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The Ultimate Florida Beach Guide
Ultimate Beach Guide to Florida's Nature Coast
Beach Quest in the land of Florida's Big Bend
Patti Jewel
The Nature Coast of Florida is rightly named as a nature lover's paradise with a plethora wildlife, state parks and old Florida small town charm. Located in the Big Bend region where the curve of Florida connects the panhandle to Florida's peninsula. The Nature Coast includes Wakulla, Jefferson, Taylor, Dixie, Levy, Citrus, Hernando, Pasco Counties.
This area is not known for white sandy beachfronts and finding a beach in the area is quite the quest. We took the challenge to locate the beachfront areas in this region and our quest led us to some surprising beachfronts. Because the waters are so calm, the beaches offer a family friendly swimming area, some have amenities, and some even have white sandy beach areas.
Also see our Ultimate Florida Beaches Guide for more beaches in Florida.
Beaches Along the Nature Coast
Horseshoe Point
Horseshoe Beach is a very remote town in Florida that is located at the tip of a peninsula jutting out into the Gulf 20 miles from the nearest main roadway. And while the name suggests it is a Beach town, this small town is primarily a fishing and boating community. While the area is secluded from the rest of Florida and the population is small, the town has grown to add a restaurant, a full-service marina, an athletic area, and a park.
Horseshoe Beach Park might seem like the place to find a beach, but it is surrounded by rocks and walls. The park has a boat ramp and picnic areas for enjoying the water view, but no beachfront.
Horseshoe Point is the spot at the end of County Road 351, aka Main Street, where you can find the only natural beachfront in the area. Note that the road ends with a round-about where you can park on the side, get out and walk across the jetty to the preserved land marsh, and walk across the beachfront area. Note that this is not a pristine beachfront. It is a small sandy area fronting the Gulf that has a small stretch of natural sandy shoreline.
Shired Island Beach
Just south of Horseshoe Beach is another small beachfront area, Shired Island Beach. Even more secluded than Horseshoe beach and off of Hwy 357 that connects to Hwy 351 (between Horseshoe Beach and Cross City), this area is largely undeveloped. Home to a Campground, boat ramp, and beachfront. This area is known by local residents as a weekend spot for boating and partying.
The beachfront is a beautiful white sand natural beach. There are facilities, however, cell service might be limited. This beach is a very secluded spot so be sure to get gas and food prior to going.
Cedar Key
Cedar Key is a small city in Levy County that includes a cluster of islands. This area is known for being a fishing village and home to some great seafood. Beach areas are hard to come by without a boat to go out to one of the surrounding keys.
Cedar Key Airport Beach is a beachfront along Airport Road that offers white sand and quiet gentle waters. Lil Shark Park is a city park that offers a playground and white sand beachfront. Several keys off shore have beachfronts as well.
Bird Creek Beach, Yankeetown
Heading further south in Levy County is another local and secluded beach, Bird Creek Beach, which offers a small natural white sandy beachfront and a boat ramp. This beach is popular among locals for launching kayaks and fishing from the shore. Most known as the principal filming location for the 1961 Elvis Presley movie "Follow That Dream". It is a fun find along the Nature Coast with a pretty beachfront and a cool history. Take CR 40 aka "Follow That Dream" Parkway all the way to the end.
Hunter Springs Park, Crystal River
Crystal River is well-known for it's springs so it's not surprising that one of the best beaches in the area is on a spring. Hunter Springs Park sits on Hunter Spring Run with one of the 70 natural springs that feed the Crystal River and Kings Bay. The sandy beach is man-made directly along the spring making it a beautiful way to spend the day. Swim, snorkel or kayak in the fresh cool spring waters and spot a manatee or two. Relax on the white sandy beach area featuring a playground and amenities. Crystal River is a haven for water, nature and wildlife lovers and while the beach is man-made, it is a gorgeous beachfront to relax and enjoy Florida living.
Fort Island Beach, Crystal River
Fort Island Gulf Beach is at the end of Fort Island Trail on the far west end of Crystal River. This beach offers a quieter off-the-beaten path shoreline with a swimming area, picnic areas and amenities. And if you enjoy boating or fishing, this beach has a boat ramp and a pier.
The beachfront features a natural shoreline by the water and a white sandy beachfront area for sunbathing and enjoying the Florida sunshine. The white sand is brought in to create a softer whiter beach area. The natural sand along the water line has a gentle slope into the warm waters making it a nice swim area. Fiddler crabs live along the sides of the beach in the grassy areas.
Pine Island Beach Park, Weeki Wachee
Weeki Wachee is famous for their Springs and mermaids, but if you head directly west, you will find a nice family beach that has something for everyone. The area features 2 beachfronts with swimming areas, picnic tables, sand volleyball court, a playground, concession stand and amenities. There is a pier to view the beautiful waters and sunsets, or cast a line and do some fishing.
The beachfront offers a natural beach area with a man-made white sandy beach area for enjoying the soft sand.
SunWest Park, Hudson
SunWest Park is a recreational waterfront park inside a planned community in Pasco County with a fabulous beachfront area that offers gorgeous white sand and shallow swimming areas. There is something for everyone in the family including volleyball courts, an aqua park, paddlesport rentals, a wakeboard cable and concessions.
This unique find is the beautiful beachfront and clear waters of this lake that was developed around a former limestone mine with a 70 acre spring-fed lake. Though it's not a Gulf front beach, this man-made lakefront beach features a beachfront with calm swimming and cool fresh spring water with white sand shorelines and is a pleasant surprise along the Nature Coast.
Robert K Rees Memorial Park, New Port Richey
Located on the Gulf in New Port Richey, Robert K Rees Memorial Park features beach frontage and a swimming area. The sand is a natural tan color and the waters are the warm calm waters of the Gulf. The park also offers fishing, pavilion and picnic areas.
By Boat Only
There are many islands off the coast that have some sandy beachfronts in the Nature Coast. To explore these beachfront areas, bring your boat or kayak.
The Nature Coast does not have the same beachfronts that you can find in the panhandle or the Clearwater and St. Pete beaches to the south. However, the communities in this region have some beaches to explore and offer a weekend getaway for locals. While the towns along this region are fishing and boating communities, some bring in soft white sand to create more beautiful shorelines in public parks.
If you are looking for the gorgeous white sand beaches, this is not the area for you. But if you are looking for an afternoon visiting a small town with fishing, boating and beach options, head up the Nature Coast and discover Old Florida at it's best.
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This Young Adult thriller is a snooze despite a gifted cast.
Everyone in "Down A Dark Hall" is in need of redemption, and I'm not talking about the characters.
This Young Adult novel adaptation has a collection of great performers in need of a better script and will likely be forgotten by year's end, if not much sooner.
AnnaSophia Robb stars as Kit, a troubled young woman who is sent to Blackwood, an all-girls school, run by the peculiar Madame Duret (Uma Thurman). To Kit's surprise, there's only a few other students and, on the first day, they must all surrender their phones (oh, the horror).
As weeks pass, Kit and her classmates find that their artistic talents are growing at an alarming rate…but at what price?
Based on the 1974 novel by Lois Duncan (whose 1973 YA thriller, "I Know What You Did Last Summer," was adapted into a 1997 teen slasher smash), "Down A Dark Hall" is a gothic thriller that has the right feel for the material. The required horror movie look, with daunting staircases, dimly lit bedrooms and restless curtains out of "The Innocents" and "The Others" promise a creeping danger.
There's a big mystery at the heart of the story that will have audiences guessing and paying attention to each of the cryptic clues in the early going. Unfortunately, the dopey revelation doesn't reward audience curiosity or patience.
Not helping is a score that blatantly borrows from Bernard Hermann's "Psycho" at times but otherwise doesn't help, nor the obvious CGI. Despite a few mild jolts, this isn't scary but more of a sleepover movie for young pre-teen girls (if they wanted to watch something so mild and toothless).
There is one especially clever sequence, in which the camera holds on Robb for what feels like a long time, only to reveal a threat close by. Otherwise, this is a step down for director Rodrigo Cortes, who helmed the memorable, unsettling "Buried," showcasing one of Ryan Reynolds' best performances.
As Madame Duret, Thurman is leading with her accent, which is a very bad thing. I believe Duret is supposed to be French but Thurman's very mannered vocals distract from her decent, if unspectacular, bit of villainy. Robb, an excellent, Denver-based actress with real range, seems either subdued or waiting for more direction.
There's a required intensity and raw quality lacking in her performance (and the film overall). Knowing how good Robb has been before, I hope she'll shrug off this misfire in the same way no one remembers Anne Hathaway's supernatural dud, "Passengers." Neither Robb or Thurman need this movie.
It's never a good thing to tout that your film is from a veteran of the "Twilight" series. Indeed, Stephanie Meyer is among the nine producers listed. "Down a Dark Hall," with its very few scares, muted performances and laughable wrap-up, is every bit as tepid and unremarkable as a Team Edward v. Team Jacob vehicle.


Ever tried to run a WordPress update when developing locally using MAMP and been met with this screen?
This is usually due to file permission issues and WordPress being unable to write to wp-content or the file system. If you're using FTP, WordPress recommends CHMOD / file permissions of 755 for directories and 644 for files, but how do you apply that to files locally?
In MAMP Pro, click the access rights icon (highlighted below) in the host you're working with.
Then check the boxes to change access rights to match the permission settings of 755 for directories, which translates to rwx, r-x, r-x, and 644 for files, which translates to rw-,r–,r–.
Make sure to change the Owner and Group to www as well. Click OK, restart the servers if applicable, and you're good to go! Media Library uploads, automatic updates for WordPress core, themes, and plugins will once again work without having to enter FTP information.
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It was with great shock and sadness that, on the 23rd of July 2006, we learned of the death of Jim Walsh.
Jim, affectionately known as "Fr.Jim", was well known in motor sport circles throughout Ireland and there was hardly a rally anywhere in the country that Jim wasn't involved in at some level.
A quiet, unassuming and friendly man ,Jim was always happy to work away in the background making sure everything was in place. The energy and enthusiasm he injected into any project and the amount of work done by Jim was the stuff of legend and he will be a hard act to follow.
His love of motor sport was contagious and he drew many new members into the motor sport family over the years.
Jim helped Irelands bid for WRC status by acting as results officer on Rally Ireland, sadly Jim passed away not knowing that Irelands bid was successful, he also acted as press officer for the Killarney International rally of the lakes and was a director of Cork Motor Club Ltd.
He was one of the people responsible for the setting up of the Southern 4 Rally Championship and remained it's driving force until his sad passing. He was also responsible for the running of a Rally Sprint in Cork in 2002, which raised 8,500 euro for the Irish Kidney Association.
Jim fought against his illness for many years and in spite of this still insisted on full involvement in all aspects of motor sport.
His proudest moment came when he was presented with the Silver Wheel award at the 2005 Rally of the Lakes for his services to motor sport.
He is survived by two brothers and two sisters.
We have all rightly mourned the loss of great rally competitors at their passing but Jim Walsh was a rally legend as well.Another rally giant has gone and he will be sadly missed.


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Photos: Record-Book Whitetail Found Dead in Ohio
Spencer Neuharth Jan 25, 2021
Jason Kline has been hunting a once-in-a-lifetime whitetail in northwest Ohio for the last four seasons. That pursuit came to an end this weekend when Kline finally got his hands on the buck's rack—but it wasn't the conclusion he hoped for.
Kline found the long-expired buck while shed hunting on Sunday. The last time he'd seen it was in mid-October. "I figured he died since he just disappeared and was very visible in all years prior," Kline told MeatEater.
The buck was 100% free range. It spent most of its time on a large property that doesn't allow hunting, but everyone in the neighborhood was aware of its presence. He was so famous among locals that everyone collectively referred to the buck as "Herman."
Kline hunts a small parcel near Herman's sanctuary. Although he doesn't have permission to hunt the farm where the buck lived, Kline is able to look for sheds there. That's where he found the buck's cast antlers for two seasons prior, and where he found the buck's skeleton this winter.
Kline isn't sure what killed the deer, but is skeptical that natural causes brought down the mature whitetail. "His death is unfortunately suspicious," Kline said. "Nothing is confirmed, so I'm not going to put rumors out there."
Kline is waiting on an official measurement, but suspects the deer will gross over 220 inches. If that's the case, it'll rank in the top 50 non-typical whitetails for Ohio and go down as one of the biggest dead heads of all-time.
Update from January 28: The buck was measured at just over 233 inches, putting it in the top 30 non-typical whitetails of all-time for Ohio.
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Photos: Is this 50-Point Buck the New World Record Whitetail?
Spencer Neuharth
Whenever pictures of dead megabucks circulate social media, commenters are always quick to ask: "Was it a high fence deer?" It happened when Guner Womack killed one of the most perfectly symmetrical whitetails in Oklahoma's history, and again when Jason Kline found the deadhead of one of the biggest non-typicals in Ohio's history. Both bucks were 100% free-range, but the answer is a bit more complicated for this next whitetail. On September 1...
Father Fatally Shoots Son in Ohio Hunting Accident
Kristen Schmitt
Here's a tragic reminder that wearing blaze orange and knowing your target are so important. Last week during Ohio's week-long rifle deer season, a father accidentally shot and killed his son during their annual hunting trip in Delaware County. The incident occurred while the father-son duo was hunting with a group of friends on Dec. 2. Bradley Smith, 63, mistook his son, 28-year-old Andrew Smith, for a deer and shot him, according to The...
Official Scorers Confirm New West Virginia Whitetail Record
Jody Dalton killed a massive whitetail with his bow in Wyoming County, West Virginia, on Nov. 6, 2020. He speculated it would beat the current state record of 188 ⅞ inches but needed to wait 60 days to get an official score. On Jan. 13, 2021, official scorers measured the buck at West Virginia Division of Natural Resources headquarters and declared it the new state record. Biologist Todd Dowdy performed the panel score with two other certified...


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I love live recordings, particularly those done in clubs rather than concert halls. Okay. Carnegie Hall is an exception. There's something special about the sonic reality of that place that comes through on recordings in a way that enhances the music and energizes the musicians.
In the present case, it's not the Blue Note acoustics that energize Werner and his cohorts, but the attentive and responsive audience and the New York club vibe that the Blue Note exemplifies.
This was a quieter night than some. The music tends toward the rhapsodic rather than the rambunctious. There are just four pieces on the CD. Werner wrote them all and the musicians take full advantage of his generous servings of space and time (which may be the same thing) as they develop both the structured sections and their improvisations.
The band is what used to be considered the classic jazz quintet lineup of trumpet, tenor, and rhythm. Kenny Werner's at the piano, of course. The bassist and drummer are John Patitucci and Antonio Sanchez. Out front are Randy Brecker and David Sanchez on trumpet and sax respectively. The compositions and performances have a much more orchestral quality than one would expect from such a basic quintet. I'm thinking back to try to come up with parallels and the one that comes to mind is the early Jazz Messengers quintets for which Horace Silver and Hank Mobley wrote highly explorative, evocative, and expansive charts.
In the credit where due section, everybody here qualifies. I'm going to start with Randy Brecker. I have to admit to not having kept a close ear on what he's been doing for the past few years. Obviously it's time to start paying more attention. He plays here with precision, clarity, and creativity that make one want to hear more and more of what Brecker's up to these days.
David Sanchez has a marvelous tenor sax presence. His work here, particularly on his long "Saba" solo, covers an amazing range from Getz-like lyricism to Trane-like explosiveness but always in his own voice with total naturalness and authenticity.
I hope it's okay to credit bassist Patitucci and drummer Sanchez together. That is, after all, how they work. Each dances on his respective instrument, playing with the beat and the time, defining them, developing them, deconstructing and reconstructing them. They do it in ideal synchronicity, always attentive to the needs of the group, the soloist, and the composition.
And that brings us to Kenny Werner, the leader, the pianist, and the composer of the four works on Balloon. Werner's compositions here, as implied above, are well structured and for them most part relaxed. The closer, "Class Dismissed," is the punchiest of the set with space provided for a four minute tension-releasing drum solo by Sanchez. That piece, Werner says is the yang to the yin of the slower thoughtfulness of the opening "Saba," which features a closing call and response improvisation by Brecker and David Sanchez. In between are the lyrical "Siena" and the centerpiece of the date, "Balloons." That one starts with a superb piano solo introduction by Werner that sounds like it should never end but of course does as the horns take up the childlike hop-scotch main theme. It's a great piece.
Now for a few words about the sound on the recording. It's really fine, but it's not like some live dates. It's very up close and personal. It puts the musicians in your listening space rather than putting you in the Blue Note. The audience applause (and thus any extraneous audience noise that might have been there) is subdued and distant. I'm very comfortable with that. In fact, I've very happy with that. Steve Remote and Aura Sonic made all the right choices, as far as I'm concerned.
To complete the circle, here's another quote from the liner notes. It's Kenny Werner talking about the opening and closing tunes on the CD: "One was written from the head and the other was written from the heart. And I totally enjoy both sides." I do, too.


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By active asset management and targeted capital expenditure we were able to increase the NOI by an excess of 100% and the average lease length moved from 1.1 to 5.6 years. In addition, Vilhonvuori achieved a Green Star in GRESB (Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark).
Vilhonvuori was divested during December 2015 significantly above valuation and outperformed the initial business plan.
Hornafjord 1 is an office building located in the established office submarket Kista, approximately 18 km northwest of Stockholm. Upon acquisition, many tenants had left the building and the occupancy level was around 10%.
The business plan was to reposition the property by refurbishing the vacant areas, increase the average lease length and improve the interconnectivity between the different parts of the property.
The property's interior and exterior was upgraded to a modern standard with new entrances, a new façade and new windows. As a result the occupancy rate stabilized around 87%, the average lease length reached 3.7 years and the property was repositioned from C+ to B+.
Grensen 5-7 is an office and retail building located on the major shopping street Grensen in central Oslo. GNBRE Fund I acquired the property in December 2009 from a Norwegian open-ended fund that was in need of liquidity. Major tenants included Finn.no, Lindex and Sporthuset.
The business plan at acquisition was to reposition the property by renegotiating the leases and leasing up the vacant space.
The business plan was executed above expectation. During the holding period the property was leased up and leases were renegotiated to significantly higher levels. At exit the occupancy rate reached 99.5% and the average lease length was 6.5 years.


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Ride to D.C. lands cowboys Fox spot, big phone call
Written by Geoffrey Plant on February 25, 2019
(Press Staff Photo by C.P. Thompson)
Clay Donaldson kisses his wife, Tasha, on the cheek at El Paso International Airport on Saturday.
Otero County Commission Chair Couy Griffin had wrapped up an interview with "Fox and Friends" on Sunday morning, where his fellow Cowboys for Trump member Ramie Harper had shown off the black cowboy hat he'd made for President Donald Trump.
The group of men, mostly from New Mexico, then began their long trip home — again — from an East Coast adventure that had begun more than a week earlier when they rode horses into Washington, D.C., in support of the president's border wall. Griffin was in the Newark, N.J., airport when he got a call from someone telling him to answer his phone if he got a call from an unknown number.
His phone rang.
"I'm calling you from the office of the president of the United States," said the voice on the end of the line.
"I was overcome with emotion. I had to slap myself, then I said, 'I'm ready,'" Griffin recalled.
"This is the president," said Donald Trump, over the phone.
It was an emotional moment for Griffin. He'd started a Facebook page in January, along with a GoFundMe page to help finance a trip to the capital with fellow New Mexicans who wanted to demonstrate their allegiance to and support for their president.
Last week, the group rode 175 miles from Cumberland, Md., where two auxiliary Cowboys for Trump live. They provided the horses for the eight-day ride to the capital, where the group rode down Pennsylvania Avenue to a designated area near the White House.
Permitting requirements determined where the group could ride their horses; two women who spontaneously joined the ride "helped find them motel rooms and rode behind them to pick up the horse poop," said Tasha Donaldson — the wife of Clay Donaldson, a Cowboy for Trump who lives in Cliff. Dung cleanup was also mandated by D.C.
"Two nights were spent sleeping on barn floors. It was a warm reception," Donaldson said. "Kids thought it was cool — they followed them down the road."
The group rode about 25 miles per day to make it to the capital on Saturday.
"The chief of Metro Police and the chief of Arlington Police met us just outside D.C. and gave us a 10-vehicle police escort and shut down traffic for us," Griffin said. "We rode about 13 horses with American, New Mexico and Trump flags, all over the city. There were guys who said they could get Ramie's handmade cowboy hat to the president, but we said, 'No, we'll only let Ramie give it to him himself.'"
The men took a picture in front of the White House and got ready to begin the journey back home. Seven of the men flew to El Paso and the rest piled in a truck and started the drive back to New Mexico.
"As soon as I get into the terminal, my phone rings and it's Fox News, asking if we can come on TV" Sunday, Griffin said. "I called the people with the horses and told them to meet us in Manhattan; I told the other guys in the truck to turn around. We booked flights to Baltimore and got to Manhattan by rental car about 4 a.m. Sunday. We got saddled in the rain and went on Fox," Griffin said.
Griffin's comments on Fox News Sunday morning spoke for the pro-Trump group: "We come out to support his position on the wall, but the life issue is closest to my heart and many of us here. I would say that what's going on with late-term abortion is nothing short of a modern-day Holocaust. The same way Germany devalued the lives of those Jewish kids they marched into gas chambers, the lives of our unborn are being devalued right now. They want to say it's just a lump of cells when really it's a precious little baby in the womb."
Ramie Harper of Farmington then explained to the "Fox and Friends" team that he had made a genuine handmade New Mexico cowboy hat for the president out of respect for his policies.
Griffin and the group also support the "Second Amendment sanctuary county" movement. Griffin was flying home so he could chair the Otero County Commission's special meeting on the subject tonight at 6.
"Can you turn around and come in?" Griffin recalls Trump asking him over the phone.
"I've got this meeting in Otero that's really important to people," Griffin responded, explaining the rural New Mexico phenomenon of sheriff's departments declaring through their counties that they do not intend to uphold gun-control laws currently being legislated in the state capital. Otero would be the 16th New Mexico county to pass such a resolution in a rapidly escalating rebellion involving rural residents, including Grant County's resolution, passed last week.
"I discussed the Second Amendment with him and told him what was happening. He didn't know what was going on out here in New Mexico," Griffin said. "He sounded encouraged by it.
"Trump isn't one of us, he's from New York City," Griffin said, "but he gets it. I told him it seems like our republic is waking up, counties are showing representation. I also talked to him about the forests, told him we've got to remove excess fuel to prevent forest fires, and he wants me to draft a two-page summary of what we feel needs to be done. He said someone from the Agriculture Department would call and help me out."
Griffin told the president they would organize another ride and bring Trump the cowboy hat.
"If you can do that," Griffin recalled the president saying, "I'll open the gates and you can ride right in — I've got 20 acres here!"
Griffin said the president expressed appreciation for the group's support. Then the president asked for Griffin's phone number.
"I started laughing, I couldn't believe it," he said.
Geoffrey Plant may be reached at [email protected] press.com.


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Finding aids (1354)
Electronic resource (18)
Collection descriptions (1354)
Manuscripts (documents) (250)
Scrapbooks (218)
Clippings (information artifacts) (206)
Sound recordings (193)
Sketchbooks (159)
Video recordings (155)
Business records (128)
Diaries (123)
Audiotapes (116)
Videotapes (106)
Transcripts (65)
Audiocassettes (60)
Plans (drawings) (57)
Memorandums (55)
Floor plans (52)
Painters (269)
Sculptors (100)
Art museums (86)
Artists' studios (74)
Works of art (62)
Folk music (55)
Mural painting and decoration (52)
Art, American (51)
Folk festivals (49)
Food habits (49)
Printmakers (41)
Art historians (40)
Critics (37)
Smithsonian Folklife Festival (50)
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (50)
Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969 (42)
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (28)
Cooper-Hewitt Design Archive (22)
Art Students League (New York, N.Y.) (18)
Whitney Museum of American Art (18)
Calder, Alexander (17)
Evergood, Philip (15)
Soyer, Raphael (14)
Johnson, Ray, 1927- (13)
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI. (13)
Smithsonian Institution (13)
Zorach, William (13)
Davis, Stuart (12)
Henri, Robert (12)
Lawrence, Jacob (12)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (12)
National Academy of Design (U.S.) (12)
Reinhardt, Ad (12)
Stieglitz, Alfred (12)
United States. Works Progress Administration (12)
Biddle, George (11)
Guston, Philip (11)
Hartley, Marsden (11)
Hofmann, Hans (11)
Namuth, Hans (11)
National Portrait Gallery, Office of Exhibitions (11)
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Archives of American Art (538)
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections (53)
Archives of American Gardens (28)
National Anthropological Archives (26)
National Museum of the American Indian (14)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Research and Scholars Center (2)
Query: Designers -- New York (State)
Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988
AAA.bearroma
The papers of Romare Bearden measure 2.1 linear feet and date from 1937 to 1982. The collection includes biographical information, correspondence, writings by and about Bearden, miscellaneous legal and financial material, photographs, drawings, and printed material. Found are numerous letters referring to African-American arts movements of the 1960s and 1970s, including exhibitions, publications, associations, and scattered letters of a more personal nature.
James Stillman letters relating to Homer Dodge Martin
Stillman, James, 1850-1918
AAA.stiljame
The James Stillman letters relating to Homer Dodge Martin measures 0.2 linear feet and consists of 28 letters and 2 pencil sketches dating from 1882-1898. Primarily from late-19th century painter Homer Dodge Martin and his wife, Elizabeth, to art patron and banker, James Stillman, the letters discuss consignment, exhibition and sale of Martin's artwork, his experiences painting while living in France, his financial struggles, and his physical and mental condition. Two pencil sketches by Martin are accompanied by a note dated 1884. Also found are 2 letters from Martin to Mr. Van Loon discussing payment for paintings and 2 letters to Stillman from Bancel La Farge concerning Stillman's purchase of a La Farge watercolor.
John Stevens Collection
Watkins, J. Elfreth (John Elfreth), 1852-1903
Stevens, John, 1749-1838
Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
0.5 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
The main component of this collection is a double-spaced typewritten document of 858 pages transcribed (apparently in 1903) from original records and consisting of correspondence, newspaper articles, technical descriptions, legal documents, and other material relating to John Stevens, his professional work and career. Some of the correspondence is...
National Collection of Fine Arts. Office of the Director
22 cu. ft. (44 document boxes)
This record unit documents the administration of William Henry Holmes, first Curator of the National Gallery of Art (NGA), 1907-1920, and Director of the Gallery, 1920-1932. To a lesser extent, it also documents the administration of Ruel P. Tolman, Acting Director of NGA, 1932-1937, and the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA), 1937-1946, ...
Carlos de Wendler-Funaro Gypsy Research Collection
Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
Alland, Alexander, Sr. (Alexander Landschaft), 1902-1989
Kaslov, Steve, ca. 1888-1949 (King of the Red Bandanna Romany Gypsies )
4.3 Cubic feet (16 boxes)
This collection consists of 4.3 cubic feet of manuscript, print, and photographic materials created or collected by Carl de Wendler-Funaro (1898-1985) in pursuit of his interest in Gypsy life and culture. (Carlos de Wendler-Funaro used several forms of his name; he wrote mostly as Carl de Wendler-Funaro.) The -collection was brought to the attentio...
Yatsuhashi Harumichi Papers
Yatsuhashi Harumichi Family
FSA.A1994.02
The Yatsuhashi Harumichi Family Papers (1906-1976) document the professional and personal lives of a Japanese-American family in Boston during the twentieth century. The patriarch, Yatsuhashi Harumichi (1886-1982), was an influential Asian art dealer and the papers also document the professional experiences of Asian art dealers in the United States during the early and mid 20th century. Mr. Yatsuhashi worked at the antiquities firm of Yamanaka & Company before starting his own Asian antiquities shop in 1945. Included in the papers, portions in Japanese, are correspondence; catalogues relating to the Alien Property Custodian's 1944 liquidation of Yamanaka & Company's New York branch's holdings; photographs depicting art objects and shop interiors, the Yatsuhashi family, Yamanaka & Company, and extended family, friends, and colleagues; and items belonging to Mr. Yatsuhashi's wife, Shigeki, and some of their children.
David Ireland Papers
Ireland, David, 1930-2009
circa 1910s-circa 2009
8.39 Gigabytes
AAA.ireldavi
The papers of California conceptual artist and sculptor David Ireland measure 24.8 linear feet and 8.39 GB and date from circa 1910s to circa 2009, with the bulk of the material dating from 1960 to 2005. The papers include biographical material, correspondence, notes and notebooks, installation projects and exhibition files, teaching files, travel files, personal business records, printed and digital material and commercial recordings, photographic materials, artwork, and video and sound recordings.
Shakir S. Jerwan Scrapbooks
Jerwan, Shakir S., 1881-1942
0.87 Cubic feet (2 boxes; 1 folder)
NASM.XXXX.0231
The Shakir S. Jerwan Scrapbooks Collection contains material from the period 1911-1919. During this period, Jerwan was Chief Pilot at the Moisant School of Aviation, Garden City, New York, and Director of Military Aviation for the government of Guatemala.
Julian Hinds Collection
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of
Hinds, Julian, 1881-1975 (civil engineer)
14.2 Cubic feet (41 boxes)
A letter dated August 4, 1971 from the Executive Director, American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, NY, to Julian Hinds stated: "This is addressed to you as an Honorary Member of the Society at the request of the ASCE Committee on the History and Heritage of American Civil Engineering to bring attention to the possibility that you may wish to...
Madison Cooper Papers
Cooper, Madison, 1868-1946
Madison Cooper Company (Watertown, N.Y.)
0.25 Cubic feet (1 box)
Madison Cooper was an inventor and manufacturer of refrigerating systems in the early twentieth century. Cooper received several patents for his refrigeration inventions, including several refrigerating apparatuses, an air-circulating system, a process for preventing the formation of frost on refrigerating surfaces and a refrigeration train car. The collection spans 1900-1963 and includes his United States and foreign patents, his publications related to refrigeration, and a few documents and photographs related to Cooper and the Madison Cooper Company.


Margaret Mary was born into a middle class family in Burgundy, France. Her father died when she was nine years old and she was badly treated in the family of an uncle who took her in. At the age of twenty-four, she entered the monastery of the Visitation nuns. There she suffered greatly because of health problems but she was encouraged by the Lord to make profession. She began having visions in which Christ showed her his heart in flames—a sign of his burning love for the souls that He had ransomed with his sacrifice on the Cross. Christ informed Margaret Mary that He had chosen her to institute a devotion to his Sacred Heart.
In June of 1675, Jesus asked that the first Friday after the feat of Corpus Christi be dedicated to his Sacred Heart, together with the reception of Communion and acts of reparation. By her own love, she was to make up of the coldness and ingratitude of the world—by frequent and loving Holy Communion, especially on the first Friday of each month, and by an hour's vigil of prayer every Thursday night in memory of his agony and isolation in Gethsemane.
When her superiors were unwilling to cooperate, Margaret Mary received support and guidance from her new confessor the Jesuit, Claude de la Colombiere who recognized her genuineness. Nevertheless, she still had to suffer more when the Lord instructed her to go contrary to her own Visitation community.
Like all saints, Margaret had to pay for her gift of holiness. Some of her own sisters were hostile. Theologians who were called in declared her visions delusions and suggested that she eat more heartily. Later, parents of children she taught called her an impostor, an unorthodox innovator.
Finally, however, a friend of hers became superior and selected Sister Margaret Mary as an assistant and as a mistress of novices. Thus, the feast of the Sacred Heart was celebrated in the convent for the first time.
In 1856, Pope Pius IX extended the feast of the Sacred Heart to the universal Church. Later, Spain and Brazil also erected statues in honor of the Sacred Heart. In 1873, France was consecrated to the Sacred Heart and the basilica of Sacre Coeur was built in the Montmartre district of Paris. In 1929, Pope Pius XI raised the feast to a solemnity.
St. Margaret Mary left an indelible mark on the Church by introducing one of our most familiar devotions: the Sacred Heart of Jesus. She was chosen by Christ to arouse the church to a realization of the love of God symbolized by the heart of Jesus. She had been prepared for her mission by much suffering and contradiction in the various stages of her life. It was only when Father Colombiere's book, "Spiritual Retreat," was read in the refectory in 1684 that the community accepted the messages from the Sacred Heart. In 1689, Margaret Mary was pleased to know support from another Jesuit, Father John Croiset, was promulgating devotion to the Sacred Heart.


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Police standoff at South Pasadena home ends with a man wounded
Members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department SWAT team block a roadway outside a home in South Pasadena on Sunday morning.
(Los Angeles County Sheriff)
By Shelby Grad
A man was wounded early Sunday after a standoff with South Pasadena police and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's SWAT officers.
The incident occurred in the 1300 block of Huntington Drive in South Pasadena, where officials said the man barricaded himself, according to the Sheriff's Department.
The standoff lasted for several hours, although few details were available immediately .
The man, who was not identified, was taken to a hospital.
After 800,000-gallon spill, Chevron site is still leaking oil
As Sen. Dianne Feinstein chastises Chevron Corp. for an 800,000-gallon oil spill near Bakersfield, California officials confirm more leaking.
Incoming UC students could see a tuition hike under new proposal
The University of California on Thursday unveiled a plan to raise tuition for incoming class of freshmen and transfer students, but then freeze it for six years.
LAPD to equip more officers with medication to reduce opioid deaths
More Los Angeles police officers will be equipped with an anti-opioid spray to help prevent overdose-related deaths
Earthquake: 3.3 quake felt near Borrego Springs, Calif.
A magnitude 3.3 earthquake was reported Thursday evening at 5:57 p.m. Pacific time 8 miles from Borrego Springs, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Latest California
In an unprecedented move, the California Supreme Court has allowed the defense in a gang trial in San Francisco to obtain private Facebook postings.
Henry Lozano, who engineered the political careers of emerging Latino leaders, dies
Henry Lozano, a political advisor and mentor to numerous Latino and Latina leaders in Los Angeles, died Monday at 85.
UC Academic Senate calls on regents to divest from fossil fuels
The University of California faculty-wide divestment vote drew nearly 77% support.
Lawsuit seeks to stop L.A. from seizing and discarding homeless people's belongings
A law allows sanitation crews in Los Angeles to seize and destroy property kept by homeless people on city sidewalks. A new lawsuit challenges that practice.
Sheriff's chief says she quit over 'highly unethical' demand to rehire deputy fired for abuse
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Below is a speech given by Captain Pradeep Chawla from Anglo-Eastern Ship Management at yesterday's Digital Ship conference taking place during Sea Japan in Tokyo.
Big Data, Digitalization, Machine learning, AI, are words that have become a part of the urban vocabulary. Everyone says these words, irrespective of what industry they work in.
Do individuals and companies comprehend them fully? Do companies have a strategy or a plan to find out the possible impact on the company?
What is the size of this Big Data?
Facebook: 10m new photos are uploaded every hour.
Twitter: 98,000 tweets per minute.
YouTube: 300 hours of video are uploaded every minute.
The excitement though is not about how much data you collect. It is about what you do with it. It is about trends, co-relations and insights, and how it is converted into actionable items.
Existing data is used in a better way.
It can be used for improving operations.
The insights and analysis can be shared with clients for transparency and trust building.
It can be used for benchmarking services.
Data from various services can be combined to get new insights.
Analysis of the data could create ideas for new products.
It could be used to change the way of doing things.
Let us discuss some of the possibilities that are being discussed in our industry.
1. All shipboard machinery operation data can be live streamed to engine and equipment manufacturers or to fleet operations centres. This could help companies to identify trends co-relations and problems before the ship's staff can, as the computer systems will be working continuously. This could increase the reliability of the equipment, as machinery breakdowns could be reduced. This data will also be helpful to improve energy efficiency, by monitoring fuel consumption, weather current and machinery performance parameters together.
2. A number of large software companies are working on combining navigational data, weather data, past routes data and providing decision support systems to the Master. At the same time, data could be streamed to fleet operation centres. Data could be combined with Vessel Traffic System centres. The overall goal being to improve navigational safety, prevent collisions and groundings.
3. Finally, the industry is considering ways to reduce the administrative tasks for the crew on board. This is the IMO, 'Single Window' project. Hopefully this will lead to the data of the global fleet in a single repository that is accessible to all stakeholders – shippers, charterers, regulators, customs immigration could all eliminate thousands of tasks of filling up and checking forms.
4. The merging of multiple streams of data – stresses on the hull of a ship, combined with weather location, steel types, construction details could give a better understanding of ship behavior and lead to advances in ship design and/or scantling optimization.
There are many other wonderful possibilities with the use of data that can be discussed.
If the benefits are so obvious, why is the adoption of big data solutions not faster?
Technology, in any industry gets adopted only if it saves money for existing businesses or if it creates models for new businesses.
Let us discuss, what needs to be done for fast tracking digitalisation and the adoption of big data applications at sea.
For achieving the benefits of big data applications, one would need to collect the operational data from various machinery through sensors fitted to the machinery. The sensors would need to be reliable, sturdy and built for maritime conditions. One must consider that the machinery is mounted on a flexible girder, which complicates the measurement and baseline references for different types of sensors.
We do need to get common industry standards and classification society rules for the sensors.
The output of the data from these sensors needs to be identifiable, reliable and standardized.
While IMO has taken up the 'Common Maritime Data Structure' (CMDS) for navigational data; however on the machinery side, it is still a work in progress. The need for common standards is critical for fast tracking digitalization.
Condition based maintenance (CBM) is an obvious benefit of big data analysis; however, presently it is something for the future. One large classification society has only 20 out of over 10,000 ships on CBM and that too only for some equipment.
On the navigation side too, work like the "Sea Lanes" project is progressing and individual companies are working on products based on big data, but they are all in infancy stage.
One important factor that gets overlooked is the connectivity of the ship to shore-based networks. Typically ship VSAT data plans for a 2 mbps bandwidth cost around $1,800 per month. A home connection for a 4 gbps costs $125 a month.
From one industry source, information available is that only 13,500 ships have VSAT and average bandwidth is only 690 kbps!
Connectivity bandwidth and costs is an important consideration. It is estimated that a ship would generate 50 to 100 GB data every day. Big data adoption also brings about certain issues that need to be addressed for quicker adoption.
With connectivity, comes the issue of cybersecurity. Presently, there is very little standardisation of shipboard network systems hardware and the standards for data exchange are yet to be finalized. Communication service providers are yet to launch their new products for cybersecurity.
Considering the present state, adoption of these standards, investment into new network systems, along-with the added costs of cybersecurity will be a significant financial investment.
Another aspect that will come up for discussion will be the question of ownership of data. Business models may change widely and there are discussions of leased machinery already. Will the operational data for a leased main engine belong to the ship owner or the engine maker? There will be issues in relation to transparency and use of data and these will need to be resolved even if the data is shared. For example – who makes the decision about when to replace parts?
Finally, as we proceed down the path of this digital revolution, what kind of competencies will be required from the seafarers of their future? They would need to possess the ability to have insight, recognize patterns and convert data to intelligence.
They would need the ability to process large amount of data while focusing on the critical issues. Decision making process will change and they will need to work with remote teams operating control stations.
They will need to recognise limitations and dangers of automation and stay awake to look at the data that is being automatically collected, analyzed and displayed for them to take decisions.
For general international shipping, big data adaption is the first step towards semi-autonomous and fully autonomous ships.
The disruption has started. When each company comes on board in this race is up to them.


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Despite a 79-72 win in November, women's basketball fell 67-65 against Luzerne County Community College.
Taylor Keys (SO, Berks Catholic) put up a ridiculous double-double in the loss, with 23 points and 22 rebounds. Caitlin Wallace (FR, Cheltenham) also recorded a double-double with 18 points and 10 rebounds. This is the first game this season that two Mustangs recorded a double-double and the Mustangs still lost the game.
The Mustangs will look to get back on track against Sussex County Community College on Tuesday.


Metal demigods Baroness are so prepared for their third album—which they're recording with producer John Congleton, who helmed 2009's Blue Record—that frontman John Baizley knew exactly in what direction the band were going months ago. In fact, they tracked bass and drums for the album last November in Hoboken, New Jersey, right before Baizley gave AP the scoop on what to expect from their new full-length.
Why did you guys decide to go back and work with John Congleton again?
Doing the last record [with him], we [developed] an awesome personal relationship. He and I keep in touch. I pretty much love the sound of every record he does; he's a wonderful engineer and producer. I think of him is as someone who doesn't really pay any attention whatsoever to the order-of-the-day production techniques—he's the guy who's just trying to put out records that sound good regardless of the time period. What we're trying to do is work with somebody who's not going to make our record sound dated in 10 years. He's a good friend, got a great ear, and he's worked with the band before, so I think one of the most important things with this session is that we didn't have to meet anybody to get tracking. We just showed up at the studio and it was like we hadn't skipped a beat since we saw him last two years ago. We got straight down to business.
That's so nice. I've talked to bands before where the producer tryout process is rough.
Yeah, there are guys that are heavy handed, guys that trust the band implicitly; there's all sorts of studio m.o.'s that the producers have. John just works with us. We basically show up with records written, he engineers them, we assess the music, and he weighs in on important, over-arching things and gets involved in some of the composition. But, really, I think he's got a fairly unique sound—one that works really well with our band.
The thing I love about his records is there's not one of them that sound like anybody else's record. He's definitely got this sonic imprint that doesn't color the music the music you've written. It doesn't change the way we play or the way we write or record—he just sort of harnesses the energy we've got. It doesn't do that contemporary hard rock/metal thing that I, frankly, hate. He definitely was being inventive during recording, mixing, post-production—all that stuff. For a band like us, adrift in an ocean of "heavy" bands, the thing any band is looking for is something to set them apart so you've got your own voice speaking. He helps bring that out.
How would you describe the material you've been working on? How does it fit in with the rest of your catalog?
I demoed all the songs [last] year when I was writing them. I can say with complete confidence that the record is different. I think it's been part of our process since day one that we buck repetition in our songwriting and in everything else—that we're constantly giving ourselves some work to do, lest we fall back and sit on whatever laurels we've earned at this point.
What we did at the very beginning was talk about what we wanted to do. It was an absolutely unanimous decision within the band to push our sound outwards a little bit. The record's going to be really reactive—whether it's positive or negative, [anybody who hears it is] definitely going to have a reaction to it. We tried to do different things. We tried to improve and clarify some of our songwriting.
The result is that, on the whole, the record's got a much broader palette of songs. There are some moments where we're sticking to some of the foundations we've laid down and others where it's a brand new type of song for us. Doing something like that is kind of a risk, especially when you're so closely associated with a grouping of bands or style or label. That just isn't something we care about. I feel just internally between the members of the band, we've taken some real risks and some risks that were absolutely worth taking for us and bore some interesting truths musically for us. It's kind of cliché to say "expect the unexpected," but when I listen to some of the stuff we've written, for my ears, it's unexpected.
I'm very pleasantly surprised with what we were able to do in terms of making the record. There's more material, but everything is a little bit more direct. I think with the last record we had maxed out on this kind of songwriting that we had been accustomed to, with these kind of dramatic shifts within each song. It was sort of like, don't look back, and just keep pushing through the song. We had twists and turns and all sorts of things going on.
In the past couple years of touring, I started to become more and more impressed by songwriters who were able to really catch one direction with a single song and keep it orthodox and pure. You've got some set intent with one song, and you just don't deviate from that line until the song is over. As many things as we used to say in one song, now I think we're spreading out into the course of two or three songs.
It's a little hookier. I've sort of adopted the stance that I wanted to write some songs that were more malleable so you could play them in other styles or tempos—or you could arrange them in different ways, but you still have a similar song. You have more of a choice as to where you take it, so structurally it is simple on a song-by-song basis, but much more rich over the course of a record.
It sounds like it's given you guys a lot more flexibility. I totally understand what you mean where some people expect bands to stay the same and write the same record five times over again. It's so limiting, and I imagine for a musician it must be such drudgery. It's almost like you need to push yourself forward.
You make this bed that you've got to lay in. When you're a young band, you don't think "Well what's it going to be like to play these songs three years from now and hundreds of times later?" It's not that the material becomes boring, but if you're working in a box too much, you become hyper-sensitive to it. If we're still playing shows in five years—and we're still going to be playing these songs and they all sort of feel the same to me—I'd like to have a better selection of ammunition so we can tell a better story. If you're only going to say one thing, why say it over and over again? As a listener and music fan, I'm not always enthralled by bands that have a formula and adhere to it ad infinitum.
The one thing lamentable with contemporary music is that there's an implicit fan base response that you need to come out fully formed as a band. There's no patience for the progressive bell curve. Some of my favorite bands, when you listen back to their body of work, you are able to see this course developing and you can see a band really honing in on what it is that makes them unique in the whole wide world of the music business.
When the book closes on us, I hope people are able to say, "Look, there was constant growth. There was constant challenge." That's interesting for me as the person in the band, and I hope it's interesting for the listeners. But again, that's the ultimate risk. At some point, you run out of dark alleys to run down. And then the fear is you start grasping at straws and you starting writing this ridiculous music. I don't think we're there yet, but I want to be challenged and I want to present a challenge. I don't want it to stay the same—I want things to become different, even at the risk of making mistakes.


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Jackson Palumb #3
East Syracuse Minoa Boys Basketball
Class: Freshman | Pos: G
2018-2019 10 6 3 0 10 3 0 6 0
2019-2020 11 2 3 31 0 0 0 0 13
Career Totals: 21 8 6 31 10 3 0 6 13
11/21/2018 @ Utica Proctor W 61-57 - - - - - - - - -
11/23/2018 @ New Hartford W 64-41 - - - - - - - 1 -
11/27/2018 @ Carthage L 53-61 - - 1 - 1 - - - -
11/30/2018 @ PSLA at Fowler W 58-43 - - - - - - - - -
12/04/2018 vs. Marcellus W 50-38 1 1 - - 2 - - 2 -
12/14/2018 vs. PSLA at Fowler W 58-50 - - - - 1 - - 1 -
12/18/2018 @ Cortland W 58-43 1 1 - - - - - - -
12/20/2018 @ Central Square L 52-65 - - - - 1 - - - -
12/28/2018 vs. New Hartford W 47-40 3 2 2 - 3 - - 1 -
01/04/2019 @ Jamesville-DeWitt L 54-68 - - - - - 1 - - -
01/08/2019 vs. Oswego W 85-57 2 - - - 2 1 - 1 -
01/11/2019 @ Fulton W 53-51 1 - - - - - - - -
01/15/2019 @ Auburn W 66-62 - - - - - - - - -
01/19/2019 vs. Fayetteville-Manlius W 50-49 - - - - - - - - -
01/22/2019 vs. Cortland L 51-52 - - - - - - - - -
01/25/2019 vs. Central Square W 61-58 - - - - - - - - -
01/29/2019 vs. Jamesville-DeWitt L 51-73 - - - - - - - - -
02/01/2019 @ Oswego W 80-38 - - - - - - - - -
02/05/2019 vs. Fulton L 51-60 - - - - - - - - -
02/08/2019 vs. Auburn L 59-82 2 2 - - - 1 - - -
02/15/2019 vs. Watertown W 60-42 - - - - - - - - -
02/19/2019 @ Bishop Grimes L 56-77 - - - - - - - - -
Season Totals: 10 6 3 - 10 3 - 6 -
West Genesee football pulls away from East Syracuse Minoa, 27-11 (46 photos)
Instant impact: 15 Section III football players who have made strong varsity debuts


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Down with Down's Dad
This was originally on the BBC Ouch! Website
Down with Down's Dad I'm not at all happy at the moment. This, despite some tremendous things going on in Stan's life: On Friday: He sat through birthday assembly and then went to the front, and blew out all his candles in the presence of the entire infant school. On Saturday: He sat through a film – Chicken Little – without getting out of his seat and getting bored. On Sunday: He did all his sound cards and matching games perfectly So why is Down's dad down? When things are going quietly and well, sometimes you can't help but think about other stuff. It's not the Down's, it's his heart. I was playing football on Friday night, I was in goal and it suddenly hit me (once again) that Stan's heart is held together, we've got an appointment in March to get it checked, it leaks and he will need another operation. This may be tomorrow or when he's 20. It's just that, whatever happens, his life expectancy won't be that of a typical child, and that, as a parent, is an incredibly hard thing to take on board. Why did this happen to me when I was playing football, on my night "off" being a dad? I'll cheer up next time, because, after all, while I was feeling sorry for myself, Stan was doing some wonderful things.
Athletics for all
Teacher knows best
Last OUCH blog - Valentine's day 2006
Happy birthday Stan


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Petfeed / Care / Kisses and Co-Sleeping: How Close Should You and Your Pet Really Be?
You share the bed, you kiss on the lips, you go everywhere together....but is that a good thing? How close is too close and are you and your pet crossing the line? We're taking a look at some of the most common pet bonding behaviors and looking at whether it's really ok to be that close with your pet.
Dogs just love giving sloppy, licky kisses on the lips, whether the person likes it or not. Some owners say "bring on the love" while others shirk their pet's affection. So is it ok to let your dog slip you the tongue, and how dangerous is it really? If you've ever heard the old myth that a dog's mouth is cleaner than a person's mouth, then know that it's just that, a MYTH.
In 2011, Japanese researchers actually studied what happens when pets and people swap spit and they found a few things that might make you think twice about Fido's tongue. There are actually a fair number of organisms in there that are "zoonotic" - aka they can pass from species to species. These zoonotic bacteria include E. Coli, Salmonella, and other nasties that can get people sick.
It's not just about the spit either, it's about what's on a dog's nose and muzzle where there can be transmissible parasites or fungus. At the end of the day, a lick on unbroken skin should be pretty safe, but you may want to think twice before frenching Fido.
Pets are the perfect warm snuggle buddies, and some people argue they make the best bedfellows. Many a pet owner has contorted themselves around in bed to accommodate for their sleeping pet - but is this behavior ok? First of all, if you're one of those that let your pet in the bed, know that you aren't unusual. A study has found about half of pet owners let their pets snuggle up.
The first thing to think about is comfort. If your pet is the snoring, farting, or active dreaming type, then you could run into a situation where your pet is actually impairing your sleep. If your pet is waking you, it's time to consider another arrangement.
Allergies and pet hair are another concern. Consider a HEPA filter to keep dander down in the bedroom and be sure to change sheets weekly to keep pet hair out. You may want to consider trainign your pet to sleep on a special towel or blanket on the bed so that it's easier to clean.
Sharing food also has risks for your pet. Sharing table food can lead to behavioral problems like begging, not to mention weight gain if the pet is snacking too much, or poisoning if they should eat the wrong thing.
Save a little for your pet to patiently wait for and serve it to them on the floor so that they don't learn to jump or take food.
How many of these behaviors do you and your pet engage in? Is there an even weirder way the two of you show love? Dinner and a movie? Romantic walks on the beach?


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Man Stabs Neighbor Who Was a Good Friend
Paragraph 26 reads: ""It was a slow-burning process of events, not helped by his drinking while on medication for depression."
SSRI Stories Note: The Physicians Desk Reference states that antidepressants can cause a craving for alcohol and can cause alcohol abuse. Also, the liver cannot metabolize the antidepressant and the alcohol simultaneously, thus leading to higher levels of both alcohol and the antidepressant in the human body.
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Leicester-man-stabbed-stomach-drunken-neighbour/story-12781700-detail/story.html
Leicester man stabbed in stomach by drunken neighbour
Leicester Mercury
A man was stabbed in the stomach after opening his door to a drunken neighbour who had a grudge against him.
John Diaper, 60, said he was lucky to be alive after alcoholic David McLean attacked him with a kitchen knife.
McLean, also 60, of Curlew Walk, off Humberstone Road, Leicester, was yesterday jailed for six years for the unprovoked attack on his former friend.
Speaking after the sentencing at Leicester Crown Court, Mr Diaper said he had known that McLean was drunk when he started banging on his door on December 17.
Initially, he said, he tried to keep the door to his flat shut, but McLean then started kicking it.
"I opened it a little bit and that's when he stabbed me," he said.
"I didn't even see the knife until afterwards.
"I didn't feel pain either at first and I helped Dave back into his flat.
"Then I saw the blood and called the paramedics and was treated at hospital.
"I was really lucky he didn't stab into an organ. I could have been killed.
"I needed two weeks off work. I still get stomach pains from time to time."
The knife penetrated Mr Diaper's stomach wall and he spent two nights in hospital, although surgeons decided not to operate because he has a heart condition.
He said he had no idea what prompted the attack.
Mr Diaper said: "He had lived next to me for seven years and we were friends.
"We did gardening outside together but he just said he had had enough of me earlier last year.
"But he'd still come round when he was drunk.
"He mumbled something before he stabbed me but I didn't understand him."
Mr Diaper said he was pleased that McLean had been jailed and also made the subject of an indefinite restraining order banning him from future contact with him.
Mr Diaper said: "Hopefully, that means he won't move back here again."
McLean admitted wounding with intent. Malcolm Wilson, prosecuting, said the relationship broke down a couple of months before the attack for no apparent reason.
McLean appeared to have a grudge against the victim.
When he was arrested, McLean, a landscape gardener, said he had drunk seven or eight pints in the pub, plus other drinks, and could not remember using the knife.
The court heard he had a 1971 conviction for wounding with intent and a 1996 conviction for common assault.
In 2005, he was prosecuted for an affray involving waving a five-inch knife around while making threats to another neighbour.
Sally Bamford, mitigating, said: "There were incidents that led to the breakdown of their association and there was a background.
"It was a slow-burning process of events, not helped by his drinking while on medication for depression.
"He was at the end of his tether after a long period of intense high feeling.
"He has expressed remorse with the way he dealt with this matter.
"He is normally mild-mannered but can't control his impulses while in drink.
"He knows he is going to have to stay away from alcohol in future."
Recorder Tracey Lloyd-Nesling said that despite nine in-patient rehabilitation programmes over the years McLean had not resolved his drinking problem.
She said: "There was no provocation.
"It was a revenge attack because you and he had fallen out."


The Jaybots and Jayborgs, ranging in age from 14 to 18, have used the Othermill to make a variety of projects under the tutelage of Gill. For their robots, they've made custom connectors to join the 80/20 aluminum and to support their wheels and motors. Bonus points that the aluminum sheet they used was salvaged from last year's robotics competition field. This past Christmas, they even made circuit board holiday ornaments for a tree that was then donated to a local family.
Now that the official FIRST robotics competition season is over, Gill plans to grow the teams' knowledge of CNC milling and how to further use the Othermill. Gill is also interested in collaborating with other local Othermill users for training. If you're an Othermill user in the Bloomsburg area, you can reach out to him at tgill@ccsd.cc.


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Why Do Shoppers Use Cash? Evidence from Shopping Diary Data
Staff Working Paper 2012-24 Naoki Wakamori, Angelika Welte
Recent studies find that cash remains a dominant payment choice for small-value transactions despite the prevalence of alternative means of payment such as debit and credit cards. For policy makers an important question is whether consumers truly prefer using cash or merchants restrict card usage.
Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Bank notes, Econometric and statistical methods, Financial services JEL Code(s): C, C2, D, D1, G, G2
Inflation and Growth: A New Keynesian Perspective
Staff Working Paper 2012-23 Robert Amano, Thomas J. Carter, Kevin Moran
The long-run relation between growth and inflation has not yet been studied in the context of nominal price and wage rigidities, despite the fact that these rigidities now figure prominently in workhorse macroeconomic models.
Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Inflation: costs and benefits JEL Code(s): E, E3, E31, E5, E52, O, O3, O31, O4, O42
The Ex-Ante Versus Ex-Post Effect of Public Guarantees
Staff Working Paper 2012-22 H. Evren Damar, Reint Gropp, Adi Mordel
In October 2006, Dominion Bond Rating Service (DBRS) introduced new ratings for banks that account for the potential of government support. The rating changes are not a reflection of any changes in the respective banks' credit fundamentals.
Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial institutions, Financial stability, Financial system regulation and policies JEL Code(s): G, G2, G21, G28, G3, G32
Weekly Financial Statistics - 27 July 2012
Banking and Financial Statistics - 26 July 2012
Unconventional Monetary Policy and the Great Recession: Estimating the Macroeconomic Effects of a Spread Compression at the Zero Lower Bound
Staff Working Paper 2012-21 Christiane Baumeister, Luca Benati
We explore the macroeconomic effects of a compression in the long-term bond yield spread within the context of the Great Recession of 2007-2009 via a time-varying parameter structural VAR model.
Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, Interest rates, Monetary policy framework, Monetary policy transmission JEL Code(s): C, C1, C11, C3, C32, E, E5, E52, E58
The Sensitivity of Producer Prices to Exchange Rates: Insights from Micro Data
Staff Working Paper 2012-20 Shutao Cao, Wei Dong, Ben Tomlin
This paper studies the sensitivity of Canadian producer prices to the Canada-U.S. exchange rate. Using a unique product-level price data set, we estimate and analyze the impact of movements in the exchange rate on both domestic and export producer prices.
Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Exchange rates, Inflation and prices, Market structure and pricing JEL Code(s): E, E3, E30, F, F3, F31, F4, F41, L, L1, L11
International Business Cycles and Financial Frictions
Staff Working Paper 2012-19 Wen Yao
This paper builds a two-country DSGE model to study the quantitative impact of financial frictions on business cycle co-movements when investors have foreign asset exposure. The investor in each country holds capital in both countries and faces a leverage constraint on her debt.
Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, International financial markets, International topics JEL Code(s): E, E3, E30, F, F4, F42, F44
Consumer Bankruptcy and Information
Staff Working Paper 2012-18 Jason Allen, H. Evren Damar, David Martinez-Miera
We analyze the relationship between the intensity of banks' use of soft-information and household bankruptcy patterns. Using a unique data set on the universe of Canadian household bankruptcies, we document that bankruptcy rates are higher in markets where the collection of soft, or qualitative locally gathered information, is the weakest.
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Q: "adb install" returns error: protocol fault (no status) I have created and ran a couple of android emulators, now I'd like to install application on them. Here is the story of me trying it a couple of times:
$ adb -s emulator-5562 install xxx.apk
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
error: protocol fault (no status)
- waiting for device -
^C
$ adb devices
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
emulator-5554   device
emulator-5556   device
emulator-5558   device
emulator-5560   device
emulator-5562   device
$ adb -s emulator-5562 install xxx.apk
error: protocol fault (no status)
- waiting for device -
^C
$ killall adb
$ killall adb
adb: no process found
$ adb -s emulator-5562 install xxx.apk
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
3748 KB/s (766384 bytes in 0.199s)
    pkg: /data/local/tmp/xxx.apk <- sometime it reaches upto here but it stays there for ever
^C

can you please help me what else I can do to check the problem?
thank you

A: "adb install" returns error: protocol fault (no status) :
Solution is
Goto \platform-tools using Terminal and execute below commands
set ADB_TRACE=1
adb start-server

To remove emulator from list of ADB Devices :

Open "Android Virtual Device Manager" -> Select the Emulator which you
  want to delete -> click on Delete button.

See below Image

A: For me it turned out to be an outdated ADB service (outdated Platform-tools).
It still could be an outdated driver, but since the drivers aren't updated most of the time, make sure you've installed the latest version of your Android SDK Platform-tools via the SDK Manager:

I also read that the problem could appear, when you install the Android Studio.
Then you have to disable the ADB integration via "Tools -> Android" (uncheck).
After that, restart you adb server by using adb kill-serveror simply restart your computer.

A: I ran into it because there was more than one ADB device connected.
Disconnecting all but the device I was working with worked for me.

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There are over 20,000 Grade II* listed buildings in England. This page is a list of these buildings in the district of Broadland in Norfolk.

List of buildings

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See also
Grade I listed buildings in Broadland
 Grade II* listed buildings in Norfolk
 Grade II* listed buildings in Breckland
 Grade II* listed buildings in Great Yarmouth
 Grade II* listed buildings in King's Lynn and West Norfolk
 Grade II* listed buildings in North Norfolk
 Grade II* listed buildings in Norwich
 Grade II* listed buildings in South Norfolk

Notes

External links

Lists of Grade II* listed buildings in Norfolk

Grade II* listed buildings in Broadland

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Alternative Education refers to educational settings that are nontraditional or different from the traditional K-12 school setting. These schools address the needs of students not typically met in a more traditional educational setting.
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We're very excited to share our menu! As you'll see, we have a large selection of grilled-cheese themed sandwiches, as well as a number of side dishes (of course including homemade tomato soup). Please note below which sandwiches are usually available on the truck now, and which sandwiches aren't currently available.
Our monster sandwich. Come hungry if you want this one!!
Italian bread, mozzarella cheese, provolone cheese, pepperoni, salami, red onion, roma tomato, oregano, balsamic, sautéed mushrooms w/garlic. Includes homemade pizza sauce as a dipper.


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NAME: Gabbs
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REMAINS: Current and historical houses.
The town of Gabbs is alive and well—for the time being. A paleontologist by the name of William Gabbs was with the Whitney Expedition of 1862-1867 and was responsible for analyzing fossils collected in the area that came to be known as Gabbs Valley. But it was the discovery of tungsten in 1926 that led to the town's development and growth. Tungsten was to become the town's lifeblood with the onset of World War II. By 1940 there was a ten-room bunkhouse, a mess hall, a kitchen, an office, and numerous cabins. The ore mined at Gabbs was renamed Basic Magnesium and was put on the defense priority list. In 1943, Gabbs was the largest producer of magnesium in the world. By 1946, Gabbs had a population of 426. For the next half-century year the town's population remained fairly constant and magnesium remains the town's lifeline.


Madam Vera Garbutt was born in Brighton, and after a successful career as a professional dancer, she established Vera Garbutt School of Dancing.
I spent several happy years in the late 1950s early 1960s at her dancing school I think it was in Knowle Road.
Can anyone else remember these times?
If you would like to find out more about Vera Garbutt, she is featured as 'Personality of the Month' on the Royal Pavilion and Brighton Museums blog here.
Hi Sue. Enter Vera Garbutt in the search box at the top of the page, there are a couple of entries about her.
I attended a dancing school in the period 1940 to 1950, and think it was the same one in Knoyle Road, next to a church. The name Vera Garbutt rang a bell.
I was delighted to see your picture of Vera Garbutt. Though a pupil of Miss Vera Sutton School of Dancing in Haywards Heath, I also attended classes with Vera Garbutt; classes and rehearsals which were held at Preston Park in a room at the rear of The Crown and Anchor. One dance rehearsal which I attended was for a pantomime in Tunbridge Wells starring Scott and Whaley. Vera Garbutt was a brilliant teacher and choreographer, I was lucky in my short dancing carrier while a pupil. See also Clarkson Rose Theatre Royal pantomime Aladdin 1945. Oh what a good teacher and my memory of happy dancing days so long ago.
I attended Vera Garbutt School of Dancing from 1943 to about 1954. What a fabulous time we all had and what a good teacher she was. I would love to hear from any ex pupils.
I recently learned my mum, then Josephine Baker, was also a pupil. This was probably during the early 40s.
Does anyone remember dancing at the Grand Hotel in the late 1950's? It was very grand and left quite an impression on me – I also was involved with one visit to the Royal Pavilions – does anyone remember these occasions?
I remember attending the dance classes at Vera Garbutt's in Preston in the late 1940s. Particularly dancing at the interval period at the Regent Ballroom as a Snowflake! Can't imagine what the theme was?
Hello Sue. Please could you contact me about the picture of Vera Garrett. I wish to reproduce it in a book I am writing about my theatre group which celebrates it's 90th birthday this year. Vera Garrett produced 11 of our shows right up until her death in 1963 and it would be lovely to feature her. Email lampschair@gmail.com With kind regards.
I too was at Vera Garbutt's for 12 years from 1951 and knew her very well. Answering the request for the title of the music for the Snowflake dance routine, it was Dance of the Hours by Puccini. We had general dance class on Wednesdays and ballet class on Saturday mornings and we took the BBO ballet exams. Some of her pupils had private lessons at her house in Preston Drove where Kiki, her black poodle, would always bark. Does anyone remember the Gilbert And Sullivans we did at the Dome? HMS Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, Iolanthe? We also did many routines, group as well as solo, at Tuesday night at the Dome with Douglas Reeve. In addition we did routines at many hotels, Hove Town Hall, The Regent, the Corn Exchange, Royal Pavilion and other venues. I have many photos of these times together with all the programmes and still have many of the costumes.
My big sister Violet went to dance classes in the early 1950s. I think it was Vera Garbutts, but I'm not sure. One New Year's Eve, possibly 1951/2, there was a posh dinner at the Corn Exchange, and the dance school provided an entertainment. Violet's part was to hide inside a big imitation cake and jump out on the stroke of midnight. Does anyone else remember this?
Vera Garbutt & Harry Drury produced very sucessful musical comedy shows for Worthing Musical Comedy Society in the late 1940s & 50s.