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The synagogue's streetscape has been permanently altered – the trees on the adjacent sidewalk were removed in August. Around the construction zone, utilities continue to be relocated, including the installation of the new water main along Third Street. Down on I-395, crews have been installing deep foundation columns and walls and excavating the Second Street retaining wall.
Excerpt from SmithGroup JJR presentation to the JHSGW Board of Directors.
In late October, the Board of Directors selected SmithGroup JJR as architects for the new museum.
The selection process began with sending a Request for Qualifications to approximately 20 firms with experience in additions to historic buildings, museum design, and complex projects in Washington, D.C. After receiving packages from 12 firms, the Museum Steering Committee invited five firms for interviews. Three of the five were asked to submit fee proposals and participate in a design exercise and additional interview. The Steering Committee then visited local projects designed by the two finalists.
This decision to engage SmithGroup JJR took into account the firm's extensive museum experience, attention to value engineering, and pricing.
Nominated by Mayor Muriel Bowser soon after she took office, Leif Dormsjo was confirmed as director of the District of Columbia Department of Transportation in March. Making a Museum spoke with Dormsjo, who was previously deputy secretary of the Maryland Department of Transportation, about the Third Street Tunnel Project, the first phase of Capitol Crossing.
MaM: When you came to DDOT, how much did you know about Capitol Crossing?
Dormsjo: I knew about the project mainly from the concerns raised about some of the traffic impacts. Shortly before Mayor Bowser came into office, there was a story about the idea that 395 would be closed permanently during the construction period. And that generated a lot of severe reaction from the Congressional delegations. I know Senator [Mark] Warner and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton intervened pretty rapidly to try to halt any plans associated with that.
MaM: What's happening now and what is DDOT's involvement?
Dormsjo: As you can see from the site right now, they're working on those caissons. So you've got a lot of heavy equipment, you've got a lot of personnel out on the job site. We've got to keep them safe… And then we're also looking very closely at the travel experience: whether or not we have clear signage and we've got clear markings on the road, or the Jersey barriers have been set up appropriately. So far we haven't had any issues on the safety front. It is slower travel through there, without a doubt—that kind of is the price of progress—but it's safe travel.
MaM: Is this the biggest transportation-related project in the District right now?
Dormsjo: This is the Big Kahuna in terms of real-estate development in the city. It's three whole city blocks. So the development program is really exciting and will generate a lot of activity in this area. The infrastructure piece is $200 million. That's a big-ticket project, but—as far as our transportation program—the South Capitol Bridge project is north of $500 million. Now, the construction here is being done by the private company. It's not a government project. There's no government money in the project, which is pretty phenomenal… And it's great that they're actually going to be making some improvements that the public will benefit from on the transportation side. They're going to replace all the ventilation systems, give us a brand new tunnel ventilation system.
MaM: So that part of the highway will not only be decked over, but upgraded.
Dormsjo: We're going to be the beneficiary of new equipment, new systems, and hopefully a ventilation system that's durable for the long haul. The highway system helps us support commerce and commuting. You've got to have a roadway system that works not just for the District residents, but also our visitors and employees coming from Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. So this is a great example of us reinvesting in the Eisenhower Highway System, but at the same time not being held back by those original transportation-planning decisions. We're able to kind of remake history a bit here and retrofit a highway that's served its purpose, and will continue to serve its purpose. But the 1950s and '60s style of transportation planning—neighborhood connectivity, urban planning principles, walkable green neighborhoods was not in their vocabulary.
MaM: How does transit-oriented thinking fit into the project?
Dormsjo: When you look at a project you normally want to see what percentage of your trips are going to be auto category vs. transit vs. pedestrian… They're got a very healthy percentage that's in that transit-pedestrian-and-bike category. Development that's emphasizing those categories of travel are the ones that we really want to support. Certainly there's good bus service running through there—not just the Metro, but we have our Circulator bus that comes through there as well.
Bernard Glassman, who was featured in a previous issue of Making a Museum, contributed this scale model of the historic synagogue to use in meetings between the Jewish Historical Society and government agencies during the efforts to preserve the building in the late 1960s. The model is now on display in the Lillian & Albert Small Jewish Museum.
Page from HABS architectural drawings.
Due to its significance as the first synagogue erected in Washington, DC, the 1876 building is included in the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS).
HABS, the National Park Service's effort to document the country's architecture, is the federal government's oldest historic preservation program. HABS's records are housed at the Library of Congress and the synagogue's documentation, which includes photographs, a detailed description of the building and its history, and architectural drawings, can be accessed online.
The material was prepared in 1969 before the synagogue was moved and was updated later to indicate the new location. The architectural drawings depict the synagogue's interior and exterior prior to the restoration work, which was completed five years after the move. Four of five accompanying photographs show the building at Sixth & G Street, NW. The fifth depicts the building moving down G Street, NW.
Maybe you read about a proposal floated to close part of I-395 a few months ago? The aim was to expedite work on Capitol Crossing, but after an uproar from commuters and politicians, the request was denied.
A revised construction plan was released in February, and the first phase of work on the highway soon began. Pile-driving, excavation, and demolition is underway. This phase of construction is scheduled to continue until August. Traffic will be impacted primarily overnight and on weekends.
The Society has been hosting workshops — 14 so far — to allow diverse audiences to evaluate proposed stories and themes for the new museum's core exhibition. Workshops in D.C. and the Maryland and Virginia suburbs are providing feedback that will guide curatorial decisions to make the new museum engaging and relevant for an array of audiences. These sessions also increase awareness about and interest in the new museum.
The National Building Museum opened in 1985 in the historic Pension Bureau headquarters on F Street, NW, between 4th and 5th Streets. According to Chase Rynd, executive director since 2003, Capitol Crossing will change how the National Building Museum interacts with the community.
"When that project is done, the National Building Museum will no longer be in a cul-de-sac. Right now, we're virtually at a dead end," he says. "When F Street reopens, I claim we will be in the center of the universe. More people than ever are going to look at this gigantic red-brick building and say, 'What the heck is that?'"
Rynd also looks forward to the critical mass that will result when the National Law Enforcement Museum and the new Jewish museum open to the public: "We want to become sort of the off-the-Mall museum center. The Mall attracts millions and millions of people, and they're clearly inclined to go to museums. So what we need to do is make sure we have a mechanism in place that broadcasts the fact that there are even more opportunities within walking distance."
His friendship with Society Executive Director Laura Apelbaum dates back to when the National Building Museum hosted the exhibition, Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community in 2005-2006. What was the motivation to do so? "The fact that it was a fellow institution that needed help. And, frankly-to be totally selfish about it-it was also a great exhibition that would draw an audience that may or may not have ever come to the museum. That's a win-win," he says.
Regarding future collaborations: "As long as it's beneficial to both institutions, sign us up. Then it just becomes a question of the 'little' things like scheduling, funding, personnel, resources..."
MaM: How did you first become involved with the Jewish Historical Society?
Bernard Glassman: I received a notice of a walking tour of the old buildings in the city and that the original [Adas Israel] building was going to be included. I hadn't seen the building before and I was curious, so I joined the group. The walking tour was led by Evelyn Greenberg, who was critically important to this project. After the discussion of the building concluded, I handed her my card and I said to her: "If you ever want to do anything about trying to save this building, do get in touch with me." Lo and behold, she did, and that's how we began.
MaM: You'd been building houses for years by the time you saw the synagogue. When the question came up of how to move this building, you had an answer.
Glassman: My father bought property for a summer home on the Chesapeake. It had a small, white house on it. I said to him, "Let's buy the lot across the road, move the house over there, sell it, and then you'll have this beautiful waterfront lot where we can do anything you want to do."
That's how I met Wild Bill Patram, the house mover. He was a colorful character and a very capable guy. Without him, [the synagogue] could not have been moved. But because he'd helped move that little house, I knew him and I got in touch right away. When I asked if he could deal with the synagogue, he said, "Sure."
Synagogue at 5th and G Streets, NW.
Patram cut the synagogue off at the head of the first-story windows and then jacked it up and proceeded to move it down to the street. He's got two half-tracks [vehicles with wheels in the front to help steer and continuous tracks in the back] pulling it from the curb through the first intersection heading east.
There is a traffic-signal controller right at that intersection of 5th and G. It's a gray box on a post and there are flames coming out of it-and I mean big flames! And it's burning gas. There are gas lines under the street. And I'm thinking, "Oy vey, this street intersection is about to explode and me with it because I'm standing right on it."
Believe me -- that could have happened because it took the gas company three quarters of an hour to get there. People were being pushed away by the police. That was the scariest moment of my life. That was miracle number one, period. G-d was looking out for us already, without any doubt.
MaM: Your parents belonged to Adas Israel. That was when the congregation had moved to Sixth & I?
Glassman: I was bar-mitzvahed [at Sixth & I]. My father was one of the original contributors to the current Adas Israel on Quebec Street, just off Connecticut Avenue. That's synagogue number three.
MaM: A lot of your interest in the Society is based in your roots in these three Adas Israel buildings. Are you interested in other aspects of Jewish history?
Glassman: Very much so. History is a number-one interest of mine, especially archaic history -- anything from Solomon on.
How many buildings have you moved?
A little over 2,000. I specialized in the historical ones because I had better techniques. I moved the Foundry in Georgetown in 1973. They couldn't get anyone else to even bid on the famous Mother Seton house I moved in Emmitsburg, Maryland. It was built around 1750. Stone.
You must be a risk-taker to have done this work.
It's a high-risk business. You've got to have confidence that you'll study it long enough and find a way. The more complicated it is, you know it's going to take ten times longer than to move a normal one.
Would you consider [the synagogue] a routine move?
Oh no. This is special. Number one, it's heavy. It's old. It was very fragile.
In September 1969 after Metro officials appropriated the original site, the synagogue was saved from destruction by an Act of Congress. President Richard Nixon signed the bill into law, allowing the building to be acquired by the District of Columbia and then leased to the Society.
Saved from demolition and relocated from its original site in December 1969, the Jewish Historical Society's 1876 synagogue building--the oldest such structure in Washington, D.C--will move again, becoming the focal point of a state-of-the-art Jewish museum at the corner of Third and F Streets, NW.
Our new museum complex will anchor a $1.3-billion mixed-used project called Capitol Crossing, adjacent to one of D.C.'s most vibrantly renewed neighborhoods.
Construction at Fourth & H Streets at Massachusetts Avenue, NW.
Capitol Crossing--a six-building office, retail, and residential complex developed by Property Group Partners--will extend onto a newly-built platform over Interstate 395. By restoring F and G Street, part of the original L'Enfant Plan, the project will reconnect Capitol Hill and the East End.
Infrastructure work began in April. Utility relocation and upgrades, roadwork, and platform construction are expected to take five years. Making a Museum will continue to report as construction progresses. Follow project news at www.3rdsttunnel.com.
Property Group Partners has confirmed Eataly, a high-end Italian market and restaurant with six worldwide locations, will be joining our new neighborhood.
A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, the Capitol Crossing project will enable the Jewish Historical Society to write the next chapter in its history. Our new museum will be a welcoming place, showcasing the Washington region's Jewish life and heritage and reinterpreting our historic synagogue in engaging ways.
The new spaces will contain galleries, classrooms, an archival reading room, an oral history studio, offices, and a green-roof garden terrace. Look for more about our plans in future issues of Making a Museum.
Always separate from the main campus, Georgetown University Law Center arrived at its current location between First and Second Streets in 1971, a year or so after the relocation of the 1876 synagogue. According to Wallace J. Mlyniec, Lupo-Ricci Professor of Clinical Legal Studies: "When we moved here, most of residents of the old East End-Italian, Jewish, and African American middle-class families-had been moved out for the I-395 highway project."
Mlyniec has been involved in all of the Law Center's expansions since 1980. Pointing out that while construction projects are always somewhat disruptive to those living and working nearby, he predicts that Capitol Crossing "will bring an immense benefit to our students, staff, and faculty...making the entire neighborhood livelier 24 hours a day."
For several years, the Jewish Historical Society has organized walking tours for incoming Jewish students led by the Law Center's Jewish Chaplain Michael Goldman, a Society member. Other partnerships are likely once the highway is no longer a barrier and the new museum is completed.
MaM: Soon after you became President in 1969, Henry, you took on the challenge of rescuing the former Adas Israel building.
Henry Brylawski: It was at the site of the Metro building, a full block between Sixth, Fifth, G, and F. In the end, the only building standing there was this synagogue on the corner. And of course they wanted us to get rid of it.
MaM: What was it like the day of the move?
Henry: It was greeted with astonishment by everybody that saw it. It was in the paper. And then after we got it on the foundation, we all breathed a sigh of relief. We have the building. We don't have the money to restore it, but we've got the building, we have the site.
MaM: For both of you: What is it about Washington Jewish history that interests you the most?
Henry: My wife's great-grandfather [Solomon M. Lansburgh] was the first ordained rabbi of Washington Hebrew Congregation and that was the 1850s. So that always interested me.
Sam Brylawski: My father had an interest in the history of this city my whole lifetime, and that affected me. And to me the historic synagogue represents post-Civil War Washington, when, as throughout America, all these immigrants are coming and they're establishing themselves in the United States.
MaM: How has the Jewish Historical Society changed over the years?
Sam: When my father was president, it was still, even after the building moved, a Society primarily of volunteers. We now have a professional staff, collecting the material culture of the Washington-area Jewish community, and preserving it, and interpreting it in new ways every year with new exhibitions and publications and public programs. It's extraordinarily active, with lectures and concerts and even singles gatherings. But we're bursting at the seams.
We've had a dream of having a museum for 10 years, even before the Capitol Crossing development opportunity. But then to have someone say, "You're going to move and we're going to provide you with a footprint to build an accompanying museum." Remember, the synagogue isn't even accessible to anyone disabled and now it will be. And now it will be in a setting that provides it some breathing room and with museum spaces that can help interpret the synagogue itself and vice-versa.
Henry: It will be more visible too. Because nobody really sees [the original] Adas Israel as they pass by.
Sam: And we'll be a central part of the redevelopment of this section of Washington. It will be an attraction.
Albert and Lillian Small, key supporters of the synagogue restoration, greet Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg (left), at the building's rededication as a museum. Albert Small grew up in the neighborhood, and his father, Isadore, was a member of the synagogue.
Adas Israel Building Committee at the construction site, Sixth & I Streets, NW, 1906.
The 1876 synagogue is the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue's big brother! When Adas Israel outgrew its original synagogue, the congregation erected a new synagogue up the street at Sixth & I Streets, NW. It was dedicated in 1908.


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I've been working a lot with Sabrina Denault who did the specific textures of the shoe (logos, shapes and textures on the side, interior, specific masks...).
We also had an amazing team of modelers: Mikhail Semionov, Michael Coutu and Jérémie Roy.
I was also responsible for the lighting of the first shots, the darker ones.


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Bubba Moves on Up on Day Two at Doral
Bubba Watson went crazy low at Doral Friday, shooting a 10-under par 62 to take a one-shot lead over England's Justin Rose into the weekend at the WGC Cadillac Championship.
Watson, who once introduced his own line of benevolently priced golf shirts at the John Deere Classic, now wears fancier duds as he navigates the upper echelon of professional golf.
Turns out Watson doesn't even like playing the TPC Blue Monster, site of this week's gathering of 74 PGA TOUR elite.
"This course doesn't even suit me," the free swinging left-hander told the recorders of his deeds after a round in which he and Rose were paired along with Elmhurst, Illinois' Mark Wilson.
It has to do with Bubba's ability to focus and easily discern elements of the golf course.
"I like [courses] where you can just find the fairway real easy," Bubba explained. "Desert courses, you see desert and grass. It's easy for me to find [the fairway]. In my mind I have to be able to see it, because I'm everywhere [distracted]When you get out here, the grass and the fairways and greens and rough kind of look the sameIt's hard for me to picture shots because everything looks the same."
Despite his unique difficulties, Watson defied the second straight day of blustery conditions and now stands at 12-under for the tournament. Rose's 64 puts him a shot behind the Bagdad, Florida native and one ahead of Thursday's co-leader Adam Scott, who shot 68. Keegan Bradley, Charl Swartzel, and Charles Howell III were among those at 7-under or better.
Tied for 10th were Zach Johnson, Kyle Stanley, Bo Van Pelt, and former World No. 1 Luke Donald.
Day Two found John Deere Classic three-time defending champion Steve Stricker shooting 2-under 70, only one stroke worse than his opening day 69. Yet Stricker fell 10 spots on the leaderboard, where he finds himself tied for 15th with friend Tiger Woods, who authored a 5-under 67.
Woods was asked why Doral was playing relatively easy despite persistent gusty breezes. "The greens are soft," Woods said. "So even if a ball is in the rough, you can still hold a greenThey are just slower and softer this year." Intermittent rain has kept the course moist.
Howell, whose 67 got him to 7-under and into a tie for seventh, said what everyone really thinks: "You've still got to play a hell of a round of golf to shoot 62 and 64."

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Martin Thibault, né à Pohénégamook le 12 juin 1957, est un écrivain et dramaturge québécois.

Biographie
Martin Thibault s'intéresse à plusieurs genres littéraires (poésie, fiction, théâtre, philosophie). Il fait des études universitaires en lettres, puis de la musique.

Plusieurs de ses écrits ont été donnés à la radio de Radio-Canada. Il participe également à plusieurs événements littéraires dont le Festival international de poésie de Trois-Rivières. Il fait aussi des lectures dans les cafés et les bars de Montréal ainsi qu'à la Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec dans le cadre de l'activité « Poésie et Jazz »avec le poète Claude Beausoleil (2014).

De 2009 à 2010, il est écrivain en résidence dans les bibliothèques de l'arrondissement Villeray-St-Michel-Parc-Extension. Il est ensuite Poète de la Cité dans le cadre du programme de résidence du Conseil des arts de Montréal (2014 à 2015).

En poésie, il fait paraître plusieurs titres dont Haut-fond (Éditions du Noroît), Dans l'eau de l'autre (Éditions du Noroît, 1997), Un radeau de papier (Éditions du Noroît, 200), La mesure du possible (L'Hexagone, 2015) ainsi que Une longue phrase jusqu'à ma disparition (Éditions du Noroît, 2019).

Comme romancier, il publie deux titres aux Éditions Trois-Pistoles soit Là où ça mord (2004) ainsi que Si on parlait d'amour en collaboration avec Pierre Bertrand (2011). Il fait également paraître un recueil de nouvelles qui s'intitule J'espérais que la nuit soit douce (Éditions Trois-Pistoles, 2009).

En tant qu'essayiste, il publie deux titres en collaboration avec Pierre Bertrand : Paroles de l'intériorité : dialogue autour de la poésie (Liber, 2007) ainsi que Drôles de bêtes : essai sur la mort (Éditions Trois-Pistoles, 2011).

En théâtre, il écrit notamment la pièce Il poussera des ailes aux perchaudes, qui sera lue à la radio de Radio-Canada en 2000, puis L'homme qui voulait rêver, qui sera lue à la 14e Semaine de la dramaturgie du Centre des auteurs dramatiques au Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui. Ces deux pièces sont disponibles au Centre des auteurs dramatiques ainsi qu'à l'École nationale de théâtre.

Deux fois finaliste au Prix des Terrasses Saint-Sulpice de la revue Estuaire, il remporte le Prix Jovette-Bernier en 1999. En 2014, Martin Thibault est également finaliste du Prix Marcel-Couture/La Presse.

Il est membre de l'Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois.

Œuvres

Poésie

 Haut-fond, avec des monotypes de David Armstrong, Montréal, Éditions du Noroît, 1995, 77 p.
 Dans l'eau de l'autre, Montréal, Éditions du Noroît, 1997, 72 p.
 Les yeux sur moi, Montréal, Éditions du Noroît, 1999, 78 p.
 La totalité du paysage, Montréal, Éditions du Noroît, 2001, 72 p.
 Un radeau de papier, Montréal, Éditions du Noroît, 2004, 80 p.
Sur le chemin Marchant, Montréal, Éditions du Noroît, 2005, 44 p.
Shotgun : cris et chants d'amour, Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, Éditions Trois-Pistoles, 2007, 45 p.
Un oiseau moqueur sur l'épaule, Montréal, Éditions du Noroît, 2008, 79 p.
La mesure du possible, Montréal, L'Hexagone, 2015, 66 p.
Une longue phrase jusqu'à ma disparition, Montréal, Éditions du Noroît, 2019, 73 p.

Roman

 Là où ça mord, Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, Éditions Trois-Pistoles, 2004, 171 p.
 Si on parlait d'amour, en collaboration avec Pierre Bertrand, Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, Éditions Trois-Pistoles, 2011, 238 p.

Nouvelles

 J'espérais que la nuit soit douce, Trois-Pistoles, Éditions Trois-Pistoles, 2009, 167 p.

Essai

 Paroles de l'intériorité : dialogue autour de la poésie, en collaboration avec Pierre Bertrand, Montréal, Liber, 2007, 133 p.
 Drôles de bêtes : essai sur la mort, en collaboration avec Pierre Bertrand, Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, Éditions Trois-Pistoles, 2011, 157 p.

Prix et honneurs

 1995 - Finaliste : Prix des Terrasses Saint-Sulpice de la revue Estuaire (pour Haut-Fond)
 1997 - Finaliste : Prix des Terrasses Saint-Sulpice de la revue Estuaire (pour Dans l'eau de l'autre)
 1999 - Récipiendaire : Prix Jovette-Bernier (pour Les yeux sur moi)

 2014 - Finaliste : Prix Marcel-Couture/La Presse

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes

 Éditions du Noroît
 L'Hexagone
 Éditions Trois-Pistoles
 Liber
 Claude Beausoleil
 École nationale de théâtre
 Centre des auteurs dramatiques
 Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui

Liens externes

Écrivain québécois
Dramaturge québécois
Projet:Arts littéraires québécois

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Q: How to get python to recognize a scale bar and set the dimensions of the image I have simple script that loads in an image that has a vertical and horizontal scale bar in the lower left corner (vertical scale is first column of pixels) and horizontal scale bar is a line on the first row of pixels.
My script then looks at that and I set the dimensions however half the time I export images it works, the other half of the time I get the error "float division by zero" because I think it does not see the first row or somehow adding an extra row.
Any help would be MORE than appreciated! Below is an example of the code for the vertical scale bar. I do the same steps for the horizontal scale bar
s = mpimg.imread(r'C:\Users\XDF\Desktop\ScaleTest.tif')
vbar_len = 10.0 # length of vertical scale bar in meters
vscale = vbar_len/len(s[:,0,0][s[:,0,0]==0]) # vertical scale in meters / pixel
print (v_scale)

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Naperville principal duct-taped to wall for fundraiser reward
By Jane Donahue For The Sun Jun 2, 2011 7:46PM
Mike Raczak goes to great lengths for his students. And on Wednesday, the lengths left the principal of May Watts Elementary School in a sticky situation.
"I am being duct-taped to the wall by the kids," said Raczak. "The kids will enjoy it, see me being silly. I think there will be a lot of laughing and smiling."
Raczak, in his fourth year as principal at the Naperville elementary school, said the stunt was a reward for a spring fundraiser sponsored by the Parent Teacher Association. The school partnered with the Great American Opportunities company, and when representative Steve Wise suggested the stunt as an added incentive for students, Raczak agreed.
"I wasn't really approached about this," Raczak joked. "I was in a meeting, and someone from the PTA said, 'It's OK that you get duct-taped, right?' The kids were cheering and screaming, and at that time, I discovered I was going to get duct-taped."
Students who sold more than seven items earned the chance to duct-tape the principal to the wall. The added incentive worked. The school sold nearly 900 items and generated $5,000 profit for the PTA.
PTA fundraising chairperson Karen Altekruse said the sale brought in twice the revenue they anticipated. The money will be used for a variety of educational items, including books for the school's library and to fund events such as family science nights and a back-to-school social.
"It was wildly successful, and the kids loved it," said Altekruse. "Mr. Raczak is great to do this."
Fourth-grader Allison Leibfritz said the opportunity to duct-tape Raczak was part of the reason she wanted to sell items to her family and neighbors.
"He is really a nice principal," said the 10-year-old. "I don't think every principal would do this, but I knew Mr. Raczak would. It was really fun."
Raczak continued to smile as more than 50 students took their turn with the tape. Being a good sport is nothing new for this principal, who has dressed up as Frosty the Snowman, a pirate and even has taken a pie in the face this year at May Watts.
"We have a great community here at May Watts, and everyone participates; the kids, parents, teachers and administrators are partners," said Raczak. "If everyone gets a smile out of this, it will be great."
But as he was attached to the wall, a question did arise. Who was going to take him down?
"There has been some discussion about that," he laughed. "My wife is a teacher, and she knows I get myself into these situations. "I guess if I am not home by 8 p.m., she will come up (here). She'll probably let me hang for a while."


Eating out at the average American restaurant is just disgusting. A large part of it is how obscenely large our portion sizes have become. My rule of thumb is that the less you have to do to make it, the worse it probably is for you.
Oh my goodness. Those food are loaded with calories. We don't have any of those food here except Ruby Tuesdays I think. I hardly eat out though, probably just once a week with my boyfriend.
First off, I love the new look =D Very pretty!
Secondly, OH! MY! GOD! My mouth litereally dropped, reading all these calories, fat, and sodium! I can't believe I have eaten a few of these things and considered myself a "healthy eater" – or at least, aware of what I eat. This is NOT good.
But, like you said, we have our vices. It is all about portion control, anyway. I don't think it is bad to have these food items every once in awhile, but if you make it daily, it will definitely be a problem.
My favorite is the Quiznos! OH NO!
I hate eating out at "chain" restaurants like Applebee's, Outback, Ruby Tuesday, etc. Almost all of their food is that nutritionally bad and it doesn't taste good to me… all prepackaged mixes.. blech.
Oh my gosh #4 just left me insanely depressed. That's tone my favorite foods ever. Ugh.


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Stalagmites is a genus of ascomycete fungi in the family Nectriaceae. It is a monotypic genus containing the sole species Stalagmites tumefaciens.

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HomeProperty ArticlesA new property bubble in the making?
A new property bubble in the making?
By Elias Hazou
CYPRUS could be inflating another property bubble through the citizenship-by-investment programme, and at a time when such extraordinary policies are no longer necessary, distinguished economist Christopher Pissarides has warned.
Now based in London, the 2010 Noble Laureate in Economics tells the Sunday Mail he is monitoring developments on the island and is not sanguine about the economic policies implemented, calling them unsustainable in the long run.
"It looks like we may be creating another bubble in the property sector. The property market in Cyprus is growing at a rate that's out of sync with the fundamentals of the economy at large, such as GDP, demand and demographics," he said.
According to the RICS Cyprus Property Price Index as at June 30, 2018 property prices across Cyprus, on an annual basis flats increased by 7.6 per cent, houses by 4.8 per cent, offices by 11.6 per cent, warehouses by 4.2 per cent and retail by 1.7 per cent.
For comparison purposes, GDP growth for 2018 hovered around 4 per cent.
Pissarides says the upsurge in demand for property is being driven by artificial factors – a specific government policy, the citizenship-by-investment scheme.
"Fast-rising property prices and increased construction activity are risky, and not a good sign for the economy, which might be damaged in the future."
Essentially, punters are looking not to acquire Cypriot citizenship so that they can live and work on the island, he said.
"What they're after is a European passport. I'm in London now, and I bump into people who tell me they live in the UK but have a Cypriot passport.
"When I ask them how they got the passport, they say 'Oh, I bought a house in Limassol'. This whole business reminds me of the sham marriages scheme."
Official statistics show that during 2018, 4,367 properties were purchased by foreign buyers, of which 1,428 were EU nationals and 2,939 non-EU nationals.
Purchases by foreigners accounted for almost half of all sales, which totalled 9,242.
According to the latest data released by the Department of Lands and Surveys, in 2018 aggregate sales of property were 6 per cent up on the previous year.
But the 6 per cent growth marks a considerable slowing down from the 24 per cent increase recorded in 2017, or the 43 per cent growth in 2016.
In December 2018, compared to the same month of 2017, sales fell by 48 per cent.
In absolute numbers of property sales, Limassol led the way with 3,411.
Is there a property bubble? The jury is still out on that one.
George Mouskides, general manager of FOX Property Group, tells the Sunday Mail that the property market in Cyprus normally hovers between 9,000 and 10,000 transactions per year.
In this respect, the 9,242 sales contracts filed in 2018 are not out of the ordinary.
In fact, the 6 per cent overall rise in transactions is a "healthy increase", Mouskides said, adding that the market may be correcting after previous years.
As for the proportion of foreign buyers, this has indeed been going up since 2013 and the introduction of the citizenship-by-investment scheme.
However, the apparent surge in foreign buyers from 24 per cent of all sales in 2017 to 47 per cent in 2018 is misleading.
The Department of Lands and Surveys has amended its definition of foreign buyers, although it has not explained in what way. The department itself includes a footnote in its statistics cautioning the public that comparisons to 2017 and before are therefore not reliable.
"I suspect that, if you account for the change in definition of foreign buyers, the percentage of foreign buyers was about the same in 2018 as in 2017," Mouskides observes.
On the 'sharp' drop in December 2018 sales (domestic and foreign buyers) compared to December 2017, again a disclaimer is in order.
Average property sales stand at about 700 per month. But in December 2017, sales had soared to 1,537.
The reason: people were scrambling to buy or transfer property before the VAT came in on January 1, 2018.
The December 2017 spike was therefore a one-off, Mouskides explains.
Regarding prices, again it's not cut and dry. Rates have shot up in coastal areas, especially Limassol, due to the construction of high-rise buildings.
That is because the cost per metre rises the higher up you go.
But elsewhere, the small increase in property prices is nothing to write home about.
Back to Pissarides who qualifies that, for the time being, the situation appears to be going well.
But, he muses, "Let's say a meeting is convened at the European Commission, and as you know a new EC president is coming in this year. What if the new EC president says they can't tolerate this passport scheme in Cyprus anymore, that it needs to be curtailed? The bubble will burst instantly."
Moreover, in his opinion, at this stage there's no need for Cyprus to pursue such emergency measures: the economy has come out of recession, the budget is balanced, while the banking system slowly regains the public's confidence.
The absorption of the co-op bank by Hellenic and Bank of Cyprus' handling of non-performing loans (NPLs) are steps in the right direction, albeit belated.
"Over the next two years I hope to see a significant decline in NPLs. But in order to restrict NPLs, debtors need to find money. And the only way for them to find the money is for the economy to rebound. If that happens, all well and good, the banking system will be on a sound footing.
"OK, but what happens next? People will start seeking loans to start up businesses. But where will these investments be made? This is what matters. The supply of loans has to be matched by demand."
In short, Pissarides says that Cyprus needs a plan going forward.
"There's many little things we can do, but frankly it's beating about the bush. If you want real reform, you have to go the heart of the problem. And the core problem is the public sector and how it serves the private sector."
The top priority should be to reform the public sector. This takes many forms: cutting red tape generally, proper enforcement of the law, expediting registrations for companies, making courts more efficient so that commercial disputes don't take years to resolve as they do now.
All the above would encourage not only locals to invest in new businesses, but also foreign corporations to choose Cyprus as their base.
"There is much that needs to be done, but there are obstacles in the way. Privatising the state telecoms and power companies is a must, but the government seems to have walked back on its intention to do so, faced with opposition from the unions.
"And even where the government does show determination to press ahead with reforms, these stumble on resistance from parliament."
Asked to grade the government, Pissarides offers: "Top marks on the fiscal side, but bottom marks on reform."
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Friday, 5 December 2014 – Nelson Mandela Legacy Cup (Bidvest Wanderers Stadium)
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Sunday, 14 December 2014 – KwaZulu-Natal Midlands Experience International Arts Festival (Midmar Dam)
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