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Audubon New York Staff & Bios
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Zachary Boerman, Forest Program Associate, Albany Office
Zack believes in the strong connection between bird habitat restoration and sustainable forest management. As a native of Rochester NY, the nearby Adirondack Mountains became an early inspiration to conserve our natural habitat. These experiences led him to pursue an AAS in Forest Technology from the SUNY Ranger School and a BS in Forest Resource Management from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Zack then headed west to hone his field skills in California with the US Forest Service before working as an operations forester throughout New England. He is dedicated to promoting the many benefits of active forest management on private lands in northeast forests. When Zack isn't out enjoying the Adirondacks, he spends his free time cooking, skiing, and seeing live music.
Mike Burger, Senior Director of Conservation, Ithaca Office - at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Mike has been with Audubon New York since 1999, first as Forest Ecologist, then Director of Bird Conservation, and most recently as Director of Conservation & Science before being promoted to Managing Director in 2018. Based at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, Mike is responsible for day-to-day management of Audubon New York staff and programs, including conservation, policy, communications, administration, and centers and education. Additionally, Mike helps coordinate Audubon's Healthy Forests Initiative in the Atlantic Flyway. Prior to coming to Audubon, Mike earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Michigan where he studied climatic and physiological determinants of bird ranges and was supported by a Department of Energy Global Change Fellowship.
Sharon Bruce, Communications Manager, Albany Office
I'm a believer in the power of the people and the superpower of words to change the world. I honed my strategic skill set managing marketing, PR, branding and communications campaigns for a range of nonprofits with BC/DC Ideas, a creative agency in North Carolina. I learned how to listen, organize and advocate with Freelancers Union in NYC, and pitch wild ideas to media with JDub Records. In my not-so-spare time I cook, hike, garden, read and bake.
Kathryn D'Amico, Center Manager– Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary & Audubon Center
Kathryn grew up on the south shore of Long Island. She was always fascinated with the balance of nature. After an earlier career in business and having a family, she returned to school. She graduated from SUNY ESC with a BS in Environmental Science, with the focus of her work on Ecology. She lived in Austin, Texas where she worked at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center first in membership and later on a grant program researching invasive plant species. Kathryn then began volunteering on many habitat restoration projects, as well as native plant projects and vegetation surveys.
After moving back to her hometown on Long Island, she began volunteering for Audubon. This led her to a position at TR Sanctuary & Audubon Center, where she could combine her environmental education and her business background. In her spare time, Kathryn enjoys spending time with her husband and four daughters hiking, camping, going to the beach, and of course bird-watching!
Andrew Hinickle, Conservation Biologist, Ithaca Office - at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Andy Hinickle is Audubon New York's Conservation Biologist within the Conservation and Science Department, located at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca. Andy leads Audubon's young forest (shrubland), and grassland bird conservation efforts, with an emphasis on working with private and public landowners within Important Bird Areas and other focus areas. He works closely with partner agencies and organizations to engage landowners in cost-share or other incentive programs, writing conservation and management plans for project sites, and monitoring the bird response to management activities. Andy came to Audubon in 2011 from the Long Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex, where he was employed as a term Wildlife Biologist. Prior to that, he held positions with the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, monitoring, restoring and maintaining a variety of habitat types on public and private lands. Andy has a BS from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
Alyssa Johnson, Environmental Educator
Alyssa Johnson, Environmental Educator, Montezuma Audubon Center
Alyssa discovered her passion for conservation while working summers at a girls camp in Raquette Lake, NY. She graduated from Finger Lakes Community College with dual degrees: an AS in Environmental Studies and an AAS in Natural Resources Conservation. Next she transferred to SUNY Cobleskill where she received her BT in Wildlife Management. Throughout her time in college, Alyssa was an avid volunteer with the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation. She was also an involved member of The Wildlife Society student chapters, serving as club President and Historian and presenting an undergraduate research project on black bear communications at one of the annual national conferences.
Alyssa's path to the Montezuma Audubon Center has been scenic, including internships with the USFWS in Alaska, Alabama, and the Florida Keys, an internship managing big game data in Albany with the NYSDEC, a year of AmeriCorps VISTA where she served at two community-action non-profits, and returning to FLCC to work in the very department she graduated from years before. While at Audubon, Alyssa hopes to engage, inspire, and educate children and other members of her community to love and appreciate the resources that we are responsible for conserving. In her free time, Alyssa loves hiking with her golden retriever Addie, cooking, camera trapping, and exploring the Finger Lakes, which she calls home.
Chris Lajewski, Center Director of the Montezuma Audubon Center
Chris Lajewski is a passionate conservationist and birder. A native of Pittsford, NY, Chris began his career with Audubon NY in November 2010 as the Montezuma Audubon Center's Education Manager and he was promoted to Center Director in July 2014. He graduated with honors from SUNY Albany with a Bachelor's of Science degree in geology and obtained a Master's of Science degree in geology from Syracuse University where he researched human impacts on the Finger Lakes. After college, he worked for an environmental consulting firm, the National Park Service's George Washington Memorial Parkway, the Walker Nature Center, and the Central and Western NY Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. Chris is a proud husband and father and enjoys hiking, fishing, camping, and swimming with his wife and children.
Lily Lasovick, For the Birds! Educator, New York City
Lily is a native New Yorker and grew up appreciating wildlife and plants. She attended Rutgers University where she majored in psychology and minored in biology. During her senior year she fell in love with birds while taking an ornithology course. After graduating, she joined AmeriCorps as a Mental Health First Aid Instructor and started volunteering at Audubon NY. As a FTB! educator she hopes to connect NYC kids to the nature around them. In her free time she enjoys birdwatching in Central Park, drawing and baking.
Eric Lind, Director of Community Science & Restoration, Albany Office
Eric is the former Center Director for Constitution Marsh, responsible for all aspects of planning, developing, operating and managing the Marsh. Prior to this position, Eric was the Assistant Manager and Education Director at the sanctuary, where he has worked since 1993. A life-long resident of the Hudson River Valley, he has a deep personal connection to the Hudson River and its wild inhabitants. Eric is an accomplished wildlife photographer and his work frequently decorates Audubon New York publications.
Jillian Liner, Director of Conservation
Based at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, NY, Jillian leads conservation programs to improve the health and resiliency of New York's priority coastal habitats, forests, waterways, and associated species. She co-authored Important Bird Areas of New York: Habitats Worth Protecting and works closely with state and federal partners, other NGOs, and Audubon Chapters across the state to protect birds and critical habitats through management, advocacy, outreach, and monitoring. Prior to joining Audubon in 2001, Jillian worked on a variety of research projects in Florida, Minnesota, Montana, and Vermont, studying the distribution, migration, and breeding territories of raptors. She also assisted NGOs and state agencies with landscape inventories and developing conservation plans. Jillian earned her Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude in biology from Skidmore College and a Master of Science in Ecological Planning from the University of Vermont's School of Natural Resources. Whenever she can, Jillian loves spending time outdoors hiking, skiing, or biking with her husband and two sons.
Daphne M. Lumpkin, Office Manager & Meeting Coordinator, Albany Office
Daphne is a native of Albany and a graduate of Bryant & Stratton Business Institute. Before Audubon she worked with child support services, a division of Lockheed Martin IMS for 5 years. She has been with Audubon since 1997 when she was hired as an Administrative Assistant and is currently the Office Manager and Meeting Coordinator. Daphne also does all the designing and layouts for our publications and event invitations. In her spare time she enjoys writing poetry, swimming, cooking and various volunteer work for her church.
Ben Maher, Coastal Resilience Associate, Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary and Audubon Center
Ben grew up in Savannah, GA and spent much of his life exploring the salt marshes, barrier islands, and maritime forests along the coast. His passion for the environment led him to Savannah State University where he earned a B.S. and M.S. in Marine Sciences. Upon earning his degrees, Ben began a career as a Marine Biologist with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Coastal Resources Division. Much of his work focused on marsh edge habitat assessments, implementing Living Shorelines as shoreline stabilization alternatives, monitoring salt marsh migration due to sea-level rise, and various other wetland assessments. In his spare time, Ben led a grassroots effort to fund, construct, and manage the first free public skatepark in Savannah, GA. The Savannah skatepark opened to the public in the Fall of 2017 after ten years of advocacy! Ben and his partner Juliana decided to migrate north in late 2018 and landed in Ridgewood, Queens. From going to see live music and art to exploring all of the parks and natural areas, he is taking in all that NYC has to offer!
Laura McCarthy, Network Engagement Manager, Albany Office
Laura oversees the grassroots efforts of the conservation and policy programs of Audubon New York and works very closely with the 27 Audubon Chapters in New York. She grew up in the woods and fields of Central New York, and graduated from St. Lawrence University in 2004. Before starting with Audubon in 2007, Laura worked in preschool nature education in Vermont and with the New York advocacy organization, Citizens Environmental Coalition (CEC), where she focused on pollution prevention and residential green building, authoring "The World at Home: A Household Guide to Building Green." Laura currently lives in Albany where she enjoys shopping at farmers markets, playing all kinds of sports, making all types of art and hiking up mountains in summer and fall while skiing down them in winter and early spring. She's also closing in on her 46 Adirondack High Peaks.
Erin McGrath, Policy Manager, Albany Office
Erin serves as Audubon New York's Policy Manager and brings over eight years of experience in government relations to Audubon. Her work focuses on analyzing complex legislative, regulatory, and budgetary issues and advocating for Audubon's policy priorities before the New York State and federal governments. Prior to joining Audubon, Erin worked as an advisor at one of Albany's top ten lobbying firms where she represented clients before the New York State Legislature, Executive Chamber, and State Agencies. She graduated from Elmira College with a Bachelors in American Studies and Political Science and received her Masters in Political Science from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University of Albany.
Rich Merritt, Director of Operations and Administration, Albany Office
Rich began working for Audubon in 1998 and he handles the finances and administration for the state program as well as centers oversight, information systems, human resources, grant processing and pretty much all the stuff that nobody else wants to do. He travels often in search of birds. In his spare hours, Rich enjoys hiking, campfire gatherings, birding, skiing, laughing, singing, cooking and hugs.
Kristin Moore, Environmental Educator, Seneca Meadows Education Center
An active, joyful life along Lake Ontario led Kristen Moore to pursue her interdisciplinary education in Media Arts and Adventure Education at Green Mountain College. Recreation, service and education are key components to her programs, seeking to help others establish bonds with nature and establish conservation ethics. From stream cleanups and yoga hikes to the largest simultaneous testing for micro plastics in our Great Lakes, Kristen continues to work for our shared spaces.
Yamina Nater-Otero, For the Birds! Educator, New York City
A lifelong animal lover, Yamina took the scenic route on her journey to conservation and sustainability. After getting a BA in Classical Studies, she spent 8 years working with special needs children both as an educator and a nanny. During that time she discovered her love of nature and eventually entered the Environmental Education MA program at Montclair State University. While working on her degree she served with Americorps for a year and taught at the School of Conservation in Stokes State Forest. She is excited to put her passions for sustainability, community outreach and social justice to good use at the Audubon. In her free time she enjoys consuming far too much pop culture and spending time with her two Boston Terriers.
Julie Nelsen, Education Manager, Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary and Audubon Center
Julie graduated from York College in Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Business and Marketing. After graduation she went into the AmeriCorp Western Region NCCC and participated in forestry work, special needs projects for children and childhood education programming.
Due to her inspirational experiences with AmeriCorp, she discovered in her heart she wanted to go back to school for a Masters in Childhood Education. Julie holds a Professional Certification in Childhood Education from NYS. She has taught in both the public school setting as well as on the water and beach as a marine science Education Director for a not-for-profit marine education center. She loves both teaching children and being outdoors!
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Marisa Rader, Fundraising Events Manager, New York City
As the Fundraising Events Associate, Marisa is responsible for planning and executing the annual Keesee Awards Luncheon, Young Members Event, and meetings, activities, and events of the Women in Conservation program, including the annual Luncheon. Prior to joining Audubon New York, Marisa worked as the Development Associate for Central Synagogue, a vibrant, Reform congregation in Midtown Manhattan. A native of Los Angeles, Marisa graduated from the Joint Program with Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary, earning a B.A in American Studies and a B.A. in Modern Jewish Studies. Marisa is an enthusiastic conservationist, including filling her beloved composting bin in the backyard, and enjoys exploring New York City, trying new recipes with local, sustainable ingredients, and playing with all of the friendly dogs during walks in Central Park.
Richard Santangelo, Program Director - For the Birds! New York City
A former elementary school teacher and Peace Corps Volunteer, Rich is responsible for promoting the growth and implementation of the For the Birds! program across the five boroughs of New York City. Rich holds a Bachelor's of Education from William Paterson University and a Master's of Science in Environmental Education and Ecology from the Florida Institute of Technology. Rich also serves as Field Trip Chair for his local Audubon Chapter in New Jersey.
Rebecca Schultz, Education Manager, Constitution Marsh Audubon Center & Sanctuary
Rebecca has a MA in Environmental Conservation Education from NYU and BA in Cultural Anthropology. She has served as a US Peace Corps volunteer, working as a Youth Developer in the central region of Ukraine. Coming to us most recently from the NYC Soil and Water Conservation District, Rebecca uses her professional background, multiple talents, and love of the natural world to coordinate and implement meaningful education programs. Her main goal is to develop education and citizen-science programs on and off-site that exchange knowledge, foster appreciation and further develop an ethic of conservation within the community.
Suzanne Treyger, Forest Program Manager, Ithaca – Cornell Lab of Ornithology
As Forest Program Manager, Suzanne promotes sustainable forestry practices on private and public land by providing outreach and technical assistance to landowners and land managers. This is an important part of a greater effort to improve forest habitat along the Atlantic Flyway for focal bird species in decline. Prior to joining Audubon New York, Suzanne worked for YardMap, a citizen science project at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Suzanne was also the Stewardship Project Coordinator for New Jersey Audubon, where she managed public and private lands to enhance and restore habitat for species of conservation concern. She has also worked for the Smithsonian Institution and the New Hampshire Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Program. A native of central New York, she has a BS in Wildlife Management from the University of New Hampshire, and a MS from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Forest and Natural Resources Management, where her research focused on invasive species management issues on private lands in the Adirondack State Park. Suzanne enjoys being outdoors alongside her husband, daughter, and dog.
David Wheeler, Warden/Sanctuary Manager, Rheinstrom Hill Audubon Center and Sanctuary
Dave worked for Mr. Rheinstrom before it became an Audubon Sanctuary and is the longest tenured employee of Audubon New York. His trail care and carpentry skills are utilized regularly at Centers throughout the state. In his free time Dave enjoys fishing.


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Class of 2017: Their Funniest Moments
By Jordan Magaziner Steinfeld, Staff writer | May 25, 2017
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The Class of 2017 shares their funniest memories from high school.
We all know that high school can be stressful – academically, socially, emotionally, for a multitude of reasons. There's pressure to excel in school, extracurricular activities, and to still make the time to grow and maintain friendships.
As part of our annual "Where are they headed?" story, we asked the Class of 2017 to look back on their high school careers and share their funniest memories. Some of these might be considered "you-had-to-be-there" moments but they're all reminders of those irreplaceable high school memories. Here's what they shared:
Kate Balleza (St. Agnes Academy): "Every day at lunch with my friends!"
Alyssa Barrett (St. John's School): "During a grade-wide biology lecture my freshmen year it was completely silent while everyone was taking notes. I hit my space bar and it made the loudest sound I have ever heard a space bar make. Everyone turned to look what the sound was, and my friend and I just burst out laughing and everyone else quickly joined in."
Evelyn Clark (Incarnate Word Academy): "My date and I had an epic fail with the map app on my phone. We drove the wrong direction to a dance and ended up being an hour late! It is funny now but was not funny at the time."
Benjamin Cohen (The Emery/Weiner School): "During my 10th grade trip to San Francisco, it was April Fool's Day but no one realized it so our teachers decided to play a joke on us and make my entire grade think that we were in trouble and think that we had lost our free time. The teachers got really serious and everyone got really scared that we had lost our free time and were actually in trouble, but soon enough, we caught on that it was an April Fool's joke."
Rylie Cohen (The Emery/Weiner School): "Being in New York with my best friend."
Harris Cooley (Memorial High School): "All of the student pep rally skits."
Caitlin Connelly (Bellaire High School): "Funniest moment from high school? Any and all swim team practices with my amazing coach Kristin Wingenroth and my best friend Ines Frazier."
Catherine Craft (St. Thomas' Episcopal School): "There are too many to list."
Greyson Crosswell (The Tenney School): "I always had the most fun times playing golf with friends after school. Many funny stories!"
Paula DeAnda (Carnegie Vanguard High School): "The funniest moment from high school was our senior prank. We brought farm animals and let them roam around the courtyard of our school one morning."
Abdullah Dowaihy (Alexander-Smith Academy): "When I accidentally drew on the board with an extra super permanent industrial sharpie and we spent a lot of time trying to remove them."
Madeleine Flanders (Houston Christian High School): "When I think about that day, I still laugh until tears pour from my eyes. We were in Language Arts, deeply immersed in a student's presentation at the Promethian board, when he suddenly dropped the Promethian pen and it rolled under the radiator. He proceeded to pull the radiator away from the wall in an attempt to retrieve the pen. With a look of sheer fright, the teacher shouted, 'Nooooo!' It was too late and the scene quickly unfolded. The water line to the radiator broke and water started gushing at many gallons per second across the floor. Soon the classroom filled, the water flooded the hallways and then all the other classrooms. The only escape was the staircase and it had become a rushing, roaring Niagara Falls. All the lights and computers started to pop loudly and go black. Teachers began barking out orders for all kids to escape the great flood via the staircase. The entire building flooded, but we all made it out safely. Once the emergency was over, our class often recounted the events of that day, especially surfing down that dark stairwell illuminated only by a red exit sign. This memory still sends me into uncontrollable laughter."
Anna Glickman (The Kinkaid School): "While dancing, my friend knocked over a chair, which I proceeded to trip over on stage during a Kinkaid Dance Company performance."
Coral Goldstein (Bellaire High School): "Any moment spent with my best friend, Caleigh, would have to go down as some of my funniest moments. We are just two goofballs who love cracking jokes and having fun."
Bailey Hayes (St. Agnes Academy): "I think that the funniest, and scariest, part of my high school career thus far would have to be learning how to drive with one of my very close friends, Victoria Mota. I think that we both questioned whether we were going to survive those weeks multiple times, literally, but it was where I met such an amazing friend and I think that the entire summer of 2014 held a lot of my very favorite memories from high school."
Lonzie Helms (St. Thomas' Episcopal School): "Watching my Philosophy teacher 'whip and Nae-Nae.'"
Abigail Hepburn (Houston Christian High School): "When I got stopped speeding, and I told the officer that my car didn't go that fast."
Brittany Hitt (Bellaire High School): "I was sitting in the auditorium one day at lunch in tenth grade. There were a few people on stage, and all of a sudden, one girl fell off the stage. It was about a four-foot drop from the stage to the ground. She was obviously okay, and ended up being my best friend for about two years."
Jacob Lawyer (Episcopal High School): "My senior year isn't quite done yet . . . there's still work to be done!"
Angela Liu (Bellaire High School): "My junior year, I was selling books to Bellaire parents over the phone on call night for yearbook. Unfortunately, I was in a rush to get somewhere while on the phone and didn't realize that I ended up calling an old number by habit. It wasn't until 30 seconds into the phone call that I realized it was actually my mom on the other end of the line, pretending to be a random parent who was interested in buying a yearbook. Really embarrassing but definitely a moment I'll always remember."
Ashlon Lusk (Bellaire High School): "My funniest moment from high school was when my newspaper teacher was trying to show us an inspirational video, but it was a video of two horses becoming friends. We all thought she had shown us the wrong video, but she really thought she was inspiring us to be friends with everyone in the classroom. It made the whole class bond more than she thought it would."
William Mason (Bellaire High School): "The funniest moment from high school happened freshman year, when I pranked the substitute teacher and convinced him that we were the last period of the day and had to move all of the furniture out into the hallway for the janitors. The class played along. I got in a lot of trouble for that one."
Meagan McAuliffe (Bellaire High School): "My funniest memory in high school would be from the Woodlands soccer tournament when me and a few of my teammates accidentally got in the wrong car and as soon as we realized that it wasn't the right car, we rushed out of it and laughed about it for like 7 minutes."
Eli Melendrez (St. Thomas' Episcopal School): "Asking my girlfriend to prom with a sign that said 'let's taco bout prom' and then having her taco 12-pack from Taco Bell."
Ella Morgan (The Kinkaid School): "Every minute of Austin City Limits 2016. Funniest weekend of my life so far."
Fernanda Nunes (The Village School): "When Houston weather abruptly changed from sunny to an extreme thunderstorm and my friend yelled "The rain is coming!" as all high schoolers sprinted inside to escape the rain . . . it really looked like an action movie scene."
Louis Oviedo II (St. Pius X High School): "I think playing 'Blind Dodge Ball' during my senior retreat was the funniest time of my high school career. Everyone looked so funny falling and flopping around trying to eliminate the other players."
Kiarah Parrales (Incarnate Word Academy): "One of the funniest moments from high school is when one of our teachers left her laptop charging for too long and it exploded so we all had to gather in the auditorium and leave school early."
Katelynn Phang (St. Thomas' Episcopal School): "Beheading a music stand in the middle of a huge music concert."
Isis Pinon (Bellaire High School): "Bellaire High School puts on a pageant for the senior boys called Mr. Bellaire where they sarcastically go through the same steps as a real pageant. I never laughed so hard in my life! Some of the dances and costumes they had on were hilarious!"
Paige Robbins (Bellaire High School): "By far my funniest high school memory was an evening that involved tons of high school friends, an open muddy field, and helicopter lights. I have so many wonderful friends from high school and we have made too many memories to mention, most of which I will look back and laugh."
Ginger Sanchez (Bellaire High School): "In sophomore year, during Russian class, several friends and I were so exhausted that we started laughing over a small, stupid joke. We laughed nonstop, barely breathing and crying all over the place for several minutes for no reason. It was one of those 'in the moment' times, and it always makes me appreciate the little things like that that make me so happy."
Ben Schwierking (Bellaire High School): "Once, in 10th grade, the streets flooded and school was cancelled, so my brother and I tied a wakeboard to a bike and we took turns riding the wakeboard through the water."
Alexa Spolane (The Emery/Weiner School): "Wearing a huge blow-up inflatable suit to school for Purim day and winning an award for best costume."
Allison Taffet (St. Thomas' Episcopal School): "Calculus class always leads to the funniest inside jokes."
Mary Kate Theroux (Incarnate Word Academy): "My funniest moment from high school was when, on my last day of classes at my school in New Jersey (Villa Victoria Academy), I walked into my Theology class a few minutes late expecting nothing more than a boring day of notes, to a full-blown surprise party. I was gifted pictures, inside jokes (mostly about me moving to Texas), and a jar of pickles. How surprised I was and how great and hilarious that going away party was, really make this one of my funniest and most memorable memories."
Clarise Trinh (Bellaire High School): "There's too many to just choose one, but my Physics C class never fails to make me laugh. The opportunities to make bad puns are endless."
Bracy Webb II (St. Pius X High School): "Anytime I am with my friends."
Calvin Wong (St. Thomas' Episcopal School): "Looking back, when two of my bandmates and I got stuck on the side of a mountain in Scotland. We stayed at the peak too long taking selfies and then fog rolled in. We got lost, and had no phone service. It started raining, and I fell four times in the mud. It was terrifying then, but hilarious now."
Be sure to read more about the Class of 2017 in our annual Where are they headed story and read about some of the teachers that inspired them along the way. Have a funny or favorite memory to share, too? Comment below.
Kate Balleza, Alyssa Barrett, Evelyn Clark, Benjamin Cohen, Rylie Cohen, Harris Cooley, Caitlin Connelly, Kristin Wingenroth, Ines Frazier, Catherine Craft, Greyson Crosswell, Paula DeAnda, Abdullah Dowaihy, Madeleine Flanders, Anna Glickman, Coral Goldstein, Bailey Hayes, Victoria Mota, Lonzie Helms, Abigail Hepburn, Brittany Hitt, Jacob Lawyer, Angela Liu, Ashlon Lusk, William Mason, Meagan McAuliffe, Eli Melendrez, Ella Morgan, Fernanda Nunes, Louis Oviedo II, Kiarah Parrales, Katelynn Phang, Isis Pinon, Paige Robbins, Ginger Sanchez, Ben Schwierking, Alexa Spolane, Allison Taffet, Mary Kate Theroux, Clarise Trinh, Bracy Webb II, Calvin Wong
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Alexander-Smith Academy, Bellaire High School, Carnegie Vanguard High School, The Emery/Weiner School, Episcopal High School, Houston Christian High School, Incarnate Word Academy, The Kinkaid School, Memorial High School, Saint Thomas' Episcopal School, St. Agnes Academy, St. John's School, St. Pius X High School, The Tenney School, The Village School
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Former prime minister Tony Abbott has slammed what he sees as a "corrosion of trust" within the government after leaked polling data from the 2016 election suggested he would have been pulled from the race for his seat of Warringah were it not for Malcolm Turnbull.
"The sneaky, underhand business of leaking needs to stop, it really does need to stop. It is absolutely corrosive of trust," Mr Abbott told 9NEWS today.
The Australian Financial Review today reported Mr Turnbull intervened and saved Mr Abbott after internal party polling revealed he was slipping in popularity less than two weeks out from the election.
The worst-case scenario showed Mr Abbott was reportedly set to lose the seat to Labor by 57 percent to 43 percent on a two-party preferred basis, which would risk the Coalition's chance at government.
He went on to win the seat with 61.5 percent of the two-candidate preferred vote.
"The polling in question was very, very closely held. I had it, Tony Nutt had it, the Prime Minister had it and I'm just very disappointed that someone has chosen to put it out there for self-serving reasons," Mr Abbott said.
Mr Abbott said he was "grateful to everyone from the Prime Minister down" for their efforts in the 2016 election.
Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce today said he was fed up with the ongoing tension and wanted Mr Abbott "to be part of the team".
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Preparation of one dimensional group 14 metal sulfides: different roles of metal–amino complexes†
Zhenqing Wang,ab Gongfeng Xu,a Yanfeng Biab and Cheng Wang*a
a State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 5625 Renmin Street, Changchun, Jilin, P. R. China
E-mail: cwang@ciac.jl.cn
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b Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China
Two organic–inorganic hybrid one dimensional (1D) sulfides [Mn(en)2(H2O)][Mn(en)2MnGe3S9] (1) and [Mn(en)2]2Sn2S6 (2) (en = ethylenediamine) have been prepared under solvothermal conditions and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Metal–amino complexes play different roles in preparing these two compounds: In 1, [Mn(en)2]2+ cations decorate the chains constructed by ternary T2 [MnGe3S10]6− clusters through their non-terminal S atoms, and [Mn(en)2(H2O)]2+ cations act as templates. While in 2, [Mn(en)2]2+ cations and [Sn2S6]4− dimeric anions are bridged together in an alternative manner to form its chain-like structure.
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https://doi.org/10.1039/C002873H
CrystEngComm, 2010,12, 3703-3707
Preparation of one dimensional group 14 metal sulfides: different roles of metal–amino complexes
Z. Wang, G. Xu, Y. Bi and C. Wang, CrystEngComm, 2010, 12, 3703
DOI: 10.1039/C002873H
Zhenqing Wang
Gongfeng Xu
Yanfeng Bi
Cheng Wang


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Kasper Bjorke: A Soundtrack to Cancer
Title: The Fifty Eleven Project
Label: Kompakt
Bjorke hails from Denmark, first making a name for himself during the 90s disco-house oriented outfit known as Filur. That lasted for four albums and a host of hit singles. Since then, his solo work has roamed far and wide in terms of style and genre. That is, from house to techno, krautrock to rock while working with Moby, Darkness Falls, Laid Back and Martin Brodin. He's even part of the Danish label, Fake Diamonds, runs his own management company and handles a few groups, under his youthful wings.
So, busy guy then.
Not too busy to launch this very different project which I reviewed on CD but will also be released on three clear vinyl discs, presented in a rather nice box.
Each of the tracks on this double CD collection has a video sequence attached but you would have only seen those if you had visited the exhibition in Copenhagen between 12-21 October 2018 which was produced in collaboration with prxjects.com.
This is, therefore, a sort of ambient concept album. But one drawn from real life and the realisation that Bjorke had cancer. The music follows five years of treatment and check-ups while the final album was released on the second anniversary of his 'all clear', "I wanted to document the gamut of feelings – both light and dark – using these long instrumental compositions as the narrative and the track titles as a narrative guideline." (i.e. CT, Neurons, Contemplation and the like). Bjorke went on to say, "The project has been a therapeutic way of me processing the diagnosis, the constant fear of relapse and the light in being healed. Throughout the process, I used the music to fall asleep to – and as a sonic space to meditate.
He hopes that others, in the same predicament, might be able to use the music in the same way.
The music mixes an attractive melange of organic/orchestral and electronic sources to produce tonal pieces that drift, pulse or gently flow in a melodic manner, mixing the tempo, tweaking the structure and poking a finger at the mood so you may recognise a little of Steve Reich here and a touch of Philip Glass there but there is a continuum of meditative tones within this collection that allows the mind to wander. Use the music to explore or wallow in its melodic interludes but this is a collection you'll return to regularly.
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A flag raising ceremony is held at the opening of China"s only permanent overseas logistical base in Djibouti, a nation in the Horn of Africa, Aug 1, 2017. [Photo/VCG]
China will consider setting up new overseas support bases for its military if there are such needs, a senior People"s Liberation Army strategist said on Wednesday.
Lieutenant General He Lei, former vice-president of the PLA Academy of Military Science, said at a Beijing news conference hosted by the State Council Information Office that whether China establishes new overseas military bases will depend on two factors.
"This matter is primarily determined by whether a new base is needed to help China better fulfill missions given by the United Nations," he explained. "Second, it depends on the approval of the nation where a new base should be located."
Given these two preconditions, "it is possible for China to build new overseas support bases", said the officer.
He emphasized that the main role of a Chinese overseas base is to provide logistical support to Chinese units operating overseas, and not to field Chinese military forces in other countries, so people should not overinterpret this matter.
Currently, the Chinese military has one overseas facility-the Djibouti Logistics Support Base, which was put into operation in August 2017.
The base, in Djibouti City, capital of the nation in the Horn of Africa, is tasked with supporting the Chinese military"s naval escort, peacekeeping and humanitarian missions in Africa and western Asia, enabling the nation to better protect the safety of international strategic maritime passages with other countries, said the PLA Navy.
It is expected to help China improve its capabilities in international military cooperation, joint exercises, emergency evacuations and overseas rescues, according to the Navy.
The United States, France and Japan also have military bases in Djibouti.
Senior Captain Zhang Junshe, a high-ranking researcher at the PLA Naval Research Academy, said at Wednesday"s news conference that the Djibouti base is helpful to the Chinese Navy"s escort mission, which was requested by the UN.
"An overseas base can conveniently resupply ships with fresh food and fuel. It also facilitates logistical work. In the past, when we had no base, our Navy had to transport components from China to replace bad parts on a ship, and it was not easy for our sailors to rest," he said.
Regarding China"s plans for its aircraft carrier force, Zhang said the country needs at least three carriers, and that it will gradually develop its carrier force in accordance with its road map.
The PLA Navy now has one carrier in active service and is testing a second one, which is expected to soon be commissioned. A new carrier, larger than the previous two, is reportedly being built.
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A granddaughter's tribute to her 104-year-old grandmother
Sunshine Lichauco de Leon and grandmother Jessie Coe Lichauco
By: Audrey Tan-Zubiri Philippine Daily Inquirer / 04:10 AM November 23, 2016
Sunshine Lichauco de Leon opens the door herself after I press the doorbell. In her house she is clearly busy, as a production assistant works on a project and, a few minutes later, a woman arrives early for a meeting.
But Sunshine is unfazed. She is cool and (pardon the pun) as sunny as her name suggests.
It is second nature to her by now to talk about Nana or Jessie Coe Lichauco, her 104-year-old grandmother; Sunshine has spent the last 20 years shadowing her and taking note of her every word and story.
"We've always understood each other, innately. She said to me, my grandfather died before I was born and my mother was pregnant with me at the time," Sunshine says. "We missed each other by five months so she used to say that my grandfather and I traded places. Maybe that was her way of explaining why we always had this special bond."
This special bond would bring them together countless times. And then it hit her: "I just remember one day, watching people come to our house in Boston. I instinctively knew that this was something special. I remember thinking, 'Okay, the best thing you can do is give your family a sense of place.'"
Sunshine immediately got to work, taking notes, photos, recordings and videos in order to capture everything. The result is the documentary film, "Curiosity, Adventure and Love."
The film opens with an introduction of Jessie, whose life begins on the Isle of Pines, an island close to Cuba, where she is born to an American father and a mother who passes away when Jessie is still young. She is brought to the US and raised in a convent school in Florida.
Jessie as a young woman
Fate brings about a chance meeting with an intelligent and charming Filipino, Marcial Lichauco.
Despite the restrictive nature at the time, 18-year-old Jessie boards a Manila-bound ship on her own and finds herself in the Philippines, a land she will call home.
While one would expect a film centered around one woman to be unique to her and her family's experiences, this story is remarkably universal as Jessie lives out all-embracing values of tolerance, openness and generosity.
Through her actions, we see how good begets good. Imagine a young visiting American scholar who is invited to stay on as a guest for a year.
Decades later, he returns from the US and proceeds to put up a foundation in the Philippines inspired by this woman, who showed him how one should live in this world.
Through Jessie's eyes, we are thrilled with the Manila she arrives to, where Manila Bay is filled with chic cafés in a cosmopolitan city. Seeing all these makes one realize just how much Filipinos truly lost in the war.
But it is also during the war in which Jessie's spirit makes its inspiring presence, as she turns their temporary refuge into a hospital and shelter for the wounded and homeless. Though Jessie and her family are also suffering, she does not use this as an excuse to focus on their needs alone. She turns it instead into an opportunity to help.
In the documentary, she talks of saving every bit of skin and peels from fruits and vegetables, turning them into preserves, while egg shells are boiled for calcium for her loved ones and the countless she sheltered.
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The film's ending is certainly not the end for Jessie, who, at 104-years-old, is still as lucid as ever. She is amused and confused by the attention over her life, though she has this to say, "I am glad if I serve a purpose. There is not too much to life, unless you serve a purpose someplace."
Meanwhile, things are just getting started for Sunshine, (who's also the film's associate writer/director) and her collaborators Suzanne Richiardone (associate producer), and Justin Weinrich (editor/associate writer).
Sunshine is currently doing the film's marketing and distribution. She has screened it in two Philippine festivals, where the film earned a special jury prize for documentary. It has also received more screening invitations and support here and overseas.
Last month, the Philippine Embassy in Washington, DC, hosted a screening as part of Philippine-American history month. This was followed by November screenings at the consulate in New York. Last week, the film was privately screened in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Jessie Lichauco today
From a simple idea of giving one's family a sense of place, Sunshine has given the values of an exceptional woman a broader platform where they can now inspire and influence a whole new generation of Filipino families to create their own tales of curiosity, adventure and love.
"The film's title are the words which tie and inspire the endless stories of life that my grandmother has shared with me and are what I truly believe are core elements to a good, rewarding, happy life," Sunshine says. "If this film encourages people to live life with an increased sense of curiosity, more inclination toward adventure, and a greater sense of love to each other, then I would have done my job as a storyteller."
"Curiosity, Adventure and Love" will be screened at Rockwell Power Plant Cinema 4, Jan. 18-24, 2017.
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If approved, City staffers could OK smaller projects without Planning Commission involvement
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West Hollywood's Planning Commission approved a series of proposals during a Nov. 16 meeting that ultimately aim to ease the development process in the city, WeHoVille reported. The commission also approved an eight-unit apartment building on Norton Avenue and a five-unit condo project on Formosa Avenue during the same meeting.
In an effort to quicken the permitting timeframe, the commission approved a recommendation that would allow city staffers to sign off on smaller projects without having to turn to the Planning Commission for review.
City staff would be able to approve buildings of 10 units or less, with anything greater needing approval from the higher-up. Staff initially wanted the limit to clock in at 12 units. Currently, they can only approve projects with eight or less units.
In addition to a slow system, the city's laws currently force developers to build to at least 90 percent of a lot's capacity — meaning a lot with space for up to 10 units would have to house at least nine units. That's been a cause for concern for developers who can't realistically achieve that 90 percent capacity, while also leading to some odd-shaped projects.
City officials are now ditching the 90 percent requirement and replacing it with a "no net loss" rule, meaning a developer can't tear down an apartment building to replace it with a new building with fewer units.
City staff also recommended moving a key concession — an extra 10 feet in height in exchange for low-income units — to a different place on the menu of available concessions to make it less apparent to developers. Commissioners ultimately felt the change wouldn't impact much considering developers are already very aware it exists, and compromised to move it further down the list.
These recommendations will head to the City Council for approval, likely early in 2018. [WeHoV] – Natalie Hoberman
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In an East London lock up, two filmmakers, Jimmy and Sam, are duct taped to chairs and forced to watch a snuff film by Ashkan, a loan shark to whom they owe a lot of money. If they don't pay up, they'll be starring in the next one. Before the film reaches its end, Ashkan and all his men are slaughtered by unknown assailants. Only Jimmy and Sam survive the massacre, leaving them with the sole copy of the snuff film.
The filmmakers decide to build their next movie around the brutal film. While auditioning actors, they stumble upon Melissa, an enigmatic actress who seems perfect for the leading role, not least because she's the spitting image of the snuff film's main victim. Neither the film, nor Melissa, are entirely what they seem however. Jimmy and Sam find themselves pulled into a paranormal mystery that leads them through the shadowy streets of the city beneath the city and sees them re-enacting an ancient Mesopotamian myth cycle. As they play out the roles of long forgotten gods and goddesses, they're drawn into the subtle web of a deadly heresy that stretches from the beginnings of civilization to the end of the world as we know it.
Jim Mcleod is on the run. He's running from his responsibilities as a father, hiding out from his pregnant girlfriend and working as a groundskeeper in a rural graveyard. He's running from a lifetime of guilt and bad decisions, but principally he's running from the murderous entities that have possessed the very ground at his feet.
Jim has no idea what these entities are, but they've done unspeakable things to everyone in the graveyard and now they're hunting him down. There is nowhere Jim can hide, nowhere he can walk and nowhere he can run that isn't under the lethal power of the things in the ground. If he stands any chance of survival he must uncover the link between his murderous tormentors, three mysterious graves and an ancient heresy that stretches back to the beginning of time.
In an advance review of my novella Run To Ground, in Mass Movement Magazine, noted music and book reviewer Jim Dodge wrote: "I'm not sure if it should be categorized as ego or genius but Jasper Bark is in the process of creating his own mythos." In that single comment Jim summed up one of the scariest parts of my latest project. I've started a story cycle, beginning with the novel The Final Cut and the novella Run To Ground, which were released last month by Crystal Lake Publishing, and continuing in the novella Quiet Places, which appears next month in the anthology Great British Horror. Each tale is linked by a dark mythology that details a whole new pantheon of goddesses, gods and monsters.
As Jim rightly points out this could be considered as monumentally egotistical. Particularly when you consider that I'm following in the footsteps of genre giants like Lovecraft, Barker and Lord Dunsany. Comparisons to these writers are inevitable, and given their immense contributions to the field, it's scary to think how my own work might stand up. It's also worth noting that neither Lovecraft nor Dunsany was intentionally creating a mythos. The term mythos was only applied to a group of their stories years later, by other writers like August Derleth. So my efforts might be seen as doubly pretentious. As scary as this prospect was however, it wasn't the scariest part of writing these books.
My mythos revolves around a historic blasphemy I learned of called the 'Qu'rm Saddic Heresy'. This is an archaic set of beliefs that were considered old when the earliest records were written down. No writings by the heretics are known to exist, but we know they were persecuted as long ago as Ancient Mesopotamian times. Their beliefs and practices must have been unbelievably taboo to have been suppressed for over 5,000 years, and there's something both scary and alluring to me, as a writer, about the heresy.
One of the things I like most about horror fiction is that is that it often touches on the theme of 'forbidden knowledge'. Even as a small kid, the idea of learning something man was 'never supposed to know' fascinated me. Whether it's Doctor Faustus summoning Mephistopheles, or Doctor Pretorius firing up the resonator in From Beyond, my favourite parts of horror fiction are those giddy moments of ecstatic revelation, when the veil of reality is torn asunder and the unknowable truths of reality are presented to the protagonist. Of course it invariable goes horribly wrong, and they pay a high price for that knowledge, but I still get an illicit thrill at the thought of it.
This may be one of the things Lovecraft was alluding to when he said: "the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown". What is more 'unknown' than things we haven't learned yet, or were never supposed to know? Some of the most important discoveries, and the most essential knowledge, can only be attained by taking a flying leap across the gaping chasm of all that's unknown and unknowable. What could be more scary than that?
Even still, that wasn't the scariest part of writing these stories. The scariest part was allowing myself to write something I'd wanted to create since I was a child.
A while ago I cleaned a load of old notebooks out of my parent's attic. Stolen school books I'd filled with stories, my first steps towards becoming an author. The earliest one dates back to when I was around eleven or twelve years old. It was filled with notes and story ideas for building my own mythology. From the youngest age I've been fascinated with mythology, from Greek and Norse tales to old Anglo-Saxon and African mythology. Most of my life, it seems, I've been gearing up to create my own mythology. It's probably my longest held writing ambition.
You might be asking yourself what's so scary about realising a life long ambition? Well, everything I guess. There's nothing scarier than the realisation that the one thing you always hoped to do one day, is the one thing you have to do today, because you're running out of time and you've run out of excuses.
For one thing, there's the fear that what you produce, as a writer, will be so far removed from what you originally conceived, you might as well not have bothered. Nothing you write is ever as great as it appears in that white hot moment of inspiration and the longer you put it off, the more you worry you're going to mess it up. There's also the fear that you're just not up to the job. That you're never going to have the skill or the talent to make it happen. That was the scariest part of writing these stories, but it wasn't scary enough to stop me altogether.
Because eventually I realised that unless I faced those fears, I was never going to be the writer I always wanted to be. If I didn't try to realise my lifelong ambition then what was the point of being a writer in the first place? Yeah it scared me, but being a horror writer I should have realised that the best things I've ever done with my life (getting married, having kids, starting my dream project) were always the most scary. That's why, as I've said before, the scariest part of writing anything is always the most important.
Jasper Bark is infectious — and there's no known cure. If you're reading this then you're already at risk of contamination. The symptoms will begin to manifest any moment now. There's nothing you can do about it. There's no itching or unfortunate rashes, but you'll become obsessed with his books, from the award winning collections Dead Air and Stuck on You and Other Prime Cuts, to cult novels like The Final Cut and acclaimed graphic novels such as Bloodfellas and Beyond Lovecraft. Soon you'll want to tweet, post and blog about his work until thousands of others fall under its viral spell. We're afraid there's no way to avoid this, these words contain a power you are hopeless to resist. You're already in their thrall and have been from the moment you clicked onto this page. Even now you find yourself itching to read the rest of his work. Don't fight it, embrace the urge and wear your obsession with pride!
Devastating news. Gene Wilder has passed away at the age of 83.
This gorgeous, full-color omnibus collects six issues of SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES, hokey thrillers in the inimitable EC style. Each tale comes with a twist ending that might have been original and startling in the 1950s but is now more likely to elicit embarrassed giggles and eye rolls than shivers. Most of the twists come in the form of karmic comeuppance: A bear hunter with a bear skin rug in his cabin is killed by a bear and turned into a human skin rug — Noooooooo! Some twists, oddly, require no punishable transgression on the part of the characters and seem to come out of the blue just to be mean: A man accidentally contacts a beautiful alien woman on his monitor screen, over time they talk and fall in love, she finally crosses the galaxy to be with him on Earth, and it turns out she's actually 200 feet tall — Noooooooo! Of more interest are the morality plays that appear in each issue, EC-style, twist-ending examinations of thorny societal topics like police brutality, violent nationalism, and racial and religious bigotry. In one, an anti-Semite and his friends harass, beat up, and ultimately kill a Jewish couple who move into his neighborhood, only to discover he himself is adopted and actually Jewish, at which point his friends turn on him and beat him just like they did to the couple — Noooooooo! The earnest hokeyness is part of the charm of revisiting these old comics, of course, and fans of the twist-in-the-tale style of suspense and horror will get a kick out of this collection. The introduction by Steven Spielberg, who grew up as a nerdy kid who loved the escapism of reading EC comics, is quite touching.
I was mulling over what to write for this blog, and whether to tell you about my latest book (Willow Walk), or the first one in the trilogy (Black Wood) — both of which have only recently been made available in the US. I thought — what do readers of this blog really want to hear about? It became immediately obvious… You want to hear about that time that the guy who was fixing my roof told me there was a ghost in my house, right?
You can take what you want from like. The roofer did come back, by the way. He was still pretty shaken up. He said he'd discussed it with his wife, and she'd told him he probably sees ghosts all the time, what with all the houses he visits, he just hadn't realised before. VERY reassuring! We went down to the church in town that had a gift shop and purchased a little angel ornament. I put it on the mantelpiece and left it there. It made us feel better, and I can't say I ever saw anything… but neither of us walked through that room with the lights off again.
We live somewhere else now. A new place. No way we'll have any ghosts here, I thought. Until another friend asked what the land was used for before they flattened it and built these new flats. I looked it up… a Victorian school.
S.J.I. Holliday grew up in a small town near Edinburgh, Scotland. She spent many years working in her family's newsagent and pub before going off to study microbiology and statistics at university. She has worked as a statistician in the pharmaceutical industry for over sixteen years, but it was on a six-month round-the- world-trip that she took with her husband ten years ago that she rediscovered her passion for writing. Her first novel, Black Wood, was published in 2015 and her second, Willow Walk, is out now. The third in the trilogy, The Damselfly, will follow in early 2017.


After Gabriel appears to Zechariah, Luke presents the account of his appearance to Mary. And if the angel's news for Zechariah seemed astounding, it was but a trifle compared to the bombshell Gabriel drops on Mary.
Whatever upheaval Zechariah had to grapple with was minor league compared to Mary's dilemma. Let's consider her situation when confronted with the news that she would bear God's Son through the virgin birth. What might this mean to her?
Mary was probably about 16, perhaps even younger. She becomes pregnant. Given the societal mores of the time, she could have fully expected that she would be disgraced, that her fiancee Joseph (who knew he wasn't the father) would abandon her, and that she would probably never marry. It's also important to understand that Jewish society in the first century took a real hard line on "blasphemy," as later accounts of Jesus' ministry and death make clear. A young, single woman claiming that God had made her pregnant would have encountered trouble.
We can try to imagine ourselves in Mary's shoes, but I don't expect we can ever really grasp the enormity of her situation. Mary must have known there could be problems. But rather than focusing on the size of her problems, she chose to trust in the size of her God.
What would happen if one morning, during the middle of your daily routine, an angel appeared and told you that God had a plan that would completely change your life? How would you respond?
Luke's account of the Christmas story includes two such incidents, and there are important truths and lessons to be found in these events.
In the first instance, the angel Gabriel appears to the priest Zechariah in the temple as he conducts his duties. Zechariah "was startled and gripped with fear." Well, I suppose you and I would be, too.
Zechariah has been confronted with the heavenly glory of God's messenger, a clearly supernatural interruption of his day. Yet his response to the angel's astounding news is to try and fit it into his existing assumptions about his life and his future.
"How can I be sure of this?" responds Zechariah. "I am an old man and my wife is well along in years." Zechariah can't believe that he and Elizabeth could have a child, much less grasp the magnitude of John The Baptist's mission.


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Ambition in Macbeth by Shakespeare
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Words are the basic elements of the English written language. With words, one can say precisely what one wants to say, a skill that Shakespeare has mastered. In Macbeth, he carefully chooses each word so as to say exactly what he wants to say, and often leaves these words open to the reader's interpretation. One such carefully chosen word is the word "slave," a simple word meaning "someone entirely under the dominion of a person or an influence" (Random House, 674). Although this word appears only four times within the play, it's importance should not be underestimated. Every time that Shakespeare chooses to use the word "slave" he is using it to show a "slave of ambition," an important symbol within the play.
The first use of slave in the play comes when a war-wounded soldier comes to deliver the message to the king of Macbeth's defeat over Macdonwald. He refers to Macdonwald as "the slave," which is the perfect name for him (Shakespeare, Macbeth I.ii.20). One would have to be a "slave of ambition" if he thinks that it is acceptable for him to try to overthrow his very own king and center. Furthermore, it is extremely ironic how Macbeth is the one who defeats this slave in act one, but then becomes one himself in act two. After performing a heroic deed and making what was "foul" (Macdonwald's rebellion), "fair," Macbeth goes and makes what is "fair" (Duncan's Kingship), "foul;" thus making him a slave like Macdonwald(I.i.11). Also, in using this word, the reader comes to learn much about Macdonwald. We first of all learn that he cares mainly about his own personal gain, for he desires kingly power. We also learn that if he had actually succeeded in stealing the throne, he would not have made a good king, for a good king can never be selfish or stray from the center the way that he does. In using the word slave Shakespeare actually puts into the reader's mind a concept that runs throughout the entire play; you cannot be selfish or stray from the center if you are king and still expect to be a king in the truest sense of the word.
The second time Shakespeare uses the word "slave" in Macbeth is when Banquo yells to his some Fleance, "Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! Thou mayst revenge.
The War Inside The Character of Macbeth
"For brave Macbeth well he deserves that name… Till he unseamed him from the nave to th' chop and fixed his head upon our battlements" (Act I, Scene 2, lines 2). He was one of the last people anyone would expect to kill King Duncan. Shakespeare chooses a noble character such as Macbeth, to emphasize how greed and power can alter a person's good morals. In Act one we start to see Macbeth's desire for more power rise. "Stars, hide your fires; Let no light see my black and deep desires.
The Tomorrow Soliloquy: An Analysis Of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'
While Macbeth started the play as an exuberant warrior who was eager to bend his knee to the royal throne, he finishes as a mere shadow of his previous self. In the middle of the play, Macbeth is presented to us as an unstable man who is willing to do anything within his power to preserve the power that he has stolen for himself. By the end of the play, Macbeth is pathetic and it clearly shows in the tomorrow soliloquy. As Thomas De Quincy states in On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth, "Shakespeare must throw interest on the murderer. Our sympathy must be with him." While for the most part Macbeth commands no sympathy, if there was ever a place we would feel sorry for him it is here.
Lust of Power Depicted in William Shakespeare´s Macbeth
In Macbeth, Shakespeare vividly demonstrates a recognizable theme of the weighty pull that power holds over those with authority. Shakespeare masterfully illustrates the demise of man through Macbeth who falls under the control of the lust of power. Throughout the story, Shakespeare gradually suffocates his character, Macbeth, by the potent grasp of the desire for power. In the beginning, Macbeth is spoken of as a war hero; seemingly not concerned with his advancement, but rather honorably fighting for king and country. As described by a soldier after a battle, "But all's too weak, For brave Macbeth—well he deserves that name— Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valor's minion carved out his passage Till he faced the slave; Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Till he unseamed him from the nave to th' chops, And fixed his head upon our battlements." (1.2) However, Macbeth is impressionable and onc... ... middle of paper ... ...t I bear Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear." (5.3) Yet just a short time later he demands news about his enemy and for his armor for protection.
Does Shakespeare matter?
One must be familiar with the early days of English literature in order to comprehend the foundation of much of more modern literature's basis. Shakespeare's modern influence is still seen clearly in many ways. The success of Shakespeare's works helped to set the example for the development of modern dramas and plays. He is also acknowledged for being one of the first writers to use any modern prose in his writings. Another sign of a truly dominant writer is one who finds even the entire existing vocabulary of the language limiting to his creativity.
Retribution in Shakespeare's Macbeth
The role reversal of husband and wife is represented in the belittling of Macbeth, his own "retribution" for being incompetent to carry out the plans exactly. Macbeth, after murdering Duncan and implying that his sons had their hands in the act, becomes king. This is his reward for betraying the trust that the late king had put in him so faithfully... ... middle of paper ... ...s life. I found it very interesting that Macbeth died so young, because of the fact that he wanted so much to have power forever. My theory of this play is such that, when Macbeth takes fate into his own hands as early on as Act 2 (the killing of Duncan), he consigns himself to an early death.
Prince Harry Character Analysis
He comes out of no where and surprises England by declaring that his dissolute lifestyle is all an act, and that he is just trying to lower the people around him expectations so that he can unfold his true heroic knowledge and t... ... middle of paper ... ...the whole play. The characters all have their own different values and goals and this is why Falstaff can be lazy and dishonest, but he can still be considered honorable in his own way. This also goes along with King Henry IV and also his son Prince Harry. King Henry arranges a murder for Richard II just so that he can seize the throne for himself, yet he still is considered honorable and people view him as a great leader and look up to him. Then there is Prince Harry, he has to earn back his honor from the King and through out the whole play he shows how he is transforming himself form a low-life bum, that he pretends to be to become a honorable and noble leader.
Pride Goeth Before The Fall
Indeed it can be shown that Macbeth's pride vulnerability, vaulting ambition, and over confidence brought him to kingship and change the tragic hero into a sinister tyrant, bringing him closer to his death. Pride will always bring a man to their downfall, which is true for Macbeth; Shakespeare made Macbeth a character with multitude amount of pride, which is ones of his major character flaws. Macbeth has an arrogant personality, because of his many triumphant battles Macbeth was apprehending the title of; Price of Cumberland-the highest honor after king. When it was bestowed upon Malcolm, Macbeth was mortified. As a proud man this was a slap to the face, he thought that he was a better representative of that title which provoked him into to becoming king while pushing all morality aside.
King Lear Edmund Analysis
He placed evidence on himself so it looks like Edgar is attempting to assassinate Glouscter when really it's Edmund framing him. He sets all this up in order for Edgar to seem like the bad one so that Edmund will look like the good guy in Gloucester's eyes. Edmund gets in a lot of trouble to make Edgar think that he is still on his side still. One thing that you can learn through the William Shakespeare is that Edmund can't be trusted and that he is turning on his family to get what he wants for himself. In other character's eyes they see Edmund as a good guy and that he has done nothing wrong.
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
These actions and thoughts are caused by his human nature that resulted into corruption because of temptation and ambition. His aspirations to be king were acceptable, but to kill his way to get the crown shows his inner character and how easily he can be swayed into dark and evil actions. Macbeth gives the audience a sense of how our human nature is naturally inclined to be dark, but how we must be strong enough to overcome evil and achieve greatness.
The Human Desire To Power In Shakespeare's The Tempest
Even in an inhibited state, Caliban displays his true temperament towards Prospero and utilises his ethos to convince Stephano to fight for his cause, "I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island" (3.2.40-43). Through the contrast of Prospero's servants, Shakespeare describes on man's means to regain their status and power, either by loyal duty or


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Monogram's modular controls deliver custom, tactile photo and video editing
By Hillary K. Grigonis	 September 16, 2019
The company that launched a vendetta against menus and mouse clicks to create a faster, tactile photo and video editing experience is back. Monogram, formerly Palette Gear, launched a new creative console on Kickstarter on Monday, September 16. Monogram Creative Console is a modular control system that brings new slimmer, more responsive sliders, dials, and keys to editing.
The new system is headlined by a new Orbiter module, a new type of control that uses a pressure-sensitive disk surrounded by an encoder ring. The single piece, Monogram says, allows for three dimensions of different controls and is ideal for color grading, along with trimming video clips and more.
Like the original Palette Gear, the system uses a magnetic connection to allow custom configuration, leaving the user to arrange the different controls to their own editing style. Along with the new orbiter, the system includes sliders, dials, and keys. Besides the physical location of each control, the different modules can be customized to control up to 135 different functions.
While the buttons, sliders, and dials are inspired from the original Palette Gear, the modules are 40% slimmer than the first version. The company says that each control now has four times the function from before. Updates also focus on improved performance and power for each module.
The Monogram Creative Console can be used with any software, similar to how keyboard shortcuts and mouse actions are reprogrammed for different applications, including Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, and Phase One's Capture One. The controls' sensitivity, along with range and granularity, can also be adjusted.
Designed with aluminum, the company says the system is designed for both durability and portability. The new controls will be compatible with the original Palette Gear controls despite the design differences.
Palette Gear aimed to change digital photo and video editing by creating a tactile control system at the company's launch on Kickstarter in 2013. The control console now has more competition today with options like the Loupedeck and TourBox, but takes a unique approach with the ability to re-arrange the controls using the magnetic connection.
The newly renamed company is aiming to launch the updated console through crowdfunding on Kickstarter, with the campaign live today, September 16. If the campaign is successful, early backers could pick up the new control console for pledges starting at $299.
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Animating the slides can make them stand out, but do not go overboard. You do not want people watching the animation rather than listening to what you have to say. If the animations have a purpose then I'm all for them. They will make your visual aids more effective and more memorable. But do not animate just for the sake of animation.
In particular, the repetitive use of the more flashy animations that are standard functionality of modern presentation software is more likely to irritate than enhance your presentation. Each new slide, sliding in to view from a different direction, or each bullet point spiralling down to its position on the slide, adds nothing to the content and distracts people from what you are saying.
Just because the software provides the facility does not mean you need to keep using it! My particular pet hate in this area is the slide transitions provided by PowerPoint. "Appear" is just fine, you do not need any of the others.
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Alberto Alessi: 'The future is unpredictable'
As part of the Design Museum's anniversary series, in association with Icon, the Italian designer and managing director of the Alessi kitchenware brand talks about working with the world's leading designers and architects
At this year's Salone, Alessi displayed its Super & Popular collection at its store in Milan – a range of 70 of the most recognisable designs it has produced, from Richard Sapper's 9090 espresso maker to Philippe Starck's Juicy Salif lemon squeezer.
It's tempting to think that the third-generation family firm is having a retrospective moment – certainly when Alberto Alessi says, "I feel much better talking about the past, because the future is unpredictable." However, as he also says, "We have always been very careful with our history. Without knowing who we are, you are never able to plan the future."
Alberto Alessi's predecessors (his father and grandfather) were also the company's chief designers – his father Carlo's Bombé tea and coffee service is still the firm's bestselling product.
But it was Alberto, who calls himself a "mediator", who oversaw the company's move into high-profile collaborations with designers – and architects such as Michael Graves and Hans Hollein. He also moved Alessi, a company expert in cold-forming metal, into other materials such as plastic and glass – although the factory in Crusinallo, north-west of Milan, produces only stainless steel, as it has done since 1921.
Alberto Alessi describes two ways of working with his illustrious roll call of designers. What he calls the "classic" way, is finding a gap in the Alessi catalogue and then assigning a brief to two or three designers out of the 300 he works with.
"But we also rely a lot on the interpretation of our designers, so that they look at our catalogues with different eyes from our own eyes." Sometimes both approaches meet, in the case of Philippe Starck, who spent two years working on a brief for a new stainless steel tray, and at the last minute presented the famous lemon squeezer design, unprompted.
Asked about the difference between working with designers and architects, Alberto Alessi says, that "an architect is much more likely to think about the general concept, the general form of what he wants to be made" – like Aldo Rossi, for example.
Whereas Richard Sapper, he explains, "is typical of an industrial designer. A project with Sapper, I do not exaggerate, is made of hundreds of small details. He wants to be sure of everything."
After more than 40 years running the business, Alessi says that the biggest challenge is to continue manufacturing in Italy. He's confident that he will, but also asks: "Is it still Italian design: not produced by an Italian designer and also not being produced in Italy?"
The culture of an Italian design factory is so strong, he says, that his own answer to the question (perhaps hedging his bets a little), "tends to be yes."
Alberto Alessi is speaking at the Design Museum tonight. For tickets to this and all the Design Museum's 25th anniversary talks series, visit the Design Museum website or DM25.org
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TEMPORARY CLOSURE AND PROHIBITION OF WAITING & LOADING HUNTER STREET/MOSS STREET, PAISLEY
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The Renfrewshire Council, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by Section 14 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended by Schedule 1 of The Road Traffic (Temporary Restrictions) Act 1991, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby gives notice that, because works are being or are proposed to be executed on or near the roads, no person shall drive or cause or permit to be driven or cause or permit any vehicle (except works vehicles) to wait or load on the following length of road in the town of Paisley in the Unitary Authority of Renfrewshire:
Hunter Street, from Moss Street, eastwards for a distance of 20m.
Prohibition of Waiting & Loading
Moss Street (East Side Only), from A726 to Hunter Street.
Reason for Restriction: BT Cabling.
Vehicles left on the road in contravention of this Notice will be moved out of the works area.
Alternative Routes: Moss Street, A726, St James Street, Stoney Brae, Hunter Street.
This notice will be in force on Monday, 27th February 2017 till Sunday, 05th March 2017. This notice will only be effective when so displayed by signs in accordance with The Traffic Signs Regulations & General Directions 2016.
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NATPE: Next Year's Show Will Be Held One Week Earlier
By Paige Albiniak
Complete Coverage: NATPE 2014
NATPE 2015 will be held a week earlier next January. The show, which will again take place at the Fontainebleau and Eden Roc Resorts in Miami Beach, will kick off on Jan. 20, 2015, the day after Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, and run through Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, said Rod Perth, NATPE CEO, in a press conference on Wednesday.
That scheduling change, which moves the show up a week, is designed to get NATPE away from Realscreen in Washington, D.C., which has become an increasingly popular event. As a result of that move, "we expect significant growth next year," said Perth.
The 51st annual NATPE convention was again a lively meeting of programming executives across the content spectrum, including traditional media companies such as Warner Bros., CBS Television Distribution, Debmar-Mercury, NBCUniversal, Twentieth Television, MGM, Endemol USA and so forth, but also including many digital players – such as Netflix, Amazon and Hulu – and brands, such as Chipotle, Unilever and Subway. The number of buyers attending the show was up by double-digits, said Perth, with attendees averaging about 5,000.
"NATPE is increasingly the place where people come together, form relationships and try to figure out where the business is going," said Jordan Levin, chairman of NATPE's board and president of Alloy Digital. "We recognized that the syndication marketplace, through consolidation and other factors, had become less dynamic and that most deals were done before NATPE even took place. We also recognized that businesses that are dependent upon content are becoming much less cyclically driven. The net result of that is that you start to shift an emphasis away from transactional business and instead facilitate bringing together the right people to have the right conversations."
"What's important about NATPE is not the announcements but which business deals people can reflect back on and say those conversations started at NATPE."
This year's events didn't feature much major breaking news, but there were plenty of parties—with Debmar-Mercury, Twentieth, NBC, Endemol USA, Telemundo, MediaLink and others—all holding events, and panels were often full. NATPE's next event, NATPE Europe, will take place in Prague from June 23 to June 26.
Perth also said that Andy Kaplan, Sony Pictures Television's president of worldwide networks, will be NATPE's new vice chair. Kaplan will serve side by side with Levin, who will remain in that seat for at least another year.
Paige Albiniak
Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for nearly 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for entertainment marketing association Promax. She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C's Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997-September 2002.
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