Currently signed to Polydor Records is Birmingham’s pop princess Clare Maguire. She has recently been listed in BBC’s coverted Sound Poll of 2011 which saw Clare come in at Number 5. Now Clare’s voice has been compared to Annie Lennox and Stevie Nicks. Maguire was signed to Polydor Records in 2008 and is set to make waves after debut album Light After Dark is unleashed on 28th February. The week before sees the release of the second single which is the cracking Last Dance.
The first couple of months are extremely busy for Clare on the gigging front which included a headline slot for the New To Q Sessions at Bush Hall, a support slot for Mona at Koko for MTV and then a headline gig again at Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen all at the end of January. February sees Clare supporting The Hurts on the bands UK tour and a date for HMV Next Big Thing at The Borderline. Then in March will see her embark on The Hurts European tour.
Maguire was born in Solihull, Birmingham on 15th September 1987 and comes from a large musical Irish family. It was the at the age of 7 when she started singing and writing music. Ten years later Clare began travelling regularly to London to establish music contacts and also began posting demo songs on MySpace. Strangest Thing was one of these demos and was recorded with Joe Flory (from the band Primary 1). This was the song that led to interest from a number of major recording companies. Then she signed with Polydor in 2008.
The debut single Ain’t Nobody was released on 18th October 2010 and it debuted at #78 on the UK Singles Chart. While it is follow up single Last Dance which I predict will make waves in the chart when it is released on 20th February. Claire wrote that song the day after the King Of Pop Michael Jackson’s death shocked the world.
I attended the New To Q Session Clare headlined at Bush Hall and she had a belting voice. Debut album Light After Dark (released 28th February) is definately on my to buy list.


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It has been a game in the making since the 1989 Kevin Costner hit movie Field of Dreams, a real Major League Baseball game played on the site of the legendary Iowa cornfield.
The game was between the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox. The Yankees were Costner’s movie dad’s favorite team and the final scene in the movie showed Costner playing a game of catch with his dad in a Yankees uniform. The other team, the White Sox represented the 1919 “Black Sox”, where eight players were kicked out of baseball for allegedly throwing the World Series.
Yankees slugger Aaron Judge christened the field of dreams as the “House that Judge Built” after launching a 1-2 pitch deep into the rightfield cornfield. The three-run shot gave the Yankees a 3-1 lead over the White Sox.
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In The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America, edited by Philip Goff, 117-129. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
When Abigail Abbot Bailey realized her husband Asa had deceived her, carrying her into New York State where her chances of divorcing him were slim and then abandoning her there, she called upon God to guide her back to her children, relatives, and her religious congregation in New Hampshire. In 1792, as a married woman who owned no property in her own name, her legal options were meager. Asa had refused to grant her an informal settlement, even after she confronted him with evidence of his incestuous relationship with their teenage daughter Phoebe. Although the laws of New England permitted divorce for a few grounds, including adultery, her Calvinist faith in the marriage covenant had kept her from pursuing it, and she had prayed for Asa’s redemption. Ill and penniless in New York, Abigail made her way back to New Hampshire. As she envisioned her homecoming, her thoughts turned to the church where she had attended a religious revival: “I did now believe that God would bring me home to my friends … and I should find myself among my dear worshipping christian friends in Haverhill, who kept holy day.” On a piece of paper she carried with her, she recorded two sets of instructions: directions for the way home, and the lyrics to hymns, including the words, “Faith is our guide, and faith our light” (Taves, 1989: 156). Fortified by her faith, desperate to see her children (the youngest of whom was just over a year old), and ultimately aided by relatives who threatened Asa with public humiliation, Abigail reunited with her family and, in 1793, got her divorce.

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Peter Guber, chief executive officer of Mandalay Entertainment Group and co-owner of basketball’s Golden State Warriors, joined Magic Johnson’s contingent trying to buy Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers, a person with knowledge of the situation said.
Guber, 70, would be an investor in the group that also includes Mark Walter, chief executive of Guggenheim Partners LLC, and Stan Kasten, a veteran baseball executive who would run the team if the bid is successful.
Mandalay makes movies, television shows and owns minor- league baseball teams, including the Dayton Dragons, who count Johnson, a Basketball Hall of Fame member, as an investor.
The person was granted anonymity because no one is authorized to discuss the ownership group publicly. Guber declined to comment, Warriors spokesman Raymond Ridder said yesterday in an e-mail.
Johnson’s group is one of at least four that probably will be submitted to Major League Baseball owners for approval next week to continue the bidding process. SAC Capital’s Steve Cohen is another bidder.
Dodgers owner Frank McCourt has agreed to select a winning bid by April 1. A sale is scheduled to be completed by April 30.
Guber and Joe Lacob, managing partner at the San Francisco Bay area-based venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, paid a record $450 million for the Warriors in 2010.
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SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., Nov. 2 (Reuters) Former President Richard M. Nixon and his alling wife, Pat, voted by absentee ballot in the Presidential elections here today.
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Combine clementine, cucumber, red onion, chili and mint in a bowl. Squeeze all the juice of the lime into the salsa. Sprinkle with kosher salt to taste, toss to combine. Enjoy!
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Tonight we played BEC in a 7v7 friendly based on the rules of the upcoming WPTF2L league. This is somewhere between a highlander league and the standard 6v6 format, meaning medics, demos and scouts are limited to 1 per team. Also, the sandman is allowed, a weapon not previously allowed in any leagues.
We lost 1-0 on cp_dustbowl and won 1-0 on pl_badwater (both maps were stopwatch). Thanks for the games BEC. We will be playing a few more friendlies over the next week, before our first WPTF2L 6v6 game on Sunday 14th versus PTT.

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Growing miniature roses indoors from seed is one of the most rewarding gardening activities for late winter, and itís surprisingly easy to do.
There are a number of easy-to-grow miniature varieties, sometimes called fairy roses, that work wonderfully for indoor gardening. Miniature gardens are among the hottest trends in the garden world, including those for inside the home.
The miniature rose is the perfect choice for those looking for more than just foliage in their indoor plantings. Miniature roses offer a profusion of bloom in colors ranging from white and yellow to orange, lavender, pink and deep red.
Growing from 8 inches to 36 inches tall, depending on the variety, miniature roses are the perfect size for indoor greenhouses, windowsill gardens, growing lights and dish gardens. They also work well in larger terrarium settings.
You can start miniature roses indoors now for outdoor planting later in spring.
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Like other roses, there are many different forms of miniature roses, as well as growth habits, to choose from. Miniature roses may be bushy or compact or they may be climbers or cascading types.
Their small stature makes miniature roses an excellent choice for growing in containers or as border plants. The shorter varieties can even be used as a form of colorful ground cover, as long as the area receives full sun.
While they may appear to be fragile plants, miniature roses are as tough and hardy as their larger cousins. They are also cared for and handled much the same way.
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While you can purchase miniature roses in pots of all sizes, either at local garden stores or florists, by mail order, even at supermarkets, a fun hobby to try is to grow miniature roses directly from seed.
Given enough light, some varieties of miniature roses will bloom in as little as six to 12 weeks. The tiny shrubs, often less than a foot tall their first season, will produce buds quickly, as long as conditions are right.
Growing miniature roses indoors does require growing lights or a bright, sunny location. Like many plants grown from seed, sow seeds indoors six to eight weeks before the last expected frost.
Seeds can be planted in standard seed-starting mix in seed-starting trays, spaced 2 inches apart and planted a quarter inch deep. Grow them in individual tray compartments or sow in furrows, depending upon the container you are using.
Miniature rose seeds do not require stratification. Keep the tray or container at a temperature between 60 degrees and 70 degrees and water gently to moisten the soil. Keep the soil moist, but not soggy. Provide good drainage and a strong light source.
Like many perennials, miniature roses may be erratic in germination period. It may take as little as a week or as long as 30 days for the first seedlings to appear.
Lights that can be raised and lowered work great, as you can keep them suspended above the seed-starting tray if no direct sun is available.
When the young roses are large enough to be handled individually, they can be transplanted into larger pots. Standard 4-inch pots work great for miniature rose transplants.
The young roses will already exhibit their woody stems for easy handling. You may see flower buds quite early on the young, bushy plants. It is not necessary to remove these.
Your miniature rose seedlings will respond well if fed every two weeks or so with half-strength fertilizer, preferably rose-specific and in liquid form. Do not overfeed or you will end up with lots of lush, green growth but no bloom.
In spring, harden off miniature roses gradually to help them become accustomed to the outdoors. A cold frame or limited time outdoors in early morning or late afternoon is a great way to do this.
Plant your rose seedlings about 18 to 24 inches apart in the garden, depending on the mature size of the variety youíre growing. Miniature roses also can be planted in decorative containers for moving outdoors.
In most aspects of rose care, miniature roses are treated the same as other varieties. These petite shrubs benefit from occasional light trimming and shaping after they bloom to keep the plants looking healthy.
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On the 25th I attended an online workshop by the London Drawing Club, Tove Jansson: Drawing Moomins, in which I learnt a little more about the artist and tried my hand at drawing the simple little character over and over again. Not as easy as it seems but it became almost meditative, and by the end of the session I realised it touched on something I’ve been stuck on lately.
As someone who is self taught, I’m very aware I can always use more practice with basic skills. I also really enjoy the finishing touches such as colour and texture and can get caught up in these rather than working more on a sketch simply because that’s the bit I enjoy the most. So, I get overwhelmed and just stick to drawing the pretty things because I think it’s better to be drawing something. Or, I get stuck because I feel that I shouldn’t be making art for the sake of it.
At present I’ve been a bit stuck. I’m overwhelmed by everything I need to work on. Lots of notes and pointers I’ve been collecting from feedback have compiled into a decent sized list, and it’s hard not to think of them all at once. This class made me realise I needed to pull back and simplify. I couldn’t stop drawing Moomins and playing around with expression’s. Slowly, I started to explore a simple character of my own using the exercises from the workshop and it’s been so refreshing.
Perhaps a lucky coincidence then, that Rebecca Green’s (@Rebeccagreenillustration) blog/pateron video this month was also surrounding the theme of simplicity. I played the video in the background as I worked in my sketchbook and slowly I began to develop an old character – Yna . Green talked about the difficulty of simplifying owing to the fact that its hard to whittle down what is essential. I knew however, that I was simplifying to avoid hyper focussing and so I chose to omit the details that I’d usually fuss over.
I get caught up in the facial details worrying about making every character look the same. So, I wanted to have only one prominent facial feature. It was between a mouth and a nose. I thought a mouth was a more fun shape. The function of the hair is two fold. It hides the other features and I thought it could be drawn into different shapes to push expression later.
Hands are the enemy of progress in many an illustration of mine so I definitely had to simplify them. I’ve seen both Green, and Sha’an d’Anthes (@furrylittlepeach) use lines like this for hands in simple sketches, and it really took the pressure off. I usually wouldn’t like that it leaves the hands open, but I gave in when I realised that not all the lines meet anyway, and I can ‘close’ them with colour later.
Then of course there is the question of what to keep, things that are nice but not necessary. I get way too invested in my characters clothes, but I still didn’t want to get rid of everything I like. So I knew I was going to simplify here too, but I couldn’t resist having some fun. A cowgirl needs a hat, and boots at a minimum. I may loose the belt though. I’m reminded of Chanel’s take one thing off quote and think two stars might be too much.
While I was in a good flow I decided to play around with expression. It’s amazing how much energy, and expression a line can carry!
Then I wanted to push the expressions further. I felt that though the faces alone were quite expressive the simplicity of Yna’s design meant that the expression would need to be carried through the whole body to be exaggerated.
Playing around with this character design has cleared the way to a new direction in style for me. It feels like this style will allow me to loosen up and practice without feeling so overwhelmed. At the very least I’m excited to see who this character grows into. I already have an idea for a companion but I’m trying not to get ahead of myself!
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They're expecting to release the game after ten months, though? Even if they port most of the assets from GMod Tower, I don't see how they can implement the server infastructure and game modes into Unreal Engine in that short a timeframe without something going wrong.
While this is a pretty big improvement to the clunky combat of the first game, I still wish there was a bit more to it then mashing the button when you're near an enemy. Moments like kicking a dude off the roof of a building, or landing a goomba stomp for an instant takedown were rewarding because they required just a little bit of setup to pull off, and removing that factor doesn't seem like the best idea.
Of course, I have no idea how this actually feels in game, so here's hoping they release a demo like they did with the original.
Not terribly surprised, but I was hoping they would have announced this kind of delay a bit further in advance. Screenshots still look as promising as ever, though.
The fact that the trailer uses L4D2 music and that they've ported HL2 enemies over makes this feel somewhat cobbled together. It seems like half the work was just adding in the things every other Valve game has at this point. I mean, it is free, but I'm not getting as much of a sense of polish as even their other F2P games.
I'm not understanding your argument at all.
Steam is a free storefront running on a machine you bought.
Xbox Live Marketplace is a free storefront (my assumption) running a machine you bought.
You don't have to use Steam if you don't want to, most games can be bought at other places, and you can install whatever you want onto your own PC.
All Xbone games will require you to use Xbox Live, meaning you have to have Internet access to play ANY game on it. If you dont have Internet or don't want to pay for Xbox Live, it's just a really expensive blu ray player.
I'm going to quote Giant Bomb, from their article where they named Palmer Luckey 2016's "Hottest Mess"
The Unmaking of Palmer Luckey
Until recently, Palmer Luckey was, by all accounts, the poster child for the burgeoning VR industry. Why wouldn't he have been? A boy genius inventor who seemingly forged an exciting new technology by his own hand? A feel-good story of self-made success is the kind of thing PR and marketing people adore, especially when faced with the task of figuring out how to sell a risky, but potentially major new technology to skeptical consumers. VR has been such a distant-seeming technology for so long, but suddenly, here was this smiling, enthusiastic face, beaming with positivity about the viability of commercial VR, and doing so with a functioning, as-close-to-affordable-as-we've-ever-seen headset in-hand. It was a perfect pitch, so of course it turned out to be anything but.
How Luckey went from TIME magazine cover boy to manning a Facebook tower in Alaska is a strange, sordid tale. You could probably pinpoint the first major cracks in the facade all the way back in 2014, when Zenimax launched its lawsuit against Oculus, claiming that former Zenimax employee (and VR enthusiast) John Carmack had aided Oculus using proprietary information and technology. That lawsuit saw further clarification this year, and in so doing, attempted to poke major holes in Luckey's much-vaunted origin story.
Though that lawsuit is still awaiting its day in court, its claims cast doubts over the carefully built image Oculus had been pushing since the company's earliest days. Yet even those claims paled in comparison to an even bigger blow-up around Luckey's public-facing image in 2016. In September, the Daily Beast reported on Luckey's apparent role as a financier in a pro-Donald Trump shitposting group called Nimble America. This group, though not directly affiliated with the Trump campaign, had its roots in the grim corners of the web most thoroughly dedicated to electing Trump via the "magic" of racist Pepes and white nationalism. Said "meme magic" was something Luckey was quoted as saying "sounded like a jolly good time," until suddenly it very much wasn't.
Luckey attempted to backpedal, but Daily Beast's Gideon Resnick had receipts in the form of emails he exchanged with Luckey, where the Oculus founder stated in plain terms that he was the anonymous financier members of the group had been pitching to supporters on Reddit. Eventually, Luckey offered a tepid apology built around the flimsy excuse that he was actually voting for Gary Johnson, as if that were ever the point.
To be clear: who Palmer Luckey voted for is not, and has not ever been the point. Around 20 percent of Americans voted for Donald Trump, and it stands to reason some of those people work in the video game industry. By itself, simply voting for Trump does not a "Hottest Mess" make. What does make for a scalding hot mess is the complete unmaking of a man's image over the course of a year, through a combination of legal issues, ill-conceived statements, and an at least tangential association with (and documented financial support of) some of the most mortifying elements of 2016's Grand Guignol political theater.
Though Luckey hasn't been heard from in the months since his sort-of apology, it seems likely that he isn't done with Oculus. It's hard to know if we'll ever see him as the face of the company again, but given that Oculus is on record saying he's still employed, it's plausible that his fingerprints will continue to exist on whatever Oculus does going forward. How that will sit with potential developers for Oculus remains to be seen, especially in the wake of some devs' stated opposition to working with Oculus so long as Luckey maintains a role there.
Regardless of how it all ends up, Luckey's image is forever changed by what took place in 2016, and while the industry certainly saw its share of hot messes this year, none were as severe, as all-encompassing, as the various events that pushed VR's golden boy completely out of the spotlight.
Since the time this article was written, Facebook lost that lawsuit and got a $500 million fine, due specifically to the actions of Palmer Luckey. Luckey's biggest asset was always his image as the person who heralded in the age of VR, and almost everything in the past year has worked to undermine that image. At this point, he was more of a liability than an asset to Facebook, so it's not surprising that he's left the company.
technically FB won the lawsuit: it was ruled that they did not steal trade secrets, but merely broke NDAs, which is what they were fined for.
Microsoft said that the headsets will start at $299
I'm REALLY hoping this doesn't mean that the actually $299 models will be lacking some serious features or quality. IMO Google already has that low cost/quality market covered, and adding more to it could turn people off from the experience.
Haven't people been able to examine all the assets in the game now? Is there any chance the hunt for Gaster will actually turn up anything substantial, or is this just another obsessive, but mostly baseless, fan speculation thing?
Toby actually left a message in the game files asking data miners to not reveal anything they find, else he'll stop with the secrets.
...which, of course, means there IS something hidden and we'll have to play by his rules if we want to find it.
I want to hate this video because it reminded me that assembly exists.
More seriously I'm looking forward to the rest of the series, amazing work so far. I seriously can't imagine how anyone got by with 8 registers and slow saving/loading like this.
You know everyone always says how bad assembly is...
I'm in computer architecture right now and it's not that bad. Yeah if you sucked at Introduction to Programming you're going to have a bad time but the worst thing about it is some of the busywork you have to do on the homework (determine the exact contents of a register in hex after these MIPS commands).
I'm not saying it was impossible, just that it got really tedious when you wanted to do something reasonably complex. Yes, it got easier once you learned how to read it, but that doesn't make the process any more pleasant. There's a reason they teach you assembly, and there's also a reason why most students will never touch it again.
Not quite the same, but if you connect multiple controllers you can get all of them vibrating via the "Trance Vibrator" option. Stick one in your lap and go to town.
why do people not like absolution? it was my first hitman experience and i loved it
For a series known for disguise-based stealthing, Absolution made a lot of changes that discouraged the use of them in favor of traditional patrol-dodging. Levels were also far smaller due to the need to maintain an increased graphical fidelity on consoles, and many fans argue that the tone of the story was way off compared to previous titles. Think Thi4f vs. 1+2, but not quite as catastrophic.
regular VSync has significant input lag due to implementation. If you're using an NVidia card, there is Fast Sync which is a more efficient version of Triple Buffering, but still adds SOME input lag overhead, somewhere in the tens of milliseconds.


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If the government health plan proposed by Congress makes it into law, it will devastate at least one small business owner who called me this week.
His business has 20 employees, each making about $25,000 a year in retail positions that typically attract younger, entry-level workers. He currently can’t afford to pay health insurance. Under the proposal, he will either have to pay an 8% tax on his $500,000 payroll, which will cost $40,000, or provide health insurance, which may cost even more. The owner’s gross salary and profit is $120,000 a year, or $100,000 after taxes.
He is considering four options:
1. If he can find a job paying over $60,000 with a competitor, he would be better off to take it and close his business. Why take all the risks and pressures of running a business when he could make the same money working for someone else? Of course, his 20 employees would lose their jobs, which certainly wouldn’t help them buy health insurance.
2. Another option is to lay off ten employees so his payroll is under the $250,000 exemption threshold. This means keeping the business, but on a reduced basis that will reduce his own income. Ten employees would still be out of jobs, putting those families into financial crises and requiring more tax dollars to support them.
3. He can keep his business and pay the tax—which means adding $40,000 a year to his overhead. That $40,000 would do nothing to help his business grow, nothing to create additional jobs, nothing to help the local economy of his community, and nothing directly to help his employees obtain health insurance. The only “benefit” of that expense would be a $40,000 reduction in his own family’s income. For his family to live on 40% less, they would need to sell their home and drastically slash their spending, thereby cutting someone else’s income.
4. A last possibility would be to reduce his employee’s wages to cover the increased cost of providing health insurance.
Each of these options would have a direct negative impact on his community’s economy. That negative impact would be multiplied across the country by the number of small businesses that would be similarly affected. The result would be increasing strain on our nation’s already damaged economy, as well as even less tax revenue to counterbalance our cascading national debt.
This proposal is ill timed and will result in dire consequences to the economy. Our politicians evidently learned nothing from the missteps of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who turned a severe recession into a generational depression by raising taxes in a similar manner. It is frightening to see history being repeated.
Adding even more reason to fear a government health plan was an article in the London Times on Sunday, July 12, titled, “Pay Up If you want To See a GP.” Apparently, the often glorified health care system of the UK is falling apart. Even a national VAT around 15%, income taxes around 40% (on incomes over 35,000UK), and assorted other taxes are not enough to keep up with the spiraling costs of the National Healthcare System. There is no place left to go for funding except the users. The Times says, “If we want to maintain an equitable and high-quality health service, it is time to challenge a long-held political taboo and consider the case for charging patients.”
Since other nations’ government health care systems are failing, what makes our politicians think starting one here is the answer to our own health care woes? We need to learn from our own and others’ past mistakes, not simply repeat them.

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This week Dublin City Councillors agreed to spend an extra €1.4million on waste management services to try to clean up the mess that they created by privatising the bin service.
More than a year ago, myself and some other Councillors strenuously opposed the secret deal done by the City Manager, with the support of Labour and Fine Geal Councillors, to privatise bin collections in the city.
This flawed decision has really hurt the city and left the city in a mess. In some parts of the city illegal dumping has escalated to the point of being out of control. Street cleaning is insufficient and fails to address the problem and keep the city streets clean.
Homeowners are being asked to pay an unfair property tax for local services yet homeowners in Dublin have been left with no choice, poor service and dirty streets in the city.
Last month I proposed a motion calling on Dublin City Council Waste Management Department to do it’s job and instead of removing public bins from the streets of Dublin to empty and service them more regularly. Their reply was that they only remove bins that are being abused. By abused they mean over used. This policy highlights Dublin City Council’s poor response to the issue of waste in the city. Essentially Dublin City Council is saying it puts public bins on streets expecting them not to be used.
The latest proposal from Dublin City Council, made this week at the Central Area Committee, is to leave dumped rubbish on the streets weeks at a time. DCC presented this as a radical proposal that was again supported by Labour and Fine Geal Councillors. It is radically wrong.
Already people visiting the city are confronted with an out of control litter crises on the streets. People from around the globe are exposed to the dirt and filth via social media, blogs and Facebook. This botched decision to privatise bin collections in Dublin City is doing untold damage to the city economy and local communities.
Clearly the City Council has got its waste management strategy all wrong. The City Manager leaves office today and to be fair he was only implementing Government policy. The Minister and Government parties must take responsibility for the damage their decision is doing to the city and the Minister should instruct the City Council to scrap their proposal to leave rubbish on the streets and instead clean-up the streets of Dublin. Mary


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Warmer weather not expected to lead to high water
ZANESVILLE - Despite warmer weather in the forecast, Muskingum County Emergency Management Director Jeff Jadwin says unless we get a lot of rain, the area is in good shape to avoid flooding.
With Dillon Dam at its normal winter pool, and dry dams upstream from Zanesville still with plenty of capacity to store water, Jadwin said "It would all have to melt instantaneously, plus get a downpour, to give me a problem to worry about."
That said, if we do get a lot of rain, because the ground is frozen, creeks could fill up quickly, Jadwin said, but the Muskingum River is a long way from flood state.
The river has to pass 20 feet to reach flood stage, and was at 9 feet as of Monday morning.
The National Weather Service is predicting warmer temperature across the eastern part of the state this week, with temperatures rising to the mid 40s before dipping into the weekend. Rain may also come our way this weekend.
Last week's ice accumulation will help slow the melt, Jadwin said. The "ice mountains" surrounding local parking lots where last weeks' ice and snow were cleared won't be going away any time soon. "Unless we get a lot warm rain, that is not going to melt real quick", he said.
Travellers behind dry dams at Wills Creek in northeast Muskingum County and Mohawk Dam in western Coshocton County may see water begin to accumulate behind the dams, said Brian Maka, Chief of Public Affairs of the Huntington District US Army Corps of Engineers.
The dams are just doing what they are designed to do, Maka said. And while the dams can't do anything about rain and snow melt down stream from the dams, they hold back water to lessen potential problems.
"This time of year is exactly why we lower our pools to winter pool. In winter we always anticipate high water," he said.
"We have been watching the river, watching for ice jams," said Jadwin. "I am feeling pretty good right now that we are in good shape."
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- As the Hurricane Sandy Frankenstorm approached, President Barack Obama issued a federal emergency declaration for the State of New York and New Jersey.
The declaration means the state and local governments can receive federal assistance for the costs of evacuation, sheltering and other measures.
"Once again, I thank the President for his quick response to my request for a federal emergency declaration which will apply to the entire State of New York," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a news release. "We appreciate the federal government's support as we continue to prepare for Hurricane Sandy."
With the declaration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency may identify, mobilize and provide equipment and resources as needed.
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Annie Lennox Sounds-Off on Madonna’s Topless Interview Mag Shoot
Is there a celebrity feud brewing between Annie Lennox and Madonna?
Lennox, who is promoting her new album, “Nostalgia,” appeared on the ITV show “Loose Women,” where she talked about the Material Girl's topless photo shoot for Interview magazine, which was released on Monday.
The former Eurythmics singer, 59, says she was provocative in her day, but never took it as far as Madonna. "I did get things off occasionally, but not to that extent.”
Lennox added, "I don't think it's down to me [to judge Madonna]... I think the verdict is probably out. Would you not agree on that one? I think the question is, 'What is Madonna telling us?' Anybody know?"
One of the show's other panelists, Janet Street-Porter, answered, "I think it's attention-seeking” and Lennox agreed. "I think it is," Annie noted.
In September, Lennox also called out young pop stars for their sexed-up antics.
Speaking with PrideSource magazine, Lennox explained, "I think for many it's very convenient and it looks great and it looks radical, but I have some issues with it... I think it's a cheap shot. I think what they do with it is cheap and... yeah. What can I tell you? Sex always sells. And there's nothing wrong with sex selling, but it depends on your audience. If they're 7-year-old kids, I have issues with it."


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There was one single, stark number released Thursday by Illinois health officials that overshadows all others: the highest number of single-day deaths of Illinois residents at 125.
That’s more than 50% more people than those who died in the previous worst single-day count, more than a week ago.
NBC 5 Investigates found that Thursday’s death toll in Cook County alone – at 92 fatalities – also topped that previous one-day death toll for the entire state.
As far as new cases, while some counties' bar charts still hint at a possible leveling off, NBC 5 Investigates found some stark increases Thursday in a distinct cluster of Chicago-area counties south and east of the city:
Toggle the menu on the chart above to find sharp increases in Kankakee County (26 new cases just today) and in the row of Indiana’s counties along Lake Michigan: Lake County, Indiana, saw its highest one-day increase ever, with 102 new cases.
Just to the east, Porter County had 13 new cases. LaPorte County looks like it could be a typographical error with a whopping 70 new cases in the past 24 hours, but NBC 5 Investigates double-checked with LaPorte health officials, and that number is correct.
That means that in the past 24 hours LaPorte’s caseload nearly tripled. And just to the east of LaPorte, St. Joseph has seen 112 new cases in just the past three days.
Walworth Count in Wisconsin, northwest of Chicago, also saw its highest one-day increase of cases at 22, a near 50% increase in just 24 hours.
NBC 5 Investigates also continues to track all Illinois coronavirus cases by zip code, and for the second day in a row the village of Park Forest, in Chicago’s south suburbs, continues to be the hardest-hit area, in terms of total coronavirus cases per capita. One out of every 117 residents of Park Forest has tested positive for coronavirus.
You can search this table by zip code or community, to see a specific area’s number of cases, and how those cases pan out, per capita. NBC5 Investigates continues to update all of these charts, each afternoon.


QUINCY – The city and its employees are seeking to turn from its current state-run health insurance coverage to the private market.
Mayor Thomas Koch’s administration is introducing an order before city council on Monday that would sever the city’s ties with the state Group Insurance Commission, which has covered its workers since 2008.
Allison Cox, the president of the Quincy Education Association teachers union, said the plan is to shift from the state entity to Blue Cross Blue Shield, which would continue with plans very similar to what the public employees have available now.
She said the unions fear uncertainty at the Group Insurance Commission, and hear the plans available will change in the coming years in a less-than-favorable way.
“The GIC plans offered today are going to look very, very different a year from now,” she said, based on information she has received.
She said it was important to keep aspects of the available plans like the deductibles and co-pays similar to what they are now.
“The biggest driver for us was really plan design,” she said.
The city has about 2,000 union employees and just under 100 nonunion workers, and all of them are covered by the same health care provider.
The city workers’ contract with the state commission is up this coming year, so the administration and Quincy’s Public Employees Committee, which is made up of the heads of all the unions, sought other options.
Ernie Arienti, who sits on the committee and represents retired city employees, said the agreement with Blue Cross would lock in the plans for six years, providing some welcome stability. Ten years ago, when he was the committee’s head and president of the local firefighter’s union, the situation was the opposite, he said: The state commission was the more stable option, and the shift saved both the city and its workers money.
“It was the right move at the time,” he said. “Since then, the GIC has changed the philosophy of how they’re doing business.”
He said they have moved more toward plans that emphacize low premiums at the cost of high out-of-pocket expenses, a change he disagrees with.
This plan has the support of the Public Employees Committee and the mayor’s administration. Christopher Walker, a spokesman for the mayor, said the city current pays for 85 percent of the cost of health care. Under the new agreement, which would take effect at the start of the fiscal year in July, the city’s contribution would drop to 80 percent for HMOs and 75 percent for PPOs.
Walker said it’s not yet possible to calculate how much money this shift would save the city, but it will cost Quincy less.
“There will be a financial benefit to the city in this agreement,” he said.
– Sean Cotter covers Quincy for the Ledger. He may be reached by email at firstname.lastname@example.org or by phone at 617-786-7049. Like the Ledger page on Facebook to follow more South Shore news.


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ABINGDON, Va. (AP) -- The University of Virginia's Board of Visitors has approved a 4.3 percent tuition increase for in-state students.
The increase approved Wednesday is effective for the upcoming academic year. The increase includes all mandatory fees for first-year undergraduate students.
The total cost for a first-year undergraduate Virginia resident will be $27,417, including room and board and the estimated expense for books and travel. That's a $949 increase.
For out-of-state students, the tuition increase will be 5.9 percent.
The board said the increases will help improve faculty and staff pay, cover mandated increases in U.Va.'s contribution to the state's retirement system, and help finance the university's strategic plan.
The board met in Abingdon. Tuesday, members attended the inauguration of Donna Price Henry as the chancellor of University of Virginia's College at Wise.
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In a meeting with functionaries of International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu yesterday discussed ways to transform agriculture sector in Andhra Pradesh in the next five years, an official release said.
"The Chief Minister has asked ICRISAT to collaborate with the government in making Andhra Pradesh a drought-free state. He has asked ICRISAT executives to adopt innovative science-led technologies to transform rain-fed as well as irrigated agriculture in the state," it said.
Naidu asked ICRISAT to suggest appropriate cropping systems, based on the availability of land and resources, for creating better livelihood opportunities for people.
Stating that the institute would offer its support to the government, its officials informed the CM that they would follow the government's mission-based approach through convergence, capacity building and collective action, the release said.
Lauding the institute for its effective rain water management techniques, Naidu asked the team to work out a plan on water management, food security and improving livelihoods of farmers to make agriculture profitable. He also urged the ICRISAT team to work on technologies that the state can capitalise on.
ICRISAT Director General William D Dar, Suhas P Wani, director ICRISAT Development Centre and other officials were present on the occasion, the release added.


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Marnett Named To Lead VUMC Research
Lawrence J. “Larry” Marnett, Ph.D., the Mary Geddes Stahlman Professor of Cancer Research and University Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, has been named Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s next associate vice chancellor for Research and senior associate dean for Biomedical Sciences, effective Sept. 1.
Marnett, who is also director of the A.B. Hancock, Jr. Memorial Laboratory for Cancer Research, director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Chemical Biology, and professor of Pharmacology, has been a member of Vanderbilt’s faculty since 1989. In his new role Marnett will support the operations and strategic development of basic sciences throughout the Medical Center, including its many programs in basic sciences education. And in coordination with the Provost’s office, Marnett will also support cross-institutional collaboration for shared institutes and centers.
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The opening of Explorers: Narratives of site on Saturday 7 October at Woodford Academy was a huge success, with around 100 people attending. Feedback on the day and since regarding the artworks on display has been very enthusiastic, with a strong appreciation of what the project was trying to achieve in addressing the complex, lesser-known narratives associated with the site.
After a welcome to country by Aunty Carol and a smoking ceremony by Dharug man Chris Tobin, the audience at the launch heard from co-curators Beata Geyer and Mahalya Middlemist, along with Noel Burgess from the Academy, Dr Jacqueline Millner who is writing the catalogue essay and Blue Mountains MP Trish Doyle who formally opened the exhibition.
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The parent company of Shoppers Food has reacquired a store in Northeast Baltimore that had previously been sold and reopened the location Friday.
United Natural Foods announced the acquisition of the former Shoppers store at 5600 The Alameda along with the re-acquisition and remodeling of several stores in Prince George’s County.
The moves are part of a commitment to build the Shoppers banner in Baltimore and Prince George’s, the parent company said.
Another re-acquired Shoppers site, in Capitol Heights, also opened Friday, while a former Shoppers in Landover will re-open in November.
“Shoppers has a long-standing relationship with these communities, and we are excited to return to these neighborhoods,’ said Jeff Bleichner, vice president and general manager at Shoppers.
Shoppers parent company also is remodeling two stores in Forestville in Prince George’s County.
Shoppers runs full-service supermarkets in Maryland, Washington and Northern Virginia.


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“The Darkest Hour,” a film which emphasizes the courage and iron will of Winston Churchill through the first weeks of the Second World War, is drawing audiences and praise on its release in North America. It shows new generations that this man – mocked and marginalized in the 1930s by his party – was an inspirational leader during those bleak days, and beyond. Yet the acclaimed war-time prime minister was also an imperialist and a racist.
Roy Moore’s party has been punished for his refusal to do the right thing. While some Republican leaders wanted him to drop out of the Alabama Senate race after nine women accused him of sexual misconduct against them when they were teenagers, Moore refused – and went on to lose to Democrat Doug Jones in a special election Tuesday. That means Democrats who fretted that Al Franken shouldn’t have been pushed out of the Senate over the sexual misconduct allegations against him were wrong.
Ukraine's Western allies may finally have run out of patience with Kiev's unwillingness to fight the country's endemic corruption. The United States, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund have all criticized the recent undermining of an independent corruption investigation by Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office – an organization itself accused of rampant fraud.
Britain looks set to get what it craves in its negotiations with the European Union. The British government has contrived a way around the impasse over avoiding controls at the Irish land border and bowed to paying more or less what the EU was demanding as a divorce settlement. Now European leaders meeting at the summit of Dec. 14-15 are expected to authorize talks over the UK’s main priority: future trade arrangements.
A little over 80 years ago, on April 26, 1937, German and Italian warplanes bombed the Basque town of Guernica, razing much of it. Italian planes targeted a bridge, while the German Condor legion hit the town with conventional and incendiary bombs, and machine-gunned men, women and children as they ran from the burning town.
Donald Trump's formal recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, reversing some seven decades of American policy, is arguably the most unnecessary decision of his time in office and one that will have consequences lingering far past his tenure. The decision may yield some domestic political advantage among Jewish and evangelical Christian voters for the president, but at irrationally high expense globally.
The American epidemic of opioid abuse is finally getting the attention it warrants. While policy solutions continue to be inadequate, the decision by President Trump to declare a national opioid emergency has helped to increase discussion about the problem and how the country can solve it. But the conversation also needs to address a dangerous – and largely ignored – interconnected public health crisis wreaking havoc among young Americans.
At the height of its power in Iraq, Islamic State controlled 40 percent of the country’s territory and the daily lives of millions of Iraqis. Tens of thousands of Iraqis came to serve the IS administration, including as doctors, teachers, judges, cooks, and lawyers, arguably contributing to the group’s control of the cities it occupied. Just as Iraqis were forced to join the Baath party under Saddam Hussein, many in IS-controlled areas say they were forced to join the group to keep their jobs – though no doubt some also supported IS’s extremism.
“Missed a train? Lost a vote? Blame us!” reads one of the many posters recently posted on London’s underground transport system for RT, the Russian-based satellite broadcaster formerly known as Russia Today.
Donald Trump may be denying it, but there seems no doubt that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is a marked man.
British Prime Minister Theresa May’s temptation must have been to counterpunch after receiving Donald Trump’s advice to concentrate her mind on the Islamist threat to Britain rather than reacting to his retweeting of British far-right anti-Islam videos. “@theresamay, don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom,” the U.S. president tweeted to his 40 million-plus followers. “We are doing just fine.”
From the beginnings of the 2016 general election through the presidential debates and on to his “fire and fury” comments on North Korea this summer, the prospect of a president as impulsive as Donald Trump in command of nuclear weapons has worried experts in both parties and career military and government officials. This week’s North Korean test of a missile that might be able to reach the entire U.S. mainland with a nuclear warhead — and Trump’s initial response that “we will take care of it” — can hardly be expected to diminish the anxiety.
Vladimir Putin’s global stature appears to be at an all-time high. Some observers call the Russian president the Middle East’s New Sheriff, and for good reason. Last week, during a series of meetings with the leaders of Syria, Turkey and Iran in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, Putin took the central role in a major diplomatic push to end Syria’s civil war by winning support from Turkey and Iran to host a Syrian peace congress.
The National Security Council is reported to be on the verge of recommending the export of $47 million worth of defensive arms to Ukraine. The package will reportedly include a cache of Javelin anti-tank missiles, weapons that would reliably and efficiently disable the hundreds of tanks that the Russian-supported separatists in the country’s east have acquired since the conflict began.
Want to be pessimistic about Europe? Let me count you the ways.
On Nov. 19, Arab foreign ministers gathered in Cairo for an hours-long gripe session against Iran and its ally, Hezbollah. The Arab leaders accused Tehran and the Lebanese Shi’ite movement of destabilizing the Middle East, but they fell short of agreeing on concrete action.
The sight of a civilian populace wildly cheering soldiers clinging to a tank, is the standard fare of coups d’état. In Africa, which has had a troubling tradition of the military overthrowing civilian administrations, it’s a jubilation that historically has rarely lasted for long, with the new rulers soon proving to be at least as venal and oppressive as those they have replaced.
Few British budgets have mattered as much as the one that Philip Hammond will deliver to the House of Commons on Nov. 22. The chancellor of the exchequer must shore up Theresa May’s perilously shaky government ahead of a vital Brexit summit of European leaders in mid-December. At the same time Hammond has to keep a grip on the public finances. But the gravest challenge he faces is economic: Britain’s persistent productivity blight.
In almost every country in Europe, parties of the center-left struggle to remain competitive in the political arena. Yet social democracy - though it can claim success in creating and developing public services which have improved the lives and health of citizens - can now rarely convince its former supporters that it’s still worth their votes.
The speed of events in Zimbabwe this week has taken even experienced Africa watchers by surprise. An effective army takeover; President Robert Mugabe placed under house arrest and his wife – and would-be successor – reportedly fleeing the country.
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The bank that steered clear of the financial crisis breaks down after creating 2 mln fake accounts. New evidence undermines Donald Trump's claims few benefit from the U.S. economic recovery. And why Hanjin's corporate capsize may prompt attempts to fix to shipping-industry woes.


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A Message from Obang Metho to the Ethiopian people
Dear Fellow Ethiopian, Like other people throughout the world, I am deeply concerned about the rapid spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19), which has drastically altered life outside of Ethiopia and now poses an increasing threat to the people of our nation, the Horn of Africa, Africa and beyond. My heartfelt sympathy goes to those who have lost family members, as well as to those whose way of life has been made so difficult. Right now, I am ready to join together with those attempting to serve, protect lives and help to find solutions and ways to treat Covid-19 and to prevent as many as possible from being exposed to it. These attempts have called for lifealtering changes now affecting the lives, social and business networks, education, movement, employment, and the access to goods and services of people all over the world. So far, Ethiopia has been spared some of the effects; yet, we must be vigilant and prepare as best we can to deal with this possible crisis, not only for ourselves, but also for others. The concern for the wellbeing of all people, regardless of our differences, has been a core principle of the Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia (SMNE) since its formation. We believe that the value and dignity of every human being comes from God, our Creator, and that we will be held accountable, under God, for how we treat or care for others. The SMNE is grounded on the responsibility of human beings to uphold the rights and dignity of others above ethnicity, nationality, religion, race, gender, age, disability or any other differences, because we are all created equal. From this principle, we are to likewise, care about others, not only because it is right, but also because no one is free until all are free. When we knowingly withhold freedom, justice and rights to others, we undermine the sustainability of our own. As a nation, we have experienced the fallout from over-emphasizing ethnicity above our shared humanity for the
last three decades of ethnic federalism government, creating a more difficult transition to an inclusive society. In fact, we have focused on our points of difference to the degree it has destabilized our society, causing divisions and conflict in many places. It led to our recent launch of the “I’m Human” movement in an effort to better appreciate the common bond of our mutual humanity—despite our differences and even when we disagree. This has been made especially more clear with the emergence of this deadly virus. Covid-19 targets humans, without regard to ethnicity, language or other differences we allow to divide us. As people scramble to find ways to confront this threat, we may discover that our ethnic differences become less important and that our shared efforts among our diverse people, become more important and more effective. As we all witness the impact of Covid-19 around the world, it calls for an effort to prepare in advance as best we can. We do not yet know the degree of threat we face here in Ethiopia, but we should do our best to prepare in order to protect the lives of our people. We also must focus on how our efforts to protect the health of Ethiopians may create problems in other sectors of society like impeding our economy, overwhelming an already inadequate healthcare and sanitation system, closing our educational facilities leaving students without an education and many other areas of life where the life-saving actions negatively affect other valued services and systems; although, in the long-run, it might speed up areas where development is sorely needed. Currently, our weak or non-existent health care system should be immediately evaluated and upgraded, as best we are able, to deal with such a crisis should it develop here. This is why we all must be thinking of ways to help on many levels. The federal government has already taken some strong steps such as closing the schools, closing the borders, cancelling flights, cancelling larger events, providing information on best hygiene and sanitation practices, and encouraging people to avoid large crowds. These efforts are good; however, as we see what is happening in other countries, we realize there is much more to do to provide better protection and to look for effective medical treatment or prevention. It cannot only be the work of the federal government, but should also involve the regional and local governments as well as many different people, organizations,
groups and neighbors in different sectors of our society, all working at the same time, sometimes alongside of each other, for the common good. Some groups will be required to do more, such as our medical providers, health care workers and researchers. Other sectors of society could be highly impacted as well. Knowing the impact on the economy, other public and private institutions and on individuals, families and communities could be so severe, we should all be coming up with creative ideas of how to help each other. This is a critical time to reach out to our neighbors. Human relationships will be extremely important. This is also a time when many will call out to God for His help and protection, confessing our individual or collective wrongs, admitting our animosity, ego or lack of love towards others and asking Him to heal our people and our land, starting with each of us. The “I’m Human” movement leadership will be ready to play a role to contribute to the wellbeing of all Ethiopians, encouraging a new added commitment. As such, we are willing to contribute our share and encourage others to do the same. We intend to develop and define what this means in practice in the coming days. Until then, we ask all others to do the same. We cannot wait until it is too late, but must prepare for difficulties ahead. Covid-19 makes ethnic differences fade into the background, especially as we are awakened to the humanity of each other. When we see the grief of those who have lost a loved one, do our hearts have compassion based on understanding their grief, because we are also human? On March 7, 2020, as I traveled from Debre Berhan to Addis Ababa, I witnessed a terrible tragedy of a minibus, carrying fourteen young passengers and a driver in his twenties. The minibus collided with a large truck and the driver of the minibus plus twelve passengers were killed. As we stopped, along with many others, I witnessed the intense weeping and crying out of the people who did not know the victims, but could easily identify with the tragic loss of these young lives, also knowing the impact it would have on their families, friends and communities. No one knew the ethnicities, religions, backgrounds, talents, gifts or struggles of these young people. It did not matter. The sadness they felt was for these lives that were taken so quickly from them. People surrounded the bodies of four of the dead, still lying on the ground. I was among them. An older man was holding
his head with both hands, crying out in Amharic as he wept, “My children, my children, why did this happen to you?” A few feet from him was a young girl, about ten years old, overwhelmed by what she was witnessing. She cried out as she held both her arms close to her chest, saying, “My brothers, I don’t know what to do.” Across from her was a middleaged lady, holding her chin as she stared at the bodies with great tears rolling down her cheeks as she was crying out in Afaan-Oromo. The grief unified all of these people who were standing there, including me, as I also was choking up, trying to control my emotions as tears also filled my eyes. As other bodies were being taken from the vehicle and their identities determined, we learned this was a minibus carrying Tigrayan passengers to their homes. Each of us felt a connection to those who died. The man called these his children, the young girl, her brothers, and the woman, spoke to them from her heart although I don’t know what she said as I don’t understand the language. The emotions came from first seeing these bodies, now without life, as fellow human beings or like their own relatives, before seeing them as anything else. At the end of the day, this is who we are. All our hearts were torn apart by the loss of these precious fellow Ethiopians as well as the sadness we feel for their families. What lessons can we learn from this now as we face this looming threat of Covid-19? Let us come together at such a time as this as human beings, not as people divided by ethnicity or other differences. Can we now, take action to live out the “I’m Human” idea with an addition, which would be a commitment to help our neighbors near and far, those who are like us and those who are unlike us, especially during this crisis? This is one more question for all of us to think about: Is God shaking us up so we might become a people, restored to God and his greater purposes for our lives, the lives of others and this land? Can this crisis be a call to find higher ground as a united people and as a united nation as we seek to live out these principles? I am ready; are you? May God protect and guide us and may we listen and follow!
Sincerely yours, Obang Metho, Executive Director of SMNE Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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“A SOUTH FORTY” exhibit at Venice Architecture Biennale celebrates design in the American South
As part of the “TIME SPACE EXISTENCE” exhibition at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, The European Cultural Center is presenting ‘A SOUTH FORTY: Contemporary Architecture and Design in the American South‘ at the Palazzo Mora.
Showcasing work from nearly 40 firms, A SOUTH FORTY celebrates the development of architecture and design along the contour of US Highway 40. A partnership between the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture + Design, modus studio and Oxford American, the exhibit tells a story of “place-based design, attentive to the necessities of climate, materials, labor and purpose, but also attentive to overlooked or undervalued typologies, constituencies and locales.” The exhibit is on display until November 21.
Additionally, Oxford American will feature A SOUTH FORTY in the journal’s annual summer issue, focusing on the idea of “place” in culture of the American South. The exhibition itself takes cues from Oxford American’s issue highlighting the music of the American South and proposes that design and the built environment is as reflective and definitive of the culture and values of society as the forms of music that animate society.
It is an immense honor to be part of this exhibition alongside so many firms we admire; we are forever grateful for the invitation to participate. For more information about the meaning of A SOUTH FORTY, the exhibit and participating firms, please visit www.asouthforty.org. Our thanks go to Peter MacKeith and the team at Fay Jones, modus studio and Oxford American for facilitating and curating this exhibit.


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The beauty of living in the Asheville, NC, area is the creative spirit of those who live here, producing random art wherever you might be. The creative spirit in this area is empowering and you see inspiration everywhere.
For example, we were walking our dogs in Carrier Park in Asheville. The park borders the French Broad River which adds a great layer of serenity to a dog walk and you can often see people floating or playing in the river. Apparently, some enterprising, creative people had wandered into the river and began stacking some river stones, producing the of art pictured.


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