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MARCELLUS SHALE HISTORY: Fracking & Flaring BLOOPERS 2009
Posted on December 4, 2022 by bobscaping
From a fish kill in our public park, to a torched impoundment liner on Labor Day, to repeated spills into a small creek, air pollution violations and more spills, 2009 had more than its share of Marcellus Shale bloopers!
CROSS CREEK COUNTY PARK:
Spill and fish kill in Washington County's premiere public park and lake!
NOx AIR POLLUTION VIOLATION
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BUFFALO, PENNSYLVANIA:
Flaming pit liners Batman!
DUNKARD CREEK FISH KILL:
Sometime around September 1, 2009, there was a massive fish kill along most of Dunkard Creek. The creek criss-crosses the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border 18-times before reaching the Monongahela River, which flows north to Pittsburgh, where it joins the Allegheny River to form the Ohio River.
Dunkard Creek is a 38-mile creek that contained a unique ecosystem with 161 species of fish, 14 species of mussels, salamanders, crayfish and aquatic insects. It was one of only two or three creeks like it on the Monongahela River watershed. Some experts say it will be decades before the fishery returns to normal, if ever. Many of the fish were over 15 years old. It's believed the prized mussel population may be lost forever.
20,000 fish and other aquatic life
While the exact source(s) of the pollutants were still being determined, it is obvious that water high in TDS (total dissolved solids) was to blame. High TDS levels, combined with other favorable environmental conditions, created the perfect environment for a toxic golden algae bloom that helped kill an estimated 20,000 fish and other aquatic life.
"Even if the algae bloom is what ultimately killed the fish, it seems that the cause of the bloom is high chloride levels. The high chloride levels are a clear indicator of frac water, not mine pollution (which is high in sulfates). The agencies just refuse to say the words 'Marcellus drilling' in any press article."
Local water expert
High TDS (Total Dissolved Solids)
High TDS conditions were also enhanced by low water levels in creeks and streams. These were caused by dry weather and widespread water withdrawals from streams and creeks for fracing operations. Tanker trucks can back-up to any stream 24-7 and pump out 4,200 gallons or more at any time. Many watersheds in West Virginia and Pennsylvania have been dried-up by this continuing raid for free water, since each Marcellus well can require up to 6-million gallons of water for fracing.
Vaccuum truck hose left on the bank of Dunkard Creek
GOLDEN ALGA
In Texas, golden alga-related fish kills have occurred in inland waters with high salt or mineral content, usually west of I-35. The first confirmed case was in 1985 on the Pecos River in the Rio Grande Basin. Since then, golden alga has been responsible for multiple fish kills in five river basins. More: Texas Parks & Wildlife
Moonlight dumping
Some of these same "Residual Waste" tankers were 'moonlight dumping' wastewater into remote tributaries and opening their drain valves as they drove back roads under the cover of rain or darkness. One farmer noticed wet roads in the morning, during a summer drought.
"In March 2011, Pennsylvania authorities arrested a local waste hauler, Allan Shipman, whose trucks were contracted to dispose of flowback brine from gas companies. The allegations against Shipman, laid out in a grand jury presentment, say he improperly disposed of brine in tributaries of Dunkard Creek." Source
News story – Pennsylvania AG Charges SW Business with Dumping Millions of Gallons of Drilling, Other Wastewater:
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Newspaper story – "Gas Profiteers' Shocking Crimes" – August 18, 2012:
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In an outrageous judgment reached by Greene County, PA Judge Farley Toothman, seven years probation and an order to pay $257,316 in restitution was given to Robert Allan Shipman, a PA man who pleaded guilty to illegally dumping millions of gallons of wastewater from shale-gas drilling over several years. The judgment, according to The Wall Street Journal, was being "closely watched", setting a terrible precedent for any one or any company that may choose to illegally dump wastewater in the future.
Toothman gave a number of absurd reasons as to why he handed down such a lax sentence to Shipman, including: Shipman's cooperation in the investigation, the recent suicide of his stepdaughter, and past "indifference" to such crimes from prosecutors. But none of these reasons exonerate Shipman for illegally dumping MILLIONS OF GALLONS of toxic wastewater and putting the lives of untold living organisms in peril.
BlueVirginia | PA Judge Sentence Sets Terrible Precedent for Illegally Dumping Wastewater
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The state attorney general's office filed an appeal with the state Superior Court this week, claiming Greene County Judge Farley Toothman's probationary sentence given to Robert Allan Shipman was unreasonable and "did not fit the crime." Shipman, of New Freeport, was accused of illegally dumping drilling wastewater, sewage sludge and restaurant grease into area streams, a mine shaft and on various properties throughout the area between 2003 and 2009. He also was accused of stealing more than $250,000 by overbilling companies that hired him to haul and dispose of wastewater by-products. The commonwealth recommended Shipman be sentenced in the standard range of the sentencing guidelines for the most serious charge of theft, which is 9 to 16 months in jail.
Observer-Reporter | State files appeal of New Freeport hauler's sentence | Updated December 5, 2017
MORRIS RUN INJECTION WELL
Consol, the former Consolidation Coal Company, and its new division CNX Gas were very active along Dunkard Creek. A local reporter included this in a recent newspaper story about Dunkard Creek:
The only deep injection wastewater well in the area permitted by the U.S. EPA is the Morris Run injection well operated by CNX Gas Co. LLP, a subsidiary of Consol Energy, at Consol's closed Blacksville No. 1 mine in Greene County since 2005.
Because of violations at that injection facility from September 2007 to March 2009, CNX was fined $157,500 for violating provisions of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, including accepting at least 100 truckloads of wastewater with total dissolved solids levels 'significantly higher' than its federal permit allowed.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sep. 20, 2009
A local coal mining expert offered his theories:
These wastewater fluids could have moved laterally and vertically through former wells, mines and bore holes. Some reports indicated the source of the contamination was ongoing, three weeks after the initial fish kill. Drilling wastewater contains Mother Nature's own mix of toxins from beneath the earth, in addition to the frac fluids added above ground for the fracking process.
What also remains to be explained is why it took two weeks for a full scale investigation of the Dunkard Creek fish kill to begin!
Photos of the 'Beaver Dam' – September 24, 2009:
US EPA Region 3 Update – November 23, 2009:
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Two years after Dunkard Creek suffered one of the worst fish kills ever in West Virginia or Pennsylvania, the reason for the chemical changes that spawned it remain a mystery. U.S. EPA has ended its investigation and pointed the finger at a local coal mine, Blacksville No. 2, and entered a multimillion-dollar settlement with the owner, Consol Energy Inc. But the lead EPA biologist on the case has challenged that idea, saying that the most likely explanation for the fish kill involves the environmental effects of Marcellus Shale drilling. A year later when the fish kill did not repeat itself, Reynolds suggested (pdf) to a colleague that one possible reason is "because this year they aren't dumping massive amounts of frac water into Dunkard. That is unsubstantiated — but plausible."
The agency entered into an agreement (pdf) in March with Consol Energy, which operates several local coal mines and manages drainage from the active and closed mines. The company agreed to pay $6 million in fines to settle water pollution allegations that included the Dunkard Creek fish kill. Consol made no admission of liability, but it agreed to spend up to $200 million on a water treatment plant.
By Mike Soraghan | Greenwire | In Fish-Kill Mystery, EPA Scientist Points at Shale Drilling | October 12, 2011
"Something has changed in the mine pools," Reynolds wrote in a November 2009 email:
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"What a mess! Up to our knees in rotting fish, mussels, and mudpuppys is no fun — it's criminal. Dead mudpuppys look like sock puppets floating in the stream. Mussels die, the meat rots off the shell, then bloats and floats down the stream like a hellish jelly fish. The stench of rotting fish takes a day or more to work out of your scent memory."
EPA biologist Lou Reynolds, a Wheeling, W.Va.-based member of the EPA's regional freshwater biology team
After a meeting with Consol officials and West Virginia environmental officials, Reynolds expressed frustration:
More emails obtained by Greenwire through a Freedom of Information Act:
Growth of a toxic algae killed more than 42,000 fish, 15,000 mussels and 6,000 salamanders in Greene County in 2009
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission will be allowed to proceed with a seven-figure lawsuit in West Virginia against Consol Energy Inc. over a 2009 massive fish kill in Dunkard Creek, the West Virginia Supreme Court has ruled. The decision Thursday reversed a lower-court ruling in July that dismissed the case on a claim by Consol that the state agency did not have the legal standing to sue in West Virginia.
Now the case is remanded to Judge Russell M. Clawges Jr. in the Circuit Court of Monongalia County. "We're very happy that the West Virginia Supreme Court agreed with us that the West Virginia courts are in a position to hear our complaint against Consol so we can get on with the merits of the case and discuss them," John Arway, the commission's executive director, said Friday.
By Jonathan D. Silver | Pa. agency can sue Consol for fish kill | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 9, 2014
38-miles of prime fishery in Dunkard Creek wiped-out! Believed to have been initiated by illegal frac wastewater dumping.
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has reached a tentative settlement of a lawsuit that sought damages for mine discharges that caused a massive fish kill on more than 40 miles of Dunkard Creek along the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border in 2009.
Details of the proposed settlement were not available Wednesday, but it will include financial payments by Murray Energy Corp. to the fish commission for damage to the aquatic life of the creek caused by discharges of polluted water from Consol Energy's Blacksville No. 2 mine. The lawsuit was originally filed against Consol Energy in September 2011, but Murray Energy inherited the legal action when it bought the Consolidation Coal Co. from Consol in 2013.
The salty discharges from the Consol mine spawned a bloom of toxic, golden algae, normally found in Texas and other Southwestern states, that killed more than 42,000 fish, 15,000 freshwater mussels and 6,000 of a type of large salamander called mudpuppies. Consol, the Cecil-based mining and natural gas company that owned the Blacksville No. 2 mine at the time of the fish kill, paid a total of $5.5 million in civil penalties in 2011 to settle hundreds of federal Clean Water Act violations at six mines it owned in West Virginia, including the pollution discharges that contributed to the Dunkard Creek fish kill. Consol also paid $500,000 to the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources as compensation for the lost aquatic resources on the West Virginia portions of Dunkard Creek.
By Don Hopey | State settles lawsuit with mining firm over fish kill on Dunkard Creek | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 5, 2015
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission announced Monday it reached a $2.5 million settlement with Murray Energy Corp. for civil damages related to the September 2009 fish kill on Dunkard Creek. In its lawsuit, the commission had estimated 42,997 fish, 15,382 mussels and 6,447 mudpuppy salamanders died in the kill.
"The devastation was astonishing," Executive Director John Arway said. "PFBC biologists collected 40 species of fish and 14 species of mussels that were killed by the incident. Among the dead mussels was the Pennsylvania endangered snuffbox mussel," he said.
Observer-Reporter | Settlement announced on Dunkard Creek fish kill | Updated December 6, 2017
Was there a Texas connection?
Report Prepared for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department – October 1, 2005:
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Toxic Golden Algae in Texas – January 2002:
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NETL Study – Greene County, PA – September 15, 2014:
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December 6, 2022 – Greene County DA investigating East Dunkard Water Authority
"This investigation includes analyzing the toxicity levels and dangers of the water that has been distributed to the public, and any criminal actions that may have occurred," Greene County District Attorney David Russo said in a written statement. During an inspection in July 2021, the DEP said it found that the authority had failed to maintain a variable speed mixer for more than a year and a chlorine analyzer had been disabled by storms earlier that month. Water quality testing also was not performed regularly in compliance with DEP requirements, according to the administrative order. The inspection also revealed that turbidimeters that measure water clarity had been "capped" and were not giving accurate readings when there were higher turbidity levels that would alert plant workers to cloudy water in the system.
BRUSH RUN FRAC WATER SPILL & FISH KILL – OCTOBER 6, 2009
10,500 Gallon Spill Report:
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Temporary plastic frac water pipeline
Pipeline snaking long distances
Clinging foam in small creek
Foam in Brush Run
Wastewater impoundment years later
Lab Results for Brush Run Spill:
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BENTONITE SPILL – BRUSH RUN – OCTOBER 25, 2009
Inspection Report:
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CONDENSATE SPILL – OCTOBER 25, 2009
Fulton Compressor Station
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GAS VENTED TO ATMOSPHERE – NOVEMBER 3, 2009 BLOWDOWNS & FLARING
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MARCELLUS SHALE HISTORY:
Comparison of the Delaware River Watershed to the Ohio River Watershed 2008-2012
The Story Behind 'Fracked Water Wells' in Dimock, Pennsylvania 2008-2022
Fracking & Flaring BLOOPERS 2009
Disposing of liquid and solid drilling waste 2009-2015
Trucking & FracNet 2010
Fracking Photos 2010-2011
Spying & Psychological Operations on Pennsylvania Citizens 2010-2014
Fracking Photos of Marcellus Shale in 2012 | Video
Marcellus Shale Photos of Gas Production in 2013 | Video
Utica Shale and Marcellus Shale Images 2014
Photographs of 2014 Marcellus & Utica Shale O&G processing
Marcellus Shale Photographs of Drilling, Fracking, and Infrastructure Construction Photos 2014
Tale of Two Townships and a Decade of Fracking Issues in America 2011-2022
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Hi-Rez Studios has announced that the SMITE Founder's Pack will release on Nintendo Switch tomorrow.
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Folk songs are often about desperately sad ancient stories, but occasionally they are about newer experiences. In January 2016, Jackie Oates had her first baby, Rosie, amid complications: both mother and child contracted sepsis in hospital. Simultaneously, Oates' beloved father, a man who steeped his family in folk music culture, became suddenly ill, and died of the same condition five days later. Jackie and Rosie got better. Few album titles have had such immediate resonance.
Since her 2003-2007 part-time tenure in Rachel Unthank & the Winterset, Jackie Oates has been well-known in traditional folk circles, but has never quite had the acclaim she deserves. Her voice recalls many contemporary female folk voices: sweet, pretty, unadorned, the kind of vocal that could disappear on the breeze. What she sings about, however, gives it gravity.
Spring Is Coming Soon is an Oates' original, written in the early months of her child's life, during which she also grappled with grief; the lyric "we'll be happy soon, little one" devastates with its tenderness and sadness. A cover of John Lennon's Mother follows, about parents who don't want their children, while Oates's story adds newer, darker colours to Lal Waterson's strangely mournful The Bird, in which a bird keeps waking a woman up, its crying beginning in the morning and getting worse "day by day".
But beauty also sits beside the pain, reflecting Oates' experiences almost psychedelically. A reworking of Darwin Deez's breezy indie-pop hit Constellations, into a chorus-backed folk epic, is utterly gorgeous. So is a version of Bill Caddick's Unicorns, which Oates and brother Doug (who records as Jim Moray) loved as children. Rosy Apple also features baby Rosie gurgling; she was often at her mother's feet while this record was made, and while this could sound horribly schmaltzy, here it brings relief. Oates' only recording of her father, at a late-night singaround in Scotland, closes this moving, depth-filled album. Oates should be deeply proud of it.
Niteworks' second album, Air Fàir An Là, is another oddly successful coming together of Gaelic songs and cosmic electronics. Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith's Many a Thousand is a much more straightforward affair, a lovely, rousing collection of politically charged traditional ballads and originals. Mairearad and Anna's Farran, meanwhile, rolls with dramatic Scottish seafaring songs. Come on in, the water's lovely.


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Although cocaine (or "coke") is often associated with its popularity in the 1970s and 1980s, the drug has in fact been around for hundreds of years via the South American coca plant. Indigenous societies often used it as an anesthetic and stimulant, effects that could be produced by chewing the plant's leaves. Then, in the mid-1800s, a German chemist discovered and isolated the chemical in the plant that produces its intoxicating effects. He named the chemical cocaine, and it became widely used in medical and pseudo-medical applications throughout Western cultures. Over the next several decades, the drug faded in and out of popularity and eventually became a Schedule II controlled substance — it has a high potential to be abused but can be administered by a doctor in specific medical applications (notably, it is an active ingredient in some topical anesthetics).
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PRE-View: Chicago Human Rhythm Project's JUBA! – Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance
July 17, 2018 July 17, 2018 Johnny Nevin
JUBA! Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance is not one, but two dance concerts. Although both are presentations of some of the most gifted percussive dance artists you can see anywhere, and both will be an intoxicating mixture of sophisticated choreography and inspired improvisation, they're actually two completely different programs — on Friday, July 20th at 7:30pm, there's one amazing concert at The Studebaker Theater, and the very next night, Saturday July 21st at 7:30pm, there's a different amazing concert on the same stage. So, on the one hand, it won't be easy to choose if you can only see one. On the other hand, if you do have to choose, you really can't go wrong.
We have some more detail about exactly who shows up on that stage each night, and what they're bringing, but first, we talked to Dani Borak, Chicago Human Rhythm Project's Artist in Residence. We wanted to get a little more into what all of this is about anyway, and we couldn't have found a better person to ask. Dani is showing up both nights, and with a different set of choreographed and improvised must-see performances each night, but that's only part of what he told us about. He also gave us some real insight into the process of developing these works, and about the arts of tap and percussive dance — why they can be so enthralling, and what is happening with them now. Here's what he told us:
The universe of music, and the universe of dance are both infinite, and there's a huge history available to study — so you can imagine that the artistic possibilities of the art form Tap Dance are definitely never-ending as well
Johnny Nevin: JUBA! brings together so many different kinds of creativity that we were hoping you could fill us in a little more on what the audiences at The Studebaker Theater are in store for. The Friday night and Saturday night shows are actually completely different programs, so we know there's a lot to cover, but let's start with this — what is it about the world of Tap and Percussive Dance that makes a show like JUBA! so rich?
Dani Borak: To me, "Tap Dance" is an art form that is part of two artistic universes: music and dance. As tap dancers, we have the option to say something that the audience hears, but also to say something that they see — we can express ourselves both acoustically and visually, using musicians, recorded music or just using our voice acapella. We can choreograph, compose and freeze our creativity in fixed rhythms and movements, setting them as definite pieces, or we can react in the moment and express our feelings, thoughts, emotions in the magic of the "NOW" through improvisation.
Like every art form, Tap Dance (especially as an American art form) has a huge history. There were so many brilliant masters, pioneers and artists who made the art form what it is today, and they've all left an incredible legacy —a legacy that right up to today we study, honor and perform.
The universe of music, and the universe of dance are both infinite, and there's a huge history available to study — so you can imagine that the artistic possibilities of the art form Tap Dance are definitely never-ending as well. The two upcoming JUBA! concerts will present the art form in so many beautiful, and especially different ways that — well, just don't miss it!
… improvisation and the act of choreographing both come from the same source of creativity, the creativity inside a human being …
Johnny: Tap and Percussive Dance are unique among concert dance forms, because of how much the artists improvise their creations, yet there is also extensive choreography in a concert like JUBA! As both a performer and choreographer, can you give us an inside look at how those two ideas balance each other in concert? How do you balance these in your own choreography, like in the work that Stone Soup Rhythms is premiering at the performances?
Dani: For me, improvisation and the act of choreographing both come from the same source of creativity, the creativity inside a human being. For example, when I'm at the studio and I'm about to choreograph something to a certain piece of music, the first thing I do is improvise through the whole song a few times. While doing that, some first ideas start to come out and I try to remember the ones, I liked. Then, I just start somewhere to fix one bar, dance it and improvise the next one — if I like it, I freeze and fix that one as well and continue this way, rhythm after rhythm, step by step.
I think my main point is this: NO MATTER WHAT KIND OF ARTISTIC IDEA COMES TO YOUR MIND – DON'T BE AFRAID TO TRY IT!
The most important thing for me is that I don't do any of this with rational thinking, or with too much brain activity – I need to get in a certain zone, in which my intuition and feeling take over, 100 percent. When I'm on stage and I have to improvise with the band, I need to be in that same zone – not thinking, but BEING and letting out what is there, in that moment.
As far as the choreography goes, all of the pieces that I'm going to present at JUBA! have one thing in common: the first thing that starts the whole process going is that I have to like that certain piece of music that I've found. I have to like it so much, that it I just HAVE TO use it for something. If that's the case, then the birth-process can happen in many different ways. For some pieces, a rhythmical and musical idea comes first, for other pieces it's a visual image that came to my mind, or maybe it was a certain feeling, emotion or atmosphere that I felt.
Sometimes it also happens that a first image, a certain rhythm or even the structure of a whole piece just falls into my head – and very often while doing things that don't have anything to do with tap dancing like cooking, waiting for the elevator or doing laundry. All of a sudden, an idea is here and for me personally, each and every artistic idea has the right to be tried out. So I think my main point is this: NO MATTER WHAT KIND OF ARTISTIC IDEA COMES TO YOUR MIND – DON'T BE AFRAID TO TRY IT!
The pieces on Friday are going to be performed to recorded music: the material is very experimental, where I'm trying to use elements of different dance styles. It is still a work in progress — a piece that I will be continuing to work on.
On Saturday, there will be both: pieces to recorded music, which will be completely different than the Friday ones, and then also two pieces that we're going perform with the band. In the second work, I'm going to improvise a solo first with the band, and then bring the dancers in and then start the choreography.
We'll see how all of it goes, because ultimately, each and every piece, performance, or choreography, or whatever artistic work, is actually nothing else but something that you try for — trying to find what is inside and bring it out.
Chicago Human Rhythm Project will present JUBA! Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance at Chicago's Studebaker Theater on Friday, July 20th at 7:30pm and Saturday, July21st at 7:30pm. The Studebaker Theater is in The Fine Arts Building at 410 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605, and tickets are available online from Eventbrite for Friday's performance, and also online from Eventbrite for Saturday's performance.
Friday, July 20th at 7:30pm: Superstars Caleb Teicher and Sam Weber join forces for a classic American tap duet; CHRP's Stone Soup Rhythms ensemble will premiere innovative, multi-dimensional choreography led by Dani Borak, Artist in Residence; Charles Renato, Ayodele Casel, and Jason Janas will perform spectacular solos before joining together for a trio jam session; and, virtuoso Cartier Williams will perform his newest show, Zigity Bop! with special guests Star Dixon, Luke Hickey, Aqura Lacey, Tokumi Watanabe and Lacey Thomas.
Saturday, July 21st at 7:30pm: Another extraordinary evening unfolds with Stone Soup Rhythms ensemble premiering more new works by Dani Borak; Bril Barrett, Ja'Bowen and Star Dixon will perform a striking trio followed by solos by Tre Dumas and Nico Rubio; and finally Rhythm World closes with Rhythm ISS reuniting the original members of the influential, all-female tap dance company from the late 90s! (I)della Reed-Davis, (S)arah Savelli, and (S)haron Rushing have assembled an amazing cast of Chicago-based female hoofers to join them in revisitng the company's intricate rhythms and signature style with a special appearance by the legendary Dianne "Lady Di" Walker!
PHOTOS (from top): (Courtesy of Chicago Human Rhythm Project) • Dani Borak (Photo by Milad Ahmadvand) • Dani Borak (Photo by Milad Ahmadvand) • Daniel Borak (Photo by Andreas Gemperle) • Dani Borak (Photo by Milad Ahmadvand) • Stone Soup Rhythms (Photo by Philamonjaro) • Stone Soup Rhythms (Photo by Philamonjaro)
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She is the woman who proved there is no age limit on love when she married again at 72.
And on Wednesday, Bertha Brown celebrated her 100th birthday surrounded by her friends and family.
After losing her first husband, George Gray, to bowel cancer the Hessle great-grandmother re-married after meeting Wilfred Brown on holiday 20 years ago.
And while she was widowed again before moving into The Old Coach House care home in Eastgate two and a half years ago, it has not stopped her living life to the full.
"And she's always said every year at Christmas, 'oh I won't be here next Christmas' and we've always joked 'you'll be sat there until you're 100', and here she is!
Ms Wilburn said her grandmother had lived in Danes Drive in Hessle for 70 years, and was pleased she had made it to see in the City of Culture.
Ms Wilburn said Bertha had surprised the whole family around 20 years ago when she came home and announced, at the age of 72, she had a new boyfriend.
She said: "She went away for a holiday and when she came back she said she had a new boyfriend. We all thought it was a summer romance but they ended up getting married.
Bertha's former next door neighbour, Mick Lindley, who was among the guests at her party, posted pictures of Bertha at her party to the Hessle First Facebook page, urging people to like and share and help her special day go viral.
He said: "Since 1998 I have lived in Hessle next door to Bertha Brown. Two and a half years ago she was put in a care home as she couldn't really walk anymore and daily tasks she could not do anymore for herself she was 97 then.
"Every week since she moved I have popped in with flowers, fruit and even Sherry. Today is the day she reaches her milestone birthday 100 years old.


Rob Everett, chief executive of the Financial Markets Authority, says financial firms need to put their customers' needs ahead of shareholders' demands to regain trust. Photo/Richard Robinson.
Finance firms need to do what is right for the consumer not just focus on staying inside the law if they want to regain the trust of the public, the head of New Zealand's market's watchdog has warned.
Speaking at the financial services industry conference Rob Everett, the chief executive of the Financial Markets Authority, said the global financial crisis had stemmed a lack of trust in the big financial players.
But the massive regulatory and political response to that had masked the risks caused by poor conduct and that was now coming to the fore and costing companies dearly with consumers suffering a second phase of a crisis of trust in the industry.
"Right now, in a very visible and painful way, the failure of management and boards to understand how to have their employees - and the products they sell - generate fair outcomes for their customers is costing them dear."
He pointed to a global report called the Edelman Trust Barometer, which found there is an increasing sense within the general population that the rich have access to information and opportunity that the rest of the public do not.
There was also an increasing distrust of major institutions and far more influence from peer to peer services like Air BnB, TripAdvisor and Trivago.
"The report showed that the slow recovery in trust of financial services businesses since 2012 had stalled.
"In major jurisdictions such as the US, Hong Kong, Brazil and France that trust has dropped since 2017 by double-digit percentages – as much as 20 per cent in the US.
"The report reflected on the fact that we trust our banks to complete transactions on our behalf [mostly] and to keep our assets safe from fraud or cyber-theft, but that we don't trust them to look after us."
Everett said the falling trust had been driven by banks becoming financial supermarkets in which cross-selling had resulted in some poor outcomes for consumers while the drive from shareholders meant companies were focused on short term returns.
"The focus on serving shareholders above all else, in much of the current Western corporate law model, might be argued to be at the heart of the issue."
He said some of the trust issues could be addressed by regulation but not much.
Instead he called for firms to focus more on doing what is right for consumers.
"If you want the sector to be trusted, asking what's right, rather than what's not against the law – that is what's necessary."
He also called for boards of finance companies to change their view on how much money senior managers should make and how much shareholders can expect and focus "unrelentingly" on serving customers.
He said those customers should be the end users not the intermediaries that sold those products.
"I can't stress enough that we can't change this by tinkering at the edges. Change has to be more fundamental."


If you want a boring, bottom line corporate speaker, Fred's not your guy. If you want a motivational speaker, well, maybe he can be your guy. But you must realize his forte is drinks history.
Fred Minnick offers a variety of corporate talks and tastings. Book him through the Linda Konner Agency.
Minnick has led tastings at private dinner parties for world leaders, celebrities and billionaires. He's also been the keynote speaker for numerous conferences. Follow Fred Minnick's public appearances on his Facebook event page and the Kentucky Derby Museum.
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Furthermore, Minnick creates bourbon programming for concerts, charities and corporate events to engage people with bourbon in new and fun ways. He believes in truly educating people about what they're drinking.
After presenting with them at Bourbon & Beyond, Fred hangs backstage with, from left to right, chef Edward Lee, Julian Van Winkle and chef Tom Colicchio.
Bourbon & Beyond: Fred was the bourbon headliner among amazing culinary and musical talent, such as Stevie Nicks, Steve Miller Band and Eddie Vedder. He returns with Bourbon & Beyond in 2018.


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Differ. Uravn., 2003,	Volume 39,	Number 7,	Pages 912–917	(Mi de10871)
On the Stability of a Nonlocal Finite-Difference Boundary Value Problem
A. V. Gulin, V. A. Morozova
Lomonosov Moscow State University
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A. V. Gulin, N. I. Ionkin, V. A. Morozova, "Difference schemes for nonlocal problems", Russian Math. (Iz. VUZ), 49:1 (2005), 36–46
A. V. Gulin, N. I. Ionkin, V. A. Morozova, "A stability criterion for a difference scheme in a nonlocal heat conduction problem", Russian Math. (Iz. VUZ), 51:6 (2007), 18–25


Which medical fields and cases are most appropriate for DMT input and intervention?
In 2015, the National Academy of Medicine endorsed Diagnostic Management Team consultative services as a means of reducing medical errors in the American healthcare system. Composed of a multi-disciplinary group of healthcare experts, a DMT meets on a regular basis to evaluate individual patient histories and interpret clinical data, in turn generating an expert-driven narrative that helps inform treatment with the goal of improved outcomes.
With so many opportunities out there for DMTs to weigh in with valuable input, figuring out where to start may feel a bit overwhelming. First steps include determining which medical fields — and specifically, which cases — lend themselves most readily to reaping the benefits of DMT intervention.
DMT input is most valuable in diagnostic areas where there is uncertainty about test selection.
DMTs offer advice on a diagnostic evaluation that has a great clinical and financial impact.
Examples of how the DMT approach is being used in Coag, Radiology, and Anatomic Pathology are shared.
While DMTs can be assembled and put into practice within nearly any medical area of study, they may prove to be more helpful in some fields than others.
On the flip side of the coin, are there any medical fields or cases where DMT input would not have the potential to be valuable or appropriate? Dr. Laposata says no.
Here's a closer look at how several DMTs are being put to use in different areas with positive effects.
For the past few years, Dr. Eric Walser, Chairman of Radiology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, has been assembling a DMT group of experts online — and including the patient — to address complex prostate cancer cases two to five times each week in real-time.
Dr. Walser finds conducting his DMT meetings online to be more convenient for everyone, saving time and improving the participants' ability to communicate quickly and effectively with patients not just in Texas, but all over the world.
Patients love the DMT approach, not to mention the time savings and lower out-of-pocket travel costs.
Although some doctors may not be on board with the idea of fewer billable visits and tests, Dr. Walser says his patients love the DMT approach, not to mention the time savings and lower out-of-pocket travel costs.
In 2004, Dr. Joshua Kish, Anatomic and Clinical Pathologist at Greensboro Pathology Associates and Medical Director for the Aurora Research Institute, participated in a coagulation DMT led by Dr. Laposata as part of a two-month coagulation/blood bank rotation during his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. When Dr. Kish joined the group, it had already been ongoing for several years, and it still continues operating to this day.
Having a broad spectrum of disciplines represented among the team members was relevant to the group's goal of being able to interpret a wide range of varying coagulation results.
Dr. Kish's DMT group assembled daily in a conference room at 4 p.m. to start rounds, which could last up until 6 p.m. depending on the volume of cases.
"It was a big time commitment, but definitely worth it," he attested.
Over time, Dr. Kish said the Mass General coag DMT has proven its value through measurable results such as shorter length of stays, more focused follow-up testing and more appropriate use of blood products, points that haven't gone unnoticed by the C-suite.
Other successful DMTs are currently hard at work to improve outcomes in transfusion medicine, microbiology, liver disease, neuropathology, primary hyperaldosteronism and other medical fields of study. Looking ahead, Dr. Laposata predicts more widespread DMT utilization to come in plenty of areas beyond those already in place.
"There are many more in the pipeline, such as evaluation for opioid management and anemia evaluation to determine underlying cause," he added.
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Coldwell Banker D'Ann Harper, REALTORS® is encouraging all of their sales agents to be a part of this year's Annual General Membership Breakfast on Wednesday, July 13th. Any REALTOR® can and should attend. It is a wonderful opportunity to be a part of the real estate community. It is your membership, it is your San Antonio Board of REALTORS®! Registration available on IMS.
Mayor Ivy Taylor will be the guest speaker for this event. Additionally, SABOR we be presenting the slate of nominees for the Board of Directors at the Annual Membership Breakfast. There will be food items on which to bid and our own Jan Hicinbothom is bringing her Specialty Rum Cake.
Jan Can Make the Difference!


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Citrus Recipes
Purple Viking Cocktail
Colleen Graham
Freelance writer and cocktail book author Colleen Graham is a seasoned mixologist who loves sharing her knowledge of spirits and passion for preparing drinks.
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Prep: 3 mins
Total: 3 mins
Serving: 1 serving
Yield: 1 cocktail
Vitamin C 6mg 32%
The purple viking is an interesting and very enjoyable mixed drink. It's one of those highballs (like the Long Island iced tea) that seems to be a random mix of spirits—whatever was handy at the moment—but the result is surprisingly good.
This is one of the better tasting Southern Comfort drink recipes. The fruity spice of the whiskey liqueur is combined with other fruity flavors, including orange from blue curaçao, a blueberry liqueur, and sloe berries from sloe gin. Give it a splash of lime juice, sour mix, and lemon-lime soda and you have a complex, dark purple drink. It's a lot of fun and, even with all that going on, it's surprisingly refreshing.
1 ounce Southern Comfort
1 ounce blue curaçao liqueur
1 ounce blueberry liqueur
1 ounce sloe gin
Splash lime juice
Splash sour mix
Splash lemon-lime soda
In a highball glass filled with ice, pour the Southern Comfort, blue curaçao, blueberry liqueur, sloe gin, lime juice, and sour mix.
Stir well.
Top with a splash of soda.
A SoCo Revolution
If you have enjoyed a purple viking at any time over the last few decades, now is the time to give it another try. That's because an exciting change came to Southern Comfort (popularly called SoCo) in 2017. After the brand was purchased by the Sazerac Company from Brown-Forman in May of that year, the formula changed and whiskey is back.
That's right, if you thought you were drinking flavored whiskey all these years, you'd be mistaken and you're not alone. The SoCo base has long been a neutral grain spirit—similar to many vodkas—and this topic has spurred countless bar debates over the years.
Though the exact SoCo recipe is still a secret, Sazerac has assured loyal fans that it does include a selection of their North American whiskey. It's now truer to the original 1874 recipe created by New Orleans' M.W. Heron who founded the brand. This is excellent news for fans of the purple viking and other SoCo cocktails like the Scarlett O'Hara.
You also have more options on the liquor shelf: Southern Comfort Original is 35 percent ABV (70 proof) and there is an 80-proof black label version as well as a 100-proof bottling. All have a distinct whiskey base with those signature fruits and spices that made the brand such a hit over the years. It's definitely a great time to rediscover this iconic brand, even if you were turned off by it in the past.
How Strong Is the Purple Viking Cocktail?
Four spirits are poured into the purple viking and they make up the majority of the drink, so this isn't the weakest drink you can mix up. However, each of the liquors is around 30 percent ABV and that helps bring down the alcohol content a bit (unless you choose the 100-proof SoCo).
When mixing the 70-proof Southern Comfort into a 6-ounce drink, the purple viking comes in around 20 percent ABV (40 proof). It's one of the stronger tall drinks you can make, but it's not too potent. You may just want to take it easy with this one because it can produce a wicked hangover.
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Vaste projet d'une ville de 10 500 habitants engagé par la ville de Meaux et l'architecte Le Corbusier entre 1955 et 1960 à l'emplacement du quartier actuel de Beauval. Malgré cinq ans de réflexion, ce projet n'a jamais vu le jour.

Origines

Face au déficit de logements dans la région parisienne, Le Corbusier propose spontanément en 1954 un projet de « Cité Radieuse » dans la banlieue de Meaux. Ce projet est accueilli avec enthousiasme par le député-maire Barennes. Le conseil municipal vote la réalisation d'une ville radieuse de 2 000 logements qui est confiée à la société de HLM Orly-Parc. Sur ce projet, Le Corbusier travaille au sein de son cabinet avec son adjoint André Wogenscky et pour la mise au point de nouvelles techniques de préfabrication avec Iannis Xenakis, par ailleurs, compositeur de musique contemporaine.

Le programme

Le terrain de 25 à 30 hectares est apporté par la ville. Il prévoit la construction de cinq unités d'habitation sur le modèle de celles déjà existantes, mais aussi de deux tours cylindriques réservées aux jeunes couples. Le projet inclut aussi des hôtels, des restaurants, des équipements publics, un cinéma, des équipements le plus souvent directement intégrés dans les tours. Comme à Marseille ou Firminy, l'école maternelle et un gymnase sont ainsi directement accessibles depuis le toit de chaque unité d'habitation. Une rue commerçante occupe l'équivalent d'un couloir dans les étages. Par ailleurs, il conçoit une « usine verte » en périphérie du site, au nord de la Nationale 3, directement reliée à la Cité Radieuse : c'est ce qu'il appelle la « Cité Linéaire Industrielle », produit d'une réflexion menée par l'architecte sur l'intégration rationnelle des zones industrielles à leur environnement.

Il apparaît évident que le plan urbain de Meaux ne se lit qu'au regard de l'œuvre antérieure de Le Corbusier. Les unités d'habitations reprennent point par point le travail mené sur l'unité d'habitation de Marseille. Puis, lorsque les coûts excessifs du chantier de Marseille interdisent de garder un système constructif en béton, la solution de cellules métalliques préfabriquées est retenue. De la même façon, l'apparition des tours cylindriques pour célibataires est évidemment à placer au regard du projet pour l'ambassade de France à Brasilia. Le plan de masse de Meaux est le premier à laisser apparaître cette forme liée à un tel programme. Le projet de Strasbourg reprendra ces tours cylindriques constituées de logements pour célibataires.

Les difficultés rencontrées

Mais les interlocuteurs administratifs manquent à l'appel. L'État prend en charge le plan d'urbanisme en 1957. Un contrat est signé le  entre le Ministère de la reconstruction et du logement (MRL), l'architecte pour l'étude de l'extension de la ville de Meaux et la supervision des architectes amenés à travailler dans cette zone. Mais les ingénieurs des services des Ponts et Chaussées rechignent à soutenir Le Corbusier. On lui reproche les imprécisions de son étude, notamment en ce qui concerne l'évaluation des coûts de construction.

Une nouvelle version au début de l'année 1958 est proposée par Le Corbusier et son équipe qui prévoit désormais 15 unités d'habitation et 4 tours. Cependant, le projet pèche toujours par des imprécisions notamment sur les moyens de desserte de l'ensemble de la cité. De plus, le célèbre architecte manque toujours d'interlocuteurs valables, selon lui, au sein de la hiérarchie administrative. Au cours de cette même année 1958, c'est un nouveau coup dur avec la nomination de Marcel Lods à la charge d'urbaniste chargé du plan d'aménagement de la Seine-et-Marne. Celui-ci, considéré comme le spécialiste de l'application des méthodes industrielles au bâtiment et de la préfabrication lourde, devient donc le supérieur direct du « maître », situation intolérable pour ce dernier. De nouvelles critiques sont émises notamment sur le mode de préfabrication jugé trop coûteux. La méthode dite du « casier à bouteilles », terme imagé désignant la façon dont s'encastrent les appartements préfabriqués, est jugée hors de prix à la suite des déboires de l'unité d'habitation de Marseille où la même technique a été expérimentée. Ces aléas n'empêchent pas Le Corbusier de continuer sur son projet en négociant avec la régie Renault pour l'installation d'une usine de montage automobile dans son projet d' « usine verte ».

Finalement, de guerre lasse, l'architecte finit par se désengager progressivement du projet au cours de l'été 1960 et préfère s'engager dans ses projets internationaux, notamment pour la ville indienne de Chandigarh. Le M.R.L. dessaisit définitivement Le Corbusier du projet de ZUP en octobre de la même année. C'est pourtant l'un des programmes d'urbanisme les plus aboutis qu'il ait tenté de mettre en application en France : 745 dessins et plans sont recensés concernant cette Ville Radieuse, qui restera pour toujours dans les cartons.

Projets de substitution
Finalement, pour l'extension est de Meaux, deux projets d'envergure seront réalisés : tout d'abord, en périphérie, la Pierre Collinet par Jean Ginsberg (1958-1963) puis sur le site même de la Ville Radieuse, la ZUP de Beauval, par Marcel Lods (1959-1969). Celui-ci tente d'ailleurs, par des immeubles en formes de Y (appelés aussi plus tard « caravelles »), de donner, selon ses dires, des aspects d'unités d'habitations corbuséennes aux bâtiments d'habitation.

Annexes

Bibliographie
 Gérard Monnier, Les Unités d'habitation en France, éd. Belin, 2002
 Gilles Ragot & Mathilde Dion, Le Corbusier en France, réalisations et projets, éd. Le Moniteur, 1997, pp. 365-369
 Dictionnaire historique et topographique des rues de Meaux, t. 3 : « Faubourgs et nouveaux quartiers », Société littéraire et historique de la Brie, 1999, pp.257-266
Construire la ville. L'urbanisme en Seine-et-Marne au XX siècle, Archives départementales de Seine-et-Marne, coll. "Mémoire et Documents", 2007

Liens internes
 Meaux
 Le Corbusier
 Unité d'habitation
Cité radieuse de Marseille

Liens externes
 Ensemble de documents sur le projet de ville radieuse sur le site de la Fondation le Corbusier

Notes et références

Ville Radieuse à Meaux (Projet non réalisé)
Projet de "ville radieuse" Le Corbusier à Meaux
Ville radieuse Le Corbusier à Meaux
Architecture utopique

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I was getting pretty caught up in doing research for my pencil test today in terms of action. HOW do you climb a tree without gear? I can think about how I might climb a tree, but what about a manic middle aged man chasing a squirrel? So I spent some time looking for reference and even considered heading out to a park and filming some footage of myself climbing. I decided not to bother since I'm probably not as fit as my character and I'm pretty sure I can figure out how a character would climb a tree without actually doing it myself. I can find a bit of footage of people climbing to study and then consider how this particular character would climb this particular tree in this particular instance.
Now I believe that it's going to be more important for me to consider how the characters feel instead of how they can get around. The old man is feeling manic, spurned, determined, he's experiencing an adrenaline rush and he's a bit winded. The squirrel moves only when she needs to, she is scared but scatter brained enough that she forgets to stay scared. Her movements go between smooth and bouncy runs to frantic and twitchy little movements.
The old man character in my animation exercise is, well he's not that old... About 40 years. I found this great video on youtube called "Sikkimese energetic old man ". I can't tell what is being spoken by anyone in the video but it looks like some young men, possibly grandsons or sons or friends of an older man are filming him being active. The old man is from Sikkim. The old man seems very sharp and he's quite stylish too. I love the way he holds in his energy when he's not showing off. And he stores a beanie in his fedora!
-they have four front teeth that never stop growing so that they don't wear down from constantly gnawing.
There are lot of famous animated squirrels out there, including Scrat, Sandy, Secret Squirrel, Foamy the Squirrel, the ones in Sleeping Beauty and in my mind most notably; the squirrels from The Sword in The Stone. The part of the film when Merlin and Wart become squirrels is super entertaining and emotional! Loved watching that. Andreas Deja put together a fantastic post discussing the squirrel sequence from Sword in The Stone on his personal blog here. He links to these thumbnails that Frank Thomas did and they are scribbly but just what Frank needed to do to think out the scene. They're so clear!
I've actually got a ways to go on my thumbnails for this scene, I'll share those when they're done.
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Speaking of pencil tests, I just found this cool tumblr called http://penciltests.tumblr.com/!
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The next two Fridays and Mondays (so, starting tomorrow), I will be taking off of work for a staycation. My highest priorities these days include learning more about animating in Maya and working on my short film; Pickled. I've had some opportunities to practise using Maya as of late via an online Animation Mentor workshop and at work. I've been animating a test scene at my day job with a nice character rig from a game to be released in the near future. I spent nearly 2 weeks creating a test of this character doing a spin kick in the air and got 3 rounds of feedback from my supervisor which was excellent. I'll post that test online when I am allowed to!
Anyway, back to the staycation. Before I left the office today (Thursday evening) I had a look at my many belongings cluttering up my workspace and noticed my inline skates. I thought to myself that I already had a bunch to carry home today and would only have room for another item... either my work laptop, or my inline skates. I decided to take the inline skates home since it meant a chance of fun exercise and I couldn't be tempted to start doing dayjob related work on my days off. I have a hard time putting the work work down. I try to fight my own bad habits by making the less healthy choices more awkward and difficult as I did in this circumstance.
So I will be enjoying coffee and eggs for breakfast and getting in some exercise as well and really knuckling down and getting some satisfying personal work done. I will keep my distracting internet surfing to a minimum, I'll blog as I please, and I'll focus as much as I can on animating in Maya and working on Pickled.


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Aldo van den Broek - FERNWEH
Galerie Ron Mandos proudly presents FERNWEH, a solo-exhibition with the latest works by Dutch artist Aldo van den Broek (NL, 1985).
After July 30th, the exhibition will be open by appointment from 3 - 20 August.
Recurring themes in Aldo van den Broek work are history, underground, punk and romanticism. They characterize the world where he lets architecture and people meet. He is fascinated by the urge of people to strive for safety and freedom simultaneously and the deconstruction that usually follows. Travels and experiences bring valuable inspiration to his work. His researches brought him to Berlin and the post-communistic suburbs of Belgrade and Tbilisi.
Aldo's work reflects his interpretation of purity and beauty within ugliness. Therefore, he choses to work with wasted materials with no apparent value. Used and re-used by himself, or found on the streets and abandoned places. By literally using his own past failures as a beginning for his new works, these different themes are constantly transforming and melting together till they reach their final appearance.
In 2015 Aldo got invited to the artist in residence 'Beautiful Distress' to stay four months at the psychiatric department of 'Kings Count Hospital', the only mental institution in New York with a government-sponsored health insurance. By living so intensively in between mostly poor and mentally ill people he got confronted with his own way of thinking, living, working and surviving. FERNWEH is Aldo's longing for a confusing and non-existent place.
Aldo van den Broek lives and works in Berlin. In 2015 he was nominated for the prestigious Prix de Rome. His work was shown a.o. at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Loyd Hotel, Amsterdam, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam,The Armory Show in New York, Sucked Orange gallery, Berlin, Köningsstadt gallery, Berlin, Galerie J.J. Heckenhauer, Brussels and the Berlin Art Week.
Also on show: Stream of Consciousness with works by TROIKA, Tom Lore de Jong and Goof Kloosterman.
Aldo van den Broek


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"A country that loses its values, its principles, has lost its heart. A country that loses its sensible center, its common ground, has lost its mind." -Chad Selweski
Health official warns: Prisons are state's leading provider of mental health care
Posted by Chad Selweski | Sep 1, 2017 | State | 0 |
One of Michigan's leading mental health officials warns that the state's treatment of the mentally ill mostly relies on prisons or jails and this inhumane approach may be on the verge of taking a turn for the worse.
Tom Watkins is stepping down today as director of the Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority (DWMHA) and his message to Michigangders is that their state's mental health system has become a place where treatment is often received behind bars and where for-profit insurance companies want to replace a public network of care that has existed for half a century.
"We have to decide if we are really going to allow our jails and our prisons to become the de facto psychiatric facilities, which they have been in this state and across the nation," Watkins said in a Wednesday interview with Michigan Radio.
As mental health treatment becomes harder to find – or afford – the sick sometimes experience a Psychotic episode or emotionally unhinged outburst that leads to criminal charges. Once they enter the corrections system, the cost of housing and treating them can approach $100,000 a year, according to Watkins.
The closing of the state's mental health hospitals in the 1990s led to a jumbled, underfunded system that transferred treatment to private hospitals, clinics and treatment centers. That transition is now viewed almost universally as a mistake.
Today, more than 300,000 people in Michigan depend on public mental health care, and now state lawmakers wrestle with whether private insurance companies working through the Medicaid system should take over the entire process. The state's community mental health departments, established on a county-by-county basis or as regional agencies, could be marginalized and largely eliminated.
Watkins fears that a move toward for-profit management of the system could further ostracize those suffering from mental illness, developmental disabilities or emotional disorders.
"How do you separate your behavioral health, your mental health, your substance abuse (recovery) needs, from your physical health? You're one body, one soul," Watkins told Michigan Radio's Cynthia Canty. "The question is not if, the question is how and when?"
As he departs the DWMHA, Watkins has enjoyed quite a career, serving in the past as the state mental health director and the state superintendent of schools. He is now looking to return to his previous role as a consultant to Michigan businesses interested in establishing global links with companies in China.
Meanwhile, Watkins praises the rare, bipartisan efforts in Lansing to improve the state's mental health system. Republican Lt. Gov. Brian Calley serves as leading voice to upgrade services and coverage for children with autism. Democratic lawmakers emphasize the need for a public, transparent network of care. And state House Speaker Tom Leonard (R-DeWitt) recently formed a legislative task force to study ways to overhaul Michigan's "archaic" mental health system.
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The law has always recognized that parents have a duty to supervise their children and that they could be held liable to those suffering damage as a result of a parent's failure to properly supervise. However, in 2000 the government of Ontario passed legislation to make it easier for victims to recover the damages they suffer as a result of your children's antics, including property damage and theft.
The Parental Responsibility Act holds parents financially responsible for damages intentionally caused by their minor children. Pursuant to section 2, the Act allows the victim to bring a claim against the parents through Small Claims Court. Victims can sue:
• for loss of or damage to the property suffered as a result of the activity of the child; and
• for economic loss suffered as a consequence of that loss of or damage to property.
A victim, who decides to sue in Small Claims Court, has to prove only three things in order to shift the burden of proof onto the parent.
1. The child caused the damage or loss.
2. The defendants are the parents of the child.
3. The amount of the damage.
In order not to be liable for the damages, the defendant parent must prove that:
• The loss or damage was not caused intentionally; or
• They exercised reasonable supervision of the child and made reasonable efforts to prevent the damage from occurring.
To assist the courts in determining whether or not a parent has exercised reasonable supervision, the Act sets out a list of factors that may be taken into account, including:
• the age of the child;
• the prior conduct of the child;
• the physical or mental capacity of the child;
• whether the child was under the direct supervision of the parent at the time when the child was engaged in the activity;
• whether the parent made reasonable arrangements for supervision of the child.
The following case2 was decided under to the Parental Responsibility Act. It provides a good overview of how the process works.
The Shannons' home was burglarized by two boys, 14 and 10. The 14-year old had been hired for the summer to watch the 10-year old. During the first seven weeks, everything ran smoothly and the boys stayed out of trouble. Towards the end of summer, the 14-year old decided to break into the Shannons' house and he talked his 10-year old charge into helping him. More than $19,000 worth of property was never recovered. The Shannons sued the children's parents.
Although both boys had had some minor behavioural problems at school, there had been nothing to predict this conduct. The boys had been taught by their parents not to steal. The 14-year old had been left on his own a number of times without incident, and he had babysat the 10-year old on a prior occasion.
The trial judge dismissed the case against the 14-year old's parents. Justice Miller concluded that, based on his age, experience and background prior to the theft, it was reasonable for his parents to assume he could be trusted and that he would behave appropriately.
The trial judge also dismissed the case against the 10-year old's parents, concluding that they had acted reasonably in deciding to delegate their supervisory responsibilities to the 14-year old, while they were at work. The factors taken into account by the judge included, the babysitter's age, that their child was relatively well-behaved, the lack of previous incidents and the structure that the parents had imposed on the two children.
Although the Shannons were unsuccessful in their suit against the parents, they did get judgement against the two boys.


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The 2017 Patriot League baseball tournament took place on consecutive weekends, with the semifinals held May 13–14 and the finals May 19–21. The higher seeded teams hosted each best of three series.  won their first tournament championship and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

Seeding
The top four finishers from the regular season are seeded one through four, with the top seed hosting the fourth seed and second seed hosting the third. The visiting team will be designated as the home team in the second game of each series.

Results

All-Tournament team
The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.

Most Outstanding Player
Brendan King was named Tournament Most Outstanding Player.  King was a senior pitcher for Holy Cross who won two games in the tournament with 14.1 IP and a 1.88 ERA.

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It is with sadness that we announce the death of Mary Lutash of Coaldale at age 98 on May 15. She was dedicated to the love of family, friends and faith, and lived a rich, productive and independent life.
Mary will be remembered fondly for her strength of character and generous heart.
She was the eldest daughter of Michael and Anna (Czabala) Fedora, founders of St. Mary's Orthodox Church of Coaldale. A loyal and hard-working parishioner, Mary volunteered thousands of hours sewing, baking, beautifying the church and contributing to its vitality in the community.
Although born in Passaic, NJ, on July 24, 1918, Mary considered herself a Coaldale native. She was a graduate of Coaldale High School Class of 1936, and was employed by the former Kiddie Kloes Factory for 42 years.
During World War II, she worked for the United States Army, setting and sewing zippers for military uniforms. Each assignment was completed with great pride and enthusiasm.
Mary leaves her loving sons, Michael (Rebecca) of Higganum, CT, and Raymond (Mary Jo) of Syracuse, NY; devoted sisters, Olga Hebda of Coaldale, and Anna (William) Rianhard of Washington, NC; and many nieces, nephews, friends, and neighbors who will celebrate a life well-lived.
She was predeceased by husbands, Michael Danchak Sr. and Frank Lutash; and sister Helen Butts.
Service: 11 a.m. Thursday, St. Mary's Russian Orthodox Church, First and Phillips streets, Coaldale. Interment, parish cemetery. Call 9:30 to 11 a.m. Thursday in the church. In lieu of flowers, please consider a contribution to St. Mary's Orthodox Church Cemetery Fund. Online condolences at www.
zgfuneralhome.com. Arrangements by the Zizelmann-Gulla Funeral Home and Cremation Services Inc., Tamaqua.


Summary: A team of biomedical engineers have developed a method to 3-D-print cells to produce human tissue such as ligaments and tendons, a process that will greatly improve a patient's recovery.
Currently, replacement tissue for patients can be harvested from another part of the patient's body or sometimes from a cadaver, but they may be of poor quality. Spinal discs are complicated structures with bony interfaces that must be recreated to be successfully transplanted. With today's technology, we can 3-D-print sculptures, mechanical parts, prosthetics, even guns and food. But a team of University of Utah biomedical engineers have developed a method to 3-D-print cells to produce human tissue such as ligaments and tendons, a process that will greatly improve a patient's recovery. A person with a badly damaged ligament, tendon, or ruptured disc could simply have new replacement tissue printed and ultimately implanted in the damaged area. It will allow patients to receive replacement tissues without additional surgeries and without having to harvest tissue from other sites, which has its own source of problems. The study findings were published in the journal Tissue Engineering.
University of Utah biomedical engineering assistant professor Robby Bowles and his team have developed a method to 3D print cells to produce human tissue such as ligaments and tendons to greatly improve a patient's recovery. Credit: Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineering.
The 3-D-printing method, which took two years to research, involves taking stem cells from the patient's own body fat and printing them on a layer of hydrogel to form a tendon or ligament which would later grow in vitro in a culture before being implanted. But it's an extremely complicated process because that kind of connective tissue is made up of different cells in complex patterns. For example, cells that make up the tendon or ligament must then gradually shift to bone cells so the tissue can attach to the bone. This is a technique in a very controlled manner to create a pattern and organizations of cells that you couldn't create with previous technologies. It allows researchers to very specifically put cells where they want them. The research team developed a special print head for the printer that can lay down human cells in the controlled manner they require. To prove the concept, the team printed out genetically-modified cells that glow a fluorescent color so they can visualize the final product.


CLEARWATER, Fla. (FOX 13) - Three Pinellas County men floating in a life raft were rescued by the Coast Guard early Monday morning.
The three-man crew left from Fort Myers Beach last Wednesday. They were 90-miles off the coast of Naples, about five days into a two-week-long fishing trip when their boat started taking on water.
The first mate said it was terrifying.
Working on a 32-foot fishing boat named Miss Saturia, Kyle Haskins said they didn't have time to react.
Haskins said they grabbed life jackets, made a mayday call, and jumped in the life raft, from which they watched the boat sink.
"[The boat] started going nose up, and all the sudden it got into the crew's quarters. When it got into the crew's quarters, it pretty much broke in half. That's when it just released everything, I mean, debris went everywhere, you could hear it just crumbling," Haskins said.
The men floated in the dark for about two hours, trying to stay calm. A Coast Guard helicopter from Clearwater and a plane from Miami found them around 4 a.m.
They were hoisted out of the water and into the chopper, so grateful to the crew for rescuing them.
"I hope I never go through it again," Haskins said.
The Coast Guard says all three men did everything correctly in the emergency. Haskins said he may be a little more cautious on the water, but can't wait to get back to fishing.


REAN Cloud, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Partner and global cloud systems integrator, today announced that it has finalized a five-year contract with the Department of Defense (DoD) for up to $950 million to enable agencies within the DoD to procure cloud solutions and services directly from REAN Cloud in a new streamlined process. The agreement represents a groundbreaking model automating pricing and procurement so that government customers can quickly achieve full IT operations in the cloud.
REAN Cloud worked with Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) — a DoD organization charged with accelerating commercial innovation to the U.S military — in order to facilitate prototyping and procurement of the full range of cloud adoption requirements, from Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to application assessments, migrations, operations and more. The production Other Transaction (OT) contract is modeled on an award-winning OT prototype project for the U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), DoD's first large-scale infrastructure assessment and cloud migration successfully completed by REAN Cloud last year. This project earned USTRANSCOM honorable mention for the 2017 DoD CIO Cyber and IT Excellence Award, as the migration to highly automated and controlled cloud environments has enabled large-scale modernization.
As part of the production OT award, REAN Cloud will let USTRANSCOM and other DoD organizations quickly migrate legacy applications to a government-approved, commercial cloud environment of their choice.
"Our experience has taught us that to get the full benefit of the cloud, you have to think differently. The speed and agility that our patent-pending technology brings to cloud migration and operations invites a similarly nimble approach for the government," said Sekhar Puli, REAN Cloud managing partner. "With Firm Fixed-Pricing (FFP) and automated procurement, we are changing old mindsets of typical vendor relationships. Our DoD customers can now achieve the same efficiencies available to the commercial sector as they seek to design, migrate, automate, manage and scale systems and databases running in the cloud."
"By leveraging REAN Cloud's platform, customers can shrink their transformation timeline from years to months," said Sri Vasireddy, REAN Cloud managing partner. "Beyond automating the migration and, more importantly, maintaining a robust and secure operational environment, we look forward to collaborating to tackle some of the most complex mission-critical needs."


One of the foundational watches of the modern Jaquet Droz brand are its Paillonnée watches. Named after the gold foil paillons inlaid on the enamel dial, the Paillonnée timepieces were amongst the first watches unveiled by the brand when it was relaunched by the Swatch Group in 2001. When your correspondent was a young enthusiast, seeing the Paillonnée watches for the first time over a decade a go was a revelatory experience.
Delicately formed and intricately engraved, the paillons (which translates as "spangles") are applied by hand on the dial, then covered with translucent vitreous enamel, forming a remarkably rich repeating pattern vivid in colour and depth. The origins of the original (more on that later) paillons is a romantic one: as the legend goes, they were wrought by hand in the 17th and 18th century, then used so sparingly over the following decades – so complex was the craft of applying them – such that a small quantity remained in the 21st century.
In the mid 2000s when the first series of Paillonnée watches was introduced, Jaquet Droz relied on noted enameller Anita Porchet to create the dials. Having worked for almost every major watch brand in Switzerland, Ms Porchet had (and probably still has) a stock of antique paillons which she turned into gorgeous watch dials for Jaquet Droz. Given the nature of the dial decoration, the Paillonnée watches were made in extremely limited numbers; at the time Jaquet Droz volunteered that only about 100 Paillonnée watches would be made – ever.
Some three or four years ago, Jaquet Droz discreetly began producing paillonnée dials on its own, leading to a diversity of colours and motifs. And more recently, Jaquet Droz revealed that it now makes own paillons, doing away with the need to hoard tiny tins filled with 17th century gold spangles. While that does crimp the appeal, the dials themselves remain irresistibly gorgeous.
The in-house paillons have given rise to more variety, instead of curlicues and flowers that characterised them before. Bird-shaped paillons are the signature of the latest group of Paillonnée limited editions unveiled at Baselworld 2017; the bird being a historical motif of the brand.
The Petite Heure Minute Paillonnée in 42mm case offers the largest canvas for the paillonnée decoration, with just a small sub-dial occupying a minority of the dial at 12 o'clock, leaving the rest for enamel. In any other watch the dial would look oddly empty but it's hard to get enough of the paillonnée enamelling.
The dial plate is engraved with a radial guilloche, covered with translucent blue enamel – a technique known as champleve – and then inlaid with paillons, while being fired multiple times in between steps. Even if the paillons are new, the technique remains much the same.
While the dial looks absolutely pristine at arm's length, up close minuscule imperfections are visible, with dark spots indicating tiny air bubbles inside the enamel. This is a crucial and reassuring feature, since it indicates that the finish is genuine vitreous enamel, grand feu in watchmaking parlance, and not merely lacquer.
Both the ring circling the time sub-dial and the logo plate are 18k red gold, secured to the dial with blued steel screws. With brushed tops and polished, bevelled edges, both are carefully finished just like a component inside the movement. The dimple in the surface of the enamel where the screws connect to the dial is particularly ethereal, looking almost like the disturbed surface of a very viscous liquid.
The 18k red gold case is standard Jaquet Droz, both bowl-shaped flanks, elegantly curved lugs, and a surprisingly chunky profile. At 39mm in diameter the case is the middle of the three sizes Jaquet Droz offers (35mm and 43mm are the other two), but is some thick at 12.23mm it is somewhat thick, almost as high as a chronograph. The height is in part attributable to the domed sapphire crystal and also the enamel dial; such dials are typically several times as thick as ordinary metal dials.
Inside is the Jaquet Droz 2653.P, a descendant of the Frederic Piguet 1150 that made its debut in 1988 (Frederic Piguet has since been renamed Manufacture Blancpain). It's a solidly constructed automatic movement with double barrels that's used extensively amongst the Swatch Group's high-end brands, namely Breguet and Blancpain, with tweaks to customise it for each marque.
While the basic architecture of the movement is unchanged from the 1988 original, its key components have been heavily upgraded. Here it boasts an 18k red gold rotor as well as a hairspring and pallet fork made of silicon, while the adjustable mass balance wheel is titanium. And its power reserve is a respectable 68-hours.
While the decoration of the movement is careful and clean, the style is distinctly modern, which is not quite in tune with the Baroque front.
The Petite Heure Minute Paillonnée 43mm (ref. J005013247) is limited to eight pieces, and is available at Jaquet Droz retailers and boutiques. It's priced at US$42,000 or S$67,000.
Four other Paillonnée watches (including a pocket watch and a tourbillon) are available with the same paillons motif, all being part of the line-up introduced earlier this year.
Correction June 13, 2017: The case diameter is 39mm, not 43mm as stated in an earlier version of the article.


Here in Allergy country, something started blooming and I can't breathe, Eyes Watering, and Nose Itching..
Bought a new grill and going to fix some Pork and Chicken tonight.. Grilling is always better on Charcoal.
We currently have our second round of Tornado and Severe thunderstorm warnings/watches for the day. I'm so over the storms and rain.
Topic: Bench Press Debate once again..
Re: Bench Press Debate once again..
OK, your thoughts are the same as mine. Like you, I respect his writings and training, which is why I even brought up the question.
Yes,. It's raining again... And been quite chili the last couple of days..
Got any idea why Thib states that the Tate method is dangerous for non-shirted lifters?
Bench Press Debate once again..


You might have read my little series earlier on Clyde Drexler's endorsement package for "Athletic," a Quanzhou-based shoe manufacturer.
But traveling from Qingyang to Quanzhou, you can actually see the Athletic company headquarters.
Apparently Clyde's endorsement is doing them some good, because their headquarters are looking pretty-darn-fancy-schmancy: statues of white horses, doric column structures, and so on.
The Jinjiang Hospital–like so many other major highlights of the Jinjiang region–is in Qingyang.
Chinese medicine still holds some surprises for Westerners; and even for some emigrated Chinese. Both my Wife and a friend of ours originally from Beijing, now living in the States for several years, have gotten into "disagreements" with Chinese doctors here over the recommended treatments for our kids. For any flu-like symptoms, the doctors have wanted to start I.V. rehydration plans and run a series of x-rays (X-rays? Huh?).
Here are some shots of the one in Qingyang…and by the way, that's a statue of Norman Bethune in the sixth picture. Why they rendered his English name that way, as "Henvy Ivoman Bet-hune," I can only guess….
Across the road from the new housing utopia I mentioned last week sits one of China's behemoth "SM" shopping malls.
These huge complexes, four stories high and perhaps 1/4 mile long are sort of China's modern commercial answer to the Great Wall: The Great Mall.
In the bottom of this complex is a Wal-Mart Supercenter, along with a miscellaneous variety of other shops. The ground and 2nd floors are mostly clothing and department stores–and some of the department stores even include small, clean, attractive play areas for the kids (we've made a couple trips to the SM just to give the kids a change of scenery). The third and fourth floors of this complex are reserved for "exhibitions," but a similar one we visited in Xiamen is packed with 5 floors of shops and restaurants.
Speaking of Wal-Mart, I was amazed to learn that there are now 56 Wal-Mart locations in China, with plans to open perhaps that many more in the coming few years.


Welcome back Firesiders! It's Wednesday and you know what that means. News! This week Mendte, Mr. Maurer, and P. Features are joined by Fireside's own Baby Huey to break down an eventful week of news. Starting out with comic news the Phoenix Force returns (again) in Jean Grey's new ongoing series, Weapon X also gets resurrected, and Civil War II's last issue is making sure they hit the deadline. Movie news brings us some hot topics such as Spiderman's newest possible upgrade, a Guardians trailer that Mr. Maurer may not hate, Groot's next battle, some pressure for future MCU directors, Green Lantern casting rumors and more! Wrapping up the issue is TV where the guys talk about the passing of Van Williams and the Green Hornets lineage. Plus hear their thoughts on Legion, Agents of Shield, Black Bolts casting, and the Arrowverse's crossover "Invasion!". Welcome to Fireside.


Virginia Woolf was ahead of her time when she wrote that everyone needs a room of one's own. What you do in that room is up to you. Sometimes I simply sit and think. It has the sound of silence which is missing in so much of our lives today.
My room is filled with things which have meaning for me. There is a tiny painting a neighbor man gave me when I was eight, a larger painting which hung in my Grandma's crowded bedroom, sn old sewing machine head made into a lamp, books on Indian crafts, more books, lots of things other people might have thrown away; my mother's jacks, the flag they gave me at my father's funeral, a few tiny dolls tucked on a shelf, jars of paint brushes, a pallete fo watercolor paint, a shelf of acrylic paint, stacks of canvas and watercolor paper, an old pink elephant, trunks full of photographs, and another filled with old report cards, letters, my husband's block sweater from high school. etc. The walls are crowded with pictures; one of my Tai Chi class, another of a tap dancing class, a family portrait of my best friend's family. Things that I have made and things others have given me. Looking at what I have written it seems like a chaotic mess but everything is connected to another, and together they form a pattern to my life.
The room of one's own is special because no one can predict what you may do in it. Various rooms are meant for certain activities, ie the kitchen is not where you sleep and vice versa. Living rooms don't seem to attract a lot of attention these days, and not a lot of people have actual dining rooms. But the room you have chosen to be your room doesn'd come with a label, it's a place to let your imagination run wild.
When we lived in Connecticut as a child, there was an old abandoned house next door which I used as a playhouse. I spent hours there making up games, arranging found objects into decorations. In retrospect, the house was an early example of the nesting instinct. I do think some things just come naturally. The old house was my first expression of free will. It was uninhibited imagination, or creativity, if you will.
What is creativity anyway? Is is a conscious pre-planned activity which results in something new and possibly wonderful? Or is it a spontaneous gathering of grey matter suddenly colliding? Some of the most fun pieces I have made came about by accident. During a process of "one thing led to another". On the other hand, some of the pieces which were planned with deep emotion were never what I called "creative".
As a child, Grandma insisted that I was "gifted". What did that mean to a child? A gift was something current and profitable. I had received neither. I was given singing and dancing lessons because Great-Aunt Corinne was a well-known opera singer in Canada, which stood to reason that the talent was in the genes. It wasn't. The houses I drew in school were shown to the class because they not only had the correct number of windows and doors and chimneys, but I had drawn people on mine. I obsessively copied the faces of movie stars from the movie magazines. Nothing creative about that; in both cases a matter of good observation.
I have become complacent these days and have stopped waiting for that A-Ha moment, when I have accidentally dropped a blob of paint where it shouldn't be, and it makes me wonder why I didn't think of it before?
One's imagination is like any other muscle; it needs to be exercised or it will rust. The room of my own enables me to exercise a certain amount of that muscle. Sometime it may become a great notion.


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This is an important meeting for you. During your complimentary session with the coach you will have the opportunity to gauge whether there is a connection and if they "get you". The coach will ask questions and probe to see exactly what your main "pain points" and issues may be. Once identified, this knowledge will enable them to be more precise in targeting the steps needed to deliver up your results.
Another key aspect of this meeting is helping you define the low hanging fruit or quick wins to get you focused and motivated.
A base from which you can spring from needs to be established. Your coach will ask you questions about your current planning, marketing, operations, employee management, systems, financial health and perceived barriers to progress. Next your coach will review your financial figures, KPIs, Marketing materials, sales process, customer service and team management.
Yes, we know, that's a lot of digging! It is necessary though. This comprehensive analysis will enable your coach to identify and prioritise the best return on investment for your time and effort.
This is where you will project your ideal future on the screen of your mind. Where do you see your business in the next 5 years? What do you want to achieve financially, personally and community wise? Next comes your values and beliefs. What sort of culture do you want to see existing in your business?
Will you still be in the same location or will you be housed in larger facilities somewhere else? What new products and services will you be selling and to whom? All these questions will be worked through.
Together, you and your coach will work your plan in delivering your goals. Part of setting your goals involves identifying what measurements will be monitored to confirm whether you are tracking to plan. These metrics form a key function during your coaching sessions in indicating your progress. Your coach will not pull punches when it comes to keeping you on track…after all, that's what you expect – your best interests being served.
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We are very pleased to be welcoming the fine Eastbourne choir, Noteworthy Voices, back to St Nicolas, Pevensey on Saturday 16 February at 7pm. Tickets will be available at the door for £7, with children admitted free. Wine and soft drinks will be served during the interval. I attach some further information about the concert, and a schedule of further concerts which will be held at St Nicolas over the spring and summer.
Very grateful if you could post this information on the Bay Life website.
wonderful Glyndebourne musicians take a break from the opera!