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Irish Women : Katie Taylor (born 2 June 1986) is an Irish athlete who specialises in boxing. Boxing and training with the Irish Amateur Boxing Association, she is the current Irish, European, World and Olympic Champion in the 60 kg division. Hugely popular in Ireland, she is credited with raising the profile of women's boxing at home and abroad. Regarded as the outstanding Irish athlete of her generation, she wore the flag for Ireland at the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.
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For Adams, one of the stars of London 2012, has enjoyed a remarkable 12 months since she became the first winner of a women’s Olympic boxing gold medal. No one has embraced the Olympic spirit more than the 30-year-old flyweight, whose bubbly personality, ready smile and rich Leeds accent captured the public’s imagination to such an extent that thousands of women have been inspired to take up boxing.


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Before a Senate hearing on Comcast’s proposed merger with Time Warner Cable, the company dropped a lengthy memo to the Federal Communications Commission, summed up in a blog post. In part, it argued that the merger would be good for competition in broadband, since Comcast’s rivals— including telecoms like Verizon and AT&T— are so big.
Which is a different question from whether they offer broadband services that actually compete with Comcast. Andy Hargreaves, a Pacific Crest Securities analyst who looks at both TV and tech, thinks Comcast already dominates, with other companies unable to consistently offer similar speeds.
He estimates that the merged company would have the best-quality service in about 70 percent of the U.S. market. He thinks that’s a problem -- it gives the company power to keep jacking up prices. “They are exceptionally good at raising rates,” he says.
However, he doubts these questions will sink the deal. Merging the companies, he says, doesn’t actually make it much harder for a real competitor to emerge.
“It’s already near impossible,” he says. “So raising the bar from really, really, really, really, really, high to really, really, really, really, really, really, REALLY high is not that big a deal.”
David Balto, an anti-trust lawyer and a former Federal Trade Commission official, thinks the merger will likely be approved. Comcast and Time Warner haven't been competing with each other before the merger in existing markets, so consumers aren’t losing choices.
“You may not like the competitive environment,” he says, “but there are scores of mergers that the FTC and the Justice Department have approved because they could not find a loss of competition.”
Goldman Sachs executives have reportedly been toying with the idea of shutting down their dark pool, known as Sigma X.
"Dark pools" are to stock exchanges what private pools are to the Y. They are places for people to trade stocks in private, and many banks have them.
Privacy and Savings
There are benefits to having a dark pool, to be sure. Customers can trade more cheaply as they don’t pay exchange fees like they would on, say, the NYSE. For institutional investors, privacy can be critically important as well. For example, an institutional investor making a supersized buy order in the open would be noticed by sellers, who would raise the price before the order was even complete.
“Essentially, large institutional investors like this as a way of minimizing price impact and reducing trading costs,” says Craig Pirrong at the University of Houston.
Suspicion and Negative PR
However, there is also a great deal of suspicion over dark pools at the moment, as the flipside of privacy is decreased transparency. “There’s a considerable deal of regulatory uncertainty and legal uncertainty,” Pirrong says.
“Almost all dark pools work by taking prices from exchanges and filling orders based on those exchanges,” explains Larry Harris of the USC Marshall School of Business. So is it fair that a dark pool can use exchange prices, but not contribute to formation of those prices? Harris says: “And even worse, as the orders are taken away from those exchanges, the quality of the prices depreciates.”
Customers may see a conflict of interest as well.
“It might be better if people weren’t worried that I was only going to my dark pool because it was my dark pool,” says Joe Gawronsky, president of Rosenblatt Securities. It’s a bit of a PR problem.
A Liability Issue
Running a private stock exchange is no small feat. When participants’ expectations aren’t aligned with reality, or when prices in the pool become disconnected from prices on exchanges, it can be a serious liability for the entity running the pool.
“Particularly when there’s a fast moving, volatile market and the timeliness of the prices may be, for whatever reason, not appropriately reflective of the prices that were prevailing at the time,” says Andrew Karolyi, professor of finance at the Johnson School of Management at Cornell. This happened to Goldman in 2011, and the bank sent checks to cover traders who lost out as a result.
Gawronsky says firms like Goldman have alternatives. “There are other methods to get price improvement and hide your order other than using your own dark pool,” he says.
There are other entities’ dark pools, of course. There’s also IEX, an alternative trading platform designed to address what its founders argue are flaws in the structure of the U.S. equity market. Goldman has supported IEX precisely because of its commitment to transparency and market moderating effect.
Finally, for those concerned with anonymity, Gawronsky points out that Goldman and other large banks offer algorithmic trading. These are computer-based trading mechanisms that can be used to disguise movements -- breaking up a large trade into smaller trades throughout the day, for example.
When all is said and done: “I’m not sure it will materially affect Goldman’s revenues,” Gawronsky says. “You could argue they don’t have that much to lose, and what do they gain? Potentially a PR win and something that customers may applaud.”
As companies scramble to patch a bug that exposed much of the Internet for two years, you can protect yourself by practicing some good Web hygiene.
The country's move to require animals to be stunned before being killed is seen by some as an affront to religious methods of slaughter. But now Jews and Muslims are working together to protest it.
The federal government just listed the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species, but states are pushing back hard, saying that restrictions could negatively impact a number of industries.
Pro-Russian demonstrations have led to standoffs in three Ukrainian cities. The confrontation is considered especially dangerous in Luhansk, where protesters took over a building filled with weapons.
A video of married Rep. Vance McAllister in a passionate embrace with a co-worker has put his job in peril. In a prudent move, he decided against pursuing an FBI investigation into who leaked it.
The bureau is seeking a 30-something black male who writes stickup notes with "proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation."
President Obama is traveling to Fort Hood, Texas, on Wednesday to attend the memorial service for those killed in last week's shooting.
Comcast and Time Warner executives ran into stiff opposition as they pitched their proposed merger to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The deal would give the combined company a large share of both pay TV and broadband internet service markets. In both cases, lawmakers wanted to know how consumers would be affected.
House Republicans want former IRS official Lois Lerner prosecuted for allegedly revealing information about one of their most powerful outside groups, Crossroads GPS.
Police say that 20 people were injured — some of them critically — during a knife attack at a suburban high school outside Pittsburgh. A 16-year-old boy is in custody following the attack.
Toyota is recalling 6.4 million vehicles due to defects. The recall comes at a time of heightened scrutiny of automakers, only weeks after Toyota agreed to a $1.2 billion settlement with the U.S. government for misleading consumers.
Physicians and health data specialists caution that the information can be easily misconstrued. Some cancer doctors receive payments that cover the cost of expensive drugs for patients.
If you know Ciroc and Patron, you may well be listening to a lot of songs that name-check brand-name alcohol. And if you're a teenager, you may be binge drinking a lot more, researchers say.
For the second time in five years, President Obama delivered a message of resilience and service at a memorial service for slain soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas.
Dangerous and impolite: This little guy triggers food poisoning in people by biting off chunks of intestine, chewing on them for a bit ... and then spitting them out.
The House Ways and Means Committee voted to send the Justice Department a criminal referral over what they said was the former IRS official's "extreme bias."

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Senior School Art Exhibition - Art on High
Art on High, Neon Parlour
21st Annual Senior Art Exhibition, August 2017
Homeless…..we had to find a new abode for our annual Senior Art Exhibition, which we had held at a gallery in North Fitzroy for the past 5 years, and in the heart of Fitzroy for 15 years prior to that. Our new venue is Neon Parlour in Thornbury, a space previously occupied by a beauty parlour. Now, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, with various artworks proudly displayed on the walls.
Situated on busy High Street, between a bohemian mix of old and new shops and cafes, Neon Parlour lends itself very well to the eclectic mix of work produced by our young artists. These are mostly paintings, drawings and photographic creations, punctuated by one solitary installation of a pile of cushions sporting bright designs.
Each year, we wonder how the exhibition items will work together harmoniously, given the number and individuality of artists, but somehow it just does. The figures in the many portraits gaze at each other, in neighbourly proximity or across the floor, knowing, after all, that they have come to life from within the community of Strathmore Secondary College. Often, as we install the exhibition, we see a synchronicity occurring as colours or themes inter-relate or stand out by their juxtaposition. It brings a smile….yes, it’s working!
The vehicles on High Street whoosh on the road, making the people who walk by the window silent in their movement as they traverse along the pavement. “Come in,” I think, “come in and see the wonders of youthful endeavour.” Some heed this telepathic call, others…..well, maybe they will drop in later, or another day.
The opportunity for strangers to see the artworks is ever present but really, what this exhibition is about is a chance for those with budding artist aspirations to experience the sensation of fear, courage and ambition (in whatever parts) that the safety and distracting background of a school environment only rarely manages to afford. “Hey, that’s my work on a white wall: it looks somehow different to the way it is displayed at school….”
A number of students have begun their exhibiting experience in Year 10, continuing it through Years 11 and 12. At a young age, they have achieved what many older artists may not have achieved. Even if they do not pursue an artistic career, the students have gained much: overcoming initial apprehension in participating in a public event as well as feeling the excitement of seeing what they can achieve, with family and friends to join them in their celebration. This year, we had 35 exhibitors. Natalie LoGiudice, designed the lovely invitation.
On our Celebration night on 18th August, past student, Emma Woodhams-Bertozzi, spoke about her own experiences at Strathmore as central to her development as an artist. She encouraged the exhibiting students and others to take the opportunities offered and not to be afraid of taking risks with their creative process. The crowd of over 100 people - parents, teachers, friends, exhibitors and guests - came away inspired by what they saw and heard.
Our senses were further delighted by the sounds of musical duo, Mystic Tomato – Eliza and Cecily Tighe, who entertained us. Thank you.
Hooray, well done, good on ya! Let’s do it again next year!
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Photos of Jay-Z and Beyoncé's twins, Sir and Rumi Carter, have surfaced online and they are absolutely adorable!
In part 2 of his exclusive "Rap Radar" interview, Jay-Z explains the meaning behind the twins' names and Blue Ivy's epic freestyles.
Beyoncé shares the first photos of her precious twins, Sir Carter and Rumi, via social media on Thursday in celebration of them turning one-month-old.
A new report claims Jay-Z and Beyoncé have named their new additions, Sir Carter and Rumi Carter. Get the scoop.

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When you start making recipes with “strange and unusual” ingredients, you may not always have what is called for. Or you may have a food allergy or intolerance that requires you to use a substitute. Whatever the reason, you will probably need to use the links below as a reference for substituting at some point in your healthy cooking life!
Using the links I have provided is your best source for an answer to a substitution question. If I know a good substitution for a recipe, I will include it in the recipe or in the comments, so if you do not see that from me in the recipe or comments, I have not tried a substitution and therefore do not know if it would “work” or not. If YOU try a substitution and it works, PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT, and give others your suggestions!!! Thanks!
substitutions list at Simply Sugar and Grain Free for more “specialty” type ingredients
flour substitutions list at All Recipes includes definitions of “alternative flours”, and tells you how to create your own gluten-free flour
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Lagos - Former Choc City act, Brymo is set to release the first visual for a single off his album, Tabula Rasa.
According to Brymo, he’ll be dropping a mini documentary titled ‘1 Pound‘ on Friday, March 6.
The mini- documentary for ‘1 Pound’, which is a track off the new album, was directed by rising film maker, St. Immaculate.
The video is autobiographical and differs from conventional music video
Brymo’s last album was released on October 30, 2014.
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Aged U.Okay. High Minister Boris Johnson’s campaign claims he has ample toughen from Conservative contributors of parliament to stand in an upcoming vote for prime minister, in step with a couple of reports, signaling what in total is a ravishing political comeback decrease than seven weeks after he left Downing Avenue.
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How Failed Leaders Create Profitable Comebacks: Boris Johnson And The Savior Technique (Forbes)
U.Okay. High Minister Liz Truss Resigns After 6 Turbulent Weeks In Place of industrial (Forbes)
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Is Atlanta a good place to live?
Nicknamed ATL, The Big Peach, or The City in a Forest, Atlanta is a great place to live with a low cost of living and endless things to do. Atlanta has a unique culture all its own with a fairly young population, a bustling city center packed with urban parks and amenities, and famously walkable neighborhoods.
Is Atlanta public school closed tomorrow?
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2020 was a challenging year for all of us. The nature of these challenges might’ve differed- health-related challenges, job-related challenges, family-related challenges – but it is often the most difficult of times that gives us the opportunity to come together, building stronger bonds with one another than ever before.
The Work-From-Home phenomenon which kicked in from March 2020 put serious pressures on individuals who celebrated separating life from work. People’s ability to adapt to these changes comes from connection, discovery, and application of the wisdom we’ve learned from our lives and from one another.
COVID-19 gave us a look behind the curtains of how difficult it is to craft a book, design a life, cook a meal, and take that call from work when we have our families looking forward to us being more involved. Maybe some of us cracked it, but it’s still a work in progress for a majority of us. We are all looking for sanctuary, for respite, for our caves to retire in. A good book gives you precisely all of those things.
I feel immensely lucky to have gotten out of the chaos of 2020 without as much as a scratch. However, it has also given me the opportunity to really think about how might I repay life for the good fortune it has bestowed on me.
In the spirit of my trying to answer those questions, discovering new dimensions of ideas and having a deep desire to form frameworks to optimise living and decision-making, I present to you the 10 best books I read in 2020.
What You Do Is Who You Are: How To Create Your Business Culture
“Culture can feel abstract and secondary when you pit it against a concrete result that’s right in front of you. Culture is a strategic investment in the company doing things the right way when you are not looking.”
Author: Ben Horowitz
One-Sentence Synopsis: From Toussaint Louveture to Dropbox, Genghis Khan to the Uber, Horowitz’s book is outlines a systematic set of perspective and methods to think about people, processes, and performance in the context of building and sustaining your business culture.
An incredible book which helps you think about culture from first principles through a combination of historical lessons and insights on contemporary company-building.
How Google Works
“The most valuable result of 20 percent time isn’t the products and features that get created, it’s the things that people learn when they try something new.”
Author: Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg (with Alan Eagle)
A playbook of sorts outlining Google’s way of thinking about People, Technology, Strategy, and Decision-Making.
Simply put, this book is The HP Way for my generation.
The Lessons of History
“The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.”
Authors: Will Durant and Ariel Durant
The Durants have applied their incredible skill as historians to identify the core-patterns they saw repeating time and agains when they were almost done writing their monumental work, The Story of Civilization.
Verbose at times, but the book’s desire to codify the lessons our civilisation’s actions comes through clearly and the book’s potency and value are tied to the hours you dedicate in re-reading and reflecting on its lessons.
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
“If you had a thought once, it has no power over you. Repeat it again and again, especially with emotional intensity, feeling it, and over time, you’re creating the grooves, the mental river. Then it controls you.”
Author: Kamal Ravikant
Stuck somewhere between a memoir and an exposition on meditation, the book ties the author’s survival (and revival) to a meditation technique he developed.
The meditation technique prescribed here is quite therapeutic and the author’s not-so-subtle sales pitch that it’ll work for us because it worked for him was strangely convincing yet weirdly overdone.
Man’s Search For Meaning
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
Author: Victor Frankl
This book is a combination of the author’s memories as a prisoner at the Nazi Concentration Camps and an exposition on logotherapy– Frankl’s theory which posits that one is not motivated by pleasure, but by the pursuit of what is meaningful and fulfilling.
This tiny book cuts the bullshit on hope and positivity and shines a light on why a deeply defined sense of Meaning will shine a light through your darkest moments and keep you grounded when all the lights are on you.
Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
“Great teams are not created with incentives, procedures, and perks. They are created by hiring talented people who are adults and want nothing more than to tackle a challenge, and then communicating to them, clearly and continuously, about what the challenge is.”
Author: Patty McCord
The book offers a tactical perspective on how HR can positively impact business outcomes and is tied to the lessons learned by the author during her successful tenure at Netflix.
A Fascinating book as many of the policies developed by McCord and her team (along with Reed Hastings) have revolutionised how startups (and by extension, large corporations) think about culture, talent, and 21st century business pragmatism.
The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will Feel Better
“It would make my life a lot better to have a teleportation machine. It makes my life only slightly better to have a larger refrigerator that makes ice in cubed or crushed form.”
Author: Tyler Cowen
Is a correlation between state policies and the drop in real innovation- why an app to buy dog-food is great, but we are unable to find a cure for cancer; why global productivity statistics show an increase but its frameworks are logically flawed?
A fabulous little book to understand why innovation in the world of atoms is the need of the hour.
Anatomy of the State
“We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting itself rather than its subjects by asking: which category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely — those against private citizens or those against itself?”
Author: Murray N. Rothbard
A very short book on what a State is and what it is not- how it operates under false covers and disrupts freedom, liberty and social cohesion.
I loved the Libertarian aspects of the work, but the shades of Anarchist thinking makes the work enjoyable yet forces you think differently then what’s conventionally offered to us to think about as citizens.
Note: I put out a Twitter Thread on the best lessons I learned from this book. You can check it out by clicking here.
The Crime of Reason: And the Closing of the Scientific Mind
“The right to learn is now aggressively opposed by intellectual property advocates, who want ideas elevated to the status of land, cars, and other physical assets so that their unauthorized acquisition can be prosecuted as theft.”
Author: Robert B. Laughlin
One-Sentence Synopsis: The Nobel Prize winning author tells us that in a world where creativity in the sciences are related to information and technology, forces in the Government and Private Enterprises are working in the shadows to usurp academic freedom.
Revelatory- it all seems to read like a massive conspiracy theory and the ramblings of the madman until you learn that when the author went looking into the University in search of fake science, found it, and was essentially cancelled; he lost funding and his graduate students couldn’t get PhDs.
What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
“The best executives are made, not born. They absorb information, study their own experiences, learn from their mistakes, and evolve.”
Author: Stephen A. Schwarzman
The co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Blackstone’s memoir covers the major moments of his life and the lessons they have taught him.
The book is super-insightful on how to lead, work and operate at an exceptional level, yet is funnily self-congratulatory in a banker-sort-of-way.
One thing that stands out to me is the absence of fiction in my general reading diet, not just in this list alone. And that is going to be one of my goals for 2021- to be read three or four works of fiction. Baby steps, folks. 🙂
Reading stuff isn’t enough. The questions that follow are:
- How do you find out what’s valuable in a book?
- Do you know how an opinion is shaped by a book?
- Do you disagree with anything in a book?
- Is reading what everyone else around you is reading very valuable?
- How do you really find a super-insightful book?
Opinions to these questions are often whirlpool-ing serenely in a reader’s mind. Putting these opinions to words is the first step in the intellectual journey- transitioning from a reader to a thinker.
And in the spirit of that I also plan to write book reviews. Maybe one review, every month or something like that, but yes- it is happening.
Being alive is a privilege and we owe it to ourself to make the most of every second we are given. In the long run, being fulfilled and wise is just as important as being productive. Hell, I’d say that your ability to be fulfilled and wise boosts your ability to be productive. And when you combine fulfilment, wisdom, and productivity, that’s when you give your chance to really change the world.
I wish you the best as always and if you have your list of the best books you read in 202o drop the link you post or share your list in the comments section below.
You can connect with me on Twitter or LinkedIn for more stuff like this
Have an awesome 2021.

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Ready, set, mime: Saxons prepare for pantomime competition
This story is part of "Keep Salem Weirder," a column in which arts and culture reporter Tom Mayhall Rastrelli investigates the unique culture and subcultures of Salem and the Mid-Valley.
Competitive mime happens.
On March 31, two South Salem High School sophomores, Lemon Marin and Tyler Kaufman, will compete in the state’s pantomime competition at Oregon Thespians State Festival in Salem.
Go on. Laugh. Say that mime’s weird, outdated or dumb. These Saxons have heard it all.
When one of Marin’s friends found out she and Kaufman were state qualifiers in pantomime, the friend called them nerds. Kaufman explained why.
“Because it’s not normal. And it’s theater,” Kaufman said. “When you say mime, people think of the box.”
South senior Vincent Kiluwe also practices pantomime.
“There’s this caricature of a French person with white face paint in a striped black-and-white shirt making a box. That’s all anyone knows about mime,” Kiluwe said.
“We’re not all French,” Kaufman said.
None of the five Saxons I interviewed fit the mime stereotype. They don’t wear the white gloves, suspenders and beret. They don’t stand on street corners escaping imaginary boxes for spare change. They utilize their pantomime skills while acting, telling jokes, speaking publicly and working with children.
When people poke fun or stereotype, Marin explains pantomime by just doing it. She and Kaufman have performed for misunderstanding friends at lunch. Now they get requests for mime.
Junior David MacDonald, who’s been pantomiming for four years, utilizes his skills in an improv troupe at Capitol City Theater.
“For mime, people’s response is not off-the-wall enthusiasm, but once you explain it,” MacDonald said, “they think it’s cool because it’s unique.”
So what is pantomime, and why are high school students doing it?
Senior Rachel Scheuermann got hooked on mime at Children’s Educational Theatre when she was in fourth grade. Last summer at CET, she was a teaching assistant in the advanced mime class.
“It’s being able to express yourself dramatically without words or verbal communication,” Scheuermann said of mime. “It’s all about your bodily communication and how to express emotions with your body.”
Pantomime is a building block of acting, which is why Julianna Gibbons, South Salem’s drama instructor, teaches it in her introductory class.
“As performers, our tools to communicate are voice, mind — showing a character’s subtext — and body. With mime, we can understand a simple story without words,” Gibbons said.
The story Marin and Kaufman tell in their state-qualifying pantomime is about a date at the movies that becomes an epic failure with flirting, misunderstandings, spilled soda and vomiting. They created the scene for an assignment in Gibbon’s intro class before taking it to districts in February.
At the festival March 31 and April 1 at the Historic Elsinore Theatre and Salem Convention Center, the state qualifiers in 12 categories, including everything from pantomime to solo dramatic acting and large-group musical theater, will audition for judges. The top few in each category will perform in a showcase for roughly 1,200 of their peers at the end of the festival.
Technically, it’s not a competition. It’s an adjudication focused on the quality of student work and constructive feedback, but …
“It is a competition,” Kaufman said. “It’s friendly competition though.”
Whether they win a spot in the state showcase, Marin and Kaufman will continue to use their mime skills.
South senior Kiluwe said actors often have to perform without real props or scenery, which involves mime, or as he defined it, “acting with the body, the five senses.” He showed how he can mime smelling something good, when in reality he’s sniffing a cup of water.
I’m reminded of the name of my first acting textbook, “Acting is Believing.”
“If you believe what you are doing and are expressive with it, then the audience shares that with you,” Marin said. “They’re going to believe it.”
But it’s harder than you think, the Saxons said. If you are unaware of your surroundings or inconsistent in your movements, you can destroy a moment. An actor might mime opening a refrigerator, when using a real appliance would block the audience’s view. Two minutes later, another actor can’t open a window in the middle of the refrigerator.
“For people who can’t think three dimensionally, it’s going to be really hard to get mime. You have to imagine an entire set,” Kaufman said. “I think from an outside point of view, like a camera looking down with the stuff, and then there’s me walking around in it. That’s how I think about the stage and presence of objects that aren’t there.”
Mimed actions must be specific and slow, or the audience won’t be able to discern what an actor is doing. Kiluwe mimed the removal of an imaginary jacket as an example. “You have to think about the actual steps involved: unzip, grab it, get arm out of sleeve, bring it around and pull it off,” Kiluwe said.
“People would say it’s easy because you’re not talking, but … you can’t just say what you’re thinking, you have to use your entire body to act it out,” said Scheuermann, who hopes to study early childhood education, nursing or photography in college. In her summer work with children at CET, she’s seen how mime is a useful teaching tool, especially for those afraid of public speaking.
“It was cool to see these kids coming out of their shells,” Scheuermann said of her students. “If you’re a shy kid, mime’s a great way to start in theater and build confidence. I learned a lot from teaching it. It was really cool to see everyone grow.”
In the coming week, if you see a mime performing on a sidewalk downtown, don’t be shy. Pantomime “Hello,” and enjoy the show. You might be watching the best mime in Oregon.
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Each October, more than 200 South Salem High School students participate in the annual Mime-A-Thon, a fundraiser for the school’s theater department. Julianna Gibbons, South’s drama teacher, got the idea from a workshop at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
The participating students gather pledges for the number of class periods during which they will mime to communicate. Talking is not allowed. Donors also can pay for kids to mime all day. Participants wear stickers that say “Mime for a day.” Some go full mime, wearing white makeup, black-and-white shirts and white gloves.
“It’s like charades all day long and interprets the curriculum in a kinesthetic manner,” Gibbons said. “If they are asked questions, they have to mime. If they need to read aloud from ‘The Scarlet Letter,’ they mime. One kid was asked to mime the causes of the Civil War.”


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Medical Student Named Representative for Emergency Medicine Residents' Association
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Hempstead, NY-Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine first-year student Michael Spigner has been named a Regional Representative to the Medical Student Council (MSC) of the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association (EMRA), an organization that serves as the voice of emergency medicine physicians-in-training. The MSC develops and distributes materials pertinent to a student's education and residency application process.
The MSC also works to promote Emergency Medicine Interest Groups (EMIGs) at every medical school and provides tools, ideas, and guidance towards the groups’ success. As the regional director of Northeast Region 1, Michael will serve as the contact between EMIGs at medical schools in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York, and the EMRA.
“I have a very strong interest in emergency medicine,” Michael said, “and I am honored and humbled by this appointment. I look forward to serving as a resource to the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association and the emergency medicine interest groups in my region.”
Michael leads the School of Medicine’s Emergency Medicine Interest Group, in equal partnership with other first-year students Jennifer Larson, Zachary Hahn, and Nicholas Petit.
“This is a great achievement,” said Thomas Kwiatkowski, MD, the Assistant Dean for Simulation. “I am sure that this position will be a great fit for Michael’s leadership skills.”
Michael, a resident of Manhasset, New York, has a long history of service in the Manhasset-Lakeville Fire Department, which he joined in 2009 as an EMT-Basic. Since that time, he has become an EMT-Critical Care, and has joined Engine Company 1 as a firefighter.
He currently serves as President of the Manhasset-Lakeville Fire Department Ambulance Unit, Chairman of Quality Assurance and Improvement for the Ambulance Unit, and a member of the Ambulance Unit’s Training Committee.
This summer Michael will be conducting research in pre-hospital care with the North Shore-LIJ Department of Emergency Medicine, in partnership with medical directors from the North Shore Center for Emergency Medical Services and the Fire Department of New York. He hopes to specialize in Emergency Medicine.
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New Lisbon Town Hall is located at 908 County Road 16, Garrattsville, NY 13342.
The first European settlers began to arrive in the vicinity of New Lisbon around 1773. They came mostly from New England. The first settlers were Increase Thurston and Benjamin Lull who had settled in the southwestern portion of Town near the present day Town of Morris. The first settler in the vicinity of the hamlet of Garrattsville was Robert Garratt; the first settler in the hamlet of New Lisbon (formerly known as Noblesville) was Elnathan Noble; and the first settler in the hamlet of Stetsonville was John S. Stetson. Garrattsville was named after the Garratt family including sons John & William.
"Upon the organization of Otsego County in 1791, the territory in the present Town of New Lisbon comprised a portion of the Town of Otsego. In 1792 it was embraced in the present Town of Burlington; in 1797 was set off from Burlington as Pittsfield; and on April 7, 1806 organized as Lisbon. It retained the name until April 6, 1808, when it was changed to its present name of New Lisbon (Source: History of Otsego County 1740-1878)." The Town of New Lisbon lies within the interior of Otsego County. It is bounded by Edmeston and Burlington to the north; Morris and Pittsfield to the west; Morris and Laurens to the south; and Hartwick and Laurens to the east. The Butternut Creek and West Branch of the Otego Creek are the primary streams that define its geography.
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ST. LOUIS — Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has vetoed a bill that would have prevented judges in the state from using Sharia Law in their judgments, citing fears of endangerment of foreign adoptions and other international concerns.
Nixon appeared at a press conference on Monday at the office of Lutheran Family and Children’s Services, where he explained his position.
“There are certainly problems facing our state and nation, but this isn’t one of them,” he said. “The laws passed in Jefferson City have real consequences. This bill could jeopardize a family’s ability to adopt children from other countries.”
Pastor Alan Erdman, the president of the adoption agency, agreed.
“[This legislation] would spell disaster for children and families, in addition to increasing the costs and processes that govern these adoptions,” he said.
However, the bill’s sponsor, Republican Senator Brian Nieves, called the notion “absurd.”
“If he would have said the bill might cause an invasion of flying armadillos, that would have been just as valid,” he stated. “I think the governor owes it to the people of Missouri to come clean [on the reason for the veto].”
But Nixon also outlined in his written statement that the legislation is unnecessary and “could invite retaliatory action by a foreign country by denying all adoptions to Missourians.”
The bill, known as “The Civil Liberties Defense Act,” does not specifically mention Sharia law (Islamic law), but was written with the intent of preventing Islam or other foreign religions from overtaking or influencing state law. The bill passed in the Senate 24-9 and 109-41 in the House of Representatives.
“Missouri’s been pretty fortunate as far as this goes.” Nieves said. “[And we want to ensure that the state] keeps things the way they are.”
Six other states have passed similar legislation. Arizona, Kansas, Louisiana, South Dakota, Tennessee and Oklahoma have all agreed to prohibit state government agencies from using Sharia and other foreign laws in their decision-making processes. As previously reported, legislators in Kansas overwhelmingly passed the bill last May, with a unanimous vote in the House and only three dissenters in the Senate.
However, last year, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals also declared a law in Oklahoma unconstitutional which stated that “courts shall not consider international law or Sharia Law.”
Nieves may pursue an override vote in the legislature. However, if so, Faizan Syed, executive director of the St. Louis chapter of the Council of American-Islamic Relations, said that he would seek to influence legislators to defeat the override.
“Now that people know the arguments against these laws and what kind of problems they can cause, we’re confident that we can encourage enough legislators to be against the override,” he said.
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“We are seeing all the signs of the death of our high street,” said Jessica Learmond-Criqui, of the Hampstead Shops Campaign who counted nine shops sitting empty in Hampstead High Steet and Heath Street.
“We have never had this level of vacant shops in Hampstead in all my 25 years of living here.”
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“Once they factor in the rent, they realise it is just not viable,” she said.
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“We are appealing to these landlords to work with us, but it’s hard to do so, when we don’t even know who they are. They are faceless companies and there is no contact to speak to.
“They have no interest in the high street or the Hampstead community. Some shops have been empty for five years. They are killing Hampstead.”
She is calling for a central register of landlords to be set up to make them more accountable to communities.
Retail marketing expert Eva Pascoe, who sits on the town team, also blames the demise of the high street on the trend towards online shopping and the high business rates demands but agrees that in Hampstead, rent is a major factor.
She believes if rents were fair, high streets would revive as cafes and lifestyle service businesses, such as grooming, beauty and massage shops not dependent on the internet, would move in to replace retailers.
“This will not happen while rents are so high,” she warned.


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The nationwide competition, organised by the Royal Town Planning Institute (R.T.P.I.) Northern Ireland, celebrates the places protected, carefully planned or improved by town planners for communities.
Nearly 4,000 people voted on a shortlist of 10 places, with Londonderry's historic centre emerging as the most popular place.
RTPI President Stephen Wilkinson said he was impressed with how in recent years Londonderry had been "re-defined as a city".
“Being crowned the Best Place in Northern Ireland is recognition of the outstanding work planners have made to the regeneration and reunification of the city.
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"Good planning has been pivotal in the city’s hugely successful, ongoing waterfront regeneration focused around its historic core, the Peace Bridge and Ebrington barracks. Together these elements have re-defined the city as a great place to live, work and for new investment.”
SDLP Councillor, John Boyle, Deputy Mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council, said he was "delighted" to hear that Londonderry had won.
“We are absolutely delighted to have secured this prestigious accolade. It is testament to the fantastic work that has been done to regenerate the city through close collaborative working
“This award reflects the positive impact the Peace Bridge and Ebrington regeneration projects have had on both the local community and visitors.
"Symbols of the city’s positivity and aspirations for the future, they have contributed to our local economy and tourism offering, as well as our overall health and well-being.”
Beverley Clyde, Chair of RTPI Northern Ireland, praised the town planners who have been integral to Londonderry's regeneration.
"Planning has long left a mark on our only remaining walled city, laid out in the 17th century.
"The recent regeneration of Ebrington Barracks, the construction of the pedestrian Peace Bridge and the continued conservation of the City Walls and Guildhall demonstrate how the planners have successfully protected the built environment and improved connectivity between the Cityside and Waterside.
"Planners have also been central to the maintenance of the city’s original Renaissance layout, along with the fine examples of Georgian, Edwardian and Victorian buildings.”
The 10 finalists were: Antrim Historic Core; Country Antrim, Merville Garden Village; Country Antrim, Armagh Historic Core; County Armagh, Connswater Community Greenway; Belfast, The Cathedral Quarter; Belfast, Giant's Causeway; County Antrim, Rathlin Island; County Antrim, Lough Erne; County Fermanagh, Londonderry - Historic Core, Peace Bridge and Ebrington; County Londonderry and, Newcastle and the Mournes; County Down.
Rathlin Island and Armagh were voted second and third, respectively. Rat


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Returning for its 12th year, SVFF kicks off another five days of Films, Coffee Talks, Parties and more. SVFF supports independent film and the magic of storytelling. It’s mission to celebrate and award filmmakers who are established and emerging has earned the Festival accolades by the film industry, film festival goers, film lovers, and filmmakers. The year-round Sun Valley Film Initiative develops professionals and illuminates the process of filmmaking, propelling emerging voices with grants and education. Since 2012 the Sun Valley Film Festival has invited fans and filmmakers to America’s first ski resort to celebrate the magic of storytelling. In the past, Festival guests include Hollywood legends such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Clint Eastwood, Jodie Foster, Geena Davis, and Oliver Stone as well as avant-garde writers and filmmakers like Stephen Gaghan and Mark and Jay Duplass. With over 4,000 yearly attendees, SVFF has become known as the Festival for Filmmakers. The Sun Valley Film Festival is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. To support and learn more about SVFF opportunities, visit sunvalleyfilmfestival.org 2023 Films | 2023 Schedule | Buy Passes Honorees WILD LIFE Wednesday, March 29th 5pm at The Argyros KING COAL Friday, March 31st 3:30pm at The Argyros DEEP RISING Saturday, April 1st 2:00pm at …
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The miscalculation: In less fertile and plowable areas such as the steppes and prairies of Africa and North America animal husbandry can also be used to produce food where agriculture is not or hardly possible: The cattle eats the grass, which otherwise would not be useful to human nutrition. With a purely vegetarian diet, these areas could therefor no longer be populated. Are steppe areas ideal for "meat production"?
On the contrary, meat production in steppe areas makes the situation worse and is not sustainable. At first sight, the assumption seems logical: planting vegetables in a steppe will not be very successful. In a holistic approach, however, the situation is quite different: How does the continual expansion of the steppe regions occur? A steppe arises when the groundwater level drops more and more and the larger plant vegetation disappears.
The main reason for this is the meat production, because it requires a lot of water and forests or single trees and shrubs, which are important for the water balance of each region, backs.
For example: To produce one kilogram of grain about 100 liters of water are needed; for a kilogram of beef about 5000 liters (depending on the production method, the water consumption can even be a multiple of this). But this ratio of 1:50 shows that meat production, especially in arid areas, can not be a good way of dealing with the land. Afforestation with (fruit-) trees is a tedious affair, but brings the ecological balance in order in the long term and then alows a healthy vegetarian diet again. Some development aid organizations have already recognized this.
Instead of digging deeper and deeper wells for the drinking water of the so-called "slaughter animals", it makes more sense to ensure that the groundwater does not continue to fall by caring for the environment. Grass and pastureland can store very little water, allowing the soil to dry out much faster than in shrubs and trees. Meat production in steppe areas thus worsense the situation and is anything but sustainable.
Fertile land by vegetarian diet
Fortunately, with a plant-based diet not only fertile soil can be preserved, but also fertile, green land can be made again from barely fertile, dry steppe soils. It takes a lot of stamina, because this does not go from one day to the other (although the steppes became what they are today after many years). The following example shows that it is possible:
After 10 years:
Mango and walnut trees instead of dry steppe landscape.
In this Swiss-initiated project in a poorer region in southern India (in Arai of the Chitoor district of Andhra-Pradesh), it was hard to imagine at the beginning that a thriving, green landscape could ever develop here. The barren, dry, stony landscape was used at most for some goats. To get enough food for the goats, branches were cut from the trees so that the goats could reach the leaves. The sparse last trees were felled because of their wood, so that they could be sold in the city. This not only made the country poorer, but also the inhabitants of the whole region. The drought was able to spread more and more.
After more than ten years, however, you will find vegetation in this once inhospitable area, which not only positively influences the local climate, but also allowed many free-living animals to settle in the area. This "miracle" was accomplished by switching to a vegetarian use of the area. Trees were planted, which not only donated shade and positively influenced the climate, but also opened up new economic opportunities for the area through their fruits (especially mangos and cashews). With the trees the ecological balance could be restored.
The pictures show clearly how nature can recover when you focus on a sustainable, plant-based, vegetarian diet.
That's none of my business?
India is far away and there is enough water in Switzerland. Nevertheless, our diet in Switzerland has a connection with the spread of the steppes abroad. One connection is that the rich industrial nations have a model effect on poorer countries. Today, most people who eat no meat can not do so for economic reasons (along with the religiously based vegetarian diet). However, as soon as these people have enough money, they will try to acquire what was previously reserved for the richer sections of the population. If the Swiss population, which is known to be very wealthy abroad, would largely dispense with meat consumption, even though it could afford it, this would be a sign that wealth and meat consumption are not necessarily related. The meat would be attacked in his reputation as a status symbol. A high meat consumption would therefore not be so desirable for people who (still) can not rarely afford.
Lead by example
In today's situation with the highest meat consumption in developed countries, it is completely unbelievable to say to poorer countries that high meat consumption is not desirable. This is a big global problem: If one day all the Chinese would eat as much meat as the industrialized countries do today, the entire global grain harvest would not be enough to provide China with enough meat. It is therefore urgent to stop this trend immediately, as long as not all rainforests and other areas for meat or feed production have been converted to steppes. And more than all the arguments the own role model counts.
The second reason is that Swiss meat consumption also has negative environmental effects as a result of meat production:
International integration of meat production
In 2002, 9.5 million birds were imported. These are fed almost exclusively with concentrates (cereals / legumes). Switzerland imported more than 140,000 tonnes of meat in 2002. But even with the meat that is "produced" in Switzerland, there is an indirect connection with animal feed production abroad. The Swiss meat production would be impossible today, if it were not imported from abroad.
The weakness has also been noticed by the meat industry several years ago. This is why today animal feeds are increasingly being produced in Switzerland. The extent to which this lobby was successful shows that, even in 1994, subsidies for bread grain were lifted unilaterally, while the subsidies for feed crops remained. As a result: even more bread grain and other plant-based foods have to be imported into Switzerland, as the agricultural land is now increasingly used for animal feed.
In 2002, Switzerland imported approximately 700,000 tonnes of feed.
Increasing trend: In 2012 there were already over 1 million tons!
In 2002, 300,000 tonnes of wheat were imported into Switzerland, as most of the domestic agriculture land is occupied by animal feed. In addition, there are still around 700,000 tonnes of feed from abroad.
All this must first grow on some soil. In order to be able to produce this imported feed in Switzerland, more than 100,000 ha of additional arable land would be needed (today Switzerland has about 250,000 ha of arable land). That is why Switzerland is directly linked to foreign countries through meat consumption.
Is meat abstinence enough?
In addition to the renunciation from meat, one can, of course, on the basis of these facts, also consider whether an organization is providing sustainable development aid or trying to export our livestock to the near-sighted. Think about this before you support an organization next time!

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A Custom A Day.... 365 days of custom figures Day 48 - DC Universe Classics Batman 66 Yvonne Craig as Batgirl
Today I'm continuing with Yvonne Craig as Batgirl, this time in 6 inch scale. This is a simple repaint that I did of a Batman Legacy Batgirl that I did as a placeholder for the Mattel version. At this rate she may become THE Batgirl on my shelf.
A Custom A Day....
I began toy collecting as a hobby back in 1990 I have always had a
need for custom figures. Toy companies begin action figure lines, begin
to release individual characters to create teams and, more often than
not leave them incomplete. Many collectors find that custom figures
pollute their collection's authenticity by not being mass produced
creations from the toy companies that created the preexisting toy lines.
I disagree. I feel a quality custom action figure enhances a
collection and help create a complete picture.


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'Can't Take My Eyes Off You' (Lauryn Hill) Cover By Kelly Clarkson | Kellyoke
Meghan Trainor uses Uber drivers as her song testers! Meghan dished to Kelly Clarkson about how she goes undercover and asks Uber drivers for feedback on her new music without them knowing it's her. Genius! Tune in to watch the full interview with Meghan.


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NORTH BEND — The 75,000-square-foot brick building that’s anchored the northwest edge of North Bend for half a century resumed its normal duties Wednesday.
School buses pulled up outside its front doors, cars filled its parking lot. Students traipsed down its halls and plopped notebooks on its desktops, the familiar monotone bell signaling that classes had begun.
But the disaster relief truck offering hot showers and the purple porta-potties lining the south end of the school’s parking lot hinted at the truth: that this middle-of-the-week school day might be the beginning of normal, but it hadn’t fully returned to the town 15 miles west of Fremont.
The historic floodwaters that barreled through farms and ranches, heaved giant ice chunks into fields, swallowed homes and cars and grain bins in a third of the state did not spare the community of 1,200.
When the Platte River breached its levee west of town and joined water overflowing from Shell Creek near Schuyler two weeks ago, water jumped the railroad tracks and spilled across U.S. 30 and kept going. It turned North Bend’s streets into rivers, lapped at the doors of the elementary school, took over the fire department and pushed most of the residents north.
It did not, however, touch North Bend Central Junior-Senior High School, which offered its dry floors and wide-open gymnasiums to the town.
The volunteer fire department took up residence in Tiger Arena — the gym built five years earlier with part of a $7.4 million bond issue approved by 79 percent of the voters.
Its art room became a post office, its library a day care for children of volunteers. Its gymnasium turned into the town's Dollar General, its cafeteria a diner, its English classroom a medical clinic dispensing tetanus shots and its math room a counseling center.
"Our city as we know it just moved into the school," said Superintendent Dan Endorf.
North Bend was the last school in the state to resume classes after flooding issues caused them to close, but staff and administrators — as well as students — helped lead the recovery efforts. And there were plenty of important lessons in those 10 days school was closed, Endorf said.
“While students weren’t in the classroom ... their learning will last them a lifetime.”
The evening of March 12 — the last day students had school — the mayor and City Council called a meeting to discuss potential flooding.
Endorf volunteered the school’s electronic messaging system as a way to keep residents apprised of what was happening, and residents without students signed up.
Early the next morning, Endorf and Kevin Ferguson, a native of North Bend, former city councilman and maintenance director at the school for the past 14 years, drove around town and some of the rural roads that make up the district’s 250 square miles.
They decided to cancel school so the town could prepare. Snow melt puddled in the streets and the creek to the north had overflowed, though it would recede in the next day.
“Water was everywhere,” Endorf said. “Ominous water. It was creeping across town in places I’m unfamiliar with water settling. There was a feeling.”
School staff reported to work and headed to one of the co-ops to help other volunteers fill sandbags — 20,000 filled that day, by one count. More would be filled in the days to come, enough to line the businesses on main street, offer a buffer to homes, a barrier along the ditches.
That night, Endorf could hear the ice from the Platte hitting the Nebraska 79 bridge at the south end of town.
“It was like an odd thunder, or when you hear rail cars banging into each other.”
By 3 p.m. Thursday, town leaders got reports that the ice had loosened on the Platte, and they hoped the worst of the flooding would miss them.
But Assistant Fire Chief Kyle Woodgate and other firefighters had driven near Schuyler that afternoon to check on the Platte. They’d crossed a bridge, driven about half a mile and by the time they'd turned around to head back, water had covered a part of the highway.
Still, they were primarily worried about the four housing developments — one of which had just been annexed — south of North Bend.
“We never expected every single block on every street to be underwater,” he said.
By the morning of Friday, March 15, just a few staff members were able to get into work, Endorf said.
About 9:30 a.m., he and Ken Streff, a social studies teacher and city councilman, Ferguson and a volunteer firefighter found themselves standing near Cottonwood Street, the entrance to the golf club and a housing development just south of U.S. 30.
The heart of North Bend sits across the highway to the north.
Water had begun to fill the ditch close to the highway and the men were faced with a decision: Should the town evacuate?
“In the absence of the National Guard, FEMA, the county or any other support, the decision fell to a social studies teacher, a maintenance man and a superintendent,” Endorf said.
He headed back to the school so he could message residents from the school’s electronic system, waiting to hear what to do from those who remained to monitor the water. He got the word within 15 minutes: Evacuate to the highest point in the town, the school's Tiger Arena.
Streff headed to the cafe to warn customers.
Abby Post, a high school junior who’d spent her morning at school planning for the upcoming prom, got a call from her mom telling her to come home. She walked in to find her mom stuffing food into bags. Within 20 minutes they'd gathered food, clothes and pets and headed to a friend's home north of town.
Endorf was directing people into the gym from the school parking lot — the resting spot for fire trucks and rescue vehicles — when he looked west and saw a wall of water moving across the practice field.
It wasn't just moving east, it was moving north, toward Nebraska 79 — the only remaining way out of town.
“That’s when I asked myself how wise it was to be sitting in Tiger Arena with 1,000 friends surrounded by water,” he said.
So he changed course, nearly filling three school buses with people and directing all incoming traffic onto Nebraska 79 to the ballroom at Snyder 15 miles north.
Firefighters evacuated the nursing home not far from the school, and began answering 911 calls from residents who needed help getting out. Volunteers offered airboats to help take people to safety.
A number of residents — including Ferguson, who’d weathered floods in 1960 and 1979 — decided to stay.
Streff — who went back and forth between Snyder and North Bend on that Friday — slept on one of the school's wrestling mats in borrowed fire gear and continued to help as rescue work continued Saturday.
At 8:43 Saturday night, Endorf sent a text to 10 people — city leaders, some school folks and others with a reputation for getting things done — and asked them to help organize recovery efforts. He’d heard from those still in town that the school had been spared and he told them all to meet there.
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“Sunday morning those people showed up and we just used small-town logic to develop a strategy to recover,” he said.
The school as city center
About three days after the flood, residents began to return and assess the damage.
They were without water for five days while city officials had it tested to make sure it was safe. The sewer system was overloaded and the city rented pumps to try to bypass the system, but residents’ water use was restricted until early last week.
Basements were flooded, yards saturated, foundations ruined. An unofficial tally: at least 127 homes damaged, at least five uninhabitable, Endorf said.
Erika Jensen, a high school junior, had left the day before the flood with her family. They returned to find their home of 17 years unlivable: the foundation compromised and the entire first floor under water.
They've moved to temporary living quarters several times and are unsure whether they'll rebuild. It’s hard, she said.
“We’ve always been safe in our home.”
But other students and family members showed up at the Jensen’s house to help clean up. School staff brought them meals. Strangers would haul away the ruined contents of their home as they piled it by the curb.
Donations began to come to North Bend from everywhere: water and paper towels, bleach and food, meals from restaurants.
Councilman Bart Bosco turned a portion of Locust Street into a series of trash piles and directed people who needed to get rid of the things the flood had ruined.
School librarian Chris Gross-Rhode managed the volunteers — students and teachers, residents and strangers who showed up, sending them wherever people needed them.
The football coach was trapped in Fremont but called his players and told them to get to work. So they showed up at school, went where they were needed and started shoveling.
Seventh-grader Jake Wright, whose house wasn’t damaged, showed up at school and helped take donations and direct traffic.
“It was crazy,” he said. “We had people up here I’d never seen before helping and getting supplies.”
As the week wore on, signs of pre-flooding life began to push their way through the rubble.
Austin Endorf took a break from helping Abby Post’s family clean out the debris from their flooded basement to ask her to prom — writing “Prom?” on a discarded piece of cardboard.
Two days before the flood, the speech team had competed in the district competition and gotten stranded in West Point. Eight days after the flood, Zander Gibney went to state and won.
Colleagues convinced Endorf to go to Kearney to receive a superintendent of the year award.
By the beginning of the next week, the fire department had moved back to its building, the donation center moved to the Masonic Lodge in town. And Ferguson and his staff scrubbed and cleaned and picked up, turning the makeshift city back into a school.
On Tuesday, staff reported for duty — a day before the students returned — an emotional gathering after an emotional week.
“We needed a day to embrace each other so we could be strong for the kids,” Endorf said.
Pat yourselves on the back
On Wednesday, school began with an assembly, a way to remember and move forward.
Principal Brenda Petersen gave a shout-out to the city council and mayor, the volunteers and the staff and the students themselves.
“People look at you as being their saviors so give yourself a pat on the back,” she said.
She showed a video of the last week, a tribute to their community.
She told them counselors would be available to talk if anyone wanted, that they needed to be careful on the soggy roads, and she sent them on to class.
The day was different, Streff said, not quite normal.
He showed interviews with WWII veterans to his social studies class, and continued to field calls as a city councilman.
"As much as I learned from this experience, I'm glad to be back doing what I went to college for," he said.
Students' emotions ran the gamut, like their experiences: Some had not been touched by the flooding, others lost their homes.
Much of day involved trying to remember just where they'd left off.
Abby had tests to think about now, and taking the ACT in a couple of weeks, but that was OK.
Her family was back home, but there was still no heat and no water, so she showered and washed clothes at a friend's house. Fans were drying the basement and the garage was full of things they salvaged, including her mom’s mud-soaked wedding dress.
“I kind of like getting back in a routine,” she said. “It’s just been crazy.”
Prom was held Saturday as planned — even though planning meetings got snowed out and then washed out. The post-prom gathering was moved to the elementary school because water damaged the city auditorium.
Endorf is confident they'll figure out how to make up days and catch up on the work, and that the last two weeks have not been wasted.
“This is pure education, it’s just not out of a book,” he said. “Nebraska values mean something and they show themselves at times of tragedy.”


NSW ferry users trial new ticket system
- From: AAP
- December 07, 2012
THERE'S nothing worse on the way to work than seeing your bus, train or ferry cruise past while you're fumbling for change in the ticket queue.
But a new electronic ticket system, first trialled by more than 200 ferry users on Friday morning, should solve the problem, NSW Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian says.
The Opal card, now in operation on the Neutral Bay ferry route, is being trialled to iron out any kinks in the system before its 2015 release across all public transport modes in Sydney.
"Customers are best placed to provide feedback on how the new ticketing system is working, and what needs fine tuning," Ms Berejiklian said in a statement.
The government has created incentives to encourage the card's adoption by public transport users.
"The incentives include a weekly reward providing free travel after eight paid journeys in a week, $2.50 daily cap on Sundays for Opal card customers and a daily travel cap of $15 from Monday to Saturday," Ms Berejiklian said.
Customers can link the Opal card to a bank account and automatically top up their cards, similar to the e-tag highway tolling system.
Manly ferries will be the next to receive Opal card technology, which will be installed in mid-2013.
A trial on Sydney's train network is expected to begin about the same time.
JULIA Gillard will begin her formal election campaign on August 12 after being saved from humiliating defeat at today's caucus meeting.
HOLDEN factory workers in South Australia have been called to a staff meeting believed to be on wages and conditions. LIVE FEED
A VIRGIN plane on its way to Adelaide has made an emergency landing at Mildura airport this morning.
ADELAIDE City Council plans to increase on-street parking fees by up to 25 per cent and hit high-use areas with the biggest charges have angered commuters.