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The Royal Conservatory of Music Toronto: Concerts for December 2012
DECEMBER CONCERTS AT THE ROYAL CONSERVATORY
Chick Corea returns with Gary Burton
Christmas Concerts with Collegium Vocale Gent, Quartetto Gelato, John McDermott, and the Canadian Brass
Notable Koerner Hall debuts by Horacio Gutiérrez, La Bottine Souriante, and Javier Limón
TORONTO - The Royal Conservatory gets into the Christmas spirit this holiday season with four very different concerts. The first, on December 14, features Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio (Parts 1, 2, 3, and 6) performed by Collegium Vocale Gent, led by Maestro Philippe Herreweghe. Specialists in historically authentic performances of vocal Renaissance and Baroque music, the group's performances have been described 'breathtaking as one could wish.' (The Independent). Quartetto Gelato brings an exotic blend of musical ingenuity and especially-curated Christmas program (including Pietro Yon's Gesù bambino, Irving Berlin's White Christmas, Leroy Anderson's Sleigh Ride, Mel Torme's Christmas Song, and Pyotr Iliyich Tchaikovsky's Dance of a Sugar Plum Fairy) to Koerner Hall on December 15. For this special concert they are joined by guest vocalist Alejandra Ribera who impressed the Koerner Hall audience as part of the Art of Time's Abbey Road project. Canadian tenor John McDermott celebrates the holidays on December 16 with an all-star line-up of special guests, including Guido Basso (trumpet & flugelhorn), Erica Goodman (harp), The Mistletones, and Michael Peter Smith (guitar). Canadian Brass comes home for the holidays on December 23. The group has invited Toronto's young star brass students from The Glenn Gould School and University of Toronto to join them for the Christmas Vespers by Monteverdi and all of their other holiday favourites.
The Montréal á Toronto concert series continues with La Bottine Souriante on December 8 and the ¡Qué Rica Cuba! Series, with Horacio Gutiérrez on December 9. For La Bottine Souriante, music, celebration, pulsating rhythm, and exuberant spirit have been inseparable for over 25 years. During that time they have released 13 albums, four of which are certified gold and three platinum, won dozens of awards, and headlined festivals around the world. Also part of the Invesco Piano Concerts series, Horacio Gutiérrez's concert will feature Franz Joseph Haydn's Piano Sonata No. 60; Robert Schumann's Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17; Ernesto Lecuona's Danza negra, Ante el Escorial, and Danza lucumi; and Fryderyk Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op. 28. Best known for his interpretations of the Romantic repertoire and considered by many piano connoisseurs to be one of the great pianists of the second half of the 20th century, the Cuban-American virtuoso returns to Toronto for the first time in over a decade.
The remainder of the Koerner Hall concerts include Amanda Martinez with special guest Javier Limón on December 1 and Chick Corea & Gary Burton with the Harlem Quartet on December 5. Canadian-Latin singer-songwriter Amanda Martinez is currently collaborating with multiple Grammy Award-winning Spanish producer Javier Limón on this concert, which will mark Limón's Canadian debut, as well as on her next album, scheduled for release in spring 2013. Martinez's first two albums, Amor and Sola, have garnered numerous accolades including rising to No. 1 on the iTunes World Music charts, and Limón's many composition and production credits include major albums by renowned artists such as Paco de Luca, Bebo Valdes, Diego El Cigala, Enrique Morente, Wynton Marsalis, Anoushka Shankar, Yasmin Levy, and the acclaimed Spanish singer Buika (who will be performing in Koerner Hall on January 25). Described by the Los Angeles Times as 'one of jazz's most celebrated collaborations,' Chick Corea and Gary Burton perform material from their new album Hot House, which explores their unique take on standards by composers from Kurt Weill and Antonio Carlos Jobim to Thelonious Monk and Lennon & McCartney. The multiple Grammy-winning duo also adds the Harlem Quartet, expanding their legendary chamber-jazz repertoire on Chick's composition Mozart Goes Dancing and classic Chick & Gary tunes.
December also includes five performances in Mazzoleni Concert Hall, located in historic Ihnatowycz Hall. The all-Canadian Afiara String Quartet celebrates their new position as The Glenn Gould School Fellowship Quartet on December 4 with a program of Brett Brett Abigaña's String Quartet No. 2, and Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5 and String Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3. Anagnoson & Kinton, Canada's foremost piano team consisting of James Anagnoson (Dean of The Glenn Gould School) and duo partner Leslie Kinton, celebrate Beethoven's birthday on December 16 by performing his complete 4-hand repertoire, including Piano Sonata in D Major for Piano 4-hands, Op. 6, 3 Marches for Piano, 4-hands, Op. 45, 8 Variations on a Theme by Count Waldstein in C Major, for Piano 4-hands WoO 67, 6 Variations on Ich denke dein in D Major, WoO 74, and Grosse Fuge in B-flat Major, (Op. 133), Op. 134. Discovery Series concerts consist of two free events: Academy Chamber Orchestra, comprised of string students from the Young Artists Academy of The Royal Conservatory, performing on December 8 and The Glenn Gould School Concerto Competition Finals, where the talented solo performers of The Glenn Gould School compete for the opportunity to perform a concerto with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra during the 2013-14 season, on December 13. The third concert takes place on December 6 with conductor and award-winning composer Brian Current leading The Glenn Gould School New Music Ensemble. As part of a city-wide celebration of Korean music, the Ensemble presents works by composers Sukhi Kang and Unsuk Chin. Mr. Kang, a widely influential figure in Korean music, will be in the audience to hear his work Mosaicum Visio for chamber orchestra, as well as Unsuk Chin's Acrostic Wordplay, which features soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon. Other works performed are the piano concerto Trame IV by Martin Matalon (performed by Ryan McEvoy McCullough) and Canadian composer Chris Paul Harman's playful reconstruction of the Bach Chorale Der Tag mit seinem Licht.
The Conservatory Theatre will once again be the setting for the popular Bluebird North series, starting on December 22. During these entertaining evenings, top Canadian songwriters come together with host Blair Packham to perform their music and tell us about the inspiration, the songwriting process, and the stories behind the songs. The artists for this concert will be announced soon. Bluebird North is presented in partnership with the Songwriters Association of Canada (S.A.C.). The S.A.C. gratefully acknowledges the support of The SOCAN Foundation and the Government of Canada through the Creators' Assistance Component of the Canada Music Fund.
With the Christmas season approaching, The Royal Conservatory Gift Cards and concert tickets are a great gift idea. The gift cards are available for purchase in any denomination and can be redeemed for concert or event tickets at The Royal Conservatory in person or by phone. They are also reloadable in any denomination.
• Gift Cards can be purchased in person at the Weston Family Box Office, by phone at 416.408.0208, or by visiting www.performance.rcmusic.ca.
December Performances at The Royal Conservatory
Amanda Martinez with Javier Limón (World Music, Pop): Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 8pm (KH); starting at $30
Afiara String Quartet (Mazzoleni Masters): Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 7:30pm (MCH); $32
Chick Corea & Gary Burton with the Harlem String Quartet (Music Mix): Wed., Dec. 5, 2012 at 8:00pm (KH); starting at $45
The Glenn Gould School New Music Ensemble (Discovery Series): Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 7:30pm (MCH); $15
Academy Chamber Orchestra (Discovery Series): Saturday, December 8, 2012 at 7:30pm (MCH) *
La Bottine Souriante (Montréal á Toronto , Folk, Pop): Saturday, December 8, 2012 at 8pm (KH); starting at $30
Horacio Gutiérrez (¡Qué Rica Cuba!, Invesco Piano Series): Sunday, December 9, 2012 at 3pm (KH): starting at $40
The Glenn Gould School Concerto Competition Finals (Discovery Series): Thurs., December 13, 2012 at 10am (KH) *
Bach Christmas Oratorio - Collegium Vocale Gent (Vocal): Friday, December 14, 2012 at 8pm (KH); starting at $45
Quartetto Gelato (Music Mix, Classical): Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 8pm (KH): starting at $35
Anagnoson & Kinton (Mazzoleni Masters): Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 2pm (MCH); $32
John McDermott & Friends (Music Mix, Pop, Folk): Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 8pm (KH); starting at $35
Bluebird North (Music Mix, Pop, Folk): Saturday, December 22, 2012 at 8pm (CT); $25
Canadian Brass Christmas (Music Mix, Classical): Sunday, December 23, 2012 at 3pm (KH); starting at $45
KH: Koerner Hall; MCH: Mazzoelni Concert Hall; CT: Conservatory Theatre
• Tickets are available online at www.performance.rcmusic.ca, by calling 416.408.0208, or in person at the Weston Family Box Office
• A limited number of $10 BMO Rush Tickets are available starting 90 minutes before all performances presented by The Royal Conservatory.
All concerts take place at The Royal Conservatory
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At first glance, what you might think we have here is a really lovely calla lilly sculpture. Upon second glance, you will make the confusing discovery that it is a urinal.
Apparently these high-fire, porcelain urinals by ClarkMade are really popular in "man caves." Why men would want to pee into a flower is beyond me? I'd think they'd prefer some kind of brick wall to mimic all the times they pee in back alleys.
For some reason, all I can thinks is, poor Georgia O'Keeffe.
What do you think? Would you want one of these?


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Hazardous Substances (Compressed Gases) Amendment Regulations 2004
Hazardous Substances (Compressed Gases) Amendment Regulations 2004: revoked, on 1 December 2017, pursuant to regulation 4(1) of the Hazardous Substances (Health and Safety Reform Revocations) Regulations 2017 (LI 2017/233).
These regulations are administered by the Ministry for the Environment.
Pursuant to section 140(1)(c) of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996, Her Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following regulations.
4 New regulation 4 substituted
4 Application of regulations to certain pressure equipment
5 Reference temperatures
6 Design verification of cylinders
7 Manufacture of cylinders
8 New regulation 18 substituted
18 Restrictions on imported cylinders
9 Clearance of imported cylinders
10 New regulation 20 substituted
20 Requirement for pre-commissioning certificate
11 Cylinder valves
12 Outlet connection for cylinder valves
13 Clearance of imported fittings
14 Failure to give clearance to imported fitting
15 Markings for cylinders and fire extinguishers
16 Cylinder regulator markings
17 Markings for automatic changeover devices for LPG
51 Cylinder not to be used beyond specified cylinder life
19 Periodic certificate
20 Periodic testing of LPG valve and pressure relief device
21 Restrictions on charging cylinders
22 Restrictions on persons able to charge compressed gas containers
23 Maximum filling ratio for cylinders and compressed gas stationary tanks
24 Charging cryogenic containers
25 Developed pressure for permanent gases
These regulations are the Hazardous Substances (Compressed Gases) Amendment Regulations 2004.
In these regulations, the Hazardous Substances (Compressed Gases) Regulations 20041 are called "the principal regulations" .
Regulation 3 of the principal regulations is amended by repealing the definition of AS 2337.1, and substituting the following definition:
AS 2337.1 means the Australian standard on Gas cylinder test stations. Part 1: General requirements, inspections and tests—Gas cylinders
Regulation 3 of the principal regulations is amended by inserting in paragraph (b) of the definition of compressed gas, after the word "solvent" , the words "at a" .
Regulation 3 of the principal regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (c)(vii) of the definition of compressed gas container the expression "170 kPa" , and substituting the expression "170 millilitres" .
Regulation 3 of the principal regulations is amended by repealing the definition of LPGITA, and substituting the following definition:
LPGITA means the UK LP Gas Association.
The principal regulations are amended by revoking regulation 4, and substituting the following regulation:
The provisions of these regulations, other than the provisions applied by subclause (2), do not apply to pressure equipment to which the Health and Safety in Employment (Pressure Equipment, Cranes, and Passenger Ropeways) Regulations 1999 apply.
Parts 1, 8, and 9 apply, with the necessary modifications, to that pressure equipment.
Regulation 7 of the principal regulations is amended by omitting so much of the table as relates to low pressure liquefiable gas, and substituting, in the appropriate columns, the following items:
Low pressure liquefiable gas
Not exceeding 250
Exceeding 250 but not exceeding 500 52.5
Exceeding 500 but not exceeding 1 000 52.5
Exceeding 1 000 but not exceeding 5 000 50
Exceeding 5 000 but not exceeding 26 000 45
Exceeding 26 000 40
Regulation 15 of the principal regulations is amended by revoking subclauses (1) and (2), and substituting the following subclauses:
A person may apply to a design verifier for a design verification certificate for a cylinder.
The application must—
include all relevant specifications, including technical drawings and calculations; and
refer to a design standard referred to in regulation 10 or regulation 11 relating to the design of a cylinder.
Regulation 16 of the principal regulations is amended by revoking paragraph (a), and substituting the following paragraph:
manufacture the cylinder to a design—
for which a design verification certificate has been obtained under regulation 15; and
that complies with a design standard referred to in regulation 10 or regulation 11 relating to the design of a cylinder; and
Regulation 16 of the principal regulations is amended by adding the word "; and" and also by adding the following paragraph:
not supply cylinders to a retailer unless the manufacturer has provided to the retailer, under paragraph (c), copies of the relevant manufacturing certificate for those cylinders.
The principal regulations are amended by revoking regulation 18, and substituting the following regulation:
A person who imports a cylinder or a batch of cylinders into New Zealand must obtain a test certificate under regulation 19 for each cylinder.
An importer to whom subclause (1) applies must not supply cylinders to a retailer unless the importer has first obtained the appropriate test certificate.
The heading to regulation 19 of the principal regulations is amended by omitting the words "Clearance of" , and substituting the words "Test certificate for" .
Regulation 19 of the principal regulations is amended by revoking subclause (1), and substituting the following subclause:
A person who imports a cylinder or a batch of cylinders into New Zealand must apply for and obtain a test certificate from a test certifier.
Regulation 19 of the principal regulations is amended by revoking subclauses (3) and (4), and substituting the following subclause:
A test certifier may issue a test certificate for the cylinders to which the application relates only if satisfied that—
the markings on the cylinders comply with Part 6; and
any conditions on the cylinder design verification certificate relating to the cylinders have been satisfied; and
the cylinders would pass the tests in regulation 22(2)(b).
A person must not use or supply an imported or manufactured cylinder of a design that has not been previously imported into, or manufactured in, New Zealand unless the person has first obtained a pre-commissioning certificate under regulation 22.
Regulation 27(1) of the principal regulations is amended by inserting, after paragraph (d), the following paragraph:
UL 2061; or
Regulation 27(2) of the principal regulations is amended by inserting, after paragraph (b), the following paragraph:
Regulation 28(2)(a) of the principal regulations is amended by revoking subparagraph (v), and substituting the following subparagraph:
20 mm clip-on connector; or
A person who wishes to import or manufacture fittings for LPG cylinders must apply to a test certifier for a test certificate for the fittings.
Regulation 36 of the principal regulations is amended—
by omitting from subclauses (3) and (4) the words "enforcement officer" , and substituting in each case the words "test certifier" :
by omitting from subclause (3) the word "clearance" , and substituting the words "a test certificate" :
by omitting from subclause (4) the words "clearance to" , and substituting the words "test certificate for" :
by omitting from subclause (4)(a) the word "clearance" , and substituting the words "test certificate" .
by omitting the words "an enforcement officer" , and substituting the words "a test certifier" :
by omitting the word "clearance" , and substituting the words "test certificate" :
by omitting the words "the enforcement officer" in both places where they appear, and substituting in each case the words "the test certifier" .
Regulation 39(2)(f) of the principal regulations is amended by inserting, before the words "the weight" , the words "if the gas is liquefiable," .
Regulation 45(e) of the principal regulations is amended by omitting the word "regulation" , and substituting the word "regulator" .
Regulation 47 of the principal regulations is amended by revoking paragraphs (c) and (d), and substituting the following paragraph:
the manufacturer's batch number; or
the date of manufacture of the device, or a code in the batch number that links to the date of manufacture.
A person must not use a cylinder beyond the maximum life of the cylinder specified in the standard to which the cylinder was designed.
Regulation 52(1) of the principal regulations is amended by omitting from the table the items relating to Cylinder for acetylene, Monolithic mass (visual inspection), and Other porous mass (visual inspection), and substituting the following item:
Cylinder for acetylene:
monolithic mass (visual inspection) At 1 year after entering service, then 10-year intervals
other porous mass (visual inspection) 1
Regulation 52(2) of the principal regulations is amended by omitting the word "other" in the second place where it appears.
Regulation 55(1) of the principal regulations is amended by omitting the words "before the first filling after 10 years after manufacture" .
by omitting from subclause (1)(b) the words "size and" :
by revoking subclause (1)(d) :
by omitting from subclause (2) the words "Subclause (1)(a) to (d) and (f)" , and substituting the expression "Subclause (1)(a)" :
by inserting in subclause (2)(a), after the words "New Zealand" , the words "and is on a foreign ship (as defined in section 2(1) of the Maritime Transport Act 1994) or on an aircraft that is registered in a country other than New Zealand" .
A person must not charge a compressed gas container with compressed gas unless the person is an approved filler.
Regulation 61(1) of the principal regulations is amended by revoking the table, and substituting the following table:
Water capacity of cylinder or compressed gas stationary tank (litres)
Temperature of liquid contents (°C)
Not exceeding 250 50
Exceeding 5 000 45
Regulation 61(2) of the principal regulations is amended—
by inserting in paragraph (b), after the words "the pressure" , the word "at" :
by omitting from paragraph (b) the word "in" in the second place where it appears:
by omitting from the second column of the table the expression "57.5" , and substituting the expression "47.5" .
Regulation 63(1) of the principal regulations is revoked.
Regulation 64 of the principal regulations is amended by omitting the expression "65C" , and substituting the expression "65°C" .
by omitting from paragraph (a) the expression "900 m" , and substituting the words "900 m, determined at a pressure of 101.3 kPa absolute and a temperature of 15°C" :
by omitting from paragraph (b) the words ", determined at a pressure of 101.3 kPa absolute and a temperature of 15°C" .
Diane Morcom,
These regulations, which come into force on the 28th day after the date of their notification in the Gazette, amend the Hazardous Substances (Compressed Gases) Regulations 2004.
The amendments, which aim to make the regulations operate more effectively,—
clarify that the regulations cover fittings associated with LPG cylinders:
apply Parts 1, 8, and 9 to pressure equipment to which the Health and Safety in Employment (Pressure Equipment, Cranes, and Passenger Ropeways) Regulations 1999 apply:
enable any person to apply under regulation 15 to a design verifier for a design verification certificate for a cylinder:
enable clearances for imported cylinders to be given by test certifiers rather than enforcement officers:
require persons who use or supply a cylinder of a design that has not previously been imported into, or manufactured in, New Zealand to obtain a pre-commissioning certificate under regulation 22. The requirement is shifted from the importer to the user or supplier:
provide that only approved fillers may charge compressed gas containers:
make technical corrections about reference temperatures, standards, and other matters.
This is an eprint of the Hazardous Substances (Compressed Gases) Amendment Regulations 2004 that incorporates all the amendments to those regulations as at the date of the last amendment to them.
Hazardous Substances (Health and Safety Reform Revocations) Regulations 2017 (LI 2017/233): regulation 4(1)
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Inspired by Ancestry: Exploring the Blancpain Villeret Collection
Blancpain's Villeret collection channels the haute horlogerie roots of the world's oldest watchmaking brand and continues to innovate with an array of grand and practical complications. We explore the collection's origins, as well as its historical and modern highlights, in this feature from the WatchTime archives.
The author Thomas Wolfe is often credited with coining the idiom, "You can't go home again," though Wolfe himself is believed to have taken it from a conversation with his friend, British-Australian journalist Ella Winter, and asked her permission to use it for the title of his 1940 novel. It's likely, however, that both writers would have thought twice if they'd seen what Blancpain, one of the Swiss watch world's oldest and most accomplished manufactures, has accomplished by returning to the earliest years of its history, which started in the picturesque town of Villeret.
Blancpain, today one of the Swatch Group's triumvirate of Swiss "prestige" brands alongside Breguet and Jaquet Droz, was founded in 1735 in Villeret, in the Bernese Jura, but has been based in the town of Le Brassus in the Vallée de Joux since 1983. It's fair to say that it has become known in the modern watch-enthusiast community more for its pioneering divers' watch, the Fifty Fathoms, than for its high-complication prowess and historically elegant designs. Nevertheless, Blancpain's commitment to classical watchmaking has never wavered, and it is within the nostalgically named Villeret collection that the brand has established many of its haute horlogerie milestones.
Jules Blancpain (1860-1914)
"Villeret is the place where Blancpain was born," states Marc A. Hayek, President and CEO of Blancpain (as well as Breguet and Jaquet Droz). "The village is part of our identity, but also represents the starting point of watchmaking history. In the early 18th century, it was inhabited by inventive and hard-working farmers imbued with a profound taste for fine mechanisms and good workmanship. One of them was Jehan-Jacques Blancpain, who registered himself as a watchmaker in the village records in 1735, founding what would become the world's oldest watchmaking brand." The watch firm that Jehan-Jacques Blancpain set up in his farmhouse would remain family-owned until 1932, when Frédéric-Emile Blancpain passed away, and the company was subsequently renamed by its new owners "Rayville," a phonetic anagram of "Villeret," as was required by Swiss law at the time. Another ownership change, in 1983, brought back the original company's name but moved its manufacturing, after more than two centuries, from Villeret to Le Brassus. In 1992, Blancpain was purchased by the SSIH, later to become the Swatch Group.
The roots of the Villeret collection reach all the way back to what most would consider the dawn of Blancpain's modern era, in its early days in Le Brassus, when the brand defiantly sailed into the headwinds of the Quartz Crisis by doubling down on traditional mechanical complications, many of which had virtually disappeared from the market. In 1983, Blancpain released its now-iconic Caliber 6395, combining a so-called "complete calendar" with a moon-phase indication. The watch, with weekday and month in separate windows, a dedicated date hand with accompanying peripheral scale, and a "mischievous" moon with playfully illustrated face, also established many of the aesthetic codes by which we recognize Villeret models today: applied Roman hour numerals, a double-stepped bezel and elegantly shaped hands reminiscent of sage leaves. Historically, it was the smallest complete calendar moon-phase movement plate ever made. "This piece was more than a tribute to watchmaking tradition," Hayek emphasizes. "It also broke new design ground and led the way for the entire watchmaking industry to follow, reintroducing complications and interest in mechanical watches."
Blancpain's manufacture in Villeret
That revival of interest continued when another largely dormant horological complication, the minute repeater, took center stage in 1987's Caliber 35. In those days before the renaissance of the mechanical watch, creating such a mechanism, especially in a wristwatch, was bold and difficult enough, but Blancpain also made it another record-setter: it was the world's smallest minute repeater in both diameter (23.9 mm) and total volume (4.85 mm thick); moreover, it featured automatic winding and hand-finished components, some thinner than a human hair. A few years later, in 1989, Blancpain achieved another milestone, becoming the first watchmaker to equip a wristwatch with a flying tourbillon — a device in which the rotating cage encasing the watch's balance-wheel assembly (invented originally to combat the effects of gravity on pocketwatch movements) is supported from a single bridge underneath rather than suspended between the traditional two bridges. This design helps ensure an unobstructed view of the tourbillon from the open dial and required the invention of a minuscule ball bearing assembly. The Blancpain Caliber 23 that pioneered this mechanism was also at the time the world's thinnest tourbillon movement and, as if that weren't enough for posterity, also inaugurated another feature we now associate with Blancpain's highest-echelon movements: an astonishing eight-day power reserve stored in three serially arranged barrels.
Villeret Quantième Complet GMT
Blancpain reached even higher with the simply dubbed 1735 timepiece in 1991. At the time the world's most complicated, series-produced, automatic wristwatch, its 740-piece movement powered a minute repeater, tourbillon, perpetual calendar, moon-phase, and split-seconds chronograph. Each model required a full year to make, which could explain why Blancpain produced only 30 pieces total of the 1735.
In 2004, practicality, rather than pushing watchmaking boundaries, inspired another invention that now defines Villeret timepieces, particularly its perpetual calendars. One of Blancpain's watchmakers, whose identity is apparently lost to history, took note of the correctors on the sides of a perpetual calendar watch — the inset buttons, usually pushed with a thin-tipped tool, that facilitate quick adjustments to the calendar functions but nevertheless detract from the case's smooth, harmonious lines. The watchmaker wondered aloud whether these correctors could be moved to an area on the case where they would not be visible. Blancpain's innovative answer was to install the correctors — which activate levers built into the movement to change the date, day, month, and moon-phase — under the lugs, making them easily accessible but hidden from view while the watch is worn. Better yet, these under-lug correctors, which are now patented, can be activated with just a finger push rather than an outside tool. These subtle but ingenious devices are standard on Villeret timepieces today.
Villeret watches' movements boast a high level of hand decoration.
Here in the second decade of the 21st century, much of the luxury watchmaking world has caught up with the revival of traditional mechanical complications that Blancpain was so boldly pioneering in the 1980s. However, the Villeret collection continues to be fertile ground in which to flex horological muscles, on either a small, practical scale or a grander one. In 2011, Blancpain's Caliber 5235DF, debuting in the Villeret 8 Days Half Timezone model, addressed a concern of world travelers — melding its now-famous eight-day power reserve to a mechanism that could set a second time zone in 30-minute increments rather than the standard 60-minute GMT settings — enabling accurate readings of local times in places like India, Southern Australia, and Newfoundland.
Blancpain also offers more traditional GMT functions within the Villeret family, often in clever and practical combinations with other mechanisms. In 2002, the maison released its first Quantième Complet GMT model, combining the dual-time indicator with its "complete calendar," defined as a watch that displays the day, date, and month in addition to the time, with a moon-phase as an optional addition. Blancpain's distinctive take on this style of timepiece has become a cornerstone of the Villeret collection: its day of the week and month are in adjacent windows below 12 o'clock, its date indication comes by way of a serpentine hand on a numbered scale on the dial's rim, and Blancpain's hallmark "mischievous" moon smiles out at the wearer in its aperture at 6 o'clock. Unlike an annual calendar or perpetual calendar, the simpler "complete" calendar requires more frequent attention to keep it accurate: the wearer must manually advance the date in months of less than 31 days. The model's complexity is taken up a notch with the addition of a red-tipped pointer hand indicating a second time zone on a 1-to-24 scale inside the ring of applied Roman numerals.
Villeret Traditional Chinese Calendar for 2020
In 2012, the Villeret collection, already populated with all types of calendar timepieces, once again expanded its horizons — and spoke to a growing audience — with the debut of its Traditional Chinese Calendar. "Blancpain is one of the brands with the longest historical presence in China," says Hayek. "We have always been deeply interested in its exceptionally rich culture. We wanted to honor this age-old culture by introducing a useful yet symbolic model combining the fundamental principles of a lunisolar calendar with the date according to the Gregorian calendar. Given that the basic unit of these two time division systems is not the same, this represented a real technical complexity."
Like Blancpain's other calendar watches, it has a date function with a serpentine hand and a moon-phase indicator in a subdial at 6 o'clock. Its other calendar displays, on subdials at 12, 3 and 9 o'clock and an aperture at 12 o'clock, are all keyed to the millenia-old, traditional Chinese calendar, which differs from the modern Gregorian calendar in several significant ways. The Gregorian calendar uses the solar day as the base unit of measuring time, while the Chinese calendar is a solar calendar that uses the lunar cycle, which comprises precisely 29.53059 solar days, as its base unit. A year made up of 12 lunar months would be 354.36707 days in length, about 11 days too short in comparison with our familiar solar year of 365.242374 days. This means that an entire leap month of either 29 or 30 days is sometimes necessary to preserve the calendar's symmetry with the cycle of the seasons. In essence, a year with a leap month (13 lunar months) is longer than a traditional solar year and a year without one (12 lunar months) is shorter. This is why the date of the Chinese New Year varies from year to year.
The watch also incorporates cosmic and mythological elements like the 12 signs of the zodiac, represented by 12 animals; the five elements; and the so-called 10 celestial or heavenly stems. Also, each day is divided into 12, rather than 24 units (also corresponding with the 12 zodiac animals), mean-ing that one Chinese hour is equivalent to two of ours.
The rotor of the 2020 Chinese Calendar depicts the "Year of the Rat."
All of these elements are recorded and displayed on the grand feu enamel dial of Blancpain's watch. The subdial at 12 o'clock indicates the double-hours and their symbols, while the window above it shows the zodiac sign of the current year. The subdial at 3 o'clock, with a yin-yang symbol at its center, depicts the symbols for the five elements and the celestial stems, and the one at 9 o'clock indicates the traditional Chinese month, date, and leap month. Blancpain's newest edition for 2020, The Year of the Rat, features the eponymous rodent at 12 o'clock on the dial as well as engraved on the white-gold rotor that powers the self-winding Caliber 3638. Cased in platinum, it's limited to 50 pieces.
In today's watch arena, thinness, in both movements and cases, is increasingly associated with elegance, and the Villeret "Ultraplate" addresses the growing appetite for slender yet meticulously engineered timepieces. Launched in 2019 and cased in platinum, the original 40-mm, boutique-exclusive Villeret Ultraplate ("ultra-thin" in French) is a time-only model powered by the manual-winding Caliber 11A4B, based (as are many of the modern Villeret calibers) on Blancpain's Caliber 1150. Despite its wafer-like profile (just under 3 mm thick, inside a case just 7.4 mm thick), its two series-coupled barrels store an impressive 100-hour power reserve while guaranteeing a constant flow of energy. Its silicon balance spring ensures lower density, increased shock resistance, and imperviousness to magnetic fields — all factors that increase chronometric performance. On one of its large, côtes de Genève-enhanced bridges, the movement has an indicator for the power reserve, via a blued hand on a semicircular scale.
Blancpain Villeret Ultraplate
In 2020, Blancpain added another Ultraplate model, bearing the same midnight-blue dial of its platinum predecessor but in a slightly thicker 18k rose-gold case, at 8.7 mm. Necessitating the smidgen of additional space was the automatic movement, the 1150-based Caliber 1151, and its engraved gold rotor with honeycomb motif. The movement, displayed behind a sapphire caseback, offers the same silicon-equipped chronometric technology and four-day-plus power reserve of its manually wound sibling.
Also attired in blue, and occupying the higher end of complexity, is 2019's Villeret Quantième Perpétuel 6656, in a 40-mm platinum case and limited to 88 boutique-exclusive pieces. Powered by the self-winding manufacture Caliber 5954, with a solid gold rotor and silicon hairspring, the watch's attractive sunray blue dial features the classical, elegantly symmetrical look of Villeret perpetual calendars, with subdials at 3, 9 and 12 o'clock, the anthropomorphic moon-phase display at 6 o'clock, and a central seconds hand gliding above the white gold Roman numerals, its counterweight bearing the stylized "JB" motif of Jehan-Jacques Blancpain. The user-friendly under-lug correctors offer easy setting and resetting of the watch's array of functions, making it unique even in the exclusive world of perpetual calendar wristwatches.
Blancpain Villeret Perpetual Calendar
If the calendars and GMT pieces are the thoroughbred workhorses of the Villeret collection, the minute repeaters, carrousels, and tourbillons are the show horses. And in true Villeret fashion, those pieces can also offer heretofore unseen blends of horological functions. The Villeret Tourbillon Volant Heure Sautante Minute Rétrograde, unveiled in 2018, is a reinterpretation of the groundbreaking flying tourbillon wristwatch the brand released in 1989, made even more complex by the addition of two complications used for the very first time in the collection. In the model, whose 42-mm case is in either rose gold or platinum (the latter limited to 50 pieces), Blancpain has removed the lower bridge of the flying tourbillon — which already lacked the obstruction of an upper bridge — replacing it with a clear sapphire disk. The visual effect makes it appear as though the balance wheel and escapement inside the tourbillon cage are floating in space. As if this were not revolutionary enough, Blancpain also added, for the first time in any of its models, both a jumping hour and a retrograde minutes display. The round, gold-rimmed window indicating the digital hour numerals has been placed inside the minutes subdial, under the tourbillon aperture, to complete the look of the classical grand feu enamel dial, crafted using the traditional champlevé technique. Powering the watch, and on display through a sapphire caseback, is an in-house movement with hand-guillochéd bridges and a guillochéd disk that serves as an indicator for the lengthy six-day power reserve.
Villeret Tourbillon Volant Heure Sautante Minute Retrograde
Hayek cites the Villeret Équation du Temps Marchante, with its co-axial minute hands to indicate mean and real solar time, and the Caroussel Minute Repeater Flyback Chronograph, with its innovative system of cathedral gongs fixed to the inside of the case, as other examples of pioneering haut- de-gamme pieces within the Villeret collection — demonstrating the breadth of notable complications, and combinations of complications, the series continues to offer. "For nearly four decades, the village of Villeret has been lending its name to our most classic collection," says Hayek, "which reflects the soul of generations of talented men and women who contributed to the establishment and development of the art of watchmaking." With the Villeret collection, Blancpain has not only shown that a watch manufacturer can, in fact, "go home again," at least in spirit; it can continue to build on that home's strong and lasting foundations.
Tags: Blancpain, Gold Watches, Luxury Watches, Minute Repeater, Perpetual Calendar, Tourbillon
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Gopal June 24, 2021
Great read. Now I am more than ever inclined to own a Blancpain!
John Shannon June 24, 2021
Surprising that you did not mention the 1180 movement developed in the 1980's and used in the Villaret range Thinnest self winding chronograph movement for some 25 years; first Swiss use of a vertical clutch in an elegant design that was copied by other manufacturers; a movement that has also been used by Audemars Piguet and Vacherin Constantine amongst others. The movement was developed under the direction of M. Edmund Capt (who was also the design engineer of the Valjoux 7750.
A December 31, 2020
Great article! I really enjoyed the walk through the different Villeret models over years. One question that popped in my mind while reading the article: is Blancpain producing the calibers used in Villeret watches?
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HomeAGENCY REPORTCoronavirus: Saudi Arabia suspends visa for lesser hajj
Coronavirus: Saudi Arabia suspends visa for lesser hajj
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Saudi Arabia on Thursday suspended visas for visits to Islam's holiest sites for the "umrah" pilgrimage, an unprecedented move triggered by coronavirus fears that raises questions over the hajj, which starts in July.
The kingdom, which hosts millions of pilgrims every year in the cities of Mecca and Medina, also suspended visas for tourists from countries with reported infections as fears of a pandemic deepen.
Saudi Arabia, which so far has reported no cases of the virus but has expressed alarm over its spread in neighbouring countries, said the suspensions were temporary. It provided no timeframe for when they will be lifted.
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"The kingdom's government has decided to take the following precautions: suspending entry to the kingdom for the purpose of umrah and visit to the Prophet's mosque temporarily," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
"Suspending entry into the kingdom with tourist visas for those coming from countries, in which the spread of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) is a danger."
Gulf countries have already announced a raft of measures, including flight suspensions and school closures, to curb the spread of the disease from people returning from pilgrimages to Iran.
Logistical headache
The umrah, which refers to the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca that can be undertaken at any time of year, attracts tens of thousands of devout Muslims from all over the globe each month.
There was no clarity over how the move would affect the annual hajj pilgrimage due to start in late July.
Some 2.5 million faithful travelled to Saudi Arabia from across the world to take part in last year's hajj — one of the five pillars of Islam.
The hajj and the umrah centre on the western city of Mecca and its surrounding hills and valleys.
The hajj represents a key rite of passage for Muslims and a massive logistical challenge for Saudi authorities, with colossal crowds cramming into relatively small holy sites.
Saudi Arabia's custodianship of Mecca and Medina — Islam's two holiest sites — is seen as the kingdom's most powerful source of political legitimacy.
But a series of deadly disasters over the years has prompted criticism of the Sunni kingdom's management of the pilgrimage.
In September 2015, a stampede killed up to 2,300 worshippers — including hundreds of Iranians — in the worst disaster ever to strike the pilgrimage.
The pilgrimage forms a crucial source of revenue for the government.
De facto ruler Prince Mohammed bin Salman's Vision 2030 reform plan seeks to shift the economy of Saudi Arabia — the world's top crude exporter — away from oil dependency towards other sources of revenue, including religious tourism.
Even as the number of fresh coronavirus cases declines at the epicentre of the disease in China, there has been a sudden increase in parts of Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
Iran has emerged as a major hotspot in the region, with 19 fatalities from 139 infections — the highest death toll outside China, where COVID-19 originated.
The Gulf states of Kuwait and Bahrain have also announced additional cases this week.
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Chapter 8 starts a new section of Matthew – the sermon on the mount is finished and it's now working up to the calling, commissioning and sending out of the disciples in ch 10. Here we are looking at three healings. Jesus has authority not just to preach but to heal too.
1) Leprosy – a living death in those days. Cut off from civilization and living alone. It was a disease that gradually spread, cutting off sensation. A horrible disease and picture of our spiritual condition without Christ. Sin separates us and spreads in effect and is fatal. Other diseases are healed, leprosy was cleansed. Matthew's first recorded miracle is dramatic – cleansing a leper. Jesus touching someone other shunned. Then Jesus sent him to the priest for the miracle to be verified and to offer the gift Moses commanded as a testimony to them – why? To show someone greater than the Law had come who could set people free and cleanse them!
2) The gospel was first for the Jew and then for the Gentiles – so next up is the healing of a Roman centurion's servant. He had simple profound faith that Jesus could heal. In Jesus' lifetime there wasn't much faith for healing among Jews. As the Gospel was written and Jews were further hardening to the Gospel there was even less. This narrative would have been of great encouragement to Gentile believers who had trusted Jesus.
The banquet in heaven will be made up of many nations, not just the Jews! Praise God – we will see people from every tribe and tongue in heaven.
3) Peter's mother in law – at the end of a busy day they get to Peter's house and find the mother in law with a fever. Jesus immediately heals her – pray for your nearest and dearest. That sparks an outbreak of healing. That often happens – a healing then raises expectation for more and more happen.
There's a difference here between deliverance and healing.
The conclusion Matthew comes to is that Jesus is fulfilling Isa 53:4. There's no hint of the cross at this point just that Jesus took up our infirmities on himself and carried our diseases.
Jesus has come down from the mountain of revelation and is in the valley of shadow – where demonic forces and sickness hold sway. He breaks in and pushes them back. Soon in Matthew he will commission his followers and then us to do the same.
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons in Jesus name. Let's do it!


I still get plenty of questions about what to eat surrounding workouts so this week I wanted to point people back to our Fueling Workouts series. This detailed series answers all your questions about what to eat, when to eat it, and how each macro-nutrient powers your performance.
In the previous parts of the series, I described how adding fuel before a workout significantly reduces the catabolic effects of exercise. Losing weight, however, is all about creating a catabolic environment. The goal is to breakdown fat tissue, but doing it the wrong way can cause your body to consume muscle tissue and body fat at the same rate. Learn how to save your muscle and lose the fat.
We talked about the importance of managing glycogen during a muscle building routine, and it's even more critical when training for an event. Long distance running really tests your body's energy systems, and properly adding fuel into the equation can not only make your runs feel easier, but improve your times.


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'No worries, they were Russians': Latvian police officer under fire over Flydubai crash 'joke'
Latvian police officer © Ints Kalnins © Reuters
Police in Riga have rushed to apologize and are looking into a case of unacceptable behavior after one officer wrote on his Facebook page that he saw nothing tragic about the Flydubai Boeing 737 crash, as most of its passengers had been Russians.
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"There's nothing to worry about, the majority of them were Russian citizens," the officer, Janis Brusevics, wrote on a Facebook post that has since been removed.
A reaction to the outrageous comment was quick to follow, with the head of Riga Municipal Police making a statement on Sunday, promising that the case would be looked into and the offender punished accordingly.
"In connection with this tragic incident, one of the employees of the Riga municipal police posted an unacceptable comment on social networks," the statement by Juris Lucas reads.
"Having realized the incongruity of his actions, the employee in question has removed the comments and apologized for the statement, expressing condolences to the relatives of the people who died in the tragedy," the police chief said.
Rīgas Pašvaldības policijas priekšnieka Jura Lukasa paziņojums sakarā ar viena RPP darbinieka nepieņemamo rīcību komentē...
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"With regard to the comment that discredits the Riga Municipal Police, we launched a service check to assess the actions of the employee and to decide whether we should continue working with him," Lucas added. "I want to express my regret over this incident and apologize for the actions of the officer, which are contrary to the policies of the Riga Municipal Police service."
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The mayor of Riga, Neil Ushakov, posted the police statement on his Facebook page and joined in the call for such behavior to be punished. He expressed his condolences to those who lost their loved ones in the catastrophe, and thanked everyone who took notice of the inappropriate comment and drew authorities' attention to it.
The officer in question, meanwhile, clarified that he "didn't want to appear disrespectful."
"There is no excuse for my behavior, and having realized the joke was inappropriate, I deleted the comment," the officer wrote before deleting his profile from the social network as well.
The Flydubai flight FZ981 crashed in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don in the early hours of Saturday, killing all 62 passengers and crew on board. The flight was en route from Dubai and crashed during its second landing attempt amid poor weather conditions.
The investigation into the causes of the crash is continuing as relatives of those who died in the tragedy and simply those who feel emphatic have been gathering at the airport in Rostov and in other Russian cities to pay tribute and commemorate the victims.
RT encourages people who can shed light on the situation to write to flydubaigate@rttv.ru and tell us their stories.
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Pixar began life as a part of Lucasfilm in 1979 producing effects for cinema with their Pixar Image Computer.
In 1986, Steve Jobs, ousted from Apple in a boardroom shakeup, decided to invest $10 million in acquiring the company off George Lucas. But Jobs was initially unable to transform its fortunes, despite investing a further $40 million. Pixar sold off its hardware division and drastically reduced the size of their team. Their future was uncertain. Their ambition was not.
In the early 1990s, Pixar negotiated a $26 million deal with The Walt Disney Company, to produce 3 animated feature length films, based entirely on their short films. There was no evidence to suggest that they knew how to make a full length film. But Steve Jobs and Disney believed in the key team of John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, and Pete Docter.
The first of these films, Toy Story, began production in 1993. On various occasions the Pixar team clashed with Michael Eisner, the head of Disney over how to develop the protagonists.
These conflicting views resulted in a disastrous early screening of the film to Disney. But instead of enforcing even more of their own changes, Disney took the decision that changed the course of cinema: they gave full storytelling powers back to Pixar. The reigns were off. The suits backed away and allowed the creative minds of Pixar to develop Toy Story according to their own ethos for how stories should be told. They rewrote the entire screenplay based on their rules of storytelling. Combined with their game-changing animation, Toy Story opened at number one at the box office in 1995. It was the first feature length computer animated film.
Audiences around the world were mesmerized and hooked by the incredibly detailed storytelling on show. It was a film that transcended ages. Consequently, it was huge box office smash, making over $360 million worldwide and it has changed cinema forever.
Pixar has gone on to release a multitude of successful productions ever since, using the same storytelling techniques.
1. You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.
2. You gotta keep in mind what's interesting to you as an audience, not what's fun to do as a writer. They can be very different.
3. Trying for theme is important, but you won't see what the story is actually about til you're at the end of it. Now rewrite.
4. Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___.
5. Simplify. Focus. Combine characters. Hop over detours. You'll feel like you're losing valuable stuff but it sets you free.
6. What is your character good at, comfortable with? Throw the polar opposite at them. Challenge them. How do they deal?
7. Come up with your ending before you figure out your middle. Seriously. Endings are hard, get yours working up front.
8. Finish your story, let go even if it's not perfect. In an ideal world you have both, but move on. Do better next time.
9. When you're stuck, make a list of what WOULDN'T happen next. Lots of times the material to get you unstuck will show up.
10. Pull apart the stories you like. What you like in them is a part of you; you've got to recognize it before you can use it.
11. Putting it on paper lets you start fixing it. If it stays in your head, a perfect idea, you'll never share it with anyone.
12. Discount the 1st thing that comes to mind. And the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th – get the obvious out of the way. Surprise yourself.
13. Give your characters opinions. Passive/malleable might seem likeable to you as you write, but it's poison to the audience.
14. Why must you tell THIS story? What's the belief burning within you that your story feeds off of? That's the heart of it.
15. If you were your character, in this situation, how would you feel? Honesty lends credibility to unbelievable situations.
16. What are the stakes? Give us reason to root for the character. What happens if they don't succeed? Stack the odds against.
17. No work is ever wasted. If it's not working, let go and move on – it'll come back around to be useful later.
18. You have to know yourself: the difference between doing your best & fussing. Story is testing, not refining.
19. Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating.
20. Exercise: take the building blocks of a movie you dislike. How d'you rearrange them into what you DO like?
21. You gotta identify with your situation/characters, can't just write 'cool'. What would make YOU act that way?
22. What's the essence of your story? Most economical telling of it? If you know that, you can build out from there.


1. To confuse or mistake one person for another. I always mix Kelly up with her younger sister—they look so much alike! Sorry, I think I'm mixing him up with someone from the accounting team.
2. To involve or embroil one with some other person, especially someone who is problematic, unpleasant, dangerous, etc. Often used in passive constructions. I heard Tom's gotten mixed up with some pretty shady people since he moved to New York City. I don't want you mixing Sarah up with any troublemakers, you hear me?
1. Confused with or mistaken for someone else. I'm always getting mixed up with my sister Kelly because we look so alike. Sorry, I think I'm getting him mixed him up with someone from the accounting team.
2. Embroiled or entangled with some other person, especially someone who is problematic, unpleasant, dangerous, etc. I heard Tom's gotten mixed up with some pretty shady people since he moved to New York City. I don't want you mixing Sarah up with any troublemakers, you hear me?
3. In a romantic relationship with someone, especially someone who is unreliable, problematic, or otherwise unsuitable. Sarah's been mixed up with the drummer of some D-list band for the last month or so, but none of us see it going anywhere serious. My mother is so worried that I'll get mixed up with a girl who's a bad influence on me that she generally disapproves of anyone I date.
involved with another person, possibly romantically. (*Typically: be ~; get ~.) I hear that Sam is mixed up with Sally. Who is Jerry mixed up with now?


If you press "P", the game will pause. The problem is that it doesn't work. Why? Because i can't make what i want. I need to make something like "double pressing". If the player has pressed "P" one time, pause the game. If he pressed two times, unpause. I used GetKey and GetKeydown, but it isn't the same thing and is glitchy. I think i need to use something like a trigger, but i don't know how. Can someone lend me a hand here?
Caution when pausing things via timeScale! This will also pause any animations (if they aren't timescale independent) or events based on Time.deltaTime.
So i could just type "else"? Hm, okay. Thanks!
It might be paranoid, but floats can be bad to compare sometimes.
I'm not quite certain what you actually need.
Why would you need the player to press two times to unpause? Your game should react to the "p" key and check, if the game is paused, resume. If the game is playing, then pause.


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The Children's Advocacy Center for the 31st Judicial District (CAC31) is a child friendly place where families will meet with professionals to provide assistance during the investigation of severe child maltreatment allegations.
Tell him/her that nice people, whose job is to protect children, will want to talk to him/her.
Please don't surprise your child with the visit. Give him/her just enough time before their appointment with us to prepare, but not too much time that he/she becomes worried.
Encourage your child to be truthful.
It is critical that you don't question your child about the allegation or coach him/her on what to say.
Please arrive at your scheduled appointment time and allow a couple of hours for your visit. Your child must be accompanied by a legal guardian. There will be intake paperwork and consent forms to complete.
Upon your arrival, you will be greeted by a friendly face and acquainted with our Center. Our waiting room is equipped with a television and adjoining play area filled with assorted books and toys to entertain you while you wait. A dedicated Advocate will remain with you during your visit, they will help explain the process, answer questions and listen to your concerns. Your child will speak with a specially trained Forensic Interviewer alone, while our Child Protective Investigative Team unnoticeably observes via closed circuit television. The child's interview will be recorded for purposes of investigation and matters pertaining to court. Members of our Child Protective Investigative Team will meet with you during your CAC31 visit to answer questions and explain the next steps. We want you and your child to be comfortable during your visit with us.


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SEAHA student Hayley Simon alongside her supervisors and researchers from SEAHA partner Diamond Light Source have published research on synchrotron techniques to study iron cannonballs from the Mary Rose in Angewandte Chemie.
The work combines multiple X-ray based methods to probe the inner workings of iron artefacts following 35 years of conservation treatments. The study focuses on looking at the chlorine content of the cannonballs; mapping how the element is distributed across the objects and identifying the species of chlorine present. This has given an unprecedented insight into the impact of conservation on a molecular scale, crucial information that will help protect this cultural heritage for many decades to come.
The work has also received significant media coverage and was featured on BBC News, and the Smithsonian Magazine.
Hayley Simon is a SEAHA PhD student based at UCL Institute of Archaeology who researches iron corrosion in cannonballs from the Mary Rose. She is supported by partners the Mary Rose Trust, Diamond Light Source, & Eura Conservation Ltd.


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Bringing Katrina victims to the table
Sitting around the dinner table every night with your family may seem about as routine as can be, but for Jim Moose and others in rural western Pennsylvania, it represents a significant partnership with the needs of nearly 200 homeowners displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Moose has been a furniture designer, builder and woodworking teacher for 16 years. He also heads up the Western PA Table Project, a mission project of the New Wilmington Presbyterian Church in New Wilmington, Pa.
Moose and a large group of volunteers build dining tables and benches in small homes and professional shops to assist national recovery efforts for Katrina survivors, which hit the Gulf Coast in August 2005. The project leader also has five high schools participating in the program; a number he hopes will increase to 20 by September.
"There are a lot of things you need in a house to live on," says Moose. "You need a mattress, dressers are nice, etc. But a table and something to sit on around that table does a heck of a lot toward bringing a family back together."
The number of families in Louisiana and Mississippi displaced by Katrina remains in excess of 20,000, and most of them are the working and retired poor, according to the project's Web site. Recovery organizations offer volunteer labor for rebuilding, but the homeowners are responsible for purchasing materials. There is little left for basic necessities, much less furniture.
"At our first organizational meeting, we had 75 people show up from about 15 to 20 different churches," explains Moose. "We started in March [2008] and in July of last year we delivered 100 tables to New Orleans for distribution through five or six faith-based recovery groups."
The original table had a trestle-type design, but Moose switched to building a simpler Shaker-leg table to involve more of the inexperienced volunteers.
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Contact: The Western PA Table Project, New Wilmington Presbyterian Church, 229 S. Market St., New Wilmington, PA 16142. Tel: 724-652-6731. www.westernpatableproject.org
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It took more than 50 years for the first exoskeleton for children to see the light of day. The invention is from Elena Garcia Armada, a scientist nominated for the European Innovation Award. Results will be announced on June 21, 2022.
2013. For the first time in the history of Exoskeleton, a little Daniela takes her first steps with the help of a walking robot assistant, a tool previously reserved for adults. This achievement is attributed to Elena Garcia Armada, a Spanish scientist who was nominated for the European Inventor Award 2022, a kind of Eurovision for innovation. The professor in the engineering department of the Spanish Superior Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) created the model of his child after noticing with surprise that there was only an adult version. In fact, the first large exoskeleton was built in the 1960's. So even paralyzed children have to wait more than fifty years to benefit from walking. Especially since young people " High risk of muscle wasting and spinal deformity at an early age, ultimately affecting their lungs and heart and shortening their lifespan However, this robotic device allows children with neuro-muscular diseases to walk effortlessly.
17 million families affected
As pictures of Daniela's first step were shared on the web, other parents encountered the same difficulty at the door of Elena Garcia Armada. " When I looked at the numbers and saw that 17 million families were facing this tragic situation and no solution was being considered, I realized that I had to solve the problem myself. "He then decided to set up a medical research center," he explained. Mercy Bionics, Able to industrialize the first prototypes before marketing two of its patented inventions in the following years. From, Mercy Bionics Recruits 25 people and Elena Pediatric Exoskeleton is approved for use in rehabilitation centers and hospitals in the European Union and Mexico.
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13 finalists for the European Innovation Award 2022
After nearly ten years of research, Elena Garcia Armada " The best of the best European inventors. Thirteen finalists stand for the European Innovation Award 2022, with a variety of projects ranging from research to industry, agriculture or even consumption. Section " Health 7, A team of Franco-Swiss inventors has created a platform for therapeutic vaccines for the treatment of cancer. But that's not all, there is no limit to someone's imagination! A French researcher, for example, has developed a method " Pollution Soil contaminated by metal-eating plants! A German inventor, meanwhile, thought of making his first easy-to-open fastener, practical for opening all kinds of products with one hand, from closing bags and shoes to helmet bark. … The winners will be announced at an online event (linked below) on June 21, 2022.
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The Diocese of San Joaquin Cuts Ties with the Episcopal Church
It's clear that the Episcopal Church has powered up their media campaign for this event. Watch the use of the word "secede" in the articles – that's a word the is used by 815 and when the media use it in their stories (the New York Times is using it a lot) it's a sign that they are getting that from 815. Note how the Episcopal Church leadership and spokespersons continue to act as though it is a small little group that is unhappy and they will just carry on as if there is no problem at all. "All is well." Note also that a group called "Remain Episcopal" is quoted in the media stories. That's actually the newest name for ViaMedia. In fact, Integrity / ViAMedia/ Episcopal Majority/ The Consultation/ Progressive Episcopalians etc. etc. are all the same same thing. Historically, they set up an entire "boulevard" in the exhibition room at General Convention (which should cost a pretty penny unless somehow they've been able to secure a "group rate" – ironically. If ACI is two guys and a website, these organizations are often one woman and a chair). But they are all the same – and they just had a pow wow in Chicago. They don't have many people, but some are experienced street organizers (but in the old style, not in the new style). They follow the street protest model in organizing – a model from the last century. Have they now been deputized by 815 to be their official enforcers? We wonder. They sure are talking like they have been (note how they had their own press people ready for the mainstream press – excellent organization). From the AP:
Diocese Breaks With Episcopal Church
By Jordan Robertson
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (AP) — An Episcopal diocese in central California voted Saturday to split with the national denomination over disagreements about the role of gays and lesbians in the church.
Clergy and lay members of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin voted 173-22 at their annual convention to remove all references to the national church from the diocese's constitution, said the Rev. Van McCalister, a diocesan spokesman.
The Fresno-based congregation is the first full diocese to secede because of a conservative-liberal rift that began decades ago and is now focused on whether the Bible condemns gay relationships.
"We have leadership in the Episcopal Church that has drastically and radically changed directions," McCalister said. "They have pulled the rug out from under us. They've started teaching something very different, something very new and novel, and it's impossible for us to follow a leadership that has so drastically reinvented itself."
The diocese, in a later vote, accepted an invitation to join a conservative South American congregation of the Worldwide Anglican Communion. The Episcopal Church is the U.S. member of the global Anglican Communion.
The decision is almost certain to spark a court fight over control of the diocese's multimillion-dollar real estate holdings and other assets.
The head of the U.S. denomination had warned Bishop John-David Schofield against secession.
"I do not intend to threaten you, only to urge you to reconsider and draw back from this trajectory," Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, head of the U.S. denomination, wrote in a letter to Schofield earlier this week.
Schofield responded that the Episcopal Church "has isolated itself from the overwhelming majority of Christendom and more specifically from the Anglican Communion by denying Biblical truth and walking apart from the historic Faith and Order."
The Fresno diocese had explored breaking ties with the American church since 2003, when Episcopalians consecrated the church's first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. The resulting uproar throughout the world Anglican fellowship has moved the 77-million-member communion toward the brink of schism.
San Joaquin is one of three Episcopal dioceses that will not ordain women. Last year the Episcopal Church elected Jefferts Schori as its first woman primate.
Christian advocates for accepting gay relationships, including Jefferts Schori, say they are guided by biblical teachings on social justice and tolerance. But Schofield and other conservatives believe Scripture bars same-sex relationships.
After the vote, Jefferts Schori said the church was saddened by the action.
"We deeply regret their unwillingness or inability to live within the historical Anglican understanding of comprehensiveness," she said in a statement. "We wish them to know of our prayers for them and their journey. The Episcopal Church will continue in the Diocese of San Joaquin, albeit with new leadership."
Some worshippers had fought to persuade the diocese to resolve its disputes internally without separating from the U.S. church.
"I'm very disappointed but not totally surprised," said Nancy Key, 59, a member of Holy Family Episcopal Church in Fresno and co-founder of Remain Episcopal, a group formed in 2003 to combat the secession. She said it had 125 members and many more supporters.
"This has been threatening to split our diocese apart for a long time," she said. "We feel like what we want to do is follow Christ, who included all, and used all of us for his ministry. And that didn't happen today."
The diocese's holdings include 48 church buildings, including its Fresno headquarters, a series of mission-style buildings surrounded by olive, Chinese elm and cherry trees. Its total assets are worth millions, McCalister said.
About 55 conservative Episcopal parishes have split from the church in the last few years and some have affiliated directly with Anglican provinces overseas, according to national church statistics. But courts have mostly ruled against them.
San Joaquin is one of four full dioceses — along with Fort Worth, Texas; Quincy, Ill., and Pittsburgh — out of 110 in the nation that has taken steps toward breaking with the U.S. church.
NOTE: Remember – the Episcopal Church leadership was told in 2003 by all the Anglican instruments of unity as well as the theology committee of the TEC House of Bishops itself not to go forward with the consecration of Gene Robinson, but the TEC leadership went ahead anyway. We believe that they thought the election of Rowan Williams secured that there would be no significant opposition to their actions. It appears they never dreamed there would be a Windsor Report or a Communique that would hold them accountable for their actions. The fact that 815 seems bent on continuing the "scorched earth" policy either directly (Schori's happy little letters) or through their surrogates ("Remain Episcopal") illustrates that either they still feel quite secure that the current Archbishop of Canterbury will do nothing or they no longer care what he does. Guess we'll see …
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This scares me a little bit. Please keep praying and stop trying to be so righteous and beyond what Christ may really expect from you here.Remember… he will deal with all of us in the "end".
It is sad to see but the silver lineing is this the dark is getting darker the light is getting lighter and the grey that is in between is is going away. soon there will be no more grey and the war to end all wars will come, and the end will hit the wall like a mack truck.All of this has been foretold and the sad part is no one seems to care. May God have mercy on those who are in his care. the end times are on their way. The fight is just the begining.
It's sad when an entire diocese expresses a lack of faith in the grace and love of God and a lack of courageous trust in God's call to a continuing pilgrimage of spiritual and intellectual evolution. It is a sign of great immaturity to believe that the great Creator of all that is is limited by the words of an ancient book or by creeds that allow for no new insights, no expansion of beliefs. Jesus traveled lightly through this world, and in his call to discipleship I don't think he ever expected us to carry the baggage of closed minds.
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"Jesus John" (11:44 a.m. on a Sunday no less) – unfortunately Hagrid did not take too kindly to your comments about the Devil (I was in Church at that time). It appears you have been put in the corner with a sock. Next time we might add soap.I know this is difficult – it is sad. But it was very sad in early August 2003. It was clear then that the decisions of the Episcopal Church to turn the province away from its biblical foundations and Anglican teaching was a disaster. I believe that the TEC leadership thought they had it made with Rowan Williams newly at the helm. I don't think they ever expected him to create the Lambeth Commission or the Windsor Report or the Primates Communique(s). Jack Spong has said as much, rather forcefully. What is sad – truly sad – is that TEC was hijacked by those who carry a very different agenda for the province than the mission of the church around the world. TEC has left us and Anglicans are providing shelter for the refugees.bb
For me it was very sad back in 95-96, whenever it was that they dismissed the charges against Bishop Righter. I knew then that it was over.But God is good. And my personal pain has been replaced by the joy of finding my hearts true home. I ache for those of you going through this, but I am not surprised. Luke 18:8 says, "When the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?" The Greek says, "the faith." As long as there are people who are willing to seperate themselves from false teachings and stand for the truth, the answer will be, "yes" even if they are few in number.I just pray the more will see the Light and leave TEC.
anon#1 – Very funny. Who's being self righteous?! anon#3 – I don't follow. How is obeying God's word immature? Isn't it immature to disregard the Bible in order to follow your immoral desires? Are spoiled brats mature?


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