Museo Pambata Enjoys a Rebirth, Set to Reopen in 2022
When she accepted the position of president of Museo Pambata in 2019, Bambi Mañosa-Tanjutco knew exactly whom she wanted to be by her side: Sofia Zobel-Elizalde, her classmate since Grade One and partner in many projects. “Sofia understands me and my ideas,” she explains, encapsulating their relationship in a nutshell.
“I jumped in right away when Bambi invited me to join Museo because she always does things so well,” Sofia says, echoing the same sentiment. She was not prepared, however, for Bambi’s request for her to sit as vice-president. “I was shocked”, says Sofia, “but when she showed me her plans for the Bakuran [the outdoors of the Museo], I just had to say yes.
The passionate women with creative minds took the reins of the children’s interactive museum, the first of its kind in the Philippines, at its most challenging period. Its 25-year lease with the City of Manila was in its last four years and the museum was facing a threat of being turned into a casino. It was also in need of a facelift, a youthful and modern vision and an infusion of funds. Overwhelming. Bambi, however, hit the ground running and faced the first item on the agenda: a new lease.
“As head of the board, I presented to the newly-elected Mayor Isko Moreno our concept of upgrading the space and bringing it closer to the future. He liked what we showed him and saw how it will benefit not only the children of the City of Manila but all Filipino children here and abroad. He gave Museo Pambata a new 25-year lease, renewable for another 25! Pretty much a lifetime!” Bambi enthuses, the excitement in her voice impossible to hide, seeing as how long-range planning is now possible and how investors would be more enticed to give.
And then came COVID-19. “When the pandemic happened, we decided to do the exterior first,” says Bambi. With the approval from Mayor Isko (Museo’s honorary chairman, Manila being the owner of the prime land on which stands Museo Pambata) who Bambi describes as “very supportive”, the restoration efforts all moved outside to the Bakuran (the Filipino word for yard).
“We have established the Bakuran Fund for all the plans for the exterior,” Sofia shares. “But the work is done in stages, depending on how much funding we get.” The first to rise is the Bahay Pukyutan, a honeycomb-shaped jungle gym where children can climb up and down and negotiate the maze of the hexagons to their heart’s content. “My dad [the National Artist for architecture Francisco Mañosa] designed one in the late Seventies for Lungsod ng Kabataan,” says the proud daughter, who studied interior design for college.
“The structure is no longer there and may not comply with the more stringent safety standards today, so my brother Gelo Mañosa with volunteer architects from Mañosa & Co Inc made the design space specific for the area.”
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Attached to the Bahay Pukyutan is a swing area which, Zobel-Elizalde informs, can be transformed to install swings for children with disabilities; and beside the bahay kubo treehouse is a breezy place to hold meetings and “bring out the child in us”. The Museo also decided to buy five hives of urban bees producing honey that will be a learning tool for children and families. Honey bottles of their first harvest were given for free with a PHP3,000 minimum donation to the Bakuran Fund.
The fund to build the Bahay Pukyutan was a donation by the Tukod Foundation and from the Baro at Sayá fashion show fundraiser last 2019. “When Mayor Isko came to see the playground, I told him how much Museo needed financial support to continue the rest of the spaces. He immediately said that he will donate the talent fee of his next endorsement,” Bambi relates.
“I didn’t expect it to come so soon, but three weeks later, a check arrived at Museo. We all screamed!”
Museo Pambata opened in 1994, co-founded by early child educator Nina Lim-Yuson, mother of four, who was so inspired by the Boston Children’s Museum in America. The other founder was her late mother Estefania Aldaba-Lim, a former secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development. The two envisioned the museum to be a venue for alternative learning for children, especially those with no access to formal education.
Then-Mayor Alfredo Lim granted the first lease for Museo to use the 4,095-square metre lot on which stands the historical Elk’s Club on Roxas Boulevard, sandwiched by the US Embassy and Rizal Park. It has eight theme rooms: Environment, for learning and loving Nature; Old Manila, to travel back in time; Career Options, for envisioning what children may want to be; I Love My Planet Earth, for inculcating a love for Earth; My Body Works, to learn about the human body; Marketplace, for developing entrepreneurial skills; Global Village, to learn other cultures; Karapatan Hall, for children’s rights awareness.
The pandemic put a close to visits to the Museum, but the two women now steering the ship both see the advantages of developing the outdoor areas on top of additional learning activities for children. “We can even open the area for private groups, future weddings, launches and other events,” says Bambi. Next on their agenda is Tipun. “It is the biggest area in the Museo and we want to convert it into a garden,” describes Bambi. This is where Tutubing Bakal, an iconic helicopter in Museo, will be reimagined and turned into an art space that will speak of peace-building.
Soon to rise (depending on the funds) is an outdoor library, a reading area, a lecture area, a tilapia pond, an aquaponic and a hydroponic exhibit with hobbyist Mark Lacay and IC Jauican, even a light and sound show in the future. “The story of the Bakuran ends in an area where body, mind and spirit come together, a space for outdoor art workshops, mindfulness, yoga and arnis classes. The objective is for everything to attract the five senses, as what Nina [Lim-Yuson] always promoted,” Bambi says.
Sofia, who believes in the importance of outdoor space for children, is excited about the Living Wall being costed now. “It was inspired by Dr Joven Cuanang of Pinto Art Gallery,” she says. “We would like to fill it with different fern species from all over the Philippines. It’ll also offer an opportunity to bring in technology into the Bakuran. The concept of the Living Wall involves using the QR code to learn about the ferns and the other plants.
All the child needs to do is point his phone to the plant and it will link him or her to the necessary information about it.” She envisions this to be a “beautiful outdoor space but progressive”. With highly creative visions, intense passion for advocacy and unwavering commitment, the two childhood classmates are most able to realise their dream for Museo Pambata. As Sofia states: “It has to be a wonderland for kids, a place where they can get away from the world and be in a place of play and discovery and to grow their love for country.


A Washington-based lobbying group linked to the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ) has retained the lobbying firm Gotham Government Relations & Communications, known for its close relations with the Trump administration.
Gotham, in an email to Anadolu Agency (AA), confirmed that it has signed up the FETÖ-linked, Washington Strategy Group LLC.
According to a Politico report, the New York lobby group landed its first foreign client for a retainer fee of $50,000 and $20,000 per month thereafter.
Gotham touts itself as being close to the Trump administration, and helped then-candidate Trump make his campaign announcement for the Oval Office in 2015, Politico reported.
Meanwhile, the Washington Strategy Group's Governor Beyhan Nakiboğlu is among the most prominent names linked to FETÖ. He was among the original founders of the now-defunct Bank Asya, which was closed down by Turkish government last June due to its involvement in alleged illicit money transfers for FETÖ.
The Washington Strategy Group, which registered as a non-profit public affairs and advocacy organization, has recently started to operate as a formal lobbyist for itself, according to filings available to public.
The strategy group has spent up to $50,000 in its activities in Washington, the third and fourth quarter reports indicated. The lobbying efforts focused on recent human rights issues in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, including free speech, due process and rule of law. The contact name in the filings was Süleyman Turhanoğulları, a board member of Washington-based Gülen-linked umbrella business association, the Turkic American Alliance (TAA). Several social media posts have also named Turhanoğulları as president of the Washington Strategy Group LLC.
Led by U.S.-based Fetullah Gülen, FETÖ sought to topple the Turkish government and seize power on July 15, 2016 through a military coup and impose martial law.
The attempt was prevented by military troops loyal to the government, along with police units and millions of Turkish citizens rallying in favor of democracy. As many as 248 people, mostly civilians, were killed by pro-coup soldiers, while over 2,000 people were injured.


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Ask your TDs this week to remove religious discrimination in new Schools Bill
The Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016 will begin its second stage in the Dail this week. Please lobby your TDs and ask them to amend this Bill to remove religious discrimination in the education system.
It is important to amend the Bill to remove religious discrimination in access to schools, but that is only a small part of the problem. There is no point in getting equal access to being discriminated against within the schools, and most parents who raise complaints with Atheist Ireland are concerned about problems within the schools.
The new Bill will also fail to ensure that the State Curriculum is delivered in an objective, critical and pluralistic manner. It will continue to allow the State Curriculum to be delivered through the religious ethos of the Catholic Church. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission asked the previous Government to make this change to the 2015 version of this Bill.
In their observations on the Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2015 the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission made the following Recommendations. They remain relevant to the current version of the Bill, that will begin its second stage in the Dail this week.
(a) Education admissions and the religious exemption clause:
Within the context of the 2015 Bill, the Commission recommends the Equal Status Acts should be amended to give effect to the principle that no child should be given preferential access to a publicly funded school on the basis of their religion. The amendment could include an individualised derogation granted by the Minister for Education and Skills in the case of a specific school where refusal to admit a student is proved to be essential to maintain the ethos of the school, and where no other alternative means is reasonably available to the Minister in that particular case.
(b) Schools admission policies and promoting the inclusive school:
The Commission recommends that the new section 62(6) to be inserted into the Education Act should be amended to the effect that, in setting out the characteristic spirit and general objectives of the school, outside the specific context of faith formation and religious instruction which parents wish to avail of and where exemptions apply, regard shall be had to providing information in relation to religion in an objective, critical and pluralistic manner that avoids indoctrination.
The Commission recommends that the 2015 Bill presents an important opportunity to set down some minimum standards in relation to the nature of exemptions for students who do not want to attend religious instruction.
The Commission recommends that the new section 62(6) to be inserted into the Education Act should be amended to the effect that in setting out the characteristic spirit and general objectives of the school regard shall be had to the values of an inclusive school that respects and accommodates diversity across all nine grounds in the equality legislation.
Please send these Recommendations to your local TDs, and ask them to speak up about this religious discrimination.

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On Tuesday, the Travis County Commissioners’ Court declined to act on redistricting maps it prepared based on the actions of a federal court in San Antonio. The move effectively pauses the county’s redistricting process.
It came as the San Antonio court met to respond to a stay issued by the U.S. Supreme Court. In proceedings which lasted all day, the court – as reported by the Quorum Report – seemed set to approve an agreement between lawyers for the Texas Democratic and Republican parties that would extend the candidate filing deadline for all Texas office-seekers until Dec. 19. It would also suspend all residency requirements until new districts are set and indicated that candidates would be allowed to amend their filings without the risk of penalty.
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Under the agreement, the filing period would be reopened as soon as a firm ruling about the maps is handed down. The original filing deadline was set for Dec. 15. The date move will be particularly welcomed by Texas Republicans. The party had stopped accepting filings for office.
The San Antonio court is set to approve a final version of the agreement today at noon. According to redistricting expert Michael Li, the parties in the San Antonio suit will talk about primary dates on Thursday and the court will reconvene on Friday.
But as of Tuesday evening, there were many questions over primary timing. Though the San Antonio court discussed leaving the presidential primary on March 6 – and holding a primary for all other offices at a later date – it took no firm action. Lawyers are set to be back in San Antonio on Jan. 12 to hash out lingering issues.
According to the Quorum Report, a majority of Texas state senators on Tuesday released a statement calling on Attorney General Greg Abbott not to seek a split primary, citing voter confusion and additional costs to taxpayers.
Republican officials remain wary of a split primary. Should the presidential vote be separated from state and local primaries, they worry that Tea Party candidates could benefit from a low voter turn-out.
An additional primary would, of course, not be free. On Tuesday, the San Antonio Court heard testimony that offered a hint about what the extra election might cost Texas taxpayers. Travis County Clerk Dana De Beauvoir told the court that the costs for a primary and a runoff are about $350,000. Dallas County costs could be as much as $600,000.
Small counties could be devastated by the additional expense. Maverick County Judge David Saucedo reportedly told the court that his jurisdiction would have to come up with nearly $90,000—a prospect that could force layoffs.
The U.S. Supreme Court stepped in last Friday evening with an order that stayed the San Antonio court’s redrawing of the Texas Legislature’s redistricting boundaries. Abbott had argued that the San Antonio panel’s efforts represented an over-step. Attorneys for many parties who challenged the Legislature’s lines maintain that the original maps violate the federal Voting Rights Act.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby admitted Tuesday there’s going to be a “period of some discomfort” as federal investigators continue their probe into college basketball recruiting.
Oklahoma State coach Mike Boynton would not address reporters’ questions at Big 12 media day about the issue. Former Cowboys assistant coach Lamont Evans was one of the first swept up in the wave of arrests in September.
“I know that everybody wants answers to some of those things,” Boynton said. “Really can’t answer much with regard to the investigation. I will tell you just like everybody else in the country, probably in the world, when that headline comes across your phone, because I was on the plane that morning, I was shocked!”
The investigation is being led by the U.S. Attorney’s office in New York. The probe focuses on whether coaches accepted bribes from shoe companies to steer players in certain directions. All Oklahoma State players have been ruled eligible. Texas officials have said the Longhorns have “no reason” to be concerned.
Bowlsby said the league held an athletic directors meeting, and “they’re not quite sure where to go.” The league office, much like the rest of the nation, only learned about the investigation after the FBI started making arrests.
The NCAA has provided guidance, Bowlsby said, that encouraged schools to go back and essentially double down on compliance efforts. Still, the NCAA enforcement staff does not have subpoena power to chase down bad actors.
Bowlsby said its not hard to see this type of investigation stretching into college football,” especially as you think of 7-on-7 and some of the non-scholastic aspects of it,” he said.
Frogs looking up: The biggest preseason surprise may have been TCU landing third in the coaches preseason conference poll. The school had never been picked higher than eighth. The Horned Frogs won the NIT last season and are the clear up-and-comers under second-year coach Jamie Dixon.
“TCU’s going to be a force in our league as long as he’s there,” Kansas coach Bill Self said.
Asked if he was surprised to be picked higher than TCU’s football team was in the preseason, Dixon said, “Gary (Patterson) was giving me a hard time at some point, but I guess he’s getting the last laugh right now.”
TCU got a scare in August when it was announced guard Jaylen Fisher suffered a torn meniscus injury. He missed the team’s trip to Australia, but Dixon expects him to be ready for the season opener.
Women back to KC: The Big 12 announced the women’s basketball tournament will move back to Kansas City in 2020 and will once again be played alongside the men’s event. The women’s tournament was played in Kansas City’s Municipal Auditorium off and on for years but broke away from the men in 2013.
Bowlsby said Kansas City officials have poured $5 million in upgrades into Municipal Auditorium, a 10,000-seat arena that opened in 1936.
More rule changes: Curtis Shaw, the Big 12 coordinator of basketball officials, said there are 26 new rules this season but only 10-12 that affect the actual game. The NCAA rules committee wants to see scoring in the 80s. Thus, officials will be calling it much tighter, especially on the low block.
“I think the only thing that is a little bit alarming to me is that we act like there’s never going to be any contact,” West Virginia coach Bob Huggins said. “If it has no effect on the play, why call it?”
Also, Shaw said schools have become more accommodating at removing out-of-control fans. Kentucky fans flooded referee John Higgins’ Omaha-based roofing business with phone calls and online complaints after he worked the Wildcats’ NCAA loss to North Carolina.
“You always had abusive fans, but it wasn’t to the level that it is today. I think our fans have gone overboard,” Shaw said. “We’re just waiting for a fan to come out and hit a referee.”
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Phryne Fisher is a lady detective with a twist isn’t she?
She’s a delight – buoyant, fun and complex, a modern woman of the 1920s who’s a champion for women’s rights and underdogs but also incredibly wealthy, multi-lingual and partial to finding love in peculiar and dangerous places. She’s a fox!
Much more Charlie’s Angel than Miss Marple then?
Oh yeah, Phyrne does it all: shooting, dagger-throwing and hatchet hurling, even kneeing bad guys in the balls. She’s a superhero but a real woman with her own demons and a sad life story that she’s forever trying to puzzle out. I think the most glorious thing about her is she can do anything and she’s prepared to do anything – from picking a lock with a hair-pin to somersaulting through a window.
And accessorising to suit…
It’s set between two wars, a fascinating era for Melbourne and Australia and an era of opulent design and art deco stylings so of course all the outfits and cars and sets are divine. Each of the episodes is in a different Melbourne locale – beachside, industrial, often in beautiful Natural Trust homes – so it’s very sumptuous and a real feast for the eyes. But lucky for me Phryne’s most essential accessories are an elegant, gold-plated little Smith & Wesson gun with a pearl handle and a super-skinny stiletto dagger with a turned ivory handle that slips neatly into my stocking top. It’s a beautiful gun and a beautiful dagger and both were a pleasure to carry!
The 11 Phryne Fisher novels by Aussie author Kerry Greenwood are all full of crackling dialogue. Did that attract you to the role?
Very much. Phryne’s a classic lady sleuth in that sense – she talks rapid-fire and her words come clever and witty from a tongue as lethal as it is seductive… she’s an outrageous flirt and someone capable of humiliating people in order to uncover their evil. Women of the ‘20s were no scaredy cats, they were increasingly independent, taking off their corsets, cutting their hair and buying houses and cars.
It’s a huge production – 13 hour-long episodes. Has it been fun?
The schedule has been slaughter, particularly as I’m in 90 per cent of the scenes. But what’s been great about playing Phryne and what I’ve always found most attractive about acting is slipping into the shoes of someone else. It’s that simple. Sometimes you have to walk through a private fear or embarrass yourself for a role but to get that whooosh of adrenaline where the character’s thoughts and emotions surge through your body and you’re just a conduit, not consciously acting but outside of it all… well that’s an incredible buzz. I felt like that watching myself in Cloudstreet – I didn’t see me, and that made me proud.
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Anneke Wills, a well-known British actress, has amassed an estimated net worth of $1.4 million as of 2023. Throughout her career, she has garnered widespread recognition and acclaim for her extraordinary contributions to the entertainment industry. Renowned for her captivating performances, Wills' talent and dedication have undoubtedly played a significant role in her financial success. With her incredible achievements, she has solidified her position as a prominent actress in the UK and continues to be a cherished figure in the hearts of fans worldwide.
Anneke Wills made her acting debut at age eleven in a film called Child's Play (1954). She then studied at a drama school, the Arts Educational, for about four years, winning many children's TV and theatre roles. Subsequently, she enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, but did not complete the course. More TV work followed, including roles in Armchair Theatre (1956), The Saint (1962) and The Avengers (1961). In 1962, she starred in Some People (1962) alongside Kenneth More, David Hemmings, Ray Brooks & Angela Douglas, a film inspired by the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme. Four years later, she became famous on TV as "Polly Wright", the Doctor's companion in Doctor Who (1963) (her then-husband, Michael Gough, having recently played the "Celestial Toymaker"). Later, she won another regular TV role in the crime drama Strange Report (1969) which also starred Anthony Quayle and Kaz Garas. After the cast turned down the opportunity to make a second series in America, she gave up acting and moved to Norfolk, where she ran a craft shop. In 1977, she left England and lived at various times in Belgium, India - where she stayed in a religious retreat and returned to the stage in some Shakespeare productions - and in the USA. She settled in Canada, where she directed a production of the play "Rashomon", but worked mainly as an interior decorator. Recently, she returned to the UK and settled in Devon.

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BECKLEY, W.Va. — People who want to cast their ballots early for the May 8 primary election have until Saturday to do so.
Early voting for the primary election began April 25 and ends on Saturday. As of 8:45 a.m. Thursday, 42,923 people had cast ballots so far. Of that number, 22,299 were Democrat, 13,981 were Republican, 24 were Mountain Party, 6,493 were no party affiliation, and 126 were other, according to data from the West Virginia Secretary of State’s office.
Here is the county breakdown so far for early voting: Raleigh: 1,330 total, 692 Democrat, 447 Republican, one Mountain Party, 190 no party affiliation.
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Sintratec vs. Sinterit SLS 3D Printers
When you are shopping around for a new SLS 3D printer, it only makes sense to consider all of the options available on the market. At the moment, the two leaders in affordable SLS 3D printing are Sintratec and Sinterit. With names this close, it is not surprising when we find customers confused between the two brands.
- Sintratec 3D printers are designed and manufactured in Switzerland.
- Sinterit 3D printers are designed and manufactured in Poland.
Focus on Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) technology
- While many newcomers to the SLS market are chasing the "next big thing", both Sintratec and Sinterit have focused on SLS technology since their inception.
- Sintratec was founded in 2014 and has won 14 prestigious awards for their technology.
- Sinterit was also founded in 2014 and has won 9 awards for their technology.
- Both companies identified a gap in the market for SLS 3D printing technology, which prior to 2014, required an investment of at least $200,000.
- Sintratec has focused their development on serving researchers, professionals and industrial customers, with prices ranging from $6,000 - $40,000.
- Sinterit has focused their development on high level hobbyists and business looking to explore SLS, with prices ranging from $13,000 - $60,000.
- With the impending release of the NILS 480, Sinterit now has a 3D printer that may appeal to the industrial consumer.
- Sintratec is represented by 3DChimera (that's us). 3DChimera was founded by engineers for engineers and is based in Miami, FL. We have been in business since 2013 and service customers around the USA including Apple, DuPont, Toshiba, Adidas, the US Army and many other organizations large and small. We have been working with Sintratec since 2017.
- Sinterit is represented by 3DHerndon. They were founded in 2014 and are based in Herndon, VA.
Nylon & TPE printing capability
- The Sintratec printers can print PA12 and TPE right out of the box, with may new materials in development like Carbon Fiber Nylon, Glass Fiber Nylon, and Polypropylene (PP). In addition, the Sintratec Kit is an open material 3D printer, allowing for exotic applications.
- The Sinterit printers can print PA11, PA11 ESD, PA 11 Carbon Fiber, PA12, TPE, "Flexa", and Polypropylene (PP) in their stock configurations, dependent on machine.
Low power laser
- Both the Sintratec and Sinterit printers utilize a low power laser to sinter the powder in the build chamber.
- Traditionally, the laser is the most expensive component in an SLS system, and the cost savings from this lower power laser is how these systems can be manufactured to be more affordable that other competitors.
- In order for this to work, the wavelength of the laser and the color of the powder must be tuned to work perfectly together - this is why the most of the materials printed on these machines use grey powder.
While there are many similarities between the two brands, there are also some big differences which need to be considered for your unique application.
- All SLS 3D printers have an available build volume and a usable build volume. The usable build volume is the area where the parts are able to be printed without concern regarding warping or curling during the print process. This volume can vary by material.
- These are the maximum usable build volumes for the Sintratec and Sinterit SLS 3D Printers:
- From these specs and photos of the printers above, you can see that the Sintratec S2 is a ground up redesign of the Sintratec Kit. The Sintratec S2 is a modular system with a cylindrical build volume.
- The Sinterit Lisa, Lisa Pro, and Lisa X are virtually the same printer, with the Lisa Pro and Lisa X each having a slightly taller build volume than the standard Lisa model.
- The Sinterit NILS 480, when released, is geared for industrial consumers with Sinterit’s largest build volume.
Laser construction & print speed
- All Sintratec 3D printers use a galvo-based laser system. This allows the laser to remain in a fixed position while precision galvos direct the laser pattern and permits the Sintratec printers to be 4-8x faster when printing the exact same geometry as Sinterit.
- The speed of the Sintratec printers is determined by the height of the parts in the z-direction.
Learning opportunity & lower initial investment with Sintratec Kit
- The Sintratec Kit is the first and only kit based SLS 3D printer available on the market. This allows the builder to learn every component in the system during the assembly process, making it perfect for educational and research environments.
- Since you the option to assemble, the Sintratec team passes the savings along to you, making it the least expensive SLS 3D printer on the market.
Modular system allows for controlled growth with the Sintratec S2
- The Sintratec S2 is broken into 3 main modules - a laser sintering station, material core unit and material handling station.
- Each of these modules can be purchased separately when you need to increase throughput or capacity.
- This allows you to control expenses and strategically invest in more hardware on an as needed basis.
- Common expansion sets include the starter cell plus and production cell to accompany the starter cell.
Sintratec SLS 3D printers are built for industry and research
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In an area that is characterized mostly by desert, the trees have preserved an ecological niche because they exploit a wispy-thin source of water that only occurs seasonally, said Elfatih A.B. Eltahir, professor of civil and environmental engineering, and former MIT graduate student Anke Hildebrandt.
After studying the Oman site, they also expressed concern that the unusual forest could be driven into extinction if hungry camels continue eating too much of the foliage. As the greenery disappears it's possible the trees will lose the ability to pull water from the mist and recharge underground reservoirs.
A report on their research was published in a recent issue of Geophysical Research Letters. They are also advising the Omani government on handling the problem.
The forest is especially unique, said Eltahir and Hildebrandt, because it "is a water-limited seasonal cloud forest" that is kept alive by water droplets gathered from passing clouds -- ground fog. The water dribbles into the ground and sustains the trees later when the weather is dry. The MIT work suggests the trees actually get more of their water through contact with clouds than via rainfall.
In general, cloud forests are not really rare. But they occur most frequently in moist tropical regions where there is ample rainfall. So it is unusual, the researchers said, to find a cloud forest in a region known for chronic dryness.
The researchers studied the area in Oman to learn how the Dhofar Mountain ecosystem "functions naturally, and how it may respond to human activity" that could lead to desertification and the need for reforestation.
Eltahir and Hildebrandt, who is now at the UFZ Center for Environmental Research, in Leipzig, Germany, said the unusual forest is an interesting remnant "of a moist vegetation belt that once spread across the Arabian Peninsula" in the distant past. At that time the regional climate was generally wetter.
The forested area in the Sultanate of Oman is now semi-arid, and most of the ancient tree vegetation is gone. This small remnant has managed to survive in the Dhofar Mountains.
But it is under threat.
Although many Omanis have moved into cities and towns as the country has grown rich on oil, Eltahir explained, a family's prestige still comes from owning many camels, and people now tend to keep more camels than they need, which is part of the problem facing the forest.
"It is an unusual place," Eltahir said. "It's a very good example of a unique and fragile ecosystem" where constant pressure from over-grazing can have consequences beyond defoliation. In fact, the forest illustrates how small changes can lead to major impact on far bigger systems, Eltahir said.
The trees in wetter ecosystems would likely recover from small amounts of over-grazing, Eltahir said, but "in this location, due to the nature of the interaction of the canopy structure with the clouds, the trees may not recover."
The two said the forest probably would not regenerate naturally once it is gone. Without the trees that sweep the extra water from clouds, the forest cannot regrow. Grass, even if abundant, cannot collect enough moisture from fog to let a forest regrow.
Elizabeth A. Thomson | MIT News Office
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Heritage Hall serves as the institutional repository for Calvin Theological Seminary. This includes documents about the seminary’s history, papers and correspondences of seminary presidents, departmental records, and more. Search the Calvin Theological Seminary collection through our online database of finding aids: archives.calvin.edu.
Read on below to learn more about the history of Calvin Theological Seminary and its presidents.
1876 August 4, school opened, located on Spring Street, Grand Rapids, MI
1892 Move to campus at Madison Ave. and Franklin St. (Fifth Ave.). Grand Rapids, MI
1894 September 8, literary course begun education preliminary to seminary instruction (comparable to present-day high school curriculum)
1900 Literary course extended to five years and opened to non pre-seminary students
1901 September 4, first women students admitted
1906 John Calvin Junior College opens - 6 year program included 4 years academy training and 2 years of college; first public commencement at LaGrave Ave. Christian Reformed Church
1907 Student journal/newspaper Chimes begins Alumni Association begins
1914 Junior College expanded to three year course; Franklin Campus purchased
1917 Move to Franklin Campus, Grand Rapids, MI
1919 First college president
1920 Curriculum expanded to four year college course
1921 First graduate with bachelor's degrees
1924 With opening of Grand Rapids Christian High School, last year for preparatory students; first dormitory opened
1925 Teacher training becomes part of college curriculum, previously there had been several separate teacher training programs
1926 First dean of women, Johanna Timmer
1928 March 8, Hekman Library dedicated
1930 October 29, Franklin seminary building dedicated
1946 Enrollment jumps from 503 to 1245 in one year
1950 College enters M.I.A.A.
1956 Knollcrest campus purchase approved by Synod of Christian Reformed Church
1960 Theological Seminary begins classes on Knollcrest Campus
1962 First college classes at held Knollcrest
1973 Move to Knollcrest complete
1991 Seminary and College have separate boards of trustees
2019 Calvin College becomes Calvin University
When the Theological School of the Christian Reformed Church opened in 1876, it had one instructor, whose title was docent and was in charge of the school's day-to-day affairs. As other instructors, also called docents, joined the staff, the title rector was applied to the person in charge of daily affairs. When the literary curriculum was added in 1894, the head of the Literary section went by the title of principal, while the head of the Religious section was called the rector. The office of college president was created in 1918 to replace the office of principal. The seminary head remained the rector until 1931. During this time, the position of rector rotated among the seminary faculty. In 1931 the rector became seminary president.
Geert Egberts Boer
Samuel B. Volbeda
Rienk B. Kuiper
John H. Kromminga
James A. DeJong
Cornelius Plantinga Jr.
Julius T. Medenblik

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I carved Henrietta in a Northern hemisphere winter, and she has bare feet, and they are chilly! I’ve mentioned that I make Hitty socks using Meg Bakewell’s Tiniest Wee Sock pattern with some adaptions. I don’t recommend you try this if you haven’t ever knit a sock before, but if you want to try, the gallery below will show exactly what I do:
Using your favourite stretchy cast on method, lace weight yarn and size 1 mm needles, cast on 12 stitches over two needles.
transfer the stitches to three single DPNs with six on the first needle, and three on each of the two others. form a circle so you can knit in rounds
Make a ribbed cuff – knit one, purl one for four rows
Knit plain for five more rows
The needle with six stitches on it will be the heel, you will leave the other two needles alone for now and work back and forth on the six stitches on that one needle.
slip the first stitch, knit to the end.
Then slip the first stitch and purl to the end.
repeat these two rows once (four rows in all for the heel flap)
Turn the heel:
Slip 1 knit 4, wrap and turn;
Purl 4, wrap and turn;
knit 3, wrap and turn;
purl 2, wrap and turn;
pick up four stitches at the side of the heel flap and add them to the heel needle (10 stitches).
then knit the six instep stitches (three stitches on each of two needles);
then pick up four stitches on the other side of the heel flap; continuing with the same needle, knit three stitches and place a marker. This will be the beginning of your rounds. keep knitting on the same needle…it will seem odd because you will end up with 14 stitches on this needle, but trust me, it is easier to keep track this way. keep knitting around to the marker.
after you have knit one round, knit to the last two stitches of the heel needle, knit two together, then knit the six stitches across the instep; then on the heel needle, slip 1, knit one, pass the slipped stitch over the knitted stitch. and knit to the marker.
Alternate a plain knit round with a decrease round until you are back to six stitches on the one needle, and three stitches on each of the other two. Knit three or four more rows plain.
Decrease again for the toe by knitting two together all around one round, then a plain row, then knit two together again all around. Then thread a needle and catch all the loops as you pull the knitting needles out.
pull the sock over a 1/4 inch dowel and steam or wet it and let dry
give your barefoot Hitty her new sock and go knit another one!
I hope it isn’t too horribly confusing. If you’ve knitted a human sock this will all probably make more sense than if you don’t know how to knit and this is your first ever sock.


In the year 2022 the logistics industry’s annual revenue will top $15 trillion dollars. The market size and potential is immense, but it is also complex. The global supply chain consists of millions of actors and a myriad of cargo types. No supply chain is the same and very rarely do two actors in the supply chain have the exact same problem. While advances in the physical supply chain have been made, the associated information supply chain is where the logistics industry has fallen behind. With existing technologies and solutions, supply-chain-wide transparency and visibility of information is almost impossible. Participants are restricted to sharing pre-agreed information on a point-to-point basis using pre-Internet communication protocols. This means the majority of cargo information is locked away in siloed legacy systems. A different approach to sharing information is required to bring innovation and improve supply chain visibility.
Originally, blockchain technology was designed for digital currencies such as Bitcoin. It wasn’t long before the tech community recognised its potential for other applications, to the point it’s become the backbone of a new type of Internet. As everyone in the supply chain industry is aware, managing a chain is complex. It can involve hundreds of stages, many locations, many financial transactions, and potentially thousands of people communicating with each other. There is a real need for more streamlined and efficient processes. Blockchain is emerging as a potential solution, the new technology makes it easier to track and trace a product, allowing all partners involved to see where it has originated, where it’s been, and where it’s destined to go. This level of transparency makes it harder for counterfeiters to hack into supply chain systems and cause problems.
With the emergence of blockchain and the impact it’s having on supply chains, there are opportunities for application developers to get in on the action. According to Gartner, the emergence of technologies like blockchain, IoT, AI, and robotics is fuelling rapid expansion in the supply chain software market. They expect this market to total $USD 19 billion by 2021, and continue growing at a compound rate of 7.5% to 2024. What this means is the opportunity to develop supply chain apps is immense.


Fix pensions now
For nearly an entire General Assembly session, legislators have wrestled with public pensions and, so far, pensions are winning the match. To borrow a colorful verb from Sen. Damon Thayer, we are stupefied that he and other Senate leaders are content to wait another year to address the "pension problem" - the massive unfunded liability. Every month, the KERS non-hazardous fund creeps closer to insolvency. The fund has $2.9 billion in assets and pays out nearly $860 million in benefits each year.
It could run out of available assets to pay current benefits in three years. Those obligations won't magically disappear. They have to be paid as a matter of law. Instead of getting the job done, the Senate has held hostage a funding solution to get what it wants in so-called pension "reform." Taxpayers need to understand one central point - tweaking retirement benefits does nothing at all to address the approaching fiscal Armageddon. Indeed, the Kentucky Public Pensions Task Force's own hand-picked anti-defined benefit consultants said that the state could eliminate all retirement benefits for new hires and still not save much money on the unfunded liability.
The hole is that deep. If the legislature were students, we would urge them to "concentrate on task." Come back in the final two days of the session and pass a bill that identifies a revenue solution to the unfunded liability. Don't wait for an expensive, unnecessary special session to do the right thing for Kentucky's taxpayers.
Frankfort, Ky. 40601
Thanks to Heleringer
Many thanks to former state representative, Bob Heleringer, for putting such a human face, in last Sunday's Forum article, on the needs of many veterans and other seniors in nursing homes. His perspective is so timely and strategic, given the current efforts by industry lobbyists, in the current legislature, to water down accountability for abuse and neglect in these care facilities.
How can we not agree that the "Greatest Generation" deserves much better than many are getting? The Kentucky Council of Churches also deserves much credit for its ongoing efforts in making this case through its executive director, the Rev. Dr.Marian Taylor.
GARY E. PENNINGTON
End air ball chant
I was disappointed to see that the Kentucky legislature adjourned another session without making it a misdemeanor to yell, "AIR BALL! AIR BALL!" at any basketball game in the commonwealth.
1953 inauguration parade
While watching the inauguration parade for President Obama in January, it brought back a great memory from 60 years ago, when I was a member of the Louisville Male High School marching band, and had the privilege of representing the state of Kentucky in President Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration parade in Washington. Just recently, one of my former band associates passed away, and in his obituary, it was included the fact that he was part of that parade. I wonder just how many of our 1953 band assembly might still be around.
In any event, after all of these years, I realize that I do not have a single picture of our band at the event. I sent a message to the principal of Male High asking if they might have such a picture or pictures in their archives, but have not heard anything back on my request.
I would very much like to find out if there is anyone who might read this that might have a picture or two that I can have reproduced and add to my collection. Certainly this would be a great item to add to my assorted memoirs collected over the years.
I might add that one of my closest friends, going back to high school days in the early '50s, and also a member of the band, reminded me that while we were on the train ready to head back to Louisville that we also saw Harry and Bess Truman standing on a platform.
Any information would be appreciated.
DON J. STIER
Louisville Male High School, Class of 1954


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The shadow cabinet is set to meet today to discuss the possibility of drafting a private members bill to fit in the delayed electoral reforms.
The move followed delayed response from government on the readiness of this bill, which is intended to streamline the 2016 general elections.
According to the Leader of Opposition Wafula Ogutu, all is set for the shadow cabinet to handle this issue since they have views from all political parties.
He explains that the issue of electoral reforms must be treated as a matter of urgency.
This comes as parliament resumes business today after a long recess with the Anti-Corruption Bill and Registration in Persons bills top on agenda.
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East Hartford – Jim Mora will meet the UConn football team for the first time as head coach at 9 a.m. on Sunday.
It is on fire and ready to take off.
Its long list of things to do stretches from Stamford to Storrs.
“I can’t wait to talk to these players,” Mora said on Saturday morning after his official introductory press conference ahead of UConn’s 45-17 loss to No.19 Houston at Rentschler Field. “And then we’ll have the opportunity to announce our staff. And then we’re going to hit the road and we’re going to recruit like crazy.
“I can’t wait to get to know our current players better and assimilate our staff into our community. So I don’t think there is anything that I am not looking forward to. You talk about being rejuvenated, rejuvenated and passionate, I can I can’t remember ever feeling that in my life from a professional point of view. It’s just amazing. “
That says a lot when you consider that Mora’s impressive resume includes 31 years of coaching experience at the NFL and college levels.
Mora will need a lot of energy, enthusiasm, passion, patience and coaching skills to turn around a program that has suffered 10 straight losing seasons, including 1-11 this fall.
Since the announcement of his hiring on November 11, Mora has not been idle. He has been an assistant coach while focusing primarily on recruiting and program evaluation. He plans to rebuild himself through recruitment and will complete the list through the transfer portal.
Mora has tried to be as low-key as possible out of respect for the current staff and players. He took to the pitch in the second half of games to get a feel for the energy and to assess whether the players are still emotionally invested. He spent time in the dining room with the players.
“I look at this team and these players and I see young men who really care,” said Mora. “They haven’t thrown in the towel. I see a lot of character and I see talent that can be developed. I think what’s important is that we just create a mindset on this team. football and this culture in this program that leads to success. “
Another goal of Mora is to get out into the community and beyond.
He attended sporting events and UConn’s group rehearsals, visited Governor Ned Lamont, and watched two high school games including the Thanksgiving battle between Norwich Free Academy and New London.
He really enjoyed his first NFA-New London game.
“First of all, it was an amazing and beautiful walk and being right on the water’s edge,” said Mora, who lives near the UConn campus. “I’m standing there on the sidelines and I’m like ‘this is really awesome.’ I’m at a high school game in Connecticut, which is the oldest rivalry game in our country, on Thanksgiving Day. was really cool.
He also prioritized developing relationships with the state’s high school football community, as well as retaining top talent in the state.
Eighteen players on this season’s roster are from Connecticut.
“This is the public school,” Mora said. “We’re going to build something special. Players who fit our profile and have the ability, this is where they should dream of coming. When they are little, they should be passionate about the potential of playing UConn. They should be running in the streets in UConn jerseys. “
With that in mind, Mora reached out to high school coaches across the state. He invited them to attend clinics, visit practices, attend staff and player meetings.
“I think I have a lot to learn from them, not only about our state and our high school and football preparation in our state, but also about football,” said Mora. “I have found that there are great coaches at all levels. I think there are pearls of wisdom everywhere. So it is extremely important that we involve the Connecticut high school football coaches and that we get them involved and make them feel welcome so that when they have a good football player they will feel safe and comfortable sending them to UConn. “
This will obviously not be a quick fix.
UConn is one of the worst Subdivision Bowl Football teams in the country. The Huskies have won just four games and lost 32 in the past three seasons.
Mora takes up the challenge. He once ran a college program, running the show at UCLA. In his six years, he was 46-30 overall and led the Bruins to the 2012 Pac-12 South Championship and two bowl wins.
“Whether it’s hiking, climbing, skinning or mountain biking, whatever it is, I love going up slopes,” Mora said. “I like tough things. Hard things motivate me. It’s just another chance to keep climbing a hill. I love this opportunity.”
So what will Mora’s success look like at UConn?
“Success takes many forms,” he said. “Definitely on the pitch it means a competitive and nationally respected football team. It also means our student-athletes graduate and graduate and develop other passions and other paths to success outside. from the football field.
“In terms of a timeline, I’m not going to stick to a timeline. I’m going to say that every day we’re going to take one more step towards improvement.”


text: Combination Indices (CI) were also calculated according to the method that was developed by Chou and Talalay . pressured manifestation of CKS1B by lentivirus vector-mediated CKS1B-cDNA transfection in MM cells improved drug-resistance, providing direct evidence of the crucial part of CKS1B in MM progression. Furthermore, we also recognized STAT3 and MEK/ERK/ BCL2 pathways to be downstream focuses on of CKS1B activation self-employed on the complex of SKP2/p27Kip1. RESULTS CKS1B manifestation is improved in relapsed MM and confers a short post-relapse survival Our previous studies showed that CKS1B was one of the 70 high-risk genes, inversely associated with survival in newly diagnosed MM . We compared CKS1B manifestation in 51 individuals with combined baseline (diagnostic) and relapse samples. The median signals of CKS1B from microarray data at analysis and at relapse were 1398 (range: 370 ~ 4433) and Prednisolone 2174 (range: 405 ~ 9867), respectively. manifestation improved in 76% of relapsed MMs and was more than 1.5 fold higher in 51% (Number ?(Number1A;1A; = 2.39 10?5). Open in a separate windows Fig. 1 Improved CKS1B manifestation in relapsed myeloma links a short postrelapse survival(A) CKS1B transmission for 51 combined arrays was acquired at analysis and relapse. The high risk (quartile 4) research line is taken from the complete (n=351) sample Prednisolone of arrays at analysis. Note that a majority of samples showed improved manifestation at relapse; probably the most dramatic changes were observed in individuals with manifestation levels in quartiles 1C3 at analysis. A combined College student test was used to compare log-scale transmission at analysis and relapse. (B) Kaplan-Meier analysis of postrelapse survival is shown in relation to manifestation from low manifestation at baseline (BL-Low) to low manifestation at relapse (RL-Low; n = 15) DIAPH1 and BL-Low to high manifestation at relapse (RL-High; n = 23) and already high manifestation at baseline (BL-High; n = 13) determined by microarray. At the time of analysis, the median follow-up of a post-relapse survival was 14 weeks Prednisolone (range, 0.3 to 50 weeks) with this analysis.. Once we expected, individuals, who experienced CKS1B manifestation in quartile 4 (high-risk) at baseline and receiving numerous salvage therapies experienced the worst 4-12 months post-relapse survival (Number ?(Number1B;1B; = 0.0012). The quartile 4 research line is taken from the complete sample (n= 351) of arrays at analysis [3, 10]. Interestingly, among 38/51 relapsed individuals with low CKS1B manifestation (quartiles 1 ~ 3) at baseline, but who showed increased CKS1B manifestation of at least 1.5 fold at relapse experienced inferior 4-year post-relapse survival compared with those lacking a 1.5 fold CKS1B up-regulation at relapse (Number ?(Number1B;1B; = 0.032). Furthermore, among 36 relapsed individuals with high CKS1B manifestation at relapse, the 4-12 months post-relapse survival of those with high CKS1B at baseline and at relapse was significantly worse compared with that of individuals with high CKS1B manifestation only at relapse (Number ?(Number1B;1B; = 0.0247). These data further confirm that manifestation is definitely a prognositic marker especially at analysis, but also at relapse. CKS1B over-expression promotes MM cell drug-resistance Improved manifestation of CKS1B is definitely a progression event, but it is possible that CKS1B may be heterogeneously indicated in myeloma cells at analysis, and current treatments ineffectively eliminate the small populations of CKS1B high-expression myeloma cells, leading to relapse. To test the hypothesis that MM cells with high manifestation of CKS1B are more drug-resistance and responsible for MM relapse, CKS1B was over-expressed in OCI-MY5 and XG-1 MM cells by lentivirus vector-mediated CKS1B-cDNA transfection (Number ?(Figure2A).2A). CKS1B-transfected OCI-MY5 and XG-1 cells were treated with bortezomib (Vel) at a dose of 5 nM for 48 hours. Cell growth and cell survival were examined. Untreated and EV-transfected cells with or without bortezomib served as settings. As demonstrated in Number 2B & 2C, bortezomib treatment induced significantly less growth inhibition (Number ?(Figure2B)2B) and cell death (Figure ?(Figure2C)2C) in CKS1B-transfected cells compared with EV-transfected controls ( 0 .05). Similarly, treatment of doxorubicin (Dox) 100nM (Number 2D & 2E) and etoposide (Epo) 100nM (Number 2F & 2G) for 48 hours, induced significantly less.

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Broker tips: Frasers Group, Admiral
(Sharecast News) - Shore Capital has reiterated its 'buy' recommendation on Frasers Group after the retail conglomerate purchased loss-making fast fashion group Matches this week. On Wednesday, Mike Ashley's Frasers announced that it has bought loss-making luxury clothing site Matchesfashion from Apax Partners for around £52.0m in cash.
Matches offers more than 450 established and next-generation designers and generates the majority of its revenue internationally, with the business delivering to 150 countries outside the UK, Frasers said. The gross assets of the acquired companies were around £170m at the end of January 2023.
Frasers noted that the business has been loss-making in recent years and said the adjusted LBITDA for the year ended 31 January was a loss of £33.5m.
Shore Capital said the deal price is "highly affordable" for Frasers, as the acquisition "is modest in the big scheme of things, and has the basis to be complementary and synergistic".
However, Frasers' ongoing stake-building within other companies such as Boohoo and Asos - the latter of which it has become its biggest shareholder this year after a series of investments - "remains a more questionable exercise", Shore Capital said.
Analysts at Berenberg downgraded insurance group Admiral from 'buy' to 'hold' on Thursday but raised its target price on the stock from 2,543.0p to 2,961.0p, stating it was now "pausing for breath".
Berenberg said Admiral has been one of the strongest performers in the insurance sector in 2023, up by 29% year-to-date, and it believes the stock will continue to have earnings per share upgrades primarily due to "very strong re-pricing" of the UK motor insurance market.
However, the German bank believes the complexity of Admiral's accounting leads to "some risk" and the high valuation multiple the company already trades on may limit the upside in the near term.
"In our view, Admiral's reserving position is still under-appreciated and we consider it as a key strength of the group. This confidence comes in part from the risk adjustment which is set to the 94th percentile, the most conservative among the insurers within our coverage," said Berenberg.
The analysts noted that one risk comes from a 'mixed injuries' court case, due to be heard in the UK Supreme Court in the first quarter of 2024, which will decide how whiplash and non-whiplash claims are to be combined in a claim settlement.
"Admiral is typically very conservative in its booking of claim reserves and we note that a negative outcome for the insurers would likely keep pricing momentum up," added Berenberg.
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Does this weather get you thinking about sunnier places and warmer times? I’ve been remembering a big summer house we visited regularly in the 1990s, that relaxed comfortably in a mature landscape on the Atlantic coast near Chester, Nova Scotia.
Our friend Joanne was a friend of the owner’s family, and would rent the house for a month and then let rooms to 8 or 10 friends. Sheila and I would stay a week or so.
Here I am playing a winning game of croquet in 1993, but usually eating was the only organized activity.
The star of this story is the house. It was fun to observe when people entered for the first time and realized they were somewhere very special, an intact survivor from another time. A ritual that many guests would perform involved trying to reconstruct the history of the house and why it felt so beautifully perfect.
My version of the creation legend is that the house was built by a wealthy lady from Baltimore who was a cousin of Nathaniel Hawthorne (or was it James Fenimore Cooper). The woodwork was prefabricated in the states and shipped up here in the first years of the 20th century, and all the original furnishings were bought from the Gustave Stickley furniture company. During WWII, the house was used by Norwegian naval officers who had been at sea when their country was occupied.
Houses similar to this were built in places like coastal Maine and the Adirondacks by people wanting to escape the summer heat and unhealthy air of the big American industrial cities. It was designed for informal living, and we were probably using it as the original occupants intended. When new, the craftsman-style house would have felt very modern, a rejection of the fussy, over the top decoration of the Victorian period.
A defining feature of the house were generous sun porches that wrapped around three sides. On the east and west these were really long galleries, with floor to ceiling windows and hardwood floors, and big screened doors for cross ventilation.
At the water end of the west porch was a separate, fully screened room where you could sit or dine when mosquitoes appeared, as they do.
And facing the cove the porch was open. These spaces were so large that folks could spread out, reading or socializing in whatever light or view or breeze they desired.
The core of the house was a living room that stretched the full width. The porches protected it from the summer sun and the room could be a shadowy haven on a scorching day or a cheery cocoon on cool nights around the big fireplace. The long narrow space allowed for an aggressive scrabble game at one end, letter writing at the other and drinks and storytelling by the fire.
Usually couples took turns preparing an evening meal, and the dining room table could accommodate 12 or 14 people.
Here some friends proudly display a meal they have prepared for alfresco dining.
I forget how many bedrooms there were upstairs, but we were well accommodated in large airy rooms totally furnished with Stickley furniture. All the walls in the house were made of stained wood and the bedrooms had plate rails, ideal for displaying framed ancestors or beach finds. The wooden walls were perfect for a house that was empty and unheated in the winter and had only mellowed with age.
A classic summerhouse feature was the attic dormitory that you could imagine full of kids from school, invited to visit over the summer holidays. Lots of built-in cupboards, and window seats that could sleep more.
Just below the house was a sagging wharf projecting into the sublime cove.
Here Sheila and I have ventured down to the wharf to lounge in the sun and play with coloured pencils. In this time before WiFi and mobile phones, how did we manage to fill the time?
It was a privilege to have experienced this house, and to get a glimpse into an aesthetic world I didn’t realize existed in Nova Scotia. When the house sold around 2000, my understanding is that most of the original furnishings were auctioned.
- Many Gustave Stickley furniture catalogs have been reprinted, and it is possible to leaf through them and identify most of the furniture in the house, including light fixtures.
- The house was filled with positive energy so this allusion does not reflect on the character of the house. But, the window seats/beds in the attic windows immediately brought to mind “The Death of Chatterton”, a famous 1856 painting by Henry Wallis, that hangs in the Tate. See what I mean? Thomas Chatterton was a 17-year-old romantic poet who poisoned himself with arsenic in 1770.
There are also death of Chatterton cat memes. But that’s a different story. I’m sorry I brought it up.

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770 F.2d 896 (10th Cir. 1985), 83-2484, Brown v. Reardon
|Docket Nº:||83-2484 to 83-2487.|
|Citation:||770 F.2d 896|
|Party Name:||Harry A. BROWN, Eddie M. Andrews, Dennis Normile and Kenneth E. Guth, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Jack REARDON, Mayor; Robert Zahnter, Street Commissioner; City of Kansas City, Kansas, and John P. Biscanin, Special Administrator of the Estate of Patrick Hanlon, Defendants-Appellees.|
|Case Date:||August 19, 1985|
|Court:||United States Courts of Appeals, Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit|
John H. Fields (Gail A. Bruner, with him on brief) of Carson, Fields, Asner & Carson, Kansas City, Kan., for plaintiffs-appellants.
J. Nick Badgerow of McAnany, Van Cleave & Phillips, Kansas City, Kan., for defendant-appellee Jack Reardon.
Edward H. Powers, Sr., Kansas City, Kan., for defendant-appellee, City of Kansas City, Kan.
Edward M. Boddington, Jr. (David Hauber, with him on brief) of Boddington & Brown, Kansas City, Kan., for defendant-appellee, Robert Zahnter.
George Maier, Jr. of Weeks, Thomas & Lysaught, Kansas City, Kan., on brief for defendant-appellee, Patrick Hanlon (Deceased).
Before BARRETT, SETH and McKAY, Circuit Judges.
BARRETT, Circuit Judge.
In these consolidated cases, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Harry A. Brown, Eddie M. Andrews, Dennis Normile and Kenneth E. Guth, appeal the district court's order granting summary judgment to Defendant-Appellee, City of Kansas City, Kansas (City), and its directed verdict to Defendants-Appellees, Jack Reardon, Mayor, Patrick Hanlon, Finance Commissioner, and Robert Zahnter, Street Commissioner of City of Kansas City, Kansas, in their civil rights action alleging discriminatory job layoffs in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution and 42 U.S.C. Secs. 1983, 1985 and 1986. The crux of appellants' complaint was that their layoffs from the Water Pollution Control Department of City resulted from their refusal to purchase a block of tickets for annual political fund raisers sponsored and held by the individual defendants and, further, to pay money into a political organization known as "The 83 Club." Appellants alleged that this political activity was, by implication, the policy and custom of City because it had been pursued by City's governing officials, the individual defendants, as a political patronage or "spoils" system, constituting a conspiracy based on the hiring and firing of employees strictly for political purposes.
The district court initially denied City's motion for summary judgment. However, following all pleadings, depositions, 1 affidavits and full discovery, City renewed its motion for summary judgment and the court granted this motion on October 6, 1983. The case proceeded to trial by jury against the three individual defendants, commencing on October 13, 1983. At the close of plaintiffs' evidence on October 20, 1983, the court granted the individual defendants' motion for directed verdicts. The district court entered its Memorandum and Order on October 21, 1983, reported as Brown, et al. v. Reardon, et al., 611 F.Supp. 302 (D.Kan.1985).
Appellants are former employees of City, attached to the Water Pollution Control Department, whose Director was one Gyula Kovack. This Department falls under the supervision of the Commissioner of Streets, Parks and Boulevards (L.R. Zahnter). It is undisputed that these layoffs were necessitated by the decision made by the Board of City Commissioners that all sewer general obligations bonds of City had to be retired from sewer service charges and this, in turn, dictated a reduction in the Department's work force. Thus, the need for the layoffs proper has not at any time been challenged. Large deficits would result if economy measures were not instituted.
The criteria for determination of the 26 employees in the Water Pollution Control Department to be terminated or laid off was established by Gyula Kovach, the Director. He adopted the following guidelines in determining those employees to be laid off: (1) any duplicated positions not needed would be abolished, (2) each employee's work skills would be evaluated to ascertain those most capable of performing several jobs, (3) the work records and performances of the employees would be evaluated, and (4) only if all other things were equal would the most senior employees be retained. Neither the Mayor nor the Board of City Commissioners was involved in the formulation of these criteria, nor did any of them direct Mr. Kovach in the decisions made.
Kovach testified that an employee's refusal to purchase tickets for fund raising on behalf of Street Commissioner Zahnter or refusal to contribute to "The 83 Club," a general political fund raising vehicle, played no part in his preparation of the list of those employees in the Department to be laid off. This testimony is undisputed. After the list was prepared by Mr. Kovach based on the aforesaid criteria, it was presented to Street Commissioner Zahnter who made no changes therein. In this regard, the Department is authorized by ordinance to make its own personnel decisions. The list was then submitted to the Personnel Director of City and in turn ratified by the Board of City Commissioners on January 7, 1982.
The plaintiffs testified at trial that they were contacted by Mr. Kovach, as Department head, relative to fund raising events on behalf of Street Commissioner Zahnter between 1979-1981, and that Mr. Kovach would ask how many tickets (at $10.00 each) they could use; these tickets were made available by Street Commissioner Zahnter's staff; the fund raising was to promote the re-election campaign of Zahnter and other city officials through "The 83 Club"; and the fund raising activities were general in scope, far beyond contacts with city employees. Kovach's undisputed testimony was that in the nine years he had worked for City, he knew of no incident in which any type of retribution was taken against a city employee who did not contribute, and that at no time did the Board of City Commissioners take any action or make reference to an employee who failed
or refused to purchase tickets or make contributions. There is nothing in any deposition or direct testimony of the plaintiffs that their failure to purchase tickets or contribute was a factor in the layoff determination. Evidence, objected to on hearsay grounds, was generously admitted by the trial court that: the Commissioners were supplied lists of contributors, which, of course, would reflect the names of City employees who contributed; the assistant to Mayor Reardon had been advised of harassment of employees who did not contribute; Street Commissioner Zahnter had been personally informed of alleged coercion of employees who elected not to make contributions. There was no evidence, however, that any of the defendants had any knowledge of, or participation in, political considerations (including contributions or failure to contribute) in employment decisions or that employees were told they had to contribute in order to retain their jobs. Tellingly, the record reflects that those employees laid off in the Department included both those who had regularly contributed to the individual Commissioners' re-election fund raisers and political clubs and those who had not contributed by purchase of tickets or contributions to political clubs. Many of the latter were retained by the City following the layoffs. Notwithstanding the lack of any direct evidence of defendants' alleged conspiratorial activities, appellants contend that the record as a whole supports a fair inference that the Mayor and the Board of City Commissioners were aware of and, in effect, placed their "stamp of approval" on the political activities aimed at discriminating against city employees who did not join in the scheme and that they conspired to punish plaintiffs in the layoff process in violation of their due process and First Amendment rights because they had elected not to make the political contributions.
We deem it important to note that this case does not involve a specific attack upon the validity of the political fund raising activities of the defendants per se. In other words, we are not here concerned with the question as to whether the activities are violative of a specific statutory prohibition, state or federal, such as the Hatch Act, see United Public Workers of America (C.I.O.) v. Mitchell, 330 U.S. 75, 67 S.Ct. 556, 91 L.Ed. 754 (1947), or loss of tax exempt status by a religious organization engaged in substantial activity intended to influence legislation or participate in political campaigns on behalf of specific candidates for public office. See Christian Echoes National Ministry, Inc. v. United States, 470 F.2d 849 (10th Cir.1972), cert. denied, 414 U.S. 864, 94 S.Ct. 41, 38 L.Ed.2d 84 (1973). Rather, in this case the question is whether, as a matter of fact, there is any evidence that the challenged political activities, i.e., ticket sales for individuals or contributions to "The 83 Club," played any part in the job layoffs.
The district court properly observed that in order for plaintiffs to establish a prima facie case on this claim, it was their burden to establish that "a motivating or substantial factor in defendants' decision to terminate them was their failure to buy tickets or contribute to 'The 83 Club.' Nekolny v. Painter. 653 F.2d 1164, 1168 (7th Cir.1981)." (Memorandum and Order of October 21, 1983, page 6, Appendix to Briefs, Vol. I, p. 262.)
On appeal, appellants raise the following contentions for our review: (1) whether, giving the plaintiffs the benefit of all legitimate inferences that could be properly drawn from the facts of the record at the conclusion of discovery, genuine issues of material fact existed as to the liability of defendant City relative to the wrongful discharge of...
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Can Cats Keep Snakes Away from Your House?
Cats are natural predators and will go out of their way to catch their prey. Even domesticated, indoor cats tend to catch small, furry animals such as mice and rats.
So, do cats keep snakes away? Yes, but not necessarily always. Snakes consider cats to be predators and are scared of them. However, it doesn't guarantee that having cats around will keep snakes from coming near. The snake may detect other things in the area—such as mice or birds—that it likes to eat.
Cats and Snakes: Who's Afraid of Who?
According to scientists, the phrase the cat's got the rat is rooted in fact. Domestic cats that coexist with other animals in the house—including dogs—will usually prefer to catch rodents over any other creature.
A domestic cat's mind is wired to see a rat as the most important prey it can catch, unlike a snake. Cats are natural predators, so it's natural to chase things, catch them and kill them.
The fact that cats are predators and snakes are natural prey means that cats will be much more likely to chase, catch and kill a snake than the other way around. Snakes don't look like prey and will try to escape them if they can.
Cats and Snakes: Which Animal Runs the House?
The fact that snakes don't like cats means that if the snake is in the same place as the cat, the cat will usually get to the snake first. Snakes are usually hidden within their habitat, and they are often very good at hiding.
However, the fact that cats are predators and snakes are prey doesn't mean that a snake won't try to chase a cat away. If a snake is in its habitat and a cat comes into the area, it will usually hide.
Where Snakes Interact with Cats
Unfortunately, cats often look for rats in a snake's habitat. Unfamiliar cats will go into the habitat and try to catch rats. This is where the phrase the cat's got the rat comes from.
A snake in a cat's habitat will be scared of the cat and think that the cat is trying to catch a rat, not the snake itself. So if the snake can escape, it will. If it can't, it may bite the cat.
If the cat and the snake are in different habitats, they won't interact. If the snake sees a cat outside its habitat, it will usually run away. The snake will only stick around if there's something in its habitat it needs to protect.
Is It Dangerous to Have Cats and Snakes in the Same Area?
Cats and snakes are different species with places to hide and eat. They don't share an area, and they also don't really need to be around each other. Having a cat and a snake in the same area isn't dangerous since the cat and the snake are unlikely to contact each other in the first place. There does not seem to be a significant chance of a snake biting a cat.
Overall, cats and snakes do not get along because they are very different species. They usually prefer different habitats and aren't in the same area. When they are in the same area, they usually run away. If a cat sees a snake, it's unlikely to try to kill the snake. It will usually run away, just like the snake will if it can. If a snake feels threatened, it will usually try to escape. If it can't escape, it will bite the cat.
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