The public was asked to participate in the Tropicana Field Master Plan Community Meeting at USFSP.
Baseball has been part of the cultural fabric of St. Petersburg since legendary players like Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio came to town for spring training in the decades that spanned the mid-1920s to early 1960s.
In the mid-1990s, when the city finally achieved its long-desired dream of having a major baseball league franchise of its own, there was a collective cheer of support. Individual tickets for the Tampa Bay Rays' first season at Tropicana Field in 1998 sold out in 17 minutes.
Now, 19 years and hundreds of games later, the future of baseball and Tropicana Field are at a cross-roads. The stadium itself is in need of facelift. It's also been well publicized that the team's owners aren't sure whether they want to stay. They're currently exploring the pros and cons of remaining where they are in St. Petersburg or moving somewhere else in the Tampa Bay area.
City officials are clearly committed to the team staying in its present location at 16th Street South. The Baseball Forever Campaign is championing the cause.
But at the same time, the city is doing a little exploring of its own. City officials are taking this opportunity to step back and look at the big picture. And they're looking at how Tropicana Field fits into the future of St. Petersburg -- with or without the team in place.
It's not every day that a city gets to take a baseball stadium and the 86 acres of land surrounding it and re-envision how it might be better utilized, says Dave Goodwin, director of planning and economic development for the City of St. Petersburg.
"We have a rare opportunity to create a vision for Tropicana Field that could serve as a catalyst for economic development and job creation," says Goodwin.
Last year the city began working with HKS Architects, an international architectural design firm with offices in Tampa.
Over the summer, city officials and HKS began reaching out to the public to give local residents a voice in how they perceive a project of this scope and potential.
"At every step, the public conversation has been ongoing," says Brian Caper, economic development analyst for the City of St. Petersburg.
What has emerged is a new conceptual master plan that starts from scratch and completely reinvents Tropicana Field. The goal is to transform this part of the city into a thriving mixed-use center.
"We're looking at a mixed-use development where people can work, live, shop and come for entertainment -- a 24/7 destination that draws people to the area," says Goodwin.
The first step in getting there was to build some consensus among various stakeholder groups. The city's economic development team and HKS have met with city council members and a dozen or more business and neighborhood association, as well as church groups.
Public forums took place at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Campbell Park Recreation Center and the St. Petersburg Coliseum. Even teens residing in the area of Tropicana Field were consulted during a workshop at the Thomas 'Jet' Jackson Recreation Center.
The feedback is not entirely unexpected. A main theme that emerges is connection -- the desire to do a better job of integrating Tropicana Field with the rest of the city, especially Campbell Park and nearby neighborhoods to the south.
"We consistently heard that people wanted to knit the city back together and dissolve the boundaries that had been created years back when the stadium was built," says Randy Morton, Director of HKS Urban Design Group.
Tropicana Field is wedged between Central Avenue's Edge District with shops and restaurants, and Campbell Park and nearby South St. Petersburg Midtown communities with primarily residential housing.
It's an enormous plot of land that sits squarely in the heart of the city, but is curiously disconnected from the emerging vibrancy underway in many downtown districts. That's partly due to the interstate highway that cuts through the area.
Boundaries for the 86-acre site include First Avenue South to the north; Martin Luther King Jr. or 9th Street to the east; 16th Street to the west; and Interstate 175 to the south.
"When the Interstate came in and Tropicana Field was built, there were several streets that were closed off as a result," says Jeff Danner, past President of the Grand Central District Association.
Reconnecting the stadium with the city is also a priority for the Edge District, says Barbara Voglewede, Executive Director and Main Street Program Manager of the Edge District Business Association.
The current Tropicana design not only created a disconnect with adjacent business districts, but it cut off historically African-American neighborhoods to the south of the stadium, including the Deuces Live Main Street District.
In addition, the stadium was built on top of the former Gas Plant neighborhood, an African-American community that was dismantled in the 1980s to make way for the new baseball facility. Both of these issues have been a source of concern to local residents for decades.
But it's not only reconnection that many people would like to see addressed with the new Tropicana Field Conceptual Master Plan. There's also a need to stimulate economic development.
Late last fall, HKS compiled months of community input into a final conceptual master plan that can be viewed online.
The new vision is big. It calls for an urban center fully integrated into the surrounding neighborhoods.
"We're talking about developing a site that feels like it's part of the whole city and not a stand-alone island separate from it," says Goodwin.
The goal is to create a seamless connection from the waterfront and emerging Innovation District to the Warehouse Arts District, Deuces Live, Campbell Park and all of the South St. Pete Community Redevelopment area initiatives that are underway, says Goodwin.
One of the most important changes involves moving the stadium from its current location at the southwest corner of the site, near the intersection of 4th Avenue South and 16th Street South. A new stadium would be built on the southwest corner, placing the facility closer to 1st Avenue South.
However, says Caper, that does not mean that the city will be designing the new stadium. A new stadium design is the Rays' decision, he says.
Why the relocation? There are several strategic advantages, says Caper. First, it improves the connection with all of the action downtown. "It brings the site more in to the fold of the core urban experience," says Caper.
It also improves transportation access to the site for the public. Caper points out that 1st Avenue South is being considered as a potential major corridor for improved transit throughout the city.
The new Tropicana plan also includes redesigning a number of public green spaces, including the pedestrian bridge that goes over the interstate and links Tropicana Field with Campbell Park.
Even Booker Creek, which flows through the current site, gets a potential transformation. Instead of its current state as little more than a drainage ditch, the creek gets a makeover to become a usable waterway for recreation and entertainment purposes. "If you've ever been to San Antonio's Riverwalk, that's the vision we're hoping for," says Caper.
Redeveloping Booker Creek is a concept that the Edge District has been thinking about for some time, says Voglewede, the district's Executive Director.
"We've just undergone a two-year planning process with our own master plan in the Edge District and one of the elements we've included is to create a beautiful public green space with bike and pedestrian paths along Booker Creek, which runs north and west of us," says Voglewede.
A Booker Creek linear park system would link to Tropicana Field, as well as existing and additional bike trails throughout the city.
Additional design concepts for the new Tropicana Master Plan include constructing residential housing at a range of income levels and converting 16th Street into a Main Street District with significant streetscape and landscaping.
"We're really talking about using the site as a major engine for economic development for the whole city," says Goodwin.
One of the biggest surprises in the new plan is the inclusion of office parks and a tech campus. It moves Tropicana Field from a destination that only showcases baseball and entertainment, to a center that fuels job creation.
A collection of office towers rising next to the Edge District's more low-rise buildings is of some concern.
If the Rays say no, the plan goes back to the drawing board to be redesigned as a mixed-use development without a baseball stadium.
"The development potential would be different, but we'll still be looking at how we can best maximize the site for the future development of downtown St. Petersburg," says Caper.


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Vision And Subversion, Above And Below 13th Street
November 15, 2012 | by Lee Tusman
Photo: Steve Weinik
Editor's Note: The street artist Gaia was commissioned recently by the Mural Arts Project to create the fourth mural in a series funded by the late real estate developer Tony Goldman (for our story on the first three murals in the series, click HERE). For the mural, which hovers over the intersection of 13th and Drury Streets, he chose to portray a pensive Ed Bacon, perhaps reflecting on his impact on the city. But our story only starts there, as we reveal in this interview with Gaia by our creative director Lee Tusman. While he was at work on the Bacon mural, Gaia executed a second, this one unsanctioned and subversive, on the ground floor of the Hale Building around the corner.
Lee Tusman: Clearly, with your "legacy" series, you have an interest in creating works that relate to famous architects and planners. Your new mural in Center City commemorates the urban planner and architect Edmund Bacon. In your artist statement you note that the mural "remembers a great, visionary civil servant and respects the complexity of his legacy without imposing judgment in an area of the city he had an enormous impact on." How does your mural reflect that complex legacy?
Gaia: The mural in Center City is a portrait of Edmund Bacon, most remembered by the general public as the cantankerous personality featured in the film "My Architect" and the feisty old man who skated Love Park in protest of skateboarding restrictions. It also seems that his son's name is almost always affixed to any casual biography of this tremendous urban planner.
I chose to paint a portrait of Bacon on his last day in office as captured by the Philadelphia Inquirer. He is flanked by models of Penn Center and Society Hill respectively with the design of the Vine Street expressway pulled from his seminal text The Design of Cities intersecting the composition of the wall. I think that remembering Bacon in Center City required a piece that was not as explicit in my past legacy works, but was instead simple in its repose and equipped with visual clues. Nevertheless, Bacon, among a host of other powerful men in his generation, brought Philadelphia to the modern age to meet the immense challenges facing every city in the United States after the war.
Gaia mural, Juniper and Chestnut Sts. The mural is about 20 feet off the ground. | Photo: Hidden City Daily
LT: Can you tell us a little about the Chestnut Street wheatpaste with the bankroll and diamond on the Hale building near Sansom and Juniper you quietly produced while working on the Bacon mural, and which we have a fine view of from our Hidden City office?
G: Market East has struggled to maintain a middle class clientele since its supposed demise in the 1970s after efforts to resuscitate the area by the business and urban planning elite never recovered suburbanites. In fact, such physical interventions that resulted in the Gimbels flagship store in Gallery One, the squat Girard Square building and the Independence Mall Urban Renewal project, have completely neutered Market Street of its former department store glory. The tide of capital has spoken and a poorer customer base and its attendant establishments have responded, much to the chagrin of greater Philadelphia. The hand with the money was applied on a famously vacant bathhouse that is currently sheathed with a funny marble retrofit. The diamond and the brown skin counting money is meant to honor the diverse people that currently patronize Market East; a people that would be immediately shooed to another part of town if only the "right" anchor store or development could be enticed to the divested area.
LT: Many street artists, including yourself, that were originally working purely "street" received notoriety through Wooster Collective and similar websites, then turned their work into a career by getting commissions from non-profits, largely funded through government and foundations, inherently conservative institutions. There are dozens of examples of potential conflicts, including the commission of Blu to do a mural for MOCA's Art In The Streets that the artist claims was censored. How do you maintain independence within these commissioned projects, such as with Mural Arts?
G: I think you would actually be hard pressed to find artists nowadays practicing so called "street art" that didn't also entertain other venues for their artwork besides the "street." Especially in my case, because of forbears in the street, success and attention came relatively easily on the internet, so opportunities to exhibit my work followed shortly after putting up my first posters in New York. So displaying work inside and out were never exclusive of one another, although they obviously function very differently.
A majority of the murals that are currently being produced and lauded as a new muralism are actually predominantly produced in Europe and Latin America. Privately funded and non-profit oriented mural projects have begun to spring up independently through the United States now that the model has proved not only replicable, but very attention grabbing. Of course, depending on where the money comes from, the artist is subject to the agenda of largesse. Private developers are even recognizing the placemaking potential of street art for their properties. On top of this, the American audience does not generally have much of a stomach for truly provocative art. Murals can transcend the constraints of beautification and have the potential to be a cathartic process where difficult conversations are represented back to the public sphere. But all too often this psychological release is truncated at the planning stages and is transformed into something else by the curator, the benefactor, or community councils and boards. This is why illegal streetart is still pertinent.
Independence relies solely on the courage of the organizer or the program and each city must be considered accordingly. The muralist must be adaptable and understand how to frame the conversation in the right light.
LT: As you receive more of these commissions, do you still consider yourself a street artist, or maybe more accurately, how do you maintain street cred?
G: I am still not finished with the streets, so I still consider myself a street artist. I still operate indoors primarily to fund the projects that I would like to manifest outside, so it would be unfair to call me anything else at the moment. Illegal street work is still an important part of my process and is something that I promulgate wherever I speak. The maintenance of street credibility operates on so many intricate levels. Whose integrity would I like to maintain? The cornerboys in the neighborhoods I get up in? The virtual observers on the various blogs that cater to new street art? Graffiti writers? Collectors? Photographers? I put up my work in as respectful a manner as possible and pray that everything goes swimmingly from there.
LT: What excites you about the urban environment of Philadelphia? Do you have plans for future projects here?
G: I love how Philadelphia is the perfect mixture of Baltimore and New York. There is still plenty of vacant, inert space to be worked with in Philadelphia and the street culture of the city is just so damn Jacobsian. My mother used to live on Christian Streeso I got up there more often from bmore, but now who knows, things always pop up and I do love philly.
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Lee Tusman Lee Tussman is creative director for Hidden City Philadelphia.
Karim says:
Great, thought provoking piece, Lee.
Brookes Britcher says:
Bacon is a strong choice. The man believed in Philadelphia in many ways. While his policies, practices and execution create intense dialogue, it is refreshing to see an acknowledgment of his creative investment in the future of the city realized for the public to reflect on. Happy to see a creative, public dialogue occurring regarding the many voices who have contributed to the fabric of our city. I hope the piece encourages greater understanding, appreciation and criticism regarding Bacon's role in defining it.

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Nicola Jones is a freelance journalist based in Pemberton, British Columbia, just outside of Vancouver. With a background in chemistry and oceanography, she writes about the physical sciences, most often for the journal Nature. She has also contributed to Scientific American, Globe and Mail, and New Scientist and serves as the science journalist in residence at the University of British Columbia.
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A commemoration will be held in French Polynesia today for three opposition MPs who vanished three years ago.
This will be marked in the town of Arue on Tahiti where one of the politicians, the Fetia Api Party leader, Boris Leontieff, was mayor.
"No wreckage was found of the small plane which disappeared in the Tuamotu archipelago where the three politicians were campaigning. Its disappearance has never been explained but has led to speculation that there may have been foul play or that the aircraft may have been diverted. This follows a rumour that the pilot was seen in Latin America. Last month, France sent an expert to re-examine the fuel used for the flight. The politicians' wives meanwhile have approached the French president to explore if the United States took satellite images of the Tuamoru area at the time of the presumed crash. And they have asked the territorial assembly to open a new inquiry to find out what happened."


In addition to a flood of cheap fitness trackers from Asian manufacturers, Fitbit faces a new Samsung smartwatch introduced two weeks ago and an expected fourth-generation update to Apple's (aapl) Apple Watch.
Charge 3 is available for pre-order today at Fitbit.com for $149.95 Dollars, and it will be available starting October 2018.
While the Charge 3 looks similar to the Charge 2 before it, Fitbit boasts that its latest tracker is "more refined", with a design that's slimmer and a body that's lighter so that it that sits closer to the wrist than the last-gen model. A special edition with additional colors and the wireless pay feature will go on sale later for $170.
Part of what apparently helped inform Fitbit's design and feature choices it made for the Charge 3 is internal research data showing that of adult consumers who bought a wearable in the past year, 42 percent wanted a tracker compared to 36 percent in search of a smartwatch. Meanwhile, Fitbit's also borrowed new software features from its smartwatches as well, including basic notification support and menstrual tracking. Aerospace aluminum was used for the Charge 3's case while Corning Gorilla Glass 3 covers its display, and speaking of that display, the one on the Charge 3 is a gray-scale OLED panel that's 40% brighter and sharper than the screen on the Charge 2.
Outside of the exercising world, Fitbit has introduced female health tracking to the Charge 3 (previously only available on Fitbit Ionic and Fitbit Versa), and Fitbit's SpO2 offers up insights into your sleep patterns via blood-oxygen level tracking.
At first, the Charge 3's black-and-white display doesn't seem much larger than the one found on the Charge 2, but the bezels aren't as obscene, and the display itself, in my limited experience with it, was much more responsive than the infuriatingly obtuse ones found in many of Fitbit's other products. The tracker will also allow you to set goals before your workouts, like the amount of calories you want to burn, or the amount of time you want to spend working out. And with seven days of claimed battery life, it outlasts any major smartwatch on the market. To make up for this shortfall, Fitbit has added in a slew of other fitness features to keep you happy.


Edited to answer a couple of your questions: In instances where there are 3 or 4 dies in a set, I stuck all 3 or 4 dies in one pocket together. I was able to easily fit 3 Beautiful Blooms dies in a pocket. Same for the 4 Leaf Prints dies, all 4 slid into one pocket without any trouble. There are a couple of dies that are a bit larger in scale and they still slid into the pockets but may stick out the top a bit, as seen in the photo above. As for really large dies or long, skinny border dies, those are simply standing up in a basket with all of my impression plates. They're already fairly easy to flip thru, so I didn't need to create more storage for them.
Also, in such cases as the mat stack dies where there are multiple stamp sets that have images that coordinate with that die, you could easily write the names of the coordinating stamp sets on the back of the die pocket.
If you've become one of the many that have fallen in LOVE with Papertrey's exclusive line of dies over the last few months, then you might be like me and in need of a better storage system for housing all of those cute little dies I keep collecting! I've got a do-it-yourself storage solution for you that is not only easy to create but it also repurposes and reuses a few items that you may already have around your house! I created custom die pockets in their own little file of sorts.....die pockets that let me see the dies easily as I flip thru the file, and are labeled for quick and easy reference!
First off, I had to find the container that would serve as my "die file". Now, I could certainly have gone out and bought another storage container, but I had a feeling that if I poked around the house enough, I would probably find just the right thing. What I ended up finding was PERFECT! We had a vintage loaf pan in the kitchen cabinet that honestly hasn't been used in years, however it is just the right size to house my little die file and will leave me with lots of room to keep adding to my collection of dies, because let's face it -- us crafters are pretty much collectors too, right?! Haha.
Keep in mind that if you don't happen to have a vintage loaf pan laying around your houses *wink*, you can buy a new one at lots of places like Target and Wal-mart or you could find another container that would work for you as well. The dimensions I'll be giving you today though, fit a standard loaf pan.
So, after I'd decided on my die container, I wanted to create custom die pockets that would hold the dies and allow me to easily flip thru my collection and see everything at a glance. That meant that I wanted to incorporate some clear card stock on the front of the pockets.
I cut down the acetate sheets to 3 3/8" x 3". Now keep in mind that if you don't have any of those sheets on hand, you can purchase Clearly Creative card stock from Papertrey to make your pockets.
Next, I pulled out a few sheets of card stock in colors that coordinate with the decor in my studio. (Of course, color coordination with your surroundings is not a must -- it's just my own little quirk. Ha.) I cut a stack of card stock pieces, each piece measuring 3 3/8" x 4". I was able to get 6 pocket pieces out of a single sheet of card stock.
Then, I laid a piece of clear card stock along the bottom portion of the colored card stock and stitched them together on 3 sides. Tip: I used my two-way glue pen to add a bit of glue in the center of the bottom edge of the card stock, just to hold the acetate in place while I stitched it.
The end result is a beautiful little stack of stitched pockets just waiting to be filled!
Now, if you don't want to sew these pockets, you could easily use a bit of scor-tape or other adhesive to hold your pockets together in place of stitching.
As you can see, I labeled the top of each die pocket with the name of the die. This will make it nice and easy to find dies when I'm on the hunt for a specific one, and it will make it easy to remember what the die is called when typing up supply lists.
Thanks so much for visiting me today! I hope your weekend is a marvelous one!!


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JA Solar to build 2GW module manufacturing facility in Arizona
By Jonathan Tourino Jacobo
Manufacturing, Modules
JA Solar's first manufacturing plant in the US is expected to be operational in Q4 2023. Image: JA Solar.
Solar Module Super League (SMSL) member JA Solar is planning to build its first module manufacturing facility in the US.
Located in Phoenix, Arizona, the factory will have an annual production capacity of 2GW once fully operational.
JA Solar has already leased the space for the plant construction, which is expected to be operational by Q4 2023 and create over 600 jobs.
With a US$60 million investment, the new facility will use an automated assembly line to produce solar PV modules for all market segments, from commercial and residential rooftops to utility-scale solar power plants.
Neither JA Solar nor the Arizona Commerce Authority disclosed the size and type of modules the manufacturer will be producing at the site. In China, the company started last October the production and delivery of its new n-type modules.
"We are very excited to be able to set up the first US solar module manufacturing facility in Arizona to provide our customers in the US the flexibility and ease of access to JA Solar's high-performance PV products," said Aiqing Yang, president of JA Solar.
Since the Inflation Reduction Act was signed in August 2022, new announcements of domestic manufacturing have kept coming in the US, with more than 22GW of domestic module and cell manufacturing plans revealed. Qcells this week said it will invest US$2.5 billion to establish an ingot, wafer, cell and module supply chain in the US state of Georgia.
Heterojunction cell and module manufacturer Meyer Burger also plans to build a 1.6GW solar module manufacturing facility in the state of Arizona.
Outside the US, JA Solar recently announced plans to expand its integrated PV cell manufacturing capacity in China by 20GW.
This article has been updated from a previous version that incorrectly stated the facility Meyer Burger was building in Arizona would have an annual capacity of 400MW instead of 1.6GW.
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The national debate over health policy, which first occupied the top rungs of the political agenda in the 1992 presidential campaign, shifts focus as the nature of problems shifts. In the mid 1990's, the focus was on the soaring cost of health insurance. Toward the end of the 90's, attention shifted to alleged excesses of managed care plans. But one problem never fades away. That is the shameful fact that the United States is the only industrialized power that does not provide some form of universal health coverage for its people. Some 45 million Americans still lack health insurance, and despite a decade of prosperity, the number is growing.
The issue is not just that the uninsured live in constant fear of financial catastrophe. They also suffer medically from the lack of ongoing basic treatment. Studies show that the uninsured are substantially more likely to require hospitalization for festering medical problems like diabetes.
President Clinton proposed in 1993 to achieve universal coverage with a massive overhaul of the entire health care sector. But after the plan self-destructed, the administration did little to attack the problem. The issue flickered momentarily as Bill Bradley posed a thoughtful solution during his presidential campaign. Vice President Al Gore, after he snuffed out Mr. Bradley's bid in the primaries, also turned away from the issue, and in the general election campaign, he and Gov. George W. Bush have offered piecemeal plans for extending health insurance coverage. But none of their proposals would knock more than a few million off the dreadful 45 million total that includes 10 million children.
Such tentativeness is unwarranted. There is no more important use of the $4.5 trillion surplus expected over the next 10 years than to do what other wealthy countries have proved is affordable.
The straightforward way to reduce the number of uninsured Americans is to provide them refundable tax credits to help pay for their health coverage. Tax credits lower a family's tax bill dollar-for- dollar to offset the cost of insurance premiums. By making credits refundable, families too poor to owe much tax receive the offset as cash.
Mr. Bradley proposed tax credits of up to $5,000 per family to buy coverage from private plans, including those that cover federal employees. The plan would not have reached everyone – perhaps leaving 5 percent or more of the population uninsured. Yet the plan would still have cost perhaps $50 billion a year, a price tag that at one time paralyzed debate. But burgeoning surpluses – estimates of which have risen by trillions of dollars since Mr. Bradley proposed his idea – make a Bradley-like program affordable.
Governor Bush, by contrast, proposes a tax credit of up to $2,000, costing about $60 billion over 10 years. He would also spend $8 billion to build community health centers. But the tax credit is too skimpy to draw many uninsured families to policies that could cost them thousands of dollars a year more than the Bush credit would cover. Nor does the Bush proposal include requirements that parents buy coverage for children or strong penalties for states that fail to drive down the number of uninsured residents.
Mr. Gore's platform calls for spending about $140 billion over 10 years to raise coverage among the uninsured. He proposes a refundable tax credit for individuals equal to 25 percent of the cost of their coverage. For a $2,000 premium, that would amount to a credit of only about $500.
Mr. Gore fears that tax credits large enough to attract the uninsured would encourage employers to drop coverage for workers. So he would also make more low-income children eligible for the Children's Health Insurance Program, an existing state-run program, and open that program to the parents of eligible children. The Gore plan would permit children from families that earn too much to qualify for the program to buy coverage at an unsubsidized premium. But state programs have been slow to soak up many uninsured children, so Mr. Gore's proposal, though over all a more effective approach than Mr. Bush's, offers little prospect of making a giant step toward universal coverage.
Though it is unconscionable that the richest country in the world refuses to cover the insurance needs of all its residents, neither candidate proposes to do much about the problem anytime soon. True, they have plans to spend the surplus on other purposes, some of which are worthy in their own right. But if this moment – a moment of unprecedented economic prosperity and looming budget surpluses – is the wrong one for an aggressive move toward universal health insurance, when will it be right?
Grace-Marie Arnett is president of the Galen Institute, a health policy research organization based in Alexandria, VA. Readers may write her at galen@galen.org, or P.O. Box 19080, Alexandria, VA, 22320.


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ALCINA – Alcina first heard of swing dancing when her university roommate dragged her to the Queen's Swing Club, but Lindy Hop really took over her life when she moved back to Toronto in 2007. Since then, she has travelled extensively to learn, teach, DJ, perform, and compete in this joyous art form.
Alcina is excited to join the Cat's Corner staff because she wants to share her passion with anyone who will listen. She started the UT Swing Club with a group of friends, ran her own studio in Toronto, and eventually moved to Montreal to do more dancing!
Alcina has a background in music and movement and how the two interrelate. She is known for her energy and fun stylings on the social dance floor and her insight and clarity in classes. Her goal is to get everyone to love swing as much as she does.
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Officers were called to the Bermuda Sands Resort at 104 N. Ocean Blvd. at 11:03 p.m. on Saturday, May 24, 2014 in reference to a large fight in the street in front of the hotel. As they responded, police learned that 26-year-old Keith Alextruss Williams of Lincolnville had been shot three times.
Devonte Dantzler, 21, Sandy Geddis Barnwell, 22, both of Summerville, and Jamie Williams, 28, of Ladson had gone to the second floor of the hotel after the fight when multiple gunshots were fired, hitting the trio, according to a police report.
Dantzler, Barnwell and Jamie Williams each died from trauma they suffered from the gunshot wounds, Horry County Deputy Coroner Darris Fowler said at the time of the shooting.
Keith Williams was hospitalized, but survived to later be arrested on a stolen weapons charge for a gun found in the trunk of his car the night of the shooting, according to an August 2014 report by our news partner, WPDE.
The Myrtle Beach Police Department worked with the Summerville Police Department in 2014 to track down information about the victims and other clues in search of a lead to the killer. But no suspect was ever named.
One of the driving forces is that you understand as an officer. You speak with the family, you see their pain, you see their hurt so we strive to bring them closure and answers to this investigation and that's certainly what we're trying to do.
Crosby said they will continue to solicit information this year like they did in 2015. Last year, the Myrtle Beach Police Department used social media to remind people of the case, asking anyone with information about the case to call 843-918-1382. Callers can remain anonymous.
"Somebody may think that information is not important or small, but please allow us the opportunity to see how their piece of information fits into the big puzzle," Crosby said.
Six other people, in addition to Keith Williams, were injured in a total of eight shootings along Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach during the 2014 Atlantic Beach Bikefest.
But the triple homicide made that year's event one of the deadliest and spurred changes in public safety measures specifically for Bikefest that continue today.
Extra law enforcement, barricades, a 23-mile traffic loop, a ban on mo-peds and golf carts from entering that loop, a mapping app and extra cameras were put into place to keep traffic flowing, to help officers fight crime and to discourage large gatherings from getting out of control.
Tension was high as officers geared up for Atlantic Beach Bikefest on the Grand Strand last year at a time when some across the nation were starting to question the policing of minority groups. White officers shooting black teens in Ferguson, Mo., New York and Baltimore, Md., fueled those tensions.
Some feared Bikefest 2015 would give birth to protests, riots and more violence. But police hailed their new enforcement of public safety a success, citing no homicides, fewer tickets and fewer arrests last year than the year before, later announcing they would continue the same enforcement this year.
But a new prohibition this year was spawned after officers noticed mo-peds and golf carts snarling traffic along the 23-mile traffic loop. Mo-peds and golf carts will now be banned from the traffic loop roads beginning two hours before the loop opens. The traffic loop will be in place from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday through Sunday.
Police and city officials are using social media and advertisements to inform people of the changes with messages encouraging Bikefest attendees to obey the laws.
The Myrtle Beach Police Department also developed a mapping app to help motorists know how to navigate the 23-mile traffic loop.
Demekiah Brown comments on Myrtle Beach's 23-mile traffic loop put in place for Atlantic Beach Bikefest and Memorial Day weekend. Her comments are similar to many others heard this week.


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The 2018 Finke Desert Race was targeted by Price as an opportunity to pull off an outlandish stunt. Not only did he compete in the bike race, he also raced his Trophy Truck at the contest as well. This meant that after crossing 230 kilometers of outback on four-wheels he would fly back to start-line and cover the same ground by bike – on both days of the race!
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The 2016 Dakar Rally winner jumped on his bike and raced back to Alice Springs. A winning time of under four hours put Price more than 10 minutes ahead of the next rider in the final standings.
"We're pumped to get our sixth win for the Finke Desert Race! The race was definitely hard on us. We had a little bit of a crash around the 100km mark coming home. Overall I'm stoked, six wins on the bike for KTM and it's amazing that we've got the record for all-time wins in that category," said Price. "Unfortunately, we didn't go as well in the truck category for the 'Iron Man' double because the power steering pump blew. But all in all it was good times and I'm happy everything is all wrapped up. Now it's time to kick back and relax a little bit and celebrate with the team."


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KESHA x Pretty Connected New Partnership…
KESHA x Pretty Connected New Partnership Announcement
By Pretty Connected, KESHA
Photo credit: Ashley Osborn
NEW YORK, June 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Pretty Connected and KESHA are joining forces to launch the limited-edition "Yin Yang" charm chains ($38 MSRP). Based on Pretty Connected's two most popular multi-use chain styles and introducing the brands first rose gold chain colorway.
It's a true fashionable-yet-functional multi-use product that goes far beyond being a necklace or mask chain and designed to outlive the pandemic as an investment to your jewelry collection. Each chain is adorned with a limited-edition Yin Yang charm with the singer/songwriter's signature logo on the back.
"I wanted to collaborate with Pretty Connected because I was wearing their chains all the time. I'd wear it as a necklace, everywhere, even to the beach. On my mask, my sunglasses, my cell phone, water bottle… I lose everything so it comes in so handy!" said Kesha.
The Kesha x Pretty Connected chain launch is a multi-use, perfect as a mask chain, necklace, clutch chain, ID/Vax card holder, phone chain, water bottle chain, belt adornment and beyond. Sample video on some of its many uses HERE.
[On why a Yin Yang symbol] "It was a symbol that kept finding me during the past year. I wanted to put it on the chain because I feel like it's a symbol of harmony. And I wanted to remind myself, in the light, there's dark, in the dark, there is light and it's a cyclical thing, it's the balance of life. And it was just a weird thing where I felt more connected to that message and reminder wearing the Pretty Connected chains."
"Kesha is our dream collaborator because she represents being yourself, having fun and showing kindness. I'm excited that not only her fans, but Pretty Connected supporters as well will get the opportunity to have the Yin Yang charm as a reminder to stay balanced or at least strive for it, even if it seems difficult at times," said Pretty Connected Founder, Lara Eurdolian.
Available exclusively at prettyconnected.com/shop and the Pretty Connected's Etsy page.
High-res images can be found HERE.
For more info, images and quotes, please contact Juliana Martins at hello@prettyconnected.com
ABOUT KESHA
Over her career, Kesha has earned 10 Top Ten singles, over a billion views on YouTube, 2 number one albums, 4 number one songs at top 40 radio, and nearly 40 million followers across social media.
Kesha's latest album 'High Road' was called a body of work "wise and wild in equal measure" (Billboard), that "electrifies from the inside out" (American Songwriter) and "strikes a believable balance between vulnerability and the bluster she made her name on" (Stereogum).
Her previous album 'Rainbow', called "an artistic feat" by Entertainment Weekly and "the best music of her career" by Rolling Stone, earned Kesha the first GRAMMY nominations of her career.
Kesha's ventures outside of music include a top rated TV program, an award winning film, her own podcast, a book, a cruise, and a cosmetics line.
As a songwriter she has penned her own music as well as songs for artists including Britney Spears, Ariana Grande, The Veronicas, and Miley Cyrus. Kesha is an animal rights crusader as the Humane Society International's first Global Ambassador and a passionate advocate for equality, being honored with the 2016 Human Rights Campaign Visibility Award. In 2016 she won Billboard's Women in Music Trailblazer Award and in 2018 she was named one of Time Magazine's Time 100, their list of the most influential people in the world.
ABOUT PRETTY CONNECTED
Pretty Connected is an award-winning beauty, fashion and lifestyle blog turned accessories line by Lara Eurdolian aka @prettyconnected. Specializing in high quality, fashionable, multi-use necklaces and straps that can be used as mask chains, carry bags, glasses, cameras, ID cards, cell phones, water bottles or used as belt accessories and beyond.
Gaining international recognition in all forms of entertainment and media, Pretty Connected founder Lara Eurdolian was named one of "7 NYC Innovators Making Waves This Year" (Manhattan Magazine), and "Female founded NYC-Based brands to obsess over" (Daily Front Row) for her popular and versatile accessories. As a fashion and beauty expert, on air talent, and entrepreneur, Lara frequently shares her expertise on-air and in the media.
The straps have gained international attention as the original mask + multi-use strap and for their various uses, as seen in top media outlets world-wide.
The brand has also been featured in the Netflix hit series, Emily in Paris and on celebrities including Sarah Jessica Parker, Kesha, Debi Mazar, Bethenny Frankel, Veronica Webb, Patricia Field, Whitney Cummings, Danielle Fishel and in a national commercial for Curb, the #1 Taxi app.
View original content to download multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kesha-x-pretty-connected-new-partnership-announcement-301317860.html
SOURCE Pretty Connected


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The financial situation of Hunedoara Energy Company is disastrous and the company could even reach bankruptcy, which would bring about huge social problems in the coal mining area of the Jiu Valley and could jeopardise the safety of the national energy system, Energy Minister Victor Grigorescu said on his Facebook account on Monday.
"I am paying a working visit to Hunedoara Energy Complex this morning. /…/ The financial situation of the company is disastrous and the main fear is that it could even reach bankruptcy. Such a situation is utterly unacceptable, because we would be faced with a huge social problem in the Jiu Valley and a problem of safety of the national energy system", Grigorescu said.
He underscored that he will meet the company management, the mining trade unions and local authorities during the visit.
"I wait from the management of Hunedoara Energy Complex to understand that the fate of tens of thousands of the Jiu Valley families depends on its actions. We can afford no mistake and no hesitation and it is my duty to warn all those involved that the seriousness of the situation can bring about major repercussions for all the involved players", the minister added.
The Energy Ministry had announced in October that it would send the European Commission a notification by means of which the rescue aid for Hunedoara Energy Company, which employs more than 6,400 workers is to be turned into a restructuring aid. Such aid could thus be used for the conversion of the debts and for funding the measures in the restructuring plan of Hunedoara. At the same time, according to the restructuring plan, there will be gradual cost cuts, a measure also correlated with the presentation of guarantees as regards the viability and profitability of the activity for a 3-year period. The plan is chiefly aimed at reorganising the company and at boosting the economic efficiency of all the sectors of its activity.


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Qualia- C Releases New "Amare Qualis" LP
"There are no beautiful surfaces, without a terrible depth" – Friedrich Nietzsche. To put it bluntly, Qualia- C is an artist who will only be accessible and digestible to an extremely specific audience. Her mere existence is a testament to not only her uncompromising spirit, and unworldly courage, but to the idea of unimpeded freedom of expression. Coming upon Qualia- C's new album, Amare Qualis, is akin to the residual effects of experiencing a Pier Pasolini film. Her work will stay with you in areas of your psyche that are only accessible through starkly transgressive experiences.
Raised in Germany, Qualia is described as a Performance , Haptic and Visual Artist, as well as a somatic educator. She currently resides in Oakland, CA. The haptic element is most peculiar or more accurately, compromised in the Covid era. Non Verbal, contact based communication is all but viewed as a relative taboo in modern society. Her gig as a somatic educator seems most in harmony with her art, as her primal chants and pleas, explore the biological source of the energy that drives them.
URL: https://www.qualia-c.com/
Avant Garde seems to be the simplest and most convenient label to attach to Qualia- C and this album, and honestly, it's also the most accurate. She creates within an outer realm, that reflects her surroundings, and internalizes the ensuing chaos. To describe this as Performance Art, would almost be an incomplete thought. Amare Qualis doesn't come across as so much of a performance at times, but a concentrated demonstration of intellectual purging, resulting in sporadic catharsis. It's a psychosomatic therapy session with extemporaneous exercises in artistic expression.
On "Demons," Qualia takes on a Bjork like accent, as she espouses poetically, in a Ginsberg-Esque prose. There is a backdrop of someone repeatedly coughing. Not sure if this is a tie in to current afflictions, but it is highlighted in such a way to assume it has symbolism. Strategic demons/held my heart with iron clads, is a line that goes a long way in summarizing "Demons." It's difficult to describe from a second hand perspective, just how strong the sense of foreboding is on this piece, as it will make you instantly uncomfortable.
A tribal drum roll, opens up "Big Hearts," on which Qualia decrees that Big Hearts/Are for fools. It certainly sounds as if she has lost faith in the idea of love and loving. The Overlying narrative on Amare Qualis, seems driven by heartbreak and rejection in some form. "Your Name" opens with a Pong like soundscape, and a weaving, Jaws style violin. This is where we get to hear Qualia-C do what would be considered more traditional Singing, once again in a voice comparable to Bjork.
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Qualia- C claims that she was told, that she couldn't sing, as an adolescent. Fair to say, that most if not all of her detractors, don't have an album being reviewed by a critic, at this point. Truth be told, you don't actually listen to Qualia-C. You don't simply experience her work, either. It's an intrusion on dormant or previously undisturbed segments of your psyche, that will never allow you to justify your own self denial, again.
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YEMENI TEENAGER WANTS JUSTICE AFTER ACID ATTACK
This is something that needs to be talked about more. Islamaphobes and people with an anti-muslim agenda use things like this to say "this is Islam", they say "abusing women is part of islam", they say "forced marriage is in islam".
The reality is this is far from anything to do with Islam at all. It is completely forbidden and anyone with a brain the size of a peanut would know this. I pray that this sister gets justice and the person responsible is caught. Her face and life has been changed forever and she won't get justice in this dunya, but in the court of Allah she will.
Abuse in marriage like this has nothing to do with islam. This girl was not a wife but she was a slave literally chained up at home as she describes. Another thing to point out is that forced marriage is forbidden and HARAM in islam. Our Prophet (peace be upon him) said that a girl can ONLY be married with her consent. A father has no right to force his daughter to marry and have intercourse with a man she does not want to. It's forbidden and many scholars say the marriage itself is invalid.
In this situation, some people may blame the parents of this child. However, we also have to understand the situation of the people in Yemen. As this girl says herself, her mother gave her in marriage as she wanted to protect her, because incase the mother died she wouldn't have anyone.
Yemen is going through the greatest humanitarian crisis on earth. Many families are very very poor and feed on scraps not knowing when their next meal will be. Unfortunately, this creates a situation where they give their daughters in marriage so that she may be provided for by someone else, and so that they have enough to feed the rest of their kids. I've seen families like this living in dire situations. It's sad but this is whats happening. May Allah make it easy upon them and protect them.


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Q: No visible interface declares the method xx Getting this error for the method setCircle as you see in the photograph. It makes no sense at all: the method above, setIsToday:, is recognised just fine and is declared only once, directly above the setCircle method. as you can see, the method exists in the code only once, with two calls of this form:
[cell setIsToday];

which succeeded in both cases. If I do:
[cell setCircle];

instead I get the error.

Tried an Xcode restart, clean build, etc. No luck.

A: You cannot call [cell setIsToday]; as the method is -(void)setIsToday:(BOOL)isToday (note the parameter).
You need to call either [cell setIsToday:YES] or [cell setIsToday:NO]

A: Where are you calling it from? If you are calling it from another object, setCircle must be declared in your .h header. Perhaps you forgot?

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