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Conservation in the Bat Zone
By Capital News Service | August 17, 2016
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By EAMON DEVLIN
LANSING — Michigan – Bat-ter up!
You can step up to the plate at the newly renovated Bat Zone in Bloomfield Hills.
We're not talking new batting cages at a fun park. This is North America's only sanctuary and education center for bats and other nocturnal creatures. It is run by the Organization for Bat Conservation at the Cranbrook Institute of Science.
The building recently got a $35,000 facelift: new floors, heating and cooling systems and lighting thanks to about 300 small donations and the Organization for Bat Conservation's board of directors, said Philip Garofalo, the group's communications manager.
The Bat Zone teaches about 12,000 visitors per year about bats and other nocturnal critters. It has almost 200 night-loving animals and nearly 20 nocturnal species. That includes a two-toed sloth, striped skunk, three species of owls and 12 species of bats, including the Malayan flying fox and straw-colored fruit bats.
All Bat Zone animals were rescued from the wild, former owners or even zoos. For example, Kamilah, a Malayan flying fox, was rescued from a zoo because of a wing injury and severe allergies. At the sanctuary she receives more attention: making sure she gets food and water, as well as Benadryl for her allergies, said Aja Marcato, the organization's conservation programming director.
That type of individualized attention isn't the only interaction between bat keeper and bat.
"Bats are very social and interact with staff constantly," Marcato said. "They are curious and vocal whenever you enter their environments.
It's such interaction and curiosity that are visible at the Bat Zone. Everyday guests can take a tour and learn about the animals. A guide brings them eye-to-eye with numerous bats and if visitors are lucky, the guide can also coax a bat or two to demonstrate echolocation, the mechanism they use to navigate in the dark.
On Friday evenings, visitors walk the grounds of Cranbrook, watching for wild bats that happen to be flying silently through the night as they eat mosquitoes and other insects.
To help spot them, guides are armed with iPads attached to an Echo Meter Touch, a device that detects, records and identifies sound waves nearby bats emit to navigate.
That's not the only way Bat Zone uses technology. To kick off the opening of the new building, the Organization for Bat Conservation held its first Facebook Live event with the Discovery Channel.
"We had about 60 people live commenting," said Rob Mies, the executive director and founder.
The plan is to continue using the new live-streaming function monthly through Facebook.
Other upgrades include replacing metal caging with glass, allowing people to get clearer views of the bats as they hang, fly or interact with ladders, bridges, toys and other items that staff provide to keep their minds and bodies healthy, Mies said.
The bats' diets include fruits, insects and even cow's blood, depending on the species. However local residents needn't worry because bats in the Great Lakes region are strictly insectivores.
The organization is trying to teach as many people as possible about bats, their threats and how people can help them, Mies said.
Those threats include loss of habitat and pollution. But the largest concern is white nose syndrome, a fungus that wakes up hibernating bats and causes them to die of starvation or dehydration, he said.
"Within another 10 years or so, it is going to wipe out the majority of bat populations or at least individuals across North America," Mies said. "Populations within the Great Lakes region have already drastically decreased."
The organization's Save the Bats Campaign has identified four ways people can help.
The Bat Zone is particularly helpful with the education part of the strategy, he said. "Most people don't know how economically and ecologically important bats are."
Another way to help is by setting up bat houses to provide safe places to raise their young, said Mies.
People can also garden for bats by planting certain flowers and plants like sky blue asters and chokecherry, or providing water through things like a bird bath.
And people can help by becoming bat experts and citizen scientists.
"We see these steps as a natural progression," said Mies. First, you become educated, then you help because doing so benefits you, as bats will eat pesky insects around your home. Then you take things a step further and help others."
Mies said one interesting thing is that bats are a lot like humans; they have friends and prefer certain bats, and even people, to others. "They have long-term memories, and long-term relationships, not only within their own family, but also with those outside their family."
Coming up in the next few months is the launch of a kids' club "designed as a way to get kids excited, not only about bats but for conservation as well," Marcato said.
There's also the 15th annual Great Lakes Bat Festival Sept. 17 at the Macomb Intermediate School District in Macomb.
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Can't make it to the Bat Zone? Bat cams are available from the group's website to watch bats 24/7 in their Bat Zone homes.
Hunt for virtual wildlife leads to real nature encounters
LANSING — If you want to see wildlife you go outside. The same is true for the critters in Pokémon Go.


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AXIN1 gene
axin 1
This gene encodes a cytoplasmic protein which contains a regulation of G-protein signaling (RGS) domain and a dishevelled and axin (DIX) domain. The encoded protein interacts with adenomatosis polyposis coli, catenin beta-1, glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta, protein phosphate 2, and itself. This protein functions as a negative regulator of the wingless-type MMTV integration site family, member 1 (WNT) signaling pathway and can induce apoptosis. The crystal structure of a portion of this protein, alone and in a complex with other proteins, has been resolved. Mutations in this gene have been associated with hepatocellular carcinoma, hepatoblastomas, ovarian endometriod adenocarcinomas, and medullablastomas. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2016]
Component of the beta-catenin destruction complex required for regulating CTNNB1 levels through phosphorylation and ubiquitination, and modulating Wnt-signaling (PubMed:12192039, PubMed:27098453). Controls dorsoventral patterning via two opposing effects; down-regulates CTNNB1 to inhibit the Wnt signaling pathway and ventralize embryos, but also dorsalizes embryos by activating a Wnt-independent JNK signaling pathway (PubMed:12192039). In Wnt signaling, probably facilitates the phosphorylation of CTNNB1 and APC by GSK3B (PubMed:12192039). Likely to function as a tumor suppressor. Enhances TGF-beta signaling by recruiting the RNF111 E3 ubiquitin ligase and promoting the degradation of inhibitory SMAD7 (PubMed:16601693). Also component of the AXIN1-HIPK2-TP53 complex which controls cell growth, apoptosis and development (PubMed:17210684). Facilitates the phosphorylation of TP53 by HIPK2 upon ultraviolet irradiation (PubMed:17210684).
Caudal duplication anomaly
Caudal duplication anomaly (CADUA): A condition characterized by the occurrence of duplications of different organs in the caudal region. [MIM:607864]
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC): A primary malignant neoplasm of epithelial liver cells. The major risk factors for HCC are chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, prolonged dietary aflatoxin exposure, alcoholic cirrhosis, and cirrhosis due to other causes. [MIM:114550]
Cytogenetic Location: 16p13.3, which is the short (p) arm of chromosome 16 at position 13.3
Molecular Location: base pairs 287,440 to 355,226 on chromosome 16 (Homo sapiens Updated Annotation Release 109.20190607, GRCh38.p13) (NCBI)
AXIN
PPP1R49
Tests of AXIN1
OMIM: AXIS INHIBITOR 1
OMIM: CAUDAL DUPLICATION ANOMALY
OMIM: HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA


Cúig Studio artists are delighted to be exhibiting at "lost & Found' a group show at Film Base, Temple Bar, Dublin.
'Lost & Found' is the title and theme of the exhibition, organised by artist Yvonne Kennedy. The artists were given the freedom to interpret the theme and develop work for submission. Those involved are from different parts of the country, some work in supported studios, others work alone. All of these artists have exhibited before, at 'BEYOND; Irish Outsider Art' which was curated by Brent Pope in 2015.
The artists exhibiting are comprised of painters, illustrators, textile artists and some sculptors. It is very exciting that this group can come together and exhibit again, it will be a great opportunity for them to meet in Dublin.
The show opens at Film Base on Sep 1st 2016 and will run until Sep 11th.


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E3 2012: Wii U Games Line-up Round-up
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E3 2012: Sleeping Dogs E3 Trailer carries on its Brutal Streak
by Robin Parker on June 6, 2012
Square Enix are very proud of the fact that they rescued the Sleeping Dogs title (formerly True Crime: Hong Kong) from the abyss of cancellation by Activision, and they are really putting a lot of their marketing weight behind the launch of the game as a consequence.
The latest evidence of that is their new E3 trailer. The video shows off the great cinematic qualities that the game possesses, that will make you feel as if you are right within a new wave Hong Kong action flick. Torture, corruption and street fighting will play a big part in the game, as they typically do in films of the genre, and the title is shaping up to be just as epic as the movies which inspired it.
See the exciting new E3 2012 trailer below:
Sleeping Dogs will be released at retail for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in the UK on August 17th.
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If I'm not playing on a good Adventure Game - still longing for the long-past Golden Age of the genre, when Lucasarts and Sierra ruled supreme - you might find me searching for a local arcade, in the hopes that it still houses titles such as Sunset Riders or WindJammers.
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South Carolina vs Florida
Wed Jan 25 7:00PM
S.CAR
South Carolina vs Florida Basketball Predictions & Best Bets
South Carolina is on the road playing Florida at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center stadium on Wednesday, 1/25/2023 @ 7:00pm EST. Florida -14.5 was the opening favorite and current line is Florida -17.
There are two teams from the SEC taking the court in the Sunshine State hoping to earn a conference victory. As they travel to face the Florida Gators Wednesday night, the South Carolina Gamecocks are on the road. South Carolina lost 81-66 to #16 Auburn at home in their previous matchup on Saturday, falling 13.5 points short of covering the line. The Gators beat Mississippi State 61-59 in their most recent game, winning outright as 2.5-point underdogs. Among the all-time matches between the teams, the Gators hold a 40-20 advantage, including a 71-63 road victory on January 15, 2022.
Trying to get back on track for the South Carolina Gamecocks
After losing at home to #16 Auburn in their previous game Saturday, South Carolina lost their third straight game and fifth in the last six games. With a 1-5 mark in the conference, the Gamecocks are 8-11 overall and 11th in the conference. Against Auburn, South Carolina fell behind 9-2 less than three minutes into the game and never recovered. At halftime, the Gamecocks trailed by 17 and were down by as many as 26 in the second half. The Gamecocks shot 35.7% from the field, including seven of 28 three-point attempts, and allowed Auburn to shoot 50%. Gregory Jackson II led the Gamecocks with 30 points and eight rebounds.
The Florida Gators are looking to maintain their momentum
On the road, Florida slipped past Mississippi State in a defensive struggle to win for the fourth time in five games. As of this game, the Gators are 11-8 and tied for fifth in the conference with a 4-3 record. Against Mississippi State, Florida erased a 3-0 deficit with an 11-0 run and controlled the first half. At intermission, the Gators led by nine points and by as many as 16 before the Bulldogs rallied. With 4:02 remaining in the game, Florida saw Mississippi State tie the game at 43 only to take a 60-50 lead. After that, the Gators scored just one point but still won. The Gators shot 41.8% from the field, including 10 of 24 from three-point range, and made only five of 10 at the free throw line. Colin Castleton led the Gators with 13 points.
Two teams are heading in opposite directions as conference play continues. As a result of their offensive struggles, the Gamecocks have lost five of their last six games. In the meantime, Florida has won four of five, with their lone loss coming to Texas A&M last week by two points. The Gamecocks are 2-3 on the road this season, while the Gators are 6-3 at home. Despite losing to Georgetown in overtime and Kentucky by three points, they won both of their road games by three points. In addition to losing by 24 to George Washington and a 14-point loss to UAB, they've also lost by 43 to Tennessee and 41 to Texas A&M at home. It's impossible to trust the Gamecocks based on what we've seen from them so far. Take Florida on the road as they earn the victory.
South Carolina Highlights
With a power ranking of 349, South Carolina is ranked #341 in offense (scoring an average of 63.67 per game), #260 in defense (allowing an average of 72.17 points to be scored against them per game) and are 8-11 (9-10 ATS) this season.
Florida Highlights
Florida Gators has a power ranking of 123 and are #153 for offense (scoring an average of 72.94 per game), #83 for defense (giving up an average of 72.17 points per game) and 11-8 (10-9 ATS) overall. South Carolina went 2-1 (2-1 ATS) in their last 3 matchups against Florida.
From the lines set by Sportsbooks, they predict the score to be S.CAR 83.75, FLA 49.75.
50% of SportsJaw predicts Florida Gators to cover.
62% picked South Carolina Gamecocks on Covers.com
Our ScoreCaster predicts Gamecocks 53 to Gators 95.
Our prediction: Gamecocks 53 to Gators 95.
Over 134.5
Under 134.5
The Gators have a stronger offense and the Gators have a slightly better defense. The Gators won more games straight up and against the spread over their last 3 matchups. Adjusted score predictions based on power rankings and strength of schedule: Gamecocks 60 to Gators 78.
FLA -16 (-110)
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Florida Injuries
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After crunching 8 data points, our relative predictions model has elected to not make a prediction on this game - view the South Carolina vs Florida infographic for details.


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Archive for the 'College Football' category
Poor Second Half haunts Fordham in 85-66 loss to VCU
The Sports Cycle's Donnie Dwyer is at the Rose Hill Gym as Fordham loses it's 5th straight game 85-66 to VCU. Freshman Jon Severe and Sophomore Mandell Thomas had 14 points apiece while Senior Guard Branden Frazier had 10 points in the loss. Junior center Ryan Canty had 2 points to go along with 10 rebounds and 4 blocks. The Rams take on LaSalle this Saturday at 5pm on their home floor.
Categories: Atlantic 10, College Football, Fordham
Tags: Atlantic 10 conference, Branden Frazier, Coach Pecora, defense, Donnie Dwyer, Fordham Basketball, Jon Severe, Juvonte Reddic, loss, Mandell Thomas, Shaka Smart, Standings, VCU
Unbelievable Upset! Fordham beats Temple 30-29 to begin season 3-0
Today made it 12 teams! 12 FCS (DIV 1-AA) have defeated FBS (DIV 1-A) teams this season. Fordham defeated Temple in Philadelphia, PA 30-29 thanks to a 29 yard touchdown strike from Mike Nebrich to a leaping Sam Ajala in the end zone with 4 seconds left on the clock (Highlight below). With the win, Fordham is now 3-0 on the season and beat an FBS opponent for the first time since 1954 season with a 13-7 win over Rutgers.
This season has been special so far for Fordham. Last week they beat #8 ranked Villanova on their home turf for the first time in school history, this team advance to 3-0 for the first time since 1988, and the Rams played their first game at an NFL stadium since 1983 when they faced St. Norbert's College at Lambeau Field.
So where does this win rank in Fordham Football history? It may not be at the top, but it certainly is very high compared to recent history against FBS schools (Losses to Buffalo in 1993 and 1995, Army and UConn in 2011 and Cincinnati 2012). Last time Fordham was relevant in the FCS was 2007 when they lost to UMass in the first round of the FCS Playoffs. This team has struck magic in the early going and I hope they can keep it up going into next week.
The Rams host Columbia University next week at home for a 1:00 p.m. contest in the annual Liberty Cup game. I know the stands will be packed with maroon and white as fans will start entering Jack Coffey Field with smiles on their faces.
It's a new era of Fordham Athletics. This is just the first step in bigger success coming to multiple programs. It's time to get excited in the Bronx.
Categories: College Football, ESPN, Football, Fordham
Tags: Columbia, Division 1-A, Division 1-AA, ESPN, FBS, FCS, Football, Fordham, fordham football, history, Lambeau Field, Mike Nebrich, ranking, Sam Ajala, Temple University, touchdown strike, Upset, Villanova
Photo of the Week: Johnny Manziel Taunt
(ESPN.com news services)
…This is one of the worst things you could do as a Heisman trophy winner and as a star quarterback in college football who just got off on a ridiculous scandal. Texas A&M beat Rice 52-31 and Johnny Manziel had the nerve to start taunting the Rice players after touchdowns. This photo here shows him signing autographs on his hand to the Rice players and then handing it out to them after a score. I am sorry but that is very uncalled for and very immature on his part. I show this photo because it should be a sign to athletes around the country that if you don't play the game with respect, you will end up looking like #2 in College Station. You definitely don't want that. The key is learn from your mistakes and get better. We shall see what Mr. Manziel does in week 2…
Categories: College Football, ESPN, Photo of the Week, Pop Culture
Tags: College Football, ESPN, Heisman Trophy Winner, Johnny Manziel, Photo of the week, Rice, taunt, Texas A&M
CBS 58's Donnie Dwyer Sports Broadcast December 5th 2011
CBS 58's Donnie Dwyer covers everything in Wisconsin Sports from the Badgers and their Rose Bowl match against Oregon, Aaron Rodgers and the big win for the Packers to continue perfection. Marquette basketball travels to New York City to play in Jimmy V Classic against Washington. They are ranked #11 in the nation. Tune in to get all the information you want!
Categories: CBS, College Basketball, College Football, Donnie Dwyer, Green Bay Packers, New York Giants, NFL
Tags: CBS 58, Derrick Wilson, Donnie Dwyer, Green Bay Packers, Marquette Basketball, Mason Crosby, Michigan St., New York Jets, Rose Bowl, The Sports Cycle, Todd Mayo, Wisconsin Badgers
BCS Bustin' – Why Boise St. and other mid-major powers deserve equal opportunities in the BCS National Championship
Here is an article written from our new writer, Nathan Rupe. It's a great article and is very well done. Check it out…
(Photo By: Robert Beck/SI)
Although he's an afterthought when it comes to NFL accomplishments, former Utah Utes quarterback Alex Smith led one of the most groundbreaking teams in college football history. The 2004 Utah Utes team was expected to be good, they began the season ranked 19th in the country. However, few expected the team to blast through 11 opponents en route to an undefeated regular season – and they did just that. The reason this season was so significant wasn't just because of the perfect season, it was also because of the conference Utah was a part of. The Mountain West Conference is not an automatic qualifying conference, meaning that the conference champions do not earn a spot in one of the BCS Bowl Games, considered to be the biggest games of the post-season (Sugar Bowl, Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, and Fiesta Bowl).
When the Utah Utes earned a spot in the 2004 Fiesta Bowl opposite the Pittsburgh Panthers, it was the first time in college football history that a non-AQ team made it into a BCS Bowl game. The question then turned to whether or not the Utes were a good football team, or the product of an easy schedule – they didn't play a single ranked team all season. All doubt were put to rest when the Utes blew out Pittsburgh 35-7, proving their status as one of the best teams in college football.
Fast-forward to the present, four schools have now become "BCS Busters" by breaking into a BCS Bowl game from a non-AQ conference (Utah, TCU, Boise St., Hawaii). Against opponents from an AQ conference, BCS Busters are 4-1. Of all of the total seven BCS Buster appearances however, none have ever participated in the National Championship game. Last year's undefeated TCU team, that beat Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl actually received some first place votes from AP voters at the end of the season, but it was for naught and the BCS title game winner Auburn remained the undisputed National Champion of the season.
However, despite TCU's success the clear leader of mid-major conferences against the BCS is Boise St. Since 2004, Boise St. has four undefeated seasons and a one-loss season to their credit. They stunned the heavily favored Oklahoma Sooners in the 2006 Fiesta Bowl, and have beaten fellow BCS Busters TCU twice in the Fiesta Bowl. During last season, Boise St. was a near lock for a BCS Bowl all year until an overtime stunner against Nevada knocked them out of contention.
There lies the issue.
Should a team with the impressive credentials of Boise St. be dropped from major bowl contention because of a single loss? A three-point loss in overtime at that, and against a ranked team in Nevada. Boise's season was disregarded due to their conference – the Western Atlantic Conference, a non-AQ conference. It wasn't Boise's first snub from BCS selection either, in 2004 an 11-0 record and #9 ranking wasn't enough to earn them a spot in a BCS Bowl, as well as a 12-0 season in 2008. In fact, they ended the 2004 season as the only undefeated team in College Football, yet didn't earn a spot in the National Title game (which hosted a one-loss Florida Gators squad).
The common criticism against Boise St. and other successful teams from non-AQ conferences, is the lack of competition they face year-round. After all, a team that spends the year beating push-overs wouldn't be able to hang with an SEC team used to playing the very best on an almost weekly basis, right? Not quite. Boise's season opening blowout of SEC powerhouse Georgia seems to have finally opened people's eyes to just how good mid-major teams can be.
Currently 2-0, and ranked 4th in the nation will this be the year that BCS polls finally invite Boise St. into the National Championship game? Or will the constantly underappreciated Broncos find themselves snubbed by voters once again?
Only time will tell, but at this point it's hard to argue just how competitive non-AQ teams are capable of being.
Categories: College Football, Economy
Tags: Alex Smith, Boise St, College Football, Nathan Rupe, SEC, TCU, Utah, WAC
The Sports Cycle Video: College programs changing conferences with special guest Derek Hudgin
Donnie Dwyer interviews MUTV production director Derek Hudgin about the college conferences and whether Marquette should stay or go in the Big East like when Pitt and Syracuse went to the ACC…
Categories: Big East, College Football, Economy, Marquette
Tags: ACC, Big 12, Big East, Economy, Marquette, money, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Texas, Texas Tech
This Day in Sports History: Appalachian St. defeats #5 Michigan
…This was a great day for FCS schools beating a top team in the nation like Michigan. In my own opinion and experience, the FCS is so much better than the BCS because they actually have a tournament to decide which team will be the nations champion and a lot of the schools do not have scholarship players. They play because they love the game of football. Now you might see the occasional upset here and there but nothing as big as this one. This win by Appalachian St really proved to the world that in any given day in college football, you can be defeated. I could remember watching it like it was yesterday…
Categories: College Football, ESPN
Tags: Appalachian St., BCS, Big Ten, College Football, ESPN, FCS, Michigan, This Day in History


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REVIEWED BY MELISSA S. RAGAIN
FROM THE DECEMBER 2018 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.
In 2000, the German artist Reinhard Reitzenstein suspended a tree from a pair of abandoned hydroelectric towers in La Gabelle Park in Quebec. Hung upside down, the 55-foot spruce tree contrasts tragicomically with the immense structures beside it, as though they had seized the tree and subjected it to this humiliating inversion. This arresting image flips (quite literally) our expectations of the landscape, even a human-altered landscape like the escarpment of a hydroelectric dam, and dramatizes the clear-cutting that makes such sublime industrial monuments possible. Reitzenstein relies on those expectations in order to subvert them. The cultural baggage of landscape, both pictures of the landscape and the land's design as an aesthetic object, is the ground against which a work like Transformer appears. The urgency of climate change and mass extinction has made it necessary for anyone who works with natural materials or images to rethink the historical conventions that govern our perceptions of the natural world.
I was choosing a new survey text for my course Contemporary Art and Ecology when I was commissioned to review Mark Cheetham's new book, Landscape into Eco Art. To judge by the title and the array of evocative illustrations, it looked like a viable candidate to replace my go-to anthology, Jeffrey Kastner's Nature (The MIT Press, 2012). Though Kastner's book offers an excellent selection of short primary documents perfect for an undergraduate seminar, it lacks what many art history textbooks offer: the lure of chronology, the analysis of individual artworks, and an authoritative narrative to help navigate the last 50 years of ecological art making. And yet, as I thumbed through Cheetham's Landscape into Eco Art, I began to realize that it was not a survey text. Neither was it the kind of fine-grained history of a single object or movement we have come to expect in contemporary art history. Other texts in the genre take the standard contemporary art historical model of diving deep into a subject only to pop back out of it again with a new perspective on the long history of contemporary practices. For instance, James Nisbet's Ecologies, Environments, and Energy Systems in Art of the 1960s and 1970s (The MIT Press, 2014) tells a history of land art and systems thinking by tethering it to a lengthy analysis of Walter De Maria's The Lightning Field (1977). Similarly, Suzaan Boettger's Earthworks: Art and the Landscape of the Sixties (University of California Press, 2003) takes a wide-angle lens to land art in a chronological survey of the era's greatest moments to shed light on the complex network of artists, gallerists, and collectors who motivated land art's monumental minimalism.
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BY CATHERINE SEAVITT NORDENSON, ASLA
Araucárias, Paraná, ca. 1884. Photo by Marc Ferrez/Gilberto Ferrez Collection/Instituto Moreira Salles.
FROM THE OCTOBER 2018 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.
Speaking out against the military dictatorship of Brazil during the late 1960s and early 1970s had definite risks. Politicians, human rights advocates, artists, and intellectuals who publicly opposed the right-wing government's programs of hyperdevelopment did so under threat of arrest, imprisonment, torture, and death. Many fled into exile. Roberto Burle Marx, the Brazilian landscape architect (1909–1994), had been a public figure for decades when, three years after the 1964 coup, he was appointed by the dictatorship's first president, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, to a 24-member national cultural council. For Burle Marx, the decision to join the council was ethically freighted. He accepted with one clear objective: to save the Brazilian landscape.
In a new book, Depositions: Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes Under Dictatorship (University of Texas Press, 2018), Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, ASLA, brings forth a series of 18 frankly activist speeches, or depositions, that Burle Marx delivered as a member of the council. They target, among other things, the unchecked destruction of Brazil's forests for raw materials and agriculture. He surveyed the progression of environmental tragedy with a deep knowledge of botany and ecology, an intricate alertness to policy, and always appealing to a Brazilian pride in its national landscape patrimony.
"The way I read his depositions, Burle Marx is positioning an argument that's against the economic development theory of the regime," Seavitt Nordenson told me recently. "Sometimes they listen to him and sometimes they don't. But he's on the inside and he's arguing passionately, because he's been working on the cultural project of the Brazilian landscape for so long." Seavitt Nordenson notes that in these speeches of 50 years ago, Burle Marx touches on two huge problems of today, anthropogenic impacts affecting climate and the loss of biodiversity. "They're very clear—they're jocular speeches, often funny, and have so much spontaneity—and he manages to communicate a serious message to an audience that has significant political power."
This excerpt of Depositions includes a brief introduction by Seavitt Nordenson to three depositions on forests, followed by her translations of the depositions themselves.
—Bradford McKee


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My water's crystal clear, but I'm getting seeing sand on the liner.
I replaced the laterals last year when we got the pool up and running.
While the pump is running sand is not coming out of the filter, this was verified with a sock over the return.
I shut the pump off last night around 7, no sand on the bottom as it was freshly vacuumed out. This morning around 7, no sand whatsoever. I go to work and come home at lunch, sand on the boom, pump wasnt on.
I haven't had the multivalve removed or apart since last Spring. Could this be a spider gasket issue? What other reasons could this be?
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Constructed in 1886, this Lambert Packard designed building embodies Newport's late 19th/early 20th century prosperity and is included among only a few of the city's remaining non-residential buildings from this period. It also represents the decision to move the county seat to Newport from Irasburg and is certainly one of Vermont's finest examples of high-style civic building construction.
The original wood double hung windows survived into the 1980s, when they were replaced with poorly suited and poor quality vinyl crank-out sash fitted into the original openings. The present condition of the vinyl windows has rendered virtually all of them inoperable. In addition to the poor function, the windows cheap design, materials, and quality of installation are entirely at odds with the Lambert Packard's design and the prominence of this landmark architecture on Newport's Main Street.
The proposed project will remove the vinyl windows, and replace them with high quality, metal clad wood sash windows in the design of the originals. The design and installation shall be coordinated with the Preservation Trust to ensure a durable and architecturally appropriate treatment for the Court House. Total cost of the project is estimated at approximately $150,000 of which $100,000 will be raised from taxes and loans. A grant of $50,000 will help get the project completed, and done well.


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The Belly Is The Last Taboo For Women's Bodies
So the perfect woman has to have big boobs, a big butt... but why doesn't she have a big gut? The stomach remains the big taboo of the female body: it can't exist, it has to be as flat as possible, with the waistline perfectly defined and no disgraceful flab.
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Last May, Marie Claire ran the following headline: "Butts are in." Meanwhile, according to September's issue of Vogue, "We have officially entered the age of big butts." All this is somewhat ironic, coming from fashion magazines whose pages are hopelessly empty of big behinds.
It's no surprise that critics have pointed out -- and rightfully so -- that people like big butts, and they've always had success in Black and Latino culture, even if Vogue is apparently the last to know. But it's true that butts, and by extension, thighs, are enjoying the limelight in today's media. They're celebrated pretty much everywhere: by Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea in their last video, Queen Bey, Nicki Minaj in her video "Anaconda"... We almost talk as much today about women's butts as we do their breasts, the other female attribute that the media wants bigger and bigger, and ever more exposed.
So the perfect woman has to have big boobs, a big butt... but why doesn't she have a big gut? The stomach remains the big taboo of the female body; it can't exist, it has to be as flat as possible, with the waistline perfectly defined and no disgraceful flab. This is even more blatant when we look at the fashion world and its models. Slowly, the fashion world is diversifying what we see, with labels that haven't traditionally catered to other body types including more and more "plus size" models on the runway, like the sublime Denise Bidot (size 12) during the last Fashion Week in New York. Yet, none of the visible plus size models have any stomach. All of them have an hourglass figure with a full chest and thighs, but still a slim waist and flat stomach.
In reality, only 8 percent of women are the happy owners of an "hourglass" figure, according to a study published in 2005 by North Carolina State University, while 46 percent of participants had a "rectangular" figure, without a defined waistline. The unseen belly has really become a source of worry and judgment about beauty. In a study conducted in 2012 on this subject, the Ipsos Institute showed that 41 percent of French respondents surveyed don't like their stomach, and that within this group, 57 percent find it their biggest body worry. Working in women's lingerie, particularly in plus sizes, every day women come to me asking specifically for something that can hide their stomach only. You can live with your hips, round behinds are all the rage, full thighs are sexy. But you still have to pack your gut into a reinforced corset and flatten it to make it presentable. Why is it that we're so concerned about our bellies?
A flat stomach: the sign of a healthy body?
We avoid a big stomach today for reasons of health. Abdominal fat is considered dangerous because of its link to cardiovascular diseases, so having a flat stomach isn't just a question of aesthetics: it's a sign that we take care of ourselves and care about our health. Those who show a chubby tummy are quickly accused of letting themselves go, instead of rigorously doing sit-ups or working out on the elliptical to sculpt the middle of their body.
However, our stomach is more than just a (small or large) ball-and-chain. Modern science concurs with traditional medicine on the importance of the paunch. In traditional Chinese medicine, the stomach is source of the Qi (or chi), where our spiritual energy meets our physical body. In Hindu philosophy, the stomach is the seat of the soul. For Buddhists, the laughing Buddha's big stomach symbolizes fortune and happiness. So our stomach is the source of our life-energy, our well-being, but also of our emotions. Pain in this area often has a psychological dimension, as Mathilde Faivre explains in her essay The Symbolism of the Stomach. Conditions like Irritable Bowel Disorder (IBD) are strongly linked with stress. Recently science has shown that our intestines are the only organ in our body, other than the brain, where neurons are found. Eighty percent of serotonin, the hormone that most affects our mood, is produced in the gut. Thus, the stomach plays a crucial role in our equilibrium and overall health, and not just because of cardiovascular risks.
Excessive sexualization of female sexual attributes
If our stomach is where our spirit and emotions reside, why are we trying to make it disappear at all costs? For women, it's mostly that it's eclipsed by the other sexual attributes of the female body -- the breasts and the butt -- where "the bigger, the better" is happily the rule. But who declared that big breasts are more appealing than small ones? Mainly the "male gaze," a concept developed by the (feminist) film theorist Laura Mulvey in 1975. She uses the term to refer to how heterosexual men gaze, or look at women in society and in mass media. As Mulvey says, "because most films are made by heterosexual men, they are shot from the perspective of a straight man and force that perspective on the audience." The example of the male gaze explains why women's bodies are frequently, even systematically, shown and filmed in a fragmented way: curves, cleavage, legs... In the same vein, it's because of the male gaze that female characters are regularly eroticized without reason in media and film, or that their bodies are used in ads to sell anything and everything, from cars to yogurt.
When we break apart the female body to focus on breasts and butts, we forget about the stomach, which in turn becomes something forgettable and undesirable. In the West, the stomach isn't seen as a sexual attribute. It doesn't have the same erotic dimension as does the chest or the butt. With the constantly eroticized conception of women that rules today, the stomach has to shrink and become tiny enough that it can show off the comparatively dramatic volume of the breasts and the butt. And it's all for the pleasure of the heterosexual, male spectator/reader.
Rejection of the natural evolution of the female body
It's well known that when a woman gains weight, it goes directly to the hips and thighs and that in men, it all goes to the gut. The fault lies with male (testosterone) and female (estrogen and progesterone) hormones that distribute fat in different ways across our bodies. However, during a woman's life, hormone levels change, and the figure does, too. During pregnancy, the stomach grows round and perfectly embodies the symbol of the mother who nurtures her offspring. Even postpartum, it's quite common for a woman to retain somewhat of a stomach for several months, or even longer. Unlike celebrity news coverage, which shows young women displaying flat stomachs mere weeks after giving birth, American photographer Jade Beall published a book of photos entitled The Bodies of Mothers. In these photos we see mothers of all ages and body type proudly carry the stomachs that society refuses to accept, even after pregnancy. Sometimes their skin bears the trace of stretch marks or C-sections, and this reminds us, a woman's stomach is also a history.
Likewise, once in her forties, a woman's hormone levels begin to fall rapidly. Naturally this brings about a change in figure: fat develops more easily around the abdomen, as it does in men. It's a process that's perfectly natural and biologically inevitable, and yet it generates a complex: we move away from the so-called "feminine" figure, the famous hourglass shape deemed ideal. But why should we really care?
Our stomach is so many things: a universal symbol, an organ working for our health, a source of delicious delight... but it's also the witness of a life, our life, and of the events that have marked it along the way (pregnancy, childbirth, menopause). If we're to believe the doctors, we need to take care, rub it regularly, tame it and make peace with it to make peace with our whole body. It remains noticeably absent from the Fashion and Beauty pages and the red carpet, but maybe it's time to stop caring so much about what we're told. A well-rounded stomach can be pretty, erotic, feminine -- and if it's ours, all the more reason to learn to love it!
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A published author with extensive website creation and management skills.
CDN stands for "Content Delivery Network" and it is a system of computers with scripts and other content on them that are widely used by many web pages. A CDN can be a very effective way to speed up your web pages because the content will often be cached at a network node.
How a CDN Works
The web designer links to a file on a CDN, such as a link to jQuery.
The customer visits another website that also uses jQuery.
Even if no one else has used that version of jQuery, when the customer comes to the page in number 1, the link to jQuery is already cached.
But there is more to it. Content Delivery Networks are designed to be cached at the network level. So, even if the customer does not visit another site using jQuery, chances are that someone on the same network node as they are on has visited a site using jQuery. And so the node has cached that site.
Any object that is cached will load from the cache, which speeds up the page download time.
Using Commercial CDNs
Many large websites use commercial CDNs like Akamai Technologies to cache their web pages around the world. A website that uses a commercial CDN works the same way. The first time a page is requested, by anyone, it is built from the web server. But then it is also cached on the CDN server. Then when another customer comes to that same page, first the CDN is checked to determine if the cache is up-to-date. If it is, the CDN delivers it, otherwise, it requests it from the server again and caches that copy.
A commercial CDN is a very useful tool for a large website that gets millions of page views, but it might not be cost effective for smaller websites.
Even Smaller Sites Can Use CDNs for Scripts
If you use any script libraries or frameworks on your site, referencing them from a CDN can be very useful. Some commonly used libraries that are available on CDN include:
Dojo Toolkit
Script.actulous
swfObject
Yahoo User Interface (YUI)
ScriptSrc.net provides links to these libraries so you don't have to remember them.
Small websites can also use free CDNs to cache their content. There are several good CDNs you can use, including:
Coral CDN
When to Switch to a Content Delivery Network
The majority of response time for a web page is spent downloading the components of that web page, including images, stylesheets, scripts, and so on. By putting as many of these elements as possible on a CDN, you can improve the response time dramatically. But as I mentioned it can be expensive to use a commercial CDN. Plus, if you aren't careful, installing a CDN on a smaller site can slow it down, rather than speed it up. So many small businesses are reluctant to make the change.
There are some indications that your website or business is big enough to benefit from a CDN.
your site gets a lot of visitors every day
and those visitors come from a widely distributed area
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EOA welcomes Richer Sounds' move to majority employee ownership
The EOA is delighted its member Richer Sounds has transitioned to employee ownership via and employee owned Trust:
Deb Oxley OBE, Chief Executive of the EOA, said: "We congratulate Richer Sounds on its transition to employee ownership: another great brand bringing employee ownership to the high street.
"We're delighted to see it secure its future independence with a focus on its people and an eye on the future world – a world with a more inclusive economy and where more businesses are doing well while doing good."
Below follows a press release from Richer Sounds:
Julian Richer transfers 60% of his shares to employees.
Julian Richer, Founder and MD of Richer Sounds, has announced that he is transferring 60% of his shares into an Employee Ownership Trust.
Richer commented, "I have always planned to leave my company in trust on my death for the benefit of the colleagues in the business. Having hit the ripe old age of 60 I March, I felt the time was right, rather than leaving it until I'm not around, to ensure that the transition goes smoothly and I can be part of it. The company's banks, suppliers and customers should feel that the move is (hopefully) seamless and Richer Sounds carries on as normal."
Richer plans to stay involved with the business, but leaves the day to day running of Richer Sounds to its existing Management Board, along with a Colleagues' Advisory Council and trustees.
The Management Board is made up of longstanding directors, the newest of which has served for 25 years, and they are steeped in the culture of the company, while the Colleagues' Advisory Council will be made up of current employees and is tasked with representing their interests and concerns. A trustee will chair the Colleagues' Advisory Council.
The Richer Sounds Trust (as the Employee Ownership Trust will be known) will operate according to a set of principles within the Trust to make sure that Richer Sounds continues to operate in an responsible manner, and is based on honesty, commitment, trust and respect.
These principles ensure that the company continues along the lines that Richer has built the company on for the previous 40 years.
Overseeing the transition is David Robinson, Chairman of Richer Sounds. He said, "It's incredibly exciting times and allows our colleagues to feel even more connected to the company. They have a real stake in the success of the business and can take pride in knowing that they are shareholders, building for the future."
Deb Oxley OBE, Chief Executive of the EOA, said: "We congratulate Richer Sounds on its transition to employee ownership: another great brand bringing employee ownership to the high street. We're delighted to see it secure its future independence with a focus on its people and an eye on the future world – a world with a more inclusive economy and where more businesses are doing well while doing good."
Richard Lowe, Head of UK Large Corporate at Barclays Corporate Banking, said: "Barclays has supported Richer Sounds with banking facilities for over 20 years, drawing on our industry expertise to help the company adapt and grow in a changing retail environment. This is an exciting new phase for them and we're proud to have facilitated this innovative shift towards employee ownership."
Fiona Bell, RSM Legal LLP partner, who has been working on this project over the past 18 months, alongside the team at leading audit, tax and consulting firm RSM, comments: 'We're delighted to have the privilege to work with the Richer Sounds' team on the successful transition to employee ownership. With RSM's multidisciplinary approach to client advice and our relevant client experience in this field we were well placed to navigate the company through the complex legal and tax implications. We wish Richer Sounds and its colleagues every success in the future as an EOT.'


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Dr. Perry is the Senior Fellow of The ChildTrauma Academy, a not-for-profit organization based in Houston, TX and adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. He serves as the inaugural Senior Fellow of the Berry Street Childhood Institute, an Australian based center of excellence focusing on the translation of theory into practice to improve the lives of children. Dr. Perry is the author, with Maia Szalavitz, of The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog, a bestselling book based on his work with maltreated children and Born For Love: Why Empathy is Essential and Endangered. His most recent multimedia books, BRIEF: Reflections on Childhood, Trauma and Society and RESILIENT: Six Core Strengths for Healthy Development were released in 2013. Over the last thirty years, Dr. Perry has been an active teacher, clinician and researcher in children's mental health and the neurosciences holding a variety of academic positions.
Dr. Perry was on the faculty of the Departments of Pharmacology and Psychiatry at the University of Chicago School Of Medicine from 1988 to 1991. From 1992 to 2001, Dr. Perry served as the Trammell Research Professor of Child Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. During this time, Dr. Perry also was Chief of Psychiatry for Texas Children's Hospital and Vice-Chairman for Research within the Department of Psychiatry. From 2001 to 2003, Dr. Perry served as the Medical Director for Provincial Programs in Children's Mental Health for the Alberta Mental Health Board. He continues to consult with the government of Alberta on children's issues and serves as a founding member of the Premier's Council of Alberta's Promise.
Dr. Perry has conducted both basic neuroscience and clinical research. His neuroscience research has examined the effects of prenatal drug exposure on brain development, the neurobiology of human neuropsychiatric disorders, the neurophysiology of traumatic life events and basic mechanisms related to the development of neurotransmitter receptors in the brain. His clinical research and practice has focused on high-risk children. This work has examined the cognitive, behavioral, emotional, social, and physiological effects of neglect and trauma in children, adolescents and adults. This work has been instrumental in describing how childhood experiences, including neglect and traumatic stress, change the biology of the brain – and, thereby, the health of the child.
His clinical research over the last ten years has been focused on integrating emerging principles of developmental neuroscience into clinical practice. This work has resulted in the development of innovative clinical practices and programs working with maltreated andtraumatized children, most prominently the Neurosequential Model©, a developmentally sensitive, neurobiology-informed approach to clinical work (NMT), education (NME) and caregiving (NMC). This approach to clinical problem solving has been integrated into the programs at dozens of large public and non-profit organizations serving at-risk children and their families.
His experience as a clinician and a researcher with traumatized children has led many community and governmental agencies to consult Dr. Perry following high-profile incidents involving traumatized children such as the Branch Davidian siege in Waco (1993), the Oklahoma City bombing (1995), the Columbine school shootings (1999), the September 11th terrorist attacks (2001), Hurricane Katrina (2005), the FLDS polygamist sect (2008), the earthquake in Haiti (2010), the tsunami in Tohoku Japan (2011) and the Sandy Hook Elementary school shootings (2012).
Dr. Perry is the author of over 500 journal articles, book chapters and scientific proceedings and is the recipient of numerous professional awards and honors, including the T. Berry Brazelton Infant Mental Health Advocacy Award, the Award for Leadership in Public Child Welfare and the Alberta Centennial Medal.
He has presented about child maltreatment, children's mental health, neurodevelopment and youth violence in a variety of venues including policy-making bodies such as the White House Summit on Violence, the California Assembly and U.S. House Committee on Education. Dr. Perry has been featured in a wide range of media including National Public Radio, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Nightline, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC and CBS News and the Oprah Winfrey Show. His work has been featured in documentaries produced by Dateline NBC, 20/20, the BBC, Nightline, CBC, PBS, as well as dozen international documentaries. Many print media have highlighted the clinical and research activities of Dr. Perry including a Pulitzer-prize winning series in the Chicago Tribune, US News and World Report, Time, Newsweek, Forbes ASAP, Washington Post, the New York Times and Rolling Stone.
Dr. Perry, a native of Bismarck, North Dakota, was an undergraduate at Stanford University and Amherst College. He attended medical and graduate school at Northwestern University, receiving both M.D. and Ph.D. degrees. Dr. Perry completed a residency in general psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine and a fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at The University of Chicago.
Vincent J. Felitti, MD
Vincent J. Felitti, MD, is a noted physician and researcher on how adverse childhood experiences affect adults. He is co-principal investigator of the internationally recognized Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, a long-term, in-depth, retrospective, and prospective analysis of over 17,000 adults that revealed a powerful relationship between our emotional experiences as children and our physical and mental health as adults, as well as a strong link to the major causes of adult mortality in the United States.
In his keynote addresses, Dr. Felitti discusses the ACE Study and its relevance to everyday medicine, mental health, and healthcare costs. Defying conventional belief, he explains that time does not heal all wounds, since humans convert traumatic emotional experiences in childhood into organic disease later in life. One does not "just get over" something, not even 50 years later.
Vincent Felitti is clinical professor of medicine at the University of California and a Fellow of The American College of Physicians. He is senior editor of The Permanente Journal and on the international editorial board of the Swiss medical journal Trauma und Gewalt. He founded the Department of Preventive Medicine for Kaiser Permanente in San Diego, California, in 1975 and served as chief of preventive medicine until March 2001. Under Dr. Felitti's leadership, the Health Appraisal Division of the Department of Preventive Medicine provided comprehensive medical evaluation to 1.1 million individuals, becoming the largest single-site medical evaluation facility in the western world. During his career, associated health risk abatement programs included weight loss, smoking cessation, stress management, and a wide range of cutting-edge risk abatement programs offered to over 1,000 patients per month.
Dr. Felitti has served on advisory committees of the Institute of Medicine, the American Psychiatric Association, and on the Committee of the Secretary of Health and Human Services for Healthy People 2020. Presently, he is a member of the Advisory Committee on Women's Services at SAMHSA. He is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Medical School (1962) and a physician in the Southern California Permanente Medical Group.
Ginny Sprang, Ph.D.
Ginny Sprang, Ph.D., is a Professor at the University of Kentucky in the College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Co-Chair of the NCTSN Secondary Traumatic Stress Collaborative Group. Dr. Sprang is Executive Director of the UK Center on Trauma and Children and Principal Investigator of the SAMHSA funded Child and Adolescent Trauma Treatment and Training Institute, a member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Dr. Sprang has published extensively in leading books and journals focusing on violence, maltreatment, and traumatic stress in families, children and professionals, and holds leadership positions in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
Erica Miller, Ph.D., clinical psychologist
Erica Miller, Ph. D is a holocaust survivor, clinical Psychologist, and accomplished author. From age 7 to 11, she and her family lived in a Nazi holding camp in the Ukraine. Later in life she developed a number of mental health clinics in Southern California and now serves as motivational speaker and expert on trauma. Her expertise in surviving trauma from a personal and clinical perspective is profound and informative.
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Close to 100 girls get hands-on experience in trade careers
Randolph Technical Career Center hosts Career Challenge Day
Updated: 6:04 PM EST Nov 21, 2019
Liz Strzepa
EXPERIENCE WORKING IN THE TRADES... NBC5'S LIZ STRZEPA HAS THE STORY FROM RANDOLPH NEW TONIGHT AT 5:30. <NATS / AUTO > 11TH GRADER AMANDA FERRIS... <06:49:27 IT'S A NON- DIRECTIONAL TIRE > HAS BIG DREAMS. <06:23:26 THEY TOLD ME THAT I COULDNT BE A MECHANIC BECAUSE I WAS SMALL OR BECAUSE OF ALL THESE REASONS -- BECAUSE I'M A GIRL BECAUSE I DONT HAVE ENOUGH MUSCLE... AND I'M IN HERE AND I'M DOING JUST FINE> < NATS / AUTO > THE ASPIRING MECHANICAL ENGINEER... IS HOPING TO INSPIRE YOUNG GIRLS TO EXPLORE CAREER PATHS....THEY MIGHT NOT HAVE THOUGHT WERE POSSIBLE. <05:45:10 YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE WHAT EVERYBODY SAYS THAT A GIRL HAS TO BE. YOU CAN COME YOU CAN WORK WITH THE GUYS. YOU CAN SHOW UP THE GUYS> <NATS/ AUTO > ALMOST 90 GIRLS IN 6TH THROUGH 9TH GRADE ARE IN RANDOLPH LEARNING SKILLS IN TRADES... <NATS / > LIKE AUTO MECHANICS, <NATS / CONSTRUCTION > CONSTRUCTION... FILMMAKING ... AND ADVANCED MANUFACTURING... <24:43:28 IT WAS VERY FUN. I WELDED THE TABLE ACTUALLY > THEY'RE FIELDS THAT HAVE AN AGING WORKFORCE... WHICH IS WHY EACH YEAR RANDOLPH TECH AND VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN HOST CAREER CHALLENGE DAY... <17:09:14 MANY OF THE CAREERS THAT ARE NOT TRADITIONAL FOR WOMEN ARE ALSO VERY HIGH PAYING AND EASY ENTRY WITHOUT REQUIRING EDUCATION OR MONEY TO ENTER THE FIELD> <23:56:53:19 I THINK ONCE THEY SPARK A LITTLE BIT OF INTEREST THEYLL GET HOOKED. WE NEED MORE WOMEN IN TECH AND SCIENCE AND MATH> THEY'RE JUST ASKING THEM TO TRY... <22:34:10 YOU SHOULD TRY IT AND NOT BE AFRAID THAT YOU MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO DO IT> FERRIS IS PROVING GIRLS áCAN DO IT. <06:37:12 DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO. DON'T LET ANYON
Amanda Ferris, who is an 11th-grader, has big dreams."(People have) told me that I couldn't be a mechanic because I was small or because I'm a girl, because I don't have enough muscle. I'm in here and I'm doing just fine," said Ferris.The aspiring mechanical engineer is hoping to inspire young girls to explore careers they might not have thought were possible."You don't have to be what everybody says that a girl has to be. You can work with the guys. You can show up the guys," said Ferris.Almost 90 girls in sixth through ninth grade were in Randolph Thursday learning skills in trades like auto mechanics, construction, filmmaking, advanced manufacturing and much more."It was very fun. I welded the table actually," said student Khloe Rogers.They're jobs that have an aging workforce, which is why each year Randolph Technical Career Center and Vermont Works for Women host Career Challenge Day."Many of the careers that are not traditional for women are also very high paying and easy entry without requiring education or money to enter the field," said Alison Lamagna, with Vermont Works for Women."I think once (young girls are) sparked a little bit of interest they'll get hooked. We need more women in (technology), science and math," said Jennefer Jolls, with Randolph Technical Career Center.The school is asking participants to try. "You should try it and not be afraid that you might not be able to do it," said participant Ashley Messier.Ferris is proving girls can do it."Do what you want to do. Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise," said Ferris.
RANDOLPH, Vt. —
Amanda Ferris, who is an 11th-grader, has big dreams.
"(People have) told me that I couldn't be a mechanic because I was small or because I'm a girl, because I don't have enough muscle. I'm in here and I'm doing just fine," said Ferris.
The aspiring mechanical engineer is hoping to inspire young girls to explore careers they might not have thought were possible.
"You don't have to be what everybody says that a girl has to be. You can work with the guys. You can show up the guys," said Ferris.
Almost 90 girls in sixth through ninth grade were in Randolph Thursday learning skills in trades like auto mechanics, construction, filmmaking, advanced manufacturing and much more.
"It was very fun. I welded the table actually," said student Khloe Rogers.
They're jobs that have an aging workforce, which is why each year Randolph Technical Career Center and Vermont Works for Women host Career Challenge Day.
"Many of the careers that are not traditional for women are also very high paying and easy entry without requiring education or money to enter the field," said Alison Lamagna, with Vermont Works for Women.
"I think once (young girls are) sparked a little bit of interest they'll get hooked. We need more women in (technology), science and math," said Jennefer Jolls, with Randolph Technical Career Center.
The school is asking participants to try.
"You should try it and not be afraid that you might not be able to do it," said participant Ashley Messier.
Ferris is proving girls can do it.
"Do what you want to do. Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise," said Ferris.


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