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Thanks for visiting the website of the Health & Wellbeing in Planning Peer Support Network! It aims to support practitioners working in the area of promoting health through planning and the built environment, whether you are a planner, health professional, architect, developer, academic, engineer in any sector.

It aims to build on, not duplicate, the many networks out there by allowing a central point of call for information exchanges and peer support on issues you face.

If you wish to join as an active Member, please go to the Requests, join as Member and Contact Us area to submit your details.

If you have a request for advice, information or support, please go to the Requests, join as Member and Contact Us area to submit your details.

If you are just browsing through, then welcome and hope you find what you need by accessing various information and updates.

Functions to growing need and demand for planning and health support

  • One-stop source for informal strategic advice with access to more expert and bespoke support.
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  • Comments on approach to health-proofing development proposals
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Athletic performance: what’s alcohol got to do with it?

Alcohol: it’s so pervasive in our culture. We drink when we’re happy. We drink when we’re sad. Some sources say we’ve felt the need to get a little tipsy for as long as 10 million years.

In certain amounts it’s good for us. It may reduce the risk of developing and dying from heart disease, ischemic stroke, and diabetes.

In excessive amounts, however, it’s linked to liver disease, pancreatitis, cancer, ulcers and gastrointestinal problems, immune system dysfunction, brain damage, malnourishment and vitamin deficiencies, osteoperosis, and heart disease.

Have you ever wondered what it does to performance?

I have.

These are the things I think about when the team and I are sitting on the patio after a soccer game crushing a pitcher of Coors Light on a hot day. They’re reminiscing about their great shot or an amazing save; I’m silently contemplating what the alcohol is doing inside my body at that very moment.

I’ve learned there are direct effects of alcohol on performance and indirect effects.

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Direct effects of alcohol on performance

  1. Alcohol interrupts recovery and adaptation

Muscle gets broken down when you exercise as it strains to keep up with the excessive stress you’ve just placed on it (This isn’t a bad thing. It’s a very necessary component of adaptation). To recover, certain things need to happen. Things like protein synthesis.

Protein synthesis occurs in muscle after exercise to increase the size of muscle components. Increasing the size of muscle components makes the muscle stronger and able to function at a higher capacity than it did before.

Protein synthesis is why it’s so important to get nutrients, like protein, into your body within 30 minutes of exercise and again every three to four hours afterwards. Because your body is actively generating new muscle components and it needs the proper building blocks (protein) to do so.

Alcohol interrupts this recovery and adaptation process.

A group of researchers in Australia, led by Evelyn Parr, studied the effect of alcohol on muscle adaptation. The participants in the study completed a bout of resistance exercise followed by some cycling. They found consuming alcohol, even at the same time as protein, after this exercise bout decreased the rate of protein synthesis.

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  1. Alcohol impairs rehydration

If you’re doing any kind of real exercise, you’re going to break a sweat, which means you’re losing water. And water is pretty important in the body – it makes up 60% of the average person’s body weight.

There’s a whole list of things associated with even short-term or mild dehydration. These include headaches, reduced calorie control, muscle cramps, decreased athletic performance, and decreased cognitive performance.

Alcohol impairs rehydration because it is a diuretic. That means it is a substance that increases the production of urine.

Normally, there’s a little hormone circulating in the blood called anti-diuretic hormone (ADH). It gets secreted by the pituitary gland and tells the kidneys to keep water in the body and prevent some of it from getting drained away when you pee.

Alcohol tells the pituitary gland to stop secreting ADH. Less ADH means the kidneys aren’t getting the message to keep water in the body and more is getting passed out in the urine.

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Indirect effects of alcohol on performance

  1. Alcohol alters your eating patterns

Diet and performance are intimately linked. You put crap in your body you’re going to get crappy performance.

The alternative is also true. You put high quality stuff in your body and you’re going to get high quality performance.

Alcohol has an interesting effect on eating patterns.

Researchers from the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Miriam Hospital in Rhode Island found eating patterns are altered before, during, and following drinking episodes. The participants in the study reported increased appetite, overeating, and making unhealthy food choices.

The findings of the study demonstrate the more long-term eating pattern changes with alcohol. It’s not just what you do while you’re drinking.

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  1. Alcohol affects your sleep

Drinking alcohol reduces the amount and quality of your sleep. Just one night of heavy drinking can reduce your sleep by one to three hours.

Alcohol decreases sleep amount by messing with adenosine – a chemical that makes you sleepy. Drinking alcohol rapidly increases adenosine levels making you tired and able to fall asleep very fast. But, it also causes adenosine to get cleared just as rapidly as it came on. This makes you wake up before you’re completely rested.

Sleep quality also decreases. Alcohol increases the amount of delta and alpha activity and interrupts REM sleep.

Delta activity is slow-wave sleep patterns normally present in sleep. It’s the kind of sleep that allows for memory formation and learning.

Alpha activity is the kind you don’t normally find during sleep. It’s more associated with wakeful rest.

So, with alcohol, you’re asleep, but you’re kind of awake at the same time.

REM sleep, or rapid eye movement sleep, occurs in intervals throughout the night. Not surprisingly, it’s characterized by rapid eye movements, more dreaming and bodily movement, and a faster pulse and breathing.

It’s also considered the most restful type of sleep.

With alcohol, you get less REM sleep, which means you feel groggy and unrested when you wake up.

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Alcohol can be good for you. But timing and amount are everything. Research now tells us that:

  • alcohol right after exercise impairs the recovery process (meaning you’re not going to get as much out of your workouts and your performance during your next gym bout isn’t going to be as good as it could have been),
  • it impedes rehydration and contributes to dehydration (which is directly linked to decreased cognitive and athletic performance)
  • it alters your eating patterns (poorer nutrition, poorer performance)
  • it leads to less restful sleep (less sleep, less recovery, poorer performance)

If you’re going to indulge in a few cold ones, keep it to a moderate amount and make sure you leave enough time after you exercise to let your body recover.

Have a great week and be sure follow the blog and follow Healthy Wheys on social media (Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter).

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Advice for aspiring authors

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

― Thomas A. Edison

Have you ever considered giving up?  Good news, you are not alone.

I’m going to give you a few example of others who almost pitched in the towel and left the writing to others. .  . almost. Thank goodness they didn’t give up.

Most recent, during an interview with Writers Digest, author Joe Hill (The Heart Shaped Box, Horns, NOS4A2, and the short story collection 20th Century Ghosts) talked about his journey toward publication.  He didn’t tell his agent who he was because he wanted his writing to stand on its own merit. In other words, he didn’t want anyone to publish his novel because he was Stephen King’s son.

The list is long and varied.  Mystery author Agatha Christie collected 500 rejections in four short years.

The quality of the message associated with rejection is also often disheartening and horrific.  Her’s a paraphrase of a rejection received by author Zane Grey, “you have no business being a writer and should give up”.

Sometimes the ability to choose the correct or enthusiastic publisher or agent eludes us, but the person who believes in our work as much as we do is out there.

The authors of “Chicken Soup for the Soul” were informed that anthologies don’t sell.  Can you believe that?  Thank goodness they didn’t.

C.S.Lewis collected 800 rejections for “The Chronicles of Narnia”, and  Margaret Mitchell received 38 rejections for “Gone with the Wind”.

Author Paul Coelho sees a limited 800 copies of “The Alchemist” sell, but with a new publisher, the number climbs to 75 million in print.

Fourteen agencies reject Stephanie Meyers “Twilight” which went on to spend 91 weeks on the NYT.

L. Frank Baum, told his works was “too radical a departure from juvenile literature”, finally sells “The Wonderful Wizard of  OZ”.

Louisa May Alcott was told by a publisher, “you should stick to teaching” which, thankfully she did not, and is still in print 140 years later.

Even the esteemed Beatrix Potter, the beloved author of “Tales of Peter Rabbit” was rejected so often she chose to self publish.  From its original 250 copies to 45 million.

The Christopher Little Literary Agency collects twelve rejections for author J.K.Rowlings’  “Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone”, until the eight year old daughter of a Bloomsbury editor insists on being allowed to finish reading the manuscript.  This led the way for this series of books which now has 450 million books in print.

The message here is clear.  Rejection is a part of the writing life.  We all experience it in different ways, at different levels, and with or without rancor.  But persistence is the key to success.  The willingness and the ability to come back and try just one more time can be the difference between life an author, and life wishing you’d finished the last book.

Building Character

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Keller

In fiction, much like real life, character is built by one’s life experience.  The ability to engage with a character without showing their life story  right up front is a basic skill ever writer learns. Sometimes the hard way.

Short stories differ from novels and novellas in that  the time to establish character is less in a short story and therefore, a different type of telling is used, usually dialogue exchange.  Characters can tell you a lot about their fellow travelers on the fictional journey and should be used accordingly.

But in the longer piece of fiction, characters are built, and many aspects must be addressed.  Such as, physical description.  What does your character look like and how will you let the readers know?

What does your character sound like?  Is the voice strong?  Commanding?  Authoritative? Or is the voice meek, mild, submissive, or even absent?

Is the character a person with a gentle touch, or more like a” bull in a china shop”? Is the behavior which determines their presence intentional or accidental?  Are they aggressive or just clumsy?

For the more intimate moments, the writer should let us know how others respond to the characters we build.  Reaction, though limited and more focused, is often poorly interpreted.  This is a significant problem with single or first person point of view.  Your narrator is often reactive to the behavior of other characters and can easily misinterpret the behavior or intentions of others.

During the intimate physical exchange or even during the “dance of attraction” don’t forget to let us know how your hero and heroine stimulate each other, touch, sight, or smell.

Olfactory response is the earliest indicator of recognition for us humans, and often invokes powerful memories which in turn stimulate neurological responses.  Intimate and even unknown fears are sometimes triggered by the sense of smell.  So if you’re looking for an opportunity to motivate your character to one of those little “turn around ” a deep-seated fear connected with a specific odor might serve.

Don’t forget the motivation comes from the history of the character you built,  and that is the path through which the great story is achieved.  You can only hope to thoroughly engage your reader with a spell binding character, well motivated, and easily identified  with, before you can craft a story that won’t be put aside.

Who decides?

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

― Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes we have difficulty with finding the correct audience for our writing.  Beta readers are not easy to come by, and as introverts– generally speaking– we are not likely to approach strangers to solicit critiques of our writing.  Certainly never for first or rough draft.

But sometimes, we elicit the overall negative response which incites others to tell us something just isn’t working.  If the reviews are mixed, let’s say 50-50 division on when a turn in the writing is working, or when it isn’t, it’s up to the writer to decide.

But let’s address the endless number of people who are quick to point out flaws, foibles, and faux pas in a genre they do not normally read, or are wholly unfamiliar with, even on a good day.  Those people are not your friends.  They are not seeking to help you.  Let me say this again, not helpful.

When you ask for help with a writing project, ask the appropriate person.  Someone who knows the genre, by virtue of being a long-term avid reader.  Or someone with a proven track record, preferably someone publishing– and publishing well, in the same genre. This is the type of author who can give you valuable advice about readers of the genre. This is they type of help you need, and you should always be specific about the type of reader you’re looking for on a project.

Do you want a line edit?  Ask for help from someone who does line edits, or purchase the service.

Do you want someone to read for content?  Then ask some one who reads for pleasure, hopefully an avid reader, to just read and please tell me where and when you put the book down and why.  If the baby was crying, they needed to put the book down.  If it became slow or boring, you need to examine the portion of the manuscript in the next editing pass. These readers will also tell you “I just didn’t believe he/she would do that, it didn’t seem realistic.”  Now that is a motivation problem, and also is easily fixed.

Just plain beta readers, those who are not aspiring authors, are sometimes they people who help you to correct the worst of the manuscript mistakes.  They will tell you the important things, like “Not believable”, or ask the ever important question of “How could she?”   These readers also better with pin pointing POV problems that new and aspiring writers don’t see.

Most often when we ask for help, we get exactly what we ask for, but it is also unpleasant to know you’ve made a mistake.  The wrong thinking in having your mistakes pointed out is the inability to just fix what’s wrong and move on.  Fixing is learning, and we don’t usually repeat the mistakes we correct.  Sometimes, but not always.

In the end, only you can decide.  Who will be your beta readers, those who can and do help you?  Or those who just want you to know how much they know. You decide.

“Where do you get your ideas?”

A question all too familiar to most writers, whether they are seasoned professional with a hard track record of novels multi-pubbed in many foreign languages or the aspiring writer  who has just — mistakenly– shared their aspiration to a career of full-time writing.

This is a common question for two very good reasons; 1) people are genuinely interested in how your process works or, 2) the can’t think of anything else intelligent to say to someone who makes their living as a writer.  After all, full-time author isn’t a real job, is it?

Happily or sadly, dependent on which side of the argument you fall, people do make a living at nothing but the writing.

So back to the question, where do the good ideas come from?

They are all around us.  The good ideas are in the people we know and those we don’t know, the folks we’ve grown up with and those we pass on the street.  The good ideas are everywhere if you know how to mine them out of your everyday life.

What will you do when faced with a life changing decision?  What do you think the people you know really well– your nearest and dearest do, when faced with a life altering choice?  Would they sacrifice one loved one for another?  Would they sacrifice their own life for someone else?  Or would they sacrifice another in order to live?

The choices we make on our best day as human beings is not usually the choice we offer our characters in a novel.  Those choices are much more difficult.  The things we know– or think we know about ourselves can all be called into question in our fiction.  This is what we mean when we talk about writing what we know.

In fiction we build characters who help us tell our stories, of what we think we would do– or hope we could do, or even help us tell of the better person we would like to be, if we aren’t telling the cautionary tale of  history which shows us the path others have chosen, much to their regret.

That is what fiction is all about, after all.  Telling the story.  Choosing the path for our characters, writing what we know and asking –” What if?”

So share with me, where do your good ideas come from?


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Nuclear Weapons Test Site
Radioactively contaminated lichen causes high strontium levels in reindeer, which are a dietary mainstay of the local Nenets and Sami populations. Photo: © TOYOSAKI Hiromitsu

From 1954 to 1990, the islands of Novaya Zemlya were used by the Soviets to conduct atmospheric and underground nuclear tests. Decommissioned nuclear weapons and nuclear submarines were also scuttled around the islands, turning the entire region into an environmental disaster zone.

Photo: Radioactively contaminated lichen causes high strontium levels in reindeer, which are a dietary mainstay of the local Nenets and Sami populations. © TOYOSAKI Hiromitsu

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In July 1954, the two islands of Novaya Zemlya (“New Land”) on the Russian Arctic coast were designated a nuclear weapons test site. The indigenous Nenets population was forcibly resettled and the islands were divided into different testing zones. Between 1955 and 1990, Novaya Zemlya was the site of 130 nuclear detonations, including the “Tsar Bomba,” the biggest nuclear device ever detonated, with 50 megatons of TNT equivalent, almost 4,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. The “Tsar Bomba” detonation caused severe destruction of the island within a radius of about 100 km and spread nuclear fallout all over the Northern Hemisphere.

In addition, the practice of dumping nuclear waste around the islands contributed greatly to the current environmental catastrophe around Novaya Zemlya. Together with fallout from nuclear weapons testing and the continuous discharge of nuclear waste from the reprocessing plants at La Hague and Sellafield, nuclear waste dumped near Novaya Zemlya added to the radioactive contamination of the North Sea and Arctic Ocean. Thirteen decrepit nuclear reactors, along with spent fuel from nuclear submarines with a total radioactivity of 37 Peta-Becquerel (Peta = quadrillion), were dumped along the coast of Novaya Zemlya and into the Barents and Kara seas. Two of the most contaminated sites on Novaya Zemlya are the Abrosimov and Stepovogo Fjords in the southern part of the island.

Health and environmental effects

Scientific expeditions found increased levels of cesium-137, strontium-90, cobalt-60, and plutonium-239 and -241 in sediments close to the fjords, which were used as radioactive waste dumps. A 1992 Russian study found that in 67–72 % of all underground tests, radioactive gas had leaked through in the rock formation. Together with fallout from atmospheric nuclear testing, radioactive gases from underground leaks resulted in increased levels of radiation across Europe, most notably in Finland, where radioactive iodine-131 was measured in concentrations of up to 5 mBq/m³, and in Norway, with cases of radioactively contaminated milk and iodine-131 concentrations of up to 1.37 megabecquerel (mBq/m³ Mega = million). Iodine-131 is a known cause of thyroid cancer, especially in children.

The indigenous population of the region around Novaya Zemlya received even higher radiation doses. Most notably affected by radiation exposure were the semi-nomadic Sami people of the Arctic region and the former inhabitants of Novaya Zemlya, the Nenets people. The Vepsians, Karelians and Komi people, living along the Northern Russian coast, however, were also affected. Radioactively contaminated lichen caused high strontium levels in reindeer, which are a mainstay of the local diet. As was the case with other indigenous populations affected by fallout and radioactive contamination, no epidemiological studies were ever performed to assess health effects on the people living around Novaya Zemlya.

As Norway is only 900 km away from Novaya Zemlya, the Norwegian government is very concerned about the radioactive waste catastrophe taking place on and around the islands. The Barents Sea, which is important for Norway’s fishing industry, has been severely polluted by radioactive fallout from Novaya Zemlya and is in constant danger of being further contaminated by leaking radioactive waste dumps, submerged spent nuclear fuel rods, nuclear submarine wrecks, dumped nuclear reactors and radioactive waste from bases and naval yards. Monitoring and management of the huge region affected by nuclear pollution has become an international responsibility, yet little has been done to contain this danger up to now, let alone investigate the long-term health effects on the local population. They, too, are casualties of nuclear weapons – they, too, are Hibakusha.

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Student Group Walking Tour - Golden Mile Heritage

From AUD $285.00
  • Duration: 90 Minutes (approx.)
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The Golden Mile Heritage Walk takes students on a tour of Melbourne’s famous heritage precincts, demonstrating the ongoing legacy of the gold rush upon which nineteenth-century Melbourne flourished. With a registered professional tour guide hear tales of explorers, bankers, and rogue characters of this thriving metropolis. The walk covers the areas around Collins Street, Flinders Street and Queen Street and takes you for a sneak peek inside Gothic interiors, factory spaces, and wonderfully designed Arcades.

Year Levels

This tours is offered exclusively for school groups. This tour is suitable for both primary and secondary school students, as well as teachers looking for inspiration. Please let us know what year your students are studying.

Study themes

  • History of Melbourne and its evolution into Marvelous Melbourne
  • Legacy of the gold rush
  • Development of government and Sense of Federation
  • Rags to riches, Poverty and Wealth, ( diversity of early Melbourne)
  • Immigration influences
  • Urban growth of the 1800s and early 1900s

Tour guide ratio to students

As accredited professional tour guides we prefer to have maximum 15 students per tour guide.

Large groups

Large groups can be managed by doing a round robin of start times with other activies in the day

Tour duration: 1hr - 90min


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Karen Ryan’s Victims

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By collecting and reassembling discarded and broken wooden chairs, UK designer Karen Ryan creates sculpture and strews them about in the back alleys and empty fields of her hometown of Portsmouth, the perfect resting place for these victims of furniture.

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Myocarditis can

spontaneously resolve, but the primary long-term consequences are dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and heart CSF-1R inhibitor failure [1, 3]. The disease occurs most frequently in children and young adults, with 10–20% of sudden unexpected deaths being associated with myocarditis and DCM [4, 5]. Management of the disease suffers not only from insufficiently validated and established diagnostic procedures [6], but also from the lack of novel therapeutic options [3] such as immune-targeted therapies that are available for other inflammatory diseases [7, 8]. Thus, in order to target the critical effector pathways in inflammatory heart disease, it is important to resolve the molecular basis of the immune processes involved in the initiation of cardiac inflammation and the transition from myocarditis

to DCM. Cardiac inflammation in myocarditis/DCM is frequently triggered by infection with viruses or other microbial pathogens [2, 9, 10]. Both the infection itself and the resulting innate and adaptive immune responses may inflict significant damage to the myocardium. Rapid clearance of the pathogen will result in the resolution of the inflammation, whereas a failure in pathogen elimination and/or induction of chronic autoimmune reactions against cardiac antigens [11, 12] may foster the development of DCM. Several cardiac autoantigens that are targeted during chronic cardiac inflammation MI-503 chemical structure have been described, including β-1 adrenergic receptors [13], troponin-1 [14], and cardiac myosin [12, 15, 16]. The myosin heavy chain alpha (myhca) is expressed exclusively in the heart and contains a highly immunogenic epitope (myhca614–629) that causes myocarditis in susceptible mouse

strains [17]. Immunization with myhca protein [18] or peptide [17] leads to activation of heart-specific CD4+ T cells that elicit pronounced cardiac inflammation and thereby uncouples the autoimmune process from an infectious trigger. However, protein- or peptide-induced experimental autoimmune myocarditis (EAM) with complete Freund’s adjuvant (CFA) emulsified immunogens is a rather mild disease that completely PD184352 (CI-1040) resolves unless particular host factors such as IFN-γ [19], the IFN-γ receptor (IFNGR) [20], or IL-13 [21] are missing. Likewise, application of myhca614–629 via bone marrow derived dendritic cells (DCs) elicits only mild myocarditis, and progressive disease in this regimen can only be induced by additional application of myhca614–629 in CFA [22]. Thus, a model with spontaneous occurrence of myocarditis and progression to DCM that circumvents the strongly immune-biasing application of CFA or other adjuvants would permit a better resolution of the mechanisms underlying immune-mediated myocardial damage. T-cell receptor (TCR) transgenic animal models have greatly improved the understanding of the pathological principles of various inflammatory diseases including multiple sclerosis [23] and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus [24].

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It is REQUIRED that all patients bring a driver to take them home, since people react differently to minor surgical procedures.

• Discontinue all blood thinners, Aspirin and NSAID medication one week prior to the procedure date. These medications are all blood thinners and can increase the risk of abnormal bleeding. NSAIDS (non-steroidal ant-inflammatory medicines) include Ibuprophen (Advil and Motrin), Naproxin (Aleve), Diclofen (Voltarin), nambutone etc. Please call our office if you are unsure about a medication.

• The night prior to your procedure wash the scrotum thoroughly and shave a 2 x 2 inch area on the scrotum immediately below the base of the penis. (We will do for you, but nowhere will you get a closer nick free shave than the comfort of your home).

• Eat and drink normally the day of your procedure. Patients who come for the procedure and have not eaten all day, or night are much more likely to have issues with low blood sugar, nausea and feeling faint. Have a snack a couple hours prior to your appointment. By the same token don’t eat a huge meal within 2 hours of the procedure.

• Bring snug underwear or an athletic supporter, along with roomy, comfortable trousers to wear home. Many men choose to wear an athletic supporter for the first several days afterwards.

  1. It’s interesting that you talked about making sure you eat normally so you don’t end up getting nauseous after the surgery. My wife and I think it would be most helpful to get a vasectomy. I’ll be sure to not over or under eat before the procedure so everything goes smoothly.

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Wait Until 2019?! California Latest to Beg Delay in Recreational Pot Sales

Chris Roberts

If anything in America has a mandate, it’s marijuana—which makes the near across-the-board delay in fulfilling that mandate all the more maddening.

Voters in four states legalized cannabis possession and cultivation for all adults 21 and over on Election Day. Since it’s hard to possess something in America if it cannot be bought or sold, voters also approved legal marijuana retail stores.

In most cases, the possession allowances and reform of criminal statutes went into effect immediately, or near-immediately. With weed stores, government have to catch up and figure out the “regulate” bit of “tax and regulate,” so eager sellers and buyers alike might have to wait until 2018 for a retail adult-use cannabis trade.

Sorry, did we say 2018? We meant 2019.

Across the country, government officials are begging for more time to deal with the marijuana marketplaces they’re now charged with overseeing. Within weeks, officials in Massachusetts were suggesting that 14 months is too quick to set up regulations for commercial cannabis. And now California officials are saying the same thing, suggesting that a delay of up to a year could be necessary, according to reports.

According to the Cannifornian, several state officials believe the Jan. 1, 2018 begin date for sales is too ambitious by a year.

“Time is not on our side,” said Lori Ajax, the state’s new “marijuana czar” and head of the Bureau of Cannabis Regulation, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

At issue, officials say, are the new medical-marijuana regulations passed by the legislature.

Signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown a full year before Prop. 64 passed, the Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MCRSA) sets up taxes, state licenses and a huge book of rules for cultivating, wholesaling and selling medical marijuana.

But that’s medical marijuana. And though Prop. 64 was written specifically to be consistent with MCRSA, some of that law’s authors are now crying “conflict!”

“It is a very real challenge,” said Assemblyman Jim Wood, in comments to the Cannifornian. “Do we have two systems that move in parallel or one unitary system that combines the two? My hope is that we can all sit down and work out the differences.”

This is happening despite lawmakers, like Wood, who represent many marijuana growers, not voicing concerns prior to the Nov. 8 vote. If we take what Wood says at face value, he’s saying lawmakers either were unaware or didn’t prepare for this predictable outcome, which comes after positive national and local polling suggested Prop. 64 would win in a landslide… which it did.

The legal frameworks for medical and for recreational marijuana are more alike than not. They both have active start dates of Jan. 1, 2018; they both require a state license for any commercial cannabis activity; and their licensing structures (e.g.: big grower, small grower; transporter, seller, etc.) are similar.

However, the state does need to create a “track-and-trace” system—a means of following marijuana on its journey from seed to sale via computer. That means creating new software, according to the newspapers, and government is not known for moving fast when creating things.

If recreational sales are delayed, cannabis will come from the same place it’s come from for more than a decade—medical marijuana dispensaries. The state’s existing dispensaries are required to obtain state licenses by that Jan. 1 date, as they have been for more than a year—and at least so far, nobody has said that date needs to be moved.

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Hilltop's Spanish Program

Just like the other classrooms at Hilltop, the Spanish program is child-centered, play-based, and rooted in emergent curriculum. Children learn, practice, and explore Spanish in an immersion environment, with vocabulary that is relevant to their interests and their classroom context. By representing and re-representing language through dramatic play, art, and literature, children absorb and test their understanding of Spanish.

Story from the Classroom: Emergent Curriculum and Language-Learning

Every once in a while a Spanish word will come up that kids notice sounds similar to a word in English, known as a cognate. When kids notice the similarity they usually talk about how it’s funny that the two words sound the same. Recently this idea kept popping up so I decided to give it a nudge and see what might come of it. Using a pile of different vocabulary words from games that we’ve played throughout the year I asked kids to tell me if the Spanish word reminded them of a similar meaning English word. Each class that did this activity ended up making three piles of words: a yes, no and an unsure pile. It was an interesting process and I was surprised that there was as much debate amongst the kids as there was.

Hamburguesa, a word that to me sounds almost the same as ‘hamburger’went into the no pile more often than the yes pile. Luna went into the yes pile in every class, despite the fact that it doesn’t sound anything like ‘moon’. Buho (owl) was another word that I was surprised that kids put in the yes pile more often then not.

Why do you think words like luna and buho were put in the yes pile but hamburguesa wasn’t? I wonder if luna and buho were included in the yeses because they were recent vocabulary words and familiar to all the kids whereas hamburguesa is a word we haven’t used as often. In the end there were a lot of agreed upon yeses and kids drew pictures as a way to record these kinds of words. As the kids drew they thought of other words that we hadn’t sorted, like  pijama and familia, and added them to our collection.

The pictures have been labeled and are displayed in the studio. I’ve noticed they are used as reference for kids during class and new words are being thought up (and added) fairly often. I like the way that this collection has kept growing and I’m excited to see what happens with these words next.

How do parents know what’s going on in class?
Curriculum, stories, pictures and updates are posted on the Spanish Blog where parents are encouraged to share their thoughts. Families are also free to stop by the Spanish Studio to see projects that kids are working on or to touch base with the teacher.
Are there levels to the class?
Because of the format of the class, children of all levels (from beginner to native speaker) thrive and learn.
How do I enroll my child?
Children in Rainbow, Raindrop, and Big Kids are automatically enrolled. Families in Mountain, Sunlight, River, and Beach should contact the Administrative Coordinator for the registration form.
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Why has #MeToo remained a murmur and not gained more traction in Pakistan?

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Actor:  The Creature in Our Bones – Part One

When I was young, I wanted to be an actress. I was so young, I didn’t know acting could be a job that real people did.  I wanted to be Dorothy navigating Oz.  Or Alice.  Or Fred Flintstone.

I had a $3 tiara and was Queen of the Gypsies.  That was actually my mother’s nickname for me because I would wear pounds of dime store costume jewelry. And my grandmother’s dresses from the 60’s that would fall to my ankles. Oh, and my mother’s go-go boots – a much needed element for the role of Puss in Boots.

Much of my childhood sought to beat this out of me, to grind me down and remind me what I was.  To remind me that I was a powerless, ugly and fat kid living on my Dad’s death benefits from social security. That I was subject to the will of overprotective grandparents on a fixed income. That I was sick all the time and could not play outside. I kept this world secret until I was seven.

Then I moved in with my mother and stepdad John in Ohio. And whatever else happened with my mother, she pried that lock off my creativity. She encouraged me and my imagination. She bought me art supplies and art books.  The first night I lived with them, she handed me an oversized Peter Maxx book. I did not sleep that night.

She also tortured me by enrolling me in tap and ballet.  I was not good at it.  At 5pm every Tuesday and Thursday, I went to every class and tried my best.  I also harbored a secret hatred of the class because I had to miss the last 15 minutes of Batman.  The Adam West and Burt Ward dynamic duo started double episodes at 4 o’clock.  I never got to see them actually foil anyone. I’d drag chubby, leotard wearing butt off the couch and tap on out the door dejectedly.

Aside from drawing what I imagined, I wrote little plays. Left alone, I would recite all the parts and act out all the action. I pilfered sewing notions and headbands and ribbons. I hot glued a Leopard Lady costume for myself out of leftover fake fur. Because Cat Woman needed an ally!

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John was a trucker and was gone all week until Saturday night.  So every Friday, Mom and I would stay up late, eat popcorn and watch Big Chuck and Hoolihan. This Cleveland tag team ran creature features and ran original skits like “the Kielbasa Kid”.  He was “a certain ethnic gentleman” who carried a holster with a kielbasa in it. It was the first place I saw “Creature from The Black Lagoon” and “The House That Would Not Die”.  We would fall asleep on the sofa and loveseat.

The thing about my imagination – it was hereditary.  The things my mom imagined scared her. She did not like being alone. Yet, she devoured every Stephen King book and every new horror flick that came out.

One night we had a matter-of-fact conversation just as Big Chuck and Hoolihan was starting. I had closed all the doors in the hallway.  She wanted them open.

“If something is coming I want to see it.”  She said.  It was understood that she meant if a monster is coming down the hallway, I want to see it.

“But if they have to open a door, it will slow them down and you can HEAR it.  Before you see it.  The door to your room creaks.  The bathroom doorknob has a loud click.”

She squinted at me. “Okay.”  She nodded.  “That makes sense”.

She handed me the popcorn. “Ghosts?”

“Doesn’t matter.  They don’t use doors.”

So we watched our movies and I discovered my love of the horror universe. By snagging lurid paperbacks from her reading stacks, by going with her to see “Jaws”.  She let me control the television remote one night flipping back and forth incessantly because I wanted to see both.  I just could not choose between the animated “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” and “Scream, Blacula, Scream!”

And I grew to have a semi-healthy relationship with my shadow side. And my acting developed into a juvenile rendition of classic gothic horror.  I was now Mina Harker, the bride made for the creature, the vampire siren rising from the misty lake.  I was still Leopard Lady too, albeit a more ferocious one. And now I was helping “Manimal” solve crimes.

When John died, this all disappeared.  At least on the surface.  At least the fun part. We could not afford electricity, let alone art supplies and dress up junk. Our house burned down shortly after that. So any trinkets I had, any clothing or drawings or stuffed animals, even my small keyboard – all gone.

I showed up at my grandparent’s house, stripped of the tools and écoutrements that enabled me to live in a world where the supernatural and imaginary make sense.

I wore Sears’ shirts and ugly high-waisted jeans. I did not have anything I thought was beautiful.

I was not allowed makeup. I had a light up mirror that gave me back a pale, sickly girl with no plans or dreams.

But you cannot kill the creatures that we are so easily.

The body lives encompassed by the spirit.  Sure, our spirit is within us, but it also surrounds us. It is part of the framework that makes us- our skeleton – our bones.  Star-stuff. Ethereal cotton candy. My body – our bodies- are just that layer between.

Actors, the really superb ones, are adept at changing that skin.  They are the same creature in their bones, even if the role they are playing the very antithesis of that.  They can pull experiences into their spirit halo and work them to shape and fashion a new skin to briefly wear.

For the next six years, I would transform and absorb and reject and purge and literally make cuts to this body – the layer between. I would stretch it across the bones of a girl who still believed in magic, who could be anyone or anything she wanted to be.

Eventually, she would find her way out again.

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Easy and Fast Ways to Modernize A Home for 2019

Do you wish you could breathe some fresh life into your home for 2019? Then you may want to add some elements to your home featuring current design trends. But you might look at some of the trendiest contemporary spaces and feel those are out of reach. After all, many spaces incorporate a contemporary aesthetic in the way they are designed on an architectural level, meaning you might need a complete remodel or new build to achieve those looks. Fortunately, there are several easy ways to modernize a home that don’t require a wrecking ball. Below are some added embellishments that can make your home look more updated for the new year.

Modernize A Home Large Mirror
Mirrors add a new style in an instant. Image: Elad Gonen

Large Contemporary Mirror

An easy way to add stark, updated geometry to a space is to look into the different mirror designs out there. An example in the photo above uses circular and square geometry in juxtaposition. It really adds some sleek geometry to the space, and the gray frame matches the neutrals in the rest of the room.

Mirrors are an easy way to modernize a home. A large mirror can be its own focal point. They’re easy to source and hang and a large mirror can do wonders in opening up a space. Plus, the sleek texture of a mirror makes any space look more updated.

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Change up your furniture to something more creative for an updated look. Image: Laurie Woods

Modernize a Home with Unconventional Furniture

Large pieces of furniture tend to be their own focal point. So if you want to overhaul how a room looks, simply change the furniture.

If you want a look that is on the more contemporary side, try for unique pieces of furniture, like in the photo above. Pieces that eschew the traditional sofa and chair shape have a more updated, almost futuristic look. The open back and freely placed armrests also add some interesting geometry to the space.

If you’re not looking to go too bold, you also might want to think about more understated contemporary ways people are using furniture. For instance, neutrals tend to be popular right now, but mixing them with brightly colored single accent pieces can help a room pop.

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A new light fixture can add some instant style. Image: Paul Davis Architects

Geometric Light Fixtures

Another way to modernize a home is to think about the lighting fixtures. An intricate lighting fixture can breathe life into any room. An example is the highly interesting piece in the photo above. Its sleek chrome design and industrial-style exposed bulbs make it quite the eye-grabber.

A new lighting fixture is a good way to set the tone for a more updated look. You can go for industrial pieces, sleek metal pieces or even retro sunburst designs – they’re making a comeback. Lighting fixtures are also fairly easy to replace, but they make it look like you did some major hardware overhauls in your space.

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Set a new style or color tone with some updated wall art. Image: Hills and Grant Interior Design

Change the Wall Art

You can also change the art on your walls. That’s an easy way to update a space without doing anything too drastic. Like the other design elements above, large art tends to stand as a focal point so changing the art can help set a new tone in the space.

One idea is to go for abstract art, like in the photo above. Many people associate the height of abstract art with the mid-20th century. Because of that, it tends to pop up in mid-century modern styles. However, a good piece of modern art can transcend the ages with its color, raw emotion, and eye-grabbing designs. Abstract art can also serve a design purpose. For instance, the piece in the photo above juxtaposes some earthy green color against an industrial space.

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Going for a neutral tone in a room can make the space look more open and updated. Image: StudioLab

Combine Neutrals

Neutrals are very popular in updated, contemporary spaces. They open up the room and tend to give a relaxed tone that won’t go out of style too soon. So if you want to modernize a home, try going for neutral tones.

An example is the space in the photo above. The room balances its neutral tones impeccably. The brown in the sofa reflects the wood coloring behind the TV and shelving. An area rug is a good way to add more neutral tones to a space, as well. Neutral throw pillows and a neutral-colored coffee table are even more easy ways to add these tones to a space without having to remodel.

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Image result for state of texas mapTexas’s much-publicized race for Senate rolled into the last weeks of the election with nearly $96 million raised between the two leading candidates, sitting senator Ted Cruz (R) and Congressman Beto O’Rourke (D, TX16.) O’Rourke has nearly doubled Cruz’s contributions, and has done so without taking any money from PACs, which is a key plank in his campaign platform.

Traditionally, the candidate with the most money wins the election. In 2014, 94% of the biggest spenders won their House races and 82% won their Senate races. However, 2018 has already provided exceptions to this rule – most notably, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, NY14), who won her primary race against experienced fundraiser Rep. Joe Crowley despite having raised approximately $2.4 million less than Crowley.

Most recently, the Houston Chronicle, which has a long history of endorsing Republican candidates, endorsed O’Rourke, rating the congressman at 4.5 stars and Cruz at a mere 2 stars, despite their glowing 2012 endorsement of Cruz. The O’Rourke endorsement sharply criticizes Cruz for his partisan tendencies – the junior senator votes with the president’s agenda 91% of the time – and cites when Republican former House Speaker John Boehner described Cruz as “Lucifer in the flesh.” Cruz’s 2016 presidential run (when the unfortunate Lucifer comment came out) likely tarnished Cruz’s reputation, despite his relative success in the primary, as made evident by the Chronicle. The endorsement also compared O’Rourke to former Texas gubernatorial hopeful Wendy Davis, who gained fame with her 13-hour-long filibuster in the state senate against strict anti-abortion laws. Davis, much like O’Rourke, became somewhat of a darling of the Democratic party.

However, Davis lost by 20% to current governor Greg Abbott in 2014, which the Chronicle acknowledged may be a bad forecast for O’Rourke. While O’Rourke is currently polling higher now than Davis was in 2014, the numbers don’t necessarily run in his favor. A recent Quinnipiac University poll shows the race stabilizing with 54% for Cruz and 45% for O’Rourke. As of 10/21, Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight had Cruz with a 7 in 9 chance of winning (which Silver has predicted consistently for the past several weeks.) O’Rourke, while charismatic, was still hurt by his debate with Cruz, who successfully brought attention to O’Rourke’s 1998 DWI accident and alleged attempt to leave the scene of the crime. O’Rourke apologized for the DWI while denying the attempt to leave, which the Washington Post later fact-checked as incorrect according to a police report.

While the polls favor Cruz, the betting odds are less sure. Offshore gambling sites are taking bets on the race, which they did not do in the 2014 gubernatorial election, despite the fact that it had a similar level of national attention. The sites have Cruz at between -525 and -600 to win while O’Rourke is between +350 and +400, as analyzed by Texas Monthly. Betting odds still favor Cruz, but the fact that they exist means O’Rourke may not be a “dead politician walking,” as suggested by the same publication 8 days prior to the betting odds analysis.

Regardless, it must be recognized that President Trump only won with 52% of the vote in Texas, a margin that stirred up talk of a potentially purple shift. If the “blue wave” turns out, Texas is certainly volatile. Early reports do suggest turnout is up for white suburban Democrats, but still lacking in young and minority populations. However, the sharp increase in minority turnout for Alabama’s 2017 special Senate election put Democrat Doug Jones in Washington. Whether or not that turnout will stay consistent is quite possibly the biggest question as we head into 2018’s midterm elections.

Whether or not O’Rourke will provide a catalyst from the shift from red to purple is unsure; however, the numbers suggest Cruz may hold on to Texas for just a little longer.


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Initially we’d planned to paint the two doors (kitchen & living room) white to match the skirtings and window frames but now with the oak flooring the doors look great as they are. The varnish we tried is medium oak and seems to add a yellow tone to the door. I think it might be back to B&Q for something lighter or just clear.

It is great to get more light into all the rooms during the day but also in the evening the light glows through the frosted panels.

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On Friday the final part of the wardrobe was completed – doors on and surround nailed in place.

Jerry and Donald hang the doors

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AHA! Holiday Potluck and Board Elections, December 9

AHA! wants to help you get the holidays started! Join us for some holiday fun and cheer at the annual Holiday Potluck and Election.

WHEN: Thursday, December 9, 2010, 5:30-8:30pm

WHERE: University of St. Thomas
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  • Ornament exchange – Bring an “archival” created ornament to exchange. Use your imagination and be creative but must be archival in nature.
  • Noshing – It will be a potluck so bring something to share. AHA! will provide table ware and drinks.
  • Elections – A new board for 2011 will be elected. You must be a member of AHA! to vote.
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How To Think Positive Tips

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Remove yourself from low energy conversations such as those containing gossip, bitterness, and complaining.

Because if you think about it, how does all that help you really?

It’s always important to realize that people who criticize or “talk bad” about others often only reflects more of of that energy back to themselves.

None of those things that are negatively-inclined help someone’s personal growth, so it is often “a simple reflection” that talks or says more of those involving themselves in negative and unproductive activities instead of the people they criticize.

Many optimists know that whatever you talk and express, only brings more of that into your own experience.

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Huber Opera Block

The Huber Opera House had its humble 1882 beginnings as the two story Mackey’s Brick Hotel. At that time, the building was roughly thirty feet across. Within the decade, the Huber family had purchased the hotel and expanded it about twenty more feet to the west, making a commercial room available for businesses. Traveling salesmen also made use of the hotel as a midtown display area for their wares. Rooms above were small by today’s standards, but fitted with a heat stove, window, and simple furnishings.

After the Pettit Opera House, at the corner of High and Main Streets, burned down, George Huber went into action with plans to transform the hotel into a showplace for live acts. His experience as an NYC hotel and theatre owner gave him a wealth of practical knowledge into the mechanical aspects of theatre needs as well as an artistic eye for outfitting a building for maximum impact.

Opening night was described as a dazzling occasion, with ten arc lights illuminating what was called the audience room and the sophisticated color palette taken from the spectacular stage curtain. Rich golds, blues, and olive greens played against the silvery aluminum and delicate cream tinted terra cotta. Elaborate designs in floor tiling echoed the colors at the building’s front entrance where beautiful paneled doors opened to a spacious lobby.

Theatrically speaking, the Huber was used as a tryout theatre for plays headed to bigger houses in Chicago and New York. William Jennings Bryan

was said to have appeared at the Huber along with authors of national note. When local-girl-turned-Broadway-star Amelia Bingham brought her company to town, people paid the unheard of admission price of 75 cents to see the show. Mutt and Jeff’s appearance was advertised on post cards sent to theatre patrons and handed out in advance. In November of 1899, a wild horse was tamed onstage before the eyes of an amazed audience.

For most of its history, the Huber was also a center of community activity. High school graduations and concerts were held there. Class plays and community productions such as Emily White Hull’s Roof Garden Revue and George Patterson’s historical pageants debuted on the Huber stage. War bond rallies, Red Cross meetings, and conventions were held in the auditorium.

Ricky Nelson, Chubby Checker, Huey Lewis, 3 Dog Night, Mike Smith, Tammy Cochran, and Mickey Rooney all took advantage of the near-perfect acoustics. The twentieth century saw silent movies give way to talkies and basketball games.

Then came a time when the building fell into out-of-town ownership and into disrepair and disrepute. Extra law enforcement officers patrolled on weekends and locals avoided downtown Hicksville after dark. In 1994, neighboring business owner Mary Ann Barth suggested the Hicksville Historical Society look into rescuing the building. It took nearly four years to gather enough information and interested parties to work on building acquisition. Area individuals, organizations, civic groups, and government officials formally banded together in 1998 with purchase of the building made by The Huber Opera House and Civic Center in December of 1999. (Click on the thumbnail above to see an artist’s rendering of what the restored opera house may one day look like.)

Many groups and business owners volunteered time and money to further the restoration of the Huber, with the Historical Society working in various capacities until restoration gave way to renovation. While the focus and make-up of the Huber Board has since changed, the Huber remains a place where generations come together and where pride means preserving the past and looking ahead to the future.

Excerpt from an 1895 News Article:

“A GREAT SUCCESS was the Grand Opening of the New Opera House: Mr. George H. Huber’s Beautiful Gift to Our City—An Elaborate and Beautiful Structure”

By the greatest possible exertion was the new opera house ready for the grand opening this evening. The great experience of Mr. Huber who has been present for a number of days, alone making it possible to open the house at the designated time. Painters, carpenters, and drapers were busy until the very last moments. To say their work as been well done would but feebly express it. Mr. George Huber, the builder, ably seconded by the large staff of men who worked on the building have gave [sic] our little city the most perfect and beautiful house for public amusement in Northwestern Ohio. Language is inadequate to describe the structure as it fully deserves.

Being on the ground floor, the exterior is not so pretentious as some that have business houses under them. But this very fact adds to the building for a public play house.

On entering the large and spacious lobby you are at once struck with the artistic and expensive finish and design of the floors which are laid in tile. The box office is also a model of its kind being built with an eye to business and tone.

You now enter the great doors that lead to the audience room. At once, the light dazzles your eyes, that our modest little city should have so beautiful a house seems increadible [sic]. No expense has been spared, all that skill and the lavish use of money could do has been done to beautify and make perfect the fine structure.

The floors pass away in a gentle slope to the large stage, the view from all points is pleasing and grand. The ceilings are done in a delicate cream tinted terra cotta, the side walls being in two lovely shades of the same.

The ceiling decorations are tastefully done in gold and blue, while the hangings are of the same shades. Dados are in plastico, and posts in bright silver aluminum and dainty terra cotta.

The stage front is in solid antique oak making a striking and catchy contrast to the lighter and more delicate walls and ceilings. The seats, of which there are nine hundred and fifty, are of rich cherry, handsomely upholstered in olive green mohair plush.

The stage fittings are on as grand and substantial plans as all other things about the house, each piece of scenery is by master hands, the drop curtain alone being undoubtedly the finest thing of the kind ever seen by our people, or of this part of the great state of Ohio. The stage is fitted with hoists as in all modern houses in large cities.

The carpeting is of the kind especially adapted for stage use, being reversible. The boxes are carpeted in velvet plush of great expense, the dressing rooms and roomy isles [sic] having the same material. A matter of especial pride in this last is the fact our own firm of Boon and Bevington supplied these fine goods. The boxes are draped in expensive portiers, designed and made especially for this house, being of rich and costly material. In speaking of the arrangements of the house for the convenience and health of the audiences. Large and roomy cloak and ladies and children’s toilet rooms have been provided for, while the heating and ventilating of the large house has received the attentions of experts in that line. Two four ton Smead heaters have been provided thus guaranteeing the perfect heating of the room while at the same time the air is completely renewed each thirty minutes.

The balcony is finished in and follows the same features of other parts of the house described above.

The house is lighted with ten arc lights with fifty lamps for use in dressing rooms, offices, and cloak room.

Clemmer and Johnson, the contractors who built the house, are Hicksville men, and it is a fact pleasing to our little city that we have so able and hustling a firm of builders. The speed and thouroughness [sic] of the work will be a lasting recommendation for them to all builders.

W. O. Hughs & Co., one of our large and enterprising firms, furnished the stage settings. J. C. Ryan, one of our city attorneys, deserves great credit for the active part he has taken, as Mr. Huber’s agent in the building and multitudious —

[Sadly, the remainder of the article was not clipped out of the newspaper.]

1901-1902 Julius Cahn’s Official Theatrical Guide

HICKSVILLE-pop. 3000. Huber’s Opera House. A. A. Huber, mgr. Seating capacity 925. Prices 25c-50c. Illumination by electricity, Mr. Schuyler, elec.

Measurements: Width of proscenium opening, 25 ft. Height, 20 ft. Depth footlights to back wall, 25 ft. Distance curtain line to footlights, 2 ft. Distance between side walls, 54 feet. Distance between fly girders, 44 ft. Height grooves from stage, 20 ft. Stage to rigging loft, 38 ft. 4 grooves. Depth under stage, 10 ft. 1 trap near center stage. 1 bridge located rear. Grooves can be taken up flush with fly gallery. Scene room. Theatre ground floor. Noxon and Toomey, scenic artists (St. Louis).

J. W. Ackley, leader of orchestra. 1 to 7 in orchestra. Isaac Shanton, property man. Printing rquired, 3 stands, 10 to 15 3-sheets, 30 half (1/2) sheets. Dates read, Huber’s Opera House. Schell, advertising agent. Newspapers: “Independent,” “News,” weekly, Thursday.

Hotels-Swilley House, $1.25 and $1. Baltimore, $1 and 75c.

Railroad-B. & O., Henry Sower, agent. Transfer Company, C. Millen. Express, American.

J. S. Hull, doctor. L. E. Griffin, attorney. Publisher of programme, F. Colton.

[Elsewhere in the book, Hicksville’s Amelia Bingham is listed as owning a traveling theatrical company with Henry B. Harris as manager.]

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