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AN INCONVENIENCE OF HOBGOBLINS
I'd never seen an angry hobgoblin before.
If this one wasn't my friend, it might've been funny. Tobble was red in the face before I noticed him in the grass by the garden wall, and since hobgoblins have green skin, that in itself was quite a feat.
"Tobble, what's wrong?" I asked in Low Gnomic, or what could've passed as Gnomic if I hadn't butchered it with my Arlean accent. The earthy words used by hobgoblins and other garden creatures sounded heavy and awkward on my human tongue, and Tobble had often despaired of my pronunciation. Today, however, he was too distraught to notice.
"Lord Merybourne has hired Riders, Aliza. Five of them! Do you know what that means?" he said. His head, which was round and homely as a potato, came halfway up my shin, and he clutched handfuls of his mossy hair as I knelt next to him."We're doomed! Doomed, I say!"
I set my basket on the ground."Slow down. Who's doomed?"
"Everyone! Gnomes, hobgoblins, half-goblins, all of us garden-folk."
"Why are you all doomed?"
Tobble clambered up onto my lap, leaving muddy footprints on the front of my dress. Eyes the color of wilted dandelions stared into mine."There will be wyverns flying around the place!"
"Well, yes. The Riders ride the wyverns. Isn't that the point?"
"Aliza, wyverns eat hobgoblins!"
"Come on, Tobble. Nobody's going to get eaten. When's the last time you heard of a hired wyvern snacking on the locals?"
"I guess . . . never."
"Exactly. These Riders signed a contract. They're not about to let their mounts gobble up the garden-folk while there's work to be done. Besides, it's bad manners. Wyverns are civilized creatures."
"But what if one of them gets hungry? What if he can't help it?"
I squeezed his hand between my thumb and forefinger."Tell you what. Just in case, gods forbid, Lord Merybourne happened to hire the rudest Riders in Arle, I'll ask him to set aside a few extra head of cattle for their wyverns."
Tobble grinned, showing a row of flat, brown teeth. Just as he opened his mouth to speak, a shadow fell over the garden. Wings beat the air behind us. Large wings.
My heart broke into a gallop as Tobble disappeared into the underbrush. Instinct told me to follow him, to run, to hide, but terror dug nails deep into my legs, rooting me to the ground. Is this what Rina felt? Is this why she didn't run when the gryphons came for her? The wingbeats grew louder and I picked up my basket. Not much defense against a gryphon's talons, but I wasn't about to go without a fight.
I turned to face the thing that blocked the sun.
Relief washed over me, warm and sweet, and I almost laughed. In the field beyond the garden wall, a dragon was descending.
The dragon's wings stretched the length of the field, and talons the size of plowshares scoured the earth where it landed. Pewter scales shone with a bluish-gold luster where the sun hit its sides, and I longed for a canvas and some paints to capture the sight, my fear forgotten.
A broad-shouldered figure leapt from the dragon's back.
"You there!"
The Rider's voice tore me away from the strokes of my mental paintbrush. I reddened as he approached and tried to wipe some of the mud from my dress, succeeding only in smudging it farther down the front. The contrast between us grew clearer—and more painful—with each step. Tooled in gold across the Rider's breastplate was the rampant figure of a dragon, the symbol of House Daired, and on the hilt of the sword slung over his shoulder I caught the bloodred glimmer of a lamia's heartstone. As my younger sister Mari once told me, the serpentine, scythe-wielding monsters called lamias were one of the Tekari, sworn foes of humankind. A lamia's heartstone would be a worthy pommel gem for a Daired's blade.
My gaze trailed from his heartstone to his face, and a new chill ran through me, though this one wasn't so much fear as a healthy dose of embarrassment.
Blast. He would be handsome.
Of course, he could've looked like the wrong side of a troll and his appearance would've still made me blush. By rights this Daired shouldn't have been here at all. Merybourne Manor sat at the heart of a poor county, the smallest in the island kingdom of Arle. Lord Merybourne ruled over farmers, craftspeople, and the occasional merchant, but no one rich or distinguished, and it'd taken us months to scrounge enough to meet the bond-price for a band of Riders.
My father, the Manor clerk and an old friend of Lord Merybourne, had spent weeks running the sums to see how we could afford it. Five Riders, five mounts, and food and lodging for a fortnight, in return for which they'd hunt down and slay the gryphon horde that plagued us. At twenty silver dragonbacks per Rider, the commission cost the Manor a total of one hundred dragonbacks.
Or, by my more practical calculation, the entire income of Merybourne Manor in a year.
Still, it had to be done. Lord Merybourne had sent the letters to the capital, Edonarle, and prayed some of the Riders would answer. And they had. It was only when my father received their signed contracts that we realized one of the Riders was a Daired.
Lord Merybourne had just about choked on his soup when Papa handed him the contracts, Master Daired's on top. Other Riders could win over the bear-like beoryns, and some of the older bloodlines could bond with smaller winged wyverns, but the Daireds alone, descended from legendary warrior Edan the Fireborn, were dragonmasters. Naturally, that entitled them to charge just about any bond-price they liked. Which, as we'd heard, was upward of fifteen gold dragonbacks per day.
Yet this Daired had signed Lord Merybourne's contract, accepting twenty silver dragonbacks for a whole fortnight's work. Knowing that, I expected I wasn't the only one who'd look on him with suspicion. Admiration and gratitude, of course, but suspicion too. No Daired in their right mind would stoop to visit Hart's Run on so slight a temptation as twenty dragonbacks . . . but here he was, striding toward me along the overgrown garden path, that striking, battle-scarred face set in a look that confirmed my fears: Merybourne Manor was the last place in Arle he wanted to be.
And here I was, the first of the Manor-folk to greet Master Daired, sweaty, dirt-stained, hair all amuss, and staring like a half-witted schoolgirl. Perfect.
I dropped into the curtsy I used for strangers of uncertain rank, unsavory solicitors, and the man at the market who sells cut-rate mutton. As I straightened, I touched the four fingers of my right hand to my forehead in greeting."Morning, sir."
With a flick of his wrist he returned the gesture. Dark eyes under brows sharp as knives raked across my face and dress, and, apparently not finding anything there to his liking, he fixed his gaze somewhere just over my head. "What's the quickest way to Lord Merybourne?"
"If you follow the path, it'll take you to the front of the Manor House. There'll be someone at the door to show you in."
Daired pushed past me, muttering something that might've been thank you, though it just as easily might've been a rude word in the dragon-tongue, Eth.
He didn't get far.
Unheard by either of us, Tobble and a dozen other hobgoblins had crept from the undergrowth as we spoke, crowding onto the path to watch our exchange. Their mossy green skin blended into the flagstones so well, Daired didn't see them at first. I did.
"Watch out!" I cried.
Tobble shrieked as Daired's iron-shod boot came down on his toes. Daired yelled in surprise and aimed a kick at Tobble's mid-section, and Tobble's shriek turned into a keening wail as he sailed toward the hedgerow. I threw myself into the shrubbery after him. Leaves and branches tore at my side and I landed hard, Tobble cradled in the crook of my arm.
"Aliza! Are y-you all right?"
By sheer good luck we'd missed the thorniest part of the shrub. I spat out a leaf and set Tobble on the ground, relieved to find him unhurt. Despite their small stature, hobgoblins were hardy creatures."I'm fine. Are—oh no. What are they doing now?"
We emerged from the hawthorn onto a battlefield. Shouting all manner of Gnomic curses, the rest of the hobgoblins had declared war on Daired, scooping up handfuls of mud and flinging them at his head, or, if they couldn't lay hands on enough mud, simply flinging themselves. Most only reached his knees. He battled off the inconvenience with kicks and, for those hobgoblins who managed to leap higher than his waist, with his fists as well, matching their curses with a few of his own, both in Arlean and Eth.
"We should probably help him," I said.
Tobble crossed his arms."You do what you want. I'm going to watch."
Hobgoblins. Dodging the nearest projectile, I stepped over Tobble's screaming cousin and placed myself between Daired and his attackers. "Gpheth!" I cried. "Stop!"
The hobgoblins froze, mud dripping from their fingers. Daired froze too, his hand near the buckle that would release his scabbard from its harness on his back.
"Tobble's fine," I told the hobgoblins in Gnomic. "This man is Lord Merybourne's guest. Please, let him through. And no more mud!"
One by one, the hobgoblins dropped their missiles and slunk back into the garden, chirping their disappointment. I snuck a peek at Daired. Covered in mud and blisteringly angry, the man was a sight to make gargoyles tremble. He wiped the remains of one lucky shot from the corner of his mouth and spat on the ground."What did you tell them?"
"I asked them to leave you alone," I said. "Really though, you didn't have to kick him. Hobgoblins are harmless."
"Tell that to my armor." Bending his head in the barest of bows, he turned on his heel and stormed down the path toward the Manor.
"Well, I never!" Tobble said."What an awful man."
With a sigh I stooped to collect my fallen basket. The herbs I'd set out to gather lay trampled in the mud."Tobble, I think I'll see about those extra cattle now."
Inside, the kitchens were all abuzz with news of the Riders' arrival. I set my refilled basket on the sideboard and scanned the room for Cook. He stood by the fireplace, sweating and muttering as he supervised the seasoning of the stag rotating on a spit.
"Bloody Riders can't hunt their own meat now, can they? Make us cough up enough for a banquet when we've already—Aliza! Oh, thank the Fourfold God. Where's my rosemary?"
"I left it by the pantry."
"What good's it going to do my venison over there?" he bellowed. "Jenny! Jenny, get the rosemary! And where's my carving knife?"
Several maids looked up, eyeing first the knife in Cook's hand, then each other.
"Well, don't just stand there. Find it! And who's keeping an eye on the bread? Blast it all, people, this banquet is happening tonight, not next week!" He remembered me with a frown."Miss Aliza, what are you doing here? The kitchen's no place for Manor-folk."
"You asked me to go collect some . . . never mind. Listen, I wanted to ask—"
"No, no, none of that! Unless you're here to tell me those Riders have brought their own feast, I can't have you in here."
"All right, all right. I'm going. And, Cook, the knife's in your hand."
A chorus of giggles erupted from the kitchen maids as Cook flushed and held up the errant utensil.
Unfortunately, he had a point. It'd taken a year's taxes and two loans from neighboring estates to cover the Riders' bond-price, and with the welcome banquet Lord Merybourne ordered on top of all that, it pushed us nearly to the breaking point. But I'd promised Tobble I'd look into the extra cattle, and the least I could do was ask. I'd have to talk to my father.
Long before I reached Papa's door, I heard Mama's voice echoing all the way down the spiral staircase, shrill and angry enough to frighten away even Lord Merybourne, should he have been unwise enough to wander this way. My younger sister Mari once speculated that Mama had some banshee blood on her side of the family. I trusted her judgment. Mama's half-brother, my uncle Gregory, had inherited a talent for gardening from his great-grandmother's dalliance with a wood-wight, so it wouldn't surprise me if one of Mama's ancestors had passed a little something down as well, though that relationship would take a good deal more explaining. Banshees, like lamias and so many other creatures of the Oldkind, counted themselves among the Tekari, and hated all humans.
My parents' conversation grew clearer as I climbed the last few steps. "Surely you see what an opportunity this is!" Mama said.
"Yes, I do." Papa's voice was stern."It's a chance to get rid of these accursed gryphons once and for all. Of all people, I'd think you'd appreciate that most."
"Of course, of course, but I'm talking about our daughters."
"Oh? Were they planning to slay some of the beasts themselves?"
"Robart!"
"If these Riders are apprenticing, I'll give my hearty consent to whichever girl wishes to take up the blade. You and I will both sleep easier if they know how to defend themselves."
"I'd sleep easier knowing they're looked after now, not ten years from now when they've finished their training."
"I was joking, my dear."
"Well, I'm not! And anyway, a husband lasts longer than an apprenticeship."
"Only if he's unlucky."
Imagining Mama's response to that, I took pity on Papa and knocked.
"Enter!" he called.
Mama paced in front of Papa's desk."Aliza! What are you doing up here?"
"I had a question for Papa about Manor expenses."
Usually bored at the first hint of business, I expected her to make a quick exit. Instead, she stood and stared at me, toe tapping. "Well? Out with it."
"Papa, after the banquet tonight, how many head of cattle will His Lordship have left?"
He donned his spectacles and consulted the ledger at his elbow. "Cook agreed to make do with only one side of beef tonight, so that leaves two dozen dairy cows, six bulls, and ten steers. Why do you want to know?"
Forty animals. That was less than half the herd Lord Merybourne had owned before the gryphons descended. With winter coming and a hundred mouths to feed on the Manor, we couldn't spare many more."It's nothing."
"And good thing too. Your father's in one of his moods," Mama said, glaring at Papa."If you won't take an interest in your daughters' futures, Robart, then gods help me, I'll do it myself."
"I've no doubt you'll do a splendid job, Moira."
"I mean it! Where are these Riders now?"
"Lord Merybourne is welcoming them in the Great Hall."
"Excellent. Come along, Aliza."
"If you ladies are headed that way, perhaps you'd do me a favor?" Papa offered me a sheet of paper."Take this to one of the Riders down there, name of Brysney. His Lordship wanted it signed as soon as possible."
Mama snatched the sheet from my hand."Signed? What more would a Rider have to sign? He couldn't . . ." Her face brightened as she read it over."Oh! Oh my goodness!"
"What, Mama? Papa? What is it?"
Mama circled the desk to keep the paper out of my grasp. "Robart, is he serious?"
"Quite. Master Brysney wrote to Lord Merybourne shortly after their contracts were sealed, asking if he knew of a suitable house in the neighborhood," he said."His Lordship offered the North Fields lodge and, well, we now have a Rider paying rent."
"That's wonderful!" I said.
Mama waved a hand."Yes, yes, wonderful. But how many other people know about this, Robart?"
"Besides us? His Lordship, Lady Merybourne, and Warren Carlyle," Papa said, naming Lord Merybourne's steward and the father of my closest friend, Gwyndolyn Carlyle. "Lord Merybourne will tell the rest of the Manor at banquet tonight."
"Well then, that doesn't give me very much time."
"Time? For what?"
"We have a long game to plan, and I'll not waste a moment," Mama said, eyes sparkling in a way that didn't bode well for me or any of my sisters. "I have to put the pieces in motion. Angelina needs a dress!" she cried, and before Papa could stop her, she was out the door.
"Aliza, my dear, for whatever happens tonight, please accept my sincerest apologies," he said as the door swung shut.
"Oh, don't worry. Anjey can hold Mama off." I could see now why Lord Merybourne wanted to throw the Riders a banquet. With one of them renting the North Fields lodge, we'd be able to repay our debt to the nearby estates in months, not years."Is it just the one Rider?"
"Just Master Brysney and his sister, Lady Charis. The others will stay with them while they're hunting the gryphons."
"Brysney. Why do I know that name?"
"The last contract they undertook was in Harborough Hatch."
"I . . . oh." Of course.
We'd all heard what the Brysneys had done in Harborough Hatch. Between rockslides, mudslides, and floods, news coming out of that county had always been bad, but nothing compared to the day the Lesser Lindworm broke ground outside of the city of Hatch Ford. Spawned from earth and the legends of nightmares, the venomous, worm-like Tekari terrorized the countryside for weeks, until twin Riders from the north, a brother and sister, flew in on the first winds of winter and succeeded where dozens of Riders before them had failed. Bards all around Arle sang about the battle, and though there were a dozen versions of how they'd done it, a few facts stayed the same: Master Brysney and Lady Charis slew the Worm, and paid the price for it. Lady Charis's wyvern died after the battle, poisoned by the Worm's incurable sting.
The bards didn't talk much about that part.
"I hope the gryphons won't be so difficult," I said.
"With five Riders and a dragon in the fight, I doubt it'll even come close to difficult," Papa said, shutting the ledger with a thud. Dust floated up from the faded pages. He fought back a sneeze. "If you're—ah—heading downstairs, would you take this to Master Carlyle? With my apologies. Next time I won't keep it so long."
"Do you want me to bring the lease too?"
"No, I'll take it down. I just wanted to see your mother's reaction," he said with a smile, which dimmed the more he thought about it. "And, er, on that note, keep an eye on your sister for me, will you? I've never seen Moira so determined. All joking aside, I wouldn't want her doing anything foolish to attract Master Brysney's attention."
"She wouldn't stoop that low, would she?"
"Who knows? All we can do is remind her that this Brysney, rich and single as he may be, is most definitely not here looking for a wife."

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The students library at Oslo Cathedral School was old and needed renovation. The school's hard working students deserved a great room that would inspire them to study and provide an enclave for their academic well-being. We created smart solutions to divide the library into different zones and use consistent colour signatures. The library, along with the new hallway, quickly become a favourite space with the students.


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Gabriel Popescu (n. 25 decembrie 1973 în Craiova) este un fost fotbalist român, care a jucat pentru Echipa națională de fotbal a României la Campionatul Mondial de Fotbal din 1998.

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Outgoing superintendent says he's 'ready for next big adventure'
by Barbara Wood	/ Almanac
Superintendent Maurice Ghysels chats with kindergartners at Encinal School. (Photo by Michelle Le/The Almanac)
Maurice Ghysels, who has headed the Menlo Park City School District since mid-2011, says he plans to leave the district at the end of the school year because the time is right, both for him and for the district.
In an interview, he said he has accomplished his goals: a "super strong" leadership team is in place, and the district has adopted a set of core values, a strategic vision and guiding principles.
The district is ready to go to the "next level," he said, "and at the same time, I'm ready for a new adventure."
Mr. Ghysels, 60, has had a long career in education, but he also spent four years as an executive with Citibank and a year with a startup. "I think this is probably the longest gig I've had," he said.
"I like to create, build, startup and get things in place to where they can sustain, and then go on to the next adventure," he said.
Menlo Park governing board member Maria Hilton, who was board president when Mr. Ghysels was hired by the district, agreed that he has put a strong foundation in place to continue the work he has begun.
Mr. Ghysels was hired in part because the district was looking for someone who could "identify, attract and retain talent," she said. "To a person, across our principals and key leadership roles across the district," she said, "Maurice has helped us get the best possible people. I can't tell you how valuable that is."
She said that when Mr. Ghysels was hired, the district was also looking for someone to help it become a "core-value, strategic vision" district, and he has helped put those things in place.
"He's continued to deliver on those things that we were interested in," she said. The leadership team in place can continue to work toward the goals the district has identified under Mr. Ghysels, she said.
"Could he be the one to continue this work absolutely," she said. But for him, she said, moving on "is an opportunity to say: 'What do I really enjoy the most?' "
What's next for Mr. Ghysels?
"I'm in that mode of thinking and ideating and not taking anything off the table," he said.
His dream job, he said, is not "by topic" but "when I feel alive and feel like I'm doing good, and making an impact." He said he could end up inside, or outside, education.
He plans to stay in the area. He lives in Menlo Park with his wife, Carmen Mizell, who works in Mountain View.
With an undergraduate degree in economics from San Jose State, and a teaching credential in social studies, math and life sciences, he started his career as a high school teacher at Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton. He received a doctorate in educational organization and leadership from the University of San Francisco while he was working.
He soon became a vice principal and was a principal by his mid-30s. Some teachers he was supervising were his parents' age, he noted.
At that point, Mr. Ghysels' said, his career took a detour when he was recruited to become an executive with Citicorp. The job included training employees as the company began adopting internet banking.
"It was an internal start-up," he said.
Although he had thought he'd take only a one-year leave of absence, he worked in New York City for Citicorp for four years, returning home to his family in the Bay Area on weekends.
He then spent a year working for a Silicon Valley start-up, Groundswell Inc., which he describes as a business-to-business consulting firm. "We were in that dot.com irrational exuberance stage," he said, and the company ran through its funding in a year.
"It was one of the greatest learning experiences of my life," Mr. Ghysels said.
Mr. Ghysels then returned to education as a deputy superintendent in the Campbell Union Elementary School District, before becoming superintendent of the Mountain View Whisman School District from 2005 to 2010. He left the Mountain View district after revealing to its school board that he and Carmen Mizell, who was a principal at a Mountain View Whisman school, were involved in a romantic relationship. Both were married to others at the time.
Soon after the affair was announced, Mr. Ghysels went to work for the Santa Clara County Office of Education as its chief schools officer, before moving on to the Menlo Park district.
School board member Ms. Hilton said Mr. Ghysels "continued to deliver on those things we were interested in," during his tenure.
"All of the things I was personally hoping for, he really did deliver," she said. "My only hope is he really thinks about staying in education" so he could end up "sharing that knowledge and experience" he gained in Menlo Park with another district, she said
"We are eternally grateful for him," Ms. Hilton said.
Mr. Ghysels said he is most proud of "the people I've worked with who have made these great things happen" in the district. "I think overall the students' experience has been transformative in academics, in their social emotional wellbeing, and their access to really discovering what their strengths are and what their talents are."
"Our students are among the best educated in the world, and extraordinarily prepared for college and beyond," he said.
"The greatest accomplishment of a leader is creating a collaboration, a collection of people, a community," he said.
"I'm surely not perfect, I know I've not always made the right calls," he said. But making a mistake simply means, he said, that "it's back to learning."
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Part-time work is humane and should be respected and encouraged
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I woke up on a recent Tuesday morning and, while my husband got ready for work, I fixed some not-quite-healthy breakfast for the kids, harangued them until they brushed their teeth and put on shoes and socks, and drove them to school. Then I took the car to the mechanic for a minor repair and walked back to the house. Before starting my day of work, I made some calls to medical providers about our new health insurance. Later, when the kids got home, I fixed snacks for them and some friends who wandered over, loaded the dishwasher, and did some laundry.
This is not an essay about how women are expected to do the work of managing a home on top of our paid jobs, nor a paean to 'lean-in' efficiency that explains how I wake up at 4am, answer emails while the kids are still in bed, and use productivity tricks to get things done at double-speed. Because here's my secret – one that feels about as dirty and uncomfortable to reveal as anything I could tell you about my sex life – I don't work that much. I'm a freelance writer, which means I can more or less choose how much I work. And my usual choice is something like 30 hours a week.
Many people look upon part-timers as unfortunate exiles from the economic mainstream, or else as pathetic slackers. In thrall to startup culture, our collective psyche makes ceaseless hustle and 80-hour working weeks seem like the only way that career-minded individuals might advance. So who would admit to having so little ambition as to actually prefer working a 30-hour week?
As it turns out, a lot of people. A survey from the Pew Research Center in 2016 found that, among US workers employed part-time, 64 per cent prefer it that way. Meanwhile, 20 per cent of full-time workers – that's almost 26 million Americans – would rather work part-time. If you don't believe the survey data, just look at those ubiquitous ads for multilevel marketing schemes and absurdly underpaid work-from-home gigs to get a sense of how desperate people are for part-time employment that fits around the rest of our lives.
The reason a lot of people work full-time – though they'd rather not – is obvious: part-time jobs as they exist today are often pretty crappy, low-paid, and with no health benefits, irregular schedules and few opportunities for advancement. White-collar workers who officially have part-time schedules often work full-time hours while still getting paid less, and they're taken less seriously than their coworkers. Yet it's rare to see public calls for more and better part-time jobs. The fact that there are few news features, think-tank reports or cable TV rants on the topic says a lot about whose ideas get taken seriously, punditry itself being a round-the-clock obsession. Those of us who don't work that much, or would rather not work as much as we do, are unlikely to number among the weirdly ambitious outliers extolling the modern work ethic in the Sunday press.
As it happens, the economic case for more part-time work is pretty water-tight. Recent studies in Sweden and New Zealand have found that working fewer hours improves employee productivity. And in a six-hour workday experiment in Melbourne last year, workers wasted less time on long meetings and focused more on the tasks at hand. They also spent less work time on personal tasks since they had more non-work hours to get those done.
Personally, I do think working fewer hours makes me more productive. But that's not why I do it. The real reason is that I have other things I'd rather do. An hour that I don't spend working (and I work hard, believe me, and like what I do), is an hour sitting on the couch with my kids, reading a science-fiction novel and pausing intermittently to chat about their video games or YouTube favourites. It's an hour cooking a meal, going for a walk or doing volunteer work. It's when I can act as one node in the lively neighbourhood web of parents, grandparents and afterschool programmes for kids, organising hangouts and snacks. It's also when I pay bills, run errands, execute minor home repairs, and hire others to tackle major ones – so neither I nor my husband have to do that stuff on weekends.
I know people who do way more unpaid work than I do while still holding full-time jobs. They seem very happy with their busy lives, and it's hard for me not to envy them a little. Me, I'm a slightly depression-prone person who does poorly with chronic stress and needs plenty of sleep. Lots of other people simply can't work full-time because of disability, illness or complicated family needs. But that's no reason why interesting work and career-advancement should elude them.
I know I'm lucky. Unlike most workers, I can more or less set my own freelance hours. I have a spouse who makes a solid income teaching middle school, and does his share of cooking and kid-wrangling. (He also takes over a lot of household responsibilities during summer break, a time when many other teachers pick up a second job to make more money.) For those of us who have these kinds of advantages, there's something to be said for using them to buy extra leisure rather than higher incomes and more possessions. For those who don't, there's reason to see shorter working hours as a political goal to fight for.
I try not to worry that my work schedule means I'm incurably lazy. I do, however, worry about its implications for gender equality. Like most straight couples, I do less paid work and more unpaid housework than my husband. That Pew survey found that women are more likely than men to prefer working part-time hours. But this dynamic leaves women more vulnerable to control and abuse, and more likely to end up in poverty after a divorce. At a societal level, it reinforces the idea that women are more suited to caring labour at home and less to employment, which means that women who'd rather work long hours often feel pressured to slow down their careers to care for others. That's a huge loss for society.
When the gender balance in power-player jobs from the entertainment industry to the White House improves, women's interests are advanced. But one solution that won't improve gender equality in the workplace is to convince women like me who'd rather work fewer hours that we've got our priorities wrong. Instead, we need to make it easier for people of any gender to live with their centre of gravity being outside the office – and get part-time workers fully included in powerful institutions. At a political level, that means campaigns for higher wages, regulations to stabilise part-time schedules, and childcare allowances and other support for primary caregivers. It also means changing workplace cultures: demanding more part-time career-track jobs and more respect for those who do them. And if we want to make social change at the level of individual workers' attitudes, let's start with the men whose cultural conditioning has somehow convinced them that the best use of their time is paid.
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The Dawn of Man - 2001: A Space Odyssey
If one were to name the most significant films of the twentieth century, 2001: A Space Odyssey would surely be among the top ten. And of all the most iconic scenes in any film of any era or genre, "The Dawn of Man" sequence would likely be among the top ten as well. This absolutley brilliant piece was conceived by Stanley Kubrick (in collaboration with Arthur C. Clark) and depicts the moment that primitive ape-like man (Australopithecus possibly) transcends his species via a spark of intelligence - triggered by the Monolith. The alpha primate smashing the tapir bones was credited as "Moon-Watcher" and was played by Daniel Richter in an incredibly realistic ape-suit that was decades ahead of its time. I actually think this live action sequence with its inventive visual effects is far superior in quality and verisimilitude than most of today's CGI generated animation. In sculpting this scene, I paid homage to Kubrick's work and kept the anatomical proportions consistent with a homo sapiens in an ape suit. My thanks again to the Ceramic Art Studio and Shop.
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The Artesian Board of Directors meets the first Monday of every other month at 4515 Poplar Ave, Suite 324 at 6pm.
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**Note: Artesian's August 2019 board meeting will be held during the board's annual retreat on July 19, 2019, from 8:30-9:30 AM, at the Church Health Center's Volunteer Training Room in Crosstown Concourse.
**Artesian's Board will meet in executive session by conference call on 11/11/19 at 7:30 PM to discuss matters arising out of the SCS Board vote.
To view past minutes and the agenda for the upcoming Board meeting, click here.
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Anthony Branch
Anthony Branch graduated from Howard University in Washington, DC in 1990 where he received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing. He started his career with the Mobil Oil Corporation. After three years in corporate America, he changed his career to education as he saw the need for positive black men in the lives of our youth. In 1993 he joined
Prince George's County Public School System in the state of Maryland as a seventh grade mathematics teacher and matriculated to Shelby County Schools in Tennessee. During his tenure he was instrumental in training student teachers to become effective teachers. Anthony accepted his call to preach in 1997 at Saint Andrew AME Church and then began to work in full time ministry with the Urban Youth Initiative (UYI). Through the UYI, he ministered to youth in a number of middle and high schools in Memphis. He founded and directed a Christian Entrepreneurship Program for inner city youth that served both middle and high school students who were empowered to move beyond their neighborhoods and go to college. In 2001, Anthony joined Edison Schools Inc. in New York City, the nation's largest public school partner, where he worked closely with school districts across the nation to raise student achievement. He has served for 12 years in the West Tennessee Annual Conference as a pastor at Mount Herman AME Church, Noah Chapel AME Church and Greenwood. In his quest to continue to change the lives of youth, Anthony joined New Leaders, the Nation's premier leadership organization that selects and trains passionate and results focused individuals, from within education, to become urban public school principals. Through his training with New Leaders, In 2007 Anthony was selected to serve as Assistant Principal at STAR Academy Charter School. In October 2009, he obtained an MBA in Human Resource Management from the University of Phoenix. With his education and leadership qualities, in 2012 he was selected to serve the Tennessee Network of The Achievement Network headquartered in Boston, MA. He served as Director of School Support where he coached and developed school leadership teams to embed performance management strategies and ultimately raise student academic achievement. Once again Anthony was recruited to serve as Vice President of Memphis Leadership Foundation where he oversees and builds the capacity of ministry leaders as well as strengthen ministry programs that serve the marginalize in our city. He has been married to his high school best friend, Sonji Miller Branch, for twenty five years. Together they have two sons, Marcus who is a graduate of Morehouse College and Myles who is a graduate of Bartlett High School.
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Frank Cook
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Edward Harper, Treasurer
Edward C.W. Harper IV is a Sr. Associate Portfolio Manager at Diversified Trust Company's Memphis office. Prior to joining Diversified Trust, Edward obtained his MBA from the USC Marshall School of Business and undergraduate degree from Morehouse College. Professionally, Mr. Harper spent several years working in various investment banking, corporate finance, and portfolio management roles for Wachovia Securities and Bank of America. Edward is also a 2014 graduate of the New Memphis Fellows program.
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Erica Hopkins
Erica L. Hopkins is a licensed behavior analyst for the State of Tennessee and currently works in private practice serving individuals with special needs since 2012. Prior to becoming a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, Erica received her Masters of Counseling with a concentration in School Counseling from The University of Memphis in 2008 and her Bachelors of Arts in Psychology from Christian Brothers University in 2005. Ms. Hopkins was born and raised in Memphis, TN, graduating from Whitehaven High School. She has a passion for mentorship and education, working with various nonprofit agencies supporting the development of leadership skills in youth and young adults across the city for more than a decade.
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Sharon Jones, Chair
Ms. Jones is a volunteer director. A native Memphian, she earned her undergraduate degree in journalism from Lincoln University (MO) and masters in professional studies in communication arts from Cornell University. In addition to writing and managing grants for the Church Health Center, she has more than 16 years experience in fundraising and public relations with the Catholic Schools Office of the Diocese of Memphis, Bishop Byrne Middle & High School, Southwest Tennessee Community College and Memphis City Schools. She also volunteers with the National Civil Rights Museum and United Way of the Mid-South.
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Gwendolyn Shields, Vice-Chair
Ms. Shields is a Manager at FedEx. She earned her undergraduate degree in Information Technology Management from Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN, and masters in General Management from Dowling College in Long Island, NY. She is an alumnus of Leadership Memphis, a ground-breaking leadership organization with new programs and action initiatives that drive educational achievement, diversity, inclusive and collective impact for Memphis. She is a member of the NBMBAA, an organization dedicated to developing partnerships that create intellectual and economic wealth in under-privileged communities through its five channels of engagement: career, education, entrepreneurship, leadership and lifestyle. She also volunteers with the Women's Foundation For A Greater Memphis.
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Lanell Smith
Lanell Smith, Jr. has the great opportunity of supporting Education Pioneers, an education non-profit organization that assists K-12 public school organizations and education non-profits in recruiting and training high-performing leaders and managers in non-instructional positions. He serves as the Regional Recruitment Manager where he oversees recruitment strategy and implementation and connects talented leaders and managers with roles in Memphis, Tulsa, Metro D.C., New Orleans, and Nashville. In addition, Lanell is a 2017 YouCAN Fellow with 50 Campaign for Achievement Now (50CAN), alum of Education Pioneers, and an Adjunct Professor at Arkansas State University in the department of business technology.
Having spent most of his professional career in education, Lanell came to his current role with both the passion and awareness of how vital talented school leaders and diversity are to ensure that all students are afforded the opportunity to a quality education. Before his current role, Lanell served as the founding senior manager for the City of Memphis' CLOUD901 Learning Laboratory and oversaw admissions, recruitment, and student affairs initiatives at the University of Tennessee (College of Pharmacy) and Southern College of Optometry. Additionally, he worked for The New Teacher Project, where he helped Shelby County Schools (formerly Memphis City Schools) recruit and train new teachers, assist staff-challenged schools, and retain excellent teachers.
Lanell is a graduate of Bethel University (McKenzie, TN) with a bachelor's degree in management and organizational development and graduated from Northeastern University (Boston, MA) where he earned a master's degree in education. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in the Claudius G. Clemmer College of Education at East Tennessee State University with a focus on post-secondary and private sector leadership.
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Really, I do more things that just make birthday cakes! But June is a big Birthday month in our house! June 1st is Daddy's birthday and 6th is my daughter Lilly's Birthday. In between those two days we have 3 other family birthdays!! So my husband still loves tie dye! I guess it's pretty cool but he would really love to have tie dyed sheets like we were back in College?! The closest to that he is going to get is tie dyed cookies and a tie dye birthday cake! I'm mean seriously tie dye sheets? .... not going to happen! Below is this years tie dye birthday cake!
(1) boxed cake mix - (white or yellow works the best) prepare cake according to the box.
(2) measure out 1/2 cup of the mixture and add to separate bowls.
(3) add food coloring to your mixture - colors are up to you! Mix the cake mix and coloring together.
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Updated: Lebanon Popeyes fails health inspection, now in compliance
Popeyes in Lebanon was out of compliance with food safety laws after a May 20 inspection found 14 health code violations.
Updated: Lebanon Popeyes fails health inspection, now in compliance Popeyes in Lebanon was out of compliance with food safety laws after a May 20 inspection found 14 health code violations. Check out this story on ldnews.com: https://ldne.ws/2IzDbT0
Andrew Kulp, Lebanon Daily News Published 2:41 p.m. ET May 21, 2018 | Updated 10:02 a.m. ET May 23, 2018
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A food safety inspection found Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen at 2159 W. Cumberland St. in Lebanon out of compliance with 14 health code violations on Sunday, May 20.(Photo: Andrew Kulp, Lebanon Daily News)Buy Photo
Updated 5/22/2018, 1:38 p.m.: A follow-up inspection found Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen at 2159 W. Cumberland St. in Lebanon in compliance with food safety regulations on Monday, May 21.
A lone health code violation was spotted during the most recent inspection at Popeyes – a food employee observed wearing jewelry on their hands or arms – one day after the restaurant was reported out of compliance with 14 violations.
Both inspections were conducted by West Lebanon Township. The township declined to comment.
Max Zakeriah, a representative for the Popeyes franchise in Lebanon, said the out-of-compliance inspection was performed after hours while cleaning crews were on scene, and stressed at no point was the restaurant shut down for health reasons.
Zakeriah said he believes the timing was to blame for what he felt was a misleading report.
"Once we close the restaurant, that's when we fix the issues," said Zakeriah. "We were caught in the gap between closing and reopening."
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture states inspections are a "snapshot" of the time and day of inspection and may not be representative of the overall, long-term cleanliness of an establishment.
The out-of-compliance inspection at Popeyes came about due to a complaint, which Zakeriah says was not related to food safety, but instead the result of water streaming out the back door from cleaning crews pressure-washing the floors.
Zakeriah added Popeyes threw away an estimated $1,000 worth of chicken that an inspector purported to be improperly stored at room temperature.
"If it was really that bad, we would've been shut down," said Zakeriah.
A food safety inspection found Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen at 2159 W. Cumberland St. in Lebanon out of compliance with 14 health code violations on Sunday, May 20.
Among the unsanitary conditions observed by a health inspector at Popeyes were bags of chicken left sitting at room temperature overnight, "flies everywhere" in the kitchen area, cooking equipment "encrusted with grease and soil accumulation," inaccessible employee handwash stations, improper disposal of sewage or wastewater and "extremely dirty, dusty" conditions in kitchen area.
The inspection conducted by West Lebanon Township was the result of a customer complaint. A follow-up report is expected to be released on Tuesday.
Popeyes reopened on Sunday, a manager on the premises told the Lebanon Daily News.
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The full list of 14 violations cited under the Bureau of Food Safety and Laboratory Services, along with the inspectors' comments, are as follows:
Observed food stored directly on the floor in walk in cooler, storage container outside, rather than six inches off of the floor as required. Observed food stored in prep area where it is subject to splash from stored items like dirty drain guards above dipping/breading area.
Soda machine, a food contact surface, was observed to have food residue and was not clean to sight and touch.
Entire kitchen, walk-in freezer, walk-in cooler area of the food facility is extremely dirty, dusty, and in need of cleaning.
Bags of chicken food in sink was held at 51°F, in the three-bay sick area overnight, rather than 41°F or below as required.
No sign or poster posted at the handwash sink in the restrooms area to remind food employees to wash their hands.
Food in the walk-in cooler area stored open with no covering.
Non-food contact surfaces not cleaned at a frequency to preclude accumulation of dirt and soil.
Old food residue, dishes and utensils observed in the handwash sink, indicating uses other than handwashing. The handwash sink in the prep area was blocked by a skid of oil and not accessible at all times for employee use.
Back door blocked open in rear area of the food facility does not protect against the entry of insects, rodents, and other animals. Flies everywhere in kitchen area.
The person in charge did not demonstrate adequate knowledge of the PA Food Code as evidenced by incorrect responses to food safety questions. The person in charge does not have adequate knowledge of food safety in this food facility as evidenced by this non-compliant inspection.
Observed wiping cloths in extremely unclean condition in prep area. Observed wet wiping cloths in prep area, not being stored in sanitizer solution.
Observed cooking equipment/pans, in the prep area, with encrusted grease and soil accumulation. Observed equipment, in prep area, with an accumulation of dust, dirt, food residue, debris on non-food contact surfaces.
Observed single-service, single-use articles stored in outside trailer area directly on the floor, and not six inches above the floor.
Sewage/wastewater from the food facility is not being disposed of properly to an approved sewage system.
Popeyes passed its opening inspection with no violations on April 24, a little more than one week before its May 2 opening.
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Popeyes opened in Lebanon on May 2, more than a week after passing its first health inspection on April 24. (Photo: Andrew Kulp, Lebanon Daily News)
Throngs of hungry fried chicken lovers pack the inside of Popeyes on Cumerland St. in Lebanon on the store's opening day. (Photo: Andrew Kulp, Lebanon Daily News)
The restaurant had initially sought to open in March, but the launch was pushed back due to weather-related construction delays. Once the parking lot was paved, Popeyes moved rapidly to open its doors to customers who were clamoring the fast food chain's famous fried chicken.
With over 2,600 stores worldwide, Popeyes is the second-largest fried chicken restaurant. The Lebanon location is owned by Parikh Network, which also operates Popeyes in Lancaster, York and Allentown.
Representatives from West Lebanon Township and Parikh Network were unavailable for comment on Monday.
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The sparkling Giulietta Masina: actress of the heart and mind; as funny, grave, and profound as Chaplin. This final scene from Fellini's masterpiece Nights of Cabiria (1957) captures her singular genius and never ceases to inspire me. The unsinkable heroine—brave, brave, always onwards—roams the streets dreaming of a wonderful life but consistently finding heartbreak. Still she continues, a part of her rallying beyond limits, beyond herself, finally smiling through her tears.
As a teenager, I was drawn to boys with more than average melancholy. There were boys who drank tequila and listened to the blues and boys who engaged in petty crime and wept about their fathers. There were boys who made me mixed tapes of polyrhythmic African music but otherwise wallowed in almost catatonic sadness. The hale and effervescent did not attract me. If I happened to find myself with someone happy and obviously together, I would attempt to induct them into the cult of sad love by lending them my copy of "The Lover". Beyond titillation, I don't know what a cheerful high-school football player is to make of an adolescent girl in French Indochina embarking on an affair with a wealthy Chinese man. But what I learned from Duras and her fallen world was that there was grandeur and satisfaction to unhappiness. Looking back, I find the melancholy of my teenage years easy to satirize (all those pensively smoked Gitanes!). Depression often teeters on the edge of absurdity. But now when I reread "The Lover", I know in some ways I haven't grown up at all. This mournful and languidly obsessive book still makes me feel elated.
I realize that the idea of endlessly revisiting a book is foreign to many people. It certainly runs against the grain of our acquisitive, accumulative, time-strapped culture. I mean, really, who has time to re-read? I barely have enough time for a first-run. In fact, lately I seem to have developed a Sisyphean relationship to my night-table. The more I read, the more the list of books I haven't read and want to read keep growing. And never mind the night-table, beyond that there is an endless mountain chain, infinite towering stacks of great books I will never scale, and not for any lack of desire.
Should I pull out my copy of Austerlitz and enter its hypnotic spiral once again and more deeply, or should I sink into As I Lay Dying and finally try to figure out how it really works, or should I just move on?
I should probably move on…and yet I can't completely. So I re-read. I re-read books to my children and I re-read books for myself (John Berger's And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red, Virginia Woolf's Moments of Being, and Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost…) My children also re-read on their own—constantly going back, poring over Lemony Snicket, Osamu Tezuka, or Charles Schultz.
There is a small part of me that thinks the greatest enjoyment would be to read a handful of books over and over again. I think it would satisfy me the way it satisfies me to indulge my same-song listening needs and the way it gratifies me to stare and stare at Agnes Martin's work.
Sometimes a repeat reading is for understanding more and sometimes it is just for letting the words or lines wash over you. I believe in re-reading as a gesture of self-willed mesmerism. I turn to certain books again and again because I know they will act on me. My chemistry will combine with the words or images and create a distinctive mood. My best beloved books whisk me away from the denotative into the connotative realm.
There are endless great books but only a few consistently offer me a reliably charged field in which to wander and dream.


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Current Anodizing Processes SAF – Southern Aluminum Finishing Co, Inc.
The predominant anodizing process today. Coatings 0.1-1.0 mil thick formed in a 15 pct. solution, 12 asf, 18-24 volts, 70F for 10-60 min. This coating is usually organically dyed or colored with deposited metals (two-step). Offers a wide array of applications. Most anodizers use this method, although other acids are available for specialty purposes.
These intergal one-step processes employ 90-100 g/liter solutions of organic acids, containing a small amount of sulfuric acid (for increased conductivity). Operating conditions: 70-80F, 24 asf, voltage up to 75; produces amber, bronze and black coatings. The resulting oxide coating is light-fast and weather resistant.
5.Electrolytic colouring -Pretreatment-Anodizing (no special alloy)-Dyeing with metal salts and A.C.


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Court orders Foreign Minister Downer to pay $20,000 costs in Falun Gong ¨certificates¨ case
¨…The plaintiffs have achieved the object of the proceedings…
and will be free to continue their protest without the limitations
that had been imposed upon them earlier by the certificates.
No further relief is required. " Said Justice Crispin.
ABC, Australia: Downer makes legal moves to dismiss Falun Gong court case
Falun Gong members are suing Mr Downer, saying certificates he issued banning their protests outside the Chinese Embassy were invalid.
Australia BBC Monitoring: Falun Gong claims victory indispute over Canberra banners
The Falun Gong spiritual movement has been allowed to use large banners in its protests outside the Chinese embassy in the Australian capital [Canberra], four years after they were banned by Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer.
Mr Downer still ordered to provide evidence to court;
On Tuesday 8 August, erected mass banners will be included in the ongoing protest by Falun Gong practitioners outside the Chinese Embassy in Canberra for the first time in four years – a peaceful act that Foreign Minister Alexander Downer had prohibited from March 2002 until March 2006.
ABC, Australia: Falun Gong banner ban lifted
Falun Gong has been allowed to use large banners in its protests outside the Chinese embassy in Canberra, four years after they were banned by Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer.
Correction regarding the Falun Gong action against certificates issued by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer
At a directions hearing for the case yesterday (3/07/06), a representative of the law office representing the plaintiffs advised the court that the case would not be discontinued and sought leave from the court for a three-week extension which was granted.
Article Review: The Australian: Mike Steketee: The price is rights
John Fitzgerald, a professor in Asia-Pacific studies at the Australian National University, told a federal parliamentary committee that many in leadership positions in China felt the Government's banning of Falun Gong and its subsequent persecution was a terrible mistake.
AAP: Embassy protesters claim court win
Mr Collaery told reporters this was a sensible decision and inevitable because of the impact on freedom of expression. He said Mr Downer was apparently reluctant to justify his statements that noise and music from demonstrators was impeding the work of Chinese diplomats and offending the dignity of the mission.


CELEBRITIES are offering food for thought in a book compiled by three friends in aid of charity.
Prestbury mum Carole Geary and two of her pals Judy Bailey and Millie Llewellyn are behind its publication.
Almost 100 stars, the rich and the famous, have contributed to a new cook book "Posh Nosh", which will raise money for Francis House Children's Hospice.
It includes favourites from former Tatton MP Martin Bell to controversial Harrod's boss Mahammed Al Fayed and Spice Girl Emma Bunton to former PM Maggie Thatcher.
"Posh Nosh", endorsed by top chef Raymond Blanc, is heading for the book shops in time for Christmas and promises to be a best seller.
All the proceeds will be donated to the hospice - which offers help and respite care to children with a short life expectancy - as part of its tenth anniversary appeal.
Judy, 42, said: "It was a flash of inspiration. The response was overwhelming from celebrities from all walks of life. We have been amazed by their support."
The book includes recipes from pop stars to politicians, churchmen, comedians and the landed gentry.
And while it may not contain their particular recipe for success, "Posh Nosh" offers a tantalising taste of their lifestyle.
John Cleese offered "Cornflakes - a breakfast dish. Buy pack of cornflakes, add milk. It's simple to make and always delicious. As an alternative use Coca Cola instead of milk. Add Basil as required."
"Posh Nosh" is officially launched at Raymond Blanc's restaurant, Le Petit Blanc, on Monday, October 15.
Carole, Judy and Millie, who have already helped to raise more than £100,000 for Francis House by organising an annual concert at Arley Hall, hope the book will be their biggest fundraiser yet.
It will be available in book shops and other outlets priced £12.
Full story in the Macclesfield Express newspaper, out Wednesday.