Biscuit decorating, Bunny Door Stop craft, Easter Bonnet making and Bunny Terracotta craft.
Donated goods will be distributed to local community members & families in need during the Christmas and New Year summer holiday season.
Celebrating the wonderful cultural diversity in MACG homes.
Grandparents Day celebrated with letters and video messages for residents from their grandchildren
We were in contact with our local community connections and started to receive beautiful cards, pictures and letters
Father’s Day 2020 was recognised and celebrated in many special ways across the MACG homes.
Residents are enjoying many meaningful activities together, while staying safe within our homes.
Aged Care Employees Day
Indian food making with Rusgula sweets & multi layered sandwiches; Fashion Parades, Indian food and Chai Tea tasting was enjoyed by everyone
Thankyou all for your generosity, our morning & afternoon teas raised approximately $1565.
At MACG homes, we positively promote and support everyone’s well-being


Slacklining, watching movies, partying, making friends—there’s a club for that.
The number of clubs on campus has been increasing over the past year. Eight new clubs were added to the already existing 66 this past semester.
Greg Noel, a senior psychology major from Las Vegas and vice president of clubs and organizations, said his main goal is to help the clubs succeed by giving them publicity and funding through activities such as Club Rush.
Even though there are more clubs, funding has not increased.
“Our budget goes to making clubs succeed,” Noel said.
The clubs that were created last semester were formed on the basis of bringing people together and making their college experience the best it could be.
The Project Z club focuses on creating a sisterhood among females on campus and making new students feel welcome.
Club co-founder Briahna Jones, a sophomore nursing major from Las Vegas, said she came to this school without knowing anyone.
Jones said it is important during this time of students’ lives, while they may be away from family, to know they have a good, strong support system. She said the main goal is to make every female on campus feel more welcome.
Another club founded on the principle of a good support system is the High on Life club. The club’s founder, Ryan Wisdom, a sophomore psychology major from Salt Lake City, said he wanted to create a club that allowed for having a good time without the use of drugs or alcohol.
Wisdom, a recovering addict himself, said there were not enough solutions to the college party style. He said there are parties that do not involve drugs or alcohol, but he just did not see an easy way to meet students who attend them. He said the vision of his club is to change people’s view of the college party life.
“We can have fun without being high or drunk,” Wisdom said.
The love of science fiction and fantasy is what brings the Sci-Fi club together.
“Anyone who is interested is more than welcome,” said Andrew Asher, a sophomore IT major from Lehi.
As the club’s founder, Asher said it would be a great opportunity to gather like-minded people and have a good time.
“We mostly just watch movies and play games, especially ‘Tetris,’” Asher said.
Eric Gish, a junior computer science major from St. George, created the Slackline club because it is a great activity that people can do together.
Slacklining is a sport where people attach a thick flat rope from one tree to another and walk across it using balance and coordination.
“I knew a lot of people that slacklined, and we wanted to get the people of the city more involved,” Gish said.
There are seven members in the club right now, but Gish would like to see the club expand.
Gish said: “I would love to get competitions going. I want high schoolers to be involved as well.”
No matter what you’re interested in, there is a club and people waiting to include you.
For more information about clubs offered at Dixie State College, head to the Diagonal for Club Rush, which takes place on Jan. 9 and 10 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.


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Most of the writing I do is ghostwriting. I’ve written a ton of pieces, but no one will ever know it was me. With The Ballad of Allison and Bandit, I finally have something with my name on it. And it’s something I’m proud of.
I like having something with my name on it that I can share with family and friends. They know that I’m a writer and that I have a writing business, but it’s all been sort of “yeah yeah; sure sure” up until this point. [laughs]. Now I have a published book. Nothing says “real writer” like having a published book! It sort of proved that I am who I said I was all along.
The initial idea came from a dream I had back in 2007.
There’s a scene in the book where the two main characters are drawing on the sidewalk with very dark chalk… I dreamt that scene. And I heard the first line from the first page of the book: “I didn’t fall down a rabbit hole, get sucked up by a tornado, or tear a hole into another dimension…I just woke up one day and everything was different.”
1. I was born without my right hip, but Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles built me a new one.
2. My significant other (Ramiro) is a horror comic book artist. My parents are also artists in the horror industry—they did a lot of special effects for movies & TV shows back in the 80s & 90s.
3. Ramiro and I own a goofy black cat named Robert. He’s our baby boy.
4. I’m hypoglycemic.
5. I’m allergic to soy…which is in pretty much everything (even gum!).
6. As a teenager I was head writer for my high school’s newspaper and was featured
as “Short Story of the Month” 3 times in Teen magazine.
7. I earned a black belt in martial arts (shaolin/kempo/karate).
When Lauren Tharp isn’t running LittleZotz Writing, working with small business owners to help them earn more cash via her catchy writing, she’s lovingly typing up stories for young adults.When she’s not doing either of those things, she’s usually eating or talking to her cat.THE BALLAD OF ALLISON AND BANDIT is her debut novel.
Let’s begin this lovely month of May by welcoming our this month’s featured author: Lauren Tharp and her first YA novel The Ballad of Allison and Bandit!
In our Featured Author of May 2013, Lauren Tharp’s, novel The Ballad of Allison and Bandit, it’s Summer vacation. 1999. Fourteen-year-old Bandit finds herself alone and suffering in silence after a death in her family. Unable to cope with her grief—and forced to grow up quickly by neglectful parents—Bandit is in desperate need of a friend: Even if that friend is the neighborhood outcast, Allison Gale… a large-nosed girl with no sense of smell and a penchant for eating raw onions.
The Ballad of Allison and Bandit tackles grief, growing up, and gaining a purpose. It’s a darkly humorous drama about abandonment, isolation, mortality, friendship, and hope.
Check out the book on Amazon!
And while you’re online check out Lauren Tharp’s website, too!
Hey everyone! Elana K. Arnold has been kind enough to agree to host a book giveaway of her novel, SACRED!
It’s open to everyone and we will randomly select a name/email and email you if you have been chosen!
If you would like to be entered in this, message us in our fan-mail box here (because the askbox will not accept URLs) with your email or tweet/Direct Message us your email on Twitter to @UltimateYAThe deadline is midnight January 19th!
Good luck everyone! :) And a big thanks to Elana Arnold!
This month may be over and we’ve rung in the 2013 New Year, but if you have any more questions, Elana would be happy to have you contact her!
6. According to your fun-facts, you love animals. Have you always had a love for animals?
Yep. I’ve been an animal freak all my life.
7. What was the easiest/hardest part of writing SACRED?
For me, the hardest thing was coming to a place where I was really ready to commit to writing an entire novel. I had spent years telling myself that I was a short story writer…not because I prefer short stories to novels but because I was sure I didn’t have it in me to write something so big. It’s amazing how well I can talk myself out of things! The easiestparts, actually, were the sexytime scenes (I love to write these) and the ending.
8. Are there certain things that help you write? (Such as music or a certain
environment or place, etc.)
I wrote SACRED on an old, limping laptop that had no internet connection, no working battery, and a cord that had to be held just right or it would fall out and I’d lose anything I hadn’t saved. I wrote SACRED in a rented house that was cold and drafty and maybe haunted. I wrote SACRED at a time of transition and scarcity, and what helped me to write was the compelling knowledge that it was time for me to finally finish a book. And I had a vision for the final scene that I couldn’t wait to get to. I wrote to get to that scene.
9. What advice do you have for our aspiring writers?
Be gentle to yourself. There is time.
10. Do you have any upcoming novels that you can tell us about?
I am proud and humbled that I do have two more books in the pipeline. In June, Random House/Delacorte will be publishing BURNING. Here’s the synopsis:
Ben: Having just graduated from high school, Ben is set to leave Gypsum, Nevada. It’s good timing since the gypsum mine that is the lifeblood of the area is closing, shutting the whole town down with it. Ben is lucky: he’s headed to San Diego, where he’s got a track scholarship at the University of California. But his best friends, Pete and Hog Boy, don’t have college to look forward to, so to make them happy, Ben goes with them to check out the hot chick parked on the side of Highway 447.
Lala: She and her Gypsy family earn money by telling fortunes. Some customers choose Tarot cards; others have their palms read. The thousands of people attending the nearby Burning Man festival spend lots of cash—especially as Lala gives uncanny readings. But lately Lala’s been questioning whether there might be more to life than her upcoming arranged marriage. And the day she reads Ben’s cards is the day that everything changes for her… and for him.
And next November, SACRED’s sequel SPLENDOR will be released. I think SACRED
holds its weight all alone, but SPLENDOR enriches the story, deepens the relationships, and challenges the characters in ways they wouldn’t have been ready for in the pages of SACRED.
1. How did you come upon the idea for SACRED?
It was a strange time. I had recently moved far away, and then back home, and just as I got home, my good friend Amy was packing up to move to Colorado. Everything, it seemed, was in flux. And Amy looked at me with her Amy-fire in her eyes and said, “You should write a book about a superhero.” Almost instantly I had a vision—of a girl racing her horse on a trail, and of a strange, green-eyed boy waiting for her. That was enough. I had to know more.
2. What character did you find the most interesting to write in SACRED? And
Lily was the most fun character for me. Her fabulousness is nearly boundless, and she is self-possessed in a way both Scarlett and I admire tremendously. But my very favorite scenes were Scarlett’s most introspective moments—when she’s alone in her room, or when she loses herself in Will’s kiss.
3. To readers who have yet to dive into this fabulous book, how would you describe the novel as well as the relationship between Scarlett and Will?
I think SACRED fuses sensual romance and a search for meaning and self. Scarlett is lost when the novel begins—the first chapter title is The End—and the story is about her journey to finding her own strength. It’s a love story, too, but the romance (though hot) isn’t, I think, the central core of the novel. Scarlett is the core of it, of her own life.
As for her relationship with Will… well, he is one of the sexiest guys I know. In some unconventional ways that I think really resonate with readers.
4. What are some of your favorite novels/authors?
Phillip Pullman (HIS DARK MATERIALS) is a constant inspiration for me. I love John
Irving, the great bigness of his novels and all the dark corners they explore. And Cheryl Strayed, author of TORCH, TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS, and her beautiful memoir WILD… she rocks my world.
5. When did you know you wanted to be a writer?
I always knew I wanted to be a writer. It just took me a really long time to understand that I am a writer.
1.) I use heavy whipping cream in my coffee.
2.) I share my home with a bird who is single-minded in his determination to eat all of my books.
3.) I have this really bad habit of making impulsive hair decisions that take years to grow out.
4.) I have absolutely NO innate sense of direction.
5.) When I had my tonsils removed, the doctor informed me that I had THREE of them.
6.) When I walk into Anthropologie, I get lightheaded.
7.) I’ve got kind of a thing about adopting animals. It’s starting to be a problem.
Elana K. Arnold completed her M.A. in Creative Writing/Fiction at the University of California, Davis. She grew up in Southern California, where she was lucky enough to have her own horse and a family who let her read as many books as she wanted. She lives in Long Beach, California, with her husband, two children, and a menagerie of animals. SACRED is her debut novel.
In Elana K. Arnold (Featured Author of December 2012)’s SACRED, Scarlett Wenderoth has led a fairly isolated life. After her brother dies, her isolation deepens as she withdraws into herself, shutting out her friends and boyfriend. Her parents, shattered by their own sorrow, fail to notice Scarlett’s pain and sudden alarming thinness. Scarlett finds pleasure only on her horse, escaping to the heart of the island on long, solitary rides. One day, as she races around a bend, Scarlett is startled by a boy who raises his hand in warning and says one word: “Stop.”
The boy—intense, beautiful—is Will Cohen, a newcomer to the island. For reasons he can’t or won’t explain, he’s drawn to Scarlett and feels compelled to keep her safe. To keep her from wasting away. His meddling irritates Scarlett, though she can’t deny her attraction to him. As their relationship blossoms into love, Scarlett’s body slowly awakens at Will’s touch. But just when her grief begins to ebb, she makes a startling discovery about Will, a discovery he’s been grappling with himself. A discovery that threatens to force them apart. And if it does, Scarlett fears she will unravel all over again.
How to get a copy:
1) In 8th grade, I wanted to take Honor’s English because they acted out scenes from Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities (complete with plywood guillotine). But Mrs. Horton didn’t think I could handle it. She told my parents that I seemed “disorganized” in class (I must’ve looked like a walking disaster…papers spilling everywhere, not to mention, my crablike handwriting). Eventually, the teacher caved in…and that year, I played the hooded executioner.
2) If I asked my mom a question (“Do poison apple really exist?”) she made me lug out the encyclopedias and look up the answer. I loved reading those ancient encyclopedias, which were bootleg copies from Vietnam with photocopied pages. The smeary pictures of the moon and planets reminded me of amoebas in a microscope.
3) When I buy a book, I always sniff the pages. Nothing like the fragrance of glue and paper, eau du ink! I never crack a book’s spine. As a kid, I used to seal them with Scotch tape (talk about geeky). One time, my biology teacher caught me reading a Dragonlance paperback under my desk. He snatched it away, marched to the front of the classroom and opened the book so wide, the spine snapped like a living thing.
4) Believe it or not, I’m a bad speller. My grammar isn’t perfect either. Or is it neither?
5) I hated coloring books. But I loved making my own epic sagas with notebook paper and magic markered illustrations of lobsters who lived in tree houses.
6) I used to stay up late on school nights, sneaking books like the Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh under the covers with one of those heavy-duty Color Change flashlights.
7) My dad read to me every night after dinner. I’d sit on his lap, watching him turn pages, his scratchy jaw bobbing above my head. By age 3, I was reading on my own. My parents assumed that I had memorized all my favorites. As a test, they handed me a newspaper. After I read the
headlines out loud, they hid the Miami Herald from me. The Frog and Toad series by Arnold Lobel were the first books I remember reading, along with Leo Lionni’s classic, Frederick (who gathered sun rays for cold winter days). Looking back, they seem wise and philosophical. I still have them on my shelf.


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James A Stclair Bedroom, 2018-01-24 00:11:13.Most of platform beds which are designed in contemporary style “sit” directly to the floor. In some case, it will ease the home owners to step out after waking up while if you don’t really like this idea, simply choose the floating one will be better. A floating platform bed can be categorized as modern furniture piece as it still promotes about simplicity. This bed is added with additional foots which are hidden right at the inside – lower parts. Lay down rugs with bold motifs long the bed legs and an inviting modern platform bed is ready to use.
James A Stclair Bedroom, 2018-01-21 21:19:05.Next thing is actually to think of the budget itself when you are looking for a used version of the king size bed frame. What to consider now? Think of the gap of the price. Compare the new condition to the used one. If the difference is not that much, it is surely better to buy the new one. Meanwhile if the difference is a lot, be sure to think of the possibility in making a deal with the used frame seller. Surely if you can get a good deal which means a good stuff in a low price is definitely great.
James A Stclair Bedroom, 2018-01-23 22:38:14.Once you find it is hard to build a special space for your kids to play, then by giving them an interesting Loft bed with slide at his bedroom will be more than enough. Through this furniture, your kiddos will be able to play while at the same time ha can sleep after playing. Thanks for the attractive design as well as the various features attached that make the kids find some funs before going to bed. Here are some design ideas of Loft bed with slide which are expected to be your inspiration when you are shopping.Loft Bed with Slide Design IdeasMost of these beds are made for kids as well as teenagers. If you are looking for the beds for your kids, then the design will be nothing but super cute. Not only slide, there are some features added such as tents, mini castle, shelving, and also pull-out drawers. While for the colors, kids Loft bed with slide comes with eye-catching tone such as shocking pink, navy blue, white, reds, yellow, and green. It is also completed with stairs to step you up and reach the upper beds.
James A Stclair Chairs, 2018-01-22 21:48:08.Now that you are in planning of buying chair made from leather while at the same time find no idea about what brand to go, leather club chair will be a perfect solution. It is offered with reasonable prices while at the same time it is also designed exclusively to meet the needs of those who are understand about fashion.
James A Stclair Bedroom, 2018-01-24 23:59:22.Afterwards, you should know that metal bed frame usually comes in various designs and colors. Dealing with colors, all you need to do is to suit colors of the frame to your bedroom color. However, if you have habit in changing color of your bedroom, it is suggested for you to choose neutral colors like black, white, brown, or grey. As a final point, you ought to combine your frame with a great quality bed to make everything perfect.
James A Stclair Chairs, 2018-01-22 22:25:44.Talking about the color and also the design of leather office chair, you have many choices. Usually, the chair comes in black, brown, and grey colors. Those are the color which can give the expensive impression to the chair. The designs are also various. You can choose task chair, mesh chair, modern chair, managerial chair, traditional, and soon. All of them are made of leather. How about the prices of chair? It is also various. The price starts from $99.99
James A Stclair Chairs, 2018-01-23 23:05:50.Another thing you are likely to encounter when you shop for new meditation chair is the various types of chairs. First is the back support chair that is mostly used for seated positions. It is the cheapest meditation chairs type you can find and available in various designs, starting from the very portable one to the most cumbersome to move.
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The screenshot below displays Synfig Studio's window layout:
Synfig Studio main interface components are:
- Toolbox — is the main Synfig Studio window. It contains tools and more to create and edit your artwork.
- Canvas — displays your artwork and animation.
- Panels — contain tools and information about certain elements of your project. Some panels will allow you to modify those elements.
Synfig Studio can be reset to its default window arrangement (as shown in the screenshot). In the "File" menu select "Window → Workspace → Default".
The center of the window is the Canvas Window. A new Canvas Window appears each time Synfig Studio starts. The window represents the Root Canvas, not that it means much to you at the moment, but that's OK — we're just trying to show you around. In the upper left corner of the Canvas Window, you'll see a button with a caret. If you click on this caret button, the canvas window menu will pop up. If you right-click in the canvas area and there is no Layer under the mouse position, this menu will also appear. So now you know where the most important canvas menu is. Good.
The other part of the window (on the bottom/top, to the right/left) are customizable dock panel. Each dock contains a set of Panels, arranged horizontally or vertically. Some panels share the same space inside the dock and you can switch between them by clicking on their tabs. You can rearrange the contents of dock panels as you wish by dragging the panel tab to where you want it. You can even create a new dock by dragging a tab out.
If you accidentally close a panel (by dragging it out, and closing the new dock that gets created), no worries. Simply go to the Main Menu, select Window Menu there and then click on the name of the panel you need.
The most important panels are:
- Layers Panel — shows you the hierarchy of the layer of your working canvas. It also allows you to manipulate these layers.
- Parameters Panel — shows you the parameters of the layer currently selected. When multiple layers are selected, only the parameters that the selected layers have in common are displayed.
- Tool Options Panel — shows you any options specific to the currently selected tool.
- Navigator — shows a thumbnail image of what the currently selected canvas looks like. You can also zoom in and move the focus around with this panel.
- History Panel — shows you the history stack for the current composition. You can also edit the actions in history.
There are also many other panels in Synfig Studio. If you have no idea what a panel does, simply hold your mouse over its icon and a tooltip will pop up describing its function.
Under the hood
- An individual layer in Synfig usually represents a single "Primitive". I.e. a single region, an outline of a region, an imported image, etc... This allows you to have a great deal of flexibility and control. It is not uncommon for a composition to have hundreds of layers (organized into a hierarchy for the artist's sanity of course).
- A layer can not only add information on top of the image below it, it can also distort and/or modify it in some other way. In this sense, Synfig's Layers act much like filters do in Adobe Photoshop or GIMP. For example, we have a Blur Layer, Radial Blur Layer, Spherize Layer, Color Correct Layer, Bevel Layer, etc...
Each layer has a set of parameters which determine how it behaves. When you click on a layer (either in the Canvas Window, or in the illustrated Layers Panel), you will see its parameters in the Parameters Panel.
Let's create something fun so that we can play with it!
First, go over to the toolbox and click on the Circle Tool (if you don't know which one it is, just mouse over them until you find the one with the tooltip that says "Circle Tool").
When you click on the Circle Tool, you should notice that the Tool Options Panel changed. But we'll get to that later.
With the Circle Tool selected, you can now create circles in the Canvas Window. This works as you might expect — click on the canvas, drag to change length of the radius, and release the mouse button when you are done. Go ahead and create two circles (or more, if you fancy). If you accidentally release the mouse button before dragging, you end up creating a circle with 0 radius and it is effectively invisible! No need to worry, you can easily fix this. In the Parameters Panel, you can change the parameters of the selected object. If you just made a 0 radius circle, it should be the current selected object. You can change its radius to some value other than 0, say 10, and manipulate it to your liking with the handles later.
Some users might experience the following problem: when you click and drag on the canvas using the Circle Tool, either nothing seems to happen or you end up making insanely huge circles. To fix this go to "File → Input Devices" and disable all the devices you can find there. If you have an extended input device that you want to use, such as a pressure-sensitive pen, then enable it in this screen. After this change Synfig will work as expected.
Now go back to the toolbox and click on the Transform Tool (the button with the arrow on it). After you do this, click on one of your circles. You will see a "bounding box" (which is kind of useless at this point in time, but we digress), a green dot at the center, and a cyan dot on the radius. Those dots are called "handles". If you want to modify the circle, grab a handle and drag it around. Easy!
You can also select multiple handles. You can do this in several ways. First, you can hold down and individually click the handles that you want selected, but this can be tedious. However, there is a much faster method — just create a selection box by clicking the mouse and dragging it over the handles that you want.
Go ahead, select two circles and select all of their handles. With several handles selected, moving one handle will move all of them.
Synfig Studio has an autorecovery feature. If it crashes, even if the current file has not been saved, you will not lose more than 5 minutes of work. At restart it will automatically prompt to recover the unsaved changes. Unfortunately history isn't recovered yet.
The rotate and scale tools work much like the Transform Tool, except in the case where you have multiple handles selected. It is much easier just to try, than read about it. Select a few circles, select all of their handles, and try using the rotate and scale tools.
Note that tools manipulating with handles have options associated with them. If a particular tool isn't doing what you want, take a look at the Tool Options Panel to see available options.
Now let's try linking. Suppose we always want these two circles to be the same size. Select two circles, and then select both of their radius handles (the cyan dots).
To select multiple handles, either drag a rectangle around them, or select the first one, then hold the key while selecting the rest. Once you have the two radius handles selected, right click on either of them and a menu will pop up. Select "Link". Boom. The parameters are linked together. You can prove it to yourself by selecting just one of the circles and changing its radius — the other one will change as well. Neat stuff, eh? This is how outlines are attached to their regions — but we're getting ahead of to the chapter.
Linking is a fundamental concept in Synfig. You can create links not only for handles, but also between parameters as well by selecting multiple layers, right clicking on the parameter in the Parameters panel, and selecting "Link".
Let's say you want one of the circles to be a different color. If you look in the toolbox below the tools, you'll see the outline/fill color selector, the outline width selector, and some other stuff like the default blend method and gradient. The outline/fill color widget works exactly as you might expect — you can click on the fill color, and a modest color chooser will appear. Now you can change the color pretty easily.
But sometimes you just want to click on a color and go. This is where the palette editor tab comes in.
Click on the Palette Editor panel tab and have a look — it's the one with the palette-ish looking icon. Clicking on colors with the left mouse button will immediately change the default outline color and clicking with the middle mouse button will change fill color.
That's all great, but we still haven't changed the color of the circle. There are three ways to do this. The first is to click on the "Fill Tool" from the toolbox, and then click on the circle in the Canvas Window. Boom. Circle changes color. This works with more than just circles. Also, you can select the circle layer you want to modify, go to the Parameters panel, right-click on the Color parameter and select "Apply Fill Color" or "Apply Outline Color" at you preference. Or simply double-click on the "Color" parameter - a color selector dialog will show up, and you can just tweak away.
Try playing around with the circles for a bit. Muck around with the parameters, and see what happens. To get you started, try out to set the Feather Parameter to 5.
Of course, so far you just found out how to use the basic features of Synfig Studio but not how you animate a drawing. This is covered in the next section.
You can download an archive which contains the project used for wiki illustration File:Interface.sfg You can download the project used for the illustration of the illustration File:Spline-DotMan.sifz


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Trace your Soldier: Family History Session
WEDNESDAY 1ST JULY: 10:30am – 11:45am and SATURDAY 4th JULY: 10:30am – 11:45am
Are you wanting to find out information about a New Zealand veteran or family member who served in World War I? Not sure where to start? Register for our “Walk with a Soldier” session with our Family History Librarian, Denise, who can help you trace your family’s involvement in WWI. This session offers a great starting point as it will guide you through e-resources and Local Collection material. (Bring as much information as you can about the person you are wanting to research) Register online now or phone 211 1444.
May Music Month - Music in the Foyer
Year One Bachelor of Music students from the Southern Institute of Technology will be here making music in the Foyer every Friday in May, 1.30 – 2.15pm. Their entertaining and enthusiastic performance will please children and adults alike. So come along, bring your lunch and listen-in to these talented musicians. It's FREE.
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There's been a lot of talk in the media recently about Zero Hours contracts. This type of employment contract means that an employer has the discretion to vary a worker's hours - from full-time hours to well, zero hours. So you would be expected to be on-call but only paid for the hours that you work. This type of employment contract is more common to the service sector (fast-food outlets and the like) especially in the United States. If you want to know what it's like living on a Zero Hours Contract, then "Hand to Mouth" is a must-read.
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Throughout my three years at Harvard, there have been many reasons that I consider it a special place. From the students and staff to classes and opportunities, almost every area offers something different. One of these unique aspects is research opportunities for all classes, inside and outside the classroom.
From my Neuroscience concentration labs to my Government secondary lectures, every professor has conducted unique and fascinating research in their fields. These professors are often willing to share their findings with interested students --- and sometimes even allow students to participate in the research process. Prior to Harvard, I always associated research with STEM and working in a lab. However, I quickly realized that this is only one fraction of all the research opportunities here. Polls, surveys, on-the-ground interviews, and much more are the cornerstone of humanities and social science research, and there are many opportunities to engage with and learn through them both inside and outside the classroom.
As a Neuroscience concentrator, many of my classes had lab components which were always a great chance to apply what we learned in class and work more closely with other students. Some of my lab partners have become my close friends at Harvard because we got to know each other so well.
With COVID-19 and online classes, the option for in-person class labs was no longer possible, but instructors became very creative. This semester, I am enrolled in a stem cell biology class that has a lab component, and while it looks different from past years, I am still enjoying it. Most of our labs involve watching pre-recorded videos of the experiments together and pausing throughout to ask questions and interact as we would in an in-person lab. Last week, we learned about worm regeneration, and the experiment was simple enough that they were able to mail kits to interested students so they could conduct the experiment!
It was super fun to log on to my online class and learn about the background of planaria worms and how they regenerate for the first half of the lab. Then, I cleared my desk and set it up as my workstation to start dissecting the planaria. After I finished, I stored the plate with all the pieces above my closet and checked on it over the span of a week as the worms grew again! Although it was very different from experiments we conducted in class, I feel like I learned different things as I set up everything from scratch and took care of the planaria afterwards.
While lab classes are super cool, they are not the only way students can get involved with hands-on work. Harvard has a wide variety of affiliated research centers and hospitals that are full of researchers willing to mentor undergraduates. Last year, I started working with Dr. Cristina Aguayo-Mazzucato at Joslin Diabetes Center who is interested in studying diabetes and aging. I am very lucky to have the opportunity to learn from her and her team while going into the lab in-person during COVID-19. As much as class labs were fun, the opportunity to work on projects from start to finish and learn about all the different aspects of securing funding and materials has taught me so much.
Regardless of which field of research interests you or how you want to approach it, there is a place for you at Harvard. The resources that allow you to connect with these opportunities and engage with them are truly special, and I am beyond grateful to have found success both in class and in affiliated labs!

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PAWTUCKET, R.I. – After a standout indoor season, senior Taylor Driggers (Lisbon, Conn.) and sophomore Wadeline Jonathas (Gonaives, Haiti) have been named the Little East Conference Field Athlete of the Year and Track Athlete of the Year.
With the honor, Driggers becomes the first Beacon to earn the Field Athlete of the Year accolade, and the first athlete to ever earn the major award in both indoor and outdoors. Jonathas became the second Beacon in program history to be named the Track Athlete of the Year.
During her senior season, Driggers quickly established new personal bests. She is currently ranked fourth in the country in the long jump (18-11.75 ft), while also sitting 21st in Division III in the triple jump (37-10.00 ft). At the conference championship meet, Driggers set a new Little East meet record and was a New England Alliance Champion with a leap of 18-11.75 feet. This year, she has recorded leaps of 18 feet or better three times in the long jump. In the triple jump, she leads the Beacons with three of the team's top jumps. On top of her season best jump of 37-10, she also finished the NCAA New England Regional Championship meet with a leap of 37-04 feet to finish in fourth place.
Jonathas' sophomore season has been one for the record books. The NCAA Division III record holder in both the 60-meter dash and the 400-meter dash, Jonathas currently leads the country in the 60, 200, and 400. At the conference championship, she won an indoor program record five gold medals. She also set meet records in the 60- and 200-meter dashes respectively. She helped the 4x200- and 4x400-meter relay teams to gold medals, New England Alliance championships, and a new meet record in the 4x2.


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Peter is my go-to guy for caring for my dog whenever I have to travel for business. My dog goes crazy whenever Peter comes by to watch him. If you're anything like me, my dog is like a kid to me. If you want the best for your own "kids", than get Peter!!
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Wednesday, 28 April 2021
South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust is pleased to confirm that Non-Executive Director, Vik Sagar, who joined the Trust as an associate Non-Executive Director in 2017, before becoming a Non-Executive Director in 2019, has been re-appointed for another three years to 30 April 2024.
A Chartered Accountant who started his career in the Corporate Finance department of Ernst & Young, Vik is now a Finance Director who specialises in reviewing businesses to improve outcomes for all stakeholders. He has a particular focus on health care and the services sector. Having always been a resident of south west London he is passionate about contributing to the local community.
Vik is a member of the Finance & Performance Committee as well as the Audit Committee.
Announcing Vik’s reappointment, Trust Chair, Ann Beasley, CBE said: “I am very pleased to confirm that Vik has been reappointed and will continue to lend his expertise and knowledge to the Trust. His experience has been and will continue to be, invaluable.”

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The kindergarten-readiness gap between low-income and high-income students has not closed in a generation, even though parents are more involved than ever in their children’s education and state-funded pre-K, nutrition programs, and prenatal care are more accessible now than in the late 1990s.
That is the major finding of a new report by the Economic Policy Institute, in which researchers Emma Garcia and Elaine Weiss analyzed kindergarten readiness data for socioeconomic groups in 1998 and 2010 to see if gaps in academic readiness have shrunk over time. The researchers found that large gaps for both reading and math performance between kindergarteners of high and low socioeconomic status were nearly the same in 1998 and 2010 even though there are more anti-poverty programs than ever before.
The researchers said that means the effects of poverty are more difficult to alleviate than policymakers may think.
“There is only so much that even comprehensive, well-designed programs can do to mitigate the pressures and effects of disadvantage and low social class,” said researcher Emma Garcia in a statement.
Although there is evidence that parental involvement and programs like high-quality pre-K can help close the achievement gap, the report suggests that health care and educational programs can not fully allay the effects of poverty. “While such activities as parental time spent with children and center-based pre-K programs cushion the negative consequences of growing up in a [low income] household, they can do only so much,” wrote the authors. The stubbornness of the gaps is a “matter of serious concern,” they said.
Although communities may see benefits from offering comprehensive support, the researchers said “to really eliminate the inequalities that begin at the very start of children’s life, we must tackle severe economic inequality head on.” That means investing in social reforms outside of education, Garcia explained in an interview, including unemployment insurance, Social Security disability insurance, and cash assistance. “Education gaps are the results, the consequence, of a combination of factors…education policy and interventions, public policies, and even economic policies,” she said.
The persistent kindergarten achievement gap may partly be explained by worsening conditions for low-income children, which may have canceled out any positive impacts of pre-K programs and community services. More than 84 percent of children in the lowest socioeconomic quintile of the federal data used for the study lived in poverty in 2010, compared to 71.3 percent in 1998. Nearly 55 percent of low-income children did not live with two parents in 2010, compared to 45.6 percent in 1998. Despite the growth in state-funded pre-K nationwide since 1998, low-income children were just as likely to be attending center-based prekindergarten in 1998 as in 2010. (Garcia said since then, prekindergarten offerings have most likely grown, but their data does not account for that).
One positive aspect of the findings is the increased involvement of low-income parents in their children’s education. There was growth in the number of books at home for low-income children, as well as an increase in the number of activities parents reported participating in with their children.
“Lower social-class parents are actually doing more to prepare their children for school than ever before,” said researcher Elaine Weiss in a statement. “But their efforts are simply not enough to counteract the ill effects of poverty and inequality, which have worsened, even as parental efforts and whole-child policies have increased.”
That doesn’t mean states should shy away from offering public preschool, summer enrichment programs, or mental health and nutrition programs, the authors said. The fact that the kindergarten readiness gap did not increase even as income inequality grew shows that parental investment in children’s education and increased access to pre-K programs may have stopped the gap from widening.
“We do not say [preschool] is not making a difference,” Garcia said. “We are saying that’s not enough, so we need more.”
This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Read more about early education and sign up for our weekly newsletter.


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November 27, 2017
When you want to sue to dissolve a business in New York on behalf of the estate of a deceased shareholder, to which court should you go: Supreme or Surrogate’s Court?
For many practitioners, the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court, a specialized court in New York focusing on complex business-related disputes, is the venue of choice. Most types of disputes have a minimum monetary threshold for eligibility in the Commercial Division. Manhattan’s threshold is the highest – $500,000. The rules of eligibility for cases to be heard in the Commercial Division, which you can read here, have three exceptions to the monetary threshold – one of which lists “[d]issolution of corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships and joint ventures — without consideration of the monetary threshold.” In part because there is no monetary threshold for dissolution proceedings, practitioners in the several New York counties that have a Commercial Division usually litigate business dissolution disputes in the Commercial Division.
But once in a blue moon a dissolution case will wind up in the Surrogate’s Court.
The Role of the Surrogate’s Court in Business Dissolution Proceedings
Generally, the Surrogate’s Court decides cases involving the affairs of deceased individuals, including the probating of wills and administration of estates. How does a business dissolution proceeding end up in Surrogate’s Court? If the decedent dies with a will (testate) and there is no stock transfer or buy-sell restriction upon the death of a shareholder in the certificate of incorporation or shareholders’ agreement, then the shareholder may generally give (bequeath) his stock to whomever he or she chooses. Similarly, if the shareholder of a New York close corporation dies a resident of the State of New York without a will (intestate), then absent a stock transfer or buy-sell restriction, the deceased shareholder’s stock will pass by New York’s intestacy statute to his or her distributees. In a close corporation, where the shareholders typically are also key employees, officers, and/or directors, the death of a shareholder and the transfer of his or her stock to an heir or distributee can lead to an infinite variety of disputes. Such a dispute may lead the executor or administrator of the decedent’s estate, or the ultimate recipient of the decedent’s stock, to petition the Surrogate’s Court to dissolve the business, often with the goal of some form of buyout. Occasionally, this blog has written about dissolution cases in the Surrogate’s Court.
Earlier this month, a rare Surrogate’s Court dissolution decision came out of Manhattan in In re Mui, Opinion and Order [Sur Ct NY County Nov. 8, 2017]. In re Mui arose out of the administration of the Estate of Peter Mui, a Chinese-American fashion designer, actor, and country musician. From 1988 to 2009, Mui was the 49% shareholder and Chief Executive Officer of Yellow River, Inc., a New York corporation in the business of clothing importing and wholesaling in Manhattan. According to Wikipedia, Mui’s main fashion niche was “shirts, adorned with tattoo designs.” As Surrogate Nora S. Anderson recounted in her opinion, Mui was the “creative force” behind Yellow River’s brand and was “irreplaceable in terms of his value to the Company.”
Mui had a wife and five children. In 2009, Mui died without a will. The Surrogate’s Court appointed Mui’s wife administrator of his estate. After Mui’s death, differences arose between Mui’s estate and Yellow River’s majority shareholder, Tungtex, Inc., which owned the remaining 51% of the company’s stock.
The Dissolution Claim
Mui’s estate sued for dissolution based on “oppression” under Section 1104-a of the Business Corporation Law. According to Mui’s administrator, Tungtex caused Yellow River to pay Mui dividends for at least four years before Mui’s death, but stopped them after Mui died. Mui’s administrator also alleged that, both before and after Mui’s death, Tungtex caused Yellow River improperly to pay Tungtex “management fees.” In the Court’s decision, which addressed dueling motions and cross-motions for summary judgment to grant and dismiss the estate’s dissolution claim (and the respondents’ counterclaims), Surrogate Anderson summarized the estate’s allegations of “oppression” as follows:
According to petitioner, after decedent’s death, Tungtex caused Yellow River to stop paying dividends to the estate and instead diverted its “accrued savings and earnings to Tungtex in the form of ‘management fees’ and other charges.” Petitioner further claims that while she was still grieving the loss of her husband and in need of funds to support decedent’s family, Tungtex pressured her, albeit unsuccessfully, to sell the estate’s 49% interest in Yellow River to Tungtex for $1,000,000, an amount far below what she believed to be the Company’s fair market value.
The Court explained that “these facts, if undisputed, could be a basis for the court to exercise its discretion and direct the dissolution of Yellow River under BCL 1104-a.” But the Court held that “Yellow River and Tungtex have offered sufficient evidence to create multiple fact issues” requiring a trial. Those fact issues included the following:
For example, according to [Tungtex’s president, Lam], Tungtex did not cause Yellow River to stop paying dividends to the estate after decedent’s death. Rather, he claims that Yellow River stopped paying dividends to all of its shareholders, i.e., decedent and Tungtex, almost a year prior to decedent’s death for economic reasons after the company’s revenues and profits had substantially decreased. Lam further avers that, contrary to petitioner’s contention, Yellow River did not divert funds to Tungtex after decedent’s death through the payment of management and other fees. Yellow River had paid management fees to Tungtex with decedent’s approval for many years prior to his death. The payments continued after decedent’s death in amounts that, according to Lam, were necessary and appropriate under the circumstances.
With regard to Tungtex’s attempt to buy out the estate – the other alleged act of “oppression” – the respondents “offer[ed] a sharply different version of the substance and tone of the conversations at issue,” raising the need for a trial whether there was any undue “pressure put on petitioner to sell the estate’s interest in Yellow River.”
As a result, both sides walked away without a conclusive ruling on the estate’s claim for dissolution, requiring either a future negotiated buyout or a trial.
The Need for Planning
It is often difficult for business owners, especially founders, to accept that they will not be with their company forever. In re Mui is a reminder to owners of closely-held businesses that if they do not, for whatever reason, make arrangements for their own death, they may very well leave their heirs and former business partners in the unfortunate position of having to sort things out through litigation. In the case of corporations, the remedy of dissolution based on oppression under BCL 1104-a may actually be undermined by the shareholder’s death. The death of a shareholder who is integral to the business may cause a sudden and dramatic reversal of the corporation’s fortunes, resulting in the corporation being forced to cease longstanding economic benefits to the shareholder’s estate, like dividend payments, upon which the deceased shareholder’s family came to rely. What the deceased shareholder’s family may regard as “oppression” the majority may regard as economic necessity.
Oddly enough, the decision in In re Mui referred to a “1988 Shareholder’s Agreement between decedent and Yellow River and Tungtex.” Presumably the shareholders’ agreement was silent about what happened to a shareholder’s stock upon the death of the shareholder, a subject typically addressed in shareholders’ agreements. In its decision, the Court referred to failed buyout negotiations between the parties. Had the parties included a simple buy-sell provision in the shareholder agreement, litigation might have been avoided altogether.
Finally, there’s no hard-and-fast rule about when to choose Surrogate’s Court over Supreme Court when seeking judicial dissolution on behalf of an estate. Those of us in the Business Divorce group here at Farrell Fritz generally focus on business dissolution litigation in Supreme Court, first, because the Commercial Division judges have the most experience with such matters and, second, because the vast majority of our dissolution cases do not involve estates. The latter naturally is not true of our colleagues in the Estate Litigation group whose practice generally lands them in Surrogate’s Court. According to Eric W. Penzer, a partner in the Estate Litigation group at Farrell Fritz:
Under the right circumstances, a practitioner might find it beneficial to pursue a dissolution claim in the Surrogate’s Court, a court of equity, before a jurist sensitive to and often protective of the interests of an estate, its beneficiaries, claimants and creditors.

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Roundabouts in cities are a problem. Whilst they are built to simplify traffic flow, they take up a large amount of space, and leave a central area for which it is difficult to find a purpose due to its isolated location.
One such roundabout is at the southern end of Waterloo Bridge, where York Road, Waterloo Road, Stamford Street and the approach to Waterloo Bridge all meet. I photographed the roundabout from the Shell Centre viewing gallery in 1980:
Beneath the roundabout were a large number of pedestrianised access routes to the surrounding streets and the central space provided access between these, so you could walk between any of the surrounding streets without having to cross a road.
It was always a rather bleak space. Concrete planters were scattered around the central space, and for a time in the 1980s the GLC organised what we would now call a pop-up market at lunchtimes, hoping to attract workers from the surrounding offices, although with traffic on the surrounding roundabout, it was not that pleasant and most people headed to the Jubilee Gardens or the walkway alongside the Thames.
A rather innovative use for the central space was found in the late 1990s when the British Film Institute opened an IMAX Theatre in the centre of the roundabout:
The IMAX is of circular design to fit the central space, and is surrounded by a glass wall which makes the building ideal for advertising and for displaying films that are being shown in the theatre. It is a very obvous landmark when approaching from any of the surrounding streets, and with the low sun of a December day, produces strange light reflections on the streets of the roundabout.
So, a very clever use of a difficult city space. One that has to overcome a number of obstacles, for example vibration and soundproofing from both the traffic on the roundabout, and the Waterloo and City line which runs just 4 metres below the theatre, which gives me an excuse to show a map of the route of the Waterloo and City line, with the location of the roundabout and IMAX marked by a red circle (Credit: The Engineer, July 26, 1895, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons):
The IMAX Theatre was opened in 1999 and designed by Bryan Avery Architects. I have walked past the IMAX countless times, but what got me thinking about the use of space and the problems of inner city planning and maintenance was when I was walking alongside the roundabout in late December.
Access to the IMAX is via the steps down from the surrounding streets that also provide access between the streets without having to cross at surface level.
The steps down in the following photo are on the side of the roundabout between York Road and Waterloo Road. It was the start of the Christmas school holidays and I noticed a mother and child going down the stairs, then coming up, looking around, walking to another set of stairs, then back to the one in the photo. They were going to the IMAX, but there is no obvious signage and the stairs down do not look the most inviting.
I walked down the stairs, and met the smell that is familiar to such spaces:
Tunnel under the roundabout leading to the central space and the IMAX:
Once in the central space of the roundabout, we can see the curving wall of the IMAX and the extensive planting that creates a rather unique space:
More than 2000 plants were originally planted, comprising of honeysuckle, jasmine, wisteria, clematis, ivy, Boston ivy and Japanese vine. An automated watering system was installed, which looks to have worked well as the plants now look very established and have grown up from the side walls, across supporting cables and up to the sides of the IMAX:
There is a very tenuous link between the current centre of the roundabout, and an earlier use of the space, when it was occupied by Cuper’s Gardens, one of the many gardens and places of entertainment that were found on the south bank of the river in the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries.
The following map is interesting as it shows the area in 1825, eight years after Waterloo Bridge was opened. It is titled “A Plan of Cuper’s Gardens with part of the Parish of Lambeth in the year 1746 showing also the site of the Waterloo Bridge Road and the new roads adjacent”.
The map helps define the exact location of Cuper’s Gardens as the church of St. John is also shown. The large roundabout (circled) now covers part of Cuper’s Gardens at the junction with Stamford Street:
The “gardens” around the IMAX are very different today, and the whole area is rather a surreal space. The outer wall has been painted light brown, possibly to resemble the earth through which the space descends. Large, twisted trunks (which look like roots) of the presumably now over 20 years growth extend up along the walls, and the outer wall is occasionally cut through with the access tunnels to the streets above:
The entrance to the IMAX Theatre:
Looking up between the planting and the curved glass wall of the IMAX dominates the view:
When the IMAX was opened, as well as the central space surrounding the theatre, the walkways and tunnels leading up to the streets were cleaned, restored and painted, with many of the walls being painted blue, and some lighting being set into the walls.
You can see the effect that this was intended to create. The central space with substantial overhead plant growth, the surrounding earth coloured walls, covered in the trunks of the plants, with the walls being cut through by the blue painted walkways to the surrounding streets.
It all creates an intriguing and surreal space, appropriate for walks to the IMAX.
Service access tunnel and pedestrian walkway leading to Belvedere Road:
View up through the plants with the new tower blocks that have taken much of the old Shell Centre site:
Walking up to the surrounding streets, and it is clear what was intended, and the problems that result in the walkways not being that much of an inviting route to the IMAX. The following photo shows the walkway up to the western side of Waterloo Bridge:
Many of the walls are covered in graffiti, including the main walkway, and the tunnels that connect the east and west walkways:
Many of these walkways and tunnels make really good subjects for photography. The blue walls, the grafitte, and the hidden destination of these tunnels adds to their mystery, however if you did not know the area, were taking children to the IMAX, and it was at night, they are not inviting, and there were very few people using them as I wandered around taking photos.
Global conspiracy theories meet South Bank direction signs:
Looking back down the walkway from the western side of Waterloo Bridge:
Whilst the view of the IMAX in the above photo provides an indication of the destination of the walkway and the tunnel, it does not encourage you to walk down, there should be signs above the tunnel and better lighting in the entrance to the tunnel.
One of the walkways that crosses between the west and east sides of Waterloo Bridges crosses the service tunnel:
Walkway up to the eastern side of Waterloo Bridge:
This is the view from the eastern side of Waterloo Bridge, with the IMAX in the centre of the roundabout, and the blue painted entrance to the walkway and tunnels that lead to the IMAX:
The direction post to the left of the pavement does have a direction to the IMAX with an arrow pointing straight up, the implication being to head down the tunnel rather than walk on the pavement to the right. As with the other entrances, the tunnel does not offer an inviting prospect. No signage above the point where the walkway enters the tunnel and poor lighting at the entrance to the tunnel so it looks very dark and forbidding.
The Waterloo IMAX Theatre is a brilliant use of a difficult space, as well as being a building that has some technically clever ways of avoiding sound and vibrations. For example, the first floor is mounted on oil-damped spring bearings, and the walls inside the glass outer wall are 750mm thick. During construction, pile foundations were installed around the tunnels of the Waterloo and City line. A thick concrete slab was then built on top of the pilings to support the weight of the building above.
The IMAX apparently has the largest screen of any cinema in the UK and has the equipment to support normal film format as well as IMAX Digital and 3D.
A shame that whilst the intention with the tunnels and walkways is clear, and they could have provided a creative and innovative space, what appears to have been limited maintenance and care over the years has resulted in a rather poor experience when walking to the theatre at the centre.
TfL did have plans back in 2017 to transform the area and remove the roundabout, creating a surface level pedestrianised space up to the IMAX, however these plans appear to have been paused due to “the pandemic and current funding restraints”.
Given TfL’s current funding constraints, I suspect the roundabout will be there for some years to come.


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