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In the vast realm of the internet, where creativity knows no bounds, individuals often emerge who leave an indelible mark with their unique talents and perspectives. One such distinct online presence is lillyflower2003, a moniker that has become synonymous with creativity, innovation, and a fresh approach to digital expression. In this article, we delve into the world of lillyflower2003, exploring the origins of the pseudonym, their contributions, and the impact they’ve had on various online platforms.
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By David Max
Well, that didn’t… escalate quickly. On a day that is circled on every hoop fans calendar, hopes were crushed and no splashes were made. Fans of both bad teams, and franchises that are a player away (maybe) didn’t do much. After all the rumors and speculation, mostly none of it came to fruition. Today was highlighted by such names as Channing Frye, Jeff Green, and Markieff Morris. Yup, it was the Day Of The Role Player. here are the “highlights”:
-The Los Angeles Clippers received Jeff Green from the Memphis Grizzlies for Lance Stephenson and a lottery protected 2019 first-round pick
-The Philadelphia 76ers received Joel Anthony and a 2017 second-round pick from the Houston Rockets for the rights to Chukwudiebere Maduabum
-The Atlanta Hawks received Kirk Hinrich from the Chicago Bulls for Justin Holiday and a second-round pick
– The Washington Wizards received Markieff Morris from the Phoenix Suns for DeJuan Blair, Kris Humphries and a protected first-round pick
– The Portland Trail Blazers absorbed Brian Roberts into cap space and received a second-round pick from the Miami Heat
– The Oklahoma City Thunder received Randy Foye from the Denver Nuggets for D.J. Augustin, Steve Novak and two second-round picks
-Three-team deal: The Cleveland Cavaliers received Channing Frye; the Orlando Magic received Jared Cunningham and a second-round pick (via Orlando); and the Portland Trail Blazers received Anderson Varejao and a top-10 protected 2018 first-round pick (via Cleveland)
– The Utah Jazz received Shelvin Mack from the Atlanta Hawks for a second-round pick
– The Detroit Pistons received Donatas Motiejunas and Marcus Thornton from the Houston Rockets for Joel Anthony and a protected 2016 first round pick
– The New Orleans Pelicans received Jarnell Stokes from the Miami Heat for a protected 2018 second-round pick
-The Detroit Pistons received Tobias Harris from the Orlando Magic for Brandon Jennings and Ersan Ilyasova
-Three-team deal: The Charlotte Hornets received Courtney Lee; the Memphis Grizzlies received Chris Andersen, P.J. Hairston, two conditional second-round picks (via Miami) and two future second-round picks (via Charlotte); and the Miami Heat received Brian Roberts
A good reason no big splashes happened, is teams are creating cap space for the 2016 free agency, headlined Kevin Durant . Should be a great summer filled with potential movement, and Conference shake-ups. Stay tuned….
Writer for TheCouchSports.com, LiveFromWoodward.com, & PTA. Editor, and Co-Host of The Couch Sports Podcast, and a Certified Beardsman.

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Kobe Bryant was one of the greatest tough-shot makers in NBA history who would often put up attempts over a number of defenders. One famous picture has Kobe trying to shoot over basically the entire Chicago Bulls lineup during a Christmas Day game at Staples Center.
And New York Knicks big man Enes Kanter apparently drew some inspiration from it. In the Knicks game this week against the Philadelphia 76ers, Kanter tried to get a shot up despite being surrounded by all five Sixers.
Like with Bryant, his attempt was captured perfectly by photographers. Kanter, always one to have fun even at the expense of himself, took to Twitter with both pictures side by side and a simple hashtag comparing himself to Kobe:
#TurkishMamba ???????????????????? pic.twitter.com/19NKTgP2Bm
— Enes Kanter (@Enes_Kanter) February 13, 2018
This will likely be the only time anyone ever compares Kanter to Kobe, but it is always great when players have a good sense of humor about themselves.
The picture of Bryant surrounded by Bulls was used by many as a microcosm of Kobe’s career. The idea that he was always going to shoot no matter how many players a team threw at him was finally captured perfectly.
Kanter one-upped Kobe by actually having all five defenders surrounding him as opposed to the four Bulls who defended in the original setting.
Nonetheless the Kobe mindset was certainly there and someone has to carry on the legacy of the great Black Mamba, but no one would have predicted it would be a 6’10, 250-pound Turkish center.
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New Mexico Jobs Council seeks $950K for broadband efforts
11 Jan 2016
The New Mexico Jobs Council laid out its legislative recommendations at NAIOP-New Mexico’s 2016 Legislative Update luncheon Monday. NAIOP is the commercial real estate development association with a very active local chapter.
The Jobs Council, spearheaded by Democratic and Republican leaders and others, was started in 2013 to find new ways to identify and create new jobs. It announced at the Albuquerque Marriott event, in front of hundreds of real estate professionals and other businesspeople, that it's drafting a bill for a comprehensive study on the state’s broadband needs — about $950,000 in appropriations to fund the effort.
The NMJC says that bandwidth is the second highest contributor to " production gaps" in the state’s efforts to create 140,000 jobs over the next decade to get New Mexico back to pre-recession employment levels.
The top factor is a qualified workforce, and the third highest factor is the tax and regulatory climate.
But lack of adequate Internet access jeopardizes more than half, about 80,000, of the economic base jobs the state will need, the group said. In its assessment of broadband needs, the council determined that in order to be competitive with other states, where the telecom infrastructure has been adequately updated with fiberoptics, New Mexico businesses will require download speeds of 100 megabits per second (mbps) and upload speeds of 10 mbps. Personal speeds are 25 mbps for downloading and 7 mbps for uploads.
“We don’t have broadband across the state,” said NMJC co-chair and Senate President Pro Tem Mary Kay Papen, who is likely to introduce the bill in the upcoming session with Rep. Don L. Tripp, her council co-chair. “It’s very important that we get it here. When businesses are coming it’s very important they know they have broadband, and that they can do those communications.”
Mark Lautman, a consultant for the NMJC, highlighted the importance of recruiting solo workers, or freelancers, to the area. He said the lack of adequate broadband is a major impediment in recruiting important demographic. He cited a recent Forbes article showing that in 2010, 13 percent of all jobs in the U.S. were considered solo work.
“It’s 36 percent today and they’re expecting by 2020 it’ll be over 50 percent,” he said. “Broadband is so important for solo workers."
The council also announced it would ask for a $500,000 matching fund to establish a statewide solo work pilot program to provide service incentives for independent workers to set up shop in the state. Solo workers represent up to 11,920 potential jobs toward the overall 10-year goal of the NMJC.


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Joe Jonas is really getting into the swing of things in Miami.
The former boybander is becoming a bona fide local.
OK, so while he did attend the insane, over the top opening of Bad Bunny and David Grutman’s Brickell steakhouse Gekko last week (the trap artist’s multi-million dollar Bugatti got hit!), Jonas is also tapping into more low-key spots.
On Instagram, the DNCE member showed his 12.8 followers El Carajo, down in Coconut Grove, where he celebrated turning 33 on Monday.
“Pretty cool restaurant for the birthday night,” he says to the camera, with salsa music softly playing in the background.
The video then pans to the pumps at the gas station out front, as well as the dramatically colorful sky.
The “Lovebug” singer then brings his fans into the establishment, which has a bakery, cafe and wine store in the front, and festive Spanish restaurant in the back.
Then Miami Herald restaurant critic Kendall Hamersly sang the praises of El Carajo back in 2017, when it was six years old, calling it “a corner of Miami serendipity beloved by regulars and discovered by newcomers.”
“How cool is that?” says the new dad (wife Sophie Turner gave birth to their second daughter last month).
We concur. We’ve been going to this SW 17th Avenue secret gem for eons, and now we most likely will not be able to get a foot in the door.


Nikon Metrology drives Quality 4.0 at Control 2018
At Control 2018, Nikon Metrology’s focus on inspection automation sharpens. As the growth of Industry 4.0 accelerates, quality control needs to keep pace with these latest evolutions. Digital, automated and connected inspection enables complete process control from design through to manufacture - defined by the term ‘Quality 4.0’.
Industry 4.0 is the digitization of the whole design to manufacturing process. It aims to increase competitiveness of the manufacturing industry by introducing a more efficient and flexible production process with quality instilled from beginning to end.
It fundamentally changes the role of the quality department: the goal is no longer to control quality but rather to drive the production process to consistently deliver products with the right quality. This is called “Quality 4.0” that builds on the latest developments in device connectivity, cloud computing and artificial intelligence. The effectiveness of “Quality 4.0” however highly depends on the data that drives it. Future-proof inspection systems are characterized by:
- Digital inspection - enabling direct comparison with CAD data
- Automated inspection - providing operator-independent, reliable data, in a timely fashion
- Connected inspection - ensuring better part traceability and feedback to up- and downstream production steps
At Control 2018, Nikon Metrology exhibits a complete portfolio, amongst a range of automated quality inspection solutions and demonstrates how they meet the demands of Quality 4.0: digital, automated and connected inspection. Nikon Metrology also partners for different product lines to deliver the best application and versatility for our customers.
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100% part inspection with automated CT inspection
An important challenge to manufacturers is to increase product quality, which can be achieved through more frequent and timely inspection. Recent advances in high-flux, high-resolution X-ray sources coupled with automated CT inspection and robot-based loading systems enable fast inspection of production samples, with micron accuracy and low cycle times. This opens the gate to a broad span of automated defect and dimensional accuracy inspection applications ranging from batch inspection of small plastic injection moulding parts up to 100% inspection of dense turbine blades.
Automated body-in-white inspection with the Laser Radar
The Laser Radar mounted on a robot provides a unique alternative to the shortcomings of the traditional car body inspection methods. This shop floor system provides accurate, dimensional measurements in the car coordinate system allowing direct comparison to CAD without the need for a reference part. Its high-speed measurements fit within short production cycle times. The Laser Radar measures almost any surface, including highly reflective bare body panels as well as shiny painted surfaces. This robust measurement ability means the LR can be used for body-in white (BIW), panels and flush-and-gap inspections on finished cars. As inline inspection application software, Nikon Metrology presents solutions from Metrologic and InnovMetric. Also on these partner’s respective booths, Nikon Metrology is present with demonstrations.
Focus on optical scanning solutions
The complete portfolio of CMM laser scanning, portable laser scanning and optical gear inspection is on display. The cutting-edge ModelMaker H120 handheld laser scanner incorporates blue laser technology, ultra-fast frame rate, specially developed Nikon optics and the ability to measure the most challenging materials, representing the next generation of portable laser scanning.
For CMM based laser scanning, LK Metrology will demonstrate robot based CMM inspection featuring ALTERA with laser scanners.
Industrial microscopy and video measurement further extend application scope
As a world leader in imaging technology, Nikon provides an extensive portfolio of industrial microscopes and digital camera systems with outstanding versatility, performance and productivity for any application. High-end stereomicroscopes, upright microscopes, inverted metallurgical microscopes, will be displayed along with microscope peripherals and applications from various strategic partners: JEOL Neoscope scanning microscope, semi-automated material analysis from CLEMEX, Inspectis portable microscopes amongst others are presenting on the Nikon Metrology booth.
For video measurement, users can experience both NEXIV and iNEXIV demonstrations with a variety of optical and tactile application software. Also a NEXIV based video measurement system with automated wafer loading is displayed.
Find Nikon Metrology at booth 7202 (hall 7).
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FULL VIEW for detail, i shouldnt even say this.
So i was flopping around in photoshop, playing with composition, and i realized that from now on, my wallpapers will be "peaceful" (boring for some of you) like this one, while my posters will be more action packed (and peaceful too sometimes)
this came to me when i set one of my experiments as wallpaper, and there was too much detail for a wallpaper. and i know that it might just be me, but when i look at my screen, i want a nice background, not something thats grabbing my eyes and distracting me from other things.
So here is the wallpaper version of Prime Time.
What new improvements does this have? well, im learning to make city lights (lower left moon) and im learning to make cloud effects (big planet)
the flare is simple but necessary, otherwise it would be too dark, and i chose to make it as less annoying as possible, because bigger flares would make the viewer focus on it rather than on the detail thats on the moons and planet.
I used 3d studio max and photoshop, as usual.
Thanks for taking the time to stop by and check it out


Jackson, Mississippi, preparing to go without water periodically for up to 10 years as crisis continues
JACKSON, Miss – Organizations in Jackson, Mississippi, are asking for help from other states as the water crisis dries up resources.
It’s been over five months since the Pearl River crested and Jackson, Mississippi’s water system failed. Now, crews are working to replace the pipe system, but families and businesses are prepared to go without water periodically, for up to 10 years.
Cities across the country are replacing fragile water pipe systems. Besides Jackson, there's Flint, Michigan, Baltimore, Maryland, and Houston, Texas.


text: On this week's show we talk about the greatest film about a world run by apes, 1968's "Planet of the Apes". I talk about how easily distracted I am by anything Planet of the Apes related when they are on the television. Then I talk about the book, the people in front of and behind the camera, the music, plot and much much more. I am joined again by Vic Sage who does another great "Why Should I know this Person". This week, Vic tells you why you should know the very talented, Roddy McDowall. Doug McCoy is back with a brand new "Also Ran" and Rob "Flack" O'Hara talks about the Planet of the Apes Atari 2600 prototype game in his segment "Talking Tech".

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JAMESTOWN, NY (WNY News Now) – There was fiery competition during a charity cook-off this weekend in Jamestown. In fact, smoke in the kitchen accidentally tripped an automatic fire alarm.
The second round of Channel 716’s TV Cooking Competition “So, You Think You Can Cook?” took place at the St. Susan Center on Saturday night.
Home cook Melissa Peterniti, caterer Marlene Lucas and Landmark Restaurant chef David Carlson took part.
During the main course preparation, Carlson accidentally tripped the fire alarm system while burning alcohol off of his pan. As a result, the Jamestown Fire Department responded to the automatic alarm.
“It was me, I know it was me,” explained Carlson. “You gotta take the alcohol off, I knew I had to do that, you gotta tip the fire, get the flame, and I knew right when it happened, it was going to go off.”
Next weekend, a new round of chefs will compete in the televised fundraiser which is open to the public with filming starting Saturday, March 11 at 6 p.m. For a $15 donation at the door, you support the Center, get a behind the scenes look at production, as well as be served soup, dessert, and a beverage.


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Jerzy Grotowski: Ascetic and Smuggler Allen Kuharski
The tragic irony of Jerzy Grotowski's death may prove to be that his absence is necessary for his past presence in both Poland and the West to be understood fully--and for a period of true candor and serious critical reexamination of his life and work to begin. The full complexity and stature of Grotowski's career has yet to be completely grasped, and no longer needs to camouflage itself from the perils of Cold War politics. Grotowski's death should compel the start of a new conversation around his life and work, rather than mark the end of one. And most important is that this conversation includes and inspires a new generation of actors and directors.
Grotowski talked about his work with actors in terms of sincerity and precision. And in fact his actors did consistently demonstrate a conviction and a technical mastery in performance previously unknown in Western theater. The appeal of the work was irresistible: a marriage of ethics and virtuosity that promised to renew and redeem the frivolous and increasingly irrelevant institution of the theater. But not only that, his work seemed to imply that such a sanctified yet secular art theater could assume a role of ethical leadership and renewal in society at large, and that the authority of church and state might even pale in comparison. Though Grotowski was scrupulously modest in his statements on these scores, his language implies a kind of theatrical messianism--a twentieth-century return to the Polish romantic heresy of the displacement of church and state, of God and czar, by the poet and the actor. A very seductive idea to theater people in any context, as demonstrated by the global impact of Grotowski's theory and practice over the last thirty years. A seduction to which I must admit, like so many others, I succumbed from afar.
Twenty years after first having Towards a Poor Theater handed to me by my professor in a Polish-language class at the University of Wisconsin, eighteen years after my first trip to Poland--largely inspired by reading Grotowski's book--and now reflecting on his death, I have confronted another side of his life and work. The Grotowski who spoke of sincerity and precision was real, but hardly the entire story. There is another Grotowski, a private and unofficial Grotowski, who is no less fascinating than the more public one.
This is Grotowski the Pole. This is the side of Grotowski that explains how and why his work not only happened to come out of postwar Poland, but could only have come from there. When Grotowski speaks of sincerity and precision, in an unexpected way he assumes the cloak of the high Polish romantic tradition, of Mickiewicz and Chopin. But there is another kind of Pole to be discovered in Grotowski, no less stereotypical. It is familiar to anyone who has ever heard Germans talking in private about their neighbors to the east: the untrustworthy Pole, the conspirator, the smuggler, the black marketeer. All those shady characters hanging around train stations and border crossings and expensive tourist hotels in Poland and Germany. What are they up to? Grotowski? One of those?
Yes. That is the Grotowski that fascinates me now. A transgressive Grotowski, one who echoes the historical association of actors with heretics and criminals. A messy Grotowski filled with riddles, complications, and contradictions--one whose depths and shadows are thrown into high relief by the luminosity of his other persona. A Grotowski who might appear as a character in a collaboration between Shakespeare and Genet. Or perhaps Dostoyevsky. Grotowski appreciated Dostoyevsky.
With time I have become convinced that the official Grotowski, the kind and soft-spoken one, the one for export, the one you can take with you anywhere, is not worth talking about except in relation to the private one, the one smelling of cigarettes and the coal dust of Polish Silesia. The one who created Akropolis less than an hour's drive from Auschwitz in the formerly German city of Opole and performed the piece in the shadow of the Polish Communist Party's rising anti-Semitic campaign in the late 1960s--a campaign that resulted in the forced emigration of the majority of Poland's remaining Jewish population in 1968 and a crisis of conscience in Polish society whose aftershocks can still be felt. As Ida Kaminska, the distinguished artistic director of Warsaw's Jewish Theater, was packing her bags to emigrate to the U.S., the Polish Laboratory was riding the wave of the international success of Akropolis and The Constant Prince.
Grotowski's work always operated on this kind of theatrical, political, and ethical knife's edge. The Artaudian representation of the Holocaust in Akropolis was a visceral meditation by Grotowski's largely gentile company upon the ethical universe created within the concentration camps: in Catholic terms, a theatrical examination of conscience and a collective prayer and intercession on behalf of the deceased; in Marxist terms, an act of historical consciousness-raising and an act of solidarity. In either Catholic or Marxist terms, the production was clearly intended as an expression of ethical consciousness. Poland's communist rulers--not all of whom supported the party's anti-Semitic faction--surely hoped that the Polish Lab's foreign performances of the work before the so-called events of March 1968 would be effective cultural diplomacy, Poland's counterpart to the Berliner Ensemble in East Germany. After March 1968, the Polish Lab's performances perhaps most fully revealed the company's true character as a cultural expression of the values held by a variety of milieus in Polish society, values not always reflected in the country's governing regime and official culture "for export."
Certainly Grotowski's Polishness must matter--yet it remains the most elusive aspect of his life and work for Poles and non-Poles alike. Poles were confronted by the complexity of a radically eclectic, cosmopolitan, and unprecedented theatrical project; foreigners were confronted with the formidable complexity of Polish culture, history, and politics, and the potential embarrassment of admitting the depths of their own ignorance. Grotowski's work was always a source of confusion and hostility for most of the Polish theater community, and his approach to acting was never adopted into the curricula of Poland's drama schools. Yet Grotowski's theater did not develop in spite of its Polish context; it was somehow integral with it. To pass over such issues is to simplify and diminish his life and work.
Like any good Polish smuggler, Grotowski had a cavalier attitude toward official cultural and political borders. Invited as a drama student to Stalinist Russia, he educated himself on the taboo topic of Meyerhold and brought this knowledge back with him to Poland, where cultural policing was far more lax on that score. A member of the Communist Party since his student days, he nevertheless also identified with the work of Juliusz Osterwa (1885-1947), a progressive Catholic and a radical innovator of the interwar Polish stage. In spite of the consistent suppression of Osterwa and his followers in postwar Poland, Grotowski modeled the logo for his Polish Laboratory Theater on that of Osterwa's Teatr Reduta (Redoubt Theater) and clearly identified with Osterwa's goals of rigorous actor training, communal living, and an ethos that combined social consciousness with spirituality. Osterwa was particularly renowned for his five various stagings of Calder≤n/Slowacki's The Constant Prince before the war.
Grotowski's early work was largely ignored or scorned in Poland, but among his first and most loyal supporters were Irena and Tadeusz Byrski, two leading members of the original Reduta company. Like Osterwa, the Byrskis (with whom I became acquainted while studying in Poland) were fervent Catholics and leftists, but firmly anticommunist. They shunned the open anti-Semitism of the Polish Catholic Church before the war and were active in the Polish resistance to the Nazi occupation, and for decades after the war their own work was suppressed by Poland's communist authorities (the same ones who subsidized Grotowski's company) even as their reputation as voices of artistic and moral authority in the Polish theater steadily grew through the years of Solidarity and the 1980s. Irena Byrska made her comeback as an actress at the age of eighty in Andrzej Wajda's film Man of Iron in 1981, just before the declaration of martial law and the subsequent banning of Wajda's film. Wajda's casting of Byrska touched the core of the Solidarity ethos: she embodied the promise of a genuine coalition of the artist/intellectual with the working class.
The Polish Laboratory Theater thus functioned as a kind of liminal space within the Polish theater and the larger cultural landscape. It was a space where ideological, cultural, and national boundaries became porous and fluid--often in ways that provoked confusion, anxiety, or mockery--just as postwar Poland itself inspires these responses, particularly Polish Silesia. The company's location in Silesia is a crucial and little-appreciated dimension of its history and character. Wroclaw and Opole were German cities before World War II, with Wroclaw (Breslau in German) the base of Max Reinhardt's interwar career and a major center of German Jewish learning. As a result of the Yalta Treaty, Poland's borders were shifted 150 miles west, with large areas of eastern Germany annexed and an even larger area of eastern Poland ceded to the Soviet Union. The result was one of the largest forced relocations of populations in human history (comparable to those that followed the partition of India a few years later), involving the expulsion of approximately eight million Germans from the new Polish territories and their replacement by over six million Poles expelled from what is now western Ukraine and Belarus.
The Polish populations of Opole and Wroclaw (Grotowski's local audience) were overwhelmingly made up of former residents of the eastern territories, with the university center of Wroclaw largely absorbing the displaced population of Lw≤w, one of prewar Poland's leading academic and scientific urban centers. For decades after the war, no formal treaty was signed between Poland and West Germany guaranteeing the finality of Poland's western borders, leaving the region's Polish population afraid of yet another forced relocation if the Germans ever sought to reassert their historic claims. This brutal chapter in Silesia's history came quick on the heels of the Holocaust (Auschwitz-Birkenau is also located in the area) and was followed by decades of calamitous ecological degradation resulting from its importance as a coal-mining and industrial center.
The Polish Laboratory was a magnet in the 1960s and 1970s for disaffected intellectuals, many of whom later became leading dissidents. Among these were Malgorzata Dziewulska, today the literary manager of Poland's recently refurbished National Theater in Warsaw. One of her responsibilities at the Polish Lab was being Joseph Chaikin's guide and interpreter on his first trip to Poland in 1975 as part of the Theater of Nations Festival, which Grotowski hosted. When Chaikin, the child of Polish Jews who left the country before World War II, addressed an auditorium packed with university students in Wroclaw, he candidly discussed his own Jewishness and ambivalence about traveling to Poland, in spite of warnings to avoid the topic. The exchange between Chaikin and the Wroclaw students proved a catalytic moment for those attending and established a legend around Chaikin in Polish theatrical and intellectual circles that endures to this day. Grotowski the black marketeer was hardly going to advocate stricter controls on such exchanges--such risks were a given of his occupation, and even one of its rewards.
It was in the wake of the declaration of martial law in Poland in 1981 that Grotowski's sophisticated smuggling operation was finally forced to shut down. He quietly defected to the West in late 1982, in the midst of a protest boycott by Polish actors of the country's official theater, film, and television producers. He was arguably the most renowned figure in Polish culture to defect at the time, yet he scrupulously avoided playing the role of the victim or the martyr. He succeeded in keeping his defection a "nonevent" in the public eye. Many of his closest American contacts were not aware of his presence in the U.S. until weeks after his arrival, in spite of the reporting of the event in the Polish American press.
Grotowski's defection to the U.S. was perhaps his most volatile and delicate act of political and theatrical border crossing--with his own person becoming the contraband. The stakes were high, and the consequences of his choice included the dissolving of the Polish Laboratory in Wroclaw, one of the great theatrical ventures of the century, and the political and theatrical abandoning of his actors, including Ryszard Cieslak, in Poland in the wake of his departure. He lived quietly and discreetly in the U.S. and Italy for sixteen years, slowly but deliberately grooming a group of young American followers, with Thomas Richards becoming the heir apparent to his work. He gracefully accepted honors, such as being the first theater artist to be named to the CollΦge de France in Paris, and established his new research center in Pontedera, Italy. Like a Polish Candide in emigration, he tended his theatrical garden and in his own way exemplified the virtues of sincerity and precision.
But I find it hard to believe that the last years of his life lived in emigration were suddenly brought into a sublime and simple harmony. Thanks to what? A new life in suburban Los Angeles? Was this transplantation no less difficult and significant than those of Brecht or Thomas Mann to Los Angeles forty years earlier? Or indeed those of Mickiewicz and Chopin in the nineteenth century, or Czeslaw Milosz and Jan Kott in our own? For all his talk of sincerity and precision, the official and public Grotowski was anything but candid. Grotowski's silences were as significant as his statements about his life and work. Such silence and indirection were understandable and perhaps a necessity if he was to maintain a theater company in communist Poland, but unfortunately for us these traits followed him into emigration. If an atmosphere of confusion, anxiety, and mockery still surrounds his work, Grotowski himself is largely to blame, especially as the passage of time increasingly obscures the terrible eloquence of the productions of the Polish Laboratory Theater. The Polish Lab, like Grotowski himself, was most expressive and compelling for what it left unspoken, or more precisely for what it expressed nonverbally.
The work of the Polish Laboratory, and by definition any kind of laboratory, aspired to a closed and protected space for disinterested experimentation and inquiry. Unlike the sciences, however, in cultural work such laboratory spaces tend to become either utopian or arcadian in character, providing either rehearsals for a possible new social order or an escape into an archaic one. If discussed and passed on within an isolated and artificial utopian/arcadian space removed from any messy specifics of history, culture, and politics, Grotowski's groundbreaking theory and practice are doomed to extinction--something that I regret to say is already all too easy to imagine in the context of the American theater. Grotowski's various theatrical enterprises aspired to be laboratories, and very significant things undeniably resulted. However, in reality the Polish Laboratory Theater no less than Grotowski's WorkCenter in Pontedera are institutions that exist under specific material, cultural, and political circumstances, and whose work can only be picked up by others who understand them as institutions on practical and social as well as philosophical planes. It is flawed theater and cultural history to proceed otherwise--which in this case cannot be separated from political history as well. To pass over Grotowski the Pole and emigre, warts and all, is ultimately to diminish Grotowski's stature and fatally compromise his work.
Allen Kuharski, an associate professor and director of the theater studies program at Swarthmore College, has been published in Theater, Theatre Journal, Performing Arts Journal, New Theatre Quarterly, TheatreForum, and other journals in the U.S. and Poland. He currently serves as an editor for Slavic and East European Performance and Periphery.
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BANGOR – The Mount Desert Island High School varsity boys basketball team gave the Medomak Valley Panthers a run for their money in Eastern Maine Class B semifinal action Wednesday at the Cross Center, but the Panthers won 59-47.
“Our kids play their guts out,” MDI coach Justin Norwood said. “I’m very proud of them.”
The Panthers controlled the tip-off but MDI made them miss their first shots. They led off scoring with a quick 6-0 run, but Riley Swanson answered with a three for MDI and the Trojans pulled steadily ahead. Graham Good was fouled for a plus-one. Russell Kropff scored on a Gus Reeves assist. Riley Swanson dominated the defensive boards and added five more points. MDI led 17-14 after the first quarter.
The Cross Center was quiet in the low-scoring second. It was a defensive battle as both teams racked up fouls. The first points in the quarter went to Medomak Valley from the free throw line. Kropff had the first MDI field goal with half the quarter gone on a Devin Parlatore assist. The Panthers found their feet and opened up a ten-point lead, 29-19. While they struggled to make up the scoring deficit, the Trojan press remained effective and the Panthers had to fight hard for every shot. The score at the half was Medomak Valley 29 – MDI 21.
“I thought we did a good job on (top Medomak Valley scorer Nicholas) DePatsy,” Norwood said. “But their secondary scorers did their job.”
The Trojans came back to within one point, 33-32 in the third on four points from Drew Rich, three from Swanson and two free throws from Andrew Phelps. After three quarters the Panthers had a 40-35 lead. The MDI students in the stands led off their chant the “Bugaloo” at the top of the fourth and their team continued to battle. They did well on offensive rebounds but had trouble connecting on their shots. Senior Jake Boumil made the final field goal of the game for MDI, on a rebound from his brother Aaron’s free throw attempt. The final score was 59-47.

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Identify and apply legislation used to safeguard vulnerable children, young people and adults, and the different cultural contexts and perceptions of what constitutes risk and safeguarding, and the tools used to assess and address risk
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Critically evaluate legislation and current research around safeguarding and ability to make recommendations based on your research as to how improvements could be made
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Students will be provided with a selection of three case studies relating to Children, Young People or Adults from which they will choose one. The student will choose a professional role related to the case study and demonstrate understanding of their chosen professional role in relation to safeguarding the vulnerable child/person in their case study. The assignment requires identification of at least three relevant Legislation or Policy that informs professional safeguarding practice. The student must select one of the pieces of Policy or Legislation and critically evaluate it to identify its effectiveness in safeguarding practice, linking this to the case study, whilst acknowledging the impact of
wider sociological factors that need to be considered in the safeguarding process. The student must incorporate relevant research to illustrate points or arguments in the assignment. The assignment should be presented in Essay format and the word count for this assignment is 2000 words (plus or minus 10%)
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This true story of an ex-Marine who fought crime as an undercover cop, a narcotics agent, and finally a federal prosecutor spans a decade of crime fighting and narrow escapes. Charlie Spillers dealt with a remarkable variety of career criminals, including heroin traffickers, safecrackers, burglars, auto thieves, and members of Mafia and Mexican drug smuggling operations. In this riveting tale, the author recounts fascinating experiences and the creative methods he used to succeed and survive in a difficult and sometimes extremely dangerous underworld life.
As a young officer with the Baton Rouge Police Department, ex-Marine Charlie Spillers first went undercover to infiltrate criminal groups to gather intelligence.
After Baton Rouge, he joined the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics and for the next five years continued working undercover, from the Gulf Coast to Memphis and from New Orleans to Houston. He capped off a unique career by becoming a federal prosecutor and the justice attaché for Iraq.
The book is published by University Press of Mississippi.
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Ezekiel 18 World English Bible (WEB)
18 Yahweh’s word came to me again, saying, 2 What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge? 3 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, you shall not use this proverb any more in Israel. 4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die. 5 But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right, 6 and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor’s wife, neither has come near to a woman in her impurity, 7 and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment; 8 he who has not lent on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man, 9 has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, says the Lord Yahweh. 10 If he fathers a son who is a robber who sheds blood, and who does any one of these things, 11 or who does not do any of those things, but even has eaten on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor’s wife, 12 has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination, 13 has lent on interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? he shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him. 14 Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father’s sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like; 15 who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor’s wife, 16 neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge, neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment; 17 who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live. 18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity. 19 Yet you say, Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live. 20 The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him. 21 But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 22 None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him: in his righteousness that he has done he shall live. 23 Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Yahweh; and not rather that he should return from his way, and live? 24 But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die. 25 Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal? 26 When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die. 27 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 28 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 29 Yet the house of Israel says, “The way of the Lord is not fair.” House of Israel, aren’t my ways fair? Aren’t your ways unfair? 30 Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, says the Lord Yahweh. Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel? 32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord Yahweh: therefore turn yourselves, and live.
Ezekiel 18 New International Version (NIV)
The One Who Sins Will Die
18 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel:
“‘The parents eat sour grapes,
3 “As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel. 4 For everyone belongs to me, the parent as well as the child—both alike belong to me. The one who sins is the one who will die.
5 “Suppose there is a righteous man
10 “Suppose he has a violent son, who sheds blood or does any of these other things[a] 11 (though the father has done none of them):
“He eats at the mountain shrines.
Will such a man live? He will not! Because he has done all these detestable things, he is to be put to death; his blood will be on his own head.
14 “But suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father commits, and though he sees them, he does not do such things:
15 “He does not eat at the mountain shrines
He will not die for his father’s sin; he will surely live. 18 But his father will die for his own sin, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother and did what was wrong among his people.
19 “Yet you ask, ‘Why does the son not share the guilt of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right and has been careful to keep all my decrees, he will surely live. 20 The one who sins is the one who will die. The child will not share the guilt of the parent, nor will the parent share the guilt of the child. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them.
21 “But if a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, that person will surely live; they will not die. 22 None of the offenses they have committed will be remembered against them. Because of the righteous things they have done, they will live. 23 Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign Lord. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?
24 “But if a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits sin and does the same detestable things the wicked person does, will they live? None of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness they are guilty of and because of the sins they have committed, they will die.
25 “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear, you Israelites: Is my way unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust? 26 If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits sin, they will die for it; because of the sin they have committed they will die. 27 But if a wicked person turns away from the wickedness they have committed and does what is just and right, they will save their life. 28 Because they consider all the offenses they have committed and turn away from them, that person will surely live; they will not die. 29 Yet the Israelites say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are my ways unjust, people of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
30 “Therefore, you Israelites, I will judge each of you according to your own ways, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall. 31 Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, people of Israel? 32 For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!


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The concept of food workshops is: to combine the desert cooking experience as part of the desert hospitality and to prepare the meal together with the hosts. This activity is suitable for groups as part of a day trip, for those coming for overnight accommodation, and even as a type of activity for groups who are passing by on their route elsewhere.
The food workshops combine the experience of building team spirit against a desert background. The workshops include related attributes such as: lighting bonfires, lots of improvisation, and of course the food always comes out delicious. The foods that are usually cooked during the food workshops are: meals in a Potjie – cast-iron pot, bonfire cooking and shakshuka.
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Bike Getaways Along the P’tit Train du Nord Linear Park
Are you looking for an escape? Come travel along the P’tit Train du Nord Linear Park, a bike path that traverses the Laurentians region over 234 kilometres from south to north between Bois-des-Filion and Mont-Laurier.
Contact us for accommodation and itinerary suggestions.
How does it work? -We organize all customized stays based on visitors’ needs. -The route is planned according to the number of kilometres you want to travel per day. -We take care of booking accommodations and transporting your luggage (this shuttle bus service for cyclists has trailers specially designed and adapted for transporting bicycles).
Because the P’tit Train du Nord is a linear bike path, loops are impossible unless you retrace your route. Usually, trips begin in the morning at kilometre 0 in Saint-Jérôme, which serves as the meeting place where the carrier awaits you. The shuttle will transport you to your predetermined starting point. The carrier then goes to the Mont-Laurier station, the end of the path, which is kilometre 200. Most cyclists travel to Mont-Laurier and ride the path to Saint-Jérôme. It should be noted that the path has a slight downward slope when ridden southward, so it is somewhat easier than going from south to north. On average, cyclists pedal about 30 to 50 kilometres per day, and they choose their lodging accordingly. All options are possible. If you have just two days and one night, based on the number of kilometres you want to travel, you could go to Mont-Tremblant, ride to Sainte-Adèle, sleep there and then complete your trip in Saint-Jérôme the next day. The carrier offers stops at all stations on the linear park.
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beach wedding ceremony // photo by Bubblerock // http://ruffledblog.com/bordeaux-beach-wedding-inspiration
Love the white flowers and floating candles Wedding Decor by Caplan Miller Events...Lots of light through glass in a beautiful space like an entry pointe...perfection!
This is so pretty, but seriously ... all I see is a disaster waiting to happen. I'd SO be the guest to kick the candle over and burn down the wedding hall. That might be a bad omen, right?
I have some small bird cages and a few lanterns similar to the ones in this pic that I have attached pink flowers to for the tables.
Moving it outside this spring
Beautiful setting!! #dinner #party #entertain #wine #imbibe #libations #candles #dreamy www.jwine.com Joshua Aull Photography http://www.joshuaaull.com/blog/
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simple decorations for a beach ceremony. #wedding #zappos
#lantern #hurricane #vase Candles, glass jars, candelabras and candle stands. All so very pretty! More inspiration: www.fb.com/labolaweddings Or Follow me: twitter.com/Lala4e_Labola
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SABIC Performance Chemicals aims to diversify the SABIC product portfolio and play an important role for the entire company. It will accelerate exploration of new “chemical and polymer value chains” to meet existing and new customer needs. SABIC Performance Chemicals will bring more than 30 new products to market within the next few years. It operates three Business Units: Base Products, Functional Chemicals, and Functional Polymers.
Our valued customers will be supported locally by SABIC’s new Plastics Application Development Center in Riyadh, as well as the Technology and Innovation centers located around the world . The new product range with an anticipated capacity close to 2000 KTA, will extend across most applications. These products will contribute to the development and support of the downstream industries; automotive, construction, appliances, consumer goods, electronics, packaging, chemicals, food, textile and pharmaceutical.
Performance Chemicals SBU’s goals are to ensure sustainable growth and reliable long term supply, meeting customers’ requirements for value-added products , support Saudi Arabia’s downstream industrial growth plans and create opportunities for employment in downstream industries, bring new technologies and capabilities to Saudi Arabia’s industries and educational institutions .

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Tom Baigrie, the chief executive of protection broker LifeSearch, has hit out at product providers for pretending to "police" advisers' relationships with their customers, a practice he dubbed "institutional petty theft".
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SECONDCITY - MUSIC IS WHAT BRINGS US
2017-05-15 | Circus Recordings | CIRCUS074 | BUY NOW
Secondcity – Music Is What Brings Us
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Second City makes his full debut on Circus Recordings with an mature leap forward while reminiscing about the history of house. Known for a width of styles, from chart topping success to underground tech house, here second city delivers a track that shows a real maturity. A track that captivates, its epic, it grows and its fulfilling, and as Yousef puts it, "i can see Laurent Garnier playing this", as sealed as approvals can get..
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This track was inspired by a lot of early house disco stuff, wanted to make something that sounded very sample based & had that real funk and soul element you really got with a lot of early house music. This record means a lot to me and helps maybe show a little bit of where my inspirations when writing music come from.
Second City Biography
Rowan stormed onto the scene with the much-hyped four track EP ‘The Story’ on Huxley’s Saint’s And Sonnets imprint before following up with a sublime collab with Route94, editing the classic ‘Freak Like Me’. This sparked interest among a number of key players and he soon found the likes of Skream, Kenny Dope, MK and Nic Fancuilli all championing his sound. It wasn’t until his UK No.1 single ‘I Wanna Feel’ Rowan become of real notoriety, the track was inspired by the city he grew up in, Chicago, and has gone onto amass over 23 million plays on Spotify alone.
After this, he went onto release ‘I Enter’ on Claude Von Stroke’s ‘DirtyBird’, which went onto hit top stop in the Beatport charts. With Nic Fanciulli’s continued support, it wasn’t long until Rowan was asked to produce an EP for Saved Records as well as remixes for Carl Cox, Dimitri Nakov & John Monkman. Since then he has been going from strength-to-strength, garnering support from a lot of his peers including Andrea Oliva, Stacey Pullen, Hot Since 82, Guti and many more. Last year saw an accolade of releases including a two-track EP ‘Coming Home’ for the esteemed ABODE Records label – reaching no.1 in the Beatport chart -One of his most successful releases of the past 12 months was ‘Funk’d’ with Balearic producer Manu Gonzalez, the track saw love from Annie Mac, Pete Tong & Danny Howard on BBC Radio 1 show and was heavily supported by Marco Carola who played it all summer during his notorious Music On residency at Amnesia. Not only busy in the studio, Rowan has been taking his sound all over the world with his eclectic, energetic sets.
Playing some of the most exciting parties with a Sankeys residency across Tribal Sessions and Abode, which he will continue in 2017, and playing key shows at London’s Fabric, taking his ENd brand across North America and experimenting with a live performance at Pacha. Other key gigs include The BPM Festival, Glastonbury, SW4 and The Warehouse Project.


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Degrassi Next Class COMPLETE S 1-4
Degrassi Next Class follows the lives of the students from Degrassi Community School, a fictional high school in Toronto. It is the 5th series in the Degrassi franchise and the first two seasons have been filmed. It will tell the stories of a new generation of students as they navigate their way through high school dealing with real life issues and situations that teenagers actually go through such as Cyber Bullying, Mental illness, Homophobia, racism, drug use, feminism, sexuality, religion, life threatening diseases, online harassment, catfishing and dysfunctional families. It will target the teen cohort today known as Generation Z.

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Glee, Greyson Chance, Oh Land, and More Provided Our Favorite Tweets This Week
Top tweets of the week from favorites like Glee, Taylor Swift, and Hayley Williams.
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Thank you, Drake! Singer's debut album tops the Billboard chart. [Music-Mix/EW]MJ tribute: Music and TV stations go all-Michael tomorrow to commemorate one-year anniversary of the pop legend's death. [NY Daily News] Idol bride: Kellie Pickler says...
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Chelsea vs Plymouth Prediction: Chelsea latest FA Cup Fixture matches taking on Plymouth this weekend at Stamford Bridge on Saturday with new signed players in the squad.
No doubt, the match between Chelsea vs Plymouth will be a tougher match to watch due to both teams performances in their various league.
Champions of Europe Chelsea hosts Plymouth Argyle in the FA Cup fourth round at Stamford Bridge. The hosts are currently in third place in the Premier League, while their opponents are in seventh place in League One.
Chelsea have only lost once in their last 14 games, and it was against Manchester City. While they have done a fantastic job of avoiding defeat, they have a low winning percentage in these 14 games. During this time, they have had six draws and seven victories. They did, however, record a smashing FA Cup success in the last round, defeating Chesterfield 5-1.
Chelsea have won 10 of their last 11 FA Cup matches at home, averaging 30 points per game. Their only loss during this time was to Manchester United in the fifth round of the FA Cup in 2019.
When Plymouth Argyle face Chelsea in their own backyard, they will be hoping to continue their fairytale run. In a fantastic triumph, the League One side knocked Championship side Birmingham out of the competition in the last round. They are coming off a 3-1 victory over Doncaster in their previous match.
Plymouth Argyle have struggled for consistency this season, but they are now just 90 minutes away from pulling off one of the biggest FA Cup upsets ever. This is their first meeting with Chelsea since losing 1-0 to them in 1989. They haven’t beaten Chelsea in 42 years and have lost all three FA Cup matches against the London club.
Chelsea have a fantastic home record in all competitions and should be too strong for Plymouth Argyle to handle. The visitors are prone to conceding a lot of goals away from home, and there should be plenty of goals against a star-studded Chelsea side. This match will be won by Chelsea.
KICKOFF TIME: Chelsea vs Plymouth Argyle match will take on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. local time(13:30 GMT).


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Saving for College 101
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There are some days when it is difficult to find our equilibrium! As a former Teaching Principal at a local Quaker school I was fortunate to be able to teach the children how to “center down” every morning. It began our day. Even the kindergarteners learned how to sit quietly and still their personal activity for a few minutes. As the year progressed even my little 5 and 6 years olds knew the language and the value of centering down. Of course this process was a form of meditation. We used visualizations to help guide the quiet time, played peaceful music and most importantly allowed them a daily opportunity to learn how to practice being still and listening to that of “God within”. If for some reason we had an activity which kept us from this beginning ritual, we all felt it. When we had a break we would stop then and there and take a few moments. The students always noticed the difference from within themselves and in the group dynamic.
Those years were powerful ones…for so many reasons. The biggest gifts came from these innocents who understood through prayer and quiet time how they were benefiting themselves for success and happiness.
So, how are we doing? Are we peaceful today? Do we need a moment to center down, taking deep breaths to remind ourselves how powerful we are in our daily living? Each one of us, in our own way, can create a routine/ritual for beginning our day. It really doesn’t matter how you do it: music…a brisk walk…yoga…quiet moments just to clear the energy. It only matters that you do it. It doesn’t need to be a long process…ten or fifteen minutes. It is a moment of remembering who we are and calling forth the higher, lighted energy of the Sacred Self to step into our daily life…helping us to work through the day with ease and grace.
We do not do this earth thing alone. We have access to wonderful, guided understanding but first we must honor it by acknowledging the process and committing to spending a few moments with the higher, balanced parts of ourselves. We set our intention for a guided day, we accept its possibilities and we go forth knowing that we have prepared ourselves for the wisdom and grace it provides. This quiet time reminds us about who we really are and allows us constant access to ALL of the I AM of our unlimited creation.
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Chapter Seventeen: 1985—1986
“I have decided to make this my last year as chancellor. Next summer I will have served as chancellor for a full generation, 20 years, and I think it essential that a new generation of leadership be allowed to further develop and improve this fine and remarkable University.” - Chancellor Edward Weidner, Sept. 14, 1985
Weidner's closing words at the faculty-staff breakfast almost immediately set in motion a search for his successor.
Jerrold Rodesch, associate professor of history and chairman of the humanistic studies program, headed the search committee. Other members from the faculty were Associate Professors Daniel Alesch, Dorothea Sager, and Terence O'Grady and Professors Martin Greenberg, Elaine McIntosh and Robert Wenger. Ronald Dhuey, registrar, and Kathy Pletcher, associate director of the library, represented the academic staff, Dean Leander Schwartz the senior administration of UW-Green Bay, and Elwin Cammack the UW System administration. Student members were Sue Premo and Lucy Cayemberg, president and vice president of the Student Association. By mid-December the committee had completed work on a job description. Backed by a faculty resolution reaffirming the “institutional distinctiveness” of UW-Green Bay, they included in their list of qualifications a commitment to “the interdisciplinary liberal arts mission of UW-Green Bay.”
Forty applications and nominations were in hand by the beginning of the new year. By the Feb. 23 deadline the committee had completed preliminary screening of about 60 of 185 candidates. A month later the field had been narrowed to 30 applicants whose references were being checked by telephone. A dozen candidates remained in the running by the end of April. In a marathon series of meetings, including interviews with finalists—a total of 11 meetings were scheduled between April 23 and May 8—the committee completed its work. The names of five unranked candidates were submitted to a regent subcommittee. In June a final choice would be recommended to the regents by UW System President Kenneth Shaw, in office since January.
While the search for Weidner's successor continued on its measured course, the chancellor attacked the duties of his final year with customary zest. The “good news” continued:
At a Faculty Senate meeting two days after the fall breakfast, Weidner announced the Herbert Fisk Johnson Professorship in environmental studies, the first of four endowed professorships supported by gifts to the capital campaign. Samuel C. Johnson and his wife Imogene, the donors, were at Weidner's side when he told of the award honoring Johnson's late father. The Ben J. and Joyce Rosenberg Memorial Professorship, a gift from the Rosenberg Family Foundation, was disclosed to the faculty in October, with the Rosenbergs' son Gary in attendance. News of a third professorship came in November, when members of the Cofrin family gathered on the campus to take part in dedication of the Cofrin Arboretum and a newly constructed observation tower. The 165-acre arboretum had been developed over a 10-year period with contributions from Cofrin family members of two generations. The professorship was the gift of Dr. David and Mary Ann Cofrin in memory of Barbara Hauxhurst Cofrin. A fourth endowment was announced in December. Presented by Philip and Elizabeth Hendrickson, it was specified for work in economic development. Each professorship, like the earlier Frankenthal Family Foundation award, would provide the recipient with a $10,000 annual stipend for three years in addition to regular salary. Each grant would be awarded to a senior professor for use in research or other scholarly activity.
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At the end of December Weidner presided over midyear commencement. In spring he welcomed academics from across the country, faculty members, students and community members to a series of 20th anniversary events. A two-day conference celebrating interdisciplinary education, arranged by Anthony Galt of the faculty, was a major event of the observance. In April Weidner dedicated the Student Union addition. The ceremony was punctuated by the release of 20 balloons, one for each year.
In May Weidner opened the 1965 Room, a private dining room in the Student Union. At a dinner marking the occasion, he unveiled a plaque with the names of 26 men and women. Recognized on the plaque were local business people, city, county and state officials, and representatives of UW Central Administration who 20 years earlier “had made bringing a campus to Green Bay their top priority,” in Weidner's words. At the end of May Weidner stood for the last time before a class of graduating seniors, associate degree and master's degree candidates. With him on the platform was UW President Emeritus Harrington, who 20 years earlier—in a far different climate of administrative authority—had handpicked Weidner as chancellor. As the principal commencement speaker, Harrington addressed the topic “Why I Like the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.”
“I think you have learned here that being a graduate of UW-Green Bay means more than going out and living your lives making lots of money—or a little bit,” Harrington told the students. “It means also that you are committed to helping in these difficult times to solve some of the problems of poverty and prejudice, the problems of the environment and international trouble which bother us so much now.”
June 30, 1986, was Weidner's last day on the job. He spent part of it on a pleasant piece of unfinished business: helping to dedicate two of four new residence halls in honor of early supporters of the University, Josephine and the late T. J. Lenfestey. Throughout the ceremony he remained true to a promise made earlier to a Press-Gazette reporter: “There will be no closing speeches. I'll move my books and I'll just walk out. That's how it will end.”
The new addition to the Student Union
But Weidner's desire for a quiet goodbye had already been overruled. Two weeks before his career as chancellor officially closed, the Press-Gazette devoted a full page and a half to a report on the Weidner era at UW-Green Bay. Individuals on and off the campus commented on the qualities that had won both supporters and detractors, describing Weidner in such words as optimistic, innovative, persuasive, persistent, flexible, supportive.
In 20 years, Weidner had served under five University of Wisconsin presidents and five governors. Only Karl Meyer, chancellor of UW-Superior—due to retire the following year—held greater seniority as the chief officer of a University of Wisconsin campus.
“The evaluation of Weidner's performance as chancellor will probably never end,” wrote reporter Tony Walter. “But in the arena of bottom lines, Weidner's legacy is unmistakably a rich one.
“What Weidner built, as much with his political savvy and persistence as with his leadership, has produced over 7,600 graduates and now boasts a student population of just under 5,000.
“It is a campus of 35 buildings worth more than $100 million. And it is a school with a solid reputation, a highly respected library, a 180-member faculty and seed money from a $2.4 million capital fund-raising campaign that gives promise to future expansion.”
Interviewed by Walter, Weidner admitted to being “fiercely proud” of what had happened during his tenure. “But others will have to assess it,” he added. “I don't allow myself to do that. For me, the challenge is always the future.”
And for Weidner the future already held a new challenge. At the urging of the Cofrin family, he had accepted the post of director of the Cofrin Memorial Arboretum. His new job would start in the fall.


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We really are blessed with a happy baby. Sure, she goes through phases but in general, she’s pretty happy and especially the past couple of weeks.
Look at that form! That glorious beagle form 😛 It’s Easter Sunday and we decided to take Dug out after church to his favorite park. It’s been a while since we’ve been here. It was an especially beautiful day with lots of dogs and daisies blooming. Happy Easter – He is risen!
We headed up to Aaron’s sister’s cabin in Big Bear for a weekend with Aaron’s family. Doesn’t Ella look like the pink Nintendo ice climber?!?
We got to head up to LA for a nice birthday dinner without the babe and drove around our old neighborhood for Aaron’s 35th birthday! It seemed like yesterday I was silly stringing him on his 23rd birthday!
Every year for about two weeks at my parents house, these beautiful white flowers bloom. Then the white petal falls to the ground and gets blown in the wind like confetti in the air. Welcome Spring.
Four days after I had Ella, I signed up for the Disney Star Wars Half Marathon thinking that by the time Ella turned 6 months, she would be so self sufficient that I would have all the time in the world to train for a race. Rookie mistake … or should I say Wookie mistak. haaaaaa. I like to joke that my friend Court took advantage of my postpartum vulnerability by talking me into signing up for this race but the truth is I’m so glad she did. Even if I didn’t get a chance to train for it, it certainly jump started my running again. She was such a good sport, running along side of me when she could’ve probably finished in half the time. Continue reading “STAR WARS HALF MARATHON”

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But not everything was completely opposite; JC Romero threw 2 strikes before he walked the left handed batter he was brought into face. Due to the fact he has been unconscious on the mound, Cole was unaffected, but Heidi Hamels was. She was completely sane. Roy Halladay wasn’t the best pitcher on the planet, but then again, he was between starts. Jimmy and Shane stilled popped up a lot. I guess some things will never change.
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Following is an excerpt from WRAP for Life
Sometimes in spite of your best efforts, you may feel worse. The situation could develop slowly or suddenly. You may feel very uncomfortable. You may be obsessed with thoughts of ending your life. It may be that an illness has worsened; you may have had an injury; or a stressful, traumatic event may have occurred. The situation may be serious, or even dangerous, but you are still able to take action on your own behalf.
This is a critical time. It is necessary to take immediate action to protect yourself and to turn the situation around to prevent a Crisis. A Crisis means that you can no longer care for or make decisions for yourself and that you need intervention from others. To avoid a Crisis, you will need to take more intensive, structured, and directive action.
Responding when you are feeling this badly is much more difficult. It takes courage, trust, and persistence. During these times, it becomes very important to know how you recover and what you can do to help yourself feel better. You will be depending on the things you have learned about yourself in developing the first parts of this plan.
During this critical time, you may want to give yourself plenty of time to rest and heal. You might involve yourself in restful activities like gardening, walking in the woods, looking at something beautiful, or working on a creative project. You may want to put off taking on new projects like looking for a new job, starting school, beginning a new treatment, or starting a new therapy. There may be things you will want to avoid such as people and activities that are jarring, grating, wearing, upsetting, frustrating, hurtful, dangerous, or chaotic. You may want to give yourself time to talk about your situation with people who are supportive and comfortable to be with. You may want to take time for yourself – time to be alone. You may want to pay special attention to those times when you are becoming too tired. Respect your limits for physical, emotional, and mental stress.
When you notice the signs that Things are Breaking Down, go back to your list of Wellness Tools in your Wellness Toolbox and choose Tools that you think will help you feel better. Use these Tools to develop a plan that will help you feel better. The plan now needs to be very directive, with clear instructions and few choices. Some of the responses on your list may be the same as those you collected for responding to Triggers and Early Warning Signs. The difference is that now you may need to do these things more intensively, more often, and for longer periods of time.
The following list may help you develop your When Things are Breaking Down Action Plan. The activities, times, and length of involvement in these activities are only examples. Develop a specific list that will work for you.
When Things are Breaking Down, I need to do all of the following:
I always think of this as a “hospital day” at home.
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Twelve-year-old Ella has everything she needs to take seventh grade by storm, from the perfect outfit to the perfect new best friend. She’s still not 100% sure why cool, confident Morgan has chosen Ella to be her newest sidekick, but Ella is flattered by the attention, even if it means giving up some of the things she’s always loved, like fantasy novels . . . and her former best friend, Sophie. Ella feels a little guilty about ditching Sophie, but middle school is no laughing matter, and Ella knows that it’ll be safer in popular Morgan’s shadow than by Sophie’s side.
But life as Morgan’s best friend is trickier than Ella imagined. Everything has to be perfect, from their “on brand” selfies to the videos they record of them singing. And the more demanding Morgan becomes, the more Ella starts to wonder if she made the right choice. But Sophie already has a new best friend, leaving Ella feeling more alone and out of place than ever.
So when Ella discovers a new activity that she’s really good at — a hopelessly dorky sport that Morgan has forbidden her from pursuing, Ella has to ask herself what matters more: popularity . . . or staying true to herself? But does she even know who she really is without loyal Sophie by her side?
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